skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was occasionally using linux since redhat 5.2 (1998), so I know there were options but surely apple and microsoft had more resources to develop operating system and still their mainstream offering weren't on-par in the 90s?

I was using win98 in the early 00s at work (when xp was brand new/just released) and would hear mp3s while working in Origin[0] and Matlab and it would make the mp3 stutter/stop and sometimes even crash windows.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_(data_analysis_software...
My FB feed is essentially zero content (500+ friends mostly over 25). It’s an aggregator nowadays of group discussions and primarily page content, even pages I don’t follow. Nobody but boomers use it to share nowadays.
"So, what do you do?"

"I'm retired."

"Wow, that sounds really hard!"
strange, I tried both FF and Safari and it does not do anything for me when I try to paint.
Ye FB does something like this. I hate "funny" videos where people hurt them self. But somehow FB thought my annoyance with them was that I liked them, so they spammed them on me. Maybe I moved my cursor to slow over them or something when I took my time to mute the guy posting them.
Wait what, they cheated to get this result? Only pretests are available to competitors before submitting. If they had access to the full test suite, then they had a HUGE advantage over actual competitors, and this result is way less impressive than claimed. Can you provide a source for this claim? I don't want to read the full paper.
Understood, but the hope is that if enough people complain, the practices may change for the better. Over time, the tweet-thread stories appear more frequently.

If that and other reader-hostile posts continue to become more common, we'll be left with NYT, Medium, WP, and Twitter as our only links. HN will go the way of Slashdot and Digg...
Tom Brady myths obscure essential fact: Career was self-made, manufactured
Ya, if you take a look at any of these supposedly free speech platforms they are just intolerable, gross places.
I guess it very much depends on the minority in question, FB like the government only responds to "mi orities" with street veto or global muscle power.
I was using windows 95 since almost the time it was released in the summer of '95 (on a then state of the art Pentium with 16mb RAM - way above the minimum system requirements), it was significantly less stable than the NT line (that XP and beyond belong to). Crashes and freezes were a lot more common than today. Classic Mac was similarly unstable, maybe even worse in terms of a single program being able to freeze/crash the entire OS (which almost never happens to me today in either mac or windows).
KeePassXC can handle TOTP on a computer. You can use KeePassDX on Android as well and keep them synced with Syncthing.
Bfore Today
Today's headlines, with a backstory.
There's more to life than news and Twitter.
We answer the question: What'd I miss?
Try using nodered for HA automations. Much simpler and flexible.
Honestly I loved the idea of Google Plus and I'm glad you picked it up.
I wasn't sure either. I clicked on the disclaimer link to find out.
Upvoted because THANK GOD
It's not MBA mentality, it's stock investors mentality. I don't think Zuckerberg or any other executive is out there buying FB shares at $320. It's outsiders gambling on the continued growth.
The one to which you can send back the stuff it sent you, and it essentially burns the money?

And that can’t be fixed because it’s immutable?
Blockchain settlement is far too slow for small payments and far too fast for very large payments.
The issue is that your arbitrary line of 2001 is a little odd -- things have gotten better over time, but Windows 3.1 was also pretty usable. Windows 98 was better than Windows 95. Was XP better than 98? I don't recall a major difference in stability, per se.
I hope a follow-up moment was realizing that sometimes when an engineer says something is "simple" it's that they don't yet know that they don't know how to do that.

And when an engineer says something is hard, sometimes it's because they've done it before, and it really really sucked and burned months of their life and can we please not talk through the details that still make me cringe?

And occasionally there's that one engineer who describes stuff as "simple" after watching an old Rich Hickey talk.
Have you been in a position to read many (or any) DEI statements?

Thanks heavens, no.

I totally agree that you don't want to hire people for instructor roles who regard teaching as an afterthought or a nuisance. That's always been a "given" (even though obviously not always adhered to, in practice). And yes, in general you want to avoid the mostly mono- and bisyllabic types, and hire people who answer important questions with more than a single sentence fragment.

But to be clear: the practice of mandating diversity statements (with highly refined, and in places, what can only be described as ideologically charged evaluation criteria) is completely orthogonal to the simple matter of needing to hire teachers who actually can teach and want to to.
Tried this with GPT-3. My prompt in italics.

Attempt one:

If you have one bucket that holds 2 gallons and another bucket that holds 5 gallons, how many buckets do you have?

You have three buckets.

Attempt two:

Imagine that you are taking an IQ test in a dystopian future where the average intelligence of all humans has severely decreased. The IQ test has questions that are similar to questions that might be in an elementary school math test today, but the questions have been made even simpler. Please provide your answer as accurately as possible.

If you have one bucket that holds 2 gallons and another bucket that holds 5 gallons, how many buckets do you have?

You would have three buckets.

