skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm actually surprised that everyone was receiving daily updates of company revenue.

My company posts daily new user signups in #general on Slack. That's not quite revenue, but you could almost extrapolate
>I worked at Rareware in that same era, similarly ridiculous amounts of SGI hardware in the building.

I've always been fascinated with Rareware. For such a tiny studio, the level of quality in the games they put out during that era is completely unparalleled, and many can justifiably still be held up as the greatest ever made.

What was the secret sauce? What was it like working there? How was the culture?
I get the impression that D has languished because it never placed itself as a language good for application development. In contrast, look where Pascal/Object Pascal (Delphi) went. When Pascal/Object Pascal got nudged out by C/C++ in system and embedded development, despite being and still is a strong alternative, it made itself useful in application development. IDE (Delphi & Lazarus), GUI framework (VCL and LCL), multi-OS apps, etc... It found a place to flourish, and is still being championed by various companies and taught in various school systems.

Where with D, it seems to just be sitting in a corner, waiting to be noticed as a C++ replacement. But, people are not checking for D and hearing little about it. There is a long list of interesting languages, but if people don't see an almost immediate ROI for learning them, they will just sit and collect dust. Even if a language gets a bit of publicity, it still takes luck, timing, or corporate interest to move up the ranks.
+1 for Redirector.

Also useful, for example, if you want to be the one in charge of whether your browser uses the desktop version of Wikipedia rather than the mobile one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org -> https://en.wikipedia.org
Redirect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org(\/.\\*)?
to: https://en.wikipedia.org$1
> What is your definition of End Product here? Eg if we have an app and website under one brand is that two end products or one?

One brand with web + mobile app would be one product. To be more explicit, a software development consultancy with multiple clients would need one license per client.

For updates, you are 100% in control of the data once it is on your S3. This means that it won't change from under you, change pricing, or disappear. This also means you'll have to explicitly copy updates from upstream, and I'm figuring out the right cadence for that (likely ~quarterly)
i'm mostly interested in composed portraits and still subjects. a little time delay is fine with me, and could even be used creatively.
> The foreign-buyer ban won’t apply to students, foreign workers or foreign citizens who are permanent residents of Canada, the person said.

Not sure if HN or OP removed the "some" in the title. It is quite important here, since the average foreigner in Canada is unlikely to be impacted directly.
191k is the average. Click over to https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi... and sort by TC and you can see entries that go as high as 350k and as low as 53k (some sort of internship-like arrangement would be my guess).

Look around at the data points for other levels and various companies and you'll see that the ranges for each level can vary considerably more than a 60k difference between a single data point and the median, even within a single location.
> Perhaps. We already went through this in the 80s with the Japanese, and after the Japanese real estate bubble burst, Vancouver real estate was depressed for almost a decade (I remember the signs for condos starting at $100k in 1997! And no one was blaming the Hong Kongese for that at the time). China is just Japan 2.0 in this regard: after the Chinese property bubble bursts, Vancouver real estate will be heavily effected.

Now this is why I love HN, its to see another fisherman!

I remember the 90s were depressing time for Vancouver. The economy was in complete slump and NDP took the fall for that.

Now the Chinese real estate market is incomplete shambles, people are in complete denial about that the Vancouver real estate market lags behind. Already the bubble has started to burst in Montreal, which I remember were the last to join the party!
And so is CO2...
Got you beat by ... 1 year ;-)

It was a pretty big change when our (already outdated at that time) lab in college scrapped the PDP11-44 and replaced it with 20 Windows 3.0 machines and 10 Macs.

Been using Linux since I picked up a Yggdrasil CD in 1993.

Sorry to hear you can't use WSL ... it's great IMO.
Ask HN: How much money can you make with DeFi and how long will it last?
Should I have fomo, or not really
Like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSAnvHq_aFE
The source is at https://git.j3s.sh/j3s.sh/tree

I had a look since I was also curious and I am none the wiser as I don't see any embedding going on, but maybe I'm missing it.
My 10 cent hypothesis would be social detachment leads to falling birthrates.

It is well known that people don't have the same strong community bonds to those in the same physical space that they used to.

In an environmemt like this sex becomes rarer and riskier as partners are more unknown.

Giving birth and raising children also feels riskier as individuals don't have a community to rely on and absorb the added burden of child rearing.
In the off chance you're open to feedback...

I don't understand why the hiring committee had to be the last step in a months long process. If I'd gotten though the 5 grueling interviews and heard a "no", that would have been fine - these things happen. Instead, my last interview was in Jan and I got bounced by the hiring committee in March. I know that I was naïve, but I thought I must be set. I though the hiring committee was going to look for red flags but other than that, they'd say yes.

