skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, I've worked for companies that are in the press and sometimes the external viewpoint helps counteract the kool-aid.

I've also worked at companies where wikipedia has more accurate and detailed information than the internal wikis.

So maybe some of those insane people have - expertise and perspective.

Now not all. A lot of press is fawning. And nowadays, maybe due to algorithmic feedback, a lot of stuff is sort of fake controversial.
I am asking from the perspective of having no experience. But the article doesn't seem to say that it couldn't be from a point-like source. Can you elaborate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKYKLgzyF9o this is what you uneducated goldbugs sound like
>any little thing that displeases SJWs

>against just about anyone all the time

These are exaggerations. It sounds like you're harboring an irrational hatred for "SJWs", and are using misdeeds conceivably attributable to that group, however you define it, to rationalize the delegitimisation of anybody who seeks to expose harmful behavior.
Yeah, but what about having it pull 120W to get better performance? It’s always plugged in. They don’t have experience there (but will hopefully figure it out quickly). This is the right example, thanks.
AirPods Max are no match for my AirPods
The Game Genie/Gameshark incidentally scared child-me away from computer science because I didn't understand how the hell they came up with these codes (aside from 99 in hex is 63 and 255 in hex is FF).

One Game Shark came with a "how to hack" VHS which came down to "it's easy, just observe which values change in memory when you perform an action, and just freeze that value!". That's one way to get imposter syndrome.

The best unintentional introduction to computer science/memory abuse in a video game for me was the Missingno glitch in Pokemon Red/Blue.
I don't see where the misrepresentation is. Are you trying to say that we can have a functional society without raising people to put aside primitive impulses for the good of everyone? Because it should be obvious that is impossible.

Also, where are you getting this idea that kids in school are abused?
Activision ended up paying Atari royalties on VCS game sales, but it's not clear if you'd consider that an attempt to license 3rd party devs or a reaction to ex-employees who quit because you treated them poorly and the royalty was the result of a court battle not a mutual negotiation.
Your comment, in addition to having read the linked article, led me to purchase a copy of "The World-Ending Fire." Thanks for the recommendation!
Facebook? Riot? Microsoft? SoftBank?
This had to have been one of the most boring articles I've ever read. Flowery, overly prosaic and not a single interesting take away about actual safe cracking - and yes yes we get it insider information trade secrets blah blah blah.
“Complex emotions are difficult to deal with in interactive media. I’ve been involved in movies, and passive media is much better suited to take on those themes.”

Mr. Miyamoto made a very astute observation here. The average consumer responds far better to simpler emotions when given the choice, and the trend appears to be growing.
What's a racial heritage though? Appalachians don't have the same racial heritage as more recent family immigrants from Russia or Ireland, but all are Caucasian, and Black descendants of slaves don't have the same racial heritage as Somali or Kenyan immigrants.
I asked this a few days ago but did not get any responses...

Given that I find myself strongly compelled to stand up to this ridiculous behavior on the part of Nintendo and I have the time and resources to do so ...

I am going to purchase, on ebay ... what ? A plain old retail Nintendo Switch ?

Then I will send that switch (or two, or three) to ... who ?

Let's say I have a budget of USD $10,000 - who can I pay to do original, clean-room reverse engineering of this device ?

The goal here would be to publish everything that I can pay people to find.

Suggestions ? Who should I be in contact with ?
Provided of course that I as the taxpayer have some input in the decision to have 9 children
Here in Tokyo I've not encountered an issue with signal on the metro yet. I had big issues back in London but since moving to Japan 2 years ago it's never been a problem. I've seen similar oversights by Japanese companies when it comes to disregarding or just not really understanding things from a Western perspective so it could be as simple as that.
> I’ve never been bothered by intro tutorials in Zelda games

I'll take it you didn't play Skyward Sword? :P

I think Animal Crossing is also a bit different—it's an experience that's designed to slow you down and make you relax. The speed is a part of what makes it comforting.
it's not just comments online it's most of the world is created by insane people. And most of those are men because men are more insane than women and in different ways.