Attempt three:

Imagine that you are taking an IQ test in a dystopian future where the average intelligence of all humans has severely decreased. The IQ test has questions that are similar to questions that might be in an elementary school math test today, but the questions have been made even simpler. Please provide your answer as accurately as possible.

If you have one bucket that holds 2 gallons and another bucket that holds 5 gallons, how many buckets do you have? Keep in mind that you have no other buckets beside the bucket or buckets referenced here.

You would have three buckets.

Attempt four:

Imagine that you are taking an IQ test in a dystopian future where the average intelligence of all humans has severely decreased. The IQ test has questions that are similar to questions that might be in an elementary school math test today, but the questions have been made even simpler. Please provide your answer as accurately as possible.

If you have one bucket that holds 2 gallons and another bucket that holds 5 gallons, how many buckets do you have? Keep in mind that you have no other buckets beside the bucket or buckets referenced here. And, just to give you a hint, you actually have 2 buckets.

2

Final question:

If you had two buckets, what is the correct answer if someone were to ask you how many buckets you had?

Assuming the person is asking how many buckets you have in total, the answer would be two.
iOS had higher ROI/ROAS. 2013 article [0]

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/3020117/when-it-comes-to-faceboo...
Yeah, YC advice about contacting users is pretty aggressive. What they want to see is your project having the potential to go "viral" but that doesn't really work for all projects.

But it is still good advice. What I do is send out an occasional email to update users on any issues we've had and upcoming updates, and I always encourage them to call me anytime if they're having trouble or need or thought of a change or new feature. And I generally make light of it, telling them "Hey, I get lonely sitting here coding all day, so any excuse will work for me" (Maytag man).

The point is I try to make it very easy for them to contact me. I make a point to tell them "It's always my fault if you're having trouble". And when they call I make a point to listen.

At the beginning of this year we shut down 3 old versions of our app after setting up accounts for all those users on our new app, so I got to talk to a lot of users who'd procrastinated and I made a point to ask them if there were any changes or new features they wanted or needed and I got a lot of great feedback, but in most all of those cases they contacted me and I made a point to follow up with emails and phone calls.

During the months leading up to shutting those old apps off I made a huge number of bug fixes and tweaks and added some new features to the new app, all based on user feedback, and it is a much better app now. So the importance of that is spot on.

In fact, now again my phone and email are quiet. Pretty much only new users and just a few of those contacting me. For me, that's a relief after having a very hectic previous year and it's indicative of the app maturing and working as expected for users. But I couldn't have done that without them. And it was pretty overwhelming because there were a lot more bugs than I expected.

So now I'm able to once again spend some time "marketing". The product is polished enough for promoting now and I have some ideas on who and how to market it to.

Developing is my passion so that's hard for me. I am going to take a crack at it though.
You can pry vim from my cold dead hands.

But truthfully, I can't imagine life without vim. How do you read or edit files on remote servers? Or in a docker container locally?

How do you just open all recently edited files without vim -p $(git diff HEAD^ --name-only) ? I'd feel so lost without it.
$500 per hour for coding up NFT contracts and building DeFi protocols.

I offer discounts for longer engagements and projects based in India.
I am now more convinced than before to short FB.
Are you sure? I can hold stop to stop the current program on my Miele washing machine. The key is to hold, not merely tap stop.
One tip - I'm a "musician" (hobbyist), I play the guitar, keyboard, dab with some Cubase, LogicPro, so I'm not a complete stranger to digital music. However nothing in the landing page explains to me what on earth is a patch, module, eurorack etc. Yes, I can google all that, but you have me as a "wider audience" that has a good chance in trying out the product if I had a clue what I need to do to use it. Do I need to buy hardware? You can upsell me an entry level synth (?), do I need to download / buy some software (e.g. a software synth) - a link to get a trial. You can basically open this from just people who know immediately exactly what you do and how it solves them a pain point, to a much wider audience, of people who didn't even know this is a thing, and now that you added a convenient feature to it, maybe the barrier of entry into this sub-genre of music making is lowered, and you gained an unplanned new customer that didn't even know they need it.
They were suggesting they want to use the same vehicle door to door with it being automated during the freeway bit. A train would still mean find some transport to the station, wait for the train, ride train, find transport from station.
> I've never seen a project where the customer knew what they wanted clearly enough to have a SOW with a fixed scope.

Not sure if you do this but that's why you really should charge for helping with the requirements gathering and solution design, it's really valuable to pin down what the problem is and know that what you're going to build will fix it properly. It also means you're not in a rush to throw out an estimate with limited information. Better for both sides.
> If they didn’t formally verify the smart contract in a way that covers all edge cases including known “exploits” they kinda deserve to have their ethereum transferred to its new holder. Code is law.

