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You mean pay for loot box games? I ask because Diablo is one of the original grind for random drop games. At its core, Diablo has always been a gambling game even before micro transactions.
> A cultural icon known for being in touch with emotions — and for his recent foray into the NFT space

A charlatan trough and through, always looking for the next grift.
I trained as a biochemist and you nailed it. The submission title's claim is wildly more extraordinary than the actual result. It's like claiming "Lines of humans spontaneously appear on a hot tin roof" when what happened was "humans spontaneously link arms when placed upon a hot tin roof."
What does one get for actually being nice and being an "ethical web scraper"?

I don't see many people bothering to be honest, developers who are out there scraping are mostly just doing a job, they want to be done as quick as possible and most don't care about things like this unless there are repercussions
KLM: “We will track that you have a valid 1st class medical as is required for airline transport operations.”

VNV and everyone: “No problem!”

KLM: “You also need this extra healthcare requirement that KLM is imposing.”

VNV: “No. We’ll see you in court.”

Airlines ensuring their flight crews are complying with federal laws and ICAO standards is great. Airlines setting their own medical standards differently is what I (and the pilots’ union) think is improper.
The article mentions that you can get the best gear for free but it will take you about 10 years. So I'm sure you can play it and have fun. If you try PVP however then you would be at a great advantage if you pay money for upgrades.
Show HN: An interactive tutorial on symmetric encryption
This was first mentioned in 1994, BTW.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...
Maybe if it’s just two countries right now, but if this ban would become EU wide gaming companies would have to care.
You're talking about Slow Steaming but these ships still use a bulbous bow. Indeed older ships are actually being taken into dry dock and re-nosed to tune the cruising speed down to a slower more efficient speed.

What happened was that a container ship could cruise across the Pacific at say 28 knots which is fast. But no one was paying for that speed which in fact used more fuel. On the other hand, a slower boat (Slow Steaming) used less fuel. It was more efficient and less polluting.

https://www.marineinsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/The...
Really cool - if you could also change the shape of the planet it would look even better.
You just blew my mind. Thanks for pointing this out, what seems obvious in hindsight :)
The trophy wife comment is weird. You could have just said wife but with just that one added word now I am confused by your sentence. Normally people use that phrase to describe a hot young lady a rich guy is married to usually as a second marriage who is less of a partner and more of a purchase? I've never heard anyone who wasn't flagging a hotwifing fetish say something like that. This is a strange forum for that. You could get her 3D scanned and put her in a trophy room on the metaverse?
Only three hours? I had to listen to them a bit too often, so no fond memories here, but they've got 8 albums (not counting the last one), and I'm sure most are longer than 20 minutes. Do the albums repeat songs?
"They absolutely are effective at reducing the risk of death or serious illness"

Actually, possibly not :( This breaks down into two separate questions:

1. Are they effective at reducing risk of death / serious illness now.

2. Were they so in the past?

To answer these we can't rely on any scientific gold standards despite the importance of the questions, because the trials showed no impact on death or actually the Pfizer trial had more deaths in the vaccine group than the control group (due to extra heart attacks). This was written off as "not statistically significant" (this isn't the right way to use statistical significance as a concept). Then they vaccinated the control group, thus ending the RCT phase of data collection.

The problem was that despite the constant messaging, COVID is virtually never deadly outside of the very elderly or sick, and those people tend not to join drug trials. Thus despite having ~65,000-ish participants there were not enough COVID deaths to detect any impact on this metric. Hospitalization meanwhile and "severe illness" were likewise not trial endpoints. So only noisy observational data is available.

For (1) the data from countries that actually release the raw data shows very mixed results indeed, with deaths being higher amongst the vaccinated cohort for some dosing ranges and age groups, lower for others, and overall there is no clear message from the data that vaccines are reducing deaths.

https://bartram.substack.com/p/update-on-the-failure-of-the-...

"It appears that things have got somewhat worse since last week’s report, with the hospitalisation and death rates in the double vaccinated (not boosted) exceeding that seen in the unvaccinated for all aged over 70, and with a higher death rate in those aged over 60 as well. What’s more, there now appears to be practically no benefit of vaccination with two doses of vaccine for those aged under 60, in terms of the remaining protection against hospitalisation and death."

That's for the UK but similar numbers can be found elsewhere in the rare cases where governments actually release the actual data (normally, they hide the actual numbers). Also, what we actually care about is overall mortality because vaccines can and do kill people, and just changing the cause of death isn't very useful. There too the news is disappointing, with small increases in excess death being correlated with booster rollouts but not the winter Omicron wave:

https://bartram.substack.com/p/increased-deaths-in-england-f...

