skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, and I think you also see the same with physical health. Our metabolism doesn't actually decline until we're in middle age (nor do you need to ramp up your calories during pregnancy) [1]. The only reason people get fatter over time is because they just keep overeating, and probably get more sedentary over time to boot. Knowing this has really motivated me to build a lifestyle that demands consistent and significant effort that I can sustain throughout my entire life: challenging and diverse mental stimulation, diverse and frequent but low-impact exercise, and lastly, a satisfying and nutritious diet that doesn't cause me to gain weight. It's amazing to learn how strong and durable our bodies are, and inspirational to see how much potential we actually have.

1: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe5017

> [energy expenditure] remains stable in adulthood (20 to 60 years), even during pregnancy; then declines in older adults.
I know right, it's as difficult as going on the app store and typing "<city> taxi app"
It's always amusing to me how "decentralized" becomes "FBI FIX THIS" as soon as it falls to some attack.

At least they've sped up the normal leveraged buyout and corporate looting from months to mere seconds.
> Blogging on Twitter is preferable to "not blogging at all" and "blogging on an obscure domain that almost nobody ever discovers".

There is a third option, linking to the blog from twitter. I'm surprised so many people would bother splitting long form writing into a bunch of separate tweets, as it is even more obnoxious than reading them in that format.

Nitter is great, I use that a lot.
>if you send out a newsletter that people mostly read and want and can easily unsubscribe to, you can still end up being sent to spam for all users because some people use ‘mark as spam’ to mean ‘please unsubscribe me from this newsletter’.

My Gmail SPAM folder is filled with a ton of stuff that isn't really spam. There are newsletters I probably signed up for at some point or at least downloaded a document/watched a webinar where getting periodic emails was part of the deal. Because, yes, rather than clicking the unsubscribe button which legitimate marketers will honor, a lot of people just hit report spam which at some point puts it into the spam bucket for everyone.
> I used to get at least 4/5 calls a week and it rendered the phone portion of my phone completely useless,

I get many more than that and I still find my phone to be pretty usable.

The "one weird trick" here is to screen your incoming calls. Add all of your friends/family/work associates to your contacts and enable the setting on your phone that sends all other calls to voicemail. And then set your phone to notify you when you have new voicemail. I find that scammers/spammers almost never both with leaving voicemail but Real People generally will, or will follow up with a text.
In the audiobook for Daniel Suarez's Daemon, Jeff Gurner pronounces it dee-mun. I changed the way I pronounced it after listening to that book. Most people I know pronounce it day-mun, though.
I agree with your observations.

I think part of the problem is BOTH political parties demonize their opponents rather than make intellectual arguments on policy. This makes politics feel existential at the federal level, because it's framed as being about good vs. evil rather than the substance of the policy.

The public's trust in institutions will continue to erode until there is no trust remaining soley because every eight years or so BOTH political parties equate losing to the end of the world.

The path we're on leads to radical defederalization of the government.
> mostly because I just feel too tired to push myself to do it

As a 34 year old this scares me the most. I don’t want real life to accumulate and accrue around me so I don’t have the energy for curiosity and intellectual pursuits. But the harder I fight, the more cruft there is to think about.
You can do a ton of productive testing just by clearly separating different systems, especially game logic from rendering etc. This is just good code hygiene. Better game-specific tools can also be created, as companies like Larian are doing.

It's not really very different from testing other big complex software. Everybody has evolving requirements. But the general culture of game development is to ignore automated testing entirely, which is awful.
There's no compilre on the "reply" button and I'm a programmer... so typoes are possible.

Which word(s)?
That's a ridiculous take, are you personally going to go through each line of that open source code or are you just going to trust someone else did ?
Because I asked for an apology after you accused me of being from Exxon? Flagging you.

When you discuss things with people please refrain from offensive statements like "are you Exxon?" It's offensive and akin to like "Are you kkk?" There's really no need for that.

