skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
its so interesting to me how so much of entrepreneurship today is showing up with a narrowly defined problem, and building a solution around it. then there is the huge trap of building a solution without a problem.

what's touched on here seems to me as the best approach - showing up with a passion / vision with talented colleagues, then working towards that through any means possible.
Sales of Samsung's flagship phones dwindling: Korean media
They've sued over it before too.
How do BNPL lenders convince merchants to pay an interchange fee? They don't have the customer base and negotiating power of credit card networks.
> The cheapest way to automate something is always poor people.

The corrolary to this, if you are a tech nerd who wants to see more automation is: If you want more automation, work to reduce poverty. Support unions, high wages, and other systems that give people the freedom to say no to shitty jobs that robots could do.
This is the sort of mistake I see junior devs in my company making often. Any recommendations for an article that teaches a programmer on how to give honest names to variables and functions, ideally with lots of examples?
I know several PhDs who actually thought a doctorate in music theory or similar fields was a ticket to a good job.
I would caution against using risk parity as it assumes that you know the volatility and correlation of different asset classes.

Look at the Figure 1 of this paper:

https://www.casact.org/sites/default/files/old/01pcas_scheel...
You expected 2021-03-31 + 1 month + 1 month to be different from 2021-03-31 + (1 month + 1 month)? I find this behavior understandable, but not apparent at first glance.

Also, FYI, this is not how GNU date works:

$ date -d "Jan 28 next month"
Sun Feb 28 00:00:00 CST 2021
$ date -d "Jan 29 next month"
Mon Mar 1 00:00:00 CST 2021

I could see confusion from this, depending on what libraries you are used to.
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Disagree.

Jan + 1 month = February, sure.

But, as soon as you add the day, it falls apart for me.

For most dates, if I add a month, in my mental model, the answer is the next month with the same date.

Jan 15 + 1 month = Feb 15, etc

But, at the edges, it gets odd quickly.

Jan 31 + 1 month = ??? Not sure, maybe Feb 28, maybe Feb 29, maybe Mar 2, maybe Mar 3. Depends on the year and who's asking me to solve the problem.

I would expect any reasonable software to fail gracefully when asked to solve this problem. And by fail gracefully, I mean ask for clarification. Or prevent me from asking silly questions in the first place.
What you're describing are the people making $1M+, you basically need to have had amazing luck of being in the right place at the right time and being involved in projects that turned out to be massively successful and grew quickly. That's how you get those Director or Sr Staff/Principal titles at FAANG.

To make $250k+, honestly you just need to be able to ace a random assortment of Leetcode level Hard problems under pressure. Which is actually a very tangible and unbiased skill. To get in the door of that interview in the first place, now that can be a challenge without the right kind of experience. But it's not impossible to gather that right kind of experience, without an Ivy League education or advanced degree, by gaining experience on the job for several years at a lower tier tech company or startup.

And then for some lucky few, a $200-$300k mid-level engineer salary can grow into a $1M+ salary without any promotions, e.g. every mid-level and above engineer who joined Snapchat two years ago. That's the real holy grail.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Bubble_of_1769
Create value, capture value. Hardware is hard.
Making stuff that historically accurate also would make it less fun, I think, even with the Sims and stuff and SimCity a lot of stuff is abstracted away. Otherwise you're just doing work :)

This is such a funny youtube channel about a game, Saelig, that I think it supposed to be more accurate than most, but of course since it's a game (and in beta) you can do pretty ridiculous things with it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxRPirVgkpU
My father worked in the sugar industry, his first computer came with an operator :)
Since a common critique of city sims is that they are not organic enough, it's exciting to see this case where the mechanics are TOO organic!
Can you explain why you see this name as unacceptable?
Still shipping prisoners to AUS, after all these years.
> Overall its just a slippery slop when you give the government this right. What happens if conservatives get in power and decided abortion should be banned outright as they consider a fetus a person? By the same logic you are using, they would be perfectly reasonable to do that.

This is a ridiculous argument and I'd say mostly FUD. Abortion is pretty well litigated. Conservatives have been in power in state and national govts for years and they've barely managed to get anywhere close to this.
> Apple took away his choice, so he's taking away his users' choice to use the feature as they desire.

