skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is announcing Stadia’s pricing and launch details this week
That's you? Well first of all, thanks!

But I think your auto-typer was really one of the only "allowed" 3rd party programs, and auto-clicking was never really enforced strictly.

When the bots got advanced, they pretty much had two methods via either injection or emulation of the entire game. So either they broke them through making a bunch of fundamental changes of ingame systems or the ability to connect to the servers.
HN rate limits people. So now I will tell you.

When I mentioned the creationism, I mentioned it in the way foldr understood.

But listen: I meant exactly what I said and that should be enough. I don’t have to be a communist to point out failures of markets. A person who believes the invisible hand always knows best should defend their position with logic instead of counterattacking others with adhominems.

And that is actually a weaker example. I don’t have to even have a competing theory to point out that unfalsifiable theories abound in the area of evolution.

I already said to you the common descent theory has AMPLE evidence. From genetic evidence, geology, fossil record, radiometric dating and so on. So clearly I have give you a standard that leaves the other evolutionary theories in the dust. Just because they can all be lumped under the umbrella term “evolution” doesn’t mean they are all one, proven theory!!

Consider the multiverse theory. Is that falsifiable? Is it science?

My point is that no thise things are not actually science. They are simply a preference to claim every result we observe was brought about by processes we already understand. The word “science” is just attached to it because it gives it a nice halo effect.

Neither multiverse theories nor these theories are actually falsifiable in any practical way.

The goal of promoting these theories is actually to have a legitimate-sounding (on the surface) way avoid admitting there may be supernatural causes involving phenomena that we don’t understand and may never understand.

In quantum mechanics, fine tuning of constants, and many other areas, we have possibly reached a limit of what we can actually test or explain using classical reasoning. And we have begun to accept that maybe properly done science has limits.

Beyond this lies faith, of many sorts. Religious faith, or faith in the principle that there are no skyhooks or that everything is made up of stuff we more of less already understand.

You can say that makes me a creationist because once I say we don’t know HOW X CAME ABOUT there is no difference in explanations.

But that’s not true. You can rule out explanations by falsification! For example you can rule out most Greek myths, because they involve falsifiable elements that have been shown to be false (eg apollo with the sun in a chariot going across the sky, or mount olympus being home to zeus). Most religions make falsifiable claims, and that’s how we can actually disprove them. But to the extent a natural theory consistts of UNFALSIFIBLE claims, we have to be honest about them being unfalsifiable, even if the only alternative is a supernatural explanation.
It is how it works. Not everybody is frantically trying to be the next ultra-billionaire. An alien thought for many on HN, I know.
Apparently not. https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/05/donald-trump-backtracks-nhs-t...
Botting/cheat detection mechanisms have changed and evolved since RS.
Yeah and sending a message to someone across the sea used to take months and probably wouldn’t even get there half the time, that doesn’t meant it’s not ridiculous that I can’t run two instances of slack without my computer melting.
Just because something like this has happened in the past does not justify believing in a theory now that is following the same pattern. This is an example of survivorship bias. You have an example where this happened, but there are thousands of theories like this that didn't pan out at all.
There is a great book that lays out the case that the boomer's decisions, policies, votes, actions, and inactions have destroyed our environment, our economy, and our future. The greatest generation handed the boomers a world with a bright future; the boomers have squandered it. Instead of investing in critical infrastructure that would ensure a better future for their grandchildren, they have decided to shackle us with financial ruin.

And then they blame millennials.

The book is : A Generation of Sociopaths

Thanks to the boomers, you will never be freer (as in liberty and privacy), you will never experience the same economic opportunities, and you and your grandkids will pay for their short sidedness long after they are dead.
Top tech executives will be asked to testify in U.S. probe
I've been doing this for years, "upgrading" every 6 months when I find a new machine being thrown away. In the past year I did this with a 2006 Mac Pro and a 2013 System76 desktop. Both of these machines were a delight to work on - I was able to get 16gb of DDR2 ECC RAM and 2 quad-core Xeons for the Mac Pro for around $28 total on ebay. The Mac Pro could be flashed up to a 2007 model and ran El Capitan perfectly with a cheap no-name SSD off Amazon. It took a GTX 760 with some odd power adapters and it was a fantastic machine to do audio editing and playing with tensorflow-gpu on.

The System76 machine was a little more modern, with a Haswell i7, and after a new aftermarket cooler, fresh thermal paste, and another no-name SSD it ran Manjaro silently, even with Bazel putting it under some serious load.

