skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Half an hour is long enough to get infected, we know this.

If masks work, they work on a mechanistic, physical, level. They filter air, and if you use your masks wrong, or take them off, they stop filtering air.

But if you look at how people are actually using their masks, they pay zero attention to the mechanics of it, and 100% attention to the appearance of it.

Someone who wants to wear an N-95 mask for the duration of the entire flight, and who won't remove it for eating, understands the mechanics of how they work. That behaviour is not theatre.

Someone who wears whatever because they're told to, crams it in their pocket now and then, removes it while eating, and still believes they work, do not in fact understand how masks work. And whoever is making rules and mask mandates that allow for this behaviour also clearly do not understand how masks work. It's all theatre. It's masks as make-belief lucky rabbit's foot talismans, and yet we're supposed to believe that the rules are based in science.
I accept that I misunderstood the concept, but then you don't need the "signature" at all? Just an email saying "yeah, sounds good. We agree to this." Can we just test that in court?

I say this only because I can see -- IAMAL -- that there are many ways around this. "Yes, but we subsequently changed the deal when I emailed you and said 'we have to delay it," and then you said 'that's terrible. ok.'" etc
Well, they were in a sense my first production environment, but I outgrew them.

The big problem is they're not chonky enough. Most of the stuff I'm working on doesn't distribute all that well. I have some smaller services, but they're so small they don't really eat much resources from my server either.

If I had machines closer to 32 Gb it might be worth adding additional nodes, but 8 Gb is too small to do anything useful with that isn't mostly just a hassle of constant maintenance and jank.
That would literally make $0. What are you talking about? Where is the revenue coming from?
Console sales have always been a break-even business over the lifetime of the generation. You lose LOTS of money up front, and eventually (in year 6 or 7) you may turn an overall profit on console sales.

Hardware accessories (e.g. controllers) are a bit better.

Assuming you can produce hits, first-party IP has always been the most profitable part of the value chain. But having 90% of your ecosystem come from 1P (like Nintendo) limits the size of
the ecosystem.

Xbox traditionally had 30-40% of the overall content revenue come from 1P IP, and 60-70% were from 3P. Sony perhaps a bit more than that. Both were ecosystem plays.

It seems like both ecosystems are recognizing that they need exclusives to sustain their franchises.
> Given the specific word use makes a particular claim, that is the basis for your other claims, it's extremely important.

No, but it's always nice to focus on semantics if you got little else to say.

> No, this is just your projection. You're engaging in historical revisionism. The standard use of the term 'capitalism' is synomous with free markets.

Are you really suggesting that a system of private property rights is not a fundamental part of 'Capitalism'? And that it's historical revisionism to claim that?

> formed as juries

What jury? Do you think this issue would be treated by a jury if reported? Even if it would be in-front of a jury, a jury is supposed to follow the law, it's not acting in an objective vacuum. That's ridiculous.

> Courts deem children to not have the ability to provide consent, which is unlike adults, so your example shows nothing.

Yeah, and that's obviously a subjective interpretation? The same can easily be said about adults forced to work by the conditions put in place by the system they live in. Currently under capitalism it isn't seen as non-consensual, since that clearly wouldn't work, but maybe it will be seen as obviously so in 100 years?

> That's a totally absurd claim: there were no societies that didn't have free markets / capitalism / work-for-wages and did "just fine wrt food".

What's absurd about historical societies not having capitalist wage-labor and did fine without it? No societies? Haha, that's so ridiculously obvious historical revisionism it's entertaining.

>That you see no need to get emotional about socialist tyranny shows the lack of conscience behind your crude ideologically motivated position.

I'm not sure what socialist tyranny I have promoted in this thread?

> oh yes, Bastiat addressed that too:

What part of that quote more specifically do you feel addresses some point? It's mostly low signal-to-noise gibberish.

> You were earlier implying any one employing someone is an oppressor

Yes, and that was regarding trivial semantics that doesn't remove the core of this discussion namely the non-free nature of capitalism.
Oddly enough, once a friend of mine was hired to work on a project which one of the selling points was that it was designed and implemented by women.

He was a male and had to sign an NDA to work in the project. Very shady stuff. Maybe the reason your place didn't care about the odd behaviors from the female engineer was because they were well aware about what's happening?
If you’re in the middle; this is the most trivial thing in the world to block; in fact the CAA dns record is so limited in what it protects against that I’m genuinely confused as to why it exists.

