skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That phenomenon probably has more to do with wealth being spread increasingly thin across ever-larger generations
ABBA is perfect background music for programming.

Their entire discography is around 3 hours which is how long I can maintain perfect focus, their songs are consistently good so that I don't have to skip bad songs, but not too good so that I stop working and start listening to song. Their songs were not in any movies I saw which means they will not bring memory of certain movie scenes (I'm looking at you Bohemian rhapsody in Wayne's world).
You Can't Control Your Data in the Cloud
"We shouldn't restrict heroin, if you're prone to addiction you can get a candybar in any supermarket"

These games are explicitly designed to prey on people prone to gambling-like addictions.
fuzzel - https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel
This somehow makes me happy that it's banned in the Netherlands as gambling.
How does this compare to Vagrant or devcontainers[0]?

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/create-dev-contain...
I wish the next data science language had parallel pipelines built in as a default.

I love the way I can pipe stuff in R’s tidyverse package, and I’m a big fan of chained pandas, but I wish they streamed data one row at a time and all the pipes ran in parallel.

Having that as a primitive in your data science language would be really cool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofn_Air_Station puts it at https://www.google.com/maps/@64.2453995,-14.9690037,3a,75y,1... and says the building is a civilian ARSR radar used for ATC.
You’re talking about faster horses, while GP is trying to say that if the tax system is simple, you don’t need advisories AND it takes 5 mins.
Under 1% of users for over 50% of your mobile gaming revenue with a not single purchase model has been a good general estimate since 2010; I invite you to google an publicly available data on that.
From what I've seen privately 50% is a vast understatement.
And no, most of those users cannot afford what they spend.
And those personalities want to severely punish someone over a minor transgression. Different strokes for different folks, I guess you could say.
It looks very good. I hope there will be support in nextjs and a nice material library for this
> they're just people with an addiction

Yes. These games are straight up designed to be habit forming and should be regarded as equivalent to gambling and addictive drugs. I've been down that rabbit hole myself.

Daily tasks and rewards offer positive reinforcement. Timers create a schedule for players, place a cap on their progression and establish negative reinforcement by punishing days of inactivity. Player groups reinforce each other's behavior. The goal is to get them to log in every day and invest in the game.

People pay money to uncap their progression. This turns these games into spending competitions: whoever spends the most money wins the game. The corporation is the only true winner of course.

I managed to cure myself of this addiction by... cheating. I reverse engineered the game and wrote a bot for it. All those silly tasks were now getting done automatically, my progression was assured and the game's hold over me was destroyed. The best part was my bot was statistically indistinguishable from a sufficiently addicted player due to the game's own design. I'd like to believe I helped destroy that game.
FYI in some jurisdictions you can be entitled to export your kindle library to another account/service. Since (according to the jurisdiction) you paid for the books in digital format, not paid for a kindle book. YMMV but generally useful for things like iTunes movies and kindle books. I’ve heard of Europeans using it to go from Play Store to ITunes and vice versa.
It does need to be fixed but I’m curious to know how this submission got upvoted to the current 8 points when the URL[1] is clearly bogus? Do people upvote on the basis of the title alone?

[1] In case it gets fixed later, I’ll mention that the URL currently points to https://news.ycombinator.com/ (i.e., to the Hacker News home page).
Valve Isn’t a Company Interested in Mods Anymore
Utter nonsense.

Did this person also check the page on Hitler and then complain that it had a lot of negative statements?

Truth doesn't care about your feelings. Some people will have negative statements linked to them because some people are actually worse.
Oh wow I didn't know about this. I never contributed code, but hacked around some wayland issues when it caused crashes. I find the behavior baffling to be honest. On one hand ManuelSchneid3r claims to not be a lawyer, on the other hand he dismisses comments about included code and linking in GPL plugins as not relevant and not being copyrightable (well you have to be a judge really to determine that). Then he says he doesn't want to have to spend time on discussing licensing, but then creates this whole storm in a teacup by changing the license and then says even even wants to write his own license. Then he says his comments (in a now deleted issue even) that you can package for distros are sufficiently binding, but on the other hand claims that his note on the website that Albert is GPL did not mean the code was GPL because there was no license file in the repository.

I think it would be good for him to sit down and sort out what are the goals that he would like to achieve. At the moment his behavior is clearly counterproductive.

His main worry seems to be redistribution with changes, because somebody might do something malicious. But realistically what are the chances, and
She mentions it was in the distance of the tourist attraction.

