skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First one probably took hundreds of hours or practice and a ton of exposure, to be fair.

Learning the Greek alphabet shouldn't take more than 10 hours. Not that one needs to. I never did. However, in a given discipline, practitioners tend to be consistent on which Greek letters they use for which concepts. As long as you spend time on a given topic, the Greek symbols should become ingrained - just as knowing how to write a for loop in C would become if you do it often enough.

And I would hope people studying math spend a lot more than hundreds of hours on it. If someone came and complained about the arcane syntax used in programming languages and hadn't spent, say, 100 hours programming, I don't think you would give much weight to their views.
People won't do that.
Weekly 1:1s help me catch personnel issues that, left unattended, would lead to disaffection and attrition.

1:1 is about helping direct reports reach their professional goals when times are good (it's a great time to literally ask what they want), and provide an emotional outlet when things are bad.

It helps me find assholes in my organization who need to be fired to maintain the company's health.
Neovide – A GUI for Neovim written in Rust
I already found a clone that lets me play historical puzzles in succession. I think the puzzle mechanic is neat, and when I'm in the mood I want to play it for a bunch of rounds until I get tired of it, then put it down for potentially many days. I'm not interested in the daily hook thing—I think it's a scummy pattern (even though I share the admiration of having it free of ads and tracking).
> I think that's a really arbitrary line.

Yeah - we're talking morals!

You won't find a mathematical equation to define the moral line.

> ad-blockers "steal" content from web-hosts

Not sure who you're quoting there but it's not me. I don't think it's stealing, I just think it's morally dubious. I didn't say anything like I thought it was criminal.

> Is it fine for me to pay an assistant to cut up my magazine after I take it out of my mailbox and reconstruct it without the advertising pages?

I think so yes.

> It just doesn't make sense to say that something is moral right up to the point where it becomes efficient

Well yeah, again it's morality, it's human and fuzzy.

Automation is often a line for morality. Some people think automated (as in drone) weapons are immoral but a soldier acting on the ground is ok. Some people think automated speeding cameras are unfair but a police officer with a speed gun is ok.

This isn't some kind of new idea.
It can sometimes be an issue in certain "Gotta go fast" scenarios, where you'd otherwise be able to reason quite confidently about program behaviour with a strict language.
Brave is the only iOS browser that supports ad-blocking on YT
They would likely still be displayed like that so people don't get tricked with look-a-like characters from other languages.
This anecdote is a ridiculously great example of something I’ve found to be VERY VERY IMPORTANT with parenting (and probably lots else.)

You must be incredibly delicate with “wrong” answers otherwise you might gaslight, discourage, or otherwise mess with your child’s ontology.

I’ve learned to ask “why do you think that?” When I get a “confident wrong answer” as I call them. A surprising amount of the time my child has some very rational explanation.

Someone once told me, “most arguments among engineers boils down to communication. Usually you’re not arguing about the exact same thing.” These moments with my child really made me grok that.

I wish “being wrong with an explanation” was rewarded the way it should be when I was a kid.
Think of the payoff for the engineer per hour of work.

Truly insane and impressive. Kudos!
What are the odds that this was driven by the desire to diverge from the open source versions? Need to justify the pay version.
I had no idea. Didn't have any trouble getting 4 Pis a few months ago for a cluster.
A short introduction to the undeciphered Aegean writing systems
The NYT daily mini crossword is free. I bet they just want easy, habit forming things to get people to check their site once a day. Add a 6-wordle for subscribers or something and it fits in perfectly.
Are you telling me you watched that video and that you're claiming the mother is lying?
As a bit of a counterpoint to the downsides of NYT's eventual soft-paywall, I think that this fits their arsenal of games rather nicely. I just spent 30 minutes playing around with their catalog of free daily challenges and Wordle fits in very well objectively and aesthetically. I don't think it would have been feasible to expect the dev to pay for server costs of millions of visits per day for what was meant to be a project for his family. While NYT is Bizarro King Midas when it comes to acquistions, this is probably the best case outcome long-term.

Link to try them yourself:
https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords
> Their argument is that they can in 1h deliver often as much as you average Joe in a week.

Sometimes I've been able to fix in an afternoon, what someone has been trying to fix for days.

From and outsiders' perspective it may seem that I am working less
Warcraft and Diablo are still great IPs. Some of the best. If D4 will be good that can have staying power for a decade easily. Same with whatever RPG comes from the Warcraft universe next
3. An excellent design that lets you play without getting in the way
Scientists are not sure whether those side-effects come from the dying parasites or the ivermectin itself:

"Ivermectin is well tolerated compared to other microfilaricidal agents (i.e., thiabendazole, diethylcarbamazine). Adverse reactions (i.e., pruritus, fever, rash, myalgia, headache) occur commonly during the first 3 days after treatment and appear to be related to the extent of parasitic infection and systemic mobilization and killing of microfilariae. The majority of reactions can usually be treated with aspirin, acetaminophen and/or antihistamines. Adverse effects tend to occur with lesser frequency during periods of retreatment."
Source: https://www.drugs.com/sfx/ivermectin-side-effects.html

If you read this list of side-effects, Aspirin also looks as scary as ivermectin: https://www.drugs.com/sfx/acetylsalicylic-acid-side-effects....

