skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it’s a negative feedback loop created by the very bad product decisions they made to optimize for local maxima of getting more ads revenue. You inject more and more ads followed by more and more suggested content, thereby reducing the in network content. The in network content doesn’t get as much of traction, therefore people stop posting. This in turn forces the feed to have more and more suggestions and a few stale in network posts from days ago. This drives engagement down from people who want to see in network content and they leave. So what is left is people who do engage with suggested content, pushing the product to make decisions to push even more suggested content. All of this continues till eventually fatigue sets in and a sudden rapid drop in engagement kicks in because your global maxima of a quality product was lost long time ago and your product dies.
I use a quite old MS Sidewinder Precision 2 joystick from 2008 or so. Works fine with the X-plane 12 demo. Look for something that support rudders by twisting. I spent nowhere near 200$ at the time for this. I'm sure there are better options than this on the market right now. But I must say, this thing was pretty good value for money.
My brother in Christ what is it you think you’re doing when you clone a repo?
Toy Galaxy has a good video about the rise and fall of Choose Your Own Adventure - https://youtu.be/B-f5YelgmMs
It a two factor authentication system.

One is your mobile number i.e. the UPI app first verifies whether the number belongs to you and it is being sent from the same device. To do that, it auto sends a encoded SMS to the NPCI server and awaits a response on the same device (no provision to manually enter the response. It has to be auto read by the app). This ensures that nobody else can claim ownership of that mobile number.

Having known that you own the number, it allows you to link your bank account to the UPI ID. This mechanism involves again sending a SMS to the bank server to verify whether an account exists that is linked to the mobile number you just proved that you possess. If that is true, then you need to prove that you own the bank account. This is done by asking you to enter your debit card details along with the ATM PIN. If that is successful, then that bank account is linked to the UPI ID you just created. Further, the app now forces you to set a UPI PIN that can/is different from your ATM PIN. Now you can perform UPI transactions with your UPI PIN.
I've read an article about Japanese policeman that've lost a floppy disks with personal data of some Japanese men, it was a story from this January.

This data leak, due to obscurity and the volume was more of a joke in my country, than a serious news. I do however wonder, what it was back in the day? I've never heard of any large scale data leaks involving floppy disks, perhaps I'm too young.
I was just wondering how many lawyers read HN regularly...
Yup, it's in a death spiral. As each feed gets less real content, that person disengaged and posts less. So their friends' feeds get less real content.
That's a valid concern.

I think there could be middle-ground approaches, we just don't have them right now. E.g. React is basically entirely interpreted; we could create something like React that used a different set of primitives than the DOM. Browser extensions could act as middleware between React and those new primitives, as a plugin to the execution engine similar to how they currently work. Someone smarter than me probably has a better idea of how that would be implemented, but it seems possible.

A lot of webpages I see aren't even really documents anymore. They serve a very basic HTML page and use JS to flesh out the rest. It's not all that conceptually different from Qt to me, except that there's a standards-enforced way to serialize the objects out into text. We could create a middle-ground engine that used simple primitives and could be serialized out into a text format. Qt kind of does that QtCreator, from what I know. I believe it creates XML docs that specify the objects to create.
An indispensable resource: Demian's Gamebook Web Page, which meticulously tracks hundreds of gamebook series and the thousands of books:

https://gamebooks.org
Ordinary people put up with a lot of inconvenience just to stay connected (in some way). This is why fb has not collapsed yet.

I left it years ago when I realized it was just annoying me.
Nobody is patenting naturally occurring plants to my knowledge. Plant breeders make specific (usually) sexual crosses and sift through the progeny. Since plants have tremendous variation, many of the progeny are different than the parents. This is the basic form of one invention.

Also your comment does not make sense. Some plants are can self-pollinate and are sufficiently inbred so that they 'replicate' themselves. Many plants are out-crossers. There also exists apomixis, asexual reproduction etc. Plant are also well suited to clonal propagation.

'Natural' is a completely vague term. Many of of the crops we have bred and that are IP protected (soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton, rice) have effectively 0% chance of occurring 'naturally' in nature because they conditions for their fitness to be high enough likely would never exist.
That's the thing. There really isn't really anything better. I've used at least a dozen CRM systems. Some fairly good, easy to use, innovative even, but few manage to have the full capabilities of SF. of the anecdotes I've heard about large migrations away from SF, it's been to Microsoft Dynamics 365 or Hubspot, which seem to be the main contenders ATM.
Facebook is adbook.
> Getting rid of nuclear weapons is impossible.

I disagree. Progress is being made (see ICANW), despite setbacks, some unfortunately coming from "the West", which is supposed to be morally more advanced.

And NATO doesn't need to keep parity with Russia, what for?