I'm moving soon, so I sold both machines for around $350 each. It's a fun challenge, since usually these computers don't see modifications or have as good documentation as enthusiast PC parts, so you'll find a tiny community in some obscure forum sharing supported CPU upgrades, how to change out the cooler, stuff like that. Highly recommend it.
Ditto, but despite having mortgage paid off and healthy 401k, I have 2x kids college expenses coming up over the next 12 years. I’m resigned to working till I drop dead. 63, or whatever Medicaid will be at, is the minimum.
This is much less an option if you have children, and probably less so if you have any domestic arrangement at all.
> This has the caveat that it only works entirely on iOS 13, which is in beta right now, and you may have limited success on older versions.

I tried running Coder on a cloud server and using it on my 11" iPad Pro. The browser would never even render it. I assume then the version in iOS 13/iPadOS is a requirement.
How is the heat management in your Mini-ITX Ryzen system?

I've read that Ryzen can generate a good amount of heat. I'd worry that Mini-ITX due to the formfactor may struggle more.
my oldest Xeon workstation is a dual E5-2696v2 with 128G ECC RAM. it has a total of 24 cores. Compared to that, I am pretty sure most i9-9900k setups are just for kids. ;)

the cost of the above xeon system (dual cpu + mb + RAM) is slightly more expensive than i9-9900k itself, but much cheaper than a i9-9900k + motherboard + RAM.
There is no difference as far as what Google knows about you.
The legend of Japanese swordmaking is much overplayed. Swords were common, but swordmaking wasn't. Swords were far more valuable in japan due to the lack of some basic resources (metals). Japanese swords were therefore passed down rather than destroyed, as opposed to viking culture where swords were often buried. So a smaller pool of Japanese sword makers making a relatively small number of swords could supply a larger population.

Japanese swords are also much softer than enthusiasts like to admit. They are very pure carbon+iron steel but that is limiting. Again, due to nature of the available resources, Japanese sword makers did not utilize other elements, impurities, that strengthen steel beyond what can be done with iron+carbon. And all that famous folding was not unique to Japan. The average viking sword demonstrates much the same level of craftsmanship, at least in terms of the actual steel. Japanese swords are certainly better looking but they were never the magical objects often portrayed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootz_steel

"For reasons that are not entirely clear, but possibly because sources of ores containing trace amounts of tungsten and/or vanadium needed for its production were depleted, the process was lost to the middle-eastern metalsmiths around 1750. It has been eagerly sought by many since that time."

https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/d/Damasc...
> First, to pay payroll taxes to employees who live in different states, you have to jump through a bunch of hoops with each state’s government.

While this is a pain and can be costly, isn't it still far cheaper to pay the fees to the states and your accountant than renting an office?

> If I could do it all over again, I probably would have just given each employee an allowance to use on their local state’s open health insurance market

Doing that would save you money by not having to manage the health insurance yourself. It's ridiculous that companies are even responsible for providing health insurance but that's another conversation.

The savings you get from not managing healthcare would probably offset the extra cost of multi-state payroll.
Yes, exactly. It's on the bottom of every breach page too:

> Breach data provided by Have I Been Pwned

I love that it's a visually engaging and simple way of showing breaches. It's going to be a lot easier to share this with family, then get them on a password manager.
Just like nobody ever did their homework? Because after all, nobody sees you not do it and nobody cares if it's not done when it was supposed to be done.

And nobody bats an eye when the feature you talked about in the previous standup or meeting somehow mystically never materialized in the project's repo... nobody cares that you never were there to answer your colleagues' needs.

Or, you know, maybe people can actually get things done even without a surveillance camera monitoring their butt in seat.

The good thing about remote work is that results and communication (i.e. things that matter) are the things people see.
Focused vs. Diffuse Thinking
I really doubt that would work out. Especially depending what you mean by "wealthy". There is probably a sweet spot in the income bracket where that would do something, but those people would not be considered "wealthy" by most definitions.
Pay real money for the privilege of beta testing unreleased product
So I was signed up to test-drive the upcoming https://tuple.app/ screenhero "spiritual successor"

And I just got an email:

---

We have several big things to share, so let's get right to it!

1. Tuple is launching publicly in August.
Since our private beta launched in January, our customers have done 4,000+ calls, our average call quality rating has reached a 4.5 out of 5, and a steady stream of positive testimonials have rolled in (like this one, and this other one, and a third).

<snip to keep short>

That said...

2. You're invited to sign up now.

Since you were cool enough to join our email list, we don't want you to have to wait two months.

If you'd like to try Tuple with your team, you can do so today.

(Quick caveat: the app is macOS-only. We'll very likely going to offer a Linux client eventually, but haven't started work on that.)

If you'd like to use Tuple on your team at work, we charge $100 for a 1-month pilot, during which you can try the app with your entire team (unlimited seats). After the month is up, we charge $25/month/person for folks who want to keep using the app.

If you're a freelancer who wants to pair with clients, we also offer a freelancer plan. You can pair with as many clients as you like for $300/year. However, your clients can pair only with you, not each other.

