skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're assuming that a physical desktop or laptop is the alternative. Likely this is an alternative for people using vmware horizon or citrix for virtual desktops. In which case you'll be spending almost half that on just the software, not including any hardware at all.

I'd need more info on the service, but I'd imagine this is very cost competitive. As to "why?" - because for things like HIPPA data, I'd MUCH rather have my doctors/IT staff logging into a remote desktop session that I can lock down so if their laptop gets stolen from their car I don't have to worry about whether or not some day someone will be able to crack drive level encryption. Or worry that an employee didn't have drive level encryption for some reason. Same for financial institutions/etc.

Furthermore a doctor or insert staff can connect from home, and I don't have to worry about whether or not they properly secured their home desktop. Yes there is still some attack surface there, but far, far less than them storing files locally on their home PC.
Hasn't this been known for decades now?

'According to (Hayashi 2005, p. 363), the Śulba Sūtras contain "the earliest extant verbal expression of the Pythagorean Theorem in the world, although it had already been known to the Old Babylonians.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics

I remember being taught that pythagoras probably got his math from the indians who possibly got it from mesopotamia.
2012 post, come on. Anything new since then?

Here's discussion from just a year ago when this was still old:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23057091
"Facebook defended the action Wednesday, saying: "We repeatedly explained our privacy concerns to NYU, but their researchers ultimately chose not to address them and instead resumed scraping people's data and ads from our platform," a spokesman said."
Letting the US Government, at the behest of the President, wage war nearly anytime it feels like it, without prior authorization of Congress. Slippery slope meet the forever war machine.

Trade & tariff conflicts of the 1930s, which spiraled from a smaller economic conflict into a larger economic conflict and into the great depression. All because the government was given too much leash to run with.

Letting the government (and Fed) bail out Wall Street repeatedly and institutionalize too big to fail as an economic policy.

The US Government specializes in lubricating slopes and speeding down them.
Comments moved to related ongoing thread:

Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28063637
I think you can get the Dell XPS 13 , 32GB RAM, 11th gen i7 for about $2100 or sometimes less, but yeah. Definitely not seen these specs for $700.
Yes, it sure could destroy the fortune that Zuckerberg built.

“Dumb fucks”, indeed.
How to ignore safe area insets in UIKit
What I've been surprised about is that Elon isn't going on either this mission or just one of his own seeing as SpaceX could presumably have two commercial flights.

Given the 'length comparison games' that Branson and Bezos have been up to with their 'near space' escapades it's a massive F U for Elon to do a trip like this which will actually be one of the furthest distances humans have gone from Earth since the moon landings (the orbit is higher than low-earth orbit where the ISS and Chinese space stations are). There's no question these people will become fully fledged astronauts.

I was wondering if shareholder issues and risk could be the problem - but it's not like Elon seems to care about that and Elon is already saying he's going on Virgin Galactic anyway.

Elon, Grimes and two friends going up on a Dragon X capsule for 3 days would be a hoot.
Does Parallels still show ads to paying customers?

I’d pay extra for Windows 365 to avoid ads.
For those unaware: Tropico sits approximately one step higher than "The Sims", and one step lower than "Sim City".

You don't have as many personalities / needs details per citizen as "The Sims". But every single citizen's life is completely simulated (home, walking, work, walking, church, walking, eating, walking, home. Yes, there's a lot of walking: you'll be thinking of transportation / infrastructure to make things better). Citizens also have full life cycles from birth, to children, to adulthood, and finally death.

A "Big" Tropico has maybe 2000 citizens. At this point, you need significant thought into transportation to keep things working (and one transportation hiccup can topple your entire economy). Tropico 6 is a bit better about it, but Tropico always "scaled poorly" at the end of simulations. (While Sim City / City Skylines felt like games you could keep watching for many months, I don't think I ever put much more than a few weeks of effort into any particular Tropico playthrough).

Tropico is more about playing, reaching the modern era, and then starting over again. Tropico has a "poor steady state", but an excellent "growth" phase that feels very natural. (Ex: setting up a Pro-Communism Newspaper in a neighborhood will slowly turn that neighborhood into pro-communists, pleasing the USSR. Seeing these trends play out over 10+ in-game years is very pleasing)

In contrast, Sim City / City Skylines feel like they "hold steady state" very well, but are kind of unrealistic from a growth perspective.
So, you dislike the state, dislike vigilantism, dislike citizens defending themselves, and also have no viable solutions except organizing the state more to your liking.

You need some Socratic Method in your life.
From what I've seen 80% of local workers end up being somewhere between marginal and abysmal, so much so that many companies actually run on having internal workers do whatever is fun based on the work of niche consultants.

