skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wounded pride and a ton of money for a small company like that. They got enough money to comfortably run the company for at least a couple years if not the entire time since launch until now. The wikipedia page sticks it right along-side other highly successful AAA launches around the same time because it was that "successful" despite being an absolute mess of a game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man%27s_Sky#Sales
I've been wondering why we have such different reactions to free to play games and free software. I know gaming has different value proposition, but free software and services share a lot of similarities. It's not just feeding the creators. There are tricks and "addictions" too. Do you like the free version but want to scale up, remove that restrictive license, or unlock new features? No problem, just pay up a bit. It's no big deal; look at our landing page where you can see other players - I'm sorry, other businesses - who happily have done that. Some even do cosmetics too (we'll show your logo and remove ours in the UI facing your customers).

Is it dishonest? I don't know. But the tactics are similar.
Which poses another question I was wondering, if netflix had acquired this, would it have still won? They've been famously treated as a bit less "prestigious" than legacy competitors.

Or does Apple get extra goodwill from the logo almost assuredly in many of the pockets and homes of people in the industry?
> now it feels like I'm being manipulated to give money to somebody who owns rocket league.

Epic Games. Why are we surprised by this when they saw a cash cow when they bought it, and have done nothing but turn it into another Fortnite?

I think this type of game needs its own genre. Fortnite, RL, GTA Online, Warzone... They all follow the same model of "build a good multiplayer experience and "support it" perpetually by squeezing as much revenue as you can from your users".

I was a huge RL fan in 2015/16. It started going down hill sometime after that and EG has run it into the ground.
Do you think that the journalistic outfits did this passive aggressively to harm the government narrative on purpose?
I get the feeling people here think that the Apple Film/TV crew is somehow related to the actual Cupertino company we know as "Apple". Not really. Not to pretend I'm in the know, but it's clear from every press release that Apple (and Netflix) hire creatives and production executives in LA. Apple provides the budget and some direction (like, put a sexy iphone into every episode of Ted Lasso), and then the Hollywood pros make the creative decisions that actually result in an awesome or mediocre production.

So maybe Apple is spending more money on better talent. Or maybe they're just funneling it better (big productions like Foundations instead of a bunch of cooking shows).
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks. I'm a chemist trying to turn physicist and the childish enthusiasm of little Oliver (he's around 11--13 in the book) for “the lovingly detailed, naturalistic, descriptive chemistry of the nineteenth century” makes me feel less remorseful about my choice.
> The lamps inactivated more than 98% of the airborne microbes in just five minutes.

If they only need five minutes, I guess that could mean that they don't need to be on all the time, but turned on intermittently based on room occupancy and ventilation levels.
Make sure you use the API if you want to query my search engine programmatically, as I do use some bot mitigation strategies for the web interface. If you want to use the API for more than just one-off queries, you can also send me an email and get a key so you get your own rate limit.

https://api.marginalia.nu/
Do you mean jobserver client or sever? As for "ninja with jobserver client" there's already https://github.com/Kitware/ninja
Unfortunately the law doesn't align with that view. USPS is not being funded by government, but by postage. Unfortunately, the volume of mail has dropped by about 50% in the last two decades.

And since USPS can't cut unprofitable routes and can't raise postage prices above inflation, again because of legislation, there are only few options left.

Unless the Congress decides to directly fund USPS, or let them raise more money, the cost cutting is the only way forward.
For most of us, passwords suck. There are lots of different rants on the Internet about the insecurity or lack of usability or cost to support passwords.

You can keep using them if you like.
They're still working on the consumer product from what I know.
I know a company (don't ask) that only uses AWS, yet for unspecified "security" reasons (all theatre) and to avoid vendor lock-in, they've built their own terrible implementations of services provided by AWS. Don't get me wrong, if you've got some good infra/sec people who can deploy and properly manage Vault, an entire observability stack, KOPS Kubernetes etc, good luck to you. But these guys didn't really have the chops to do this properly, nor did they hire sufficient people support and maintain each ball of crap when they moved onto the hobby-build. And they lazily avoided documenting anything, pretending that this was intentional ("documentation is code", except their codebases are sprawling spaghetti with very few useful markdown downs or comments). There aren't even any strict naming conventions. So basically it's incredibly difficult, complex, manual and scary to deploy a new data center, or indeed, even modify the existing ones. There are maybe 3 people in the whole company who gatekeep security access and change. I genuinely wonder if they had a race with the guys at Plain, who'd get their stack off AWS the quickest? My guess: Plain would win.

Sorry, I needed to vent :( But my point is, sometimes it's easier to avoid building the things that your team doesn't know how to build. And maybe you can't hire the right people to build it for you. If they're all comfortable with their severless stack, they're far better off than the other company I'm talking about.

Oh god is it Monday morning again?
>> context switching between user and kernel space.

