skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a reason big tech likes to hire from abroad. While you do get added value from different countries and cultures you also get different morals and motivation.

Another reason is that it is kind of hard to care about privacy when you need to send half your check back home to support extended family that is in poverty.
Agreed. They originally almost made this new cmd a special flag on go get leaving go get and install alone. Now they finally clearly do one thing each. Might be painful but its clean break for the better now.
Nitpick: he has 6 living children. He had 7, but one of them died.
I disagree that Mochi was as or more important than FGL. Perhaps this was true for developers who released a lot of games and could rack up consistent significant monthly views across on all their games.

I remember a big question was always: should you self sponsor if you can't get high enough bids for sponsorship? If they're willing to pay $5k to put their ad on your game, why shouldn't you capture that revenue yourself?

The answer was for most developers it was difficult to capture that value without some kind of centralized game portal where you could redirect this traffic and keep those users coming back. So even if the sponsor was paying $5k and still making money off that game, it was unlikely you could make anywhere near that amount just from Mochi ads or similar.
6502 assembly language for the Atari 2600 (which actually uses a 6507). I've always wanted a lower level understanding of computers, but it took childhood nostalgia to finally motivate me. I also enjoy reading about the original engineers from Atari, Activision, Commodore, etc, so it's been rewarding to dabble in that world.
Unfortunately, it looks like viewing their search results requires Javascript.

That's a no-starter for me.

DDG lets you view their results without Javascript, using https://lite.duckduckgo.com
Princeton can't buy data from aggregators? Wikipedia says they have a $26.6B endowment.
I'm genuinely confused by this whole pitch. What practical problem does this solve?

Planting seeds in a bed that size is at most an hour or two of work. Raised beds don't suffer from that many weeds, so weeding is a couple of hours per week at most. And drip irrigation with a timer can be had for a few dollars.
I've recently switched back to html5 gamedev for my hobby projects and it's been great for online collaboration and rapid prototyping.

Being rid of the hoops of app store submissions, being able to update at any time, and play on nearly any device has been very freeing.
That just invites the disappointment of Star Citizen being like other games. As long as it is never finished it can potentially be completely revolutionary.
Udacity Web Development CS253
I have just watched the few available videos from the course Udacity Web Development CS253 and I feel interested to take the whole course. Sadly, can't find it on Udacity.
I've gone back and forth on using ddg. I realize whenever I am searching for technical assistance, bing results are really terrible. Because of this, I wind up !g every search. Lately, I have begun using https://www.startpage.com, which gives you a private, untracked google search every time.
> One and a half MILLION people whose life gets turned upside down, WRONGLY, due to a blood test

Culture adapts. Getting a cancer diagnosis today is a huge deal because testing is infrequent, usually in response to a problem, and the diagnosis tends to be late and accurate. If 1.5mm healthy people get a false positive every year, the general response will be stress until a second test confirms a false positive.

The lack of public trust in health policy doctrine, and the support for start-ups that can operate outside those channels, comes in large part from this type of thinking.
Personally, I just think specificity makes for more interesting discussion. It's easy to say "there oughta be a law" but it's kind of empty calories, intellectually. Responding with aggressive negativity to people asking you to be more concrete is a real conversation stopper.
Wikimedia France: New Anti-Terrorist Bill Exposes Users to Mass Surveillance
> he may know where (possibly metaphorical) bodies are buried.

Because founding and running an anti-virus company for a while gets you invited to all the big shots' murder rampages...?

Was he ever even a largish campaign contributor, or anything that might have got him hobnobbing with (people that later turned into) The Powers That Be? I've never heard anything such about him; have you?
yes it is real and i got struck. i work in academia and was doing the work of four ppl, with pressing deadlines. it really brought me down as nothing in my life before.

4 weeks of rest helped a lot but, to my astonishment, what helped the most was a small dose psylocibin. i was not expecting it as i was doing it more for recreational purposes, but right after the (very mild) trip, it pulled me out of depression and anxiety in sth like 30 minutes. i have no words to explain the feeling of having a functioning brain in such short amount of time, it was a bit like breathing again after 6 months.
i mean, even without the dark patterns that's enough to justify quitting.
WSJ Factcheck: Renewables Are Not to Blame for Recent Power Outages in TX and CA
Then you get them into trying to get their own people into maintainer positions to let the golden stars flow. Maybe also be more hesitant to give out this starts to the "wrong" people from other companies. Not like there already is enough politic bullshit in open source.
Yeah real identity has been going on for a while and recently I had to submit my id number too but I don't think it affects most of the discussion on Zhihu as long as it's not too politically sensitive. It's an annoyance for many people in oversea though.
Remote preheating? I prefer a little more work-life balance, i.e. cook when I'm at home. And use the (rather short) time for preheating to look at the paper mail or mix a drink. Or stroll through the garden for some minutes.

