skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There were just too many coincidences pointing to North’s authorship of the source plays—too many characters and ideas in North’s work and people and events in his own life that seemed to make their way into the Shakespeare canon.

Some variation of this claim has appeared in every anti-Stratfordian conversion story going back over a century to the original Baconians. The problem is that you can make similarly compelling biographical concordances with other figures of the time who definitely didn't write Shakespeare, and you can do the same with other playwrights' work. A deeper problem is that it assumes Shakespeare's work "should be" autobiographical, but there's no reason to assume that about a popular artist who we know based much of his work on existing stories.
Looking back at how Signal works (2020)
Forgive me for XYing you, but do you have to use curves? A lot of drawing apps these days let you just draw on vector layers.

Inkscape, fresco, and Concepts all come to mind.
... With microphones he builds himself, too. https://mynoise.net/microphones.php
> And yes, the enzymes I refer to could be realized as RNA, but acting as the enzymes directly, not merely describing them

RNA can act as an enzyme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribozyme). This fact is one of the arguments in favor of the RNA world hypothesis.
MSN Messenger was the best chat software I ever used. Its abandonment was a huge loss. Thanks for sharing!
How do we fix it though? I empathise with the developers involved - there’s an inclination to look at what they had to do as just engineer some software to manage some signals, some diagnostics and some trains. And to some extent that’s true but it overlooks the other part of their process which is more akin to painting a great artwork - when will you be done with that?

I frequently see one answer fail - we just need to plan it more thoroughly, don’t just estimate, go through exactly what you’ll need, identify dependencies now not during coding. These efforts always fall for the same reason, when it comes time to implement, the plan is hopelessly out of date, incomplete and just plain naïve.

It’s easy to deliver software on time up to around 10kLOC (i.e. single developer short project). Beyond that, the variables cascade and avalanche exponentially. The problem with this is all the interesting problems need >1dev and certainly more than 10kLoc!

On balance I’m more persuaded by XP than by Royce but honestly i don’t think either approach makes or breaks, both can work well.
> human and AI monitoring, together with panic buttons and other local communication tools, can detect and ID a threat before a shot is fired

Heh, I guess they thought Minority Report was an instructional video. "Keep your hands raised at all times to avoid accidental tasing".
> We found out what was going on and had reservations whether to continue with the process, but he was invited to the second round and aced it.

Did you ask the candidate about the copied code? To me that's an honesty issue.
The data is pretty much as the band provides it. Mostly in one minute resolution, giving you steps, heart rate, "intensity" (this could somehow be translated to calories). From this, you can calculate your agregated your stats...
I asked some puzzle questions - add 6 feet to a rope around the world, stretch it out and how far off the ground would it be?

I can only imagine being "charmed" by a question like if I was much younger in my career, eager to be seen as smart and in the company of like-minded folk.

Nowadays... my focus is on solving problems... as in real problems, not made-up ones. Thankfully I haven't heard questions like this in years. But when I do, I take it as a sign that they probably don't have actual, meaty problems to work on, that is, requiring higher-level cognitive skills (and actual experience). Not to mention that this was supposed to be lunch, and here they are asking filter questions, but pretending it's just "casual conversation" when obviously it isn't.

And so would probably pause for a second, and think of a way to tactfully end the interview, and thank the interviewer for their time.
So good. Wildly talented havkery in brutal developmemt conditions. Mad crazy talent on display.

Hope someday we start making some of our own good notetakers.

I noticed Google launched a big note-taking webapp via ChromeOS, called Cursive[1]. Sadly they block other user agents, which is immoral & bad, against the genetics of what a web-based OS ought do. Imagine a bunch of "only works in Safari apps spawning... gross, gag me woth a spoon.

[1] https://cursive.apps.chrome/
Yeah, agree here. Even with a stream of continuous employment, nobody gets a job by submitting CV's to websites. You have to have a network.

Best advice I would give to anyone taking a break from work is to stay in touch with your old coworkers-take them out to lunch occasionally, stop by the office and bring cookies, etc.
How much maintenance do those fans require to keep working well? I feel like the common thing is to basically not touch them, and they get pretty gross and don't seem to do much.

Edit: I got downvoted for this? I feel like I've seen a lifetime of these fans being decades old and in poor shape. I think you folks are vastly overestimating how many people clean those or replace the filter.
I hope not, Qualcomm's strategy is to stagnate with inefficient chips

I was hoping Apple would buy them or AMD

With Qualcomm, ARM will die
>Similarly, software should automatically be open-source after 30 years.

