skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The physics thingy you're missing is "potential energy."

To raise a mass m a height h given the gravity g you need mgh energy.

The minimum energy needed to raise 1 kg 1000 meters given gravity of 10 m/s/s gravity = 10,000 Joules.

It doesn't matter if you raise the water to the top to pour it in at the surface, or send pressurized water out of vents at the bottom of the lake. With the latter, sure, you're putting the water lower down, but that water is pushing other water up and out of the way, so the end result is the same - if you add more water, the water level goes up.
I don't mean to imply that shadow banning hurts abusive users' feelings, and even if it does, I couldn't care less because being malicious is a choice.

What I meant is that shadow banning is, by design, an invisible punishment - and therefore, you cannot see that you've been caught up into it as a false positive and punished. This doesn't happen on systems without shadow banning in place.
In corporate and government environments, I imagine that they'll ban employees / civil servants from bringing camera(phone)s to work, and necessarily forbid them working from home.

The only question is whether they will trust metal detectors to prevent whistleblowers from bringing in these devices, or if they will rely on strip searches and CCTV.
I’ve been really on the fence about the cost/benefit of job switching. I’m currently at a FANG company and seem to be within six months to a year from staff level. Once you’re at staff level, you are considered “parallel” to the first level of the management track and can relatively easily transition into being a manager if you are interested. The comp on the manager track is the same as the comp on the individual contributor track (for the same level), but unfortunately other companies still seem to view “manager” as better and tend to make much higher offers or recruit directly for management positions. The company I’m with has a number of other great benefits besides comp (amazing health insurance, parental leave, remote work, etc.) that are not insignificant.

On the other hand, I’ve been bombarded by recruiters so much recently that I finally decided to take one of the interviews to see where I’m at. I barely missed an offer that would have been almost twice what I’m currently making, and I didn’t prep for their interview loop, so I think if I brushed up a bit on my coding I could probably get an offer around that range.

~2x comp for a remote position is hard to pass up, but a lot of companies that are reaching out to me have already had layoffs (maybe not necessarily technical staff yet) or lack the stability that FANG has. I wonder if I would join a new company just to get laid off. A few people from my team who left for other companies have already come back within months. And one of my interviewers just outright derided his own company to me in a long and strangely personal rant at the end of my interview.

So I don’t know. I think I could increase comp and career growth much more quickly by switching, but there’s a lot of risks, particularly for being a remote worker and trying to have a second child during what is possibly a massive economic crash. I think for now I may just stay and see if I can get permission to moonlight on a side project.
Yep, i should write a better description for it so that people don't get confused
It's C and they probably never thought of anyone having a file with that many links.
the same Lenovo that put a MITM attack in people's BIOS?
Try to scan banknotes with a scanner and you will see.
I have long thought that ISPs should charge by bandwidth used. It would incentivize improving infrastructure. Any ISP that would charge by bandwidth used would want their customers reselling bandwidth.
The Mattel Spinwelder was the coolest Christmas gift of the 1970s
> I'm not sure what else we'd call a system where elected officials have zero incentive to do anything other than look good for their re-election campaign in a few years.

We call it a side effect.
Democracy certainly wasn't designed with short sightedness in mind. That's a side effect of the far more important design goals around preventing abuse of power.

Democracy may be short-sighted, but not by design, rather as a side effect of the design.

Assuming we buy the idea that democracy is indeed short sighted.

Every considered that as long as democracy avoids establishment of dictators/kings, repression and the unavoidable civil wars that follow, then given time free market forces will produce good results.

One could reasonable argue democracy is just very very long sighted.

> Generally it seems you wind up with oligarchs/corporations effectively owning politicians

This isn't new, and yet we have built infrastructure before. Fought world wars. Irradiated deceases. Walked on the moon.

On the scales of history large corporations tend to slide into irrelevance over time.

The tech giants of today, will be rubber barons of tomorrow. Sure we might seem them around in the future. But a hundred years from now they might not seem so big.
I'm halfway through it right at this moment.

It's dreadful. Well made, nice locations, acting is as good as it could be, but the story and the attitudes of the various characters are just 'off-the-shelf' clichéd garbage.
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> Sinn Fein has many members of senior IRA rank and calls itself "the political wing of the PIRA".

Name one. I don't disagree that this definitely used to be the case (Martin McGuiness as the classic example), but I can't imagine Mary Lou McDonald as a member of the PIRA.