And it doesn't hurt Apple in the slightest, couldn't agree more.
Half the time this is a sarcastic way of saying that all legislative, and legal options are the on the table because popular opinion and market forces are unsuitable for forcing companies like Facebook to change.
You people can argue all you want. I voted with my feet and I not only left New York City, I left the U.S.S.A . Even a blind man could see whats coming next!
That is accurate. That general model eventually made it into the standard, because of EA and Bloomberg ( https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/memory_resource ).
I think it is more true that political polarization is used to make ad targeting more effective. Almost nobody uses Facebook to drive opinion or do "branding." Instead, they let Facebook target some campaign to the audience that maximizes ROI. All of the political Facebook ads you saw last year were fundraising ads, and the small net yield (revenue generated minus Facebook cut) was used on other platforms to pay for ads attempting to sway the few percentage of the electorate that was persuadable. Similarly, Exxon is paying for some sort of action on the part of the targeted consumer, not trying to change minds.
Good. Alert is an archaic mechanism with tons of useful alternatives that don't involve blocking the DOM. For example, console log for debugging/demoing.

On the other hand, I'm seriously worried that Google is using its position to force large changes to the web.
Super interesting re: China. Curious if there are open source projects/libraries they build on or if most of that is built internally.
> if the guy and his friends pour out solid code then there's nothing else to say :)

Unfortunately, they don't.
I used "OpenID" in the text as shorthand for OIDC. To be clear, Keyri is not OpenID / OIDC for preserving privacy and making the Keyri API a fail- and compromise-secure system.
That largely depends on the value system. Set someone in a remote area and tell them they have to make it on their own with nobody coming to their aide, they'll work hard. Give them a salary that doesn't change based on work effort, then why would they try harder?

I get way more done for my self than when I'm working for an employer. I'm not dragged down by meetings and bureaucracy.
What do you mean by "bamboozled"?
You realize that is completely unworkable, and anyone can take a picture of the screen of the photos that you upload and share them. Don't post anything on facebook that you don't want the whole world to know.
Wow that's interesting, sadly immigrants have to cheat the system, cant play by the rules like this, I'm sure he learned his lesson, bullshit till you make it
The US government should just follow in China's footsteps and shut down Big Tech or nationalize them. Nobody with half a soul would complain.
I have the vaccine and still think this is absurd and a slippery slope. If you havent noticed, society tends to run with things they can get away with to the most extreme direction.
This was a really cool article! Fascinating to learn how some of this stuff really worked. That said, game makers need to balance making their game fun, having a goal, and not being too tedious. It takes a lot to run a town and most of it isn't fun, so it's understandable that they simplify and leave things out.

I've had a lot of fun playing Outlanders[0] on Apple Arcade. It's similar to what's described here. You get a small island and a few people and have to make a town using only resources from the island. Looks like it's set in maybe the 1700s or 1800s. Works on the iPhone and is a great time killer.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/outlanders/id1463407936
Fine, I should have said “above the median,” if you insist on being so pedantic about it ;-)
It is unavoidable for the kind of article the author is writing. He is trying to give the perspective of a person who has 'been there'. This I imagine is very interesting to read for people who want to 'be there' or going to. For them, an article that doesn't deal too deeply into philosophy may be more appealing. This is possible only if the author makes a lot of assumptions. And of course, if you don't agree with those assumptions, you'll just move on.
lol you can expect whatever form FB but they dont care. And if you gave access to the data to other people FB cant and wont do anything to prevent thous people from accessing the data and if access is possible scraping is too.
I wish it was easier to actually pull information from various banks and accounts. For all of mine, I have to log in to the website and click around some 2006 era website to set a range or dates or something before I can generate a CSV file. It's a ton of friction just to get a look at my financials. I wish I could always have access to updated CSV files without having to spend all this time for each and every account. The only alternative is paid services like mint, which I don't want. I just want my raw data so I can roll my own and come up with my own ways to manage my finances.
You can be prosecuted in the US for paying a bribe or having sex with a minor outside of the US.

It is hardly some unique thing. Many countries prosecute child sex tourism and paying bribes, even though no crime occurs inside their borders.
Hrm. My opinion is that complete accuracy isn't all that fun. Folks have used tax records to do analysis of, say, how many farmers it takes in a village for a blacksmith to be present, and so on and so forth. It was a lot more than you might imagine.

On the other hand, looking at the D&D 3.5 Dungeon Masters Guide 2, they have finally fleshed out Saltmarsh. Bizarrely, a town of less than four thousand people actually has an assassins' guild, with roughly ten members. Do they take turns, each assassinating one person a year? Because that's roughly how infrequently it would have to occur for their little club to escape notice. Hardly worth paying dues for, sitting around, discussing that murder you managed five years ago and how you look forward to one in another five.

Take a look at city-building ... in most games you rarely see the hub-and-spoke develop around a port city, despite that being a prevalent pattern, or the unique feel of isoheight versus steep streets in a hilly region (the San Francisco pattern). If you watch city maps over hundreds of years, many forces are at work, and I think they might be simulable but I don't know if the end result would be enjoyable enjoy to warrant it.

