skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents don't live within driving distance of jobs, also they are religious totalitarians.
From the recent movies, I think "The Matrix" was more influential than "Blade Runner". You can split the history in movies before Matrix and the movies after.
I work at a place that uses an extensive amount of JCL, COBOL, REX, MK4, VSAM, DB2, and more, and I would say that learning the language is only a small portion of learning the system, batch processing and the database. Learning COBOL without learning how the mainframe works in its entirety is leaving out the major portion of what the language is used for. It would be like using a C64 your whole life and then learning Java from a book, but not having a system to apply it to. The leap is just too great without immersing yourself in ISPF and all the associated proprietary software your shop.
Are you asking, "aren't left-wing groups saving the information of right-wingers to the later deploy state power against them after changing relevant laws", or "doesn't every ideological group occasionally dox it's opponents"? I think those are different questions.
There was most definitely memorable dialog:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_monologue

I also think it's quite clear that Decker is not morally upstanding from very early in the film. His job is quite literally to be an executioner.
Ah yes, the good old “don’t ask for help from someone who knows more than you cause that makes you fucking stupid” proverb.
Interesting. I live 1.25 hours from another great lake and I have made the trip after work some days and weekends too. Totally worth it for me to leave work a little early, get there for 5 pm, enjoy the beach for a few hours and go home.
> Sad thing is, that if someone would spend a ton of research and thinking on making something usable and comfortable, most people would completely poopoo it as a freaky unusable layout, just because it would look unfamiliar, lol.

Absolutely. 8-Pen was this for Android. (example video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3OuCR0EpGo)

It was absolutely, hands down without question, the most accurate way to quickly enter text into a phone using only a screen. Seriously - I could type at about 25-35 wpm on my phone screen at 100% accuracy, one handed.

They'd done a ton of work to place letters based on frequency and likely combinations to make typing smooth and relatively fast.

No fucking disaster of auto-complete that I have to click to get the word I want, or when you actually have a vocabulary larger than 150 words, but auto-complete is fucking dumb and always picks the most basic option from the path, or when the word you want isn't in the phone dictionary, no hiccups if you want to misssspell something for impact. It was genuinely just the best keyboard I have EVER used on a phone.

The downside? It takes about 3 weeks of practice to actually learn, and most people just refuse to try for longer than 10 seconds.

I still find it incredibly frustrating that qwerty, of all god-damned things, is the input formula we've picked for phones. It's fucking dumb.
What is bodily autonomy? Most crimes are committed with the body in some form or another. What if I stab a knife in the air and somebody happens to be standing there? Thus it seems that the limit of my bodily autonomy ends where another person's rights begin.

The thing is that a lot of people think that a fetus is a person with rights. If a fetus is a person with rights then bodily autonomy doesn't quite apply. The bodily autonomy angle seems more of an escape hatch to sidestep the subjective and unsolvable issue of whether or not fetuses are people and have rights.

I'm pro-choice btw
Long pressing[0] is the touchscreen equivalent of a right click.

[0] Or, on very specific old iPhone models, force pressing
Yes it has NFC (144 bytes memory).
It can hold URL,vcard.
This isn't new. William F Buckley made a career out of it.
Heroku turned its back on Rails (2013)
No, doctors and nurses learn their skills in the free, public, pretty high-quality education.

I can only speak for my own country - but becoming a doctor is highly attractive here in spite of it being hard work.

Nurses, not that attractive, but they are paid a decent middle class salary as compensation for the hard work.
The article is fun, but I have my own theory - necessity is the mother of invention. In a magic world, where's the necessity?
> Example: Porche Cayman GT4 RS

That's a street car. You need to look at race cars to see where wing development can go.

For an example of race cars which generate downforce at autocross speeds, take a look at cars like https://www.autoxandtrack.com/a-mod-acme-special-fastest-aut...
I hadn't been to Chicago in a while, but I ended up taking a taxi from the airport due to how slow the trains were

I've been living in Germany for quite a while.

It's about the same distance from my home to the airport as O'Hare is to downtown Chicago. About 25km.

The top speed of the L is 55mph/90kph. Plus all the dwell time on the route, it takes 41 min and 17 stops to get to downtown.

For me, there is a regional train that gets me pretty close to home (10min walk) in 17 minutes and 0 stops.

From there if I have lots of luggage there's a bus and a tram that get me right to my block.

Chicago needs to vastly speed up their trains, and provide express trains between major destinations. 20 minutes from airport to downtown is completely feasible with basic commuter trains that can reach 160kph like the Stadler KISS trains that Caltrain will be using.
Please abstain yourself of writing any sort of derogatory comment without provide any constructive argument to the conversation, and just downvote the comment, or even better: follow how the conversation follows.

