skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because sometimes the clever code may be easier to understand by an experienced developer even if it is less accessible to a less experienced developer. Non-coding example: "Two plus Three times Five" is easy to understand, because you don't need to know math symbols. But to anyone who knows math, "2 + 3 * 5" is easier/quicker to read.

For a coding example, in Javascript you have things like arrow functions that make the code more concise. But that is also harder to read for someone who hasn't picked up on them yet (which may have been the case when they were first introduced).
I have had good luck hiring developers by asking them to do a code review of something WE wrote (but framed as if a junior developer wrote it)

This helps us look for good signal around their communication skills, mentoring skills, empathy, reasoning skills and software development skills.

We used this review as a diagnostic - there are no wrong answers since we know they’re not aware of our style guide and conventions.

It worked for us. Maybe it could work for others.
With that logic you'd expect the Chinese government to force the gaming companies to do the conditioning for them...

Addiction to Online/PC Gaming is a real problem in China.
Alcohol pretty much universally prohibited for minors and nobody calls that authoritarian. Governments have responsibility for the wellbeing of citizen, even against themselves (mandatory seatbelts comes to mind).

Meanwhile, gaming addiction can also be very destructive.
Condolences to you and your family.
This reminds me of the way that Stalin had his purges - he wanted his thumb on everything. This POV led to the cold war and to the downfall of the USSR in due course. Add in the added detailed level of control over gaming etc., and this could eventually riddle China with the inefficiencies of the centrally controlled economy - and create huge numbers of internal enemies...
The HackRF or similar SDR is useful for creating a prototype, because they work across many frequencies and can modulate and demodulate essentially any modulation scheme in software.

Once you know that it's, say, 9600 baud FSK at 433MHz, you can buy a transceiver IC for a few dollars that can send and receive that frequency and modulation, and drive it with a microcontroller.

I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing such devices on AliExpress for $10 within a year or so.
That inflation was spurred by direct payments (increased unemployment and stimmies), which greatly benefited working class people disproportionately.

You will be hard pressed to find a working class person whose 2020 purchasing power wasn't greater than in 2019.
This is actually fun
Very nice. I'm up to part 2 (https://yingtongli.me/blog/2021/08/29/drm5-2.html) and I had a thought.

The SEH pattern (PUSH 32bit address then RET) should be identifiable with a plugin, and a code flow override should fix the decompilation.

I wonder, did you try this, and did it help fix the Ghidra decompilation?
Have you ever gotten a job from just showing off your open source work, though?
Its as ridiculous as when I see a package in the store labelled “beefless beef.” Why not just call it what it is, which is plant based ground chuck. Beefless beef sounds like something from rick and morty. Lots of things have some references to chicken too.
This is sorta related to the small principle in visual design, that you shouldn't actually make rounded corners by joining a straight line (of infinite radius) to an arc of a fixed radius—because things don't work that way in nature. Instead, the radius should change gradually in and out.
> 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.

That is really the main gist of it, women don't care much about video gaming and therefore society condemns it.

Men on the other hand will probably be way more excited about your skills and endeavours in a video game than your ability to play piano, you can listen to the best pianists in the world at any time but sharing stories and thoughts about games is something you need friends for. Evidence: There are tons of discussions about games and gaming everywhere, in youtube channels, outside classrooms etc, while basically nobody talks about how piano practice went. Piano is good to show that you are fit and attract a mate, it isn't good to make friends. And therefore piano is seen as a noble hobby while gaming is seen as a waste of time.

Even listening to music is seen as better than gaming, so the mastery or creative or productive aspects has nothing to do with it.
You are talking of "leftist tropes" such as the "right wing"? I mean, that's just the pot calling the kettle black, at a minimum right?

There are climate derniers. There is a right political wing in America. There is an alt-right. They are all engaging in talks and rhetoric about climate change. It's not "leftist trope" to describe their position.

> The article is little more than summary of fictional portrayals of future society.

The article describes several types of collapses as envisioned by several ideologies. It seems useful to map those ideologies and their responses toward what they perceive as a threat to our civilisation.

You seem extremely biased yourself so of course you won't be open to these views.
We need to get rid of all meat and dairy subsidies asap. If the price of milk and meat reflected their social costs then consumption would drop pretty quickly
Yes, to clarify this is for the land border.
Notably missing Doomer Optimists who accept the reality and inevitability of collapse, while viewing it as an opportunity for localist, agrarian communities to rise in the wake.
Weed is illegal in China and they do have a drinking age there, albeit 18 not 21, so this seems like a false equivalency.
> This shit is just politics at this point.

I think it has been for a while.

