skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the intentional friction in Red Dead Redemption 2. When you go through a house to take things, you have to literally see your character pick things up before it can be placed in your inventory. There is no auto-collection in this game.

The result is a slower-paced game where you really feel like some guy in the outdoors cooking skinned rabbits on a stove and picking your way through an abandoned cottage in the countryside.

R* could have easily not designed this friction into the game but it adds to the ambiance. To contrast this would feel very out of place in GTA, which thrives on a frenetic, chaotic experience.
Nissan is ending engine development, except for US-bound vehicles
Yandex Mail has subscription plan for ad-free web interface. Incidentally, it is separate from Yandex Plus subscription (something like Amazon Prime for Yandex services).
"but there are a lot of people out there who are getting into FAANG companies (especially Amazon) at lower compensations with the hopes of moving up to those higher levels."

And there are a lot of us who don't even get into FAANG and can't even dream of $160k, let alone $360k.
I won't speculate on the author's motives for writing that post. I haven't worked at Shopify so I don't know what that environment is like. I have been hired to do A and then found out the work was B. One can interpret that as either deception and disappointment or an opportunity to grow, it depends on the situation. At a fast-moving place like Shopify I would expect an all-hands environment where senior developers are expected to apply themselves where the business needs them.

The whiteboard interviews conducted by "engineers" who need HR to tell them they can't ask where a candidate is from or if they're married is maybe a sincere attempt to discern technical skills. I think it's actually a gatekeeping process to maintain a homogenous workforce. In the US at least it's not hard to let someone go if they aren't performing, so big companies tend to funnel a lot of people in and see how they work out, separating the wheat from the chaff. The tests and whiteboard problems and all that are intended to eliminate people who can't put in the effort and demonstrate their willingness to play along. They're also intended to protect the company from discrimination lawsuits because the employer can point to what looks like an objective and scientific screening process, when we all know that people actually make hiring decisions mainly on personality and appearance.
> It's scary how much this spike protein / immune response / etc seems to provoke adverse cardiovascular responses, even if there is full recovery in most of us.

Honestly I am wondering if this is sampling bias. Have we ever paid this much concentrated attention to a disease? When you consider what a virus does to the body, it seems likely that many other viruses that have been endemic for millennia have been wreaking pernicious havoc on our bodies and we just... shrugged it off.

Anyplace the body heals from a significant physical injury, there is a scar. It's never a perfect restoration. It seems almost intuitive that the damage from a virus would be similar, and there is documented evidence that COVID will attack neurons.
Seems reasonable to me:

https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-cases-coronavir...
You've clearly never listened to JRE if you think he's spreading racism and hate lmao... Man's constantly saying to spread love and all that. He's also not against vaccines.
This decision seems pretty crazy to me, especially on the cell phones where a lot of apps require phone book access to function, and there is generally no way to give a different view to different apps.

I understand that Signal wants to be blame it all on users, but the practical consequence of their design is that the moment people want to talk to a single person on Whatsapp, they give out Signal contact list to Facebook.. and the moment they start using Google's backup, they give out Signal contact list to Google.. and if they ever buy a new phone, they share Signal contact list with whoever wrote migration tool for their data. And there are tons of other random apps which all require contact list access...

From the privacy standpoint, Signal having contact list would be better. At least then, I'd have a single party to worry about, instead of dozens.
I had an awful experience running for the first time after contracting COVID.. Unsure what strain I had but it was recent and I was careful so it's likely the "milder" omicron variant.

At the Gym, 3 weeks after testing positive the first time, I ran for 60s at 11km/h on the treadmill and my heart rate was 180bpm by the end.

For context, a 60s jog at that same speed prior to being afflicted would have resulted in a 130bpm heart rate.

Normally it would take running for 45 minutes to get to 180bpm..

But I got there (and felt awful) in 60s. I had to stop running.
Show HN: Better Breath Using Bacteria?
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The majority of bacteria found in your mouth is actually good bacteria helping your gums and teeth stay healthy and strong. Instead of trying to get rid of all the bacteria, why not add more good bacteria already found in your mouth (just like the gut)? A seemingly simple concept, we couldn’t find any products in the market that worked with your oral ecosystem. So we built it.

We worked with microbiologists, formulators, scientists to create the best possible formula supported by science and backed by research to build a mouthwash using probiotics to help you achieve fresher breath and healthier gums.

