skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody suddenly uses same currency, and it makes it pretty easy for all to get involved. It removes currency barriers.
If one was short of time, one could always put out a tender so that several (hundred) different independent agents could speculatively contact them in order to conduct negotiations, then present you with offers that you could compare. If those agents were in turn having trouble establishing contact, they could farm out this effort to others who had more time and expertise in this area.
Kudos for not using something like SDL2. I'd be very reluctant to do so because C is so barebone, but I admire anyone who can pull this off.
Not the original 6510, but there are some very fast 8-bit processors out there. If you compress the color space, they may be able to flip every pixel 30 times per second.

Also, nothing stops you from implementing an 8-bit CPU with a modern process and push it into the multi gigahertz range except perhaps the fact it’ll be too small for current machinery to manipulate.
Just add /s at the end and it would be a done thing.
There is another unpleasant option, that of 'sponsored content', AKA 'advertorials', AKA 'native advertising', AKA 'propaganda'.
If the citizens of El Salvador are not using bitcoin, then bitcoin is not the currency in El Salvador -- regardless of what the president announces.
Oh that is really nice and simple, yeah.
I've known several who did the same. I was an Army officer before I went into software development, and have little interest in being in charge of other people again. The only painful aspect of this is being subjected to the poor "leadership" of others - when you know you could do a better job of it. Which is also why the #1 thing that can keep me at a company these days is when I see it has good leadership. I know it's rare.
I'm with you.

I can solve programming problems OR carry on a conversation. I cannot do both at the same time.

It isn't just coding. The same quirk shows up in other ways. For example, I also cannot carry on a conversation and navigate. I can drive safely while conversing, but I cannot navigate. When my daughter was a teenager she exploited this quirk for laughs: get in the car with Dad; start for destination; bring up interesting topic; wait to see what random place we end up going; profit!

I can explain my thinking after the fact. I just can't do the thinking while conversing.

I've been working as a consultant for a while now. Communication is a big part of the job. My current client is one that has come back repeatedly, and that pretty much lets me set the terms I want, and gives me broad discretion to decide how things are to be done. I presume that means they're happy with the results so far and want more of the same.

I do have to communicate effectively in that job. I collaborate with a VP to set directions, vet R&D proposals, choose implementation strategies, pick tools, guide other contributors, and so on. So I have to be able to communicate effectively.

I also write the majority of working code in the current set of projects we're working on.

What I don't have to do is write code while carrying on conversations. It's a good thing I don't have to do that, because I can't.

I can pair program, as long as my collaborator understands that when I need to really think about a problem, I have to leave the session to do it. I can rejoin once I've figured out what I'm thinking about, and I can explain what I thought of. The collaborators I'm working with now are used to it by now, and it's a normal part of our collaborative cadence.

I can hunt bugs in a pair session, similar to the way that I can drive just fine while conversing; I just can't navigate, or do involved creative problem solving. I'm not exactly sure what the difference is; just that there's a certain kind of thinking I need to do that gets blocked by conversation.

"I'm trying to think, but nothing happens."

I'm useless in tech-interview coding, so I just don't do it anymore. I've told several companies that wanted me to go through their coding interviews that they should just give me the lowest possible score on that part of the interview, and if they still wanted to talk to me about the job, I'd be happy to talk to them. Nobody has taken me up on that specific proposal, but I have gotten nice offers a couple of times after I thoroughly bombed coding interviews. Those experiences made me question how seriously those companies took their own processes.
> Independent MP Andrew Wilkie says UK a ‘lackey’ of US and journalism is not a crime

> Australian parliamentarians have demanded the prime minister, Scott Morrison, intervene in the case of Julian Assange, an Australian citizen

> The ruling that Assange can be extradited to the US has also drawn ire from the United Nations’ special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, who sharply criticised the verdict. “This is a shortcoming for the British judiciary,” Melzer told the DPA news agency on Friday. “You can think what you want about Assange but he is not in a condition to be extradited,” he said, referring to a “politically motivated verdict”.

...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/18/pamela-anderso...

