skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mined more than a few thousand Bitcoin back in the pre-“Bitcoin pizza” days when it was a complete curiosity. Difficulty so low you could chuck a couple dozen desktops at it for a weekend and come back with dozens and dozens of Bitcoin on Monday morning.

I basically used it as a benchmark and never even saved a single wallet file, it was worthless junk data at the time since no one was even sure it was going to be worth something.

It’s taken years since the first booms past $10k but I’m pretty zen now about the fact I threw away what was basically a hybrid between Schrödinger’s cat and a lottery ticket that one day turned into stuff worth a couple hundred of million dollars.

Edit: hope no one thinks I mean this in a “at least you only lost $20k” or “you think that’s bad” sort of way. I definitely have a sympathy for that feeling of loss, and share this story to highlight just how impossible it can be to predicted future value. There are lots of similar stories about startups like Dropbox trying to sell to Apple, or Blockbuster passing on Netflix and the list goes on. The lesson is to be accept the outcome of your past choices as the right one at the time (as long as there’s no real direct negative repercussions, but there’s not normally when it comes to investments) and be happy you got what you did from your choice at the time… be it a lawn ornament, paperweight, some deeper knowledge of Linux clusters, or a few thousand dollars.
Usually the burst time is proportional to the bus transfer rate divided by the cell access time. It's designed to maximize random access while ensuring you can fully utilize the bandwidth on the memory bus. So you can keep issuing sequential reads and to a rough approximation achieve near 100% bus utilization. Depending on memory timings this may or may not always fully work out.

You can achieve some approximation of scatter/gather at the bank level as each bank is fully independent. But usually these are too far away in terms of address space to be utilized effectively. Scatter/Gather would help e.g. accessing an array at offsets larger than the burst size.
>even to very libertarian people

I'm not even "very" libertarian at all, yet I find the "temporary" (which is not so very temporary) and "mild" (which is not so very mild) authoritarian measures absolutely reprehensible.

Just saying something is a false equivalency doesn't make it so. Both instances have the government putting limits on your autonomy in unprecedented ways. The government is very boldly telling you what you can and cannot do and how much of it when allowed. I completely reject your characterization of totalitarianism as "mild" and "making complete sense."
It doesn't help that so many concepts on CompSci show up in different places under different names and labels.

I haven't participated in technical interviews in a long time, but when I was asked to do it, I made it a point to throw as many lifelines as I could until I got a satisfying answer. For instance, if want to know if the person understands generics and they can't answer the question outright then I'll ask them about C++ templates. Similarly, if someone can't describe the term "idempotence" I'll ask them "can you tell me what makes a function pure".

Mind you those terms aren't interchangeable but if you catch one it should be trivial to understand the latter.
Senior devs tend to be a bit more stable in terms of "looking for a place to settle down" rather than switching jobs frequently as they've got a better idea of what they want to do and how to judge if an origination is one they want to be in.

Additionally, even if it is the case that they leave in a year or two, the org has likely spent less time on going through resumes (fewer resumes applying) and overall interviewing (individual interview may be longer, but again - fewer overall being done) and less time on onboarding.

You're likely able to have productive contributions from a senior in 3 months rather than 6-12 months for a junior.

So even if the senior does leave in a year or two - the org is still better off trying to hire a senior than a junior.

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It really boils down to "if you can't compete with big tech salaries, there likely isn't a way to hire a junior dev that will be a net positive to the organization.
An interesting article, it made me think.

I doubt there is one global model or form of a collapse scenario which would happen everywhere. It's likely that some places, already hanging on the edge of chaos, would enter this state in a very short time whereas some would persist over a longer time, and some would perhaps even adapt to the changing circumstances.
This seems quite intense and you've described it really well..

I wonder does the current online climate nurture schizophrenia a bit more than would naturally.
> Gaming companies will be barred from providing services to minors in any form outside the stipulated hours and must ensure they have put real-name verification systems in place, said the regulator, which oversees the country's video games market.

This will almost certainly be extended beyond China because of the obvious data mining revenue and will almost certainly be a net loss for consumers globally.
Yet you might be surprised to know that, in China, all those "offline games" are categorized as online games because they all can be distributed online, when it comes to import reviews. No game is safe from this, really.
400M-year-old fossil reveals how first roots emerged in Earth’s plants
If you are a semi-experienced software engineer and haven't been deliberately lying during your interview, you shouldn't really worry about getting fired.
If you think you might like opera check out the René Jacobs' recordings of Mozart's Italian Operas on the Harmonia Mundi label: Cosi Fan Tutte, Le Nozze di Figaro & Don Giovannni.

