skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wipe: Tarkov is still in beta, as such balancing, leveling and the economy aren't worked out yet, so periodically they reset the game to square one: you lose your progress, along with everyone else, and have to start from the beginning. This is called a wipe. (at first I thought this would be annoying, but many players find it exciting, it renews the game, and early stage and late stage wipe play very differently.)

Flea and meta: the flea is a market between players instead of only having npc stores. It changed the way the game works, as people with a lot of money can always have meta loadouts. meta in this context refers to the best performing configuration of items, so the meta is x weapon with y ammo etc. (meta is a common term: for example in overwatch the various heroed are dubbed in the meta or out of the meta depending on the latest game mechanics updates)
>"I mean even at Google (on a different team) I was a "technical lead" in my 20s, and let me tell you, I had noooo business leading anything technical of any importance. But this is very common! We would never accept this in other fields. Would you live in a house built entirely by junior carpenters in their late 20s who built one or two houses that barely stood up? Would you drive cars designed and built by junior engineers?"

one of the strangest and most baffling things about the entire industry tbh. Like, would you ever expect a 25 year old guy to command a spaceship? Yet in software you have these weekly "I'm 40, is my life over" posts. In most disciplines people correctly acknowledge that there's a sweet spot of skill and experience that overlaps somewhere in your late 30s, 40s or even 50s, yet in software very often we recreate Lord of the Flies, leading to chaotic project management.
RN has generally used in situations where the company/project is small and they don’t have much or any native talent and this kind of makes sense for awhile… or a manager makes a play for “efficiency”. All the big players who have tried it eventually went back to native for various reasons.
Unfortunately it’s been about a decade and the library is in another state from where I now live. I did another round of searching myself and couldn’t turn anything up either :/
I don't see this as a likely outcome for programming assistants.

Software development is heavily labor-constrained, if copilot can make everyone a 10x developer, we'll get slightly less than 10x the features-per-year on an industry-wide basis after contributors shuffle around.

The effect will be most pronounced in application development, where a team of 1-5 is about ideal for a coherent app made with taste, and that team could produce the output of 10-50 developers. Not such a bad thing.

Unfortunately this is unlikely to be true for visiual art, I don't predict that making artists ten times as productive will meet a latent demand for ten times as much art. Could be wrong, but my sense is that about as much art is purchased as people want to buy.
And the company's fortunes did not rest on the product being successful.
Isn’t Milwaukee tool owned by a Chinese company? Some irony here.
Ask HN: Shared Hosting Worth Paying For?
I'm currently with Hostinger shared hosting and it's great. I bought it because it's the cheapest out there. They have the first two years for $50.00 of basic hosting, then they charge the normal non-offer price after that.

I'm always looking for alternatives though. It doesn't have to be the cheapest, just something reliable and that won't go bust in the next 10 years. Just for the record, I don't like GoDaddy since I had terrible experience with them.

I've looked into:

- Hostgator (Looks good)

- Dreamhost (Looks reliable)

- Namecheap (Seems reliable)

But what others should I look into. I know there's many out there all competing against each other. But what do you personally vouch for?
I suppose an article titled “Apple to advertise apps in the store you got to to buy apps” probably wouldn’t be as grabby.
doesn't this constitute a pass for some low-level turing test?
Actually... Sweden has a large loophole for extremely rich people. Stick it all in a "Capital Insurance" product and pay a low yearly tax on the amount, rather than the gains.

It kind of makes Sweden into a low tax haven if you're only living off capital.
Anything and everything.

From Insane Clown Posse to Beethoven
Seems the account got suspended.
> a couple of newlines

A couple of newlines to create a new paragraph is semantic whitespace, as one newline or a space would not do so. Markdown (although not HN's Markdownesque syntax) even has significant trailing whitespace, which I would object to in a programming language.

> it's much harder to tell the difference between " " and " ".

Can't think of any scenario where you'd need to.

If you do mix hard tabs with spaces for indentation, which would cause readability issues with other languages anyway, it'll fail to run and point out where.

I can empathize that significant whitespace sounds off-putting at first, but after biting the bullet I think it's definitely a net positive. Indentation indicates my intent yet most languages just ignore it. For example, consider this gotcha across multiple non-significant-whitespace C-like languages:

for (i = 1; i < 11; ++i)
printf("%d ", i);
printf("%d ", i);

Or, alternatively, hunting down one misplaced closing bracket.

Also, with Python appealing to new programmers, there'd probably otherwise be plenty of beginner code with no indentation at all.
> Social networks tend to elevate content that it expects will get attention. Doing so incentivizes a particular type of behavior that lends status to the users performing said behavior. Typically, there’s a status indicator that people have to try and accumulate. It comes in various forms – karma, follower/like counts, XP, the verified badge, leaderboards, etc.