Maybe with DoH it’s better. But that’s more https to make https not suck.
Well, I'm not as upset about this as I was about the Microsoft/Actiblizzard merger, but I just can't wait for those "You've used 3 of your 5 free wordles for the month" modal popups to show up!
Tesla has a new feature that will disable your seat controls
I disagree. In fact I'd say no one comes to wordle just to play a word game for 5 minutes and then forget about it. People share their solution grids all over the internet and private groups. They discuss their strategies and favorite start words. Late night hosts all play it on their shows. There's a new Wordle meme trending on Twitter every day. Heck people are so passionate about it that online backlash forced Apple to remove clones from the App Store and Twitter to remove bots that post spoilers – in under a day.
"Given the Opportunity, Players Will Optimize The Fun Out of a Game"

Wordle is a game. Games are meant to be fun. If you want to enjoy the game, don't meta-game it. Stop using a text editor and a word finder and see why we actually still enjoy it.
If we don't know, this means there's no legal basis for far-reaching restrictions of constitutional rights such as lockdowns, curfews, contact restrictions, contact tracing, compulsory vaccination, and restrictions of freedom of assembly. We do know, though, that current hospitalization and IC rates are relatively low, and that most of the above measures turned out to be pretty ineffective for highly infectious strains, making their justification even weaker.
Can someone explain me how come Wordle can be acquire since it is an implementation of another game called Lingo? Isn't there some copyright or other intellectual property belonging to someone else?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30154680
That must be something fetch specific, per the HTTP specs IIRC, any status code should be passed to the application - and the way I read it - unfiltered. It is neither an error nor an exception, the request is successful. A DNS or server connection issue would not be.

Similar with curl, 502 returns non-zero, 302 not. 4xx IIRC as well zero unless --fail is in use. The default makes it sensible/useful for smoke tests.

Perhaps GraphQL was aware of such client side "bugs" it choose to go "OK" first of all.
> I guess you need to remember your lies? Or don't say you are single when you have wife and three kids.

Yeah, that's the odd thing. You'd think that the guy who handled the interviews would have gotten some background on the guy who would actually join the company and adjusted his small-talk story to match. Then again, the low-effort approach "worked", at least to get the guy hired. If the interviewed guy was getting paid just for getting an offer letter, he doesn't care if the worker guy gets found out later.

> Which just makes it sound like a mixup rather than fraud.

I dunno, the mixup scenario sounds pretty farfetched too, perhaps even more so.
new idea: subHN, subreddits but fore HN
> Call of Duty is valuable, but Microsoft has already said they don't intend to remove it from PlayStation.

They haven't said that. They have said they will honor their existing contracts [1]. That's not permanent guarantee. I'm not saying they'll pull it as soon as they can but it gives them a lot of power.

I'm not sure you realize just how big the CoD franchise is. It pulls in billions of dollars every year by itself.

As for Blizzard, yes the company has seen better days but their IP is still valuable. Diablo 4 whenever it comes out will sell a ton of copies.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/20/22892860/sony-microsoft-a...
You put them in your backpack (or around your hips for the coat?).

Yes, you need a backpack or some sort of bag. Is it a big issue?
If it's not raining you don't even need the overtrousers and the coat might as well be the one you usually wear when it's cold. This coat probably has pockets big enough that you can put the gloves and the hat in them.
How do you know they're pretending?
> Can you give some specific examples of the math and physics that you think are beyond the capabilities of a bright high school graduate (that seems like a reasonable minimum bar to expect for someone picking up a book targeted at freshmen at MIT)?

I'm going to stop you there. If you think that jumping into approximating square roots via newton's method is not a "high level of competence in math and physics" then you have lived in a completely different world than I did. And the issue isn't knowledge (that's shared in plenty of detail in the book), but the maturity of mathematical reasoning.

The level of calculus taught to me in high school (and college) was at the same level as Algebra and Trigonometry. It was taught as a tool for engineers to use, not as a framework for building your own tools (proof-based calculus). The only people around me that reached that level of mathematical maturity were Maths, Physics, and Computer Science majors. And often it wouldn't "sink in" until around junior year for them.

> The \sqrt(x) = the y such that y >= 0 and y^2 = x.

This is an extremely dense mathematical sentence that requires a high level of mathematic maturity to understand that the author isn't just throwing that out randomly. It wasn't until I took a formal proofs/introduction to analysis course that it sunk in that a mathematical definition isn't just a sentence describing a new piece of vocabulary but is instead a highly technical engineering spec for a mathematical tool.

And until I made that transition I couldn't follow the flow of the logic, implications of the ideas/problems presented, or see the bigger picture of how these things fit together. They were technically accessible to me (I could read and understand the words and problems), but they completely lacked coherence to me.
> They've continued some of their worse monetisation and game design decisions while independent for quite a few years now, and stuff like the poor value of the 30th anniversary pack is entirely their own mistake to make...

