skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
slopier.com: Are you a hardcore skiing enthusiast? We'll find the steepest slopes in your area.

Edit: I don't know anything about skiing, so I don't know if steeper slopes are actually more fun. It's just what the word "slopier" brought to mind for me.
If you're talking about which you'd rather had died I certainly don't wish the same.
Windows 10’s new desktop wallpaper is made out of light
Just published “Can I afford to hire an app developer?” Is the estimate right?
What is Project Fugu? More power to the web
Additional details from the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/business/nikola-trevor-mi...

Mr. Milton said in a statement that “the focus should be on the company and its world-changing mission, not me. So I made the difficult decision to approach the board and volunteer to step aside.”
Did I miss the point, or did you? Someone has to clean out the sewers too. Somebody does, and maybe they make good money to make up for the unpleasantness - I certainly hope so - but that doesn't make it a fun job. If software development has become sewer cleaning, isn't that something worth talking about?
It's ambiguous syntactic sugar, that can only be resolved by applying the semantic type checking pass. That's the kind of sigare that that leads to vexing parses, "causes cancer of the semicolon" as they say.
C++ Modules
Like I said it requires trading experience, you can't gain trading experience without trading. He's young, he can afford to make mistakes in the market and learn from them. Accumulating stock like SPY and AAPL is good if you're older and want to play it relatively safe, you won't make much but won't lose much either. Depends on you risk tolerance, but I wouldn't steer OP away from it, when is he suppose to learn options trading and hedging, when he's 50?
I've heard several. The simplest one is the question of obligation to deliver evidence. Stories of deities are not reproducibleand modern observation does not align with what's recorded in religious texts regarding the cosmology of the universe.

We don't accept evidence Spider-Man is real because his exploits were recorded in a comic book without physical evidence of a web swinging vigilante protecting New York City, but we accept evidence of various gods from various textbooks. gods are held to a different standard than comic book characters, and it's a less stringent standard.
We had it, it's called The Outer World ;)

(I know, I know...)
They were not very clear on where the cuts are, but here is the quote from the linked article:

"In order to refocus the Firefox organization on core browser growth through differentiated user experiences, we are reducing investment in some areas such as developer tools, internal tooling, and platform feature development, and transitioning adjacent security/privacy products to our New Products and Operations team," Baker wrote.

The article prepends the paragraph with another sentence to impose its own interpretation on it, but the way I read it is that the browser division is reorganized around the user experience and everything else is moved in products and operations. Not sure how to highlight the words "browser growth".

Regarding Servo, the project is killed and part of the people had been kicked out, but the rest were merged with the core engine team. My understanding is that Mozilla decided that even Google is not doing two browser engines at the same time and decided to move the old one to rust the evolutionary way.

Did they fired someone from the ff team? Maybe, but I don't think that it is because the browser is no longer important for them. The fact that they moved there best rust devs to it testifies that at least they are not giving it up so far.
The downvotes are fun. I guess some people are just against inclusiveness?

I'm very grateful to be in this industry despite not having the "correct" background.
A bot exploiting a new SSHD vuln that my autopatching hasn't caught up with yet.
Ah I meant that as separate comment, not hbase specifically, but that data pipelines need updating over time. Generally since what’s worth optimizing for changes as size increase, and there’s always that years old pipeline that takes hours to run that with a few changes could be minutes
Microsoft is now releasing two timed PS5 exclusives
ID tech is one of the biggest Vulkan users. I really hope they don't port it to Directx 12 instead :(
Spent the last few days building monkey bars for the kids to play in the backyard. It's really satisfying building something physical that others can use. It's similar to the feeling of building software that you see other people using and enjoying.
duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24543121

Is it better to have the MS or the ZeniMax announcement?
I'd suggest finding a smaller company to work for, one that makes products, as opposed to doing integration or consulting.

The money is less, you typically have to work on older stacks, and you don't get to learn a new technology every year, but the upside is you get to work across more of the (vertical) tech stack, and you get to be deeply familiar with the technologies involved.
Which "we" are you referring to?
I think the implication is that ride hailing, delivery ordering, and flight/hotel booking were possible to do by calling the company on the telephone. Which—if you already know precisely what you want—has almost as little friction as opening an app and tapping a button. (And to make that apply more often, these companies used to distribute fliers containing their “browsable UI.”)

“Live streams” of rocket launches were on TV :)

And driving, step-by-step directions, and translation were services provided by human beings. For the richer of us, they still mostly are services provided by humans, because the machine versions still aren’t quite as good.

There have been VR systems at arcades since the 80s. The main difference today is that they’re consumer electronics you can bring home. (Not that that’s necessarily better for everyone; not every home has the room.)