Other appliances, e.g. our washing machine, tell me already how long they'll take. So I can set an alarm to not forget to care for them later. And if my fridge would alarm me because its door is not properly closed, I'd rather prefer a loud alarm over a small notification which I might overlook because a mobile device is someehere else.
I got some "I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood."[1][2] vibes from this.

I have occasionally considered auto mechanics if I ever get to the point of software-related burnout, though the way cars are going, I feel like they'll be entirely software by the time I feel the need to switch.

[1]: https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24541964
Wiki article on the Toba Catastrophe theory.

Sparks Notes:

- It is thought that the Toba Super-Volcano eruption is linked to a severe drop in human populations due to it's influence on global climate

- Some genetic evidence supports today's humans are descended from a very small population of between 1,000 and 10,000 breeding pairs that existed about 70,000 years ago

- This hypothesis isn't yet solid, and there is some evidence to the contrary. Nevertheless it's discussion is an important topic in the history of mankind.

Now I understand your comment might be referring to that third point. If so, it would be excellent if your comment made some sort of reference to your reasoning. Simply saying "this isn't accurate" aren't the kinds of comments that make Hacker News the site it is. Instead let's make comments that further discussion and increase learning of the topics at hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#:~:tex....
We had similar experience! We tried CodeGuru Reviewer on one of our Python codebases (around 71 KLOC) and abandoned it after a week.

The feedback was indeed similar to what standard linters and static analyzers can provide with more noise. I have no doubt they can improve their recommendations as they get more feedback and analyze more codebases, but we were not interested to pay to contribute.

We have had much more success with https://deepsource.io/ , which found real bugs and we generally agree with their recommendations. We are currently evaluating whether or not we will include this service as part of our process.

Deepsource is rule-based, but my understanding is that they are starting to use ML to rank recommendations.
> they have a pricing page so it's not even free

BugBust itself is free. You pay for usage as per normal for CodeGuru Reviewer and CodeGuru Profiler (after the 30 day free trial of BugBust and 90 day free trial of Profiler).
I don’t think most cops “are miserable”. They’re in that position because they enjoy being in power.
This pairs it with the AWS bug finding AI tools to automate the bug bash overhead. I.E. Finding bugs, assigning point values, keeping track of point values, etc.
It's hard to have a great opinion of WD after: (1) this, (2) the SMR disaster of supposedly NAS HDDs, (3) the portable drives silently encrypted even when no encryption was set.
This site has served me well for finding alternatives to companies that sell your data: https://switching.software
The Bay Area is ridiculous in terms of home pricing. We could likely move there and do ok financially, but I'd rather get a nice plot of land in Appalachia and have some farm animals, spend my evenings working on marksmanship and whatever car I'm wrenching on at the moment.
I mean, technically speaking, a DNS is a database. I am not saying I like this idea, but are there any regulations on what you can or cannot put in TXT records?

> Imagine having to pay a subscription to resolve DNS queries...

Great, I won't pay for resolving googleadservices.com then :)

Joking aside, I personally don't mind paying for DNS (I am already doing that using NextDNS and it has been the best DNS service I have ever used). And as been pointed out by others, DNS providers can always put a limit or hit you with a ban hammer if they want.
It doesn't seem so outrageous. I mean, when you move the slider, 20 vacation days for not securing the firearm translates to an enormous fine. Moving the slider all the way to the right the web page reads "4 cases resulting only in a loss of 45 vacation days.". ONLY 45 vacation days. 9 weeks pay is a lot of money, folks.
The problem is "fact checking" is often times not actually checking facts. The fact checkers said it is false that the virus came from the lab. Now we know that it certainly is a possibility.
For those rare cases, it really isn't a problem to look at my work calendar on the work PC and my personal calendar on my phone and do a quick comparison.

In general, if I have a personal appointment, I'm not going to forget about it. Just the act of having added it to my calendar is enough to remember it, without having to look at the calendar. I only ever mix personal events into my work calendar if I there is an overlap with my working hours, everything else is none of my workplace's business, I'll polite decline any meeting that conflicts.

Besides, last-minute meetings are a sign of bad meeting culture.
How do I detect what my string is encoded or encrypted with?
Hey HN. Ive been trying to dig up some old crypto and have come across a problem I assume would have some sort of solution but doesn't seem to.

I have discovered a string on an old hard drive of mine that I'm certain relates to a crypto key/wallet of mine. However, after establishing its encoded or encryped I cant seem to find a tool that can give me any hints as to how. I was hoping to find a bip recovery mnemonic for an old blockchain.info wallet or similar.

