skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my knowledge (sorry not citing sources, too much, but could be individually looked up and validated/refuted) it is rather the opposite, the construction industry is hopelessly fragmanted. A tree of contractors and subcontractors participate in any sizeable projects (and several even in the smallest one), also the composition change during the project many times. There are research efforts for long time into this topic, how to handle the fragmented and volatile situations as part of construction supply chain management research. Also touches the risk management area.

The industrialized construction (or offsite construction) improvements more like hindered than helped by this fragmantation. Inventing and introducing new techniques (including workforce training, software and hardware) is infinitely harder with fragmanted organization involvement. Having few dominant organizations that could dictate work methods actually helps.

Furthermore the finances of the construction organizations are of project focused. Need to find money and time in long running single construction projects for research and development and somehow connect those accross production projects, in parallel, while trying to keep up prompt and cheap delivery as clients (paying a lot for each one off product, each product different unlike in manufacturing industry using mass production or at least mass customization) demand quick and cheap delivery. They may go to one does not spend on R&D and can work cheaper (eve 1% difference can mean millions on this scale). Need to change the engine while flying kind of thing, cannot stop alone, or even together for a while (clients demands delivery) to reform the practices.

Even with industrialized construction the housing crisis remains. Look at very advanced countries like Sweden where factory based construction is norm but (despite municipality and government backed effort) getting a home is still hard. Not enough supply of the very expensive stock and even the councious and heavy regulations just shift the problem elsewhere (life long waiting lines for affordable rentals).

I believe the housing crisis is almost pure financial problem. Housing is used for investments too. And having affordable (reliably cheap) and high profit yielding (rapid cost increasing) housing at the same time is impossible. Seems like the ball is more like at the economists and regulatory side than construction technology.

Not to mention places where the cost of land and associated taxes are further worsening the situation (e.g. UK), where construction cost is actually lower portion in the overall price.

The construction industry can do quite a bit in improving mass production, but not that much that would solve housing crisis in high value locations where the space is limited, costly, and prices fuelled by investment efforts as well (where else would you invest than in places with high demand?). State bodies could help more.
In theory lowering interest rates is a good idea if you want to implement a debt brake but so far Erdogan never stopped deficit spending.
> AMD is paying a smaller price; they still had some mitigations to do, but they didn't let speculative memory accesses bypass access control, IIRC, so there's less speculation to turn off.

And this is also blatantly false. Zen 3 CPUs have a bigger overhead mitigating Spectre than Zen 2 and modern Intel uArchs.

Check Phoronix for performance reviews.
> by never providing anything of value in return.

you could argue they provided entertainment in return.
> Essentially it forks the process.

That is a neat idea, I'll definitely use it in the future where possible.

> The original “keeps going” unaffected

That's not really the case, copy-on-write pages means any write after the fork requires a new page in ram.

That will mean increased memory usage and slowdown of writes in addition to fork costs.

On something that uses a lot of memory and writes a lot it will be significant.

If the service is already optimized to run with just barely enough ram to keep costs down then this fork-and-dump is going to oom in prod.

> It “feels” like you attached the debugger to the production process.

Yeah, memory dumps are very helful, gdb + dump usually means bug is fixed barring any corruption that happened long before point of manifestation or business logic issues.
Even in Europe the biggest problem isn't distance but that you should be the other person's choosing, too. And I think people became too picky. Maybe it isn't the root cause, just my observation.
To read a draft :) You can reach out to me here if you want jokull@solberg.is
It's hard for a person in the throes of addiction to last as a whale for long. Most long lived whales are likely to be from wealthy families, or the fun side addiction for a very wealthy individual. That doesn't change the fact that there are addicted people who spend a large percentage of their income on a game. Whales are one thing and addicted players are another.
The less meetings you have the better run a company is, obviously depending on the type of meetings. Not enough meetings is another indicator of bad organisation. The start-up experience I have is an equal amount of pointless meetings compared with established companies. Only with a significant majority of participants treating it as a meeting with a purpose, something people at established companies know better.
It's a huge chunk of their "services revenue". It's their dirty little secret.
Many people across this thread have commented receiving fake products, incl fake apple products. There are a few WSJ articles about people selling fake name-brand household goods like toothpaste - or even returns/expired products from other American retailers. But I think the most famous one may be "Birkenstock". Birkenstocks are very popular sandals, that are NOT for sale on amazon. The company has litigated with amazon over this, and does not authorize any sales on the platform - since 2017.

https://www.birkenstock.com/us/us-policies-counterfeits.html

https://footwearnews.com/2020/business/retail/birkenstock-am...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/birkenstock-ditches-a...
> it is just that the borrow checker cannot verify the soundness of certain code

And I was just proving examples of such code for someone who asked. Honestly, some Rust folks get so defensive it makes them very prone to misinterpret simple factual statements about Rust as criticism.

