skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The kinds of things the post above complained about breaking on macOS—third-party software that messes with system internals in unsupported ways—also break frequently on Windows. To say nothing of the first-party breakage of Microsoft constantly moving around settings, re-enabling or re-installing annoyances you turned off, and removing your ability to easily get rid of them, and adding new ones behind your back.

Microsoft really only tries to preserve basic compatibility for well-behaved applications that aren't tightly integrated with any OS components or specific hardware/drivers and aren't doing anything that Microsoft disapproves of. Anything that strays outside those boundaries will run into trouble, and a lot of software ends up falling outside those boundaries even if it didn't really need to.

Both operating systems are pretty bad at letting you wield control over your own computer. But macOS doesn't try as hard to obscure the BS or obstruct your attempts to tame it, and macOS actually lets you refuse updates that you don't want.
http://wiki.classictw.com/index.php/Jumpgate

Can still play TradeWars
I'm sure customs officers around the world have never seen this trick before...
Honestly, I wouldn't be concerned about that. Insurance is nothing more than free revenue for the carrier.

I'd send close to 500 packages a month to destinations all over the world, and tracked items almost never go missing.

For those that do go missing, it's always to a few hotspots that I would simply avoid if selling an item this valuable (pretty much just Brazil and South Africa now; Russia and Italy are much better than they used to be).
They need 16+ anyway because of running 2 or 3 Electron apps.
I'd like three sheep fleeces. I'd like three sheep.

Aren't plurals interesting?
Somewhat? I often compare it to a mix of Twitter and Reddit for people that haven't experienced IRC.

If you have experienced IRC, it's basically that. You have smaller rooms (groups) and bigger ones. Every room has their active 1%, their own rules and customs and after a while, their own inside jokes etc.

Otherwise, it's a bit like reddit because you join groups that are usually about a certain topic / niche (general programming, JavaScript, Counter Strike, cooking, what have you) and it's also a bit like twitter because there's often a "hot topic" for a day or two with small things happening in between. Also because no one in their right mind treats those chats like actual group chats, as in, you don't read all the messages you missed. After a weekend i have at least 10k "missed messages".

This comparison is also cool because it reminds you to treat telegram just like reddit and twitter: it's public basically. Anyone can join groups you're in and log every message (there's plenty bots that do that) and they can see the contents of a public group even without joining. It's not encrypted by default and frankly, barely anyone uses secret chats, if only because ppl are on their desktop half the time anyway
These keys are symmetric, so they can be used for decryption. With these symmetric keys you might be able to decrypt games, videos, save files etc sitting on the disk. I don't believe signing will be possible, nobody uses symmetric keys for signing games.

What this does is increase the possibility of someone finding how to bypass the signature verification check and then running their own code.
> social dynamics and evolutionary theory

These are sophisticated words, but I the argument is about strawpeople (hawks, doves, "population of only doves", etc.) and provides no factual basis. The facts are that nobody in history has been more secure.

> 1970-2010 enjoyed great success in globalisation. It bankrupted American manufacturing industry, created the rust belt and asymmetrical trade practices exploited the dove-dominanet globalist society

The free world did extremely well in that period, including the US. It was the biggest, most productive, wealthiest economy in the world, 'won' the Cold War, and became the sole superpower, all as freedom and democracy expanded around the world.

Of course it is imperfect, imbalanced, and could (and should) be done better. But it has been the most successful international order ever, with no competition in sight.

Also, the rust belt began rusting back in the 1950s.
Consider the fact that to many people and especially advertisers that Telegram is primarily known for stuff like this: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hope-not-hate-telegram-nazis

No reputable brand is going to want to touch this for a long time unless they clean up their service which they have been notoriously reluctant to do.
On LinkedIn, when approached, and I am approached very often:
My very first question is: "What is the compensation range for this position?"

And if it is below what I am seeking, I say "Thank you for making me aware of this opportunity. At the compensation range you stated it is a hard pass from me. If you can come back with a realistic number I might be open to a discussion. Good luck in your continuing candidate search."

Or if they ask me what I want, I say: "I'm currently making $230k base. Can you come up with a number higher than that which would convince me to move from a job I am happy with?"

It quickly removes the time wasters and the starry eyed dreamers and the cheap skates, and the people who are serious, then we have a conversation and see where it leads. And I have plenty of conversations every month. Yes, it's effective. It's a business negotiation, and the person on the other side of the conversation either understands that inherently or is trying to convince me that my labour is worth less.
> they all answered a variation of "it takes a while to get stuff to prod once it's built. We need someone who can help get better at that". Yet not a single question for that. I guess the lesson learnt is that if you are looking for a particular skilk, maybe focus on that as well.

