skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello everyone this is my 11st day working hard to ship my MVP. I'm working on a platform to help startups(recruiters) to hire the best talent around the world.
> Do they know what they're building and do it anyway because their manager told them to?

Apologies for steering your thread into charged political territory, but this is one of the biggest reasons I think Zuck and other Valley CEO-types love the H-1B system so much and constantly seek to expand the H-1B cap, e.g. Zuck's "FWD.us" PAC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FWD.us

Disagreeing with one's boss will always have a "filter" when it can mean having to leave the country if tensions escalate into something employment-ending. Why risk it when you can just write the code, collect your pay, and get to live another day in the country you call home? I could never blame someone for making that safe choice.

Disclaimer: this is not a criticism of any H-1B individuals, many of whom I am lucky to count as my inspirations, peers, and friends :)
Interestingly, I'm not sure a neurosurgeon is that great an example.

What neurosurgeons do is amazing, and life-changing for the people they help. However, only an extremely small proportion of the population will ever receive treatment from a neurosurgeon. So, I'd argue that the net benefit of a neurosurgeon to society is relatively small compared to say Neurophysiologists (ie similar speciality, but not a doctor) and General Practitioners (ie doctor, but not the speciality), who both treat a far larger percentage of the population, and both get paid much less.
I half agree on this. I agree the environmental manipulation and tactical side of the game is underdeveloped. I think a lot of that is similar monster designs. Despite a huge bestiary of cool monsters, when it comes to how you deal with those monsters it just boils down to flying/hopping, ranged/melee, and does it bleed something nasty. Not all of those 8 combinations need substantively different approaches, either.

While you absolutely can just slot machine until you get a rigged build (which seems to be a requirement for a mass appeal roguelite), it's possible to win more consistently with other play styles. Wand editing adds a lot more actual decision making compared to BoI or RoR, so you have to actually think about building a game-winning kit of items. The focus on building a kit from random components reminds me more of Shiren The Wanderer, Brogue, FTL, or my own roguelike Hero Trap. The game ends up being about how many different ways you know to build a broken wand, which is something I can respect.

The biggest problem with Noita to me is its emphasis on resource extraction. Good play involves grinding for 600+ gold in the game's first area, when a casual search for the bottom will get you under a hundred. Couple that with monsters that can usually be slowly killed without taking damage, but will deal large amounts of damage if your attention lapses, and you get a game where optimal play involves an awkward mix of long periods of focus with low interest.
I suspect that outside the US, most Jews rarely if ever think about whether they are "white", much less about whether they feel "white"

US culture is very focused on racial categories – who is and isn't "white". Most other Western cultures are not – European cultures, Australia, etc

I think in Israel, people think about who is Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Beta Israel, Arab/Palestinian, Druze, Secular vs Religious Zionist vs Haredi, etc, not about whether or not they or others are "white". The question of "who is white" is very American, not one that has a lot of relevance for Israeli society
Right to repair isn't about forcing companies to build stuff a certain way, it's about forcing companies to give open access to everything you need to repair the device. They can do this at close to no extra cost: Just publish their existing internal repair manuals, publish their existing internal schematics, don't force your manufacturers to exclusively sell components to you, don't cryptographically make components non-replaceable by just you.
The enemies get harder the further down you go but there is no progression between runs, as a roguelike.
Comixology surprises readers by making all Black Panther comics free
Our Brave New Merged World
I have a macbook which I partitioned and installed windows on. the macbook is in a drawer in a stand up desk. The desk has a terrible ergonomic design. So I ended up using the pullout drawer as a shelf form my external keyboard, which is rested on a board.

So my macbook is closed, inside a drawer, covered by a board, and connected to external monitor and keyboard.

1. How can I boot into windows from the mac desktop. Current procedure is to take off the board, open up the laptop, wait for startup, press a macbook key waiting for the os screen to start from which I can select windows icon. For some reason my external keyboard doesn't work during boot time. Its very annoying. Is there an app that will boot me into windows, from a mac desktop?

2. I have to shutdown the laptop at night because the fans are driving me crazy. But that means I have to pullout the macbook out of the drawer in the mornings, and open up the laptop to start it with a power button. Any apps that will put the macbook into sleep mode, that turn off the fans and external drives, quickly.

3. I miss cut and past for files the way it was on windows.
This effectively moves them. Now I have to hold a key down and drag on a mac. Requires much more coordination, in selecting the destination folder. Is there anything equivalent to cut and paste on mac?

Thanks for any help.
Contexts hasn't had any updates in a while, but is still far and away better than anything else I've tried. There haven't been any regressions as MacOS has updated since the last version.

It's one of those "How did I manage before without this?" apps.

One of my favorite features is quick switching by holding down Caps and typing some of the Application / Window name. When releasing Esc, the selected window will be focused. So if you know the window you want to switch to, it's extremely fast.
>> common situations as: sitting in the bathtub

What? ...what?!