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Basically every modern Intel chip has Intel ME (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine) and that core runs Minix (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/intels-secret...)
Hey sorry to be a bummer but you should know Show HN is for demos, not writing
The "strict" definition used here is not strict enough. Presumably it is based on the prose description in the linked Wikipedia page, which omits one crucial fact about the area forecasts: each area is included exactly once, and always in the same order (approximately clockwise starting from 'Viking' in the North East). Culturally speaking, it's an important part of the poetry that groups such as "Forth, Tyne, Dogger, German Bite" always appear in the same order, though the rhythm/groupings can be broken up differently depending on the weather patterns.

I'm still not happy that they renamed Finistere to FitzRoy, and that was 20 years ago now.
SHA-256 is not a permutation; the expected cycle length is ~2^128. It's how collisions are (generically) found.
What if you’d been an engineer at one of these sorts of companies for a while and already banked a mill? Two? Five?
Yeah, as regards weaning, as I touched on in another comment, playing a game with myself about how much less I'd try to use today seems more wearisome than just stopping entirely and dealing with the feels. When I've weaned before I've usually snapped back even harder into frequent use.

I think it's possible that my own best strategy for feeling OK about it all is just to commiserate with other HN users :D so thank you and everyone who is commenting
To me, it shows that whatever agent is pushing signal adoption has seen the writing on the wall and is trying to get ahead before the tide changes and they have to hit some other developers with wrenches.

;)
Since a day's rest and activities must add up to twenty four hours no matter what, any two things are always mutually exclusive.
The US allows both of them......
Why the swipe at Mark Manson? I am un-clued.
On the contrary, they started out with phone numbers so that they could avoid storing user data on their servers.

The whole plan to finally have usernames comes down to their use of Intel SGX.
There's always a convenient excuse for censorship. Who defines "worse horseshit" today? Tomorrow? Show me the information and I'll find an excuse.

A better standard is whether the communication rises to criminal offense or civil matter that caused harm (e.g. voter/election fraud, some sort of willful disregard/negligence). In other words, there's a standard/mechanism for redress already (there's an app for that).

If opinion doesn't violate a law or expose someone to a likely successful civil suit, you should be free to express it. Hard for me to imagine scenarios where this doesn't satisfy requirements. If you're concerned about timeliness, keep in mind that censorship doesn't happen quickly enough to stop the election fraud example you gave, unless you are advocating a 'ministry of information' scenario where conversations need to pre-approval to be aired - I would assume you would not advocate for such a thing, in principle.
In my world it's valuable for the humanity merely by the fact that it's already been invented. The progress has already been made. Other people could improve upon it instead of reinventing the same thing over and over again. Yes, the Chinese will get it for free. But your company is shutting down, it's not going to earn you a cent more either way. You aren't going to incur any additional losses by open-sourcing your product, are you?
I don't think it makes sense to talk about enforcing a smart contract with law enforcement.

You could perhaps have a legal contract that goes along with the smart contract, and which refers to the smart contract, and this legal contract could be enforced through law stuff.

But, I think that's a different idea than the law backing smart contracts.
Individually maybe small (I actually am not sure 1-2x seem like a minimization of the impact but I'd leave it to further reading and discussion to settle that), but in a public health sense it might mean a doubling of cardio treatment resources in a system where growing those resources is not a fast response and could have follow on effects on quality and availability of treatments.
Have you ever made $350k?

The magic wears off fast and it doesn’t go as far as you imagine.
Move to a platform that’s actually focused on music then- I’m happy with tidal and keeping podcasts in the podcast app
That is a general problem in most of the US too. The desirable ~25% of town is mostly unobtainable for people who aren't in the top couple percent of the income structure because so few properties come up for sale in those areas that their inflation rate outpaces wage growth in the area. In growing towns and areas that are generally desirable enough that outsiders move there its probably more than 50% of the city is out of reach for say ~80% of the population for the same reason as above, combined with the fact that people moving from high cost of living areas eat up another few percent. You see this in town after town in the US. The younger local population is forced to live an hour drive+ outside of town because the older generation is sitting on properties that are outside of their price range.

The theory says that once those older folks start to die off their children will inherit the windfall, but I'm not really that sure. Its definitely not true for my parents which for various reasons didn't manage to benefit from the real estate/stock market booms over the past ~50-60 years. I know a couple people like this (they have middle class jobs and live in apartments while their parents have tens of millions), while others are like me because their parents burned up imense amounts of money in their later years with travel/health care/etc.
If a user who hasn't bought a washing machine recently is 0.1% likely to be interested in a washing machine ad, and one who has is 0.2% likely to be interested, then they may be making the right call, even if for most people that second number is 0.0%. A few outliers can really skew those kinds of things.
> Privatizing operations is not privatiying a monopolistic infrastructure.

Indeed, which is precisely what I tried to explain in my parent comment.

> Europe opened up rail services for competition in the 90s, although it took a long time for it to be implemented.

