skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That, combined with the fact that the design of the game was identical seems like a pretty good case to me.

Clones are common for a reason. Heroes of Newerth, 12-odd years ago, was a functional copy of DotA, with identical items; eg boots, bottle, etc. A more recent Apple action, where they are taking Wordle clones down, isn't an indication that there's a copyright violation. This is just the Apple walled garden trying to prop up winners for their own Black Mirror-style ends (30% cut is easier from a single vendor and everyone gets to participate in the news story).

You can mimic as much as you want because game design is not copyrightable. Your game is basically the same, does not make a good case. You want to point to specific assets, art, and other copyrighted IP.
> or build a web app.

Huh, maybe there's an opportunity to make an app that appifies appfiable sites. Like a captive browser. That app could be free. But Apple would find a way to say it's not OK with their rules and boot it from the store.

> 30% is the price to access Apple's customers.

Perhaps, but you'll notice many people don't agree, and those people participate in politics, and some of them will say "company store!!" and demand statutory or judicial intervention, and who knows, they might get it. Lucky for Apple 99.9% of their customers aren't those people.
Sure you can. You just can't afford a house in 94027.
STEM doesn't retain people, particularly women (only one woman I know that I graduated with is still a tech worker) and plenty of others got tired of taking orders from project managers and decided to become them or go found something.

A lot of people think that as software engineers they get to develop the product. In practice, I have mostly been an ticket processing Oompa Loompa. You can get some input, but that requires arguing with people you would often rather not argue with. That drives a lot of people away.
"that can get them retired easily by their mid 30s"

Maybe a small subset. The median dev salary is $110k. So no, only a very small number are able to retire in their 30s.
There are good recruiters. They're relatively rare.

They tend to stick around the industry for a while, not treat you like a mushroom (keep you in the dark, bury you in bullshit), and respond humanly to human requests.

You can safely block the one you're describing here, and we'll all be better if that's the standard response.
You still have to name some classes even if you use component scoped styles, however it is usually pretty straight forward. I quite often just name my classes something like: link, action, title, label, etc.

Also when I’m writing forms, I usually name every field e.g. email-field so and then assign them in the grid using the class name:

.email-field {
grid-area: email
}
I'm not sure I remember anyone cloning Doom with a setting of a Mars base infested by fireball-throwing demons, a marine as main character, puzzles consisting of brightly-coloured keys opening corresponding doors, the same slate of weapons and a red mist descending over the screen when your die. If they had, I feel like they would have been laughed out of the room in those days. (I don't know if this legal claim has a leg to stand on, but it does seem to be copying different in degree if not in kind from the Doom example).

(The Settlers and Syndicate were near-contemporaries of Dune 2 in that genre, perhaps also responsible for some of the genre conventions?)
Maybe not today, if you haven't saved, but if you have no major debt now, there is noplace in the country where six figures won't allow you to buy a house once you have a downpayment. Mortgages are cheaper than rent, and you're presumably living somewhere right now.
Money is actually a bigger deal than you think. A lot of people are in effect doubling their salaries by switching jobs right now.

Even rewinding to just 5 years ago, there were much fewer companies flush with cash. Now with the hyper-capitalization of so many up-and-coming startups, a lot more companies are now at the bidding table for the same pool of candidates. And even large incumbents have big plans to double in headcount, effectively making the tech market talent side constrained (it always has been to a large degree, but even more pronounced now). So now companies are largely competing on compensation packages, because the ball is very much in the candidate's court. Amazon is starting to pay up to ~$400k in total compensation for an L5 mid-level engineer due to retention and hiring issues, and it's commonly known within tech that Amazon has traditionally lagged behind other large companies in compensation.

Job seekers have options and are very much in a position of leverage. That is why it is hard to hire right now, because everyone needs to hire, and your company probably isn't paying as competitively as others.
Thanks for the local insight. I found it very interesting. How did they handle the pandemic? Where did you end up moving to and what was the reason you decided to move?
> There comes a point where the money just isn't a motivating factor anymore

That's cuz your numbers are too small. Offer a 50% raise instead of a 20k raise and you will see different results.

> Yes I could quit and get a ~20k raise by shopping my resume around, but I don't need the money

Plenty of stories on Blind of people shopping around and going from 150k TC to 350k TC, so I guess it really depends on your situation.
> i.e. why can't you just vote with your feet?

Because Apple's actions are illegally anti-competitive, and I support existing anti-trust laws.

If you think that it is totally OK to engage in illegal anti-competitive behavior, then just say that. Otherwise this is the answer.

The answer is that we have anti-trust law for a reason. So if you disagree then you need to say that you want anti-competitive behavior to be legal and bite that bullet of being in favor of that stuff.

