skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The best unintentional introduction to computer science/memory abuse in a video game for me was the Missingno glitch in Pokemon Red/Blue.

Same for me, as well as forcing wild encounters to be Mew (#151), the Pokémon normally unobtainable outside of Nintendo events. That "0115D8CF" address/value is burned into the same part of my brain as the "FuCK GateWay" WinXP key.
Biden has nothing to do with the filibuster tho
in my company we actually do estimate work and many people are so bad at it. however we learned from that and our trainees need to track how much time they spend on issues and then we talk about that after two weeks, so they get an understanding why something takes x or y and they can learn to estimate work.

estimates do not need to be perfect, but we encourage everybody to estimate more time that they think instead of less. so for the estimate they need to think about the problem and do not code like monkeys without any kind of plan on how to fix the specific problem/task.
I am not too much into the phylogyny of koopas, but I can tell you this: it is a confirmed fact that Mario was named after Mario Segale.

And if they named the main character after him, it would make sense that they named other characters in the game after things related to him.

King "korean soup" sounds really random to me. The "goombah" hypotheses makes more sense to me. Especially given the presence of "goomba".
The intended meaning might rely on remaining vague. The book Rendezvous with Rama gives the reader a similar feeling—experiencing something so alien that our brains can’t quite appreciate fundamental dynamics or concepts (separate from technology)
New York Stock Exchange to Delist Chinese Telecom Firms in Symbolic Shift
I think that this part of the article answers that

> those who are born blind (or who become blind early in life) don’t experience visual imagery in their dreams; instead, they have other sensory experiences, such as feeling their way around a rearranged living room or hearing strange dogs barking. This is because other senses have taken over their visual cortex.

The prediction would be that moles experience sounds in sleep, or smell, or touch, whatever their primary sense is.
^ this. I’m not downloading your app just to view your content (remember when every Wordpress site had their own app?), but if I use your site enough, I’m more likely to download it.
Perhaps more seriously, hæleþa gedryht, I think. :P
Strike slip on the San Andreas.

It’s always atop my insight-free lists of long overdue events. Keep a pair of shoes and a gallon of water by your bed.
I find it hilarious that someone running a "fintech studio" doesn't understand this.
Show All Tabs on iOS definitely does not reload tabs. I know on macOS it used to force all tabs to load but I had the impression lately that it wasn’t doing that anymore (though I rarely use this feature).
Monero really is what most people thought Bitcoin was!
I've gone through that a few times and it's bittersweet. On one hand, it's gratifying to see that my colleagues aren't as immoral or incompetent as xxYoloSwag420xx on reddit claims they are. On the other hand it's frustrating not being able to debunk their blatant bullshit that's been upvoted by a thousand people (which means it's probably been seen by 10,000 people who take it at face value).
No @iblaine, no one from Zepel created this website. Noticed that we were getting some traffic from this source and found this page.
I much prefer using the Dexed VST software based synth for recording over a DX7. The sound is hard to tell apart, the DX 7 doesn’t have a good surface for programming, has a crappy midi implementation, and doesn’t integrate into a DAW as well as a plugin. Since the DX7 is digital anyway, you also don’t loose much real or perceived “analog warmth”.

Source: I have both.
I think that's the entire point of any army :). In this instance I guess the military police would be responsible though.

