skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA talks about CMake being widely used in embedded. This seems to be a difference between Europe and the US. It feels like every single embedded project I've encountered in Europe in the last decade uses CMake, and I've never seen an embedded project in the US that uses it.

It's the single biggest difference I've noticed. C++ is certainly more popular in Europe, but you see plenty of C projects in Europe and plenty of C++ projects in the US.
Do you think you would still feel this was unambiguously fiction if you were in Charles or Alexis’ shoes?
Ask HN: What are the most popular tech news feed portal in your country?
Exactly. Even 1000 kWh/kg would still represent a single-digit percentage of the power that will eventually be handled by the product. Pretty neat when you think of it that way.
To be fair, they were two distinct times years apart but they were enough to put me off from yellow cabs.

I'm Queens born, grew up in NJ and spent a lot of time in the city growing up and now I've lived here for the last decade or so and those experiences were enough to put me off of yellow cabs entirely.

You're right in that they're probably freak occurrences but I don't owe them benefit of the doubt as a consumer when I have what is in my opinion the superior solution of rideshares.
What do embedded projects in US use instead?
The original article:

Even "nice" guys are secretly mean and will treat you horrible, if you don't listen to them.

This article:

Women will make up horrible things about guys online, even when it's not true, to get clicks. And not even properly apologize.
Fatal shooting of 17-year-old passenger after Astros game
You're right, I can see it from that perspective. I find it somewhat zen in that it then becomes befuddling the author of this article injected herself into the Cat Person author's story...I do then give up & weep for the poor girl whose life this was who needs to be told she has no business injecting herself via a story about the story someone wrote about her life, this line of argument is far too meta for me for midnight EST. Cheers.
>The driver insists I leave my luggage in the cab as collateral

"no" usually works here.

It's not on you to deal with the problem of a broken credit card machine.
Thinking out of the box, I wonder if the ocean could be turned into a giant battery somehow. Considering most population lives closer to the coasts, it would be amazing if it was possible without any environmental harm.

Not saying something like electrifying the oceans. But, something like power generation with Wind, solar or tidal energy, and store it in some kinetic form like Norway did with water up the mountain, and then transfer power upon need to the coastal cities.
I'm quite inclined to think that the movie that Cat Person is made into would display "based on a true story" rather than the South Park fiction disclaimer. Why? Revenue.
Full details in the paper at https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/94/2/bams-d-... .
Ah, thanks, I was reading it as "random number."
Previous brief discussion with an interesting comment by aliasEli:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27780935
Do you weep for every member of John Updike's family? The same stuff happened to them!

The reality is, you don't; you never once thought about how Updike used his own relationships and those of his family and acquaintances as fodder. You care about this particular story for reasons other than principles. That's fine, but we should start by being honest about it.
It extends Java, building in fairly comprehensive language interoperability. Honestly, it's an amazing feature...and also the perfect trap. If you build your code taking advantage of it, you lose compatibility with standard JVMs and you give Oracle leverage over you. And the moment they think they have you, they'll do an about face on their licensing and start charging you for it.
I think you are spot on: statistical player profiling + controlled environment testing is the good and potentially permanent solution to this problem.

In my vision every game creates a model of your behavior/capabilities (server-side). For example, in a fps game it could consider your reaction times, overshoot distance on quick movements, look-around frequency, movement patterns, etc..

When you reach certain level you must certify yourself. That is, you must go to an actual physical location and play in a controlled environment. If your behavior there matches your model you get certified for that level of play and can keep going. If you don't... you get banned. Of course the model would track your progress and ask/force you to re-certify as you keep improving/reach the limits of your current certification.

Would this eliminate all cheats? Probably not. However, since you can't play outside of the standard deviation of your controlled-environment capabilities, I would argue that it doesn't matter anymore. To a honest player a cheater would look like "a player having a good day" (which is something that happens and you need to deal with anyway) instead of looking like "a player with superhuman capabilities".

The problem with this approach is how to build such controlled-environment certification centers and procedures. This is a big task, but also a big opportunity. It is not that much different from examination centers that already exist in the learning/certification industry.

Furthermore, since gaming is such a huge market (and growing) and certification centers don't need to be tied to specific games (they can be a service that games hire and people pay for) the whole ordeal seems doable. So doable in fact that I could see myself investing in a startup having this goal.
open book exams with serious thinking questions is the answer.