Cryptocurrency is fairly novel in the universality of the access it provides to such services. Before, you and your counterparty had to both have fancy Swiss bank accounts or Bahamian shell companies to exchange the funds through. Still possible, but you couldn’t just send the money to anybody, so it limited what you could do with dirty money. Now dirty money is almost as useful as clean money! :P
From a strategy perspective this is an absolutely massive win for Xbox. Their entire strategy [1] for the next generation of consoles is breadth vs depth, essentially saying they cant beat Sony in exclusives so they'll offer way more value for a lower price.

What this acquisition means is that the gap between potential Xbox exclusives/Day 1 releases and what Sony has is much smaller. Realistically there is a very low chance that any of the IP from this purchase becomes Xbox-exclusive, but even an early launch on Xbox shifts momentum massively.

[1] https://pausebutton.substack.com/p/level-69-the-next-generat...
Agree that the job matters a lot. I was working at a job where the domain was really fun but the tech work itself was getting repetitive for me (web and native apps, rdbs backed servers etc). It took a couple of years willing to make way less money but now I'm working in robotics and enjoy my day job technically very much, and the pay is back up to market rate (in a more lucrative field). And the journey during which I made zero (summer studying) and then 1/2 of previous pay (engineer in university lab) was both fun and rejuvenating.

I think it's important to save up some of your money as you go especially early on when you get that first software job where it feels like you are making a lot of money. Start saving for your future transition(s) as you may not be happy working in the same field for your entire career.
The goal of Tullio.jl is certainly not to beat MKL at its own game. But it can still be 4-5 times faster on some permutedims + matmul operations, by fusing them.

Besides handling operations which aren't standard kernels, handling weird number types efficiently would be nice. (Being able to compile lighter-weight Julia images without BLAS libraries might be nice too, for other purposes.)
The cynical take is that many US adults never really grew up
Everyone I've talked to has said they're leaning towards the PS5 because their exclusives are so much hotter than Xbox's. Halo is the last thread holding people to Xbox, and even that is weakening because it's available on PC now.

Looks like MSFT is attempt to correct the imbalance here.
I don't think mine did. Maybe. I remember hearing one classmate mention shop once, but maybe I misheard him or he was joking or something. If we did have a shop class, it wasn't advertised, I don't know who taught it or where the shop was.
As each team is different, there are many solutions for each one. I would personally suggest Restyaboard for task management as the features they provide are well suited for the companies that want to execute their daily tasks without any hassle.
Talk to your doctor today about...

Bradyshriek
That was a fascinating breakdown.
Microsoft bought the legendary game company Rare some time ago. That acquisition didn't go well, so I hope this works out well for Bethesda.
They create enigmatic press releases on a schedule, with the aim of increasing interest and tourism. There are literally millions of preserved burials in Egypt.
They get away with it because officially they don't do that. Some guy got a hold of his report and that's how he found out. Officially it's employment history, criminal record, and education history, nothing more. But the fact that such things ended up in their report(which, mind you, was almost 400 pages) raises many red flags.
100k usd is 40k eur if you take out taxes..
Off topic: We gave Rumsfeld grief because most of his unknowns were in fact well known! He just didn’t like the facts on hand and led NATO into an evil disaster because reasons.
From the article:

> “ Amnesty International had requested access to the court for a trial monitor to observe the hearings, but the court denied us a designated seat in court. Our monitor initially did get permission to access the technology to monitor remotely, but the morning the hearing started he received an email informing us that the Judge had revoked Amnesty International’s remote access.”
I disagree with you. Today's scenario is certainly much more interesting than the post dot-com boom years, maybe not as interesting as the very early days of computing, but certainly ripe for innovation, and a test-bed for innumerable breakthroughs that are yet to come. We are currently living the post "Big data" age and advancing fast toward the pre quantum computing era, with a renaissance of AI and machine learning technologies. Cryptography is ripe for disruption and the past years have seen the introduction and deployment of novel concepts and semi-old ideas that have finally found application with cryptocurrencies and distributed systems. There are several projects at the forefront of technology with defined goals in mind, and definitely solving real world problems, like privacy in cloud computing, for example. Software stacks have matured intro fully fledged products and there is plenty of choice for every use case, one just need to delve into the enormous amount of information available and do his homework. Operating systems have also advanced a lot and I love, for one, how easy is to operate Ubuntu nowadays, and the level of freedom it offers to users. Maybe you need to think a bit outside the box? respectfully, have a great one!
Did you try Arq 7 at all? People have been happy about it so far. If you're willing to give it a try and provide feedback, I'd be very grateful.
Where were you living?
I use Fedora and it works well both in Chrome and as the installed app.

Those aren't free software I know, but we are talking about Microsoft and the fact that Linux is even a vaguely well supported platform was a very pleasant surprise.
> This is a super misleading technical truth.