The string is 88 chars long. Starts with AQAA and is a random assortment of upper, lower and numbers. There is a slash at position 81 and the last character is an asterisk. A tool I found says It's shannon entropy is reported at 4.90 and its apparently UTF-8 valid so that means it's likely not encrypted?

The slash made me think it was base64 but no dice. Any idea if theres a tool that can help identify some clues? Thanks!
Not the op, but it all depends on location in a few different ways.

First, there's cultural difference around the world about owning property - or if not cultural, than at least pragmatic: FWIW, vast majority of my European friends and family don't plan/anticipate to own a property - ever. Huge percentage of my North American friends and family wouldn't even settle for a condo - it's house or fail. These friends and family are in comparable positions.

Second, location location location. Maybe your high tech jobs leads you to live in downtown of a metropolis, but a low-paying job "forces" you to a small town of boonies or boonies of small town or both. You may or may not find that lifestyle better for mental health.

Finally, size, size, size. I was born and lived HAPPILY as middle-class family in a 3-room apartment as a five-people nuclear family (parents, one grandmother, two kids [ourselves]). It was fine. It was great.

I am now in a house, same family config but a generation down, we have four rooms on top level alone, plus main floor and basement, and we are CRAMPED. We rented a locker until last year when we did a purge. There's stuff everywhere. Not even because we are well to do (though we are), when you have kids in north america the amount of stuff friends and relatives and facebook groups share is awesome but overwhelming. And the household work... GAWD the household work... I don't find peace in it and it overwhelms me just to think of the time and expense owning property entails.

Hey, these aren't even first world problems, these are privileged well-to-do first-world-plus problems, I recognize and address that. But owning sizeable house is by far not the only way to happiness.

Edit: Let's not forget kids vs no kids. That is a huge differentiator as to options, and I think more of us commenting or advising here should be explicit about current state and plans. I didn't think kids were as "life changing" from economics/lifestyle perspective as I'm now aware :P. This is not to say I didn't think they were a huge deal... just didn't realize intuitively internally just how much it is YourLife:Part2. I went through civil war, change of continents and countries, passage of parent, broken heart and ending up with The One... and ALL of that was a relatively similar "Phase 1" compared to the radically different life after we got kids :D
Watering at nightfall when the ambient temperature is below 70F is a recipe for rot as well.

When it's cold, you water in the morning. When it's hot, you water at night.
More info: Read Home Power Meters With RTL-SDR https://hackaday.com/2017/12/21/read-home-power-meters-with-...
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27551177 for thread related to WSJ opinion piece referenced. Submission title truncated due to too many characters.
Apple’s macOS 11.4 Update Fixed SSD Wear Reporting on M1 Macs
The macdonald's filed for bankruptcy in 2019 and was abandoned since then, the ex employees revived it and opened a food bank. The city bought the place and gave it to the people managing the food bank.

People on HN react as if these people forcibly entered the place and violently took the control from a successful hard working business owner.

I see two options:

Either people simply don't understand the situation and side with "hard working business owners" because that's who they identify with. Or they are so disgusted by charity and solidarity (oooo socialism bad) that they prefer a place to be abandoned and useless than serving a greater purpose
Not learning anything just yet, but there’s quite a few things I’ve been wanting to learn when I get the time:

• I’d quite like to learn how to do ‘low-level stuff’, particularly microcontrollers — I rediscovered an old Arduino which I’ve had some fun playing around with. I particularly want to get to the point where I can write low-level Forth code and flash it to the microcontroller. Also, I should learn assembly language at some point, but it’s proving difficult since I’m on Windows.

• Relatedly, I want to learn the basics of electrical engineering. My physics degree has given me a good overview of the underlying concepts, but I still can’t even design a basic circuit for my Arduino.

• I have very little knowledge of how the networking stack works, so I’m thinking of getting myself a Raspberry Pi and learning how to build and host my own website.

• Wrt linguistics (a favourite subject of mine), I’d like to learn more about morphosyntactic alignment, specifically split intransitivity and alignment in person marking. I have a whole stack of papers stored up which I’d like to read.

• Time management — I feel like I have so much time but am wasting most of it.

Luckily, university vacation started this week, so I may even get enough time to learn some of these!
Wickr is great tech, and I’m glad to see them get a positive outcome - but boy, I really am curious what AWS wants to do with this.
There is a 21 trillion dollar economy built largely on companies fighting over that $1000 with lies and manipulation from people who devote careers to outsmarting people.

Another thread on HN helpfully has examples of people refusing to go along with it. I don't think they're representative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27629543
I think Chime is also used internally, and for virtual interviews.
There is no pro-vax people.