For better or worse, in many countries it's still implemented on paper only. The incumbent state railways have fought long and in many cases successful rearguard actions to delay competition for as long as possible.

> There are different models being used throughout the EU, the UK's franchise-model isn't really used very much. One common model is that a regional public transit agency contracts out operations of different parts of regional rail networks to private (or possibly public) bidders, and it´s pretty transparent to the users -- since the regional transit authority will ensure common branding and ticketing.

Yeah, this is how many municipal or regional authorities tender out bus lines. I think it's also the model the UK railways are moving towards with the introduction of the (cringe) Great British Railways and the end of the franchising system (hastened by the covid crisis):

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/may/19/uk-rail-ove...

> It´s not a very "dangerous" model, since the public maintains control over most aspects of the rail network that matter, it doesn't really privatize gains and socialize losses, it just sort of forces a race to the bottom on the profit margins of rail operators.

OTOH, since essentially everything except the running of the actual trains is controlled by the state, there is precious little space for that purported private sector inventiveness and dynamism to make any impact. So what's the benefit instead of just the state directly owning everything and hiring people to run in?

Union busting?

Answering for my own country, the state railways which runs all passenger rail [1] (except for the capital city regional trains which are run via a tendering process similar to how bus services are run), and the state railways seem supremely uninterested in improving regional rail around other cities than the capital, despite interest from other regional transit authorities. With some "real" competition on the rails, other regional authorities could set up tendering for regional rail as well.

[1] Which comes back to the comment I made above about "on paper only". Yes, in principle other operators can operate on the network, but the state company just got a renewed decade long contract from the government to provide essentially all passenger rail service in the country - who's gonna compete with a heavily subsidized operation like that?
They just have to tell you if a message isn't received after a day or two. This is already exposed via the check marks, so it's just something they have to amplify with a notification.

Or when you start writing a message to somebody, if they haven't read the last couple messages signal could make that obvious. Etc. Lots of easy fixes.
Ask them for a copy of the req before providing your resume.
It’s been flat for about a year and a half
Im sure you can be an unworthy Rust monkey as well.

I have had a lot of fun previously, voicing my contempt for Javascript, the ecosystem that has congealed and actively festers around it, and the people who enjoy the perverse and beguiling practices they indulge in there. "Unworthy Jskirpt monkey" sounds a bit like something i might've said to someone on IRC 20yr ago. While wishing I didn't have to support "webTV" and could use some of the tools they were showing such cool results with.

However. There is a lot of good done there (with Jskirpt), and there's a lot of cool things that, while of arguable value and regrettably unsound foundations, are at least fun and worthy enough because of that.

If you want to write good code, many languages help do that, and some make it easier than others. If you want to write Correct code, there's bondage and discipline and straps and barbed wire systems to subject yourself to. If you want to demonstrate your mental flexibility or variance, there's things like Befunge and COBOL.

It aint the tool, its what you do with it.
Not commenting on the substance of your comment, but seems like they hiked it to 18$/hr?

https://www.reuters.com/business/exclusive-amazon-hikes-star...
Whatsapp can be configured to not save all the cat photos and memes to your library by default. You can still save the really good memes yourself if you want. Signal should just copy that feature.

Also, what good is secure encryption if i have to give out my phone number?
> That's a pretty arbitrary measure though

It is, but I think I would find reasonable getting a mortgage if it does not impose a load on my finance by having it rented.
> The hysteria is not driven by anything China itself has specifically done.

That doesn't seem to be true. Whatever you think about the truth of China's treatment of Uighurs or Tibet, clearly people have strong opinions about what china itself has specifically done. And the government's behavior to its own ostensibly unoppressed citizens seems to me to border on dystopia; that again concerns things that China has or has not done. It feels like a bit of facile stubbornness to claim that no criticism of China is legitimate.
If you do ever figure out how to reverse SHA-256, best keep it a secret until you've sold all your free Bitcoin.
Came here to say the same thing. You could run X with Netscape in 12 Megs of RAM.
I think the histrionic mafia will destroy reasonableness.
I knew about that subreddit but for whatever reason hadn't thought of it recently. Maybe I'll spend some time in conversation over there soon.

Thank you!
What happened to "he did so for unknowingly causing offense by mentioning the so-called 'N-word' in sensible contexts"?
Question: do you use Signal? If yes, are you backing up/syncing your contact list? If yes, are you worried about Feds coming for your backup/sync provider?
> Amazon employees all agree that AWS is a much better place to work in tech than Amazon retail

Nut sure where you're getting this from, but IMO this is not true at all.

More 'hardcore engineering' is going on, on average, over Amazon Retail/CDO. But I would not say _at all_ that AWS is a better place to work.

