skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah my sense is that people who call themselves centrist are actually almost as authoritarian as the republicans, just with a different set of cultural norms- cosmopolitan or aspiring to be cosmopolitan rather than rural and patriarchal.

I’m other words, the social liberal/economic conservative crowd. Truly a marriage of convenience: raising the minimum wage is going to make your nanny more expensive, but gay rights costs you nothing. And my property taxes are too high. When they see people marching in the streets many of these folks get scared and run to the republicans.
Zuckerberg: Apple, Meta are in “deep, philosophical competition”
I have also known both albeit on a lesser scale.

At a company we as a dev team had to maintain a constellation of desktop applications and homemade ETL Airflow-like software that scaled really badly. For the time I'd been there I had managed to automate deployment almost totally on my own. Sadly it had been somewhat controversial as it was done at the expense of other development tasks (my manager agreed but not his nontechnical manager), and probably too late too. Before I had had enough grasp on the complicated context we had to deliver on a big project and needless to say it was a shitshow and we developers took basically all the blame, with pretty much nothing to say back.

The tech stack and code had been in a state of neglect for 8+ years but that was not an acceptable answer at that time, it seemed, and I'd only been there for 6 months when it happened.

On the other end of the spectrum, at the above's parent company, I had to maintain several major versions of an API on several cloud regions. Undocumented peculiarities regarding the object storage that was specific to one region caused a production incident that took the dev and support team 3 days to untangle and solve.

I have similar stories on monorepo vs. multirepo too
Its a joy compared to traditional xml approach, and a lot less headaches than flutter (dart, missing plugins, custom widgets)
I think the folks on here would get a kick out of a documentary about the games that came out AFTER Atari was sold in 1983.

The Atari 2600 soldiered on until 1985 or 1987, and it was remarkable how good the games were after the industry blew up.

Here's Pac Man on the Atari 2600 from 1982: https://youtu.be/nCPpgt0s70U?t=157

Here's Pac Man Jr on the exact same hardware, from a year later: https://youtu.be/r8-y4o7VX3I?t=71

They managed to figure out scrolling, increased the number of mazes by 400% and reduced the flickering significantly.
> Hacker Lab is/was not a non-profit.

By "not a non-profit", does that mean that Hacker Lab had full-time paid staff, or were they just incorporated as a for-profit entity?
For a counterexample:

Some pretty big businesses have been built on the back of PHP. That doesn't make the language any less ridiculous.
One calendar and put an x only if you did all of them?

The way I see it, the important part is to stick to the plan. It's really a x for "i sticked to my plan today" and not "I did 10 pushups".
Agreed- we use Druid, it's quite successful, but the Druid hosting situation up until this point has been pretty lousy.
A mental model I employ is: from a frequency response perspective, humans are 30Hz high pass filters. That means we end up conducting more high-frequency force (either by actively fighting it or by having it act against our inertia by transmitting thru our bodies), and this is work. In the lower frequencies, we can generally more actively participate and e.g. spread out the energy transfer over longer time periods to decrease instantaneous forces in joints/etc. Picture jumping off a 3 ft ledge, you can "eat" most of the impact with your legs bending, but some of the energy is going to affect you. The mental model is that it's the high-frequency content that human bodies don't handle well.
Spotify Car Thing Is Dead Because Nobody Wanted It
I have a friend who had an N64 and his only game was Superman
64. Like that was nearly the only game he ever played on the system, I think he played GoldenEye years later with some friends. And that was the only system he had until he bought a Wii as an adult. When he told me this I assumed he was joking but he never really used the internet and had no idea how reviled the game was.

He thought the game was OK, and didn't think it was that hard. Somehow still became an avid gamer too.
GitHub Insights from Billions of Events
IP addresses by themselves are not personal data.
I've been banging code since I was 10 copying BASIC from the back of a magazine into a C64. Got into video production in high school. Saw an entire table full of existing video equipment get replaced by a single video card inside of an Amiga. Decided then and there that I'd be doing video on computers. Got a job during college that put me in really cool video/film post house. Learned the entire process of working with film from developing, transferring to video, editing that video, then taking that edit back to film negative editing. Once it went full digital and streaming, because of my knowledge of how the post process works, I knew how to prep video to remove interlacing, 3:2 pulldown, etc for handing off to streaming platforms. That work can require a lot of custom code to automate. So when I get bored and burned out of the video engineering/coding jobs, I go back to production for a little while. When I get tired of being broke as an "artist", I go back to coding for money. Covid killed my last round of production work, so I went back to video engineering for couple of start ups.

probably more than you really wanted to know, but that's it summed up in graph. i've learned that if a job requires working with a computer in any way, knowing how to bang code will come in handy even if it's not a coding job. just knowing how to automate a few things here and there makes cubicle life less mundane.
No, it absolutely was not an attempt to influence judicial outcomes. It was a test to see whether publishing accurate analysis of precedential cases would cause those cases to be cited more than they otherwise would. Not only is there no harm in doing so (since the information is accurate), neither you nor the researchers can know whether any case outcomes were influenced. And, in fact, the analysis of the paper, which says that the cases were cited more often when the citing judge agreed with the conclusion of the case, which, if anything, suggests that the outcomes of these cases were most likely not affected.