Although I shouldn't have called you an ass. Dang I want to bring to your attention that although the word "ass" is more explicit, this person essentially started the waterfall and is saying things that are much more offensive but sort of more stealthy. The Exxon thing was a deliberate and targeted jab.
> Kevin Rose just raised $7M this weekend

That article is dated December 21, 2021, so this was about 4 months ago.
"Workers told The Post that wages hadn't kept up with inflation and some managers were unaccountable."

so for the record as of late, twenty Starbucks stores have now unionized and around 220 Starbucks stores have sought elections. Alphabet has had an 800 employee union for nearly two years, and if labor is to be believed, there are nearly a hundred Amazon warehouses looking to form a union. Tesla remains actively embroiled in a fifth circuit appeal for illegal retaliation, but if i were a gambling man Id see the texas plant as a hopeful effort to avoid union talk entirely. It might not pay dividends though, as a lot of the union effort is being powered by inflation lodged against burnt out workers forced to perform through a global pandemic with no real recognition outside a handful of commercials and billboards.

offtopic but bears repeating: Amazons 5% inflation fee should be called exactly what it is: a slush fund to buffer shareholders for q4 losses due to negotiation with their new unions benefits and pay demands.
> for a referendum that everyone knew would not actually matter.

Surely if people thought the referendum "didn't matter", then they'd be less, not more likely to cast a ballot? I'd say that 40% is a pretty strong vote, in those circumstances (and given the risk of being beaten up by riot police).
I'll only join non-chain gyms, and pay for the year in full.
By accepting ads, you open yourself up to a malicious vector for malware.

Because I cannot trust ad networks to get it right 100% of the time, both content-wise as well as safety, out they go.
Completed a 6 month bootcamp via UT Austin around 2018.

1. It was challenging for sure, especially from a time management standpoint. I'd estimate that I was putting in 15-25 hours per week between participating in classes and working on group projects. That's a lot to take on while working full time. It starts off easy and ramps up in difficulty as you near your final group project. Fwiw, you can significantly reduce the learning curve by completing some online self-study/tutorials before hand and by investing in a nice laptop.

2. 120k starting salary. I transitioned into a full time software engineering roll with my existing employer. My employer also reimbursed me for a portion of the cost of the program.

3. The bootcamp was an excellent crash course into the world of full stack web development but I don't think it was a good foundation on its own per say. I think that the combination of a bootcamp and some real world experience could make a solid foundation assuming you land in the right work environment.

It takes a ton of work to complete a coding bootcamp and the networking/interviewing that follows is equally challenging. I'd suggest reaching out to individuals who successfully completed the programs you're interested in to get their two cents. Listen to their stories and ask them to reflect on how well they performed in their programs. Maybe you could find them on a LinkedIn alumni group or something like that? You could also reach out to former instructors and I bet they can point you in the right direction. My point is that I think you could really benefit from reaching beyond forums like HN, Reddit, etc for this kind of info/advice.
I think a better title would be "Hall Thrusters Understood So Well Better Instruments Needed to Measure the Friction of Quanta"

- If something has momentum, it has mass.

- If something isn't leaving an engine now, it's condensing.

- Electromagnetic fields can recruit and organize a conductors' permissively and permeability. Hall Thrusters use electromagnetic confinement.

- If there is a delay in exhaust, there is condensation. If there is condensation without a holding tank then there is a pulse holding the condensation.

- Pulse waves require detonating fuel at the right time to feed the pulse and never feed the lull. Also, detonating is... different. Careful control of timing is needed to maintain a pulse. Finer detection is needed for tuning the pulse. It will take work to understand where this tiny detonating mass has friction in its electromagnetic confinement.

- Hall Thrusters once understand more can possible be tuned to run with, dipole, quadrupole... tuned pulse waves.