I also recommend you to read the guidelines on how to post in the HN community, check the section regarding how and what to comment in the link here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

EDIT: added link
The claw clip’s comeback (2021)
I’ve always wondered why more of my high paid friends in High Finance haven’t done this. After 20+ years of 7 figure salaries, why not chill when the markets turn? What I’ve come up with is the competitive will to work the crazy hours can’t be turned off.
>Being a paleoantologist, he made a question to Tolkien's book: why the Middle Earth had such strange land mass distribution, which is geologically impossible. And this started the "Last Ringbearer" book.

Unfortunately he missed the answer: at the time Tolkien was writing, plate tectonics was still considered an absurd hypothesis, the subject of mockery by "serious" geologists. As such the understanding of "geologically impossible" at that time was rather different than when Yeskov was writing a few decades later.

It was not until the 1950s that widespread sea floor mapping and research, made possible by the now-unnecessarily-large-and-mostly-idle US Navy, provided conclusive evidence that forced the geology establishment to accept plate tectonics.

It's easy to forget how recently we stopped being totally wrong about things like that.
Either side of the millennium my job involved daily use of a terminal interface (on WinNT IIRC) to a green-screen, to me it was just like using pico (which was supersedes by nano) through konsole. But I was just a user, and grew up with monochrome VDUs.

Can you run an AS400 under emulation?? Wouldn't you be developing under a regular IDE with modern tooling [, testing under emulation?] and then transferring to production just like you might with any other system?

On the question of whether it's worth it financially, presumably demand will increase--are people retiring faster than the systems they support or vice versa?
NFTs Create Value (2021)
I don't think it's a path-of-least resistance attitude but more "I would rather not give my all and not be passed over because I'm not into ass-kissing and other BS." I realize the civilian world is full of this as well but at least here we have the option of starting up our own thing and running with that.
a) As an individual, your data is only worth pennies, but as a billion users, you data is worth much more. That's because you can start inferring a lot about demographics and behavior.

b) Try starting a business and asking customers to pull out their credits cards and you will see how hard it is to make people pay. Just because you find value in paying, doesn't mean many/most people will.
Oh, is that why there are so many medical schools in the Caribbean? This thread has been so enlightening.
I find this whole thing so puzzling. In the UK, not so different from the USA, this is not really a thing at all. Even amongst Christians I have never heard it brought up. Is it a political thing, and if so how did it become so?
I tried a few non-descriptive statements from random tweets. As it turns out, nobody's made a random tweet since 2016, but for the few that exist, the results are great. E.g. "Good Morning Everyone , Happy Nice Day :D" generates something that can only be described as bored-ape meets Picasso in kindergarten. Probably the next-gen 1M$ NFT. If anybody needs proof that these models don't think, this is it.
Maybe a lot of light, pending if you are in the dark of course.
Serious question - Isn't the company opening themselves up to more litigation by ghosting? For instance, doesn't a hiring company have to have a legitimate reason for not hiring someone, otherwise they're opening themselves up to a discrimination lawsuit? "Because you gave me no reason as to why you didn't hire me, I'm now left to believe it was based it was on my ethnicity, which is illegal. So here's a lawsuit."
Thank you for responding!

I am certainly not a lawyer, however, 3b and 3c (from the terms link you posted) state that user content, including specifically Models, are property of the user.

Are you saying you think there is a conflict between 2 and 3b, 3c, or did you miss section 3?

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b. All right, title, and interest in and to the Subscriber Content, including all modifications, improvements, adaptations, enhancements, or translations made thereto, and all proprietary rights therein, will be and remain Subscriber’s sole and exclusive property, other than rights granted to us to enable (i) Subscriber to process its data on the Platform, and (ii) us to aggregate and anonymize Subscriber Content solely to improve Subscriber's user experience.

c. Subscriber Content means any data, media, and other materials that Subscriber and its Authorized Users submit to the Platform pursuant to this Agreement, including, without limitation, all Models and Projects, and any and all reproductions, visualizations, analyses, automations, scales, and other reports output by the Platform based on such Models and Projects.
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Well yes that's true. It's always about the circumstances.
I remember an interview with a startup where I couldn’t figure out what their product was and they got more and more annoyed with my questions.

I ended up with something with the cloud.
Hey, just a note that the YouTube links are the same, which I don't think you intended.
I would assume their motivation is money and having a job with high purpose.
How individual contributors get stuck (2017)
Because a company says “we don’t do stock ranking, we do le rank du staq” or some fabulous name they’ve given to the same crap.
"Tell me what led to the most recent time you fired someone in a role like this."

A big red flag is anyone who's never fired someone or never had a bad fit. The key to me is the follow-ups you ask:

• If you've never fired someone, what was the closest you've come? What was the outcome of that situation? Did they quit or did they improve? Why'd you wait for them to quit instead of addressing the issue directly? What made them improve?