I don't remember the exact date, but around the end of 2020 / beginning 2021 at one point travel between France and the UK was allowed. Then suddenly, UK deemed France as too dangerous or something, which could be justified since cases in France were rising rapidly, whereas in Britain they were relatively stable. The next day, France halted travel from the UK "in retaliation".

It seems to me that the level of danger of a country isn't particularly related to how that country's politicians view your own, but what do I know?
> ...currently the only way to build something on Gecko is to build a XUL application.

> You can do that in-tree by adding a XUL app to a fork of mozilla-central, like Positron does; you can do it out-of-tree in a distinct repo that uses a copy of Firefox and its –app flag to run the app, which I suspect is what mkaply is doing; or you can take a hybrid approach like Thunderbird (although this is deprecated and only supported for that app).

> In all cases, however, you’re building a XUL app, and a XUL app running on Firefox via –app is almost as capable and flexible as one built in-tree (except that you can’t make changes to Gecko itself).

> So it isn’t clear to me why developers wouldn’t build serious applications with that approach. Firefox itself is a serious application that uses that approach.

http://web.archive.org/web/20210227132731/https://mykzilla.o...
> Travel restrictions anywhere are ridiculous at this point. The virus is everywhere already.

It can increase the spread though, here (CH) a large fraction of local case are tied to people coming back from holidays. Mandatory quarantine would likely help somewhat.
I'm a subscriber and not very happy about this.

Except the 6 months of free apple music i never wanted in the first place there is confusing messaging what this means for my subscription.

I hope the founders are happy with their exit.
Hi! I'm the developer for nvui (didn't realize this post was made, never used this forum before). The animation durations and a few other things about them are customizable if you look into :h nvui-multigrid and :h nvui-cursor.
As for the GIFs, I didn't expect them to come out badly (don't know if it was compression, but they didn't look that bad when I uploaded them. I'll look into making a "media" branch.
Kids need socializing with other kids beyond the 9-3 school days.
Or one or more employees who is compromised.
I own a 2021 Honda and it definitely shuts off after 10 mins for me.
Could be licensing agreements that allow the licensors to void or renegotiate terms upon a change of control. When they re-release it as Apple Classical Music it will have so much marketing behind it that the existing user base won't matter.
> According to you, I'd be so wrong that I'm a waste of time.

I don't think so, because you actually know about generators. If you were hiring for people who had a lot of Python experience, but didn't know about generators, that would be a bad sign. You would probably want to ask a some other questions, so you would have a more complete picture of what the candidate knows.

My main point is that the company's interview process is flawed.
If you are vaccinated then you have nothing to worry about, right? ;-)
Fortunately, the codewords themselves would have been useless to the enemy without context.
It's a great narrative, but then how do you explain all the 'think of the children' laws passed in other countries including the US?
Is this not addressed by the "Right-wing Accelerationists/Dark Enlightenment" section?
This is a Very Online taxonomy; I don't think it incorporates the vast majority of normal, not particularly Online people who are aware of these problems but aren't spending most of their energy on them. The vast majority of people are fundamentally outside of this taxonomy because even if they are thinking about ideas related to "collapse", it's as a problem someone else is going to solve for them. The biggest challenge in climate change (for example) is that it's simply happening on too long a timescale for the average person to pay much attention to it. That will change in the coming decades, but by the time it does, it'll probably be too late to avoid the biggest harms.
Yes and depending on the field, you may have to do mandatory additional certification and training throughout your career.

We have certs in software engineering, but in my experience, they've largely failed as an indicator of qualifications. Some hiring managers see them as nice to have, but I've also met hiring managers who are actively skeptical of certifications.

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.

We're a relatively young industry that just hasn't worked things out yet and, to be honest, in the United States, there isn't pressure by employers to get our act together. The engineers themselves are in charge often and we're skeptical of boards and authority. We have too many stories of folks making it big with no formal education. Those with the money aren't demanding change because the current system "works."

It's possible software engineering will someday evolve into a boring respectable profession, but right now it's still a creative field of fads, trends, rock stars and super stars (let alone ninjas and wizards).
Sorry I think I may have come off as criticizing you when I meant it as a more general point. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
This is a terribly impressive project for fitting in 512 bytes. It's charmingly packed full of features for its size and it taught me a couple x86 tricks. So I don't mean to sound harsh here. But it's an OS for the 16 bit IBM PC. Its strategic value to Intel in the FLOSS wars is probably only slightly greater than CP/M's.
And if they keep doing this even when the vaccination rate is 80%+?

Kinda looks like the cat's out of the bag.

Help Big Brother out, blame each other!
A _lot_, more than in the US. Ireland and Belgium have about 82% of adults fully vaccinated; Romania has 31%. Though it's perhaps less visible because most of the European countries with low vaccination rates aren't currently in the upswing of a wave, for now.