In general as a beginner I wouldn't worry too much about finding the best recording of any particular piece. Once you start to develop some favorites then you can pick a few and compare. Streaming services make this a lot easier and cheaper than it used to be.
Practically, software architecture is about making certain you have as few tools as possible, to do a job, with the flexibility to accommodate other tools, when necessary. Documenting standards, exceptions, rationales and the alignment of the parties that hold an interest in the decisions is also a benefit of architecture.

What that looks like, practically speaking, varies from company to company. However, you do have to achieve a significant level of size and complexity for this function to make sense. If you're saying that architecture, in some form, doesn't make sense in an organization, I'd challenge whether the size or complexity of that organization has reached the threshold.
Croatia is an EU member, but not a Schengen zone country. The ban is on Schengen zone countries, not on the EU.
The main caveat is that oftentimes, checked exception handling doesn't compose well - see what kind of trouble Java gives you, for example.

Recent articles I've read on effect modeling languages seems to give a more uniform construct for bringing checked exceptions in line with other control constructs.
Some nursing boards pretty much have this; you get to a room with a medical actor that's behaving like a patient with X issue and you have to handle the situation.

It's also a big part of residency (having to treat patients with diminishing supervision from senior doctors). So it's not that far fetched.
Cool. And we will still pay waaaay too much $ to upgrade to 32GB in the most high-end Apple-Silicon laptop coming this year (hopefully)
Hi, I've reviewed my comment and unfortunately I honestly can't see what's wrong with it.

I've made two points about factual errors and I asked a rhetorical question to drive my point home. I highlighted, but deliberately didn't further comment on, the unnecessarily loaded language of the parent comment.

Although I'm told I come from a culture that tends towards speaking somewhat bluntly, I'm truly surprised and a bit confused to have my comment come across as "flamewar style", when what I was going for was more along the lines of "clinically detached rebuttal".
Earth’s inner core is growing unevenly so why isn’t the planet tipping?
"If you can't dazzle them with facts, baffle them with bullshit"
Anyone even vaguely familiar with the science understands that we need to cut emissions on a wide scale, and that air travel by a few hundred politicians is a meaninglessly small fraction of the actual problem. This is essentially a bad faith attack on the few people in congress trying to do something about climate change. Where is your ire for the dozens of Republican congressmen who don't believe climate change is real or believe the Christian end times will happen first? Please, be serious and don't engage in contrarian purity tests that only serve to set back our attempts at mitigation.
Apparently I've been living under a rock. What is up with all the spaceship bridge simulator stories lately?
You must be insufferable to work with
> US coronavirus levels are so high travelers from the EU would serve more to dilute it than add to it

The incidence rate among those who travel is not necessarily same as that of the whole population.
Apparently no mention of the variant that, in my experience as a kid, was by far the most common: no bidding, 1 point to the winning team, or 2 if you win 10 books. Commonly, you bet 5 or 10 as a team and won for being first to the amount bet.

I played or watched probably thousands of games in middle and high school and I don't think I ever saw anyone play the formal way.
Chase bank cancel General Flynn account because of Reputational Risk
As a side note, this is more evidence that we're about to see the pendulum swing back towards decentralized IT systems. Social media, megatech companies, censorship, and privacy issues are taking some of the shine off highly centralized systems, and we might see a renaissance of offline, sometimes-connected, distributed, privacy-oriented systems.
Because after making the purchase, the number of ads for the item INCREASE. I don't mind seeing a handful of ads for something I've already bought but what usually happens is that about 30-50% of ads that I see suddenly become ads for the item I just bought.
I once encountered a reddit user vocally insisting in a regional subreddit that industrialized society would collapse in the next 10-20 years. I poked around his comment history and it was non-stop commenting in /r/collapse pondering the kind of collapse that would happen, theories as to what would trigger it, and plans for how they would somehow survive and turn it into a utopian society for themselves. Like 9 months of this kind of commenting. The kicker was a wall of text, a dozen paragraphs long, about how he'd emerge from his bunker and become the patriarch of the local group of survivors - ultimately leading to him having several wives, of course.

While there are pressing challenges like climate change, aging populations, inequality, and more, I find that the substantial majority of people who devote large amounts of energy towards pondering and preparing for the collapse of civilization are using it as an escapist fantasy. I see lots of parallels with people preparing for Judgement Day: some unprecedented event is going to kill off the majority of the population leaving a chosen few to inherit the new world. These collapse predictions are often rooted in serious issues, but I find that this kind of escapism makes the average person more skeptical of serious activism.
That is stock. It's in the page menu and I don't have any hacks installed.
I interviewed for a front-end dev position (it was my first ever interview in the industry, I vomited before I got there so it was a pretty crazy day).

I come in. The front-end guy starts asking me questions to try and solve something he is working on. No-one else is there yet. He is asking me about why a JS compiler is removing his comments, I say I don't know, I have never had that issue before...I make an off-hand comment that I use React and most of my JS code doesn't have comments because I am just working on projects by myself, and I don't do a lot of library code...the manager comes in at this point, and proceeds to berate me about why commenting is essential. I say: I use comments where they are needed. Off he goes, again.

