skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyway, if you happened to peek at the illustration of the POC (used contrasting light / dark colours, plus patterns and softened letters of corresponding "inversion" [0]), do you think it is an improvement?

Author of the game also updated the contrast [1], so now it is light blue versus slightly darker violet, but still with same default (usually black) text colour [1]. Do you like it better? Or would you prefer classical black versus white or something in this lines?

[0] https://userstyles.world/api/style/preview/4975.webp

[1] https://github.com/alokmenghrajani/sliding_puzzle/commit/20c...

[2] https://github.com/alokmenghrajani/sliding_puzzle/raw/main/s...
Qualcomm is a glorified patent troll, so this would not be great.
I also used to work on this ecosystem, and I agree with this analysis. We regularly found cases where the routing system did not route to the preferred provider, despite the routing system knowing that the user was eligible to play a streamable result on the preferred provider and not on other providers.

The experience would dead-end in a way that was invisible to the organization tracking KPIs of the preferred provider, since the playback attempt landed in another org's system, and would penalize the KPIs of the actual destination, even though they couldn't service the request with a playable result.

Despite every music service provider being penalized in this way (and providing crappier CX), we were not able to get the Alexa organizations in question to prioritize whatever the investigation and fix required.
>that must take a bunch of energy - although presumably not as much as smelting steel?

You'd be surprised. Steel is 20MJ/kg[1], epoxy resin is 80MJ/kg[2]. FWIW, aluminium is 150MJ/kg.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_energy#In_common_mate...
[2] https://compositesuk.co.uk/composite-materials/faqs/embodied...
In many cases, what I find lacking is not "unannotated class list" Doxygen documentation, or contextual examples, but proper documentation of pointer lifetimes, and invariants (for example the `snd_pcm_link` docs merely say the two streams will start and stop together, but doesn't say it fails unless you're linking two hardware devices with a shared underlying clock which will are supposed to remain in sync indefinitely), and for new project contributors, architectural/implementation and control flow documentation. Unfortunately invariants often live in the original programmer's head more than the code, pointer lifetimes are often nonlocal in the codebase, and architecture/implementation and control flow is inevitably nonlocal, requiring weeks or months of efforts for a motivated non-author to learn, far beyond the patience of someone fishing for Hacktoberfest T-shirts.
I really like this article.

Especially this part:
“The green future has to be a welcoming one, even a thrilling one. If people cannot see themselves in it, they will fight to stop it. If the cost of caring about climate is to forgo having a family, that cost will be too high. A climate movement that embraces sacrifice as its answer or even as its temperament might do more harm than good. It may accidentally sacrifice the political appeal needed to make the net-zero emissions world real.”

I think this is a big issue in the climate movement, We see dumb stuff like Shutting Nuclear Plants while firing up Coal plans[1] and people calling to shoot anyone who supports nuclear power[2] or calls to ban meat.

It's just Virtue signaling, Picking things that are the most visible, Like not eating meat or not having children, things that affect peoples life much more than they have an impact on the climate.

Replacing one Coal plant with a nuclear one will do much more to stop climate change than you or thousands not having children and not eating meat or any individual act you, or they can do.

This focus on picking the most visible thing is driving many people away from caring about climate change.

It's now just a race about who sacrifices their lives more for the climate, which is absolutely what you don't tell people to get them to care about something.

I think it's a natural result of Social media, it has its benefits like how fast Climate change went mainstream and downsides like this.

1. https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1532054820311470080
2. https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1532842139117395968
> A drawn out conflict favors Russia

No, it doesn't, except in the sense that the conflict would have to shift to favoring Russia for it to be plausible for it to be “drawn out.”

Russia has already seen casualties that are probably on the order of those the (much larger) Soviet Union saw in its decade long war in Afghanistan, and significantly higher among senior officers—and that wars toll was a significant factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union. And the toll on equipment which they have basically no way to replenish has been high as well.

> Last time I checked Russia had a 10/1 advantage in heavy artillery

Don't know when you checked, but Ukraine has been getting a flood of artillery from the West, with longer range guns than the Russians have.

> has not mobilized its army

They haven't done a formal mass conscription, instead doing a backdoor mobilization, but that's kind of irrelevant since they are running out of first-tier combat-ready equipment, pulling older stuff out of stores to send to the front.

> fighting with 1/5 of its available peacetime forces

Maybe in total manpower. One of the many reasons for the high casualties in senior officers (besides the inability to delegate in land forces) is that their combat-capable pilots are a narrow corps that is senior-officer heavy, and they have a similar issue with other critical specialty forces, and those can't be replenished on any reasonable timescale.

> has suffered massive casualties among its most capable forces.