Like, I'm kinda disgusted with myself to be defending Sinn Fein, but one could argue that the necessity of political/violence co-operation was larger for the nationalists, given where they started. It was certainly the perception that the organs of the state were not religion-blind. How many Catholics were in the RUC, for instance?
Thanks for your feedback. What more information do you need?
I currently work for a non-FAANG company, and it's my second time doing so. Comp has been competitive in both cases. In fact, my current job pays more than is normal for FAANG (but only due to stock appreciation - 3x in the last 2 years), but they did match my Amazon pay and then some to get me onboard.
> Or ActiveWorlds

Every time I see news about the "Metaverse", I remember the articles Shamus Young (RIP) wrote about ActiveWorlds and the DotCom bubble crash:

https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=35399

The metaverse doesn't seem quite that bad (Facebook's people seem to have an understanding of the medium they want to operate in), but the basic "we're going to make the user experience worse by replicating the limitations of the real world for the sake of realism" mentality is still there.
A frame is another simple style https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-frame_building …
If I may suggest, there is a solid tool called "Antidote" that does French and English, has a dedicated app and a chrome extension. It got me through my master.
Well to be fair, I don't think the Muslim calendar is _meant_ to have any solar correspondence anyway.
But more importantly the holidays, is the use of the calendar in having a natural sense of time (that is, corresponding with the seasons / sun). Which is why most Islamic countries use the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes (or so claims Wikipedia, at least).
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Grill them in an oven, don't microwave. They are as good as fresh and crunchy.

Some places even let you buy the "restaurant" or "catering" frozen bread/buns that are pre-cooked but not fully baked. So they're risen, half-baked and frozen, ready to be "baked" from frozen by the final restaurant/caterer. That's how restaurants do it, they don't all bake or buy fresh-bread every day.
I don't even think it's banned in Germany anymore. If I remember correctly it was banned for a while, but the ban was lifted and people bought it up like crazy. Not because they were Secret Nazis all along, but because people really hate being told they aren't allowed to access certain ideas. It's human nature to want to know the things you're forbidden from learning about.
See also:

https://toytales.ca/spinwelder-from-mattel-1974/

https://3dprint.com/16023/friction-filling-3d-prints/amp/
I tried this for two years and even wrote a book to help people get into tech. I realized I didn’t want to be another person who gives generic advice and I decided to make content and write books for me instead.

I think the main thing the author leaves out in the article is that building the audience is the more important thing when starting. Once you have enough “webs” out there via articles, videos, interviews, freebies, newsletter, meetups, etc then you can consider building products for your audience. Arguably you can start as soon as your audience shows interest, but you need an audience first to know that.

I’m a nobody in the social media world and I was able to sell a $200 course to many people. I ended up refunding everyone because I realized I didn’t want to be a tech influencer/guru/coach/etc.
> The author certainly doesn’t come across that way.

1) The author got the job.

2) The author has kept that job ever since, for over 25 years.

Perhaps that was the last job interview the author ever had, in 1995? So there would be little reason for the author to come across as disgruntled in 2022 about 1995. Though the author does go on and on about the "Andy" interviewer...

There's a certain irony to this, because Apple itself was flailing and failing in 1995, unable to produce its own new operating system, and had to acquire NeXT and Steve Jobs to come back and save the company from bankruptcy. So Apple's hiring process was not necessarily producing results.
I need to update my Docker images with this. In reality, someone needs to write a Hitchhiker's Guide to VM/370, CP and CMS. I haven't been able to do much beyond seeing what's on the disks and running some sample programs.
Drugs, <needle>, <pills>
Death has four,
Sex is a lingo. <Eggplant>, <splash>

(I don't know why I emojis to post)

Creating pictographs of ideas isn't easy.
I’ve always found government codebases fascinating, since you can directly witness the intersection of code and law!

Also see this issue raised on the Public Sans repo, which claims the typeface (created by the American government) is unconstitutional:

https://github.com/uswds/public-sans/issues/31
And it is fully approved by Jagex!
A government with little enough concern for its citizens, and enough tech savviness, can effectively ban cryptocurrency too. Case in point: China.
Ordering can be solved by a mutex.
Most don't. They don't want to list something that could potentially be used against them in court. In addition, if you give people pointers like that people could "study" the interview by getting information from other applicants.
> telling someone to interview for two hours, having them decide that of all the offers of interviews they had yours was least interesting with the highest barrier to entry, and you deciding they were at fault isn’t going to help you deal with the modern realities of software

But that is not my goal.

My goal is hire as good developers as I can retain.

I don't care about people bitching and moaning that the process is too arduous. Actually, I am happy about it because I can efficiently swipe left on them. If somebody does not care enough to work for us to put in couple of hours of work then they are very likely not a good candidate anyway.

And if they have to apply to a huge number of companies to get a job there is probably some problem with them. I mean... a lot of companies are happy to put a warm body in a chair. If you can't find a job as a developer in this economy then you have to take a serious look at what you are doing wrong.
The wheels would scrub like crazy. You just made me realize that essentially the wheels would spread apart on both sides of the car. As the left wheel swings away from the car, so is the right wheel, so either both wheels scrub or if on wheel is agsinst a curb, the other wheel scrubs twice as far.
Odigos: Get traces, metrics and logs without code changes for any application
It’s especially difficult when they came up with it themselves.

