skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP. I am in a similar situation, though.

> you're going to spend roughly

Good relatively high-performant virtual machines can be had for $0 a month. I know of at least three different ways of getting them (all 100% legal), plus a few that don't work anymore.

> Plus your hours invested

These hours have payed many times over thanks to knowledge and experience gained from them.
Oh, a scream test. (At least, that's what we called it in the context of infra/ops at a previous company; I think that's a widely used term)
Invisible Companion
I'm guessing you have no trees around?
It isn't a startup...

https://twitter.com/iamnomad/status/1489245139763703812?s=21

https://twitter.com/JumpCryptoHQ/status/1489301013408497666
South Africa? I would call it South Africa if that's what they want to be called. I definitely wouldn't call citizens of South Africa "RS Africans" or something unless they preferred that for some reason.
Russia Has Halted the Export of Ammonium Nitrate
> So I'm saying that a lot of this ethnic, "blood and soil" stuff seems to exist quite happily on what Westerners currently consider "the left". And then it grows, and then it gets powerful, and then later, retroactively, they go, "oh, I guess that was bad (== right)".

That's because it's non-Western ethnic blood-and-soil stuff. Marxism was a critique of economic capitalism; the Frankfurt School pivoted that to a critique of Western civilization as a whole, as a social complex based on domination which secured capitalism against revolutionary overthrow by means of a form of psychic domination -- domination of consciousness. This is the puzzle that Gramsci considered and started to solve: why hasn't Western civilization gotten with the program and chosen communism over the chains of capitalism? And if your entire civilization is standing in the way of that revolution, then hey hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go.

See, the intelligentsia have already chosen Marxian socialism as the successor to the liberal democratic system. It's like X11 vs. Wayland. Whether what exists works for your use case doesn't matter: the people who Really Know A Lot About This Sort Of Thing have chosen the clearly superior option, and you should too. Gramsci, Adorno, Marcuse, and Horkheimer were all addressing the problem of: why hasn't everybody chosen the clearly superior option? And the answer they arrived at is that Western civilization is fundamentally, thoroughly oppressive, and it brainwashes people and keeps then from realizing that there's a path to freedom through socialism and that's where nationalism in a Western context comes from, giving rise to fascism.

But the Africans and indigenous South Americans, all those peoples that Western Civ oppresses because it's in its nature to oppress, those are fine. There is no need to worry about tribalism, nationalism, or hostility to outsiders from those groups because they don't have the domination and rationalization impulse that Westerners do. Which is why the "stolen land" myth persists. It's partially true, but it's not the whole story. Native Americans were not peaceniks, and the land occupied by a tribe was, likely as not, conquered by that tribe's ancestors from a displaced or now-unknown other tribe.

But in the mythos of the new left, Westerners are uniquely prone to want to conquer and colonize, so that pre-Western-contact history needs to be, and often is, elided.
Its a cult, a bit like a cryptocurrency
"You’re considering secondary effects, which would have also happened with the money loaned to the banks."

Quote, you. The effects of such a thing simply aren't the same. Poor people aren't helped when you give folks money at the top - which is, after all, what the taxation policy does. It isn't uncommon to include things that aren't strictly taxation in this.
At this point in time capitalism is essentially mandatory, but people move toward authority when things go wrong. Liberalism has always been a luxury good. My fear is that we'll slowly shift from a Washington Concensus to a Beijing Concensus of authoritarian capitalism. Only fools and con men try to predict the future though.
Yes, that's revenue. Parent's post neither claims WoW is a failure nor that WoW has taken in/made lots of money-- just that they've probably spent a lot of money and no one knows how much.
It does not, but it has only been about 8 months. Break-even is in sight though. Then I can decide if I want to just let it bring in some money, of it I want to 'Bezos' it and expand coverage instead.

PS. And thank you :-)
This is completely off topic, but does anyone know of a way to get a top-tier search engine to return the best results across all languages rather than the language matching that of the search query + English, as they are wont to do?
Most people use Gmail. Email is a standards based legacy technology that has inertia, like fax machines; it doesn't mean people prefer standards based technologies.
It has embezzled hundreds of millions, yet does not even have a fully playable product after a decade, and seemingly exists only to exploit whales with more money than sense who'll buy new ships. You be the judge.
Flutter for Windows
International Space Station will plummet to a watery grave in 2031
Yes, but never at the level of detail that is being discussed here. You won't see the costs for the latest WoW expansion broken out in the R&D line items in Activision-Blizzard's financial statements.
He was asked the question, "can I use this field named DO_NOT_USE", so I'll forgive him for being blunt in this case.
If you read TFA, you'll see that they own a townhome in Vancouver. This is a second home...
Wow, that's been ten years already. If that 339M USD figure is accurate, they could have partnered with a few companies to launch a real space ship. Shades of the never-ending train of hype and mostly lies that was Battlecruiser 3000 two decades earlier. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlecruiser_3000AD )