If they knew enough about the problem and its solutions for it to filter down to people doing interviews, they wouldn't need to hire someone to teach them how to do it, right?
Surprisingly, some really old windows software installers will ask you want to run the install anyways even after it determines there's not enough space. That seems to be the ideal solution.
Doh yes per century, recoil figures from memory from a long time ago, thanks for updated ones
You are confusing your own personal experience for the standard experience of macOS users. Personally, beachballs are so rare for me in the past few years that I'm always amazed when I see one.
>>>All that, versus spending twenty bucks a dose. Are you sure you’re not sure why? I hope you aren’t one to disparage taxation and public spending.

It's not a "versus" for vaccine doses. We need the healthcare capacity AND the widespread vaccination. This is "versus" helicopter money to business owners/QE-lite. The US has repeatedly proven it can force the planet to accept its monopoly money/IOUs indefinitely so if we're gonna keep the money printer going "BRRRR" we might as well allocate it to a few things that are, IMO, useful. Such as rapidly-trained, Federal Service nurses.
I'm in my late thirties and starting my first 'proper' engineering job next week. The career change process took me about four years all told, but life gets in the way and naturally YMMV.

I was working in administrative and funding roles for non-profits and hated it. I'd been doing it since school and had no idea what else I could do. I ended up going back to study, choosing a social science Masters with a strong quantitative focus. I really clicked with the code side of things. I'd done bits of BASIC, VBA, and Pascal as a kid, but nothing more than ridiculously over-worked Excel books since then.

I actually picked up Python at school before taking a module in it. A friend who knew I was interested in learning to code needed some data from a website and asked if I'd be able to scrape it. I said "No, but I think I can work it out." I still recommend a scraping project to anyone trying to learn to code. You need to have this very basic understanding of http requests, HTML, and flow control in whatever language you're using. And you get something out of it at the end.

I love reading programming books, but I find them best for consolidating and pushing forward skills. I feel I've learned best when working on projects, and personally didn't get on with things like Learn Python the Hard Way or online courses. May just be my learning style though.

I've built my skills though finding lots of little projects to do; either as part of my course, or later for a (sort of) related job, or in my free time. Whilst reading is definitely important, try and find stuff that interests and excites you that you can find an excuse to code with. Things I've really learned from include:

- Building a tool to create corporate networks from the UK Companies House API;

- Scraping and analyzing sales on a darknet drug site;

- Getting R code running in Python (Python sucks for survey analysis, R sucks for day to day use);

- Reverse engineering a police incident map to get at the underlying data;

- Working out the distance, by road, between any given point in my city and a fire station;

- Using the Blender Python API to make custom 3D-printable bases for my wargaming minis.

Good luck! It's daunting changing career and has been a slow and frustrating process for me sometimes. Totally worth it though. All the best to you :-)
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I’m really not sure about that. By definition, high entropy means high information density (information per character). So with the same amount of information you would have less characters.
Not the OP, but in India, the lowest priced one I could find was from ASUS, which costs around $2600. I don't think the vanilla RTX 3080Ti is available here yet. The most expensive one was from MSI which costs around $3200. Whereas PS5 (official price i.e. without considering the shortages) costs $675.
A talk by Moxie at CCC deals with this exact question.

> “ Considerations for distributed and decentralized technologies from the perspective of a product that many would like to see decentralize.

> Amongst an environment of enthusiasm for blockchain-based technologies, efforts to decentralize the internet, and tremendous investment in distributed systems, there has been relatively little product movement in this area from the mobile and consumer internet spaces.

> This is an exploration of challenges for distributed technologies, as well as some considerations for what they do and don't provide, from the perspective of someone working on user-focused mobile communication. This also includes a look at how Signal addresses some of the same problems that decentralized and distributed technologies hope to solve.”

https://youtu.be/DdM-XTRyC9c
> The same way any other federated system does. Allow, ignore, block and such...

Ah, “it would not”, sounds absolutely great.
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The display style of Electronic Charts are standardised, but not the UI of the device that display them. However, seafarers are required to be formally trained on each type of Electronic Chart display they use.

Beyond that, not much. The instrumentation of a harbour tug with a simple shaft drive will clear be very different to an ocean-going cruise ship with sophisticated steerable propulsion pods.

Arguably, apart from engine instruments there is only one "default" instrument which virtually every powered boat has - a compass.

Traditionally, large ships had a substantial array of individual control panels supplied by different manufacturers which took up a large amount of physical space, and the senior officers would give orders to the people operating them rather than walking backwards and forwards constantly.