The amount of context-switching can be reduced these days by devoting cores to tasks/processes instead of tasks on a single core.

Its not a free ride however as you pay with cache efficiency. For some systems, however I think it would pay off, the efficiency would increase with the number of cores until you get to 1 core per userspace task. At that point, its just IPC cost.
three simple things:

- Skype has a full screen button for screen sharing, Teams always takes up some space with their little frames at the sides. Annoying as hell

- Skype has a 'actual size' button. So even if someone shares a bigger screen, you can still read it. On some versions of Teams you can cheat a bit, by holding control and scrolling your mouse wheel. But that is more a side effect of their electron framework than something intentional. Especially non-power users will never discover this

- Skype had way more flexibility in configuring simultaneous call (someone calls your skype but you want your mobile phone to ring when AFK). This is a huge deal to me.

And those are three simple features that greatly impact my quality of life with the product. A non-functional feature would also be the sluggishness. A skype chat window is quick, responsive, instant. Teams always hangs around half a second when switching between chat windows. And on lower performance pc's switching to a chat takes more than a second.
what's the consensus on Orange? I tried it one as it was offered to install from Anaconda and found it quite comfortable to test things out, but I rarely hear anyone else talking about it.
Pointing to CVE lists is misleading. Not all programs have enough eyes on them to even get CVEs, and many programs don't file CVEs for security fixes. Bubblewrap has shared more than one CVE in this list but it was never reported for that.
> Graeber did not claim to be the first debunking the myth of barter.

I didn't say Graber claimed that. I was refuting the common defence of the book and emphasising that it was already a mainstream view.

> However, what does it even matter, when the zombie keeps walking to this day?

> But it is a symptom, a glaring illustration that economists are really bad at arguing from how real people actually act

How much does the historical origin of money matter to the understanding economics of today?

Economists aren't particularly interested in the origin of money. Any references to barter are usually in fluffy lines like this article or as dumb thought experimens. The fact that some of them get it wrong is not indicative of anything.

> cheerfully embrace just-so stories that support their preferred ideas

Which is rife across the humanities and not exclusive to economics. Hell, Graber's entire book is full of just that.

If you look at popular books or even school text books, they will cheerfully claim that seasons are caused by the change in distance between the earth and the sun. That doesn't mean people working on climate models don't know that's not the case.

And Varoufakis is <insert polite term for crackpot>, not exactly representative of mainstream economics.
No, in most games I know what I'm getting so there's no randomness. I buy a chest of 1000 gems in order to buy X in game. How is that gambling? Sure, some games force the randomness on me through chests with unknown content but that's not what I'm paying for.
A very common theme is the utter discard of any "growth mindset". And students are increasingly not only ranked within the same class, but thereon the classes themselves are ranked - where the best instructors are assigned to the best classes -> students. The ultimate incentive here for the school is to land 5-10 very smart students that will "top" the national exams bringing pride and most importantly, a lot of applications to the institution.

YMMV as the thread states, but it is undeniably a feature of these schools.
So what's the problem? Everybody is getting what they want.
My favorite book on this, the history of money in modern times, and the growing use of debt to create an economy, is covered by the French historian Fernand Braudel, in his book, The Wheels Of Commerce:

https://www.amazon.com/Wheels-Commerce-Civilization-Capitali...
The Phoenix Project is a fiction novel about an IT department for a large car company that experiences management dysfunction and battles frequent technical debt, but ultimately overcomes it by adopting the best practices of DevOps.

I first read its non-fiction companion book, the DevOps Handbook, which got me drinking the Kool-Aid, but this is also a wonderful, breezy read (no small feat for such a technical topic) that is an even more gentle introduction.

Not only did these two books make me come to appreciate DevOps, they also taught me about Kaizen and Toyota Production Model, which DevOps began as a software translation of. Subsequently, I have also applied these principles to the field of screenwriting.
I'm not sure the author is aware that a paragraph can in fact contain _more_ than one sentence.

First paragraph is a 135 word sentence. Two of the other paragraphs are a single meandering sentence. Questions are the only break in the exception.

Come on.
> I am surprised that Algorithms to Live By has not been mentioned

That's just because the solution space is (fortunately) still rich... But

Brian Christian; Tom Griffiths - Algorithms to Live By - The Computer Science of Human Decisions

is an unmissable work in Computer Science and *Economics*. Surely some of us have been drawn to Economics, as then patently a "Science of optimization", after having read this jewel (and after the further focus on the theory of optimization that CS gained with the boom on function automation, e.g. ANNs. Even this is part of the book, e.g. the paragraphs on "simulated annealing"). Tom Griffith (Princeton, dept. of Psychology) also gave a "TED talk" - a tiny fraction of the book, but a good appetizer for some.