> [Pamela] Anderson – a close friend of Assange’s – appeared on 60 Minutes Australia earlier this month to urge Morrison to “defend your friend, get Julian his passport back and take him back to Australia and be proud of him, and throw him a parade when he gets home”

> Morrison was asked about the issue in an interview on commercial radio earlier this month. When asked if he would take Anderson’s advice and throw Assange a parade, he replied: “Well no, first of all, but next, I’ve had plenty of mates who’ve asked me if they can be my special envoy to sort the issue out with Pamela Anderson”
I see about South Korea and to an extent Taiwan ( one might argue Taiwan is not a country), but care to elaborate on Japan and Finland? Either if you assume that without the US the Soviets would have conquered both after WW2, the Soviet Union no longer exists, and all constituent countries are now independent.
Uh... no one is using it...
You talked about the opening but now you’re linking to endgame tablebases? Not at all comparable.
In some chains it is 1c
Unfortunately, the Mac port would likely involve calling into (or out from) a little Objective-C, unless you used the ancient Carbon APIs for graphics and window management.
Inhaltlich sounds similar to Cal Newport's idea of Deep Work[0]. I know I've found that framework pretty helpful. It's about work that requires in-depth thinking + time with a lack of distractions vs work that you can do without those things (like making phone calls, etc.).

[0]: https://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/
I love this. My ambition is to become less busy (i.e., retire) to do stuff like that; fun code, with no obligations.
I have gotten that advice from lawyers. I just kept hitting up new lawyers until I found one that saw things my way. Resulted in a windfall for me.
It is essential to ask around for recommendations -- there are some great lawyers out there. When you need a good one, you may find yourself suddenly-surprised and grateful to be paying their (substantial) hourly rate.
If the programming is merely a toolkit for something else, I want to be productive ASAP, with minimal distraction from the main goal.

Even if it is the main tool for the main goal, we still want to get there soon. And in this case, 'there' includes being able to get to levels of deeper mastery, so accelerated learning of the basics with minimal wheel-spinning helps.

OTOH, if it is a pleasurable hobby or pass-time, then sure linger for a decade with all the trivia, and enjoy the heck out of it!
For PAAS this won’t work, but for on-prem stuff you can just log firewall denies on outbound traffic that will quickly let you know if somethings wrong.

You could have test environment where your container run for a few days, before pushing into production on a PAAS. Just run the container on a VM with IPTables and logging. It won’t find everything, some call might only be called on very specific circumstance, but it could find low hanging fruits.
A status page give you confidence that the problem indeed lies with Amazon and not your own software. I don't think it's very reasonable to notice issues, ask other teams if they are also having issues, and if so, just shrug it off and get a cup of coffee without more investigation. Just because it looks like the problem is with AWS, you can't be sure until you further investigate it, specially if the status page says it's all working fine.

I think it goes without saying that having an outage is bad, but having an outage which is not confirmed by the service provider is even worse. People complain about that a lot because it's the least they could do.
> I don't really get the original argument. I never thought "todays AI isn't smart, but if it could play Go, that would be an intelligent agent!"

I think the "AI effect" primarily refers to how practical successes in the field of AI get taken for granted and no longer considered AI - leaving AI with the unsolved problems and bleeding-edge research.

If you ordered something for Christmas recently, 'AI' may have been used to understand your search query, rank relevant pages, allow the websites to determine you're not a DDoS attack, allow your bank to determine that your transaction is legitimate, let the confirmation email through your spam filter, then work out routes and other logistics to get it delivered. Before you started your order, 'AI' may have also been involved in the product's design (like optimization of circuits), used to detect defects during manufacturing, or for monitoring and maintenance of rail/road surfaces used for delivery. But all this has been working for a while, so fades into the background rather than being what people think of as AI.

There is also that more philosophical element (rather than just about perception of AI as a field) involving our boundary for what "intelligence" is.

People won't usually phrase it as "once AI can do X I'll be happy calling it intelligent", but sometimes "doing X requires intelligence" or "an unintelligent machine could never do X", with similar implications. Like, going way back, Descartes' claims that machines will be incapable of responding appropriately in conversation.

With AI becoming increasingly capable, even though the timeframes are often far longer than AI-optimists predict, a prevalent view seems to be that AI could behave identically to humans and still not be intelligent. Possibly even be physically identical to humans and still not be intelligent, if you buy into the P-zombie argument (and additionally their nomological possibility, which most people don't).

Holding a remote job (including the inverview and portfolio process) is an interesting benchmark, but I can't help but feel your reponse when that gets achieved may be "oh but that's basically just patchwork of language models - clearly in retrospect my criteria must not have been strict enough".
>You were able to create a companion app, but I'm talking about actually running custom apps on the tracker itself. Do you know if that's possible

I understand. You meant an SDK to create an application for the tracker itself, not get the raw data (which many of the trackers don't even give easily) and then make something with that.

