skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but generally the reason people's backups don't work aren't that they're using backup software written by programmers who weren't smart enough to win the Putnam. Generally when people's backups don't work it's because they don't do the backups, or because they set up the backups in a way that can't work (for example, forgetting to back up the files they really care about, or backing up a live database tablespace with a filesystem backup tool without snapshots), or because they're in some kind of a dysfunctional relationship with a vendor like Google that doesn't give them programmatic access to their own files so they can't do backups.

So, while I don't think it's bad for cperciva to have spent a lot of time working on Tarsnap, which is clearly a useful piece of software, I also think things like scrypt actually matter more in the end.

However, I also think cperciva is a better judge of what to spend his life on than I am.
If AWS broke your CNI that caused you problems, it is also possible for AWS to break networking.

I have used Managed K8s for 4 years and literally never had any problems with CNI. My clusters runs with no problems.
The Swirl Society of Netscape
I agree with your father, if someone texts/calls during normal sleeping hours it really should be an emergency because if everyone mutes their phones and there’s a real emergency then nobody will be able to get in touch with anybody.

Other than drunk friends and booty calls someone had better be in the hospital or dead if they wake me up in the middle of the night.
My hint is stop once you’ve entered anything more PII than your IP address in their server logs.
I can't help having a bit of freudenschade. The mighty Germans F it up. They didn't want to break eggs with Turkey and get advantage of the SE Med gas reserves. They didn't like nuclear after bashing it for so long. And of course, they got dragged into a war that they are too small for.

Sad thing is that 1. Whole EU has to suffer because of this 2. You can't stop thinking "What it would be like if Germany actually stepped up to lead with understanding"
Conventional job interviews are bad from the viewpoint of the interviewees is that even though the function is to hire somebody, the process is fundamentally a rejection process. It is in everybody's interest to disrupt this process.

One of the greatest job interview hacks is this:

Imagine yourself as a consultant who is there to solve a problem for the business right there in the job interview and you can tell them that is your goal. Take advantage of "do you have any questions for us?" to probe deeply on a problem they have: sometimes you can get people talking for hours and get a lot of information.

This works best at small firms, say 20 employees, where you can talk to the principals. Big companies like Google have a structured hiring process precisely to defeat this and other interview hacks.
I just looked up the prices at Walmart and the cheapest I can find is $1.30 for just chicken+bun. These are bargain basement chicken patties, probably not very tasty. Of course, this is assuming you can eat the entire package before they goes bad. You also run into the problem of not being able to buy the same amount of patties and buns due to package sizes, and when you want to add lettuce you have to buy an entire head so you'll have to plan ahead to use the rest of the lettuce.

I really wouldn't want to eat frozen french fries either, they are just really bad. Might as well make something more edible as a side like macaroni salad.

I guess my point is that only if you're making food for a large family or are a really big eater then the supermarket is cheaper. Otherwise, don't feel bad for "wasting" money at McDonald's. I don't have a horse in this race though, I'm a vegetarian, I don't eat this stuff.
The core business model of cryptocurrency companies is deceiving their customers, so why shouldn't they also deceive their employees too?
> Obviously, this was not the case in Uvalde and so it would not be portrayed as such.

Jeffrey Epstein was obviously killed. What’s obvious to one group of people is not obvious to others. There are a great many people to whom it is obvious that the median journalist is more like Taylor Lorenz than them and hates people like them and has no compunction about lying if it makes hurting them easier.
The system will keep working on the way down (at least until the mining world gets small enough that someone can do a 51% attack), but once the expectation of future growth disappears, the price will crater and never come back and the whole thing will be fairly harmless. I guess the network will still work for people buying drugs, but do people even still do that?
“A room of one’s own” by Virginia Woolf is a great book about this topic. Financial freedom proceeds creative thinking.
Amen. It's really a simple thing to understand. But most people involved in academia don't (want to).
What were your medical issues?
its the states that are bad in that.

splitting out all the related citites into their own states would make a more appropriate federation
> There isn't sufficient margin in drink to float a pub. The margin is in food (and to an extent, dispensed soft drinks).

In the US, the exact opposite is true. Alcohol sales are where the money is made (and yes, soft drink sales, but there's usually far less of that in an actual bar.) Food has nowhere near the profit margin. Multiple restaurant owners have told me this for years.

Why is it the opposite in the UK?
Communication protocols extend through the human layer too. As long as both ends agree on what that is, the medium that the message uses to get from A to B is arbitrary.

