skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once worked with a recruiting agency to apply to a publicly-traded company that they were engaged with. I told them the TC that I'd need to make a move and they said that the company in question could definitely hit it. I went through the interview rounds and did well enough but wasn't particularly enthused about the prospective job. Just before they extended me a verbal offer the recruiter called me and said that they'd seen them extend offers that were almost double what my initial ask was; I was on the fence about the job but if they were ponying up those kinds of dollars then I'd be obligated to at least consider their offer.

Instead they massively low-balled me with a lower base than what I was making at the time plus ~30% of the RSUs that they'd need to hit my number. I asked the recruiter and the company both about this and they said that the value of the RSUs was predicated on "their growth potential" and that I had to account for their future value. I double-checked with the recruiter to make sure that there wasn't a miscommunication and they confirmed that the company knew what my requirement was.

Needless to say this made my decision fairly simple. Their share price was in the toilet and I'd never worked for a company that granted RSUs before so maybe they thought that they'd be able to pull a fast one on me, but it was a colossal waste of everybody's time regardless.
Find out what the most common domain is for that language. If that domain is unfamiliar to me, I try to find a good tutorial on building something in it. The self-correcting part is if the language is good for the domain 99/100 a times an excellent tutorial can be found on it.

I'm not gonna write a compiler in Rust, and I'm not gonna write a web server in Haskell (reading between the lines the opposite is true).

So just for example

Kotlin => a quick web app or a mobile app

Python => rewrite some bash script I've been meaning to improve, or write some statistical analysis with numpy

In the process I get to learn a new domain at the same time, and get to see what that looks like when an ecosystem actively tries to make it easier.

Of course sometimes it's good to try to use a language for something it's not commonly used for, and find out how much programming can suck when no-one has worked on smoothing out the edges.
isn't that $200k/year in stock worthless anyways?
It is also called Table Elimination if you want a google-able term.
I'm over 40. Never heard of it. It happens, I'm not really following anything or keeping up with internet "culture". Haven't for decades.
On HN we try to go by article quality, not site quality: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... The author names here are probably more important than whoever owns the site. Their credentials are on the line if the sources they claim to be quoting are made up. That doesn't prove anything, of course, but one's always guessing with these things, and readers need to make up their own minds.

I understand the argument you're making, and it's not an obvious call, but I think it comes with more downside than upside, at least for HN. It's a trope of tribal internet argument (I mean in general—not talking about you here) to follow a "DAG of shame" in which you hop from any node to the most shameful associated thing, with the intention of discrediting the node from which you started. The problem is that each of those hops loses a lot of information, and one ends up in places that aren't particularly relevant, like whatever that university project is.

What's bad about this for HN is that it makes threads more generic, predictable, and repetitive. It also polarizes discussion along the most intense axis. All of this makes discussion less interesting and more inflammatory.

So while it's not an obvious call (more like 60-40 than 80-20) I think we're better off as a community to resist the habit of replacing topic X with the biggest or most shameful other-topic-Y that the dots connect to. It's not that there's no value in it, but it's the wrong move, given what we're trying to optimize for (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).
People were still buying hertz stock even though they were going through bankruptcy. They even tried to do secondary offering. Retail investors don’t operate with enough information to make financially sound decisions.
The time investment of writing a good hand-written parser is only worth it if you have users whose workflow would be improved by performance/error reporting gains once you have exhausted what a grammar-derived parser can provide.

For Clang and GCC is it absolutely a no brainer to use a hand-written parser.

If you're trying to get to an MVP compiler, or you're building a bootstrapping compiler, using a grammar-derived parser to get to the finish line faster is far more sensible.
I don't have to define or measure it. And this does not make it meaningless either. In fact most profound things in life can not be measured. Can you measure how much parents love their child? Can you measure how happy someone is to get a present they wanted? Can you measure how funny a joke is? Measuring everything is a stupid approach to life and things like brain development and human potential for sure are immeasurable but are the most significant.
I really like building Conway's Game of Life. It's big enough that each time I still have to think about the solution and how to build it, but small enough that it allows me to recognize patterns and differences from a language to another.
I have a question since you seem to be involved with element. Is it possible to make element list all users of a home server? Or is a custom identity server required for that? I think there used to be a project called mxisd which is now unmaintained...
This feature would be great to e.g. replace slack with matrix/element.
This article definitely has a Liberal Bias, accusing upright Republicans, whose wives wear cloth coats, of spamming, something so low that, may God forgive for saying their names, communists and socialists don't even do.
Basically, they want even more people to use a product that requires a Google account so they can track people everywhere the same way they do with Android.

