skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ransomware is a real problem. I despise malware disguised as mainstream antivirus solutions, but we need to protect users from ransomware and that’s a tough problem. I am working in that space.
>> If you didn't start with that belief, what observation could you make to come to the conclusion that there is an afterlife?

I always appreciate the parable of the flame in Buddhism. If you use a lighter to produce a flame, where did that flame come from? where does it go? If you use it again, is that flame the same or is different?

You realize that the flame is really just a distinction we make of matter that has always been there and it doesn't go anywhere, just changes. I don't mean this to say that "you" are just changing when you die, but to question what "you" really are.

I think consciousness is an interesting area we still struggle to understand. It's weird that no physical thing can be "about" something but that thoughts can be. I can think of george washington riding a unicycle, but does that mean there is a neuron in my brain that physically is that mental picture?

Lastly, there is a contingency problem with matter. If all physical things are contingent upon a cause, then the physical universe must be caused by something that is immaterial. If you think about math, does it really exist? If I ask if "four" exists, there certainly is a english word, "four" and a grouping of lines (4) there can be four of something but these are all just representative of four'ness. So does four really exist and if not why is math so effective at explaining our universe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...

If the universe is contingent upon an immaterial cause, I don't think it's out of reach to imagine that cause as an Aristotelian god.

All that to say, I think there's reason to be skeptical about any certainty in knowing what happens when we die. Hopefully it's something interesting or I won't be around to find out!
> What question does a belief in an afterlife answer?

It’s not answering questions of the physical or observable world. It’s attempting to answer the “Why” (meaning/purpose) questions rather than the “How” (method/cause).
The net negative is the point, to help close some of the gap on page 12:

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44705/6
You have 7y of experience. You can afford to be picky when it comes to interviews.

And yes, LC problems do not deal with the day-to-day work of a software engineer. They are fun puzzles to do sometimes, if that's your thing. As a "hiring tool" I think they are abysmal. Fortunately, many companies don't use them. There is a bubble where it is prevalent, but again, people with experience can chose where they interview.

If you want Programming puzzles that are actually fun and correlate to problems an engineer actually encounters, I can strongly recommend https://www.codeabbey.com/
The US is an outlier on this topic, and I really don't understand why. I think I know why, but it would be politically unpopular to say the reason.
I'm a pretty happy logseq user. I've found that I still need some degree of hierarchy in my notes, as opposed to just having organic, non-hierarchical linking between everything. So I end up making subnotes: [[Topic A/subtopic x]] is a pretty common occurrence in my knowledge database. As an example, all projects I'm currently working on get [[ProjectA/log]] and [[ProjectA/todo]] subnotes. Keeps my TODOs segregated by topic. You could of course do most of these things with typical note-taking apps that rely on the hierarchical file system motif. But the fact that it's up to me to explictly construct my organizational structure in logseq forces me to be more intentional about how I organize my notes.

Perhaps the greatest benefit I've found in using logseq is in organizing the scientific literature I'm reading. At any point while writing, linking a paper I've read (the PDF itself, as well as my notes on it) is a few keystrokes away. This linking allows me to externalize the context with which I know a paper. I just need to browse the backlinks to see all the ways in which I've made reference to it over the entire history of my notes.
those red swinglines were on the chopping block for quite some time.
Always glad to help. If you are looking for a direction I personally suggest looking at tecosaur config¹/blog² & rougier's assorted emacs repo³.

1: https://tecosaur.github.io/emacs-config/config.html
2: https://blog.tecosaur.com/tmio/
3: https://github.com/rougier#emacs-hacking
Just don’t do them? I have around 10 years of experience, in a similar place as you. I refuse any leetcode or hackerrank request.

I interview pretty regularly, move jobs every couple months. Probably receive 2-3 offers a month without doing any leetcode.
What do you mean you can't trust them? If you write a type hint in your code and then run mypy on it, it will tell you whether the type is being violated. And, PyCharm has a type checker built in that lets you know as you're coding.
Can you provide an example of how that would have resulted in better gas cans for the allies earlier?
If you’re a Spanish speaking immigrant it’s a good place to get your foot in the door. My parents moved there when I was a kid and it’s where I went to middle and high school. I left for college and haven’t returned as there aren’t opportunities that make sense for me (tech).

If you’re an investor looking to tap into underrated talent it could make sense. But if you’re a software developer?

What type of work do you do? How old are you and how far along are you in your career? Are you allocating capital or investing? Are you an IC?

Perhaps if you’re targeting work in tourism and hospitality, when I’ve explored the options as a software professional it hasn’t looked good.

Perhaps things have changed, but after I finished college I considered starting my tech career there 10 years ago and found that the region has never diversified its economy beyond tourism.