There are smart people that believe in science, and they are morons who don’t believe in science, and would rather push their ignorance into others. Get with it. Get vax’d ASAP!
Exactly. Also my sincerest condolences to you and your family.

The level of arrogance in these responses parroting what they’ve read in a paragraph online approaches that with what we saw early in the pandemic with masks.

“Masks don’t work! Fauci said so!” And the level of confidence they said it was shocking along with the self-righteousness.

Yes, maybe people can’t put on N95 masks properly... but maybe we can teach them? Is that so mind blowing? We teach people how to wash hands for 20 seconds, is it not so hard to believe you can’t teach people to wear masks properly? Maybe make masks that are easier to put on?

It’s sad how people with no vision are Karen’ing people to not think ahead or think of the future. It’s scary that it’s happening on hacker news.
Could someone ELI5 to me what KPI even stands for? Does that mean like they're like the shock troopers of open source?
When people bring up scientific advances in China, I am always skeptical.

What percent of Chinese publishing is not fraudulent?

Look at the scale of Fraud across China,
including in Academia:

"The online publication Quartz reported in 2017 that more than 50 percent of all articles retracted by scientific journals worldwide for fake peer reviews were submitted by Chinese authors. ... 55% - The percentage of articles submitted by Chinese authors that were retracted by scientific journals worldwide for fake peer reviews"

"It usually involves authors posing as their own peer reviewers and submitting made-up contact information for the supposed reviewer – a scam that publishers exposed by tracking the email addresses of author and reviewer to the same IP address. This type of fraud is on the rise and more often than not involves Chinese authors.

"In 2015, for instance, Britain-based publisher BioMed Central retracted 43 articles, including 41 from China.

"Later in the same year, Germany’s Springer retracted 64 papers, nearly all from Chinese scholars,

"while the Dutch publishing company Elsevier retracted nine medical science articles written by Chinese researchers.

"In what is said to be the largest single-incident retraction of journal publications in history, Springer Nature in 2017 retracted 107 articles in Tumor Biology published between 2012 and 2016, all of them authored by Chinese scholars from universities in Shanghai." [1]

[1] https://wenr.wes.org/2018/04/the-economy-of-fraud-in-academi...
I had a mystery illness. Spent hundreds of thousands on Er visits only to find it’s was a pair of fairly common conditions acting together. Blood work tests exists for both.

A deep round of blood testing would have saved everyone a lot of time and money and suffering.

Or I could have waited many years until the organ damage was so extensive that diagnosing was easier. Oh wait, that’s what ended up happening.
In my admittedly anecdotal experience, it's been a very long time since employers have had the luxury to be able to layoff software engineers.
> By the same logic, if only factory workers decided it's immoral to build weapons, there would be no wars. But those spineless creatures just want bread on the table and don't care about world peace.

I think the question is, are developers engineers or just programmers? The responsibility of an engineer is to give pushback when it is deserved.

As you say, the responsibility is on decision makers. But they care about the politics. They will try to make it look like you're on your own. But if you clearly demonstrate the mood of the company's employees, they will reconsider their position. The result will be compromise not capitulation but it's better for something to be better even if it isn't great yet.
Digging deeper into Alloy through the Alloy book, working through Book of Proof, skimming through the introductory material to separation logic.
What's the meditation guide you're following?
This is a small spreadsheet I made to compare RAM latencies in actual time, after accounting for frequency and CL timings, even across generations.
>> Humans being less than 1.2m tall is extremely common, and I will bet there was a significant period of your own life in which that criterion applied to you.

And how where their teeth at the time?
From what I've heard it's mostly fintech, at least in places nearish where I live (Italy)
So, what are some good Wickr alternatives?
I'm learning to solve differential equations with analog computer techniques. I don't have access to an electronic or mechanical analog machine, only simulations, but I find simulations quite flexible and enjoyable. There are a lot of great books from 50's and 60's on the topic.
I doubt a fix is coming. Just keep it from reaching the Internet long enough to disable the cloud features. A patch cable directly to the PC should work.
AWS has acquired many companies in the past. Off the top of my head, Biba (turned into Chime), Elemental, Cloud9, Annapurna, CloudEndure…I’m sure there’s more.
https://youtu.be/fMeH7wqOwXA

> If you're hired to do this stuff, you're on your own, you better know what you're doing.

Huawei pays professional developers to contribute to the kernel. Of course they should be held to a higher standard. They should be working on something substantial, not fixing minor problems. Surely there are far more important things to work on. Failing to prioritize important issues coupled with incentives for kernel contribution means they are putting in minimum effort for maximum personal gain at the expense of maintainers.
Discovery of ‘Dragon Man’ Skull in China May Add Species to Human Family Tree
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