skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a great interview! It's unusual that you read a business interview and find it this charming and interesting. I like the guy already.
This is just an extreme form of my problem with both Facebook and Linkedin, both of which have become utterly unusable over the last year.

Linkedin is particularly aggressive with the "someone you know liked a comment by someone you don't know on a post by someone else you don't know, from three months ago about an even that has alredy happened...". Utterly irrelevant crap that it is convinced will get me to come back.

I actually like the basic idea of social media, I want to know what my friends and family have been up to, or the people I'm professionally connected with, it's a nice way to stay connected to people you might not get to see regularly.

The SM companies have all managed to utterly ruin their own products to the point where I don't/won't/can't use them.

I would love it if someone could make a site that helped me stay in contact with my wider social circle without trashing it in the deperate pursuit of ad dollars. Sadly I can't see something like that happening and not then being ruined.
> We don’t know everyone’s unique situation

Those who are hired to Patreon and similar companies arent people who would end up unemployed if they are laid off. Those people already have to turn down recruiters who try to poach them every week.
> You might disagree, but there's no solving the problem of both needing the help of the police and being wanted for crimes.

There's a reason that so called sanctuary cities are a good idea and it's because of thoughts like this. people avoiding reporting crimes to the police because they are fearful of being deported is exactly how more crime is perpetrated without fear of retribution on marginalized communities. If you are fearful of being arrested for a bench warrant over some parking ticket you couldn't pay for or some other matter... you will not seek help from the police.
By your answers I can see that you both didn't get a very high score on those tests.
I’d be inclined to agree with you but the same sentiment was expressed in the pre-Rust world, and the world is much better with Rust in it now.
Visual novels' popularity really can't be understated. They're adapted into anime the same way manga are. Steins;Gate is not only consistently one of the highest rated anime shows of all time, it's an adaptation of a visual novel. The Fate series (Fate/Zero, Unlimited Bladeworks, etc.) also stems from a visual novel.
That is only half of #2. The other half is knowing when to bail early.

More than once I've proven my value as a senior engineer by refusing to do work that should be left to someone else. Sure I could figure it, but it would be a waste of time when someone else can. Sometimes because it is obviously an easy task, and thus good for a junior engineer to learn to figure things out on. Sometimes because it is something I'll never need again and I know we can hire a contractor who already knows how to do it.
I had success running Slax on an Eee PC 901 a couple years ago. It was 1.6GHz with only 1GB of RAM.
This happens more and more when I visit Twitter now, too. _Really_ annoying and I have zero intention of creating an account on either of those sites.
It actually is. Now that IntelliJ has cut ties with the Evil Empire I would expect its adoption to grow faster. But I must say that a year ago I could find no Kotlin _backend_ positions in the Bay Area.

On the technical side

* I don't like the idiomatic Kotlin approach to concurrency. Its coroutines are more difficult and unusual than typical Future-based libraries in other JVM languages.

* I'm not convinced null safety is a big enough question to justify multiple cryptic operators.

Personally I dread the demise of Scala. The Haskell lovers and the Akka license changers are certainly squeezing regular developers out big time. Databricks built a C++ engine, Rust is increasingly popular in other new OSS query engines. Those trends don't bode well at at all. Java is more expressive than golang but I'd rather use something more modern than either of them.
Only once the feds stepped in, though.
I wanted to play Cities but I can’t figure out what I’m doing. I start a new city and usually roads don’t quite work right so traffic never comes, I don’t understand how utilities work and they always show disconnected icons, sometimes I can get a little tiny town going and it quickly dies out from exhaustion of various resources.

I’d like to find a good tutorial on it, but it seems like one of those games that you either get it or you don’t, like Civ (also utterly
failed to get anywhere in Civ 6 multiple times)
> How Zelensky, for example, crushed all the opposition parties and media, and even arrested some of his opponents after he came to power? Do you know about that?

This has been covered in Western press:

https://m.dw.com/en/ukraine-zelenskiy-bans-three-opposition-...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/former-ukraine-presiden...

However, I haven’t seen any thing that says _all_ opposition has been banned, do you have proof of this?

> Would you be able to understand without translation? Who would translate it to you?

I’d rather you post something than just make blanket statements with no basis. Unfortunately I can’t understand Russian/Ukrainian, but then again anything translated into English would be from western sources anyways.

> I'm pretty sure it won't exist for long on YouTube, and it won't be ever translated to English

Everything you posted has been up for years.
> would be expected to gravitate toward certain common interests that are appealing to human beings at large.

