skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South Korea has built a collective sense of value around Starcraft, but it feels too far removed from meatspace where we will likely occupy for a long time yet. Music seems more valuable, along with the ability to tell a good story. Sometimes they overlap. I’ve been enjoying Fire Draw Near, a podcast by Ian Lynch about the folk-music tradition of Ireland. “Work, Rest, Play, Die” by The Subhumans has melodic roots in an old tune, and he makes similar connections with “One” by Metallica.

A value-test I use is: “how useful/feasible is this activity if I don’t have a computer or similar technology that is predicated on significant infrastructure?”

Telling stories, playing physical games, making music (with our bodies, at least; humming, whistling, drumming, singing); these are elegant, as in = depth / complexity (per James Portnoy of Extra Credits, RE games).
I just find it sad that there is a way that people can be protected but they don’t take it up - I don’t care who is allowed to travel and who isn’t, I want everyone to get the best possible outcomes out of life.
I can't say enough nice things about oat milk. It's made cereal leagues better, and I welcome the toasted oat taste in my coffee way more than soy.
Spending five times as long to hire a senior who doesn't leave in a year or two is then a much better situation.

A junior dev hire involves sifting through many resumes, and then interviews, onboarding, and then three to six months of lower productivity for the mentor.

All of that represents losses against the current status quo. The current status quo is predictable.

This completely discounts the "accept and renege" that also is common with juniors looking for a job which can reset the job search back to square one even when you do find a good candidate.

Taking six months or a year to hire a senior has fewer resumes to sort and fewer interviews to conduct. When the person is hired, they've got a much shorter onboarding and has the necessary skills to be able to become familiar with the codebase without causing a hit to the productivity of the rest of the team (or other seniors).

In this situation, hiring a senior is likely a much better outcome with fewer seen and unforeseen negatives and an eventual positive.
I noticed this as well, and as I said in another comment, I've voted Democratic my entire life.

The "Reformist" category, if following the same logic as the "Right Wing Accelerationist" category, should have identified this group as being "Left Wing Reformist", because literally every single group listed as an example is a radical leftist/collectivist political movement.

I'm a center-left liberal, so my own biases (and dislike of radical leftists who have hijacked my political party) are likely influencing my judgement of this.
Merkaartor 0.19
why push for alternatives? only to create more products to sell you, i really hate this western mentality, no wonder asia is becoming the dominant civilization
As an American, it’s not the EUs job to manage the…. Less than rational amongst us over here. If the US government doesn’t have the backbone to enforce strict mask and vaccine mandates, it seems only logical and right that other countries will do things like this.
Here's the PRL article:

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...

Abstract

Magnetic field amplification by relativistic streaming plasma instabilities is central to a wide variety of high-energy astrophysical environments as well as to laboratory scenarios associated with intense lasers and electron beams. We report on a new secondary nonlinear instability that arises for relativistic dilute electron beams after the saturation of the linear Weibel instability. This instability grows due to the transverse magnetic pressure associated with the beam current filaments, which cannot be quickly neutralized due to the inertia of background ions. We show that it can amplify the magnetic field strength and spatial scale by orders of magnitude, leading to large-scale plasma cavities with strong magnetic field and to very efficient conversion of the beam kinetic energy into magnetic energy. The instability growth rate, saturation level, and scale length are derived analytically and shown to be in good agreement with fully kinetic simulations.
Yeah the theory is that if it's not boring you shouldn't use it. It was disproven. There's probably a better heuristic model out there that takes into account developer ergonomics, time to mvp, etc.

And no, theories do not need measurable data. Qualitative results can be used to support theories (much of my hard science grad school work was basically a binary "can this happen"? That is not really a measurement in a meaningful sense unless you consider all observations measurements -- I do not).
I've tried using bluetooth in a museum exhibition before and noise from wifi and other equipment rendered it pretty hopeless... but may have been the modules I was using...

Flawless at home/office. Useless on site
> using it in conflict

Yes they do claim it for that purpose. Look at the rhetoric around the preppers, the bitcoin scammers, the gold buyers, and all those zerohedge types: The collapse is coming, we are going to use it to take control.
Honestly, it'll just destroy the shitty gambling microtransaction games.

Most studios will focus on offline games again, back to old-school games.

Honestly, I'm a fan of this. No harm done to anything worth saving.
Should we stick to old patterns or sacrifice consistency?
And just like that, China's competitive Dota scene will disappear.

I wonder how this will effect the Perfect World/Valve partnership.
Of course IANAL (je ne suis pas avocat). But in the end it may not matter. While GPL2 says "You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works", if a French court decides that if someone modifies and distributes a GPL covered work an enforceable contract is formed, it seems that the effect is the same: they have to comply with the terms.
Cool!

