skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capcom over the years has had a ROM set you could buy on and off. Not sure if they still do. Think it was side by side with an arcade controller. I think there is one of their current console releases where there are a bunch of games and it uses MAME as the core to run their games. They are the only one I can think of that has sold ROMs to be used in MAME both loose and bundled. There was a service about 20 years ago claiming they had the ability to sell them but it seemed kind of shady. Also it is not very clear cut on many of them anymore who actually owns the game. Most of it has very clear lineage but not all of it.
Pool together all ( or most ) social benefits in one single payment to get some economy of scale.( removing the need to have specific admin XYZ to distribute XYZ benefits )

I live in the US, and from what I understand you guys have little to no benefits.

But in place where it does exists, similar sums are already being spend between unemployment, rent assistance, affordable healthcare and the likes.

To give you a idea the RSA in France is around 400€ / month. That’s pretty much a given if you do some paperwork )

A transition to UBI would mean to consolidate it to reach higher level.

And make it non conditional.

That’s a shift for sure.
It was both a common and well accepted practice and highly controversial. They are not mutually exclusive, e.g. abortion.
Maybe their omnipotence includes being lucky enough
I've always found Mark Seemann's blog posts to be really pragmatic and insightful. He oftentimes puts to words things that I've always "felt" but hadn't quite found the thread to pull.

https://blog.ploeh.dk/archive/
What are your big tech companies? Does it include Google? If so, your statement is incorrect.

More correct:

Of the big tech companies, only Amazon structures its RSU so it's heavily backloaded.
> In a valid fluid dynamics problem, the numbers plugged into the equation must correlate to the properties of the fluid being studied. But in attempting to draw an equivalence between the physical flow of liquids and the emotional “flow” of human beings, Losada had simply lifted the numbers that Lorenz used in 1963 to explain his method in the abstract, numbers used merely for illustrative purposes. Losada’s results, along with the pretty butterfly graphs Brown had been shown in class, were essentially meaningless.

Incredible. So it wasn't just a matter of, say, applying an equation beyond its domain, or generating the inputs to the function in a sketchy way, or hacking the inputs to the function until they got an answer they liked, but literally copying example parameters from a 1963 paper.

The "Complex Dynamics of Wishful Thinking" paper is very readable:

https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/complex_dynamics_final...
Yeah, I saw someone use one running off a car, once.

It comes from a brief period of really frantic, bonkers professional computing innovation especially in the UK -- the Cambridge Z88 launched the year before.
I was in a similar position when I started learning F# - I'd say start with F#, but you will likely need to be able to read through some of the C# examples to work out how to do common things that rely on the .NET standard library if you haven't worked with .NET before (for example, if you want to read the contents of a file into memory, it's simple, but the examples on the MS site are in C# here and would need a small amount of translating: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/how-to-r...).
Was hoping for a more quantitative approach, not qualitative opinions. The sample size of the 1st graph (56) lost my interest.

I guess these comments somehow paint the overall media sentiment on the brand and consequently the stock. Nonetheless, meaningful discussions can result still.
I don’t care because it doesn’t matter. Worldwide lockdowns in 2020 yet only a 7 % reduction in emissions. The lockdowns checked almost every box on the ‘do this to save the world list’ from green activists. No air travel, car traffic decimated, factories closed, .. And only 7 % less emissions. Behavioral change is not the solution. Degrowth doesn’t work. In fact, degrowth means less money to invest in renewables.

Innovation and technology is how we solved our problems in the past, there’s no reason to think this time it will be different.
This seems like a great business idea, so great I checked to see if anyone was already doing it: https://netbricks.biz/
This is just an element of normalizing Amazon comp practices versus the rest of the industry, really, right?
"Beyond bootstrap, the company itself (revenue streams, assets, etc.) is the capital."

Thanks for this correction.
So, when the QoS (nice) level is set to the lowest level, essentially "I don't care: don't run this on P-cores, and don't run the E-cores fast", then the Mac Mini if faster, because it has four E-cores, and the Pro only as two.

The QoS levels are background (lowest), utility, userInitiated, and userInteractive (highest). All but background will run on P-cores.

Does it make any sense to benchmark a process when the QoS was specifically set to "I don't care how long it takes"?
"These ads are shown to you based on your online activity while you're signed into Google. We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads."

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603

I think they used to ad-scan free Gmail accounts, but stopped several years ago because telling paying customers "well see, we do scan some email, but not yours" required too much nuance.
lol, This is such a bizarre hill to die. There is no evidence in this article of them saying this for any reason other than the staff and business. Could you imagine arguing that restaurants should let patrons who spit on their staff continue to eat there? I dont see what the problem.
See this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30248741
Fundamentally, either IPO proceeds or remains of VC money (or debt) are funding Uber, as they're not broke yet.
You could also state : lower class people who choose to do work would be catapulted to another revenue level.
Contracts Should Be APIs
I'm assuming that based on your username, you are an EU citizen? If so, apply for a job with any large US based company in one of their European offices. For example, Google in Zurich or Dublin, Amazon in London, etc.