A Hall Thruster is a "smaller" version of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4kbgfpKCw however, the fluid dynamics of the Hall Thruster have interactions at the Quanta maybe so those will be that hardest to detect and analyze. But, once recorded and analyzed the knowledge should help fine tune these engines.

Let me link this again because it is just a great presentation on the fluid dynamics behind these effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4kbgfpKCw
If code is law, then the exploiter was perfectly within their rights to do this and they're entitled to the money.

Not their fault that they read the contract more carefully than the contract writers did.
I went through the first several chapters of the book, but it didn't stick. I should try again; I see his work mentioned all over the place and how it helped people.
I'm fairly certain I was told to sign up to the Do Not Call Registry (https://www.donotcall.gov/) which did absolutely nothing.
I always assumed that these dim blue spacecraft engines shown in many computer games are pure fantasy. They needed some kind of engine so they painted these tubes emitting nicely looking blue haze.

TIL they are the real thing, in use for decades.
This doesnt actually happen (single bit errors getting thru). USB 3.1 data is protected with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check#CRC-32... , same CRC as the one used in Ethernet.

https://www.rroij.com/open-access/implementation-of-link-lay...

USB 3 uses CRC-16, still more than good enough for single bit flips.
To save tech nerds who know the difference from unnecessary expenses. Let others spend more money into the economy. Win for us. /smirk
> It's easier than ever to copy games.

> If you cannot create original concepts

Your original claim: " something where kids could make their own games and instead they are playing mobile games."

This is patently false, as it's easier than ever to create your own games, and kids are creating their own games.

> And you can only create new things if you control the fundamentals

This statement is as false as it is stupid. What you're basically saing is "kids should go ahead and learn how to make game engines from scratch before even knowing how to create a game" which is a huge barrier for entry for any kid. There's nothing wron with using abstractions first.

Additionally, once again, there's so much info on fundamentals now, too, that anyone can go ahead and "control the fundamentals".

> Good luck with money, it's going to get complicated soon.

Yeah, nebulous statement predicting future doom when original statement was the patently false "they can't sell for real money without being exploited"
that seem crazy expensive, so one article read by 10K paid readers earns media/author 500USD? can't imagine quality of article deserving 500 USD
We've got ~100 engineers in our company and there are essentially two categories of engineers: the ones that are enjoying their M1s and those who are looking forward to moving from Intel to M1.

Admittedly that's still pretty anecdotal. It's not like each one of those engineers has rigorously tested all alternatives.

But still, no complaints and people are loving the battery life and lack of heat.

The dongle situation is unchanged from 2016-onward Intel Macs and has been resolved with the latest MBP models. The dongle situation was absurd but never thaaaat bad; you just had to buy a $70 dock dongle thingy.

Single external monitor support on the lower-end models was lamentable, but also not a dealbreaker in an era of ginormous 4K displays.

Lack of M1 support in software is almost a non-issue. Rosetta emulation is so fast that nobody notices or cares. The only exception has been our Docker-based stuff; took some massaging to support the new arch.
This comment could be talking about all art.
I started reading this, and felt like I was having a stroke. No I wouldn't click on citizen lab again.
This is it for me. I find that I can easily skim and read threads on HN, plus the actual content takes up the vast majority of the screen. On Slashdot (and maybe I'm doing it wrong), less that 50% of the screen is actual content, and I have to constantly click to open comments deeper in threads.
NFT's are a scam.
600 work hours give or take the 20,000 that got him the expertise required to sit down and write it in the first place. Do you end up with your own game engine, or a clone of Casey's game engine? That depends on what you already knew going into the series.

