skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is particularly insulting is the needless API/URL changes made in the official app in order to sabotage the efforts of the parents.

The Google Play listing should have had a "Mismanagement Count" prominently displayed that incremented every time this happened. The log, and the time spent, should be in court.

The parents decided to build this front end for free. They did not decide to play hide and seek with the interfaces, and for this they deserve compensation.
I use mine to keep track of when packages arrive AND to see what my dogs are barking at without having to leave my office. So far it has proven to be a useful tool.
I watch this whenever someone posts it, which is every time someone posts anything about Adam Curtis.
I've heard this called before the "4 hour life", you have 4 hours every day for yourself: https://medium.com/@pskallas/4-hour-life-glossary-4740bca641...
> Why is the ridership low? Because people are afraid of dangerous neighborhoods, wackos, homeless and other people of lower castes.

Where do you get this? PT ridership goes down where it is unreliable, has insufficient hours, has too few runs and where stops are far away. These things are all from investing far below what the public needs.

What I have personally seen over and over is that PT fills up with all the people who can overcome the hurdles and make it work. Remove more hurdles, get more riders.
2021 and Emacs still my preferred editor (and I'm young enough, in my 30's). Yes it requires a bit more setup (not much more however, VSC also misses functionality out of the box). However that setup is saved forever, across machines in the form of your .emacs file, so whatever changes you make to make it personal stay with you. And it's really not much more difficult to setup, Emacs lisp is more intuitive than JSON files and as a programming language, it's pretty easy to understand that you invoke a function and then just pass it parameters, and that's about all you need to understand about it to set up the editor anyway.

But there's literally nothing I don't have with Emacs that other editors provide. I have code completion in a bunch of languages (that pops up, with documentation pop-ups), linting, snippets, a project tree preview, project awareness, etc...
It’s peer influence. Every parent has dealt with the “all my friends have/get to do X except for me”.
> Could you elaborate on that?

I can try, but I may not do the idea justice.

When I was working on the game, the only thing that mattered was the _game_. Was it fun? Intriguing (we are a story based walking simulator)? Original? In line with our story structure (we wrote the story side by side of making the game because sometimes the best words on paper just couldn't be translated by us to a player experience)?

You make changes non-stop to iterate and tweak and perfect. You learn quickly that someone's gut feeling can kill an entire chapter of the game, or change the ending completely.

At some point, my code was just a tool in making the game. I didn't see myself carrying this codebase further to other projects (we built the game on Unity so already writing an engine was "solved"), so it just turned into working prototype after working prototype.

Your code doesn't have to solve for all the corner cases you may miss in QA, because in our game the state was almost guaranteed at different parts of the play through. You need to remain extremely flexible with your design and code because its possible the game shifts drastically under your hands, more so than I've ever experienced at an already-chaotic "big" company.

So it just stops mattering that much. At least for us. We didn't have a team for code (just me), or a separate art team, or a separate story team, or even a single game designer throughout the project. Everyone wore almost every hat, and you lose the grace of planning and process.

It's more a feeling than something I could quantify exactly. An interesting reflection is that I became more rigorous and detail oriented at the day job after the wild west of my game code.
The beginning part of the Founder (i.e. the story about how Ray Kroc turned McDonalds into a huge empire) is sort of inspirational in that the man has gumption and he recognizes the potential for Micky D's to become huge even though the original McDonald brothers never wanted to take it as big.

In fact, there's a portion of the movie where's psyching himself up to go and hustle by listening to a recording of Calvin Coolidge's speech on Persistence.

Like all that was really cool. My fave moment, though was when the McDonald brothers describe how they optimized the layout of their McDonald's location in San Bernardino.

In the last 3rd of the movie you see the bad part of Ray Kroc and how he ripped off the brothers but aside from that the first half is pretty inspirational to me.

Overall, a great movie.
Inbound? (current employee referring new employee)

Not sure. I don't think they have any, but there might be something of the sort.