The EU largely doesn't set policy here; it's a member state competency. And there are significant cultural differences around vaccine acceptance.

One notable difference, though, is that it's almost never a party political issue in the same way as it is in the US; I don't think there's anywhere in Europe with party-based differences in vaccination and mask acceptance remotely on the scale of the US.
Maybe if the existing hams didn't gate keep. They are the perfect example of a hobby that is hostile to newcomers.
> by showing them how an item will actually look on their body

This is only half of the equation, and I find a lot of people are ignoring - mainly because it seems intractable.

As important as how an item of clothing looks on my body, is how it feels on my body. Does it constrict when I move. Am I able to sit, stand, and walk comfortably in it?

Some times a piece of clothing can look perfect, if I am standing rigidly like a mannequin, but it is highly uncomfortable with any movement.
> Everyone flying in and out is vetted and tested.

A PCR test before your flight isn't a very good insurance policy. You can easily get infected between the time you take the test and the time you fly. And of course you can be infected in transit.

Vaccination? Doesn't mean as much anymore thanks to Delta. Proof: 30% of all new COVID cases in Los Angeles are in fully vaccinated individuals.

But yeah, at least as far as the US and EU are concerned, this is politics. Both places are nasty petri dishes at this point.
No, because that group tends to want a "libertarian" pseudofascist capitalist society, not an agrarian one.
Hi Wincy, it seems to me not at all pathetic, to struggle with willpower to break bad habits, when you've got a disabled child! Seems to me that looking after your child would take lots of willpower and cause stress and lack of freedom, and that you should forgive yourself for using "retail therapy" as a coping strategy. ;) Perhaps the answer lies partly in finding a support group with other "special needs parents", as lets face it most of the population don't understand what its like to have a disabled child until it happens to them. Beyond that, one way not to waste money is to think of it in terms of hours you give your employer, spent money is spent life hours, therefore you're really shooting yourself in the foot, but obviously you know that.. frugality, hunting down deals can be fun and kind of a sport in itself (in moderation of course!) ,also being frugal reduces one's footprint on the earth and amount of waste one creates which can help others, so can be a motivator. If really you have no self-control over this (which is 100% understandable when dealing with other challenges) then how about some tricks like automatically pay money into a higher interest savings bond that has penalties if withdrawn early, or pay into an account that someone else has control of like a trusted friend or family member has to countersign or something, just surrender control to someone else for a temporary period if you really can't trust yourself. Can your partner/spouse help? I guess maybe not if you're asking here. Anyway I think nothing to be ashamed of, because loving and caring for a disabled person is enough to deal with, and having cr*ppy finances as result, well, like can be like that.
I haven't looked into it properly yet, but let's hope so!
I have an Intel iGPU and a GTX 1070 myself, and currently just dual boot to separate SSDs (the larger SSD for Windows, the smaller for Linux).

When you switch to the Windows VM, do you intend to suspend the Linux VM, or you just want to let it run in the bg?

Also, couldn't you just run the VM in Linux and get the same benefits? Some people are passing through their graphics cards and reporting good performance IIRC.
In my country the "federal" level sets the minimum, but the "state" level can and frequently does go further.

For example, "federal" level can say mandatory masks indoors, while "state" level can say mandatory masks both indoors and outdoors.

It's quite flexible, and sometimes ridiculous. At one point all cafes were closed here, but I could go 2 kilometers to the east where there's no such restriction because it's in a different "state".

"Federal" and "state" in quotes because we don't call them that, but for simplicity in comparison.
"tell us about a tricky technical challenge you solved"

I have so much trouble remembering previous challenges I've overcome. I don't ruminate on them, I just move on...
+1 for breaking autoexec.bat (on a 386). And getting yelled at by my dad, who needed it for work.

Thankfully, this led to a great decision when he upgraded -- his old machine became mine. If I broke it, well, that was my problem, and I should learn how to fix it. Cue ~10 year old me learning about the Windows / DOS boot process.

In summary, we should encourage kids to play games, but make them harder to install and more prone to break your operating system, because it makes kids smarter.
How about I make a second article to explain licenses vs contracts in US and the rest of the world?

Your question went to US court in 2017. I wanted to cover that briefly but the blog is already quite long without getting into more specifics about licenses in the US.
What (nob obvious) ways do people avoid leaving a huge data trail?

