skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is a crazy hard problem that is plaguing the majority of our mainstream social platforms.

...that rely on advertising.

It's comparatively easy to moderate communities if you're willing to permanently ban bad actors. Trouble is, that shrinks your audience, which reduces advertising revenue. Reporting accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, et al, is a multi-step process of making excuses for why your reported post won't actually negatively impact the malicious account.
Q: what country has the lowest "non-zero" and positive low point? Moldova, which is actually landlocked, but has a port reachable by smaller seagoing vessels - which I originally learnt when reading about the ship that carried the fertilizer that eventually caused the catastrophic Beirut explosion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Rhosus) - it was registered in Moldova...

This list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elevation_extremes_by_... is really interesting if you're into such geographical trivia. For instance, I was surprised by how many countries have low points substantially below sea level. So far I was only aware of the Dead Sea and Death Valley...
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/IheAB
This is one of my favorite internet dramas right now.

Some highlights:

- “When floods, tornadoes hit the Midwest, the West helps pay. So why can't we have some water?”: https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/readers/2022/07/17/w...

- “If California comes for Midwest water, we have plenty of dynamite in Minnesota”: https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/readers/2022/07/11/i...

- “If Midwest doesn't want to share water, fine. But don't ask us for help with your problems”: https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/readers/2022/07/22/i...

There are so many letters, and it’s kinda fun to watch. That said, I feel a profound sadness that so many people cannot envision any solution to unsustainable water practices other than “just give us your water.”

Agricultural practices in the west simply cannot continue; and truly arid desert regions (for example, Las Vegas) simply must adapt. We cannot divert more water to solve the problems - the crisis today shows exactly why that’s not the right answer.
Udon is not a modding API and was never intended to be one. It is purely a world-centric scripting system, which is great for building minigames inside VRchat, but not for extending the client's features on a global basis.
How does the telescope know it is "obscured" by something local, and not legitimately fluctuating?
I actually like when such findings evoke older emotions in me, puts things in perspective for me, how much have I grown and how much I am still the same etc etc
"We try to create teams that are _no larger than_ can be fed by two pizzas," said Bezos. "We call that the two-pizza team rule." - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/introduction-...
I think COVID and GenZ growing up on the internet has changed the equation. Will the metaverse take over the world? Probably not. But now that knowledge work has gone remote, entire countries remain blocked to tourists, and people are coming down with flus they need to isolate for 10 days for, I think having a virtual sandbox to socialize in has more appeal.
The screenshot tool i use called shareX https://getsharex.com/ allows for so much customization. It's FLOSS.

You can set the File name using various parameters in combination like
- time date
- program name
- window title

This can also be configured to do complex workflow like

- for each screenshot add a border then copy image to clipboard and then upload to Imgur and copy url finally run and ocr and copy results as well.
Yep, this is a way to filter out people that aren't nearly friendless nerds with no life outside of coding. I think it's fine to have that lifestyle but it's very limiting to stick to that stereotypical lifestyle for hiring engineers.

One of the best engineers I hired was a woman that took 15yrs off to raise a family and came back into the profession. Yes she didn't have a good grasp of all the current technologies but she was a /very/ quick learner and brought a whole slew of other skills that applied to the "project management" and client relations side of things. When stuff broke, our internal customers loved going to her - she worked with them to figure out what they were doing and then what the likely issues were. Sometimes she fixed them herself, especially with code she wrote or maintained, and other times she just just provided technical info and what she thought the issues were. Most of the time she was right. Sad when I lost her due to a big reorg from a couple new VPs.
How does it work under the covers?
You: I'll disrupt anyone I feel like, because my pet issue is important enough that absolutely everything in the world needs to stop until it is addressed.

It's not saying both sides have good points -- it's saying we're talking about something completely different, and neither side is on topic.
The trouble comes when sprawl catches up to your exurban city. Now, one of two things happens: either your 15 minute city becomes a 30 minute city due to traffic congestion or zoning laws limit new construction and the cost of living there increases dramatically. If you managed to buy a home there, you'll be fine but renters soon have to seek either the next exurban spot or an older, decaying area closer to the central city.
A lot of them love that he "tells it like it is," even when he's spouting nonsense. They've noticed that inoffensive, press-release-style messages are often bullshit. So they believe that someone being a jerk must be telling the truth.
All-carbon cars seem pretty doable.

Tools and bridges are harder, but there's always dry nitrogen. Not sure why we don't have toolboxes with integrated solid state dehumidifiers yet, or bridge cables in rubber tubes of pressurized dry air.
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Me: "Oh I'm pretty good at Net, this should be easy"
Two hours later I finally finish the 40x40.