Please tell me you're kidding. I would never, nor do I know anyone who would ever - be so shockingly daft as to use a phone or tablet in the bathtub. Come on. Even if it was 'waterproof', I still would be too paranoid to see it as a shocking hazard...we learn as kids not to put electronics in the bath; at least everyone I know did...

On the toilet, all the time. In the bathtub?! Let's give human beings some credit. We're not daft.

Waterproofing is ideally for the time you accidentally drop your phone into the toilet, and that alone. Just because it's gotten really great doesn't mean people's attitudes on this has suddenly changed.

Electronics and water don't mix. I can't imagine sitting in the bathtub with an iPhone, iPad or laptop. Nor could I imagine anyone I know doing so. o.o
From a nerd/technical point of view, one of the great challenges of the tour de france is the live HD video feed from the helicopter camera platforms to the broadcast/editing studio. Considering the mountains and terrain often in the way, the distance of the route, and the fact that the event relocates itself every day.

It was considerably less difficult in the 480p analog days.

Here's an older example of the aerial camera work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSmhgOFGl_M

Also the live video feeds from the camera operators that ride pillion on motorcycles chasing the riders. That presents its own unique technical challenge.
Anybody else catch this gem on the last page?

"Wirth received a PhD //in what discipline??//from the University of California at Berkeley."
The galaxy S3 and 4 both had user replaceable batteries and where thin. Though IDK how water resistant they where.
edit never mind, I'm done.
Yes, I agree. The title was almost an afterthought barely addressed at the end, if at all.
> I was trying to express that the mentality of competition constrains us to what’s already been done. That’s why it’s harmful.

That doesn't seem to me like a mentality of competition. It seems to me like a mentality of just going with the status quo. Competition in no way requires going with the status quo. If you can out-compete others by changing the rules, competition tells you to change the rules. David was competing with Goliath; David won the competition by changing the rules.

To the extent competition is harmful, it's harmful because, as noted at the start of the article, it tends to foster a zero-sum mentality: the only way I can win is for you to lose. But creating wealth, which is what "competition" is ultimately supposed to be about in the economic sense, requires positive sum exchanges. Positive sum means everybody wins. That's what I was expecting the rest of the article to be about; but it isn't. It's just about a different kind of zero sum, where you make the competitors lose by changing the rules instead of by playing better than them within the existing rules.
Does it matter that the pressure is from software vs. people?
that following recommendations of the first para makes doxxing difficult (the second para is to say I can confirm).
Belarus is no more (or less) culturally in Europe than Russia or any of the other cultures descending from historical Rus.
If you're an IC at a large firm (like I am), then going against status quo is a terrible idea...
Why did having FireWire matter?
As far as nuclear energy not seeing more widespread adoption, as readers of HN know, the fossil fuel industry is allowed to externalize costs while nuclear can’t as much for a variety of reasons (e.g., high profile nuclear disasters, etc.). If the true costs of fossil fuels could be better exposed, nuclear would be more competitive. That point is sort of tangential to the article but I wish the author had pointed that out in a sentence or two.
> heavier, thicker, face detection

Isn't that kind of facial detection done in software? How can it be `heavier' or `thicker' if it's software?
A new social network makes becoming famous more efficient
IMO highend ergonomic mouses have many features and looks luxury thus heavier. Some gaming mouses are really lightweight.
Micron Reveals GDDR6X Details: The Future of Memory, or a Proprietary DRAM?
Appreciate it! As a backend engineer (not game dev) but lacking in math and proper computer science backgrounds, what areas might i want to focus on learning to implement a simulation game similar to this?
This game is fun but more table flipping and swear inducing than almost anything I can think of, including Nethack.
As opposed to buying directly from the developer?
A way to store a surplus food that contains high protean and fat is another huge benefit of dairy. Hard cheeses can be stored for years in the right conditions and these conditions are achievable for ancient people (caves).
I started using Emacs simply because there was no other editor or IDE which had good Clojure (my language of choice at the time) support.

After a while, I started noticing how sluggish IDE’s and electron-based editors are.

I’m now a vim user, but my most used features are «intellisense», go to definition, find references and ctrl-p. I guess these are the things Carmack refers to being of value? I also appriciate spending less time moving my right hand between my keyboard and trackpad for ergonomic reasons.

In addition, I have a more snappy editor than most of my colleagues.

What I don’t have is a good integrated debugger or refactoring support. The latter i never made much use of anyway and the former i’ve never minded being a seperate tool.
Ask HN: How to Automate Processing of Emails?
The simplest idea is:
1. Whenever I receive an email, some script should be ran.
2. The script takes the email as the input. It can do anything, for example parse the information and categorize it and store it somewhere else.
3. The script then move the email to different folders (for example: processed, error-occurred).