There is a clearly a giant wad of latent demand-money sitting around waiting for someone to deliver on the concept, would be interesting if some studio with more traditional funding makes a go of it.
> I seriously wonder if Satya Nadella is aware of how much harm Microsoft has caused the world

Those people do not care about such things. The only thing they care about is money. If they have to step on cadavers, this is just collateral damage. Open source is communism ( Balmer) ? As long as it brings us money we love it ( Nadella).
He didn't argue against the argument that actually supports vaccine mandates. I am using the word exactly according to its definition.
Original development cost for WoW was $63M.[0] That’s enough to land it a spot towards the bottom of that Wikipedia list.

4 years of post-launch support ran up costs of $200M.[1]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20060619205201/http://www.digita...

[1] https://www.wired.com/2008/09/total-operating
I appreciate your response here. It is much easier to do the equivalent of "blurting out the first thing on your mind" online. In a social situation, you tend to at least put a modicum of thought into what you're saying, even if you're really comfortable. It's such a weird thing because typing out something implicitly includes all the time you like to think about what you're saying whereas if you took ten minutes to respond to everything while you're out with friends... you might look weird.
> I need access to this queue to decide whether or not the current render was the last for a very custom React component. (YES maybe I can avoid it but currently, this is my requirement) the access must be from inside of this component.

I would love to know what problem they are solving. Whenever you start fighting the framework, you should back up and look for a different approach.
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You aren't missing anything, that's pretty ludicrous. My (midwest USA) house has 100A service, and I weld for fun and run a rack with servers. The welder can make the lights dim which makes me want 200A, but 400A is just insane.
KevinFarzad is not a journalist. WaPo was just reporting on such jokes.
Or you could stop waiting and living for an uncertain future, and just move to a country which values your skills more than the place you were born. A lot of them are even better than the US (except for the pay).
The media gaslighting part is continuing to call ivermectin a horse medicine to disparage it, when it is also approved as anti-parasite medication for humans (if not for COVID.)
There's a more expensive SNES everdrive product that can handle those games.
> seldom enforced

I think that depends on where you lived and drove. In New Jersey it was heavily enforced for a couple of decades.
Pemberton is quite rainy, so forest fires aren't a huge concern. Once you get to the other side of the Coastal mountains (the interior), fire is a much bigger concern.
There’s safer as in “less likely for the driver of this vehicle to cause a crash” and there is safer as in “in the event of a collision, it is safer for the driver to be in this car than that one.”
Most PCR tests will discriminate between (B.1) Omicron and things which are not B.1 Omicron, so it's feasible to know this. I mean, strictly speaking all you'd know is that you had B.1 Omicron plus something else, but if you had the non-B.1 Omicron one in October, then in most parts of the world you'd be pretty safe in assuming that was Delta.
Thank you so much! Another question if you don't mind - how difficult was the bureaucratic aspect? Registering with regulator etc... what would you consider the biggest hurdle?
Why would messengers without phone number collection not be usable by anyone with a smartphone?

Even if that was the case, " it's strictly less usable than WhatsApp" is not true, because other messengers can provide other quality of life features.

" That means in practice, it's unusable." is not true either. Remove "Status" support from WhatsApp and you get strictly less usable than WhatsApp. Still, it is not unusable.

Signal is pretty close to being strictly less usable than WhatsApp btw.
That's awesome, thanks for sharing! Will play with it in the weekend.
>> wars very far away from me

Its not that far, world is really small. For me its even worse because I live only few hundred kilometers from Ukraine border (its only half a day drive by tank if I calculate correctly).

And wars sometimes have tendency to extend their reach beyond what You would expect. If I remeber correctly Tobruk was defended by 14000 Aussies (and I think that was way before any kind of attack on Australia took place).
I'm always in favor of new browsers that are FOSS and don't use Blink!
A lot of the discussion here is just mirroring the times we live in. People are confused and scared about COVID, they are flummoxed by the wild west (which is over the top wild) in cryptocurrency/NFT land, and there's a lot of frustration with big tech companies. So, there really is a bit of disillusionment and sometimes the anger is real and justified (e.g. my app was banned after five years from Google Play/iTunes by an AI and there are no humans to help)... HN hasn't lost what makes it a great community: optimism abounds, people are generally encouraging when people take a risk (except that one guy who can't resist being the devil's advocate) lot of optimism, and most importantly, HN isn't a sounding chamber for some political group.
Epic also perfectly demonstrated the security issues involved.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/just-as-critics-feared-fort...
my first experience with Elite: Dangerous was playing it in VR and parking my ship on a station was a legitimately awesome experience.
Might be related but not the same thing as I've experienced. I'm in maps (not navigating, usually just selecting a location) and driving and I get a promote to improve the accuracy (similar to the one where you'd rotate your phone to calibrate the compass).