<snip marketing talk>

→ If I've piqued your interest and you'd like to give Tuple a shot, just reply with your work email and I'll send you our secret payment link.

---

So are they trying to get people to pay THEM and at the same time beta test it, before they go public?

Should I feel privileged for paying to beta test their product?

Am i reading this the wrong way, or there are more people that this rubs them the wrong way?

PS: After I emailed them (a rather snarky email about this) they replied that they are not on beta and the money they ask is because: "I'm asking you to pay for software that provides value."
Java Current and Future
You will probably need that and even more to figure out all the influences. It's gonna be incredibly hard to control everything.

This could also be an epic vim/emacs battle.
The bad thing about not using your brain is that you don't learn anything.
I was given an HP Z230 workstation when I started at Microsoft five years ago and haven't upgraded since then, despite being well beyond eligible for a hardware refresh. It has 32 GB of RAM and an (edit) 4-core 8-thread i7-4770, plus an OS SSD with several data HDDs (integrated graphics, but meh).

CPU performance has been basically stagnant for the past half-decade. Even on my home PC (purchased around the same time) the only thing I've changed is the graphics card - and that was to sell it for a less-powerful one, then buy back the original card years later for cheap! Maybe if you want to play games on the cutting edge of VR then constant upgrades are necessary, but five-year-old desktop hardware should be fine for nearly anyone.
How Often Do Single-Statement Bugs Occur?
aaand it's done. Thanks again!
That's inconsistent with the fact that ground-based astronomy is able to build large and complex optics pretty cheaply, which is the basis for this complaint to begin with. By leveraging these things, you could build an inexpensive space telescope. No one has done so because it has only recently become fairly cheap to launch stuff.

JWST is such a terrible example of a space telescope done with good cost constraints, BTW. And that kind of infrared astronomy which needs gold-coated mirrors and 20 Kelvin operating temperatures can't be done on the ground at all. We were discussing near-visible optical instruments and comparing to ground astronomy.
String Coding Problems from Programming Interviews
A few ways automation can help:

1. Things become cheaper. Maybe you don't need a car anymore since robot taxis are much more affordable. Houses become cheaper to produce, as well as the objects inside. Food is cheaper to produce.

2. Stocks in the "greedy corporations" do better, growing retirement savings.

3. Taxes on the profits grow, which can contribute to pension plans.
This is a very good article, but misses out a critical fact: Google plans on making the old API available to paid enterprise users, which is the final nail in the coffin.

I hope that Qt will add a new Gecko backend for QtWebEngine and move away from Chromium/Blink.
That seems even more hyperbolic. Are you suggesting that no service should attempt to detect fraud?
Back in those days, Intel simply did not care one iota about power consumption. The P4 processors were absolute power hogs, and all Intel did was brag about how great their memory bandwidth to the RAMBUS memory was.
Writing a formally-verified image browser in Coq and Haskell (2017)
Dutch ING bank to read bank-statements to advertise at you (Article in Dutch)
Do you have a source for this opinion, or are you a sword expert?
The number may be wrong the sentiment seems reasonable. I would hardly call the U.S. hostile toward immigrants. I can’t think of many other countries that are as diverse as the U.S. Just in my apartment building I live next to a Russian couple, a Chinese couple, a Korean couple, and a Guatemalan couple.
"Not everybody is frantically trying to be the next ultra-billionaire" ...as long as things work out for you, yeah, maybe, but when shit hits the fan it might be more about not ending up depressed-to-suicide by being the poorest chap in the neighborhood or not ending up unable to get health insurance!
Well done. But you can use cf-terraforming easily.
"cf-terraforming is a command line utility to facilitate terraforming your existing Cloudflare resources."

https://github.com/cloudflare/cf-terraforming
Embedded hyper-parameter tuning by Simulated Annealing
I assume that is massively slower for single threaded or very lightly threaded tasks than a 9900K.
At GitLab they have pretty explicit and open policies about this: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/code-of-...
Brilliant - looking forward to it!
Maybe you're right and I'm too cynical, but I see this more like a PR piece to attract talent to their organization.

I think the NSA has a real image problem. They released ghidra. They admitted it was a recruitment tool. They now release this warning which basically tells us to update our software. Anyways, if they really want to improve their image, they need to release zero day exploits and prove it's not just an offensive but also a defensive agency.

The release of an exploitable bug might deny them a couple of targets but will protect millions.
Peloton Confidentially Files Statement for Proposed IPO
I wish this was addressed more as a massive cost that only the employee must take on in order to even have a job.

People have to risk their lives using a machine that they have to source themselves to come into an office everyday while not being compensated for that time, danger, and financial investment.
Your question is excellent but I sort of arrive at an opposite conclusion. Before I explain, I want to point out that bees and jumping spiders are exceptional as far as insect* intelligence goes.