Somebody should make this illegal.
I used to pay to run a few TOR exit nodes located in Iceland that I didn't want tied to me because I didn't want the hassle. It was marginally easier to use bitcoin than it was to get a prepaid credit cards with cash each time.

That's about it though.
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You seem to be missing the point but I’ll play along - multiple warrantless searches, attempts to entrap drivers, et al as described the article.
The domain makes me think of viruses (vv instead of w, classic).
Hard agree.

Have you found any frameworks to be particularly good at this for C/C++?
> ... I felt like I had to walk away with dignity and just declined.

You dodged a bullet. Whatever company this is appears to be circling the drain. The problem you'll face now is: how many other companies are in the same position?
£399 for black 8+128GB

£499 for white 12+256GB

(there are other combinations but that appears to be Mon and max)

Case £25

Charger £35

Screen protector £19

Headphones £99 (!)
I use https://exercism.org/ with new languages to get a grasp on syntax and see examples that other people have submitted.

It's far from a true comprehension of the language, but it is really helpful to tackle problems that I've already done a few times in languages I am more familiar with to help relate concepts and highlight the differences.
They also mean that the next world war is going to be devastating.

I think it's too early to tell if we've just replaced a medium risk of a medium scale tragedy with a low risk of an unimaginably bad tragedy.

There were two world wars last century, and we're not even a quarter of the way through this one yet.
Apropos Poland: the chess legend Miguel Najdorf.

He was in Argentina for the Chess Olympiad in 1939 when WW2 started, so he stayed and got stuck there. It's unlikely he'd be known as "Miguel" now if this had never happened.
But the offense against the people is the same. Don’t impose social engineering at the sentencing level. It’s not up to the judge. The judge is an idiot, just like us.

Now I understand your position and even agree with it to a point, the idea that justice is blind means judgment is without consideration of undue influence.

Like many things, balance is the best approach. Minimum sentences came about when the prior sentences were perceived to be unreasonable.

Don’t get me started on prison reform, though. Blind or not, US prisons are inherently unconstitutional.
Libertarians are not a hivemind. I mean, for starters, you'll have to clarify if you mean right-wing or left-wing libertarians.

Speaking for myself, as a left-wing libertarian, I think that corporations, being an artificial creation of society, can come with whatever strings society deems suitable to attach to that privilege - provided that they're the same for everyone.
I am not sympathetic to teachers or pension funds whatsoever. Teachers should take control of their investments like everyone else: either invest it yourself or make your pension managers invest it properly. Pension funds do all sorts of stupid things: they played a role in 2008, they invest in big oil and other anti-ESG stocks, and now this. They're huge pools of poorly governed funds, it's inevitable that they get abused.
I think you will find many global corps are actually multinational and have presence and thus effected by braindead laws coming out of the EU. We live on a shared internet plane, we cannot let EU do stupid things that break the internet. You may wish to look at restrictive internet legislation by countries is an attack on the world. It’s not US corp vs EU politicians. It’s EU politicians against earth internet users.
I suppose we will need to see what happens when someone like Walmart or Amazon decides to prioritize instant payments over CCs in their checkout flows. The cost savings to them from avoiding merchant fees at their volume makes it inevitable they’ll test it. I can’t say if they’d start to pass along CC merchant fees, but I’m interested to find out. They can even offer BNPL
or credit directly to their customers without the customer needing a credit card, whether underwriting them by order history, credit underwriting, or a combination.

With regards to your fraud point, you assume a level of sophistication of your average financial services consumer that doesn’t exist in my experience. CC surcharges will allow consumers to self sort regarding whether they want the CC transaction benefits (and will pay for them) or not.
Cryptanalyzing Mega in Six Queries [pdf]
I absolutely understand the upsides of the assets store. Although not as expansive as the asset store, there are lots of either free or extremely affordable; many of them with CC0 licenses or licenses that make them extremely easy to just use them. I wouldn't have been able to make my first game in Godot Puck Fantasy (available here: <https://www.lowkeyart.com/puckfantasy>) without them!

I would encourage you to try some of these! You'd be surprised how far you can get by using these, with and without modification.

These are my favorite resources, in order of preference.

- <https://www.kenney.nl/> is by far the best one and most expansive one. Everything he creates is CC0. A lot of great free assets available on his site. He also has a "Kenney Game Assets All-in-1" which can be bought on itch.io for $19.95. It has all assets he's ever made, neatly organized, and ready to use. All CC0. This also includes some music. The music and sound assets are much more limited than the 2D and 3D assets, but it's there, and it's solid.

- <https://kaylousberg.com/game-assets> has some fantastic assets also available for free, and has more available for a pretty affordable Patreon tier. Also has a CC0 license for the free assets. Mostly a specific style, which is great for consistency, but a bit more limited than the wide variety of Kenney; but I don't doubt that with time they'll build an equally strong library of assets.