I am not trying to use AR and the prompt doesn't take me to AR, it just wants to scan the area with the camera and then its done.
dozens of congresspeople had to prepare their positions around reporting periods. this must have been the most opportune time :)
Only 200k happy customers when it was promised to be "fully live, nationwide, for all customers" next month more than a year ago with repeated similar promises this fall.

And my relatives are not wealthy people -- this was half of their income for a particular month so at this point they'll be damned if they lose their place in line. They have no other choice -- not even DSL options in their area and the other satellite services have been so expensive and unreliable. They are completely at his mercy, and I feel like it's my fault for suggesting it.
This is what puzzles me. Taking your Xbox gamertag on the blockchain as an example. It doesn't provide any decentralization, Microsoft is the central entity that gives the gamertag it's value. There's 0 incentive for Sony or any other competitor to honor the ownership, because why would they. It's more beneficial for them to let you register an account (with a potentially duplicate name). Since your NFT is in reality tied to a central entity, I'm having a hard time understanding why you need the blockchain in the first place, at the end of the day it's MS that calls the shots. The reason why Xbox & Sony don't interop isn't a technical problem, but a political one and blockchain does nothing to address the issue.

And from the looks of it, everything crypto is centralizing extremely fast, see Binance/Coinbase for exchanges, Opensea for NFTs. So at the end of the day you're still at the whims of large entities.
Kami CLI: Git for data, decentralized data warehouse, P2P stream processing
> so pay for privacy?

Correct. They are asking money already.

Signal justifies not allowing usernames as (partially) an anti-spam measure and I assume they also be doing it to limit the amount of accounts created and, so, the use of server resources for which they pay. Selling these accounts solves both problems.

Also allows us to actually use Signal for groups, I don't like the idea of large groups knowing my phone number.
Unfortunately, "shipping containers" (where "shipping" is a verb, not an adjective) also has a computing meaning, so your proposed title would be just as misleading.
They might not have to worry about longevity, having built a home densely surrounded by trees in a wildfire prone area.
It’s a lot easier to track your usage across websites than it is across apps.
No.

This isn't a community at all by the way, unless you want to broaden the definition to include anyone who chooses to wear socks, a sock wearing community.
As an Apple user, I kind of view the App Store as a kind of collective bargaining with app developers. If you want to have access to Apple Users you need to adhere to certain standards.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Apple are some of the scummiest companies and their software is full of dark patterns.

Apple’s App Store does a lot to protect me.

I guess I view this bill much as a union member might view a “Right to work bill”. Theoretically it is increasing user choice, but in practice it will just allow a race to the bottom in terms of privacy and dark patterns.
> Too bad Boston doesn't have the authority

Boston most definitely bans trucks on certain roads. That’s their authority shining through.
European trucks cross multiple countries during a trip with the same driver. In France, by looking at the vehicle plate, trucks come from Spain, Portugal, Lituania, Poland, Germany, etc Those are 2 to 3 days trips.
My location “didn’t have coverage” as I live at the edge of my town followed by Murdoch’s ranch next to me. I talked to the rep to the point of just let me try it as there’s nothing to lose. They already provide full refund on the product for the first 30 days. At the beginning the signal and speeds were shit(using trashcan). I installed a couple of MIMO antennas. Now, I have 30Mbs up/down consistently.
I believe 5G is gonna be a game changer for rural areas. It’s just easy: plug it, turn it on, use it. No technicians, no wiring (if you don’t use antennas), no fixed place in your house.

Also check cellmapper to check for near by antennas and bands. More info in r/tmobileisp
I don't work in evolutionary biology, but I found this paper calling for a replacement of neo-Darwinism to be a really helpful overview (it also sites many similar works)

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2009.167...
Still cheaper and better than Battlefield 2042.
They paid $600 so not sure when or why that changed.
Thanks for your honesty and insight. We need more people like you.
Personally I think Symfony (and digging around its source) helped me become a far better software developer. It wasn't perfect, but it was awesome at the time. I built some really cool applications with it early on. Over ten years ago now!