An alternative OSS 3D engine is Open 3D Engine (O3DE), more here: https://o3de.org/

This is a new Linux Foundation project. (Full disclosure: I work for the LF, though I don't have any connection to O3DE.)
Governments are always about control, that's why they exist, the question is, to what extent?
Tencent et al already get a single digit percentage of their revenue from minor users on online games. It will not kill them.

There is also a massively underdeveloped market for single player Chinese games that is only recently starting that will benefit massively from this decision.
The hills are high and the emperor is far away.
A doctor equivalent of fizzbuzz could be “what do you prescribe for a viral infection with no indication of a secondary infection” and from what I’ve heard there are a lot of doctors failing that one during the COVID pandemic by prescribing antibiotics.
It was fairly straightforward to see in this case honestly. I made a habit of looking at both the disassembly and decompiled code – my previous project was in IDA Free which had no decompilation, so I was used to referring to the disassembly. The address to use for breakpoints also come from the disassembly, so one naturally spends a lot of time looking at it.

In the first case, the decompiled code reports a function call, but in the disassembly it is preceded by pushing some suspicious-looking magic numbers onto the stack which are not reported in the decompiled code – clearly, something was going on there.

In the second case, the "ret" instruction at the supposed end of the function was immediately preceded by pushing an address to the stack – so again fairly simple to determine that the return must necessarily jump to that address, rather than return from the function.
Let's see, how about mincemeat, mountain oysters, pork butt, Welsh rabbit, prairie oyster, black pudding, sweetbreads, and (the most delicious of the bunch) beavertails.

There are plenty of names of foods that do not at all describe the actual ingredients in them, and people get along just fine. Nobody believes almonds have tiny mammary glands that are being milked. As long as you clearly label the source ingredient (almond, soy, oat, etc.) for reasons of preference and allergens, nobody's getting confused here.
And yet, this fights the symptom, not the cause. Regulation should target companies that manufacture said addictive products, not dictate how citizens should behave under the guise of protection
Whats the actual quantified likelihood of this?
Yep. Here's a medieval recipe for butter made from almond milk (from http://www.godecookery.com/mtrans/mtrans54.html):

Botere of almand melk. Tak þikke almound melk & boyle it, & as it boyleth cast yn a litel wyn or vynegre, & þan do it on a caneuas & lat þe whey renne out. & þan gadere it vp with þyn hondes & hang it vp a myle wey, & ley it after in cold water, & serue it forth.
For whatever reason, my country is banned from accessing this website.

https://dump.cy.md/7065a236c07f22558d3f1422c986a243/16303431...
Your link says 200g oats have 8g sugar.
David Cope has written several books and journal publications about his automated composition methods, some examples below:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895792567/ref=dbs_a_def_r...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6787993
And if I could move that into user space without a hideous performance and/or compatibility penalty, I probably would.
The PPMD for one of the big 4 consulting firms was billing at $368/hr. This was recent as of yesterday.
Yes, almond milk was a popular substitute for regular milk in recipes and meals on days when dairy consumption was forbidden. [1] has a modern cook recreating some of these recipes, but I've seen similar recipes in older (~10-11th century) stuff from the Islamic world, where it wasn't merely a substitute.

The word milk in general could refer to any dairy-like liquid though. According to [2] that usage is attested from as early as ~1200.

[1] https://historydollop.com/2016/11/09/almond-milk-the-medieva...

[2] https://www.etymonline.com/word/milk#etymonline_v_16158
Natural resource use is not quite like playing Civ V.. cattle production depletes resources, decreases natural carbon recapture through deforestation and ranching destroying environments, produces more emissions, etc. Also meat production is not all being consumed locally, exports are a thing. 1:1 production at a country level of any staple has not been a thing for a while now.
First paragraph in the linked article:

The Council of the European Union voted on Monday to recommend reinstating a ban on non-essential travel from the United States due to its high rate of COVID-19 infections.
That seems like a reasonable approach if you have the right skills for it. My problem with such an approach would be that I'd not feel comfortable to make an overall evaluation of a person based on a short interaction. Having a clear cut process with well defined metrics provides me with more confidence that I'm evaluating candidates fairly. Without it I'd be worried that my rating would be too biased by superficial stuff like how they dress etc. Something that at least in psychology research seem to mbe a lot more common than many people think. In general, looking too much at cultural fit would feel I'd risk "hiring my friends" rather than based on what value they could contribute.
Some people don't like this move personally, but at the same time appreciate diversity of value systems around the world. Its a hedge. If the whole world followed the same value system, a systemic flaw could result in much disaster.
> travelers from the EU would serve more to dilute it

I'm not sure there are enough to show up in numbers are there?
it's also after the summer tourism season is ending
For me the prime example of good, challenging, but non-addictive game is GCompris, a collection of kids activities. Open source as well.
Probably by dropping support for older OpenGL versions and pushing for Vulkan on as many platforms as possible. The extra performance overhead will enable all the fancy effects you're probably thinking about, like bloom, accurate AO, subsurface scattering and screen-space reflection.
Any travel in current circumstances is absolute disaster anyway.

