skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last month was the lowest spending month our household has had in nearly five years, for what it’s worth. And that’s with some home renovation (DIY) and a new hobby.

The biggest factor for us is changing what we buy, not prices. Buying less alcohol and fewer pre-packaged foods has made a huge difference in our grocery bill.
I don't like a lot of things that Google does, but it might be worth noting that trying to circumvent government regulations is not automatically evil. Government regulations are not automatically good.
This is blatantly unconstitutional and any professors disciplined under this would be in line for a fat settlement from the university. Or rather, they would be if our justice system actually worked.

Rule of law in the US is on life support and the prognosis is not good.
Your job is where you spend the most of your time. Do not settle for something that you have to endure. Your mental health must be a priority.

We have a finite number of days in this life. Ten years from now, will you think back and say, "I can't believe I just kept working there!" Or will you say, "I'm so proud of myself for leaving when I saw the writing on the wall."

When it's time, it's time. The only person who will suffer in the end is you.

Get yourself another job lined up and leave.
the largest demographic on youtube, by far, is children. if you ignore that and you're trying to make a living from youtube you're doing it wrong.
I don't understand why this would give someone anxiety attack - it would suck if the interviewer sat next to me and watched my every keystroke, it wasn't that in my case. He just set me up and left to do his job. I was on my own, until I finished and called him over to show the bugfix.

I have anxiety issues when an interviewer asks me some obscure syntax option for grep command or some b-tree stuff that I learned in college decade ago (and never used in real life).
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-banks-deposits-idUSKBN...

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/082316...

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property...

Anyway , i ve been burnt by banks enough in the past to know that binance is better than banks. I can't be preached about it.
The Verge handed the new 16" MBPs (the to-the-gills one) to one of their editors for her workflow, and she said she got about 4 hours on a charge. They believed it was a combination of Rosetta apps (Adobe still isn't done transitioning) and the gigantic GPU in the M1 Max.

For a full day I'd probably leave it plugged in.
> Regardless of your stance on the issue, does anyone actually believe that three "voting rights" professors will give a politically unbiased testimony in 2021?

Why is this question even relevant in a court case? There's no assumption anyone involved in either side of litigation is unbiased: in fact quite the contrary. The legal system including judges and juries is designed to sort out the contending claims.
Public servants serve the people.
The immediate technical root cause and the true root cause (often down to poor decision making among the senior technical staff and management) are two different things, and I suspect the public and internal post-mortems both will focus on the former rather than the latter, sadly.
They can even do use-after-free errors just like in C.
Could you provide sources? I have never run into this, yet I hear about crypto exchanges freezing/pausing all the time.
Some guestimating: I clicked on 3 of the current top 10 posts, so if that's a representative click-through rate then that would put the HN community at ~100k daily active users (which probably means more like 1M monthly). That's assuming the post stayed in the top 10 for 24 hours, or at least long enough for visitors from every time zone to notice it.
GitHub is China’s ‘last land of free speech’ – but for how long?
I run Kubernetes on my low-end Digital Ocean droplet.
If its not every day then it averages downward very quickly
This seems like clear "witness intimidation" aka "Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant"

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1512

(b)Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to—

(1)influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding;

(2)cause or induce any person to—

(A)withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding;

(B)alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an
official proceeding;

(C)evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness, or to produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or

(D)be absent from an official proceeding to which such person has been summoned by legal process; or
I'm Canadian.

The reason the press focusses on it so much is that it is, thus far, the only real step that the west is taking against Chinese hegemony. It's expensive and it's real. The rest of Cold War 2.0 hasn't really started yet. A couple of Mikes, a couple of tariffs, sure, but realistically if we really snap into a true standoff with China it's going to absolutely devastate the world's total economic output and stability.
This promulgation and advocacy of laziness and know-nothing-ism is frightening and all too commonplace nowadays.

The ACID example was a bad one, granted, but everyone seems to be giving up after identifying that. I also think that this post is not about interviewing. I am much more concerned with the line the author takes about knowing how a digital computer work is even necessary. How have we arrived at this point?

As an example, how seriously would you take an aircraft flight controls software engineer who willfully chooses to never learn how an airplane flies? What if they just claimed that their sole responsibility was to take flight requirements from “people who know how airplanes work” and implement code? Knowing how horrific the results of this attitude is in even low pressure business situations, would you get on the plane he designed the software for?

People who live by and spread the idea that one only need know the things he or she is ‘required to know’ are dangerous for engineering organizations. When something goes horribly wrong, your mission critical system crashes, when you get dragged before the higher ups to explain the situation and fix it, the excuse ‘I don’t have to know how this works to do my job’ simply won’t fly.

