skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you move your product into the cloud if it only increased your marginal costs? You move into the cloud to increase your marginal revenue.

You've got this argument by the wrong end. You don't raise your prices because you had to because, well, cloud. You move to cloud specifically so you can raise your price. You might also argue that you move to cloud to reduce marginal costs of distribution, but that's arguable.
Not only this, but there's a distinct difference between senior technically and senior managerially

A "senior" doesn't have to be able to lead a team (though they should probably learn)

If they're going the team-lead path, that's great

But it's not (and never should be) a "requirement" to be "senior"
"Spy Dust" https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-the-soviet-union-tracked-people-...

In SpyCatcher, Peter Wright describes contemplating a similar system to catch spies removing sensitive documents from MI5. From the book:

"I was asked if there was any technical way we could
prove Vassall was removing documents from the Admiralty. I had been experimenting for some time with Frank Morgan on a scheme to mark classified
documents using minute quantities of radioactive material. The idea was to
place a Geiger counter at the entrance of the building where the suspected
spy was operating so that we could detect if any marked documents were
being removed. We tried this with Vassall, but it was not a success. There
were too many exits in the Admiralty for us to be sure we were covering the
one which Vassall used, and the Geiger counter readings were often distorted
by luminous wristwatches and the like. Eventually the scheme was scrapped
when fears about the risks of exposing people to radiation were raised by the
management"

Peter Wright also described a radioactive agent for discovering secret writing, which may be similar to how the secret writing that tipped them off was detected on the letters to the embassy to begin with:

"The techniques of secret writing are the same the world over. First the
spy writes his cover letter. Then he writes the secret message on top, using a
special sheet of carbon paper treated with a colorless chemical. Tiny particles
of the chemical are transferred to the letter, which can then be developed
by the recipient. Most developing agents make the chemical traces grow, so
that the message becomes legible, and unless the correct agent is known, the
message remains undetectable. But Morgan created a universal developing
agent, using radioactivity, which transformed the possibilities of detection."
Is this not a timeseries classification, which they do implement?
Indeed, Colin mentions scrypt in TFA:

> In 2009, having had many users ask for passphrase-protected Tarsnap key files, and having determined that the current state of the art of password based key derivation was sorely lacking, I invented scrypt — and in the process, opened up a whole new field of cryptography. Sure, I was doing this because it was something I could do to make Tarsnap more secure; but it would be a stretch to place this under the umbrella of "spending my time working on backups".
The future of .NET Standard
You can opt out, but it's a grueling, site-by-site process and they don't make it easy - often you have to do it several times. See https://inteltechniques.com/book7.html for some strategies. It's tortuous and should not be this way - we should really have national privacy legislation, but all the companies who are based on (or just get extra profit from) surveillance capitalism will fight such a thing tooth and nail.
Mostly the same here. My cable modem IPv4 address would stay the same for about a year. It only changed when we had an extended power outage of more than 6 hours about once a year during a bad storm.
Show HN: I visualised the co-occurrence of origin and variety in coffee beans
This is what inevitably happens when you centralize power/authority/buying options for consumers. Amazon can make or break a business/product line. Centralization also makes it much easier for those who are willing to cheat their way to the top.

To a certain extent Amazon's dominance has also directly led to the Web being filled with listicles. It's much easier to write up a list of "recommended" products when all of your referral links can point to Amazon, which is a trusted source of ecommerce for a majority of Americans. It would be much harder for listicles to be as profitable if consumers had 10+ Amazons to choose from when doing their online shopping.
I really question the motivations of people who would downvote this. It's clear, objective, relevant information.
Yes! That's what I was thinking of.
It's amazing what a disgruntled employee will do, and how little it takes to make them do it.
It's not just that the Statsmodels offering is limited, it's that the Scikit-learn style API is effectively an industry standard. Whereas the Statsmodels API is vaguely R-inspired, and while it has some benefits compared to Scikit-learn, it's doesn't fit easily into today's "standard" Python machine learning workflows without a bunch of wrapper code.
Reminds me of jwz's line about leaving Mozilla to run a nightclub:

"But in 1999 I took my leave of that whole sick, navel-gazing mess we called the software industry. Now I'm in a more honest line of work: now I sell beer."
Amazon already has many competitors for their retail business. Costco, Target, Home Depot, Lowes, Bed Bath Beyond, Walmart, eBay, Overstock, Wayfair, Aliexpress, etc.

