skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL. Thanks. I made it cheap since it's my first book :)

"The Big Bucks" (about the 80's & the birth of the Internet) is going to be out in a few days, and it'll be more. Why? Because I think for my audience, the price doesn't matter as much, and so my income from writing might turn positive someday (and thus it won't be a "hobby" to the IRS).
Parenthood is vital to society and it's very much in the interest of countries with declining birthrates to promote it. It is currently subsidized but not nearly enough to make it a rational choice for individuals from a purely economic perspective. If we want to stabilize declining birthrates, we will need to increase subsidies by a lot.
People are mad as hell for no reason about this one. It's honestly decent monetization and the free game is great.
One might argue before that was CompuServ. Text only, dialup, massive BBS basically. Messaging, shopping, airline reservations and other connections.

I wish someone could rescue the whole thing from tape and host it.
I live in a part of California where the air is bad for a significant portion of the year - no less than one tenth to one quarter of the year. So opening the window wouldn’t save me from particulates & pollution - in fact, it would introduce them. The only solution for us is to not introduce them in the first place.
What about compared to putting a cup in a kitchen microwave?
Elon Musk Says Tesla AI Day Pushed to Sept. 30, Awaits Optimus Prime
https://mathimages.swarthmore.edu/index.php/Rope_around_the_...

> Although finding the answer requires only basic geometry, even professional mathematicians find the answer strangely counter-intuitive.

I guess the more a visual person you are the more counter-intuitive it is. That only 6 feet of rope is needed to widen the radius of Earth at every place at continents and oceans ect at a whole 1 feet seems crazy to me.
MyNoise is a really high quality, well maintained website run by a single person. He even goes out and does his own field recordings. I highly recommend it.
Ah, derp, sorry! You're right, of course.

(Eventually the towers would reach end-of-life but I would hope we have sorted things out climate-wise by then, eh?)

I could imagine that wood+"fossil glue" could be better for the climate than steel or fiberglass (or whatever.)
I just bought one a week ago to deal with noisy neighbors. Can’t believe I waited so long. It’s also nice to have on a lower setting during the day to drown out general city annoyances
I don't know. When I tried it I got a lot of networking issues with components even the existence of which was barely documented online.
Well, I would have enjoyed that discussion. If the interviewer is capable of taking a break and having an engaging conversation about literally anything during an interview, that's a massive bonus in my mind. I don't need to hear about your plan to shake things up for the 10th time. If you can't see me as a person and not just a potential cog to make your department look better so that you get your bonuses, I don't want to work for you.
I would be interested in some links as well.
It doesn't. I was using it as an example of it being done right, without actually following the limitations of the NES. But you can see from the article linked by one of the other replies the dev team put in a lot of effort to make it as close to authentic as possible.
Rubbish. Cars don't kill people, people kill people. The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a car is a good guy with a car.
I don't listen to podcasts on Spotify, but I believe they insert ads into podcasts even if you have a premium subscription. At least they used to.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Podcasts-Partners-etc...
Do you also have a gas stove? I’ve lived in lots of places that have unvented blowers but none of them had gas. Would be against code in almost every city in America.
“Listening to the debate, I remembered Sandy Hook. And what happens after these things, there's anger, there's outburst. And then a month later, nothing happens.”

This problem won't end until you repeal or reinterpret the 2nd or amend the constitution. Everything else is a band aid.
During the freeze, my family of four lived in the living room huddled around the gas fireplace. Stayed relatively warm and only needed a C cell to keep the gas flowing.
Tesla Model X Plaid loaded with 6 people defeats the Porsche 992 in drag racing
Just tested, github fails
Unless either of one has a tardis, we don’t know the intent of that phrase. Inferences can be made, but it’s hardly “good working order” without knowing who is available and where. There were no significant weapons differences then but they certainly are now. “Who’sgot the horse” comes to mind as the additional info needed to run a militia.
I hope this interactive tutorial on symmetric encryption is useful. The tutorial consists of examples that run in the browser (using my own simple programming language). It uses the Speck cipher because it is easy to implement with little code. It shows the different block modes, brute force attacks and the problem of reusing the counter ("nonce") in counter mode (or stream cipher). Feedback is welcome.
You want an old boy's club that gatekeeps a profession? I'm extremely glad we don't have that in software, actually.
I think this may get the cause of health issues like asthma at least partially wrong. Perhaps natural gas plants a part, I don't know, but it tends to be used in cooking much more often in more densely populated areas which also happen to be in closer proximity to polution-producing industries.

The infrastructure for running natural gas lines costs money, so it is most economical in these more densely populated areas. Within 30 miles of where I live natural gas is dominant, but further out from this suburb of a major city electric heat and electric stoves are significant more common.
If I understand the article correctly they were excluding patients enrolled in chemo and radiation?