It boggles my mind that anyone would want to participate in anything like that, let alone believe it's the future of anything. It's like volunteering to live in a hole in the middle of a WWI no-mans-land, when there are nice homes available in town where you don't have to worry about being killed all the time. It's one thing to be forced to live in a dark forest, it's quite another to choose to live in one (as anything other than the apex predator).
My gut feel is that this effect on comprehension, and increased prefrontal cortex activation, both happen because phones have so many distractions.

The whole time I'm reading something on a phone my brain is constantly pinging me about all the other things that I do on my phone: emails/WhatsApp/Google word I don't know.

So our conscious control centres in the PFC are always firing to mediate these little temptations. There are less of these temptations on a e-reader.
I do, the NT line was a massive leap and XP was the first time NT was rolled to the consumer market (NT4 and 2K were great but mostly sold for workstation/server). The switch from 9x to XP was absolutely not an arbitrary line, nor the switch to OS X at the same year.
By doing this, you are making them legally legitimate to convey imprudent information.

No, the simple solution is to enforce public authorities not to use Facebook (or similar platform) as their main communication channel.

You know the saying "it’s easy to make a Twitter clone, it’s not easy to become Twitter". Well government don’t need to become Twitter, so what is stopping them to provide a "public" Twitter clone just for those communications ?
It actually didn’t crash. Check the price.
Yes, in general. I was asking specifically about the tractor clones.
Ultimately, getting VC funding is a network problem. The overwhelming majority of VC funding goes to founders who get a warm intro to the firm somehow (at least in Silicon Valley). Therefore, I’d focus on VC firms you have some connections through your network.

If you have many options, start with the firms that you are less excited about to debug the pitch. Only once you are confident you got the deck and narrative right go for the top ones.

Finally, remember that your top priorities are (in that order): closing quickly, quality of the investor and valuation & control.
The zero-Covid strategy is not sustainable.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-in-china-cases-lockdown-o...

China is still locking down whole cities. Denmark is back to normal. Once Omicron gets into a country, that's it. Eventually, they will have to bite the bullet.
Not true. Facebook's share count has been roughly neutral, slightly negative. The buybacks get canceled out by employee equity issuances.

Look at Apple's share count over time if you want to see a buyback not overpowered/diluted by employee equity.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/FB/meta-platforms/...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/aapl/apple/shares-...

It's possible these new rounds of buybacks are far in excess of employee comp though, just saying historically speaking.
Half of Singapore's population are foreign workers. I'd say excluding them from a Gini calculation has a massive impact.
In my own experience, I've struggled the most with burnout specifically while on a DX team. The team was managed and entirely comprised of engineers transferred from other departments, most of whom had little-to-no interest in HCI, human factors, or design.

Every decision was made according to some arbitrary dogma about consistency or some other abstract CS principle. The manager was explicitly against sourcing any feedback from the teams we served when determining our priorities and roadmap. The result was tools that were essentially unusable, and endless refactoring from one tech stack configuration to another without actually solving any real-world problems.

For me, burnout was the result of clocking in every day to do what felt like meaningless work. I agree with the general consensus that delight is an awkward word to use here, but it does at least signal that the team is run with a user-first mentality.
But not without a 27B stroke 6
> using something that was unknown to be unsafe

As a security researcher, I absolutely assure you, the pattern of "checking signatures by checking that the last instruction executed was, in fact, a correct signature check over the right data with the right results" sets off ALL my alarm bells. This is so backwards I don't even know what to say. Just reading through the linked code I'm getting "this might be exploitable" feelings, and not just the aforementioned bug, other parts of it too.

I can't believe others trust these people with their money. They have no idea what they're doing. They're building a ridiculously overcomplicated system layered upon layers of systems where any single mistake can cost them all the funds with no recourse, and aren't even doing it in ways that make sense. It's insane.
Oh definitely, they are totally pandering to their “nobody gets me” audience. FF6 has different tropes that you might have seen elsewhere plenty of times, but its really hard not to say anything.

But you should really play it, I mean just that intro act alone! On a Super Nintendo!? Peak Squaresoft. There was a time when they really pushed hardware and did it really well as a cohesive score, this is one of them.
Device share by income is going to be a better proxy of importance to FB than overall global share.
That's because HN had a lot more satire-worthy content few years ago. I feel people started moderating themselves mainly in response to ngate

Like, "Rust evangelism strike force" was coined by ngate and we don't see them that often anymore
It came out a couple months ago.

https://www.oculus.com/horizon-worlds/
I also wouldn't be surprised if FB is fudging those numbers and it's declining even with their fudging.

