skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're working on an app for social/board games with built in video chat: https://www.cyberspaces.app

Current we offer:

Boggle (just released yesterday, feedback is especially appreciated) https://www.cyberspaces.app/boggle

Codenames (we call it Cyberterms) https://www.cyberspaces.app/cyberterms

Liar's Dice https://www.cyberspaces.app/liarsdice

Kings https://www.cyberspaces.app/kings
Yes. Any reasonably good programmer can get a job at a FANG company with three months of serious study; any reasonably intelligent person can become a good entry-level programmer with 1-2 years of serious study.
The demand for engineers far outstrips supply.
since we're sharing - I love watching this lady cook Italian food https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjXWVSbWBV4
Things you know only if you have worked on an IT project
Monopoly is great for fostering interaction!

I mean, if your experience is anything like my family/friends, it certainly lets you know who in your circle is a cut-throat bastard who cheats at everything and deserves everything terrible that happens to them.
Another advantage to eBay and independent shops is that shipping is typically much faster than Amazon since the pandemic has caused Amazon’s shipping times to explode.
If you want to be pragmatic with these relationships - these are now connections. If you're in your early career and so are they, the odds of you all staying at this job are very low. Even if the friendships don't last, this is the start of a network that can possibly help get you in the next door when you're looking for a change.
I think there is a perceived need to be short term. Mainly, because most CEOs are appointed. In the case of Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc. the founders had enough equity to think long term.

Apple is an interesting one, in that it fired Job’s. Only to rehire and let the vision go to work. Even if it takes a few years.I think that’s the exception though, not the rule.
Long article on how to start running proper retrospectives
1). Getting started.. write content or videos about something I am passionate about? Just.. specific? niche?

2). How can I best stay true to the format? Like what is your top 10 always make sure to do this.. and not that, etc.

3). What can I do to differentiate myself? Speaking well? Or do I need a hook?

I am interested in taking this route, and I have some ideas.. I just don't know where to start. Those links and things help, so thanks for that.
Yes I do believe that, other less prestigious companies didn't even respond since I had holes in my resume but Google did. Getting an interview there is not harder than any other place, often times it is easier.
Tried last Saturday, and it was completely unplayable.

I guess they were under too much load. It took us an hour to just start a session of Wizard, and then we never managed to actually play because it keep throwing us out and showing error messages.
Is there a bookmarklet around that would remove them?
The worst thing code I have written ever did was cause a small power outage. But that was a one-time thing, I haven't had the opportunity to write code that even could do that in years.
To be honest 20 years ago when SARS is with us, it is fine to have a neutral scientific medical ... Now we cannot trust that. It has given advice which we know as Her not right. We just ignore it. And hence if anyone use WHO as standard, can they just shut off say Taiwan from YouTube etc. I am not talking about the politics. It is the bias built-in WHO. I am not starting China. Good day.
To commenters who compare work of programmer with the work of civil engineer:

There is an explanation to this discrepancy. Risk = probability of fault * cost of fault. Programmers usually work with the data. Data has a pretty very unique property that it is easily and cheaply copied and restored. It also means data can be replicated more easily, which allows to build systems with large amount of redundancy. Therefore, price of a software bug is usually orders of magnitude less than the price of breaking something in the physical world. This allows to drive up probability of fault parameter and allows for much faster evolution and less regulation.
Except that there's a direct line from Cow Clicker to Cookie Clicker and the entire idle games genre. Sure, this wasn't Bogost's intention, but it's hard to deny his influence here.
Curiosity!

I am interested to see how many of JS devs actually go down to this level and how many understand what is happening here.

As mentioned inside the other reply, willing to give more input.

The code is MIT licensed anyway and might be useful in case you dive into it.
A. They absolutely do. There are plenty of companies out there that will analyze a product, describe how they believe it is made, and produce a cost break down to the penny. They will go so far as to measure the thickness of the paint used.