I am not aware if they support, or give access to this. I misunderstood your original question.
I’m an old guy. I have 20+ years on me as an IC and am going through interviews. I have or have had a total of 20 interviews.

I can honestly say I don’t feel any ageism. I do feel like the interview process is getting harder and harder though from an expectations perspective. I’m not sure if that’s unconscious ageism but I think it’s more that people’s expectations for perfection have increased.
Brave for life it is I guess.
It also incorrectly assumes the purpose of a forum (this and many others) is to simply find the answer to the person's question.

For as long as people enjoy reading, writing and discussing, the only important thing is that readers can distinguish between "legal advice" and something some random person said on the internet.
if you are disscussing a word (or phrase) rather than using it, placing it in quotation marks is the correct way to do that.

The usage of quotation marks in journalism to say things using other people's words or to imply doubt on if those words are correct has been growing looser and looser. I generally take such usage as an indicator of bad and lazy writing.
That depends on how quiet the New Madrid fault really is.
Ive had three legal advice experiences - two with work and one personal. The employer ones were both straightforward about whether or not we should do something, and they did not encourage us to keep returning to them on the issue, and the personal one the guy gave me a 30 minute phone call, advised me that if I wanted to formally pursue the matter I would need to engage his services at £200/hour, however his unofficial legal advice was to just proceed and not bother.

As another anecdote, my experience with developers is that developers will repeatedly tell you that the software isn't complete and requires extra attention to keep it running and to maintain it, and that it needs extra time for refactoring, despite it functioning correctly right now...
Thank you!! I have returned to MacOS due to M1 but I missed this and have only discovered “rectangle”.
I agree about the country point.However i am curious whether having the [Company Name] registered properly [Ltd, Co., s.r.o, s.r.l, etc] is an actual argument for having the "right" to a domain name.Common sense tells me it's not,in the same country or between countries, unless obviously the person who has the company name impersonates that company.

Why would one need to legally own that domain name as a company name to keep the domain? Makes no sense to me
Learning different grammars/syntaxes aren't the hard part imho. The hard part is learning new programming paradigms and how to write good code in X language given the features under the hood.

What makes a good Python programme makes a terrible/impossible C or Rust programme. It might not be hard to write Scala code like you might Java and have it run, but you're doing things distinctly wrong.

That's the sort of language-y stuff that's hard to teach in Y minutes imho.
> because 75% of them are probably dead links now ;-)

i know that pain far too well :)

i created a custom chrome extension that opens a random bookmark in a new tab to check the link. this helps me fix dead links but it is a very slow process. sometimes i go over them manually and remove a bunch.

thanks for the link.
Some people avoid the dilemma by only interviewing candidates from prestigious CS programs and with previous employment at famous companies, locking out those without the "right" credentials.

If you're going to demand that you be treated as an honest estimator of your own abilities beyond doubt don't be surprised if that ends up eliminating opportunities for people who are trying to break into the field without those credentials that put their abilities at a near certainty.
I'll be honest: I'm not sure what the appropriate way to show compassion is here if it's not the purpose of the comment. Does every person commenting on something adjacent to the situation need to display compassion in this (still unknown) way?

Asking seriously. I want those complete strangers to not be in situations where they could die, and I want no one to die the same way in the future because someone did an engineering and made it safer. But they are people I don't/didn't know. Anything I could think of to say would feel as useless as "thoughts and prayers."
Some companies have a technical track culminating in "Technical Fellow." Supposedly equivalent to a VP level executive. I worked at Boeing many years ago, back before the engineering culture had been fully snuffed out, and technical fellows commanded a huge amount of respect.
Since your comment is categorical, I'd like to chime in with a counterexample. I've gone in for a consult and gotten "you've already pretty much done everything I would. I can charge you $2000 for the rest but you probably wouldn't want to do this seeing that you already have done all of the work."
"Strictly speaking, a cease and desist letter is not legally binding because the recipient can choose to ignore it. However, it is a valid legal document that establishes a precedent of a plaintiff's grievance. Usually, the letter sets a time limit for the recipient to comply with the request to desist from the offending action — or deliver an appropriate response if they believe the letter was sent in error."

Take the letter. Delete it. Engaging is the fastest way to lose the domain. Their Lawyers want you to engage and start making written statements. Don't.