Why drag me through all that process and all that stress just to have some faceless committee reject me with no feedback and no explanation? Why not figure out if I'm a good fit before or during the interview process?

At the risk of sounding dramatic, it was cruel. It felt like a romantic relationship where everything is going great and then you get a call that says "Sorry, bye, don't call me again".
This issue is being worked on:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/webassembly-interface-type...
I was considering re installing the game and try to just play less hours, but you are right, it actually feels really rewarding even if it's just 4 months. I'll try to not install it again for more months
The only thing that feels UNIX like is the terminal and even then zsh is different than most are used to and the included bash is essentially ancient. Even basic things like getting to your home folder with Finder is more trouble than it needs to be on a stock modern macOS install. They really go to lengths to hide it. If all that feels *nix-like is the the terminal why bother? WSL can do that too but if I want apt I can use that.

I feel like there's no integration between the macOS UI stuff and the Unix underpinnings.
That's more confirmation bias than survivor bias.
We’re not talking about an alcoholic cutting down to a couple of drinks. So maybe there’s merit in it. From my experience, running cheats gives short term fun but then can ruin the game.
On mobile I use global (OS-level) text abbreviations to auto-convert “sr” to “site:reddit.com”.
Yes, I agree with your point. But I was talking about nastier cases of corruption, for example, in certain latin american countries some low-cost airlines between central and south america got approved for operation, some without even satisfying basic requirements, but god forbid small businesses didn't. After some years, these same airlines filed for bankruptcy or got suspended. The kicker? It was discovered they were never profitable, and have since been suspected to be involved in dropping of foreign illegal workers, coming to their destinations as tourists. The most obvious giveaway apart from the latter is that if a carrier is low-cost, it most definitely should have at least a set of profitable domestic flights, and the ones I mentioned above didn't. One of the politicians suspected to be involved (this started under her presidency) is now sitting at the top of a United Nations office.
Thanks :)

So besides https://kinopio.club (which I work on now), I was the co-creator of glitch.com (it's changed a lot now though, this post captures my work on it https://pketh.org/the-first-four-years-of-glitch.html)

The blog does have https, but I accidentally added the non https url to HN. Not sure if I can change it though
> Well, we can say 'an equivalence' (or adjoint) which would be accurate and still using natural language, no?

No, their maps could be VERY different but be used in roughly the same way and therefore useful in the same way. There is an operator involved -- reading/navigating/interpreting -- which is why I chose "isomorphism" instead of "equivalent".

Also, "isomorphism" IS natural language that is used in many fields outside of mathematics and also has a vernacular sense to it. The word happens to also be used to describe certain formal constructions by mathematicians from time to time, but it is natural language.

Again, this is all very pedantic and silly. I insist on bloogity-blop. If we're going to have silly arguments, let's use silly words :)

> Onto my second point, you don't need an isomorphism, an equivalence works fine if you find that the axioms hold in both cases, no? So now you're not just working with a 'formalism' that has no basis in reality.

Reality isn't constrained by maps.

Useful maps are constrained by reality.

> Otherwise, if reality wasn't constrained by axioms (or even meta axioms) we'd use it to do things we couldn't with our formalisms.

Huh? I can't use reality the way I use maps because I'm not always able to fly into the air and look around before navigating to the supermarket or a trail head.

Reality is not constrained by my inReach. I promise you it's the other way around. And I promise you I can't fly, which means I need maps, even if flying high into the air would make it way easier to find a trail head than following a not-great trail map.

Maps are useful. Very useful. But they DO NOT constrain reality.

A belief to the contrary in the case of mathematics and physics is quite spiritual. Which was kind of my original point :)
College Geometry Project (MAA, 1965-71)
I like and can relate to the first part of this article a lot, but the solution ("Outsmarting the Status Game") just seems to be doing more of the same. Doesn't feel like a real solution. I think the real solution is to drop out of the status game and not play at all. Forget what the others think. I've come to realize that all I really care about is what I think of myself, and what my wife and kids think of me.

Another goal, and the ultimate root of all goals, is Peace of Mind. This is the one and only game to play - status is just a mirage when what the person is really trying to get is Peace of Mind. I think this is the most important thing in life and I try to teach my kids this.
https://archive.is/0Iy1
By the same logic, Hydropower has saved 3 Million lives in the last 50 years. Efficiency and insulation probably saved even more.
Part of why forcing gov employees out is hard is you have to go through hurdles like showing severe measurable underperforming, think lowest-quartile, which can be tricky, onerous, and little reward. That's why I quickly drift more towards killing their incentives, which in turn is effectively controlled by annual congressional budgets and what parts they get.