I'm not sure how well this might work. It's currently easier for me to resurrect an old Z80 ASM program than to get a node.js V6 program working. Our complicated dependency chains will make future-retro hard.
I’d expect people to still want to live in cities with a decent cultural offer. I’d be more worried about what will happen to places like the dormitory district that is London outside of zone 2. Why would one want to live in Brentford when they won’t need to catch a train to Waterloo every morning?
I am thinking about,

All those parents who are forced to work but always wanted to stay back and provide best care for their kids but couldn't do so.. feeling a gut punch.

Parents who chose career path and gets the slap in the face moments every time they realized that they could have spent more time with the kids instead of the work.

Is it possible to eat the cake and have it too?
> That's always stuck with me -- the problem with American healthcare is the American interpretation of capitalism.

What should it cost instead?

> Dude was living off of government research grants.

Let's imagine his work comes to fruition. The drug is expensive but efficacious - is this not a good thing? Should the government have not helped fund this drug because now it's expensive?

The alternative is a world without that drug and without as much incentive to produce the drug. I'm not sure that's a good trade.
I live in the North and I'd love to be able to get across the Pennines more quickly, and to be able to get to places like Leeds and Newcastle quickly.

But being realistic.... 90% of business, social, and civic activity is in London so that's where I need to get quickly.
That's my take on it as well - it feels like on every hiring-related thread people aren't actually looking to hire, they're looking for reasons not to hire, which they will obviously find (or make up) given how subjective the process is.
check out how much money koreans spend on Lineage. 110k? that's actually pretty affordable

https://www.mmobomb.com/news/player-spent-3-5-million-lineag...
> "You don't like to socialize with peers, with puzzles or tricky problems?"

You have to remember that, after about 2010, the software industry is mostly comprised of people who are after a paycheck and their actual interest in computers, STEM, and other nerd activates is kind of minimal. It came as a shock to me too when I realized that the old shibboleths of being a hacker had become largely absent in the software industry.
So instead of working hard at your tasks, you worked hard at playing your manager. Seems like a “law of conservation of working hard” to me; you just needed the right kind of working hard.
You pass all of the chairs that are going down?
That's the thing about nostalgia.
We don't miss a thing by itself, but the whole context in that given time.

I don't miss Windows 98. I miss being a child using that, browsing the old internet, the old terrible "web design" and having my friends on the same page
I don't know why you've been down voted. Seriously, stop farming karma and just let people do whatever they want to do.

Sure, if you wanna use this free-imgur-alternative-that-probably-won't-exist-tomorrow, go ahead and use it, nobody's stopping you. Just don't be an evangelical about it, and start annoying everyone.
Price is only slightly related to production costs. It’s much more about all the work that goes into getting something like this from basic science to trials to approval (and all the other drugs that fail along the way).

In the current model, pharma only stays in business by recouping all of the during the patent protected period of any drug that makes it to market.
Came here wanting to mention The Practice of Programming. It seems to be out of print, but I got my hands onto a copy of it some years ago and really enjoyed the clarity, humility and technical depth (mainly in the later parts) of the piece.

I enjoy clowning around and joking in personal interactions (if appropriate) and used to do it in my writing, but have come to believe that the humble, dry, concise style of the works mentioned above is most suitable and clearest for technical writing addressed to an unknown audience.
Aside from cleaner logs what benefit do you expect from fail2ban?
These are not completely different service strategies.

Both have planned where every trains should be at any moment. The difference is the amount of leeway you have to fix operational issues.

You can think of the metro as a “timetabled” system where the density is so high you have no margin. When something happen you have to shift and cancel. Train lines start having exactly the same issues when they operate near capacity.

Both systems have the same constraints. Trains can’t overtake. You can only have one per block. The integration difficulty is that they don’t manage blocks in the same way and use different signalling. You see the same issue on lines which are shared between SNCF and RATP in Paris. The A line used to require a driver change at the junction.
The power dynamics at play makes someone spending time with me during an interview process where they have nothing to lose and can exert influence in the selection of me for a full time job offer decidedly _not_ my peer in that situation.
Or.. just reclassify what constitutes a school, or school shooting. How would people feel about "learning related accident" or "minor-on-minor violence"?
Well, people used to use me for the same thing.

I had "Christ"
seconding the request on 'Tips for Managing your Manager'.
I don’t see a world that maintaining everything forever is viable. Things should die, be it software, silicon, or flesh.
i once worked on a team that was working closely with aol to develop an aol set top box. as an integration engineer i interfaced with aol quite a bit and on occasion, i'd get sent fascinating threads from their ops teams. all sorts of weird and scary sounding things like "access rotors" that were probably developed custom in the early 90s.
What's a good way to learn how to do this work, if you have scripting knowledge but not physics? I am working on a set of images to parse with OpenCV (non astronomical) but could apply the same techniques as those in the OP.

