skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The handle is tied not to the device but to the mobile number. If you change your device you reregister on the new device and can continue to use the same handles.
The article mentions that. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
This runs so counter to what I would consider common knowledge, I'm not sure if you meant exactly what you said? That creativity is largely unaffected by the environment in which the creative person is working?
When not to use Bazel: when attempting to shoehorn it into an existing JavaScript monorepo.
Google says it spends about 0.3Wh per search, of which roughly one third is for scraping and two thirds for the search. I think you may be overestimating how much processing they could do with that budget (assuming they want to do that significant user-based tweaking, which is IMO not a given).
I enjoyed reading this article. It's amazing to think about the number of machines in the industry that need on floppy disks :)
Correction, Equinox EV is only 7" longer than the previous one, not 11". Not great, but not as bad as I thought.

Interestingly, the Equinox has previously been an exception to the "Cars always get bigger" rule. First gen was 188.8", second gen shaved off an inch to 187.8", third gen moved it from midsize to compact at 183.1.

EV version will put that back up around 190, back into the midsize segment and larger than the original gas version.
I don't know the alps area :) But I find the surroundings of Barcelona very realistic!
Or just work in startups.

It's pretty easy to get laid off a lot if you work in startups. You join and know there is a ticking clock in the background. If you don't, you probably should.

Every startup thinks they are the 1 out of 10 (because why wouldn't they, you have to.)
That's such a minuscule problem compared to trying to figure out which of the insane names is the one you need.
Captain of Industry is not quite this, but uses population mechanics a lot - with your first factories supplied by truckers driving back and forth rather than conveyor belt. Keeping the population fed and not overworked becomes a major hurdle.
>make it absolutely explicitly clear that you can go to the on-site paramedics for anything and they won't incriminate you.

There's surely a threshold at which they will gladly incriminate you. The paramedics just can't reasonably foresee where said line is other than knowing it's far beyond the typical illegal activity you find in that setting. Moreover, I'm sure you could imagine in the case of federal crimes (drug trafficking, terrorism, high profile national news stuff, etc) the feds having no qualms about threatening to drag the paramedics through an expensive prosecution if they don't narc.
Would the japanese designers who created this game be familiar with American kid friendly live action 90s game shows or is any similarity just a coincidence??
The Great Library Card Collection
Seems like bbaas, banking backend as a service, solves a significant need in the world, considering existing alternatives. For example in Europe there’s Mambu that seems to do something similar.

Not sure what the exact customer pain is here, could be that banks were the first to adopt IT and now have a large legacy where there is little value in rebuilding it with modern stacks, as it offers little competitive differentiation.

Or maybe there’s a need to quickly bring new banking products to market, and the backend stuff is so standardized that it’s best to buy it off the shelve.
Living in central London we have several protests per week pretty much all of which are tolerated by the police unless they go violent or piss off the general public too much. This recent stuff kind of goes in the pissing off the public category.
Found the time traveler.
And I mean.... bad.

(AVGN power glove episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYDuy7wM8Gk)
It appears to be virtually the same service as Column, but they lack their own bank.
Thanks @op! Increase employee here:

We're early days and not quite ready for open sign-ups yet (sorry, known bug). We'll be more public over the coming weeks and months.

We're banking for developers; you can programatically create accounts, cards, and move money.

Our users are primarily financial technology companies.

We're a small team from Stripe, Robinhood, and Visa building the bank we always wanted. If this sounds interesting to you we're hiring: jobs@increase.com

If I can be helpful, I'm at darragh@increase.com.
>By the later part of this decade, virtual reality will be so high-quality that it will be indistinguishable from real reality.

LOL, Zuck's metaverse would like a word...
Eh, users here just like to find things to complain about. If you didn't have some little typos, the thread would just be bikesheding. And, too much care and you'll never share.