I had such a numerical methods exam, I had a python script ready for it. No regrets on automating something that should be automated. I understood how the method works and wrote code for it.
The cheater's version of the halting problem.
Cheating in the game "Warzone" has been a really interesting thing to watch unfold. It makes the game really frustrating to play and I have stopped playing it, but outside of that it's interesting to watch players, even high-visibility streamers, attempt to play without getting caught and succeeding at that.

In Warzone the map is huge, and 150 players are split up in to competing squads of 1-4 players. So it becomes very much an information heavy game. Knowing where people are, even when they're hundreds of meters away, is extremely valuable, and that's one of the hacks people have. They see nametags, hitboxes and information for players overlaid on their screen. They also change colour based on if they're in line-of-sight, so you can say "I see that squad, but they can't shoot at me, so I am safe" and that's extremely valuable.

Second to that, they can use aim-assist but the highest-end aimbots are really quite nuanced, and they allow you to smooth out the assisted movements and only auto-aim in specific scenarios, and that makes it really hard to tell they're using an aimbot. It just looks like a really good player. Gone are the "snap to head" aimbots of Counter Strike that were so obvious.

You can report someone all-day-long and they may never get banned because the hack software is competent, and it's hard to demark the difference between "Knowledge you shouldn't be able to have" and "Intuition of a good player".
Still a bit confused after going through each step, what does this do?
Can confirm. I was playing Quake Live extremely well one day (for whatever reason??) and a couple of the guys specced me and announced that I, indeed, was not cheating. That led me to wonder how they knew and some searching turned up a few threads about various tools and tricks of the trade WRT that game specifically.
That doesn't address anything I said about costs.

And you often can't cool air without removing water vapor, the water condenses whether you want it to or not.
It's also that many teachers are underproficient.
Nice product!

Do you offer (or plan to offer) historical data?
Fun fact: Oreo biscuits are off-brand copycats of Hydrox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox
What are people’s recommendations for data that covers both US and UK markets?
Does it also provide commodities futures or spot prices?
(I'm Australian for the record.) Over the last few years I've moved away from that mindset that you outline.

I was finding that a life of travel, hobbies, and low responsibility was becoming more hollow to me.

And the world is a tough place, but it always has been and always will be. I just didn't think that allowed me to absolve myself of responsibility in making it better and doing what a saw was my duty.

Also kids are pretty cool. They're like little acid trippers. I didn't want to miss out on the chance to have that experience.
I don't know anyone who buys it. It's easy to make at home.
The meta game of “cheating” sounds way more fun to me than playing any of these games.
A superficial appraisal of the situation would have Cat Person be a mere amalgam of details plagiarized from social media with an ideologically derived ersatz-archetype-- a lie bolstered by purloined facts. This article, however, brings for the first time depth and truth to the former text.

Flaubert famously quipped, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi!". In the same vein, the ugly side of Cat Person's male character may not have derived merely from defamatory stereotypes, as many readers could have been forgiven for assuming, rather it may, too, have been drawn from life.

Very good article. Moving, and oddly redemptive.
> people are mad about: that her work of fiction is mostly fictional

It's mostly fictional but apparently it comes across as true to many people on first glance. There is also a real world person which apparently many readers see an obvious link to. Regardless of how it all looks to you, surely you can appreciate how such a situation could give rise to a negative viewpoint?
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Proctors and cameras in exam halls can't see inside your house, so yes.
Looks really promising. Thanks for sharing. I'd like to mess around with testing trading ideas some time.

What stops me from just scraping your whole dataset?
I hope you see the irony in your comment.
The only problem with Cozette is that it is 5px wide pixel font.

So, here is comparison of minimal LCD width required to print "Hacker News" (without quotations marks):

- in Cozette: 65px

- in Creep: 54px
First look at the Fujitsu Quaderno A4 13.3 – 2nd Gen
It's a grey area.

In india, the engineering curriculum includes lot of subjects that are not useful for the students but only there because some fat belly officer thought it would be "Interdisciplinary".

Can you imagine teaching biology as a subject for engineers? waste of money and not what we have come to learn, or interested in. But colleges in India do that.

Cheating in such subjects is fair.
What Asthma Triggers Matter the Most?
> There are powerful people who would be happy to imprison or kill her.

Kill her? What evidence is there of that?
>We really need to get past this smug idea that tech work is uniquely difficult in a way that no one else can understand.

