skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prediction and analysis of all matches in Europe's top leagues
Hermes is definitely the god of the internet -- the messenger god and tricker god in one.
The old one would often cause "this app is preventing Windows from shutting down", which normally would eventually resolve itself, but it was an annoying delay. Hopefully this new one is better in this regard.

I was very annoyed at the "upgrade wizard", it felt like of steps and very disruptive. One screen with a few checkboxes should have sufficed, perhaps an optional "advanced" button for those who want it.

Relatedly, I got more than one pop-up saying the new version was coming to which I felt "this is really not something you should bother me about before the actual upgrade".
> Mental health is terrified that someone will do something to harm themselves.

I can understand that but involuntary institutionalization should be implemented only if there's an immediate danger to someone's life.

A currently euthymic person mentioning casually there were times they wished they were dead is not cause for institutionalization.

A depressed person who not only thinks about taking their own life but has made plans for it and has the means to execute that plan is in great danger and in need of immediate help.
Yes, there are: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Here is a public instance: https://nitter.kavin.rocks/

Just swap out `nitter.kavin.rocks` for `twitter.com` and you can visit every tweet with a clean and fast interface. You can also automate this with the Redirector browser extension: https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector
A government only accept its currency to pay taxes -> you have to pay taxes -> you need the currency even if you lose trust in it.

It's the power of raising taxes what gives money its value.

"Variations of the modern-money narrative are found repeatedly throughout history. The levying of monetary ­taxes to create waged labor was “a nearly universal experience throughout Africa” in the colonial era, explains economist Randall Wray. Hut taxes, coupled with extreme violence and racial segregation, forced unwilling migrant laborers into the gold and diamond mines of South Africa. Bernard Magubane, an anthropologist, described the purpose of these taxes as being to “increase the economic pressure on the African peasants” to force them into waged work."

from: https://thenewinquiry.com/the-world-according-to-modern-mone...
People may find the original simulation studies [0] oversimplifying but that is the more or less the state-of-the-art of our understanding of social networks using agent models. There is always the nagging concern that your get out what you put in.

We don't have to theorize though. Given all the open source platforms of the fediverse [1] people can setup networks, tweak to their heart's content and explore what "works" when actual humans are involved.

Maybe what is really missing is some sort of crowdsourced framework for collecting and sharing that information.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/information-overl...

[1] https://fediverse.party/
This is not what I meant at all.

What I want is that I can select "sum symbol" for example, and I can get small description in a popup window. (for more complicated things that is)
> So J++ was born

Eventually costing them $2bn
Open source crypto trading bot makes profit on new Binance stablecoin listing
Tool to create animated mesh gradients like stripe and export the code
All of my initial conversations with clients start with me asking them (usually multiple times in different ways) what they’re actually trying to achieve. A large proportion of those conversations end with them saying they have to go figure that out.

A surprising amount of human activity takes place with no clear understanding of the goal.
Why is Firefox not on the Browsers list?
There's a different way to think of it. Since most countries are dominated by men, they are already enjoying the benefits of male leadership. Putting women in charge will bring new benefits that men couldn't offer. What he's saying is not so much that women are better leaders, but that they have strengths that complement male leadership we've always had.
The lighting is completely prebaked in this scene. The shadow of the chair isn't animating. You can see the shadow of the armrest remain atatic on the table.

If you can, go for global illumination over abient occlusion if you want a realistic look. Ambient occlusion is a pretty rough approximation of diffuse light from the surroundings. A proper global illumination rendering captures the same effect more accurately. You get a lot of subtle hues in the lighting which instantly make even flat single color surfaces more interesting and real.

You can also go over board with your materials, adding texture maps for roughness and normals, which vary how the surface reacts to the light. There are plenty of free materials out there that demonstrate what I mean. But good texturing is a topic all of its own, with its own tools and processes. If you start to add textures, my advice would be to keep them really, really subtle. The amount of variation you really need is a lot less than you would probably think.
Not sure what you mean with western media. But ours (Swiss) usually blames the NATO and US for their war crimes and not a generalized 'west'
The rationale is fantastic:

https://www.bryanbraun.com/2020/06/06/checkboxland/

Must be one of my favorite projects in a long while. Such a mad/brilliant idea, and the aestethic is remarkable for such an odd thing as a checkbox.

