skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a strong FOSS supporter, I'd like to disabuse you of the notion that it was built for free. It was not built for free. Saying that it was free cheapens the work of all the people involved in a project and gives the impression to end-users that open source is only a cheap knock-off of proprietary solutions.
The last sentence states:

>"But let's not get ahead of ourselves, as the draft bill still has to pass through Congress unscathed."

Do you know if this draft bill ended up passing? I wasn't able to find much about it's current status.
That is actually the point of a lot of the hacks. For truck racing normally you remove emissions controls than reflash engine parameters to take advantage of whatever benefits. There is a bit of excitement for "right to repair" laws as it may let folks keep warranties and/or make it easier to bypass various protections and limits.
I think some of the Zachtronics games may be helpful to learn about Assembly.
Does it matter which company, though, given that they are run by humans who might change jobs or retire?

And isn't greed what drives most non-technical upper-management folks, because "greed" is what they are hired for?
That's a real shame and a great reason to put all your stuff on archive.org too.
So that's better if you're sourced by gas, and _way_ better if you're sourced by a renewable method? Looking at the national grid [0] in the UK, 40% of our energy came from gas, and most of the rest is renewable energy or nuclear. That significantly swings in favour of electric kettles.

[0] https://grid.iamkate.com/
They also have very tame monetization in their upcoming Warcraft mobile game when compared to the game it's cloning - Clash Royale. There are no loot boxes and you can buy character outright. Still the announcement was met with mixed reactions.

Maybe Blizzard's reputation has been so tarnished that even that is not enough and they need to forgo any mechanism that can be remotely considered giving paying customer advantages.

The thing is Activision has already successfully brought its flagship title Call of Duty to the mobile with only cosmetic store and making banks with it. So I disagree with you that Blizzard will be leaving money on the table by following that route.

It would be interested to see how well Diablo Immortal is going to do considering how much bad press it gets. Like you said the mobile gaming population is so much bigger than the PC one, but I question if the former are really immune to the opinions from YouTuber, social media and word of mouth from their friends.
I appreciate the feedback, and yeah it sounds like I should just focus on positioning myself best for a great next role and just coast while im at this current one
Time is money. Paying for progress or items provides accessibility to that experience for people who just dont have the time to grind.
Several of the reports I've read indicate some p2w mechanics don't even unlock until higher levels, and so are not immediately apparent. How far in are you?
We wish we had decent rail lines in London.
Sqlite has some good documentation. Their explanation of the file format is a good example:

https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html

Much better than other file format docs I've read, covers almost all the corner cases well, broken up into logical sections, uses tables for data formats when that makes sense, etc.
Proliferation of small, weaponized drones is an extremely dangerous path to go down. What stops you from swapping out a taser for another small weapon?

The development of the gun made it so that you could strike your enemy from a safer distance, but you'd still need to be within line of sight. A small, weaponized drone removes that last requirement. You could be miles away.

I'm not saying that making them illegal will prevent someone with the right skills from building one on their own. Indeed, we will likely see the first high-profile assassination using a small weaponized drone in our lifetime. However, mass production of that technology would mean anyone can kill without risk.

And that's a terrifying prospect.
In 2012, I moved from a long-term job to a small startup. I was the first engineering hire for the startup, and they had started building their product with consultants at Pivotal Labs. They also used Pivotal to test my programming ability -- I did an interview in which I implemented sets in Java in a style where the interviewer actually typed the code, I told him what to build.

That startup failed pretty soon afterward, and I got an interview at another startup -- that had also used Pivotal as contractors. That startup did its own interviewing, but they had liked Pivotal's style of interviewing, so I went into an interview with the CTO who started saying, "Okay, we're going to build a set in Java, I'll type the code..."

I said, "Look, I'm happy to do this interview, but I've done this exact thing before. Why don't you let me sit down with one of your coders for the time period you've allotted to this, and I'll help him do his work, which I think gives you a good sense for how I'd actually work."

I sat down with a JS developer and figured out a bug in his tests which was causing him to think that he had a bug in his main code.

I got the job.
> Limited Space by an alias of Pete Swanson; Yellow Swans

This is my first time listening to this "genre" of music and I love it!
Hey greatquux-- nice to see you here!

If I ever bother to work on ts_block again I'm definitely going to implement all the features you added. (I'm aware you've already written the code but, for me, half the fun is writing the code. >smile<)
> If it were up to me, I would have fired them immediately. Nobody has the right to conscript other people into their personal sense of humor.

I’d just fire everyone with a sense of humor, that’ll show them.

I’ve heard some people spend whole minutes setting up a joke for the punchline. How many billions of dollars does that cost the economy each year one has to wonder.