I'm using this to sort through hundreds of amazon shipping emails, and I know
sometimes the processing of the email might fail, so I need to read a few manually.

Looking around I don't see any tools making this easy.
Facebook acquired the app in question, so I'd imagine that many of the developers working on it joined before it was part of Facebook.

As for why they'd be okay with working on it -- well, the world is not so black and white. I think many people would consider a free VPN that collects statistics on what apps you use to be a fair tradeoff. There are many circumstances where being able to hide your activity from your government / employer / ISP / whoever is more important than some random third party knowing what apps you're using.
Compressionism: A Theory of Mind Based on Data Compression [pdf]
Parents give milk to their children because it makes them taller. See e.g.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0301446080268046...

https://academic.oup.com/advances/article-abstract/10/suppl_... (a "maybe", but also increased mineralization)

https://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/18/6/1881.short

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X1...

https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=2867428133...
I would say still thinking too narrowly, some interesting science fictions novels had knowledge as a form of currency in some technocratic societies (The Omar ~> Deus Ex Invisible War)

Not saying this is the best solution but again different form of “currency / money.”

Imagine you are a human who is part of a hive mind, (think Deus Ex Helios AI) you wouldn’t have a need for money.
PostgreSQL B-Tree index deduplication
The pressure isn’t from the software, it is from the people the software sends messages to.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon

The Cassandra connection being:

Those who don't study epidemics are doomed to repeat them.

Those who do study epidemics are doomed to watch reservoirs repeat them.
Women's Knockouts in Kickboxing
I’m not aware of any PC that has an activation lock - maybe a bios password for a few but not many. Macs don’t have the concept of an activation lock do they? Even if it is password protected you can always reinstall the OS can’t you?
Correct. In fact milk consumption is high in many places according to this chart
http://chartsbin.com/view/1491

These two claims are not in conflict. Just like saying "People have been smoking for thousands of years and tobacco companies were normalizing nicotine addiction" aren't in conflict. They can both be true.*

Milk advertisement surely isn't the only factor in dairy consumption.

It focused for decades on persuading parents to give it to their children using nutritional claims.

* - Also, I'm not using tobacco to imply a devious or malicious use by the milk industry or that their products are unhealthy. No. The two industries used many of the same marketing consultants in the mid-20th century and so ended up with similar campaigns ... that's really it.
> - Business-vs-talent returns: most riders earn minimum wage.

Where so you get this from?

There is a mandated minimum that is around the median salary of my country, so much higher than minimum wage of most countries.

New young riders in the UCI Pro Tour level reportedly get a fair bit more than the minimum, on the Tour they are not usually fielding a more experienced team and earn more. If they prove themselves the earnings go up fast.

Cycling pays little compared to basketball, football etc. but they are well paid compared to the general population at Tour level.
> the mortality rate is in the same ballpark

Even if that were true, mortality rate isn't alone the complete measure of a disease’s danger, among other reasons because death isn't the harm diseases do.

And it's not, at all, true. The extremely low of estimates of the infection fatality rate for COVID-19 are around the rate of the symptomatic case fatality rate of the seasonal flu, compare IFR to IFR (even with rosy estimates for COVID) or CFR to CFR and COVID-19 is much worse.
Quote out of context much?

> heavier, thicker, face detection that is not secure,
Apple should really consider surfacing this info to users and outing offending apps, much as they do with high energy consumption currently.
I've been developing a plug-in to integrate multiplayer features provided by Epic Online Services into a game built with Godot.

And now you can download an Extremely Early Access release of "The Endov Society" interactive video game software provided for entertainment purposes to see it in action. :)

The blurb:

Join/find/create lobbies with up to 32 members! Unlock achievements! Change outfits! Get surveilled! Become more or less suspicious! Get promoted!

Also features an episodic story that will have you asking "Is this a demonstration?".

Some technical details:

The EOS SDK supplies a shared library binary (which exposes a C ABI) to be distributed with the game.

My addon uses Foreigner (a Godot wrapper for the Foreign Function Interface `libffi`) with some additional patches for buffer/struct support to interact with the shared library.

I chose this approach rather than using something like GDNative & developing the main addon in something like C/C++ because...

(a) Multi-platform compilation is a pain;

(b) The code isn't particularly performance critical currently;

(c) GDScript enables much faster iterative development;

(d) This was a motivating example for what's possible via FFI to encourage adoption in Godot;

(e) Avoid requiring C/C++ skill to contribute.

Thanks for your interest & hope you'll consider downloading & trying it out.
I think professional associations are pretty toothless; they are primarily for economic benefit, not for fighting or even providing support in an adversity.

Unions might not be a very good fit either. They do have fists and I would expect a good union to put a fight for any member that got laid off, even if the union leadership finds that defending the person is a burden. But the union probably would not care about impartiality of reporting or help publish a particular view.