It's a centralized system, and every account holder is fully identified to the government (even with DNA samples IIRC). The kiosks likely keep the logs and upload them when a connection can be made. Then the data get collected and compared centrally, and any discrepancy would show up. At least that's how I understand the "batch processing" remark in the wiki page.
This is a really cool idea. Any chance of supporting Safari?
oooh the rarity of owning a some digital magic beans, right, thanks I'll pass.
Mailing a check is not mailing cash. I'm sure you're familiar with the differences.
This uses the same flow as many transportation cards (which in some countries can also be used to purchase goods).
Essentially the card chip holds the debit amount it has (the user makes an initial transaction to load it, debiting the money from a debit/credit card or paying for directly with money) so that every time a transaction occurs, the value in card is altered directly.
This system also has the potential of making transactions fully anonymous as no-one needs to know who the holder of the card is or where he spends his money.
gamedev.net forums have always been a civil place with a lot of industry experts hanging around. You don't have to be a game developer, though, you can discuss any general graphics and programming questions. Unfortunately it has been going down in popularity every year.
He's a great inspiration for people starting out, because he's proof that you don't need to be the most meticulous or "clean" engineer in order to make incredible stuff. He's very prolific though.
My guess would be that they just never considered that there would be first world countries without cheap mobile data everywhere.

When I was living in Asia, even in poorer countries and/or rural areas, there was mobile internet. $1/mo for 4G 1GB. People took it for granted at a level that would be impossible in Germany, because here you can still be without even 3G just a few km outside of city centers.

Also, mobile internet repeaters for tunnels are a solved problem. Singapore had no offline areas in their underground metro. Germany has lots of em.
No citizen of North Korea whose not a party member gets to use Bitcoin. The only people who do are using it to finance the hermit kingdom's nuclear weapons program. That's not a good thing.
Everyone arguing that the DX7 is NOT the most important commercial synth (for whatever reason) are ignoring one metric that every other synth maker, alive or dead, envies about it: its sales.
The Corona virus pandemic will peak around 1. april.

Fiscal and monetary policies will thighten compared to 2020. The assets that had the most speculation in 2020 will correct violently: Tesla, Bitcoin ...

The US-China relationship will improve.

Big social media (FB, Twitter etc.) will split amongst political lines.
Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple
Heh thanks :) I'd venture it's more about "life-emerging" forces happening at all scales -- That all matter is slowly tending toward living when it sits in the blaze of an entropy-generating monster like a star.

Disclaimer: Did an honours degree in biochemistry, so perhaps I'm not so great at filling in the narrative space of my own mental leaps :)
Monero and Ethereum are not disasters according to these arguments unless OP is a hater in general
Italy's sovereign debt crisis is going to be a nuke compared to the firecracker that was the Greek crisis in 2012.
Wondering why the autofocus couldn’t be done by the Pi itself, rather than an M5Stack. Does the Pi not lend itself to real-time applications?
I used to be a lot more accepting (and desiring) of companies and products taking political stances for social justice.

Now I feel the reverse. I don’t want to know Firebase’s stance on BLM. They don’t need a banner for that. I just want to use their system to do useful work.

I want to get my politics and social justice on my own schedule, and let service providers provide politically neutral services.
> it takes a lot of effort to craft good ones

Though this engagement itself aids memorization...

I'm not a fan of spaced repetition, instead preferring to understand material and find connections (associations) integrating it within my existing knowledge. This makes it usable, not just recallable. It's holographic, in that I can also recover it from other things I know, like the shape of the missing jigsaw piece, or a theorem or proof.

However, I've come to realize that the very act of engagement to understand is, in itself, aiding memorization.
You know, I’ve watched movies my whole life and now literally have a phone that could probably record good quality video to make a documentary or a short film, with platforms to upload and get it distributed to people.

I just won’t do it, but I’m not arrogant enough to call the people that do do it insane.
There is a browser extension called onetab that does this for you.

The issue i find is that even if you create the perfect system, you still rarely m go back and revisit these tabs kept open.
Bitcoin backers will continue to pretend that their hyping of one of the worst ideas in modern history has nothing to do with their significant financial stakes in it.
> Maybe there will be a DX7 revival but I'm not really holding my breath.

That reminds me of one of the very unique controllers for the DX7 - the breath control apparatus, that ended up immortalized as Midi Control Change 2.

It was intended to make horn sounds more realistic and organic. It never ended up being widely used. I still have one for my DX7, but also never got to like it.
Didn't say that? Then what did you say? Your suggestion seems only meaningful if most if not all are reviewed. Otherwise it seems pointless, and I think reviewing even 10% would be overburdening the moderators/admins.