All this is official UK government data so enough reason to at minimum reserve judgement. Data in the past is unfortunately heavily corrupted by mis-allocation of people to the different status buckets. The methodology they use would calculate a big but transient impact on death and sickness from an injection of water.
The arms race of coding interviews legitimately keeps some of the best most experienced candidates out of the candidate pool, replacing them with newbies who have time to make cheat sheets with every new type of leer code question, and maybe that’s the goal. When question lookup, exchange, cheating etc happens, it makes interviewers pick and design increasingly harder questions over time. That makes it impossible to pass interviews without months of prep memorizing/practicing the majority of latest questions, or cheating. What you lose are ethical candidates, or those with better things to do on their hands. That may be a feature and not a bug - you are left with those who will do the grind and do whatever it takes, until burning out in their own turn. After all the most intense hiring competition happens right out of college - capturing the developers with little experience, a lot of energy, and complete nativité on burnout. The companies that cause the most burnout, are the most intense competitors in that space too.
When we hire people I usually check out the Person's github account and see for myself what the contributions were. For me it's more of a hint "these forked repos are worth a look". But that's because we are a small startup and everyone in the hiring pipeline knows how to use github. I can easily imagine that you can get some of the early filters in larger companies with meaningless OSS contributions because the people involved at that stage lack the knowledge or time to verify.
Thanks for sharing results and for the write-up. It is another welcome addition to a series of recent reports attesting the SIMD instructions having entered the mainstream computing, from the high performance JSON parsing to now the quick sort.

The white paper is calling out the memory bandwidth as a major bottleneck, which is where I have a question.

The M1 Max sports a unusually wide (512 bit wide) memory bus coupled with 6.4Ghz DDR5 unified memory which, according to the available empirical evidence, allows a single CPU core at achieve 100Gb/sec circa memory transfer speed. M1 cores also feature a very large L1 D-cache as well as a large L2 cache (48 Mb has been reported). Results, however, are approximately 2.4x lower for the M1 Max. I do realise that the NEON SIMD processing will always be slower compared to AVX-512 SIMD based one due to a 4x difference of the vector size, but isn't the M1 Max supposed to perform somewhat faster than in observed figures due to the faster and much wider memory bus that would partially compensate for NEON inefficiency?

Other than the vector size difference between NEON and AVX-512, would you attribute the difference in performance to the small test batch size (~4/8/16 Mb for 32/64/128 unit sizes used in the test) thus being able to able to fit in the L2 cache nearly entirely, or due to GCC being unaware of cache line sizes on M1 Pro/Max therefore resulting in the cache underutilisation or inefficient instruction scheduling, or you would purely attribute it to NEON having not aged gracefully to meet current data processing demands?

Thank you.
You are absolutely correct. We have a 3 dimensional learning environment outside that's objectively better for learning and playing than anything else.
Exactly. It’s basically fizzbuzz. The fact that he thought about this in advance and had an answer ready to explain is also a green flag for such an early filter.
Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise
The simple answer for this is probably just that the vast majority of people are not looking at the screen while listening, which probably makes it hard to make a business case for it to happen.
out of the loop. What exactly was the problem?
As with many things, averages are pretty worthless.

You mostly have two primary costs.

- Possible upgrades to living space so that you can "lend" your employer an office.

- Possible significant time/cost savings by not having to commute.

Mostly these aren't borne by the same people.
What if Microsoft just asks the same questions to all pre-screening interviews? :D
It was thought that people would use less restaurants and bars if smoking was forbidden.

It's more likely that when incentives change, the whole customer base changes.

The current system of preying whales to pay for games has negative externalities for gamer's who don't have addiction. Playing is cheaper, but people play less games because addictive spending mechanics is affecting where the game development money goes.

Regulation would create incentives to make games that are expensive because they are so good.
I never shared or published my bot either. Gaming communities will never understand. They wouldn't even entertain the notion that anti-cheating software could have false positives.
I didn't put my NASA story on the list because I consider my career there to have been largely a failure, but there is a luck story behind that as well: I never actually applied for my NASA job. I got it because I was a grad student and my Ph.D. advisor got offered a job (from one of his Yale buddies) and took me and another one of his students with him. And the only reason I had the advisor that I did was because I had applied to Stanford and MIT and both of them rejected me, so I was stuck at Virginia Tech. And the only reason I went to Virginia Tech instead of Stanford or MIT, both of which had admitted me as an undergrad, was because VT offered me a full scholarship and I have had a life-long aversion to being in debt.

Also, the girls at VT were better-looking. :-)
> Embracing disposable VMs for everything has saved me so much time and headache

Yes, but wasn't the main selling point of Docker "no more VMs"? It solves the same issues, without the drawbacks of running virtual machines.
Dinosaurs: How long did they live? (2009)
I agree regulation is needed. I think these situations are also partially due to a failure of anti-trust. In many of these cases, there is insufficient competition for these companies to be forced to act in the user’s best interest.

