skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small cities can’t support a critical mass of “niche” services such as exotic foods, night clubs of special appeal, cultural centers like major museums, and a lot of really neat coffee shops etc. I’m in your camp preferring rural life at some level but after living in SF, NYC, and Seattle I can’t imagine not being able to walk to a great coffee shop, grab some bingsu, and visit the Computer History Museum. There’s a density of people that allows you to find a wide social network that’s into the weird things you are. Etc. I think an awful lot of city dwellers live in them because they prefer the lifestyle regardless of cost.

Rather than collapsing I think cities will thrive. There’s a huge economic pressure on residential property and a downswing on office property and the office property is in some of the best real estate in the city. Developers aren’t stupid, they’ll convert to mixed use and reduce office densities to keep their per unit margins up, and rent/sell condos and retail space for the residential community. This will actually draw more people to the cities because there are a lot of city dwellers that have been pushed out to suburbs due to lack of residential supply.
I only care about NO notifications. Disabling all notifications is the first step to more saner approaches to technology. I turned my digital life into a pull medium where I check SMS messages etc when I want to, and not having real-time notifications of every little event gives me more peace. It’s a form of digital veganism that I employ. Turn your digital life into pull mediums instead of push.
> "Low risk, high reward."

I've seen candidates deny that they've seen the problem given, blitz through the basic version (intended as a quick warm-up), and then completely choke when a slight twist is added. Let's just say that really raises some questions...
> Can someone cheat their way to success?

Yes people "cheat" their way to success. I hate it, but they do and we support it. From just a position of basic human integrity (forget about the law), Apple "cheated" by implementing the graphical user interface from Xerox Parc without adequate compensation. Then Microsoft "cheated" by implementing Apple's GUI as Windows. Then came the lawsuits. This happens again and again.

I have experienced this personally - the USDA RUS broadband program had written rules where an ISP had to work with their regional office and not walk their application through the front door in Washington DC. Yet being the first to apply through the regional office resulted in significant delays over our competitor walking their application into USDA headquarters against procedure. They got the $20 million. We did not. Any attempt to object or litigate would only hurt us further.

> If the fraud in your story hadn't been discovered, would that have been success?

I do not consider the author talking with Eli to be fraud. There was no obligation of disclosure. For all we know the reason why Microsoft repeated this question with so many applicants may have been deliberate to see how many applicants would actually get the solution by asking around. After all, isn't that how all of us code?
For electronics, my vote goes to various spectacular application notes from the electronics industry that have stood the test of time. In comparison to the usual literature (textbooks, papers, etc.), these are often laser-focused on helping the user, often at a holistic level, including practical issues. This is a rare case where the incentives of the readers and producers are well aligned:
In order to sell their products, manufacturers need to teach their prospective customers enough to use their products adequately. If a product is good, but a customer makes (potentially silly) mistakes in using it, both the customer and the manufacturer lose -- which is exactly what application notes are intended to counteract.

# Example 1: Old HP application notes

Quote:
"In a real sense, Hewlett-Packard sold MEASUREMENTS as well as products. According to one marketing professional, when you go to a hardware store to buy a 5mm drill bit, what you really want is a 5mm hole. So, likewise, as HP developed their massive line of innovative measurement instruments, the customers often had to be educated in the newer processes of the new measurement techniques, permitted by the newest product."

I'm too young to have experienced the heyday of HP as a test & measurement company, but they produced spectacularly good material. Many of their application notes introducing the fundamentals of a field such as spectrum analysis, signal analysis, modal testing etc. remain excellent introductions even today, despite being decades old and thus predating my birth. I've thoroughly enjoyed the following ones (amongst others):

[1] AN243 The Fundamentals of Signal Analysis

[2] AN243-3 The Fundamentals of Modal Testing

[3] AN150 Spectrum Analysis Basics (updated version)

# Example 2: LTC application notes, especially by Jim Williams

A big chunk of my electronics knowledge comes from data sheets and application notes. The application notes by Jim Williams (RIP) stand out to me. Jim obviously was very gifted, but always sides with the (probably much less skilled) reader, making complicated material accessible. He always retains a holistic picture, and also addresses many practical aspects one can easily stumble upon. He does it all with a minimum of math, a maximum of intuition, and a great sense of humour.

