skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ye. Articles like these are so numbingly boring disappointments when you dig into the numbers and it is just a bit of noise in a longer trend that are presented as a big sudden change. Sure, the pandemic gave a interesting spike in the graph, but is not like 20% quit their jobs now all of a sudden, but more like back to the extrapolation of the pre pandemic trend.
Especially if you have kids and work as labor
He called it cheating, not me.

I'd call it more taking advantage of the situation (he did too), which I like in my sales colleagues, and less in my engineering colleagues.

I'd hire him for sales.
Here in the UK, allotments are currently back in fashion - garden-sized strips of land assigned to people who rent them for a small amount each year. Currently in demand again, especially in cities where flat-dwellers might not have their own garden - you can spend a few hours a week getting out of the house and getting some exercise / fresh air. A traditional allotment does take a bit of a time commitment, and of course not every day is sunny, and free allotments in some areas are very limited, so maybe combine allotments with a farming robot. Get a parcel of land, maybe a way outside town (but accessible via public transport), split it up into allotments that people can farm daily remotely or come and visit for a nice day out. The sort of thing a farm with a farm shop or pick-your-own operation could diversify into - rent out strips of land for remote users to tinker around on, handle shipping them their ripe produce for a reasonable fee.
This approach actually works really well for conserving healthcare dollars. If a doctor feels like nothing is wrong, 99% of the time they’ll be right. Sucks to be that 1% where you die of a cancer that would have been caught, but that’s the trade off.

The marginal return of each dollars spent on screening goes down quickly. At a population level you can’t justify it, but at a personal level you can.
> How is it possible to indentify a new species...

I'd love that ELI5.

If it's just morphology and traits, given the amazing variety of people alive today, I wonder how many different species future archaeologists would identify.

I've seen the array of skulls at the natural history museum. Clear progression, sure. But when does one thing become another thing.

I know, I know, dividing lines are arbitrary. But I'd still like the ELI5 for how a professional knows homo sapiens vs neanderthal. Maybe a visual diff tool.
Banks give practically cash loans against your stock.

And the idea that the stock price of those companies would collapse if he sold a few million is frankly idiotic.
Because those concepts are not antithetical? We all feed our families somehow.
Thanks. I wanted to get into Phoenix, I'll go back a bit in the playlist.
Some, but there are also some very successful startups still run by their founders, like Tesla and (until recently) Amazon. Then there's Apple, which did much better after bringing the founder back.

(I've read that on average, companies run by founders tend to do better over the long term. I'm having trouble pulling up the source though; best I can find right now is the book 100 Baggers, quoting a study saying "there was often a large shareholder or an entrepreneurial founder involved.")
Ask HN: In Emacs, is there an alternative to GPG encryption in Org Mode?
It's GPG is starting to show it's age, Debian abandoning it for signing packages and it's general lack of usage.

Was wondering how one could probably use https://github.com/FiloSottile/age or something.

(Not an emacs pro, so sure don't know some of the trivial ways to use this)
Remember the housing market boom right before the bubble popped they propped it up with stimulus money everybody was like oh wow this is great houses are such a low price...... You're basically talking about the same thing there
If there’s a pattern of them submitting a ton of these kind of patches, that could be viewed as gaming a metric. Huawei might, for example, be assessing kernel developer performance partially on # of upstreamed commits, and I guess that’s what is being suggested here.
wow, now i'm intrigued.
There is an old story of two surgeons - one with a near zero patient death rate and one with a much higher patient death rate. But the surgeon with the higher death rate is tackling harder more complex surgery on sicker patients - while the other avoids the complex stuff.

There is nothing wrong with either.
Store managers are employees, the location is more than likely owned by a french person or business.

Well from news reports, we can't really tell who made the decision to close down. "McDonald" can be either the franchise owner, McDonalds france - both french locals.
As an ASMR fan I can tell you categorically that ads are never volume matched to their videos.
what is wrong with using encrypted s3 and desktop apps?
I wish I had any other interest apart from programming...
I’ve done this myself, and it’s typically because I will want to go through the checkout process to see the total cost of something (including shipping which wasn’t shared on the item page).

I’ll use auto fill to save time and quickly click through to the page that finally shows the full price, then I will back out.

More recently, instead of auto fill I take extra time to type a fake email address just to prevent the “lost cart” marketing emails that were mentioned in the article.
Was trying to find actual info on frame rate and couldn’t locate any, but I did find this demo video that makes it look to be in the 5-10 FPS range - https://youtu.be/WT031cs-tjo

So probably good enough for reading/coding/browsing static sites, but scrolling will feel laggy and videos/animations will be a hard watch.

