skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are games with loot-boxes that I believe have implemented it fairly so it is difficult to generalize this for a law. I am thinking of games like Star Trek Online. It has loot boxes but overall a very fair monetization in my opinion and one of the best models I have ever seen for a free to play game. Don't know if that changed since I played that ages ago but it still is very alive as far as I know. You were able to buy loot-boxes with ingame currency too via currency conversion and there was a market where players could trade ingame vs bought currency. It was or is a really smart system.

In general I hate f2p games and any kind of micro-transaction with a loathing passion but this is an example of an extremely fair system in my opinion. I will certainly not play Diablo Immortal. In my opinion they killed the IP and I don't believe Blizzard will ever get to its former success even when completely discounting WoW.
Honestly, the stuff I run on a cluster is an order of magnitude easier than the stuff that can run on a basic laptop to share.
It's pays off to be rich. Not having to work is a luxury. I love money too much to simply take a year off, even if I could afford it. I would think about the opportunity cost the entire time. Maybe I just haven't had a proper burn out yet.
> - they have more relaxed rules for recursion
Do you have a source for this? I would like to read more.
The bitcoin pizza thing is illustrative of all the crypto BS to come. The pizza was bought using US dollars from a pizza shop that didn't know what bitcoin was.
Ahh, I think that's what the humorous tag is for. Google should probably make that bit a tad more prominent, or I should learn to read farther down the page.

Cromwell, crumpets, parliament... It's definitely a well made non-word.
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> Access time. You loaded from the cassette, but once loaded you didn't need it. CD-ROM games (like LE) needs to access the disk for everything and with an already minuscule RAM you can't cache anything.

I was specifically on about load times. As already discussed several times in this thread, most CD-ROM games systems had onboard RAM to solve the access time problem (Sega CD especially so).

Sure there might be some outliers of bad CD systems, but there’s also bad cartridge systems too (like Amstrads attempt at rebranding the CPC 646 architecture as a games console). You simply cannot compare the worst CD systems against the best cartridge systems if you want a sensible discussion.

> I played LE on the PC (and with 2x drive and SMARTDRV) and I don't remember such big lags, though it was 25 years ago so of course my memory could deceive me.

I’ve not played LE so cannot comment on that game specifically but there are such things as bad console ports of good PC games even on consoles that are technically capable of playing the game well. I own a few examples of this myself. It’s far better not to compare one game and make a conclusion based off that in isolation.

> Syummary: yeah, they could be used, but access time was another small, but a nail in the coffin, at least IMO.

Again, the Sega CD had a large on board RAM. I have a Sega CD (well, the Mega CD because it’s PAL) and games play fine on it.

I wish HN wouldn’t perpetuate this complete fallacy that console CD addons were as limited as their host systems. It’s completely false. I even have the hardware to prove it.
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Bolshevism/communism was or is a worldview that divides the population into oppressors and the oppressed. There's no middle ground or nuance allowed in this concept - everyone is in one of those two camps.

The modern variant is that everyone is either "white" or "minority", but these labels have nothing really to do with race despite surface level appearances. They're just relabelings of the same old ideas. That's why the immediate reaction when you point out the illegal racism of woke people is they say "you can't be racist against white people because they're in power". That makes zero sense when interpreted literally because it's a direct statement of Bolshevik ideology, just with s/capitalist oppressors/white people/. The original formulation was wrong but at least coherent, whereas the modern formulation is completely nonsensical.

That's why so many people understand that the word "white" doesn't mean the skin color. It means anyone who stands opposed to leftism. If you look at how black conservatives are treated you can see this immediately. Just a few weeks ago a black pastor in the Church of England was fired (by a bunch of old white men) because he insisted that England wasn't in fact institutionally racist. By arguing that, he made himself unapologetically "white" in the eyes of the woke bishops and thus they had no moral difficulty with firing him. This sort of thing is commonplace.
Sort of? You'd also need a way of guaranteeing total store order semantics for memory otherwise you may get random errors. I guess restricting the app to a single core might reduce that error frequency a bit
>> Meanwhile, systems that are actually very simple and elegant are often presented in ways that make them look complex to laypeople.

What were you referring to here? Alt web platforms like Gopher, specific systems in web dev or different tech altogether?
Generally datasette formats were meant to work with the extremely lossy media of tape. Also, I'm not sure but telephone audio tends to be much more compressed compared to radio. That on top of the fact you are going from earpiece to mic with an air gap and the background noise, it's probably much much worse.
I sympathize and did the same thing earlier this year: I quit my job to try and strike out on my own. For most tech companies, they sell you on this "mission" and tell you how valuable your work is. Then, you realize all you do is grease the wheels of bureaucracy. Any serious attempts of asking the question "how would anything be different if I didn't do my work" only leads to depressing answers.