The gist of my view is that evolution is the mother of all demo scene hackers. Imagine a programmer that build amazing AIs on whatever hardware you give it, whether a top of the line GPU or an old PIC microcontroller.

The AIs runnable on both will not be fully equicapable† but the fact that you could get the PIC to do abstract learning or image recognition and learning at all will be incredible. It's like the fact that you can get a strong Chess AI running in just a few kb doesn't mean that Stockfish9 is unimpressive. It's rather, that such a strong chess AI can exist given such few resources is impressive.

Regarding intelligent AIs or space aliens with more computational resources, I'm biased but, I do think they'd be impressed with what we can do with only 20 watts or thereabouts.

* Yes I know spiders are not insects.

† Corvids and parrots are sort of exceptions to this. They can outperform certain primates even though they have smaller brains, fewer neurons (even if still high) while using less energy.
You must be more active when working remotely wrt. seeking social interactions. When working on-site, you get some of the interactions for free. When working remotely, you must actively organize them by yourself. I know people who get MORE social interactions from working remotely because they have more energy/time for things like meeting with friends, clubs meetings etc.
A recent LeVar Burton Reads has a story that tackles this in a science fiction context where Earth is the hot tourist destination.

https://art19.com/shows/levar-burton-reads/episodes/30648706...
> For the company you are able to hire outside of competitive metro areas and you save money by that https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/ and on office costs.

So, someone can change their mailing address to that of a friend living in a high income area and have a better pay? What about when moving, are employees' pays docked too?

For example, I come from a low-income area and most of my family is poor. By working in tech., I'm able to provide a safety net for parents and close friends. My home address is in my hometown but I would spend time at my significant other's apartment during the week to be close to work.

Why should my pay be less than that of a coworker that does the same exact same job as me simply because this is a remote company? What about someone that does a worst job or is less experienced? Unless that means that the only employees hired in high-pays area are senior and other employees are all junior or mid level and seen as cheaper labor, I don't see the reason... except as sour way to save company's operating cost.

Does that also mean that you believe someone in this situation should never have the resources to move to a high income area? Someone from a high-income area could live in a shared rental, save a big cushion of money and then move to a lower income area for less stress while knowing they will be able to retire. Someone from a low paying area wouldn't be able to do that.

Compensation should be based on output performance and the difficulties and complexity of the work being done.
When I was an intern at Microsoft in 2009, I had my own office with a door. A month into the summer, a teammate (another intern) moved in to share it, but we still kept the door closed and basically stayed out of each other's way (she was pretty awesome though, wish I'd stayed in touch). Productivity was incredible. And if I got stuck, it was more worth my time to stay put a few minutes at least trying to solve it on my own than to bug anyone else.

As a full time dev in one of the world's most valuable companies, I don't even have a cubical wall between me and my teammates. If anyone wants to speak, we all get interrupted.

I did not know how good I had it back then.
Transferable Neural Projection Representations
It's just a question of time before it reaches the US. We were lucky with Dallas. It likely will escape the next time into the general population since many people without health insurance are unlikely seek medical care in time and when they do at the last minute, it will spread.
Tower workers are the most dangerous (by fatalities). Tower Dogs is a book about it.
Those are positions I arrived at myself, by applying the same standard and using intellectual integrity.

My professional grad school educational background is mathematics. So I guess calling a spade a spade is easier for me in some cases. But I think that I have sufficiently pointed out and illustrated my position.

I mentioned multiverse theory to illustrate the same problem in another area.
If the noise factor isn't a concern. For me it is, so I'll stick to Intel NUCs (until a good AMD alternative comes along).
One post a week is about as fast as most people can go if they are into nuts-and-bolts technical topics and they are trying to juggle work and life and other demands on their time. That's about the best I could ever manage when I used to be blogging as I learned DirectX. And that was using C#, so you didn't have to boil the ocean and implement all your own fundamental data structures as you go (see the previous post in this series).

It's four and a half years into Handmade Hero at this point :-)
Uber, Lyft, and ride sharing in general have significantly reduced drunk driving in places without good public transportation (i.e. most of the US).

Wealth inequality stats are irrelevant if your bar for success is “how people lived in 1970”. You can pretty easily live a 1970 middle-class life buying unsafe, unreliable, highly polluting cars living in an asbestos insulated house with ungrounded electricity that’s sweltering in the summer.

Nobody is forcing people to use food delivery services. You can still go to the grocery store like folks did in 1970 and save money just like they did. Inventing something expensive but convenient doesn’t force anyone to use it that’s struggling to make ends meet.

Finally, you’re living in a fantasy if you think any non-negligible portion of the US can walk “10 minutes” to get a meal at a restaurant or even to get to a grocery store.
Diez: Cross-Platform Design System Framework
Because they are working! It's not a vacation. If management don't want people idling they should emphasise productivity rather than presenteeism.