Russia has suffered massive casualties both overall and among its most capable forces, and expended a lot of its most capable equipment, and no one is rushing them replacements.
I'm always surprised by how high SBC is for executives these days at some of these firms. When I was starting out after college, was at successful start-up. Two differences (1) The CEO and Founders made money but nothing like today, maybe $50-75M and they just held the stock for years and (2) The secretaries from the early days actually made $2-3M when the firm went public. Not sure that happens today.
+1 for CodinGame, I loved their Sprint 2022 challenge (which is now available as multiplayer game). This challenge motivated me to purchase a book about writing intelligent agents and to start studying the subject more in depth.
Bendy track will result in screeches. I used live near Clapham Junction and you’d hear it there. The only solution is maglev.
This one covering the discovery of the "dirty pipe" vulnerability: https://dirtypipe.cm4all.com/
Yes, this looked very interesting but it falls a bit short:

> “The device can be used as a computer, walkie-talkie or modem. But Notkia does not know how to make phone calls. The fact is that Remu NotMoe could not find a sufficiently compact 4G LTE module.”

It’s still neat, but it’s not a phone.
"The 200 Class Seaplane Tender", by "Shaw" is a famous example of writing clarity. T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") wrote this, while he was involved in testing a speedboat.

I can't find the text on line any more. Just ads for it as a collectable.
Amtrak is legally supposed to get priority but I think they can't directly sue the freight railroads for failing to meet this requirement.
But then I guess it is slightly less surprising that all 12 people had remission, rather than all 18. (Or if all 18 had remission, then that's amazing but might not be to do with the drug.) Maybe it is still a great result, just slightly less significant.
Scotland’s rail system seems fine
I use it to research people. I'm over 50 so I don't get recruiter spam, just countless job shops offering to redo my web site or iOS app or SEO something or another. I have a grandfather'd "pro" account at $160/year which usually pays for itself once a year.
Funny I mentally read "psychopaths" when you said "psychologists" ... my mind was already set while reading the other comments, and something made me go back and re-read your comment to realize the difference :)
I suspect you are in the minority. Millions of Instagram/TikTok/Snapchat users enjoy vertical videos every day. If you ever find yourself disparaging vast swathes of the population, you might be missing some essential truth.

Vertical videos are comfortable to watch on a phone. Vertical videos are also great for capturing a single person in the frame, since people are also vertically proportioned.
Growing mobile-first population. Portrait is easier than landscape. Creators design with this in mind, get rewarded with eyeballs.
Nice, thanks! Maybe that could be a good addition, to catch the one exception in 10 years that really must get through.
You are criticizing the "quiz or challenge" style interviews, but you are basically describing a quiz interview. I don't think that most people just expect you to know the answer (like they may in other industries or even government). They expect you to don't know the answer, and then they will try to lead you to it and see your thought process. At least this is my style too.
> In a zero-trust marketplace it is impossible to ascertain the truthfulness of such statements.

I guess. I mean, my account has been around since 1997. We do a fair bit of ordering each year. And this was the only time I've reported someone bribing me.

It seems there are at least some signals there that would be useful.
Without watching the linked video...

No, the damage wasn't trillions. That's being measured as the decline in the market price of crypto. However the market price of crypto is incredibly misleading. The actual value of crypto is zero both before and after the crash. So the damage was caused by individuals and institutions handing their money to crypto holders and intermediaries. And that's how the damage should be measured: how much money went from productive applications to nonsense like crypto. I'm pretty sure it wasn't trillions. Billions maybe.
Landscape has a super old history, but it made the most sense where it originated, which was the stage, with curtains, for live theater. It got carried into film and then streaming video as a kind of analogy

You are living through a transition in human tech and society on the level of the printing press! The switch to vertical video makes sense right now because this is how people tend to consume scrolling content and hold their phones one-handed. I think it isn't better or worse, it's just different and interesting and a sign people are relating to the medium in new ways
At like 50¢/subscriber/month, that adds up fast for people with millions of subscribers. I bet the sponsorships are moreso about figuring out how to fill the streaming time, rather than the payment itself
Yeah at like 15mph through old track in urban areas.

We do have a huge freight network that moves a lot of tonnage, but I wouldn't call it modern or world-class in track infrastructure, speeds, signaling, train control automation, or electrification.
At least a few years ago it was an actual IRC server and has been since justin.tv. I don’t believe they’ve changed it, as irc clients and bots have continued working with no IRC related changes. (I don’t think they’d invest in providing an IRC gateway; it’d be easier to just abandon it)
all persons in the test did not have any sign of anxiety or depression, it's like getting a medicine for headache without an headache hoping that you will feel even better
It seems to be licensed under Apache 2.0 (for community edition) + some custom commercial license (for enterprise edition). See here: https://github.com/harness/drone/blob/master/LICENSE
I do like it.

I just wish parents stop acting as victims of their own choices, and that they should bare no consequences.