B. I used Lodge as an example because I know they make their own products in the US and they do not produce generics. Ergo, I'm quit confident Amazon ripped them off.

Of course, Amazon has been sued over this before [1] [2] [3]. Is three references lawsuits enough evidence for you, or should I dig up some more? And there are many reports of them ripping off vendor products, as I described, from smaller vendors who never sue because they lack the means [4].

Finally, here's evidence from a former Amazon employee claiming they do exactly what I said they do. [5]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-18/williams-...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2018/01/14/fuse-chi...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-counterfeit-la...

[4] https://www.geek.com/news/amazonbasics-is-copying-all-the-be...

[5] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-third-party-sellers-d...
> Step 1: Get a well paying job at a big tech company.

You mean, a remote job in a place with low costs of living. Otherwise, this algorithm doesn't work for people with families. I've been on the job market just before COVID-19 hit. The costs of living in tech hubs are absolutely ridiculous. If it's not housing, then it's something else. For instance, you could afford staying in London with a spouse on a tech salary (the other salary would go straight into savings). But not with daycare, which quite literally costs more than housing.
I prefer to experiment, that's why I'm asking more details. I'll try right now.
By the time the decision is made and the reasoning is something like money it's got momentum.

I was in a meeting once where some new support / warranty policies were announced. Now this wasn't a decision making meeting so I've no idea what happened there. The policy change was a straight up violation of some contracts we had with some customers. You didn't have to understand law or anything, it was pretty obvious. I spoke up if only out of curiosity to see what would happen.

Everyone with any level of power in the room seemed convinced that it couldn't be illegal, because the folks higher up the chain made that decision....

Everyone had delegated common sense to the folks upstairs.

Often when I hear of these decision I think "Someone had to say something at a meeting right?" but actually, I suspect that isn't the case.

Epilogue: Company got sued by customers first, then a state AG got in on the action, then the feds came after them. The law firm hired by the company actually quit on them before they finally settled.
I highly recommend the book "American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza". I have a digital version and it took my pizza game to the next level.

>Master bread baker Peter Reinhart follows the origins of pizza from Italy to the States, capturing the stories behind the greatest artisanal pizzas of the Old World and the New.

>Beginning his journey in Genoa, Reinhart scours the countryside in search of the fabled focaccia col formaggio. He next heads to Rome to sample the famed seven-foot-long pizza al taglio, and then to Naples for the archetypal pizza napoletana. Back in America, the hunt resumes in the unlikely locale of Phoenix, Arizona, where Chris Bianco of Pizzeria Bianco has convinced many that his pie sets the new standard in the country. The pizza mecca of New Haven, grilled pizza in Providence, the deep-dish pies of Chicago, California-style pizza in San Francisco and Los Angeles—these are just a few of the tasty attractions on Reinhart's epic tour.

>Returning to the kitchen, Reinhart gives a master class on pizza-making techniques and provides more than 60 recipes for doughs, sauces and toppings, and the pizzas that bring them all together. His insatiable curiosity and gift for storytelling make American Pie essential reading for those who aspire to make great pizza at home, as well as for anyone who enjoys the thrill of the hunt.
IMO you best bet is a simple sauce with good tomatoes. Bianco Dinapoli, Sclafani (from NJ not Italy), Jersey Fresh, and anything from Stanislaus are good choices. From there just mix in salt and a minced clove of garlic (per 28oz can) and whatever else you like (olive oil, basil, oregano). Don't cook it. Its better to mix it and let it sit for a few days in the fridge.
Thanks for explaining, I didn't know that. That advice is certainly bad. I agree with your take.
It's odd they are going after Autodesk rather than the people/company running the mine. Autodesk has no control over what people do with their software.
I bought the paperback of this book a few years ago, and I make a point to read it at least once a year. Every time I do, I find something new.