Nope, read on.

> There usually is an engine out altitude where it’s most efficient to fly on a single engine.

If there's an engine failure and a related pressurization problem, the plane will descend to 10,000' and burn excessive fuel, possibly overheating. There are often such problems after an uncontained engine failure.

> this is all based on statistics.

ETOPS is based on statistics before an actual flight has an engine failure. Then those stats mean nothing after an actual engine failure and you have an emergency. See the difference?

Why haven't we lost an ETOPS airliner yet? Lucky so far, but it will happen. And then everybody will be like, "How is that possible?"
No, programming became useful for the mainstream.

I program ever since you had to restrict arrays to 64k in Pascal's 286 real mode. It was definitely fun, but other than building really limited games and freaking text areas (that would regularly crash with out of memory errors, losing your changes), along with bad accounting software build in MS Fox, there wasn't much you could do.

And I remember people literally leaving the industry when the migration from MS-DOS to the Win API happened, which was forced around the time of Win 95. Because everything was terrible.

But I love it when seeing young, privileged, overpaid software developers complain about joy. Keep at it.
I hate mobile app development because of the gatekeeping store process. Apple and Google, but especially Apple, make arbitrary decisions that can have a major impact on your revenue and sanity. No thanks.
When I saw Doom 2016 running on OpenGL I was shocked. I would’ve never thought you could write an AAA game with it. It made me wonder why game developers use DX instead.
I wonder if they are moving to a subscription model because players hate the Windows store and basically refuse to use it instead of Steam when purchasing games. Having failed at running a store I wonder if they've decided plan b is running a rental service.
This is right of nose and defines exactly why MSFT pivoted to the Game Pass strategy - there were no console-moving titles (besides Sea of Thieves, that game rocks)

What we could see now is these games coming to Game Pass early, or even getting Xbox exclusive content. Theres a low chance they dont drop on other platforms (Skyrim on your Windows phone?) but still a big chip for MSFT to have on hand.
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/

The public suffix list is (or was) used to tell if foo.domain.com is considered different user than bar.domain.com

If domain.com is on the list then foo.domain.com is different than bar.domain.com. If not then it's considered a single user and the rate limits apply.
Soon we'll just have Microsoft, Epic, and a conglomeration of EA, Activision, and Ubisoft after Bobby Kotick forces them all to merge. Facebook will bungle up any chance they have of capturing the gaming market after writing a cryptic paragraph about their legal right to request blood samples from all Oculous users in the TOS. Valve will quietly exit software development altogether, and pivot to building custom vanity knives using their hardware manufacturing experience. Can't wait for the future GAAS market!
Can you clarify what you mean? I recently got into developing on the Quake 2 engine, which I think is an amazing piece of software, so I'm kinda obsessed with all things Quake right now.
I agree, but I think "more profitable" is the underlying reason, not "easy."

Facebook/twitter/Whatsapp/etc. could be a lot more distributed, open, etc. It wouldn't be harder. As you said, this is what the internet and www were designed to do. You don't need blockchain, but this is just another example of good decentralization tech that exists.

It wouldn't have been hard to make whatsapp open, and/or distributed. It wouldn't have been harder to make it interoperate with other clients, and it would have been more useful that way. It just wouldn't have been worth as much money. Centralization, monopolisation and such are the value, when you go to sell your app to Facebook.

Email is distributed because it was invented before centralizing and monopolizing became so valuable. It's easy because there are lots of easy to use clients available. It's open and decentralized because it reached decisive adoption before the dotcom boom.

"Easy" to the end user is, by and large, a byproduct.

I don't think it's ingenuous to point to a html file, apache and say "there's your decentralized solution."
The problem is the software was open source, zero income. I bet the woodworking will not be free.
RIP Bethesda.
A naive question: is it still a real thing to be entrepreneurial software engineer?

After reading this thread, as somebody who quit comfortable and well paying job for a startup being founded from scratch, I feel like I’m alone in this sort of path now.
Risk assessment is an entire field of study that the tech industry is ignoring
We still exist. Our job titles just changed and more responsibility was put on our plates. Now we do the above work, plus manage automation (Jenkins pipelines, Ansible playbooks, etc) among other work. Not that the increased responsibility is an issue, just that the title makes us seem fancier than we are. I think that is part of the problem, everyone needs some ridiculous title now, a “lowly” sysadmin gets looked at sideways.
TikTok is not an investment in tech, it’s an investment in relations with the US public sector. The fact that it comes with an actual company attached is almost irrelevant for Oracle.
If there's any possibility that a government itself might be the guilty party then the best way to alleviate those concerns is to:

1) Make sure that visibility into the trial is as open as possible.

2) Make sure that the trial is as obscured as possible from the public and institutions that exist to hold the government to account.