With your father, texts are synchronous comms, possibly without requiring an explicit acknowledgement. This may be different for different groups of people. Define what that agreed protocol is and it removes the ambiguity.
In some really basic way sure, but schizophrenia also causes definite excesses and deficiencies. They tend to be messy and bad at self care, they can see and hear things that aren't there, are subject to delusions, and can lack a normal affect
> That kind of passion where you do it every free moment of your time/not monetary based

I used to have that passion. Every waking moment devoted to figuring out cool things. Or at least what seemed cool to me.

Then one day I joined a rocketship company and all my side projects and ideas started to feel small, boring, and insignificant. The grandest idea I could come up with couldn’t hold a light to even the most mundane problems a real business in the hockeystick part of the curve comes up with.

Sometimes I miss the motivation to tinker. Sometimes I cherish my newfound ability to relax. Perhaps one day I will tinker once more.
Completely unrelated to this new, but I remember interviewing with them 3 years ago and had my worst interview ever. There was 2 interviewers, one lady from HR and one guy from engineering (with a hard to understand english). For some reason they thought it was a good idea to ask about concurrency on PHP and right after what were my weakness. Looking back I think I was very lucky to not make it throught.
Friedman sometimes has some interesting takes but is often dramatically and laughably wrong. I would hesitate to take much of what they say as having much predictive accuracy at all.

They do state it with an air of authority and "high caliber top secret intelligence" but still laughable.
This is why I disagree fundamentally with TDD - it kills the creative spark. Whatever happened to hiring dedicated testers in order to give the creatives freedom to do what they do best? Forcing a creative dev to constrain him/herself right out of the gate is an exercise in futility made even worse when you add the requirement to be a Docker+Kubernetes+AWS gun-slinger. Whatever happened to specialisation?
Show HN: nbsnapshot – Snapshot testing for Jupyter notebooks
I want to share a project I've been working on to facilitate Jupyter notebook testing (https://github.com/edublancas/nbsnapshot).

When analyzing data in a Jupyter notebook, I unconsciously memorize "rules of thumb" to determine if my results are correct. For example, I might print some summary statistics and become skeptical of some outputs if they deviate too much from what I've seen historically. For more complex analysis, I often create diagnostic plots (e.g., a histogram) and check them whenever new data arrives.

Since I constantly repeat the same process, I figured I'd code a small library to streamline this process. nbsnapshot benchmarks cell's outputs with historical results and raises an error if the output deviates from an expected range (by default, 3 standard deviations from the mean).

To learn more, check out the blog post (https://ploomber.io/blog/snapshot-testing/).

I quickly put together this as a proof of concept and would love to learn if this sounds useful for other notebook users so I spend more time working on it. Please share your feedback!
*due to Samsung, who decided that every email deserved a ringing notification.

It’s especially appalling when they played this trick on my old parents, who receive a slew of emails every morning at 5 or 6am.
Using evolutionary algorithms to improve Quake's TAS WR
Yeah, I was thinking of an SQL as a way to improve my general ability to design higher complexity apps.
> I have no complaints

I meant that the profile you proposed just before the quotation, of this autonomous personality with judgement of the highest profile, is not just specific to one case in history but shown in a great number of accomplished leaders. If you find intriguing that approach you lauded, it could be rewarding to you to look into others - you will find similar profiles. There is company at the peak.
Huh. It was there earlier. I can't remember what it said, a something-mab, so monoclonal antibody. I wonder why the BBC did a wee ninja-edit? Legal reasons?
Clunky Mask May Be the Answer to Airborne Disease: Elastomeric Respirators
Except, weaker performers will stick around for severance and top performers will leave. If sufficient above average performers leave to avoid a layoff you are left with a weaker team. In this instance company doesnt get to chose, which it might want to. Best idea is not to provide reassurance if you cant back it up. In which case, say nothing.
He stated exactly why he was dismissive.
You merely reassert the author main point, but fail to address the counter arguments he gave.
Seems to have been ninja-edited. It was there earlier.
If it's interesting to you, go for it! You'll probably learn a ton more about anything if you're interested, even if it's not 100% relevant to your job, than you would forcing yourself to learn something you feel certain would be relevant but isn't sparking your interest.
It needs to be even more standardized. So far in fact, that it could be part of a API, that could be handled by software, so that a robot could cancel the contract for the user. User should be able to create and cancel contracts via automated negotiation.
I push the button that looks like an old school phone handset and punch in a sequence of numbers corresponding to another phone then talk to someone.