A Latin American friend of mine, recent Comp Sci PhD from top US school, just spent a few months trying to find good work based in Miami. He did a few remote jobs with Silicon Valley companies and ultimately moved to Seattle for a job there. This is someone with family in Miami and every desire to live there.

It can be helpful to think about what your n+1 move might look like. You don’t want to be trapped in a place with few or limited opportunities. It’s a place that offers opportunities for people who are new to the US… and for investors or retirees looking for lower taxes… maybe that’s you maybe it’s not.

If you’re closer to retirement and can land a job paying SV salary in Florida, it could be a great quality of life.

And let’s not mention the political climate there.
QR code scanner does work. I've scanned hundreds of QR codes. If you can share the url, I can see what's wrong.

Regarding "How to use?", yes this is an issue on android. If you click multiple times, it will work.

I will fix it.

Regarding http/https, I'll implement that.
Norton purchased J.D. Salinger's letters to Joyce Maynard and returned them to him (Salinger by law retained the copyright to the letters, but the recipient retains ownership of the physical letters).

The article mentions Xtree which does live on today in Linuxland as ytree.
Moreover, most of the positive reports I saw were self-reports. If you do psycho drugs, you should not be the one reporting the results. Instead it should be done by your peers/friends who don't do the drugs. Your own report will be extremely biased.
It is that schooling has been not great, but COVID has made it much worse. Remote learning and kids not being able to socialize has been incredibly detremental.
I guess I’d describe SJ as a kind of monoculture. Everyone I knew was a fellow tech person, and escaping the programmer scene was impossible. When I lived in Revere Beach, my neighbours were chemists, doctors, geologists, professors… a brainy but varied bunch.

I earned more money in SJ but had a better work life balance in Boston. Companies in the former were more expecting of the grind, raising and deploying capital as early and often as possible; in the latter, more self-pacing of the growth curve and interested in sustainable, organic numbers.

Not sure if I answered your Q, but feel free to ask just about anything and I’ll follow up mañana.
Not parent, but ...

> I see this comment or some variation of it every time a new product is shared here that has such a model.

I observe something similar, but we seem to have drawn different conclusions.

> What I rarely if ever see is a proposal for how the developer should make money instead of a subscription.

At the risk of sounding trite, I think people who find subscriptions unpalatable would be happy with anything that isn't a subscription. These could be offered in parallel, so subscription-averse consumers have an alternative to evaluate.

A one-off payment is the obvious and most simple choice -- wrap some limits or caveats around data / transit usage if needed. Freemium option may work in some cases (I think there's sufficient successful examples to validate this as viable). (Only) enterprise users pay. Tier the offerings to protect yourself from the heavy eaters.

I don't think expressing fatigue at the relentlessness of subscription-ONLY services is invalid.
Five years can change your life
He doesn't implement matrix operations, floating point addition / multiplication either.
I've read those. It's kind of beautiful the way they paint the glorious future where every man and woman is in control of their own destiny. I remember similar promises in the dot com bubble. By the way, both Andreeson and I made a lot of money in that bubble and hung on to it by being smart about it (I have no affiliation, we were just both there) while others lost their shirts. I'm wondering why I'm sitting on the sidelines scoffing when I could get into the game. I'm not saying I'd be any good at playing, but you can't win if you don't play and like I said in another comment, I think I'd be playing with the house and that would give me an edge. I don't, I'm just thinking out loud in HN new that no one except a few will ever read.
Thank you! That's where I was confused, I worked at NetApp :(
Same as Argent.
Elect 4 trusted people, if they all ok it’s really you, the custodian (a company that stores your private keys, like LastPass), releases it to you.
Oh man, I forgot all about Stardock or how much I played Sins of a Solar Empire at one point. Talk about a game that should have been waaay more popular. I was (and still am) impressed by how Stardock made Windows Apps and Games - until I saw that, I had never realized that a mostly programming utility house could also do games and do them extremely well.
Reservations for stays and Airbnb Experiences made after March 14, 2020 will not be covered under our extenuating circumstances policy, except where the guest or host is currently sick with COVID-19.

Per: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2701/extenuating-circums...
I was thinking the same thing - I've had someone cut my hair maybe 5 times since college - 21 years ago!
I love this talking point, because in comparision to basically every country, US Democrats are socially very far left. It's only fiscally where they are more moderate. Which is basically the opposite of what most Americans want, yet they seem confused on why they struggle.
Yeah, it's very important for reading the bulk of documentation. He's not making any mistakes to learn english for sure.
You move jobs every couple months?
> But fundamentally there's no obvious reason why getting food at a restaurant needs to cost more than getting food at home, while still making the restaurant a profit that lets them pay salaries and sustain their business.

Food is not that expensive. The restaurant is not getting their materials much cheaper than people are at Costco.

What is expensive is good labor. Labor that wants to work a laborious, strenuous job, at very inconvenient hours. How are you going to convince someone to work at times when everyone else is out and having fun or having meals together at home as a family? Or getting ready for weekend trips? You have to pay them more to sacrifice.

