skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at Microsoft back when they were looking at the Itanium as a Win64 platform. We were making a .Net console application and one day I was in the lab while our daily test automation was running, and the Itanium machines had a bunch of crazy random chars and colors on the console windows. It wasn't causing tests to fail, but I rolled up my sleeves and debugged the issue, thinking it was probably just some buggy test thing.

It turned out we were doing something nobody else was doing in .Net at the time, which was to return a structure by value while we were populating the console buffer. Apparently the JIT compiler lost track of which registers it was using to store the struct and overwrote them. In the disassembly it looked like "move some stuff into a register, then move more stuff into the same register". Thought I was losing it for a second.

I reckon the moral is don't get into the mindset that the test is always broken. Sometimes it's actually the product.
Probably the most impossible bug of my career was that our static website didn't always load in iOS. I don't mean the page rendered wrong or a script broke. I mean that Safari just said "no, I can't load this page".

It ended up being an issue with the load balancer, that only affected some iPhones.

Eventually I tracked it to the load balancer as hitting hosts directly worked fine. Also, the dev/QA environments worked fine since there was no balancer, For a while devops would argue it was the application team's fault :)

Basically this, except at the time (2017 or so) Google wasn't as helpful:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.18aproductions.co.uk/news/v...
I think this confuses patents with trade secrets. You only patent something that’s easy to observe and copy, and the patent is a public record that you have some temporary exclusive rights to the invention (well at least in theory. The world of software patents is warped to the point where the motivation to hold patents is mostly defensive against litigation). If another country doesn’t respect your patents, they do nothing.

If you can keep something secret, you don’t need or want a patent (which creates a public record). There’s no patent for the Coca-Cola recipe. And this is also a situation where espionage is useful.
When i see this kind of discussion here and in HN i think it mostly miss the primary point..

You would be more to the point if we were talking about the industrial era which can automate even the experience into machinery.

But things like software are heavily based on knowledge retention.

Knowledge retention is about attracting talent, and make sure they evolve their knowledge and keep that knowledge there.

So you need a good quality of life, career and financial possibilities, good universities, a good culture with individual freedoms.

Its all about the "human gold". And the countries that will retain this sort of talents are cannot be optimized to also be industrial powerhouses, because the balances are different.

Anyway remote labor will change things a lot also, and we will see how things will turn out. But work and quality of life balance will become really important, and industrial sweat shops wont be as attractive in my opinion.

I hope that talent get more spread out instead of concentrated as is now, giving we are going more remote..

Anyway, i guess a lot of parts of EU will become more palatable as the physical place where you are at become less important.

I predict that small towns in Italy, Portugal or France with mostly old people will get more trendy giving the houses will be more affordable and people will be able to create their kids in a more healthy environment.

Pandemic will change faster the assumptions we had about how we should live our lives, and i think loneliness will hurt us more as the value of money compared to what is lost by pursuing it will become less appealing.

The industrial era wisdom will get reviewed and some things wont make any sense anymore. (For instance, packing too many people in gigantic towns, lowering the quality of life, country life will get more trendy with time in my opinion, people living in small communities of 20 families in rural areas)
Why is that the most frightening part? (Genuinely curious) I tried to look up the original intent of the .info domain and found the following on Wikipedia: "Info is the only top-level domain that was explicitly created and chartered for unrestricted use, although various other TLDs resulted in this situation de facto." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.info
Once you've eliminated all your bottlenecks, it means that every step is a bottleneck.
#1 cause of stress and psychological distress in American healthcare is profiteering by the hospitals, excessive billing and insurance companies refusing to cover services.

Maybe start with that instead of some holistic mumbo-jumbo.
Labor and material shortages for domestic production, container ship traffic jams for imports.
Thanks for the feedback :) I appreciate it!

1. I can try experimenting with the border thickness. Selectable tiles would have a light gray border, instead of the dark green/blue border.

3. I'm planning to add a way to view the 'next state' in the next version of the game. But still trying to figure out a good way to visualize the 'influence' of each tile, besides the color.

4. Yes, also will try out the hexagonal board shape. And give players more options for the board size too. I think it's the right size for smaller screens like a mobile phone, but desktop users might want to play with more tiles.

5. Thanks for suggesting the pie rule. I looked into it, but think it'll be too confusing, especially for 1st time players. The 'weak stone' would be easier to understand for new players - perhaps except for those with a Go background :)
Linux was helped along massively when IBM embraced it and invested a $billion in it in 2000.

RedHat benefited significantly from funding by large corporations in it's early days.