I've found the result of quitting to be a mixed bag. Yes, the work is more gratifying because it's "yours," but are you really impacting the world more? You're either building and replacing the bureaucracy that you hated, or you're just too insignificant to warrant the bureaucracy. Also, not being paid a ton of money really sucks.
The Biggest Reshuffle of Oil Flows Since the 1970s
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol%C3%ADtica_Nacional_de_Info...

- The law is from 1984

- Military dictatorship ended in 1985

- First election post-dictatorship happened in 1989

- Lula, the first left-wing president post-dictatorship, was elected for the first time in 2002
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“Rich kid cash stocks and stops working in tech to do whatever he likes”

Come on.
I think the picture of how he describes life and life-with-a-full-time-job is fairly accurate.

One solution is to work 80%. Or even 60%. You can still make plenty of money to support yourself, and you can be happy while doing it.
> you don't gain that much if you compare it to something like Rust, Java or even Go.

Some languages have no implicit nullabillity and proper sum-types and exhausivity checks. This is what the main benefits of Haskell come from IMHO. Langs like Rust, Elm, OCaml/Reason/ReScript and Kotlin (even TypeScript) to some extend have this.

Go and Java dont have this, and I miss them every time I use these languages.
The only JS entry I see in the top 20 uses a custom JS runtime that has "no support for ES modules". Not exactly a production ready application.
So long as whatever system they designed has not been published and reviewed by independent experts, then yes. I don't have to be an expert in this space to recognize what the norms are for making new production ready cryptosystems are, and that this doesn't remotely meet them.

Designing secure cryptosystems is hard. Experts fail at it all the time. The lack of technical details is a major red flag.

Not to mention the distinct possibility that even if this group made a secure system, the mongodb marketing dept may very well be misrepresenting its security/limitations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework ?
> First thought is some overly enthusiastic AA security person going way too far

Anecdotal evidence hints that that may be part of their training. I was held in line for check-in for checking in in LAS for about 1h, prevented from speaking with somebody at the actual check-in counter, all because I couldn't provide proof on my phone that I had uploaded COVID documents to the VeriFly app (which wouldn't allow me to upload said document because the first leg of the trip back to Europe was through UK which lifted all restrictions). The AA staff person threatened to call security if I tried to move ahead and speak with the check-in counter staff and instead told me to wait until he sorted out things.

After a few exchanges like that where I was in retrospect way too polite and complying, he smiled and told me that I'm stuck there and there is no way I'm going to fly home.

At the end of his shift, the next person was super polite and wanted to help me, but it was too late since the check-in window was closed.

I can only describe this behaviour as sadistic. It seems to me that this person had been told that his job was to make sure order was upheld and he used that as an excuse to exercise power over other people.
I'd suggest a minimum of 2GB ram. The data collection is done via Java (Micronaut project). While it can cope with thousands of requests per second quite happily on a single instance, it does require a bit of ram.
Once you realize work is work and not some romantic endeavour, then things become easier. All I read from this guy's post is a lot of bitching about how the work he has to do is meaningless and hard and it is just getting in the way of his hobbies.

I once read a good line: Be thankful for all the problems out there otherwise you would be out of a job.

This guy is lucky he had the money to buy his way out of this situation. If he was forced to stay he would have found a way to cope and everything would have ended ok.
To not learn any calculus puts a pretty hard cap on what amount of statistics you can learn. For some doctors, maybe that's ok. Those that are more ambitious really need ot learn calculus.

Also, it's funny that you say so, because when I started my first calculus course, I got to know a really smart Med student who happened to think that just studying Medicine was too easy, so he enrolled in Math in the side, and over the first few semesters he was getting the best grades of all 400 or so Math-students, while still being a full-time Med student.

For people like that, adding some calculus is not a hindrance. Some can learn single and multi-variable calculus in a couple of weeks each. (And quite a few Med students are really smart.)
Apple could force the industry forward if they added Opus, FLAC, and JPEG XL support everywhere. Ok, they’re often the ones holding everyone else back in these areas.
> And recently there was a ruling that essentially made go-arounds (aborted landings) illegal (if the testimony here is true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpFDRoStcd4 ).

Why not link to the actual ruling instead of some random YouTube video when making such a far-fetched claim?
Doesn't seem accurate?

Both Free (of the FSF meaning) and Open Source (of the OSI meaning) software explicitly allow for commercial usage.
Presumably the people who voted for the recall believe he's guilty of all three of those. Certainly, a prosecutor who refuses to prosecute criminals could be described as engaging in profound incompetence. It's hard to get worse at doing your job than outright refusing to do it.
You are talking politics--the domain of public policy--where people often disagree on the means, while being mostly in agreement on the ends. I am talking value systems--regarding lawlessness as a tool rather than a dysfunction. Regardless of one's politics, I suspect most people are offended by the idea of using lawlessness in this way--as evidenced by his brief tenure.