Apparently you don’t disagree with any of the factual statements that I’m making. You just have some vague unsubstantiated feeling that I don’t ‘get’ Rust.
Don't mistake pork belly junk for advertising. The product of advertising itself is the brand and cheap, high frequency and low effort advertising destroys it.
Hey, I love video games. They've given me thousands and thousands of hours of fun. Awesome games like Subnautica can bring joy to the world.

The problem is the one time I tried mobile games I eventually started waking up at 3 AM because that's when some timer resets. At some point I started wondering where my life went so wrong.

Then I started studying the design of these games and I realized they are designed to cause this sort of addiction and harm. They employ the same strategies as casinos and drug dealers. They straight up subvert the reward center of people's brains to the point they harm themselves and even destroy their own lives.
I would love to know which place that is. If the demand is high (which is the case in most places as there is a shortage of doctors worldwide), then the problem of mismanaged waiting room becomes worse. Also, tech ≠ monopoly.
Imagine to solve an algorithmic problem to work in the UX team. I'm always more convinced that this type of interview process is a joke
> No matter, how secure your cloud vendor is storing your data, you are going to lose control. Same holds true for the European cloud.

Not fully truth. You can ask for the complete deletion via EU GDPR.

About the other concepts, yes it’s true but it’s the price to pay for the convenience of having the data stored by the hardware/software of someone else.

You can always buy your home storage device, configure it, expose it online, maintenance it, etc…
> so the question becomes whether people should be allowed to spend money any way they see fit

Cant believe you actually want to debate this.
For some reason I expected this to be about a new gadget to play string instruments (e.g. cello or violin) with an interesting effect on sound.
You can run the same kind of analysis on different game mechanics and strategies on games not designed to rip you off. They actually tend to be far more interesting because gambling games rarely have any meaningful degree of complexity and the singular strategy you are actually optimizing for is how much you have to sink into the game to succeed something you can probably figure out for a given game in about 30 seconds of analysis.

Basically you have a bad habit not that far off from smoking cigarettes that will probably eventually lead to dangerous overspending the first time you have an economic downturn at the same time as emotional stress. Despite such games being in general tasteless and boring you have convinced yourself its "fun" because you have trained your brain to release dopamine when you do it and can't tell the difference being joy and dopamine the same way a crack addict can't tell the difference between chemical stimulation and actual joy.
> is to let me filter by American-made products.

I'd prefer to filter by well-made. Both seem elusive though.
Yes, it is an american thing of how cities were built and social factors. Cities here tend to have commercial districts where nobody lives and residential districts or suburbs and you have to drive between the two.

The more European model where first floor is commercial and residential in top, it's a different story to have everyone working from home, no overnight ghost town in commercial districts.
That works if the founders know what they are doing, otherwise well, not so much.

In my domain, Supply Chain Management, half of the tools Amazon is using daily can serve as carbon copies for start-up ideas. With the added benefit that you know they work at scale.
Your email client is crashing because it can't handle a hundred messages in an hour, that's a little less than 2 messages per minute?

Throw that thing in the bin. A human printing emails and placing them on your desk could handle that workload.
/*
Not sure if this is correct,
but there should be a solution along these lines
will explode if the array contains values outside of 1...n
also, invalidates the array
*/
int v = values[0];
for(;;){
if(v == values[v])return v;
int t = v;
v = values[v];
values[v] = t;
}
I literally cannot understand your though processes. Perhaps you can help me; which is is preferable to you

1. a lightly grazed knee

2. being left mangled and paralysed in a car crash
AFAIK to reverse engineer Asahi runs a virtual machine between macOS and hardware. If Apple made changes in the code then perhaps these helped make the instruction logs more obvious as to what the GPU was doing.
"None of these take into account the needs of the drivers, so should characterize them as unjust. For example, one driver might be late to catch their flight (costing them hundreds of dollars), while another might be on a leisurely cruise around town with no particular destination."

I don't know how to put this into words, but I hate that "doing nothing" is equated by being worth less, or less urgent, or having less rights. Your emergency is not my urgency, or something along those lines. If I choose to live slow leisurely, I shouldn't loose any rights over it.
My thoughts on the mobile gaming market are similar. There's great plenty of good ports of games like Slay the Spire, Civ VI, or even XCOM II. Problem is the majority of interested parties already have 'better' devices they'd prefer to play it on, so the prospect of paying even the discounted price that these ports have is too much.

So now you're left with people who haven't tried better games, and with all the good-enough free ones, how can even a discounted price full game compete?
Place of publication is the host server location – Depp vs. Heard (2019) [pdf]
Maybe it could use Akonadi on KDE and (gnome-)tracker on GTK based desktop?

