skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really surprised to discover that quite a few games in the SNES/Genesis era actually weren't written in assembly. They were usually "touched up" in assembly; there would be inlined assembly stuff for a lot of core loops and hardware interaction, but apparently quite a few games actually used "high level languages" for large tracts of the code. I'm merely relating hearsay here, but at least one primary source (Secret of Evermore) suggested this was the case.

The thing is that once it's compiled down to a final rom, all the scaffolding used to build it is gone, so there's so little evidence left that it's pretty plausible for people to think it was just done completely in assembly (particularly since there's significant evidence of hand-crafted assembly routines in such a product, since they did that for parts of it).

I think there's a lot of "transposing of knowledge" there, where people know how 8-bit games got built, and assume it was the same for the 16-bit era, but I suspect the 16-bit era was where the transition away from that started, so there was a bit of both.
Also flagging for particularly egregious cases, like two of vmception's comments have been now.
That's a much more nuanced argument, so thanks for writing that out.

I'll counter with this: widespread lawbreaking only occurs when laws are selectively enforced or not enforced at all. For instance, most people jay walk because they don't expect enforcement. No one in my town expects dog waste laws to be enforced. Those who pick up their poop do so because they're decent human beings. If you wanted to stop dog waste, however, you could step up enforcement to discourage law breaking. This would work with many commonly broken laws. Singapore is famous for this approach. Therefore, I still think commonly broken laws should be repealed. If the law is important, then it should be enforced. If it's enforced, then people won't break it.

Another reason that commonly broken laws should be repealed is that having laws on the book that are selectively enforced is dangerous. They give those in power tools to exploit people they don't like. For instance, traffic laws are frequently violated, but they are selectively enforced. Police use selective enforcement of these laws to target black drivers. There are many examples in the entire justice system where selective enforcement of laws has been used as a tool for suppression. Having this legal grey-area where some people can break the law and some can't is ripe for abuse.

Which brings me to my final point regarding countries that have poor safety for women. In corrupt countries, the law exists as a tool to maintain power of a small group of rulers. The mechanism of this control works in a similar, but more extreme, way to how selectively enforced laws can be abused in less corrupt countries. It doesn't make sense to talk about repealing laws in a highly corrupt setting because our fundamental assumptions about what a legal system should do don't hold up (serving and protecting people, maintain social order, etc). Thus, it's not surprising that the most dangerous countries for women also rank extremely high on measures of corruption. In such places, the law basically doesn't matter.
Interesting. I always thought muslin was weaved into the fabric of Kazakhstan.
Exactly this is what I don’t get. Huge corporations are so hard for cross-platform development while Facebook, Google, Microsoft et alia could just spawn as many developer for a new platform as they can. I know that management is trying to cut back on every single penny, but is financing React Native really that much cheaper than just writing that tiny amount of code for each platform that will call into that single native library/web API used everywhere? Especially when you have to have a native dev either way because bugs will happen that will need platform-specific knowledge as well.

Because I can honestly understand going cross-platform by a small startup that can’t finance n*numOfPlatforms devs, but for Slack and the like it makes zero sense to me.
Or they merged or changed a name, or were taken private. Searching for the SPAC PSAC shows nothing on Yahoo, because it’s now FFIE (Faraday Future) The poster was also measuring sell recommendations so those would be also be harmed by no data in delistings.
Microsoft Cares?

I think this confirms we're in some sort of inter-terrestrial waking-nightmare Office Space alternative universe variety show.
https://www.austintexas.gov/police/reports/search2.cfm?choic...
Usually performance evaluations are done with managers of a certain level; if there is no manager to represent his/her direct reports, with stacked ranking they all get at the bottom. I personally had a direct report, ~ 10 years ago, with PIP because her previous direct manager was 3 months on paternity leave so she drew the short straw. The person was an average performer, so I fixed the PIP situation and she is still working there.
I thought that he would be an Indian guy who adopted an English name but he appears to be an American guy who adopted an Indian name.
Fatal crashes make up something like 0.27% of accidents so I doubt it even factors into the insurance cost. Almost all the insurance payouts are accidents that significantly damage the car or require expensive medical attention, but those can definitely happen more than once for a young male (or anyone).
Thanks. Interesting. I understand why people get those little diesel heaters, generators.
Hmm, I'm going to have to think about this.

A job applicant is a data subject of the company they apply to. The company produces data (interview evaluations) based on the expectation that their internal data is kept proprietary. However, GDPR permits the job applicant to act as a data subject and request the company's proprietary information (produced by employees who expected to remain semi-anonymous to provide candid feedback).

