skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory, I actually like the idea of games connected to the blockchain. The issue is, now your little funtime activity has serious tax implications.

Imagine this, there's a neat little space pirates game. You buy an NFT ship, you buy some space missles, some fuel, contract a crew, and you go out. Maybe the dollar cost of all this was $60. Cool. You go out, you blow up the first ship you found. You spent 3 missles at a cost of $10 each, but you got a whole ships worth of minerals worth $60, and some more missles. There's some capital gains! Now you keep going, and you blow up another ship (hey doing good buddy!) how do you calculate the cost basis for the missles you used? Your looted missles are mixed in with your purchased missles. You keep going, your ship is blown up, and now you need to write it off, fortunately you were able to recover some of your stuff because after your last battle you put some in storage.

You had a great time, but now it's January and you have literally all the same tax problems as a legimite space pirate business.
Mhm, you are right.

I think of this "wrong answers only" as a bigger post category.

For example.

"Make devops cry in 5 words or less"

Does the same thing imho.

Also as long as you get engagement it means it isn't worn out imho.
I seem to recall reading that every Disney employee is required to spend a week working in one of the parks for the same reason.
That was my inclination as well, but the grand parent comment being said unironically wouldn't be the weirdest thing I've seen on this website :p
Energy bills are soaring in Europe. What are countries doing?
If I'm running Fortnite, I could be convinced that there's a value in allowing Fornite skins/dances/etc. in other games. The much harder sell is that I should allow _unrestricted_ use in other games, rather than making deals with other developers to license my content, as companies already do. An even harder sell is that I should also allow unrestricted use of skins/etc. from other games. I have a strong incentive to prevent that in the same way a movie theater has a strong incentive to keep people from bringing their own snacks.
Beans are tremendously more protein.

Navy beans on Instacart are currently $1.14 for 104 grams of protein.
https://www.instacart.com/store/items/item_1807377332

Ground beef on Instacart is $5.23 for 76 grams of protein.
https://www.instacart.com/store/items/item_1785250798

Beans have 91 grams of protein per dollar compared to ground beef's 14 grams.
> Medium to small organizations seem to struggle with having management even understand what "good" product looks like

The ones that struggle are the ones that die in a year or two, thus learning the lesson the hard way. Google on the other hand has unlimited money, so people just get moved elsewhere and don't learn from failure.
On every Unix box I've ever used, any tool prefixed with 'X' usually relates to the display server technology. MacOS is the only outlier here, and the 'X' doesn't really mean anything to me as a user. The word 'code' hints that it's a tool for development, but altogether it could mean anything from a compiler to a Xorg IDE. At least Visual Studio conveys the idea that you're going to be using a GUI application with designer/compositional tools, and adding 'Code' to it clarifies that it's a visual tool for manipulating code.

It's a bit of a reach, but if you think the average iPad user could tell you what "Logic" does, I'd be inclined to disagree.
I don't think Android Auto works without Google Play Services at this time. Here's the feature request for Android Auto support on microG:

https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/897
Lineage works perfectly fine for me with Android Auto
A feature, not a bug.
This kind of implies you do not find greed and a lack of scruples to be evil.
> or didn't get promoted when they felt they should have been, or they had contributed something and then it got cut from the product, something like that in most cases

Can definitely speak to these cases - especially where you do great work and have a narrative that it was unappreciated - and clearly see lesser performing or less impressive colleagues getting ahead. For a lot of people, it takes only a few instances of this to switch to "I'll do the bare minimum not to get fired - why sacrifice much of my life and mental energy for this?"

I've been there a few times, and to speak to your point: I decided that instead of being a dead weight I should just look for another job where I don't feel this way. I can say that amongst my peers, that behavior is an exception. Most people who become deadweights will remain that way. It's work to find a new job, and you may have to move, etc. Amusingly enough, Leetcode style interviews are effective at ensuring deadweights remain so.
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Can you use an in-app browser to host a light weight proxy server? Thereby allowing a 3rd party to access anything behind the firewall as local traffic or pretend to be the machine.
So are you stating that President Roosevelt (a populist politician) should have been forbidden from telling other people to commit violence against German and Japanese people during WW2?
This happened to me as well with Cox Cable in AZ back in the early 2000s. I returned the modem and got the returned receipt. Next 6 months I had to call and get them to reverse the charges. At that point, I started recording all the calls each time I had to call and get the charge reversed. Recorded 5 months of calls, had them transcribed, and sent the transcriptions, recordings, and a copy of the return receipt to the AG’s office saying “I believe Cox is committing fraud, and I wonder how many people they’re doing this to”. Never heard from Cox again. I did actually wonder how many people just continued paying it because “it’s just $5 a month”
As someone already pointed out, it's not the same quality:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Protein-quality-assessme...