Jordan Peterson has a similar theory and the reason that men are more overrepresented in creators of the world around us is because there's more insane men than there are insane women or they're insane in different ways.
But Greece would never had gotten that credit in drachmen and greek jurisprudence anyway. I dont think that inflation would make much difference to greek economic competitiveness either. It's not like the trajectory changed much since the Euro, the greek goverments only concealed the problems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Greece_and...
I think this is absolutely a real phenomenon. I've even witnessed liberals starting to make jokes about the Epstein case itself because they seem to be convinced that the idea it's anything more than one lone guy is crazy simply by association with QAnon.

Jasun Horsley refers to QAnon and things like it as "conspiratainment" or "the second Matrix": essentially, since some people will unavoidably begin to perceive that the consensus reality is not what it seems to be, you set them up to enter a second one which is as much a hall of mirrors as the first.

It's discussed a bit starting at 29:15 here: https://youtu.be/kpAbgKcG7mo?t=1755
I think it could be worse. On the whole, synth wankers tend to be cool with modding and reissues. In constrast, it seems that guitar people ascribe magic qualities to very specific models from certain years and are paranoid about keeping these instruments as authentic as possible. With synths you have people looking at MS-20 serials to make sure it has their favored filter inside, but that's usually where the madness ends.
Using one of the 100s of services, apps and websites that exist.
The article also mentioned tear gas in one safe. I assume it was just stored in the safe, not a security mechanism.
You make a good point and I do agree. Also at any bigger company, no one person's experience is completely representative. It depends on the person, manager, team, org, etc. There's no way any one person could know everything about a company.

But my comment wasn't really about cultural or org issues (which can be much more subjective); it was more about specific facts that are binary. I'll read people say something like "x company is rewriting everything in Go because Rails is slow" when it's not true at all.
Is 90% English speaking plus 10% split among 10 languages more or less diverse than 25% plus 75% split among 3?
I like the idea of OSHA involving OSHA and terminating anti-vaxxers employment.
Most interesting ones!
From the comments:

"Creation has always been the province of outliers.
Has every creator--from Grady Harp all the way back to God--been insane?"
I think you may be in a minority of people that intentionally turn their machine off at the end of the day.

I don't think I've intentionally shut down my desktop or laptop (excluding reboots and when leaving for travel) for years. Especially not laptops.
I asked Miyamoto on video game violence:

"""

Q. Games can be labeled as a cause of problems by parents and society alike.

A. Like smartphones and VR goggles, devices themselves are not harmful. It’s unhealthy to become dependent on them. I want children to experience many things, like playing outside, reading books, and learning more. Balance is key. It’s almost as if video games are attributed as a source of crimes, but it’s a result of becoming obsessed or losing touch with people. It’s wrong to blame social problems on a device.

"""

Source: http://rickyreports.com/archives/miyamotoshigeru/

I appreciate his views, but I find it rather ironic that while Miyamoto points out the violence in other video games, even Miyamoto's creations involve some degree of cartoon violence. (e.g. Mario stomping on Goombas, Link stabbing his sword and breaking vases)

> (Miyamoto) expressed sadness at the number of people Bond shoots down, and suggested to him that, during the end credits, he make the player visit each victim in their hospital bed

Hideo Kojima did this in Metal Gear Solid 3. During a boss battle, the boss would conjure up the souls of those who fell to the protagonist Snake. Snake's movement would slow down because of the ghosts surrounding him. One of the most harrowing scenes in video games history.
If you don’t stand up for yourself and set boundaries, you will be 100% be taken advantage of. The world is full of people who doesn’t care about your short or long term wellbeing. Stop living in a fantasy world and work hard to see the world as it really is.
Took this long to realise?
Azure runs more Linux than Windows, including its own services. Linux and mobile are first-class platforms. Everything is compatible unless you specifically use Windows-only APIs. Do you have any examples of 3rd-party libraries that aren't supported?