People have lost all respect for the pursuit of excellence. Ask yourself who you would like to have on your team: someone who stops at learning the bare minimum to get paid and inevitably ruins the integrity of a product or someone who continually pursues getting better at their job and accelerates the people around them? Would you rather work with someone who values knowledge or someone who doesn’t?

I think it is drastically foolish to defend the toleration of those who aren’t even willing to learn basics like how a computer works in the name of inclusivity, utilitarianism, or egalitarianism.

Furthermore, I know a slew of extremely bright, tenacious, and committed young people who are ruthlessly pursuing excellence in engineering. If given the chance and enough time they will easily outperform, outwork, and surpass anyone who adheres to these lazy practices. If you do think this way and don’t want these kids to take your job then I suggest you buckle down a bit and learn some basics.
Right, public consultations by governments to consider it. Versus the banks just doing it.
Can you provide a source on that? Coz the v8 blog has like a monthly dedicated warning post against the dreaded "Holey" array and how it's the archnemesis of all performance optimizations. Ok exaggeration aside, it's something along the lines of "A holey array will never _ever_ become packed...".
>I would say using a browser extension to direct the browser to display it anyways wouldn't be a violation. You were authorized to make the initial request for the otherwise public page and they choose to send the full content to you. You aren't making any other connections to their system that you aren't authorized to make.

An interesting point.

I, as a general rule, disable javascript in my daily driver browser (Firefox).

Doing so breaks the paywall on certain sites. I'm not specifically targeting those sites (e.g., with uBlock or noscript), as I've disabled javascript for all sites and don't use any extensions to bypass paywalls.

Where the use of javascript is required (and I find that out by visiting the site -- then decide whether I actually want to view/use it) I'll use a different browser altogether (in my case, Vivaldi).

I don't believe that disabling javascript is a "hacking" attempt, mostly because I don't do so to bypass anything -- rather, I don't want arbitrary javascript executing on my systems.
Dime – Turn your content into NFTs
Binance halts withdrawals on tons of cryptos regularly and has done so for years. This isn't surprising to anyone who trades on binance. Guess it makes for a click-bait-y title though.
Why Facebook is spending billions on the metaverse
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> There is probably no good reason to distrust Huawei.

https://thediplomat.com/2019/02/the-huawei-dilemma-insecurit...

> The findings to these lines of inquiry proved troubling to the Intelligence Committee. The probe examined Huawei’s and ZTE’s ties to the Chinese state, including support by the Chinese government and connections to the Communist Party of China, and their work done on behalf of the Chinese military and intelligence services. For instance, Congressional investigators were concerned with the background of Mr. Ren, Huawei’s founder, who had links to the 3PLA – China’s signals intelligence division – and the Communist Party, such as serving as a member to the 12th National Congress. They did not find credible claims or evidence that the company was, in fact, an employee-owned and controlled enterprise or had an independent board of directors.

> Instead, the Intelligence Committee found that the Chinese government and Communist Party exerted influence over and supported Huawei as a “national champion.” For example, Huawei admitted that an internal Party Committee existing within the company, consistent with Chinese law, but refused to discuss or describe the role, membership, or impact of this group on corporate decision-making. Huawei’s failure to provide further detailed information explaining how it is formally regulated, controlled, or otherwise managed by the Chinese government undermined, in the view of Congressional investigators, the company’s repeated assertions that it is not inappropriately influenced by the Chinese government.

> Huawei also refused to provide answers to direct questions about its financing and connections with Chinese state banks, nor did it provide internal documentation or auditable financial records to evaluate its claims that any financing arrangements comply with standard practice and international trade agreements. In support, Congressional investigators cited the earlier finding of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission that enterprises like Huawei rely on generous state-backed financing to make an investment project in a new market viable. To the detriment of U.S. competitors, financial subsidies from the Chinese government can enable its national champions to penetrate markets by offering products below the costs of production.

> Additionally, the Intelligence Committee found that Huawei exhibited a “pattern of reckless disregard” for the intellectual property rights of U.S. companies. Congressional investigators cited Huawei’s settlement in civil litigation with Cisco, in which Huawei agreed to remove certain products from the marketplace due to violations of Cisco’s intellectual property rights. Whistleblowers – former employees of Huawei – also offered testimony that the company deliberately used the patented material of other firms. In the judgment of the Intelligence Committee, these issues with intellectual property rights raised broader concerns of Huawei’s compliance with U.S. laws in general.
Apart from not being very random, it also wasn't thread-safe.
The Reading Obsession
They are in fact UF professors though, and that fact would be relevant in any case they testified in. Are UF professors banned from acting as paid expert witnesses in general? Or just for this issue?

