skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and imagine that more congested areas(cities) might be less welcoming of new traffic.

I live right next door to a very large metropolitan area and the advantage is that there is a lot of diversity in terms of who is on the air. I have 50 repeaters programmed into my dual-band radio and almost all of them some kind of regular activity from weekly nets to casual drive-time QSOs. Lots of older retired gentlemen of course but plenty of other stuff going on too.
I'm surprised at how close to JS it appears.

I wonder how much better off you'd be just writing it in Node.
The irony is that the people who see collapse the most clearly are not actually the ones who spend all day inside looking at computer screens. Spend some time down at your local waterway, pick up some garbage, and behold just a small sliver of the millions of tons, perhaps billions of tons, of shit that this economy has produced and just dumped or discarded right into the ecosystem.

The little squares that you gaze into are just one massive distortion field. If you see whizbang video conferencing and techno hopium, then that's your lens.

If you want to build a better future, please take a stark look at what's actually going down on this planet, and it's not just better Zoom calls.
In the US, I've seen relay attacks used to steal items from cars rather than the cars themselves. Either because police follow up much more vigorously on theft of cars vs petty theft of things in cars, or because it's harder to convert a stolen car to cash than it is to convert the stuff in it (which might even be cash) to cash.
> see what kind of trouble Java gives you, for example.

I program a lot in Java, and the only trouble there is the lack of support for sum types and/or variadic type parameters in generics (i.e. to express functional interfaces that can throw an arbitrary number of checked exceptions, as a type parameter). That’s the only pain point for me and is something that could be fixed.

In fact, the interplay with control structures is exactly what I was referring to by
syntactic sugar. Indeed it also concerns the type system.

But let’s talk about that, not about exceptions good/bad or error values good/bad. That’s too simplisitic.
Personal anecdote. For a couple of years, I was deeply addicted to early version of Final Fantasy 11. Thing was hard, punishing and effectively required dedicated player base. I have some great memories, but there was a moment, when I started calling in sick to camp a monster. Fortunately, I eventually managed to stop on my own, but I still get occasional pangs ( but thankfully today's FFXI is a shell of itself for a variety of reasons ).

I was lucky. I am certain there are people way more obsessive than me.
It is! Flashbacks. And it still does a better job than most database vendor sites, gets straight to the point.
Sorry for the late reply, but I chose the term "background" over "degree" for this very reason.
I love how much the abstract sounds like flavor text for a sci-fi weapon.
No, that's incorrect. The service of hosting a game for people to download is an online games service. The game itself if it has no access to any network is not.
As of recently I started having really confusing opinions on the state of interviewing and our industry in general.

Since there is no gatekeeping (for better or for worse), you get a large pool of people with wild variety of skills, so these silly interviews are the laziest way to assess people as an alternative to having credentials such as that of a Civil Engineer, Doctor or other professions.

I don't know of any other industry where the interview is this silly, but studying for it for a few months top could get you a 6 figure salary (not everyone makes it, but the chances are quite high) if you know what you're doing/skilled enough.

I started to play the game as well and actually got a lot better at solving this type of problems than say few months ago. My confidence is high and I'm a lot less intimidated by this type of interviews, but so is my I-take-no-shit-ometer since even if I aced some of these interviews recently and the interviewer(s) was/were acting in ways I didn't appreciate, I can just say no. I mean, I can play your game, but I'm not gonna put up with your shit.
> To the point where when a game comes along like Dark Souls that asks you to learn the game systems to beat it, gamers go gah gah over "how hard" it is.

Please, PLEASE, please let's not derail this thread to "Dark Souls players are the REAL skilled players and the rest of you all are crybabies" or something? I get PTSD reading any DS player's "opinion" these days.

DS doesn't require skill. DS is brutal and semi-random on purpose so you sink the maximum amount of time to beat it. Not much skill is required there. You have to invest the time to learn the moves and their patterns. After that happens beating the boss in question just requires you to be in non-vegetative state.

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On topic: I too am with mixed feelings over this news but if this is going to stop the hyper-predatory mobile game companies from almost literally turning young people into zombies then I support the decision.

I worry what happens when inevitably they start saying "but CS:GO, Quake Champions and Deep Rock Galactic are addictive as well and we will prohibit them too!" but... we can't have it all at the same time, I suppose. :|

Really can't find a good balanced solution out of this jam. Can you?
white house disinformation list? I mean at least get your conspiracy theories right, it's the NSA, and it's not a list, it's a database.
Perhaps I could have worded my answer differently. No one here is judging you. You asked for help, we’re trying to order it.

What I mean to say is that when we’re struggling, or limited by our situation we can become myopic, and we don’t see our whole situation for what it is. We start looking for solutions to the symptoms we’re experiencing rather than that problem itself.