Is there a more proper way to use a phone?
And the first one now will later be last - Bob Dylan

The last will be first, and the first last - Matthew 20:16
That of course applies to the US too. Its current system of empire has its own money sinks
Oh that would be bliss! Can it remove cookie/newsletter/discount/app promo popups too? :)
No doubt Bogost had offers to sell and/or saw avenues to zyngafy it to the max. He deserves a lot of respect for his (as I assume) crictial, scientific, maybe cynic but definitively ethical, human way to approach it. Ramp up the insanity and maybe teach people about the mechanisms of game addictiveness before shutting it all off.
When the senior management all suddenly disappear at once, because they're under gag order and not allowed to talk about the company's future with anyone, that's a sign of things to come.
Heroku and friends is literally built to simplify the complexities of VMs. Are you also arguing that deploying to VMs is too complex?
I only ever played around with making a toy app while following along with Stanford's Swift UI course[1], and even just the basic things I was doing there, I ran into multiple frustrating/confusing bugs.

As if it wasn't difficult enough to wrap your head around learning it in the first place, running into bugs makes it even harder because you think you're doing something wrong until you finally ask online and get told by people more knowledgeable than you, "I don't know why that's happening, wrap your view in a container and it'll work"

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpGHT1n4-mAsxuRxVPv7kj4-d...
I really don't know too much about this game or it's author. I saw it referenced on BoingBoing. For all I know, they could be a horrible person. It could be festooned with privacy invading malware. I'm too lazy to open the developer's console in chrome and find out.

I'm posting a link to it because I like the game play. Most importantly, I don't have to log in to start playing. I have the option of looking at some docs or to jump right in.

This is in contrast to another game posted here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31980980 by @drcode.

I'm not saying the dream book game is bad. I'm not discouraging you from playing it. But what I am saying is the first thing it presented me with was a login screen, and that's just more than I can handle with a game. I have "login fatigue" from work. Every ten minutes I'm logging into another system. I really can't handle that during recreation times. And yes... it turns out there are reasonable reasons why our SSO experience is so sub-standard. Not good reasons, but understandable-given-the-circumstances-and-if-only-we-had-enough-manpower-we-could-fix-this kind or reasons. Not enough reasons to quit; most every other aspect of my job is great.

But getting back to the experience of not having to log in.

In the old days you had a personal computer and it booted up and you saw your desktop. You didn't log in. Your desktop was right there because you owned the computer. On my classic Mac, I only had to log in when I wanted to access a shared, protected resource on the network. And even then it only affected my experience with THAT resource. They eventually created the moral equivalent of SSH Agent for the Mac for people who had a bazillion file servers on their network. And it was okay.

[ and yes. you could lock your screen if you were worried about people accessing your desktop. but if you were seriously paranoid, you would eject the floppy disk with the files you were working on and take it with you to lunch. ]

So what am I saying... I'm asking app developers to consider delivering a base level experience without having to authenticate the user's identity. Yes. It's horrible from a security perspective. We all know that true information security comes from requiring people to memorize another password. I'm sure that's written down in a NIST 800 manual from 1978 or something.

And I'm completely not trying to disrespect drcode's work. This just wasn't at the top of their list and that's completely fine.

But... having an experience for users who haven't logged in reduces friction.
You probably found the Leica q2 monochrome, which is the option that costs a fortune but is probably the best monochrome only camera on the market right now. If you're just getting back into photography after awhile though, then I wouldn't suggest it to start :)

Based on your description, a Fuji would probably fit well (it can either be fiddly or fully automatic, and has great modes not just for b/w, but other film simulations as well).

The Fuji x100v or Ricoh GRiii are great little cameras with good b/w modes.

If you'd like to change lenses, then the Fuji E4 would be good, or the Fuji XT4 if you want more options.
The page says the data is licensed under CC-BY (presumably in countries that have sui generis database protection, rather than countries like the US where facts aren't copyrightable). This is great!

Is there a torrent? How can we ensure that this treasury of materials knowledge is preserved 64, 256, or 1024 years into the future, even if, for example, the US goes to war against Russia or China and decides to criminalize exporting materials data?
There are no controllers in the react way of doing things, or at least no separation between view and controller if that's your perspective.
And now four years later they accepted the web developers but now are having smug epithets about Web3 developers, those idiots who are too idealistic to accept the beauty of Web2’s centralized model
Agreed, but I didn't mentioned changes, I mentioned interaction. Reading data in this case.
But taxes are trivial compared to cost of living.

For example median rent in Austin is $1360 vs $4150 for San Francisco. Over 300% higher.

On the other hand, how much higher are taxes in SF? Like 10% higher at most. Completely trivial.

I get your point about marginal costs, but I think in general SF taxes contribute to making the city a more developed and attractive place to live and ultimately make people more, not less likely to move there. If the rent was the same nearly everyone would choose California over Texas.
In France, the law says the employer must use an email platform that disables communication during non-working hours.

Yes, it exists. Yes, no-one can notify the guy on duty because no-one can send him emails.
Yes, if it's in my (fairly narrow) area of expertise. About 90% of the time when someone approaches me with audit work the answer ends up being "I'm not the right person to hire for this".
For people who don't get the reference, this is an adaptation of a famous line from Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson.
> Entered. It exists. I've already clocked dozens of hours on mine.

