skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the hard/soft science discussion here [1] to be informative.

It seems unlikely that all of social science will one day be declared as "not science". Aristotle's methods, for example, did not require a certain sample size.

You're applying far too strict of a definition to science. Basic forms of science can be practiced by a child at home. Journals publish more in-depth analyses, and it's up to them what to publish, at the risk or reward of gains and losses of readership.

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/is-social-s...
Not only that. They often are pathologically incapable of giving straight answers (I am talking about business dealings). It was / still is a major pain in the ass for me as I am very straight guy and have no desire to decipher what their evasive answers really mean. There are some rare exceptions though. Dealing with XXX Motors Canada almost shocked me in comparison because when their guy said they would do something it was like set in stone. They went out of their way to meet my needs. Dealing with Americans was a pleasure for me as well. They say A and it means A and it will be done.

Disclaimer - I am Canadian but was born in USSR, came here some 30 years ago.
Did you not realize that various NOx compounds are also generated naturally in the atmosphere with no humans involved. And of course when humans start causing high P-T reactions those reactions happen a lot too.
I am a professional artist and my journals* are almost entirely free of decoration. There's drawings when I need one to explain something in a rare freeform text segment but there's none of the complex multi-colored stuff that people love to share. Mostly it's just dates and lists of checkboxes.

* they are not actually in the "bullet journal" format, but rather in my own personal variant of "the Pomodoro method" where one checkbox = one half an hour I'd like to spend on a task, except when it's part of a shopping list or something.
idk mang rogers prettttty bad
How I Made My First Million Dollars Part 2 – Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary (2020)
There have been used car market like now at least for 25 years, but I believe acceptable car age getting wider. 8yo car should be fine to buy also in 2012.
Because tzdata is based off of political boundaries and decisions. If I'm making a dataset that needs continuous timestamps for multiple decades then UTC is effectively off the table because of how under-specified and poorly implemented leap seconds are in various software. So what's left is TAI and GPS, fine enough but now users see the timestamped data as being several seconds off. So we use a translation layer but some HMIs don't allow that so it's best to just not do it at all.

This reality is not unique. Thousands of engineers have walked down this path and asked "why?".
Most of these "do the obvious", but the thing+itself combinations are a lot more fun.
it's relatively simple to bypass EAC when you're just a single user since it just ignores all of the blatant signals you're giving off, it just doesn't scale well
> Malicious modified clients

hehe there's a spiderman knuckles that spams webbing and it fills the entire room and you can't see anything it's funny.
According to this article, pros typically train 20-30 hours per week, and will only typically do 30+ hours per week early in the season when building up their aerobic base.

https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2021/11/30/how-many-hours...

So even the top world tour cyclists are only doing 30+ hours per week for a fraction of the year. Compare that to professional marathon runners who are probably doing roughly 15 hrs/week at their peak. It's a lot... seriously.
What's your point? There are good neighborhoods and bad neighborhoods in every larger city. But there are thousands of smaller cities where the risk of violent street crime is virtually zero.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
The vast majority of Second Life users have been using primarily third-party viewers since Linden Lab open sourced it in 2007. It's been a boon for users. It just takes a bit of up-front design and planning. And Linden Lab is actually profitable. Profitable enough to dedicate significant resources to developing a new platform (Sansar), discard it, and still be profitable.
Programmers who can meet your extravagant demands exist, but they also demand extravagant salaries - something, I'm sure, your company isn't ready to offer.
This!

For example Discord has a splendid unofficial client(Ripcord), but because they don't care about their users they choose to ban people who use it and force them to use the original lag-o-matic mammoth of a client(Like, seriously, an IM that takes up a gig of ram on its own).

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25217170
Dev.to has become littered with articles regurgitating popular project's documentation examples, unfortunately. Medium has this problem to an extent, but discoverability on dev.to has become increasingly difficult due to low effort spam
My personal recomendation for HN users to get into Ghibli is to start with The Wind Rises. It's more recent (2014), and loosely based on a true story/biography. No crazy monsters or spirits. It also emcompasses creativty, engineering and hard work as the main characeter design a fighter plane. Truly a masterpiece that resonated with me

Of course the other ones mentioned in this topic are good too.
Arrogance and lack of professionalism are what half my industry (security) works on.

Arrogance in the sales process (yes we can break your shit), and a certain level of in unprofessionalism in the delivery side (we with actually break your shit) tends to convert to repeat business with competent clients.
Not just Intel but programmers in general have got to demand better tools and use the tools they have. This is an obvious problem if you can see it. It needs to be on every programmers checklist to profile.
Some feedback after playing with it for a little bit with my eight-year-old:

1. The chat interface is a great way to make the old-school console programs more contemporary, while keeping the ease of programming that interactive model. Though my daughter's first thought was to make a friendly bot, which is a bit beyond what she's ready for. The interactive games like Blackjack offer a much more well-defined goal.