If infofarmer is correct and it's Hofn Air Station (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofn_Air_Station) then the tourist attraction might be Stokksnes, which Google Maps describe as "Commonly photographed headland with a dramatic mountainscape, black sands & a radar station."
I know people in listed companies, large, old ones, who were bitten quite badly by the stock going down. Treating everything besides your base cash pay as a bonus that can go to zero is the prudent thing to do.
Demand is going to go way up. Supply should (hopefully) follow.
I think he is right. One of the places google servers are used is captive portal checks [1]. Here is a, albeit not very deep, thread discussing how to disable it and you can easily find reports of losing internet access on lineage if you block google addresses on your network. Otherwise a connection to google servers is made every hour or so.

I remember reading, that this is not the only place in LOS, that google servers are used, but I never looked into it.

1: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-how-to-avoid-the-ca...
I work on video games (not on the design side but programming) and had to implement some on those systems on several mobile games. I agree with the comment above that it’s hard to draw the line between gambling addiction and à faire amount of random that brings fun to a game. Diablo 2 has already those kinds of random behavior to retain your attention and trigger dopamine rushes but without trying to grab cash from you.

The only solution to me is legal regulation, companies won’t listen as it brings money and most people like to play them. 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.

I hope EU will flag lootboxes based games as casino games globally and that other big countries will follow (like Korea, Japan and USA) to stop this trend and force designer to find better mechanics.

Also users should also be educated to pay for a game that they enjoy. Nowadays with all the free services, it’s harder to make users pay for something they can get for « free » elsewhere. So it’s a complicated issue.
> sociopathy is the only way that businesses are allowed to conduct themselves.

It would be great if we could stop spreading this misunderstanding. Fiduciary duty is a duty not to deliberately destroy shareholder value. Basically you can't set it on fire or loot it. It is not and has never been a duty to do absolutely anything anyone can possibly conceive of that will enrich the shareholders. Leaders are free morally and legally free to consider intangible factors that bear on the long term health and viability of the company and indeed do so every day.
Just found out now, no shirt for me
Things that no longer comfort me
Indeed, somehow this went completely over my head.
The point is that most of the time you're not actually hiring for specific niche skills that the rest of the team don't have. You just need more capacity to do what the team is already doing. In those cases if your tech test is some Leetcode algorithms question that the team can't pass themselves then asking that of a new hire is silly. You'll be ruling out candidates who could do the job well, just because they can't pass a test you don't need them to pass.

All I suggested is using the team's existing skillset as the measure to hire new people for the team, rather than some sort of arbitrary test that doesn't reflect the work they do.
Some places manage to do it right without disrupting anything.
I'd rather monopolistic tech keep its claws away from the public sector.
And that's exactly the reason almost all mobile game are utter trash.

Of course that was caused because the app-"economy" was broken from day one on: You couldn't and still can't call out fair prices on mobile software. People weren't and aren't willing to pay those. So you have to make the software "free" and sell your user's data, or charge one or two bucks and use some other immoral scheme to get your actual costs covered.

On a broken market there are only broken products… Simple as that.
This.

As someone who works with a lot of junior devs in India, I know the competition for early career roles in tech is immense, and so folks look at "open source contribution" as a "brownie point" to add in your resume. Having a "contributed to Unreal Engine" sounds great on paper and 3/5 companies would just take it at face-value and move this guy's resume higher up the stack.

And we have enough seasoned devs who try to be helpful to these junior folks and point out that the easiest way to get started in OSS is to provide/fix documentation for OSS since it's usually low barrier to entry + usually lacking in most OSS repos (The people praising the rr documentation is a great anecdote). But looks like the "quality" bit is lost in translation somewhere.
They’re not doing anything wrong, but working with generics, traits and async code is very much against the grain of the 2018/2021 editions of Rust.

The async story hasn’t finished, and is definitely the area that needs most improvement in terms of developer experience. There are a number of gated features and RFCs that propose solutions to these problems (e.g. GATs), but they haven’t been moved into the core language yet.

That doesn’t mean Rust is inherently bad or difficult, only that we’re working with an early version. Rust is young! We didn’t have futures until 2019, iirc.

Lots of core Rust concepts (lifetimes, ownership, references) need to be rethought for how they fit into asynchronous programming, and how to make everything compose well together.
This is not an Epic employee that trolled the company.