Basketball for example: Say the fans see a player traveling. The referee also sees it, but does nothing. How will the fans react? Value systems. Rules are there to be enforced. People get pissed off when the rules aren't enforced, or enforced inconsistently.

I think it goes without saying that apples occasionally fall far from the tree... occasionally.
How does a profile picture prevent scammers and bots?
Hm, interesting. I remember the upcome of Arduino: They advertised their system (setup() once, loop() forever) as very friendly towards tinkerers using 8bit uControllers. Anybody could jump straight ahead without setting up anything in ASM let alone programming the EEPROM externally.

With hardware progress (ESP32 is 32bit/80MHz+), it seems another iteration happened: processing power is traded again for accessability/usability. In this case python.

I could see python becoming the predominant system for 32bit micro controllers. But for small 8bit systems that just read out a sensor and turns of a switch, that will stay in the realm of Arduino and C.
Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail (2016)
Some (some of them in this very comment section) take this and smugly declare qualia don't exist at all.
Cool technology, bad problem. I fully agree getting more distance is problematic. Not even in the sense of getting your data stolen, but also to allow pro active payment. I mean you want the customer to do an action (holding the card close to a device which shows the amount deducted) to conclusively agree to that payment. Not the cashier presses a button, and anybody too close pays for it.
How Margaret Thatcher's Brahms phone was invented
Do you really need that? I was amazed when I tried Epoccam on my iPhone and used it for a while, I wasn't able to find a webcam around...

Now I don't care. I look more than good with a Logitech webcam and some proper lighting.
Promoting a Culture of Experimentation
Scientific Breakthrough: Mickey Mouse was photographed in the wild
Is probabilistic contextual evidence another word for Bayesian inference?
My strategy is to work as long as I can and have to.

Have to means having no debt,.my own land and low living costs. Basically being independent. Then using my career to work 50% with a good salary remote.

If I would not do that, I would do the same as you and look for something good to work on.

For me I would go and find a company which does things for agriculture or other things which helps us all.

Working 40h feels wrong though.
Given the number of platforms that RetroArch runs defaulting any new behaviour to off makes sense. Particularly for features like this which are global.
I feel nostaliga with this.

Though I much prefer a unix CLI nowadays (like bash or zsh) and would choose something like Ruby over BASIC in all cases. I felt MS-DOS and QBASIC held me back by not being opensource (thus not allowing me to dig deeper).
Understanding UI Components in Elm
While I agree with you, how would you even prove it? Police are likely to just say "he/she never asked for a lawyer", it has been clear over the decades that they lie for their own interest.
"Automakers are demanding 10 defective parts per billion limits across the whole spectrum of automotive ICs and single transistor/diode devices." Now we're getting somewhere.

What really drives quality up is a big, hardass customer. Back in 2018 I commented on the USAF Reliability Program.[1] The USAF was finding out what went wrong with their electronics down to the level of opening up transistor cans to see what went wrong. They were naming and shaming, with press releases to Aviation Week about bad components and who made them. Parts got a lot better.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18007339
Outrageous ego is sort of a pre-requisit if you want to outlive a established dogma/organization you are going up against, which will punnish non-conformity on every step - either that or you are doing a sort of "secret agent" subversion with a cell like structure on the inside.
Isn't spending "at least $1000" already whale territory?
Adding Spice to Your Workbench (2016)
What is every reason to assume consciousness has an astral component?
https://authy.com/blog/understanding-2fa-the-authy-app-and-s...

The fact that they disable SMS authentication for accounts that they deem "high profile" says it all.

Last time I looked, I don't recall there being a backup password (essentially a local encryption). If you SIM swap someone, you'll pull down their OTP seeds, but won't be able to read them without that code... so that's a slight improvement at least.

BUT! They have a recovery process. So the risk profile is convincing the telco to SIM swap + lodging a support ticket with authy (that takes 24 hours to complete).
In the next few years, I'm planning to go to 60% or 80% time, and then, eventually, to taking at least a couple of years off from engineering relying on savings and my spouse.

If I thought I had to be a line engineer making things for someone else forever, I'd probably have to quit just to regain some sense of control. It's good work if you can get it, but it won't be my forever.
I thought credit rating agencies work with identified data.
Remember that this is the organisation that helped a malicious domestic abuser make malicious defamatory statements in such way they wouldn't be considered defamatory. Should really be no respect left for such evil and vile group of people...
I came here to say that this is not exactly new and point to LISNR, although I was not exactly impressed by the payment use case the LISNR tech is pretty cool.
I wonder why companies with multi-billion dollar budgets for each OS release are such laggards at building in support for formats that presumably would not change much between each release.
Looks like the backup password can be reset too by support, so while that present an additional barrier to the attacker, it doesn't sound that effective.
> Stack / cabal, haddock, htest can be comparable to Rust’s tooling.