2. On our first attempt to extend Basic Chat, we created something like `call chat.say("what is your favorite color?")`... of course we wanted to change it to ask and store it in a variable, but there didn't seem to be any way to edit it to achieve that.

3. Variables confused us for a while. There's no tooltips on the insert panel itself (only in the thing in the lower-left). The cursor didn't make sense as a variable. And then it inserts ??? and prompts for the next symbol, instead of asking us immediately what variable we want to insert. So... maybe prompting for the variable immediately, and perhaps a better button symbol would help there.

4. A "full screen" player would be good, my daughter wanted to surprise me with the chatbot she wrote herself but couldn't without putting her hands over the screen.

5. Getting ideas for what to make is really important. The scope of all possible programs is too much for a kid to figure out. And if they do they'll probably decide on something infeasible. While learning to come up with tractable problems is an important part of learning to program... well, kids need some scaffolding. Scratch kind of does this with the gallery, though as people have become more proficient at Scratch the games became too good. A smaller well-curated list is helpful. You have some, which is a good start. But like Tree Painting feels like a clever but inaccessible example. I'd bias towards simple, somewhat enjoyable projects that are just begging to be improved. The kid should see it and think "I can do better than that!"

6. Coming from Scratch kids are going to be thinking about Sprites. I don't think there's anything like a Sprite or an easy way to create such a thing.

7. I really like the idea of microworlds: coding playgrounds that explore a particular concept. You have drawing and the chatbot here, and I'd love to see more. Like one to do probabilities: it could make it easy to show bar graphs of the results, but otherwise it would mostly be traditional programming. You could do that now with drawing, but the drawing becomes a distraction.

8. It would be nice if you could put pictures in the chat (as output, not letting the user upload an image). Just to open up some other storytelling. This would also require an image editor. Though Google Slides has an easy way to insert images from a Google Image search and the kids make a lot of use of that, something like that could make it easy to add visuals. Or just a bunch of preloaded iconography.

Anyway, a few thoughts, good luck on the project!
>Before then, every entrenched name in Hollywood mocked the internet as something consumers would never prefer for movies.

This was a big misjudgement in thinking that people cared more about the theatrical experience than just the consumption of the content. Going to the movies became a chore, which allowed for those "niche" theaters that sold tickets while allowing the specific seat to be selected, better experience of kicking out mobile device users, etc. That made movie going only tolerable for me, but still not required. Watching in the comfort of my home while avoiding crowds (even before covid) was well worth the smaller screen and less of an audio experience.

Sadly, it took a global pandemic for traditional studios to catch on to the simultaneous releases. Hopefully, they recognize that getting someone to watch at home doesn't mean that they prevented someone from seeing the theater, rather as someone that was not going to see it precisely because they weren't going to the theater and not seeing it at all (during those opening week numbers)
I agree but I was replying to your initial point about locking down our computers. I think the downvoters don't get this.

I think there's a case to be made that VRChat allowing mods in a safe way is possible, if they wanted to do it. But they clearly don't see value in that. I hope they're proven wrong soon.
In Verizon territory (originally NYNEX), we have POTS wiring literally rotting on the poles. They’ve decommissioned many “copper facilities” but never physically removed them. Much of the area has been upgraded to fiber.
I wonder how well the interviewers would accept school projects that have been done many years ago.

It'd definitely be interesting to do a code walkthrough of that, as one would still be able to explain the code, but would need to say "back then I did it this way, but now I know better and I'd do it that way" pretty often.
You're being pedantic and quibbling over terminology, but ultimately your position appears to be that we should continue to create an artificial housing scarcity in proximity to city centers, such that the only way to have a reasonable commute is either (a) already owning property in a city or inner suburb or (b) being rich enough to buy in now. Why don't you try arguing for that position instead of nitpicking comments disagreeing with you?
This needs to be a motivational poster hung up in everyone's office. I'm trying to think up which generic imagery the block font should be on top.
The castle literally falls apart at the end :)

On a more serious note, the book is quite good too. The book doesn't describe the castle as a giant steampunk thing walking around in the hills. It's actually just a plain 4 sided stone building that hovers around a little over the ground, no legs. So in this regard the movie is better IMHO. But in the book there is another location the door opens to and the stuff we see in there changes the whole story. In the movie we spend some time trying to figure out what version of the characters, Howl especially, are the real version. The book turns this up further with the additional location.

At the end the take away is quite different between book and movie. Both good in their own ways.
>A few years back now Toyota had a big recall

Mustie1, absolute YT gem of a human being, did a couple videos showing his efforts to salvage post recall Toyotas. Recall was a scam. Instead of replacing bad frame, or stripping, cleaning and repainting Toyota opted to pay third party contractor to just spray some black goo on frame rails so they last 12 more months while the goo hides corrosion (and traps more moisture speeding up the process).