It is a hobby project anyway, it doesn't need to be perfect, and it was good to share either way. People are clearly interested!
That is not a webcam, is an IP cam.
Our electric company will give a per kilowatt charge on the bill. Just compare that to last years. I see it pretty easily when I try to budget for the months. Food (fast food) has been the worst offender. To the point where it is just as expensive as it is to eat at a full service restaurant. For me its more death of a thousand cuts style.. there isn’t just one thing that I can go and avoid.
>People who say this have never worked in an enterprise, global software company.

On the other hand

How much friction there's between decision makers and people writing code in those companies?

How much time is wasted on meetings, teaching new people every month, etc, etc?

Sorry, but I really can see scenerios where 5 skilled engineers with domain knowledge can outperform 25-50 that need meetings to agree on everything
Ask HN: What does “past” mean on an HN post?
I submitted an item this morning, and I suspect it went into a bit bucket? Because unlike my usual submissions, it doesn't show a "discuss" link (to look for comments), just "past."

I guess it's not unique because when I look at submissions from the same domain I see "past" on some of them too... but only some? Clicking on the PAST takes me to the HN Search site, which makes sense for some older posts, but not a new one?

> 1 point by compsciphd on Aug 11, 2021 | past

Please remedy my ignorance.
Well, it was more the heir to the Atari 800 where the Atari ST was actually the heir to the Commodore 64. The Atari 800 was far and away better at graphics and sound than the Apple II.

I remember buying this one, and seeing an Amiga a week later in the mall. The Prolog article blew my young mind. How in the heck is it figuring this out, BASIC doesn't do this?!?
Yes! :D And Lone Wolf…
That sucks. I'm sorry you had that experience =/

For the last few projects I worked on, we first built super basic prototypes in different frameworks (React, Next, Vue, Svelte, Drupal, Wordpress, jQuery, Symfony, Angular back in the day, etc.) before choosing one to settle on, trying to balance concerns like DX, hireability, UX, hosting & infra costs, whatever.

If I were instead just forced to use a certain framework without doing due diligence, I'd be pretty annoyed too.

Undoubtedly there are people chasing the "new fancy", but also, by now React is considered pretty old and mature and (probably) kinda lame to anyone really wanting the newest edgy framework.

To your point, though, the SPA routing system (and how it interacts with browser history and URLs) is a pain indeed. React Router, in particular, handles it pretty terribly, IMO (it's much better in a system like Next).
There’s a huge spectrum between friction and 10% chance you’ll die a penniless beggar unable to see your children again.

The court systems can still enforce waiting periods and explicit “friction” mechanisms without the insanity that is today’s court systems.
Considering they've failed to take Ukraine I'm not Russia gets to keep it's "Superpower" status anymore. Even if they eventually managed it in the following weeks/months/years, that's still just pathetic. I'm not saying I wanted Russia to invade or beat Ukraine, I think the war was beyond stupid and unnecessary but it sure has made Russia look weak and dumb. Not the kind of thing that "projects power on a global scale."
I have used a Rift CV1, a Quest 1 and now a Quest 2.

What I like about the Q2 is that it's cheap and offers wifi capability so I can sit on the couch far from the PC. More relaxing that way.

Sometimes I use real controllers and I got a USB extender cable for that.
DIN 66399 P-5 shredders (1.9x15mm micro-cut) are not that expensive, I paid less than £300 for my HSM Securio C18. Just get the good kind, not the made-in-China junk. The NSA requires P-7, which can still be had for slightly over $1200.
So that they don't crash into them.
Yes replace your likely 6-figure dev job with a $15/hr job stocking the shelves at walmart...
Putting your money where your mouth is. Resignation and public, in-person apology like they do in Japan.