And people won't stop having kids, subsidies or no subsidies. So that's a non-issue.
tt-rss Android client no longer published to play store
It seems like premature vocational education. Vocational education is usually started as secondary or post-secondary education, not primary.

Starting vocational education so young feels like a slide back in time to the 19th century, except even then, apprenticeship usually began around 12-15 years old.
One of the issues is that OS schedulers are complex, and actually much more expensive than context switch itself. You can mitigate this with user-mode scheduling of kernel threads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw
I have two questions for people who worked through this book:

1. What was your mathematical knowledge when you read this book?

2. What did you gain from working through this book?
Where i live, GDPR and related laws make it illegal to mix advertising permissions with functional permissions. So that's never going to happen.
Don't you think that psychedelics would be particularly prone to placebo to the point that it's probably not safe to assume you weren't effected by it in some way?

> Coupled with downsides of microdosing (and yes, there are downsides)

Yeah - I feel like every drug user on hacker news is like the pinnacle of mental health or something because there's a whole batch of people called the mentally ill for whom I can never recommend microdosing, lest they have a panic attack or manic episode.

But sure! Psychedelics are all upside! /s
There is no right, just a personal choice. If you have to lug around the company provided laptop if you want to check your work calendar/email/slack/whatever, you may start to consider using your personal device.
Btw, I'm arguing that the EAs' maths is wrong and you, and others here, are arguing that it's sound.

So I have to ask you, and the rest who think the EAs' maths is sound: have you, or are you planning to donate your kidney to a stranger?

Because either the EAs' maths is sound, or you donate a kidney to a stranger, or otherwise you think your life is worth more than 4000 or 3000 or however many other people.

And sorry to be so lawyery about this, but I detect an undercurrent in this thread of "shut up, the maths have spoken" (see for example cjbprime's comment just below: I'm confused and the maths is sound). Well, if the maths is sound then go do the right thing, or else quit arguing just for the sake of argument.

Because the two people up there, who justified their decision to live-donate a kidney, at least they followed their principles, however misguided, and nobody can fault them for that. And I think their thinking is wrong and I only have one kidney anyway. But who are you, and how do you live up to your morals?
Ask HN: Is there any good wired mouse in the market?
Last year, my cheap HP mouse started giving me a huge amount of pain in the arm. It was tiny and I had a really poor grip on it most of the times (I have long fingers).

So, I started searching for a replacement. My criteria were that the new mouse should be ergonomic, large and wired. I scoured the review sites, shopping sites, the whole shebang.

I couldn't find a single mouse that fits all the criteria. Hence the question.

P.S.

1. I eventually bought a wireless mouse, an ASUS MW203. It is reasonably large and it has helped reduce my pain a lot. But sadly, I couldn't get my hands on it's mythical wired version.

2. It is surprisingly hard to find a large mouse in the sea of compact and portable (read: small) ones.

3. I prefer going wired when it comes to electronics and stuff. They are easy to repair and disengage (you just have to pull the wire). It is just a preference and not a crusade against wireless devices.
Oh man, totally. Every project should aspire to have as comprehensive and accessible docs. https://perldoc.perl.org/
Is it though? Diablo 100% grind after the story (which can be completed in a few sittings).
If you don't have children because you're worried about the environmental impact then the world will be overrun with people who don't share your views on sustainability.

EDIT: You can downvote this but it's true by definition. Other movements such as the shakers have experienced a similar fate.
First thing I do with all apps is disable all notifications for that app. The only exception is whatever app my workplace uses (Teams). For that I simply turn the ringer to silent so they can't vibrate the shit out of me. For those they just need to wait for me to look at my phone.
Strong Link/Weak Link
Delta – A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, and grep output
Intentionally annoying other people isn’t comparable to telling jokes.
In my other reply I mentioned I never lead job searches with resumes.

It was exactly this kind of situation combined with how I actually got my job that led to this.

In that situation, I'd sent out >100 resumes and got back 100 rejections. I still keep them all because I never wanted to forget the fundamental Epic Fail of looking for work that way.

The thing that crystalized the lesson:

1. I ended up "networking" into a job interview - 15 minutes after I got an offer to start immediately

2. The company I ended up working for (Intel) sent a rejection letter also - to my original resume application - 6 weeks after I'd started working there!!

I then got my next job use the same networking technique to get time in front of the hiring manager, and similarly I had a job within 15-30 minutes of interviewing.

This contrasted with having spent time on resumes, postage (pre-Web) and actively corralling status from each company.

Basically it's question of statistics: which will work more efficiently:

1. A random lottery-odds resume campaign where the resume has nearly no differentiating information to distinguish you from anyone else where the judge of that process doesn't have a STEM degree and is likely overworked and marginally paid above minimum wage

2. A 6-degrees of separation path (no more than 6 hops in a social network) via carefully selected people who likely have STEM training who each have an investment if they pass you through yet have far more knowledge about your qualification because they've talked to you as part of the network building.