But this does look like an almost perfect case for the freedom of speech defenders. I do not know why are they not helping. My only guess is that they are used to fighting the government or megacorps and have no idea how to help in this setup. But this is just a random guess.
They knew exactly what they were doing. Notice how Onavo Protect's (the VPN product's name at the time) Google Play store listing didn't mention "Facebook" at all, and you wouldn't have known there was any association unless you searched for the 2013 announcement of FB's Onavo acquisition: https://i.imgur.com/iUrvBqx.jpg

It was eventually changed to "Onavo Protect, from Facebook" a few years later: https://i.imgur.com/wSZwc8i.jpg

Then they even later tried paying teenagers to be spied on and had Apple shut down their enterprise app-provisioning certificate which was pretty amusing.
Cmd-tab shows the row of open applications, you can tab through them (or shift-tab to go backwards), OR mouse over and click whichever app you want.

Cmd-backtick only cycles through the windows.
A monoid is a mathematical structure which captures associativity (a+(b+c) = (a+b)+c) and has an identity notion (a + 0 = 0 + a = a).

They're useful because knowing them allows for identifying and mechanically applying transformations to better leverage parallelism and easily implement incremental computations†.

I highly recommend this article and the section on monoid homomorphisms in particular, which covers why you should care about monoids and gives a practical example: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/monoids-part2/#monoi...

If you've been programming for a while, I can guarantee you already intuitively understand the concept. Giving it a name allows you to automatically recognize and notice that you've already solved this problem before in another guise.

Alternatively, having named the concept, it's now chunked into your toolkit for use whenever applicable. Structuring your solution so you know it's a monoid allows leveraging all those benefits almost for free.

†With divide and conquer, add memoization and pay attention to the order of subproblems such that you can reuse earlier work, and if you can, we're nearly at dynamic programming. We can specify a bit more structure, to get semirings and collapse a whole heap of disparate seeming machine learning algorithms. But now I have gone too far afield.
An Oracle database expert, who doesn't understand the necessity of having a primary key? A Java developer who never heard about Map, so he kept implementing it over and over again as a set of methods, for each variable separately?)

Neither of those examples surprise me that much. It’s not that uncommon that being able to produce something that vaguely works well navigating a messed up organization is what it takes to be productive. The bar on not being a totally messed up organization is low but tons of places don’t clear it.
At that rate I'd prefer close sourced now, MIT later.
It looks like just buy from single favorite brand is common strategy.
Isn’t this problem why Walmart is interested in TikTok?

Teenager sees an article of clothing an influencer is wearing and then taps a button for it to be delivered with 2-day Walmart+ shipping in their size.
Don't worry, the reference has-will be understood next year.
Your “advocacy” is that a replaceable battery increases the longevity of the device. But how does it increase longevity of a device if it is not going to be supported by the vendor for more than a couple of years instead of six like the original SE? How is it better for the consumer if the phone you linked to is more expensive than the iPhone SE + one battery replacement.

The phone you linked to is worse in every objective measure.

The fact is that even the best Android phones also don’t have a replaceable battery. Are all the manufacturers under the same delusion that consumers don’t care about replaceable batteries?
Is pocket integration really that obstructive? On my laptop, it just a persistent icon on the address bar that I can right click and remove.
You can use gmail + a forward to cloudmailin + trigger an aws lambda running a simple script.

Alternatively you could have it direct to cloudmailin if your usage is a bit different.
I was working on this in 2010! Perhaps, I'll revisit my 'no typing' editor ideas.
I don't think nurses are paid fairly for the work they do. I think the health industry takes advantage of their desire to help.
> Suppose you have passed your right to repair. I can design a device so that it takes unreasonable effort and eqipment to repair it. Makes it more expensive to repair than to buy a new one. You would have achieved nothing.

No-one is going to buy a car or tractor that can't be repaired at all. And it'll hit pretty hard if people realise even apple can't replace their screen and they'll need to buy a new thousand-dollar device every time the screen breaks. Apple and John Deere have a huge incentive to make devices repairable, they just want to monopolize that repair business. That's the problem here.
It's incredibly hard to design a game around an emergent physical system where that system not only allows the gameplay to remain fun, but actually contributes to the fun in a meaningful way. The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild did an astoundingly good job of this, but it's one of the only examples I can think of where it really worked at all. Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts is the other, though most people probably haven't heard of that one.
it feels like this ended very abruptly? I was enjoying it and then it seemed to end almost mid-sentence
Stacks are used in parsing algorithms. In order to create a parallelized parsing algorithm the author has found this monoid representing stacks and stack operations (specifically push and pop). If this pans out, the result is a potential tool in running parsing algorithms in parallel (specifically on GPUs in their desired use-case).

Edit: fixed some autoincorrects