I also consider nuclear retaliation strike to be morally dubious. What's the point?
I’ve watched a significant amount of his 60’s output and yeah…he’s pretty insufferable and sexist. Brilliant and innovative, sure, but the man could not write a film without deeply unlikable characters and an incoherent plot. The closest he got was Vivre Sa Vie which has some really poignant moments with Anna Karina.

IMO Eric Rohmer and Agnes Varda are more my style. Rohmer can be rather talk-y but that’s not necessarily bad. Definitely influenced the Woody Allen/Noah Baumbach school of directing.

Edit: And don’t feel guilty if you don’t care for Godard. Great filmmakers like Werner Hertzog and Ingmar Bergman shared your views. Hertzog famously said he’d prefer a good Kung fu movie. Which in fairness, I’m not sure Godard would have objected; he did love his B movies.
It depends on the industry and the level of the conversation. If you're in a specialized field in which as CTO you are not an expert, and you're speaking with a competitor or at least someone else in the field, a detailed interview can offer quite a bit of information. It can be used to validate your approach, your tech stack, etc...

Of course typically when you play that game you don't actually admit that you're not hiring and you're running out of cash.
Astra 92.8
The US island that nearly ignited a war
Ugh, one off data points are just as often wrong as they are right. What adage they give of their success could have just as aptly worked in reverse for you. Luck/timing (aka no strong correlation to actions) is a real thing, and are all too often ignored by the winners who always reward their achievements by "hard work" (clearly working hard is often needed as well to succeed).
Anything that horizontally scales. Remember that scheduling pressure doesn't only add nodes, you can also preempt lower priority workloads.

So maybe you have an application server that uses 1 CPU and 1G of RAM per instance, and can handle 10,000 requests per second. If you are getting 30,000 requests per second, then you'll want at least 2 more replicas to handle the load with an acceptable response time. You also run fuzz tests in the background at a very low priority. So scheduling 2 more application server replicas will causes those jobs to be preempted, and give your application 3 CPUs and 3G of RAM.

Basically, with this sort of autoscaling, you are always using 100% of your computers for something, but when there is some business to do or money to be made, you can give the revenue critical stuff priority.

As always, there are technicalities as to why you wouldn't want to do this. Maybe you think your fuzz testing is going to find a container escape and destroy the VM that it's running on, so you don't want production traffic anywhere near it. Or maybe the 10,000 requests per second that your application server can handle with 1 CPU actually uses all of the network capacity on the node, so you have to scale across other machines in order to handle any more requests. It all depends, but the flexibility is there to get yourself high utilization of your physical hardware.
If you can accept, index and store a given volume of tweets, why should it be impossibly difficult to generate that same volume? I would imagine it would be a lot easier, in fact.

And if can't afford a 1:1 scale replica, build a 1/10th scale replica and have your senior engineers use their expertise to ensure it's representative enough for test purposes.
> I’ve never quite understood the amount of rancor that changes like this elicit here.

It's bait and switch, and nobody likes that. They used a true open source license, earning them developer good will, until it stopped serving their purposes. It also undermines open source as a concept.
>so I don't think advertising/PR spending will be reduced

I disagree, if consumer spending is reduced due to less equity valuations or less overall liquidity, then the ad spend will follow.

A recession could easily bring this about.
Hyperrealistic Avatars Propel Startup to ‘America’s Got Talent’ Finals
Adult learners of what language?
I think it was first posted on their blog here: https://blog.patreon.com/a-note-from-jack
In the early-eighties there was a series of cyoa style books that involved the use of dice. Google just revealed the series as Fighting Fantasy and The Warlock of Firetop Mountain was the lead title. Highly recommended for 9 year old boys.
> Only 18% get as far as launching the rocket according to Steam stats!

One caveat is that Steam achievements are only granted to players who don't have any mods enabled. There's probably a nontrivial number of players who have only completed the game with mods.
I'm pretty sure at least some were made into video games back in the day-I could've sworn I played the Escape series as a game on a Commodore 64 back in the 80s.
I liked DSP but it was a bit lacking in complexity once you got past the point of dedicating entire planets to pumping out, say, sphere structure. There's only so large you can build a sphere.

Now, Workers & Resources, Soviet Republic still stays challenging...
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No. I am suggesting that races shouldn't be lumped together, such as Asian Americans should be in a different 'bucket' than people from China. For what its worth, I don't believe in race based diversity at all; I believe in geographic diversity.
If you have some spare capacity on another node.

This can happen organically due to scaling different systems at different times.