While there are many dozens of application notes by him, I particularly like the following one:

[4] AN47: High Speed Amplifier Techniques

Links:

[1] https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/an/pdf/an_243.pdf

[2] https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/an/pdf/an_243-3.pdf

[3] https://www.keysight.com/us/en/assets/7018-06714/application...

[4] https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/appl...
People will choose free stuff over cheap stuff all the time. Study below has an experiment (experiment 2). They first offered people either a Hershey's kiss for 1ct or a Lindt truffle for 15ct. The majority took the truffle. Then they decreased the prices to 0ct and 14ct respectively, so the same price difference. The Hershey's kisses suddenly sold better than the truffle

https://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/Papers/zero.pdf
I've noticed this in social networks as well. If you don't get enough transactional notifications for a while they start making up fake ones like Twitter's "in case you missed this Tweet", Facebook's "[someone] posted for the first time in a while", all the while lighting up the notifications badge. Leads to a "boy who cried wolf" scenario in which I stop trusting notifications entirely and just ignore them, possibly missing out on actual useful ones.

I really wish companies let us turn this kind of thing off, or better yet stopped trying to boost "engagement" numbers by violating your user's trust.
Please ELI5 Why?
> This also… shouldn’t be super surprising?

For some it is, as they've hyped Tesla to the point they believe it will come to dominate even Ford. They think that just because Tesla has a higher market cap than Ford and GM that somehow will translate to Tesla dominating Ford and GM. And the reason they believe this is because they think TSLA is properly valued, and actually probably undervalued. They don't see the hype because they are the hype.
Thanks for the links + advice, I will be following them to read everything refering there. Interesting to see many aspects of the same issue.

I have degrees in Computer Science (BSc), and Neuroscience (MSc) with two years of being a researcher at the University at the Machine learning + Neuroscience department (hybrid). In parallel to my studies, I also started my own company for luxury wedding & events planning. My company was very successful and it was my only income stream for five years. I sold my company shortly after becoming a mother.

Career wise, I am looking for a role that utilizes my analytical and technical skills but at the same time, it connects me with people online and in-person. I love content creation (social media, blogging, video creations and more).Not sure what the suitable role is.
I guess they must have solved the underground/Heathrow in the past for the Piccadilly line which has multiple Heathrow stops, so I wonder how much of however that works they could re-use.
Here's the problem with this game:

- Blizzards slew of beloved franchises makes it easy to entrap nostalgia addicted masses to a number of pay to win clones. Or slowly implement these types of features into existing games.

- Half of the assets are from a 10 year old prequel. This game was cheap to make and will have an insanely high profit margin. Leading to perpetuation of this model.

- Scummy mobile pay to win is already accepted as the standard for mobile. With a desktop port, Blizzard can expand that complacency to further markets.

- Pay to Win models incentivize paid content over legitimate, engaging content. I.e. story, character models and gameplay will deteriorate overtime in favor of producing content that turns profit.

This is inevitable though.
Are you saying that "pay not to grind" games should not get negative attention ?
Grubhub does this as well, so all of their notifications are disabled by me.
If it can run Signal, then it is pretty much smartphone not feature phone.
Don’t play the “accessibility” nonsense argument with us old-time gamers. You know what I could have done in D3 to skip the grind, if I wanted to? Use cheats or trainers or a save file from the internets, in a single player game, for which I paid for. Not this nonsense today, where even single player games are gated behind “sErViCeS” backend to prevent cheating, aka DRM for the payed DLC stuff, that is already on disk downloaded, in a single player games. Please stop.
I can scroll the entire thread on my iphone pretty easily. Those 50 replies crashed your iphone? Or am i missing something
Precisely, Nintendo tried a sane sales model with Super Mario Run back in 2016. You would have access to some levels, then pay and unlock the rest. No more in-app purchases, IIRC.