Still a pretty significant improvement over the eInk displays you get in Kindles which can take 500ms+ to refresh.
I think the general idea would be something like, "Fix spelling errors in log messages" and bundle several changes that do that.
When people make trivial typo PRs on my open source projects I say thanks very much, close their PR, and make the change in a commit under my name. This way, if their interest is in improving the project then it worked. And if their interest is in contributions then it works also because it doesn't pollute their contribution history with trivial changes that aren't real contributions.
Ah! They are moving into different markets outside ereaders, so then please make my dream happen[0].

They are not far removed for what I want (I use my Boox with keyboard as monitor for smaller devices connected via wifi already); faster ARM proc, more mem, more storage + sd card. Bonus points for LTE. But the biggest thing; normal OS; Linux or Windows. Then I would be done.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27513791
"even when told it is one on HN"
I think this is an appeal to authority, a logical fallacy.
https://www.thoughtco.com/logical-fallacies-appeal-to-author...

Is there a reasonable list of "dark patterns" that this tactic in the OP falls into? I don't doubt it is a dark pattern. I'd just like to know which one it is, and have it explained to me in a little bit more detail. Thanks!
For a business that is all about monthly recurring fees, rather than an annual multiple a big part of the consideration can be the customer acquisition cost in the industry. If I have a similar company already, I'll pay you up to somewhere around what it costs me to acquire the same number of new customers some other way. If you have 10,000 subscriptions and it generally costs me $5 per customer to land new subscribers, $50,000 makes a lot of sense. Much less than that is a real bargain. Much more and maybe I just spend the money marketing to your customers instead, depending on what other assets come in the deal. This is largely independent of what your subscription fee is.
And that sucks for those affected, you're right. But sometimes the point isn't to make the consumer whole (and I'm curious how one would you even come up with an average price for everyone affected anyways), but to make a statement that this is not okay. This would at least give a hypothetical Seagate engineer some real-world example to push back against phoning home for a HDD. It doesn't help here, but it can set an example (implying larger fines for the next company to screw this is), and hopefully prevent other companies doing the same thing.
I think the concern here is that at huawei there's some kernel patch metric, or incentive, or something like that. And following Goodhart's law... "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

So now there's a target that costs maintainers time, possibly lots of time, and costs huawei nothing.

There's really no control here to dial it back other than to ask 'please don't do this'.
The UX on that website more akin to torture than an actual user experience. Not only an auto playing video but one that actually chases you down the page and I can't block the element because I'm on a work laptop.
The software field expanded so much that there is a massive need for both in-house developers for tech firms and outsourcing for traditional businesses with legacy systems like banks, insurance etc.
Social Arbitrage: The New New Path to Abnormal Returns (2007)
Linux with Firefox 89.0 64 bit. It displays correctly after the first load but after selecting and un-selecting it the border does not reappear correctly and looks like this:

https://ibb.co/0JYQ3ML
I think that’s your personal bubble. Of all the google res I know, none of them want to go back to the office, and that’s probably just my bubble too.

Personally I work at Apple, so I’m not getting the choice, but I am close to my vacation cap, so I’ll be “forced” to take a day off every fortnight; you can bet that I’ll be using an “in-office” day for that, so I’ll be working 5 days of every 10 in the office.
Just go outside.
There is no ethics in business anymore, in Tech industry and any other industry.

The right to buy food and pay your bills is what you get from your payment if, and only if, you are willing to compromise your own ethics.

If you start to make your work decisions based on ethics it will be really hard for you to stay at your current job or get a new one.

Unfortunately, this is the world we live now.
They haven't changed engines. Lumberyard is just a fork of CryEngine 3.8
You could say the kickstart of USA was the illegal action of not paying taxes :)
Tailwind Tutorial for Beginners
Show HN: Asynchronous Video Messaging for Teams
> explain how it could happen to seemingly all MyBook's at once

Explain what makes you think this happened to all of them at once. That's a huge leap
> with the only privacy guarantees being that the data is encrypted during transport, and a "promise" that they will run internal audits to make sure private data isn't released from their servers.

There's much more than that, including: privacy and security review before a study launches, a data minimization requirement, a sandboxed data analysis environment with strict access controls, and IRB oversight for academic studies.

> IMO this seems to provide worse privacy than even Google and Micro$oft's telemetry, which at least use differential privacy to make sure that each individual's privacy is somewhat protected (the data you send is randomised so even if the aggregator is compromised by a malicious third party (e.g. NSA) individuals have some degree of plausible deniability).