If you’ve been looking for the solution for years, maybe you’re looking at the wrong problem.
When Charlie Watts Finally Made It to New York City
> ...to see what real-world experience the candidate has while simultaneously judging cultural fit.

Could you expand on how do you evaluate the cultural fit?
I took a self-portrait of... It's people not thinking through what they are saying and rather relying on stock phrases to relay information.
> This assumes the participant is equally motivated and emotionally positive about both paths, and has similar flow state through both paths.

Also worth adding to this thread that motivation is a feedback loop mechanism. If you're super stimulated by these slot machine like games, you're not going to find the long rewards of completing a book a week/month a very "motivating" option. So it's also worth looking at the motivational damage these things do to a person and how it's eliminating the motivational possibility of doing something of higher value. Cue the "dopamine detox" part of the internet.

> is that the level of challenge is highly personalized.

I agree and this is a good observation, which maybe can be had IRL, but i agree that it can be easier implemented and more granular in the digital realm.
FBI funded neo-Nazi book publisher, court docs reveal
Grammar/spelling/usage is almost all about memorizing and copying others, so engaging in tasks that use those skills will definitely get you further faster than a step-by-step progression. I was reading and writing at a level far beyond my peers in elementary school, not because I was smarter, but because I actively read books for fun.
If you ever get into reverse engineering Mac PPC copy protection, I’d be interested in your approach.

You might be able to guess why I write this.
Yes, that is a totally fair point. But Linux is where it is today because some people in 1992 looked at Linux in the state it was in at the time and decided that it had potential. If that hadn't happened, no one outside of a small group of hackers would ever have heard of Linux. The idea that embedding languages in CL is a bad idea is likewise a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The best way to actually learn how to code is have someone else teach you whose been doing it for several years.

I wouldn't be where I'm at today had I not had my lead help me out during my internship. My school was just trash at teaching programming. Not only was it basically self taught, but everybody got A's so long as they just submitted code that compiled. My lead actually taught me how and why this stuff works.
I think you’re discussing a very different thing to the parent and grandparent comments. Yes, by the standard that counts the end of the Roman Empire as a collapse, any given nation or union of nations may still collapse and those within may starve or migrate; this still won’t look like any of the post-apocalyptic narratives that represent the loudest and most obvious examples of this topic.

I expect that, much like every other community, the loudest “collapsers” are merely an embarrassing minority, and certainly I hear that the people who stockpile food and maintain a strong relationship with their neighbours roll their eyes at those who stockpile ammunition and do nothing else.
iPhone 13 will support satellite communications
Yes, I do think people can't be left to their own accord and some people should be allow to make rules for others. How we determine who those `some people` are is a matter of what we tried already and what was effective.

What would you suggest?
Hate to be ‘that guy’, but without the ability to share and collaborate on notes, it’s not a drop-in replacement.
looking at just 2019-2021 is cherry picking. Look back to the 70s and 80s if you really want to see that our current "crime wave" is nothing more than a made-up crisis for pushing a law-and-order agenda.
That people reject taking on a career and being productive members of society is troubling. It also displays a ton of ignorance.

Suppose we lived in a society where people didn't specialize and there were no careers. What would the day-to-day look like?

Well, you probably wouldn't be able to get pharmaceuticals. The expertise required to conceive and produce those is massive. Ditto for healthcare.

How about food? Without farmers, we are stuck growing our own or foraging. Too sick to forage or work the field? Then you don't eat.

Somebody comes by your home with a weapon. Who do you call? Nobody, that's who.

That's what society looks like if everyone opts out of a career. And if everyone can't do it, nobody should be able to. Fairness and all that. Extenuating circumstances notwithstanding, of course.
https://archive.is/tt3qX
I don’t drink animal milks, but if I did I would drink the one that had a lower probability of infection. https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/02/cdc-raw-milk-much-mor...
think: Orange makes software for the government, that the government pays for, that actually turns out to be existing software owned by someone else and under GPL license (which extends to the whole project and has other implications).

That's very much the definition of counterfeiting.
Never heard of that variant myself. Played constantly in high school, mostly during calculus and comp sci; wrote a game engine for it in C++ in that class.

Like poker, it's less about the cards and more about the social aspects. Actual card strategy is just table stakes. Can you bluff the other team into bidding too low or high? Can you read how your teammate bids and close the round accordingly? I've won plenty of games by forcing the other team to sandbag.

By leaving bidding out you are playing glorified war. I can see it for kids but it's not terribly interesting.