Often I find lately the barrier to a project is sociological, not technical.
Can't replicate on Firefox/macOS. Maybe Chrome-only?
to be fair I have seen more people loose precious photographs from film than from iCloud
Seems the EU has made a surprising strait of pro-consumer laws in the past.

I'd love to see them carry on and add something like this.
But you are though. Lots of games region lock US and EU out of their game.

Lost Ark is in the top 3 of all games played on Steam and has been since it released this February. The game was 3 years old when it launched in NA/EU though - it had been out for 3 years in South Korea, 2 years in Russia and Japan. This is a game that ended up being very popular, but if nobody had bought the NA/EU publishing rights then the only way to play it would've been to play on the Russian, Japanese or Korean servers.

It's pretty normal for online games that come from Asia to not cater to the western market. I don't see why they wouldn't do this even more if we get additional regulations on games. And even when they do cater to the western market the priority is going to be North America, not Europe. Europe's almost always second class in these. (And when these games are brought over they're often Americanized/localized.)

PS Lost Ark is banned in Netherlands and Belgium too.
Check out the second ave subway in NYC which was planned in 1920. The first phase opened in 2017; the second phase construction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway
Out of curiosity, which parts are these? I’ve used it up to Preston several times and didn’t notice much out of the ordinary (compared to trains in Switzerland, for instance).
Yeah, I can't but think the headline is true, but then leads immediately to, "but not as hazardous as you are now thinking."
Sure. There is an endless list.

He attempted to jail one of his main opposition rivals. This turned out to be a total fabrication by the Government. It was later admitted.
https://apnews.com/article/business-mexico-58710438781b6e3b9...

He tried to distract attention from media asking Spain to apologize when it was discovered that his son was living in a house property of a high executive of a company that has contracts with Pemex.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-spain/mexican-pres...

He was one of the last presidents to congratulate Biden when he won the presidency.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexico-s-president-one-l...

He is threatening not to attend the cumbre of las Americas asking for Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to attend. Something that is politically imposible for Biden to agree on.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/americas-summit-agen...

He accused legislators that voted against his bill of being traitors.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-president-cas...

He visited Trump to help him with the Mexican Vote in the US election
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mexico-president-trum...

He cancelled the construction of the new Mexico city Airport project which was going to be one of the most important regional hubs. The project was 30% and the cancellation cost 5 billions USD. He alleged corruption but nothing has come out of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_Texcoco_Airport
AI Drones with Taser
Twee Editors (2005)
I run this with two friends of mine. We’re a bunch of indie devs working together. It’s a team of 3 part-time devs. And, no, I won’t resell your data. If this doesn’t work out, I’ll purge the database.

It’s completely free to use, currently. Once we work with more feedback, we are going to add a premium subscription before phasing out the free plans.
> Time to retrofit some of these office buildings into apartment complexes.

But why would people want to live where they don't want to work?
Probably depends of your definition of content and tie with the discussion around Gacha game.

The part discussed here with the gem system looks more like a slot machine than anything I would describe as game content.
They're basically char filters, so if you wipe them and change the filters every 6 months or so you're good.

I'd be surprised if the average change time is any less than 5 years though.
> I was hoping Apple would buy them

God I hope not. Apple would try to prevent everyone else in the industry from using ARM IP and would lead to either a schism in ARM architectures or everyone jumping on something else (maybe that's what would get RISC-V to take off?).
I think the problem is that having such a high peak implies you’ll have “pay to win” mechanics dominate:

Players will be stratified by how much of that $110,000 they can pay — with no reasonable way out of that class system.
I wouldn’t call that “modern”: the “high speed” train has a top speed of 86 mph and in my experience only attains that for 15 minutes between Boston and NYC.

On the NYC DC stretch, scheduled “high speed” service is only 20-30 minutes shorter than the much cheaper regular service that stops at every station.
> Note: This is NOT a custom ROM for Nokia phones. It is a freshly designed PCB with exactly the same dimensions as the original PCB of the Nokia phone, so it can be put in the Nokia's shell.
So I can drop a 4K clip in Premiere and compress it to 1mbps.... Would you still call that 4K?

Wouldn't you agree the difference between 4K compressed vs. uncompressed is astounding? Wouldn't you agree we're getting screwed with the promise of 4K when true resolution is somewhere around 1080?
Why do you think Wales has so many wealthy mobile gamers in the first place?
I wonder if we will get more standardization out of this in a few years? It seems like parts being substitutable would become more of a selling point?
The other thing you can do is setup a trust for yourself so that you're broke on paper long before the trust runs out of money. I don't know if it's ethical but it's legal.
This is the same case as with many others in this war: people are confused because they don't realize a large part of Ukraine has been inhabited by Russians for generations. They really feel like Russians, speaking only in Russian, and until recently there was no problem with that.