Outright theft of wages if you ask me!
Totally depends on the state of society and what the needs are, China had the opposite policy for over 30 years to achieve a declining birth rate. It's not true that more children = better. It's only an issue somehow for pyramid schemes of the welfare system.
In email land, the terms for helpful vs promotional are "transactional email" for the helpful stuff (e.g., https://mailchimp.com/help/about-transactional-email/) and "marketing email" for the promotional ones.

There are channels to report abuse if it's bad, not to mention just leaving reviews and mentioning why.
Elon Musk tells employees to return to the office 40 hours a week – or quit
Intensity and frequency of extreme novel epidemics
It's not possible, folks don't ever let you truly start fresh.
I like your approach, but step 3 should see the interviewer immediately let go, to be replaced by the candidate.
Why It’s So Hard to Make Risk Decisions in the Pandemic
If the fed continues on it’s current course, I guess we’ll find out over the next few years huh?
> I think it is totally plausible that he used things from other people.

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. Shakespeare is as great an artist as you can be.
You should check out https://www.pola.rs/
On the one hand, I agree that paying attention to the spammer is bad; on the other, I do believe there might be some use in publicly stating that such PRs will never be merged and are frowned upon; hopefully other people reading (many of them likely beginner programmers) will get the message.
But there's likely a better way to do the "teaching" without drawing any attention to the perpetrator.
First Movers Coalition: How investing in tech could save the climate
What you are describing is not a zip gun. A zip gun is an improvised firearm that typically, but not always, fires pistol cartridges (rifle or shotgun cartridge zip guns can and have been made, but they can be more sketchy to use and control). Zip guns are cobbled together from a pipe and some basic form of firing mechanism, etc.
An entirely side comment: this issue is touched on in the quite entertaining Norwegian show on HBO Max, "Beforeigners." I recommend it. It's a sci-fi / police procedural with the premise that people are suddenly arriving from the past (the 19th Century, 1000 years ago, and pre-historic times). It also has a fair amount of humor throughout.

The time-travelers from 1000 years ago commonly refer to themselves as "Vikings," although one such person testily observes to a person from the present, "actually, we prefer the term 'people of Norse descent.'"
So something similar happened with you? Im curious how common this is in the industry. I feel like our setup is incredibly stupid: dont extensively test your product internally before marketing, make promises to external customers to get them to the table, have a data team that essentially reports to the sales team and needs to show positive results to complete sales…
> (By this, I mean systems that use the blockchain data structure but don’t have the above three elements.)

Liink appears to have all three elements Schneier describes-- an immutable ledger distributed over many participants that any of the participants can read; the ETH consensus algorithm; and the third is a US-dollar backed stablecoin.

> In general, they have some external limitation on who can interact with the blockchain and its features.

Yes, there's a limited number of participants with varying degrees of mutual trust. So this criticism is accurate, but I don't find the actual mechanism you get worthless.

In any case, note that what I said was not that blockchain was here to stay, but distributed ledgers. So even if one got rid of the specific consensus algorithm and the value token, you'd still have a distributed ledger.
Thats because maximum capacity is determined by the CPU and the amount of slots available.

Just like a phone I bought years ago only listed a maximum micro-sd capacity of 32GiB even though the right formatting would allow 64 or 128. albeit being 'more wastefull' as the adress space didn't increase.
This seems a little off-brand for Musk. Where is the first principals reasoning here?
> the energy waste is just further up the chain

Just because both are "lossy" that does not mean at all the losses are of comparable magnitude.

So, actual question: "You need X amount of gas in a power plant to generate enough energy for 1000 households to heat their water with induction" vs "You need Y amount for the same number of households using gas stoves". What is the ratio between X and Y? You claim it is about 1. Is it? Or much larger than 1 or much smaller than 1?
Please don't give insincere apologies, they're rhetorically weak and pairing insincerity with something that should be sincere isn't a good look.

Which segues nicely to this pairing of public funding and private enterprise. No, if the drug wouldn't be sold for a profit then the incentive to make it wouldn't exist and the funds would not be applied for and the ironic pairing - if it is ironic, which I don't think it is - wouldn't exist either.

Unless we're going to believe that researchers go through the mill of applying for funding and doing research simply to get the funding and stay in badly paid employment?
Ancient phallus graffiti (and insult) found near Hadrian's Wall
TL;DR A stone at Vindolanda, a Roman fort just south of Hadrian’s Wall in the UK, recently made headlines. It was found by volunteer archaeologist, Dylan Herbert who wanted to remove the stone because he kept tripping over it. The stone features a penis and an inscription that translates to “Secundinus, the shitter”. It is thought to have been carved in the 3rd century CE by a Roman soldier who was clearly very committed to the insult, given how deeply it was carved. Phallus carvings are actually surprisingly common, this being the 13th found in Vindolanda alone. “Only after we removed the mud did I realize the full extent of what I'd uncovered, and I was absolutely delighted.”