This is random people on the Internet that probably didn't even know they were part of that notification group, as explained elsewhere in this thread, and then joked around a little longer than they should have. It might not been immediately clear to some that each of their responses was to be sent to all 400k.

Not at all the same crime as you paint it to be. In any case, there is no one that's fireable here, so no need to try looking for some kind of righteous justice here.
Thanks! I was just going to ask for a tl;dr
Slack makes it easy. Terrible UX. I’m hoping it improves.

I have a set of different organizations in Slack, but I used to keep getting them mixed up (embarrassing).

What I did, was assign a different color theme to each org (on Mac. Doesn’t work on iOS). Helps me to differentiate quickly.
It’s your choice whether to install them or not. Let’s stop treating people like children please.
"Monopoly" in this context is an elision of "[legal] monopoly": it means that legislation excludes other parties from entitlement to something. It is said that in (typical) societies some law enforcement branches are given "monopoly of violence" (and again, "violence" as /fair/ coercion) - nobody else is in general entitled to exercising "violence" (a random citizen cannot deprive another of freedom, but the law enforcement, under fitting circumstances, can).
I don't think you can compare these mechanics to heroin, which is physically addictive. A fairer comparison is social media and timelines/newsfeeds, which use very similar mechanics, including randomness, to give people their dopamine rush and make them come back. Hence all this social media addiction we have. The main difference is that no money is (directly) involved there, only indirectly through ads.
Good idea but very poor experience filling the form on Android/Chrome. On Firefox worked slightly better.

Would be interesting to know how the ownerships of a project gets mediated as this is always a contentious issue.
That's the key!

The Play Store and the App Store do not even have a search filter for games without in-app purchases. I'm sure that is on purpose.
Sadly this didn't work for Volkswagen when they "studied" for their emission tests.
Talking with peoples who believe they live in a democracy reminds me of talking with religious people: they think if you don't believe in their god, than it means you are evil immoral person. Rational arguments (facts, evidence) do not work.
One line can make all the difference between a program that works and one that doesn't.
Here is the full illustration https://architecturenotes.co/content/images/size/w2000/2022/...
I told that story to my friend's daughter a couple of years ago. Next time I visited she was excited to tell me how she used it to win a sheet of stickers by betting one of her classmates she could add up the numbers faster than they could with a calculator. It was clever of her to add the calculator handicap into the mix. Makes me wonder if there are math hustlers outside of casinos.
Thanks for pointing this out I will fix it.
so the question becomes whether people should be allowed to spend money any way they see fit, even if that spending isn't great for themselves.

Like someone who's very invested in their hobby, they could be dropping tens of thousands of dollars into it (depending on the hobby of course). Why are those not considered the same as wasting money on mobile games?
Are there enough of those guys vs people who will spend 10? I guess you need 1k of those people to make up one whale, but aren't there more little players by a lot?

I guess I don't have the data. Also maybe you can get both at once by targeting the big guy.
How Electric Fish Were Able to Evolve Electric Organs
Definitely true! Good eye. Drawing out 1500 squares is tough.
When I visited Ottawa (in Canada) a couple of years ago you had to go the the special liquor store (LCBO) to get beer!
That’s not a problem since children don’t have access to credit cards or any other means to pay for in-game items.
Not quite the same thing as heroin as you can easily drown your sorrows in any number of cheap video games and I'm of the belief that if you are prone to addictions the only way to evolve passed them is to go through them. I am against putting laws up against these games but I am for the community warning and talking about this so people know what they're getting into.

I'm also for legalizing all drugs but that's another discussion
Could also just use a hashtable, the keys are the array elements and the items are the occurrence of each element, then return the one with an occurrence of 2.
Unpopular opinion here, I suspect, but I'm happy to see COVID vaccination mandates getting rolled back. They made sense last year when we all thought they would have a meaningful impact on transmission, but Omicron has made it pretty clear that they don't. So if somebody can't or just doesn't want to get the shot, meh, not society's problem anymore, just increase their insurance premiums to reflect the higher risk of being hospitalized if/when they catch it.

And for the record, I'm triple vaxxed myself and continue to strongly support mandatory vaccinations where they do clearly make sense, eg. measles.
it is cheaper than drugs. If you got to be addicted to something, i don't think these mobile games are the worst out there.

Of course, the best outcome is not to be addicted.
China security surveillance market boom buoys SmartSens
You really aren't talking about the same thing. It's not like you can add 100 housing units to an area one time and achieve affordable housing indefinitely. The housing units have to be added to meet increases in demand.

