skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheating was rampant in those games? Even nowadays the most liberal modding policy for multiplayer games is "modded copies cannot play with unmodded copies" to try and cordon of modded users from being able to scam/grief/etc the general player base.

Is there any online game that has permitted modded clients playing with unmodded clients and had it go well?
https://archive.ph/yXqiN
German occupies (French occupies Morroco)
About 40% of the GPGP is made of fishing nets.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w
If I were any good at spotting problems for which writing novel software is a good solution, valuable enough to be worth the time it takes, I wouldn't need an employer because I'd have (or at least be a co-founder of) one or more successful software businesses. The reason I need employment as a dev is precisely because I'm not much good at finding those kinds of problems.

Problems I personally have almost never pass the point on the cost/benefit curve for which it's worth firing up a text editor, and when they do the "solution" is usually a few lines of shell or something similarly trivial. I used to get excited about personal projects, years and years ago, but that was mostly because I didn't realize what solutions already existed so was reinventing the wheel a lot. Plus I just had a whole lot more free time.

I also don't do a lot of plumbing or wiring or wall-framing or drywalling for their own sake. Though I do find a lot more good reasons to do those things in my personal life, than I find good reasons for writing code.
My point was that he doesn't use documents in that way, not that he doesn't use files that contain things.
Wow, the US has just under a million operating U.S. oil and natural gas wells? That number surprised me, I don't know what I expected but I wouldn't have guessed that many.

https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/wells/pdf/full_report.pdf
To a lot of good programmers, it's just a fucking job.
Yeah, it’s very common in other fields to show off side projects. Doctors have examples of all the surgeries they did for fun. Electricians can show off the small power plants they built in their basement. Chemists can walk through the meth lab in the backyard shed. Mechanical engineers can demonstrate the load bearing weight of the bridge they built over a weekend.

Why, exactly, do we expect tech workers to have side projects?
I've had that "I should just use my laptop" moment many, many times. There are lots of things the iPad is objectively worse at than my very nice X1 Carbon running Arch. And yet I keep coming back to my iPad pro. I can't put my finger on what it is but I think it's some combination of:

1. Gorgeous high resolution, high refresh rate, generally pretty screen.

2. Long battery life.

3. Instant wake.

4. Ruggedness. Even with solid-state everything I'm always a little wary of chucking my laptop into the passenger seat of a car, taking it near sand or dust, etc. There's fan vents and hinges and... stuff. The iPad Pro in a Logitech Folio case has all the corners protected from drops, no airflow, few holes. I just don't worry about it.

5. Pencil. The handwritten notes experience has gotten really good. Being able to flick into that mode any time is nice.
Surely, overall, it reaches carbon neutrality (the CO2 you put in is the CO2 you get back out) when burnt. Of course it "emits", but that has already been first taken out by being turned into this jet fuel.
I don't know about little known. a lot of concurrent collector designs take some key points from treadmill, and its was certainly still standard grad school reading if you were in systems 15 years ago.

but definitely a must-read if you care about that kind of thing
Some good memes about this on the VRChat subreddit, which was locked to new submission fifteen minutes ago in response to the overwhelming community outrage:

https://www.reddit.com/r/VRchat/
I'm not talking about efficiency per mile. I'm talking about manufacturing efficiency. Tesla pulls stunts like building a giga factory in AZ for the tax breaks. It makes economic sense but does not make sense when measuring by the added emissions necessary to concentrate all those materials so far away from the rest of the supply chain loop

They're also just... bad at making them. A 2020 survey by JD Power found that Tesla ranked last of the 38 brands they looked at in initial quality. It's a measurement of how many problems new vehicles face in the first 90 days of owning them

This is consistent with Consumer Reports rankings of Tesla as second to last in reliability

This is what I'm talking about when I say "inefficient manufacturing". Not fuel usage
Thanks! I bet that's exactly what created my confusion
Noveto, Ultrasonic Speaker Kickstarter, Declares Insolvency
We Second Lifers moved in over four years ago, long before anything went viral, and long before any of the people doing the complaining. We've been here from the start.
The Ree auto thing seems pretty cool. I hope they - or similar - comes to market. Having a car that can four wheel drive and steer with all the traction/anti-spin/abs etc smarts based on a modular component that can be replaced as required sounds great.