Better yet, refuse to take a bonus, not that the board should award one. If the board awards one anyway, contribute 100% of it to helping laid off employees.
Please. How replicable do you think this situation is?
Not my term, but some kind of test might make sense, or the average of several things. I mean, how do you define intoxication levels at all? You can't just, like, measure reaction time and say you're done.
Here, a less specific prompt:

"Portrait of Joe Biden in the oval office, 4k render"

First attempt: https://pasteboard.co/IYo5m6KeaqF4.png

OK, I'll grant you that all of the parts of a face are there and reasonably correct (except for the bottomless pits of darkness in his nose and mouth)

Second attempt, I end up with these weird artifacts in his head half of the time (3/5 of my generated images)

* https://pasteboard.co/xDFv9KD7Or4U.png

* https://pasteboard.co/j7PqHPgorZ9G.png

Am I holding it wrong somehow?
The investors don't want their pile of money back - that would just be a loan, they want your business to go to the moon so their equity becomes much more valuable than their investment. The investors will call for more investment and faster growth, so they can find a window to sell for big money.
I mean, i can't know if a person is creative or not based on the environment he's working in.
Not sure if Valve 'woke up' too late, as opposed to simply taking longer to come to market, and with a much more grand vision than other manufacturers have.

Valve recently released a promo booklet for the Steam Deck [1]. Page 14 of that booklet describes how each of their products have iterated in various verticals for their platform to make one cohesive device.

Namely:

* The Steam Controller: Produced the Steam Input system, one of the most flexible input systems in existence.

* The Steam Link: Produced Remote Play, which to my knowledge has no relative competition on other platforms.

* The Steam Machine: Produced SteamOS and Proton.

* The Valve Index: Produced the first premium product from Valve, and the lessons learned from manufacturing, shipping, and support.

All of these devices combined gave us the Steam Deck. Considering the pandemic's impact, Valve has made more rapid progress than Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony since 2015 in the gaming space. The usual market players have had years to make small iterations. Valve caught up in approx. 7 years, and with an open platform that provides more innovation to come.

Don't get me wrong - the Nintendo Switch is a fantastic device, and sparked a new form factor and experience that others only hope to emulate. As usual, they define the handheld gaming market. But Valve shot for the sun and came very close.

1: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/3401926...
> I'm not convinced null safety is a big enough question to justify multiple cryptic operators.

I am. I've been working on a large c++ project recently and almost all the crashes in it would be solved by compiler- enforced null safety. Kotlin's null-safe operators don't look cryptic to me, they're more or the less the same as those from C#, Typescript etc.
OTOH Java seems to go out of its way to make it hard to write null-safe code.
I am sure this says more about me than anything but if a company lays me off there is zero chance of me exercising options in that company.

Edit: I read the link and it appears to apply to RSUs as well. What I said about options is true but RSUs, different story. I’d sell those for sure.
Patreon lays off 17% of staff, affecting 80 employees
Even more important than the economic shrinkage, is the destruction of Russian industry (including military industry) through deprivation of technology access. This is also ignored by the parent comment. Russia can't rebuild or restock their military without the required external tech (much of which has been shown to depend on the US semiconductor industry). All of Russia's more modern military hardware requires foreign semiconductors, they're wildly incompetent in nearly all aspects domestically on advanced tech hardware. The sanctions are draining their military capabilities, in the present and for the next decade or so.

Russia is trending toward empty when it comes to their military inventory and they won't be able to replenish it as things stand. The only way they can is if China steps in and provides an epic scale infusion (which is not in China's interest).

Meanwhile the US can rev its military industrial complex to an extreme degree as it sees fit; and in tandem with Ukraine, obliterate Russia's military to the extent the Russians are dumb enough to continue occupying Ukrainian territory and sending more of their soldiers and hardware to the slaughter. The US hasn't even begun to seriously rev its production capabilities.

The equation there is Russia is fucked. Their national strength derives from energy + military power / power perception - one of those is heavily destroyed (courtesy of Ukraine's military + NATO weapons + sanctions).