Now, after the war broke out, many of these people needed to pick up sides. Are they with those who shoot at them from the East, that were supposed to be their own, or with those from the West, who are shooting their own? Many of them just didn't want to make this choice. Some decided to collaborate with the invaders, which is common in the eastern areas. Some decided they want to have nothing to do with the aggressors and are now starting to learn Ukrainian. I know people from each of these groups personally and it never occurred me to judge their choices.

Now, external observers tend to simplify everything into black-and-white game. I understand it's easier for the media to portray it like this, but it's inaccurate and basically untrue.
Absolutely. And yet the intellectual/philosophical underpinnings of that marvel are often demeaned, or neglected, even here on HN. The fact that the average person has no awareness that the software powering the vast majority of their technology was built for free and that they can own it is mind boggling. They're just told that the prisons they think are "computing" (Windows/Apple/Android) are the natural state of things.

Stallman is a (rightfully) controversial figure, but the Free Software movement is one of the most important movements of our age.
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> “high speed” train has a top speed of 86 mph

Wikipedia says 150, but I guess if you live there you probably know better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela
I disagree with the artwork analogy. I think it’s quite easy to decide when a software project is “done” if you set the requirements in detail at the beginning.

I think the issue plaguing estimation of projects is that a lot of software development involves running into problems and trying to solve them. Sometimes figuring out solutions to these issues is difficult and solutions appear as if by magic (in this was the art analogy makes sense in terms of inspiration). I’m not sure how we can ever estimate large projects accurately while we often need these moments of inspiration in order to solve problems.
I'm not disagreeing, but the money will.
There were plans under British Rail [0] and Railtrack [1] to push running above 125 mph via realignments & resignalling. Virgin Trains proposed running at 135 mph via the Tilt Authorisation and Speed Supervision system [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterCity_250#Project_scope

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Main_Line#Modernist...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Main_Line#Increased...
What model laptop is it? Is the battery management on performance or battery saving?

This used to be a frequent problem in the 2000s with Linux but I thought it was largely fixed except on the very newest laptops (takes 3-6 months for kinks to be worked out in my experience after a laptops release).
Anyone who has ridden Amtrak and had to pull over and weight for a freight train to pass.
There is such a thing as eye muscles. And like every muscle they like it when you move them from time to time.

Make sure to put your monitor into a room where you can look easily past it into something on a different distance. Just so that every once in a while. Bonus points if you develope a feeling for what movements your eye muscles like to do right now.

I am in front of a screen for 20 years now, and I have perfect eye sight doing just that. I never had hurting eyes from computers during that time.

The key is to listen to the signs your body gives you and not ignoring them. Sounds simple, but is actually hard if you formed a habit of suppressing your body/needs.
> 90% of business, social, and civic activity is in London

And that imbalance is what we really should be trying to fix. Will HS2 make any difference? I don't know...

[edit to add: speaking as one who lives less than 60 miles from central London.]
I recall the backend ran on some odd hardware for the time ???.
> Huh? It has to work out that or the human race dies out. I guess you could have a few couples who have a lot of kids instead, but developed societies are really adverse to that.

Obviously the human race somehow made it until we created developed societies. I think you are confusing survival of the human race with survival of our current pension system.

Who knows if it's really better or worse to suddenly allow everyone to reproduce?

For sure it's not "natural", and as far as I can see it would actually reverse evolution to regression instead.

And it seems like we can't really stop it anyway with how many men today are becoming outsiders in society because they get rejected to reproduce.
What was the point of the question? That would help determine whether or not this was cheating.

Normally with things like this the interviewer claims to want to "see how you think." If some prepared rote answer passed this interview phase, at the very least, the interview failed to meet its stated goal.

What's the difference between cheating and what's needed for your version of "success?" Can someone cheat their way to success? Or does seeing the answer key before the exam just mean being better prepared than the competition?

If the fraud in your story hadn't been discovered, would that have been success?
It’s true, but there’s no alternative. 99% of things don’t work.
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Whats your mailing address, I have a bunch of KiloBytes I'd like to send you FREE on CD-Roms. [Microplastics]
Do you still seriously need to give out your phone number to use it? Seems shady.
My theory is that companies are keeping the same office space but saving a ton of money on snacks.

The workers think they're getting a good deal but they really traded gas money for snack money. /s
There's definitely twenty minutes south of Crewe where I have to put my laptop away or I'll feel sick, and can't have a full cup of tea on the table without a lid.
I was just about to say that the Air 2 isn't all that old. According to Wikipedia, it's almost 8 years old.

There are two of these in my house. Both are still perfectly usable, the batteries are fine, and it still receives software updates.