And you're comparing price per protein? Wouldn't this thread be based on amount as we're talking about storing it?
You can debate syntax forever but the semantic web will never rise without the proper incentives. Not only is there no incentive for industry to participate in it, there's in fact an anti-incentive to do so.

Say you've build a weather app/website. Being a good citizen, you publish "weatherevent" objects. Now anybody can consume this feed, remix it, aggregate, run some AI on it, new visualizations, whichever. A great thing for the world.

That's not how the world works. Your app is now obsolete. Anybody, typically somebody with more resources than you, will simply take that data and out-compete you, in ways fair on unfair (gaming ranking). You may conclude that this is good at the macro level, but surely the app owner disagrees on the micro level.

Say you're one of those foodies, writing recipes online with the typical irrelevant life story attached. The reason they do this is to gain relevance in Google (which is easily misled by lots of fluffy text), which creates traffic, which monetizes the ads.

Asking these foodies instead to write semantic recipe objects destroys the entire model. Somebody will build an app to scrape the recipes and that seals the fate of the foodie. No monetization therefore they'll stop producing the data.

In commercial settings, the idea that data has zero value and is therefore to be freely and openly shared is incredibly naive. You can't expect any entity to actively work against their own self-interest, even less so when it's existential.

As the author describes, even in the academic world, supposedly free of commercial pressure, there's no incentive or even an anti-incentive. People rather publish lots of papers. Doing things properly means less papers, so punishment.

Like I said, incentives. The incentive for contributing to the semantic web is far below zero.
If no javascript automation - python's asyncio, regex and aiohttp can scale really fast for simple tasks.
Clouds potentially make this an expensive option because of their silly egress bandwidth fees.
If somebody wants to pay me $300k to work 4 hours a week, I'll happily take the deal.

Would you take that over $300k to work 40 hours doing something you actually care about? I don't think I would.
Many medicines simply degrade, so yeah, you won’t poison yourself, but then it’s just a placebo.
You are literally talking to the Pathfinder author.

I just implemented basically the same tiling mechanism, it works OK for me, I can already do about 1000 line segments, covering ~10000 tiles (multiply counting tiles that are touched by different polygons) in about 1ms on CPU and GPU each. Meaning the work is already quite well divided for my test cases. This is end to end without any caching. For static scenes doing world space partitioning is an idea that I considered, but for now I'm trying to optimize more in order to see what the limits of this basic approach are.
If team happiness comes from basketball, that's (probably) not the team driving revenue. I've mostly only seen that tied to results in professional basketball teams.

(Not to hate on balls: it was great playing volleyball in grad school. After 5pm. A couple of $B companies came out of that group.)
Author here, happy to answer questions!

Direct link to the project: https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-http

Few other projects of interest:

- sqlite-html: https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-html

- sqlite-lines: https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-lines

- various other extensions: https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlean

And past HN threads:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32335295

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32288165
Right... by "none of these things" I meant... the stuff I listed, which for the record is not incompatible with isolating the browser from the initiating app. It would be totally viable to give SFSafariViewControllers "write only" access to your history (implemented as just an API call that SFSafariViewControllers makes to notify the OS of a page navigation, which it can then store the URL of in your history, so that when you go to history in Safari later, it would show up there). Similarly, there could be a very nice "adopt as tab" button that would "rip" the view controller out of the enclosing app and just plop it into Safari proper, complete with it's back-forward list/history, and make it really easy to transition from the app to Safari without the much less ideal "open in Safari" button that loses navigation/page-state/etc. In other words, the way SFSafariViewController could work is that you are in Safari (forcing the full screen experience), just with a "Done" button that takes you "back" to the app (or an adopt button that "solidifies" the app switch. Think something more akin to the "app banner" that Safari shows when you go to an app's page, just with a nice transition of the webpage coming in from the app, kind of like the old Mail animation from iOS 1). This actually accommodates both goals: you get the real "full Safari" (again, you have effectively opened the link in Safari), but a nice little "Done" button to let you get back to what you were doing in the initiating app, which is the only "good faith" thing the app should care about (obviously we don't care about accommodating tracking/etc.).
I don’t see how giving an up-leveled employee time to adjust to a new responsibility scope is a bad thing.

Working under conditions of pressure and stress provides few long term benefits and is the refuge of those who don’t have the smarts to perform well and need to look like they do.
I'm on an iPhone 6s+, so yeah, I'm a fan of the not needing a new phone all the time. I am pleasantly surprised with each new iOS that my phone is still not deprecated. At that point, I will have to look at updating.
I'm confused I thought Apple only allowed web browsing via Safari...

