skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically every time I’ve needed police for something - a break-in, a violent person at my work, a neighbor stealing things from me with video evidence, a stolen car, on and on - I file a report and then never hear from them again. I can’t figure out what 40% of my city’s budget is going toward exactly. They have a ton of military gear for what purpose I’m not sure, while our roads and infrastructure are falling apart. They get as much overtime as they want…to sit in their cars and not do anything apparently. They won’t do anything about car theft where I live because they’re mad at the city council. Literally a work stoppage, which nothing can be done about. I’m not sure how many millions of the city’s tax revenue has gone toward paying out lawsuits against police either. So basically, they cost me a bunch of money and aren’t providing a service for that money.
Isn't that how the Quest is now? It is for me, pop on the device and get straight into my workout.
it was floated up 30 years ago https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/31/russia-assoc...
Every "equal opportunity employer" in the states has a part of the application that's a dryer form of, "we're working towards equal opportunity, so please tell us what you consider to be your race as well as which gender you identify with and which you prefer to have sex with, which we promise are completely work-relevant questions because we care so much about representation and pinky promise this information won't be used in any other way".

Seems completely backwards to me, but I've seen it on quite a few job application forms.
Following the programming language evolution, and taking it personally
Look at this great thread I started. It's like groupthink kryptonite.
I'm dreading the day that one of the big AAA publishers acquires Supergiant Games. Hoping that it doesn't happen, but I can't imagine the founders are going to wave off multi-million (or even billion?) dollar offers forever.
> I haven't bought a new game since 2016, and I'll never support the gaming industry ever again :)

Oh, come on… While there may be a lot of games trying strange monetization strategies, the majority of the industry is still great.

So many amazing and innovative games have come out in the last 5 years. Breath of the Wild, Half Life Alyx, Valheim, and countless others.

Gaming is the largest entertainment industry. Larger than movies and TV. You can’t just write it off because of a few bad eggs, there’s too much to miss.
Star rating for YouTube is back
Sometimes when you look back, you'll appreciate that someone a bit more. You'll realize despite the flaws she wasn't so bad.

If the author is look for more affection, I don't think AWS is the route to go. I'd go the other way toward Heroku-like platform. (Oh and shout out to Python Anywhere - great relationship there)
AWS is losing market share to Azure and Google (slowly). It's very silly to say Azure is a dead-end while it is one of the largest growing revenue streams for Microsoft. It sounds like this person was perhaps in the Silicon Valley reality distortion bubble and smoking their own exhaust fumes. Perhaps they should spend time out in the real world.
> it was the United States that broke the promise to not expand NATO after the fall of the Soviet Union

This promise is a myth [1]. At best, it was an informal statement by some guy in the U.S. government [2]. This has been blown out of proportion beyond any semblance to reality by Putin's propaganda.

And if it had happened, it would have been an agreement with the Soviet Union. Which does not exist. Russia, in 1994, formally agreed to "respect...Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders" and "refrain from the threat or the use of force against...Ukraine," among other things. It has flagrantly broken these agreements.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-...

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fs41311-020-00224...
I think this is a result of adults making up a much larger share of gamers and profits to gaming companies.

I've noticed myself doing this and I can pause it if I try but I don't think I can turn it off. Playing games as a kid, it was all about exploration and doing fun things. I didn't beat many games but I played a lot of them. As an adult, I need to be setting goals and earning achievements. There always needs to be something I'm working towards.

It's fun planning/achieving at first but after a few weeks it just feels like i've given myself another job then i get burnt out and reset.

I haven't played battlefield 2042. I bet you're right that portal mode is fun but I'm willing to bet if I was to play I would probably start to express the same sentiment that there's no point in playing portal mode if it doesn't help me progress in the game. It's stupid and I have a hard time admitting it but it's true.

Sometimes I wish I could just enjoy a game for what it is and not be thinking about "what next?" or "what does this accomplish?". I think its just because we're adults (and probably because we have fully developed prefrontal cortexes?)
The hardest job I've ever had wasn't any of my software engineering jobs which paid six-figures: it was working at a retirement home as a dishwasher and food server. It paid $8.50 an hour (in 2007), and I didn't know my hours until the day before. It was hell, and I lasted two months before burning out.
Newly discovered type of and#39;strange metal&#39; could lead to deep insights
That's unlikely to happen, this discord was started because the post author was unhappy with official Handshake discord.

> I am going to start a Handshake community. Handshake itself is great and the toxic admins from their discord can't try to make everyone stop contributing.

https://github.com/publiusfederalist/why-i-quit-handshake
Would love to read more about this phenomenon, do you have links to articles or places to start?