The vast majority of Google and Microsoft telemetry does not involve local differential privacy. Google, in fact, has almost entirely removed local differential privacy (RAPPOR) from Chrome telemetry [1].

We've been examining the feasibility of local differential privacy for Rally. The challenge for us—and why local differential privacy has limited deployment—is that the level of noise makes answering most (often all) research questions impossible.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=101690...
There are no signals, you just have to switch on and off an electromagnet.

Here you can find everything you need:
https://www.cibomahto.com/2008/03/controlling-a-clock-with-a...
These programs are opt-in and normally come with incentives like a $75 gift card or a free thermostat.

It's possible that people are using thermostats that are still provisioned to the previous tenets electrical bill.

It's a important technological achievement to be able to shift and schedule loads so that we can switch to more efficient energy sources. Requiring the power generation companies to service the upper percentage of usage is a lot of expensive environmentally as well as economically.
All parts of the patch have to be reviewed regardless. It just saves one session startup/tear down per patch.
Steps to Work with the Law of Attraction
I wouldn't call over aggressive marketing a dark pattern. As with the newsletter pop-ups, they aren't shady or underhanded or misleading or coercive, they're just in your face. I often find them obnoxious and repulsive and they drive me away from a site, but they're in the light, out in the open, not pretending to be something they aren't.

I think there is a fairly bright line in the sand for defining a dark pattern, and the line is between hiding and being open, between being misleading and straightforward, between trying to force someone to do something and seducing them with plain intentions. The later behavior can still really suck, without being dark.
just saw another one, really black magic to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-giC24SxwE
Tiny collective wants to boost tech sustainability through 'digital sobriety'
Robinhood IPO Said to Be Slowed by SEC Review Including Crypto
It looks like Microsoft is going to drop Skype:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57597352
It's a demonstration of their political stance. Radical left.
Really? Huh. It's the second recall it's had in the last 4 years or so, the first one was a power connector of some sort...
Hot take: trying to appeal to both PvP and PvE players is the biggest mistake game designers make.

History is littered with the corpses of "WoW killers" in the MMORPG genre and nearly all of them touted PvP as their killer feature, usually some form of world PvP. And it never works. Even WoW largely moved away from world PvP in favour of sandboxed PvP (ie arena, battlegrounds).

This focus on PvP is my biggest concern with Ashes of Creation.

The reason it doesn't work is because of people. People do things in PvP because there are no consequences. You don't really die. You can communicate outside of the confines of the game. You know there are no consequences. This leads to antisocial behaviours like griefing even though the griefer gets nothing in-game for doing so.

Many have tried to make in-game consequences to deter griefing and they never work and (IMHO) never will work because in-game isn't reality. Death isn't permanent. Even the permanent death of a character isn't permanent.

Game designers spend so much effort on these systems to appeal to the minority of players and it literally kills games. But no one seems to learn this lesson. Or it's just hubris that "my game will be different".

So what Star Citizen should do is just not have open world PvP, at all. That requires no development effort whatsoever. Maybe you could have an arena or some BG like concept but those are optional and can be added later.

No system will eliminate pointless griefing and you just alienate those who don't want PvP.
Can connect with Google Home or Alexa or Siri and do phonetic commands like start program or stuff like that I guess.

I'm a new dad and when we both are busy with work, chores and the baby I find myself wishing I had IoT devices to automate a couple of stuff home.
One of the most interesting things I've done recently was actually the journey to finding other hobbies. The good thing about work outside of the workplace is that it's not only acceptable but also encouraged to experiment and fail. If you're not sure where to start, I think it's a good idea to literally just pick something and do it. If you end up enjoying it, great. If not, there's always something else :)
I spent the last few years doing remote work, before COVID. I don't want to waste any more years of my life staring into a rectangle. If I go back to programming it's sure as hell going to be onsite.

It's all fun and games at first. "Look, I can work from home in my underpants!" Then after a while you realize you're just sitting there alone in your underpants.
The post isn't about FNF, it's about the Flash Game eco system and what was lost and now slowly being refound.

And a high quality "Fuck you Steve Jobs" as well. I'm here for any posts that says "Fuck you Steve Jobs"
Large farms put the hoses in the ground - the water never touches the air (well I assume some will seep to the surface, but not much), instead it is applied only close to the roots. You need to be very careful to apply your seeds just above the hose, but this is a solved problem: modern farming can place each seed to within 2cm of where intended over large fields even when the tractor is planting 50 rows at a time at 20km/h.
Lifetime carbon footprint still far better for electric. As admitted in the article. So nothing to see here folks; move along.
I know of a situation where someone refused to do something maybe 1/4th as shady as this. It sounded semi-reasonable to me.