If that's what they mean the survival rate wouldn't be 67% so this would imply a 1349 in 1350 chance the treatment is better than the average treatment?
What kind of things do military veterans get? I'm dimly aware something exists in the US, but I'm not from the US so not sure what that is exactly.
Convenience is likely huge
This video also explains the problems: https://youtu.be/rtE0nlOrwGQ. In fact, it's not just the problem of combining the national rail and underground signalling systems, but there's even a third signalling system used by the Heathrow Express.

So the trains will need to seamlessly transition between TPWS on the national railway lines, then CBTC in the London underground, and ETCS when going to Heathrow airport.

I think this is what they call integration hell, and is responsible for delays of several years. When you consider the complexity, but also the safety-critical nature of these train signalling systems, it's no wonder it has overrun.
Diablo is the king, or at least a well-placed prince, of monotonous gameplay.
I would choose the thoughtful person instead of the overconfident person 100% of the time.
And that explains why you have so many cars on the road but no bicycles. It's not people that kill people, it's people with cars that kill people. Don't bring a bike to a car fight.
Did you know how a pair of scissors works on cables? Or a white noise generator from some online giant can effectively cut wireless coms? No need to be IT pro for such actions.
Old buildings aren't really the subject at hand, though[1]. Ideas about replacing standard cooking appliances are aimed at new construction and renovation. If you can afford to put in an induction range, you can surely run a wire for it.

[1] Though it must also be pointed out that older housing stock tends very strongly to be electric anyway. Gas cooktops have always been high end devices. People renting buildings in old urban neighborhoods never installed them.
What is the police actually doing these days?
Poor construction of pipes in exterior walls with degraded insulation.
Reverse Engineering 90s Sierra AGI Games
ChatOps: Building Someone You’d Want to Have a Beer With
Yet society pours HUGE amounts of money on it, because obviously it has huge value and the government pays boatloads for it.

Do you really mean "no value"?
Pad keeping AOL and apparently LJ alive, nice! This has been a dream side project of mine for a long time just to bring back the golden years of the Internet so happy to see it’s been done.
> For my uses there is always too much additional nonsense with noise apps.

Do you have examples? I have been decently happy when I have needed to find one, even free ones.

Your link doesn't play and also requests access to my microphone.
All I see is open office hell. Might as well work in a shopping mall.
In particular this:

> Some were up to eight words long, the equivalent of hitting every number in a Powerball ticket and then some.

Which assumes plays are completely random sequences of words, and there is no such things as meaning or common phrases.
And the interview process was just as irrelevant to your actual success in the position as it still is today.
Am I missing something or sorting is n.log(n) when the sum trick is linear time?

In the lack of additional constraint, sorting seems massively overkill.

Not sure why you are saying that sorting is simpler than the sum trick.
I assume the answer is all of them?
Hand-written diagrams are not a bad idea. That whole 'memory palace' idea of using an architectural model of some kind as a map to the information is also useful (even a simple linear timeline on a piece of paper noting important events would be useful for a biography).

There are some open-source tools you can play around with to make timelines too, although such things can take up more time than pencil and paper. Some are more accessible than others:

https://schoolofdata.org/handbook/courses/timeline-tools/
I know. Why should anyone have kids!

The ROI of children is vastly lower than most other endeavors in life. Start a company, not a family.
Getting rejections is not a slap to the face. In many areas it's a normal expectation to be rejected a lot.

If you are only getting rejections, you may try either lowering your expectations or getting some relevant skills to beef up your offering on the market.
That's 1 year of compensation for 18+ years of part-time labor, in countries with the most parental leave
Why do you want it? What’s in it for you ?
I don't really think it's fair to call parenthood a "personal choice". It's not a complete necessity like food and water, but it's also not a complete personal choice like getting a tattoo. The majority of humans are going to be parents. All living humans come from a long unbroken line of parents. It's more fundamental than a simple personal choice.
They really can't because of the ventilation requirements and the amount of water vapor produced.
Ask HN: Which programming games helped you become a better programmer?
There are numerous programming games available that claim to teach you how to code. However, I couldn't find any posts on HN that confirmed or denied their usefulness. Except this one, but it's from 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13566247

1. Are there any good beginner programming games in widely used programming languages (like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP)?

2. Are there any programming games that have helped you become a more advanced programmer (or a better programmer)?

I am interested in games that are not just fun, but also teach you programming useful in the real world (maybe not directly, since it's a game, but still).
It is absolutely not! We live in Germany which has good options compared to other countries and it is still not enough.
My wife earns 5000€+ in her job. Guess what, you can earn a maximum of 1800€ during parental leave. It gets even better, now that she takes a few hours less because somebody needs to take care of our child, kid number 2 will even be compensated with less (1400€). How is this fair?
This is without the missed opportunities to get a higher position.
Women are less likely to be employed because of the fear that they might leave for a year or 2.
What needs to happen is that the compensation is higher AND that men are forced to take an equal time of. If the woman takes a year the man has todo the same. Otherwise equality will be very difficult to archive.
Twilight of the NIMBY
Why jump all the way to the big fish? It’s more sensible to start with a distributor like Digikey since presumably they’re not buying directly by the pallet from TI or ST Micro if they are ‘small manufactuers’.