The difference I see in results is that a remote worker might trigger regrets for not really giving them a winable situation but a local internal worker triggers empathy even if they became your new lower bound on lazy. This leads some people to fix some local workers and almost all people to give them 3-5 years to improve while hiring additional people that shouldn't be needed.
> However, as Protocol noted in March, the information collected from accounts that did not “consent to the collection” that Clark appears to be referring to was actually advertisers’ accounts, not private users.
My last interview where I accepted the gig was two qa interviews in a conversational style format, I much prefer that over leetcode type questions. I'm DevOps rather than a software engineer though so YMMV.
I dunno about historical accuracy, but seeing K&M again brings good memories - also such good graphics that hasn't dated (IMHO).
I have found that having a PhD in pure math has been enormously helpful in making me look more attractive to the job market.
Google is considering removing alert()
I think on the contrary we have a tendency to label people as mentally ill for being outside the norm. We then usually drug them up and scar them permanently at an early age.
So does Apple but you'd have a hard time defending your Apple Phone in court on that basis
LifeProTips
Main discussion happening here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28063637
There were a few specialized IC solutions floating around for this when the max VBUS was at 20V, but now that the 2.1 spec brings it up to almost 50V, it's not clear what the best answer will be.
He seems like a genius but he has also stated that he is mentally ill. This article seems to mythologize the mental illness parts in a really off-putting way.
That seems really far along the process to recognize the mistakes.
Can what this guy is doing be done without making mistakes? Is this thread not good publicity? Does crazy_horse not sound pathetic and amedvednikov comparatively heroic? Could we not dream a little, please?
Not for a few decades now. Since a 4 year degree is the baseline for young people entering the workforce, a degree is not a guarantee of prosperity.
>> I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the "economic means" for the satisfaction of needs, while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the "political means." <<

Franz Oppenheimer (1908), "The State"

Please do not confuse the social and societal with the political, that's a fallacy.
Depends on your area. Teachers where I'm from (greater Cincinnati) don't get anywhere near 120k even with many years of experience. My brother in northern Kentucky gets $55k after 15 years.

In New York state average pay shoots up to highest-in-the-nation $85k (source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/teacher-pay...). Maybe someone with a lot of experience in certain specific areas could make $120k, but it's not going to be common.
Somewhere near the first paragraph there should be something that tells me what I get beyond STL and Boost. I still have no idea.
Employer has been monitoring personal computer outside working hours
I'm aware of that. It also loads a DLL from windows10 installer. I assume it intentional so the files can be updated if MS would add more checks. It's open source for a reason.
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210803081136/https://blog.piwh...
You're assuming that we share the pie "fairly".

If Google's profit margin could be 80% instead of 67% because it had no US engineers and only engineers in developing countries - this is only good for Google's shareholders.

Whereas Google employs >100k US citizens paying on average >$200k - plus close to as many contractors (it doesn't pay particularly well).

It's hard to argue that enriching mainly a handful of High Net-worth shareholders is better for the US economy "as a whole". High Net-worth Individuals have a low propensity to spend on the "real" US economy.

We already tax capital gains at a low rate - and because of that companies do share-buybacks to reduce the tax burden on their shareholders.

There would be far less tax dollars and far less spending in the "real" economy.

This certainly seems like only a win for the high net-worth individual.

Sure - if you want to do that and then socialize the benefits - I guess that could be better. It wouldn't happen. And also, instead of your population being productive and gaining skills and getting smarter - they're doing what? Just living off welfare? Doing the same work for less pay?

That seems like a loss, too.
The clock hasn't started. He is not serving a sentence. He is being held as a flight risk pending the US government's extradition appeal.
What are you basing that likelihood on?
This rings true for me too (Also UK dev). I once worked for half a year at a company that was this bizarre. For example, we had several people come in - and leave - within a day. As soon as they saw how we were working they just left. I kind of found it funny only because the lead developer (now a very close friend) basically onboarded me with the company ethos after I'd been looking through my desk drawer and noticed a brown bag....

'What's in the bag mate?'

'I don't know...?'

'Have a look'

'....er, it seems to be....some receipts....a cafetiere.......and a what looks like a really really old banana'

'Welcome to [name of that company]!'

If he hadn't have been able to make a joke of it too I'd also have walked.

Our managing director was an utter nutjob...

Highlights include:

He once called us from a major UK motorway and asked us where he was meant to be driving (we'd not seen him in days, and said we assumed he must be on a sales visit).

He would almost weekly lose the keycard to our building...which was required to get to the office...to the point where we suspected he'd 'developed a taste for them' and was secretly snacking on these keycards.

He told us once that 'NASA can put people on the moon! We can do this!' After us telling him that what he wanted to do was completely impossible. Like literally not possible. He was getting hassled by a finance company who we'd built an app for, and ironically they were saying that 'the percentages don't all add up to 100% exactly'.

'They're unlikely to'

'We can make them!'

