skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be a lot of work creating an isolated dev/test environment if you already have a large app that communicate with a lot of services. But if you can that is preferable as the test will create strange artifacts - but those systems is probably someone elses job to make sure they dont get corrupted ;)
This an interesting question. Skimming the list it seems that - at least - it is not based solely on popularity (like the Alexa 1 million list for example).

I see lots of websites for small German towns, which should only have a couple of visitors per week.

Of the blogs and personal websites I read - some popular, some less so - only paulgraham.com is there.

I suspect the list is biased to official and very old domains.
or to mine crypto coins
Is there a list issued by eff.org, nist or a similar organization, that is maintained and updated?
>I do find it unacceptable that an OS needs 3rd party customization expose options to make the interface usable.

GNOME sweating nervously.
Both of the sibling comments describe quadratic Bezier curves (used often in font rendering because TrueType only supports quadratic), while graphics APIs and CFF font outlines often mandate support for cubic Beziers. Cubics are a lot more challenging to build a closed-form solution for, and also have things like self-intersection which makes it a lot more challenging.

Most production renderers, sometimes even ones on the CPU, approximate cubic Bezier curves with a number of quadratic Bezier curves. This is a preprocessing step which needs to be done on the CPU. While it it could be done on the GPU, doing it in the pixel shader would be really wasteful.
This is basically the dumbest possible take, bordering on Kremlin propaganda. Russia has failed to take even a single major city in Ukraine, after nearly all Western analysts expected them to take Kyiv within 2-3 days. The delays and losses Ukraine has inflicted on Russia have been historic, to the point where they have permanently reduced Russia's ability to wage foreign wars. Ukraine is currently launching attacks on strategic targets within Russian territory without sustaining ANY losses. Russia is absolutely getting their ass kicked, to the point where it brings into question any Russian defensive credibility, including the idea that they still have functional nuclear weapons.
[Royal Institution] 15 Minutes of Relaxing Science ASMR
Telling people to apt-get or brew install python isn’t good advice. It’s best to use something like pyenv so an upgrade doesn’t get rid of the version of python you were relying on.
I think most of the answers will boil down to some version of this. Be not quite technically homeless (or in some cases, actually homeless).

Weird stories of people living in Boats, Converted Box trucks[0], and sharing houses with 9 other programmers.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-tru...
It is, the plugin in question just let's them setup (using UI?) easily but it's most certainly a thing on its own.
What jumps out at me after reading this notice is how it completely lacks any apology. I am not prescribing what it should say but merely observing that having lived in North America for sometime now, it seems hard for me to imagine for such a notice to not sound profusely apologetic here.

Note: I do not consider words like 'unfortunately' and 'extremely unpleasant' apologetic.
Also, I understand there are cultural differences between the Netherlands and the USA- no joke.
As someone who didn't grow up with the original Doom, I frankly think it looks like an incomprehensible jumble. That's not a knock against the artists - I think the technological limitations simply made a readable 3D game impossible. I'm not saying this is any better, but I think your impression is being colored more by your gameplay experience and nostalgia than by how the game actually looks.
Indeed pretty standard, even in non-government it would be 40 hours but all other terms the same and most likely a company car + private use of it instead of the train.

And I'm also sure they have a significant on-call setup of the IT teams for any out of office hours issues, just like every other large 24x7 kind of organization.
Someone is going to come and make the point that if you want to get a job at "Booble" then you gotta put in the hard work to get it because there's a million other people that want that job ;)

It's not black and white. I do think that as a tech lead you need to be able to demonstrate some technical skill in your day to day. You should be a pretty good coder. You should be a pretty good debugger. You don't need to be a competitive programmer which is what some coding problems are modeled after. You do need to know enough of your CS to recognize a pattern where there's theory that matters. You do need to be able to look up the relevant info/papers in that case and be able to understand them.

There's also a plethora of other things you need to do as a lead that related to the engineering side of things. design and architecture. testing. CI/CD. requirement management. project management. people skills.

Sort of reminds me of the joke where you take your car to the repair person because the engine is making noise. The guy listens to hit and hits a spot very hard with a hammer and the engine is running again. No noise. The bill says $100. So you ask him $100 for hitting a spot with a hammer? He's like $1 for hitting the spot with the hammer, $99 for knowing what spot to hit. Coding some dynamic programming algorithm on the fly in an interview is hitting the spot with a hammer really hard. Knowing what spot to hit is most of the what you care about in a good software engineer.
For software developers working for a corporate: Use your corp laptop and phone only for corp work. Don't do any personal stuff on it, including browsing the general web.

