skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Cleese of python fame once claimed he lost his sense of humour when he started looking at the entirety of the world as ridiculous. The idea being humour only works when you pick on a ridiculous aspect of the world and make fun of it. If everything is ridiculous there's no normal, sensible frame of thinking in the audience for contrast for the laughs.

I obviously don't speak for the author. This joke was probably better and funnier when it seemed more obviously absurd and ridiculous because nobody would ever believe that. Now it's not so clear that its satire at all. It seems much more like the sort of thing some people really do believe. What was clearly hyperbolic about a quite small piece of silliness is now being interpreted as a mere mild exaggeration of the state of the world to highlight a great truth.

The world is changing under us. Just like always has. It surprises us that it is, just like it always does.
Validating a Business Idea Without a Product
Wouldn’t low engineer salaries encourage more startups in Germany? Relatively cheaper labor pool if the talent is good enough for Silicon Valley companies.
Ah. We're on a nature vs nurture debate.

Ofc, it's a spectrum. And as we evolve we go from being more nature based to being more nurture based. But I'd say we're a long way off from being more nurture than nature, given that 100% nurture would be a being fully capable of self design. Most people can't even stop themselves from procrastinating (like me right now). We can't even manage to coexist with the planet, when we know it's going to destroy everything when we don't.

If you want to believe that us big great humans are in control of ourselves and unlike those stupid animals we're products of nurture, that's your dopamine hit to take. But based off everything I've seen, the only time we really become our brains is when the the Pre-frontal cortex is engaged and suppresses all the other more instinctual parts of the brain. And even for very smart and/or dedicated people, it's extremely difficult to quiet all natural instincts for any extended length of time.

IMO, we're barely out of the bushes in terms of the path from being beasts of nature to becoming beings of self-design and nurture.
> You will never spend 4 hours upgrading a goat over the wire.

But you may have to spend more than 4 hours upgrading your wires because of a goat.

(I speak from personal experience with electric fences)
Chrome isn’t critically important to Google’s advertising and data initiatives. It’s important for a lot of other things, but that’s beside the point.

Google doesn’t really need much more that what it has. It has third-party big data, Gmail, Google Search and a very recent optimized cache of everything important that it’s crawlers can get and more. People get so caught up in the minutia; Google is big, like category 100 Hurricane big, where people laugh and say there is no category 100; but that’s what it is- classification system aside.

Anti-trust and pro-privacy are distractions that Alphabet, Google, etc. can put their left-fielder on while they run the bases, because they play both teams.
reading the comments here made me think it was going to be a self-serving and possibly offensive screed, but instead it was a mirthful critique of the human condition under captured capitalism, in the service of ‘justifying’ encrypted save files (where the summary answer is to prevent cheating).
Wow, I would not have guessed that Auth0 was that valuable. Part of the premium must be to keep it out of the hands of a worthy competitor.
Ask a lawyer. I did so recently and it was not as expensive as expected. They're usually happy to answer a yes/no question for free (and more accurately than strangers on the internet).

If you want a plan, that's where the costs come in. It's still not too expensive, often cheaper than hiring a programmer.
Wonder if on average the people that have changed to WFH this past year have seen a reduction in meetings, or if they're still doing the same (or more?) via video-conferences.
If `Text` and `SelectableText` exist, I would call that an opt-in. The default is "Text" (not selectable) and a modifier can be applied to opt into using "SelectableText". It would be different if they were called "UnselectableText" and "SelectableText".
I very much suspect this is the case in this instance.
What's not to like here? That blog post outlines how they're fighting for fair representation in the copyright dispute process.
Found the mobile game dev ;)

Seriously though, while I'd agree that the piece was written in a quite unsophisticated style, what exactly is "unbelievably asinine" about it?