Imagines upgrading to smart height adjustable suspension by replacing wheel modules.

Though it'd be interesting to see what the aftermarket comes up with and the consequences of that.
How is "don't trust the client" an arms race? But now we're moving past the simple empirical fact that for countless games it worked, and still works.

> They are complaining how much time they wasted on mods

You mean their complaint that they wasted time on bug reports coming from modded clients? And instead of using the obvious, dead simple solution of appending a client ID to the bug report to filter out modded clients, they prefer to use this as an excuse to add DRM?

Guild Wars had a similar issue of getting bug reports from clients due to hardware errors. Did they ban all PCs not built by an authorized OEM? No - they simply added a hardware health check to their game, and ignored bug reports by clients that failed it.
Is it? Flights from Canada to Europe or Asia can be cost-effective. It's domestic flights and CAN<->USA flights that can cost you.
Netflix vs. Blockbuster
Zuckerberg’s Biggest Bet Might Not Pay Off
I probably didn’t read your comment closely enough. When I hear about PDF parsing or PDF as data I immediately get flashbacks from a project years ago where I had to parse PDF files. I think I am still traumatized by this experience so whenever I hear somebody wants to do this I just want to scream “Nooo. Don’t do this”
I find it is mostly about whether I have the patience to find the perfect position/angle of approach, timing of turn etc. Much easier to simply drive along and find a slightly bigger park.

Combine this with auto-park though. Could be nice.
Define “useful”.

To get a job? Probably. To really understand programming? I think learning a wide selection of different paradigms is more helpful.
A86 was what I used, in the DOS 3.3 days.

Before that it was a case of writing code on graph paper, looking up the opcodes in the manual, and assembling by hand. Needless to say that writing programs was slow and difficult.

I think I jumped straight from paper -> A86, without using debug.com. Not sure why.
Consciousness is one of the great unsolved problems/questions of philosophy and cognitive science. For a quick introduction, I would recommend the following:

> 0. My favorite theory of consciousness so far (and perhaps the eureka moment that you're looking for) would be Integrated Information Theory which is a mathematical or perhaps computer science-like approach to consciousness:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory

If you are not familiar with philosophy, it might be confusing to read though. A basic intro to consciousness:

1. Skim section 2 "Concepts of Consciousness" to understand the different levels and definitions of consciousness:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/#ConCon

2. Read the introduction of this article to understand the concepts of dualism vs materialism:
https://iep.utm.edu/consciousness/

3. Skim sections 7 "Theories of Consciousness" and 8 "Metaphysical theories of consciousness" to get a basic understanding of various theories of consciousness:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/#TheCon

You can read the remainder of the articles as well, but be aware that philosophical writings can be very dense, meandering, and sometimes confusing. A more efficient introductory resource would be Jeffrey Kaplan's excellent lecture series:
>> https://youtu.be/wwT4N_v0-WQ?t=57

Another perspective comes from cognitive science/neuroscience.

The Owner's Manual for the Brain is an amazing cognitive science/neuroscience textbook which summarizes a lot of research into perception, memory, emotion:
>> https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18090066-the-owner-s-...

Hope that you find this to be interesting and useful!
Yeah, I actually clicked on the article hoping for info about "bicycles being used as a means of transport" culture and was a bit disappointed when I read that phrase...
> Cheating was rampant in those games?

But what kind of cheats? Aimbotting and seeing through walls don't apply to VR chat. And no matter how modded your client was, you couldn't spam endless grenades in Counter Strike - the server knows how many grenades you have, and where you can throw them.
Yes I do because there are so many starving and homeless people.
Apparently, (perhaps apocryphally), Miyazaki sent him a Katana with the message 'no cuts' to his masterpiece.