Thank you and I hate you. I've infected my friends with this.

Also, since we're bragging about scores: 39s for the 5x5 wrapping, but I'll definitely be coming back to this.
> Eventually somebody will have to deal with this

The Islamic calendar drifts by about 10 days a year, and Muslims seems to be able to cope fine with their holidays not consistently being in the same season.
If you think 25mph is safe, try smashing your face against a tree at 25mph. Or run as fast as you can face first into a brick wall. I bet you can't run 25mph.
You're the one who has to explain yourself.

> Other mods exist, mostly for nefarious purposes like crashing other users who're on Quest or the vanilla client.

"Mostly" has statistical implications. Where are you getting this statistic? Do you have any data to back what you're saying? Which are these mods, and what exactly do they do? Are you saying there's a rich ecossystem of software specifically designed to interfere with the experience of Quest users? How do you even know that?

> There's a whole mini black market of "hacks", i.e. client mods built on abusing the VRChat API

This statement makes no sense. What VRChat call their "API" is a backend for wrangling metadata. Access to this backend is available to all user accounts and generally not discouraged. There is a message in the HTTP headers inviting users to apply for a job there.

> as well as some clients which tie into DDoS services that will target specific users in-game
> These malicious clients are generally advertised and sold via Discord links in users' profiles. PayPal or CashApp are used to facilitate the transactions.

So these are standalone applications that cost money? Is the money to pay for denial of service botnet time, or a one time cost? How do you even know? And I don't see how a criminal operation of this calibre will be stopped by EAC.

> if you manage to obtain their IP address via exploit or social engineering.

IP addresses are public data and denial of service attacks are a crime wholly independent from any platform. If you already have the user's IP address, anything to do with VRChat and mods seems redundant.
No. Though I've compared notes with friends and coworkers and they basically agree with the high rate observation...
waiting for my Civilization: VII game to have 'boost twerking signal' when I reach modern age tech trees
Shamelessness, if used correctly is a superpower that I will place it in the same pedastal as concentration, curiosity and tenacity. A lot of people including me seem to lose out because a sense of shame holds us back, not renegotiating our compensation multiple times, or to job hop as often as possible or to shamlessly promote and market ourselves and I can go on and on.
Here's an example of a 7x7 one that hopefully doesn't spoil too many people's games: https://i.imgur.com/EkA7he4.png
> we've been working towards native implementations of features like a main menu that's usable even when you're lying down

Imagine not having even this yet and then pretending you weren't the one who dropped the ball

I hope this is the beginning of the end of VRChat and I never thought I'd be holding out hope that Zuckerborg's version will fix the mess that it was.
> seems like

It's a simile.
How to tell someone has never been in charge of a meaningful number of people. Growth and scale is hard. Multiple people interviewing is to de risk bias and have minimal critical exposure to a single person to what can cost a company a lot of money (especially for engineers). Blows my mind people nerd out on things like redundancy in spacecraft/ safety mechanism yet cannot see the corollaries to social mechanisms.
> I don't watch TV. I don't play games. In my very limited spare time, if I don't have pressing household chores I build software projects, work on home IT stuff, and read the occasional book. These things aren't mutually exclusive.

Great. Two of the most common hobbies for everyone else is excluded so you have enough time to do side projects (TV here includes streaming service shows, sport broadcasts, etc.). How is this not reinforcing the idea that this purity test excludes many engineers?
Is that really related to modding though? I thought model swapping was built-into the game, people can change their look without any mods. How does banning mods solve that?
> Is the Tucker Carlson story [...] true?

No
Bummer. I loved the mute feature and had hopes TikTok would pick it up. But the reverse? Serious bummer.
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The One-Second War (2011)
Anecdotally, this also seems like a good strategy for dating. Being up-front and clear about your intentions rather than beating around the bush, frequent shameless flirting, and complete honesty about who you are make for a good recipe. If the person suits you it accelerates things, and if you're not compatible you can move on quickly.

I haven't seen it having a "flare" effect like the article mentions, but could see it working that way in the right circumstances.
It doesn’t. I’m talking about a problem that’s inherent to the base game, and unfortunately not widely known.
Perhaps it didn't come across, but when I say they are sadistic I mean things like I wouldn't trust my pets around them.

One of them, and I will use this as an example and let it be, is the nephew of an insanely rich family, not as rich as some but quote wealthy and grew up privileged. One afternoon he was raging about the dog park near his condominium, and was describing his plan to scatter hard boiled eggs with needles inserted in them to discourage the dog owners from using it.

