skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Tropico games may interest you. I had a lot of fun playing them when I was younger (think I played Tropico 1 and 3, but not sure exactly).

I recall them being quite tricky and including political/social aspects (you need to appease your people to be re-elected etc), but since I haven't played them in years that stuff might not be as deep as I remember.

Do have a look though and see if it'll suit you!
The barrier to entry is not small.

To offer low wait times you need drivers idling ready to pick up customers. Meaning you need to pay drivers in excess of what you will earn from riders. Until you reach critical mass. This is what has lost Uber so much money.
That's just it, I couldn't figure that out. There's "always" a trick, so I've read in some forums.
At least Wi-Fi folks seem to have taken a hint with Wi-Fi 6.
Shifting Winds
Can We Build Less Biased Medical Bots?
Pretty easy to disconnect a printer from the internet though....
I agree with you that the title is a bit sensationalist. But if independent security audits with no major issues uncovered cannot make you claim something is secure, when can you claim something as secure? Or are you of the opinion that nothing ever can be claimed to be secure as there can always be holes that could be uncovered in the future?

Using openssh as an example, would you say it's secure when you're using public keys for the authentication? Their track record seems pretty good for the last years, but there might still be uncovered vulnerabilities, could it still claim to be secure?
I agree: Twitter forces you to be succinct, a useful skill when writing an Executive Summary for a business paper or an Abstract for a paper in a scientific journal.
Usually in these types of models it's unspecified, like error in a regression. There's the threshold of evidence required for a decision, decision time, and other time, for example.

Examples of things might include motor speed, like the speed required to press the button, etc.
I've been waiting for my Librem 5 (that I paid for) for four years...
With a poor grounding in grammar, you will sometimes get the meaning of a sentence completely wrong, even if you separately know all of the nouns, verbs, and particles.
This is more of a thought experiment, but would also serve as a decent backup in case of natural disaster, house burning down, etc. As for safety deposit boxes, those can be closed out for nonpayment, bank branches will shut down, etc. Not the best hands off long term solution. An attorney will let you know if there's an issue because it's their ass on the line if they don't.
Thanks! That's one good piece of advice actually. I'll try to find similar projects.
It's a one time charge and also can be resold if needed.
The state handing over money also shows that society cares. They are the literal representatives of that society.
I think the idea is that if they had to build for their actual peak capacity, i.e. everyone showing up at once, they would not be economical. Of course, this is a silly hypothetical - the legislation is about making it more convenient to cancel your membership, not a guaranteed set of barbells whenever you decide to come in.
> The extra hidden part of the plan is that I try to avoid things that aren't tracable to a trusted human help desk. Anything that involves the words "manage your own private key" is a point of failure that needs a lot of care.

How do you handle your password manager (assuming you use one)?
The rise and fall of crypto culture
Some humans did that, and the others found the behavior odious enough to develop social norms against such behavior. Humans have always had many vices, sure. They lie, cheat, steal, murder, etc. That doesn’t define their humanity.
Didn't last long, haha, the new one is 6E.
Anybody thinks Forex is not a scam? Especially in the age of cryptocurrencies?
To be fair, in light of recent events, I think it’s mostly a matter of scale.

Indiscriminately bombarding cities feels somehow worse than this targeted killing, and somehow better, because it’s nothing personal.
See also the video "How big is a billion?" by the Numberphile channel:

> We discuss millions, billions, trillions and centillions is this film about the long and short scales. We also touch on quadrillions, sextillions, milliards, billiards and the Greek myriad.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ

Does a "billion" have 9 zeros or 12 zeros?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale
Signed up an hour ago and made five comments since, maybe tripped some protection?

In any way, if you click on the permalink to the comment (via the timestamp), you can "vouch" for dead comments in case they are actually proper. I just did for all of them, and helps fight incorrect dead comments.
Godot FTW
That example feels extremely dishonest and hypocritical. The correct answer in that sort of case is not to buy it in first place. Having someone else do it for you doesn't change anything, just makes you dishonest hypocrite. If you disagree with thing like that you shouldn't be giving them money in any case.
Brazil.

I'm not impressed by their plan. They simply created yet another currency and duped the population into believing it was going to be different this time.

The inevitable fate of all inflationary currencies is irrelevance. Its value will drop to zero and it will be replaced by a new currency in order to restart the cycle. It's only a matter of time.
Today, millions of open source contributors are being affected, fighting for their survival. Members of your community, my community. And while a blog can’t stop the ongoing war, it can honour those who are suffering.
This blog honours robotics in Ukraine.
We can’t feature them all, and I do apologize for those who were not mentioned, but I will promise you this: if you comment or send us an email to robotics.community@canonical.com, I will add them, and keep updating this blog for as long as needed.
> Universally applies to all software jobs.