The problem is that when a surgeon is cutting a brain with a scalpel, it's pretty obvious that now is not the time to ask them the status of their TPS report. There isn't the same sense of gravitas when it comes to a deep debugging session because it looks the same as when we are checking email.
Not only do people deserve their lot in your mind, they enjoy it. What a response.
I'm a mathematician. I spend a lot of time staring into space and mumbling to myself. Sometimes, though, when I'm just zoned out, my wife would ask: "Are you working on something?"
This is basically the classic "analog hole."

I remember over a decade ago doing something far less sophisticated to "cheat" in a turn-based projectile physics game --- I used a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram printed on transparency and just put it on the monitor to quickly calculate parameters between turns.
I recently posted this in the hoard-of-bitmaps thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27781606

It should include the 3x5 pixel font from Mike Koss's "The Terminal" on the Apple ][.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18142258

>DonHopkins on Oct 4, 2018 | parent | favorite | on: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you rememb...

Who can possibly forget the font that Mike Koss's "The Terminal" Apple ][ terminal emulator used to get 32 lines of 70 characters each in HIRES graphics mode in 1981? It's the most difficult to read font I've ever used regularly! (Don't try using it on a color TV, though.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120206091422/http://mckoss.com...

>Tiny (3x5) Font

>Created for the Apple II program The Terminal. Copyright (c) 1981 Michael C. Koss

>In 1981 I wrote a terminal emulator for the Apple II. At the time, the Apple II could only display upper case characters. I used the hi-res display (280 x 192 pixels!) to display my own character set. In order to come close to showing an 80-column display, I created a truly tiny font, displaying the full ASCII character set (upper and lower case).

>I created a font within a 3x5 pixel dimension, allowing the display of 32 lines of 70 characters each. The font definitely takes some training and getting used to (especially recognition of characters that use descenders); but I found it to be quite readable after a while.
>Nowhere in body of the story does it say it's a work of fiction.

This is a bizarre demand to make of a work of fiction. How many fictional stories mention they are fiction in the body of the work?
> Anecdata

There’s no reason to ever start a sentence with that.
> The docs are super well done and available on our homepage after you login!

What docs? I made an account and haven't learned anything from the docs that I have not already reverse engineered in a minute from the two sentence comment I am replying to.
Ahh, the good ole days. I used httrack nearly 20 years ago to make the CD copies of the osha.gov site (e.g., [1]). Back then, for ADA and internet access compliance, government websites had to also be made available for offline use if possible.

I haven’t followed httrack since, but it seems like scrapy and similar are much better replacements.

[1] https://forum.httrack.com/readmsg/3556/index.html
Yeah, rideshare in SF is getting pretty expensive. I only ever use it when I'm doing drugs and stuff and can't drive.

But SF public transit is totally shit. I recall the only reason we'd ever use it is that a bunch of us were going there together and we get to hang out.

My time is way too precious to wait for the 38 or the 44 to stop 15 times a mile. I can beat them in my car, even with transit lanes.
People seem to be really worried about the copyright aspect, but I don't see how that can't just addressed as a build step or a linting step.

Kind of like Turnitin, but for code. It would check similarity, and check the licence of the similar code.
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The rest of the thread in your link is contradicting that one answer. And the fact that particular answer says the modern steam engine was invented by Watt doesn't give me a lot of confidence in the author.

Hero's Aeolipile boiled water, but didn't resemble what we call a steam engine in any other way: it's just a jet. And in fact, it's very difficult to get it to work; you need modern bearings, extremely lightweight modern materials, and very large burners to give it enough power to spin itself. It's pretty unlikely it ever worked in antiquity, it was probably a concept sketch.

Likewise, the illustrations of "steam engines" in China show no boilers, no pipes, no evidence of pressure vessels of any kind.

A steam engine that produces useful power requires strong steel pipes and connections. It was technology gates being passed that led to the steam engine being invented and improved, not a change in economic condition. Agreed slavery can slow down technological adoption, but keeping slaves has its expenses too. It's easy to imagine there being an economic advantage to mechanical power even in a slave tolerating society.
I would say it's closer to a Turing test.
Yeah, we just had a single feature branch, which we would merge into the single master branch. We’d simply apply it to staging first, make sure nothing terrible happened, then apply to master. All those steps I listed above happened on the same branch, same PR.
Congrats! I thought of launching something very similar when I went through the hassle of moving to a new apartment. Honest question: why did you launch to HN, if your service is only available in Switzerland?
> The owner is most comfortable in an environment where they can wander by and create an immediate change-of-priority at the individual level; there are many middle managers and executives everywhere who also have grown to their positions of power/influence with the same style.