So go ahead and just say that you support microsoft anti-competitive behavior or if you think that it is not OK, then whatever reason you have for saying that anti-competitive behavior is bad, I can use whatever reason that is.
I haven’t tried it, but it is my understanding that the source code version control system made by the SQLite team does this.
If this writing is what the author brings to the table, I think they are more than capable of writing a useful blog. And with more writing, it will only get better.

> It feels as if I should have great things to say about... stuff... and yet I don't. Every opinion I have is a copy of a copy of a copy of the first 5 top-level comments on a reddit-slash-hacker-news comment section.

Almost everything that's said or written is a copy of a copy of a copy. But as a reader, your 5th level copy might be the first time I'm encountering that particular idea. If only one person says something, the chances of me finding it are negligible. If a thousand people say the same thing, it significantly increases the chances of me finding it.
which is redundant to the browsers built in functionality
I don't think it is an issue w/ the pre-emption code. I believe FuturesUnordered is just doing the wrong thing: not respecting yields.
The absolute value of your salary doesn't tell you anything about how long it takes to get to retirement (or more accurately, financial independence). That's exclusively a function of your spending and saving rates. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...
The end of legacy Google Voice for personal accounts
Not only can you reply, but you can compose new messages using an email address as a recipient.
Lost me at... this is an F16 ( cockpit was certainly NOT an F16 ).
Right...but the issue is that this project is trading on his extremely unique nickname and reputation. It's nice that is inspired by him, and maybe it is the case that he would agree with its purpose and direction (or maybe he wouldn't, I have no idea). But what happens if down the line it goes in a direction he doesn't agree with?
"Big island with small island connected via choke point" !== clone.
It's also like that because it makes for interesting gameplay when you have the shrinking border that's common in BR games - you get in to situations where you know you or other players have to cross the bridge to leave the island.
Was thinking about something exactly like this the other day. DDG is more useful for using other sites as search engines than it is by itself. Any chance this can be ported to chromium browsers too?
It varies based on where you are and the specifics of the deal. 15–30% of the first year‘s salary is normal in my experience.
I worked my normal week and 1/1-1/2. Now I'm officially on call for the next 7 days. I'm a midlevel with 10 years experience making under $100k. Fml
This is a very polarizing topic. I'd love to know enough about this field to understand what is going on.

I just hope that if this is man made we have learned something to prevent this happening again.

How hard would it be for someone to do this on purpose?
"well over 6 figures". Does this mean "well over $100k" or "well over 999k"?
compelled by law
I spent four years in Rio Comprido/Tijuca and left when I was six, Rua Conselheiro Barros near Rua do Bispo, not quite the favela there. I lived in various other places in Brazil too and got to visit and stay in many of "sketchy" places because of my parents' work.
Did you bait them with peanut butter? That has always worked for me.

I've also heard of people gluing an almond to the trap. The mouse will tug on it and snap!goodbye.
That's right. Those are called massive compact halo objects (MACHOs). From "Dark Matter: A Primer" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.2483):

To hunt for these objects two collaborations, the MACHO Collaboration and the EROS-2 Survey, searched for gravitational microlensing (the changing brightness of a distant object due to the interference of a nearby object) caused by possible MACHOs in the Milky Way halo. (Other collaborations have studied this as well, such as MOA, OGLE, and SuperMACHO.) The MACHO Collaboration painstakingly observed and statistically analyzed the skies for such lensing; 11.9 million stars were studied, with only 13-17 possible lensing events detected. In April of 2007, the EROS-2 Survey reported even fewer events, observing a sample of 7 million bright stars with only one lensing candidate found. This low number of possible MACHOs can only account for a very small percentage of the non-luminous mass in our galaxy, revealing that most dark matter cannot be strongly concentrated or exist in the form of baryonic astrophysical objects. Although microlensing surveys rule out baryonic objects like brown dwarfs, black holes, and neutron stars in our galactic halo, can other forms of baryonic matter make up the bulk of dark matter? The answer, surprisingly, is no, and the evidence behind this claim comes from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).

That paragraph references "The SuperMACHO Microlensing Survey," "The MACHO project: microlensing results from 5.7 years of large magellanic cloud observations," and "Limits on the MACHO content of the galactic halo from the EROS-2 survey of the magellanic clouds," if you feel like reading a bunch of physics research papers.
Regardless of whether the right rate is 0.3% or 3%, it is certainly not 30%.
If you drink, stop. Setup a schedule and follow it. No caffeine after lunch.

Lover of music? Playing or listening?

Outstanding commitments?

Start lightly exercising and build up this helps everything.

Setup a sleep schedule and don't use electronics two hours before you go to bed.

Have you completed discounted philosophy and software? Philosophy isn't my passion, but software is large enough for almost anyone to find their niche.
The assertion is that they were always incompetent, but it wasn't
broadly apparent until now.
How does Shopify know my contact and credit card information (2019)
I simply refuse to work with 3rd party recruiters. I've had terrible experiences with them on the hiring side.
> “The ordinary ‘horseless carriage’ is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although its price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle,” claimed the Literary Digest in 1899.