I like to think whoever received it kept it to perhaps, if the opportunity presented itself, make some cuts to Weinstein's masterpiece.
I thought this was literally a physical garbage collection device made from a repurposed treadmill.
That sounds more like writing a book about a topic
For a *nix box, the simple/historic way has been to run the tasks from cron and append log output from them to text files or the system logs. If you really mean statuses, as in exit statuses, wrap the programs in shell scripts which print out the programs' exit codes.

It's unfashionable these days I think, but still works for me.
Currently NAND flash is mainly made in Korea (Samsung, Hynix), Japan(Kioxia & WD), and the US(Micron, Intel but forgot the new name), isn't it? Though some fabs by them are in China or Singapore.
Making one sector of energy use carbon neutral--one particularly difficult to de-carbonize--is still a win.
Why have we ended up in a place where a developer is asking a manager to raise a ticket so they are allowed to create something only she will see. What happens if you just did it without the ticket?
You said anything about self-worth? If you measure your self-worth by how much you are paid, that's pathetic as it has very little to do with instrinsic factors.

We live in a capitalist society, and employment is a business arrangement. There is nothing wrong with trying to maximize what you get out of employment (whether monantary or otherwise). Why would you sell yourself, if not to get paid? Part of effective negotiation is knowing how much comparable people make. Your ecconomic value is not what you bring to the company. It is primarily how expensive it would be to replace you with someone who could bring something equivalent. Knowing that cost gives you the upper hand in negotiations.

After all, if you were doing it for the love of coding, you would just be working on open source projects, not working for a company.

> While I don’t have to manage people any more (PTL), I am pretty sure if I had an employee come to me demanding more comp because of a colleague makes more, I’d ask them why they weren’t arguing from their own merits and capabilities instead of from a colleague’s weaknesses.

When it comes right down to it, if you are a manager you have a budget. If you are on that side of the table, your job is to keep expenses down. One way of doing that is to manipulate people into thinking their ecconomic value is less than it is. A great way to do that is to steer the conversation away from objective measures like, the going rate is $x, and towards subjective things like, i do the job really well, which dont have an objective price tag attached. It's easy to argue the fair value of a job well done to whatever you want it to be. There is no wiggle room for: the going rate is $x.

I mean, if you really do truly think this way, do you do this in your other business dealings. If you were buying a car, the other car lot had an equivalent car for 10% less, and you wanted to try to negotiate down, but the car salesman said something like "why aren't you arguing from your own merits as a potential future car owner, instead of from the weakness of other car salesmens?", would you think that is a reasonable thing to say?
I'd like a GUI file browser than can quickly handle tens of thousands of files with icons, lists, and all that. I use Caja and it doesn't even seem multithreaded. But before you get into fixing something like that I'm probably the only guy with over 100k files in a single folder.
also: https://twitter.com/Wash_cycle/status/1551667761310482432
The facility mentioned in the article is generating hydrogen on site - the feedstocks are water and CO2. I imagine this reduces the leakage problem quite a bit, since you don't need to pipe it around.
Stainless can also be a pig to machine due to work hardening.
Pennywise: https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%A4%A1+%F0%9F%95%B3%EF%B...
My three year old could log into her user account on the computers. She was a month shy of 4. It was the first letters of her name. She could also click on her name. And get into Minecraft from there. I thought it was pretty early for the feat.