.NET Core (now .NET 5) has changed the entire ecosystem and has been production-ready for years, and is even making cutting-edge advancements like Blazor which offers the first real alternative to Javascript on the frontend. The reality is that .NET is a top choice for both development speed and application performance across all platforms today.
PhotoStructure will run comfortably with 1gb RAM, and scales to very large (>1mm file) libraries.

The ML models I'm loading for the next version may take a bit more RAM than that, but (as most features with PhotoStructure), you'll be able to selectively disable them to taste.

https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/
Say I got a lease on an old satellite and started broadcasting 24 channels of tv made up of randomly selected youtube videos, with say 10min of ad per hour and overlays and etc etc.

How long before I and everyone I know are smoking holes in the ground with google lawyers pissing on any remaining sparks? Bets?

Anybody feel like investing money or effort in such a venture?
Maybe, but 8bit MCUs are simple, efficient, have a huge community & resources, and more importantly exist in convenient DIP & SOIC form factors.
As a layperson I don’t want to be bamboozled by /woo/. Can any resident astrophysicists here on HN vouch for the quackery, or lack-of, in the linked paper?
Just to add to this list -

Dangerdoom - MF DOOM and DJ Danger Mouse https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjyAiNZYWkGYdV_OWY3n9...

KMD - Zeb Love X (MF DOOM) and DJ Subroc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckprPLMXj5Y

Thank you DOOM for your unique and creative views on life and your perseverance through unforeseeable tragedy. Listening to Black Bastards and then Operation Doomsday is like watching a person's sanity snap in a moment before your eyes - but from the ashes emerged the Metal Faced master. We all wear our masks, some are just shiner than others.

Some personal favorites-

Gorillaz - November Has Come https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGc9mgpvtxU

MF DOOM - Microwave Mayonnaise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHmiQvNzLdc

OMEGAH RED ft. MF DOOM and RZA - Books of War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTCp0kJYF30
What reasons? Do you have an example? Ideological is usually the opposite of rational.
> It has been hilarious and scary to read comments from people who don't work at the company say completely inaccurate things like they are facts.

Sounds more like stupidity than insanity. People do this to express an uninformed opinion with unearned authority because that opinion and any resulting agreement are more valuable than facts and boring predictable conclusions.
What about git-annex for the large asset files?
IME, the real fees charged by WU often add up to 10-20%.
> reliability

Pre-COVID I had a semi-regular synth jam session with a dude 100% invested in software synths. First 30 minutes (no exaggeration) of every session was him fighting with Ableton or whatever, and rebooting his Mac, trying to get something trivial to work, like MIDI clock or input monitoring.

Meanwhile I just plugged my Minilogue into the power strip and mixer and did my own thing.

There's something to be said for a musical instrument not to be joined at the hip to a general-purpose networked computing device.
Can it handle 1000 predictor with 1 million data points?
SQL Server isn't part of .NET, and no different than using any other proprietary database. I'm not sure what you mean by 3rd-parties but .NET works with all the major open-source projects so you're not missing anything.
Is this vulnerable to sim swap attacks?
> You will see some well grounded, expert opinions here down-voted into oblivion simply because they clash with the mental picture of a number of HN users.

I don't agree. I read HN constantly.

As far as I see, the areas where downvotes tend to occur are where they skew to opinion, or have some tidings to politics. In other areas, HN comments are generally high quality, and have a high signal-to-noise ratio.

I wouldn't also correlate expert opinions being downvoted as just because it would "clash with the mental picture of a number of HN users". That's a false correlation.
> they believe they're the only one who can solve an issue.

Have you ever been in situations where you really are the only person who can solve the issue? Or, at least the only one who can solve it a) in a reasonable time frame and b) without creating multiple other problems?

