skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is true that games with less than 2 hours content are not viable under this model, but the market has spoken and generally agreed that games should provide many hours of entertainment. Either through fun looping gameplay like bloons TD, or online experiences, or if it is based on a limited story line, they must have a massive story like Skyrim or GTA 5.

This is what the market of gamers are demanding and I do not see that changing or that it is an issue. These days it is common for people to spend huge amounts of time on a single game. It is completely normal for someone to say "I have spent 1000 hours on Minecraft/CSGO/Skyrim over the last 10 years" so companies have to adapt to building games that last a decade and can generate recurring sales through things like graphical updates and extra content.
Scumbag Steve talks to 7 billion people and asks for replies (This is what Twitter is) and then pretends they are surprised they reply?

They did kinda call them all assholes.

https://twitter.com/castpixel/status/1434575520415498247 @castpixel - "my gut was telling me to take the money and "nfts can't be that bad". But my brain was all "take the money, you can help so many causes". But then my conscience was like SLAP DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE"

And the replies where generally you are a idiot to turn down $1 million. Which I would argue was true. They made a bikeshedding announcement of turning down $1 million implying a sub culture are bad humans, then got a lot of replies. Normal stuff.
> but there is a lot of spare storage space on servers/external drives owned by individuals or companies globally speaking.

Companies have spare storage…but it sure as shit ain’t worth it to them. This is the hubris of most crypto projects: they have no real economic grasp of the problems they jump into. Amazon isn’t going to fuck around with Chia for what amounts to literal dust on their balance sheet. Businesses aren’t going to jeopardize their core competency for a couple of bucks. And the average Joe doesn’t actually have external storage space. Spotify, iCloud, Dropbox, etc. It’s all professional miners. Chia is not decentralized.

> When I think of the lottery I'm always amazed by the number of people that play it even with the extraordinarily low odds of winning that exist.

The payoff for the lottery is HUGE. So even though the EV is negative, people still do it. The payoff for Chia is comparatively small. People won’t (and don’t) care.
YT content is more longform and making that good and engaging takes tons of practice according to my observation. Look at early content of some big names like MKBHD for example. You can see the potential in them but they are nowhere as good as their new content.
I imagine NewPipe users alone could account for a large chunk of time. I leave it on overnight frequently.
But there is no reason why it needs to stay that way.
The logo is correctly oriented while you're carrying the iBook around by its spring-loaded handle :) https://i.imgur.com/DziL9K6.jpg
I agree in part and disagree in part.

First, when the network space is growing exponentially, the value of preexisting work is decaying exponentially. I do grant you that completed work is nonzero in value, but during a growth phase its value might as well be zero. Whenever speculators believe the currency will actually have any long term value above its current exchange rate minus the resource costs, then it will be in a growth phase. The total resource consumption during this growth phase, including the supply chains to produce space, need to be studied. Measured in transactions per unit of CO2 emissions, I expect its efficiency to be better only during a phase of stable network space, i.e. when its value is not speculated to be higher than its current value.

Second, not all PoW is discarded. I want to be clear at the outset that this isn't a defense of PoW, but there's a system called AuxPoW which allows work to be applied to multiple chains, modestly improving its efficiency. This mining protocol is being used actively by scrypt hashed coins, e.g. dogecoin and litecoin. I'm certainly not saying PoW is superior to the proof system in Chia, but just that the distinction between them is not as strong as claimed. Nevertheless, both are incredibly destructive and yet interesting.
but there has always been inflation?
Hmm maybe it's because I don't have an account. I guess it's the default feed syndrome.
Is this comment an attempt at irony?
I'm completely serious here. Could you give us your definition of "number" which you would teach at this level? Please, please, I'm not trying to be an ass or anything. We could start a great conversation here.
Yeah I can’t tell whether I should put my limited energy leetcoding or working on contrived side projects in tech that’s not even a good fit just so I can put it on my resume to get past the screen.
Ask HN: Is Cissp Worth It?
Hello everyone,

I am in IT industry and successfully operating my small IT business. I am not interested in finding a full-time job anywhere but I still want to have up-to-date credentials for business meetings.

Is CISSP worth it? It costs $750 to take the test and in case of fail there is no discount. Also after passing there is $150 yearly membership fee. Study materials seem very long (500+ page books). If not CISSP, for security or advanced IT would you recommend anything else excluding AWS ones?

Thanks!
I am long past the intern stage
> You just have to remember the topic is your code not your person

No he definitely attacks people's person.

"You're a moron."

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599...
Just like Youtube scrapped from its search results the full version of that July presidential town hall video because it was not looking so good.
How do you think the Signal servers send data to your app if they don’t know, at least temporarily, the IP address of your device?