The reaction was a lot of angry comments about the game being locked and that it should be free-to-play, etc.

Their next games (like Mario Kart Tour) went back to the exploitative loot box model.
It's just illegal and no one complained or enforced.
Right. Metro service is a passenger feature but it isn't how the service is actually delivered. As a passenger your experience during core hours of operation, and especially in the inner city, is that you descend into the system and you just take the next train, because there will be a next train. Don't run for a departing train, just wait for the next one.

There actually is a timetable for all of London Underground, it's needed to roster drivers. But the only services ordinary passengers actually care about are the first ones and the last ones, Amersham to Baker Street last train is 23:22, if you're out of the city too late for that, you're not getting a tube home. When/ where there is Night Tube you probably don't care, as most people taking Night Tube aren't exactly on a tight schedule.

However, the Underground is not run at capacity as you imply. There is deliberately wiggle room for "recovery" from events even at 30tph. This is one reason why the Circle Line isn't a circle any more, it makes it possible to recover more easily on that line.
This is the real Musk, he wants minions and to feel powerful by having his minions do as he says.
The alternative project I mentioned is actually mostly developed by Japanese developers.
My mega corp did a lot of research using our pervasive spyware and came to the conclusion that remote work improved productivity by approximately 15%. I think generally velocity though is driven more by decision making processes and culture more than where chairs are being warmed.
(2017) btw.

They wrote a retrospective piece on MT3 earlier this year [1].

[1] https://matt3o.com/mt3-keycap-profile-a-brief-history/
Still hiring for Engineering and Product. The cuts were Sales and Marketing to put our heads down and focus on building our next product and growth product.
Isn’t the justification of Apple that they have a monopoly on the App Store so they can protect users from notification abuse? In reality this is not enforced at all and even Apple themselves will send you ads.
I think that's mostly true, but I've been surprised by non-tech people pointing out and recognizing Tux on various things of my over the years since college (a T-shirt, my background on my laptop at one time, etc.). I think there's a certain segment of the population that will see an adorable penguin mascot, like it, and then look up what it is.
I'll reply mostly on 2. - most of these were already mentioned in the previous thread - [0] Grasshopper, [1] SpaceChem (awhile ago), [2] 7 billion humans (haven't finished it yet, and haven't played for a while), [3] Human Resource Machine and [4] TIS-100. They mostly help to build habits, and persistency, not just being fun.

The "real world" always provides much more interesting "gameplay", but it is sometimes with a too steep learning curve. :)

Edit: And I've been ninja'd by another user, but just remembered that there is another in my wishlist - [5] Baba is you (haven't played it, though)

[0] https://grasshopper.app/
[1] https://zachtronics.com/spacechem/
[2] https://tomorrowcorporation.com/7billionhumans
[3] https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine
[4] https://zachtronics.com/tis-100/
[5] https://www.hempuli.com/baba/
This take seems off to me specifically in you last paragraph. Whether it is MTX in the form of cosmetics or p2w mechanics both are predatory to people with addictions to games and kids.

I feel like people are upset about p2w mechanics in the game but at the same time say "I'm fine with cosmetic mtx" which makes the whole argument read to me as you are upset that people want to use money to win and that means they shouldn't so you will virtue signal like I care about people spending $10k. If you as an individual don't like p2w that's fine. I get that, but let's stop acting like we care about the virtues of it when kids are spending $1k on worthless Marvel skins in Fortnite or Roblox and there is little uproar about it... We just don't like going into a game where a rich person can beat us, which is understandably frustrating. The other virtue outrageous is just disingenuous imho.
I think you are right. The fact is, social democratic societies deeply need children. Who will take care of you and run businesses when we are old? Tech cannot solve everything ; we need actual humans deal with the future! No, the Ipad IOS.32 with AI will not do that.