Re-entered. Their previous related product (Steam Machines) was a total failure.

> The real issue isn't the idea of an open console designed to run commercial games. The issue is one of key feature differentiators that might drive consumers to buy one.

As long as DRM is in the system with closed-source components and software, an 'open console' is a myth, marketed to many as a DIY repair and replace utopia, even when Valve discourages from modifying and opening the so-called 'open console' in the first place.

> Both the Ouya and the Shield suffered from the same problem: Being Android-based, they couldn't directly play PC games. You had to either stream from an existing game rig or stream from the cloud.

> The Deck does not have that limitation. It's differentiator is being able to portably run PC games unmodified.

Android is dead in the water and even Steam Machines ran SteamOS (modified Linux distro) and it still failed with the whole device. It doesn't matter. It seems something is eternally wrong with these systems.

The numbers sold are not even publicly shown, which tells me they are already anticipating failure in the long term compared to the mainstream consoles. There is no need to compare since Valve already failed with their previous console; so it is no different to the rest of the failed consoles before it.
I was also a big fan of the i960, and did many designs with the i960CF and I960RP. One of the i960CF based MPEG-2 encoder PCI cards from when I worked at Optivision in the 90's.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/184183208245
Same here on the subject of having to sign up/log in - although it does offer the option to log in using an email address. I do not want an application with the specific intention of changing my state of mind to be connected and transferring personally identifiable information to some remote mothership in any way so thanks but no thanks - no neurocannula for me.
“europeans agreed to an open market and common currency that included Germany only if [Germany makes a certain concession]”

It was rather the other way round: Germany was made to agree to the euro project as a concession for reunification.[1]

All in all, this seems to have been beneficial for a majority of normal people in the countries getting a stronger currency and for a minority of people in Germany, who export: Consequently, Germany’s wealth distibution tends to be the most unequal in the euro zone,[2] and its median wealth is slightly below that of Slovenia and significantly below that of France, Italy and Spain.[3]

[1] https://voxeurop.eu/en/you-get-unification-we-get-the-euro/

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-wealth-idUSBREA1P...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...
Probably true, but as the article suggests, it may be more than just exercise. Some people seem to be given a creative brain from the get-go, whilst others must work very hard to produce creative outcomes, and indeed...may stop trying altogether because of this.

If I take the least creative people in my circles, one pattern I can spot is that they lack curiosity. Interests are narrow, shallow and for pragmatic reasons only. Not ignorant, just cognitively passive. My pseudo-scientific take on creativity is that it's connecting dots in unforeseen ways. Without curiosity though, there's little to connect.
>Trump is the far right

The guy was a Democrat for most of his life.
Why did they drop games? While I hated people forced game shares in my feed as much as the next guy, it seemed like an extremely successful branch of Facebook features.

Why did they drop it?
Make things, materials science…
Strong seconding here. I have a low voice that doesn’t travel well in noisy environments. It’s pretty tiring having to shout an entire night out just to converse across the table.
pay up or we’ll make you a green texter
Maybe they just like to feel like they're being strangled by a really weak guy, all day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odXw8_DJkaA
If i was talking to a man at a petrol station and he took his trousers off, i would also be confused.
Modern USB microscopes are extremely good. Not in the sense that the quality is somehow superb but in the sense that they can be had reasonably cheaply and give you a sufficiently magnified view to see lots of details that would not be visible to the naked eye. Importantly, they don’t require lots of the faff that a ‘proper’ microscope does, e.g. no messing around with dirty objectives or eyepieces or light sources or slides or covering slips or stains or preparing samples or two different focusing wheels or oils or whatever. And it can be a further pain if you want to get an image onto a computer whereas with a USB scope it’s already there. The point is that the lower barrier of entry can build interest and the low cost means you don’t feel so bad if you only use it once or twice.
> lots of subclassing and overriding is much harder to avoid with view controllers but view-level subclassing is usually an anti-pattern (if i got a dollar for every time i found a "RedButton" class id be a millionaire) but like most things people aren't either experienced or educated enough in these frameworks

At some point if the system guides everyone into doing it the wrong way, it's a problem with the wrong system. Subclassing is rarely the right solution, one of the things that's really refreshing about React is that most people tend to naturally avoid subclassing when using it.
He was specifically going to be an academic mathematician, which would probably have allowed him to publish discoveries without patenting or licensing them.
I’ve thought about this. It’s at best passive aggressive. Definitely don’t do it. Among the innovative interview techniques I have yet to see is one where the interviewee is allowed to customize the process. If you have projects you can showcase let’s see them, if not take this test. Seems simple but alien to anyone I’ve mentioned this too.