The barrier to entry for retail is very low, and reflected in the low profit margins.
I'm not sure about that. I read Alyx as a very successful tech demo intended to push the market sector out a bit and make money off the platform and hardware, rather than a renewed more games-centric direction for Valve. Much like iD's output often being tech demos for the game engines that they then license to other studios.
Really? I was immediately unimpressed when they started trying to claim they did it so they can make better games, rather than because Microsoft offered them a boatload of money.
That's a very small search space and the passwords would be easily brute-forceable if there isn't some strong rate limiting.
Maybe not. I am 40+ years old and I clearly remember how the 80s and the 90s were full of stories about satanism. How listening heavy metal will turn kids into satanists. How there are satanist societies with child sacrifices. That's exactly the feeling I got after watching this documentary. Oh, social media is the next satanism and Zach is new Anton LaVey. Got it.
Anomaly detection might also refer to outlier detection, in that "an anomaly occurred at this point in the time series."
The running joke at my old company was "It will be done, assuming this time next quarter I haven't quit this job to assume this chaotic world of software development for the predictable life of the humble dairy farmer."

... the joke, of course, being that there's nothing predictable about being a humble dairy farmer... Cows get sick, years are better or worse, and the market is constantly fluctuating.
I too make things out of wood these days; although I am hoping to get back to software soon. time to go warm up the shop...
Venture capitalists and covid-19
Yes, I did know them as ‘fish’ exclusively before I dared to try sliptong, haring and paling; never ate a fish stick after that in my life.
People really need to watch (play?) (read?) The Final Hours of Half Life Alyx. Its a documentary-like experience available on Steam which dives in to the past decade or two at Valve.

From the outside, all we see is very few games being produced. From the inside, its far more complex; something like a Dark Decade for Valve where even they weren't sure what they should be working on. Hundreds of failed prototypes and ideas. Major technical issues with Source 2 that took years to fix. L4D3 was under development, but ran into huge scope creep (full open world with variable length days depending on time of year and hemisphere, variable tides based on moon cycle, crazy stuff like that). They were working on a tech showcase codenamed ARTI/Artifact using a brand new voxel-based game engine separate from Source (and after the game was canceled, the name was taken and used for the now-released Dota 2 Card Game).
The device can present an API as well.
Yeah, I was quite surprised by this historically incorrect analogy when I saw the film, but this does not invalidate many of the other good points that was made. Every argument should be evaluated on its own merit.
How can 15 people be gone? Contractors?
In general the reporting restrictions in the UK are there because there has been a history of recordings leading to jury prejudice and therefore mistrials.

There is a general principle of the court publishes a fair, accurate and contemporaneous record except where this would create a substantial risk of prejudice. Here are the details https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/reportin...

These UK reporting restrictions are also why the BBC (and other major UK-based media) are very careful about how they report on criminal proceedings.
As someone who is not very good at math, I loved reading this because of the sense of fun and play that comes through. What a great story. My mind boggles at the leaps of analogy/intuition involved here -- I can just barely follow along. How exciting it must be to get to work on this kind of stuff all the time!
This just further confirms that my energy and money is going to the indie space. The level of enjoyment I get out of Factorio, Cuphead, Cogmind, Crusader Kings III, Curious Expedition 2, EXA Punks, Elite Dangerous, Kenshi, etc is so much greater than any AAA title I've touched in the past 5 years, yet these games are cheaper and most can run on a potato. I want to play games, not interactive movies.
What muddies the waters is that under Swedish law, rape is a fairly broad thing. Possibly it was rape under the law. What complicates matters is that the public prosecutor would never touch a case like this because the Police would just respond with their standard "crime cannot be proven".

Selective enforcement at its "finest", in my opinion.
You're right. They won't be just on Xbox. They'll be on Xbox and Windows 10.

In other news, the only 3D API that matters now for gaming is DirectX. Which was kinda always the case, except now OpenGL and VK fanboys can't go "but... idTech!"
This entire trial is about one of our closest allies trying to conceal premeditated murder and prosecute the whistleblower.

It should be pretty obvious why.
Absolutely. It's fine for gamers to indulge in some nostalgia, too.

It'd be better for the industry if we all recognized that the job of a guy like Bobby Kotick is to eat a steak every so often, and then vomit it up for the next 25 years. Someone has to drive a garbage truck and there's nothing wrong with paying him for it.
I've been playing a lot of great retro-inspired shooters from the new 3D Realms and New Blood. Plenty of great indie stuff on PC.
I understand the deal was structured quite a bit in GMs favor.

IMHO it's very possible Nikola could become GMs EV brand, similar to Polestar for Volvo.
And now with GM representative being the new chairman, it's looking more like it.
Why does Haskell cause an algebraic perspective while Python causes an operational one? In Python I can write:

x = 2 * y + 1

which looks like algebra to me.