After one year, you qualify for what's called an L1B 'internal transfer' visa. You can then transfer to another team within the same company that's based in the US. In many cases the company will sponsor your visa application and even the cost of moving (e.g. plain ticket, cost of shipping your belongings, etc.)

Once in the US, you can start the application process for a green card. As long as you're not a citizen of either India or China, this should take 2-3 years.

I'm Dutch and this is the path I took.
> To top all of this, Amazon has a 6% internal URA

So that's where all the Microsoft stack-ranking hawks went!
> I also didn't apologize because it wasn't like I didn't mean it.

Oof. What does "meaning it" have to do with an apology being warranted? If I feel bad enough about calling someone a moron within earshot that I feel like an asshole, I'm going to apologize. This only wouldn't apply if I felt such animosity that I wanted them to feel bad. I can't imagine not apologizing in the situation you described.
New 2022 Analysis: Countering the Hypersonic Missile Threat [pdf]
My 4- yo kid likes to build from instructions but once that's done he'll take them apart and mix the pieces with all the other dismantled kits making it a nearly impossible task to redo the original kits. But he'd rebuild simpler variants, the play factor is still there. I on the other hand am bit stumped by the amount of small varied pieces. I'm thinking of getting a bucket with classic pieces, perhaps non branded/generic legos.
It is the tour-de-force in emulation. If I were starting my own emu I would lean heavily on what is in there.
Free services which require login all easy tracking and spying. If folk paid for it then they'd not want to be spied on. We're the product because it's free.
> The idea that we cannot make substantial improvements to people’s decision-making context and instead should spend all this money trying to hack the genome is obviously ridiculous.

Except piles of cash per year ARE spend trying to change people's habits for the healthier, and it's obviously falling in the US.

You're idea of, "Don't throw a pile cash at medical research, that's stupid! No, spend it on advertising, but healthy stuff!" seems like the obviously ridiculous idea.
It is fair what other commenters have said about Qt being larger and used more production. However it is a pain - from licensing and code/technology point of view.
If you enjoy Go and/or like maintainable GUI code then Fyne is basically designed for you. The team is ambitious and always developing more features, plus there is now commercial support behind the project at https://fynelabs.com.
Do you recommend any resources to learn about this?
> especially since open access operators seem to focus mostly on faster long-distance trains

Only long distance trains are mandated to be self-financing. Competing with local trains means competing with subsidized trains, which doesn't make any economic sense -- if you have a private operating company and want to run local trains, then compete in the bidding processes to get the subsidy to the run them. And they do -- in Germany, about 1/3 of local trains are privately operated. (Btw, for freight its 40%, for intercity trains its below 1%)
And through it all, the three met only once in person, when Friedman was in London to give an academic address. It was a day spent scribbling equations in chalk on blackboards and talking strategy – a debunkers’ bonhomie.

I truly miss this about academics. Where you get a chance to sit down and think freely and pick someone else's brain in the pursuit of some hypothesis you're chasing down.
Yeah, well, as far as I am concerned, they pretty much failed on the other bits. You not hearing many complaints about it any more is probably because most of us have stopped mentioning it (outside of discussions specifically about it), because nobody gave a shit then either, any more than you do now.
But tools have their own culture as well.

Yeah, admittedly, this is very true. Any tool encourages some behaviors and discourages others.

I've loved email for 30+ years

Email feels like a firehose to me. I can't get any value from it these days. 100's of emails per day of notifications and such.

With effort it can be tamed. Filters and so on. But I've never gotten to a great place with it in modern times. With new sources of crap pouring into my inbox every day it is, at best, something that can be tamed but requires constant attention and maintenance.

Of course, this is all subjective and personal. It's working for you! Kudos. =)
Holy cow, I just tested it and it just works on Wayland!

I could have sworn that I tried it in the past and it didn't work... Ok, so that was my last reason to use X...
It is.

Everybody just focuses on two possible outcomes that are easy to define -- what is the probability it goes bust and what is probability it is going to add a letter to FAANG.

I think the answer is laziness. If you invest money you shouldn't care much about the size of the company you are investing. From a purely financial point of view should be looking at return on your investment where return is defined as an integral over all possible future payouts adjusted for their probability and adjusted for your risk tolerance.
I was being a little snarky. Dplyr is phenomenal but it's written in R which many people perceive to be a weird language.
If we are comparing to the rest of the world, a bog standard middle class house in the US (and the accompanying land) is quite a few deviations from the middle.
Sometimes, community can be tough
No thanks, keep this garbage in the Netherlands.
Yes, but that's a) not the Big 5, and 2) the worst example of personality tests/models where you're put into a category (which will show very low reliability over time, even if your responses show some).
I, for one, will never trust another “finding” coming out of the field of psychology.