RRRUST 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s7N8QEAAeM

toyota 4runner frame rust repair 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBB8YX1I1QU

more toyota frame repair 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdLNKOdi4-A

Toyota Tundra frame repair 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IBXYnYYccI

toyota tundra rusted frame repair update 2 winters later 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn-cqoVYQR0

TLDR involved welding plates to replace eaten metal and regularly coating in oil/liquid film protection every year.
Yeah, there used to be an official emoji kitchen website long before it was integrated into Gboard, but they go rid of it after the Gboard integration :\

I've been looking for a site like this since, apparently there's a few others like: https://emojikitchen.dev/
I guess you could see some similarities. Vely is standalone though, not an extension. And it is 100% C, always creating native executables.

By that I mean a direct native executable from either pure C or embedded statement producing shallow and performant C, without layers of other languages intertwined (because in the end anything is always a native executable even if it has layers of byte codes, interpreters, alone or mixed with native extensions).
Ask HN: How can I take charge of how software should work?
For 1.5 years I’ve been assisting in the maintenance and enhancement of software that was built by a consultancy almost 3 years ago. No one on my team was part of the initial design, build, and launch. The documentation for the software is lacking and there is no one who I can go to to get confident feedback on how features should work.

Part of me want to leave the job cause it seems like a hopeless situation, but the pay is great. I want to turn the project around but that seems impossible cause there doesn’t appear to be a “true north”.

What can I do?
Aw. This is a real shame. Back when I played I liked dressing up in a little magician outfit and flying around / teleporting (the netcode takes the absolute position of the player from the client).

At the time the client was Unity + Mono (haven't checked if it still is) so you could just add a DLL with your own code that gets loaded, as well as ahead-of-time patching Assembly-CSharp to introduce your own hooks. Super simple & really mod friendly.
Mega grams...

Mega seconds ....

Kilowatt-hours... (When the closest SI unit of energy is the megajoule)

Km/hour... (When the closest SI unit of velocity is m/s)

All failures of the SI system.
Convince your team to use async updates on Slack or whatever.

Or just deepfake your face and voice and give it a new prompt every day.
One of their competitors, Neos, already has some kind of built-in cryptocurrency:

https://neos.com/#neos-credits

The selling point of Neos used to be that it allowed 10-point full-body tracking (as opposed to 6-point) while VRChat did not, but VRChat recently added that functionality.
Per capita murder rates and robbery rates are much higher in cities. All of the most dangerous places in the US are mid to large cities. Detroit, Baltimore, St Louis etc and it's been that way for decades.
This is also my contrarian take.
Unreal Engine: AMD Threadripper Pro 5000 WX-Series vs. Intel Xeon W-3300
But I guess from a bird's view point, I can see how all the impressions given here are correct. It does look somewhat like PHP for C or like a markup language, or a declarative language etc.

There's some truth to all of that to some extent.
This seems pretty cool for all the reasons the author said, but what about long-term?

Getting replacement parts seems like a nightmare, if not impossible. What happens when the shocks wear out? When you bend a wheel rim on a rock? etc.

Maybe I'm just not informed, and it's easy to get parts. Or maybe these things are so mechanically simple that it's no big deal.
Oh wow, I didn't even know they made an electric smart, much less a convertible one. Not sure how good the EV part of that was (the article hints that it was terrible) but the form factor is really nice.
I would absolutely take the cost of work schedules being adjusted by an hour once every 6667 years over the cost of 6667 years of programmers having to deal with leap seconds and everyone else having to deal with the fallout of any bugs from that.

How long has the 9-5 even existed? Less than 200 years? At no point in 6667 years would anyone notice any consequences of the drift, culture and work schedules change so much faster than that.
Successfully avoiding a trial while undertaking a new not-yet-well-defined endeavor, like defining a new marketable product, is a LOT harder than taking an existing concrete contract and making it less contentious or settling/driving an existing case to a conclusion. That's all I'm saying.
At the level of CTO of a major telecom, I don't his firing as scapegoating, it's accountability. The buck has to stop with someone, and the CTO is responsible for the technical infrastructure of the company.
Out of curiosity, do you use the Pomodoro method when you’re creating art, or do you find yourself in a flow?
Astro-physicists at CERN are not allowed to drink alcohol.

SO I developed spectrum of libations lacking of spirits.

I call it "Faux Tonics"

I think the name reflects the energy of the idea efficiently.
This feature has zero performance impact on your database. It is powered by insights which is served from a separate data store.
Heck of a lot of assumptions about how large companies hire without seemingly having worked for a large company.