If they don’t think they can do Digikey’s job better than what’s already being done then they have their answer.

The folks upstream and at Wall st can presumably do math and think a few steps ahead, so if they saw an opportunity for outsized returns they would likely already have plans for it.

Just like why nobody is making a $15000 Corolla equivalent in 2022, because it’s not profitable enough.
The AWK book is also pretty good; I read through it a few months ago, and pretty much all of it still works with a modern AWK (such as GNU AWK).

The Go book was mostly written by Alan Donavan, according to Kernighan anyway (as stated in some interviews), but he's not the bragging sort so he might be underselling his contribution.
Did you know how much it cost a simple white noise generator, powerful enough to cut most wireless comms (i.e. all doable on small devices who can't use kW LF emissions)?

That's even more important than moral considerations and irony on what future we heading to...
What a strange perspective to take. A "subsidized personal choice," as if there is some higher economic power that we are in service of, and those who decide to dedicate a third of our adult existence to the next generation are making some luxurious lifestyle choice.
We wish we had decent rail lines in the US.
> US schools apparently conduct surprise active shooter drills with simulated gunshots

I thought this must be hyperbole, but holy crap. There's a story of an Oregon teacher who sued her school district when she was "shot" in 2013 in a surprise drill [1]. In 2021, Texas introduced but failed to pass a law requiring advance notice of simulated shooting drills [2].

That's craaaaaaazy to me. If the "arm the teachers" faction gets their way, do they stop doing these drills, or just accept a few more dead people from drills gone wrong?

[1]: https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2015/04/te...

[2]: https://legiscan.com/TX/drafts/HB1016/2021
Lots of dupes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31589575

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31569066
We can't. At least not always. And they don't even have to be compromised, they could also just be (and often are) wrong. Also, even when they're right it's going to be about about some small part of an impossibly complex whole. I think "what the experts/data say" should play an important, but extremely small role in how we decide to live our lives, with the balance made up by input from our close friends and family and those who are physically/geographically close to us.
> Yes it is an open source project, but the entire team that works on it is based out in China, and that's really not something you want to play games with.

Maybe you could expand on why this is an issue.
Are there ads injected in podcasts as well? I thought it was just music? I still get adds clock around when using it for podcasts though like pop ups
From my last post:

> My situation is complex

This means my situation pretty much does not apply to anyone else, and the tax residency question is very complex in my case, as well. I won't bore you with details. :)
Exploring an Abandoned Chinese Ghost City
Yup. Having people listen to a white noise generator as a "podcast" rather than a "playlist" certainly improves their "Look how well our podcasts are doing!" numbers.

Taylor Swift's next album will probably be released as a podcast...
Something similar happened to my actual job interview: in the preparation I had read a long list of questions and most of them was part of the technical interview. I was able to reply in seconds, just because I already know that.
I was very honest and I told them after the 3rd question.

It seems that they appreciate that.
Those are the result of forced ghettoization of the street vendors. When I was a kid (mid 60s/early 70s) the place was a lot less regimented and there were street vendors everywhere. There was much greater variety of food (and hygiene). Cleaning that up homogenized things — which I want to believe was an accidental side effect, though one can never be sure.
It makes sense if the kid’s already into programming, and is starting to run up against the sorts of problems a VCS is designed to solve like “oh no it was kinda working and my attempts to make it work better broke it and I closed the editor so I can’t undo my way back out of this”.

A kid in first grade is not very likely to be having these kinds of problems, but a site like this full of professional programmers is certainly where you’re most likely to find parents whose kids are having these problems because they’ve been genuinely interested in learning what Mom and/or Dad do all day, and have been taught some of it.
Nice cherry pick of my comment, You need to read the entire section to understand what I was saying, which clearly you have no interest in commenting on. The Charge was the NSA is/was violating the 4th amendment wholesale (and other Laws that prevent them from targeting US Citizens), so in the over all context of this "investigation" the 4th amendment is in fact not "silent" as you claim, it very clearly prohibits what the NSA is doing, you then claiming the FBI is "following" the 4th amendment in pursuit of silencing whistleblower that is attempting to alert the public of 4th amendment violation is ironic to say the least.

Using "State Secrets" laws to cover up constitutional violations is also somewhat dubious so then one has to ask what law is more important, a Federal Statute of Secrecy or the Constitution, clearly you think Federal Statute over rides the Constitution, I dont.