Continually amazed that humans were so insightful so long ago.
I agree 100%. I once integrated Jira in a product and it was a nightmare. Integrating is pretty straightforward, but then Jira has its own way of naming the custom fields that the user added, so you end up in making a ton of API calls to discover what are the custom fields, their name, which are mandatory, what is the data format, and so on.

And don't get me started with creating a GUI so that the user can insert the data for a set of fields you don't know in advance.
The existence of those mechanisms doesn't mean the increased variance from only one X chromosome disappears - for males to have equal variance the increase from just one X would have to be compensated somehow, which is probably impossible given how directly important X is - the needed information is gone.
There was, just not from the R team. The original name of my project for calling from R into D was called rtod2 (playing off D version 2).
This recipe is beyond my reach mostly due to lack of a proper oven. Still, it's one of the best reads I've had in a long while. I'd read content like this on any topic if only I knew how to find it. Perhaps there should be a google for SEO-unoptimised content.
If they did that the feature would be DOA. Some of us want it.
Your interpretation of my comment seems to me to have taken my meaning in a way I did not intend it. I don't want to argue your points because I was not making a statement in the mathematical sense, nor academic philosophical sense.

The point really is that it is a question, that you can ask yourself. Whether you immediately conclude that the answer is "certainly not" does not deny the question of being asked. "Surely" is simply there to suggest my opinion on the matter, not a demand that I am correct.

Edit - I can't resist:

My own life is not without misery. My history still troubles me to this day. I feel possibly a similar grievance to my upbringings as you do. That is not to say there is something interesting about "life". The seemingly unfathomable nature of it, is to me a wonder. It's magical in the sense I have absolutely no idea how it works, but it definitely seems to exist. Biblical Hell of course would not be excluded by this definition. I am not making any mathematical arguments, my comment is just an attempt to summarise my feelings in this regard.

Btw, if my comment angered you then I apologize.
I don’t know why this would be surprising. They’re not gonna exactly throw everything away and start over, are they? Just like the Source engine is derived from the “GoldSrc” engine, which is the terrible name for the engine that Half Life used, and that engine is derived from the Quake engine.

You only make the changes necessary to update it for new hardware. For example, you throw away the old BSP rendering code, as elegant as it is, because it’s designed to get good performance on a Pentium 90 and modern computers just aren’t like that. It’s the ship of Theseus.
The site in the leading image is not mentioned elsewhere in the article, but it's Dominion, which can be played at https://dominion.games/

(Disclaimer: the online version is developed by a friend of mine. Not the original physical game of course, which is the best-selling game by Donald X. Vaccarino.)
I wish I could find that one guy I worked with about 19 years ago that tried to load an ActiveX component in his VbScript running in Netscape and send him this article, true he never apologized - but I just want to make sure he doesn't feel bad about never apologizing.
Google Europe in which city?
> Not necessarily.

Absolutely. You have shown remarkable skill at missing the point that the GP was making.

The context here is genetic similarity. We (humans) do use chimpanzees for research because of their genetic similarity. The point has nothing to do with any practical considerations besides genetic similarity. They all are irrelevant to the point.

To be clear, nobody disagrees with your arguments on why chimps maybe aren't the best research animal.

The fact that I have to explain this to you in excruciating detail should make you think about how your brain works.

My unsolicited advice: If you don't have an Asperger's diagnosis yet, get one. If you do, put more work into managing in.
Ciao, Come siete ?

I'm not sure if you have ever been to NYC but an interesting observation I have had with Gino Sorbillo is the pizza in Napoli is very good, but he/they opened a restaurant in NYC and it's absolutely average at best.

I assume they import everything, but quality wise, the places are polar opposites.

Also curious your thoughts of Da Michele?
That's a bechamel-based baked casserole.

Substitute cauliflower for the macaroni, sprinkle breadcrumbs on top, and you get the classic British disk 'caulifower cheese'. A whole nother comfort food.
Orwell's account in "Homage to Catalonia" is moving and chilling. You get a sense of his deep sympathy for the fragile, classless society emerging in the early days of the civil war, but as the narrative progresses, you see how doomed it all is: an abortive bid for freedom pinched between Franco and Stalin. If nothing else, read it for the way Orwell spins being shot in the neck into dry comedy gold.