If that's the case, I think I have another in a long list of items to add to my list of "why GDPR is a crazy law and the implications weren't completely thought-through"
They should just call them nutritional supplements so they'll be completely unregulated for either efficacy or safety.
The docket number is right there and the court as well. If you are skeptical you can just look it up at the courts website yourself or call the court or send them an email. You can do a lot of stuff yourself before spreading doubt.
Only the most naive understanding of capitalism holds those two things as opposites, or mutually exclusive.
Lots of people in recent years have talked to me about their idea for a small, personal business. They despise their jobs and the grind, but as you say, all dream of working on something else, just something over which they have more control.
This has to be the coolest experience I've ever had with a landing page
Slate can be easily damaged by hail and your kids baseballs. Aluminum will be resistant to all the sizes of hail except biblical sizes. Aluminum also will reflect pretty 100 percent of the heat from the sun - allowing you to have an insulated/conditioned attic if you want. As to cost - aluminum shingles are pretty expensive too so probably no cost savings there.

The higher quality fiberglass windows have resins and treatments that are pretty much impervious to UV light...so that has been a problem with fiberglass windows but not so much anymore. Another option are steel or aluminum windows. There are some very high quality windows made out of that material as well.

I do have links...will post them later.
Thanks for writing up your experience using Julia for creating a web app.

I agree that Julia is doing well in scientific domains, but is not perceived as a general-purpose language among many developers. Other languages also have rich non-scientific libraries, frameworks, and learning resources.

The scientific domain is vast though, so Julia can certainly thrive in that space. Can it break out of that space into other fields too? It does not seem to have yet, but I guess only time will tell. (Julia recently received multi-million funding so it will be interesting to how this will be used to develop and promote Julia.)
It should be noted that most stocks suck (emphasis added):

> We study long-run shareholder outcomes for over 64,000 global common stocks during the January 1990 to December 2020 period. We document that the majority, 55.2% of U.S. stocks and 57.4% of non-U.S. stocks, underperform one-month U.S. Treasury bills in terms of compound returns over the full sample. Focusing on aggregate shareholder outcomes, we find that the top-performing 2.4% of firms account for all of the $US 75.7 trillion in net global stock market wealth creation from 1990 to December 2020. Outside the US, 1.41% of firms account for the $US 30.7 trillion in net wealth creation.

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3710251

> Four out of every seven common stocks that have appeared in the CRSP database since 1926 have lifetime buy-and-hold returns less than one-month Treasuries. When stated in terms of lifetime dollar wealth creation, the best-performing 4% of listed companies explain the net gain for the entire U.S. stock market since 1926, as other stocks collectively matched Treasury bills. These results highlight the important role of positive skewness in the distribution of individual stock returns, attributable both to skewness in monthly returns and to the effects of compounding. The results help to explain why poorly-diversified active strategies most often underperform market averages.

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2900447

Of course those top-percentage stocks also change over time, so even if you pick the top 2% today, you have to make sure they're still the top ones in the future.

You also have to have a strong stomach at times: AMZN dropped 90% after the Dotcom Bubble. Further, a good portion of stocks that do have such extreme declines do not recover:

> Risk of permanent impairment. Using a universe of Russell 3000 companies since 1980, roughly 40% of all stocks have suffered a permanent 70%+ decline from their peak value. For Technology, Biotech and Metals & Mining, the numbers were considerably higher.

* PDF: https://privatebank.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm-wm-aem/glob...
BMW's color changing car concept works just like an e-reader
> In what capacity? How did you come by your knowledge of the warrant?

Why would this matter at all? It seems like you're casting suspicion on [name redacted], although I can't begin to imagine what there is to be suspicious of.
It means what marketing teams want it to mean at the time they're saying it.
I wonder how Jeff Bezos Leadership Principles competes with Charles Koch's Secrets of Success. At times these have a cult-like following. And both companies are among the largestpublic and private in the world.
Why wouldn't you be able to do that yourself?
It took me a _long_ time to find the "real" software engineering community on twitter. If you just follow the topic, 98% of the "software engineering" tweets are garbage like

> 10 reasons why JavaScript is the next BIG language that all developers should learn!!!1!

just engagement spam. BUT, once you follow a good dev account you tend to find others.
Publicly in November: [link redacted]
I appreciate your comment and the nuance it brings to the conversation, but I also wonder if some of this is a distinction without a difference.

Isn't the only difference between the Amazon-bashing and OP's take just a matter of delivery, tact and perspective? I personally prefer a communication style that doesn't involve bashing, and I would probably choose to write a post much like the OP, but I think it's also very charitable to Amazon, almost to a fault.