Whisper Systems say they don’t record/log that. But they are no more able to defy legal demands in their jurisdiction to do so than Proton Mail were.
I think the architecture of “censorship resistance” must appeal to developers, which is why so many of these platforms exist. Unfortunately they’re solving the wrong problem. Censorship isn’t what make social media and blogging so toxic to our culture. It’s the lack of reputational cost to bad actors and the undeterred gathering of information.

But sure. Let’s have another platform that is most likely to become popular purely for illegal uses.
Automotive is super hard. Unlike tech, it’s a very heavily regulated industry in the United States.

Apple is the kind of company that doesn’t enter a market unless they feel like they have something to contribute. If they’re jumping into this market, they’re making sure what they’re doing is going to get them where they want to be.

The Apple car has gone from “sure thing” to “cancelled” and back. I would not even bet on its assured release at this point.
A number is an informal term within mathematics.
“NitroPhone 1” is a Pixel 4a with GrapheneOS installed for twice the price
With real private fields you can make a minifier that minifies the fieldname/functionname which is not possible before.
The that authoritarian DRM crap and a banking bullshit has to stop. Why do they work on old vulnerable Android stock versions, but not on new Lineage os? Security is a dumb excuse here, it is all about exercising power over the user.
I think consumers who care about upgrades are mostly aware that their iPhone will be supported 5 to 6 years, the low end android perhaps one or two year, and expensive androids perhaps 2 to 3 years.

This market exists for more than a decade now, people have had the time to see how it works and how makers behave. It will be nice to always have official commitments (some makers already commit to timelines), but I don’t expect them to be different from the effective support time we already have.
This happens to me all the time. In addition. Interviewing for multiple roles at once. I’ll get an offer, but am also awaiting a response from another company. Maybe I’ll get it, maybe I’ll get ghosted. In theory, the internet tells me I can use it for leverage, but more often the offer responses will almost never line up and I’ll have to take what I get first, or reject the offer m, betting on something else that may be coming.
I think you built something that was by design a niche product. Big social networks experience network effects - when a bunch of your friends/family/etc are already on a free social network it makes the barrier/effort low.

If you have a social network like you made it requires that groups of people join it together, and that they know the other has it in advance, and that costs money to post beyond a certain number of posts - it's not clear what that they can get from you that they can't get from facebook or instagram already for free. It's not clear what you're offering that's better than those two.

The features of 'no feed, no notifications, no way to find people' isn't necessarily a plus to the overwhelming majority of users, and from your page I don't understand what you offer in your service that even someone who journals wants.
Count this as another anti-ebay opinion.
My company (I) posted a used printer (HP Laser) for sale.
In the listing I included the printer report showing the number of pages printed.
I even had USED in the description 3 times (and title once).

The buyer filed a complaint that the printer wasn't new. I responded with "Of course it's not, look at the title & description." Ebay made us pay for them to ship it back and refund the money.

When we got it back there were 2,000 more pages printed on it.

I'll NEVER do any business through ebay. You are either braver then I or have a higher tolerance for bullshit then I do.
Europe's working age population is declining, and it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future unless old, retired Europeans undergo a major change in attitudes to immigration.

IIRC the decline is about 1.5% per year and it is forecast to increase considerably.

The same has been true of Japan for two decades,South Korea for one decade, and China's working age population peaked in 2015. China is running out of people in its rural areas that it can draw on for its factories.

The USA, Canada, and Australia are propped up by immigrants.

(Work, GDP, is done by working age people. This is not always obvious to economists.)
This blog post doesn't do that beautiful machine justice. :-/
What stops the tried and tested tech used in optical/laser mice being used here? Surely we can make them work at slightly longer range?
Well, the peano arithmetic can be described directly as first order logic without set theory ;)

I'm fine with having an intuition for sets, but I think reals really should be defined properly. At least, R should not be confused with the algebraic closure of Q.
I remember them being a pain to repair for anything that couldn't be accessed under the keyboard, though. Something to do with the hinge mechanism being quite complex and fiddly?
>whatsapp doesn't rely on SMS protocols

Wrong. Whatsapp relies on SMS as 2FA OTP.
Is the barrier to entry (installing yet another app on your phone) onerous in some way that I don't see? Otherwise it seems straightforwards enough to install the app for yourself and see what's on there.

There's a ton of content that isn't thirst traps (aka teenagers dancing), but while that's an interesting question to dig in to, if enough people switch mediums (from newspapers to radio to TV to YouTube to Tiktok), there doesn't have to be an overlap for one to largely supplant the next. How's the New York Times doing these days?
"Apple hasn't issued a fix for this particular vulnerability"..."new defenses are coming with iOS 15, which will likely come out next month".

That's completely insane, isn't it? Have Apple just given up, or am i missing the scope of this vulnerability?