They do. But these rarely end up being the jobs that the society respects and recommends. Things may change in near future with new ways of working and making a living. But currently, what you really want to do and what society things to be 'good' will likely not overlap.
>Lambda Conf committee at that time to allow Curtis Yarvin to speak.

Actually, it wasn't the "committee" that allowed it, it was a subset of speakers from under represented groups in tech (women, minorities, PoC etc whatever term you prefer) that voted to let him speak as long as he kept to his topic.
Naming is hard. It requires an understanding of what a thing does (or more accurately, at the time of coming up with the name: what the thing WILL do).

One useful practice I've acquired over the years is to make the names unique. It makes it easier to search for them later.

Generally, I would lean towards descriptive names. If the name no longer fits the thing, that's a great warning about scope issues. If it sounds "weird" for other named things to be dependent on or be required by the named thing -- that's often a hint about a context issue.
I think your analogy is too generous. It’s more like putting an engine on your stapler because people buy cars more often than staplers at a higher margin despite having a monopoly in the stapler market.
Sure. I'm not going to do a full lit review for you. You can search PubMed and do that on your own if you like. But here are a few good ones.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8556631/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8553028/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8513403/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8162901/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35901091/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35891173/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35891151/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35855494/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35821984/

https://www.covid-datascience.com/ also has some helpful discussions of this stuff if you don't want to have to dig through a bunch of studies.
iPhone 1

HP 48g
> ...Sales is a totally different skill set...

Its not just that - though i agree with you - it is also that the sales skillset needs to be to a degree of closing deals/sales. I have been a really great wingman/second banana when it comes to sales...I'm actually the person in the room who helps win over customers almost 100% of the time in both influencing as well as technical competency...But as a partner...If i'm left to be my own sales person, to generate new leads, new business, etc....well, then, i suck terribly. What i need is a topnotch sales person, where i can join them as second banana/tech sales...and then i can build a crazy good business. Closing sales on one's own is hella hard!
My pilot friend did this maneuver in a light plane (Cesena 172?) with me once or twice. It was cool to see my camera floating in front of my face for a few moments.
Yeah, no. Zoom had a product that worked good enough (send out invite email and join a video conference) at the right time (global pandemic).

Step one of the metaverse is everyone invests in a VR headset. This is a complete non-starter. There is no counter-factual where this becomes a success.

I still can't believe this is the "A Game" of a public company worth $550bn. If this is the best they can come up with, whatever of "Meta" that is left in 10 years won't be worth 1/20 of that.
Tribute to FredMcD
Wow, that's an awful lot of stipulations. It almost makes the preceding "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression" seem laughable.
How painful is it to self host Gitlab on your own server ? Number of hours of maintenance per month
PilotEdge is IMHO better option than Vatsim, although it is paid for.
Why would you have rape victim DNA in the same database as unknown rape suspect DNA? It's because you have no safeguards and no ethical standards, and are using everything you have access to in the same way. Imagine calling the cops for a burglary, and while they're walking through your apartment they see a bankers' box that says "Taxes," so decide to audit you while they still have legal access to your apartment.

> It seems pretty clear to me that the victim should have the help of the police in apprehending the rapist, but should also be arrested for the bench warrant.

It seems to me that's a great decision if you don't want people to report murders because they have outstanding parking tickets.
Comparing Mudge to a cop... Just Say No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko
Do you lack empathy for animals as well?
Is that true? I've never had any problem reverting with the workflow described and I find fixing merge issues to also be trivial. Okay, not trivial, but no harder because I had merged the master onto the feature many times.

Why would either of those be harder?
When I took the vaccine, it was the beginning of Delta variant, I don't remember it being known at that time that the original strain would stop circulating or what the effects of Delta would be, and especially not long COVID related symptoms. I also didn't know a less virulent strain, Omicron would come and spread and take over the others. There was also the issue of ICUs reaching their max capacity, you can't have everyone be treated for severe COVID at the same time, so you needed a lot of people vaccinated fast to relive the medical system from that load. And finally, it wasn't known that it would still allow spread, or that it wouldn't work as well from Delta and Omicron as the original variant.

When I took it as a 30 year old in very good health, I did so to protect my parents, my older coworkers, my friends that are immunocompromised, and to hope to avoid a bad time and possible long Covid symptoms. I'd already known two people who had died from COVID, one my age by obese, and one elderly. I wasn't worried of dying from COVID myself, but I still didn't want to get it, and I was worried of long term effects, still am on that.

Even now, I don't think anyone can claim a unanimous decision was better or worse, even in hindsight. The positive second order effects of vaccination are not clearly quantified, the negative effects of Covid long term are not clearly quantified, and the negative effects of the various vaccines are not clearly quantified.