• If it was a performance issue, how did you know they were underperforming? What steps did you take to help them improve?

• If it was a culture problem, why did it get missed in the hiring process? If they were initially a good culture fit, what changed?

• How do you identify low performers? Objectively? Subjectively? A mix of the 2.

The caveats are if a) you really really want this job or b) you really really need this job. In those cases, you should only be asking questions that you think make you look good to the hiring team.
I've briefly looked for the things I've read in the past but failed to find them currently. Will do when I return home, and will send another reply. I don't like when I can't find the references I remember so vividly.
> Instagram and Facebook begin removing posts offering abortion pills

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/28/1108107718/instagram-and-face...
WadC – Procedural Programming Environment for Henerating Doom Maps
Honestly, what we define as a flood of unqualified candidates is kind of ridiculous, nowadays it refers to anyone who didn't got to a top state school or top 1% equivalent.

The reality is that there are too many qualified people at the lower end of the pipeline and this is because we don't hire enough people as it is for our current positions, why this happens is really simple. It's to save money. There's a reason why we have terms like rockstar developer and heavily advertise the idea of a developer doing 1000x work of another one, which simply put is not true.

Most improvements to software and technology occur over time with experience and expertise what we see nowadays is an extremely self destructive behavior, at most top companies it results in heavy loss in expertise as most individuals will leave once their stock options can be sold. In order to maximize their profit while providing little to nothing of value to said companies. The idea we pay developers six figure salaries is inflated and has been a net negative. Resulting in inflated egos and an elitist environment which it is debatable to which provides anything of value or close to little at all.

We don't really need certification programs as they're typically used to stop minorities from gaining access to fields due to barriers of entry and the fact they are systemically flawed as it results in people just chasing after their next certification as the "logical" next step instead of actually learning anything of value.

Honestly, companies just need to be comfortable with hiring someone with a credible degree and taking a chance on them, it's basically the same thing as hiring with leetcode anyways according to google there is very little positive correlation. Anything else is ripe with corruption. But even this process can easily be corrupted, e.g. hiring only people from elite universities or select ones you have deals with in the area which already occurs in many places.
> many of these leetcode tests can be practiced (...) This makes it a really poor signal

It signals dedication/motivation at the very least.

It seems the people complaining are people who can't leetcode and, for some reason, won't practice. But why?

You either can leetcode, and it's all good, or you can't, and you should simply practice.

People who can't be bothered to practice leetcode for a couple of weeks to get past the tech interview, probably don't want the job enough.
> They don't have that many overlapping use cases

i believe they do. CLOG is very well suited for spa and db driven web applications and they both have a builder application [0]. but yes CLOG does have more uses than just making websites

nothing wrong with charging for things but we should definitely appreciate things that are done for free

[0] https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog/tree/main/demos
Do you have some good resources? I have some industry experience with Java, but not enough.
I find it interesting that you’re talking about hyperbole but offering only emotional rhetoric.

If you want to do better, note that I was talking about the legitimacy of the court itself, which is critical to an institution with a great deal of inferred power which is not explicitly spelled out. The FDR-era court did not have a justice whose legitimacy was dubious. Similarly, you could look at the various New Deal rulings for examples which completely broke with long-standing precedent or relied on cherry-picked history if you want to argue that those rulings were not unusual.
>Not being readily able to see a complete humanly understandable (meaning not just comparing git versions) list of changes that the fork makes to the official build.

I feel like this is a common thing with forks and alternatives, they usually have a basic list of big differences (like Librewolf with saying it's more private).

But I'd like to know how they do that, are they blocking more cookies? Are they making the browser harder to fingerprint? What am I giving up vs Firefox (ie; sites breaking, or missing features like sync)?
Same. I've always liked the phrase, "it's not what you say, it's how you say it."

The human voice is an instrument and I don't care about the lyrics to most songs. They usually aren't saying anything interesting. To me it's more about how they say it.
I know two people who started as COBOL devs, not sure what they're doing right now but they're both in their 40s. They were part of a big bank recruitment in the noughties.
Might even be doable without water vapor at cold enough temperatures. Vapor could damage or cause the rice/beans to start to rot later on, dead giveaway of tampering. Maybe the plastic beads are better in general because of their lack of moisture and general lack of organic weirdness.
Have you tried a concierge medicine service? While I agree that health-insurance-based providers have a lot of service problems, concierge medicine services seem to have better experiences since they're entirely choice-based.
There is little information in this interview about why they chose Haskell except the general notion that they liked it and maybe that it was faster than Python for their particular task. (I say "maybe", because rewrites generally tend to be faster, since you understand the domain much better.) Needless to say, there are many languages out there that are faster than Python. An obvious question should have been "why Haskell instead of C#/F#/Go/Rust, all of which can be made very performant and have better tooling". For that matter, why not Pharo? Or D? Or Factor? Again, the article hasn't really identified any specifics except "we like it" and "there is a university that teaches Haskell nearby".