The two main points seem, to me, to be:

1) Mobile games are designed to provide not much more than an addictive dopamine hit

2) Mobile devices in general enable people to fill time they'd otherwise be alone with their thoughts with mindless distractions, and many happily oblige

Both of these are quite defensible.
https://github.com/wesbos/dad-jokes

I'll just leave this here.
You are probably thinking of Karl Auerbach. He was not CEO, but he was elected to the board when ICANN at least pretended to have a democratic element. Once he got in, he asked to see the books, which he was entitled to do; ICANN leadership refused, and the matter had to be settled through the courts, which took almost two years (and presumably, a chunk of ICANN cash for legal fees); Auerbach won. Around the same time, Andy Müller-Maguhn, journalist and CCC member was elected in the same role for the European region, and again started asking questions of transparency. ICANN leadership decided that this democracy thing had gone too far, and promptly eliminated publicly-elected members from its board (around 2002/2003, if i remember correctly).
Man those are some rosy glasses you got. I've got 20% fond memories, 80% frustrating memories : )
Byte Magazine – Inside the Mind of Microsoft (1995) [pdf]
Ionic has released Capacitor as the successor for Cordova. And it's still compatible with Cordova plugins so all the work from Cordova days is not wasted. Ionic is definitely a gift.
tabelog's score is not average but very artificial by secret algorithm.
We've been integrating WorkOS with our product. The directory syncing is awesome, and the docs are well sorted.
Not mysterious. This was reported years ago. Maybe thedebrief needs more traffic?
taxes can be e-filed, and it seems like the government purposefully prevents average citizens from filing basic tax forms -- previous stories showed evidence of Intuit lobbying the IRS for this specific reason.... I think the real reaaon the federal government (IRS) prevents a simple web interface for tax prep is because it would immediately put out of business a whole cottage industry created around this purpose. For business filers, it is important to have a CPA to certify the preparation of the results before submission, and I can understand the need for this industry. However, for the vast majority of people getting paid on W-2 with various allowances, it would have been fairly trivial to design a web interface to handle these submissions. It is strange that the web has been around since 1990 and yet no such web site exists within the IRS....
I think what you're doing is called "sea-lioning" online. I mentioned numerous ways in which living in Ukraine misses basic first-world standards. Then you come along and say, no-no-no, you need to demonstrate this other statistic that I find more interesting.
Read this quote:

> On June 5, Principal Katie Teekell phoned H.H.’s parents and said their son was not welcome back to the school, the lawsuit says. His father again referenced the acne masks. She replied, according to the lawsuit, that “this isn’t about intent, it’s about optics.”

It's surreal.
I second the recommendation above. You shouldn't be paying UI or workers comp AFAIK, but yes to B&O tax and probably licensing fees both to Washington and Seattle. I'd recommend having a good contract in place.
The problem occurs when someone finds it, and make a big deal out of it, totally ignoring the humorous / satirical aspect, by naiveté or otherwise. Maybe someone would merely find it offensive and sexist [1].

If you are a maintainer of a project, you don't want a Twitter outrage storm about it. It may put the project and the maintainer(s) personally in a bad position (completely undeservedly), and turn some of the project's contributors and / or sponsors away.

Because the Internet Outrage Machine is still fully functioning, any technical project has to gravitate to a clinically sterile state to stay safe.

[1]: https://twitter.com/LiaSae/status/1367074344313237507
Link to the revised paper [1] from the twitter thread. The claim "This destroys the RSA cryptosystem." in the abstract is unchanged.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/232
I think the number of people who think this PR is serious / not satire is even funnier. Maybe I'm just too young? (20)
It's for the business and the users, obviously. Not just an API.

If it was easy to amass this many paying customers, surely other competitors would have rushed in to compete, right?
Such a proposal can be killed at various steps before it gets to a floor vote.