I'm not talking about the obvious stuff, like not carrying a smartphone, using an AD blocker, choosing privacy-aware operating systems and apps etc

I mean, what non-obvious ways are there which people employ to avoid getting their data harvested for AD targeting?
Likely just an acquihire. I love classical music and never heard of Primephonic, so the user base was probably not that significant, at least by Apple standards.
Explain to me even one downside of wearing a protective mask in public situations.
This is something I would more than welcome in my home country. A speed limit of 50 km/h is too damn high when people see it more of as a suggestion and regularly drive at 55 or slightly above.
The response was not a rebuttal, it was a request for evidence for the claim.
That seems like a good answer too.

I think that's only applicable if you are reading from a socket. Although I don't know too much about asyncio streams.py, so I'm not going to get a job at this company.
States are no more "immortal" than corporations. Plenty of states have either ceased to exist or repudiated their debts, leaving their creditors without recourse. If a state allows its debt to keep compounding, eventually it will find itself spending every cent of taxes it's capable of raising just to service the interest on that debt—and if anything should happen to shake creditors' confidence in its ability and/or willingness to repay those loans then the government becomes unable to borrow new money to repay its old debts and the entire Ponzi scheme collapses in on itself.

Oh, and issuing new currency to repay the loans is functionally equivalent to defaulting on the debt. Creditors will not lend to you if they expect that you may attempt to pay them back with money which is worth significantly less than what you originally borrowed. A smart creditor will just index the payments to something you can't easily manipulate.
"Cottage-core: the fetishization of bucolic and isolated life is once again proposed by cottage-core as an escape from declining modernity. "

From the article perspective they are in the pessimist section. As they are pessimist avoid improving the current state.
> (I am vaccinated and wear a mask in public)

I've already said this.
> prescribing antibiotics.

I'd hire that one over anyone pushing horse de-wormer, anti-malarial drugs, or homeopathic remedies.
Not all land is naturally suited to be forest land. See, for example, the badlands (grasslands) in the Dakotas and Montana. Those badlands are actually pretty good ranchland, since the wrinkled terrain is ill suited to farming.
And 1 week after I ate sushi in that place near me. What a coincidence!
Except, it's not a hype piece for Humankind at all, at least not from what I gather.

> But as I played through my first Humankind game as a science-focused civilization [...], the hunt for legacy came to feel more like gardening than gaming.

> As a result, Humankind didn’t glue me to my spot in the way that Meier’s franchise did, and I lost only a little sleep pondering my next moves.

In total, the author seems to give a balanced view of Humankind and finishes of the article with reuniting with Civilization again.
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This looks promising, but seems to be broken in Firefox?
Just read the news, it has been reported multiple times that EU officials were not keen on the lack of reciprocity.
Yeah, it and Affinity Photo are pretty much the only reason I keep a Windows partition now.

I think Darktable looks like a contender but I'd prefer to be able to make it just use Adwaita and look normal.
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Have you got any evidence to show masks and vaccines don’t work?
My point is in this scenario there's no appreciable difference between "if you can hear them, they've already found you" and "if you can hear them, they'll find you in 40 seconds"

The observation that they are "detecting the searcher before the searcher detects the submarine" is academic and inconsequential when we're talking about such a negligible amount of time between detections.
I read this while holding my 1-month-old daughter. I can’t begin to imagine the pain you have endured. I’m very sorry for your loss.
The issues with water capture is that you are basically building an illegal reservoir and not necessarily returning the water as it were if it just hit the ground. You might flush your toilet and think all is fine, but maybe now the creek in your back yard goes dry a week sooner in the year, and less tadpoles are able to be born or some other unforseen ecological effect. Or maybe downstream water users don’t get what they expect out of the watershed anymore due to illegal collecting.
This is messed up, even if the judge later reversed some of his order. If the order was "You must see your son outdoors and masked" or something like that it would make sense, but these just seems like megalomania.
Everyone's experience is different. My conclusion has been that I didn't learn anything from gaming as a child. I wish my parents had done a better job (they did try) steering me from gaming into pursuits I belive (emphasis on I) promote greater intellectual, emotional and social development than gaming.
We already have this. Just have the professor start a Zoom call on their phone and have everyone else join it using their phones while wearing headphones and their microphones muted.
> Why are HN users so comfortable with authoritarian government?

Organic users or paid ones?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
Surely an interview scenario is far less stressful than an actual outage though? Your performance in the real one is a lot more important for your job/career than the interview is.
As an experienced software engineer with a CS degree and having worked as an Individual Contributor for over 12+ years, finding some job is not hard but finding a job that pays well like FAANGs and other similar top tier companies is indeed very hard.
I agree with you on language syntax choices, but as far as the articles examples are concerned it seemed like the "clever" solutions to them were more about OO architecture choices via abstraction for example. In which case, if it's not a codebase that you have experience in, then those architecture choices can get very confusing if not properly documented
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