Original article: https://www.livescience.com/roman-penis-graffiti-stone-uk
Knowing and working with a large number of custom home builders, a single ‘cartel’ is as far from the on the ground reality as you’re likely to get.

In some areas, maybe more like ‘collection of competing cartels that hate each other’.
They need to have some discussion to count as HN-dupes and those don't.
When you "go ballistic" are you verbally abusing a csr in a call center somewhere who already has an unpleasant and difficult job, or finding a way to apply pressure to someone who has some power to improve the situation?
I was not an AOL user. In the 90s my colleagues and friends used "AOL User" as a slight on folks who didn't understand tech. My dad was an AOL user and I had to show him how to use it. Often. I raged at its expensive walled garden (especially when I needed to show him how to access an actual website) but he liked it. Regardless, I love this project.
Factorio.

Factorio doesn’t exactly have code. However, it’s very much a game about systems, and how to efficiently build and manage them.

In fact, Shopify expensed the game for their employees [1]

1: https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1294330081452666882
It might be time to replace reviews with something more objective, such as the number of sales vs number of returns.
I learned Forth thanks to Minecraft RedPower2 mod. Whether it actually made me a better programmer can be disputed.

I don't think any game will make you a better programmer. It can get you interested, sure, but becoming a better programmer is only so much related to having in-game fun, and is often a matter of more self-discipline.
Everyone should have a co monitor on their gas stove, but a co monitor doesn't measure air quality. If your CO monitor goes off you turn off the appliance, call your gas supplier and leave the room/building.
From the documentation:

> Yet SQL does not provide a way of indexing queries that involve a JOIN. Social apps that want to query "what are all the posts of all the people I follow ordered in time" must design their own systems because SQL cannot index that query (SQL will need to load all of the posts of all the people you follow over all time, and sort them in memory!)

rough query but you get the idea

CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW follower_posts
SELECT f.follower_id, p.post_id, p.author_id, p.created
FROM followers AS f JOIN posts AS p
ON f.followee_id = p.author_id;
CREATE INDEX ON follower_posts (follower_id, created DESC);

Please read a textbook about databases before building your own.
It's possible. I've done it twice. But it takes hundreds of applications for every "yes"
I was saying this yesterday, LinkedIn, as an example, sends me the most inane notifications as do many apps trying to steal my time. I pay LinkedIn 100 dollars a month, those notifications should serve me, not the other way around. I really don't care about some low substance content written by someone who I'm neither connected with nor follow.
Well, I've enjoyed these games as for fun, but they did provide an intellectual challenge:
TIS-100 https://store.steampowered.com/app/370360/TIS100/
SHENZEN I/O https://store.steampowered.com/app/504210/SHENZHEN_IO/
Hacknet https://store.steampowered.com/app/365450/Hacknet/
Uplink https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/

As for becoming a better programmer, it's all about practice. CodeWars might be what you're looking for: https://www.codewars.com/
> open up unsupported devices instead of relying on the efforts of enthusiasts to keep them out of e-waste streams

This article is about gaining the ability to run Linux on a 2014 iPad that is still receiving both OS updates and security updates.
> Only because of the subsidies. It's hardly "natural" for all humans to reproduce.

This is an incredibly bold statement. Most people like having sex, and in a natural state (sans birth control, online dating, internet porn, etc) there are going to be a lot of pregnancies. The idea that tax credits, welfare or parental leave is what is driving this situation is ridiculous. This feels more like a dog whistle about the welfare state, but even if you take away those "subsidies", people ain't gonna stop having kids, that's just not how the majority of young people of child-bearing age think.
> It is so sad that "make good game, sell it" model no longer works. It's all a wonky curve of "free - couple of dollars - hundreds and thousands of dollars".

What I find really sad is that multiple games have proven that there is a middle ground and that making a f2p while making enormous amount of money is possible (League of Legend ...) and using such predatory system that are so prevalent on mobile is not the only solution.

There is probably already enough monetisation around skins in the games that they would have easily turn up a profit.

The rest is just greed and disregard for players but then when they don't care that the game is banned in two countries at launch because it violate gambling laws what else to expect ...
I love it that people have hobbies and interests to do stuff like this. As someone else here said: Apple is pretty good at supporting old hardware.

Off topic (sorry): my iPad Pro with the Apple case keyboard and SSH and Mosh clients makes a good enough client for running Linux VPSs. For someone who wants to program on the run with an iPad this solution might cause fewer frustrations.
Revolut is doing this and it infuriates me.
I want the payment notifications, not the promotional, gamification spam.
Pretty sure the base rate you'd want to compare against is either placebo given -> remission or simply spontaneous remission. It appears that spontaneous remission is really quite rare.