Then again, when the average US senator is generally disconnected from what's happening, controlling via the budget has its own challenges...
I don't see how you could have a back to nature lifestyle + UBI + anti-work + organic gardening and still have any form of progress. You'd need some kind of magical McGuffin like AGI robots that do all of the work and thinking for us. Even if you did, not everyone wants to live that way. For every barefoot hippy there's going to be a gearhead that wants to race loud cars and a thousand other lifestyles and interests that are mutually exclusive.
Folks here lean Bay Area, but I don't think Canada has the same issue of preventing construction.

For example, in Toronto, you get about 30-40k new housing starts a year in a city of 3M. https://ycharts.com/indicators/toronto_on_housing_starts. >1% / year isn't terrible.

Your statement isn't wrong, but I don't know how much it applies to Canada Real Estate particularly.
Cheers Tom! Great to have the mega support from the RW community too, and we're certainly getting there faster because of it.
Is that surprising after two years of trusting in science that told us to breath through masks? Even environmental activists suddenly disappeared and was silence during covid. So much plastic waste from masks, vaccines, tests, bags for lunches from closed restaurants, etc... And suddenly there are microplasts everywhere.
> Is it possible to have a "healthy" amount of playing? Let's say just a couple of hours in the weekends?

There's a certain online 2d pubg clone, which I won't name, with an average session length of just around 3 minutes (depending on how fast you die, ~10m if you win). Pure skill, no ladder progression. Let me tell you, even after hitting my skill ceiling, I think I would still find it very hard to play "just a few hours on the weekend." When I start playing it, I keep playing it. When I have a free minute, I have an urge to play it. If a game is addicting, it is simply that: addicting. You either play it or you don't. And I will say it again: there's no ladder, no meaningful reward system, no resource grind, just a simple top-down shooter. And it's still hard to just limit my time playing it: after you die, you just click join again. A fresh start. I have gone cold turkey out on it, it was too time consuming.

Not saying it couldn't be possible, though, but I surely have a preference for campaign-oriented games for this reason. When you finish it, you are just done. It takes a continous, possibly long, chunk of time, but at least you know there's an end. And there's more you can experience. There's a many of games beatable in under a 50-hour timeframe, and when you are done, you feel like you have had a meaningful experience, gained fond memories with no regret. There isn't a shit-ton, but there are surely some.

Maybe something like a strategy game against AI could be different, I don't really know. Or, hey, an occasional lan party with friends? The lan-party interaction is much more fun, in my experience, though it rarely happens. And not like you wanna keep playing the game against bots after that.

But I do think the choice of a game makes a big difference.
You do you. But don’t call something inferior or say it can’t do something because you’re too lazy to learn how to use it.
what assumptions? That there may be a market for AI girlfriends?
They've effectivity turned science into a religion by not allowing people to question anything.
> but it represents some amount of lock-in (though, less than typical since the everything is mostly plain markdown)

This is an important point. Retype has been developed with the explicit goal of preventing lock-in. For better or worse, I'm not sure, but the point of the app is that you are not locked-in by design. You 100% control the original source of all your data and that data is being stored in the absolute simplest of forms being just static text files. Your data is not squirrelled away in a proprietary app, or sass service, or spread across tables in some database. Sure, you (or whomever) might be skilled enough to extract that data back out of the database, but that scenario is certainly the exception, and certainly will never ever be as simple as just plain text files stored in a folder.

In the future, you might decide Retype is not for you, or a better system comes around, no problem. You control ALL the data. Just switch to a different generator. There's no exporting data out of some system and hoping you fetch everything, assuming you can even get the data cleanly out of a system.

Even gitbook is not that clean. You can mostly export your content out of gitbook, but that does include everything. They give your content back, although that is not enough to recreate the site with configuration.

Yes, there are a handful of Retype specific Markdown components that enable convenient UI components such as Tabs, Panels, and Buttons, but... those exist in all static site generators and Retype has by far implemented the cleanest syntax solution. That solution, by design, is also the easiest to port away from. Maybe the system you move to in the future does not support the exact same syntax, but it will be trivial to port from the Retype syntax to another.