'We can't...'
In Israel antibody levels are a way to get the "green passport". My parents get vaccinated in the US, and since israel doesn't recognize foreign vaccinations, when they visited Israel they had to get an antibody test to be let out quarantine early. As it should them having antibodies, they were let out. As Israel doesn't have data that says they were vaccinated, they were let out as "recovered" (even though as far as we know, neither ever caught covid, and my father was in in and of the hospital over the past year so was regularly tested).

As my mother is an Israeli citizen, she was given the "green passport", as my father was only in Israel on a "tourist visa", he was not. this is just an artifact of the current Israeli system where they aren't giving "green passports" to tourists, but demonstrating that one can give them to people that show sufficient antibodies.
The humble egg is an example of what’s wrong with nutrition studies (2019)
No, he is keeping himself for another demo. He will be tied
up and launched on a Tesla cross country with FSD...
When extracting the water is the main goal, it's called a dehumidifier.

If the goal is to make hot air cold, it's called an AC and the water is considered an unwanted byproduct.

If the goal is to extract money from people, it's called "making drinking water from thin air" or "self filling water bottle", usually seen on crowd funding platforms. No actual product or byproduct is made.
I've got some bad news for you: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-d...
We will begin our hiring ramp up soon so check the website again next month!
> In any case: the term "Karen" well before it was an internet meme was coded language for people of color to talk about white women exploiting their gender and racial privilege to boss PoC around when they're doing something the Karen doesn't like. --- Edit: my bad, I had Karen confused with "Becky." Becky is the term used by PoC to describe privilege-abusing white women. ---

I had no idea.

> Karen is a Karen not because she wants to "speak to the person in charge" but because she thinks she's special and important...and in turn demands to speak to people in charge.

I feel like that was the original use of the term and then it grew to anyone who wants to "speak to the manager" and then to white women being racist.

> A store or restaurant employee who loses their job if they don't follow a company policy is not a blankface.

Depends on the policy really.
I am now, but I wasn't before taking this role last month. I was quite surprised to find out that the company doesn't hide the amount from me.
I found the argument about lack of associativity convincing: it's very counterintuitive that date + 1 month + 1 month is different from date + 2 months
“We don’t give admin right to install software” (except they do, you just need to ask the right person - there is always someone who will)
Not to be snarky but, Just start. Pretty much every excel user is self taught. You can google for the name of the formula that is helpful for your use just like you would programming.

Most of what separates a power user from an average joe is having an approach to the problem and laying the foundation in a way to be a “model”.

I’m seen as a power user even within my peer group of finance folks. I just have a way of laying things out and breaking up the problem from data/inputs to print ready outputs. I’m not usually doing anything fancy like using obscure formulas. But when I do, I like these;

* Use -- to convert Boolean to integer
* Use index/match instead of vlookup (you can more easily insert/delete columns without breaking)
* make yourself a style guide (so you know what a color means; hard value, input, etc)
* avoid volatile functions. Learn what functions are volatile
* get good at auditing formulas/debugging. It's really just takes experience
Getting kind of sick of OP reviewing products that we can't buy and, imo, probably won't ever be able to buy. Rather, sick of it making it to the HN front page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27460885
This already got the attention of a U.S Senator.[1] Another argument for regulating Facebook's ad business.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-lawmaker-says-facebook...
Also people forget that facebook gets all the metadata. The encryption leaves the length of the messages intact as well as the identities of both parties. A conversation with someone who is known to be a hairdresser is likely about making an appointment, so maybe the person is interested in ads about hair products. A conversation with a midwife might yield in ads for baby products.
Amazon and Google patch major bug in their DNS-as-a-Service platforms
OH MY GOD!

The FIRST game (and one I LOVE so much) that popped into my head just upon reading the post title was "Knights and Merchants" -- Played the SHIT out of that game while at Intel... All nighters and such.

Clicked the link thinking no way that game would be in here -- and its the FIRST image on the submission!

Great post.
This is a second tablet, not Plimpton 322 (the article references both).
Being honest with naming things is also a great roundabout way to ensure you write maintainable, readable code. If the name is honest and it feels awkward, it's a good red flag that there might be a problem with the approach you're taking. I think code golf languages (a-la [0]) are a good example of this approach as well, when your language is as terse as possible, giving very deep consideration to what the language actually does is crucial.

[0] https://github.com/DennisMitchell/jellylanguage/wiki/Quicks
Specifying your own allocator is like a main feature of bde from Bloomberg:

https://github.com/bloomberg/bde
Fair point! Honestly, I would have assumed the same.