I had the privilege of devouring it over a week in Barcelona. If you are ever there when the world opens up again, there is an absolutely vivid walking tour of the city that covers all the main points, which I can't recommend highly enough.

http://iberianature.com/barcelona/history-of-barcelona/spani...
I'm with @pbhjpbhj here. These are pretty run of the mill, and if child(ren) haven't already done most of these in school (or at home), I'd be very surprised.

I have no problem with Dyson engineers collating them, and I'm sure there's some value in that (although there are plenty of books from the 70s and beyond with similar (if not identical) collections; but I do take issue with them claiming that "Dyson engineers have designed these challenges" like they are somehow new or special.
There's this Codenames clone [1] that's great, you can play in multiples languages and you don't need to share a screen to play. It's for 4-8 players and it's easy to play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codenames_(board_game)

[1] https://www.horsepaste.com/
But these graphs don't tell a story of collapse. Or perhaps they do but no worse than Spain normally experiences? Spanish excess mortality has peaked already at only slightly above what it peaked at in 2017.

Remember that everything we think we know about collapsed hotspots comes via the media. For every anecdote there are other anecdotes telling the opposite.

The new EuroMOMO site is really much, much better than before (kudos to whoever did that upgrade if you're reading this!). Usefully it now shows cumulative deaths. Compared to 2018 we still have had fewer deaths so far this year even with COVID included. That's staggering. It'll probably change soon given the slope of the graph, but that's really worth thinking about. So far fewer people have died than normal in 2020 than by this time in 2018.
> A brand new dark theme was added

90s Desktop OS user would laugh at such a thing being considered a feature worth mentioning.
The one thing I like about Zoom above Discord is the ability to see people's faces. Discord doesn't have this, right? It's nice to use the mini-layout in Zoom and put it off to the side like the article suggests.

I'm still waiting for some guy on Twitter[0] who's working on his own game board simulator to release his 8-bit video conferencing solution. The pixelation gives the perfect feel when you're playing DnD online with friends during a pandemic.

[0] https://twitter.com/HunterLoftis/status/1245385563697545219
Was it the biters, or just the general gameplay loop? There is a peaceful mode that has no biters.
I thought this was a pretty good idea so I make a little reusable Github Action anyone could drop into their TIL repo to get an autogenerated README: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/til-auto-format-readm...
Everyone looks at resumes differently. A resume that's perfect for one person screening resumes won't pass someone else.

In my case, if I see a gap on a resume I just assume that someone took time off to raise a young child, had some savings and traveled, ect. I wouldn't even ask about the gap, but if it did come up, even a vague "I just needed a break" would be fine. The whole point, if I were to ask, is just to make sure you can partition your personal life from your professional life. (I don't expect you to be perfect. I'm not perfect either.)

Now, hindsight is 20/20, but you could dedicate some free time to an open-source project, a "business," ect. Just enough to put something on your resume to fill the gap. When I worked with someone else at starting a business, my partner spent a lot of time (and money) going to a therapist. I had no problem with it.
I'm referring to the original Roadster being built on a heavily modified Lotus chassis while the Model S was ground up design. The fact that older Roasters can get upgrades from the Model S suggests a good deal of component sharing for the drive trains.

I'm not sure if anyone has written anything extensive on it.
This is like saying Amazon seizes your money because you have to pay for their monthly service fees you agreed to when signing up for the service.
Emojis? I wish that was the problem. I really have an issue reading the article without focusing on how terrible the font is, it's like each word is punching my eyes.
My suggestion, based on what worked for me, is to use a highlighter. Highlight things that are both interesting and confusing. At the end of a chapter, review. I found the passages I highlighted because they were confusing ended up being truly interesting.
> It doesn't look like the waterfall model was ever used

Well - yes, it was used, and still is: it's the default if you're not careful or if you don't think very hard or realistically, or are very naive. The confusion is that is was only given a name to disparage it: W. Winston Royce observed that the way most people managed software projects was completely unrealistic and didn't take into account changing requirements. He called it "waterfall" as a way to underscore how inflexible the default "write down all the requirements, then write down how long they're going to take, then do them in that amount of time" approach was.