The idea I think you are assuming is that supply causes demand (i.e. demand will always rise to meet supply), and that the supply-demand curve is flat to maintain price regardless of supply.
> Human brains have bugs, and anyone going into a casino or a pay-to-win games know what they are going into. (If they don't that's their problem for not doing their own research and using common sense before putting their money)

"It's OK if people's lives are intentionally ruined purely for corporate profits, so long as it's at least partly those people's fault. They shouldn't let themselves be tricked."

> Human brains also have a bug around sugar consumption. I've yet to see selling people sugar or sugar-containing foods/beverages being regulated.

By the way, San Francisco taxes sugary drinks and requires them to have a warning label.

> The real solution is never preventing people from doing things (of course as long as they affect only the person and not the others' rights), instead, it's educating.

These approaches are not mutually exclusive. Perhaps it's best to find a balance between them?
Can't this be overridden (mostly) by simply specifying liability limit in all your contracts?
Even with wraparound semantics, you can't compute n(n+1)/2 naively, because (n(n+1) mod N) / 2 ≠ n(n+1)/2 mod N.

So actually not knowing the formula is kinda advantageous, because computing the sum as 1 + 2 + … + n (with every addition mod N) gives you the right answer (mod N).
If anything I hope it was just a ploy by the lawyer to troll the FBI and waste some time and resources.
A big part of Diablo (or at least of Diablo 3) once the story is finished is to go as far as possible in the post game features.

Most people I know who have played Diablo would tell me their rift tier, paragon level (might be a different term in English but they play in french so that's the term I know).

So for new players, it might not be that big of a deal, but for players wanting to play more Diablo the game is telling them to cough up as much as they can
There already is taxes like that, e.g on gasoline. Its very easy, just put a flat tax per liter. Then the more you use the more you pay. No need for extra surveillance, unless you want progressive taxaction of those resources.
That’s a very elegant solution. Hard looking problems that had simple, trick solutions were called Jewish Problems at the entrance of some universities.

This would let the examiner fail a student for subjective reasons instead of academic success. The examiner would then be able to say « I failed them because of their skills, not because of their religions, look how easy the solution is ».

Perhaps this is what we are reproducing as an industry with all our convoluted interview processes, and it may be a decorum to choose the candidates we want instead of using objective criteria.
it would make sense to scrape the data, and create an alternative search engine with such filters imho...
If Microsoft wouldn't buy ATVI (at a higher price than the current stock price), I would have sold my shares months ago. I don't have any hope for ATVI anymore. Instead of providing value to their customers - the gamers, they squeeze it for shareholders. I doubt, Diablo 4 will be any different.
> since they never revamped the fundamentals of their hyperthreading technology their spectre/meltdown/etc mitigations still send every new chip they make to the barber for a 15-30% haircut in performance.

Most of this is blatantly egregiously false.
> test knowledge of math formulas (which every math/CS major would have but none of the self learning folks)

I mean they might. Its a very famous formula, with a famous story attached, which is often covered in high school level math.

Regardless its a stupid question.
And this is why before "fixing" the monolith by placing a network in the middle, one should start to learn about modules, packages and libraries on the language of choice.
What is the closed form solution of the xor-sum though?
This is made by the company that gave us Warcraft III reforged. A money grab that made the game worse and ruined the already existing game. they have no goodwill.
My First thoughts on reading “... This control region is in most vertebrates, including humans,” was (of course) about some kind of mutant comic-book super-hero/villain. My Second thought was 'sharks with friggin' laser beams'. Sometimes learning stuff is fun :)
I am honestly surprised how little SPAM there is on GitHub in general. Please don’t take that as a challenge!

I’ve encountered a single instance. On a library I maintain, I recently had a PR and a series of comments added on all my outstanding issues made by a person advertising their for-pay SaaS alternative. Every problem someone had “Just try my SaaS with this connector instead…”

I hid the comments, closed the PR asking me to link it from my README, while chastising the person a little. Looking at the user’s profile/history he had done similar to many other related libraries. I reported the profile to GitHub and the whole profile was gone with all his comments and tickets in a matter of hours.

I honestly feel a little bad about that resolution, here was a person who probably put a decent chunk of time into his SaaS and just made the mistake of advertising it in an obnoxiously intrusive manner. They had legit git repos, now gone. I could have seen a younger dumber myself in their shoes, especially as I literally built the same SaaS ten years ago, using my library, and didn’t get a single person to bite.