It’s part of why Mitch McConnell was majority leader; he isn’t necessarily well liked, but he is willing to take the heat for not taking up a bill and letting his colleagues avoid awkward votes.
You see this kind of partisanship a lot on Reddit. It's always disappointing seeing how much of it now gets to HN.
It's not the most professional thing but a little fun doesn't do any harm at all. If someone is offended by this, they just need a thicker skin.
It's very uncommon in many parts of the world. In countries that aim to reform and educate criminals during their time behind bars, not giving them opportunities when they get out seems illogical.
True, but it does protect against broken RSA. Because RSA is a not used to encrypt the actual data. That's probably using AES.
Unfortunately, retail theft by employees is commonplace and they're doing way more damage than shoplifters (https://www.nra.net.au/policy-advocacy/safe-retail/internal-...).

The key thing to change would be to better pay employees, but... well yeah. Not going to happen...
Ugh. I wonder if Twitter was started from scratch today, they'd be thinking "We need a platform for all the scolds and sanctimonious people out there who have nothing better to do but correct people's thoughts.". Probably, because there's a lot of them out there.
Man, you are going all over this thread angry that someone put a clearly marked piece of satire regarding _games_ in a _game engine_.

Harm it does: zero
Levity it provides: some

This has been done in many projects since the beginning of the Web. You are clearly, how you say, "triggered" by someone making fun of mobile game addiction and monetization.
That website loads WASM by embedding base64 in the HTML, which is good for saving it as a single file but horrible for WebKit support ("The operation is insecure", it complains), transfer size, and speed.
Try building node 10!

But seriously, I've had a very poor time getting my mac mini M1 to cooperate with the aging tech stack at work, especially since it involves docker.

I've had to resort to running my old laptop and SSHing in to get things working until I can put our web app onto a modern set of tech...
Translating "hit on" as "prey on" might be a sign that you have an unhealthy view of human relationships.
Free Zoom session on Mission, Vision and Goals
That's one side of it. The ironic thing is they probably used exactly the same tactic as the search engine in the article:

https://www.quora.com/Did-Bing-intentionally-copy-Googles-se...
Do they render everything themselves to pixels? If so, then does that mean any native integration with, say, a screen reader won’t work? Copy paste using native UI? Any future native offerings that work on top of the view hierarchy and components (really important for accessibility, to start)?
> I would consider myself the most important member of my team but would guess I am making a median salary on it

so either you're not as important as you think you are, or you're being ripped off salary-wise. Both are reasons to move tbh.
Thanks. I was just about to ask. I'm merely a double bassist, but maybe I can at least grasp a bit of it. ;-)
Imho, the presence of i in the schrodinger equation has a simple origin. The equation describes evolution of a wave and waves can be conveniently described with amplitude and phase components bundled together. With such description a wave can be moved or shifted by multiplying it by a complex number. Otoh, if the same wave is described by real numbers only, each number meaning the displacement from the null state, then shifting the wave pattern becomes a non trivial operation.
I love this. Is it available on android too?
Holy Christ, I wish I could believe that was satire.
I would get the same results. No application I was running sets the MADVISE flag for KSM to have any effect.

Typically it's only things like qemu that set it.
> They let their customers sell which was probably a fiduciary responsibility.

Given the context of gamestop's stock, only allowing to sell stocks is the exact opposite of protecting the customer's best interests.

I mean, the high demand for gamestop's stock was motivated by the rally behind a retail-backed short squeeze, where hedge funds were reported to have massively shorted gamestop's stocks. Barring customers from buying more gamestop stocks meant they were unable to strengthen their positions and thus profit from the short squeeze,and pushing them to sell represented a pressure to kill off the short squeeze, thus acting on the exact opposite of their customer's best interests.

Then there's the reported news that one of RobinHood's new backers ends up being one of the hedge funds that stood to loose massively due to this retail-backed short squeeze.
Raising VC? How to use webinars to get investors to move fast
I'm not an engineer (well not that kind), but it seems to me relying wholly on thrusters seems kind of iffy on being fully stable... wouldn't maybe having the rockets slow down the craft to the point where drones could lasso it, or connect to it, or even built in wings could expand with copter blades to steady it and lower it down more gentle?