Russia is so incompetent and drained they're having to source drones from Iran and go begging to North Korea.
I also really liked the audible and kinesthetic satisfaction of the 5.25 floppies.
Bazel is a great tool, but as mentioned in the article the support from Google is rather limited. If bazel ever got to the level Terraform is with providers it could really take off. Something I'd love to see is a .bazel_mod file where you could pull in other bazel workspaces (similar to go.mod) and reference packages within those workspaces.
To date, Godot follows the Blender story, not the Unity story: built originally as a proprietary tool, later open-sourced, but in a state where few could seriously use it. Then after years and years of gradually built momentum, you start to see industry backers appear.

Unity's story was always "plucky startup goes big". They never dogfooded an actual game in-house, they kept the source closed, broke everything as they went along, never fixed longstanding bugs. All the early goodwill was simply based on the fact that the IDE made the first 80% of a game easy to reach - the part where you have some collision logic wired up to input, things interact, assets appear, it runs on device. Actually finishing complex, featureful games in Unity has always been a dark art.
Cannot military aircraft see others and avoid them themselves instead of letting other know about them?

And military would have encrypted insider communication between eachother

It may be naive question cuz I never operated such a thing
You too are trying to justify NATO expansion by Russian reaction to it.
>Ukraine has inherent freedom to join NATO.

>It needs NATO's permission because that's how NATO works

Sorry to be a pedantic asshole but those statements are in opposition to each other. What you want to say is that they should they should have the freedom to apply and join if accepted.

>but it doesn't need Russian permission

In an ideal world they shouldn't need Russian permission, unfortunately we seem to live in a world where might makes right.
> It's especially amusing that a single photo taken on my phone exceeds the capacity of a standard 1.44MB 3.5" disk

… and the full decompressed version of that image might not have fit into your computer's memory at that time, either.
I agree. It also really helps when you want to negate something.

if(!condition) is a much better read and less prone to errors than trying to negate a long statement inside the if().

This pattern also eliminates duplication. I have fixed bugs in code where the same long if condition was duplicated several times within the same function (probably with cut and paste). This wastes cycles recalculating it each time and runs the risk of changing one of them without changing them all.
True for most people. The exception to this rule is Bryan Caplan who is covered in this article.
> This is a consequence of Facebook making a purposeful strategic shift away from in-network content to suggested content.

In an ironic twist these changes has made it much easier for me to stop using Facebook and Instagram. My usage was never high to begin with but some people in my life only used those apps and I wanted to stay connected. Now every single time I visit either of those apps and I see suggested content I close the app and move on with my day.
I think they provide a backend so you can issue your own cards, with bank accounts routable through normal banking systems. Payoneer famously rely on third party "back-end" banks for their services, as they issue cards, offer routable bank accounts, cash withdrawal, etc.

This is an extremely niche use case of course, but it's not the first time they popped up on HN at least.

In mobile ISPs, MVNOs are quite common, and there is a large amount of customer base because they simplify KYC, sales, and customer on-boarding. Technically, this API should provide the platform to build a similar "Virtual bank". I do not think anybody without a significant technical and financial resources will be able to pull it off.

Another use case I can think of are market places like ebay, Amazon, Aliexpress, etc. Each seller receive a bank account that they get their payments deposited to, and can be withdrawn from their branded card. I do not see this being a commercially viable option for many, because pretty much every country has free or almost free systems in place to simply transfer money, and not take the unnecessary burden of issue cards, maintaining bank accounts, etc. Payoneer used to run a similar program, with branded cards, custom fee structures, etc, but it eventually failed as far as I know.
Tangentially related but you can buy the game directly from the website, DRM-free which is the route I'd like to go buying this game. The only thing is that the supported macOS platforms are "macOS Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra; MacOS X El Capitan, Yosemite". Is anyone here playing the game on Catalina or Ventura?
The opening story about a missile launch is fabricated but the author doesn’t make that clear at any point.

There’s a reason the DOD aren’t in objection to ADS-B transponders but it’s above the civilian author’s security clearance level to know the reason.
The books those articles summarize are very good, although I haven’t completed either.