Sure, he needed help. Who knows, maybe his family, though affluent, was abusive. I had no interest in finding out.
The original Fox English dub of Kiki’s Delivery Service is wonderful - especially Phil Hartman as Gigi. I normally wouldn’t recommend a dub, but I have always enjoyed this one. My understanding is that Disney redid at least some of it when they acquired distribution rights and I’m not sure if that’s still the English version, but there are definitely DVDs available with it.

Porco Rosso seems to get ignored frequently. It’s fantastic as well.
The complexity comes from trying to do it efficiently, both in using the hardware well and in squeezing as much data as possible out of the sequencing reads you have. But if you relax both of those it's a manageable problem for an amateur.
So what is the benefit then?
It's simple, have servers that enforce no-mod rule, and have servers that don't. Even back in cs1.6 there was the concept of VAC enabled and non-VAC enabled servers. Hackers could go in non-VAC servers and hack to their heart's contempt.

You can have official servers that are safe from "harassment", and let people have their own "non-secure" servers they do whatever they want in. It's not that complicated.
> Doing this the right way is not impossible, it's just probably more engineering effort than the devs of VRChat are willing to put in.

Those guys push major updates on friday evenings, introducing new bugs and causing clients to break right when the weekend parties are scheduled to happen. I doubt it's a matter of "willing" and more about competence.
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I get bird and cat videos; plus some Kronk and Dr. Doofenschmirtz.

It gives you more of what you watch and upvote. So the contents of your For You page are on you, after the first 5 or so videos.
What it’s like working in Crypto
What it’s like working in crypto
I’ve worked in crypto professionally for the last few years and wanted to shed some light on what it’s like as I’ve seen people mentioning it’s the best thing since sliced bread. Though, true for some people, it’s not as easy a ride as what it seems to be. Be prepared to work HARD

Given most companies in this space are still very new in comparison to other industries, most things you would be accustomed to at a similar company in traditional finance (software, processes, procedures, etc…) doesn’t necessarily exist in this space yet. Regardless of your role, you’ll need to understand how various other departments work. (I.e your in operations but you also need to know about legal/compliance/tech) If you don’t know how these other verticals work within the org your joining, be prepared to spend your time on the clock and off the clock learning about that.

THERE IS A LOT OF TECH DEBT. If the position your going into requires tech help and your not an engineer, good luck getting that. Most of these engineers are hired to fix current systems and keep them running until someone builds up enough courage to put in the time to rebuild and/or you get a competent engineering manager/team that holds up the rest of the team. Id you know how to code and build/deploy simple systems this help a ton build doesn’t completely solve your problem.

Going back to you’ll be working hard, average workday is 12hrs and you’ll constantly be playing the game of “catch-up” because chances are you’ll be short-staffed so nights and weekends are a game changer to get things done.

Unlimited vacation is not unlimited because you most likely won’t be taking one because there’s too much to do. Your manager will be like you should take one but deep down they don’t want you to because they’ll be even shorter handed than when you were present. Also, companies will pay you less $ and try to compensate you with stock thinking you actually care about that but in reality, all the valuations are so inflated because everyone was raising money at 100x revenue at the peak of the bull market you need a company to IPO/exit at $10 billion to get a decent return.

Nonetheless, I love this space and can’t picture myself anywhere else (call me crazy) but just wanted to set some expectations that it’s not an easy ride but it’s well worth the struggle/pain to build something great and accomplish things you couldn’t think you could do.
See the code for __mktime_internal in glibc, specifically the case for which it returns EOVERFLOW; but in general, the whole file has many comments worth reading.

https://code.woboq.org/userspace/glibc/time/mktime.c.html
Another big mistake was to make the paragraph size 4 bits. Should have been at least 8 -- that would have given the 8086 a 24-bit address space, which would have made things verrry interesting in the MSDOS / early Windows world.

(I know, they didn't have address pins on the 40-pin package. Still, an architecturally guaranteed 16MB of room to play in would have changed the face of the software industry in the 1980s).
Interviews are like dating. The sheer amount of arrogance and prejudice you have to deal with is impossible to fix. Therefore the only solution is to go to more interviews.
Of course it excludes people. Some of those excluded are good people. The claim isn't made that it's some perfect process where no stone is left unturned.
Banks pay well in Canada? Which ones? TD and CIBC both gave me crap offers.
Article subtitle: How the cult of imagined heroism is bringing down our nation’s institutions.