Just this alone reduces the risks significantly.
Could you offer any practical specific tips for going dark as thoroughly as you describe, or guides that you especially recommend? Honestly curious. It's not difficult to find advice for digital privacy online, but finding advice that's genuinely good and useful can be trickier.
The problem is that democracy is the tyranny of the majority on the minority.

I think we need to move to a more decentralised society where power is spread across the population and it sits as close as possible to the individual affected by the rules, the ultimate form being personal responsibility.
It's more level than literally everything else that pays comparatively. At least the single mom in Philly won't have the fact that she didn't go to Stanford completely invalidate her as a potential candidate when it comes to modern leetcode interviewing.
I'd give blitz.js a try, recently top on HN
Some points that are more or less pedantic nitpicking, but I think are worth calling out because they illustrate the kind of trouble that technological determinism can run into:

> The longbow ended knights

This is not the case. Sounds like something that comes from a pop account of crecy or agincourt? Gunpowder is closer to the mark, but funnily enough armor kept getting heavier longer than many realize. The full plate harnesses that people generally picture when they think of a “knight in shining armor” are really Renaissance/early modern, well after the Middle Ages.

> Gunpowder ended archery

Again, ehh… sure, guns eventually obsoleted archery, but it’s more important that gunpowder ended a social system based on local military elites and enabled a period of rapid state consolidation.

> The Mongols too had a technology that completely altered warfare and gave them a huge advantage: the humble stirrup

Even the article doesn’t really bear this out. The stirrup was far from new, and even before the stirrup both shock and skirmish cavalry got along fine without. Stirrups are cool, no doubt, but far from a secret to the mongols success. Kind of like saying the Polynesians were great sailors because of their boat designs. Like, it helps, but it also really helps to have a culture oriented around sailing.

So again, this is really nitpicking, not arguing against your main point. But I think it’s worth pointing out how Jared Diamond-style stories can sound really sensible, but once you get into the details things often turn out to be much more complex and interesting.
heh. congestion control. Which algorithm for "happiness control"? CUBIC? Reno?
"Drive and fly well, pray you don't crash" seems to be the how you keep it safe.

Wasn't there a ban on making new nukes at the time? What did the US do with the uranium?
You’ve just outlined a lot of reasons why we don’t:

1) Filesharing went from “harmless, only a few geeks do it” to “theft on a level that will put ‘us’ out of business”

1a) Media companies and device makers merged which means that device makers are now beholden to the copyright regime. Previously they argued “we just make tools, we can’t be responsible for how people use them” but we’ve lost those allies.

2) Openly sharing folders by default was great when everyone knew what they were doing, but the public now recognizes that there are real consequences when people don’t know what they are doing. From being “exposed as an imposer” (harmless and common imposter syndrome) to all manner of life/death consequences. It’s a whole different landscape.

3) No protocol is secure forever. Having all devices communicate with each other means that it’s only a matter of (usually a short) time before people can view other people’s personal information, and that leads right to point 2.

4) Similar to point 1, service providers have deals with device manufacturers and those providers don’t want people to be able to bypass them. They even write terms of service that say you’re not allowed to share with your neighbours so that even in the densest cities they can charge all 500 households that are within wifi range of each other though that creates a worse experience as the signals clobber each other.
I think it's more likely that they didn't have any password at all :)
> without publicly denouncing the team's previous work.

But I don't see a problem with denouncing bad things that companies have done in the past. If a company caused lots of problems, then it should deserve the condemnation for the bad things that it caused.

It deserves the condemnation because it caused bad things to happen.
But that's not nearly clickbait enough
At the very least SoftBank money is a good indicator of something fishy.

If get an answer so, let me know. A friend of could use some SoftBank millions as well!
Russia took back the nuclear weapons in Kazakhstan around the same time.
> I'm sympathetic to website operators who want to support their free sites using ads, but these ads are often malicious, leading to installers for malware like the one described in this post.

Agreed
This car apparently doesn't have the separate temperature per area. So the button should just do nothing.
"Great Resignation" = after some soul searching during the lockdown, I realized I want to the other things with my life.

There are still people on the fence, so this will continue 1-2 more years.
To have only one version of the control unit, saves money on logistics.
Ask HN: Any modern smartphone battery being as removable battery?
As we all know that it's been an ill economic market exercising for 3 years or so, that almost all mobile phone products are ill-fated to be non-removable battery.

Anyone knowledgeable that there some brand & type which still featuring removable battery for nowadays modern Android smartphone (Android 9-now)?
But why specifically in Bucha? Is this about Russians being obliged to retreat, and committing atrocities on the way out? Or is this going on in other places Russians still hold, and we only found it about it in Bucha, specifically, because they are out? Can we expect similar revelations in each place they are forced out of?
I assume it's for pre-populating the address bar suggestions. Even on a fresh browser with no history, users probably want 'nyti' to complete to 'nytimes.com', for example.
Ehh.... Audi's functions on demand does explicitly say that "the hardware for the functions that can be activated subsequently is installed in all vehicles at the factory" to reduce production costs [1], and the e-tron is one of the vehicles they're pushing this hard in.