I've been in those situations before - not all the time, but it's happened. First time I sort of liked it - seemed like a bit of 'prestige'. But then ... I took a 3 day vacation. Flew hours away. Checked in to hotel. Light on the phone in the room was beeping with a message to call the office, because there was a bug no one could figure out. Even though I was at a 'big company', I was (literally) the only person on the project, and couldn't have 6 hours away without the world crashing down. Really poor management on everyone's part.

I've been in a couple other situations since then where I'm the only person who can do X, and I recognize it, and lobby for someone else to be able to step in. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I've also had a couple of situations with competent team mates who all started before me, and had a wide diverse set of skills, supported each other, and I was not expected to be some sort of 'superhero'. I appreciated those environments more as an older person who's previously experienced the 'superhero' environments.

These "many other people can do what you do" teams I've been a part of have been nice, but also comparatively rare.
That’s why I deleted my Reddit account.
lol - Yup, Mac's are only used by geeks.
/s
http://musicfromouterspace.com is a great place to start.

Going from simple dc arduino inputs to high precision analog is a bear, but super rewarding. Get ready to get your soldering skills right and start caring about resistor tolerances!
Bda is more advanced version of this book. Stats rethinking is also good and one can start from scratch as it has more code and less maths.
> No one had ever considered that both buildings could be destroyed simultaneously.

Well, that's unimaginative. One could fall on the other since they were only 200' apart.

As a DBA, I bet many people were thinking, "Look ma. 1 ms latency!" which is good, until it doesn't work.
Last time I checked, ads were literally something like 99% of Google revenue.
Idk people were sending off 2016 with similar emotions knowing full well that the next year would be worse. Sometimes saying a hearty farewell is good even if you know you’re swimming into rough seas.
I agree dang and co are doing awesome work trying to maintain some minimal expected level of discourse here, however they are unable to do anything against mass down-voting of perfectly valid comments from people who actually know what they are talking about.
> The reality is that .Net is very competitive in terms of development speed if you deploy on Windows; elsewhere you'll likely have to figure out stuff and suffer from being on a second-class platform.

That's nowhere near reality, .NET 5 (FKA .NET Core) has flawless first-class support for Linux, the whole deployment experience is even better on Linux since you have access to the entire Linux tools + ecosystem. Which I've been deploying to for years, I still develop on Windows but only ever deploy our .NET (Core) Apps to Linux (since the same App runs flawlessly on Windows + Linux).

The Windows-only .NET Framework (excl Mono) is now considered legacy, it's continually supported but all new development + features are being invested in the .NET 5+ cross-platform runtime which is now what ".NET" refers to.
This year, more so than before, bitcoin is being used as a store of value - “digital gold”. There are other crypto coins that can be used for making transactions. People are buying bitcoin to hold it long term, not to send it to other people on the most part.
Or we can attempt to preserve the meanings of simple words such as "can't" and "haven't" that exist for use in exactly these circumstances. They aren't hard words, and they have a role to play in even the most minimally intelligent conversation.
So, minimum two dudes and couple million bucks to recover from YouTube viewerships?
And yet it still didn't work.
Money supply rarely goes directly to consumers, it first has to be spent by the receiving parties and distributed to the wider economy before consumer prices begin increasing.

But it doesn't happen without the prerequisite of money being printed.
> Rust has full support for AVR

Last time I checked (6 month ago), the Rust AVR fork had just been merged upstream.
This removed the necessity to build a forked rustc from a patched llvm.

I would have to re-check recent updates, but at the time there were still a lot of bugs, no core libs, etc.

That's not what I would call "full support".
The use of the word insane has a little too much negativity in my opinion but otherwise it shouldn't be surprising the Pareto principle is at play here, it's the case on nearly every other example of output to one degree or another.
Happy New Years. Please be good to yourself. You all deserve it :)
I'm a middle-aged, white, cis male heterosexual married father that has started and run companies, hired and managed engineers, make ok money, lean a bit right of center politically, worked for the government, large banks, healthcare and retail and lives in a rural location in the midwest.