Edit: Found an article[0] that links to a study[1]

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over...
[1] - https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/88/2/865/223534...
But no one from Apache, and no one from any of the other major OSS projects
One thing that isn't being discussed is that people are leaving for hopefully better jobs, especially since there are a lot of jobs hiring. For example, leaving a food job for a better paying factory or technician job. Not a huge jump like in the tech world, but sometimes you just need a push to move to something new.
I don’t know. I’m a pretty typical law-abiding citizen living a boring life and all my interactions with the police are negative. Aside from the really annoying ticketing to raise funds, I’ve had the following interactions:

1) had a cop yell at me and bystanders because someone not even with me said “excuse me sir” the cop yelled that he should say “excuse me officer” and the two cops next to him laughed

2) I was hit as a pedestrian and police said they were too busy to come take an accident report that I had to come to that station. I and the driver gave conflicting reports, there was no cop at the scene. Witnesses offered to testify but police wouldn’t contact them. When I went to the station there were lots of police sitting around.

3) I lived across from the police station and my car was broken into. It took four hours for the police to come over, investigate and prepare a report. Cop said next time I should call the private neighborhood security company that is all off duty copy’s getting overtime.

4) neighbor conflict with neighbor violating a judge’s order. City police said they wouldn’t do anything because they don’t enforce violations from those kids of judges per city policy. I asked what kind of police do, he said none. I’d have to call state police.

These aren’t huge issues and I’m still alive, etc. But I think it’s indicative of systemic problems where there’s not a good feedback loop to make sure cops are effective.

I’m grateful for police and they do do good work, but everyone I know has a litany of stories like this. And since police seem to do stuff like protest collection of data, routinely lose/not record body cam, and other indicators of a corrupt org; I think there’s need for serious police reform.
It doesn't exist because you never experienced it? There are lots of stories about places that demand it (usually big companies and government, I suppose).

For example Google was in the news several times for woke upheavals. Not sure if they do actual diversity training, but it does sound like a toxic workplace.

Also interesting how quick you are to suggest the need for diversity training, while being adamant that no such pressure exists.
are the rest of the US allies in the world so powerless? Isn't this why we have the UN? Without the US, does the world just go back to war, death, and destruction everywhere? That seems crazy to me.
> The bike paths are small now because hardly anyone uses them. If everyone and their mother was riding bikes around everywhere they’d have to be a lot bigger.

A bike path capable of taking 200 bikes / hour is always going to be smaller than a road that can take 200 cars / hour. Bikes are physically smaller, you can fit plenty of them into the footprint of a single car.

> Furthermore, I think you’re really underestimating what it’s like to live in a cold northern place during the winter. There are snowstorms that go on for hours and hours and you need to plough and salt the roads hourly just for cars.

Most of the world doesn’t live in these locations. If your city is really so bad that it impossible to move around without a car, then stick with a car. Doesn’t change the fact that most places are perfectly compatible with bikes.

> Not to mention the fact that people like to be comfortable so nobody’s going to want to ride a bike in a blizzard.

Wear a thick coat. There are plenty of places where that have blizzards and the majority of trips are made by bike.

> If a city tried to force everyone to use bikes then people would move away.

There’s more to a city than just the number of cars in it. There are plenty of cities that already punish car driver heavily. Their populations still grow, their economies still grow. Providing enough roads and space for everyone to drive is not a requirement for a successful city, arguably the opposite is true. The worlds largest mega cities have the best public transport, and some of the most punishing and expensive to use road infrastructure. Just look at cities like Tokyo, London and Paris.
Victor, congratulations on the launch! I am one of the maintainers at https://github.com/ory/hydra and it makes me super happy to see that Ory Hydra is being used for such innovative projects :)

If you’re interested to join Ory, we’d be excited to have you! Drop Aeneas a line and he’ll take it from there: aeneas@ory.sh

Hopefully we’ll talk soon :)
I agree, it's been pretty weird that way. Where outright ads would otherwise be, there are just results that don't fit your search. But I guess those videos _could_ be thought of as ads, since that's the way the platform works--ad-oriented results are viral to the inner workings of Youtube.
Prior to Covid we had a strict “no free games” rule in my house because the free games were the ones with advertising schemes or paid items in them.