On the latest passenger ships, similar to aircraft they are moving more towards integrated multi-function displays which enable all systems to be directly controlled by one person.
Not even close globally. But in countries where it's popular, it's comparable.
Wait, wasn’t it the other way around? There was that fail0verflow slide about how the PS3 took unusually long to crack if you count from the release, but essentially the same time as other consoles if you count from the moment one couldn’t run other OSes on it.
In that era , for me, it was primarily to get around region encoding.

We didn't officially have PlayStation in our country (India) at the time. The only way to get original games instead of pirated ones was to import, usually when a friend was traveling. But region locking was a curse.

I'm so glad region locking is pretty much dead. I believe the 3DS was the last mainstream region locked console? Which again was ridiculous given its the one people would take when traveling.
Oh, I'm sure they see it every single day, but nobody cares.
They're actually less likely to hassle you if you write a low value on the package - can literally shave a week+ off of delivery times.
Discord if you need sub discussions in the same community.

Most communities don’t need that, so telegram is good enough for them.

There is alot of crossdrift, on crypto telegram nobody cares if they are currently browsing discord or telegram
Or MAGMAN (can either be read as "the magnetic man", superhero origin story to be determined), and it is also the Swedish determined form of magma (so literally "the magma").
> Jailbroken consoles are not worth it anymore since they are so close to computers in features and functionality

With around the same graphics power as a Radeon 5700xt/6700 card, with the whole PS5 system costing around the same as that card, a jailbroken console actually looks like pretty good value right now. If it could be broken enough to run a general purpose OS with acceleration enabled.
> There is no consumer-friendly process of archiving things

Hire a cloud or two, maybe a NAS as well. I've had my NAS sit there copying down all the photos each day since forever, no intervention needed.

Someday it will die, or the cloud service will die (because Google does that to services lol), but they won't die at once.
Tesla shares fall after Elon Musk’s Twitter poll backs sell-off plan – Tesla
There are reasonable industrial and commercial uses for VR. Product design, architecture, interior design. Where VR is actually a superior way to virtualize the product. Still, most of the work will happen on as it does now.

I don't see any reason why I would want to have VR meeting. I can see point with in person and white board, but VR? Not really...
When I got COVID 6 months back, brain-fog was the only complication I had and it got me really worried as being physically disabled any cognitive impairment would mean I loose everything.

Brain-fog to me was a mix of being dull & delirious.

Since oxygen saturation and other vitals were at acceptable limits I was in home quarantine and there was no help(treatment) for brain-fog in specific where I live. Fortunately after two weeks, the signs of normal brain function returned and now I'm confident that my cognitive abilities are back to normal.

But since I had COVID, I'm having digestive problems for certain foods(Greens) something which I have been consuming since childhood and abundantly for past several years for health reasons. Now I'm having digestive issues with almost all greens, Some severe(Moringa Oleifera). I heard similar experience about digestive problems to certain food items of a doctor in an Economist podcast about long-COVID.
I am at the same point in my career. I don't interview. I have a conversation with the person who wants to hire me. I've had two formal job interviews in the past 14 years, both at a FANG. Did not enjoy the interview experience at all. Got offers for both, and turned down both offers.
Such a beautiful piece. Gwern always manages to handle these niche topics with care and universality, the marks of a great writer. Also perhaps strangely apt considering the recent discussion around the metaverse/metaverses.
Totally off topic I know, but what is the concern with String.Concat ?
The primary core either had a twin or some sort of SMT going on, it presented to linux as two cores.
What data are you referring to, exactly? I think all the words you use are ill defined.

Also, correlation and causation? Strong countries invade other countries and assimilate them, thereby becoming more multi-cultural?
I feel like this is a pretty big ask to do for an interview, unless you happen to have it lying around already.
Yes. If only humans had no motivation to exist and survive the world could avoid all its problems.

The NeoTeds are becoming increasingly common in public discourse I've noticed. The damn industrial revolution and it's consequences.
> How do you know someone's a European? They tell you all about how Europe is better than America?

> How do you know someone is american? They tell you all about how great America's freedom is?

That doesn't match my experience of many Americans and Europeans. It also doesn't seem to fit a definition of "incredibly nationalistic". Incredibly nationalistic leads countries to wars and massacres, such as in Bosnia, Rwanda, Germany in WWII, etc. The EU and the US aren't going to war or massacring anyone.

The term 'European' is a strong sign of modern internationalism.
You misinterpret. I am not advocating for or against. It's important to study history and observe the objective facts of cultures that have had exposure for millennia. This would be an informed way to educate oneself prior to forming an opinion. Could it be that modern abuse and processing is quite a different beast to traditional use? You be the judge.
With enough discipline Johnny Decimal can work wonders, specially if you organize your work in the same way across different apps (say email, files, or productivity app)

Once you get the habit of using it, the most frequently used codes stick into your mind so it's effortless. And in case you don't remember it, there is a clear, fixed path to find the required resources.