Moreover, if you want to claim this study was unethical, you need to show that there at least could have potentially been harm as a result of it being carried out. Please explain how publishing correct legal analysis of cases anywhere could possibly cause harm.

In short, if you want to make this claim, you need to provide actual evidence, and not just outrage.
Is that a VT100 terminal in the first photo?

Doesn't look quite like it but similar.
That's not exactly how things work, though. Laws aren't deterministic like a computer program. They can be drafted broadly, poorly, incompletely, or simply not take into account things that didn't exist when the law was written.

It's the job of the judiciary to interpret the laws in these situations, and part of that is looking at the spirit of the law and create case law which may alter the powers of government.

This is very much part of the Western tradition of common law, as is a vigorous discussion over how far the judiciary should be able to go. It's fair to say popular sentiment has drifted in a libertine direction over the last 50 years, but the debate is far from settled.

(In fact we can speculate with some reliability about what the future may hold: via one mechanism or another, including the judiciary, governments usually trend more libertine in times of peace and more authoritarian in times of crisis.)
Jordan Peele Brought the Bay Area's Fry's Electronics Back to Life for 'Nope'
I love TypeScript but its complexity is getting ridiculous.
I am in your target group and still find it way steep for something which can be easily substituted by any mobile you have in your hand and BT gamepad/keyboard for 1/10 of the price, if used for gaming. Anyway nobody would buy ZX Spectrum clone for its original horror keyboard, so it's not like you are buying it for nostalgia after hardware.
And don't forget about [template literal types](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...)!

```

type Color = "red" | "blue";
type Quantity = "one" | "two";

type SeussFish = `${Quantity | Color} fish`;
// same as
// type SeussFish = "one fish" | "two fish"
// | "red fish" | "blue fish";

```
It depends on how well read the coroner was, but people were having ideas about hereditary information that were pretty close to reality for decades before the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA (it was isolated almost a hundred years before Watson and Crick)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Miescher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Koltsov
If you ever watch a play-through it just keeps getting worse. People always talk about the rings but thats barely scratching the surface of the shitty, broken depths.
I've looked at his homepage, and only saw something about bible translations. Is there anything else that's iconically non-NYT about him?
Which cellular providers are better or the best to use in Europe?
Are you citing this poll [0] for the healthcare questions because if so, I'm not sure how relevant that is. I'd bet a lot of money those support numbers drop once you throw in the nitty gritty details that actual legislation requires such as how you plan on paying for a X trillion dollar per year spending bill.

[0]: https://morningconsult.com/2021/03/24/medicare-for-all-publi...
> Please note that this project is meant to be used for fun and learning purposes and not for practical use.
As I understand it a randomized controlled trial (RCT) can determine causation. But I don’t think “what they did with this setup” was an RCT. A real RCT in this context should IMHO assign new cases randomly to a “treatment” or “control” group. In this setup they assign legal precedents randomly, but all new cases are effectively under “treatment”. That’s not the same thing.
Thank you. I've never been in that business but I've always suspected I could do their job just as well.
“The US doesn't need another party committed to never actually taking a strong stance on any issue, it already has the Democratic Party.”

Brutal. I laughed out loud!
I've been both a game programmer, and a computer graphicist coveting photorealism, for ~30 years. In my opinion, this is exactly right. Photorealism is and was never going to put artists out of a job. But other algorithms... might. I can't rule it out, but the older I get the less certain I am of where so-called 'AI' is going.
If I’m reading this right, I’m seeing a vote taking place in the “Survey” section, with 5 votes invoked — 2 no, 3 yes.

And an end result of No Consensus.

Framing this as if 2 Wikipedians exercising outsized power to produce this ruling seems disingenuous at best. And their basic objection (I only bothered skimming) of bias and ambiguity in the source/data/methodology seems fairly reasonable on its face; whether it’s correct I have no idea but it’d be a reasonable objection

As a policy, this whole thing seems like good behavior; the only gap is in the lack of voting participants. I suppose it is a real problem if the vote can’t be recast when more people are willing, but otherwise
Did you enclose the search terms in quotes?
Browser which is toy for devs who completely ignore for years user requests is losing users, I'm shocked! Left the boat few years ago first for Edge, now on Vivaldi.