Happy New Year's, by the way.
> This first generation of RAMEN server was written in Node.js using Uber’s in-house consistent hashing/sharding framework called “Ringpop.”

> ...

> Additionally, Node.js workers were single threaded and would have elevated levels of event loop lag resulting in a further delay in the convergence of membership information. These issues could result in topology information that is inconsistent and lead to message loss, timeouts, and errors.

>

> In early 2017, we decided that it was time for a reboot of the server implementation of RAMEN protocol to continue to scale. For this iteration we used the following technologies: Netty, Apache Zookeeper, Apache Helix, Redis and Apache Cassandra.

Yet another example of why starting with Java, .NET or similar stacks avoids rewrites.
To save anyone else a moment, "LINK" is the Microsoft Visual C++ linker, "LINK.EXE".
That is actually a topic I hardly see discussed here. And one that would be interesting to see a factual discussion about. Seems to me that perceived conceptions about it are behind Brexit.
It doesn't prevent them from carrying physical cash. They can still do that.
Same. I like reading both long form and short form content. Twitter threads like this one remind me of a slideshow, with each tweet trying to make a single point.

Honestly I don’t get the hate. If you don’t like a certain format, don’t read it. Or use other tools that condense the format (like the threadroller app).

Especially when experts from other domains use this format to explain the nuances of eg a new paper, discovery, policy or political position, this kind of format has a extremely low barrier of entry, is standardized and available on a platform that loads rapidly and without (too) invasive ads. It also allows for asking questions or making comments really easily.
With only the industrial value of gold propping it up, its value would likely drop to 1/50th of the current price. So who cares about having a floor if it’s that low?

If Bitcoin all of a sudden had a floor that was also 1/50th of its current value, no one would care.
Yes, those protocols make a huge difference. Also, high throughput low loss UDP relies on ms-level timing control, which is all but impossible in Javascript.
Can you get banned from Pix?
You'd probably end up recreating a rudimentary version of it in a spreadsheet
You got Pos wrong there is no trust involved
Bitcoin transacted way more money that PayPal etc
Googling isn't a standalone skill. It comes with the ability to ask the right questions, and that's only possible with some diagnosing skills.

The author's dry throat issue is an excellent example of this. If you just look for "sore throat", you likely won't find much. You first need to form a few hypotheses and test those with better-formed searches.

This is also where broad technical knowledge comes useful. It's easier to form an hypothesis if you understand what you're working with. This is how you can quickly identify DNS problems, frayed cables, bad fuses, lack of an ingredient, and various other common culprits by their symptoms.
My favourite translation is Michael Swanton's prose version, which you can read alongside the original Anglo-Saxon
Google disclosed Cyber attack by China was highly sophisticated hack on security
Hehe... there’s one on Gumtree for $580 AUD!

But at the time, you couldn’t give away Prophet 5s! If only I had a time machine
Sadly Wikipedia removed the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect wiki page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Sorry but that is just more an example of lack of knowledge of gdb capabilities than anything else.

Not only there are graphical frontends that provide that kind of information, gdb supports scripting and tracepoints.
How about: Rust has its "left-pad" moment?
The card chips are issued by a trusted central authority and (supposedly) tamperproof.

You can't "run EagleCash" on your laptop; it only runs on card chips issued by the military.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/south/story/tirumala-temple-...
Incredible video. Makes you wonder how many of those workers and users died.

You will only find out that something went wrong 30 years later and that is horrifying for people that still have asbestos in their homes and offices.
The Chinese Three Gorges Dam is an electricity project (that benefits one family), and doesn't do flood control (it's 100' too short. The reason is that if it was the correct height, it could flood a major city upstream.) :)
Sprint planning takes 30 minutes for our team too. And exactly like OP, backlog grooming is done during 1-1s with leads.