Still, coming up with a taxonomy is hard and essential. Should I keep my home bills under home/invoices or invoices/home ? The answer does not matter, but you need to stick to it across all your areas of interest.
> considering I had to work with teachers who didn't have any experience with blind people before.

Sorry you had to pave the way.

> PDFs generated with pdflatex and similar aren't screen reader accessible, but I could read the LaTeX source code just fine.

That's... sad. Is Word any better?
How can something blow your mind "a little"?

Mind-blows must be "a lot", otherwise they're just thoughts.
Stream count fraud would be much more offensive if the money being paid out was taxpayer money.
How do you deal with the problem of the US population becoming more urbanized such that eventually we might have 70% Republican states to 30% Democratic ones? The Senate then becomes a purely Republican controlled one.
How is different than any other type of fuel cell / battery?
Here in Australia we put our names on a waiting list at one of the big name retailers, just by walking into the store. About a week later we got a call that there was stock.

So while the stock doesn't hang around, it seems like it is now at least possible to get one without too much fuss.
But money is just a tool to enable you to do what you want, so if you already can do what you want and earn enough money to get by, you win, in economic terms?
I don't know anything about the domain, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be a big deal to tap off a few kilowatts or so using a secondary winding. Something similar to the alternator on a car perhaps. It doesn't need to be the same circuit and efficiency as the main power generation path.

What do you mean circular dependencies? You mean that you need an independent source of power for all the infrastructure to turn the turbines on when they're not currently generating? Sure, that makes sense. It seems like there's a ton of ways to implement that. Grid power, generators, batteries and solar panels, etc.
Most people would not question having to type in their username for a fresh login - Banks sign you out so quickly and their "remember me" is often intentionally gimped. So users are trained to type their username into the field, and the bad site can proxy that to the bank and send back the image just fine.

Okta still includes this "feature" by default, and is among the reasons I will never trust Okta or any client of theirs.
You can keep iterating on this if you like, and some banks did, but ultimately the bad guy has the exact same information you've presented to the bank to get this "correct profile picture". Cookies. CORS headers. None of that matters. If you get the "correct profile picture" so does the bad guy and then they just forward it to you.

We already know how to actually solve this problem. WebAuthn.
GraphQL Mesh SDK with Next.js (Screencast)
The stickers are completely open; Anyone can submit new packs. Animated stickers are also supported.

The clients are all opensource, and the APIs usable by anyone.

It has tons of little nice features as well. E.g., organizational directories, great search, fine grained notification settings, … .

There is also voice chat support, which is pretty nice.
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New RTX 3080 sell on US eBay for US$1500-1600. RTX 3080 Ti for $2000. <https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-pricing-index>
I don’t care.

Maybe informative for others.

My actual opinion on that is that you used to have to go to the square where people were exchanging. People farther distances away simply were not there and had to wait in the newspaper to know what happened with prices. I don’t consider advances in communication to be controversial in that regard. I do think people should be aware of who sees their communications.
> In fact, I can't think of any resources so abundant that they need no management.

Digital data.
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The US was well aware of threat to them. Had Germany won and really acquired whole Europe, it would be virtually impossible for US to defend themselves after.

It was not about abstract freedom or distaste toward racism. The danger was very real.
Pretty wild to jump from “greed is bad” to Ted Kaczynski.
My understanding is that each SPE core was individually assigned to physics, lighting, AI and other tasks, as tools for developing multi-threaded code were not that common at the time. The Last of Us is supposed to be one of the very few that actually used all cores.
You're being pedantic. You know what I mean.

There's plenty of algorithms I know and I can see relevant business contexts to use them in. Do I know all of their implementations off the top of my head to regurgitate onto a whiteboard? No, because I don't need to. When the time comes I will just look that up. The easy part is the implementation. This isn't a school exam testing your memory.
In your examples, did they go through a coding challenge / whiteboard process?
Something similar for Emacs, inspired by this Vim method:

https://karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-sch...

Not my field, but I find it interesting to see how it is possible to optimize one environment for specific tasks.
Expertise being a euphemism for relationships to skip the queue.
Sorry. Countless articles have been written about how interviews should be conducted. But nothing changes. There are thousands of engineers vying for FAANG/MAMAA and they’ll do backflips to get a job there; leetcode is nothing for them. Some do it to get better salaries as your compensation drops after the 4 yr cliff, some for prestige. So unless you can influence these companies to change nothing will change.