Undoubtedly these companies helped shape the Linux ecosystem. A single company doesn't control it, but as big as Google is a single company doesn't control the web either.
Plugins shouldn't be required for core features. I consider linking as a core feature for any feature rich note taking application.
No it's not. In a lot of places if you're the home owner you can do your own everything.
Good question. By "copy SV" I meant "set up an environment (law, financing) similar to the SV one. Looking for VC funding in China for example you get this (from here [1]):

"According to the Wall Street Journal, investments by Chinese VCs now represent 40 percent of the worldwide total (Silicon Valley still leads the field at 44 percent [edit: this puts Europe at 12% at most]) and China’s share is 15 times greater than in 2013.

VC investment in China grew by 3,000 percent – from 1.1 billion dollars to 34.1 billion dollars – between 2006 and 2016, with the fastest growth occurring between 2013 and 2016 (up to 2013, average VC investment in China was 4.3 billion dollars a year). This rate of growth continued after 2016.

Chinese startups attracted more VC money than their American counterparts – 56 billion dollars as opposed to 42 billion dollars – for the first time in the first half of 2018. However, that has not proved to be all good news. Due to the availability of VC money, and pressure by owners and shareholders of VC funds to invest,even less promising startups can secure funding relatively easily in China."

[1] https://www.netherlandsworldwide.nl/countries/china/startup-...
What "Sandy Hook stuff" are you talking about?
Well I can't wait until we offshore all Programming jobs, or have AI powerful enough to kick those spoiled overpaid Programmers to the curb? (This is happening. Good luck finding a Programming job after 40.)

Sometimes you want the talent close. Sometimes you want critical parts close. Sometimes you want your neighbor to have a job.

Until there's a working Basic Income; I prefer keeping most jobs/products close.
> ZIRP

The naive valuation of a stock that gives it an infinite value at a real 0% interest rate relies on an infinite horizon. Thankfully at least for residential loans it's difficult to get an interest-only mortgage -- in practice deposits and principal payments are binding constraints on valuations. Maybe that changes with corporate landlords becoming more prevalent, though.

> employment stability

This is interesting: high job turnover is usually seen as a sign of a healthy labour market because it can represent people sorting into jobs they're better suited for. I guess it's a question of what you hold constant: maybe people are changing jobs because jobs are plentiful. If people keep changing when jobs are hard to find things could get dicey.
I don’t play games on my Windows machine. I support hundreds of people who will never use Linux because it would cost too much time and money to switch.
I know this is tongue in cheek, but they're exporting jobs and manufacturing to duck taxes. Not necessarily high wages -- sometimes it is that -- but it is usually just the large cost of keeping inventory.
Im from a tropical country and houses are built with consideration for airflow, such as concrete walls with no insulation, gaps in the roof, etc. Also, days are shorter(no 8 pm daylight). American suburban homes are built with central AC in mind of course I dont expect people to know how to deal with heat without experience living in hot countries.
It's perfectly fine, and in mature settings it should be a non-issue. But I've learnt to be wary of assuming everyone is fine with it, or assuming that everyone will behave. I mean, tech bros will tech bro. I'm not in favour of helping them perform deniable harassment.
You almost cannot convince an entrenched org of decent size to switch.
Or a tug-of-war like indicator showing the threshold. (Although not a sufferer, blue-green is a common colour blindness)
Whenever I'm not clear on something I wrote, I have to spend the time deciphering it, and then add a comment to save myself the time next time.

After a while of doing this, I get a sense for what kind of stuff I'll find puzzling later and can comment preemptively.
Sure. All US states recognize promissory estoppel doctrine, and I'm not aware of any state statues which specifically bar it in employment cases. Damages in a PE case-- "reliance" damages-- could certainly include lost income from a job you quit in reliance on an offer from another employer. But they could also include any other harm you suffered by virtue of relying on it (relocation expenses would be a canonical example here). Yes, those damages would also be available in a breach of contract case. Source: Myself (More than a decade consulting on contract and employment litigation; currently a law student; just got an A in contract law).
We've already solved it. There's a service on some airline that I forget that lets you even stream videos (Netflix, Youtube, etc) from the plane without issue. It was absolutely amazing.

Gogo, the one that absolutely sucks, locked many airlines into a 10 year contract so they're screwed until that ends. That's the only thing stopping the fast service(s) from rolling out.
So these days with so many artificial ingredients and ultra processed foods and sedentary habits leading to decreased testosterone these journeys might not have taken place had they had our modern diets [and as child comment adds, lifestyle]?
What if my resource is indexed by GUID and I want to build a REST API?
>Many times I've gone back to code I'd written previously, it seemed overly complicated, I replaced it with a simpler version... that failed... that reminded me that was what I'd tried originally and then replaced it with the more complicated version for a good reason.

>So now I have a new rule: every time I try a simple approach and it fails and I replace it with a more complicated one that works, I add a comment explaining the previous strategy and why it didn't work.