Also how can Apple not have better security with such an incredible amount of money in the bank?
If you ever needed proof that making predictions is hard, that 2020 thread was a mere 2 months before covid-19 went global, yet nobody in that thread saw it coming.
SF Gate article existed at the time of posting. It was referencing this correction:

https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-69c5f...

> This story was first published on Aug. 23, 2021. It was updated on Aug. 25, 2021 to correct that the number of calls to poison control about ivermectin was about 2%. Incorrect information provided by the Mississippi Department of Health had said the number was 70%.
This is the same author than mkcert, a great tool that for me is the one stop to make custom certificates for development. It already embeds all knowledge about how modern web browsers expect certs to be in order to work with them, so I don't have to track all the latest whims of each one. Thank you a lot for it!!

https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
If you look idle it can be inferred you have no friends as well. Looking at your phone indicates friends or people you interact with even though you can use a phone for a million other things. I grew up when texting was fairly normalized (like around the time when you could rollover minutes/texts).

Sadly the toothpaste is out of the tube on this one and my biggest fear is a phone number will basically be like your social security number as more companies are dumb enough to tie it to an sms 2FA. I predict in the next 100 years it'll happen. And when that comes it'll just be solidified.
TikTok "ForYou" algorithm is very very impressive in its recommendations. 2 people might have very different experiences with TikTok.
So if you start using with some regularity, even if you don't press like in anything it will figure out what you like and what you don't. I am very curious about how it measures content engagement.
I'm glad someone else feels it.

I gave it a shot, and once I got the algorithm to recognize me... it was addictive, but fake as fuck. Nothing really felt like it had love in it. And as much as I tried to push the algorithm towards educational content that actually taught me something new, it could only really show me silly "life hacks" that were clever, but I'll probably never use.
I used to think that the internet would be the greatest tool for human peace ever invented. But I was wrong. I didn’t know that humans don’t use reason to determine their position. The use it to justify their position and Google provides the greatest tool ever built for allowing people to do exactly that.
I think academic english in particular is guilty of this. I think there are two pressures: first is common, and that is wanting/needing specialized language to communicate better about a specific field, second is particular in that it can make some one feel better about their paper if they coin new words or phrases. I'm unsure if this actually translates into better publication rates but I've definitely seen papers sort of reach so they can introduce a new term.
Running a mile in less than four minutes has also been done many times. But it's still extremely remarkable to me.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manage...

Per their documentation, this is Azure's recommended devops/resource management tool.
seing this kind of reaction (downvoting), on HN, on a comment that is completely relevant to a published paper makes me loose faith in human kind. People absolutely should stop trying to second guess political opinions and "side", and rather focus on actual meaning. Otherwise we're lost, and this comment section will soon look like twitter.
The city doesn't want some capital investment that Entergy execs can soak the ratepayers on, sell bonds (which will be underwater when people shift to solar+batteries), and bounce with their bonus package instead of actually shelling out for operating expenses. When I went before the council I made sure Giarrusso read this report UMN [1] generated about the entire MISO system, about the payoff on a gas plant vs solar+batteries, and they went ahead and voted for the plant anyway.

[1] https://energytransition.umn.edu/modernizing-minnesotas-grid...
Half the problem is it's not really snubbing. It's paying attention to something else, not showing disdain for the person.
Just wanted to point out that Matrix is getting native voice/video calls (for multi people, it already works with 1:1 calls) soon, as well as voice rooms (they've already been designed and the design shown off, just not implemented yet).
>very write intensive, and thus destroys the SSD

I'm not going to argue about how Chia Coin works, but I'm always skeptical of claims about excessive writes destroying SSDs.

From what I understand, this is mostly unfounded fear based on the fact that earlier MLC cells were specced for a minimum of 10,000 write cycles and people extrapolated 5-10 year life expectancies from that. In practice, though, testing showed that the typical cell could be rewritten around 1,000,000 times, and the controllers would just route around the weaker cells that died early.

Anecdotally, even though consumer SSDs have been mainstream for around a decade now, I have not heard, IRL or online, of a single person complain that their SSD has failed (manufacturing defects such as the Sandforce firmware bug aside). At the same time, I've personally witnessed dozens of HDD failures.

I don't fully understand why fear around consumer SSDs is still a thing, but I suspect it's exactly the same "Reddit expert" social dynamic that drives the advice around thermal paste application.
> If you hate leetcode refuse to apply for jobs that require it.

The problem is outside the big companies everyone knows, it’s hard to get documentation on a companies interview process.

Glassdoor exists, but often is little help, as there’s a complete lack of information about the actual process, it seems too included only people who didn’t get an offer complaining about something that may or may not apply to you, etc.