BTW: "BNF is only available in the UK

The NICE British National Formulary (BNF) site is only available to users in the UK, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories."
> Like the inability of interact with the DOM (or other browser APIs) without calling out to JavaScript.

They're working on this. It's a tough problem, because someone has to own the resources.

I don't think browser fragmentation is an issue for the same reason that CPU instruction set fragmentation isn't an issue: you can always compile to the lowest common denominator or ensure you are only running code segments that the target platform supports using runtime checks, just the same way we do it in native applications today.
It's a whole thing. People buy verified channels, rebrand into some easy-to-recognise username/avatar, and take advantage of this phenomenon (?) to boost their numbers with so much attention due to posting wholesome comments and always being at the top of the comments list. MrBeast's comments sections are a great example of this. Nothing but verified accounts with short names posting copy/pasted compliments with too many likes.
Rust's `cargo` kicks the crap out of either of them.
Yep, few friends gone through the same thing. Seems like a coder-finding-betting rite of passage, 'oh right i can automate this process and earn whilst I sleep!'

Nope, bookies only want to keep profitable customers, or provide some other upside to them. In the context of bookies they have limited other ways to make money but sometimes their are weird edges that pop-up, like legislated restrictions.

In Australia those running the licensed tote (totaliser) market pools on horse racing can't make the market themselves, they can't legally seed a pool, and since a tote win is a portion of the pool total customers are less inclined to bet on a low value pool, so the markets allow a few high value bettors to seed the pool for them (with generous rakebacks) which they make a net loss on, but has overall positive effect on their business.
So in practice Technical Debt is exactly the kind of bullshit talk in a low-trust asinine work environment. That doesn’t really validate the concept.
I've been hearing this for years. I've got another machine with a rolling release distro (Arch) and it isn't any better. Until it is more mature I won't be using Wayland.

It isn't just the weird bugs. It not being able to share and/or record my screen. Everything works fine with X11, nothing works properly with Wayland. For I know there is some way of faffing with it to get it to work but what I have now works perfectly and I see no reason to change.
I notice that something appears to have eaten a 'very' in the page title.
Sync makes sense. Otherwise if I switch between mobile and desktop I might lose my streak!
Raises hand solo game dev here that's never gotten above $10k revenue for a game I've released.

7 figures for something this tiny is amazing.

Working on a game in my spare time that's still small but significantly more ambitious in features, with 3D graphics, animations, Twitch streamer features, cosmetic game unlocks, possibly online multiplayer support, etc, but starting to wonder if I shouldn't try just knocking out a few small puzzle game ideas I've been sitting on for forever and do my best to incorporate some of the natural viral mechanisms that were in Wordle (not really possible with those games to post different types of solutions and still not give it away though, that's a big part of Wordle's virality).
> There are youtube videos where a single guy does it in 40 minutes.

I don't believe this, but I'm happy to be proven wrong!
The same advice applies for university exams. (Note, particularly in essay based subjects.) Don't provide against the grain answers no matter how smart or well thought through. Your university professor wants to hear how clever he/she is and wants you to write opinions that agree with their point of view. It's the best way to get marks. Just copy the party line. I was told this by a very clever university professor. It still makes me smile lol
The odd thing is they are not buying any IP.

The game itself is a clone of other games decades earlier, and the name is also non original.

Still not sure what they bought.
In fact, if they double the ads on YouTube, and put ads on YouTube Premium, you can buy YouTube DoublePremium and have no ads.
>>Well Sony was always the one aggressive with exclusives, not Microsoft.

I don't know what you're talking about. All consoles have exclusives. It's just that Microsoft's exclusives were not that good. Sure they had couple, but it's nothing compared to the number of hits from Sony or Nintendo.
Take a screenshot while you video interview, also record the interview with permission. Once people know about it, they won’t even take the offer.
"low seven figures" might not quite be "fuck off money", but it's without doubt "life changing money" for almost everyone.

No matter _how_ emotionally attached I was to a side project, if you offered me a few million for it I would sign in an instant.
If you are okay to join Telegram channel, I collect all kinds of stories and long forms (and post books) which are worth reading.

The link is here: https://t.me/+pwdYcfBiV1I3Njll

I have started with the comments, and I have a similar motive to have a group to share ideas and discussions without being dogmatic. It stays closed and private, and you can have a nice forum for an idea exchange. I haven't used Slack or Discord. The success of building a community depends on either doing it in private or keeping the bar high for those joining in. It takes considerable effort to succeed with that objective. In my mechanical keyboards group, most users stay quiet. At any given point, there are a few active members anywhere.