Between this and the marshmallow study, I think psychology should be considered an art. We’re many centuries away from this progressing to being a science on par with physics.

There’s nothing wrong with that, a wise therapist has much to contribute - but not to science.
Because it's actually a spell being cast over investors. You say you never understood why Uber would win, but I'd say that everyone who was actually involved with Uber has won - they've walked away with personal fortunes. In the end, the company is dumped on the public, and then it doesn't matter how the story ultimately turns out.
Thiel doesn't need you to actually do anything, he just wants to plant the seed of the idea that "women's suffrage is bad for western democracy" in your head, and let that germinate into something in support of whatever worldview he's working for.
Flutter for web is quite rapidly improving in all the areas you mentioned. For right now I think it's already very suitable for highly complex browser applications such as a Figma, Google sheets etc. Load times aren't the best due to a quite hefty WASM download, but for _applications_ that you typically open only a couple of times per day and where you work in for several hours, that initial loading delay really doesn't matter.

Just don't expect to use it for an E-Commerce site or something like that.
Uh... no? I suspect you're referring to the Goodall preprint that did the rounds a few days ago. What it purported[1] to show was not that AP was less safe than regular driver, but that it was less safe than Tesla claimed. It still showed that it was (moderately) safer than Teslas being driven without active safety measures, which are themselves about 3x safer than average vehicle.

You seem to have taken the opposite conclusion, which is exactly what the feeding frenzy over the paper wanted.

[1] The methodology is hugely suspect: you can't take an incomplete data set and then just "correct" it by inventing axes that you pull in from other incomplete data sets that weren't studied or measured in the original! That's rank P-Hacking. It seems reasonable, but I guarantee that a talented statistician can push any such data set 2x in either direction with that kind of trick.
It was pretty obvious when Stadia "made" devs port to Linux. When the economic incentive was there, the technology wasn't much of an issue.
Depression might lead people to eat differently. I know when my diet suffers when I'm down, there's definitely more pizza and less fruit and veg.
I have worked at many companies in the US where my take home pay was $140,000 + bonus. I got 4-6 weeks of PTO every year, the company paid for my high deductible insurance plane and kicked in an additional $1000 to an HSA. This doesn't include the dollar for dollar safe harbor match on my 401k that was up to $8,000 and more after that at a reduced rate. There as no stock or anything like that. I worked on average 40/hr a week and we played a lot of golf.

Is this the norm definitely not but there are a lot of good companies out there paying well.
Programming libraries are also things that need to do math on data points (in a way that programmers themselves can reason about). One of the reasons many of the math focused libraries prefer [lon, lat] data is because it is (close to, in some projections) an "intuitive" approach to [x, y] order and brings the geographic abstraction closer to the Euclidean geometry abstraction to make it easier for the programmers to reason with (regardless of which projection abstractions are in between).

(Needing to do a deeper dive into some of Leaflet's code at one point gave me a somewhat greater appreciation over why there is such disagreement between [lat, lon] and [lon, lat] formats. Abstractions are hard, and when you know you already need a crazy projection abstraction or three, sometimes the simplicity of [x, y, z] Euclidean approximations feels like "home" for as much as you can reason in it and expect the projection math to "just work" with it as long as you are consistent.)
Slaves were the first labor strike organizers
The Trash Theory YouTube channel had a good video about Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex as part of their New British Canon series - https://youtu.be/xA-rRijxf70
Every country, every city, every street and every house. Even at 100% vaccination rate. There is no point in denying that.
My impression was that Lernout & Hauspie had had decent--for the time--technology: they bought Dragon (admittedly in a shady deal), PowerScribe, and a few other "real" companies. It was certainly rougher than people might have desired, but this is the first time I've heard they didn't have any actual products.

I thought its downfall was more related to straight-up accounting fraud, with fake sales, hidden loans, etc.
There are niche heterodox subfields of economics that literally are just a dubious physics analogy (thermoeconomics), but the source's argument that marginal utility theory was copying von Hemholtz is the sort of extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence, not zero citations, baffling confusion of economist Francis Edgeworth with literary writer Maria Edgeworth and a lot of tacked on claims that are laughably false (Jevons certainly didn't believe that "natural resources are inexhaustible: he was actually initially famous for trying to predict when the coal supply would run out!).

There are obvious reasons for studies of how money is spent to involve mathematics (though Menger managed to deduce marginal utility theory from first principles without equations) and it's unsurprising some of the equation forms superficially resemble some of the many simple equations of physics. There are much better criticisms of neoclassical economics and the application of neoclassical economics than accusing the early economists of plagiarising another field!
3,45 Euros for a 1TB of storage is incredible value, even cheaper than Blackblaze!
Landlords in a bind as Manhattan's old office buildings lose their appeal
Definitely, and it's probably not very noticeable, but there's no escaping the physical problem of not a perfect 1:1 or 2:1 pixel ratio.