Even the sites made specifically for aggregating those sorts of companies often fail. I’ve looked at them and seen stuff like “X company, but only very specific team” or “Y company”, but when people talk about them nowadays, they seem to have switched to utilizing leetcode or similar for screening or something. And god forbid you out any filters on.
Why wouldn’t there be viruses elsewhere in the universe? Why is this a ‘warning’?
This implies gasoline costs society $30 per gallon.

Here's the math.

Each gallon of gasoline in the USA costs roughly $4. Burning the gallon of gasoline creates roughly 10kg of carbon dioxide.

1 ton of emissions therefore equates to roughly 100 gallons of gas. (100 x 10 kg = 1000 kg = 1 ton)

So, in the USA you paid $400 for those 100 gallons.

But the social impact of those emissions is $3,000.

If taxed properly, this implies gas would be $30/gallon.

Think about that next time you drive, fly...and figure out how to build better solutions. When you buy gas you're getting it for a steal, paying $4 for something that costs the world $30. It's hard to resist!

We need to be carbon neutral yesterday, and also remove carbon dioxide from the air that's already there.

(If of interest, for more background on this, check out Michael Greenstone's work at the University of Chicago on the "social cost of carbon".)
I didn’t assume you were conservative.

I just think it’s weird to attribute the things you are complaining about to ‘capitalism’, and that if you are going to make such broad statements, then it’s weird to claim there are no benefits to those ‘without capital’ when there plainly are.

I happen to also be critical of most of the things you are criticizing. Blaming ‘capitalism’ doesn’t seem to offer anything. The word has become interchangeable with ‘the bogeyman’.
I’ve found incredible success using JS (TS) as a functional language. Oh my god I love it.

Immutability is still very tedious and kludgy.
Nuclear power and GMO's. And some particularly extreme social justice elements have decided that "objectivity" or "rationality" are part of white supremacy, or at least part of "white culture".

Oh, I guess there's sex differences in personality/behavior/preferences, though arguably that's the same thing as genetic causes of personality.
It is solvable by punishing anyone who posts fake pictures. Since the problem of bad actors in society has existed for millennia, we anyway know a dozen ways to deal with it. We just haven’t really bothered to apply any of them to the Internet.

Why we haven’t done that is a different but equally fascinating question.
I don't find USB-C fragile at all. I don't think I've ever had a USB-C connector break and I've been using them for, what, about 5 years now?

Of course, there's always the risk of tripping on a cable and sending a laptop or phone flying, which MagSafe mitigated. But the USB-C cable also disconnects at both ends which helps a bit. And I think we spend less time charging in general now days. Laptop batteries were pretty terrible back in 1999 compared to the all-day battery life of our modern M1 Macs :)
Why the downvote? Can someone explain if this is true or not? Would be a good chance to clear this misconception up if so.
This volume does not confuse R as the algebraic completion of Q. It is completely reasonable for an Algebra 1/2 teacher to wait for a Calculus or Analysis teacher to discuss the metric completion of Q. Describing R as rational + irrational numbers is a completely solid description.
Oh, I love doing that. I think the trick to doing it pleasantly is being able to do it quickly, and being in the habit of fact-checking yourself. It can provoke a conversation about the actual state of affairs, or the difference in understanding that you had, or new questions even.
I'm not. The vast majority of people in my social circle has someone more important to them than I am to them. And I think this is true for most people.
That's just a preference issue.

If you just pick rebase instead of merge from the UI the commits will be merged without that "meta commit".

No need to get all emotional
The drift, if you are moving a mouse on a desk its a very localized, temporary movement difference you have to track - the moment you try to scale this up you'll amplify inaccuracies a lot.

Also if you pick up a mouse and place it at a different spot on a surface, the mouse won't be able to register what happened.

Whereas this research project actually accomplishes that, you place your camera anywhere on a previously scanned/mapped surface, the software will instantaneously tell where you are.

So the difference: a mouse only tracks movement by relative changes. This project maps a texture onto a globally known map and calculates an absolute location.
I've actually read your comment as return/fraud/resale on the first glance.
In free societies people have a right to privacy. The government should not have access to any information at all unless there's a good reason. Even then, their access should be as limited as possible. If that enables more crime, so be it. That's the price we pay for freedom.

Governments have proven again and again they won't respect these rights. So people will make subversive technology to defeat them. Cryptography has that kind of power. They'll have to increase their tyranny in order to stop it. Is there a limit to how tyrannical they're willing to become in order to control their subjects? We'll find out.
Scotland is also piloting a 4 day week. Mainstream adoption is just around the corner imo

p.s. there are now loads of companies offering a 4 day week:
https://4dayweek.io/4-day-week-companies
With no text limit and infinite edits, this could be useful.
At least you only need to replace the cable now. Back in the day, you had to replace the entire adapter when the plug end inevitably started fraying.
What’s wrong with Discord?
Toilet seat? In Brazil we called it more adequately by "the makeup case".