Not dismissing the value of the series here, just saying the average would-be game developer likely does not have the same skillset as Casey and, unless creating game engines is the goal, would be better served by Unreal or Unity.
The End of the Suit?
Ah yeah, the post is about PROOF not moonbirds, I'll find a right one. One of those mornings, just had my coffee :)
I am surprised it still hasn't been added to the controlled substances list. My allergy drug (Allegra) had been recently as a result of the number of depression and suicides reported, while finasteride can still be bought over the counter, sigh.
Absolutely! Once I tried to cancel SiriusXM for an old car it was a nightmare.I had to call and wait for hours to get someone. Never signup for SiriusXM since then.
It's also worth mentioning that there are "higher-level" languages than C, which produce portable-ish native binaries (modulo some dynamic linking dependencies, which isn't that different from depending on a Python or Perl runtime).
PyQt Hello World
The term you’re looking for is “coordinated disclosure”, and the alternative used here is “full disclosure”.
Back to the Future of Twitter
Google Maps Removes Blurring for Russia’s Military Sites
> But USPS is underfunded and according to the source below they made $13.9B from marketing mail in 2020.

I would happily pay (napkin maths) $40-50 more in taxes per person per year to make this fucking stop.

Shit, it'd save my city some money. Less trash.
"The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others"

How is that not always going to end up being "free of charge"? Someone is always going to end up redistributing it without charge.
web3 is going great! (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/)
Yes, at some point too ICO were raising hundreds of millions of dollars. Can you point me to a single ICO were "investors" actually made money on the long run?
> The Axie DAO allowlisted Sky Mavis to sign various transactions on its behalf. This was discontinued in December 2021, but the allowlist access was not revoked. Once the attacker got access to Sky Mavis systems they were able to get the signature

So a question remains of how the attacker got access to Sky Mavis systems?

> A security audit likely would have identified an inherent problem in the majority of the multisig keys being stored on a single server.

There was no security aduit? Can anyone more familiar with this project add context?
That's not totally correct. See here:

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/wrong2.html
The nuclear missile next door
Reminds me of a writeup where a couple swapped the polarized lenses in 3d glasses so they could watch different video streams on the same 3d tv.
I'm not sure I understand. Let's say your SIM card has number X but you also use Google Voice number Y. If you buy flight tickets, you're probably going to give them number Y when you purchase your tickets. If a malicious state actor has access to the passenger flight manifests for the airline it's pretty likely that they also access to the other information you've given the airline, including the phone number and email you supplied the airline, so they'll also know that you gave them number Y in the checkout flow. What am I missing here?
(National (American) Football League)

At the running group, someone aged 55 ran a marathon at 2:55 or sth like that (it's really fast. I don't remember exactly but I was surprised)
Lol. Desktop market share for Linux matters as much as getting extra sand while in a desert. The server is what matters. Anecdotally I just install the LTS of Ubuntu and use snaps or flatpak or appimages for my tools — the distro is becoming less and less important.
I think it's also probably somewhat common for run of the mill employees to use privilege escalation exploits to get admin access to do regular tasks. At least it was common in places I've worked where your local PC was so locked down that you couldn't do your job, and the official process to work around that wasn't reasonable. Enough people doing that opens up other unintended holes.
Infrastructure investment should not be an argument for imperialism. The British built plenty of railways in India too, doesn't mean they get to rule the country.
I've never noticed this, but it may be due to me not browsing internet without ublock origin, who would do that?
Isn't that what proof of stake is all about?
The reporting on the case is bad because a case was never made in court.

Jones basically ignored court orders and wasn’t forthcoming in his responses to requests so the plaintiffs basically got a summary judgement without it going to trial. The only trial left is a judgement on damages.
Clearly I am indeed speaking with someone who has no idea what they are talking about, which as I previously stated is the default HN crypto commenter.
If you haven't seen them yet, Factorio has a few Friday Facts that talk about (and show!) their automated tests. It's quite impressive! One advantage they have in this area is that the game is a fully deterministic simulation, so testing is just a matter of setting up initial state and validating output
It wasn't a valid referendum. It was illegal, and everyone knew that it was against the Spanish constitution. 90% of 40% in what amounts to an opinion poll is not "nothing" - it's a remarkable turnout, given that voters knew the Spanish government had sent in shiploads of non-Catalan riot police to suppress voting.
The former CEO of Reddit would like you all to stop bickering online
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2691752

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16299583
>> Hey email solved this problem for me for email and I want an equivalent type of service for phone and text, now.