Most users prefer to consume content passively. That should change, because everyone's perspective matters. .
> Cross site POST calls require a CORS pre-flight options request, and the response of this request is scrutinized.

Not in all cases. Certain POST requests count as "simple" requests and no preflight check is performed. For example, a POST with application/x-www-form-urlencoded data and no extra headers doesn't need a preflight, because you could make an equivalent request with an HTML form.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS#simpl...
> GETs are idempotent and pure, at least in theory.

No, gets are safe (do not induce any client-responsibility state changes) and idempotent (do not induce any additional client-responsibility change of state for a second identical request with no intervening action after the first), not pure (do not depend on any state outside of the request).
Depends on how they’re grading. If they’re just grading on final output plus looking at the work process for authenticity you’d be fine. But a lot of people would probably needlessly grade on process.
Bizarre! Possibly related phenomenon, recently noticed that a bunch of students who dropped out or never finished our program are working as engineers (non-software) in big multinational firms. Does nobody check a transcript anymore?
Exactly. If holding onto money made it go up in value, then why would you ever spend it? If you had BTC in 2010 and knew what would happen to its value over the years, would you still buy a pizza with it?
Well that’s going to be a hard no from me then.

I wonder whether I’m an outlier here. The engineering investment to make zero-disruption voice control seems relatively minuscule, at least compared to all the other big-league AI/ML they’re up to. I’d rather have that than… just about anything.
My understanding is that anyone running Firefox already has, unless they went out of their way not to. Is that no longer the case?
It all depends on who is actually vocally participating, and on how interested corporate is in the results. E.g. Tuvalu does not send anybody.

Corporate does not care about the outcome of most things. When they do, the number of their employees involved can give them undue influence.

It can be surprising to outsiders both how corporations influence the process, and also that they sometimes care to.
Might be a great buy for NYT, their crossword was historically a large driver of their newspaper sales.
Basically just toggles for Hard Mode, Dark Theme, and Color Blind Mode, and links for his email and twitter, but yep, it has them.
That’s life for game studios though. It’s hard to survive. Making #2 or #3 of a hit is a lot more likely to make the studio survive another 5 years
The commenter mentioned they were on the Autobahn at 160 kph/100 mph. The aerodynamic drag on your vehicle is 3 times higher going from 110 kph/70 mph to 160 kph/100 mph. No wonder the range went off the cliff.
> Or stating that they were white to begin with and then were turned red

The lyrics never say that the native were once "white" and turned red. It says that they're red because they've all been blushing. The "white" skin color is never mentioned nor even implied, anyone can blush and it has nothing to do with skin color.

> Similarly, the song implies that the entire language is non-sensical words instead of actually being a full language.

The song gives actual words in some constructed native language, together with their translations. For such a short and simple text, the implication that they can do a lot more than just grunt could hardly be any clearer!

> The sexism isn't great either. Forcing Wendy to be the aid ... instead of letting her join in the fun.

They're showing that their native culture encourages women to work and make themselves useful to their community and tribe, and that their contributions will be properly valued in return. Have you never heard of the Ant and the Grasshopper? It was quite a popular story among native Americans, despite originating in the Western world.
for what it's worth, I don't think the NYT will "ruin" Worlde. If they roll it into the NYT website there will already be ads and subscription solicitations all around it as part of the normal page UI. The game itself can still be free and relatively uncluttered. I doubt the overall experience will change much and they'll probably make their "low seven figures" back in a relatively short time.

I'm over Worlde, personally. I started when it first showed up on hn a few weeks ago and stopped recently. It was fun, it was a little daily thing. but it's an easy game and I've moved on
I didn’t, but I suspect people were hoping for something more substantive. What about it don’t you like? Is there something specific to this thread that relates to your role and reminds you why you hate it?

Your comment did nothing to further the conversation or take it in an interesting direction.
A lot of people would have paid a dollar to have it in an "App". I know you can add a shortcut on iOS but it isn't easy to find and people would pay to have Wordle in their "games" folder.
What other educational databases are you looking at? Curious in case I'm missing any of them.
> They fail because they result in shortages, hoarding, and a black market.

When has that happened? Can you provide an example?
Maria Brito used Instagram to build a 7-figure art consulting business
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How long does it take to turn on and start displaying the input video?
It shouldn’t… It would be free on github pages, netlify, and others. Cloudflare should make anywhere else effectively free, as well. It’s likely a decision to reuse whatever existing hosting/deploy strategy he uses for the rest of his site or just apathy towards spending however much is being spent.
> So far while game pass seems cool it's not really panning out monetarily for me.