During the day you do a lot of user load, during the night you do a lot of batch processing, as one workload scales down another can scale up: without needing more virtual machine instances.
> completely novel IP

No kidding - Splatoon 1 launched on the Wii U platform in May 2015, when everyone considered the Wii U to be a flop. It had so much going against it at the time:

- New/unrecognized IP

- Shooter genre, which typically doesn't cater to Nintendo's fan base

- Third-person shooter, which is all but extinct, save for Gears of War

- Online-centric, something Nintendo is not known for

Splatoon has been a surprise success from the very beginning.
Thank you. Nobody can argue with Chris Rock.
It's a genuine curiosity, not some sort of bizarre brag. If I could name something I buy regularly that has had a noticeable price change, I would. What do you buy that has gone up by a meaningful amount?
Quality is impressive!
Nintendo, and seemingly evermore monolith soft, are incredibly talented when it comes to games. But even forgetting monetization, they clearly focus on making games that seem fun. Whereas most other companies make games that want to be popular or cool. Nintendo doesn't have much competition in this space for no particularly good reason. Some indies dip their toes in it but it often falls into a level of self deprecation that I think harms the experience.

Mario himself seems to have a lot fun jumping around and its pretty infectious. Link (mostly), Splatoon inklings, animal crossing villagers, pokemon, and kirby do too. I don't think I can name any major titles on Xbox or Playstation where the characters' primary emotion is joy.
Google's lock screen widgets for its apps on iOS 16
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer
Just because 10 million kids lost their caregivers doesn’t mean masks work, or making toddlers wear kn95 masks at preschool works, or any of our NPI’s work. It also just mean that even if they did work they’d be worth the cost.

Yes Covid is a tragedy. I think most people recognize that. That doesn’t mean what we did worked or should have been done.
I play DCS and I'm using T.16000M FCS + HOTAS (you don't really need paddles unless you're flying helicopter). I'm primarily flying F-16 and these gears are really good. I only have minor complains so far, for example there is only one D-pad on the stick and the grip is too big for my tiny hand to sit on the palmrests
I'm willing to bet any more than two city blocks will crush UPS on the switch.
To be fair to the parties involved the SF DA at the time refused to prosecute the case, the SFPD stopped the practice pretty much immediately, and the date of California is passing legislation to prevent this. Everyone seems to have acknowledged that this was wrong and have seemed to put in efforts to stop it.

It’s an interesting federal case for how it can impact other states law and raises the awareness of other “rogue” DNA databases that could be misused.
Tell that to Australia -- they banned Huawei from their National Broadband Network and/or 5G hardware rollouts, IIRC.
AFAICT, he told the team separately, and is just using IG to announce publicly. I don't see how that is any worse than the usual dry press release.
It hasn't collapsed because everyone with a half-baked idea feels they need to purchase ads to syndicate across Facebook or Instagram

and some of the fully baked ideas with a budget do it too

its the crux of most modern online marketing strategies, its always an overhead cost, recurring
Digging a big hole then filling it back in is "very hard work" too but that doesn't make it a real job.
> no evidence of long-term immunity after an infection

Define immunity, but there is absolutely evidence of long term effectiveness against hospitilization and death if you care to look for it.

"No evidence" doesn't mean we looked for it and it doesn't exist, it means we didn't look for it yet or have chosen not to look into it. In this case you seem to be citing ancient talking points from before it was possible to tell how long lasting the immunity from covid would be, AKA in early 2021 they couldn't state for fact that immunity against severe death would last longer than a year because the disease itself was too new, (although sar-cov1 was known to have long lasting immunity 10 years later, but lets pretend we didn't know that it would work the same). Now we know because the disease has been around long enough to gather those types of statistics.
Interesting - do you work for yourself too?
You don’t need one staging environment simulating the entire platform. You can have small staging environments that run some parts of the product, for example the latest version of the advertiser dashboard or the messaging inbox.

Sure, you won’t be simulating a whole class of problems that can arise at scale, but you can still test the more localized features in a safe environment.
Two services each implemented by a single developer operated without problems for multiple business cycles and this is something to avoid?

How does the effort of tweaking them in an unfamiliar language years later stack up against the effort they would have required otherwise?
Checkout.com Will Eliminate About 5% of Employees in Latest Cuts
I have certainly edited quite a few inaccuracies and misrepresentations over the years. Example: the Wikipedia page of a certain controversial figure once contained a sentence along the lines of "in 2016 Duckburg Times revealed that Donald Duck had a criminal history". When checking the reference it was something like a disorderly conduct and resisting arrest misdemeanours at a party when they were 18 (over 20 years ago) or something along those lines and some minor traffic citations. Is some stupid drunken thing they did when they were 18 (no felonies) a "criminal history"? I don't think anyone would phrase it as such.

This is the kind of "bias" people with axes to grind can put in; I don't even think it's intentional (or not always, at least) because summarizing an entire story is hard, but the entire story was already a red herring hit piece IMHO, and summarizing it as "criminal history" a horrible summarisation of said red herring. But ... people will read the Wikipedia article and go "zomg, that guy is a criminal!!!!"
Great news, I'll have to buy Factorio yet another time!
I do wonder about the battery life and performance of larger factories thou.
Should I be moving everyone in my circle over to Mastadon or something?
I would reformulate #2 as learning to figure out things on your own, i.e. not to bail out as soon as something is outside of what you’re familiar with. The ability to go one level deeper to find out how things work under the hood. The ability and interest to extend your horizon, to pick out the learning material you need for familiarizing yourself with something new, without needing it to be served on a plate by someone else.
What does “taking full responsibility” even mean? Like people lose their livelihood and you can get away with “I take full responsibility”.