Unfortunately, most people who adopt what they refer to as "agile" processes are still stuck in that same mindset; they think that, by having daily standups, putting in JIRA tickets, and referring to every two weeks as a "sprint", they'll somehow meet the project manager's pipe dream of 100% predictable software development schedules.
Ask HN: Would you vaccinate against SARS-CoV-2?
To achieve the goal of creating possible vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 asap, the procedure of testing given vaccine needs to be done in a much smaller time-frame. This could lead to possible side effects (especially long-term) of the drug not being discovered. Even Bill Gates acknowledged in his Interview with the BBC that there may be compromises in the safety measures.

As a reminder, the vaccine Pandemrix, which was developed as a treatment for the swine flu, caused narcolepsy in over 1000 patients.

Would you be willing to put up with possible side effects or would you rather take the risk of possibly getting infected with SARS-CoV-2? Also, what would be your stance regarding a mandatory vaccination against SARS-CoV-2?
I prefer thicker dough for my pizza.

Those ultra-thin doughs just feel like a cheat.

550 flour, half cube yeast, a tiny spoon salt and sugar, 150ml milk filled up by water to ~275ml fluid. 5 spoons oil. Knead the dough and add the fluid. When it's nice textured leave it for the rest of the day or at least a few hours.

You get a dough you can load full with whatever you want and you'll have enough food for a few days.
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I'm just very aware of how lucky I've been on a couple of different occasions (ADDED: Specifically from an employment perspective).

During the dot-com bubble bursting, my company was having big layoffs and I landed a new job based on an informal lunch meeting with someone I knew that I had literally a couple of days after being laid off. (Some other leads I was investigating in parallel prior to getting an offer produced not so much as a nibble.)

Then, probably only a month of so before that employer shut down (somewhat after but somewhat related to the 2008 downturn), I contacted someone I knew at another company--which resulted in an offer and I'm still there.

But none of that provides much in the way of insights for someone else beyond a generic "have a network that knows you do good work and is in a position to hire you."
Thank you, you are right. It enables certain constructs, e.g. dereferencing raw pointers, which have fewer compile-time checks than safe constructs, e.g. references.
One of the youtube series I watch normally features pork ribs. Like, the shrinkwrapped package you get from the grocery store. Well that video the creator couldn't get pork ribs because of coronavirus and so had used beef ribs instead - and couldn't even plainly say the reason why. Instead he had to hold up a bottle of corona beer and say "Well, it's due to beer, if you get my drift."

Is Youtube actually in the right here? The guy just wanted to say he couldn't find pork ribs. He wasn't telling anyone to inject bleach or chug quinine.

That isn't just clamping down on the conspiracy nutters. This has repeatedly become an issue in multiple videos from videogame commentary to cooking shows I watch. Youtube and other large corporates often see themselves as leading the dumb cattle that is the general population and frankly it's outright insulting and their handling of this situation is abysmal.

But also it's going to get worse. The more Youtube can get away with these things, the more they'll do them. Don't be surprised when this extends even more to protected political speech (Israel BDS, free HK, Taiwanese independence, etc) because it's happened before and it will happen again.
It shouldn't be turing-complete, because merging code is hard, and merging configurations is useful.
I'm over 50 and been working in the industry for >25 years... what are my odds?
I wish there was something Flash-like, even easier probably, what would let you make multiplayer board games easily. A board game essentially is just a simple set of pictures you move around + a chat + a dice perhaps. This sounds fairly easy to implement.