I don't work there anymore, as got an offer I couldn't refuse and made the move. HD pay is mid non-SV, but Atlanta is pretty cheap to live in. Especially compared to west coast insanity.

I will say it's one of the few places I've ever worked that I seriously considered taking lower compensation in exchange for better culture, tech strategy, and colleagues.
I have an old Apple ][ as well and my kids like playing around on it from time to time. The best thing about it is you can’t break it. If something goes wrong they just turn it off and turn it back on. I’m also not worried they are going to delete all my iCloud photos or wipe my work drive or see something inappropriate on the internet.
Does v8 turn it into actual CPU code, or just bytecode?
this looks very similar to question2answers(https://www.question2answer.org/), but with a more updated UI. q2a has a lot of features and has been around for a long time, and since it is PHP it is simple to setup.
The mozilla Foundation doesn't provide their browser, the mozilla for-profit subsidiary corporation does.
How to finish your first game?

Do it in one weekend!

How to do it in one weekend?

Use simple game mechanics: a spaceshooter!

Aren't you a good artist?

No problem! Use processing and art from https://opengameart.org/ .

I've done it once just to have fun with my girlfriend. We built a very simple and fun space shooter in one weekend. I didn't keep the license or links of the resources, so I didn't publish it.
The difference in size you mention is significant, but typically there indeed is a safety margin for image resolution, called Kell factor [1]

To examine "true" resolution of an image one could look at its autocorrelation or Fourier spectrum [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kell_factor

[2] https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/107911/how-to-dete...
Piggybacking on the post - which courses and books on writing would you guys recommend?
On Dark Rooms, Jhanas, Ecstasy, and the Symmetry Theory of Valence
In general I think it would be a good thing as well, but there are some downsides that come to mind.

For example, seeking new employment your new employer would be able to see your previous salary. That means people who start out in the lower wage markets could have a much harder time improving their salaries.
LibreWolf is mostly a bunch of policies. If you go into the preferences pane, you should see a note: 'Your browser is being managed by your organization'. When you click the link, there's a bunch of 'features' disabled like telemetry, auto-updates etc. It also has the about:config section heavily tweaked and modified.

Doing all that on stock Firefox is a lot of work which is why I prefer the developers of LibreWolf to do it for me. Call me lazy if you want.

There is the added benefit of new Firefox features getting stripped in later releases of LibreWolf that otherwise would have gone un-noticed by me. Also: Trimming down the browser traffic and stopping it from being really chatty with Mozilla servers is great (if you don't like Mozilla for whatever reason).
Oh wow, that's incredible. I didn't zoom in enough when I first looked, evidently!
Strongly agree that there should be a GCC LSP server, and that Stallman's objections to the GCC features that would be needed to make one are Not Helpful.
To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion. Inspiring by the sheer grandiosity of the task, the will, and the ingenuity to tackle it. Back in the 1950s, while a trip to the Earth Moon was still just science fiction stuff, those guys were planning to go as far as Saturn in a couple of decades, riding nukes. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1039992/
Please consider posting some form of this as a blog post as well, I love to hear about product inceptions.

HN doesn’t allow lesser users with lesser eyesight to read light grey on beige self text, unfortunately.
Or, far more likely, people who don’t understand this stuff worried that they are gonna get sued because they let private data be accessed illegally.

And I’m sure the vendor they paid a billion to also had sales people insisting that what the open source people were doing was illegal.
In my experiments I was reducing size (fewer pixels).

> If you zoom in on the original vs. the scaled down image I expect you will see a difference.

I do not see a difference (other than noise) if I zoom in. I.e., I can almost always scale down to a size that is some fraction of original in which the original and the scaled down photo are indistinguishable even when zoomed in. I'll zoom in on something like the license plate on a car to judge the point at which the original and resized images are equally readable or equally un-readable.
Imo, close friendships often begin by witnessing mutual discomfort in the presence of a common hardship.