I dunno, I've worked at a bunch of places where it seems people have gone "I'm not bothering to understand the old code, I'll just replace it with <framework/technology du jour>[1] and GOOD LUCK MAINTAINERS."

[1] Sometimes they write their own frameworks. These are almost always the worst.
Well it isn’t anything physical, because connecting an m1 Mac to another Thunderbolt device delivers the advertised speeds.
I found one in England from PiHut and had it shipped here a few months ago. But it was DOA. Their return process is that I have to ship it back and they might refund me for that.

I just ate it. So if anyone wants a Pi 4 w/ 2GB of bad SDRAM lemme know. I may just see if I can reflow the chip to fix. But I’m pretty terrible with hot air + smd, so I’m hesitant.

I really wanted the 4GB model to run monitoring software for my home network, etc. anyway. So I got a RockPro64 and I love that thing.

When I looked you could still get a 3 easily, which would be fine for this. It runs on a teensy too apparently, so it doesn’t seem the 4 helps in any way. Given it runs on a 2 means it’s just 32bit. You can probably still find a 3 easily.
Well, you gain privacy from corporations. You have to keep your software up-to-date, though, or you risk losing privacy to hackers.
This isn't really true though, if you look through the historical record you can find plenty of sources from people who lost. Usually what's missing from the record is people who were illiterate (which is a lot of people as soon as you go any significant length of time back).
A great many people get glasses at 6, not 60, and thier vision is in decline before highschool. It is a widespread and very modern problem. In a couple decades the concept of reading glasses might be gone. Everyone may be in glasses 24/7 starting long before age-related decline.
Your ”dig” at the end about not working on iOS comes off as childish.

There are definitely solutions for using Obsidian with git on iOS (such as [0]).

[0] https://forum.obsidian.md/t/mobile-setting-up-ios-git-based-...
I know PGP is the right way here, but its way too technical for the average person. Think lawyers or doctors, people with little technical background, with who you need to one-time share your private info securely.

Its got to be something simpler than PGP/GPG. Thus far I found https://www.sharedrop.io/
We should have corporal punishment for using drugs in public like in Singapore. Nobody should rot in prison merely for being a public nuisance. But a good thwack and some public humiliation would be a proportionate response.
I think the comment you are replying to specifically meant age related far-sightedness when speaking about glasses. Plenty of people need them for issues which have nothing to do with age.
There's also a 3500 year difference between the two. I'm sure people living in 5022 wouldn't care much for graves from our time.
I don't think I've ever been asked a question at a FAANG interview that isn't in one of the (legion of) "FAANG interview prep" books/sites that ex-FAANG engineers and interviewees constantly publish and update.

Your criteria here is likely unfairly dinging pretty much everyone who has done significant interview prep.
> When the vast majority of “can’t believe the candidate couldn’t even do a for loop” is due to stressors.

This idea keeps me up at night, but do you have any evidence for it?

I've interviewed plenty of people with 15+ years of experience who really struggled to do basic programming tasks. And who didn't show any obvious signs of stress.

To this day I have no idea how many of them were not performing because they were stressed out of their minds but hiding it. Vs how many were simply not very good at programming. I have no idea how to tell the difference when they don't make it obvious to me.
I've been having a tough time wrapping my head around how little recorded history there is.

All individual people have rich lives and have been around for, what, 200,000 years? But only like 2.5% of that is covered by any written history at all (some inheriting from older storytelling tradition no doubt).

What entire cultural trends and phenomena have we totally forgotten? What were we even doing the other 97% of the time -- just trying to find enough food and not die?
One password, even if it was very long (50 chars), may not be secure enough. Especially given the prevalence of powerful GPUs these days.

But I agree that's a simple way of doing things yeah.
It’s also good for your psychological wellbeing. If you’re just ‘destroying goods’ so to say, you don’t really have to worry about the fact they have wives and children.

Conversely, what is described in this article is the worst of both worlds. After spending days looking at their lives you are most definitely killing a human/father/grandfather.
You need to hold it
Blueprints in Unreal is quite, quite powerful. You can do damn near everything with it. For the stuff that you can't do, the asset store is solid.
If people don't pay for FOSS, how do you expect developers who develop FOSS to feed their families?

The "free" in "Free and Open Source Software" is free as in speech, not free as in beer. We'd like to think that decision to charge or not charge for the product is orthogonal to the decision to make the source code available. In practice there is some interrelation.

But FOSS was never "you can't charge for it."
Human brain is still primitive, nearly the same with that of a hunter-gatherer.