It obviously varies a lot, but having worked for two Fortune 100s and a Global Fortune 500, none of what he says aligns with what I experienced or have taken part in.

Ignoring the ridiculous idea that you would show code from your current job to an external party, there's are a number of good reason why you don't expect a candidate to have "project" code to share. First, it's rather presumptuous, the idea that the candidate is spending time outside of work doing a version of their day job for "fun". Plenty of good devs and tech workers shut it off at 5pm. You also run into socio-economic barriers - they may have significant family commitments, etc that limit their time for such activities.

The most ridiculous idea is that companies utilize hiring teams to share the blame. Pure nonsense. There's a lot of reasons you don't just leave the decision to hire up to one person, the first being biases people have, some of which the author of this piece is clearly showing. For example, this quote in regards to not having code to share:

> "Sorry to be blunt, but chances are they aren't very good, and they are definitely not as good as they think they are."

And he continues and double downs on this point:

> "But surely you will miss some really good engineers who don't have any code that they can show you over a zoom call, right?

Yep, you might. I read about this one teenage girl who fell out of an airplane at 30k feet and not only survived the fall but 10 days in the Brazilian rainforest before being rescued. Exceptions are fun."

I wouldn't want this person anywhere near the hiring process. I'm sure they're very good at hiring people like themselves.
I'm gonna play devil's advocate here.

I pretty much agree with all your points, but what I see here is that VRChat developers or product people are choosing the solution that requires the least effort. They may have other features or fixes in their roadmap and decided to squash all the fixes into a single one: banning them.

If I were them, given the popularity of modified clients I'd try to turn that into a feature that sets them appart from other competitors, but I still think it's a rational choice to ban them given how much developer time costs.
Nothing. I'm tired of learning. If it's useful stuff at home, it will just stick. The stuff I learn at work is used once and then thrown away because that's how management has structured the company. They don't care about developing resources or promoting efficiency. It's all about redundant resources and learn something to build a thing and context switch away when it's done (or even before).

Probably all bad stuff to say since I've started another job on a different team at the same company. It's my first day and I'm tired of watching training videos.
iirc you can always go to the phone’s settings app and change the carrier it connects to

For example, on iOS:

Settings > Cellular > Network Selection > Switch off Automatic
why do you think no multiplayer video games have tried that?
I'm not a game programmer. Why do games like VRChat and Fortnite need to use client-side mod detection at all?

If everything goes through their servers, it seems like a huge waste of time. If it's peer-to-peer it makes sense.

I'm trying to google it and there seems to be a lot of semi-informed lore, some people say it's centralized and some people say parts are p2p.
Webb 3 won't be the money layer if consumers think it's an Earth destroying scam
Plato ranks democracy only above tyranny in his 5 forms of government.
That's a very interesting observation: Clubhouse's valuation had already peaked before they finally decided to let a tsunami of Android users on in 5/2021; the 3/2021 Davison quote below pretty much says as much in coded language, that it wasn't a priority and tries to blame it on discovery/UX/engineering. In any case by then, they had walked away from Twitter's $4bn offer, and Twitter was bringing up Spaces rapidly. Also, by then the world was planning for post-Covid reentry. So, from then on the valuation was going south, and the elite userbase was inevitably going to leave. (Anyone got some numbers on Customer Lifetime Value, by segment? What happens to your valuation when the 10% of users with highest CLV leaves? How much lower is the CLV of non-US-based Android users?)

I find the OP's "25 Lessons Learned" is kind of a smokescreen that covers all earthly eventualities other than meteors and solar flares, and I can't see which of the 25 are the primary excuse for not deploying Android and scaling up the platform engineering in 5/2021 when they urgently needed to. Should have just sold out to Twitter unless they had a rock-solid plan to execute that in 2021. Consider that $4b would have been 13% of TWTR's valuation today. (How much of Twitter's bid would have been cash?)

See their trail of statements [1]: [1/2021 said “soon, but no definite timeline”. Instead, most of [Clubhouse's] statements about Android have been vague mentions of the importance of supporting the Android user base and making its app more accessible to a wider audience.... co-founder Davison explained the company’s approach to scaling to a larger market — like one where Android users participate — as an effort that requires a slower pace, when it comes to opening up access to more users. He noted that when Clubhouse grows, the discovery experience inside the app can be negatively impacted as a result. Users today are seeing more foreign language groups in their feeds, for instance, and are having a harder time finding friends and some of the best content, he said. [blaming the lack of selectivity on engineering and UX isn't credible]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/22/clubhouse-says-its-android...
Definitely describe this use case on the site. This is an interesting feature that I didn’t think existed based on the current site material!
Surprisingly no mention of RFC-8555 (Automated Certificate Management Environment, the Let's Encrypt protocol) under "Other ACMEs on the Web" :D