It is so much easier to be vulnerable around someone who has already seen you at your lowest or most embarrassing and that you know doesn't respond with ridicule. It is no coincidence that 3 of my closest friendships were formed during my most embarrassing freshman year of university. We certainly laughed with each other when things went south, but we rarely laughed at each other and that meant so much. After that, it is all about quality time. The more quality time you spend with them the deeper the bonds form. It's kinda like, if they know your trauma, they know you.

So, how do you make close friends as a working adult?

1. "Trauma Dog Whistling".

Ok, hear me out. No one wants to be the crybaby with no filter, but smart allusions or comic punchlines with regards to common forms of trauma helps peel the first few layers of the emotional onion that they've become by the time they are in the workforce. You can similarly do some "niche interest dog whistling" to find one of your community, but I personally find that having similar interests has very little to do with forming close friendships.

2. "Signal non-transactional nature"

Help them when you don't need to. This one is straight forward. A fundamental facet of a close friendship is that it stops being objectively transactional. (just like any other close sibling, romantic, parent relationship). Explicitly showing it is like showing your trust in an investment by not asking for any voting rights.

3. The long, silent activity :

This is very men focused, but nothing makes men want to open up like silence and a distracting primary activity. Whether that be gaming on a couch or a long hike. Many of my close friendships have solidified through such "long-silent-talking is secondary" activities.

4. Throw rocks at the footsteps of their glass house :

This is the final step of building trust. Everyone wants their friends to know their boundaries well. Overstep it and trust is breached. Stay too far away and you come across as distant. A great friend will routinely walk the line. Their jokes, comments & intimacy will reach right up to your border and then they will retreat. You may not explicitly realize this, but it strongly conveys to your subconscious, that this person 'knows' me.

5. Give them a role :

So now you have a good friend, how do you keep them ? It sounds robotic, but give them a role. The person you go to for X, or talk to about X, or the one who does X that's really cool and I like hearing about it every 3 months. It gives you an excuse to call after they inevitably move away. It gives you an excuse to turn up with the excuse of the 'role'. You really want to meet them, but men are too uncomfortable saying that outright. The role is a nice excuse to skirt around the discomfort.

Ofc, your friend will be hopefully reciprocating by indulging in some of these steps. Eventually, you will have a long lasting friendship that both of you will feel fortunate for. :)
The episode about the Halloween movie from the Netflix series movies that made us. Those guys were all unknowns working in a network of established players that wouldn't take to them. Not tech but those guys embody the entrepreneurial spirit.
This is called "Besik" in most other Central Asian countries. Gahvora is just the Tajik specific name for it.

(use your favourite translation tool on this) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BA...

It's deemed a normal practice, similar to swaddling or baby wraps etc. Although Its a bit out-dated now and more "traditional".
To be honest, we just grab a first short .com domain name we liked a) which was available at reasonable price b) we like
> The content of the message might be encrypted, but metadata can provide valuable intelligence insights.

What metadata? Signal doesn't store anything about you aside the date you joined and the time of your last ping.
My local grocery store cards everyone for alcohol, even people obviously in their 90s. It turns out it's really hard to determine what counts as "clear-cut", and there are consequences for fucking it up.
implementation of continue from one luajit fork:

https://github.com/zewt/LuaJIT/commit/c0e38bacba15d0259c3b77...
That movie is better than all the movies about Steve Jobs that came out since. It shows the good and the bad.
> Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982)

In-drama and out-drama?

> When shooting was nearly complete, the chief of the Machiguenga tribe, who were used extensively as extras, asked Herzog if they should kill Kinski for him
Same here! It's just easier to undo :)
It boils down to what people consider personal information. I don't especially want to share this information (nor lots of other things about my personal life) and that's my decision to make absent public policy that goes in a different direction. So it's a downside to me simply because I don't think my salary or many other things are any of your business.