I am sorry if you find it that much hard to believe.
>starts to remove particularly egregious examples of online hate websites

Hate speech is free speech in the US, though. The government can only get involved if there's incitement of "imminent lawless action". I could see private companies trying to stomp out the sites (refuse to host them, etc.), but the government can't do anything except in the case I mentioned earlier.
It explained this with the example of the blindfolded braille readers. Over 5 days their sense of touch was enhanced, presumably at the expense of their visual senses. Over time, the visual cortex would be completely taken over if the brain was not receiving signal from the eyes.
Actually there is a big wave of people using Bitcoin powered Visa cards right now to buy stuff
> The best teams I have worked with tend to be more collaborative.

which means more writing to be done. not everbody knows what was SAID an hour ago.
Unlike regular debit cards, the Eagle Cash is managed on-base, using batch processing which ensures that the cards remained useful even when connections to banks and credit unions State-side are severed.

This is really the whole point, but it's buried in the third paragraph. These cards work when the internet and all other communication with the outside world are down.

Replacing physical currency in that scenario is really difficult.
> Prolonged lockdowns and new habits kill 75% of small businesses

Hey now, we're talking about predictions, not things that have already happened...
> Keynesian economists have been hilariously baffled by Japan's situation for decades now

Keynesian economimists understand what's going on perfectly well. It's the mainstream Chicago school economimists that can't gasp what's going on. Because Keynesian's totally know what a liquidity trap is. Keynes would easily understand that monetary stimulus in a liquidity trap just results in capital imposing larger and larger burdens on the real economy.

Put the due where it's due. The ideological followers of Milton Friedman the dummkopfs you're talking about here.
It kind of makes sense - wikipedia has rules about sourcing, and lots of eyes on it. Your company's internal wiki is internal documentation that is probably nobody's job to update and has pages in it last edited 10 years ago by people who have long since quit.
Bank transfers don't have to be slow. Within the UK they are almost always instant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service
A naive digital square wave will absolutely generate aliasing, there is an entire area of audio DSP research aimed to generate alias-free waveforms (another poster mentioned BLEP which is a popular technique).
You can trivially see this by looking at a spectrogram of a naively synthesized waveform- all kinds of junk will appear that is also clearly audible.

This is because the "naive" approach to e.g. a digital square wave is to sample a logically continuous function defined as:

if (less than halfway through the cycle period) -1
else 1

Firstly, this is almost always going to be out of tune because the transitions from -1 to 1 and 1 to -1 necessarily fall across a digital sample boundary.
For any frequency not evenly dividing the sample rate the transition will be slightly early or late.

Secondly, the sharp rising edge of the square wave, from a "sum of sines" perspective, requires sinusoid components that are not part of a conventional square wave to represent them digitally.
If you were to digitally sample an analog square wave through an ADC it would look quite different from the result of this function.

The naive digital sawtooth wave suffers from similar issues due to its discontinuity.
my laundry room in college used the same technology. sucks if you damage the card (by sitting on your wallet, for example).
0.02 yuan has been deposited to your account and your social credit score has been increased.
Famously instant ramen noodles is the currency of choice for people in prison: small, uniform and non-perishable.

Just like every other society, in the absence of cash I'm sure soldiers have developed a bartering economy. Likely including to acquire drug/alcohol/tobacco products that may be otherwise banned. You sell me your old Nintendo Switch and I'll use my EagleCash card to buy you 100 packs of instant ramen at company store [1] prices.

Also, if anybody has a somewhat-trusted human network, it's possible to do Hawala [2] transfers across different financial systems without any actual foreign exchange transactions across the boundaries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
You specifically said Jira wasn't for developers, but rather for the managers and stakeholders. That sounds pretty top-down to me.

