skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the only real instance of a widespread collapse of civilization was the Late Bronze Age collapse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse

This entailed most urban centers in the Eastern mediterranean (besides Egypt and Mesopotamia) being violently destroyed, and writing completely disappearing in large regions. And all this happening over the course of maybe 50-100 years.

Arguments can be made for the declining Western Roman Empire, and collapse of some of the Chinese dynastic states. But as you point out, one can rather easily counter argue that this wasn't collapse of civilization but rather the collapse of a specific hegemonic state and its replacement by several smaller competing powers. Civilization still remained: urban center and writing didn't disappear. These were collapses of states not of civilization.
Fintech Firm Buys EV Startup, Yes
"said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats."

The "and Beats" seems slightly redundant. I guess its because they acquired Beats by Dr Dre
Yeah that's true but if you stick to the major labels and performers you're very unlikely to hear a performance that bad. IMO worrying too much about this as a beginner is a distraction.

But once you start to develop some favorites then hearing different takes can add a lot of enjoyment I agree.
Uppy File Uploader 2.0: smaller and faster, Preact X, stricter TypeScript types
this is advice i give to a lot of people trying to get into the business or switch jobs. no matter how prepared or qualified you are, every interview is a roll of the dice. maybe the interviewer is in a bad mood. maybe you're in a bad mood. maybe there's a communications barrier. maybe there's some organizational issue (too many candidates in pipeline, re-org, etc.) that causes the bar to temporarily be set extremely high. It's ultimately a numbers game and it doesn't make sense to get too invested in one company or read too much into one result
>Lessons Learned

The whole ordeal was largely of my own making. I never anticipated that the simple act of copying files from one place to another could go so horribly wrong.

It isn't user's own making or user's fault at all! ( A voice is literally screaming this inside my head ) Tech shouldn't be like this. The DS218 support BTRFS which prevent certain file corruption but this is not what's happening either.

I have been saying ( or ranting ) about this for now more than a decade. [1] And every time the answer was there are no market for it. Or consumer or market are not willing to pay premium for high quality NAS. The Kobol NAS was my hope that a high quality, reasonably priced, and somewhat reasonably easy to setup and managed NAS would be. But they are closed down as well [2].

I really hope Kobol release all of the work as open source including hardware design. May be someone ( or me ) could crowdfund it once the chip shortage is over.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10886702

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299573
Nobody wants to hire juniors and train them to be seniors because there are very few incentives to hire them.

Partly because projects are sold at such low margins that they don't allow for tutoring. Or the customer plainly states that they want 5 engineers with 10 years of experience each. It's a hard sell to make that 2 10 year guys and 8 juniors instead.

Partly because the junior will bolt to a higher paying job as soon as they've learned enough. People don't stick with companies for the long haul like they used to. Even if the pay is good, people just get bored and switch jobs.
These kinds of questions are frequently asked and answered in detail on Reddit r/classical music [0]

The FAQ on the right side of the home page has links to introductory pages.

You're starting on a fun journey!

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/
My wife, who practices in Canada, just read that and agreed with this. This is the best defense she has.
OP means AGPL - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html
What score do people typically play to? I don't know. I can't read the font. Sigh guess I'll never know.
I'm not sure what you mean by calling land a monopoly. Do you mean "because land is a limited resource". Please explain.
The cost of a bad hire is extremely high. It's not their salary or bonus, etc. It's how they can affect a team, the product, and the deliverables.
Yeah I was referring to Feynman. At the end of the video embedded in the article, he ends a story by saying something like "these were the sorts of things you had to know in the fraternity."

He didn't mention shotgunning beers.
I worked on a project sometime ago where we needed to create a special event handling calendar with a Todo list for a large organization. It's crazy to deal with Google / Microsoft emails & calendars and on top of all that you need to handle iOS, Android devices & Outlook as well. We ran to bunch of issues with background sync and enormous attachments. At the end we just ended up using slack bot and a internal blogging tool to handle the whole thing. Calendar and notes are vitally important but with all customization / fragmented ecosystem thing become challenging.
Oh no, I'm so sorry. My baby girl was born in Jan 2021, also in Chicago, and I very much remember reading your blog in the days leading up to her birth after another stumbling across it from another comment of yours here on HN. It's a scary time before the birth, moreso during a pandemic, and I was so impressed with your strength and your adorable little girl, it helped me out. I hadn't realized she passed away. I'm so sorry. Know that she and you made a difference in some stranger's life.
> Meanwhile, almost everyone can play the piano or the guitar well enough to impress laypeople after 2 years of lesser daily effort.

I don't see this. Lots of kids were forced to learn an instrument but I don't know many who plays an instrument well enough that anyone would want to listen to them. Sure people get a bit impressed that you can play anything at all, but it isn't like they find it enjoyable to listen to it.

> Getting into master's league on StarCraft is only impressive to people who play StarCraft

This isn't true, most gamers who are loosely aware of what StarCraft is would be very impressed. Like people read articles about starcraft pros and talked about how impressive/insane those were without ever playing the game. Being really good at any game at all will impress a lot of people and especially so for the more famous ones.

But of course they would just be impressed and end it at that. Similarly being able to play piano really well would just impress people, very few actually wants to listen to piano music as an activity. Piano might impress a few more, but I doubt it would make you more friends and conversations than being good at Starcraft, at least among young men. And if we instead take some more popular game today like Fortnite then 100% being good at Fortnite will be way more important for your male social life than being good at an instrument.
It's a metadata/economics problem.

One solution is to use musicbrainz, and contribute as you go.

https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9ddd7abc-9e1b-471d-8031-583bc...

https://musicbrainz.org/work/80737426-8ef3-3a9c-a3a6-9507afb...
That's an entire YouTube channel. Where in this mess of videos can I find a reference to thermal detection of submerged submarines, please?
Could you expand on this? A fixed deadline can mean fixed budget, which the majority software projects fall under.
I disagree, I think the horizontal scroll was done tastefully in this instance and they had plenty of signifiers to make it clear you are supposed to scroll right to view the timeline.
The big limitation is no encryption. So it's only a substitute for cell service if you're ok with being on a big party line with everybody else in the vicinity.
I can't help but think that this action could very well spur out some 'unintended consequences'.

Prohibition can restrict and reduce participation and usage at an overall level, but certainly some portion of this will be pushed underground, or to unregulated spaces - probably just the thing the government WOULDN'T want to have.

Particularly when we are talking about some portion of the players being addicts here... how many are going to sign up for VPNs, Tor (or some other workaround) and find some other game or activity that satisfies that itch?
> 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.

The post you replied to isn't talking about the science, but rather the politics. Humans tend to respond badly to authority figures saying but not doing, and this is a real problem that we need to fix (by electing/creating better leaders) in order to meet the requirements of the moment.

So yeah, the total Congress emissions are tiny scientifically, but they're rather large politically.

Also, someone I once read highlighted that political polarisation increased when Reps could fly back home every weekend. Maybe one should require that Senators maintain their primary residence in D.C.?
Been running dockerized Baikal for years on my server.

This is the image I have created few years ago (likely newer ones exist): https://hub.docker.com/r/lucianofiandesio/baikal
> But if that turns sour then I'd likely be looking for 2-3 "code janitor" jobs in parallel in order to protect my mental health for a while.

Oh, I wouldn't try to juggle multiple code janitor jobs. It only takes one good one to pay my bills. And it would defeat the benefits that I perceive in the code janitor job. If someone wants to put that level of effort into his career, he's better off aiming higher.

> Maybe I am doing something wrong, I am open to that, but I really am not sure that I want to expose myself to such toxic time wasters. Any advice?

Ask for the client and salary range immediately. If they don't give you a straight answer, politely end the conversation.
Fwiw, I have learned a lot by listening to classical radio in the background every day.

Some of the great stations (imho -- KDFC in SF, CPR Classical Colorado, King FM in Seattle, Portland's station) have outstanding DJs who talk about the composers, soloists, conductors, orchestras, time period, etc.
Not only milky liquids are called "milk", but oily liquids are called "oil" e.g. fish oil (etymologically oil refers only to oil extracted from olives, but already Pliny the Elder used the name "fish oil" and many other oil names for oils extracted from other things than olives) and buttery substances are called "butter", e.g. cocoa butter, even if the bu- from butter means cow (in Greek).
I don't think they linked to the article they are analyzing, so here it is:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
Plan to use ozone to disinfect classrooms in Wales
> the effects of SIP policies on public health are a priori ambiguous as they might have unintended adverse effects on health

This is yet another paper contributing to a growing body of evidence suggesting that collectively and scientifically we do not deeply understand the higher order consequences of mandatory interventions such as lock-downs, school/work/daycare closures, social distancing, etc.

These effects are crucial to understand because they govern the tradeoff between benefits and consequences, which is the central concern of all public health policy.
My gripe is the 1/2 second pause between tracks, even when they're supposed to blend together, like between 3rd and 4th movements of Beethoven's 5th. Otherwise it's awesome.
Never heard of this service before and I'm quite bummed that I hadn't stumbled on it earlier. I'm a huge fan of classical music and this would've been a treat to me.

I wish they partnered with not just apple but also spotify and other streaming services by licensing their tech. This way they'd reach more people and not just apples user base.
It's disingenuous because there's so much evidence that QE doesn't impact consumer prices. The money supply has been increasing like mad for a decade now, and in that time consumer prices have both crashed and exploded at various times.

It's also disingenuous because there are so many reports of shortages across tons of sectors. Which is the most obvious and immediate cause of price increases. Demand is staying the same or increasing while supply has plummeted. Prices are going to spike in that situation regardless of QE or other money supply increases.

We aren't even insulated from this. There are bidding wars for everything now. Lots of people here have direct experience with difficulty sourcing components and customers who are willing to pay crazy prices for what limited capacity their companies have.
We have recently locked down in New Zealand and the virus is in the community. We were an exception to your statement, we are not anymore but are trying to get back there.
i think your camera photos seem to be the hottest cake.to get cool ads move your cool images(downloaded or created) to the camera folder in your.AI will "think" you are visiting "these cool places" and "snapping lambos,jets,rubber banded cash" like some really rich person. suddenly i bet you will start seeing the rich traveler's ads. not your damn activity mirror
As a man, I don't want to hear about your video-game exploits either. I play, but I definitely don't want to define my personality or hear/tell stories about it.

I think the difference is that a video-game is (as you said and viewed by me at least) as mostly consumptive rather than creative or constructive. I'm playing a game I know I'm dicking around and wasting time, the same as if I'm watching a movie or (even) reading a book for fun.

I'd say that some games are more constructive, like Minecraft or other games where you're building something or creating a story yourself... but I think what's being targeted is largely RNG lootbox online grind games. There's also an argument that top tier professional gaming isn't really that much different than being good at some other sport... and that's kind of an unfortunate side-effect.

The title is a bit misleading as there's no provision for 'offline' games.

Culturally for me... regulating media time seems like a parent's responsibility, and maybe this does give parents the tools to do that as the child could use their parent's account with their permission fairly easily.

I'd be against a similar thing where I live, but as I am not a Chinese citizen nor do I plan on living there, I can't say my opinion is worth much.

However, I think people are making this out to be much worse than it is as there's (for a long time) been a provision that children under a certain age can't sign up for online accounts (in the US) without a parent's explicit permission (with the implication that that the parent takes responsibility for monitoring the child's activity). This makes that implication more explicit as the child must use the parent's account most of the time.

This is one way of solving the 'online games have predatory practices against children / teens,' I don't think this is how I'd solve it, but again, not really my business.
but I think it's politics from US side. Vaccinated people from EU can't go to US. Meanwhile vaccinated people will still be able to come to EU from USA.
> Apple employees also can’t use their work email addresses to sign up for iCloud accounts, so many use their personal accounts.

This would be the main dealbreaker for me - if this was not negotiable I would just decline the job. If you’ve managed to get an offer at Apple you must have plenty of other opportunities so it shouldn’t be a big loss.
I would encourage you to also spend time teaching and mentoring them even if they havent tried. Kids thrive on this kind of attention, and feelings of support.
Vialma possibly a good alternative, with a small team of classical music enthusiasts.

https://www.vialma.com/en
That's not a bad question.

Subs would be detectable using magnetometers, except that they have electromagnets in them to hide their magnetometer footprint. Still, this is not perfect.

Large subs have somewhat detectable gravitometric footprints that could be observed from space, indeed.
250, 300, 350, 500, and "other". The counts for each are 40, 33, 67, 151, and 40 (respectively).
There is no consistent EU policy on masks in stores. I don't think Sweden ever had such a policy, and Denmark recently eliminated theirs. The differences between EU countries seem to be as large as those between US states.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/coronavirus-denmark-removes-...
I can't imagine 3D printing clothing working for most kinds of garments any time soon. Just mechanically stitching straight seams with a robot has proven to be nearly impossible. It might be economically feasible to laser cut some fabrics and drive down MTM costs, but you can already do that fairly cheaply with existing tech.
Was walking through some apartments yesterday and a lady in a moomoo was talking with her neighbor. Their dogs were playing, they were just out enjoying the day. I hear moomoo lady say she in on forced at-home quarantine for covid. The poor neighbor. I saw the horror on her face as she scooped up her dog and ran away. I was so grateful for my mask, and I've had covid and am vaccinated. Moomoo lady had no mask, no gloves, couldn't have been any closer to her neighbor. She knew she was sick, just could not have cared less. It's truly mind boggling some care absolutely nothing for others. Maybe it's always been this way and covid just made it all visible.
It feels like there is an attitude here that you should be able to recoup the cost of training a junior hire by paying them below market rate for for their new skills. This just isn't reality, as OP has discovered.