Interview starts. Manager proceeds to go through a series of questions designed to expose my ignorance. None of which are related to the job. One classic was him explaining to me that database normalization made no difference to the size of the database because "the data is all the same on the disk" (which is, ofc, not accurate...I tried to explain, he just kept repeating that over and over...he actually said as I was leaving "make sure you understand databases for your next interview" with a massive shit-eating grin). For some reason, there was also a back-end guy there who, upon hearing that I built something in Java, proceeded to launch into a series of questions on internals of Java (for example, he asked me what the difference was between certain versions of Java and the size of the heap...perhaps unsurprisingly, he also got some of this stuff wrong but began laughing when I said I thought X was Y).

The only two questions that I had about front-end dev were: the front-end guy trying to ask me to help solve an issue he was having (before the interview, when no-one was there), and a question about the value of this in arrow functions (which I got wrong, but is also an excruciating thing to try and explain, so I don't think the guy knew whether I got it wrong...it is a terrible question). That was it.
I don't think so, although I wish it were the case. Kids can play outside with other kids, or go do something different, no kid will recent anything because they can't play those dumb pay to win mobile games. The only looser here will be Tencent and the other gaming companies.
For sure there are eschatological traits, it's discussed quite commonly in the literature on the topic. We are exiting the linear, flat time of our parents and entering again in a cyclical time and we need ruptures: Collapse is one, Singularity is another but there are more on the horizon (like escape to space and so on).
The closest parallel I can think of is actually very very close - when Apple acquired Beats they didn’t hide the fact that they would be turning it into a native steaming music service. They even announced that they’d continue to support Android.
Back in the day I used to buy CDs for clasdical music. Best purchase was Schiff's well tempered. I guess I'm going to buy more from now on. It's hard to own anything nowadays.
Yeah, it probably won't be implemented in France or germany, i think we both have 80 to 85% of the population vaccinated.

Its a recomendation, not a law, and most countries don't follow EU recommendations. The reason it was drafted is because it allows small countries who want to ban US travelers without facing retribution "I'm sorry, its a EU recommendation, not our own will no hard feelings, please don't ban our imports".

By the way, this is used during PPP decision-making (find some obscure EU laws to veto some private partners decision, like using Azure cloud for AI4EU), and probably used politically, internally or externally to deny demands "No, it is impossible, the EU have a reco/law/designated standard on this" (And in 80% of the cases, this is non-binding).

I think this is the real power of the EU, giving politicians the possibility of deflecting blame. Most positive effect of Brexit for the UK is this imho.
These bridge simulator games have been going on for at least 8 years, by my count. With rivals setting up shop next to each other in various conventions.

Hacker News does have this thing where if you see one story you like, people often post similar stories in the hours following.
I've had good success with Baikal, a sabre/dav-based project, on PHP 8.0. It still is only CalDAV and CardDAV though, no WebDAV for file/note sharing.

Installation can be janky and there's no clear documentation on dependencies -- and it'll fail silently if you're missing any. On FreeBSD I install the following PHP packages and then it works splendidly:

sudo pkg install php80 php80-dom php80-filter php80-openssl php80-pdo php80-pdo_sqlite php80-xml php80-xmlreader php80-xmlwriter
It was the same in Singapore large gatherings are restricted where as anyone coming into Singapore has to stay in quarantine for 2 weeks. The current local spread actually got through because of seafood delivery from a neighbouring country where it is assumed dock workers got it from the fisherman and spread it to the fishmongers and into the community. We have reached 80% vaccination for general population and 90% for 12+ because of that despite the spread the deaths are low. The situation would be a lot worse without vaccination and if a countries population is reticent about vaccination why the fuck should another country that is actually willing to vaccinate ignore the sacrifices of its own population.
Likelihood of variant strains depends on the infection rate. Reduce the number of infections and you reduce the variants.

Talk to me about how near total vaccination rates are impossible the next time you contract smallpox or polio.
It's popular whenever society seems to be changing too fast and people think "going back to the simple life" is the solution. Not only was it popular now and in the 1960s, but also in the 19th century when people were weirded out by the Industrial Revolution. People like Henry David Thoreau in the US and William Morris in the UK.
Lots of houses aren't up to code. I bought a house with an in-wall AC venting from a bedroom into the garage, no gaskets on the door to the house, and a workbench built over the venting to the outside. I fixed those; contractor said that all 3 was somewhat uncommon, but any one of those isn't that uncommon.
It's a picture of people taking a selfie. I think that communicates what a selfie is better than an actual selfie.
Ask HN: How do you track/manage your goals and sub-goals?
I want to track my larger goals and subgoals and to on a weekly basis creates plans for the week from that.