"Seems like an excellent way to lose your domain in a default judgement"

Lol. Don't ignore legal paperwork or court dates, which this isn't.
Saving the shuttle simulator–“It was an artifact that needed to be preserved”
For anyone who really loves these types of games, "Leaf Blower Revolution" on steam is truly enjoyable. It is free to play (though I did buy the $5 supporter pack myself because the dev made such an enjoyable game), and is probably 30-50 hours of various levels of memes, relaxing, and math.
Sometimes doing so yields an RCE, dealing substantial damage to both a company and its counterparties.
Why is Amazon on Hacker News? It's just some dumb online store.
I haven't tried, but my read was "yes" when I looked at the intro, and "no" once I got an illustration of the data structure. There is something ambiguous in one or the other.

I'm leaning towards "no." The text doesn't make sense, and the data structure does. So I think you still rebase; you can just keep both versions around.
to add a bit, it's part of the DHS mentionned later, Department of Homeland Security. It's the giant paranoid agency that spies on pretty much everybody in one form or another.
> 'As someone who was born before the moon landing'

That would include any and all of us in this thread. No man has ever come anywhere near the moon.

Unless, of course, you happen to know of some kind of magical (presumably still classified) rocket nozzle tech that would somehow avoid leaving a crater in the soft 'lunar dirt' as the 1960s tin can touched down on the 'lunar surface.' Not to mention an actual solution to various other hard technological problems of space travel, like radiation shielding, heat rejection (no, space isn't 'cold'), battery power, lack of any visible stars, workings of a camera in a high radiation environment, etc, etc. And how about that lunar module 'computer'? Anyone ever replicated that 1960s technological wonder? Oh, the schematics and tech were all 'lost'. Someone accidentally recorded over the original telemetry tapes with Gilligan's Island reruns. I see. What a terrible accident.

Not to detract from your main point, of course; tye interviewer was terribly rude. Selfish. Just like the liars who faked the 'moon landing' in the Nevada desert, near Indian Springs.
What about company stocks, maybe Evergrande. Hold them while waiting for Greater Fool.
It doesn't seem to have always-on display :(

I also want to find a good smartwatch, tired of waiting for wear3.0, but an always-on display is a must have for me.
Pumped to see they're reaching another milestone soon. Wine once helped me stay on Linux for some embedded work that would have otherwise needed Windows.
So you agree that he doesn't need a lawyer at this junction. But if a lawsuit is filled, he will need to respond and request that the case be dismissed. Using a lawyer for that step isn't a bad idea.

They are going to have a hard time finding a case that set a precedent that you can take over another company's website because you registered a similar company 5 years later. Lookup nissan.com
You can still develop for Pebble, even though the entire thing is EoL. There are lots of Pebble enthusiasts and work is still being done on the platform through Rebble.

There's also Bangle.js to keep an eye on.
Show HN: SDK for Go and AWS Lambda
Inspired by my own experience with AWS, by this thread [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26855037], and by other discussions about the same issue, my team and I decided to do something about it.

We believe that a developer should not be bothered by dealing with the infrastructure. Whether that is via AWS management console or tools like Terraform and Serverless Framework. She should spend almost all the time in the code.

So, we made Mantil - a serverless development toolkit for Go and AWS Lambda. It brings the experience of local development while actually working in the cloud. Unlike other frameworks that runs locally, Mantil runs on AWS and has a CLI to talk to cloud installation.

Mantil is written in Go and made for Go programmers. We strive to avoid unnecessary configurations and special languages. Almost everything can be setup via conventions and Go code.

Please, check this project out, hope it helps. Curious about your feedback.
When someone didn't feel the need to mention which country they are talking about, that's usually because they're American.
At some stage LI started to ship similar features as FB, that is when a lot of content in feeds started changing drastically. A ton of influencers and aspiring influencers started trending, others picked up the trend to stay at pace.

Fake enthusiasm, emotional posts, funny(goofy) posts all geared towards getting engagement. Some folks have business(consultancy) that needs them to have the exposure.
So that changes can be more readily introduced when they need to be. When the next CVE comes out, you want to be able to respond to it quickly and produce a fix.

No one said the interface or functionality has to be changing forever; as I said, work includes testing and refactors, and that includes removing code. Or just fixing known bugs. I don’t know many open source projects with zero bugs, do you?
Every decision a company makes is about maximizing profit. that necessarily means saving on labor costs, which means firing people, paying as little as possible, extracting unpaid overtime (e.g. "crunch"), etc. That being the case, most every decision made by a company is about screwing its workers. You can argue about whether that's "evil", but it's an economic fact.
The thing is, they test things things out in one environment, they get approved ... and then used in another.
Unless they are in the porn business, a porn site is not trademark infringement..