I live in an aging society with 'free' healthcare, where most of the resources are consumed by unhealthy people with chronic conditions (read : boomers with diabetes). A lot of large scale social programs (which I like) are built on the assumption that most of the people inside it are healthy and will not need serious care for a long time (read: full of young people).

I think that raising children produces a lot of social benefits, that unfair social expectations puts a lot of pressure on women, and we should put a LOT of value on the labor required to raise healthy and stable children.
The United States are messed up. I would never want to raise a family there.
These sorts of screener questions are at the level of "can you write a simple function and can you answer basic questions about it"

A surprising number of candidates I've seen interviewed cannot do the following, my code screener question: "Write a function that, given a set of integers, determines the amplitude (difference between biggest and smallest) of the set."

This is literally max(set) - min(set) in more words. I have seen countless people attempt this in different ways. My favorite was the guy that sorted the list and took the end values.

The worst is when I ask the follow up question: "where might I use this function?" I almost never get the answer of where I stole the function from (matplotlib): "the size of a graph", instead usually getting an "I don't really know".
> fantastic [...] is probably a little over exuberant by British standards of praise

Indeed. "Quite good" is usually considered the absolute pinnacle of fawning adulation.
You are confused, AOL and AIM are two totally different pieces of software, which use different protocols and serve different purposes. The exploit in question has literally nothing to do with AOL, it's for AOL Instant Messenger. MSN never tried to access AOL's service network, but certainly AIM's.
Renewables to cover 50% of China's energy consumption growth by 2025
"good penguin, angry man" is the new "good cop, bad cop"
That last part is definitely not true. You can char stuff with any heat. I use an electric broiler.
Hyperinflation has a lot more to do with the fact the government irresponsibly printed ridiculous amounts of money.

Yes but why did they do that?

I already said twice why.
As someone who travels a bit I’ve got quite some food delivery and ride share apps on my phone. The marketing notifications are driving me crazy, I regularly miss relevant notifications because Grab, Uber, Uber Eats, Glovo, Bolt, and Cabify are all sending me almost daily notifications with some sort of cringe content trying to nudge me to take a cab/order food. Especially Uber Eats and Glovo are bad.
I have a pretty good idea on how to fix this (and many similar) problems: "hibernate app" option. Its a new app state where app icon icon has some mark (like being semi-grayed out) and all the background app services are disabled (tracking, promotional popups, periodic wakeups, etc...). The app is only un-hibernated if user explicitly clicks on it, it cannot do it by itself. The app can be hibernated by long-press menu on app icon or notification.

So the first time you get an ad notify, you click "hibernate" and you are good. And if it is time to make another order, app is woken up, so you cannot miss notifications by accident.

Sure, it is not as good as having separate "show ads" toggle, but it requires no cooperation from app whatsoever,
matte display vs. glossy display seems to make a difference for me (at least psychologically). matte feels cooler and is less harsh on my eyes.
the game of having bills to pay.
Black Lives Matter is absolutely clear and means what it says. When cops roll up and just gun down a 14 year old kid playing with a toy gun based on a whim and "I know I wont get in trouble so who cares" in their heads, that's an organization that does not value Black Lives. It could not be more clear, people just choose to look away.
Or the slow speeds on some of the other "mainlines" into London. Bournemouth is less than 100 miles and takes 2hrs+.
Memories connecting to qsd via Tymnet...

https://www.exploit-db.com/ezines/kr5hou2zh4qtebqk.onion/LOL...
Agree that the amount of entitlement in this thread is wild. People, ostensibly respected principal engineers, will turn down jobs because they are asked a puzzle question during lunch. I _hope_ we are fortunate enough for this attitude to be a possibility in the next decade.
Can you just disagree with the design choice rather than implying, without evidence, nefarious motivations?