The only variant we'd play was a three player game where we'd have to remove a few cards to make the deck size a multiple of 3. Called it cutthroat because it's everyone for themselves. But we'd only play that if we couldn't get a fourth.
As a fan of Classical music and Apple Music (the service, if not the app), I am on board. I've trialed a number of the dedicated services, but could never justify the added cost. I feel like Spotify's focus is on being the app for young people, which is all well and good, but not of much interest to me. If Apple wants to build a coalition of different types of listeners, they are meeting me where I am.

Interested in seeing how the separate app plays out. I agree with the limitations of the current Music model, but wondering about support for my existing library (especially iTunes Match content). Feels especially odd on mobile to have one more player.
Fair enough: I did work there, though never on ads, and it's been a few years.

To be clear, I realize the privacy tradeoffs are probably unacceptable and I'm not seriously proposing the FB panopticon. But I do think it's an interesting thought experiment to consider how good this could be without constraints.
I think these are different.

Youtube content discovery is mostly through the algorithm. For OnlyFans, it seems to be mostly through outside promotion. If your ability find new members is all on you, I doubt it matters, as much, where you go.
https://archive.is/B9WDo
I read the Bantam books version of Hiroshima before traveling to Japan and visiting the city. It gives one perspective on what happened there and the reality of the atomic bomb.
Horde Project?

Old but gold.

> https://www.horde.org
Trying to measure people is a very hard thing, especially people who are not at senior levels. IMHO, top talent can show some signs but other than that it is all about the motivation.

Given the chance, motivated people can improve at great rates.

The other thing that could matter is deep knowledge. I think I heard it from Steve Jobs, in one speech he was talking about hiring people with deep knowledge in a topic and not only because you can leverage that but because the person will know what it takes to acquire deep knowledge.
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses on Excess Mortality
Looks Like Bird Dung. But It’s a Spider
The latter, in modern farming. They'll be used for meat and leather and so on anyway, but as a byproduct; many calves will be killed within days of birth, in many countries on the farm rather than in a proper facility.

In a hypothetical world where people didn't want meat or leather at all, but wanted current volumes of milk or anything like them, you'd still be producing and slaughtering a lot of calves.
> Some hiring managers see them as nice to have, but I've also met hiring managers who are actively skeptical of certifications.

To me they are a red flag. Someone couldn't get a good job in a bull market straight out of undergrad and felt the need to get additional training...

> We also don't have differentiation of software levels or skills. If you're a programmer, you could, in theory, go program anything from web to AI to robotics. You don't have to be certified to work in nearly any industry. And we don't have formal hierarchy of skilled work, such as EMTs, nurses and doctors.

It still exists, it's just that it's informal.
> Every few weeks we see a post on HN about an MIT-licensed project that gets picked up by AWS or Azure and the general response is "should've been GPL".

If you are distributing GPL software, the GPL says that you are obliged to provide the source code of the software on request. Amazon or Microsoft use this as a loophole to claim they have no obligation to release the source code of any GPL software they use on AWS or Azure. They claim they are not distributing the GPL software but only executing the softwares on their servers and providing it to the users as a service offering.

This is why the Free Software Foundation created the Affero General Public License (AGPL).

The AGPL includes all the provisions of the GPL but also has extra clauses that makes it obligatory to provide the source code even if the software isn't distributed but made available as a "service" through some server.

"The GNU Affero General Public License is a modified version of the ordinary GNU GPL version 3. It has one added requirement: if you run a modified program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the modified version running there."

(Why the Affero GPL - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html ). This is why everyone now recommends that you should use the AGPL (instead of the GPL / MIT / BSD license etc) for open source projects.

> This case right here highlights that in France that doesn't work either ... it's a contract issue and not a copyright one so the case gets thrown out.

The French court did conclude that there is no case to be made under copyright law, and that it considered the GPL as a contract. And so any dispute between parties on the GPL can only be judged under France's "contract laws". This doesn't mean that the GPL is no longer valid in France. France is just asserting that the GPL is a contract. You can still take anyone who violates the GPL to court. You just have to file the case under the right law. When you claim in court that someone in breaking the law, you have to point out the right laws that you claim are being violated, or your case will be thrown out.

(It's like adultery laws - adultery was once a criminal offence. It is now treated as a civil offence in many countries. Meaning, you can no longer file a complain with the police if your spouse cheats on you, and have them investigated, arrested and tried in court as a criminal. But you can still sue your spouse in court and get damages.)
From the paper:

>We failed to find that countries or U.S. states that implemented shelter-in-place policies earlier, and in which shelter-in-place policies had longer to operate, had lower excess deaths than countries-and U.S. states that were slower to implement shelter-in-place policies. We also failed to observe differences in excess death trends before and after the implementation of [shelter-in-place] policies based on pre-shelter-in-place COVID-19 death rates.
I hear you. I wish there were more places to dig through sketchy crates! All of my favorite used record stores have vanished and the joy of finding a rare item in a crate is harder and harder to find.