In this case, the boss simply assigned the task to someone else. Employee stayed employed.
Two thoughts:

1. Even though the economy may be booming, that doesn't have to mean job changes aren't also driven by re-evaluation of priorities. The two may be complementary.

2. I think we've only seen the tip of the iceberg. I work with multiple people all in the process of looking for new roles. People that I would not have expected to leave - "heart of the team" kinds of people. This is after 4-5 devs (in a department of ~60) already made the choice to leave for other opportunities in the past few months.

Some relevant details: large SV-based SaaS with excellent financials, regarded as a good place to work, etc.
Link to the repo mentioned in the video:
https://github.com/BitBangingBytes/gr-smart_meters
> It correctly identified when cancer was present in 51.5% of cases, across all stages of the disease, and wrongly detected cancer in only 0.5% of cases.

While I think this is a great step forward, How can this be described as highly accurate when it missed identifying cancer in 48.5% of the people?
And they would probably have passed regardless. No distractions and screens probably means no ads and that's most likely a no no for the former do no evil company.
Author here!

Couple of things -- despite the admittedly click-baity headline, I'm not 100% convinced that "instant games" are definitely the future. Nobody can predict the future with certainty. And as I state up front in the article FNF itself is obviously an outlier which should not serve as a model to try to replicate step by step.

My main point is that instant games -- which is to say browser games -- are actually already the past and the present (even if they're not necessarily taking over everything else just yet), and most people are unfamiliar with a bunch of weird details about how they began in the first place.

The article's actual thesis is not necessarily to prove to you that instant games are the "wave of the future" but to point out:

1) Even games industry insiders are often massively out of touch with trends

2) Browsers games represent the potential to disrupt existing gatekeepers and platforms

3) Browser games had a weird and unique ecosystem that represented a 'minor league' of games that provided an on-ramp to further professional success, especially for international developers, and we've largely lost that today

4) Modern platforms want to own the entire stack top to bottom (editing tools, playback engine, discovery, and marketplace), but trying to capture so much value yourself and tightly controlling the environment can actually stunt the ecosystem

And yeah the article is really long. I'm chronically unable to write short articles when I have a lot to say and that means I'm taking the sincere risk of boring some of you to death while you wait for me to get to the point, sorry about that!
I don’t want to sound like a know it all, but I managed to save a lot of money living in a big city in a grad student stipend, which is about $25k. It can be done. I spent very little biking, cooking from home, buying used, having roommates, not drinking, not buying much.

There are exceptions like kids and chronic health issues but most people could save a lot more money if they wanted.

I say this without judgment, people just have different priorities. I recognize my advantages, but I have more savings than most people in my family, despite probably having the lowest lifetime income.
I think you overestimate how much the professed beliefs of the region coincide with the actual beliefs. Having lived all over the country SF is one of the more hypocritical places I’ve been. You don’t see nearly as many Black Lives Matter signs in Dallas for instance, but what you do see are far more middle class black families living side by side middle class white families.

For more on the Bay Area’s legacy of racism, highly suggest reading Richard Rothstein’s _The Color of Law_.
Why don’t we test machine learning as we test software?
Is the lack of a PM the problem with Theranos? I think the problems are the same.
But how will you show the kids ads then?
Usually a bunch of indie game developers invest years and by the end 1000 people buy/play the game... How is that rewarding?

I would claim it's the most risky type of software coding. And because of that probably also the most "dirty" way of software coding...
I don't really.

But I use my own computers for most things. If I had to use a work-issued computer for work things, I'd be more careful about commingling. (I do have a work laptop, but I don't use it for very much.) I also generally keep personal and work email separate--to the degree one can really deliniate personal and work.
> Windows for ARM is still in preview, I believe.

Surface Pro X running on ARM was released to public 2 years ago. We had x86onARM translation since 2018 I believe.
this is really good.
Or as the maintainer themselves have indicated, bundling a number of these changes together along with a cover letter explaining them.
And is only 18% accurate when looking at stage 1 cancers.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/31/new-blood-te...
Real life +1, Google is used for the basic Android setup needs and that's it, all other needs are non-Google services (well, technically NewPipe is Youtube because who doesn't like a good cat video). One key app most people will want is DAVx5: https://www.davx5.com/ (also available on f-droid)
Some scientists also like to generate buzz because that's sometimes the only way to get financing. But having this apparently unique piece of evidence and calling it "one of the last survivors" of the new species (as opposed to one of the first, or squarely in the middle) gives away that for now it's just a flashy assumption.
Is there a Git URI scheme for referencing a file in a repo at a commit?