Many thanks to the poster.
It doesn't need to be so. I started in my actual company 3 years ago, NY based startup and I was based in Europe. The first months we had every day meetings with one of the senior engineers in USA going through the changes we implemented that day, how it worked with the rest of the codebase and systems, how and why this worked and that didn't, etc... It worked perfectly, considering we still work in the company and we are know the seniors. The system we started working on, that was freshly released then, is now smooth and stable. We did it full remote and also with a 6 h difference in time zone, and it worked.

The thing is the time investment may look big because you have to specify a meeting time and reserve a slot of an hour for it. But it is not different from having it spread across the day as the juniors find a problem, interrupt the senior, get the explanation, etc.
I worked in both environments: in the office and full remote. And regarding work and knowledge sharing I don't see a big difference. The real difference is changing the way of working and interacting, but once that is done it works equally fine. The rest is a matter of preference related to interacting with people on a daily basis. But for me, that is outside working hours when I go to the gym, join activities like quizzes, sports, etc., with people I don't work with.

Also I want to add that I connect in videocalls with colleagues, when we have not much work for a few hours just to chat about work and out of work things. And we never met in person.
I haven't moved in yet... But given that it's only 10 years old, I doubt we'll be able to hear much inside the house :)

In any case, noise isolation can make a huge difference.
Indeed. Back in about 2010 or so when I made a Minecraft Redstone Simulator[1], I initially prototyped using a <table> for the display of the "grid".

Just making the cells change colour as a mouse was clicked and dragged over the cells (to draw) was very laggy. After which I switched to canvas which worked really well.

At the time I was a very inexperienced developer but looking back now it was very obvious a table with cell approach wouldn't be performant.

[1]: https://mordritch.com/mc_rss/
Are those PHP elephants on the bookshelf? :D
I’d check with some of your peers and see what their experiences have been, but I wouldn’t be overly anxious just yet. In terms of timing, campus recruitment has an annual cycle. (We’ll hire year-round for entry-level, but for pretty obvious reasons, it’s seasonal in terms of the activity focus.) Right now, we’re reviewing the outcome of last year’s campus and intern programs, determining changes, and predicting budgets for next year’s program.

If you’re a May/June 2022 grad, don’t sweat it even a drop. If you’re a December 2021 grad, you’re a little off-cycle but campus programs know you exist so there’s a mini-wave for the half-year grads. But mid-August to late Sept is probably the lowest period for “mining inbound resumes” as the campus team has been busy wrapping up starting last year’s group and planning for the coming year (and taking summer PTO).

If you’re graduating from a CS program at a traditional college and have a 3.0 GPA or better, it’ll be stressful (because of the stakes), but you’ll find a role to take your first professional step. You don’t have to stand out per-se, which is good news because internships and summer work in the field is the best way to do that and that’s not practical in your last year. No worries. Can’t change it now and don’t need to. We take “cold” graduates as well. If you have a 2.5 or 2.2, it be a little more effort, but if you can do the work, you’ll find a fit. If you have a 3.8+ (at least in major and a 3.5 overall), you’re probably seeing only timing effects.

Talk to the campus placement people at your college as well. See what their advice is (especially if a Dec grad). Have them look over your resume for glaring issues. I suspect they’ll help you, both practically but also psychologically to reflect on the activity/calendar cycle.

(It’s also worth asking that group how “fresh” the job board is. Some of those listings could have been posted back in May and if you applied to them after an entire graduating class saw them, they’re either filled or the company is incapable to fill them and has given up on them.)
> You're basically telling me: don't play competitive games or games online with strangers.

That's exactly what I'm saying.

> Some people actually enjoy these things believe it or not.

Those people will just have to live with cheaters as well as game company malware that doesn't actually work.

It's simple. The only way to prevent cheating is for the game company to own your machine. They can't. Not on PC where we have software freedom.
By still wearing a mask in enclosed places for example. We still have to work together, whatever anyone's opinion on vaxing is right now
For the low risk groups it's a small absolute risk reduction of hospitalisation, and extremely small absolute risk reduction of death. But given that herd immunity is now impossible to achieve, the long term impact on the high risk groups will be limited.