Which are they doing? It is PAINFULLY obvious what they are doing is 2.

They could have made this trial very open. They opted not to. The question of whether the public had more or less access than Amnesty is a red herring of the highest order.

This isn't about a simple murder or stealing. This is at its root about how journalism holds the most powerful governments in the world to account for premeditated murder. Governments that have significant control over HOW the trial plays out.

If this were a russian trial doing the same thing we wouldn't even QUESTION that it was corrupt.
Haskell is full of things (hello, most of Prelude) where the default thing is terrible and the correct thing is in a package (usually a choice between multiple incompatible packages). It makes it extremely uncomfortable to grow from newbie to intermediate.
Is this an attempt at humour I’m not understanding? The eponymous Personal Computer came out in 1981, and it came in an already thriving market with the likes of the Apple ][, Commodore Pet, TI-99, etc.

Heck some of the essays from Paul Graham date from the 90s.
The newspaper is called "der Freitag," however the German Zeitung (newspaper) is feminine and therefore would suggest "die." So it appears that people do not recognize that "der" is part of the title, and then make the mistake to use the wrong article since deducing the gender from the category newspaper does not work here.
It's nothing but heebie jeebies for me. Just Anti-Trust issues. I guess in 2020 we don't do exclusivity agreements, we just buy the fuck out of you.
Great to see, guess I just presumed it would have been digitally created.
If I am not mistaken they have some few PS5 exclusives under development. Is there any new IP that Bethesda is working on, which can be potentially a Xbox/PC exclusive?
So what you're saying is that it's indeed shit, just like everything else?
It was an expired domain picked up at auction, but the related story of VidaliaOnions.com:

https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...
How did it not go well?

> Kinect Sports Rivals

Great game

> Sea of Thieves

Another great title
The premise that "just" backups is not high on the scale of usefulness is flawed from the start. Does not nearly every other production IT project there is depend on a reliable backup infrastructure?
Reading this the second time, I think it might be one of the best "we're being acquired by X" announcements I've ever read. Excited but restrained, and it acknowledges (somewhat implicitly, but still) that there's going to be _quite a bit_ of trepidation in Bethesda's fanbase over the change.

"WHEN THE HELL WILL YOU TELL ME ABOUT STARFIELD?" and the rest of that paragraph actually fills me with a pretty high degree of confidence that this will go well. That, and Nadella-era Microsoft's surprisingly good track record in recent acquisitions.
I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018)
I'm still buying PS5 :)
Isn't that just over complicating fish and chips?
Interesting. That's very different to what WebThings provides today but that's something I'd like to see too and have toyed with building in the past.

Chromecast was once very close to being an open platform by implementing the DIAL protocol (although DIAL also had some centralisation issues), but is now a proprietary platform built on the Google Cast protocol, and is creeping towards morphing back into Android TV.

There was once a project to build a Firefox OS based TV stick called Matchstick which could have been great (B2G is still used on current Panasonic smart TVs believe it or not), which unfortunately got embroiled in a debate regarding DRM and never made it to market.

The digital signage platform I'm currently building at Krellian (https://krellian.com) could be adapted to consumer use cases like Chromecast and I'd be interested in building that in a standards-based way (e.g. using the W3C Second Screen Protocol), but the challenge would always be getting support from the big content providers, and of course the issue of DRM.
I enjoyed it though...
If you want to learn from other people's mistakes check out: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/

It's literally a site with people gambling on the market but you can learn a lot from that too, it's a fun place.

On HackerNews you're going to get a lot of Boomers' advice telling you how to be safe with your money with low risk low reward investing. You should try following some of the advice on here but also try learning about other things because honestly you're young and you can make some mistakes just set aside a small fund for learning with.
I'm neither rich, nor do I work as a programmer or software engineer, but I have found woodworking to be extremely rewarding. Wood is an amazing material, and there's thousands of years of woodworking experience available in books, online instruction videos and DYI guides so it's relatively easy to get into. It's nice to use one's hands for other things than a mouse/keyboard.
Open source analytics abstraction library for browsers and Node.js
Desmos.com/Calculator
Sorry, what? Fire their censoring ass, now!

I hope total control is hardcoded explicitly in his contract...
That doesn't solve GP's problem of "not looking exactly like C++/Java/Python"
I agree completely that Mozilla have been (almost deliberately) unclear.

The article seems to be quoting from this:

https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Message-...

I think the sentence you've quoted makes it clear that cuts have happened to certain Firefox teams.

Now, we can argue about what the effect is of this cuts is but at least you have to accept that some Firefox teams have received cuts and likely those people have either been moved or dismissed.

When you say they moved their best Rust devs onto Firefox, yes but in part that is possible because they have made cuts to the Rust toolchain teams.