>>You don't think that police should have the power to seize evidence or arrest people at all?

Seize Evidence... Sure

Pre-trial confinement should be exclusively reserved for cases where there is clear and convincing evidence of a danger the individual poses to the wider public, i.e a rapist or murder...

Innocent until proven guilty right? Or do you reject that fundamental provision of the law as well, I am not sure because you seem to have a very cozy relationship with structures of authority.
Indeed - the expectations were very high for Crossrail before and during development. All that has happened is they have delivered the product exactly as described, albeit 4 years later and over budget.

It should be noted that 4 years ago the BBC were running documentaries about how successful the Crossrail project had been after the tunnels were finished and most of the stations were almost done. It seems that nobody expected the software and signalling to take an additional 4 years of time. Somebody somewhere really messed up that part of the project. Everything else - the main civil engineering project - did go extremely smoothly and was even ahead of schedule at times.
Did they crack monero yet?
I write up a review for almost every book I read, to post to my Goodreads account. If somebody else profits from the review, great, but the main reason is that it causes me to stop and reflect on what I read. Sometimes I go back and dip into the book again to clarify my thinking. Mostly, it's just a kind of exercise/reminder, after all is read, to turn that into a condensed bottom line summary. I think it's like doing homework after hearing a lecture; it helps to solidify the knowledge, by forcing your brain to grapple with the content.
I'm using my old iPad mini as an ebook reader for tech books. For fictional books, I'm still a happy Kindle user, but I never liked reading technical books esp. with tables or images. Before finding that usecase, it almost ended up as a digital picture frame, which feels like a waste.
Wait, I don't think that's Marcan, right?
If it went like how nicotine and cigarettes stopped being marketed to kids, I’d be ok with that. Adults did complain that their right to smoke candy flavored cigarettes was being taken away, or that kids don’t have money for cigarettes anyway, but I think it was a net benefit. I do understand the point you’re making though and bad regulation certainly exists.
I'm often told my React explainers at https://maxrozen.com/articles are very accessible (particularly for non native English speakers)
In fact last year I posted #google - complaining how google blocks genuine negative reviews with proofs, on FB. Result was my FB account (avid FB user since 2009) and my email that I use to login to FB were hacked (lost access to FB and my gmail accounts).

Makes one wonder what the security teams at these Big Tech do for work - hack genuine online users and scrape the internet blocking all genuine activity in favor of their own products.
In that case land acquisition costs make it too pricy since attractive downtown plots in a big city like Toronto are easily hundreds of millions per acre. Because they are zoned for 40+ story buildings.

And why would any land owner seek to zone for less than the maximal allowance?

If you mean forced downgrading of the zoning or replacing existing suburbia with mid density developments, or subsidizing mid density as opposed to suburbia, that’s an entirely political conversation since the roadblock is zoning laws and the legislature.
The solution I know for this one involves topo sort and a trie, once you have brushed up on those concepts it's not so bad.
This is so good. I have a old iPad and a PS3, they work well but I cannot do anything on them. Companies should just let you install Linux on hardware they do not want to support.
If you've got a lot of cash, wouldn't you actually want deflation? The cash you're holding is worth more than when you obtained it during and after deflation.
Israel Builds a Laser Weapon to Zap Threats Out of the Sky
You maximize the situation to your advantage by using all the tools at your disposal. That's what occurred here so zero cheating occurred.
>This polyribonucleic acid averages 100–300 nucleotides in length, with a substantial fraction of 3′,-5′-dinucleotide linkages

Notably they don't distinguish linear vs. branched RNAs, it's the linear ones which are likely to be more interesting for the development of life.
Fast-track into (US) Federal Gov jobs and contracts.
A generator powering the grid for the electric company is going to capture a far greater portion of the fossil fuel energy than the gas range in your kitchen. There will be some loss transmitting electrical power from the generator to your house, but usually less loss proportionally than than energy wasted above a gas range. As you suggest, climate-neutral renewable sources make up a tiny portion of most power grids, but that will likely change in the coming years.
yes, thank you.But light and self Hosted version control,I have to recommand fossil.Git is not gods,we can blame it and recommand other more better software for special case.
A lot of people exist in bubbles and don't seem to know what is it like for the average worker in the US. There's a ton of shit like this going on that the average high and middle income earner has no idea about.
I have a ‘LectroFan, it’s just a little box with a bunch of fan/white noises in it. From what I remember it generates them vs just playing an audio clip on a loop. I prefer it to running something on my phone for 8 hours at a time.

I also have a mini one for when I travel, which has a battery and can double as a BT speaker. I do sometimes forget this when I travel, especially for short trips, so the iPhone feature is a good reminder. I think I heard about it before, but without using it, it’s easy to forget.