Addictive products are another case where the user is unable to choose in favor of their own self-interest, because the product is exploiting weak points in human psychology.
"works everywhere"

Even browsers that don't have JavaScript? I sure hope so - after all, it's certainly not as if rendering tables is a solved problem since the 90s.
Because Hacktoberfest was running for years, quite successfully, and you could be reported for spammy PRs and not get the T-shirt?
I believe that’s called a book, and you could use it to read along?
Where are you getting a fixation on groceries from a comment that talks about "almost anything" being more expensive? Real estate is more expensive in France too, it's actually among the most expensive in Europe.

Sure, if it were cheaper then less of your money would go towards your mortgage. And if wages in France were cheaper than in Germany upkeep and repairs would be cheaper. And if English were their national language, you'd not have to learn French. None of that is true of course but if it were we could rave about it on HN.
My proposal would work equally to everyone because the limit would be related to purchase price.
Very much so.

My own story would be ... "The day I wiped a production database .. completely .. on Christmas eve."
How is that cheating? It’s certainly fortunate, but learning things that might be asked in the interview hardly seems like cheating.
And no matter how well it does, investors will expect growth. So what further sliminess does Diablo Immortals 2 do to get growth? This behavior is unsustainable.
Governments really screwed crypto when they decided to treat it like the stock market...
Yeah, at some point I'm going to need to accept that I'm too burnt out to code anymore.
I'm just painting broad strokes, trying to avoid the TL;DR threshold.

But re energy gradients, I'm talking about the difference between being able to tap into potential energy in the environment, vs just seeking some kind of equilibrium. Sure, a freshly crafted sequence of amino acids will find a shape to minimize the internal energy, and so you can say there's a gradient there, but that's different from taking in H2S and CO2 (or what have you) from the environment and reacting them to liberate non-thermal energy that can be used to get things done.
It’s fair in that the company also suffers from the wrong talent measurements.

That they can get away with such a bad measurement though just shows that there’s a large gap between the costs per and profits per developer.
If you wanted to vary based on the input prompt, or if the application got confused.

expect is basically the next step up from yes for this use.
Is it really a sickening issue? Like come on. I am not saying this predatory behavior isn't an issue but it is far from sickening in the grand scheme of things.
A "genuine humanitarian mission", called genocide. They already count kidnapped children that still have parents in Ukraine as orphans, mainly since Russians are planning to make them that.
If people want to get into hacktoberfest for no work, start your own repo, make it public and merge as many pr a you want!
We are discussing damage to the kids psycology, and if they spend 100% of theie lunch money on a game thats as bad as adults spwnding €10k
Contract to hire. My best jobs came this way, but I understand it's not for everyone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061
Nicotine is not lightly addictive.
Mixed use zoning is the answer. The American-style segregation of life vs. work needs to be a thing if the past. It might have made sense when most of work was industrial and thus noisy and dirty, but with modern office environments and services it just adds mobility costs.
I did some monkey patching for exposing ports and it works even further - okay, it automagically logins via ssh now as expected. I can probably send it as is to Github/Gitlab so you have an idea.

Disclaimer: was not considering any edge cases with my changes.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this. When I first learned about function composition, a supposedly groundbreaking feature of functional programming, Unix pipes were the first thing that popped into my head, but making that comparison out loud was only met with facepalms and accusations of trolling. But it's literally 'take this input and apply these functions to it, in this order'.
Can I pull into any charger, pay whatever I need to, for 5-15 minutes and be on my way for another 300+ miles?

My understanding is that you were stuck with the charging network that each manufacturer is making.
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It’s often hard to tell between a genius who’s so far out away from others that what they say doesn’t make any sense or someone who has no clue what’s actually known about something. I’ll give that benefit of doubt to you but suffice to say I have no idea what you’re talking about.

The rna hypothesis is not overhyped. The fact of the matter is rna looks like a likely candidate that can form in the conditions of early earth, and it’s a perfect candidate for a single molecule that can become self replicating. We don’t know the math of the probability that this thing happened and how big an experiment volume we had in terms of environment size and time span, so hard to tell if this happened this way or not. Suffice to say I see no other plausible hypothesis proposed that is as believable as the RNA world. At least something I can understand anyway.