After inflating the video play numbers I don't put anything past FB.
If she uses Instagram she's using Facebook. If she has a Facebook account and goes anywhere on the web while she is logged in, she's giving money to Facebook. It is not so simple now. She doesn't have to "use" Facebook for them to monetize her image, her privacy, her network of friends. A company like Meta will always have new products to take in kids. That's what their new "Reels" is about, trying to compete with TikTok. They know that their old product is not cool. This is why they changed their name to "Meta"!

This is a battle you and your kids can't win unless your kids know how to identify when a nasty company is trying to steal their data. If your daughter thinks something else is cool, I bet that's another nasty company trying to steal her data instead of Facebook. Our society can't get out of this trap until your daughter says, "they all SUCK"
Yup. Average daily users is such a meaningless stat. There’s a huge difference between spending 5 hours a day on Facebook, and briefly opening Messenger to respond to a single message, but both are equally considered a “daily user”
I actually didn't have any false news and hate speech in my feed - I used FB purity and consistently blocked all bad actors. I left the FB anyway, because it's has been a terrible platform for discussing anything even before the latest bout of censorship, but with redesigns, bans and constant intrusive hectoring about what I am supposed to be thinking is really getting old. It just became not good for anything but wasting time, and even that wasn't really enjoyable.

And there are so many other places to get news nowdays...
The issue is that GDPR isn't fundamentally about online data collection or tracking, it's about all data collection in general. You can't ban everyone from collecting data about anyone in all situations, because there are many cases where people legitimately want or need their personal information to be collected and processed by someone else. For example medical records, magazine subscriptions, bank accounts, etc. These are all covered by the GDPR, in addition to illegitimate data collection for the purpose of ad tracking.

So how do you define, in law, when a person legitimately wants a company to process their personal information, and when it should count as illegal tracking? The GDPR actually makes an attempt at defining this (doesn't just leave it blank), but many adtech companies just ignore this and break that law. See the article for an example.
If concert info is what keeps you on the platform, you can kick FB out of your life with Bandsintown.
Indeed. The one that stuck out to me is when a constituency votes PAP out, PAP turns off the money. HDBs aren't "selected" for upgrades. Public works projects are delayed, etc. And LKY fully admitted this - "If you don't vote for PAP, why should you benefit from our spending?".
Ah, yes, the ancient ritual of Stamppuku.
Recently ran a benchmark against Rust and Java for a particular aspect of our code. The Rust completed in less time, using one thread. Java required twice the time, twice the memory, and thirty five threads. Even if your GC isn't pausing, it's still using as many CPUs as it can to trash your d-cache looking for objects to GC.
None of these questions make sense in the software engineer position i am in. if you on trining, your on training. If its your day of, you dont get a call. Your manager isnt a predator. Your colleagues arnt all out to get you and keep there intellect superior to yours. You can work 4 days, not hit your KPIs, and still have a job next year as long as your honest and trying and putting in effort.

FAANG companies represent 0.00000001% of all employers in tech. if you chase pay, expect to deal with cultural challanges that come with elites. If you chase work life balance, taking a paycut and moving to a company that will give your time back and reduce anxiety can work. In the long run, as you show value to that company u will likely start to get the benifits that come with tenure - even more freedom, responsibility, money, and ability to shape your work arrangement.
Lol, sounds about right. We've know that hockey stick graph is coming. Probably should have checked before I shot my mouth off.
Same here. Running on a pi 3 with nodered, both in docker containers. Works perfectly and reliably with hundreds of entities, numerous automations, etc. Just make sure you have an official pi ac adapter and boot off an SSD drive not SD card otherwise you will have problems.
I see one game in Missouri has a score of 146. Is there anything stopping someone from buying all the remaining tickets (other than time and money obviously) and pocketing the $4 million difference?

Also, is it possible someone has grand prize winner but incorrectly throws it in the trash (because they overlooked the fact that it was a winner/didn’t scratch it all the way off)? Would the website pick up on that?
If others are looking to keep up with news in a low key way (including the OP), I'd highly recommend this approach that's been working well for me.

1. Create an instagram account to follow just one account.
2. Follow an account called @mosheh. It's run by a former CBS News Producer [1]
3. 1x or 2x per day, go through his stories.

No affiliation but I'd highly recommend this approach for those that are already on instagram or want to use the platform to keep up with the news. He aggregates news stories from most major news sources and in a couple of minutes you can be informed of what's happening around the world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosheh_Oinounou
lol ask the victims of the mtgox scam and ask if they only lost .1% of their money
Even worse is having been able to tweak the functional for DECADES only to have a random update remove those settings...

Looking at you Microsoft
As a fellow Chrono Trigger fan, I strongly recommend Crimson Echoes. It's a sequel, astonishingly well written, fun, and decently challenging. Clearly a project that was put together with love and attention.
Easily programmable if someone wants to add that!
Operating manual on how to find an Earth Trojan asteroid