Our largest MRR contributor is the team plan right now, but in terms of total count of plans, it’s the individual by about a factor of 2. It would be very hard to build a business of the individual plans, so teams are our focus. To our surprise, there are very few free plan accounts if you exclude “dead” users (signed up but never used it).
{
"source": <<!https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datasets/gdp/master/data/gdp.csv>> as gdp,
"bot5GDPs": ```select \* from "$gdp"
where year in (select max(year) from "$gdp")
order by value desc
limit 5;```
}

https://media.giphy.com/media/vyTnNTrs3wqQ0UIvwE/giphy.gif

It would be better to convert the SQL request to JSON on the backend, already sorted, and return the table as just data. The raw query with variables in the string gives me bad PHP flashbacks.
For years I've wanted a video game that lets you play the part of a wizard in the D&D sense: painstakingly decoding the threads of arcane reality, looking for ways they can be utilized. This always sort of felt adjacent to code, but of course code isn't very hard to figure out and being able to freely command the game world via anything like normal code would quickly become overpowered and uninteresting

But now I'm imagining some sort of Malbolge-based magic system (ascii characters mapped to runic symbols for flavor, of course), where getting it to do the simplest of tasks really is an accomplishment
End Office Happy Hours
Now cities are selling unregistered securities.
The SEC Has Its Eye on Crypto
Both of your statements come from a place of tremendous privilege and the rationalizing of slavery ($0.20-0.50 of income in 2021 is good?) so some of the largest companies in the US and the defense department can manufacture goods with huge profit margins is problematic. Perhaps more independent research about this topic is required on your end.
On-die ECC means that the DRAM array in the chip stores ECC and the chip itself handles that transparently. The interface does not use ECC in this case. One of the reasons this is done is higher cell densities (just like in storage) and allowing longer refresh intervals (refreshing requires power regardless of usage).
Thanks for the tip. I see they are opening an office in Nijmegen as well, nice.
Our Children and Our Citations: Each One, Both Together
I don't think it would have been safe for their families or themselves if it was known the poles had cracked enigma in the early days? This follows from the german-ussr pact all the way the post war period

Anyway there are so many contributions to cracking enigma that the story is full of forgotten heroes
Just use a vm, what is so hard about that?
It would cost nothing.
Consider yourself warned: all Paradox games are highly addictive drugs. What you must have experienced with Stellaris is representative of most their games. EU IV is indeed a good choice if you liked Stellaris (I usually explain Stellaris to people as EU in spaaaaace).
>> the Droid would undock with the debris after dragging it to a low orbit, then orbit-raise, and go on to perform other missions.

What altitudes do you propose for this? De-orbiting something from geostationary orbit this way would take a huge amount of fuel. But deorbiting targets from lower orbits would provide little time for your droid to accelerate and avoid itself being slowed at the low end of the new orbit.
See the "Why not?" section: "There are some good reasons why city building games are not that historically accurate and instead adhere to the established formula of the city building game."

I'd say the author understands perfectly well. It's still interesting to discuss where they deviate from reality and to what extent.
The trick is, if your backplane is providing ethernet switching, then you need to provide for different levels of network needs.

Some people would be fine with a dumb N + 1 port gigE switch, which would be inexpensive, others will need 10G uplink, some 2x 10G with LACP so there's no bottleneck, some are going to want vlans or other managed switch style offerings, etc.

If the PoE power conversion really eats 6W per board though as mentioned in the article, that seems like a lot of power and an alternate power arangement would be a no-brainer.
I mean, your statement assumes a definition for "work". Reusability and maintainability are features, and for certain scopes, they may be overkill. I think this is where the really good software developers shine: You have to know the rules before you break them for sure, but pretending there isn't opportunity costs in software development is a big problem. Shipping anything gets you feedback, and that feedback can drastically change what you decide to build.

This is coupled with organizational dynamics where to get resources you have to prove value. Proving value is a lot harder than scaling/rewriting a software system, because if you need to scale a software system, you have rewards and money attached which are good business drivers. If you need to prove business value, no one cares (and you won't get resources) until you do.

It's a fine line to walk for sure.
> it's a massive F U for Elon

Is it? Seems to be the only billionaire that doesn't trust his own system enough to fly in it, so I think that's a huge blow and shows a complete lack of confidence / psychopathy. Should not be surprising from the person willing to have untold hundreds die while "training" a "beta" "self-driving" system on public roads.

And in usual Elon fashion if he can't win "it didn't matter anyway".
I'm not sure he cares to be honest. Why would he? His goal is to have humans populating the universe, strapping himself to a rocket for an ego trip would be a rather pointless risk.

I'd say the fact that his company has absolutely destroyed both competitors to date wins any dick waving contest around "but I personally went to space first". I'm not even an Elon fan, and I think he's got a million character flaws, but he seems to be sticking true to the purpose of space-x and tesla and neither one is about bragging to his rich friends with a "LOOK AT ME!".
We need more law students who aren't on some social justice cause.
2021 New York Auto Show Cancelled Due to Delta-Variant Concerns
It could be "most popular*" *as weighted by $$$ spent.
First Impressions of Warp Terminal