The math is pretty damn obvious and trivial. Lottery odds with a faceless bureaucracy or pretty good odds if you are half good with a small set of people who can judge your worth on your merits.

I've used the latter for 40 years and its never failed. Any failures of mismatched jobs were 100% on me (biotech is a weird duck compared to computers or semiconductors).
I can understand why - Tracy Kidder made everyone involved with the MV/8000 look bad. The narrative was not compelling either frankly, I've never understood why people found the book so compelling.

Dealers makes everyone look good more or less - like it clearly explained to me why Xerox could never figure out how to commercialize the PARC innovations. The single largest issue appeared to be the incentives the sales force had were not aligned to the kind of products PARC could develop. (though its clear there were other issues with the capacity of PARC to productize something)

A faster Alto with a general purpose operating system and the existing document preparation tools, probably would have significantly outsold the Star - but again, would the Xerox sales force known how to sell that product? I don't think so, and thats the underlying problem.

The Star appeared to have just suffered from the Second System Effect, which compounded the other issues Xerox had.
> I think most engineers are way too stingy with RAM. It often makes sense to use more of it to reduce CPU, and to just spend it on developer convenience.

Hey! That's Java's argument!
There is so much more to this reality than we know. Don’t end your reality over what you experience yet. Life is a blessing otherwise we would not be able to find pleasure. Go enjoy life in anyway you can
Mirrord – mirror production traffic to your development environment
"Over budget" gets forgotten about in a few years. "Well implemented" lasts its lifetime.
Yes thank you

So many of these comments are recommending dry prose, Julia’s writing is fun and sympathetic about how hard all this junk is

I’ve found myself writing technical stuff in her voice a lot these days and I think it’s made my documentation more accessible
Harrison Bergeron distopia is a different topic in my opinion.

I agree with you that it might be impossible to enforce such a law without having the downsides you mentioned. However I would very much like being able to take 6 months of parental leave without being called lazy. This goes both ways.
Tech is one of the biggest success stories, if not /the/ biggest, of upwardly mobile meritocracy. Anyone with an internet connection can learn what they need on their home computer and probably make it if they have the ability and time.

I hate this idea that everyone who succeeds does so only or even primarily by chance and privilege. Obviously those things will help you, but everyone I know who's tried in life has succeeded in some way, and the people I know who espouse all this "the system is rigged, everything sucks, full communism now" stuff never had any drive or patience to do or learn anything and just want to put in the least effort possible to smoke weed and sit around like a vegetable all day.

I hate how these people try to take my accomplishments away from me. My family was low earning, I had social difficulties in public school, I had no connections or help beyond FAFSA for college. Maybe some people do take the "bootstraps" thing too far but we absolutely live in a world where you can succeed on your own merit.
Same. I keep my room well lit — be it natural or artificial, and keep screen brightness below 40% most of the time, and it really helps.
I wonder if we could also force the manufacturers of mixing boards and synthesizers to allow us to flash our own linux installations. I bought it but I want to use it for a different use case than what they design and support.
Systems that don't use money? Systems with a lot of regulations? Use your imagination.
I was curious about this so I searched and found that they started using Github before all the necessary features were ready in Gitea, and they are in the process of moving. The only thing left now to do is actually implement a feature to import content from Github.

Here is an issue tracking the migration: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
I assume you work in tech. Let's say you work at Netflix, are you pinging anyone and everyone to review each PR you make or are you assigning a few reviewers (or better yet, does it just auto assign owners based on CODEOWNERS)? Are you titling your PRs this way? How do you describe the changes?

Now imagine, everyone at Netflix made PRs the same way this author did. How do we make sure there is not a lot of noise? How do we collaborate well together?

I don't think you are being argumentative. I definitely think Epic games is at fault here, and that this points to issues in how they've setup teams and lack of guard rails on Github's part in terms of spam protection. But separate to this, the author's behaviour is not what I would want at a workplace I am at.
> As someone who has spent a few weeks microdosing, it is definitely not a placebo effect

People who experience a placebo effect also think whatever they're given is definitely effective.
Except MS is buying Blizzard, and they seem to have a healthy respect for long term recurring revenues by keeping franchises alive.
Timeline:

2008: Github launched

2008: Bitbucket launched

2010: Atlassian purchases bitbucket, makes private repos free

2011: Gitlab launched

2014: Gogs (Gitea's predecessor) first public release

2016: Gitea forks from Gogs

So at the very least, bitbucket was established and gitlab was around
As long there's a common understanding of the goal of the company it's easy. The tricky part is to get the manager to manage the upstream managers and across departments.