Taking full responsibility mean taking a pay cut or stepping down or basically taking consequences for yourself first before others have to.
Are we supposed to know who Jack is?

Sounds like someone is in serious need of an ego check.
You need to use some kind of CRM, or roll your own system. Something with a ticketing component (so, I guess, most of them?) is probably best. Invoicing can be whatever cheap solution.

I think the HN way is rarely the best way. The best way is the way that works for your unique scenario. Many people on HN have what I would consider stupid or silly requirements, but I'm sure those people think they are really important.

Similarly, I'm sure many here would say my requirements are silly and can be achieved in a much easier way.

I would suggest you do not use Excel or text files as a CRM. But, you probably don't need SalesForce, either...
I played 150 hours of it on Mac through Geforce Now. Used the free tier's 1 hour limit addiction management feature.
> There's also a great joke doing the rounds that most notes already have Charlie on them anyway.

Would you care to elaborate? This joke went over my head.
Indeed, and that's predatory behavior and it hurts the open source community because of the mistrust it sows.

Bad news. And people here are asking where's the bait and switch? Amazing.
I'm currently typing this on a 2008 Sony VAIO FW series laptop, running Windows 10. It has a physical wifi switch, among other great features. (but very slow even with 6GB of RAM, I use it at the kitchen table mostly to read the news because I don't care much if it gets abused, and the battery is good for only about 10 minutes even at full charge),

I have a Palm Pilot V along with charging cradle and data transfer cable, must be at least 20 years old but I haven't fired it up for a number of years, but pretty sure it will still power on and I have installable software files in my archives.

I have an old tower PC with Win 2K installed, last fired it up maybe five years ago. I also have a rackmount generic PC from 2005 which works fine, running Windows XP.

Compaq Presario notebook from 2005, with Linux Mint installed now, built like a tank, cost almost $1,300 in 2005 with 512MB RAM.

I have my Samsung feature phone (slider with full QWERTY keyboard), it boots up just fine but no longer connects to anything with the end of 3G service earlier this year.

I use an old iPad for running authenticator apps, not sure how old but it will no longer receive software updates from Apple.

Have a working Sony PS2 in storage, and still use a PS3 to play Bluray discs and access internet streaming.
The worrying part of this story is that it might lead to victims being afraid of seeking help.
>The current FB is great for productivity!

Good guy Zucc.

Is the platform salvageable at this point? Probably easier to acquire a new social media platform than steer the old behemoth.
Payments ultimately keep the economy running, and it's in the government's best interests to make sure there is as little friction as possible here. But I'm not sure it should be free. Because there is always a cost to things. If UPI is "free" then it is being funded by the taxpayers. The problem with that is, it's not very equitable distribution of cost. People who use payments less, are funding it on behalf of people who use them a lot, who ironically are able to contribute more tax. A usage based fee is essentially a service tax which many would argue is a fairer form of taxation than fixed tax.
Is not about who do you work for, is about what you own. Running your own show makes you the owner of your work, you could sell your business, pass it down to your family, etc... when you work for somebody else, you are contracting your time, without any ownership, you can't leave your kids your Senior Engineer position at Google, but you could leave them a profitable business. Is like renting vs buying, sometimes makes more sense to rent, but most of the time is better to buy(long term).
There might be some other people out there like me with school age kids. I find that my kids schools and the various PAC (parents advisory committee) groups all use Facebook to communicate. So I have to be on there if want info and to be connected with other parents. I hate Facebook but for this purpose it is actually quite useful. Similarly, I am in a neighbourhood group and there is a certain amount of nimby/busybody type posts but it can also be great for knowing what is going on in the neighbourhood. The main page feed is all junk posts/ads but if I stick to these group pages it's useful.
Not feature branches :-) especially since each of us kept care to have their local copy up-to-date. It's hard to reuse others' code (from unfinished features) otherwise.

Seems like by your definition there's no way to not do feature branches. A little weird take, IMHO - I know it as a very specific strategy that you have to consciously perform e.g. by naming your branches correctly in sync with your issue tracking system, by not merging until you're done with that ticket, etc - not something that happens automatically just by cloning.

https://sillevl.gitbooks.io/git/content/collaboration/workfl...
>There is a much simpler explanation which is: people with the flu were testing positive for COVID and health authorities were counting flu cases as COVID.

That is if the authorities were stupid. I can't say for the US but where I live there was no reduction in flu tests and there were still barely any cases found.