I'll keep digging!
The catch is that code is hard to translate into Rust.

"I have this code, you see... and it takes a couple mutable references into an array... how do I translate this into Rust?"

There is no one-size-fits-all answer to that question. The code may be correct in C or C++, but the Rust type system may give you one hell of a hard time proving that it is correct to the Rust type system's satisfaction... so you refactor your code completely, or you use integer indexes into arrays rather than references, or you use unsafe code...

I've written some amount of Rust code at this point. About half of the time, when I write a project in Rust, there comes a point at which I'm fighting with the type system. I feel like this should stop happening, at some point.
Can you explain further? Are you saying domestic surveillance is leveraged by external state actors? Or that domestic surveillance is used to stop external state actors ?
> requires users to deal with them holistically and, in the best case, to support or develop a new, better solution

If you only ever want to serve the 1% that are capable of supporting or developing a new solution, then yes - I suppose this’d be a good thing. In practice though, such exclusionary mindsets never lead to good outcomes - software or otherwise.
It's not a pedantic thing.

Nut/Seed drinks are not milks. They're just as much milk as coffee is tea and apple juice is vodka.

It's absolute nonsense to call it milk, just because some "clever" marketing department somewhere decided to name it such in an effort to peddle their product more effectively.
Replacing Docker with VSCode Tasks
How about your and mine air travel? Meaninglessly small fraction of the actual problem?
Can anyone here recommend a slick open-source GUI calendar app for Linux with support for iCal, WebCal, recurring events and notifications? I've been following GNOME Calendar[0] for a while but judging by the website it's still mostly WIP.

I've been using Thunderbird's Lightning add-on for a lack of alternatives but it's mostly been a PITA.

[0]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calendar
While I share you disappointment with the FDA for acting so slowly in approving vaccines for children, children are being hospitalized for Covid at only a rate of about 1 per 100K per week, and deaths are extremely rare (0 to 0.03% of cases).

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
Could also be that if you only purchase 1 item from a store you might forget the stores name, but referrals for large purchases are likely a big driver of their business so they want to make sure you do remember where you got this from in the hopes you can refer one person to make a purchase.

A multi-thousand dollar purchase is likely worth it for an extra $15 in targeted ads to somebody.
I have to say... what terrible UX !

Scroll right? In a world where literally everyone else scrolls down ?

Its completely un-natural if you're not using a tablet or smartphone ! Unless you have one of those fancy mice with the horizontal scroll button, but most people won't and will have to click and drag (rinse and repeat).
nodejs with fastify.js
I had an interview with a company a few years ago -- on paper it looked like a perfect match. During the interview things seemed to go well, but things took a turn for the worse with the technical lead's interrogation.

He asked five or six questions related to C and C++ undefined behaviour, a very open-ended one about a technology I'd never used. I answered as best I can, but always opened with "I'd be referring back to the C standard and opening a JIRA task to fix the code". We got on to how I'd fix the code -- remove the UB, but only if there's a unit test covering it. What if there are no unit tests? What if there's no JIRA? Lots of what-if-maybes.

A few days later I was on a 3-way call with the recruiter and one of the guys that interviewed me. They spent the whole thing telling me how "any decent developer" should have known what the UB would result in, shouldn't have to refer to standards or books... and on and on. But as a courtesy, they'd be happy to make an offer.

Half the minimum posted salary, no benefits. It was right in the middle of the minimum wage and the "living wage" lines.

I declined politely, and the recruiter hung on the call...

"Wow. I don't know what to say. That's never happened before... do you mind if I share the recording of that call with my manager?"

They were still advertising to fill several positions when I last stumbled across them on Glassdoor a few months ago...
In the past, there is also no internet, wifi, air-conditioning, railways, airplane and people lived.
Let me put my question another way. From what you're writing (I read multiple comments of yours in this post) it doesn't look like you're qualified to judge a paper on its merits. So I have to ask why you're asking for "a proper study", if you're not qualified to judge the study?
GDP is the thing we should measure because without it, you can't have all the things you mentioned - you might be able to not start wars but you still need a strong army.

To say that money isn't everything is already a luxury
The ‘Hedonistic Altruism’ of Plant-Based Meat
No, but they have a legalized cartel to make sure there's never an over-supply (that would lower the price for the consumer, we don't want that!) that also gatekeep credentialing.

Meanwhile in Software there are initiatives for "Gender X of Minority Y can Code" and "Everyone can be an Engineer after 3 months of BootCamp".
The people are harmed by the mistake, even if they aren't the ones making it.
Another example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4

Politicians don't want private industry affordable housing because they don't get any credit for it. They rather have almost no housing for the less fortunate but the tiny bit that is affordable they get credit for.