The only reason this has not been a problem until now is there has been a big supply of labor willing to do that undesirable job at undesirable hours, so they had no negotiating power for higher wages.
This Randian view of taxes is exhausting. If taxation is theft, then you're complicit every time you drive on a road. For the sake of your conscience, the only moral thing to do is to move into the woods and depend on nothing and nobody.

Good luck.
I'm actually attracted to it - the more I get older the more I think it's a lifestyle for me.
I finished my degree after returning from an enlistment, and was about 8-10 years older than the typical "college-aged" peer group. Though ages tended to skew older in the ECE department I attended, with at least a quarter of the EE majors being established over-30 professionals and veterans finishing their own degrees.

Variety in age in socialization is a healthy thing, and I feel cramming entire cohorts into a 24-month bloc isn't particularly amenable to how we've evolved.
Also, I wouldn't worry too much about standardized tests if you have any insight into the conditions that usually influence the results. I have details in my other comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29805200 – in short, they can be quite easily influenced by factors extrinsic to knowledge retention even in non-pandemic times; and there have been a lot of those factors recently.
Scale! It really depends on how many customers you have.

To give you an idea...it costs Papa John's less than $2 to make a large pizza.

You'll spend twice that at home just on the cheese. At supermarket prices, you'll easily spend 15 dollars recreating it at home.
This happened to a family member who primarily used Gmail on their LG Sunrise candybar phone and never had 2FA enabled on the Google account.

After an iPhone upgrade and SIM swap, they couldn’t login to Gmail on an unrecognized device because the only option for verification was to “open the Gmail app on your LG sunrise”.

No 2FA enrollment ever took place, therefore no SMS fallback, recovery codes, or recovery email were offered as backup methods.

By sheer luck we found an old laptop where Gmail was used recently enough to recognize the browser.

At that point, only after removing the LG phone from “Account > My Devices” was it possible to enable 2FA and enroll a new iPhone as usual.

This “silent opt-in” (without 2FA) of the phone’s Android Gmail app as the only way to confirm unusual logins is likely limited to a subset of low-tech users / low-end devices who missed the Google account security checkup prompts.
China’s Locked Down City Thrown into Chaos After Covid App Crash
Not everything is racially motivated. Eventually speculation like yours crosses a boundary from legitimate social concern to conspiracy and seeing racist boogeymen in every shadow.
Hedge bets against an s3 outage. Cloud agnostic solution with abstraction of object storage. Reducing the cost of s3 by using minio as a cache.

Plenty of good use-cases.
One of my very first jobs let me buy Norton Utilities, which had "Norton CD" (ncd, I think) that was a smarter version of the cd command. When I left that company I was so addicted to ncd that I wrote my own. I have long left Windows behind for Linux but I still have my own version of ncd that I have ported to BASH and use about every 10 minutes. Norton's legacy lives on 25+ years later in my habits.
Crypto is fully banned in China and 8 other countries
That’s really … I don’t know what to think about that.
Sad, but not surprising. With social media, and YouTube making it easy to disseminate warnings on vehicle quality, people are much more educated before their purchases. Scotty Kilmer’s YouTube channel has convinced me against buying a new GM truck, and until he says differently, I’ll keep GM off my potential candidate list.
> You need to have a way to decide who is worth your time

The "first filter" is what we have HR departments for. As you say, decent jobs get thousands of applicants. Whos going to do the phone interview on a thousand people?

The first filter is skimming the applications and checking basic credentials. Filter out resumes that don't check out, and looking for red flags. This already brings down the candidate pool to a manageable size.
Go After the Metagame
https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...

Labor force participation has not collapsed, the population pyramid is simply aging.

The trend was clear since 10 years ago, but pandemic accelerated it for some people, but still not a collapse.
Food is cheap in Asia because rice is cheap, there is no tipping, the weather is generally warm year-round and cities are dense (supporting outdoor food stalls).

Anyway, just buy yourself an electric pressure cooker - you can cook 95% of your meals at home easily and eat out for the other special occasions. It just takes additional planning to buy ingredients ahead of time in bulk, and freeze some of them.
In Rust:
(1..10).sum()
To be clear, I don't think it should be illegal. I just think it's immoral. Kind of like selling a 10-foot HDMI cable for $4,500 (and that's not hypothetical: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioquest-dragon-10-4k-8k-10k-...)
Nope. I actually signed up for the free trial while I was out of state in December so I could quickly do a couple things and only bring along my MacBook (complete a few daily objectives on my MMO of choice).

I don't think streaming games will ever quite work out for something like a first person shooter or competitive scenes, but I was really impressed otherwise. I didn't notice input lag nearly as much as I thought I would.
I first read about this lifestyle in World War Z, a decent book for zombie lore with no connection to what ultimately became the movie.