"2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript."

If apps can use their own in app browser, why can't say Brave for example, create an app that does very little, except it browses the web with its own in app browser?
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The site is strange. When I visit the first time on my signed in Chrome session, it displays "See How Users Are Experiencing Your Website" and then the text rapidly changes to "Your One Stop
Web Optimization Platform". If I refresh, it starts with the first text then rapidly changes to the second. However, if I visit from an incognito tab, it starts and stays at "See How Users Are Experiencing Your Website".

What kind of fuckery is that?

Also, have you tried to use your own service to "See How Users Are Experiencing Your Website"? And what were your findings?
define "existence"
They lock users into the app. Every app and website tries hard to not let the user follow a link. Engagement.
I probably know north of 30 people in sales, all in my somewhat close friend circle. They all brag about not working and making money. I think it's part of the sales culture. It's like a badge of honor to not work hard and make money. Hell, I don't blame them. Visit any golf course since covid and you'll see tee time and tee time stacked with people 'working from home'.
What does this look like in practice? Is everyone supposed to download 1TB worth of various skins to play a game? Who chooses which skins are eligible to be transferred into each game? Do I have to download and view other player's skins? idk if I want a Cyberpunk 2077 skin in Elden Ring pvp...
Not every app does this. Twitter for example doesn't, because it uses SFSafariViewController which doesn't allow for script injecting.
Why would you put work into something meant for others to use, and then make it hard for people to find it?
The two types you describe can also be the same person at different times.

At my last company, my workload started to thin out considerably. Initially, it was pretty great having so much free time, even as I made my extra bandwidth clear to my manager (while being careful not to overstate the case!). There was a period of novelty to coasting, but after a few months, it began to wear off.

My ideal workload may not be being plugged in a full 40+ hours a week, but I learned I also need something far north of 4 hours a week. When a combination acquisition and spinoff took even more off my plate, it looked like I'd have months ahead of very nearly nothing at all. With a promise of no layoffs post-transaction, it looked like a coaster's dream.

Instead, I left.
> there is a consensus on this site that communications privacy is a human right but that financial privacy is a terrible evil

Money can be transferred; speech can't be transferred. That's a significant enough difference to them that "why is privacy for one good but privacy for the other bad?" seems like a facile comparison.
He has experience, I dont deny that. But nothing about S3, ATI or AMD in his era was industry leading or innovative. And considering his fall out with Lisa Su, I am firmly on Lisa Su 's side.
Novell Netware had a similar bug circa 1998 whereby pressing `F1` at the login screen of the terminal opened the help dialog, which opened links in IE ... from there the main Windows shell could be ran and bingo ... you're in.
In the past the benchmarkgame people haven't let us use PackageCompiler. The big memory gain would be that you could skip loading things like LinearAlgebra and the other standard libraries that aren't being used (but which you are still loading code for).
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I think it varies widely by job. I've met few programmers, percentages wise, that want to be dead weight. At generic office jobs (where my SO works) it seems to be the norm, and it's a problem for her because she's not like that and people load her up with work because they know it will be done right and on time.
Why would other games want to allow Fortnite skins in their game? If their players are willing to spend money on skins wouldn't they be better off just selling skins?

Nevermind the technical and practical concerns. What does it even mean to apply a Fortnite skin to a battleship or a racecar?
Mistake is a big word here. Maybe they figured the pandemic would provide the company opportunities it hadn’t foreseen and in order to be the first to capitalize they need to hire 30,000 people. Now those extra employees aren’t necessary, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t provide value earlier. I guess it’s a bit rude to hire someone knowing that their position will be eliminated in a few years, but that doesn’t make it a mistake, just ruthless.
Indeed. That's why our most common coding challenge is this: https://github.com/mshang/python-elevator-challenge

We ask you to see how far you can get in an hour and then review your code. We're looking for how you approach the problem and if you can write readable, maintainable code. You can learn a lot from how someone approaches this. We've seen dozens of different approaches, and in fact learned a lot ourselves from the different answers. Some are incredibly impressive. Some are just a bunch of if statements that lead nowhere. It's a great way of separating wheat from chaff quickly.

edit: The flask API was an interview I took, not one I gave. I considered it a very poor take home since it was ridiculously simple and didn't prove any actual skill, but as I said, less than 40% of their applicants were able to pass even such a simple question. They had very poor screening processes. It was also step 2 in their interview process right after a screening call and they spammed it to hundreds of people while our coding exercise is our final step after we've screened you past several people and had several hours to get to know you and are already pretty sure you're a good fit.
There are many such boxes around here. Almost all of them are operated by for-profit cults.
Ah so that's why they insist so much on opening every single link in their crappy in-app browser. I decompiled and patched Instagram for Android, and I did try, among other things, to bypass that browser (and gave up because my approach somehow mysteriously broke navigation in the app), but the thought that they're using it to track you has never once crossed my mind.
to date, FSD remains a “Level 2” advanced driver-assistance system, meaning the driver must stay fully engaged in the operation of the vehicle while it’s in motion.