(however, KRunner is fantastic, I would not know which KDE user would look for another solution)
What I’m Excited About/Hoping for at WWDC 2022
Because a normal hobby is not designed to be addictive.

A hobby like wood working doesn't push you to do woodworking every day and there are not people behind this non existing mechanism who design it like it.

Also normally a hobby costs money due to physical parts of that hobby. A software engineer as a hobby only needs some computer, would worker needs a metal saw.
That sounds very culturally dependent. I don't know where the other people in this discussion are based, though.
Huh? Where is the racism?
If this were true, people wouldn't literally die of addiction. Addicts aren't reasonable adults, addiction is a condition.
Activision/Blizzard wants to destroy thier IP and reputation to compete with asian companies

This shit should have been regulated 10 years ago already

PC gaming is becoming infected too

It's very sad

Yet another company i will boycott
Building your own custom launcher utilities can be fun (and fully tailored to your needs). I’ve had good results using completion frameworks like ivy, accessible from any app (not just Emacs).

https://xenodium.com/emacs-utilities-for-your-os/
You mean like... all the actual... children who play these games? Should we stop treating those like children too?
I've played Clash Royale since almost when it was launched, and I've spent about $10, mainly for a couple of months of Pass Royale.

My secondary clash account is staying as Level 1, ie with no upgraded cards at all, and I regularly beat level 10/11 players.
Check out visual novels (The visual novel database: https://vndb.org/). Nowadays I don’t play games at all besides reading visual novels. Winning against predictable “AI” in conventional games feels like an unintellectual massive waste of time. Playing against other players online is more satisfying but gets repetitive, and I don’t really get any more learnings (in terms of mental toughness) out of it after reaching a high ranking. Experiencing ingenious and emotionally impactful stories written by fellow human beings is what I’m after nowadays.
What? Do you guys not have $110,000?
Well yes, the question is, when is a hardcore player going to run into this limit? After 20 hours? 50? 200? The further it is along the line, the fewer people it's going to affect. If you can have a great experience for the first 100 hours, that's still pretty good in my book.
I'm shocked too.

Comapre it with people who applied too, but didn't have that "internal" knowledge

Is it fair from that "not well networked" person perspective?

It's not even like he found this question randomly on the internet, he got it from MSFT employee, lol.

I have really mixed feelings about this

Edit.

Don't get me wrong, apparently author was(and is) capable of doing his job, so it isn't a big problem, but what if author wasn't capable of doing the job and passed just due to the advantage?

I know person who told beginner programmer what X company asks on interviews and that guy actually managed to pass that interview due to the knowledge

but was fired like 3 months later due to lack of skills
Holy crap, I wouldn't have thought twice about being lucky enough to roll out a solution I'd happened to have been thinking about for days. I am not seeing an ethics problem here, the guy was just very lucky to get a problem he was intimately familiar with.
Using 64 bit integers, we can store the square of any 32 bit integer. Not that small...
Examples for such idea are needed.

If it is to get the feedback that government (kybernan) by definition requires, you use aggregates, not nominal data.
Add to that: Discovered zero day spam exploit on GitHub platform.
Adjust the nature of the service to balance costs and revenue.

https://www.downsizinggovernment.org/usps
Never thought of that, good point. I guess in the end if we wanted to find the boundary for harmful/tolerable addiction, we might not be able to find it, it’s a continuous spectrum. I guess in the end intent would need to decide the ethics—is the product designed to leverage addiction or is it designed to enable people to have fun, which might lead to addiction?
I wonder what we could do to legally balance this. Out right banning is bit questionable. But weekly or monthly spending reports? Some total number shown regularly to players?
And a related discussion from a few days before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643894
Unless I'm misreading, the question as stated in the blog post never says there is only one duplicate (there might be many!), so in that sense I think his answer may be wrong. A more robust solution is just to have an array of n counters and just count how many times each item appears.
This is like saying people ought to be free to sell meth on the corner because you are smart enough to avoid addiction. Societies have good reason to ban things that are a net negative to society.
This looks like a genuine humanitarian mission that someone is trying to spin as an atrocity.
Some other pay-with-cash methods in other countries are paysafecash (like viacash), paysafecard (only anonymous if you meet strict KYC requirements), some gambling related one (whatever) and cash-by-mail.

Do note that all of them have significant fees and probably not that many users.
Anyone have experience with "non-resident" US LLC ?

That would be one way to avoid corporate taxes while being established in a reputable jurisdiction?