During Covid it became impossible to avoid the likes of Fortnite and Roblox so that my kids could still play with their friends. Not sure how to put the genie back in the bottle at this point.
You definitely can (and you should if you have the ability!) but there are by their nature fewer supervisory roles available and the skill sets, at least my experience, don't overlap that much.
No, the reason why it took from 2016 to 2020 to turn on E2EE by default in Matrix was because we wanted to get UX parity with unencrypted in Element before we turned it on by default. It had absolutely nothing to do with straggler clients, popular or otherwise.
Absolutely agreed. I read an article years back that criticized superhero films where the stakes are world-ending, or similarly large-scale, because that actually lowers the stakes, since you know the world isn’t ending. With smaller stakes, it’s actually possible for the protagonist to lose, at least in some ways.
Gitlab shifts left to patch high-impact vulnerabilities
Ask HN: Where do you find reliable information on diet?
Hi,

I'd like to start eating better. I'm curious what websites/blogs/podcasts do you read or listen to for reliable information on what to eat and how to eat?

I'm looking for a science-based source that I can trust, something similar to the Huberman Lab Podcast or examine.com.

Thank you.
You pretend these are equal:

Well, they are not. There is a good deal over a century between those two events and a whole lot has changed since then - even though I should admit not as much as I want.

Russias aggression against Ukraine however is at a completely different level than anything anyone has seen in Europe since a long time ago (and then it was the Sovjet, and before that Nazi-Germany.)
> the notion of “merit” in the US is associated with white supremacy

In Germany, our system is far more inclusive at all levels which means we don't have that much of a problem with early stage ethnic discrimination. Not to say we don't have any problems at all (far from it, in fact!) but it's nowhere near as bad as in the US, and additionally for once we Germans don't have historical baggage that's keeping us down.
I was commenting on possible delivery mechanisms for the compounds described in the study, CBDA and CBGA. Smoking or eating "cooked" edibles isn't going to get enough of those compounds into the bloodstream.

Edit: added compound names
I think they mostly cut the right stuff, lady stoneheart excepted. The books aren't among my favorites, but the show took all the good and left the filler. But recognizing the good bits is a different skillset than being able to create more.
> In his experience, amongst pregnant teenagers (17 and younger) about 10% were pregnant by their own fathers/brothers.

I refuse to believe that. I mean, yeah, the man had direct contact with such cases and probably had been in the field for tens of years while I'm just a computer programmer but I still refuse to believe it.
I have a bit of knowledge about human nature and some applied logic. I do not need others to tell me how to think and I find Wikipedia a heavily biased and ideologized source.
The Simula One has more than 3x the PPD/pixel density over a Valve Index, and we also have a special text filter we use in our rendering which is specifically optimized for text clarity. If you're interested in the Simula One, you should see a pretty immense difference between these two headsets.

RE peripherals: Simula itself (e.g. the VR window manager on our headset) is designed to work best with just a keyboard (obviating the need for peripherals/controllers). You control the mouse cursor with your eye gaze, and can move/resize windows with keyboard shortcuts and eye gaze as well (we plan on supporting hand tracking in the Simula One, but I think in practice it won't be used as much as people think).
> This week alone I had 2 interviews with 2 different companies where in the first one of the interviewers asked me my age, directly followed by "why hire you over a younger graduate?" (which isn't the same as "why hire you over someone smarter than you?" because why even ask this). In the second one I was also asked for my age, followed by whether I plan to get married anytime soon.

Okay, if this interview was in the United States, interviewers can't actually ask these questions.

About 'amateurs': developing software for sale is a professional endeavor, so by signaling that you are an amateur, you are telegraphing that you are less suited for the job than someone who doesn't. This is a function of maturity, and maturity is expected from someone who is older.

Most valley companies simply do not care if you are a 34-year old with 4 years of experience, provided your education and training were not in computer science. If your resume clearly shows your educational and work background, absolutely no sane mainstream company will care. There are larger companies that do insist on hiring people with degrees in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering to do software, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

My advice:
- Polish your speaking and presentation style. Convey maturity that is commensurate with your age. Maintain a positive attitude and a professional demeanor in your interviews no matter what. Take some time to familiarise yourself with the terms of art, and speak the lingo.

- Do not deal with very small shops. They generally do not have processes and management structures that are suitable to integrating people such as you (or reigning in wackos who ask illegal questions during interviews, thus showing their total lack of interview training and common sense). You will have better luck with companies that have explicit programs to bring in people from nontraditional backgrounds into software dev.

- Freelancing is a good idea if you want to make some money and connections, but getting into an established company such as the one I have described is a much better bet to get into the industry.
Employment contracts are a double-edged sword that would warrant their own discussion.

Also you’re not really signing an agreement that they can fire you, you’re signing an acknowledgement of the at-will employment status so you can’t claim any illusions that you had an employment contract, but that status is typically derived from state law and advertised on the job posting you applied for. That paper you’re signing is about the same as an acknowledgement of the warning that you shouldn’t eat tide pods. It’s there because stupid people have necessitated it.