My strategy is to comment out the failed attempt and leave it there for next time.
And yet I know reverse story: a friend of the family had strange "flu" in February 2020, later tests showed antibodies. Granted it was in Seattle.
Based on the complete lack of movement from AMZN and related stocks, I have to guess no one is particularly shaking in their boots (or, it was known that this was going to happen).
Look at the account, it's a classic phony, stashed away for sniping without new account green.
Ok where I am you certainly can not do it yourself and if there is a fault which causes a fire or electrocution, you could be criminally liable.
One by drivetrains certainly have their advantages, but many new gravel bikes sacrifice 2x drivetrain compatibility for ultra short chainstays and only accept 1x. Notable examples are Marin Headlands and the Gestalt X10 and X11. Others models that also accept 2x have their whole lineup equipped with 1x. If you also want to use the bike as a road bike, good luck with that. It's either climb hills or go fast with current gravel 1x drivetrains, depending on the size of your chainring. For me the new GRX gravel drivetrain from Shimano has been a godsend: a no nonsense subcompact 46/30 crank and a deraileur usable with up to 11-34(36) casettes or a 1x option usable with up to 11-42(46) casettes. If it wasn't for the gravel/all road bike I would have probably never gotten a proper road bike with skinny tires because it's only usable on roads that one shares with other motorized vehicles.
Equity offerings increased significantly in the first quarter this year
The Moriori are not predecessors to the Maori, but rather more likely an offshoot. Their unique culture was perhaps partly due to the resource poor environment but also partly because mainland Maori culture was undergoing a revolution at the time of the split.
Even Metro has quick 24/7 phone support. Which, given the sad state of their online self-service options, has been the only thing that's kept me with them as long as I have.
It's a pipe dream though because company revenues need people buying more devices, not less.
> sometimes a licensed tradesman is required to sign off before the inspector comes, other times not.

It's typical if this is the rule for a tradesman to refuse to sign off on work, or charge you a high fee to do so.
It isn't.

Gravel bike is just a new marketing term.
You watched folks drop out here and there after not surviving the hardcore guy ridicule. And the truly awful stuff they pulled in their early days. I always imagined, everyone parties, someone comes up with something horrible or dangerous, then the cameraman waves hundred dollar bills around to drunk twenty year olds to get it on tape.
Computer Science: Programming with a Purpose
Some old Windows software still works well on Win10, while a lot of old Windows software does not. Some old Linux software is pretty easy to get running on a modern system, while some of it is not.
Even without the iCloud lock you can get burnt.

I lent a friend an iPhone8 while he got his phone repaired. He factory reset it, and then forgot the pin he used to lock it afterwards.

(Fortunately he eventually "remembered" it before hitting the phone's lockout, which presumably means it was just not the important reused pin he thought he'd used, but some other important pin...)
Thanks for the comments! I was going for a more intuitive play style, glad you like it.

I also recognize the need to better see the 'influence' level of a cell, especially for players who want to get better at the game. Maybe scaling the size of the colored hexagon in each tile would work. So the colored hex would grow with 'influence', and once it reaches the border it would become locked
That varies quite a bit by location. In many areas, a homeowner can do their own repairs. In slightly fewer areas, they can do new installs. In any case, doing the work safely and correctly trumps having a license in importance.
Many AAA MP games aren't there due to anticheat not being portable.

Other AAA games aren't there due to complex, non-portable engines.

MANY AAA games work fine but their launchers don't (e.g., Blizzard, Origin).

All are shitty reasons for the games to not work. :p
Amazon S3 quietly deprecates BitTorrent support
This may end up a good thing for some people. About 5 years ago, I had a heating/cooling contractor come out to repair my A/C unit. It had failed just coming into a very hot night, I called a local company which told me "first thing in the morning".

It got hot.

I went to YouTube and found a few videos -- I had already known about the two fuses leading to the A/C unit, mine were fine. I hadn't known about a capacitor that was used to assist the fan in starting and discovered that taking a stick off the ground, starting the A/C and whacking the fan was enough to make it run[0]. I ordered the replacement from Amazon[1].

I had forgotten to cancel my appointment and the gentleman with the company arrived mid-morning. Being that the unit was all of 5 years old, and I had a good understanding what was wrong, I wondered what I'd be told so I acted dumb. Wouldn't you know it? It turns out that "the compressor is no good", and that "the kind of compressor used in this isn't made any longer"[2]. I told him, "Ah, that's too bad, I guess I'll have to have my Dad come out and replace it" and sent him on his way. Two days later I installed the first of the two capacitors I purchased and had working A/C until early this summer. This time when it failed, I took the panel off, saw the cap was bulging, and replaced it. Fixed. For those keeping score, that's 10 years on an A/C unit that apparently had a bad compressor and required replacement 5 years ago.