From the datapoints I've gathered, it's the opposite. Oncall for an AWS product generally sucks balls, and the re:invent death march is a real thing.

But this is just like, my opinion, man.
“Login.gov is already used to access 200 websites run by 28 Federal agencies and over 40 million Americans have accounts,” Wyden wrote in a letter to the IRS today. “Unfortunately, login.gov has not yet reached its full potential, in part because many agencies have flouted the Congressional mandate that they use it, and because successive Administrations have failed to prioritize digital identity. The cost of this inaction has been billions of dollars in fraud, which has in turn fueled a black market for stolen personal data, and enabled companies like ID.me to commercialize what should be a core government service.”

not great!
>Like Jordan Peterson rambling about climate change?

Yeah, Peterson isn't authority on climate change, but does that mean he shouldn't say what he thinks about it? Also I was refering to the supposed antivax episodes. I haven't listened to the Peterson episode. As I said I haven't listened to JRE since it became Spotify exclusive expect for these two episodes.

Sorry you need to help me with the link you provided. I tried skimming it and I just saw that ivermectine showed promise and that due to higher than usual dosage more research is needed.

>Sorry but, by insinuating a smear campaign you are now the one who's spreading bullshit.

Again what bullshit? If we have a drug that shows promise, but as soon as people start talking about it all news agencies start telling how the drug is "a horse dewormer" and implying that only idiots would even consider using "a horse dewormer" on humans when it is literally our best antiparasitic that has been used for decades on humans and animals. Obviously don't take any drugs that are made for animals, but I don't understand why potential treatment was dimissed so hard out of hand at a time when didn't have enough vaccines for everyone in need and we have bunch of Ivermectine in every pharmacy around the world.
Some thoughts; note it's not my intention if some sound mildly antagonistic:

What other examples of "friction" are there in this game besides that some organs in your inventory may eat other organs? That's just a single example but I don't see anything else mentioned.

What's the difference between "friction" and just challenges in a game (or good old plain "difficulty"). I understand many casual click-and-wait games in the last decade essentially autoplay, and there's no way to lose: you just click, and wait (or expedite the wait by making a micropayment), and that's all there is to them. Has this become so much the norm that the concept of a game that can be difficult, or requires skill, or where you can lose, is surprising?

Are UI limitations themselves a sort of friction? That's a concept I can get behind: one of my absolute favorite games is "Papers, Please!", which effectively deploys cumbersome UI as a gameplay element. You are bureaucrat and most of your game area is your desktop, which is tiny, and you must shuffle papers and overlapping game elements in that limited space under stress and with a time limit -- and the experience is great, if frustrating. So if friction is this -- a conscious way to limit the player's interaction with the game, in ways that enhance and add challenge to the gameplay experience -- then I'm ok with the term!
Peter Thiel to Leave Meta Board to Pursue Trump Political Agenda
Bitcoin received early support from high-reputation folks in the cryptography community, including Hal Finney and Nick Szabo. (As a result, some people thought that one or both of them were Nakamoto.)

Regardless of who Nakamoto actually was, it does appear that Finney and Szabo played a similar role that Sokal did in this story; getting support from high-rep folks was essential to getting Bitcoin off the ground.
I had already had covid 2x prior to general vaccine availability. I got totally owned in the short term but was back to working out pretty quick. The second Moderna shot completely wrecked me in a way having covid didn't, I had severe heart palps/skips for weeks. Sitting/standing at my desk and just having one after the other and would lose my breath between them. After that decided boosters could fuck off.
these folks deserve it. the app is amazing. but i'm still super sad, this used to be such an easy recommendation, such a stunning experience. it's mot really possible to see what a good app this is anymore, short of signing up.
I'm sorry but do you need data for common sense? Is WhatsApp one of the biggest messaging platforms where people don't talk to their close friends and family? You think discord or other mediums are more popular than iMessage and WhatsApp?
> we're allowed to waste our money on all sorts of dumb bullshit, but not on something like investing in startups, which at least has a possibility, however remote, of resulting in some sort of return

A lower possibility than the casinos or lotteries, if we're talking retail investment in early stage startup pitches you have no affiliation with. The reluctance of everybody to acknowledge this is the reason the law exist. Most people walk out of casinos having lost some of their money. Most retail investors in random business propositions will never see any of that money again.
I think all sorts of id laws, whether for voting or other purposes, puts a requirement on the government to ensure that everybody has as few obstacles as possible to getting an id.

From what I understand, many states with voter id laws didn't do that, and in some cases only accepted forms of id that poor or black voters were less likely to have.
I think they did not expect this controversy