By the way: I just found Tom Griffith also published a

Griffiths, T. L., Lieder, F., & Goodman, N. D. (2015). Rational use of cognitive resources: Levels of analysis between the computational and the algorithmic. Topics in Cognitive Science, 7, 217-229

...given his masterpiece divulgational book, this article could be another gem...
"this era"? It's still happening today!
Subjectively – it's a much more sane environment for programmers than point-and-click UI. If you want parametric design (and you probably do want it unless you're building simple one-off designs), with GUI CAD tools you need to deal with complex constraint systems, and either expensive subscriptions or quirky GUI (or both).

With code, you just deal with... code, aka math. Parametricity comes essentially built-in, the way variables and functions are built-in to a programming language. Plus all the standard things we take for granted in coding – straightforward component and logic reuse, versioning, etc.

This domain is very complex, and really good code-cad tools don't exist (CadQuery is the most decent IMO, but it's far from perfect), so it's nice to see more attempts at solving this problem.
>> maybe your family did effectively use positive discipline, or you were an only child, or you were the "good" one in your family.

You omit the many sadly common cases for legitimate rebellion and escape, such as sexual abuse from stepparents or foster parents. Those unfortunately can't be remedied with "positive discipline" and they don't make a child the "bad" one.
I think he is saying that each developer have their own environment with full production like architecture. There are benefits to having each developer running in their own sandbox, with full freedom to deploy breaking changes at any time. Besides storage, costs are usually 100% variable based on use. Each developer may not have a full replica of production data, as with TBs of data, storage cost might get expensive. Many serverless designs are impervious to the size of dataset, with sharding and auto-scaling, so the performance and scalability risks of running a subset of production data during development are typically minimal.
1 free year, damn I'm only getting 3 months free nags and they want me to buy an Apple product to get it.
> If "7 full production instance cost $150" then your application is tiny and you don't need 15 AWS services.

Did you miss that this is oriented around serverless? It doesn’t mean their application is tiny, it just means they can scale down a long way. Which, given that they are using serverless, is unsurprising.

Sure, if you are talking about dedicated EC2 instances or something, then a $150 “production” instance is tiny. But that’s not the situation here. $150 for developer load on serverless doesn’t correspond to $150 for a full production service.
I still use the original CUA Ctrl-Ins / Shift-Ins / Shift-Del for Copy / Paste / Cut at least as often as the newfangled Macintosh-copied Ctrl-C/V/X. They still work in (most?) Windows apps even if they aren't advertised as shortcuts in the Edit menu.
Again, seeing what will be broken is the baseline expectation. My comment is not about that. It’s about breaking changes, having to resolve them, facing incompatible versions (language, libs, tooling).

You telling me you broke my code in advance doesn’t make it OK.
The only keys users can be somewhat trusted to not screw up with are physical hardware keys. Even there, there’s tons of caveats and user awareness needed.

I like how modern hardware wallets have a little display to show up what is getting signed. Wish something like that existed for Yubikeys.
These are quite different in spirit to the kind of schools that OP posted. Parents aren't sending their kids to the coaching centres to straighten them out. They all want their kids to do well in studies, and unfortunately, this is all they care about. In some sense, these schools are like boarding schools; some kids shine, some get traumatised for life.
Do you mean tweets/second? Is this not publicly identifiable through the API?
Solution: dont run antivirus on workstation, or at the very least exclude your dev folders from scanning. Alot of your ”compile time” is antivirus eating cpu on compile artifacts.
I watched The Foundation series from Apple and it was lame. Ultimately disappointing.
First problem is that proper (incl. X11...) isolation costs you 3D (so not great for Firefox). Otherwise there is "toolbox" by Fedora, which you could surely combine with Xephyr for a wine-like, more isolated experience. I do that with a shell-only workflow (though on my HiDPI-machines I still have to patch Xephyr to scale the output (which is pretty easy using its GL-backend tbh, but I need to refine my amateur C dabblings to release that).

EDIT: I'm happy to discuss how to use Wayland with proper isolation and 3D! (and some frame-decoration)
By not meeting requirements.

If you incur debts to your body, you'll pay for them in the future.

If we squander intergenerational assets, our children will pay.
This is very important to note. Apple Studios didn't develop the movie. Apple was just good at selecting a potentially well-performing candidate for their streaming service and for winning awards at different competitions. They did heavily promote the movie though. Who knows, without Apple's support and promotion, CODA may not have gotten to this point
Highly parametric and repetitive things like screws, gears, sprockets, etc. and also data-driven/generative art. Much more niche than normal CAD.
You are comfortable with managing teams possibly because you've made that zone comfortable for yourself. Would it be fair to say you'd be just as anxious if you had to manage a completely new team with people you don't know?

A few things I can share, with the usual disclaimer that this is how I've worked through the anxiety. Yes you are going to an interview, but interviews are a two way conversation - you are going there to find out whether Meta is a fit for you. It's not just the other way around.