I expect what could see is stubbornly elevated hospitalization and deaths in the high risk groups :( Bad for them but also bad because the way that politicians trying to drive health policy under mistaken assumptions will react.
Yeah I’d love to see the internal construction. Also enjoying the Nixie tubes for the score on “Winter Hunt"
Surely there was a way in Pascal to execute system calls (which would give you access to malloc-like constructs)?
Why so bitter? Most complaints are just wrong...
:)

Why should somebody not upgrade packages to the last stable ones (and patch exploits) and why a good developer should be also a good DevOps? That's not like real life works.

So what of your complains are not because of bitterness (that they want to charge big companies for using what they pay programmers to develop)? :)
Well, I didn't even know we could do it via CLI on Windows. Thanks!
How to Grasp Containers and Docker (Mega Thread)
> These associations showed a general pattern of higher hazard ratios with higher noise exposure, but with a levelling off or even small declines in risk at higher noise levels

I wouldn't be surprised further study will show the last bit is due to earplugs at higher noise levels, resulting in a relative reduction in sleep disruption. Unless they also took earplug use into account already, then I'm genuinely curious what could be the reason
I may misunderstand how P2P at this scale works. How are map changes authorized and distributed if it's decentralized/P2P? Does this initiative focus exclusively on physical mapping and forego the extras like national borders/country naming (import your own GeoJSON)? What about street corrections? If it is a dynamically changing data set, is it reasonably plausible that the map data you get back could be poisoned?
Yeah. I guess most people have a complex list like that. In many ways we're actually spoilt for choice when it comes to communication. And the forum we're on right now is quite excellent.

It would just be nice if the big sites were less terrible. If Facebook were once again a nice place to stay in touch with 'real life' people instead of an engagement-driven nightmare. If LinkedIn could be a wider-professional-interests place with HN-quality discussion instead of just recruiters and drivel. If Twitter remained an amazing place to connect with thinkers but not the place for outraging people into campaigning for someone to lose their job. Because of network effects, the big sites eat up a lot of what should be better discussion.
> But I would imagine it's far slower than doodling on a napkin with a colleague during break.

I think you overestimate how much relevant these napkin innovation situations are. Talking with some coworker and drawing something over a napkin doesn't mean the idea will be revolutionary at all. Or even useful. It is most of the times, a romantic image that make people feel like the smart innovator they would like to be.
How ‘engagement’ makes you vulnerable to manipulation and misinformation
It's perfectly fine. People have to start somewhere. That summary could be someone's ticket to getting started.

Electronics is such a huge and overwhelming topic. Where is one supposed start? Maxwell's equations? Energy Band theory? Maybe for some, but differently prepared folks need different approaches for starting to learn something that is new to them.
Macintosh 1984 Promotional Video – With Bill Gates
It’s weird to me that in this instance the software can withstand an “attacker” having the device. I see this adage when reading about social engineering, That once the person has the device, they can take control of it. Ofc that doesn’t mean they can read all the data but yeah this is something I’ve seen a few times.
This would be good for a chip8 display
Given that the Azure notification provided zero details on the patching, I think we can apply Occam's razor here quite effectively.

One the one hand we have an old version with a known vulnerability that was successfully exploited.

On the other hand we have a backporting process for 5 years that applied fixes to this and a large number of other issues but missed the exploitable vulnerability.

Sure we can come up with imaginary scenarios where the second option is possible, but when reasoning about a scenario from limited information I generally go with the simplest possible explanation.
I’ve seen this used in the context of statements like “x is less than, equal to, or greater than y if and only if w is less than, equal to, or greater than z”. Which might be written “x ⪋ y if and only if w ⪋ z”.
You mention a bug but did not link the bugzilla ID. Want to share the link to the bug for this problem?
Was Sandra's experience in learning Egyptian Arabic
The Future Is Big Graphs: A Community View on Graph Processing Systems
A Farewell to the Bias-Variance Tradeoff?