If you look at our actual cave ecosystems, troglobionts, which are adapted for living strictly in caves, are typically quite tiny. There's simply no food down there! Resources are scarce. Hence you would get no gelatinous cubes or hook horrors or carrion crawlers stumbling around the caves, lurking about, waiting for adventurers or the average bear. Instead you get some very small, pale shrimp. This is not exciting for the adventurer. Some handwaving of a source of energy called "Faerzress" eventually takes place and is only vaguely acceptable if one does not look hard, serving as kind of a bottom trophic level for the game.

The balance between actual plausibilty and what one might call "fantastical satiation" is quite difficult. Your large-sized dragon, perhaps your standard-issue Vermithrax Pejorative, would need something like a log flume ride of virgins delivered straight to its gullet to sustain its bulk, not to mention the caloric expenditure. Clearly, this isn't very satisfying for your story-telling, either.

The balance is rough and I suspect that nitpicking in the name of accuracy can undermine most of what is constructed.
The researchers make the data public. This isn't like Cambridge Analytica.

There shouldn't be a worry about what the researchers are going to do with the data because they make it public.
You seem to be stuck on: 'what is the value of 1 month' and thinking in terms of days, because that appears to be the precision of the left value.

Programmers exist in a world where things such as leap seconds matter. Normally if you have a timestamp that is just before a leap second, then add exactly a day's worth of seconds, you'd slide back a little in time. This might matter in another context, such as defining the limits of neighboring ranges properly. Also, who's to say the underlying precision is a second?

The intent of the library in question is to behave the way most people would. With imperfect buckets and idealized answers; yet also precision where someone makes the attempt to be specific.

None of the examples in the article use a more vague syntax, such as "0 days before the end of the month". They start with what a human might, a rounded but full date; then apply an interval. So a more clear contrived example might be.

Jan 31 .plus(1 months) => Feb 28
Jan 31 .plus(2 months) => Mar 31
Jan 31 .plus(3 months) => Apr 30
Jan 31 .plus(4 months) => May 31
Jan 1 .plus(1 months) => Feb 1
Jan 1 .plus(2 months) => Mar 1
Jan 1 .plus(3 months) => Apr 1
Jan 1 .plus(4 months) => May 1

Note how in the second half there are still variably sized months, but the result is what a human would want.
According to MMM

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-nee...

> Luckily, the math in this case is pretty interesting: there is very little difference between a 30-year period, and an infinite year period, when determining how long your money will last.

You should be fine at 4% forever. If you can spend a little less some years, or go make a few dollars somewhere hey, boosts your odds even more.
Ah, but there is no inherent backend: this is a raw format, and you can “execute” it, on a backend if you like, to get a regular json document.
Unlike Blue Origin or Virgin Atlantic SpaceX is not an amusement ride. He doesn't need to prove anything, because he isn't looking for passengers that would pay $250k for a 10 minute ride.
According to the next paragraph, "Facebook provided about how the ad was targeted, and when the ad was shown to a user, among other things.".

Haven't used FB in ages but I assume it's like "why am I seeing this" hint in youtube recommendations (which usually says "because you watched video x").
Hey Steven thanks for your comments.

Germany is quite interesting. There is some restrictions and we are aware of them, but at the same time Germany also gives a tonnes of protection. We hedge our bets by making it easy to switch servers to any other place.

Cloudflare is only used for landing page and admin of pages. The pages are hosted on our own servers.

About hacking, it has always been this way and no matter what business security should be of high importance.

They can and probably will ban our Stripe account. That's why every creator will have to connect their own payment providers. This means they could shut down payments to us, but not all creators. A lot of other services uses one payment provider for all transactions, but this makes them vulnerable as their whole business can get shutdown if they don't do exactly what the payment provider says.
Crypto fixes a lot of this.

We opened a can of worms, and it will be tough, but I doubt we are so much trouble as you expect. Rumble, BitChute, Odysee, Locals are all in the same sphere and they had troubles, but not as much as you'd expect.

Thanks again for the comment Steve!
Sixty nine baby. I guess my bet payed off. Cheers to the hood haters!
You can't say "more essential complexity" because that violates the definition. It's the complexity required by the task and that is constant and independent of the design.
Right. Can't really escape the game.
If that's true though, then the argument frequently given about requiring vaccinations to prevent mutation is not very strong if vaccinated people are still infectious hosts. So it seems the need to masks even with vaccination exists.
Not to mention the marketing in the tv show Community! This was a very good episode too, surprisingly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcjW6maPJko
Facebook is a platform capable of controlling large numbers of people through subtle manipulation with techniques and at scale not previously possible. There have been instances where it seems that capability is being tested (whether by Facebook itself or groups leveraging its platform). It's imperative people research this legally and ethically, which is what is was being done by the NYU group.
The point is not to be historically accurate. Ideally you strike a good balance of fun, challenging, and historically accurate - in that order.