I mean early space-flight used parachutes, that's an option too though I'd imagine a space capsule weighs a shit ton less....

I just wouldn't trust my family on a rocket like this, feels very pre-mature. Like there's something missing to ensure it doesn't do a back flip at the end...per se.
Mostly the CEOs who want to get their third home.
So many problems could be solved by giving every adult $1,000,000 in a one-time, tax-free, no strings attached, lump sum.

The technician refused to document the procedure because he was afraid of becoming replaceable. He was afraid of becoming replaceable because he was afraid of losing his job. He was afraid of losing his job because he would lose his sole source of income.

Let's just give people free money already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InCXzysFQYw
Only if you killed it. If it drops dead probably best not to eat it
Proof-of-stake has progressed quite a bit since that document was published in 2016. For example, nothing-at-stake is fixed by slashing stake when anyone submits a proof that the staker signed competing branches.

(But I agree that Bitcoin is unlikely to change.)
I would agree that 'tortured' is well-chosen adjective to describe the Twitter thread.
This is exactly how all SJW witch hunts work:

- The accused is not heard even once.

- The accused is presented with sentence and extorted: leave quietly or else ...

- The reason is presented as a vague "harmful and damaging to the X community".

The winners are always bureaucrats who have to justify their existence and love power games. Probably they also have psychopathic tendencies.
It's worth noting that in the UK, an applicants car minal background could easily be checked but the application process is only allowed to ask if you have any "outstanding" issues. The idea being that crimes you have served your time for, and those that happened in the past are usually not relevant and can keep ex convicts in low paying / criminal work if used to stop them gaining legitimate work.

Criminal status is protected.
Moving to the country comes with quite a few surprises. Houseops, goatops, landops, townops, snowops, etc... there's always lots of ops.
Agreed, it sounds insane but I much prefer US system. It is easy to say "simpler == better". I'd much prefer the gov not do things for me and leave the control over my taxes by default. I understand people in other countries can do the same, but the default is big gov giving you a number upfront.

Think about taxes as a negotiation process.
If you know the native platforms then Xamarin.Native. Shared business logic, platform-specific UI. Over time create your own Xamarin.Forms like DSL to do shared UI.
You are mostly making my point. My second point was classism, which was saying precisely what you are saying.

I was replying to someone who was arguing that everything was solely racism. That doesn't make sense to me. In fact, you argue that white women have not been doing a fair job teaching black men. But why are Asian americans excelling in school then? I don't think it's just racism to blame.

> Fighting racism against blacks is about a debt that is owed and has never been paid

And that's one bad argument. Reparations? Look, I'm from India and india was for a long time ruled by the british, and an even longer time ruled by muslim rulers who became the elite in india. So, if one tells me that britain needs to return the stolen 45 trillion (yup somebody estimated this bullshit number), or that muslims need to pay reparations, I'm pretty sure they would be called racist nationalists.

The law should only make sure that the people right now have equal opportunities for them, regardless of their history, skin color, ethnicity, and even wealth. Everything else is a illiberal idea that can only make things worse
Everyday Astronaut will soon release a video with all the math about this.

It turns out that even doing the flip slightly higher, already has a massive impact in terms of energy required.

Slowing down from Orbital speed is an insane amount of energy that has to be removed. You really only want the last tiny bit to be removed by rocket thrusting.
yea, that's a glitch I've hit a couple times.

I think Safari going into the background pauses the clock used for timing and resumes it a bit too late, which screws up the Gflops measurement.
I realise it works, I just don’t think it’s really useful for what was asked for, a way to write common cross-platform business logic for a platform-specific UI.

Unless there are some great new tools I’m not aware of, C on WebAssembly seems about the same as C on Android. You can compile stuff just fine, and run it, but actually connecting it up to any substantial UI written in JS/Java is going to be incredibly tedious.