Ongoing work is being done to enable Signal accounts without requiring a phone number (there's been a number of changes to the protocol to support this in the last 6-12 months), it's just not done yet.
> The thing is - is it necessary to have the best gear to enjoy the game?

It maybe not, the same way it's not necessary to own a yacht IRL to enjoy life, but why should we bring inequality in games as well?

Multiplayer games are a meritocratic dream that is probably unattainable IRL, as only the most skilled (cheaters aside) get to the top of the scoreboard.

It kills my fun to know that even this small haven of meritocracy is changing to become like the real world: the wealthy have better opportunities than I do, independently from skills or talent.
The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics
This poll also shows that people are overwhelmingly like to vote for the status quo.

The status quo for quite large part of that land is now "Russian military administration". That, combined with the fact that Ukrainian forces bomb civians such as the attacks on Kherson, allows Russia to try and keep it.
Maybe its role is to filter for the right mindset.
A/A Testing
Well, if you're thinking I said what I said because I'm not a pre-2010 hacker with an interest in STEM or other nerd activities, you'd be completely wrong. I started hacking on UNIX systems in the late 1980s, got a PhD because I wanted to be a scientist, and only went to work at Google to get access to their computer farm (where I built what was the world's largest idle cycle harvesting system, for science, at the time) although the pay was quite nice!

No, I said what I said because it's hard enough to be "on" during the coding interviews and also "on" during the culture tests, to also be "interested" in your puzzle. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong signal to send. Lunch interview (and the transport to it) is about learning about other people in a fairly non-competitive way.
I don't know if Facebook still does this, as I've completely nuked it from my life, but when I had an account I asked it to turn off all email notifications. But if I didn't log on to Facebook after about two weeks I would get an email saying they were concerned I would miss out and so they helpfully turned email notifications back on for me.
Yes, it says "limit" because Apple cannot guarantee all 3rd party ad tracking stops in every piece of software. What it does is set your personalized advertising ID to all 0s, making you indistinguishable from 20% of Apple users. That is, it completely opts you out of Apple's tracking ID that the poster was complaining about.

I mentioned you can also turn off Windows personalized ID, but for some reason that post (and the instructions) were downvoted. The point remains that the advertising IDs the poster was talking about are optional from both Windows and Apple. Unless you consider the API returning a universal dummy value and not an error to be an issue.
I have no idea what point you are trying to make. So I'm not sure if you helped someone else understand what you were saying but you didn't help me at all.
This was my fear about app and game ideas. Then I realized how much work is involved to make something polished. Now my preference is to put ideas out there in the hope someone else will do it.

Usually even without sharing someone with the same desire has done it within a year or two. Two of my recent projects started when I thought no one would do it. Then years later there were others, and they were free and open source.

Lesson learned. Spread the idea and let others do the heavy lifting. Only do it yourself if you're bored or very passionate.
The position of the screen is important, and it's a lot easier to position correctly a 27 inch monitor than a 13 inch laptop. A properly fitting chair and desk, ergonomic keyboard and mouse, all of this can make a noticeable difference, I promise.

About four years ago I started to have some mild wrist and lower back discomfort, especially after working long hours... I decided to improve my work setup because that was the easiest thing to fix without changing my habits. Since then all discomfort was gone and haven't had any issues even though I still spend way too many hours on the computer. I know I should still change my habits, especially since I'm starting to notice I don't feel quite as young any more, but don't discount the difference a good desk setup and posture can make.
> it's absolutely intolerable

Huh. Okay. Maybe you could answer the actual question: why? That seems like a rather extreme position to take.

300ms was for 10k lines, not your example of 2k lines. 2k lines does come back within 2 repaint frames on my 10 year old mac, which is about as fast as most video game responses to controller input.

PS and I'm still wondering what your proposed alternative is...