- <https://quaternius.com/> has many free great assets. Also CC0. Has a high variety of styles and settings. Also has a very affordable Patreon to get easy access to everything they produce.

- <https://github.com/Miziziziz/Retro3DGraphicsCollection> is a general place linking to more assets that should be usable.

Separately from this, itch.io has a section for game assets that has a pretty wide variety.
It's Officially Too Hot for Crypto Mining in Texas
> I think this is a much more practical approach to being anti-war than pacifism.

What practical set of steps do you propose to get Putin at the front of a military charge?
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If it’s RSUs why are they worthless?
Pretending you’re not a crypto proponent is funny while trying to imply the other person isn’t genuine.

They already said fiat doesn’t have close to the same issues as crypto. The monetary inflation benefits to the wealthy are nowhere near the same for Bitcoin or any crypto. It’s a fraction of how bad Bitcoin is. They also basically said that multiple times too.

They have answered the rest too. Being on chain isn’t an issue for fiat because they aren’t trying to be on chain. They aren’t trying to shoehorn in blockchain.
People like you is why I gatekeep candidates off my security team. Everyone that I hire is vetted and vouched for by someone.
Right. They're not mutually exclusive -- hence the "both, either, or neither"
>It's like society hardly even functions anymore.

Because it doesn't. We aren't meant to live like we live. We're hyper-individualized, alienated, and atomized by our relations to the means of production. We're all mercenary wage slaves just trying to get enough scratch to escape the rat race for a few years before we kick the bucket. Nearly all of those that don't really have this concern (aka the already-set-for-life crowd) seem to be preternaturally greedy and devoid of empathy.

The deterioration of society under these conditions isn't exactly surprising.

Hoping to retire to either Europe or the middle of fucking nowhere within a decade.
This is called the ACH network and there's no way to trace, undue, or recall transactions. It has been used in bank robberies [1] and numerous financial institutions and payment processors who are not banks use it, not all of whom are trustworthy.

[1] https://www.kaspersky.com/about/press-releases/2015_the-grea...
> Clearly you are not familiar with bureaucracies and how they grow. You do not need to file your taxes explicitly, or at any rate, rehash the information that's already known to the government, such as your taxes withheld and so on, every year. But if you do that, then a lot of people will lose their cushy government jobs, and vested interests, such as corporations and unions that feed at the government trough will end up on the losing side as well. That's why you end up doing these things repeatedly. Yes, there's software, but that is only an aid for the bureaucrats to do less actual work.

> Politicians are of course complicit and key enablers of these schemes. They gain leverage when this type of pork is in their constituencies.

This "bureaucratic inefficiency" strawman is conveniently brought to your by your local super-capitalist overlords[0], btw.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
Introspection combined with Compile Time Function Execution combined with the ability to compile string literals into code.
Crypto is our generation’s write off. The cost of a free market economy. We’ll have people with stranded skill sets. They deserve compassion; though based on precedent, they will find none.

Maybe in a hundred years we’ll realise they were ahead of their time. When some UN blockchain extends across the solar system. Like how we remember N. Tesla and the 90s’ satellite internet folk. Financially ruined. But cute in their own way.

There are a lot of boomers recapitulating their 90s in crypto. They’re fine. They’re gambling. I have a lot more sympathy for the young people wrapped up in the whirlwind. They’re making me wealthy. But oof, do I wish they’d widen up.
It seems "legit" because both orgs already believed in the "Power of Crypto".

Like if we both, a priori, believe the earth is flat, we'd seem "legit" to each other.
"When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time."
Anyone who works for Apple, reading this, should pass this to the App Store team to review.

E.g. (from https://github.com/avast/ioc/blob/master/Fleeceware/Fleecewa...)

- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bass-booster-volume-power-amp/...

- Store text erroneously claims "$40.99" for yearly charge ... to "boost bass" ... yeah right.

- Actual IAP for yearly is two IAP: one $59.99, the other $75.99

Clearly intending to defraud customers.
Now they have turned to acting like you aren’t genuine in their next reply, haha. When they actually tried to pull a “I don’t know if I’m a crypto proponent”

Yes the last line is a recurring one lol.
They should at least reveal the answer somewhere immediately close by. I couldn't spot the error after a few minutes, came to the comments to find out what it was. Not a great introduction because you're asking someone to spot an error in something they don't know the syntax or ruleset for.

The project looks cool though.
Apparently I'm in the minority that feels config languages should be little more than namespaces and key-value storage and should not be programmable.