For a computation library with well-defined inputs and outputs, and that “just works” and doesn’t need any debugging in situ, it makes a lot of sense. But I think business logic by definition is going to need a much richer interaction with the UI, and that’s what makes it hard.
I hope you realize that grocery stores track you in other ways than just your zip code or phone number [1]. You have a beacon in your pocket that is always searching for SSIDs or Bluetooth IDs, which is more than enough to uniquely ID you. You can combine that with facial rec now and link a face, sex and estimated age to the SSID combo. Who names their phone “<Your name>’s iPhone”? They can get your name too.

If you truly wanted to be paranoid, set your device to airplane mode (don’t forget your smartwatch or wallet Tile), cover your face (this shouldn’t be hard these days) and only then venture into a store. Oh, and pay your groceries with cash.

[1] This article is from 8 years ago, so just imagine how far we came from that time: https://lifehacker.com/how-retail-stores-track-you-using-you...
The best ads I got were on Facebook, and based on something to do with my history, although in what way exactly, I cannot be sure. I got an ad about Triplebyte (got numerous job offers from that); ads for concerts that I was interested in; and ads for art exhibitions very specifically related to my interests (which I would have 100% missed if not for the ad).

So I'm super disappointed that I will not be getting such ads from Google. In fact, it annoys the hell out of me that people who are concerned about privacy created such a strong anti-ad-personalization movement. This harms people like me who prioritize getting valuable information over privacy. I think people should be allowed to enable their own privacy settings, but activists and politicians should not force their ideology on the society to such an extent as to scare corporations away from personalization.

Though to be fair, I don't recall a single useful ad from Google in my life. So maybe I overestimate the damage the privacy advocates are causing.
One short trip to the scrapyard.
you release feature X. The first person writes it for the web. The web version was easy, because the feature relied on URL deeplinking, which is nice and easy with browsers.

You then realize that Windows doesn't really offer such a concept as easily. You think about application URLs. That mostly works, but it takes a couple weeks for the Windows team to get it working.

You implement the feature over on Macs as well copying the Win strategy. But a recent Mac OS update causes a bunch of permission popups that mess with another thing. Now you're messing around with that, and your internal users are pissed (cuz they're all on Macbooks).

There is no Linux version, luckily.

I mean... OK, yeah, you still have to deal with platform differences even when using Electron. But you are in the same boat with like.... Slack, Discord, etc etc. You get _all_ that shared knowledge, a unified code base. And in theory you throw any of your engineers at the problem and they can try very hard googling "Electron [issue] windows".

I also bemoan the fact that _even Slack_, with its billions of dollars, didn't feel the need to have a native application. But I do get it, especially when there's a lot of pressure to ship.
And more importantly, understanding yourself.
Spot the QA!
This is an open source game engine, ostensibly in existence to create fun.
Yes it is!

Google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brettbejce...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/out-of-the-blue-app/id15494178...
I feel like a pruning feature would be essential to make it really bonsai!
Those numbers are pretty insane though, especially the Net Retention.
I am sure you fly, and TSA or any other country's airport security subject you to a similar level of scrutiny. So unless you have never taken a flight on a business trip, you have been in position, when you are treated like a criminal for money.
Well it's not your bank, it's a website about making video games.
-the push/pop router navigation is insane, it by default keeps all views in memory all the time for react it will reload every view with any state change by default.
The only people making a big deal out of it seem to be Hacker News, cranking out its typical pearl-clutching and concern trolling and faux outrage over something so insignificant and lacking in intellectual value that it shouldn't even be worth posting here.
Grow lights help. But the one I had survived well until it wasn’t watered during a longer trip with a north facing window in the US south. So it got very little direct light.
After tax income for software engineer in Ukraine and Germany is about the same and Ukraine is much cheaper place to live. Most of the country is pretty nice and corruption will most likely play in your favor (small bribe for speeding) if it affects you at all.

I was amazed at how low quality of life is for engineer in Berlin where all you can afford on avg salary is shoebox, you have to look at prices when shopping for food and raising family on one income is very hard.