I do not know Haskell, but I read about it that it is a purely functional language. So is the mindset because of that?
I grew up in Michigan and went to one of the many small liberal arts colleges in the state.
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What the heck does this even mean? This is crazier than the stuff my cannabis business clients come up with.
Worst case scenario for Nintendo would likely be making Xbox and PS5 games and PC games. I don't think they will ever be for sale.
GTA V, mainly thanks to their online offering, has been the 2nd best selling video game of all time, second only to Minecraft... which Microsoft bought in 2014 for $2.5 billion.

Mind you, Minecraft's income comes from a lot of merchandise and spinoffs, whereas GTA is mainly from the game itself.

I was curious; RDR 2, also a Rockstar game, is the #14 best selling game of all time apparently; I didn't know it did that good. The other GTA games are also in the top 50.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...
> who doesn't like their own Rube Goldberg machines?

Love that. Yes, the 1% (of which I've been a part) often get to control both the structure and rate of change for a large codebase, and in perfecting the fit to themselves they almost inevitably make the experience worse for everyone else.
Net worth is only assets and liabilities. Income doesn't get factored in to that until it's earned.
How we priced our first product
Another example of capitalism tending towards monopoly.
Signal is openly hostile to alternative clients, making it hardly better than other corporations' offerings.
Argue for more security budget with management. If you can make this sound dramatic enough...
The audio is always recorded and transcribed at a Crown Court. The transcriptions are a permanent record. This is why for example if a witness nods to affirm something they'll be asked to actually say "Yes" out loud if that's what they meant.
Speaking anecdotally from my friend group of professional adults with kids on London, it really feels like the government has lost the cooperation of even the most law-abiding and willing-to-cooperate people at this point.

I mean they spent the last month giving the entire country a month-long 50%-off "Groupon" to every restaurant and telling us to go out more to prop up the economy. Then a couple of weeks later, they open schools without sufficient testing capacity and say it's our fault for a disease spreading because we aren't complying with the ever-shifting and often nonsensical rules.

I'm sure nearly everyone in London has had the experience of being required to wear a mask on a train and then walking 5 feet into a coffee shop where you can sit in an enclosed space smaller than a train car without a mask. Or you've seen two restaurants next door to each other where one has their staff wear masks and the other takes literally no precautions. Or you've been told you can't have another family of 4 over to your house to eat dinner but you can play full-contact rugby with them if you like.

Combine that with the fact that COVID rates have been so low for so long now that must of us don't have personal experience with COVID and of course people are losing their will to cooperate. It would be one thing if there was an exit strategy on the horizon, but without one clearly defined, I think most people are just starting to give up on the idea of stopping COVID if it requires them to indefinitely suspend living their life.

This is just my impression of how my friends are reacting - I'm not saying that the situation isn't serious.
Not all desk jobs, well certainly not all jobs where you are always sitting down, cause the same long-term strain on the eyes, however. A bus driver is at least focusing on the distance for most of the day, which is much more natural than staring at a computer monitor and its artificial light and small text for hours on end.
I really hope that they move away from the ESO/MMO format that they've focused on the last few years in regards to Elder Scrolls. I'm a huge fan of that series, but I just have zero interest in playing MMOs, and it's clear that they've been trying to push further into that space as opposed to shipping high-quality single-player games.
Forza games is the best exclusive serie of Microsoft for me. Forza Motorsport is a really good simulation and Forza Horizon are the funiest arcadish race games I've played in the recent years.
The problem with programming for a job is that you don't get to do it on your own terms. If you really focus on it and have a bit of luck, you can align your job with the stuff you wanted to do anyway, but even then every 40 hours is probably 30 hours of not particularly interesting work and 10 hours of the stuff you loved when you first fell in love with programming.
Astrocytes could be essential to blood-brain barrier health
I suspect OP meant to submit a link to the actual site: https://www.desmos.com/calculator

With that out of the way, I've seen some really nice things done with it but the lack of log scales has kept me from diving into it too much.
Pentagon Issues RFI for Dual-Use 5G Network
If I understand the idea of protobufs correctly, the fundamental point is to start with a serialization specification and then generate reader/writer code for that spec in the programming language of your choice.

If that is correct, it is very similar to the idea of pattern matching in functional programming compilers. See for example: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.25...