Technology has progressed in an unthinkable pace. Society, economics have changed to keep up.

Human brain did not have the time to evolve to the changed scenario.

Human brain is fantastic but it never evolved for what most of us in HN do- knowledge work.

Agriculture, and even industry after the first revolution did not demand human beings to be changed by much.

That is not true with knowledge work. You need effective, designed methods to learn, store knowledge, apply them to different scenarios, be focused for longer hours, and so on.

At the same time you want to be happy. You need to find balance. Society changed very rapidly. It does not give you learned frameworks for the new scenario.

You need to actively, vigilantly, deliberately learn how to manage yourself, your knowledge, your relationships, your business.

Most HNers have their basics solved, and they want to grow further into the area for which evolution or even society has not prepared us.

It makes me happy to see that people realize this one way or the other- and try to solve this problem. We acknowledge that a gap exists, we only try to fill that by any amount we can. I applaud those who do this.
I don't know if I would have passed the exact question, but something like this is also in my wheelhouse. The other thing that I value very highly is consistency in any given code base. However things are already done, is how I'll keep doing them, unless there is a good reason to change. And to your point, that reason cannot be I don't understand the code. IMO, too often people want to make big changes w/o understanding (b/c understanding can be hard), and end up missing the reasons why the code was hard to begin with.
You don’t have to aim for a high paying job. It’s not a goal in itself. Plenty of people are happy doing jobs which don’t pay that well but interest them.
They lasted less than a year before putting out Wifi 6E
I see what you mean. Traffic is a really important part of the game and people (including the modding community) seem to focus on it a lot.

But I do think there's a lot of freedom in terms of how you play and shape the game using mods.

To me CS is more of a weird mix of Factorio and a bonsai tree. I need to tend to it from time to time, slow down the gameplay and trim here and there (plop a new neighbourhood or a small detail). Fixing traffic issues is a small part of it (in my case).

I loved SC2000 and SC3000, but now SC4 (edit: SC4, not SC4000) feels just really ugly.
I think it’s far more likely that certain physical ailments show up and a decreased desire for physical activity and novel experiences. Undiagnosed CFS/ME being an obvious case. I also think a lot of drug taking is self medicating for things like serotonin and dopamine dysregulation. People are trying to fill a hole, but there is a hole there.
> But if independent security audits with no major issues uncovered cannot make you claim something is secure, when can you claim something as secure?

Nothing at all; it's a broken model. The server can at any time start serving malicious payloads [0]. The server hosts your mail but they also serve the webapp. The clientside decrypts the mail, but the server hosts the client code...

It's a fundamentally flawed idea, trying to retrofit encryption into email in this way, when the server essentially has to hold all of your mail. In this case, the only thing that would make me feel secure in using it, is a third-party OSS client that downloads the mail without using the webapp, using only client-side code. And even then, of course, the mail can simply just be not encrypted when being ingested by Proton. So even then I wouldn't really trust it without external encryption like PGP. In which case, why bother?

To be clear I do use private email services (protonmail, tutanota) but I am simply not going to fall for the illusion of guaranteed privacy; I just trust that they are what they say they are. They are still a better option IMO than something like Gmail, but I don't think they're a silver bullet.

[0]: If you think this is unlikely, see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25337507
I love this writing style, does anyone know of similar authors?
>No, hiring them to shine your shoes would not have helped, it only perpetuates the system. What is needed is a social change that eliminates the need.

While you're right that the system needs to change, giving the shoeshine boy a peso might be the best help that someone in GP's position could have given.

Their life is still terrible, but at least they're not hungry for a night.

>Sadly this sometimes only happens when the oppressed party suffers enough to elicit real sympathetic action or in extreme cases an uprising.

That's really dark, man, and I don't think it's true. Plenty of groups have won their rights without being deliberately ground into the dirt by another section of society.

>This suggests that the system continues to exist partly because some people like the idea of paying a pittance to someone to perform a menial job simply because it makes them feel good or superior

I run a retail business, and much of what we sell is like this. Even for things that have utility (e.g. a washing machine), the price you'd pay at a retail store is often (but not always) significantly higher than the value of the good itself sold on, say, Facebook Marketplace. A "$2000 washing machine" is often just a $600 washing machine plus $1400 worth of making the customer feel special.

You can say this is wrong or wasteful, but it's part of human nature and exists across all cultures.

>donating that money to an effort to eliminate the poverty in question.