This is truer than these fine Christians can imagine!
for instagram, i just gave up looking at the feed and just look at the posts that a group chat sends
Yes, I also really enjoyed this piece. It has a nice and loose style... just throwing ideas out without trying to "prove" them, but nonetheless presenting interesting ideas and likely some useful mental models.
In my experience in larger software companies, the hardest part of automation is convincing management that it's worth it to stop other development for long enough to automate a problem away. A lot of managers are fine throwing people at a problem if it means meeting a date and making the team look good while under the hood all the knobs are being turned by hands by an ever struggling staff.

And then the worst case I've found myself in is where the people you hire specifically to automate are told to do things manually at first "until we get the automation out." Then you end up in a constant cycle of promising automation that will never exist because all of the workload is falling to the automators who have no time to fix anything.
Ghislaine Maxwell moved to low-security prison in Florida with Pilates and Gouda
For humans, it's no worse than folks today who live on a time zone boundary and cross it often. You might argue that for humans, the local solar time should be computed as a continuous function of longitude, leap seconds can be managed there, and we get rid of the concept of a time zone.

Computers are another story though, perhaps in the past "a typical computer clock" could be on the order of seconds off and be fine. When computers start to control things like wireless networks (cellular is a problem today, time accuracy is a design factor in evolving Wifi as well), those seconds turn into microseconds very, very quickly. The whole point of the article is to reduce unnecessary complexity in the existing complex time synchronization systems.

If you're running large infrastructure, the next leap second is going to cause an outage somewhere in your org, and the cost may be very large.
So if these fields weren't highly regulated demanding personal projects from candidates would be a good approach for hiring?
That would be, vit if the parent post is holding wolves and people to the same standard but getting different conclusions, that is also an error
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> Before high speed internet was affordable

For years before that, people were sharing fansubbed anime on VHS. There were networks of fansubbers and distributors sending tapes through the mail.
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This really shouldn't be downvoted. If one is going to pull the "children cannot consent" card, one should be consistent. If it's not actually about consent and actually about something else, let's not pretend it's about consent.

Obviously the implication is that it's "obvious" that the benefits of vaccines outweigh the cons of ignoring consent, but that just prompts the questions: Is this true, and what amount of benefit is necessary to avoid consent in children? Explicit reasoning should laid out.
We're talking an almost 500 year old farm town near a 80,000 person (twin) city so there isn't really a "central city" in the sense you're thinking of. They're old mill cities but there hasn't been a whole lot of sprawl over the past decades. It's pretty far out from the nearest major city.
On my first skim through the article it seemed like objects were getting copied between regions, i.e. when they change color. I guess the key is one of the first sentences "all objects in the heap are organised in a cyclic double-linked list", so there is a layer of indirection, and the circle you see is not the actual address space as I initially assumed, but the linked list. Did I understand correctly?
> It would have been better to make sure they could do it right last year when the cost of failure would have been limited

What do you think they did?

> I'd gladly trade the mess we have now for making entering the country a little more obnoxious by tacking on a short, enforced, unexciting, but all expense paid mini-vacation onto the itinerary of anyone coming in.

That isn't enough, that is what we did. Whilst that remains the case it makes that stance pointless to have. I agreed with you, I did all the right things, I advocated for lockdowns and was happy to see the 14 day quarantine periods. Guess what, expections are everywhere. It wasn't enough. It is absolutely not possible to lock down and still let people in and out. We are messy, shitty and selfish. Either borders stay closed or you accept cases will come in. The half measures are a waste of time.

Australia is a good example, because we had the 14 day quarantine period in an isolation hotel, and were technically closed borders to anyone but exceptional circumstances yet outbreaks kept happening. Melbourne was in full home isolation for months and months, while borders were closed to interstate and international, and that didn't stop the spread.
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Certain types of content is banned on Douyin but the idea that tiktok promotes "edu and wholesome content within China" is a myth spread by Andrew Tate a couple months ago.

TikTok promotes the content that you respond to, no different than the recommendation algos we've gotten from our homegrown social media companies. Their biggest differentiator is that the signals they use are way better. If you see alot of gender transitioning content, then it says more about the content you watch.

That said, if you think critically, if Chinese users as a whole preferred educational and wholesome content on tiktok, that says more about Chinese society and what they value not that there is some boogeyman who holds a big level on whether to show you cats or twerking.
Musk too.
No, the claim is it's a better way to hire "Good Engineers", because what's the point of a method that isn't better than the current standard of white boarding, which we know also excludes people, but has also identified "Good Engineers".

This is where data would be helpful, and why numerous people have pointed out that bringing code you wrote, IP owned by your previous employer is a no go, and why we've goal post moved instead to bringing in your personal projects.