The fundamental idea is that when you have a function definition like
f(<pattern>) <- .....
instead of a runtime binary match(<pattern>,<expression>), the compiler generates a function (lets call it fmp) such that
fmp(<expression>) = match(<pattern>,<expression>) for any <expression>

Ever since I first used pattern matching compilation when I worked on the Hope compiler, I always though that the idea of precompiling static function parameters (or slowly changing ones) was a very under-used idea.
I don’t know why anyone would think Microsoft would be against publishing on competing platforms. Minecraft is available on Switch and PlayStation. It’s all about that $$$
Nuclear fusion is an interesting example. Right now academia is mostly focused on conventional tokamaks, and while they're learning a lot, the exponential rise in the fusion triple product essentially stopped while we wait 25 years for ITER to finish construction. Now private startups are building reactors to explore all sorts of alternative ideas.
> I wouldn’t describe myself as a supporter but still the seeming lack of news seems very odd.

From a logical perspective it seems quite odd, but from a pattern recognition perspective it seems quite normal, the pattern being that certain types of news stories seem to get a full court/spectrum press, and other stories (often arguably more substantial) get what seems like the bare minimum required to not raise eyebrows. It sometimes makes one wonder if there might be more going on here than meets the eye.
Do you get CAPTCHAs with Chrome in incognito? It's not fair to compare Firefox in incognito to Chrome with all of your cookies.
Which means you get better usability by default and E2E when you need it.
Facebook Says It Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down
The difficult teenage years: Setting tech strategy after a launch (2019)
API with NestJS #13. Implementing refresh tokens using JWT
That's merely rhetoric. Reading between the lines, it's clear Howard is saying "we're going to release Skyrim on XBox Series X on launch day".
> I'm not seeing that in the comments

I'm seeing it everytime someone prefaces their comment with something along the lines of:

"I'm not an Assange supporter But ..."

in fact you're comment is really no different:

> not supporting what Assange did, I didn't

Are people worried the FBI will break down their door, if they don't put up the disclaimer?
>It’s things like — I want to be able to own a house, I want to live in a nice neighborhood, and I want to be able to send my kids to a really good school and I want to have really good healthcare.
And those are the three things where the price levels are increasingly out of reach. However we built those systems in the past, it’s failing us. And so we need to rethink. Quite literally, it’s like, okay, where are the schools? Where are the hospitals? Where are the houses?

The way these systems are assembled now is the more miserable failure, not the past.

Those institutions that remain successful are noticeably those that were actually built in the past, and worked even better until demand outstripped supply.

Working people can't afford that kind of thing or standard of living any more, so companies that want to survive can't afford to sell to or build things for average working people.

We just have to continue getting by on the remaining wealth left over from a time when greed, dishonesty, and predatory behavior were not as acceptable or prevalent.
While I wouldn't exactly put it in the Rails category, I love Spring Boot far more. I love Micronaut even MORE than Spring Boot... but that's another story.

Spring Boot doesn't tick ALL the Rails boxes (Scaffolding a backend CRUD admin interface, all of the complex templating stuff - although Thymeleaf is pretty darn good) I'd put my money on it being more maintainable a year later. Spring as an ecosystem is huge, so there's always a strong possibility someone else has already solved the problem you're trying to solve. The tooling is pretty fantastic as well. Kotlin as a language is just fantastic.
Paradox isn’t exactly an indie
No mention of playstation says a lot...
Paradox are an absolute gem. My god, these people owe me hundreds of hours of my life! And I'm not really into games.
But I see the same everywhere at many levels. There seems to be some effort to "commoditise" development. Nice idea, but only really the committed expertise and resources of Microsoft or equivalent could achieve this - all other attempt devolve to some form of micromanagement.
My goal isn't to look _exactly_ like C++/etc, but rather to have a fairly natural duality between read and write. You can read with:

a.b.c.d

but a write is:

let a = {a with b = { a.b with c = { a.b.c with d = 5 } } } }

which is much much more verbose than the OO/imperative:

a.b.c.d = 5
Microsoft is just trying to recreate console lock-in without having to subsidize hardware so much.

(1) Microsoft is trying to expand their gaming division, but struggle with first-party games. This acquisition is an acknowledgement that MSFT needs Bethesda creatives.

(2) Microsoft's big strategy right now is to build their Xbox ecosystem - they're pushing GamePass, Xcloud, etc. heavily, and trying to become Netflix for games.

I'd guess they're basically buying Bethesda's key franchises to drive GamePass subs. They'll build them quick, lock you in with a $10/month sub, and let Bethesda slowly merge with the mothership.

Short term, I'm excited because I want these new games! Long term, I fully expect Bethesda to get hollowed out.
> Add me to the woodworking ex-developers (...) I have a lot of time on my hands.

Be careful with that table saw...
I mean... I'm not sure why that would be surprising? That's been a thing since the dawn of unions; for early industrial unions it would have been one of the biggest concerns.