To your edit: the fact that the entity in question is a government is the difference here in my opinion.
is the time zone in the plots CET?
Yeah makes sense. I have read PG's post on doing a startup parttime and it was in the back of my head the whole time.
Way too long to respond to all of it so I’ll just do some highlights. I covered resetting center again. This is a problem for all gyro controllers, not just VR. Splatoon 2 does this great.

Adding 3 additional axises change nothing. Nintendo didn’t do it because it’s very niche to require that. It costs pennie’s more to get a 6DOF gyro vs a 3DOF. The question is the need. Do you need to rotate the yaw of your hand? Nope.

So my statements stand. The VR folks seem to be on a “we’re more superior than thou” kick with gyro controls.
It's a combination of a couple of factors.

1) Huawei had a tech / competitive lead vis a vis western firms, so those firms have been pushing / lobbying / this narrative of distrust around Huawei.

2) Huawei has done itself NO favors by just ridiculous actions - I think not realizing they are trying to sell into a western market where some of these stunts don't come across so well. In China helping N. Korea not a big deal and makes sense, China doesn't want N Koreans flooding over border. But then I thought the claims that no assistance etc offered was silly, just say yes, for x reasons we helped y country with their telecom.
It is a successful language, a successful C++ replacement remains to be seen, as per companies whose SDKs favour only C, C++ and their managed stacks.
My fax line, which I need because my bank can't email me a wire payment notification, still gets spam.
Those non anti-aliased fonts in screenshots give me the reverse feeling of nostalgia.
My goal is to ensure I _don't_ have an interesting material near my dwelling. Considering I know of at least one case where some was discovered near a home and was probably there for 40 years.
Is the subset of people who are motivated to manage their diabetes static?

There are probably ways to increase that number. Making it more convenient, more social, and applying game theory (the same thing fitness trackers can do for excercise) can get more people to care
Under what criteria?
It’s more complicated than that. State actors have have certain freedom to restrict speech when acting in their capacity as private employers: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2005/04-473
It doesn't. It's a plugin for old Microsoft developer tools rather than a standalone application.
Yep, this kills the patient
per the article:

> Are UF professors banned from acting as paid expert witnesses in general?

No

> Or just for this issue?

Yes
> Notably, the court recently curtailed the definition of "unauthorized" use in van Buren [1], which to me was a completely and somewhat unexpected ruling.

A pedantic point: van Buren decided the interpretation of "exceeds authorized access", not "without authorization". (There is no "unauthorized" in the statute--it says "accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access" as the operative part.)
The IPCC reports describe the answers to those questions very thoroughly, no point in rehashing that here.
Organizations that aren't the government. State universities are public institutions, not private ones.
If I mail you a letter and you send a letter back, have I hacked your house? Let's say you don't respond, and I send my letter with a different return address and then you respond. That's basically what is happening here.

If you don't want people sending you letters, get rid of the mailbox. For tech, close your ports. If you don't want to send information out, stop responding to the letters (or packets).
Which one? Sorry, I couldn’t find it
You mean this one?

https://container-registry.oracle.com/ords/f?p=113:4:1094175...

Or if you prefer OpenJDK: https://container-registry.oracle.com/ords/f?p=113:4:1094175...
This is typical behavior for binance. I don't love it, but alarming? I'm not sure that typical behavior that they've displayed for years is alarming other than now all withdrawals were paused simultaneously which is new, but seems rather inconsequential since anyone who trades on binance knows they pause withdrawal on coins regularly.
Game development using Unreal Engine, which has a C++ API [0]

[0] https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/features/c-api
Its creator was one of the devs of the "Budget Cuts" VR game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/400940/Budget_Cuts/
> their money won't buy them a way out.

It definitely will. The only civil war could be working-class cops and PMCs against people who are paid by the hour, who have to show up with an hour's notice, who have their urine tested, who have their complaints about discrimination and dangerous conditions ignored, and who are fired at will - and that war is always going on.