Expensive time consuming PCR tests, online registrations, temperature+visual checkpoints, qr codes, digital passes.

Different agencies now collect a lot of private information about travelers including biometrics!
Struggling to come up with a logical counter argument but learning a musical instrument is deeply satisfy as is listening to someone live who is good. Also maybe just in terms of being attractive to other people saying you are a level 122 mage in world of ever crack does not quite have the same allure as being able to captivate a room with your piano playing.

Edit when I was about 12 I started playing the guitar non stop, I remember clearly thinking to myself this is way better than playing the super nes. I didn't touch games for another five years, I gave Goldeneye a go at a friend's house and reignighted that addiction.
$400k for only just 100M streams? that's a lot of money

only people with $AAPL in their portfolio can be against this

Playing your music in the metro doesn't automatically give you money, a stream shouldn't automatically give you money

Music is art, you offer your art, and it's up to the person to choose to support you

If you can't get your art to people, you can't expect people to support you

Stream != engagement
That's the convenient excuse, not the real reason.
If you find the collapse of human civilisation interesting, you might enjoy:

It Could Happen Here - podcast by Robert Evans exploring a US decaying in to warring states and dissolving https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-307...

Dark Mountain, a twice-yearly collection of short stories and poetry on themes of collapse and ecocide. https://dark-mountain.net/
Yes. A huge million line php application running a profitable company is a hard fit for a junior off a boot camp.
Sadly it seems a thing of the times, perhaps due to the direction the industry has gone in.

I recall creating GUIs in Lazarus/FreePascal was really easy and an enjoyable experience, however there are so few libraries and integrations for it, that it's a non starter for new projects.

There is Swing for Java which had a really nice GUI builder in NetBeans, but the other IDEs are somewhat lacking in comparison and then JavaFX/OpenJFX came out, which didn't integrate quite as nicely and complicated things further.

As for .NET, it has always had lovely GUI options, especially with WinForms/WPF in Visual Studio, yet it has always lacked cross platform options for the most part.

How we got from being able to drag and drop components to create fully functional GUIs to embedding browsers and creating apps with full webdev stacks locally never ceases to surprise me in a bad way.
>Luke was a pretty decent historian.

How do you know? What other historical documents did he write that we can compare to what we now understand of the historical record, in order to judge his quality as a historian?
> If the CCP decided to ban smoking, it would be a violation of people's rights. But it would also be a net benefit to almost everyone, and to society

I think you are conflating “banning” with “convincing people to stop”; these are not the same. The PRC has banned lots of things without actually stopping them, and lots of countries have banned lots of addictive drugs without stopping their use, and with a whole lot of social harms resulting from the attempts to enforce the bans.

> health care costs would go down

Health care outcomes would no doubt improve if smoking was reduced by a ban, but healthcare costs would probably go up. IIRC, most studies have shown that reducing smoking increases lifetime healthcare costs (because, simplifying, people spend more time dealing with treatable problems instead of dead from incurable lung cancer.)
Apple, Google Mobile Dominance Faces Tough Test in South Korea
I feel bad for all the bi-national relationships being severed by this. I was one of them last year.
Not even one reference to history. Why do that when mindless mental masturbation gets upvotes. Misguided people are surrounded by misguided people and they are all reinforcing their bullshit.
Antimaskers and antivaxxers frequently talk about their "freedoms" in the abstract. Here is an example where I am concretely losing my freedom to travel, because a portion of the populace refuse to take basic precautions.
Very nice writeup, brings up memories with Delphi.

Looks like Armadillo protection at first sight, but not 100% sure, been too long :)
A minimal React Native e-commerce app template
Ah, that would have been so good.
> Parents who are lazy and just want their kids to stop bothering them just give them to their kids without realizing it can destroy their early socialization skills.

These hypothetical children have spent all day socializing at school- if that gets "destroyed" by a few hours of being left to their own devices, better stop them from reading and playing with Legos alone in their rooms too. Claiming video games ruin social skills because playing them is an activity performed alone is utter nonsense.
Then just regulate the microtransactions instead of doing this.
Here's an example in what I think is Middle English: https://www.reddit.com/r/medieval/comments/gu70rh/the_recipe...

Almond milk seems to have shown up by the 12th century, but Old English was mostly dying by then.
A lot of people have been transiting through Serbia lately since it's not part of the EU. The arrivals area was packed shoulder to shoulder when I was there last month.
You can do that right now with any car on the road. Guns break windows easily and people aren’t going to risk their lives for a set of keys, they will let you have the car and whatever else.
Odd, considering the southern US border seems to essentially be open to anyone
Some especially high prevalence places have indeed peaked within the US:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/louisiana-covid-...