Early forums and then social networks were massively popular before getting algorithmic feeds or basically any of this stuff. Nobody was getting rich or famous off their post count.

Honestly, the biggest failure of imagination here is assuming that what's really going to succeed here is a modified (with "UBI" or whatever ideas) form of the status quo. TikTok, for instance, has a wildly different interaction model than FB/Twitter-era networks completely outside of any conception of "modeling statu" in it.
From the notes: "These marginal design choices are not the only way to get an efficient unit, since the fridge compressors from the 1940's and 1950's era were very efficient, while having consistently longer lives. This failed unit is purely an example of doing just enough to get by until it is someone else's problem."

I've been seeing this as a common issue throughout most of the household appliances we've tried to buy in the last ten years. They just don't last.
> The government threatened to cut people off from the water and sewage system if they didn't agree to pandemic rules.

I did some searching and wasn't able to find any information about this. Do you remember where it happened or where you read about it?
https://friendle.gg

Something a couple of friends and I spun up during the Wordle hype. It's PvP Wordle, where you set the word for the opponent to guess and vice versa. The meta is quite different from regular Wordle, obscure words and repeated letters do well.

We were too lazy to market it and have just been playing with friends and family.
All "I predict" comments in chronological order, filtered so the very oldest from 2007 are visible: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22i%20predict%22&type=comment...

Also try, "in x years"

Nothing too remarkable. [This thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=68111) envisions the rise of music streaming, but the prevailing attitude is that it'd enable p2p sharing and piracy, not forestall it (also see comments on the article itself).
This can work for a lightweight railcar, with a lot of sun, but is out of the question for a freight train.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Bay_Train
Sprints are only really necessary when there's a deadline to hit.

For the longest time, one of the advantages Google has had as a software house is that when you're an industry leader, deadlines are soft because all you're worried about is somebody playing catch up, not your need to catch up to somebody else. As the company has grown in size and scale, calcified a bit, and branched out into spaces where they aren't the leader, the culture around this sort of thing has changed. They are not, for example, the leader in Cloud, and the life of a Cloud SWE is markedly different than the life of an ads or artificial intelligence research SWE.
Still wrong. DALL-E is Open AI
I understand that. 9-to-5 is a common term, but I wonder why - many mention clocking out at 5, does that mean they arrive at 8 in the morning? Or maybe some have lunch on the keyboard while continue working.
Unauthorised Bread:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
Even since "Agile" starting taking off ~2010, it has made be very sad that many junior engineers today genuinely believe that somehow no software was ever written correctly without it. They were taught in school that there exists this bogeyman software development methodology called "WATERFALL" where pencil-pushers in a windowless office write requirements which they hand off in a printed binder to the team of engineers in the basement, who is not allowed to ever talk to the user.

The Agile consultants somehow convinced a large segment of the industry that they discovered and/or invented the notion of working with users, of gathering feedback from them, of checking in with your teammates, etc. And they completely disregard the possibility that maybe --just maybe-- there are some developers who can get a metric shit-ton of work done without someone poking them repeatedly for status.

And they popularized the term "Cowboy Coder" as a reckless developer who does whatever the hell he wants and dares you to mess with him. When in fact, their so-called "cowboys" are simply the best developers in the team, who write great code and don't need a scrum-master to help them plan it. But the Agile methodology resists the notion of some developers simply being awesome at their job -- in Agile, you are good at your job by meeting your "points" for every sprint.
I won't try and read into whether or not there's ageism anywhere in the tweet stream, but certainly when talking about hiring the magic words are "find experienced engineers to run it". This is very much legal and ethical in the UK - we're not precluded from setting an experience-based hiring bar. I'm sure if a 25 year old had come along with two browsers under their belt they'd gladly have been hired into a leadership role too.
> Another observation is that it is possible to have a capitalist society in which there is no alienation at all—a designer develops the concept of a widget, and then manually builds a small amount of the widgets by themselves (see for example Etsy).

That's not capitalism. That's how artisans before capitalism earned a livelihood, and your designer is an artisan (part of the Etsy market/guild).

Capitalism requires continual growth, as the fundamental goal is the increase of capital and not meeting (steady-state) needs. Optimizing production (for growth) as necessitated by capitalism (such as due to debt service) strongly implies specialization and compartmentalization. Alienation is built in to capitalism. Capitalism is not about humans and human needs.

(Note: private property; right to produce and engage in commerce; competitive markets; none of these are unique to a capitalist system. All these made their appearance long before capitalism.)

p.s.