I can't speak for the games listed, but for the one AAA game I had the opportunity to work, "but is it fun?" was a question we would ask ourselves periodically. The natural tendency was to strive for correctness and simulation level accuracy. But that's usually very much not fun.
(I don't use the product. Or maybe I should say, I'm not a Facebook product)

>Facebook moved to penalize the researchers in part to remain in compliance with a 2019 data privacy agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, in which the company was punished for failing to police how data was collected by outside developers, Clark said. Facebook was fined a record $5 billion as part of a settlement with regulators.

That's a reasonable explanation for their action, right? Even if it's not 100% true, if you're a manager at Facebook, and the situation isn't 100% clear cut, you're still going to act, so you can show it as an example the next time the FTC tries to fine them.

And they did offer an alternative:

>Clark said Facebook offers targeting data sets for political ads, and has suggested the NYU group use that information.
There is a little link on each ad, when clicked on, would tell you why you are targeted
I'm not familiar with Rundeck, but a quick google search makes me think it's a very different tool.

Technical teams use Hookdeck to receive webhooks reliably. However, Hookdeck itself makes no assumption about what those webhooks are used for or do (we don't run workflows). You can think of it as the backbone/infrastructure to manage and run your asynchronous events without having to put together queues, workers, ingestion services, alerts and logs.
is gitly yet another imaginary revolution ? (honest question)
There was also this previous study from June showing apparent loss of gray matter thickness in regions of the brain responsible for taste and smell:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v...
There's already a Space before the X :)
You’re not underpaid but you could make more by switching companies. Some companies simply pay more than others for the same role, level, and responsibilities because they’re engineering driven or better funded or more successful or operate at greater scale/profitability.

Any hot tech startup or FANG company or newish enterprise SaaS (Snowflake) or previous unicorn (AirBnB, Lyft) can pay those numbers total compensation for a SWE with 4+ years experience. Apply to all of them and see what you can get.
Aren't you comparing Delta numbers for vaccine and pre-Delta numbers for no-vaccine then? So really you'd expect the difference to be even greater than that.
That would be a reasonable argument against accepting the extradition on the basis of those assurances, but not a reasonable argument against at least hearing the assurances - which is what the appeal will do.
Although the Polish contribution is by no means forgotten; it's one of the least forgotten "forgotten heroes" stories I know of.
> The goal is to avoid overloading the hospital system.

This is clearly not the goal -- there have been no additions to hospital capacity since the pandemic started in earnest 17 months ago.
> hospitals have not been overloaded

As of 3 weeks ago Missouri had to expand their hospital system explicitly for delta variants? https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-micha...
Exactly correct. So I guess this is just Microsoft’s big splash into VDI?
Ok, it would be nice if you banned the comments from the other side of the ideological spectrum, to be consistent.
I wonder how much of our focus on growth in 'city builder' games stems from the US's past with colonization, and its current cultural heft. if the americas and 'virgin' (i.e. easily depopulated) areas existed, would this concept be so popular?
I've been meaning to revisit Paradox games for a minute. Crusader Kings II hooked me the most. I never really delved into EU. The big problem I had with Stellaris is that I usually lose interest in the mid-game. I love the exploration, the building and even the initial diplomacy, but I just lose interest when everything levels out. I understand from AARs and the like that there are late game effects to disrupt the status quo, I've just never had the patience to wait for them.
We should band together and start laundering AWS resources for physical goods. Similar to how mining Bitcoin can lead to eventually obtaining physical goods.
> I’m convinced if SV hadn’t happened in SV it would have happened in Dallas or Houston.

Part of what attracted investors and innovators to the bay were the non-compete laws and counter culture of the time.
Perhaps if there's a significant chance of never seeing the expensive laptop again?
For the smartphone case, why would I want to pay for Keyri, rather than use WebAuthn (for the web) or the smartphone OS-provided FIDO2 feature that ships with the OS?

https://developers.google.com/identity/fido/android/native-a...
Granted, though, this more of a data munging tool, and I’d be pretty scared to see this used in production.
This is not common. I’ve only ever heard of Amazon doing this.

Everywhere else I’ve ever worked or had friends work it’s linear.
And I thought debt collection agencies are shit. We really do live in the best times so far.
No, but at 200 million for 3 days (1440 minutes) it is still $139000/minute, or almost $1.4 million for 10 minutes.
That's not the point of vaccination.

A group of people in a room all vaccinated is safer than a group of people half vaccinated.

The vaccine is not a boolean on off switch, it's a percentage wise improvement over nothing, and it compounds when those around are also vaccinated.
It isn't. Some of the companies that do the latter are also doing the former.
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