> [sponanteous remission of cancer] incidence is roughly one in every 60 000–100 000 cancer patients, but the true figure is unknown (2). Spontaneous regression of colon cancer seems to be particularly rare

https://academic.oup.com/jjco/article/45/1/111/888056

So using 0.0016% and 12 patients (which is what the paper the NYT actually links)

For a ~50% chance of seeing one trial with 12 patients have complete remission you'd expect to see ~43k trails.

(1 - 0.000016)^43000 = 0.502577

I wouldn't discount this study based off of those numbers.
Just learned that the word "penis" is automatically removed from HN posts
I got more confident in my Assembly skills after playing a lot of TIS-100.
Crossrail is not part of the the London Underground and uses its own tunnels. The trains will be longer, fatter and use overhead electrification instead of the third rail used on the underground. Although the same signalling system is being installed on some of the London Underground. Outside of the central section it runs on existing mainline tracks on the Great Western and Great Eastern which both had different legacy systems.
> Qualcomm's strategy is to stagnate with inefficient chips

What do you mean? Seems like they're constantly trying to catch up with Apple's chips.
Why require RF at all? An attacker could give the drone a location they know their target will be at and let the drone autonomously guide itself to the target.

[This dramatization][^1] focuses on full autonomy, but I'd argue it applies just as much to the steps leading up to it. All the more reason to take this threat seriously now.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw
Coelacanth are bony fish too. Bony fish contrasts with cartilaginous fish, e.g. sharks and rays.
> The Signal project doesn't want non-official clients to connect to their network.

They don't encourage it but they don't ban it either. Non-official clients absolutely exist for the network, some of which use signald, a backend service and abstraction layer for the signal protocol which is neither unstable nor a hack:

https://signald.org/
Unfortunately there's another angle here which is that the little fish are competing for supply with higher priced, higher volume products like cars, where a 10x increase in one component can be amortized over a much higher total cost and passed on to the customer. Nobody is going to notice an extra couple hundred bucks on the price of a car, but they'll definitely notice when it's on something that itself only costs a couple hundred bucks.

Big consumers are able to outbid even companies like DigiKey because they can afford to spread the cost around. TI had one of its best quarters ever over the last 12 months, but just try to buy TI parts anywhere - they're being priced through the roof. A $0.30 TI regulator was going for $30.00 on the secondary markets. I feel for any small company trying to build hardware right now.
> I desperately wish there were some kind of equivalent to the Bar Association for software.

There are many bar associations, not just one. The American Bar Association is a voluntary organization with no punishment power. Some US states have mandatory bar associations, other states don't.

Whenever someone suggests a professional organization governing software, it's usually overlooked that all such organizations are only regional. Ultimately, the power derives from local governments.
Name a hardware+pen+OS+app combo that beats iPad + Apple Pencil + ProCreate.

Name it.
Avoiding that situation has to be Scheduling 101.
ARM's IP is much broader than just Mobile AP.

It is also worth pointing out the percentage you quote is Revenue Share, not unit volume. Qualcomm's AP business isn't exactly in as good position as many think it is.
Probably because of the cost to convert and the building codes. There is another article on HN that discusses this situation in NYC right now. It just can’t be done according to the “experts.”
Makes me wonder whether these stories are paid advertising ( by electric stove companies or whomever ) or the journalist had to write something and just winged it. I'm guessing most garbage in media is paid advertising, but who knows at this point.
sounds like Timothy Snyder's sadopopulism.
The rope question is more of a Fermi question[1]. Not that they aren't commonly called [2] puzzlers, but I think the distinction is useful. Fermis are about estimating, and that's an actual skill - innumeracy[3] is real.

What I would call puzzle problems usually involve some trick to getting the answer. If you can't figure out the trick, you're stumped. If you know the trick, you barely have to think to crank out the answer. Optimally solving the example in the article is one of those.

They weren't widely banned because they were too novel and charming. They were banned because "time to aha!" in any given instance doesn't tell you much about how someone solves problems. Also, because the bulk of the work at most jobs doesn't really resemble seeking "aha moments," these questions tend to select for people who thrive most on doing something other than the job at hand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem

[2] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-hardest-interview-puzzle-q...

[3] https://innumeracy.net/category/estimation/
Where do you live ? Dozen times a year power outage sounds very rough.
Okay. So it was built freely, or given/contributed for free. I don’t share this notion that free equals cheap.
WoW is much worse than Diablo on that front...
Can I Devtools?
Excotic maybe, but I found adyen's documentation quite good https://docs.adyen.com/