What systems do you guys use?
I've had a number of "cordial debates" with crusty old hams on this subject. The old guard is still very much hung up on the Old Way. Change scares a lot of the people who learned on expensive vaccum tube systems before the hobby was more broadly accessible. Things like high baudrate, bandwidth negotiation, spread spectrum and encryption scare the pants off of them regardless of the fact that the bands are mostly empty.
> The entire criminalization of drugs was invented by the Nixon White House as a pretext to oppress black people and “hippies”. There are official tapes and transcripts where it’s all described in great detail so this isn’t a conspiracy theory.

When I've looked into this in the past, almost everything points to an alleged quote from John Ehrlichman, one of Nixon's advisors, with Dan Baum in 1994. The alleged quote wasn't published in Baum's 1996 book and only later appeared in 2016 for an article in Harper's Bazaar, 16 years after Ehrlichman's death. On its own it never seemed like compelling evidence, especially as Ehrlichman was dead when the quote was first published.

Are there any other sources you are familiar with?
>because they don't wanna end up on the white houses "disinformation lists", particularly when reading on such an article

This kind of tinfoil mindset is generally pointless clutter in a considerate discussion, so it makes sense it is flagged quckly.

>it was only a sarcastic couple of sentences

Sarcasm is almost invariably worthless clutter, regardless of the subject of discussion. I always refer to A Separate Peace, "As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak."
That is a great philosophy to have, and a great description of these hindsight opportunities.
Heh... I predicted this exactly in my Article "38 Startup Company Ideas". This was number 4.

http://till.com/articles/startupideas
Isn't the authors conclusion about the fragmented landscape symptomatic for almost all FOSS solutions which try to tackle a specific user need? I think this is a positive development. The diversity and rapid development of technologies requires users to deal with them holistically and, in the best case, to support or develop a new, better solution.
Why is GDP implicitly the thing we should maximize? It's like this weird unstated thing everyone agrees on without critical examination.

I'd rather have less GDP and no CCP; I'd also "sacrifice" max GDP for universal healthcare, fewer wars, jail reform...all kinds of things.
well I wrote it lol. But it helps me navigate the politics of it and try to build better communication and praxis in my own politics.
If you want to unlock everything without spending real money, then yes they are often by far more grindy. Companies realized that putting huge grinds which you can pay to skip is by far the best way to make money from games so today this is in most games. This is the modern slot machine equivalent.
Sure but they are showing someone who we can presume completed taking a selfie. Though, arguably, the photographer we do not see, being further away would have taken a better (less distorted) picture, if the self photographer hadn’t hogged up the view.

In any case, I’d be curious to have joerg colberg’s take on this. Looks like he touches upon it tangentially[1] but not full on.

[1]https://cphmag.com/real-world/
Ha. Now I want to see the photo of that one being taken.

Something like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cmwov/_/c0tpyls/

EDIT: If you don't want to wade through that thread, here's a single image strip of that OP descending into madness as he shows how he took the "k-1" photo: https://i.imgur.com/Z12CC.jpg
Not just legally, culinary too...
For me it is the discography view that Spotify has. They buried it in the most recent update, but I recently found that none of the competition has it.

That and it turns out that Apple's windows software is still a bit of a dog after all these years.
The US unit with the most experience in amphibious assaults in WW2 was in Europe: between Operations Hammer, Menace, Appearance, Ironclad, Jubilee, Torch, Husky, Avalanche, Accolade and Shingle by the time that Overlord came around there was an enormous amount of accumulated experience in how to do amphibious assaults without need to consult the people in the PTO. The US Army borrowed a pre-war manual from the Marine Corps, but that was about the extent of it.

As for the value of attrition, it seems to me it was the Germans who chose attritional warfare not the Allies. They fought a largely attritional battle, then ran like hell the moment it turned to maneuver.
If you want to change registrar, I can recommend Dynadot. They offer support via chat, e-mail and phone.

I’ve also heard good things about Gandi.net.
One aspect of environmental impact that may be overlooked here is the use of refrigeration. Some milk requires refrigeration depending on its processing and packaging. There are also cultural norms in play; Americans often believe that milk of any kind must always be kept cold, and American supermarkets often have completely open refrigerated shelving, which I have to imagine is very wasteful.

Photo of what I'm referring to: https://www.newhope.com/sites/newhope360.com/files/styles/ar...
It will be more reliable than any solution based on either (i) a battery-powered web server, or (ii) mobile internet.

And latency will be constant and near-zero.

I suspect that's why a couple of the use cases you mentioned (city tours, dance parties) are usually addressed with FM radio and not apps.

Perhaps there's a way to do this with a modern bluetooth stack. But none of the offline messaging apps I've seen (Bridgefy, Meshenger) support group audio.