I find such articles (and HN gets a lot of them) vaguely disturbing. They are PR pieces rather than engineering material written to influence rather than inform.
I'm impressed by the Scratch-to-C compiler they wrote in C++. That's the real magic here.
For a large list of not-startup-oriented questions, I maintain a collection here: https://github.com/viraptor/reverse-interview/
Gen Z is ~1996–2010.
> while my scaled, hooks infested, react apps make me feel like I’m handicapping myself

nothing prevents you from just using classic classes with react. we have 0 hooks on our code and we are not missing out on any feature.

I wish some of my other projects we are as easy to maintain and extend.

react + flow + redux + sagas feel like a cheat code. it shouldn't be so easy to program javascript.
> I’ve always wondered why more of my high paid friends in High Finance haven’t done this

Their peers won't tolerate that sort of behavior.
IMO because the christian nationalist wing of the Republican Party needs talking points.
Maybe not a coincidence.

For some reason, Facebook has been showing me lots of woodworking videos and books lately. And this has some relevance for me. I did notice multiple posts pushing books by Chris Schwarz, and now I see this comment. So I'm wondering if Mr. Schwarz is simply buying ads, and social media is doing its thing.
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

-- Blaise Pascal

I sincerely wish we collectively would spend more time doing nothing.
> Why can't Apple make an exception for Firefox and non-Chrome browsers ?

How do you imagine such a ban? And how much worse Apple will look in this scenario?
There's a whole variety of carbide matrices/coatings used for insert-tooling for machining. They change the binder and coating to alter the properties a bit. TiC (titanium carbide), Ti(C)N (titanium carbide-nitride), TiAlN (titanium aluminum nitride), etc. The tend to all be referred to as 'carbide inserts' unless you're distinguishing between each other specifically.

Pretty cool stuff!
> There's not a lot of memorable [dia]logue

Well, apart from the "I have seen things / tears in the rain" bit, the "It's too bad she won't live" monument, the inter-special interactions, the patricide/deicide, the silences in the perspective of the androidic mind, which makes dialogues almost monologues or no-logues...
Show HN: Pathfind 1M agents to unique destinations in my video game
Try it out here: https://yesbox.itch.io/archapolis

Or video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0HCnQqF5K4

Hi HN

I've been working on a city builder game for the last seven months. The first bar I wanted to pass was creating an efficient and more realistic path finding engine. Finally, version 0.1.0 of my game Archapolis is released! This is a toy/tech demo, but any and all feedback is really important to me, hence I'm releasing it now (for free).

I'd also like to get an idea how well my code runs on a variety of machines, so if you feel like testing it out, I would love to hear from you and your results!

I'll talk a bit about the path finding code here:

- It will find all possible shortest paths between two points in nearly the same time as Dijkstra's, and store them efficiently in a (C++) vector (i.e. array) (max possible paths is the binomial coefficient formula)

- An agent can access/find a path in constant time (just like a hash table) using some arithmetic (since the vector index is the "key").

- The game will generate the all pairs all possible shortest paths once you place a unit down, and update each time the road network changes.

- The path finding algorithm can also utilize preference weights (e.g. beauty, tourism, commercial, cultural neighborhood...) stored in roads. An agent that has a preference will take the shortest path from all possible shortest paths that match their preference.

- In the download, these are colored roads for now, so units that match the road color will prefer those roads.

- Its multi-threaded. On my machine, finding / storing all pairs all shortest possible paths in a 50 x 50 grid (with 9,800 nodes) takes 17 seconds (with six cores) and needs 2.5 GB of RAM. This is an extreme stress test. If using Manhattan block sizes, this is around 13 square miles of city, or roughly nine Cities: Skylines tiles.

- In game, roads will be planned first, then placed all at once so only one update is needed.

- I'm really happy with the results. Not only will units utilize all shortest paths between two points, the preference weights gives personality to each unit, so part of my unit AI is already done!

- One other note: the one way roads are faster roads (less "weight"), though the agents will still move the same speed over them. They just create faster/shorter paths for testing the algo.
It's depressing that this question even had to be asked
Nope. A gang initiation happened in Cincinnati Ohio in front of a Target. Random young man was accosted on trying to enter the store. He didn't bite on their attempt to goad him into a fight and they shot him when he left the store. There was a girl taking video of the whole thing. She jumped in the car with the shooter. Still at large.

Totally innocent student shot dead on a trip to a very busy store in a very "nice" (expensive) area.

I pay attention to the get-away situation of areas now to assess risk of criminal activity spawning.