Also you don't know you're a better employee than me. You think you are but you may not even be aware of a bunch of stuff I do.
I second Silicon Cowboys. It sounds exactly what OP is looking for. 1980s David vs. Goliath. I was cheering from my sofa.
No, though I wrote the level/puzzle editor in Python, which would generate json that was read by the game, which was written with the Unity engine and lots of C#.
Yeah, no. This is a very outdated stereotype. Sweden, for example, is already very diverse and is getting increasingly more so.
Try to do that with a computer. The UI of a computer is nowhere refined as a tablet. Even game consoles have UIs that presume reading. The switch has that super complex setup-controller-screen every time you boot it.

Also, the child gets bored fast if nothing happens, which is obviously ok, peaked what could learn.
From personal experience, I've benefited way more from that than I've been hurt by it. Whether that's true for all people I don't know.

Of course, you're not supposed to do it other than very carefully and it has caused me problems when some plugin has made a mistake in a way that worked for the original author but not for me, but because of the openness of the system, it's fairly easy to "overwrite it back" automatically when the plugin is loaded – and submit a patch back upstream.

So maybe this sort of system works only when a large portion of the users are hackers, and making Emacs more popular is not a good idea!
The joke "Generally Not Used Except by Middle-Aged Computer Scientists" has been around for like 20 years, though.
Apollo: Missions to the Moon[0]

There is no narrator for this documentary. All of the "narration" is from recorded tv, radio, and home movies from the time. It is really inspiring to watch humans overcome Earth's gravity to get to the Moon as it happened over 50 years ago.

[0] https://www.natgeotv.com/int/apollo-missions-to-the-moon
I think it's interesting that there are Emacs users who use it for so long and yet still regard it as a text editor.

For me it's a window manager, mail client, terminal emulator and so much more and I don't know of a rivaling ecosystem where I could get these things in a consistent way. Maybe something Apple makes, but that's a non-starter really (especially if you care about keyboard accessibility).
Children _die_ of covid. Studies have shown that the complications due to the vaccine are basically nothing other than arm pain and do decrease that chance of death. Studies have shown it's worth it for children to take the vaccine regardless of questions of spread.

Beyond that I've never seen that vaccines don't prevent spread. Sure they are not "sterilizing" vaccines and they don't prevent 100% of spread, but nowhere have I seen anything saying they don't decrease the likelihood of spread.
Small nitpick but I really don't like how scrum uses the name "sprint". You don't go far by making lots of sprints back to back. You go far by walking with a clear goal in my. "Sprint" carries no notion of direction.
Toledo War (Wikipedia)
Is it a job? Where could I find someone that pays for music?
I'm getting serious MUMPS flashbacks with a critical hospital-wide database accessible through only one programming language with absolutely no access control or rollback.
So if you want to move out of your parents house to attend college or to begin your career, you can do so by simply purchasing an entire dwelling in perpetuity and will save money doing so?

That seems unlikely to hold true.
Cloud: IO limits gone full circle
Show HN: Kiss. Minimalist open-source Android launcher, no internet access 200KB
It’s easy without a code review, just trace it’s network activity and see what connections it makes.
As far as I know it is JIT compiled to native code. But it is a rather complex process, where the execution is profiled which informs the JIT'er to re-optimize. This obviously have some overhead compared to executing AOT compiled code, but the overhead is independent from how long the code takes to execute. So if something is noticeably slow, it is not because of the JIT compilation overhead.
+1

Also, the editor should include an auto-print option that's on by default. The first snippets I tried (copying up from below) didn't include a print statement, and thus didn't show any output when run.
Would you be upset if people showed positive emotion at the execution (cheers, etc.; think murder victim's family)

Executions have a long history of being a public event and fun/exciting/scratching a human morbid itch and satisfying cravings for justice (putting aside the innocence / false positive question for a moment) and I think a contemporary audience may exhibit some of the same historical reactions and behaviors
Walkability requires a certain degree of density and mixing of residential and commercial buildings. When a lot of zoning is only single family homes on large plots with the commercial structures separated a few miles away, walkability becomes basically impossible.