Never really used on mobile, it was always useless (slow for starters), I'm better of with Kiwi browser with proper extension support.
Huh? I've ascended quite a few times, and I am soo far from being the best player.

It's totally winnable. It's your job as a player to avoid getting into situations where you don't have 'a single defensive move'.

(It's not the best game ever, nor is it the most fair game ever. True. But almost all games of Nethack are winnable, if you are careful enough and learned enough about the game.)

If ascended a tourist and a healer and an archaeologist and quite a few of the easier classes, too.
"Someone hearing a gunshot" is not probable cause to pull someone over, just as someone calling in a gunshot to the police is not probable cause to pull someone over.
I so wish that someone released a new modernised version of sim earth. I remember spending countless hours to create intelligent water life for example. It is really such a great game, even though I found it very difficult as a teenager (I don't think I ever created intelligent life).
You can secretly have super powers.
There's no evidence the system is 100% accurate within 1 mile.
Wizard isn't even the easiest class to ascend.

Wizard just has perhaps the easiest endgame, but that part tends to be easy enough with any class for a well-spoiled player. Wizards have a relatively hard early game.
I only see hydrogen or synthfuel production being any meaningful 'storage'. The rest is crazy expensive and doesn't scale well: pumped hydro, compressed air, flywheels, batteries.
Which means that Shotspotter's methodology is irrelevant since there's no probable cause in any case, so the discovery request is unjustified.
Ask HN: Is it a career negative to join Meta now
I see a lot of negative press about Meta on HN(and frankly most news media) and that leads to this question.

If I were to join Meta now, would that harm my prospects down the line. Would a hiring manager hold it against me that I joined Meta at a time when so many unsavory details were known about the company.

For some context I work at another FAANG (have worked at a couple ) and have concerns about Meta from what I read about it.

Except that the other outfits have had their warts too and ultimately what matters I believe is your team and management chain and from that perspective believe Meta would be a step up from my current situation.

Love to get some opinions on this
>The article is written by a Youtuber for his Youtube content creation.

This creator can't do other editing gigs besides his own content? Granted, he's probably pretty busy keeping up with his own stuff, but don't put baby in the corner by suggesting they only work on YT content. You'd be amazed at how many balls an editor can juggle. I currently have a couple of corporate gigs in various stages, wrapping up a music video, and a plethora of personal side projects on my system right now. Currently in preproduction meetings with new client to specifically help them start their YT and other social media content creation. So because the conversation started with a YT content creator means the conversation can't be expanded to introduce you to the bigger picture of the same topic?
And I just realised the GP already mentioned the bloom_path issue. Sorry, too late to edit.
Why not just say you moved to Kiwi Browser? Only Chromium browser properly supporting extensions.
Just play in explore mode?
Not really. Bear in mind the far left encompasses anarchists, for example. Leftists consider the state and the market economy to be two components of a larger capitalism system that work together, rather than the state being somehow separate from capitalism, as if capitalism could somehow operate without property law, courts, regulations, a monetary system and a police force. The ultimate goal of the left is to abolish the state altogether and replace it with something more local and participatory.
100 % agree, react is so horrible
A fun one with easy visualization is mechanical engineering statics, in which one calculates how much something deforms from a force (e.g., a bookshelf or bridge sags, a spring stretches, or an elastic tire or sponge or pillow squishes). The standard example is simple beam bending [1].

If you hold a thin beam (say, a ruler or a stiff piece of paper) horizontally in the air by one end, and press down on the free end, it bends from a straight line into a third-order (cubic) polynomial.

To calculate this, one considers the beam as a number of little segments connected to one another. The vertical force on each segment due to the force pressing down is constant over the beam. The first integral of this is the torque ("moment") on each segment. The second integral is the slope of the beam, and the third integral is the actual shape of the bent beam. If you consider it the other way around, the force is the third derivative of the resulting beam shape. This is often visualized in a "shear force and bending moment diagram".

The best part is there's a stupidly simple approximation to calculate how much bending you get from a single force (Hooke's law [2]): the distance the beam moves is proportional to the force (by some constant you can get either with these derivative calculations or by experiment).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooke%27s_law
Seconding/thirding/N-ing general consensus of those invested in the Linux desktop scene from the era that this wasn't the rhetoric or the feeling at that time.

I think it'll take a stronger argument than this to convince anyone that lived through this era.

Felt an apparent mania to shove mobile interfaces on to desktop computers for fear of missing the next big thing, usability and sense be damned.
No such thing. You can't sign away your rights. The end.
But i386 is the architecture, and until now, none of the upgrades have changed that.
I find Vivaldi most customizable, Brave has horible customization, was using Edge for few years after switching from Firefox, but I was scared of each update and their new annoyances and UI changes introduced, meanwhile in Vivaldi update notification gaves me option Skip this version or Remind me later, Microsoft will nag you with distracting icon unless you update.
Eh, depends on what class you have. Pets are a bit of a hassle to get up and down the stairs. If you do enough damage yourself, it's usually less annoying to do the fighting yourself.
I was amazed how little work was required, then I thought about what "exim4 has a new taint system" might have looked like if you tried the upgrade not knowing what exim4 was.

Real *nix expertise is spooky to watch sometimes!
If so, isn’t consuming Cacao powder a better option than consuming Cocoa powder or chocolate?
New versions of Nethack are still coming out, too.
I find Brave customization abysmal (plus their crypto and other stuff makes them kinda shady), tried it and you could not customize even basic things, Vivaldi offers much more options.

For Android I recommend kiwi browser, only browser with proper extension support.
I’ve always seen “physically based” to mean the renderer does a physical simulation (photons bouncing, refracting, having wavelengths stretched, subsurface scattering, BSDF calculations, etc.).

So much in computer graphics are just (clever) hacks upon hacks to get something that looks “good enough” but isn’t really simulating physics in any meaningful way (like SSAO, texture baking, bump mapping, etc.). These hacks are much, much faster than simulating the physical process of photons interacting with the world.

I don’t know where “physically based” originated but my first introduction to it was pbrt, which I suspect popularized “physically based” naming.

Differentiable rendering is the name of going from the final image and “reverse rendering” it to reconstruct a 3D model of it.
> Apple (which like Amazon was due to report its results after we went to press) warned that its revenues would be $4bn-8bn lower than expected in the second quarter, chiefly because of supply-chain snags in China, where factories are locked down with unnerving severity every time a case of covid-19 turns up.

Does Apple have any plans at all to untether itself from Chinese manufacturing? Every once in a while I’ll see stories about manufacturing or assembling some_older_thing in the US or elsewhere, but how actually dependent Apple is on Chinese manufacturing isn’t immediately clear to me. This article suggests it’s substantial if they’re blaming a revenue miss on it.
Use Kiwi for Android.
It is based on Chrome and has support for extensions. Win Win Situation for you
Just saw an actual Rivian vehicle in the wild for the first time this morning.

I hope they stay on track; Tesla needs competition.
If reporting from Shotspotter is presented as evidence, the discovery request is justified.
Interesting that Zuck frames it as "open ecosystem vs closed", considering how closed most of Facebook/Meta's products are.

A more accurate framing would probably be "closed ecosystem vs different closed ecosystem".
Security audits don't exist to ensure you have a shit security policy... I think it goes without saying that's untrue.

If a particular standard or framework you need to meet requires these things there's unfortunately not much your auditor can do. As such, your problem is with the standard or framework you're aligning with not so much the auditor.

If a security standard requires you to have a reset policy, then you should have free reign to design that how you see fit in the context of your organisation and its compensating controls.
Even from a nodejs extension and libuv perspective, Javascript has one event loop.

You can create your own libuv event loops and run them on a separate pthread.

If you create a pthread in your own C++ extension then you're not really talking of Javascript.

Workers are not threads but they run in their own thread. Unfortunately you don't have shared memory. So you kind of have snapshot isolation by immutability. They can only communicate with postMessage. They're not threads, they do not share address space.

So Javascript is single threaded.

If you're getting race conditions with your multiversion concurrency control implementation, then you might need to look at how you isolate versions from one another. Write a unit test that adds numbers from 1 to 100 from 100s of concurrent transactions, you should end with 100 every time if you have no race conditions.

Without parallelism, you could introduce a bulk command API and wrap all your writes and reads in a single function.

The single threaded nature of Javascript will prevent race conditions if you do this - only one function can run at a time.
Excellent blog!
I think we had this game when I was a kid, but being 6 years old I couldn’t figure it out. But defender, I loved.
and here we have the problem, defense. stop defending people “trying to eat”. we all are, and many of us are programmers. many of us are not here to have others buy our meal.
If you are a US based company how could it ever be possible to operate since you will be collecting data like IPs and therefor have a way to get access to it?
Your posits are exactly why this should be meaningful