This is an interesting thought. The 30th anniversary *paid* content was a bit lighter than anticipated, however the Free To Play content that came alongside it was fantastic. Perhaps I'm just used to seeing phrases like 'worse monetization' from the consumers perspective rather than the business's, but most of the community reactions from the 30th were positive, at least in regards to what was paid and what wasn't.
Oooh good one. Yes you need to spell out just how devious you are getting with these exploits. Love it. Skip all the broad sweeping stuff and get specific.
To be fair, you give both competitors inside knowledge that might be worth promoting you.
Pretty sure Linden had FINCEN people breathing down their collective necks. The threat of federal prosecution for enabling money laundering tends to tamp down your excitement for crypto.
In my current company, when I started, devs were deploying stuff into Kubernetes with an abomination they created that was a mix of Ansible + Terraform + Helm and Bash. I suggested the idea of refactoring the Helm charts in order to decouple them from the rest of things, use Argo CD and embrace a GitOps approach. They were hostile at the beginning as they were very proud of their ugly baby, but finally admitted that Argo CD is a much better and simpler approach.
Advertizement uses your brain power to process stimuli for the purpose of trying to sell you things that you do not need.

You did not ask for your brain to be stimulated like this - what you did ask for is the content that comes after ad. That's the thing you consented to.

Ads abuse your desire to watch something that you want to watch, by cramming in something that you did not want, leeching your precious time and brain-processing energy, in order to sell you something that you did not want to have in the first place.
Aren't 5% down loans still available?
To add to this, since it linked to the archived version I thought it was taken down for some reason. Giving the original source makes it clear it's still up.
> A name in GNS is a domain name as defined in [RFC8499] as an ordered list of labels. The labels in a name are separated using the character "." (dot). Names, like labels, are encoded in UTF-8.
In my experience, businesses are wildly capital-inefficient at shipping software.

The personnel needed to ship something in a tech org with 100s or 1000s of employees might look like...

- Front-end developer
- Back-end developer
- DevOps / Infra
- UX/Designer
- Product Manager
- Engineering Manager
- Security, Risk & Compliance, Legal (ensure someone doesn't sue NYT over some mis-worded privacy policy or mis-use of user data)

If project planning occurs in quarters (or half-quarters, for those "nimble" cos), getting the Wordle project green-lit means spending 1/4-1/8th year of salaries/benefits for this squad all-in.

Kudos to the creator for making this sale! Great timing, hope the money is life-changing in the best possible way.
On the other hand it must be nice getting paid above your abilities, which is (one of) the common outcomes of diversity hiring, isn't it?
It makes more sense when you consider that this seems to be intended as an alternative to (Jupyter, etc.) notebooks, which are a major way of communicating methods in the data science segment of the Python community. Notebooks are linear sequences of cells with an arbitrary number of lines of code inside of them, and these cells can be executed one at a time in arbitrary order. A lot of the time the dependencies between these cells (whether it be conceptually, programmatically, etc.) is not linear. There therefore arises a lot of cognitive load in both trying to present (via comments, etc.) this structure as a writer and parse this structure as a reader.

I imagine that is the kind of problem this is meant to solve--drawing out and visually solidifying that structure. From this perspective, I'm not sure if there's much apparent value in making the 1 cell <==> 1 function call constraint the default.
I posted yesterday on here that I thought WikiWikiWeb was the first "web app". What do you think?
NYT crossword has a different subscription than NYT news. I suspect increasing the number of news subs who also have a crossword sub is a major part of this acquisition. They'll start showing "play wordle on our crossword app" ads on the main app.
Yes, now my name is in a plaintext file.

How do you prove it was me that added my name?

With a physical signature you can theoretically compare it to previous signatures using pressure analysis etc, but that’s not a thing for a text string.
For those of you thinking and commenting this was sold too cheap: that's a life changing amount of money right that, you won't be able to spend it if you play it smart. Keep in mind that wordle went from a cost to a net + for the dev in a very short time, and that there was no business model.

Don't give up the day job, buy a chunk of real estate and 'level up' in one go based on a happy accident, this is found money. And if you think it is worth 10's of millions then you probably should have made a deal with the author yourself, easy money, right?

Better a deal at a lower than optimal valuation than no deal at the best possible price.

This thing may go down as fast as it went up, better to capitalize on it while it's hot.
Apache now offers mod_md[0], which implements AMCE directly, meaning that you don't need certbot. (I don't use Debian personally, but it looks like Buster and later support it.) I'm sure there are other options for other web servers.

[0]: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_md.html
If all your server does is respond with a single small no-body response, then yes http will be much quicker. If you do a somewhat normal page (even something considered small by current standards like 5-10 resources each being 10-ish kb) it will be a wash or http2 will be better.
Definitely. Especially considering they had (timed) exclusivity of all COD content for years.
we call this vendor lock in. RIP
7 figures for a solo dev game of such small scope is amazing, people here have way too high expectations. Most indie games make $0-10000
Sounds like a good fit for helping CDNs and caches deal with GraphQL.
It's interesting how small some of those grants and funding pools are compared to what you see in startup land.