According to the reddit poster, the Denmark e-tron doesn't come with multizone climate standard, unlike most of Europe. And the function on demand store doesn't appear to have rolled out to Denmark yet, and climate zones doesn't appear to be one of the functions you can buy elsewhere (because it's standard outside of Denmark?) So it is literally true that it's not a post-sale option/paywall right now.

But I strongly suspect that whatever hardware is needed is actually there and that this specific car will get the option to purchase the usage of it in the future once the store is rolled out to Denmark.

[1] https://www.audi.com/en/company/sustainability/core-topics/p...
The percentage of young people who needed to be hospitalised for covid is still very small.

A lot of the symptoms of long covid seems to be fatigue / depression related.

The climate crisis is the last of our concerns, technology is well on its way to improve the situation and paving the way for renewables. Now, if the governments of the world would stop messing up (eg. by removing nuclear power, or waging wars against each other), that'd be great.
According to ([1]), the nuke warheads were safely transferred to Russia:

"Kazakhstan formerly had 1,410 Soviet strategic nuclear warheads placed on its territory and an undisclosed number of tactical nuclear weapons.
...
Kazakhstan transferred all of its Soviet-era nuclear weapons to the Russian Federation by April 1995."

1. https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/kazakhstan-nuclear-dis...
There's so much churn on hacker news that everything gets old after a couple of nanoseconds. So I think it would be best to just add a field for a 128-bit timestamp of the original submission and present it with high precision.
> current style of tech interviews has opened doors for a lot of smart, motivated people who aren’t necessarily born into situations that usher them straight into prestigious tech jobs.

The self taught programmers were always the thing. If anything, current interview style is giving advantage to those from elite universities - it tests exactly those skills.
Have you read up on cognitive behavioral therapy?
A short summary would be that a lot of it is caused by entrenched thought patterns and toxic routines. So a question of what input you process how. Its often not caused by chemical imbalances but what falsehoods you belief and what conclusions you draw from it.
It's quite possible that the way you played Doom was not ideal. Chocolate Doom is a project focused on making vanilla Doom look and feel right on modern hardware.

https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/About
there are a lot of ways to make money
I didn't dig deep enough to know the difference between the "real" ones and the illegitimate ones.

My current approach is, don't fix what is not broken. If I'm happy with the system I have now, let it stay until there is a need to change it.

I do wish you luck on your exploration of graphical approaches though. Let me know if you find them useful. :)
It would probably be easier 20 years ago.
> I would never trust my mental health with a company that takes money from Khashoggi's murderers.

It's interesting that Khashoggi's assassination is what seems to bother people most about the Saudis. Not the invasion of Yemen that has killed over a hundred thousand civilians or the littany of other crimes.
The train schedule as seen by passengers stays the same for years, often to the rail number in stations. What changes are the crews, wagons, locomotives, possibly routes on the railway (switches and reactions to delays and failures.) A friend of mine worked at an app used by a railway's personnel to know where to go next. The app was not particularly complicated but the backend, which has been running for ages, took a long time to run. I don't know the details.
There's a common extension to this about teaching colleges -

'Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, teach teachers.'
"Study" is also a pretty vague word, that could describe a lot of different activities. Lots of people study hard, buy how many follows the exact same process as Feynman ?
Not every studying techniques are equally effective, the same is true for problem solving techniques.
Not to say his genetics didn't have _any_ impact, but we don't know the extent of the impact it had
I'm not sure those things have ever been controlled.

I have been around many many many smart people. So many of them seem naturally gifted. It's effortless how easily they solve things. But if you hang around long enough, it's also impressive when they reveal their magic: they just used so-and-so's technique from some discipline I've never heard of. Oh. Of course! How easy, when you put it that way.

How long did it take them to read, digest, and master all those techniques? Hard to say. Nobody followed them around with a stopwatch 24x7x365 for years.

So, lacking data, I fall back to antecdotes. I personally know very intimately a handful of valedictorian smartest person in the room type people. The kind that everyone knows is just naturally smart. I know their family life intimately. I know that none of it came without enormous time and effort.

We have the testimony of the man himself about the price he paid. I'd be interested in anyone at his level in any endevour who claimed they were just born with it.

I do believe that different people are born with different abilities. But I have seen those "smartest person in the room" people fail elementary math, then spend 100s of hours drilling flash cards to master simple arithmetic tables. I have seen them with reading (I hate the word disabilities) challenges spend 10 years reading 100s of books, then get perfect scores on college entrance exams. I have seen in person some poor child spend 3 hours every single night for a year to master 5 spelling words a week. Just to be average. Then have people think they were born knowing the dictionary.