I’ve been using Hey for two years now, and while it solved the spam problem, the UIUX makes it just so hard to use.

I’m keeping for one reason, it’s the shortest email I have.
How to Specify It – Proprety Based Testing Article “Translated” to Java (2020)
Just do it! You'll have to choose anyway if you are one of the many folk here who use(d) a grandfathered free Google workspace plan with your own domain: it ends on June 1st, or thereabouts, and you'll be shunted into a paid plan (although there seems to be a waiting list for a free plan).

I did it last week. I signed up for Fastmail, followed their excellent documentation, and now only have a mandatory (new) Google account for a few apps in the Play Store that are not available anywhere else (but nothing paid). If I lose access to my Google account, I lose nothing.

My Fastmail migration basically went like this:

* Clean up mailbox, truncate mailing list folders.

* Copy mail to Fastmail using their importer.

* Change domain settings at your domain host (changing MX-records and a bunch of others); mail now goes to Fastmail.

* Set up mail and calendars in Thunderbird on Ubuntu and K-9 Mail on GrapheneOS.
Just in time for the tax deadline.
>In the past few months, things appear to have changed, and emails that are obviously spam, complete with the misspelled titles and funky case and punctuation, are now appearing in my Gmail inbox. It looks like the Gmail spam filter is becoming less effective.

Yes, I've noticed the same thing. Emails that are quite obviously spam (multiple recipients, complete gibberish, PDF attachments) are getting through the Gmail spam filter.
So in my case I don't want my IP exposed, so I used the Tor Browser Bundle and used something similar to URLEX which expands short links typically found in SMS links. More often than not, the links are benign and trying to phish you, but now and then you find a malicious payload.

[0] https://urlex.org/
Thanks, will investigate.

We'll have our own GC in the future anyway.
Not all social problems, just those where the people involved have opposing goals. And even then, it's not so much a no-go as unlikely to work. We can tackle problems like advertising and recruiting for local hobby groups. But people will actively subvert, exploit, or ignore software meant to enforce social norms. Anti-cheating software restricts what honest users can do, and cheaters will find a way around it if they like the game enough. DRM is a ham-fisted attempt to force digital media, an industry with virtually no distribution costs, into existing financial models. Solving the problem of encouraging artists to produce work with the promise of money is hard, but DRM isn't solving it.

Social problems are just very hard to solve, and they're rarely made simpler by automation or algorithms. They often require trust in another person's intent.
> That's generally not how fast food chains work

Well, the KFC brand is a franchise in this part of the world, so they probably had even more freedom in their recipe. But it's not just "taste best at home" thing, the difference in quality is staggering. As I said, Popeye's tastes way better than US KFC, and it's rather a common opinion in the US.
I would think that would be a detriment to survival. The brain is fascinating.
My approach has been always like this.

1. Shortlist a couple languages
2. Read a brief summary and some articles espousing the virtues of the langues
3. Get a sense of which feels most enticing and then pick one
4. Setup a small project with a alignment to the strengths of the language (possibly port one from a previous language)
5. Build and document the code base as you learn and leave notes in comments to various tutorials as they apply.
6. Package it up and strip out the barebones and make a simple empty shell that can be used to bootstrap future projects
Most NFTs are probably a scam, but I was just arguing against the specific point of the article that the market is "crumbling."
> coming up with clever ways to build large things out of small things that are actually, not theoretically, stress-tested.

This reads like a definition of engineering.
GPT-4 is coming soon. Maybe as soon as early summer.

Here's all the info we have so far that, combined with the most successful novel trends in AI, lay the ground to make potentially accurate predictions about the model.

Any other predictions?