Maybe this is just the economics of viral research, but you'd think that with plenty of people out there willing to pay to cure themselves of HSV, or prevent it, there would be more financial support.

Yet, the people working on the problem have as much funding as the YC Standard Deal announced this month. I wonder why.
The more effective treatment will shrink the market, therefore market forces incentivize competitors to cooperate. It is the same reason that the OPEC exists. It is called game theory, not conspiracy theory.
Isn't this how every major betting operation works? I'm not counting lotteries because although you could argue that you are "betting" on some numbers anyone with a 6th grade education that there is no difference in expected outcomes if you choose different numbers.

Why would bookmakers ever take bets from someone they don't expect to make money from?
Nah, we do the same thing the parent does with file names. Works just fine.
Claims without evidence. Most processors released in the past decade have some sort of cryptographic acceleration. Even before the likes of AES-NI there's been two decades of vectorized optimizations for encryption and hash algorithms. Sun among others released SSL accelerator expansion cards 20 years ago.

The processing overhead for TLS is trivial anymore. You'd be hard pressed to find devices (in any market segment) sold in the past decade without some sort of acceleration or access to vector optimized code paths.

The idea that HTTPS is using tons of extra power over exabytes of HDDs spinning up, inefficient microservice architectures, or poorly optimized code interpreted code is pretty laughable.

But you've made bold claims. I'm sure you've got compelling evidence backed by extensive and reproducible testing.
But what if it's the other way around? What if, because sanctions or war or whatever causes inflation, governments, in order to avoid the worse outcome of what would happen if they stop working totally, have to create more money.

Then, inflation is what creates money, not the other way around, and the narrative should be a very different one.
That's a cool extension, I didn't know about it.

I built an entire app around the idea that every note participate sin the spaced repetition queue. For me it has made a lot of difference, as I have managed to internalize (as in put into a practice) a lot of the stuff that I put into my "second brain", for example insights from books I have read, videos I watched or blog posts, etc:

https://github.com/msipos/mind-palace
I didn't see any claim that https is faster. If you benchmark https on a path where encryption is the only significant work being done, and on hardware that does not have encryption acceleration, then it will appear to be a lot slower. However, in real world applications the https encryption is usually accelerated by a dedicated processor feature, and the other work being done for a request is going to make the encryption time irrelevant. If you are serving static files over http, on a machine with an old cpu, with enough volume to saturate your cpu on http, then https will slow it down significantly. But typically, any server doing that will have 100x more capacity than it needs anyway.
APIs should be giving back specified error messages regardless as 4xx and 5xx errors can still be too generic.

For example, if you're rate limited (429), a robust API will still give you back data on how many requests you've made and how many requests you're allowed to make, so you're still going to have to check the payload regardless.

The combination of specific error status codes along with error messages has been redundant in my experience.

Furthermore, in Axios, checking for `error.response.data` isn't terribly far from `error.response.status`, so I'm unsure of this "worst client experience" you're talking about.

It's pretty intuitive for me.
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What's up with the super low contrast on the text in that article? Grey on white is super obnoxious.
> In fact I'd say no one comes to wordle just to play a word game for 5 minutes and then forget about it.

I do. And I'd be surprised if I'm the only one.
What if we Come to find out his COUSIN runs the games division in NYT. Hahahaha classic story.
But the alternative isn't nothing.

E.g. one class of alternatives is PrEP which is very effective, well-tolerated in many patients, and depending on country, pretty affordable.
Oh, maybe for various reasons, regularly getting and taking pills is difficult for some populations, and a series of injections makes more sense? Subdermal injections for PrEP are also in the works and look like they would work for more than a year.

I would love there to be a really highly effective vaccine. But PrEP sets the bar relatively high for a vaccine to actually be an improvement, right?

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/prep/index.html
https://www.aidsmap.com/news/mar-2021/reformulated-islatravi...
You can see this difference in the subs for gamedesign and gamedev. Gamedesign has great consistent discussion whereas gamedev leans almost exclusively towards entry level devs asking "should I learn game dev" and experienced devs soft-marketing their upcoming game.
They're not just buying the game. It's trivial to make. They're buying the social network that comes with it.
I disagree. I think they'll throw it on their already monetized crossword app(they claim to have 1 million subscribers) as a freebee to get people in the door. They might let you do extra words if you have a subscription, but a lot of the beauty of wordle is 1 word per day which creates a strong network.
Cabal and stack are also very hard to understand when starting out.
FYI, if you want that job and don't happen to be in Japan, this is exactly what consultants are hired for in many cases: To be a blunt voice of reason in an environment which isn't able to listen to itself.

I've many times been hired in companies to say things employees didn't have the political clout to say out loud. If anything goes wrong, or someone isn't happy, I'm the fall guy.