I believe that if you randomly choose any 20 students from any elementary school in the United States and let me select 10 people from that group, then subject them to what I have seen... those students will graduate high school with perfect grades and nearly perfect standardized test scores. I am certain of it. But I do not condone doing such a thing.

Of course, that doesn't make them Feynman. But I believe Feynman when he says that he was once ordinary and that time and effort transformed him.
Perfect one sentence summary. I wasted a minute or two searching online for the difference between the two, but I should have read your comment first! Thanks for communicating precisely and concisely.
They will be available in Europe in a couple of years.

https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/replaceable-batteries-are-co...
This should be investigated by the ICC...along with all of the war crimes the U.S. got away with in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Amateur press associations are a cool outgrowth of zines:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_press_association
I disagree that merits outweighed the demerits in the case we are discussing here, but I respect your viewpoint.
There are people who put in a couple of years. And even then, all that is useless if you don't get invited to an interview in the first place, or get ghosted along the way through the 5 - 7 stage process.
The difference there is that Tesla still gets value out of putting FSD hardware in cars that don't buy it because they can collect data. You can't say the same about an air conditioner.
Any platforms?

You just need to calculate all your costs and sell it for the same price.
This is not a “list of allowed websites”.
Has anyone priced the map updates? A friend told me how he updated firmware to change various things, learning in the process it's possible to adjust the turn signal (interval, etc). Fairly entertaining stuff.
I've found the same thing to be true. The successful medtech startups are consistently from experienced folks that have spent years in that industry who identify an unmet need and go after it. Every single medtech startup that has been led by a startup bro right out of school with personal connections to money has been successful in raising money, building hype and a PR machine, but not in creating meaningful value to the patient and caregiver, and not making it to the clinic.
You should explore why you personally are worried about this speculative scenario happening. It could be a symptom of a deeper psychological issue.
It’s possible there was a rise of incorrect diagnosis where lockdown stresses gave rise to ADHD-like symptoms. Alternatively more people WFH and not having other distractions could’ve led more people to figure out their existing ADHD. Likely more people also sought mental health care given the stressors of lockdowns and media coverage of COVID. Just hypotheses.
This is an extensively studied question. The effect of preparation on score is negligible whenever anyone tries to measure it.
I worked one year with "accounting software". The single-file-VBS-approach was almost all I ever saw. Anyone who knows anything about software development quits, and those who don't stay there and fiddle more with the incomprehensible 11.000 line VBS script to try to figure out why nobody born before 1981 didn't get their salary paid out last month...
from what i've read, they're pretty different abstractions, so i'm concerned that learning WebGL2 will give me a mental model that will be largely useless and just add to the confusion when switching to WebGPU. even the shader language is different (WGSL vs GLSL) [1]. how much knowledge will be transferable?

[1] https://dmnsgn.me/blog/from-glsl-to-wgsl-the-future-of-shade...
opened doors? you must be nuts. all it has done, is made it easier to discriminate candidates, turn a highly specialized field into a commodity, and put more power in the hands of tech companies, especially FAANGs. it has indirectly prevented knowledge workers from organizing.

if people go to university and actually study and work hard to get a degree, it should be normal they don’t have to go through this bullshit.
The sheep walked and ate grass.
These accommodating adjustments are appropriate in many contexts.
I worked in defence on systems that did similiar and i remmember the one my company inherited and wow and wow it was the most complex, nested peice of SQL stored procs i have ever witnessed. It did the job, but it took HOURS to run. We had to re-write it completely to make any changes. But thats what happens when you let companies like Accenture at a system of yours! You pay them the big bux to be sueable, and they milk you like a cow.
> If you let people find their own free way to best live their lives, they won't. Exposing the masses to strong, addictive and unhealthy drugs means getting more people hooked. What follows is crime, unemployment, heavier drugs, death.

Ah like the War on Drugs, got it.

> Unless you understand that your use-case might not fit the public, stop implying substances are controlled for no reason.

You're constructing a strawman. You're taking what I said ("whether it's a pill mill or not, let folks live their lives") and interpreting it in the weakest way possible ("implying substances are controlled for no reason".) This is not what I said. A "pill mill" (some pejorative used for institutions that folks disagree with apparently) is an institution that has some medical liability. It's not making every substances an unregulated one.
This button shouldn't be there.

That's how it is in older Audis. You don't order a feature - you get a plug for a button. If you retrofit it later, they add a button. What they did here is absolutely 100% tacky, shame on them. All of it, but especially the wording of the message.

I sure hope they learn from this and never do it again. Saying as a die-hard Audi fan.