I would not want to use a bash script as a config file, for example.
That's the same as a leading comma.
Wow, love it. I think i described this exact app to a friend about a week ago. I'm so impressed! And look at what a great conversation you generated here.

Here's a bit of language that a good friend told to me, maybe you could use it somehow in your marketing or documentation:

"When you are talking with people in a group, look around the circle and do the math. For instance, if there are three people, and you are talking more than 1/3 of the time, then you are a bore."
https://archive.ph/kkNBL
The worst part of the pandemic beside policies that would swing back and forth (which is kind of understandable if you're learning as you go) was the inability to have discussions about the pros and cons of shutdowns and other pandemic related policies.

Social media and mainstream media saw it fit to censor dissenting voices --not those of quacks, we can mostly all agree on minimizing the voices of quacks but shutting down medical professionals and medical academics and so on is very concerning.

The only people they allowed to be wrong about the pandemic were govt officials. They could get it wrong and right it as many times as necessary.
And those people might have been right??
There are features of cryptocurrencies that would actually be useful in today's financial services.

The main one would be near instant settlement. If I make a transaction on Bitcoin, that transaction is completely settled and verified and approved over a hundred thousands times within an hour.

All parties can trust that the transaction happened and everyone has their money. That's not possible in today's financial systems. We don't even have settlements on weekends.

If you sell a stock on Friday, you aren't going to get your money until Wednesday at the earliest. We don't even have T+1 settlement in the US yet lol.

Why do business days exist in todays financial system. If I transfer money from my brokerage on Friday why can I get access to that money right away instead of waiting over the weekend.
Yes. Without a range being advertised, I think it's too easy for companies to foster pay inequality by hiring new engineers for more than they're paying their existing engineers with similar experience/responsibilities.
Can you clarify? How is $200k worth of something ever "worthless"?
Don't forget about the $720M in "Mining Assets". I wouldn't be surprised if the true value were much lower than this, now that crypto prices have crashed.
A blog post about EUR, USD and Yen
how is something worth $200k if you can't sell it?
If they believe in their valuation why shouldn't they just IPO? Is it really gonna matter if they IPO at 100B or just 60b?

And if they are in fact a 100B company then supposedly at some point the public market should price them "correctly".
Thanks. Dwarven Skykeep is my first real commercial project too. So I'm not going to give you any obvious learning tips as anyone can find some good tutorials on youtube. Advice about trying out gamedev that I could actually give are:

* If you can start with some paper prototype or just create some digital visual gameplay screen mockup. Its easier to work toward something you can see.

* Start small and dont bother with code architecture or quality. If 3D seems to hard start with just 2D. Your first goal is to get MVP as quickly as possible. Prototyping on boxes is the best.

* Once you get literally anything running more ideas will flood your mind. So write them all down instead of concentrating on just a single task.

* If you stuck with one idea just jump to another one within the same project. This way you'll find what works.

* Dont hesitate to look for references or play some demo versions off Steam and look for ideas. It much easier to see good and bad sides in someone else game and it help to make your one fun.

As about technical side: isomorphic map does sound like algorithm problem and not game-engine problem. At least on 2D side that I primarily work with Godot have all you need to procedurally generate scenes and reuse them afterwards.
At my toddler preschool they still have a mask mandate, even though research shows that it hurts the kids speech development and ability to read emotions. I now need to send my child to speech therapy lessons.

There was never a discussion of the pros and cons, and it's simply a decision of the preschool management, as the county and state have dropped it a while ago. It's just an example of how the children are rarely a considiration.
That’s a strange study or at least a strange way of presenting its conclusion. To summarise: alcohol is more harmful to young people because the majority of accidents are linked to excessive drinking and excessive drinkers are mostly under 40 therefore all people under 40 should abstain.
Hertz had actual vehicles.
Using parser generators doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

It's far easier to handwrite parsers.

Unless you're a midsized company with the resources and who doesn't mind bad error messages I would not recommend anyone use parser generators.
I'm not playing any future game that is developed with Unity.
That's how Sony ate up a bunch of marketshare recently, actually, post-DSLR, by doing mirrorless early and well.

They were involved already in the industry as a component supplier, and then expanded to take advantage of the incumbents moving slowly.
That was the question I had :)
One of the authors tweeted this:

"The rest of the world has accepted the endemic nature of Covid and moved on, but the U.S. is an int'l outlier, still pushing mass testing & chasing down every case." [0]

I'm not sure what inverse universe he lives in given that we barely do any official testing, and contact tracing never even got off the ground.

His retweets are also all the other well known covid-minimizers - including the infamous Jay Bhattacharya.

[0] https://twitter.com/MartyMakary/status/1546533258187390977
Appreciate the info, thank you.