I find it thought provoking that there are no natural analogues to a capitalist system. In nature, unimpeded, continual growth is typically a malady. Ecosystems, species, and even individual biological units at most experience a growth spurt to bring the system to a viable state for steady-state continuity.
Before Scrum we had 3x 1-hour team meetings a week to talk about what we're on and what we might need help with. After we went "agile" we moved to having 3x 1-hour team meetings a week with the same. Power to the developers. :)
I disagree, many of us wanted this but none of us had the money to fund it... Google has a special kind of magic for the time... IBM would fund some developers to work on Mozilla... Mozilla had some money to fund development on Mozilla... Apple had a few funds for developers to maintain a browser for Apple... Microsoft was happy to maintain IE... Google was different it was a place for innovation. It disrupted search, email (gmail) and mapping (google maps)... now to support those 3 products it made sense to fund a better browser... then with the purchase of YouTube... 4 disruptive web based platforms it made even more sense to fund a browser. I hear chrome team saved youtube billions in network costs (per year) just by ensuring more adoption of vp8/9... Today we tend to focus more on the ad business Google purchased doubleclick and the evils of it's tracking... but think back to this Google had at least 5 major disruptive technologies... search, email, mapping, video consumption, and the 5th IMO... enabling countless businesses to build successful web applications because of the development of a "good" browser.
If anything, that kind of behavior should give the outside world pause and raise questions about the sustainability of any product output.

That mattered less in the days of one artifact software development (and still matters less in areas like video games where that is the case), but software development these days is a process and many projects are far more marathon than sprint.
Yes, if unions exist at the company (which they did at Klarna), a company is required by law to negotiate with ALL employee organisations present at the company. This is one of the reasons large companies adopt kollektivavtal, it allows them to only have to negotiate with one union for employment changes.

Source (Swedish law): https://lagen.nu/1976:580#P13S2

Google translated:

> If the employer is not bound by any collective agreement at all, the employer is obliged to negotiate in accordance with § 11 with all relevant employee organizations in matters relating to dismissal due to a lack of work [...]
Well if it's cheap you're looking for there is Purelymail: https://purelymail.com/

Since you're already with Namecheap, why not go with one of their email plans/addons?

All you have to do is add an MX record in the DNS and you've email-ified the domain.
sounds like a lack of proper QC and insufficient or the wrong grade of oil was added...but, home compressors are this weird sealed monstrosity that can never be properly serviced without a byzantine amount of hacky gizmos anyhow so...

¯\_ (ツ) _/¯
>So bringing it back here without increasing the cost to the consumer means altering the design to make it cheaper to build, or banking on supply chain efficiencies to make it worthwhile.

As much as I like some Klein tools that are made in the USA, they have a few that are cheaper-quality when compared to their cheaper-price Chinese alternatives.

If I can’t find USA, I’ll at least look to Taiwan, having spent time there and seen how hard the people work.
And yet this succeeds very rarely
In my opinion, the big bang model, along with all of GR - LCDM is broken and can not be fixed.

Please take a look at the modified gravity proposal that I have put forward. This idea incorporates a mechanism that would explain why gravity might slightly deviate from Newtonian and/or GR in some circumstances.

This paper also adapts GR in such a way that it is consistent with galactic rotation rates, the anisotropies of the CMB, and cosmological expansion -- while showing that the simple operation of gravity is the cause of each of these phenomena.

This idea, Cyclic Gravity and Cosmology (CGC) predicts that there are discrete specific sizes allowable for macro-objects. The instability of Bennu and the fact that it behaves more like loosely held scree rather than a compact mass -- is an example of a mass that is not exactly at one of the discrete allowable sizes. Please also refer to the link I included wherein I uploaded a video simulation of the formation of a solar system using this type of force law. (This is in section 18 of the paper)

I would greatly appreciate any comments on this idea. A copy may be downloaded here:

https://vixra.org/pdf/2203.0032v3.pdf
Because they're supposed to have shipped every year since 2019.
And as the other posters tell you, possibly failing QA checks is not stopping profiteers from attempting these kind of changes. Constantly. It's a numbers game. Expected profit based on how long until your swap is discovered.
Another bug, it is attributing some quotes to either different users or changed usernames: https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=3423 is attributed to ReidZB, but ReidZB doesn't appear anywhere in the discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4955793) and it was actually said by rwiggins.

It's a fun quote out of context: "I predict gravity will disappear in five minutes for thirty seconds".
To be slightly more explicit, tmux is not a replacement for a terminal emulator, but rather an application that is run inside one: you can open Terminal/iTerm/Kitty/whatever you prefer, then run "tmux new" [1].

[1]: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Getting-Started
Some countries declare steel to have certain properties and they do not have those properties.

This is a certifiable fact.
It was also based on existing open source. None of this is to say that Chrome wasn't an amazing accomplishment. I do wonder how much crunch time the Chrome teams face now that Chrome has customers?
Agree. But I believe Apple thinks they also need to move harder into "services" and, I suppose, now ads. I think Apple recognizes that the high-margin hardware business is not not sustainable. Especially as everyone who would want an iPhone already owns one. Apple needs to grow somewhere.
No regression or simpler times needed.