For example, section 3: "Everything is Urgent (but takes forever)" resonates with me deeply, because many of the issues described are similar to the issues I face at a different platform company. These issues weren't always present (I've been here long enough to see the growing pains evolve), and my conclusion isn't "this just isn't the right place for me", but rather "the company is trying to continue operating in a manner that only works in small orgs, and must make deep fundamental changes going forward". Now, to be fair, if that change doesn't happen, then it does become a place that "isn't for me".

But "This isn't for me" implies it's a matter of personal preference, and perfectly fine for some folks, but some of these issues are deep, fundamental problems that must be solved and likely require changes in the org or every person who takes that role going forward will reach the same conclusion (or someone who's too desperate to care will just deal with it). That doesn't make the underlying problem go away.

Realizing that a place isn't for you and thinking about it that way is arguably healthier than getting angry about it and staying in that environment. But the reason that place isn't for you might still stem from organizational issues that make Amazon (or any company with similar problems) arguably "not the right place" for just about anyone.
Send the legit information and payment through to the city via the API of the mobile app. Raise the price and keep the difference.

The best scam is the one that isn't detected. There's a story about a guy who collected £3 from every visitor to the Bristol Zoo car park here in the UK. Supposedly he did it for nearly two decades. Car park was free. No idea if it's real.
Here are a couple of more recent RCE's:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-2521...
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8625

There are numerous DoS CVE's over the same time period.
Allegedly strangling girlfriend.

The document mentions no evidence of anything, let alone wounds, and even Techrights, everyone's favorite anti-GitHub conspiracy blog, hasn't posted any document mentioning any evidence, despite basically salivating over this story. It's all just anecdotes from officers saying she was claiming she was hurt.

This may seem like I'm being pedantic, but I've seen fake DV calls before (unfortunately, more than once, though none directed at me), and officers are generally sympathetic to whoever is the most charismatic. This isn't to say that she's probably lying, but it's a bit too early to come to a verdict as an internet court, here.

I think [redacted] has done terrible things to the industry as much as anyone (doubly so for GitHub in general); he's obviously morally deficient. But we shouldn't go and harass GH and Microsoft employees without evidence.
"I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth" -Rilke

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke#Letters_to_...
Whoa, and Microsoft protected him for months before authorities managed to find and arrest him?
This looks broken for me -- nothing loads on the homepage and I get some JS errors. I am on Firefox on macOS.
Many large enterprises have this sort of catch all employee support program.
You didn't misread it, I said 1 manager (L6)to 3 L5s.

L6 is Engineering Manager 1. That's how far up an L8 is.

And L6s are usually estimated to be 10% of Google. You can assume that there are order of magnitudes fewer devs each time you go up from there.

Also to be clear, it's extremely to be hired into Google higher than an L6. Even getting hired in as an L6 takes more experience than it does to join as an L5 and become an L6.

Most L6s at other FAANG companies would be downleveled without a very very strong performance, so getting reached out to as an L8 is not a small deal...
OP said "original team" not "Sonic Team" (pretty sure that's not an edit on his part either because I remember reading his post before you replied).
Yes and no.

I've found numerous times Ubuntu just doesn't want to work. Ether Wifi or Bluetooth is broken.

Fedora seems to be a bit better, it's my daily driver on my old lightweight laptop. My big gaming PC runs Windows.

I make music and play games with it, no matter what the FOSS community wants to think , Linux doesn't come close in these aspects.

Each OS does different things well. Linux is very good for running on older hardware, or small computers like a PI.

Windows is exceptional at gaming and game development ( really any C# dev). Visual Studio is the greatest IDE ever made. If I had to write C# in note pad I'd give up coding.

Mac OS is best for creatives. Logic Pro is only 200$ , and easily replaces an entire studio. With Logic and a 300$ mic you can make something very nice. Your also forced to own a Mac if you want to make iPhone apps.

The music creation ecosystem on IOS is miles ahead of Android. It's at the point where I'm considering am iPhone in addition to my iPad for on the go music creation.

At the same time, as a phone, my Pixel 6 is everything I could ever want. Automatically letting me screen calls saved me hours per months.

I'll forever love Linux for giving a stable NodeJS dev environment when Windows wouldn't. Without desktop Linux I would of never been able to develop the apps which got me my first job. But you need to be open to hopping in the terminal.
ZKDocs
> They officially accommodate "perpetrators of domestic violence" as Microsoft-owned Github.

In fairness, they do need procedures to accommodate such people. Your other employment-related rights don't end just because you've done bad stuff, and you need to treat perpetrators of domestic violence differently to ordinary employees (e.g. being really suspicious of them).

I like bashing Microsoft as much as the next person, but I doubt this situation had much to do with Microsoft's domestic violence policies.
You can make an open records request to the Travis County Courts system if you want to verify it.