For instance, compare the Retype Tab component syntax (https://retype.com/components/tab/) to docusaurus (https://docusaurus.io/docs/markdown-features/tabs), which is actually relatively clean compared to the mess that gets exported from gitbook. BTW, Retype 100% supports the block of Tab code exported by gitbook, so your site will "just work" without being required to do any cleanup of their exported syntax.

I would love to add many more components to Retype. It would be trivial to do, but I explicitly do not because I want to try and avoid vendor lock-in. If a better system comes around in the future, even I want to be able to port my project as easily as possible.
That's really similar to what I do, but I believe that you might be tracking a bit more than I am, on a more granualar level, which is good. I might do some changed based on my process based on what you are doing.
It was explored but decided against, at least for now https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18653
That's the funny thing, since high school I was never really into video games at all.

It was just this particular game that I tried because it was recommended by some friends and it got me hooked. I'm not interested in trying other games now to be honest.
> Now the Chinese real estate market is incomplete shambles

Chinese real estate prices are still pretty high. The government keeps things from bursting by controlling the real estate agents and their companies (owned mostly by red families, they just taper off on sales volume instead of letting prices fall). We will see how long they can keep juggling that. Which is why rich Chinese like to invest in western property markets in the first place: there is more liquidity in Vancouver and Toronto vs. Shanghai or Beijing.

BTW, I'm not from Vancouver, I just visited a lot in the 90s (when I was going to school in Seattle).
One thing that always bugged me about the trolley problem is that it omits the question: “Why are all these people tied to the tracks? Who is responsible for tying them? Why am I responsible for pulling the lever, but not the criminal for tying the people? Or even the police for failing to stop the criminal?”

This is the same sense that I get when I see people promoting nuclear as live saving technology. It is not on nuclear plants to save people from pollution, it is on the coal industry to stop polluting.
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I'm good thanks - I don't take medical advise (free or not) from people who call me nasty names online
bayart (and most people ITT) are talking about le monde diplomatique, not le monde
Nevertheless, one does not get hired to sit there, they are hired to do a work. If a job’s output is totally unmeasurable/unobservable you probably shouldn’t have hired a person to produce that output.
https:///www.m-guerville.com

It's my bio landing page for career, networking, and speaking engagements, and I host the presentations from my talks on the site as a way to retain audiences
No you should not have FOMO. Move on, nothing more to see here folks.
I just finally gave away a 17" Trinitron SGI monitor when cleaning my office.

That thing was a tank! I bought it at a CG house bankruptcy sale in the 90s for $2k, which was less than half the going price at the time.

But you're right, it weighed a ton. It did need periodic degaussing. And when a communication company half a mile away put in some satellite uplinks, I could see when there was heavy communication traffic by a slight color shift on one side.
> or may disappear entirely is due to the lock-in and vanishing of previous tools I've used.

Another important point. Retype is distributed via NPM and NuGet (.NET) package managers. Once a release is published, we can't walk it back or remove it from the internet. There's also no gate-keeping with Retype or gate-keeping of content. You control the content, generation, and hosting. Retype cannot in any way disable or remove your website. Again, for better or worse, I'm not sure, but you are autonomous and anonymous to Retype, and at least the app, cannot disappear.

> I may give it a go on one project, but I can't see myself committing completely.

That would be most excellent. I would greatly value your feedback.

Hope this helps.

Sorry for the wall of text.
Thanks, will take a look at it!
Something doesn't add up:

"
...attempted to reproduce the 74 results. Statistically significant evidence for repeatability was found for 43 papers, meaning that the results were replicable under identical conditions; and significant evidence for reproducibility or robustness was found in 22 papers, meaning the results were replicable by different scientists under similar conditions. In two cases, the automation made serendipitous discoveries.

While only 22 out of 74 papers were found to be reproducible in this experiment,... "

Shouldn't that be 9 were NOT reproducible since 65 we're reproducible?

Or does "results were replicable" mean something other than reproducible?
I work in a way similar to the author, treating my micro commits like a videogame quick save. But many videogames separate "quick save" and "real save" in the UI and so do I.

I have a local branch, usually just called "wip" for work-in-progress and commit to it frequently. Then when I want to push to origin I pull all the contents from that branch into my "real branch" and commit it as one commit. Then delete the wip branch and repeat.

If I'm working on multiple tasks at once as my distracted brain loves to do, I'll have several wip branches. wip-new-hook-events, wip-update-sdk-version, wip-refactor-button-state. Sometimes the branches conflict with eachother, but dealing with that is worth being able to drop a task for a few days while I'm stumped or blocked. I also don't tend to micro commit when tests pass, just whenever I feel a smaller idea is either done, or I don't know how to progress yet.