The car is continuously reminding you to keep your hands on the wheel with a prompt. You cannot ignore it without deliberately fooling the mechanism somehow. Ultimately it is your responsibility to hit the brakes and steer or stop the car. FSD is not a license to sit back and read a book. Without more information I find it hard to blame anyone but the driver. Are there cases of the car having a mind of its own and overriding the driver's command?
>> And their stock is up 30% in the same timeframe. That's not inflation hitting supply chains, that's just corporate greed

You're assuming the stock price reflects increased profit. I don't doubt that, but it is not a given. IMHO the stock market has been going up for 20 years due to the 401K plan thing - the highest income people are indiscriminately dumping part of their pay into mutual funds every month. This is part of the reason white-collar jobs were more protected during covid, while hourly folks got told to stay home. If they made people with 401K stop working the market would have collapsed.
IIRC Loop-Blinn gives you a pretty good distance approximation using the 2D generalization of Newton's method to avoid having to solve the quintic. (Though I've never actually seen anybody implement Loop-Blinn for cubics because the edge cases around cusps/loops are annoying. Every Loop-Blinn implementation I've actually seen just approximates cubics with quadratics.)

(Fun fact: Firefox uses the same 2D Newton's method trick that Loop-Blinn does for antialiasing of elliptical border radii in WebRender—I implemented it a few years back.) :)
Are you saying state-of-the-art speech recognition cannot fit in 284 lines of C++ without any third party libraries?
Meanwhile, in Meta's robotics division…
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Ah yes, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_curve approach to filling curves. I have implemented a GPU vector renderer using that: https://github.com/Lichtso/contrast_renderer
Here the implicit curve filling extracted as a shader toy: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/WlcBRn

It can even do cubic rational bezier curves, resolution independently. And to my knowledge it is the only renderer capable of that so far.
Wow, bravo. That is by far the strongest argument against NFTing games I've heard yet. It feels like it should be obvious and yet I've never seen it before.
But if you tell it to generate boobs, it doesn't know about nipples, so it gives you what is obviously just a bikini shot with the bra replaced with uniform skin colour.

So 9/11 is cool, but boobs apparently not. What a world we live in.
You should consider the following:

1. The human body can synthesize protein except for a few amino acids. These are called "essential" amino acids because we must get them from food.

2. Protein "quality" refers to the ratio of essential amino acids, specifically how close they are to the ratio of essential amino acids in our bodies. This metric is used to gauge the rate of absorption of proteins, not the overall amount of absorption.

3. Red meat is not ideal protein quality. Whey protein is actually a lot better because it consists of amino acids in ratios that are better for absorption. Also better than red meat is... rice and beans.
"After careful legal, technical, and policy review, we are rejecting these applications. Consumers deserve reliable and affordable high-speed broadband,"

So make ATT and other ISPs serve the rural market, FTC! The hypocrisy in this statement is laughable since rural customer's only choice is dial-up, HughesNet(which is worse than Starlink) and mobile hot-spots. I think there is more to this than that statement.
That's the hiring side of the issue.

What's the assurance for the person you are recruiting?
Rank Choice is a bad idea. Its unnecessarily complex and that complexity actually doesn't mean its better, its actually significantly worse then alternative methods.

Range (Score or Star) voting are significantly better.

https://www.equal.vote/star_vs_rcv
On our podcast, The Technium, we covered Semantic Web as a retro-future episode [0]. It was a neat trip back to the early 2000s. It wasn't a bad idea, pre se, but it depended on humans doing-the-right-thing for markup and the assumption that classifying things are easy. Turns out neither are true. In addition, the complexity of the spec really didn't help those that wanted to adopt its practices. However, there are bits and pieces of good ideas in there, and some of it lives on in the web today. Just have to dig a little to see them. Metadata on websites for fb/twitter/google cards, RDF triples for database storage in Datomic, and knowledge base powered searches all come to mind.

[0] https://youtu.be/bjn5jSemPws
> play-to-earn model

That's work.

> “I think the idea of creating digital assets, and then taxing everyone for all the transactions around them is a good model,” Kan said.

No way is there a large enough work & player base that would want this.