You can also search the Travis County Court portal for "[redacted]" and see there's a pre-indictment felony case against him.

https://odysseyweb.traviscountytx.gov/Portal/Home/WorkspaceM...
As someone who is living in a generational home this article brings several questions to mind. (But it’s a fun thought experiment)

1) presumably this home isn’t going to be built by someone in their 20s and will likely be built by someone who has accumulated some wealth. That puts them at 30-60 years old. Is the 1000 year benchmark because you want to pass the home down to your kids?
2) if so, do you think they will like your design choices? Will your kids kids?
3) since this is likely to be built by someone who is affluent it will likely be built somewhere with a high land value. Do you think that there is a good chance that the land won’t be cleared and something else built in its place in the next 100 years?
This being the case it seems that the target of 1000 years is probably 10x too long. A home built to last 100 years is likely to be the better investment. You’re bound to save big on material cost and building codes are likely going to dictate the correct wind/seismic strength anyway. If you pass it down to your kids they will be able to level and rebuild or refurbish the home to meet their needs more easily as well.

I live in a home that was passed down to us and we are going to remodel it as it was built for very different circumstances. Having to do this with some overbuilt fortress would likely triple the cost to remodel and severely limit the labor pool to artisans and craftsmen. I could see a building that wasn’t a home shooting for 1000 year lifespans (say a library or school or maybe high rise) but even that seems overkill to me.
Your account is from 2018 but you have no comments or submissions until now, all on this topic.

You make several significant, serious claims but offer no evidence aside from a jpg of a file in google drive.

For reference, the Austin city/Travis county public records results are returned as pdfs, not scans in jpg. The clerk of the court does not offer "unofficial copies" as far as I am aware.
What is Matrix? It's an answer to your question and I am genuinely curious.
The -mabs are often denied because they really are expensive to make. Ivermectin is super cheap and quite safe in the usual doses; in the case of covid, denying it to people isn't directly causing any harm, but also very little good, if any.
OP, where's your feed then? I would like to subscribe to it.
I don’t think anyone is arguing that Certificate Transparency defeats “every real advancement in network security”. If you want to avoid your internal hostnames, and maybe Subject and SAN, ending up in LE, then you’re free to run your own CA.

But getting back to your parent post, maybe we can see a nontrivial real-world list of a big network to make sure it’s leaking nothing of value?
Some things change, but to make NMR cost effective would be cheating mother nature. The entire technique is based on producing a strong and homogenous magnetic field that can hold a lot of sample, only to probe the sample with weak RF and listen to its faint echoes.

Industrial diamonds got "cheap" but large ones never did.
The phone might become an important piece of evidence against [redacted] if more crimes are recorded on it.
Here's a fun ethical question: The OP mentions in the article and here in the comments that most likely his 1 day performance is better than the market because people buy the stocks he recommends, pushing the price up. One person here called it "casual market manipulation".

Assuming that's true, would it be unethical/illegal if you knew what he was going to recommend and then buying that ahead of his announcement?

Further, would it be unethical/illegal for Cramer himself to buy all the stocks ahead of his own recommendations?

And further still, would it be unethical/illegal for Cramer to sell a service where you could give him money and he'd make the trades for you ahead of his own recommendations?
Lillian Schwartz: Pushing the Medium
Sure, you can be preempted by another thread (or even process) even within an async function, so why should it matter? The borrow checker should still prevent anything bad from happening.

I'm not a rust programmer, but personally I think that stackless coroutines are probably a necessary evil in system languages as full stack switching might have too much overhead. But let's stop pretending that it is actually a good thing.

Still I think that even with stackless coroutines await should be the default (the async keyword would be used if you explicitly want the promise), which, in addition to better ergonomics, would allow the async-ness of a function to be inferred, possibly as a function of its type parameters. This at the very least would avoid duplicating a lot of functionality.
That's at least 2 orders of magnitude more expensive. Maintaining a functioning screen on charge & online is no easy, even less outdoors
Ask HN: Well designed developer personal website examples?
I am thinking of updating my personal website and am looking for inspiration for interesting designs.

Please share personal websites in the comments that you like (eg, content such as blogs, resume, portfolio, photos, interactive content, etc).
You're right, what I should say is per continuous riding session - I used to take more like 38 hours for 600s (just under the cutoff, haha). There are breaks, usually 30m max, but I tended to average more like 18kph over complete ride. I wanted to reach 20kph, but had a kid instead – that kind of threw a stick in taking long rides.

Here's more info if you're curious, it's a fun sport called randonneuring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randonneuring

Here's an example 400km route from an area near me run by the BC Randonneurs: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/33536016

It's a great way to get to know areas better. Very meditative, challenging, and rewarding.