The right to own is orthogonal to what you do with the thing you own.

The right to choose who I trust to operate my thing, and why, is just as important as the right to operate it directly myself.

Even if I can't write all the code in my doorbell, I am still harmed by an inability to choose who's code runs on the doorbell, and still harmed even if I do have a choice but none of the available choices are open source because some artificial process prevents it.

It requires no simpler times to simply choose freecad instead of autocad, etc. It doesn't even require deep knowledge to make that choice either.
Here is the thing, religion did not tell people the earth is flat. There are thousands od religions with different views. You are probably talking about a west european context, the catholic church as an organizarion did a lot of bad things and held incorrect views, however, round or flat the debate was not science vs religion but mainstream false beliefs vs correct new beliefs between two parties that were very mich both religious at the time. Matter of fact they used the same reasoning as you are where as you now believe anything not conforming to the scientific community's consesus on a topic is a fringe crazy/stupid idea unless of course it happens to be blessed by the right academics (or back in the day church officials).

Isaac newton and galileo who were very religious would disagree with religion being a tool of stagnation. Established systems of power and control prefer stagnation and resist change. Religion, science and politics all alike. It is a human issue and thinking only religion is affected is silly in my opinion.

To your last sentence, morality, justice and ethics like science/knowledge need to be correct. Progression or regression is the means, the end of being correct trumps it all. Your statement is categorically wrong because of your generalized dismissal. Thousands of religions with opposing views wand you judges them all. It is as a incorrect as saying "science only does good and anything else is wrong" because it is too general, are we talking nuke bombs or vaccines, big difference. Are you talking about Islam, Christianity or some guy's cult religion, believe it or not there are differences.
WiFi Standard 802.11ac Packet Analysis
The server seems to be having some issues. Here's the video the article discusses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpnnLQNgUiQ
We built this during the pandemic (https://www.share.clinic), because we thought it would be useful for people to market all of their online classes, etc. on social media. When it was done, we became so busy with other projects that we didn't have the time to market it. If somebody is interested in taking this on as a project, let us know.
Were they promising to ship within the next hundred days before?
The VOA did the research years ago, and they have extensively tested the vocabulary around the world. If you think "VOA Special English" would help your audience, go for it.

https://www.unsv.com/voanews/specialenglish/about/wordbook/V...

https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/160931
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Before almost every startup dev in the world was on Macs, only a handful of people were using anything but Windows on the pro desktop... Macs were widely derided for well over a decade, even after OS X and the eventual Intel switch. And then suddenly there was critical mass and they kinda weren't anymore. Nobody in 1997 would've seen that coming, but mistakes that push a handful of people there and a handful of people there to new things have a way of compounding over time.

(Look at how people talk about Google today vs 10 years ago, too, for instance.)
There are 20 year olds who demonstrate fine leadership skills and maturity. There are plenty of 40 year olds who do not. Find the best people you can regardless of age.

Also, often times the only way to get that experience in the first place is to be put into the positions of leadership to develop your skills.
Why make something up when the answer is a google search away?

https://www.centercode.com/blog/dogfooding-101

The sibling comment got it right, it started with a dog food company. Which makes more sense than a company deciding their product is shit, no?
I had similar thoughts when seeing that it uses Web Assembly to provide plugins. It they rewrite the core functionality with that and add an editor then they've basically reinvented emacs (though with less flexibility because the plugin code is compiled). As an emacs user I find the plugin sandboxing idea interesting because security is basically missing from emacs packages. You just have to trust or review what you're installing.

Terminal support in emacs isn't super great so there's definitely room for improvement there. Maybe there's even room for Zillij and emacs to integrate via plugins. That could be quite interesting. I still use emacs and tmux side by side without any integration.
> it's not admirable--it's sad

It's not just sad. It's often bullshit.

I don't believe for one second when people say "I worked 120-hour weeks for 6 months!" Simple math tells you this is a farce. Even 100-hour weeks is not sustainable, unless people want to claim they literally did nothing but wake-commute-work-lunch-work-commute-dinner-sleep for weeks on end. Not buying it.
Where I live, we have to do emissions testing. And it passed this year.

The emissions testing was a result of the 1970s/1980s smog crisis.
Check out https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net? Not sure how they compare in price but I like their no-BS approach and principles.
it depends on the video game. people have been playing diablo 2 for 20 years
What if you take a picture of a modified picture?
Our e-trike takes 2 kids, groceries, has full weather protection and brings joy to rider, occupants and many around. Protected bike lanes add the safety, but let's make no mistake, all the safety issues arise from motor vehicles.
> It's the same as if a human artist studied it.

It’s not a human artist, and it can only regurgitate mash-ups of work stolen from others.