Disagree from me. I spent a year writing Haskell professionally, and from my own personal experience Haskell's tooling was overly complicated and difficult to use.

Maybe my impression is totally wrong or outdated, and it's surely not applicable to the whole community, so I'm sorry if this is a little out of touch now, but I sometimes got the sense that Haskell's community just doesn't care about the developer experience. They hold to this false dichotomy that if you make tools easy to use, then you can't have advanced features. Or simply, Cabal works just fine the way it is, why do we need Stack? Why would you need more than one GHC installation on a machine? Holy wars on the mailing lists re: Stack, Cabal, Haskell Platform. And if someone tells me to "just use Nix" one more time I will cry...

Rust feels like a breath of fresh air. The community seriously cares about their developer experience both for newbies and experienced professionals, and it really feels like a lot of work has gone into making the tools and documentation accessible and useful.
Airbnb used to be my go-to, but I've since mostly returned to more conventional hotel booking sites.

Have had numerous experiences where hosts have had to 'sneak' me in because their building banned short term rentals. None of this was disclosed in advance, and no doubt it's in Airbnb's best interests to look the other way.

As others have mentioned, there's often not much of a price differential anymore, and hotels typically have their shit together way more than the average Airbnb host.
No, I was referring to the subtle implication that he belongs to or identifies with one or more of the following groups:

>right-wing politicians, fundamentalist religious leaders, political commentators in mainstream print and television media, and white supremacist terrorists

Which is basically dismissing his argument by calling him a racist. Instead you should quantify how different the situation at hand is than bolshevism or marxism. This would help people who have less information one way or the other to identify the truth more easily.
Pretty neat for everyone that uses two phones regularly! If you leave that other phone in your desk drawer for several years though, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work...
What a strange way of looking at it.

In the US, around 80% of men and 88% of women live to be 65. I wasn't easily able to find stats on how this breaks down across college graduates (or separate it from those who die before they enter the workforce), but for simplicity's sake, let's take 88% average for both genders to account for this.

That means the odds of me dying throughout my entire working life are 12%.

Let's plug THOSE numbers into the equations, assuming working from 18-65, so 47 years.

> Likelihood of death in 47 years = [12%]

> Multiplied by the total payout (median $166k/yr salary) = $500 000

> The insurance's expected value is $60 000

Total payments into the premium are 47 * 550 = $25 850

Now obviously there are some big caveats to this - I would imagine a significant proportion of Googlers retire early, etc., but the maths presented is... at best oversimplified. This is also not some impartial review, this is a company with something to sell. I would be very cautious accepting their 'review' at face value.
I've driven an F355 and owned a couple of 308s. The 981S made me lose interest in all of them. It has almost all of the positive qualities of both lines.
It's hard to take BI as a serious endeavor with such gratuitously uncharitable behavior.
I've never programmed a CGI-BIN in Perl before but I must say... that code is _elegant_.

Perl and early HTML were a match made in heaven. But notice how HTML and the Web has become so complicated it still looks the same platform, but it ain't. My theory is that Perl died a slow death because the Web grew on a different axis than Perl's ideal niche, which is text manipulation.

At the time, HTML was just marked up text.
> should I apply for internships or entry-level jobs?

Get a job, at this point for you it doesn't make any sense to do an internship.
The Path to Deepfake Harm
I came up with stupid solution but it worked so I don't think it was that stupid. Well over decade ago I was working for tiny digital/advertisement agency. I was website dev/guy dealing with whole IT and next to me was working a graphic designer. Every once in a while some customer was asking to make graphics with specific colors that we couldn't figure out how those would work together. Instead of trying different hues that would work together I came up with idea of simply googling those colors and adding "logo" on the end. Without a fail we was always able to find something that worked good enough to not make you blind. No theory, no advanced methodology just couple of guys, fresh out of school figuring stuff out as best as we could
Ask HN: Is Product Hunt Worth It?
Lately I've seen many startups post "#1/2/3/ on Product Hunt". I know they also go into a good amount of effort to do this (e.g. write up a good post before, get all their friends to vote for them)

Does anyone with experience know if getting on PH #1/2/3 actually translates into something meaningful? e.g. a huge increase in adoption/downloads/awareness etc.
> They all need coding. How do you find the motivation to work on such things when you also code for work?

The trick is to spend less brain power at work and save it for your personal projects.
The factory is located on german soil, so if push comes to shove it is a german factory.
Makers of ad blockers and browser privacy extensions fear the end is near
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Cineworld cancels The Lady of Heaven film screenings after protests
It will end up in the too hard basket and get deleted. Don't worry about it.

No credit agency will touch a $1.16 bill