Wealthy people will (do) rely on people with guns to protect their physical vicinity, and the technology, organization, and propaganda provided by the people posting on this thread to multiply the effort of the people with guns.

edit: I bet you could have a civil war in the US that wouldn't affect the financial industry or the wealthy at all, even while the war was going on. Personal security would just become one of those things that people looking for jobs at FAANGs would expect as part of the package.
There are tons of facilities in the language intended for library authors and abstractions that are absolutely intended to be used out of the box. This is just how things are, features are provided at various levels of abstractions. I know HN loves to collectively hate on C++ but “caste system?” Lol
> Without getting into the existential question of what does it mean to be real

I think what I meant was mostly

> will all or most DNS servers other than Google's resolve .google addresses

I didn't realize Google had bought their own TLD.

I'm not sure how I feel about the sponsored TLDs. I think I like them, mostly. I think I don't love how .google is centered on a single corporation in the same way that I don't like how .gov and .mil have always been so US-centric.

In a way it feels like an intrusion, or somehow misplaced
Since the idea of a "tech company" comes up so often, I'll just leave this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693634
It doesn't represent American ideals, but it does represent the reality of America's current (and past) political and cultural landscape.

Making it difficult for certain groups of people to participate in the democratic process is unfortunately a long-standing American tradition.
I did some amateur research on this years ago. I couldn't understand how a spider can 'fly' with a thread of gossmer, than has no aerodynamic lift. The most likely explantion is that the spider is falling in a rising column of convective air, but (in some cases) the thread allows it to fall slower than the air is rising.
I don't mind my laptop not screaming obscenities at me every time I do a cargo build/run. The local changes will have to be synced frequently enough for this to work. May be have the remote compiler named "cargor" and let is seamlessly run the compilation step in cloud.

However this might not really work well at all unless the network connection is insanely fast as the build sizes are huge with rust (especially in debug modes).
Check out this system for (open) declarative multiplayer VR https://github.com/networked-aframe/networked-aframe
I've done it a few times, which shocked me. Each time it meant about 20-40k unique views and some solid discussion. That's honestly my favorite thing when it happens, seeing something I wrote about discussed in depth on here by people who know what they are talking about.

The only real lasting benefit was a steady stream of traffic to those articles years later.

Reality Driven Development: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17154355

Comparing Elixir and Go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13497505

Docker is the Heroku Killer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8371249

No Such Thing as "Real" Programming: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11045526
A 6 hour window is less than 1% of a month. If you think HN has 100K MAUs then you should expect way less than 28,000 people to hit HN during that 6 hour window to see the link in the #1 spot. Even if the article was on the front page for a full day you wouldn't expect 28,000 clicks because fewer than that would be hitting HN on that particular day. Traffic isn't distributed linearly across the month but still.

Even then, I don't think this is a representative snapshot of HN users anyway. The average time on the site was 37 seconds. That's enough to work out what it's about and decide it's not interesting (to that person). As Codeamigo is a coding school, and HN has a lot of users who can already code, that's not surprising. It's likely that far more people read the comments first and didn't bother clicking after understanding what it is.

More importantly than all of that though, is that the link wasn't about Codeamigo. It was about starting it after being rejected by Codacademy. The interesting part of the narrative was about coming back from rejection, not the product itself. The fact 28,000 people clicked at all is amazing.
Introducing the layer based SVG engine
It's been a pretty positive experience for Codeamigo. People have been reaching out to help out, submit bug reports, and suggest interesting features.
Count on the British to bring the prissy uptightness
>The rest of Cold War 2.0 hasn't really started yet

I suspect it has been raging for some time now, online, by bots and so called shills in the form of information warfare.
Yes, you are of course correct. I was thinking of a heap, which is a complete binary tree.
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really? which private entities explicitly or historically have allowed a member to testify against either the entity itself or another entity that funds the one in which the member of a part of?

even whistleblowers generally quit before testifying, or are expected to not necessarily retain their rights as a member afterwards.

there's really no incentive for an organization to explicitly allow a member to testify against them or another entity that funds them.

genuinely curious if it's happened before.
I'd have much preferred to see bone conduction rather than small speakers broadcasting your personal noise...
> Its an open secret that right leaning opinions are taboo across academia.

This sounds like something someone would say whose opinions were not defensible academically.

Anecdotally, I see examples of right leaning opinions from academically schooled contributors to HN all the time.
Agree. With all the anti-democratic practices being rolled out across the states it’s pretty scary to imagine things even a year from now and a long time forward. Life threats against election officials and all the way up to Senators. Gerrymandering. Even the SCOTUS is biased. Seems civics in the US are about to be rigged for one party rule.
Jumping spiders also look pretty amazing. See:
https://www.demilked.com/jumping-spiders-macro-photography-t...
Who starts at 14? That's too late.

As the comment below mentions, it starts much higher, then slows down.