When you don't have those requirements, it doesn't even make sense to design around walkability, as nobody would walk to you even if you built a walking path to their doorstep.
Or just trace it’s network activity without a code audit.
Oregon is one of the last places to have a mask mandate in nearly all public settings. However, a lot of businesses are not enforcing it, even for their own employees. People are done done done with it.
i think you misunderstand. the tail has been wagging the dog for some time now. it is not for the market to adapt to our needs, it is for us to adapt to the market and hopefully we can extract what we need.
Working full time, married with three kids. I know this well. I've had a business acquired, write blog posts, writing a book series, have taught courses and more....by far the most common question is "How do you do that?"

For me, it really is as simple as....I just go to work hours early to work on those things, because I enjoy them. When I get home, I'm just a dad and a husband.
I reckon "my project first" is a great habit, but it requires something else: the willpower to start. It's very easy to spend those extra couple of hours in the morning just sipping a coffee, reading HN, catching up with social media. Work is work and it starts because other people will ping you, you'll have to be online on a certain computer, etc etc; but if you are your own boss, it's very easy to let employee #1 (yourself) slack off.

Also, this works only if you are a remote worker. Most commuting will nuke those two hours away (yeah you can work on the bus/train, but probably not well - spotty connections, uncomfortable, no extra monitor, no mouse, etc; and if you have motion sickness like me, it's a non-starter), and in the evening you'll be even more shattered.
Tangentially related: the Acquired podcast recently put out a great episode on Morris Chang and TSMC. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc
Top earning female affiliate marketers in the world and how much they are making
There are two things about Oxygen free environments.

First, humans can't actually detect Oxygen. We can detect CO2, largely because the build up in our blood makes it more acidic, but we can't actually tell how much Oxygen is in the air or in our bodies. The negative feeling of holding your breath isn't caused by insufficient air, but the buildup of CO2 in your blood due to metabolism. As such, humans actually can't detect an oxygen free room, as long as it isn't full of CO2 (we'd notice that).

Second, part of how we absorb gas is via the difference in gas pressure between our blood and the air. When the partial pressure of CO2 in our blood is higher than the air, it diffuses out, and when the partial pressure of O2 in the air is higher than our blood it tends to dissolve into solution. In an Oxygen free environment any O2 in our blood not already bound up by Hemoglobin rapidly diffuses away, robbing us of O2 faster than holding our breath and cell metabolism normally would, resulting in loss of consciousness very quickly.

The combination of these is why it is advised you never enter an Oxygen free environment without a self contained breathing apparatus. Industrial reports are littered with tragic stories of multiple people entering an N2 or Halogen environment to rescue their friends, only to perish themselves.
People generally don't notice they're hypoxic. The panic of not being able to breathe is caused by the buildup of CO2 in the blood moving the pH down.

Helium doesn't react to anything chemically without a shit ton of energy.
If so, in my view that’s a feature as most large European cities have wide enough roads for cars and the new neighbourhoods that were designed with cars in mind have never outperformed the old areas, where people actually want to live.

London Canary Wharf being the epitome, where no one wants to live so badly the people that work there will pay more to live further away and suffer the horrible commute to go live in a walkable, older area.
You guys both got nothing on pressing Cmd-W on a MacOS terminal when you intend to copy a selection. :-( I swear whoever designed that UI must have been a vi partisan.
Netflix Games begins rolling out on Android
Why not just audit the network activity? It’s all the evidence I need.
It depends on how they plan to diverge from upstream firefox. Given enough source code changes a fork might be justifiable.
Have you considered any level of FoundryVTT[0] integration? That could be a really cool plugin!

[0] https://foundryvtt.com