Which is why microsoft spent $100 billion on studios this year. Zenimax and AB consistently put out hugely popular games, and I expect microsoft will continue buying.
Or sometime you gave up on the organization being able to provide a meaningful workflow.. that’s usually when I switch job because it depress me to fake it too much and fuck around all day on a computer while not being actually free to do whatever I want.
It’s fine for few months while looking for something else and trying to let management know that you have no backlog.
Truly, nothing in the world of tech is sacred.
Isn’t this the premise of 4-Hour Workweek?
Just because they could have easily cloned it doesn't mean it's dumb to reward (and be seen rewarding) the creator.

This is better PR than a media goliath ripping off the success of the little guy.
Most strip casinos don't care at all about individual counters. They will cool you though if they see you wonging or other evidence of team play. But an individual? They really don't care. I've counted playing two hands and swinging my bets by a factor of 8 at the Bellagio. I might has well have been wearing a hat that said "Make Counting Great Again" I was so obvious. And the pit boss only asked if I'd like something nicer to drink than the well stuff and my host took very good care of me on the back end. Incidentally I didn't really win much, but that's not why I play. I like the dopamine hit from the risk, I like the sociality of table games, and I like having my host pay for the entire trip thanks to my play. It would make a terrible career, but for a weekend's entertainment it nets out to being a pretty good deal.

Interestingly, if the player doesn't maintain a proper betting strategy, he will have a considerable risk of ruin even in a player advantaged game. In a game with a 10% player edge, 28% of players managed to go bust[1]. Given the large number of rounds of betting for blackjack, without a good betting strategy, even players that count their way to a 2-3% edge are probably still going to make the casino money.

The downtown Casinos are much more uptight about advantage play, but I think that's because a lot of the pit bosses are old school and they just hate the idea of a player supposedly putting one over on them.

[1] https://neilhacker.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/kelly-criteri...
I don't think Sony could afford Activision. Its own market cap is 133b$ USD, which is a lot, but it would still have ended up being a very high-risk buy/merger. I'd be surprised if they ever had any acquisition talks. Activision is so big that only titans like MSFT could afford to buy them outright.
That could be, and probably has been, said about every startup.

I don't know about the parent, but it has been a big trend- it's said how many people have bought into powerlessness. It's got to be killing innovation.
> The business model is that you get the latest puzzle for free and you can pay a subscription to get access to old ones.

Are you sure? I just tried to see today's crossword from a non-logged-in browser, and it said that I had to be subscribed.
>Why companies dont value their current employees is beyond me.

It's because they take advantage of their current employees and get away with it. They could promote you regularly, or they could take the gamble that they'd save money and you'd stay put rather than uproot yourself and spend effort job searching (which is like taking on an additional part time job itself), and if you did uproot they'd just offer the same salary to someone else. They don't value institutional knowledge because they feel they've compartmentalized the jobs enough. Going from the mailroom to the C level sounds a lot more like a bad movie rather than something even remotely possible today.
It’s already bi-weekly. I dont think I’d be rewarded for asking to do it every 6 months
I feel like doctors have a responsibility to inform patients that they're in an unhealthy state. Even if a patient should/does know. In the USA it's probably a legal thing too if the patient has a heart attack they'll sue the doc for not being told they were overweight!
one field that is highly paid is devops . not very difficult to learn either.
"Low XXXXX figures"
It sounds like you are not in the US, and don't have a solid grasp on the dynamics. I count myself among those who stand for democracy, of which the US is a poor but still extent example. Russia is, needless to say, not a democracy.

For all the faults of the US, humans in the world would be vastly less well off with Russia, or China, in positions of supremacy.

Snowden's actions, at the end of the day, were damaging for democracy. And every day he does the work of Russian intelligence- wittingly or no- is another day he damages democracy.

I'm sorry if that isn't clear to you. It is to me. Best wishes.
This is great, especially 3) which implicitly makes a business case for reducing tech debt (useful for communicating with the rest of the org), and also helps steer us toward debt that actually matters.
Not just spend, but invest. Consider the reverse situation (deflation):

If you just hide your money under your mattress it is worth 2% more per year. If you are primarily concerned with protecting your wealth, why would you invest in a company that might lose your money? Sure you'll invest some just to diversify and attempt to see larger real returns, but most of your money you can just hold as cash.

With modest inflation, you lose wealth if it is not invested, so people will invest in an attempt to preserve their wealth (with real returns being a bonus).

With extreme inflation, the currency is no longer stable enough to be used as a store of wealth, so you will try to get rid of money as quickly as possible (wile paying off debts denominated in that currency as slowly as possible).
Not everyone finds the same things to be fun. Shocking, but true.
It's possible to be smarter than that. I believe Chrome doesn't drop down to punycode if it sees the string is entirely within a single language so that there is no possibility of look-alike characters. It might even be checking explicitly for the presence of look-alike character pairs, since they're known ahead of time.