FWIW I do believe in the RNA world hypothesis only I don’t think it happened in earth, but some other planet at some point in past. I just think that space is filled with floating frozen microbial spores that can instantly (geologically speaking) inoculate any planet with the right conditions.
Some of the best experiences of my childhood were learning how to code, which ultimately turned into a career that has opened up more opportunities and experiences than I would have known otherwise.
Reading my Suzuki Owner’s Manual it says no more than 10% ethanol, but also under no circumstances more than 5% methanol (wood alcohol). It’s getting so you need a gasoline “nutrition” label to keep your 2-wheel fun machine running well.
Symphonic Metal Bands: Nerdiness vs. Kickassery – A Statistical Analysis
> 10k a year is hardly a lot

In my country 16k/y is a median salary. It’s heavily influenced by 1 or 2 major cities - the rest of the country earns much less, 10k/y is considered to be a decent salary. So no, it is a huge amount of money.
Companies can ask whatever they want. They will ask for two weeks notice but lay you off with no notice. Who gives a fuck what companies ask for?

Don’t pretend they are an authority. They’re a bunch of idiots making it up as they go along like the rest of us.
Coffee Company's App Been Spying on Customers, According to the Canadian Gov
The issue isn't so much work from home, which is not the ideal working arrangement for all, it's the commute to a central location. What has happened is people have realised the essential stupidity of it.

The future will be much more mixed and more sensible. Some people will work from home and some people will work in offices, but those offices will be much closer to where people live and people who need to work together will tend to live close by, or at least have the opportunity to. Essentially we'll see a lot more smaller offices in the suburbs.

You couldn't design a worse system of everyone having to commute to a central location, with infrastructure that is always overloaded at rush hour and underused the rest of the time.

The key to that arrangement surviving has been that the impact is all on workers and the convenience payoff has been for employers. The pandemic opened people's eyes and they're not going back.
> nothing more than a cold

Are you sure? Available numbers have varied. Are you sure that it is not just a superficial appearance, and that damage could be revealed by a low-level assessment? Some people do not drink or smoke, you know - they want to be optimal, not "it's just a scratch".

Those people who judge the potential damages from covid as negligile but for limited cases would have little reason for reclutance towards vaccination, which would gain the advantage of further reducing those chances.
> a concept no 5-12 year old needs

That's a huge assumption here. At the base of what a human needs are the physiological needs. Do humans need art? Fun? Maths? Git? Where do you draw the line?
I don't think promoting revenue this way is necessarily bad. I'd much prefer this then the cost of postage going up which mandates everyone to contribute to the USPS operating expenses rather than those who choose to purchase products through their ads under their own volition.
This pretty much sums up American tech scene: stealing ideas is the best use of capital.

I wonder what it is like to live in a society where creativity is actually valued and rewarded.
Killing UA business model would not be that bad. Protecting big business should not be the goal in itself.

We don't know what kind of games would replace these malevolent business models. We might get new kind of games and companies. Maybe less flashy, but more fun to play and better game mechanics.
How many publicly traded old companies had illiquid stocks that you couldn’t sell for something when they vested - especially tech stocks? Yes I know about Enron. But that was both an outlier and over a decade ago.

Yes, mine are down about 20% from the time I was awarded them. But at least I can sell them and not hope for an exit event.

I don’t thing employees of FAAMG (not a typo, Netflix was never “Big”Tech with a 1 trillion dollar* market cap) have to worry about their stock going to $0
In a weird coincidence, I have been trying find a card catalogs or two for home storage for a couple months. These are often incredibly well-made solid wood furniture, and yet most libraries worldwide have just been scrapping them. (Their size and weight makes them extremely difficult to ship - buyers/sellers aren't well aligned.)

So, in short, yes. We also got new value, but tons is being unnecessarily destroyed.
It is this type of attitude that is why websites are becoming so aggressive in blocking web scrapers.

Being an "ethical web scraper" is about your own ethics, not abusing other peoples servers/data, and preserving the open internet for everyone.

Yes, if you slam someones website you will probably get the data you want but it will damage it for the collective. If everyone just slammed websites then:

1) the website owners will just get pissed off and either shut data behind logins or make it inaccessible. This is basically what happened with LinkedIn.

2) make it much harder and costlier to scrape by using more advanced anti-bots, requiring everyone to use more expensive residential proxies and headless browsers to get past them.

Web scraping can be a burden for websites, so everyone should approach it in as responsible and ethical way as possible.
I don't think it's that suspicious. Neither article highlighted the person's ethnicity in any sort of detail (I didn't even notice the ethnicity at all in the 400k emails post).

There are often multiple front page stories about mistakes or intentional problems caused by white dudes, and that's not generally seen as racism. Why should a similar coincidence with an equally-large population group be racism?
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At least on Android, adding a corporate account explicitly lists what access you're giving to the corporate administrators.
It might not be the greatest evil on earth, but knowingly preying on vulnerable people in society, and causing harm for your own benefit, to me is sickening and evil.
A huge problem of the 21st century is that everyone feels like they have a right to tell everyone else what they must do. It's fine to listen to scientists and care about others. My goodness. So tired.
Audiobooks in the kindle app highlight the spoken text as the audio plays.