But for online businesses I guess at some point you'd be selling to US customers, so would that complicate things?
Low interest rates made housing more affordable though as you have to pay less interest.
Two polarizing topics in one article: unions and vaccine mandates.*

Whether or not mandating this particular vaccine is a good idea on balance, I don’t think that employers are the right group to be independently determining them. (If society wants to implement them, do it via the government. If that implementation includes a check at school enrollment or by employers as a compliance mechanism, fine, but leaving vaccine mandates to individual employers is about as crazy as leaving them to individual schools.)

* I’d be curious to see a 2x2 grid of pro-union/anti-union and pro-mandate/anti-mandate. I suspect there is a more than 25% of population in each of the pro/pro and anti/anti camps, making me think of that meme with the guy sweating in front of buttons labeled “Right of Workers to Collectively Bargain” and “COVID Vaccine Mandate”
For me and many others, I'm sure this brings back the sweaty palms from our own version of this!
True, why have drug restrictions anyway... Or many other things. Let adults be adults and have whatever they want.
As far as intrinsic value, you are correct, the buildings are just as functional as ever. But when it comes to extrinsic value, the extra value we place on something because it is desired, that is where value was lost.
This happens in a surprisingly large number of contexts. People raise questions and invest time and energy looking for an answer without the slightest idea how or if the answer will inform future decisions. Seems to be a human fallacy.
That's why thorough testing needs to be done once and the results shared.

Research and testing doesn't fit the startup model. It's instead close to open source or academic research. And that involves then institutions and cooperation...
You can avoid this with condominiums.
> biggest single indicator that something terrible happened is simply the life expectancy chart for Russia which shows a profound dip for about 5 years after Chernobyl (This gets blamed on soaring alcoholism post collapse, which isn't particularly credible.)

This one? [1]

The terrible thing that happened was the collapse of the Soviet Union. That was a humanitarian catastrophe, nearly as much as its existence had been. The life expectancy decline starts in 1989 (when the Soviet economic system starts disintegrating as republics splinter off and declare independence) and then accelerates after 1991, when the USSR dissolves. I'm convinced by the normal explanation offered: the consequences of general economic recession and chaos. This is Russian food production over the same period [2]. Unsurprisingly,
life expectancy went down much more in Vladivostok, in far eastern Russia, than it did in Moscow. Moscow did get somewhat irradiated, while Vladivostok did not, but Moscow fared better economically.

Nutrition, healthcare, incomes, access to housing, all significantly worsened in the 1990s for much of Russia compared to under the late Soviet system. (And unsurprisingly, so did alcoholism.)

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_male_and_fem...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Ag...
That's what happen when you want to make github looks like the next Instagram with stories and stuff

You attract the wrong users

Core users end up moving away from you, that's what i did when they added the stories shit
> just increase their insurance premiums to reflect the higher risk of being hospitalized if/when they catch it.

That's usually not possible with universal healthcare.
> Features like battle pass for example are pretty moral and a good balance between making the game profitable, having a rétention and not milk users.

The problem with battle passes is that they rely on you having a massive player base, and require an incredible amount of effort to develop and keep running. For a game like diablo that's clearly not a problem but for anything that's not a top 10 game on their platform it is

> I hope EU will flag lootboxes based games as casino games globally

I don't think this (specific) categorization is necessarily the right approach. The problematic part with casino style games and gambling in general is that cashing out provides a real money incentive, which is not present here. Calling these games gambling is kind of like calling piracy theft - the intention is right but there's an important difference. We haven't got a category for them yet.

> Also users should also be educated to pay for a game that they enjoy.

On one level yes. On the other, f2p games are popular for a reason. Excellent games providing a social experience has a network effect, and if your conversion rate is 2% you don't succeed as a game by monetising better, you succeed by increasing your audience. A f2p game could be a profitable game if the active playerbase all paid $2-3 each but the _second_ you introduce a barrier there you lose many players who won't pay, their friends who might pay etc etc.

> So it’s a complicated issue.

Amen to that.
I was curious, so looked at Home Depot in Canada.

I see Samsung and LG with induction oven models, that now have dials for the "burners".

When I bought my range, maybe 5 years ago, I don't think these models existed.

So, perhaps the trend is reversing?

The oven itself seems digital in all cases, but that's fine. I don't mind setting it to 400F by entering the numbers, because that stays static for most of the cooking process.
Well, if you did read the article, there is no racism at all.

The YouTuber could probably be Indian because of the language used (Hindi). But totally insignificant to the post.

Please stop making random accusations.
That's harsh because TFA does mention that they feel outright uncomfortable (even after 18 years!) how big a role luck played in them clearing that fizzbuzz interview question:

> I've struggled with this a lot over the years, but I finally decided to share my story. I don’t think I would have made it past the first round of interviews at Microsoft if I hadn’t gotten so lucky. So pretty much, my entire career is built on one amazing stroke of luck.

...which explains why they felt like they "cheated".