Speaking as a long time employee and now as an owner/employer, I’ve always thought people who bristle at at-will employment don’t really get it — it’s a two-way street, as an employee you can leave anytime, being considerate of professional courtesy for notice, etc.

I was always highly confident in my value and skills, so the idea of an employer randomly laying me off was never an issue - their loss more than mine. Your life will be far less stressful if you can develop that mental confidence and self-actualization, and if there is something preventing it, work on that. Specifically, if you feel lucky to have been employed in your field, and are barely hanging on to your job, maybe you should find a better field?

At-will employment should not even remotely be a big concern in life. Talent is hard to find - there’s more money than talent out there.
For a long while, input sanitization in the web world was about modifying inputs to strip the problem areas. As such many consider escaping and sanitization to be completely different practices.

It seems like this article is using this differentiation. In my experience, it's very common. It's not worth arguing about.
This site isn't really intended for high security. It doesn't matter that much since Hackernews login is only for this site and text posts here are not that valuable. If it was expanded in usage it could be disastrous.

The fact that the admins of this site do manual recovery for example is a terrible practice that no serious providers do. In fact the reason i'm 'AnotherGoodName' rather than my old AReallyGoodName is because i suffered account takeover on this site. The last three posts from AReallyGoodName promoting CoinRace are not me. The rest, including posts for my github projects (i still own my Github) are. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16460663#16461236

I do not think for one second that Hackernews is ready to handle sign ins for things that need more security than this site itself.
It's unlikely for cannabinoids other than THC to bind to the CB1 receptor strong enough to cause the psychoactive effect.

Only THC binds very well to the CB1 receptor. THCA does not bind well to either receptor.

Cannabinoids that bind to CB2 receptors in the immune and gastrointestinal systems affect inflammatory and immune responses.
More like register with loginwithhn?
Look to Vegas to see how grinding for money works out. Especially slot machines. There's a fraction of the population that will play slot machines for long periods. This despite it being a net lose. This is the population that falls for Axie Infinity.

Axie Infinity was, at peak, about half the NFT market. It is now a Ponzi in the final stages. Here's the chart for Smooth Love Potion token, the one players grind for.[1] Down from $0.35 to $0.018. How low can it go? That one suckered a lot of poor people in the Philippines.

From the discussions on Reddit, it looks like people are wising up about NFTs. For a while, there were two new wannabe NFT metaverses a day. That's stopped. Most NFT comments are now negative.

Roblox may get in trouble for using child labor to implement games on their platform.[2]

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/smooth-love-potion/

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/jan/09/the-trouble-wi...
NATO is a threat because NATO is enemy.
there is kind of circular logic over there.
They have a monopoly so they can do stupid experiments without repercussions
YouTube's recommendation algorithm works great for me. I consistently tell youtube to not recommend videos that I don't want to watch and it will cut them out of my feed. I've gotten rid of most clickbaity material and it shows me longer form and more in depth content. If your recommendations aren't good I suggest using the features to not recommend certain videos or ignore entire channels. The algorithm will figure out what you want to watch
This has frustrated me personally.

A casual acquaintance who doesn't have much money to spare wanted a bike. I said no problem, and started to show her suitable candidates from the local classifieds site. This was not during a bike boom, so truly decent all-purpose bikes could be had in the CAD$250 price range. Once I found the dandiest little Trek mountain bike at a garage sale, older but in 100% tip top mechanical condition and the only reason the $50 price wasn't suspicious was because it was sold at a garage sale in a decent neighbourhood. As soon as I put it back (it was too small for me personally) someone else bought it.

She didn't want them. She wanted something new. I kept telling her that a new $250 bike will give mechanical problems sooner than a used high quality bike. Deaf ears. I guess when you're truly helpless as bike maintenance goes, a used bike is like a 10 year old car from shady used car dealer. Much safer to buy a small, cheap brand, new one and be assured that everything is at 0% wear.
I think this phenomena is at least partly responsible for why so many devs stay in the same position and why they are difficult to find/hire.

Before a tech interview, good candidates will spend a large amount of time doing 'homework' which is just practicing answering the asinine questions that tech interviewers give that is usually barely relevant to the position, if at all.

Equally, if not more important, is the candidate's experience or ability to navigate legacy code, testing philosophy, handling incomplete/inconsistent requirements, and attention to detail, among other traits. Of course these won't merit the same attention in an interview.

On the one hand firms have difficulty finding good candidates, on the other hand they are giving ridiculous tech interviews that aren't a great judge of what kind of employee they will be.