(and yes this peaking predates Ida)

So while I don't think you can say we have already peaked as a country, there is reason for optimism we are very near the peak or just over it.
I assume a government mandate would be controlled at the ISP level. Most parents aren't tech savy enough for that. As a child, I was easily able to hide playing games.
Can you imagine?

Hi I'm Ed Barns I'm here for the interview of ER Physician.

QUICK Put on your scrubs we've got a patient here with a bone dangling out of his arm.

No you don't understand I'm just here to interview.

THIS IS THE INTERVIEW HURRY UP.
Ubiquitous traffic cameras. Or perhaps GPS based speed limits (or speed warnings) if youre really concerned with fines.
How much do COVID policies (mask mandates, vaccine uptake, allowed/disallowed events and gatherings, ect...) vary within a single European country? Compared to differences between States in the USA for example?
> - give them a hypothetical problem ("the page is loading slowly") and role play how they'd troubleshoot it - do they understand how different bits of the stack fit together? have they ruled out network issues before digging into the code? etc.

I don't know. I think I'm pretty good at troubleshooting on the job (since I can be the one to troubleshoot & solve the trickier bugs) but thinking about doing it in an interview setting makes me nervous. It feels too fickle & up to the biases of the interviewer that day, not to mention that any serious production bug relies on knowing how the software stack operates & which things are relevant, all things that are ambiguous in an interview the interviewee would just be stuck grasping in the dark to try to figure out which scenario you might be describing.

The rest seems fine, but I'm curious about your experience with the live debugging & if you've considered cutting it.
Honestly, I think having engineers come and go is a net win for companies. I've worked at places where the "old guard" has been around forever and they are inevitably stubborn, obstinate, and convinced there is no other way to solve the problem. By changing jobs and environments, you get to see in practice that there are many different ways to implement a solution. Only seeing one set of systems (unless they are a FAANG, which is large enough to have the breadth to counteract it), would ultimately cause those architectures to stagnate, injecting new blood is also injecting new ideas.

I do however, agree with your sentiment, those junior folks that are getting all the work done only get rewarded with more work to do.
They did the same for Canadians even. Our border is open to vaccinated Americans. They've chosen to keep theirs closed, even although we're at much higher risk from them then they are from us.

Political stuff I guess. In lieu of doing something useful, they need to look like at least they're doing something.

I'm not salty about it though, it's good for our economy.
Travel restrictions anywhere are ridiculous at this point. The virus is everywhere already.
The numbers wouldn't show up, but strictly speaking that would happen.
I found some government documents to support my view that all games available on the Internet are "online games" in the eyes of the Chinese government

http://www.gov.cn/flfg/2010-06/22/content_1633935.htm

translated form deepl:
"The online game referred to in this method refers to the software program and information data composition, through the Internet, mobile communication networks and other information networks to provide game products and services.

Online game online operation refers to the business behavior of providing game products and services to the public through information networks using user systems or fee-based systems.

Online game virtual currency refers to the virtual exchange tool issued by online game operation unit and purchased directly or indirectly by online game users using legal tender in a certain proportion, existing outside the game program, stored in the server in the form of electromagnetic records and expressed in specific digital units."
1. Oh sorry, thanks for the clarification

2. How is the email address encrypted?
Why would an attacker need a stored hash? In a database leak situation it's
possible to get to the data with only a valid email-password combination or am I missing something ?
There is no information from a registered device necessary for the decryption right ?
Sounds like a good idea even without the pandemic.
Let me rephrase that: this case of one-to-one messaging between friends is not amplification.
You mean like Law?
> my impression at the time is that this is an industry ripe for disruption

> outperform your competitors because of your standardization, and become the monopoly

I'm not sure what your goal is here, either it's innovation or creating a monopoly, but you can't really argue for both at the same time.
Only a year! Try a day or two. Their base subscription gives 20GiB AFAICT. Yesterday I went birding, and got 13.8GiB of RAW files, AFTER deleting out-of-focus or mis-exposed shots. I started with ~500 photos, after that pruning I've got 240. Each one is ~60MiB, since I've got a 60.2MP camera (Sony α7Riv). File size is definitely a disadvantage of such high-resolution cameras.
(November 2014)

Two years after that, one of the meanest people you can think of achieved an absolute pinnacle of American society. He failed -- barely -- to repeat it four years later, and then only because of a once-in-a-century crisis that happened to occur on his watch. He remains very popular and could well be back.

Perhaps it was different in 2014, but here in 2021, which of the founders of the FAANG is not thought of as "mean" by at least a fair percentage of HN?

I'm all for cooperation and kindness. They're very important to me. But I see little evidence that mean people fail. At least not in their own view.