We’re amidst a rewrite and we have an off-shore team involved. They same team that built the original starting 4yrs ago.

One of their team members decides “we should validate the TLD for email addresses entered by the user.” Code is added, a TLD file is added, and in code review I reject the whole concept. Show me the ticket or feature docs, and I’ll argue with the author of those instead.

“We did this in the last app…” Maybe, but we didn’t spec that for this app.

He got his local project lead (non-tech) to write a Jira story for us to “discuss the technical implementation.” Dude, srsly.

Our app is web-first and is used on congested mobile networks (like, hundreds of people all using the same cellular site simultaneously.) A TLD file does not need to be delivered to each of them for validation that’s pointless.

The idea is off the table, code rejected, but the guy spent time doing something no one asked for and had his local team onboard with it.
Exactly this.

Also, i cannot imagine how using CB-issued digital currencies would work especially while being abroad. As already said, the respective government has you by the balls.

Critize someone / something? Voila, account and funds access revoked.

Additional, i get the convenience factor of digital payment methods -paying mostly by credit card myself- but consider this: if your phone breaks, you are oh so bummed.

No maps, no calls, no SMS tokens, no authentication apps (if not having an laptop as a backup,), no ID vault apps (same), no Google / Apple pay, and more...

Had to endure this for 3 months last year.

Physical cards work almost always 100%, can be freely used by people you trust, dont need expensive roaming data, you dont have to rely on a device being a) with you and b) being charged.

Also, good luck swapping the SIM to an older, backup phone if all you got is an eSIM...
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Edit: unfortunately there is no support for emojis on HN. Just imagine a red, a golden, and a green heart there.
Only supported on OSX. I'd be interested if anyone can recommend something similar for Windows and/or Linux.
When I was in my printing apprenticeship we had to sometimes bind notebooks from Makulatur. We used the same method but with other ingredients there is special book binding tape made out of linen ribbon which makes the back more sturdy and is just as cheap as good duct tape.
I think asking some basic troubleshooting questions is helpful.

Is your product worth paying for? Is it even worth someone’s time to look at it or download it for free?

Is it the type of thing that you yourself have paid for in the past? (E.g. if you’re making infographics about cooking, ask yourself, when’s the last time you gave someone money because of their cooking infographics). Would you pay for your own product?

If you can’t imagine a scenario where you would pay for your own product, then why would anyone else?
Not to mention they have proven you will need to beg for any future pay increases. Shit companies like that are not worth the time of the dignified.
Indeed. for example UK has the most expensive and some of the worst buildings in EU, I have seen soviet buit homes that are better than some newbuilds over here. The word of the market is 'never buy a newbuild' because you never know what they fucked up.

The stories sound like comedy: entire block of flats was built the wrong way round, someone moved into theyr flat and found the balcony was missing - the balcony door just led to a 30 meter drop. They forgot to lay cable down for internet, so a new block only has 8 megabit ADSL. The building I am in, they made the holes for fire sprinkles in the wrong place - so there is a hole in the ceiling, but nothing behind it. The sprinkler is 20 cm away from it, inside the ceiling, and if something goes wrong it won't actually be able to pop out
> Secure chips like this are already in all devices but PCs. And in none of these areas has any of that happened.

Ah, that must be why we all have root access and can freely modify or install anything we want on every device we own! Oh, wait, we don't have those things and our non-PC systems are increasingly locked down and routinely do things against the wishes of the people who own them.
> ... initial guess for a jump target was too small ...

Ye that one is annoying.

I am making a VM compiler right now, and I have the same problem. I would probably have to make some intermediate tree to solve it without making every jump a "far jump".

Moving instructions is a headache :)
Shouldn't this be considered as strong evidence that copyright is just censorship?
How to Write a Functor in Elixir
Not if you buy in cash. I have done so for more.
Is this sarcasm or do you actually believe all of that is going to happen?
The Laffer curve is a theoretical tool used by economists. The tax you owe is whatever is specified in the tax code.
The rest of the professional class certainly doesn’t interview the way we do. Neither do people in the trades.

People in performance careers like orchestra musicians and actors are the only other professions that really come close for all but new grads.
It seems that they also bet on the hypetrain lasting longer. They are now trying to cancel some of their TSMC orders. [1] They'll probably end up with a juicy profit overall anyway, but perhaps the more clear shovel sellers here are foundries like TSMC and Samsung.