Steve Hughes argues against this better than I ever could:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm6kl17HH9s
The drivers have definitely learned how to game the system in some cases. I was once at LAX airport and the local drivers had somehow figured out how to create a surge fare that only kicked in after you matched with a driver. The app would offer you the higher price and if you turned it down you’d find that there were no cars available. If you canceled and tried again the lower fare would once again show.
While it certainly feels like that when you’re in a particular politician’s out-group, I think they literally could not even get to play on the national political stage without being really good at those behaviours.

Even the worst politicians, those that I personally hate with vitriol, those whom I doubt even have a rich inner mental world, absolutely do demonstrate listening to the person in front of them. It may not be real empathy, just affectation, but the effect of the affect is the same on the support base they need in order to get elected, or in some cases even chosen as a candidate.
https://www.latinum.org.uk/shadowing/interlinear-method lists various old interlinears. Though even for the Latin-English interlinears it's not complete: for example it's missing the gonzo Completely Parsed series (eg. Gallic War chapter 1: https://archive.org/details/CommentariesOnTheGallicWarCaesar... ), and the Fully Parsed me-too series. I'm working on a summary of the old Latin-English and Latin-Ancient Greek interlinears but I don't know when it will be finished.

There are two modern commercial publishers I'm aware of which specialise in interlinears: https://hyplern.com and https://interlinearbooks.com/ .

Some people transcribed one of the Hamilton et al. interlinears, Cornelus Nepos' Vitae, into WikiSource: https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Cornelii_Nepotis_Vitae_(Hamil... .

More modern (for the most part) but not at all unrelated: parts-of-speech tagging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part-of-speech_tagging and treebanks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treebank . https://syntacticus.org/ has a UI which is almost usable for learning-by-reading: https://syntacticus.org/sentence/proiel:20180408:caes-gal:52... . (The Perseus DL also has a classical-Latin treebank: https://perseusdl.github.io/treebank_data/ .)

Seemingly there's still no proper file-format supporting interlinears. Naturally enough: they're not straightforwardly recursive and tree-structured so the computing world's main response is to pretend that they don't exist lolz. (Paging Ted Nelson.) But it seems that interlinears are still very much in use among some research communities in linguistics, so every few years someone puts out a plaintive paper begging for someone to do something about the lack of a proper file format, see eg. https://aclanthology.org/L04-1143/ and https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3389010 , and then of course nothing happens.
African. Not egyptian. And even in egypt they were being built until roughly 2000 years ago, not 3500.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_pyramids
> It's just ego driven over spending on developers.

It's worth considering that engineering interviews are largely conducted by other engineers, and engineering hiring bars are largely set by senior engineering staff. They have a pretty vested interest in maintaining their own status and (relative) scarcity. Constantly raising the technical interview bar keeps engineers a supply-constrained resource...
Frankie Boyle. No man says it straighter.
But all of these experts on the internet say you can't even tell the difference between coffee and tea if you're blindfolded let alone different types of soda so clearly you're wrong! /s

Seriously, though, one unreplicated headline-grabbing result can generate so very much "science says..." type rhetoric.
What sucks, however, is that you can transfer 1TB to a USB drive correctly, and then finally have a bit-error that spoils the entire transfer and might even corrupt your drive. Happened to me several times during testing on different machines and with different cables and drives (luckily no real data was lost, but USB is now sort of banned from my office for use with external harddrives). Any sane protocol would be able to deal with such a low error rate, and finish a data transfer without problems.
How did they fuck this up already /o\
How small are we talking? My parents live in a town of ~2-3k, you aren't getting a taxi from there without arranging in advice, app or not.

Or my hometown of ~60k, I can't say availability of app based taxis is better or worse than availability at a taxi rank, though obviously there is the benefit of not having to get to a taxi rank.

The city I live in now of 1 million, app based taxis are a clear win, mainly because most taxi ranks fit ~5-6 taxis max and so at busy times there would be a queue simply because of that fact. That said, you're going to be waiting as long for a pickup at closing time via an app as for someone to show up a rank.

(Extending to app based services in general as actual Uber is a niche player in my country, basically only used by tourists so hard to get rides that aren't going to or from the airport or a couple of tourist hot spots)
There's a pretty easy lesson here: don't sign up for services. Or more realistically, sign up for as few services as possible, and treat every service with suspicion until proven otherwise. If you can't obtain a company's goods without signing up for a service, then seek an alternative.

Services generally have two business models:

- Spread a large cost over monthly payments so that customers will spend more than they otherwise would.

- Trap a customer, either via coercion or convenience into keeping a service they don't really want.

For the business, the benefit to service offerings is clear: regular, reliable income. To the customer, there is often no benefit.
Likewise 'full fat' Coke tastes syrupy and sticky compared to artificially sweetened Coke. It's not so much a flavour thing as a texture thing.
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