No doubt about it though, some very talented people contributed to that project and I imagine they still do. Symfony was one of the lights in the dark if you ask me; PHP could be a very ugly thing at the time, but it proved that you could do great things with it by applying good practices and being diligent about reviewing and improving designs.

One of the things that blew me away (I was pretty green at the time) was when they made all of Symfony modular, and other frameworks began consuming their components. The portability of all of it was so impressing and inspiring to me back then.

Anyway, plenty of ways to criticize PHP and Symfony, but I think they did a stellar job. I built my career on that stuff. I haven't actually looked at it in quite a while, though.
You made a whole lot of sense, almost as much as cryptocurrency :)
You never really open a socket, you really only push and pull some electrons around and then...
Updates to End-to-End Encrypted Chats on Messenger
I'm annoyed I didn't think of this before. This is genius.
Honest question: Is there any downside to simply crossing into the U.S. via its southern border, or overstaying a visa?

My impression is that the U.S. government mostly doesn't enforce its laws against unlawful entry. And that the Democratic party wants a path to full citizenship for anyone who manages to stay in the country long enough.

So I'm curious if this approach would work:

1. Enter the U.S. illegally to start the clock.

2. Work remotely "from India" for some company. Have a trusted friend/relative in India forward enough of your paycheck to the U.S. to cover your cost of living.

3. When the political climate is right, get onto whatever path to citizenship is being offered.
IBM didn't know what to do (no one really did), so you could boot to DOS or you could boot to PC-BASIC. The PC even supported boot to BASIC and load from cassette like a $300 home computer. Crazy times.
This is HN male oriented wealth porn. Just as some women fantasize about dream weddings and pore over the NYTimes Vows section, or some teens watch influencers give tours of their high-rise apartments, we have HN men who really, really want an ultra modern mansion in the woods. The craving for luxury is universal and it's no surprise this guy is a senior engineer at Slack. Seriously, what an extraordinary house.
good question. obviously, such large libraries should have security tests independent of the existing tests.
From what I know, talent is usually cheap enough relative to the total cost of a game, it's the whole pipeline around integrating voice acting and motion capture into a game that's really expensive. In this[1] episode of that podcast they talk a bit about the costs around that. If you decide to do voice acting and motion capture you also have to adapt the whole game and writing around that decision, which balloons costs a lot since you've decided you want _that kind of game_.

[1]: https://youtu.be/cTejdjnf-jI with Mike Bithel dev of "Thomas was Alone", Troy Baker celebrity video game voice actor, Austin Wintory composer (Journey), Alanah Pearce writer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Health_Defense
> Does it really make a difference being somewhere else (for eg. Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK etc.) and being in the states?

Let me put it this way: In the 7 years I've lived in SF, I have built more wealth than my parents have in their entire lifetimes.

A lot of it comes down to being surrounded by people with a can-do attitude who hype each other up instead of the European (at least Slovenian) attitude of "Bah why even bother trying? Even if you succeed the govt/people/someone is just gonna steal it anyway and the only people who are successful are crooks and cheats"

It took a lot of work to get out of that mindset. In large part thanks to being surrounded by people who are the exact opposite.
Watching Star Citizen has been a hobby for me like watching a train wreck is painfully slow motion.

It came about at the same time as the revival of a beloved franchise Elite in the form of Elite Dangerous. ED didn't have the budget SC does but it stuck to quite narrow development goals and shipped years ago. It's progressively added updates, patches and expansions since.

No Man's Sky is vaguely in the same vein and had a terrible launch (I highly recommend this video [1]) but, to their credit, Hello Games has plugged away at NMS adding more content and updates to the point where it's an enjoyable experience now and has a loyal fan base.

But SC? By God. It's like a progenitor for NFT scams. Constantly raising even more money by selling limited run ships (for a game that still basically doesn't exist). I'd occasionally see a presentation on some new system under development (eg the prison system) and I always thought "why on Earth are they talking about this before they even have a core game?"

It's an object lesson that too much money can be a bad thing. It's so easy for an embarrassment of riches to lead to hopeless feature creep and not really delivering anything.

I'm honestly surprised so many still drink the Kool-Aid on SC. I really wonder where all the money has gone (and how much is actually gone).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ
I wonder if this modification could at least be made harder by having some kind of heartbeat. Build in a microphone whose sole purpose is to receive inaudible, high frequency impulses (maybe a hash signal?) from the speaker every once in a while. If the signal does not arrive in time, the AirTag shuts off.

Of course, no measure can beat physical access to the device but you could at least make the tampering about as expensive as building your own device from scratch.
Using Org-Mode as an SQL Playground
How long did you stay in the lead engineer role for?