Remember that these are humans talking to you, who have empathy. They will respond well to honesty. If you think you have come up with a laughable solution, it's a simple matter of saying that this is what you'd do, unsure of what the best solution is, and you can ask them back how _they_ would solve it. They can answer and move on to the next topic.
This goes along with my own observation that when someone you just met says "I'm a really fucked up person," you should believe them no matter how attractive they are.
Billions doesn't sound right, are there any expenses other than salaries?
I found a few versions which are hosted elsewhere:

2017 https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/parrot/misc/openbooks/progr...

2018 http://ebook.pldworld.com/_eBook/Reverse%20Engineering%20for...

In addition, some foreign languages still seem to be available:

French https://beginners.re/RE4B-FR.pdf

German https://beginners.re/RE4B-DE.pdf

Italian https://beginners.re/RE4B-IT.pdf

Japanese https://beginners.re/RE4B-JA.pdf

Polish https://beginners.re/RE4B-PL.pdf
Two of these fake accounts tried to connect with me over LinkedIn, using two very eerily similar but distinct profile pictures (one was white, one was more Hispanic). I knew it was odd at first glance. Then I sat on it and realized a few things:

1. The names are very generic or downright odd. Not to reveal too much detail, but one of them had an Irish last name (e.g. O’Connell) but without the apostrophe. The first name was very uncommon.

2. The second person had a common, generic Hispanic name. What stood out was the fact that they were a contract employee at my company since 2018, in a role that converts contractors to full time usually 6-12 months in.

3. The faces were very centered, without imperfections, and things like the nose and teeth were 90-95% matching, but slightly and convincingly tweaked from photo to photo. The teeth were almost an exact match, and it was only obvious when putting them side to side.

4. Their work history gleams, often capped at 3 past jobs and a generic but known university degree.

5. The accounts routinely posted links to NYTimes, BBC, and Wired articles at least 2-3 times a week, often repeating the same articles week to week.

6. From every example I’ve seen, usually the fake account is a woman.

I’m not convinced by the article’s point that it’s for sales/digital telemarketing. It may be state-sponsored/influenced, but the only thing I could think that they could gain was broad access to people’s lists of connections and build a web on professionals at top companies. People accept requests on LinkedIn today like people did back in the early days of Facebook (now people seem to be more guarded, usually only allowing friends and family into their profile). For the professional world, you have to succumb that that one random person at your company (or even coworker) is going to blindly accept the request and give them access to a trove of data.
It is like Hacker News articles. Sometimes an article will have an upvote or two and few comments and sink from news, and then it gets reposted a couple of years later and there's hundreds of votes and tons of discussions.
Is that rural areas?

My parents live in a rural-ish town, and have FTTH. The connection from the distribution box up the road is made on an ad-hoc basis. The technician pulls the fiber on the posts used for electricity delivery. It's only been available for less than two years, though.

Sure, if you have no posts and have to dig up the sidewalk or something, it would be different.

But the major advantage of this approach is that distribution boxes are passive, just connectors, so they should be pretty cheap to install and operate.
Show HN: Extract the ppt in the video and export pdf
If The video content is included ppt, then this tool can extract the ppt from the video and export a pdf file. Or you can just transform video to pdf -,-.
Lot of great comments here, pointing that to really understand something, you need to invest in understanding the context. A moment that drove this home for me was hearing “I’m Waiting For The Day” for the first time, nodding along to some cliched lyrics with sentimental swelling strings, and then BAM you get hit with the change up. Suddenly there’s a maudlin, jangling arrangement over syncopated rhythm that staggers into Brian Wilson baring his teeth, all gloating and possessive, with direct physical imagery replacing the dewy euphemisms the song starts with. It’s physical, but there’s nothing romantic about it. Then you’re back in the gentle strings, with Brian Wilson whispering sweet reassurances and you can never hear this song, or perhaps any of the top 40 songs of the time it imitates in the same way again. It’s the kind of song that could change your world if you were a teenager in the 60s, or now.
Crime scene investigators learn to dowse for the dead
hmmm actually I think parent does have a point seeing that we are seeing more weaponization of platforms the past few years. Say you have a specific view of reality that differs politically or labelled to be reflecting "propaganda" of specific states, interest groups, political spectrum.

Then yeah AWS or any US stock exchange listed, centralized cloud host would be deemed a platform risk but for majority of us it is not an issue.

Nevertheless I am cognizant of the political risks translating into various platform/financial issues for such groups but it's always been this way when new mediums of information exchange are introduced. Perhaps a short time during the early days of the internet such idea was a reality but we've gone far past that, regulators and political interests have caught on and it would take a very robust , decentralized and scalable mesh network to pull it off successfully.
Similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30819368