I worked in a mixed office/remote/distributed company before the pandemic. At first we had a lot of travel and in-person meetings to continue with some face to face influence. Like you said, the in-person meetings often felt like managers flexing their power and influence because they saved big changes for the in person meetings.

Later the company tried to reduce or eliminate travel to save money and speed up communication by making it all digital. At first I was excited to have an opportunity for full remote, but I quickly came to miss those in-person meetings. Some of the managers and executives completely lost touch with the human side of the employees they no longer saw in person. It was too easy for them to fire off Slack messages that demanded last minute changes or crunch time because they didn’t have to look us in the eye to deliver the bad news. They also couldn’t read the room or see reactions when they made unreasonable demands.

Full remote also created an environment where too many people just wanted to withdraw socially and stay hidden as much as possible. It took extra work to make sure everyone was communicating properly and to ensure that the load was being distributed evenly.

Working part-time in office solved a lot of these problems. Remote can and does work with the right team in place, but having done it (pre-COVID) I’ve come to believe that proper candidate selection and mentoring is crucial, as well as a willingness to do the hard thing and let employees go if they can’t work or communicate effectively in a remote environment even after being mentored. Remote isn’t for everyone.
Ask HN: FAANG level salaries but not FAANG?
I have been interviewing lately looking for a new position. I have mostly worked for start ups throughout my career, but I wonder if I have maxed out on base compensation for what most startups can offer. Currently I am receiving 180k base salary and 10% annual bonus. I've been through a number of interview cycles, passed technical interviews and gotten to the offer stage only to find they can't even meet my current compensation or we don't even get through the interview cycle because they up front state they can't offer that level of salary.

I've been hesitant to apply to any of the letters in FAANG due to ethical considerations (perhaps silly, I know), but I'm wondering if I should just accept that's the route I need to follow to meet my compensation needs or what companies there are out there that can pay FAANG level salaries but are more savory in character. I've considered looking into working for companies like Atlassian (no idea if they pay FAANG level, just assuming), Amex, Citadel etc.
"All true your honor, but I said the word fiction beforehand!"
Yup what if they stole some keys or garage clicker to rob you later or other personal info to do some identity theft? Better have a police report to cover your ass at a minimum.
I used to agree, but I eventually needed to add support in CMake for a particular IDE and got far too familiar with it. It's easy to debug and the syntax could be worse. Whoever came up with the list representation needs to be arrested though.

It might be stockholm syndrome, but I'd rank it worse than Meson and better than Makefiles. Autotools can go die in a fire.

Cargo is wonderful, but having something that user-friendly and well designed in C would feel incongruous with the rest of the ecosystem.
I just close the door.

The few times in my career when I haven't had a door I could close, I did all of my deep work from home and only came into the office for meetings (which I compressed into 1-2 days).

The delicate social dynamics described in these threads sound incredibly expensive. I can't imagine paying someone a quarter or half million dollars and then draining away their productivity on this sort of thing.
NIO announces plan to open battery swap stations to other electric automakers
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired", Nick thought, fictionally.
I think we observe complex behavior in you personally that we associate with our own ... I just doubt they are necessarily as intense as we experience.

Lets start using the same standards of 'proof'

If Helen Keller were never to learn to communicate with us through language that we understand are we to have believed that she has no consciousness -- just external manifestation that "complex behavior that we associate with our own emotional experience ..."
> Intercept, yes, hijack no (with dnssec)?

DNSSEC doesn't help with censorship. It means that your ISP can't send a fake response without you knowing it's fake, but they've accomplished their goal as long as they keep you from getting the real response.

> or a dnscrypt proxy

DNSCrypt traffic is obviously not HTTPS, even when run over TCP/443, so a malicious ISP could easily block it.
That's an interesting point. Ubers are generally interchangeable, so why shouldn't you be able to just hop into any of them in a situation like that?

Leaving the implementation aside (a number of different ideas come to mind), all that would be needed is for it to verify before you get in the car that it's the same type you ordered (e.g. UberX) and then detect and handle the fact that you've started a ride with that particular driver.

Ideally this would be something that could be opted in or out of on the rider's end, as well as on the driver's end.
Wow, that's awesome! Best of luck to you.
Viral ‘Cyberpunk Farm’ Satirizes Russia’s High-Tech Future (2020)
For me the primary use-case is to share text between my laptop and phone (e.g. a long link, an article, some note I wrote on my commute, etc.)

The website was originally written in Go and had a few more features (such as password-protection), but decided to remake it to focus more on speed and remove the features that I felt made the UI "noisy" ^_^