I’m familiar with Godel, but he was mentally ill. He had several phobias and mental disorders, and at the end, his wife became severely ill and was no longer able to care for and feed him, so he starved himself to death.

Mental illness and the fragility of the human mind and psyche have little to do with mathematics being first and foremost a human creation and endeavor.
Perhaps the flight level given by ATC is correct, but the instrument calibration is not set correctly.
Is Spain the prison of Catalonians?
I feel the same! I've done very high level languages all my career, tried to understand C, but just felt super complex and over my head. Tried Rust, managed to get it enough to be able to build stuff with it in just a weekend.
States have a moral responsibility to settle their debts
Yes, I understand that. That's why it's unclear what it means that Twitter has "no test environment". That could mean a lot of things, some catastrophic and some not.
CRM (Creeping Relations Management)
I wasn't so much worried about death as I was about being crippled with long covid and having to deal with the medical system, that would probably not believe me for help.
It does look awfully like the async/await mess languages with bad concurrency adopted as a crutch for not having good concurrency.

Erlang/Golang model of superlight "threads" exchanging messages appears to be much better at both being actually concurrent and making most code look decent and easy to see what is actually happening.
Removing that meaningless sentence, or replacing it with an apology.
Oooh that issue also has a preview of the Commodore Amiga, with epic block diagrams and tech specs. Having grown up learning the ins and outs of the Amiga 500, that is really nostalgic.

Also seeing "Computing at Chaos Manor", Jerry Pournelle's column, in the ToC gave me the warm fuzzies. He always came across as, uh I don't know, likable? Like somebody's magically technical super-nice granddad/uncle or whatever. When I read Byte I had no idea at first about his books, all I knew about him was what I gleaned from the columns. So weird. I guess in a way he was an influencer waaay before the term even existed? :)
> Why does military aircraft broadcast that data?

For coordination with civilian aircraft.

> Why it's unencrypted?

See above.
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In 23 years you have worked at 18 companies? Has this hurt you during interviews?
I'm not sure if their property market is really weird, or if this is just a poorly explained article:

> Officials have long acknowledged that developers were selling far too many homes. About 70% of those sold since 2018 were purchased by people who already owned one, estimates JPMorgan. Restricting debt levels was supposed to force firms to adjust to actual demand.

What does this mean? 70% of homes bought are investment properties?
You and this guy ought to get together:

https://github.com/libav/c99-to-c89
Markets Plunge as Inflation Data Undercuts Wall Street’s Optimism
Users click more on big brands. The average internet user doesn’t want to browse hobby websites, they use the top 10 sites and never leave them. Accept it. Some of them never leave only Reddit or TikTok.
This doesn't make sense to me. Adding more people add communication overhead so you would get sub-linear return. I don't see how you can even expect more than linear return.
I don't see how this addresses the problem of building trust, though.
From the video, funny bit at about 01:01:00:

I'm reminded of one conversation with an executive, when I said I am confident we have a foreign agent, and their response was "well, since we already have one, what does it matter if we have more, let's keep growing the office"
Do you consider non-US remote?
Looking at their app they do a lot more than just give rides nowadays. UberEats delivers from restaurants, but also apparently groceries now? They have a short-distance package delivery option. Rental cars. And some kind of tool to book a plane and hotel for travel?

I don't know if it's the right business call, but Uber is like 10 different companies now.
So then the original poster was wrong?
That's a good question and to be honest, we're still figuring it out. Making our templates open source have the benefits of allowing the broader community to contribute, helps make Godot more accessible, and seems to more in the spirit of Godot. Of course we're a business and we're trying to build something sustainable, but right now we're betting on Godot and its community and we think elevating Godot will help us in the long run. Of course, maybe this a terrible idea, but let's find out! Part of the reason I started the company was to try out some off-the-wall ideas.