That means that the true cost of a junior candidate vs a senior candidate isn't just their 1st year salary difference on paper, you have to count in the cost of training _and_ retaining the junior hire. That doesn't necessarily mean the math doesn't work - especially if the market for senior developers is much tighter than for junior developers.

Also the idea that you'd be mentoring for 16 hours a week one-on-one seems like it is either inflated or there was a problem. Maybe the candidate was a bad hire even for a junior role, or the mentor is micromanaging, or the work product expected was never appropriate for a junior developer - but something seems off there.
Eben Moglen (https://softwarefreedom.org/about/team/) is a lawyer.

The GPL has been in existence for more than 30 years and has been enforced in multiple countries that are not the US, including France.
I beg to differ about XMS. That particular technology may have only been relevant for a decade, but the idea of using a harder-to-access storage to supplement cheap-but-limited storage is everywhere. L1 and L2 cache, data warehouses, cloud storage, and so on. I value learning about that abstraction early on. I’d agree it’s not singularly career changing, but I don’t think knowing any one technology in the software industry is.
I grew up in a small town in the 90's, and dance music was just something you sometimes heard in the background of movies. Getting into underground music back then would have meant driving a couple hundred miles.
I was just thinking about if I should limit game time for my kids or not.

My thoughts were that there are too many kind of video games to club them all as "games are bad". And probably I'll focus on limiting the kind of games or specific games themselves.

Some games are just elaborate casino games in nicer clothes. I really don't see benefits to that. But some offline games offer interesting stories and challenges that need brain/dexterity to solve. I feel those are probably just as good as books or movies/tv.

For online competitive games, that's a harder one. Games like Fortnite, COD, online sports games, and all that. Some people say it lets kids play together with friends, but I find nowadays it can also just expose yourself to kind of bad social interactions.

Coop online games and such, where the friend group is closed, like you play within your friends, no other strangers involved I feel is probably fine.

Having said all that, I feel that we're missing some actual evidence here to say if games are good or bad. Is there actually some data on it? Any correlation with kids who spent a lot of time playing video games and how they turned out later in life? I personally did grow up playing games, and I turned out fine, so sometimes I wonder if it's more of a false scare than anything.
Yep. We've got double jabbed relatives from Argentina that are barred from travel because Sputnik V isn't approved. Yet it's one of the most effective vaccines out there.
Kids that are forced to do piano once a day do not expend anywhere near the effort that someone trying to get to master's league on StarCraft does.

It's not true that few people want to listen to someone's music as an activity. Just go to most parties where someone can play the guitar or piano well and if there is such an instrument you'll see people play them. Happens very often in my friend groups.
You can definitely do both! But using multiple systems has its own set of downsides.
Rent seeking describes an economic situation where existing wealth is taken without creating new wealth in exchange for it, such as offering a competitively priced product or service. This is what happens when taxation occurs. It doesn't matter what the money is spent on after it is taken; that doesn't change that fact that rent seeking occurred.

If a monopoly company raises prices 50% and then gives all of the proceeds to Doctors Without Borders, or heck the government itself, it doesn't suddenly make it not rent seeking.
And the weak needn't be given any voice.
Whiteboard interview is a non-specific skill for software engineer, but it is relatively easy to hone for any decent coder. Like a week or two 1-2 hours in the evening. It's like solving chess puzzles, and could be entertaining as well. I think that people who are ranting about "broken hiring process" are either mediocre coders or became old and ossified.
Thank you. Very helpful!
Loved the article. I come from a family of four and sometime when I was in college we picked up Spades as a family. Definitely resonated with me as a way to bond with friends and family.

also for those interested: https://www.trickstercards.com/home/spades/ is an excellently developed FREE online spades site that we used during the pandemic
This toothbrush, with a remarkably smooth surface, has a built-in toothpaste container in its handle with sufficient toothpaste for a month of daily brushing. At the touch of a button, the paste is fed through internal channels to the brush head. Silicone valves prevent the toothpaste from drying out or leaking. The brush can be easily rinsed out from the inside between refills. Its two main components are made of food-grade plastic and overmoulded with soft, hypoallergenic silicone.
Talking about what good and bad means in photography always reminds me of Miroslav Tichý, who said "if you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world", and took terrible but strangely brilliant photos with homemade cameras:

https://flashbak.com/photographs-by-the-perverted-flaneur-mi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Tich%C3%BD
> Size 34 waist.

If you want an extra shock: measure your waist. It's not 34 inches!
Thanks, This seems pretty useful.
Too bad it isn’t gpl2 compatible BSD so Apple could replace their shit version.