There is a character in the book named Kondo Tatsumi who is described as an “otaku” which I presume has some approximation to hikkikomori.
I’m kind of worried about his mental health.
> I find it so strange to insist that everything have The One True Story With All Its Details And We Shall Murder Anyone Who Disagrees ("canon"). I'm not an expert in literature by any means--I was bad at, and hated, lit crit--but it seems like this is a relatively recent invention...

I agree. It's what you get when you combine obsessive fan-geekery with milking some IP for every cent it's worth with sequels and tie-ins.
Very well written, powerful stuff. “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”
Macron declares his Covid strategy is to ‘piss off’ the unvaccinated
True, but it’s not impossible to design a processor that is much faster at running high level code in certain languages a lot faster than another processor that is roughly equivalent at running low level code.
Depends on how well the game sells, if it sells a million copies he's a strange millionaire who values his privacy.

If it sells poorly, he's just a strange guy with an odd way of living.

Edit : This game looks fucking hilarious , I might buy a copy.

I can't really hate on someone at least trying to be productive

Edit 2: Played the demo on Steam, what a masterpiece. It's a game about wanting to be left the fuck alone. If you like silly stuff like Goat Simulator, you'll enjoy this. I hope he sells millions, and then makes an American spin off.

Everything about this screams I'm trying my best. Even the kickstarter itself is amazing. English is VERY VERY hard to learn, but he still made the video without hiring a professional voice actor or relying on an AI voice.

I'm buying this day one !
But probably score higher on social skills.
>>>America's federalism would make this idea a mess here: Each state has their own system for everything and 50%+ of the lower-level governments/agencies (county or municipal level) don't have any digital footprint at all, even a website.

Additional example: I need to pay property taxes on my mother's house in New Jersey. I'm physically on the other side of the planet. While the town has a website, it's pretty much just a phone directory. I have to call them every 3 months, usually when it's 2-3am in my timezone, ask them what the property taxes are assuming I pay them by {$date}, and then mail them checks. I can't even do something as simple as enter the property lot number in a search field on their site, have it look up the outstanding taxes, and then just pay with a VISA card.

The Federal government SHOULD be able to force certain things in the name of "regulating interstate commerce". I would think that data standards and APIs would have efficiencies at scale that would reduce friction in inter-state transactions.
Reading your comments, it doesn't sound like your friend are being assholes and rubbing their with in your face. If they are then ditch them.
But if they are just enjoying their success and trying to share it with you. Then there is a different problem. You shouldn't feel ashamed.
Personally I think you should ask it therapy or a group therapy or something. There is something else going on, something that is causing you to attribute success in life to your house and belongings.
Yeah it is nice to have a nice house and some spare money, but there is more to life than that.
Enjoy your friends houses and the time you spend with them.
Yeah, I have my doubts this is not a giant troll post on Reddit that people love to get outraged about. looks silly a week later when the truth emerges.
The format_description! macro uses the same syntax as the format_description::parse method. If you want to support user-provided formatting strings (which you do), then you need such a method already, and once you’ve got that, why do the macro differently?

That components have parameters makes the non-literal approach even less compelling: take this which can produce the likes of “2:34:56pm”:

format_description!("[hour padding:none repr:12]:[minute]:[second][period case:lower]")

For reference, that is equivalent to this:

use time::format_description::{FormatItem, component::Component, modifier::{Hour, Minute, Second, Period, Padding}};

[
FormatItem::Component(Component::Hour(Hour { padding: Padding::None, is_12_hour_clock: false })),
FormatItem::Literal(b":"),
FormatItem::Component(Component::Minute(Minute { padding: Padding::Zero })),
FormatItem::Literal(b":"),
FormatItem::Component(Component::Second(Second { padding: Padding::Zero })),
FormatItem::Component(Component::Period(Period { is_uppercase: false, case_sensitive: true })),
]

You could easily provide a prettier DSL so that you could write something like this:

use time::format_description::shorthand::{HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND, PERIOD, literal};
[
HOUR.padding_none().repr_12(),
literal(":"),
MINUTE,
":".into(), // even this if you wanted
SECOND,
PERIOD.case_lower(),
]

This wouldn’t be awful in the absence of the parse method, but really, once you have that, the format_description macro is just what you want: compact, checked at compile time, and matching a runtime equivalent which can take user-provided format strings.

(Now there are two or three changes I’d prefer to make to format_description’s syntax: I’d use = instead of :, the two being generally very similar but : far more regularly occurring in literal parts, so that the different = would make it scan better; and I think that escaping opening square brackets by doubling them but not requiring doubling for closing square brackets was a particularly bad idea; and I’m mildly inclined to prefer {} to []. So I might end up with "{hour padding=none repr=12}:{minute}:{second}{period case=lower}".)