Say you have a UI element that's supposed to be 9px wide. If you have perfect 2:1 pixel ratio you can use 18 physical pixels and it's as sharp as the monitor can be. If you're using UI scaling of say 1.5, the monitor needs to use 13.5 physical pixels to render it. Except that's not possible, so it will average together the 13th pixel with the 15th pixel (simplifying). It's basically introducing an extra anti-aliasing pass to your frame. This is is why the Apple/LG 24" is 4k and the 27" is 5k. All that said, I'm sure 4k @ 27" even with 1.5x scaling still looks great and you'd never notice the difference, except if you had the two right next to each other.
> If your coding skills are degrading so quickly maybe you aren't actually a senior engineer?

I dunno, people are different. I tend to forget what I had for lunch that day, let alone skills that I haven't touched in six months. I just tried to play piano last night for the first time in a year and I was just a mess of hands not knowing what the hell to do.
The key is to have dummy trucks with no money driving staggered schedules. That will keep them occupied.

Real talk though those audio recordings of the police commenting that “that’s all they got” has no place in this country.
> 4 of the 5 send their kids to private schools. I think that says a lot, given that they aren't paid well and choose to sacrifice and pay the tuition. […] it's a completely miserable experience that was worsened by COVID and remote learning.

Some parents around me simply decided to go ahead with a learning pod [0] during the pandemic. They hired a tutor (burned out local teacher really) and it’s been night and day. They are considering doing it again next year. Last I heard, they wanted to structure it as a non-profit so they could at least get a tax break on their contribution to it (really makes no sense to use post-tax dollars for this). At least now, I guess they won’t be double paying for initiatives like this [1] or curriculum where math is considered racist [2].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/article/learning-pods-coronavirus.ht...

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Sa...

[2] https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...
I use a door as a desk at home. With some finishing it looks as good as a solid wooden desk, and its much sturdier and nicer feeling than a plastic desk, while being the same price.
> "Empyreal bears the burden to show by a preponderance of evidence that it has strictly complied with state medical marijuana laws," Holcomb writes.

That’s not how “innocent until proven guilty” works. It’s the government’s job to collect evidence to prove the law was broken. Source: I served as a federal juror in the last six months. During voire dire, one juror said something like “well, yes - the defendant has to prove his innocence.” This got us a lecture from the judge: we must assume they’re innocent, and the prosecution has to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
A similar "framework", very robust and used in production systems, is dry-python's one[0][1].

The approach taken is a bit different I think, since they rely heavily on `mypy` plugins to reach type safety and functional constructs otherwise impossible to get, without runtime inspections.

0: https://github.com/dry-python
1: https://github.com/dry-python/returns
I think the point is that (using your example) you can get a 100K base, 400K stock, and the 175K signon at a different company.

The point is that while Amazon may offer you a higher signon in lieue of equity, at other FAANGs the choice can be both.

FWIW I've seen recently (in the past year or so) non-AMZN FAANG sign-ons well north of $200K (split over 2 years), along with a top-of-line stock package that vests linearly.

Overall, AMZN's backloaded vesting schedule may be "evened out" via the use of generous signing bonuses, but ultimately is still uncompetitive with other FAANGs. More generally AMZN's TC - no matter which way you cut it - tends to trend lower than competing-tier peer companies.
People at least expect that Google scans for malware and scam attempts.
For what role/company? A 200k offer implies SDE 1/2 and a 25k sign-on is probably median for that, even big tech. Of course there is Meta giving insane sign-on but for the most part it's around 25k
If you’ll sign an NDA I can show you TC anticheat and EasyAnticheat.

Tencent anticheat has a hard baked logger that prints out every network call it makes, which believe it or not was intended to create trust.

You can see in the disassembled code that it can’t make outbound calls without that function that prints the payload.

We can’t be open because it’s too risky. We can’t be closed because people think we’re scum.

Why not just make console games? This thread has me depressed.
Never since that’ll mean they’ll have to support the users in some way.
Valve is valued at $10+ billion. They're not big tech in the style of Microsoft, however they are a mega corporation (a very large company). Any company with their scale, revenue and influence is a mega corporation. If Valve had been public in this extreme stock market era, they'd probably have gotten a $30+ billion valuation (Unity at the peak was worth $60 billion).

Gabe Newell is worth $8 billion courtesy of his ownership stake.

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/gabe-newell/
How did the foreign nation state convince reddit to put /r/antiwork in /r/all?
They already do, if you want more than 15GB of storage space.

They make it stupid hard to delete big e-mails quickly, and the interface is super super slow so that you just go "fuck it" and pay the $2/month