What you've described is something I experience in almost every facet of my life.
I'm so blandly stereotypical it hurts yet somehow the rampant generalizations that are used to describe me, my values and my motivations are so hilariously wrong the vast majority of time that I don't even bother to argue because there's nothing to even work with as a ground truth.

The most recent reality check I've had is this year when I finally started using Twitter. I loaded up on folks in my industry only to be blindsided with a barrage of insanity. Honestly think that 75% of the people in my feed in serious need of a wellness check. I can't imagine the damage being done to young folks observing the behavior of adults on that platform.
It takes more effort to do it wrong.
The TI-99/4A home computer (1981) restricted software to licensed vendors through a lockout chip. This was one factor that led to the failure of the TI-99/4A.
About 6 years ago I maintained the LDAP integration code for Atlassian Crowd, which is/was reused by Jira (& Confluence).

Jira (both Cloud and Server) does cache permissions, heavily. Jira effectively has a local cache of user and group relationships for all users who have access to a given blah.atlassian.net Jira, and caches lookup results in a shared cache too. It's complicated by having well over a hundred thousand active Jira sites spread over several hundred stateless servers, which does make effective caching a bit trickier.

AFAICT Jira Cloud's slow feel currently stems largely from the front-end, amplified by the debacle that is modern front-end engineering. It's tricky to get 300+ engineers to ship fixes and enhancements in a multi-million line codebase over 15 years old on a good day. Feature creep in design systems, constant ecosystem churn, and poor build tools all conspire to make it that much harder to prevent performance regressing.

But even knowing all that - yeah, I wish that Jira's performance was 5x better too :)

Disclaimer: am still employed by Atlassian but all views are my own, things may have changed a bit since I haven't touched any Jira code in ages, etc.
> I'll take it you didn't play Skyward Sword? :P

I think Skyward Sword gets a bad rap. It's one of my favourite games, probably tied for my 3rd favourite Zelda game.

The tutorials are super annoying.
You can still grant login permissions, but anything beyond that is just asking for it.
I've never felt a game to be more disrespectful of my time than when playing Animal Crossing. The number of completely unnecessary menus, transitions, loads, and otherwise flow-breaking elements is astounding. That game was simply not for me.
Tinkercad has a free (as in beer) Arduino simulator tool with a decent number of peripherals. There is a drag and drop interface to make your breadboard and you can even (primitive) dmm and scopes to run tests. I teach Arduino classes (when not affected by covid-19) at my local library to kids and adults with little to no background and I sometimes do a class on using this tool.

https://www.tinkercad.com/learn/circuits
They're revolutionary not because they're mandatory, but rather because they're transparent and not disruptive.
"Too many people have opinions on things they know nothing about. And the more ignorant they are, the more opinions they have"

- Dr. Hildern at Camp McCarran.

Great quote from a fictional game (Fallout) character.
Dreaming is practicing our survival skills in a safe environment. Nature's "VR", if you want.

Reference: Why else am I running naked in the supermarket?
This is great for green field but what about replacing an ancient legacy system that's running loads of critical functions?
I have been trying to get my old mac mini to run K8s/K3s for learning purposes but I struggle to access anything from a different computer. I will try this out :)
> Nintendo said earlier this year they were moving away from the mobile market, which is what made me think they didn't see it as a huge success

I think it has been financially successful—but when the WiiU was failing, Nintendo needed a backup plan, badly. Now that the Switch is incredibly successful, they’re not as desperate for a Plan B, and so mobile ports are mostly a distraction, even if a profitable one. But their biggest bottleneck is time and developers, not money.
Huh, I hadn't been aware of that example. But Wikipedia seems to think that the lockout chip came in in 1983 in a revision of the TI-99/4A design and that earlier models didn't have it. In that case, it might be roughly tied with the NES.
The rate of adverse reaction has consistently been 1/30000 across studies and since mass vaccination began. Typically it is acute allergic reactions treated with adrenaline. Actual long term adverse reactions are extremely rare, so definitely <100k, but probably much less than that.
A year after Microsoft acquired it, GitHub releases first mobile app