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[1] https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reportedly-wants-to-cut-t...
There are two main possibilities here, either the simulated universe is simpler (a 4d universe simulating a 3d one for example) or you only simulate consciousness and the bare minimum needed to make it believe that it's in a persistent environment.
Some financial services companies have tried this in the last few years, and it's worked out badly for them. The problem boils down to withdrawals - the "bank" can manipulate it's own internal accounts numbers all it wants, but it can't actually give out more bitcoin than it owns. Here are three failure modes:

1. People deposit bitcoin (10 million) and dollars into the "bank". Inside the bank, they trade the dollars for made up bitcoin. Now the bank books show 30 million bitcoin on people's accounts. People begin withdrawing the bitcoin. Because the bank controls 10 million of actual bitcoin, only the first 10 million can be withdrawn, everyone else is not going to be able to withdraw their bitcoin. This creates a run on the bank effect.

2. The bank has (10 million) bitcoin, and it wants to lend out lots of made up bitcoin. The first 10 million that it loans out can be sent using the bitcoin that it has. After that it has no more actual bitcoin. It can't send any more bitcoin out, so it can't lend out any more than that. You would be pretty mad if you had a loan that you were paying interest on that was stuck in your bank and you couldn't spend.

3. Fine, the bank says. We'll have bitcoin that you can only spend inside our bank, can only trade to and from dollars inside our bank. Then we can do whatever we want! So the bank lets people buy bitcoin on their accounts inside their system for dollars. The bank doesn't even inflate the bitcoin holdings. Then the price of bitcoin goes from $20,000 to $60,000, and people start selling it back to the bank for dollars. Now the bank is loosing $40,000 for every bitcoin that it virtually held for users.

Doing the virtual bitcoin thing usually results in collapse of company doing it.
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Node.js prototype pollution is bad for app environment
Calling the problem is “idiots” is a cognitive trap which prevents you from meaningfully dealing with it. Everyone is at risk from zero-days, almost anyone can be phished (yes, this includes you), many people have no way or time to investigate whether some well-known vendor is misrepresenting their product, and even security experts have to trust other people on a daily basis because they don’t have time to reverse-engineer every software update. Most people who get snide about this are a single malicious package in their favorite programming language away from a big mess!

The best progress we’ve seen in decades came from most people using locked-down phone operating systems, followed by stricter desktop OSes. If you don’t like that trajectory, you should be focused on how to get the benefits with other trade offs. One of the first steps is respecting people enough to understand their needs rather than calling them idiots.
I have never understood why the "employer"/"employee" dichotomy is assumed to be so well-defined. If you have any equity you are somewhat the employer. Conversely if you technically own a small company with a few clients, you may feel like the owner but you're kind of the employee of your clients. The employer/employee is a spectrum and I don't think many of us are as well-defined on that spectrum as we think we are.
The difference is negligible, in this use.
Amazon hikes Prime subscription prices in Europe by up to 43%
We should pick experts that other experts believe in. If we happen to be experts in a field, or even adjacent fields, then by all means, let's pick experts based on our own understanding of their arguments. Knowledge does transfer to some extent, so if you're a mathematician or physicist or statistician, you could probably judge some climate or medical papers based on their statistical methods - especially when you find flaws (even if the math is perfect, if you don't know why they chose a particular model and how well it might actually fit the thing being modelled, you may not be sure they are not choosing a known bad model).

But if we're not, the only thing we can meaningfully do is to look at what other experts are saying is the right opinion, and judge based on popularity in their field.
Now let's ban MSFT Office365 too. It's of zero use to teach whatever to the kids.
> We both want to help poor people in the developing world, but you're only interested in doing so if it involves giving money to fossil fuel interests.

No, it's a matter of physics, you can't produce more agro stuff without fertilisers, that's what the Green Revolution has been based on. There's nothing to be "tragically misinformed" about when it comes to this simple fact. You need more agro stuff in order to feed 8 billion people and counting.

> by increasing efficiency and incentivizing better alternatives,

How does that help with producing enough fertilisers? Do those "better alternatives" produce the same amount of agro stuff as fertilisers do? Do they produce it now? If the answers to any of those answers is "NO" then those economists will have the deaths of tens of millions of people on their conscience. Again, there's no politics in this, it's just how physics works, you need energy to produce energy (which is what fertilisers are, in a way), nice and fancy words just won't cut it.
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Is selling shares in yourself the way of the future?
sounds like you need a proper tax consultant
It’s not what the author is trying to say - they’re saying the quality of food doesn’t matter but the company does -
but what I will say, as someone who lives in the backcountry off a lot of home-grown and hunted produce, is that when I find myself in town, which is infrequently, nothing appeals more than a McDonald’s. Guilty pleasure, but eating healthy, flavourful food gets monotonous after a while.
I cut my computing teeth on a sibling of that machine, an Ohio Scientific C2-8P that my brother and I bought in 1979. I was 12, and reverse engineering the games that came on the cassette tapes with the machine are how I got started in software. The arduino uno (atmel/microchip AT328p) is a much more powerful computer lol.