The moral of the story is that a few minutes of time on YouTube can save a lot of money and literal sweat. If you have a professional that you trust, great -- if you don't, get a second opinion before dropping a large amount of money simply because the A/C repair company sent a sales-person out when what was needed was a technician.

[0] It wouldn't start on its own, but I could get the house down a few degrees below comfortable and leave it off for the night, at least.

[1] I called a few places the following morning and nobody carried capacitors that size, locally; Amazon was it for guaranteed 2-day shipping; I miss Prime. It also appears my capacitor isn't affected by the parts shortage -- there's several on EBay and Amazon at present.

[2] The technician (who was actually a sales-person) attempted to mix up energy efficiency standards and actual coolant formulations; I don't recall exactly what he said but I recall searching the finer points and discovering that I had a very high-end A/C unit, and the entire compressor was available in used/new forms. Oh, and mine is still "just fine".
Practically every time I do a 'console.log' to see the value of something in the current page state I actually wanted a 'debugger' statement instead. Pausing execution so I can look at other things around what I wanted to log often proves very useful and let's me get to the root cause of a problem faster.
This is somewhat true for older (say, 1920s) American houses. There’s some consideration for airflow and making sure that the tree shade on the roof creates a strategic sun heat gradient.
> Flight got cancelled? Send me a text, email, whatever. They have all of my information. Text me a link.

Airlines always do it for me. Well, at least in the last handful of years I've been flying.
I believe they had reports of popular transparent proxies that broke with it set, and the users involved typically weren't in a situation to not use those proxies.
I feel the simplest solution is for a country to make it illegal to pay for ransomware with significant fines/jail.

Something like that must stop said country being a target in the first place.

I think its more strange it isn't illegal as paying is effectively supporting and funding ongoing criminal behaviour. Maybe there needs to be a exception rule on direct government approval for edge cases where information is critical to be retrieved for the wider economy.
You're entitled to believe that bringing a cheap babysitter on a family road trip a few times means we couldn't possibly have been middle class, but the assertion that I'm in denial or have a complete lack of perspective is uncalled for.
more than that, she has direct experience within the FTC and related government bodies [1]:

- 2018, worked as a Legal Fellow at the FTC in the office of Commissioner Rohit Chopra

- 2019, began serving as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law

- Lead the Democrat's congressional investigation into digital markets and lead the investigation into digital markets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Khan
Sometimes hitting ctrl A, then ctrl x then pasting to a word doc will do the trick too
>I often wondered where did Jeffrey Epstein get the idea to secretly record his elite pals frolicking with his harem of underage girls in order to blackmail them. Epstein wasn't even the first guy to come up with this idea. CIA did.

I would imagine the idea was invented around the same time as the first permanent photographs, and probably started happening in practice around the late 1800s when cameras started having exposure times measured in seconds, not minutes or hours. Blackmail is profitable, so it would make sense that photographic blackmail would happen as soon as the technology supported it.
If you're a tech worker, HN Who's Hiring threads often can put you in touch with technical people, particularly at small companies that aren't big enough for a dedicated HR person.

Another strategy to try if you're interested in startups: watch startup funding press releases. After funds are raised, the company is probably going to be hiring. When you see a company that does something cool that your skillset may be suited to, send cold emails to 1-2 people in the company: congratulating them, asking them a question about their business that demonstrate's you're really interested in them specifically, and mention that you may be interested in working there.

I've never gotten a job from this strategy (got hired through a Who's Hiring post), but have ended up having some really interesting conversations and now have a couple companies I consider 'friends' and have enjoyed following their successes.
You are highly compensated person. But, as per your own post history, you don’t like your job. You are working 70 hours and looking to quit. You are worried what could happen to your team and much more [1]

So, I am curious, did you optimize for short term or long term?

Fellow hackers, would you earn $1M for a couple of years or earn $200k-$300k for 10 years keeping 8-9 hours per week?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27358610
I knew a girl on tinder who did that. It's really neat and definitely takes away the "very rich" thing. I mean 1 extra plane ticket is expensive, but not prohibitively so if you want a babysitter that also gets a free ride to a new place.
Because the code can get hard to parse, especially if you are using conditional classes based on state or other values.
Any usefulness to the thought of decoying SSID/MAC combinations? Take a dump of wigle.net, randomly spray the SSID from the associated MAC, and create a smokescreen? Any better method than random selection of SSID? Enhance the subversion with varying the power levels to appear elsewhere? Directional antennas for confusing the whereabouts of the signal source? What are the countermeasures for such activities?
Bam is also unmedicated bipolar. As in he sought help, got medication, and then decided to stop taking his medication.

Most of his other issues likely stem from this.
Dreamweaver Ultradev, released in 2000, was the first version to introduce scripting with PHP and ASP.