She is well into 4 now, still can't really "read" yet but she can identify surprising individual words. Plays Minecraft as well as her older siblings for the most part. Still a favorite.
This is all just my preference and opinion. Smoking likely would have been banned eventually under regulation. I think the smoking issue is orthogonal to the discussion. Your other points stand and I was thinking only about domestic flights when I made my comment.
I totally don't care about the Earth slowing down. Nobody does except astronomers. Computers don't need to know.
Yeah I use that on one of my machines and essentially had to use it on my mom's machine when the "regular" start menu would crash on open. I haven't been super windows savvy for a decade but various suggested fixes (like sfc, windows rollbacks, malware scans, etc.) did nothing and open shell saved the day!
the difference with SQLite is that this is the same binary file that can be run on different oses, with SQLite you need the binary compiled for the target platform
To me, Pig is a food-themed John Wick satire.
this looks useful! Could you please create actual use cases, e.g. a "learning center" for what is email marketing and how could indie hackers use it?

I think you could get a lot of us who are completely new to this concept — teach us what it is, how it's useful for us, and make it 1-click to set up using your tool.
> The effect of reducing CA agriculture is probably pretty marginal. Some of the most water-heavy crops like alfalfa or rice are just better grown elsewhere.

To the extent that's true, they are also already grown in those better places. Farmers don't just choose to farm a crop in a bad place when a better place is a available and unused.

> We can just stop growing rice in CA entirely

Why? Rice isn't water intensive (from a consumption point of view). It gets better yield when flooded at the right stages of growth, but it doesn't consume that water, so it's not particularly relevant.

> expand a tiny bit more in the south where most rice is grown already

California grows 19% of the US total rice production, #2 behind Arkansas which grows 49%. There's no “tiny bit more” you squeeze out of anywhere (in the US, at least) that replaces California.

> We can just stop growing (and exporting) alfalfa in California and grow more in other alfalfa producing states with more water available.

Again, California is the #2 state in Alfalfa production. You aren't squeezing a little bit out of other Alfalfa producing states to replace it's output.
Doesn't the GDPR have an exception for data required for legal reasons?

Anyway, an US lab won't care about it.
>there's zero market for something like it (Smart sadly fizzled out), mainly because of the onerous manufacturing and certification requirements mentioned in the article.

Well, and most people don't want a specialized vehicle they can only use on certain roads for certain purposes but which take a spot on their property, need to be maintained at some level, etc. Maybe have some costs for registration, licensing, etc.

If you have an actual farm you may have a tractor, etc. but most people don't want a vehicle they can only use for limited purposes. And, as soon as you're on public roads, things like insurance come into play as well.
You're sort of proving my point here.

"Second Life Is Plagued by Security Flaws, Ex-Employee Says; A former infosec director at Linden Lab alleges the company mishandled user data and turned a blind eye to simulated sex acts involving children."

https://www.wired.com/story/second-life-plagued-security-fla...

This community is now deeply imbedded in VRChat, another platform full of unsupervised children and security flaws.
This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen on the internet.
Hot is hot, I think they work great. Better than cleaning grills.
Love JamesGurney for arts too, didn't know the other two. Thanks!
I only looked at the binary example and it’s some of the worst C# code I’ve ever seen. It’s synchronizing every task in a loop instead of waiting for the tasks to complete like the Java example. It’s returning a result instead of using an array like the Java example. The 2 examples are not equivalent.
I wonder if he was supposed to pay the chicken tax? 25% for light pickups.
I am noticing more and more how headlines are promoting the big brand names and ignoring lesser known institutions. If somebody at Stanford or MIT had developed this the headline would be “Stanford/MIT scientists invented….”. With smaller schools they probably would have written “scientists invented”. And with ZF it’s just “mechanics”.

The famous get more famous and the less famous get ignored. It’s a really bad spiral that the ones that already have everting are getting all the attention.
Why would they ban their primary userbase?
I don't mind the "show me something you've coded" as an alternative to code challenges, but the way it is presented in this article reads an awful lot like it is a way to identify who the interviewer likes nerding out with the most, not the person who is most likely to be the best fit for the organization's needs.

> Companies want to standardize their hiring when really they should be looking to customize it to each candidate.

This is not the right idea. You should not be customizing your hiring process to each candidate. A standard hiring process with accountability for interviewers to follow the process is incredibly important if you want to reliably hire high quality talent as an organization grows.

"Customizing" for each candidate is a great way to give interviewers permission to make the interview simple for the people they like and brutal for the people they don't. It is also a great way to overwhelm new hiring managers who are still trying to figure out how to evaluate talent as they grow their teams.

> Lots of companies want to spread the blame of a bad hire across a committee of 4 or 5 people. That is also wrong.

This is not why multiple people are involved in a hiring process. Leaving hiring entirely in the hands of one person guarantees biases make their way into the hiring process and result in a lower quality team.
This leads me down a funny thought process of how would I make a cheap Chinese imported electric kart seem less safe so I could drive it down the street.
I love that my job is sitting on my ass drawing stuff but there are definitely times when it is still Work that I have to force myself to keep doing. Sometimes I sort of sit there watching art fall out of my stylus. Sometimes I am Sisyphus muttering and cursing as I push this fucking stone up this fucking mountain for the millionth time.

"Flow" is overrated IMHO. It's certainly worth building working methods that make it more likely to happen but if it's your job then you need to be able to make yourself do it even if it's not coming.

I do a very informal version of the Pomodoro method, mostly I keep an eye on how long Time Sink[1] says I've spent on whatever I'm working on today and try to make sure it's a round half hour. If it's fighting me then I'll get up and take a break as soon as I get a half hour in. If it's not then I find my body usually wants to get up and move around after about an hour's work anyway.

And I am a lazy old lady who feels like 2 hours of work in a day is good, 3 is great, and 4 is amazing. Having spent a lot of time figuring out how to make my tools do a lot of work for me helps make this a schedule that pays my bills.

1: https://manytricks.com/timesink/
My most-coveted domain name for the past 2.5 decades.
You made a case that leap seconds don't make astrononmy easier.

But you seem to be implying that you do not want to get rid of them, which surprised me. After you made your case for how they actually make things harder for astronomers, I thought you'd be in favor of eliminating them.

You seem to be against eliminating them, but are not saying so clearly, or explaining why. Unless I am misunderstanding. Can you explain why you object to getting rid of leap seconds? Is it because of value to astronomy, or because of value in other domains despite the inconvenience to astronomy? Other? Or do I misunderstand?
The problem is that if everyone with "metaverse" hype actually looked at Second Life[0], they'd realize that there's not really much to get hyped over. The final and most important lesson of Second Life was that most people do not want a 3D world chat room.

[0] Or ActiveWorlds, or the metric buttload of VRML chat services before that...
Cron is the term you are looking for and there are many options. As another commenter said, there are Linux system level solutions. There are also Cron concepts in kubernetes, aws lambda, zapier. If they don't have a dashboard, I'm sure there is another SaaS that does and plenty of open source solutions for that as well
Yep, was expecting something like Mr. Trash Wheel: https://www.mrtrashwheel.com/
I think parent's point was that absent a crisis the same (incompent) CTO would still be in his job. So if that's what it takes to boot a CTO, who will then land in another executive position, then it's a poor metric for ensuring technology orgs (in old companies) are well-run.
Everybody has already settled on UTC. All we need is for UTC not get fucked every 15 to 30 months and break about half the systems that need to communicate with each other.

If they stop announcing leap seconds, everything correctly equipped for leap seconds will still work, and everything else that gets it wrong every time will also work.

And those of us who have to make the stuff that works right adapt to all the crap that doesn't and can't be fixed can do other things, instead.
IMO 40 hours per week, for weeks on end with very few breaks, is already a shitload of time to spend on a single activity. It's well beyond what I'd willingly spend per week, with that kind of year-round consistency, on anything, including dumb entertainment like playing video games.
SEC needs help from congress. We need new crystal clear laws and regulation for the crypto industry to prevent scams and ponzi schemes.

Also, it turns out that the libertarian dream of no regulation and laws is the status quo in crypto.