I also don't understand how you believe Jira can be best for tight feedback loops, but also agree that the tight communication and focused teams make Jira unnecessary. That seems contradictory.
You're missing many issues that won't be fixed by more money:

1. Much of the world is low-density. (and we like it that way) Public transportation would be running empty nearly always. Anything less, and service times become awful.

2. We've learned that public transportation isn't OK in a world with viruses.

3. People keep personal stuff in cars.

4. Lots of people don't feel safe on public transportation.

5. Even "good" public transportation isn't normally door-to-door. People will need to walk much more. That could mean getting sweat-drenched and smelly in hot humid weather, getting frostbite in cold weather, struggling with disability, or trying to keep kids from straying or straggling.

6. Public transportation is dirty. The germs aren't from family. Everything is gross and nasty.
(VIX isn't a dollar value and you can't directly buy or sell it)
Do hn hate those? Maybe facebook has a lot of haters these days. Last time i heard someone bash on microsoft, slashdot was still big. On the whole i think hacker news tends to be pretty positive to big tech.
What do you think society is all about? I can recommend Debt by the late David Graeber
Some country in Africa is going to have a civil war.
The large scale Corona vaccination programs turn out to have major unforseen negative consequences.

Excessive monetary and fiscal policies sets off an unstoppable spiral of inflation in the US and Europe.

Trump declares himself US president. Escalating political violence in the US.
>Tech stocks will drop

There is no change in monetary policy globally, and every country injected even more printed money into the system for Covid relief. 2021 should see new all time highs across all equities, particularly tech.

>Bitcoin

Crypto will have a meteoric run up until the Coinbase IPO in February, and then people will take their profits, but I expect it to rise with the rest of the economy by the end of the year again. Overall, everyone should be buying the major dips on crypto until 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics when China is expected to do a roll-out of their digital currency. I don’t recall if it’s exactly blockchain based, but it’s a sentiment booster for digital cashless economy and should boost the general crypto market.

I personally don’t over think this one, just buy/sell the trends on this stuff. If you bought 1btc at 3kish, you are sitting on 24k. Didn’t we all know Bitcoin wasn’t going to stay at 3k? This will be a never ending cycle and will be our generations Gold (what makes that go up or down now days is anybody’s guess, but the sentiment cycle is real on this stuff and it’s best to surf the trends).

>Inequality

Most likely due to economic growth. In the shuffle, the working class doesn’t get it’s fair share of the pie.

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I’ll add five:

1. Tesla really benefited from government subsidies for energy efficient vehicles. I expect the Biden administration, and the Democrats to push hard for “Green” subsidies across the board. Don’t be surprised if suddenly the new meme startup pitch shifts from blockchain over to “green”. Buy anything selling solar, electric vehicles, etc.

2. Restaurants come back different in a leaner way. Smaller locations, delivery first, little to no dine-in. Think more food trucks. Suddenly that mobile robotic pizza truck SoftBank invested in might not sound so insane. What was insane was an entire industry unable to survive because of people and real-estate costs. Not so wild to consider location-less/people-less alternative.

3. If Democrats win the run-off next week and take Congress, marijuana will get federally legalized.

4. Covid annihilated companies will merge or get acquired in 2021. They won’t be given a chance to rebound, but instead be snapped up at the first sign of an uptrend.

5. Online learning platforms will become enterprise grade platforms leveraged by school systems. I expect to see 10x more companies building a Blackboard alternative for k-12, as school districts will look negligent for not investing in one to facilitate remote learning.
I remember one of the reason was because of software piracy. On iOS it shouldn't be required since you cant install anything other than from App Store anyway. And so to make it fair for both iOS platform and Android platform they had it on.
> 2017 period when fees were high

Current fees are 8$. That's still too high
I learned electronics from Ray's diagrams, he is truly missed.

Another of my synth DIY mentors (with whom I worked on the Arturia MiniBrute) is Yves Usson: http://yusynth.net/index_en.php
Also Chipnik in NL, discontinued several years ago. Too fiddly, nobody worries about privacy any longer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipknip