skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But... clearly in the case of Space Invaders, we can understand it as we built it. The lesson I would think you should learn from that argument path is that techniques and mental models matter, and that the "popular neuroscience methods" should be re-analyzed and potentially discarded outright.
> or a Million Webcams

Um, like web is in the name. Othewise, good points
A free (ad-supported or fully free) app that's very popular and updated frequently (requiring more reviews) would cost them a lot more than an app that has in-app purchases but only gets updated once a year. Yet the latter app would earn them more. Something doesn't add up here. And yes, that $99/year developer account fee, it exists.
> As far as I can tell (I've watched all their episodes) they've never actually said it is any good, so maybe that tells me something?

They've also hardly mentioned their solar panels, which tells you something? They've also hardly mentioned their their LiFePO batteries, which tells you something? They've also hardly mentioned the generator they got in South Africa, which tells you something?

People don't notice when things go right. The fact that that the gear blends into the background is probably an indication of it just working.

They did a live stream during one of the lockdowns (when they were still in the Bahamas?) when they did comment on it being very good. They said that without it they couldn't really have done much content during 2020(?).
1. you can bypass DOS and write directly to the sectors on the disk

2. Linux won't let you open() a file that's a resident executable for write... you'll get ETXTBUSY

you can write out a new file and change the directory entry to point to a new one, but then you haven't technically modified the other file
Like in the childhood, right? It is very likely how it works with other disease that is constantly surrounding us and how we can tolerate many previously deadly epidemic pathogens.

Still the research has displayed that almost any viral infection has undesirable outcomes in the long run so it would make sense to try to avoid as many as possible.
>>But how is this at all related to the secondary market speculators?

Speculators inject capital into the real estate market. They often bring outside capital into it, and then keep it in the real estate market instead of taking it out. Housing prices are simply a matter of the interplay between the supply of capital interested in housing, and the supply of housing, i.e. supply and demand in housing, and more speculators pushes up the demand side of the equation, leading to higher prices.

In fact, that's what the critics of real estate speculation always point to as to why it should be discouraged: they push up prices (which is a bit simplistic: the increase in prices in multi-dwelling units is temporary as long as zoning doesn't prevent developers from building more dense developments. Only the price increase in single family homes is permanent).

What the critics miss is that rising prices is what funds supply expansion. Ceteris paribus, a market with more speculators will have higher SFH prices, more units, and lower rental rates, and rent is the true cost of housing (the purchase price is the cost of investing in housing).
How does one go about reviewing such a PR? If the PR consists of smaller commits then it would probably be easier. But if a large commit is made, then what would be the flow to review it?
Is there something in particular that Visual Studio does that Xcode can’t? I’m not seeing the benefits.
You might think its the hardware Apple keeps a tight grip on, but it is actually their reputation and brand. The Apple logo doesn't disappear when you buy it. And your ability to talk about it or have other people observing people complaining about virii etc and associate that with their "Apple Phone" doesn't go away once you decide to purchase the iPhone. So in some sense, Apple still does own something and deserve to make decisions to protect their business and brand. A classic response here is: if you don't like it go somewhere else. There are other phones where companies don't care so much and therefore don't hold such a tight grip.
I don't know: fuzz bass, guitar feedback, orchestral pieces in a rock song, the "concept album", reverse guitars/vocals, countless other studio tricks. I read Geoff Emrick's book "Here, There and Everywhere" and he goes into great detail on the new ground the Beatles forged.

Interesting to me too reading about it, they would create/introduce something new like a tape loop, use it on just one song, and then move on. Where other bands would define their entire sound by just such a novelty.
There's no need to dismantle, it can just be closed if it's deemed unsafe.
How long is the Emporer's nose?
https://imaginatorium.org/stuff/nose.htm
I'm not using tapes through, I'm using ssds, flash drives, and hdds. I'm sure they have some internal ecc, but is it enough?
I read it a few years ago after listening to the Duncan podcast and reading a bunch of archeology papers. I'm definitely no classicist, and don't read Latin but have a passing interest in the history. I think some of here dismissals are well founded and other experts agree. I think the weakness of the book is that it leans heavily on pronouncement of unknowability. But I really like that she treats the reader like a smart person and presents conflicting and complicated information as is, and lets you mull it over.

It isn't a perfect book, but it's very readable, informative, and seems to be well regarded. I was on a Rome kick at the time and didn't find anything that seemed to be completely out of left field.
This is exactly the solution I landed on as well.
It has served me well for a few years now :).
How do you do MFA without a password? I thought it was "what you know" "what you have" "what you are" etc?
On the Q4 earnings call the day before yesterday, it was revealed that over 60,000 customers are using the FSD beta currently. See for yourself by watching the beta vids people are posting - there are plenty!
I expect they at least heard stories from the good ol' days from their grandparents. Every so often you'd probably hear a reminiscence about some aspect of life that was easier, or some piece of technology that is no longer available.
Maybe plugins are the way to go? https://medium.com/learning-the-go-programming-language/writ...
Ask HN: What can i expect when interviewing for DevOps roles
I was trying to information on how devops interviews are performed.

Are they similar to SWE format or you can expect something different
Paul B worked at Intel before Google. He never worked in telecoms. Incidentally he was moderately active here in the FriendFeed days.

Tech means technology. Nothing ambiguous about it.
Joni Mitchell pulling music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young
Markets are tied to sentiment in the short term, but to labor performance in the long term - this is the distinction I was trying to make. I'm just re-stating the adage that in the short term the market is a popularity content but in the long term it is a weighing machine. You called out AMC and GME. AMC was trading at like $8 in 2020. It spiked to $60, and its back down to $15. Which honestly I could make a case for since they took advantage of the speculative mania to clear a bunch of debt off their books.

Give GME a hot minute and the same thing will happen - it has already started. Peaked at $500 and is sitting at $98.50.

> There is no "rake" in crypto, so I'm not even sure what you mean by that.

There's a few different rakes. The overwhelming majority of crypto trading takes place on centralized exchanges where they take a commission on each trade. Off exchanges, in PoW currencies, new coins are issued which are then sold on these centralized exchanges to pay the bills. This exerts negative price pressure socializing the cost of running the network - another form of rake. In a PoS currency new tokens are issued to validators where non-stakers are diluted - another form of rake.

In each case (exchanges, miners, stakers) a commission is taken by the folks operating the game, which is exactly what a rake is in poker.

Expiry is not why options are the same as crypto. It's the zero-sum nature that's the same. Winners pay the losers, no new value is created in the options market. Ditto the crypto market.

> This might be true, but people trade all kinds of things I personally find dumb (Pokémon cards, rare sneakers, etc.). Looks like a lot of people see value in cryptocurrency, who am I to judge.

For sure, but Pokemon cards aren't claiming to be money and aren't legal tender in one of the poorest countries on earth. It's an issue due to scale, not due to its intrinsically being dumb, which to be clear, it also is. We cannot allow it to get to the point where its stupidity represents a systemic risk to the rest of us who choose not to treat Pokemon cards as money.
> It does represent that many atoms.

It also represents even more electrons and even more quarks than that. I think it would be silly to characterize this system by the number of constituent quarks, but that's just me. To me, the important number is the number of degrees of freedom within the model. In a force-field model this scales linearly in with the number of atoms. In the model presented in the paper, this depends on voxel resolution and number of molecular species. Sadly, this is omitted in the press release.

Thanks for your links :) I work in inorganic materials but I really should understand more about models for more complex systems.
> “This is the biggest predation event on this planet: the biggest apex predator taking down the biggest prey,” says study co-author Robert Pitman, a marine ecologist at Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute. “We don’t have dinosaurs anymore, so for me as a whale biologist and a zoologist it’s an amazing thing.”

He is actually understating this. Not only is the Blue Whale the largest animal living now, it is the largest animal that has ever lived.

It is roughly the size of a Boeing 737 (a 737-700 is longer(110 ft for a 737-700 vs 98 ft for a blue whale), but a blue whale weighs more (155,000lbs max ramp weight for a 737-700 versus 200,000lbs for a blue whale))
Ask HN: Those with successful side projects that required minimal marketing
Common advice I've heard is you're gonna need a lot more than a single release to Product Hunt to market your product. For those that have had to do minimal marketing (people shared it with minimal prompting, product grew on its own, etc), what's your story and if you're comfortable sharing numbers, how much does your side project make?

Honestly, this sounds like a developer's dream, so would be very interested in hearing at least one story
Programming is too important to be left to programmers. -- apologies to Clemenceau

I think it's possible to make productive use of programming without claiming to be developing software by which I mean, programs that are expected to be placed into long term or widespread use. That's what we did with programming in BASIC, 40 years ago.

As a scientist, I use programming for things like modeling, data analysis, lab automation, algorithm prototyping, and so forth. You folks all know why. I'm not going to sacrifice that power just because I don't develop full blown software. Scientists programmed before there was a software industry.

If something that I create threatens to end up in a product, it gets handed to the software department. We can hire an army of programmers.

Granted, there is a widely known problem with this approach. A program can evolve to the point where it's really "too big" for a non-developer to manage, but "too small" to justify the cost of spinning up a software development project in a typical organization. I don't have a good solution for that problem.
I can't count the number of people who left my current workplace (stable, one of the largest healthcare companies) to go join Amazon in past 2 years.

They're hiring like crazy.

Makes me wonder where the people who quit Amazon are going to.
It was a confluence of events but the main thing was playing clubs in Germany, basically playing covers for something like 50+ hours a week on and off for two years. And they were playing late at night to drunken crowds, so they could experiment and goof off too. That's how John, Paul, and George developed their impeccable harmonies, tight playing, and a massive repertoire of hits.

That's just an absolutely crazy amount of hours to be performing in such a short period of time, and nearly impossible for most musicians to actually get paid for (outside of relentless busking).
When I read this headline I figured it was an exaggeration but after it hung around on HM for a while I clicked the link.

Oh, it was Les Ernest. Completely plausible.
And by the way, they have so much money sitting in banks doing nothing, they could as well just start giving everything away for free and it'll last them for 20 years.
Probability theory is just a bunch of theorems and axioms, it's a logical game we play just like graph theory or any other mathematical theory. If we roll a dice many times the dice follows a probability distribution. We don't know why this occurs in reality. Or in other words we don't know why this random mathematical theory some how is applicable to repeatedly observing a "random" process many times. We're not even sure what "random" is as we can't even formally define a random function in a computer.

Probability seems like it's connected to logic. For example "if A then B" is a statement that is part of logic. But if you say "if A then 40% chance of B" then the statement is still logical but you can now see the connection with probability.

It could be probability is the foundation of all causal connections and the logic itself is just a a special case of: "if A then 100% chance of B." But the weird part it, probability theory itself is built upon logic. You can't have probability as a formal mathematical theory without logic to derive theorems from axioms.
If you had followed Marty Makary, you may have noticed that he clearly is propagating anti-vaccination talking points.
Not sure where you got that idea. Dragon predates Windows and has always used its own models.

It works very well for some people; many have written books with it.
Like in theory Facebook could try something like that. This is a what if scenario still. If we look at android they have not pulled their Apps from googles store. So what is the basis they would do this for iOS? Moreover, depending how apple theoretically would release grip the have on other people's devices also plays into effect. If apple just let you load a signing key for the boot-rom and left it at that. The amount technical friction would likely be too high to be easily abused at large.
Tragic and comic in the same time. In half generation we will be losing all technological skills. There is a shortage ... "The world is facing a shortage of nuclear specialists because of a lack of training programmes and students to replace those about to retire, according to Nobel Peace Prize holder and former director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Dr Mohamed ElBaradei." apparently the same thing is happening in aviation.
Our last data protection officer spontaneously combusted...
You just stole it. I don’t see how this is even a grey area. Can you walk me through the thinking of “the cashier touched it, so now it’s mine?”
Don't think the content changed in general, just which brand of tools he uses did IMO.

He ~rarely but consistently mentions some locks that are things he'd use or are worth the money for some use-case. It's just most locks get dunked on because most are terrible.
If you don't like the tires Ford sells, you shouldn't drive a Ford. You can always buy a Toyota.

See how ridiculous that sounds?
'Concentration camp' started as a euphemism too. The Nazis actually borrowed the originally English term.
I remember the fun of going to a couple Sega arcades in Tokyo in ‘98 when there on business. At one of them they had people out front handing out mini packs of Sega branded tissues! They gave me several, it was a cool souvenir I shared with a few friends.
I guess it's just wierd to me to see ab initio used to describe a class of methods than in my field it explicitly precludes.

Having developed a few newtonian force fields, calling them "derived from QM" is very, very generous :P
Are there really so many people casually stealing a giant box with a heavy power-tool to make it worth it to add all this DRM with Bluetooth and other crap in it?

Can't believe this is not a parody.

And for what I thought was a technologically competent company like Home Depot to be doing it makes it even worse.
Not sure a doctor would agree with that last sentence.
Or even a carpenter really.
Cut that bit off at the wrong angle and it's not something you're coming back from.
Cut a line of code wrong and the test fails, and you try again, and again and again.
After the restaurant waiter or cook is done texting and then flushes the toilet, they wash their hands. Do they wash their phone? Or do they put phone in pocket, go back to kitchen, and proceed to finger the phone for the next hour and contaminate everything while playing their role wearing a mask?
This is so perfect.
I don’t think that having a knack for math necessarily matters for making a good programmer. I’ve known many good engineers who were drawn to programming because math was hard for them and they wanted to learn how to get the computer to do it for them. Ironically, coming to understand programming can be a way to understand math better.

One of the best programmers I know is a philosophy major, who thinks of code like poetry, with consistent readable concision as the goal.

There are many paths.

What programming does require is a vivid imagination, to form a mental picture of the machine you are building and what is happening as information flows through it and is transformed.

Even more than that, it helps to be a systems-thinker, and to be able to zoom out and ask “what are we really trying to accomplish here.” Most of the time the elegant software solutions come not from writing brilliant code, but from reframing the problem so that simple code can solve it.
I agree with all what you said, except the part about 10 records vs 10 000, that I think need better clarification.

depending on the amount of computation needed/task executed the number of record to update can make things very different. updating 1 million or 10 000 records that need very heavy computation and communication to other systems under some duration or latency constraints is very different from updating 10 of them.

you may need to optimize and/or rewrite your whole systems to handle such things.
Well yeah, Apple refuses to support any modern browser API in Safari.. and prohibits any other browser engine.
The Truth about LASIK (2017)
> The US' unprovoked (and illegal) invasion of Iraq [...]

What do you mean by illegal specifically? I am fairly sure it was against Iraq's laws. Not sure it was against American laws, or at least not in the sense that 'can you get a court to convict'?
It means designating a person that understands GDPR in the scope it applies to the particular data set and handles requests/security incidents. It can be secretary after a few hours of training.

And I think that if you manage a mailing list of million of people then having someone who understand security implications of it and how much they can lose (even to a simple phishing at this scale) if you get that list accessed by scammers is necessary.
Business/career implications aside, normalizing people thinking about computers as tools that execute arbitrary instructions is an almost purely good thing.

I can't think of many other social trends that would be more beneficial for increasing general support for user agency, data interoperability, sideloading/modding, etc... we should applaud every single attempt to democratize coding and lower barriers of entry.

It's not about whether or not someone can replace your job or whether or not they take something that's a hobby project or an occasional side-task at their job and turn it into a professional career. It's not about whether or not the things they make are any good. It's about giving them a little bit more agency in how they interact with devices/software, and about reinforcing to them that as a user they should have agency over their devices/software.

We don't need everyone in the world to be an engineer, and we don't need everyone to write good code. The goal is not to make everyone into a programmer, or to elevate engineering as some kind of universal subject that everyone has to embrace. But it is good for average people who aren't engineers to be embracing a philosophy about computers that says, "I should be able to arbitrarily describe to this thing what to do, even if its designers didn't think about my use case, and it should do the thing I tell it to".
There’s at least some speculation that UVB-76 could be part of a Russian Doomsday machine.

It makes this rf activity slightly less amusing to me.
hack into accounts, buy old accounts
Alfred Camera
Can I download all of my moments that are recorded to my Alfred pc viewer?
lol its very meta.. we'll need a right to repair our own tools soon
Nice looking plane. Asia by way of Alaska is at the very least an interesting idea.
Satoshi Nakamoto Is X
This is not possible to implement such idea. Every one buy it in minimum and then wait until a random high value accepted. The other users know this algorithm and the price is not based on computer price and a new market price will generate by the users.
Yeah it's not like there were 20 wordle clones on the front page of the App store, one with a $400 IAP.
> We know that life under our faint young sun was possible, and now we might know why. What we are starting to see is just how lucky we may have been in avoiding becoming a permanent snowball Earth or even a steam Earth. Somehow, conditions were just right on our planet, keeping us in this narrow window between being frozen solid and evaporating to oblivion, and allowing us to survive — despite a few near misses. “There’s a huge discussion about the requirements for habitability,” said Feulner. “Even on Earth, things could have gone wrong easily.”
This is the thing. Is all of that 105MB vs 2MB of stuff the devs actually know exactly what it is and why it's there? As others have stated, the dependancy fluff is just a multitude of footguns cocked, locked, and ready to rock your world
Not for ingress, and certainly not for packages that are mirrored from the cloud vendor's own repositories (which Prometheus absolutely is).
That you for this bit of information. There people did read suspicious.
You made a critical mistake in your opening sentence: you conflated 3 very different things, not a promising start. "Blockchain technology" is just a consensus protocol, cryptocurrencies are currencies (well, one of them is at least), and NFTs are effectively pet rocks at the moment. I'm having a hard time seeing why that demands a marshalling of all true "technologists"... to do what, exactly? Refuse to work on projects involving those three things? Demand governments coordinate a global round up of those who are presently doing such work? Is this the final form for those that have repeatedly declared bitcoin dead - year after year, growing more and more furious as they calculate how much their terrible opinion has cost?

Name one technology that was successfully eradicated by astroturfing and legislation, instead of genuine market forces. Now, if you somehow manage to do that - were the users of that technology compelled to act against their own interest in service to jetsetters gathered around Hillary Clinton in Davos Switzerland? Because that is exactly what you'll need to do in order to get your way.
This is terrifying, and has a ring of truth to it.
I still think it's better than the alternative though.
Oh, that's great. Do you mind recreating the entire chart from scratch for me? Be great if you can provide the same analysis and arguments for the claim.