> “It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology,” he said. However he was smart enough to add a caveat saying; “although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in five years.”

etc. etc.

[1]https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/the...
Are they? The article says "game structure and in-game items, equipment, and locations" which doesn't sound like actual asset rips, although I wouldn't be surprised if the reporting on this was innacurate.

Do you have other info about the content of the lawsuit?
Or a ton of small organism that will die because last time ocean was that acidic down there was a billion years ago or sth.

And they'll decompose producing methane, raise to the surface and put climate change into overdrive.

Which would be worse than kaiju. :)
> The answer is simple. Uber, Lyft, and everyone else, should have different pricing on Android and iPhone.

Apple will not let you do that at first place. It's against their guidelines and apps that do that and get caught get the boot.
Any time a page does something stupid when you right–click, try it again while holding down shift.
That's fucking disgusting.
I like this title, it’s not clickbaity at all, but I still want to read it when I see it.
The absolute value of your salary does highly correlate with cost of living, unfortunately. Which may have an effect on your savings rate.
The interesting bit with covid is there are a lot fewer opportunities to spend that money, or opportunities that are less enjoyable.
colors are super important to me, desaturating the monitor would feel like only eating things without taste. Also i spent a shitload of money on a Pro XDR, desaturating this would be a sin.
What is CosmosY?
It exists. It works. And governments, companies, and individuals have started to adopt it for real transactions (rather that speculation).

The ship has already sailed. Get over it.
Yeah the second blog post in this series has some examples of leaking, unexpired batteries: https://goughlui.com/2016/12/19/great-aa-alkaline-battery-te...
First two points are way too heavy on "Eln Msk" as an illustration, could have easily written just as compelling (better?) argument without going that extreme early on.
Second Life: Sumbul Desai, MD – VP of Health at Apple
In my experience, LEDs itself are rarely dead but other components tend to be dead
What kind of patching?

Is the goal to say "okay, here is a persistent chunk of memory with a file or program in it, keep it preserved while the OS reboots, then if it's a program reconnect the files and sockets it was using"?

Because you can just remove the word 'persistent' and do that today. Most hardware shouldn't wipe memory on a reboot, and if it does talk to your vendor for a BIOS option. And all the support code you need in your OS should be roughly the same.
Amazon, UberEats, Fresh Direct. All sorts of grocery delivery services
On the one hand, the largest tech companies are bigger than ever and still growing, and they set the market rates with a combination of high salaries and liquid stock. If you're incredible, you can go work there.

On the other hand, there is more money floating toward more startups than ever, across every imaginable industry. They all need people.

Taken together, demand is through the roof, and the massive companies are pulling salaries up as someone senior or higher could ostensibly get a job there vs. your random Series A-C startup.

If you can't pay top dollar, you are in the zone described by the author. You need to offer whatever a particular candidate is after: respectable salary; a chance to own some massive new development area; a chance to go deep on a set of technologies; and/or a schedule that supports their lifestyle.
It's already in chromium browsers, just press tap after the domain.
The article is concise but missing a lot of real-life examples:

* The highest paying software companies employ LeetCode style interview. That is off-putting to a lot of people even though the money would be super sweet to have.

* Some wannabe startups also employ LeetCode style interview even though they don't pay anywhere near FAANG/Unicorns.

* You know what's worst than LeetCode style interview? LeetCode style interview with really long rounds. It's super off-putting to be tossed around for weeks.

* You know what's even worse than that? Lowball offer after completing the entire circus.

* PIP culture is scary and it's hard to judge if the new company have it or not, except Amazon. We all know Amazon has PIP culture.

* Long hour culture is not desirable and hard to judge. What's the point of making 20% more if you ended up working 40% more?
I’m a little confused as to your central point.

Is it that we should be more aware of the long term deleterious effects of contracting a virus?

Because then I think we agree!
Simple is not easy. The vast majority of people like to spend.

Who can blame them? You can take your money to your grave, but what use is it then?
Well, if they gouge you, you can move to a different neighborhood (switch to android).

Pretty evident when you go through the thought experiment that ecosystems/platforms, with high costs of switching, are a new form of monopoly (at sufficient scale)
Salary is the absolute ceiling for savings rate, so I'd say it's a big factor.
I just took a look at the complaint, and looks like I was wrong!

They claimed such things were copied, and so I assumed an actual ripping; as that's common. But in the complaint it appears that they mean a more traditional copying by recreating a facsimile.

That's greyer. It'll be up to the court to decide if it's flagrant enough of a duplicate to warrant damages.
How is “free speech” the opposite of “diverse and inclusive” ?

This is like saying banana is the opposite of refrigerator.
Ha, these articles always use xss.as instead of exploit.in, despite the latter being vastly more popular and appropriate, because exploit.in charges $100 for membership.

I sympathize because, who wants to shell out $100. But even big name news outlets all use xss.in, you see it everywhere, precisely because it's free and anyone can join. Nothing wrong with using it really, just something amusing I've noticed
This is about fourth doses (and beyond), not third dose boosters.

> On Tuesday, EMA vaccine strategy chief Marco Cavaleri said there was still no data supporting the need for a fourth COVID vaccine dose.

Also the actual title of the article I think makes that clear, but it’s a bit long

> Europe’s drug regulator warns excessive COVID boosters could lead to ‘problems with immune response,’ joining WHO in pushback

Edit: more context on the aforementioned “problems” from Reuters:

> The EMA official raised concerns that a strategy of giving boosters every four months hypothetically poses the risk of overloading people's immune systems and leading to fatigue in the population.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
In which country?
There are dozens of food delivery companies all over the world.
It's not a winner take all market.
It’s for your safety stop resisting
There's also the fact that most people have to spend. Build your own house? Grow your on food? Most people are buying those.
America needs more basic research
Usually it means the former.
Agreed with one addendum, the missing phrase: "I am objectively right."
Mostly good but I hate getProperty names. If a method returns the temperature call it temperature() not getTemperature(). If the private data member has to have a different name, _temperature or some similar convention will do.
It looks a lot like a disguised course that you're saying is 'free' where you get free labour to get this clone built?
The wild speculation that I've read that is somewhat related to the grant proposal, because it was submitted to DARPA. The speculation is following (paraphrasing):

> WIV is a dual research institution. What that means is there's been military research done by PLA at WIV. Ecohealth Alliance is a front for two different things: 1. outsource risky pathogens experiments, which is done by NIH, NIAID and other organizations 2. spying on Chinese military operations at WIV, which is done by US military and intelligence organizations. That's why Daszak is intricately linked to US administration and has been untouchable so far. EHA has been essentially voilating NIH grant terms and denied NIH requests to submit all the experiments data. That explains US govt's reluctance to have a proper investigation.

I am in no way claiming there's any evidence to it, especially EHA is partially funded by US intelligence operation. You be the judge.
How is is this different or better than gpgtools or similar that already exist?
Probably the same cyclical prospects that aerospace engineers have historically had.
That's why my first two words were "some countries". The US is but one.
An early to market Delivery as a Service acquired by uber that delivers from a variety of retailers, not limited to food.
Not sure, this is the page on the companies website: https://www.hydrostor.ca/toronto-a-caes-facility/
They are mostly obsolete. They might be useful for low-volume, low-priority messages or hobbies, but delivery is inconsistent. Sometimes they take a while to deliver, they often get dropped or throttled.

I worked with an app that sent weather alerts to subscribers and had used these gateways. It wasn't very high volume, only sent messages during active storms in the subscriber's area, and not more than one every 10 minutes or so. We hardly ever sent more than 100 messages in an hour for all subscribers, even during a heavy storm period. Still we encouraged users to use a push messaging app like pushover which we integrated with, since sms through smtp often didn't deliver or took hours to arrive. We considered setting up a real sms service like twilio but the push messaging apps had better features than sms anyway, so the sms over smtp option was just a hack for users that really wanted sms.

In 2011 they worked pretty well, but by 2018 they were frequently down or didn't work properly. Pretty sure that messages sent through them are much more likely to hit spam filters or get rejected for whatever reason.
Early Computational Detection of Potential High Risk SARS-CoV-2 Variants
I believe scrapy has somewhat intelligent cache control options - maybe it could be recreated in a few dozens of lines of code, maybe a few hundred. But there are a huge number of these types of features - it’s basically a Swiss Army knife.

Examples include rotating proxies, rotating user agent headers. Hooks to add in middleware for processing pipelines. CLI switches to change your data output format. Nice debugging and logging.

Other large scale features include distributed crawlers. Scheduling. Monitoring UI so you can see progress via a web UI.

It’s what I reach for first, because you can be up and running with your first scraper in an hour. By hand, that’s maybe 10 minutes - but if you want to iterate, and your first scraper is a v1 rather than final effort… i think it’s definitely worth it.
I set mine with grapes, cut in half, with the grape skin in the trigger. The grape skin seems to be strong enough to prevent removal without triggering.
oh wow.

Watching my 13 yr old son Play with his Oculus Quest 2 while reading a throwback article like that... I feel sad that he'll never have the same sort of 8 bit gaming experience that I had, yet jealous that my childhood didn't include the amazing immersive experience he's getting.

What wonders will his kids get to experience...?
You clearly didn't even skim the link I posted.
Which is prohibited by constitution.
You control what gets updated and when.

There we are.
How does this compare to yidio? I find yidio out of date / wrong a lot of the time for shows I am trying to find.