The reason we're even all arguing about it is because it's very ambiguous knowing which is best, vaccination or not. If it was obvious one was a better decision we wouldn't be having all these debates of opinion.
Not literally anything. In the context of festivals, this probably means "illegal drug activities".

Did you really wonder if they meant "looking like a murderer is fine" or are you trolling?
Not everyone will be good at being their own employer and others will have a personality of lifestyle clash working in a 9am to 5pm job for someone else.

So, should you work for yourself? It depends. Should you work a full-time job? It also, depends.
I have a Steam Deck, and while it's playable, I'm not going to be setting any speed records with it. It's really kind of painfully difficult to things that I have down to muscle memory on a keyboard. Just as an example, copying recipes from one assembler to 20 more takes me 1-2s on keyboard. On the Deck the default controller layout doesn't even allow for doing it once. Early game tricks like holding z and using your mouse to drop individual pieces of coal across all of your miners and smelters in a row isn't a thing as far as I can work out. In fact I essentially had to fully load all my smelters rather than distribute it because I couldn't figure out how to split stacks.

I'm sure a lot of this is familiarity, and if I force myself I will get more efficient with the Steam Deck, but I doubt I'd ever find it superior or even equivalent to keyboard and mouse.
I'm not sure it counts as a "killer app" since Unity and Unreal both have this feature already, but it's definitely another exciting step towards parity
Common sense rules == completely banning all NSFW work?

https://www.subscribestar.com/prohibited_content

I'm all for having some SFW platforms, but let's not pretend that there isn't a dramatic, dramatic demand for NSFW content, and that banning it is nothing short of prudish.
"The flight model" is kind of inaccurate when it comes to MSFS. They've always used a system that allows the aircraft developer significant authority to make their aircraft as simulated or gamified as they want.

IE, a pmdg boeing will be hugely better simulated than the built in boeing.
Well... it's actually Github: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/importing-your-projec...
Looks cool, but having trouble wrapping my head around a potential use case for this.
> I think what you're saying is "most people blindly follow trends"

More than that. Society, especially parents, relatives and peer groups keep pressure on the individuals to follow the 'desirable' trends.

> "but it's quite likely a random person is a trend follower anyway"

Yes. That's quite likely. Because the general sample set available to the public for making comparisons, generally end up people who have followed the trends. Be it among the relatives, be it from the sample set at Linked in. You will scarcely find people saying 'I became a poet and Im happy' or "I followed my dream of becoming an oil rig worker instead of a lawyer". The public, vocal feedback will tend to follow the society's requirements.
FBPurity is a web browser plugin that will hide whatever you don't want to see in your FB feed. If a sponsored post shows up you can click the 3 dots menu to flag it.

I have it set to not show Likes or Comments my friends make on other people's posts or shares. All I see is what my friends post.
I'm approaching 3000 hours in this game. Your 'fear' is warranted. This is not a brag, it's sad, really.
Well there's more hindsight for them to draw on and learn from the mistakes of the past. Im sure there were for Unity too, but its more immediate in this situation I think.

You're probably right though.
Civ VI is on the Switch? Uh, gotta go.
I can't wait for the day we can ask a general-purpose gaming AI to optimize the production line for this game, learn from it, and then backport the theories to my codebase at work.

Humans... or at least me... are so bad at this sort of multivariate optimization. Even if you cheat and give yourself infinite resources and all the technologies and set out to plan the perfect economy from the get-go, eventually something you forgot will throw a wrench into some tiny part of the supply chain, and the whole thing comes crumbling down. Then you try to build some redundancies into the system, but the overlapping networks create routing problems of their own.

I wonder, in general, if games like these are "solvable" via some sort of theory, or if you just have to iterate through a billion configurations before you arrive at a better one...
I just spent 20 mins hiding all the Ad, Sponsored and Sugges content and now my feed is clean upon refresh. I do that from time to time and it stays fine for a bit but that type of content starts creeping up again. Lately it has been insane though, for example this morning after seeing this post my feed was everything but content I follow.
> that negligence is going to harm investors.

Only if the truth comes out. If you can control the narrative long enough, it becomes indistinguishable from reality, at least as far as the markets are concerned.
Libraries exist: https://github.com/haxscramper/nimtraits https://github.com/andreaferretti/patty https://github.com/alaviss/union
Again we are not new to this problem and already offer alternatives.
The metroidvania inspirations are pretty clear, it's a large map that you unlock gradually by finding abilities on the map. Including some back-tracking.

What do you think is missing for it to be called a metroidvania?
Like we don't have enough problems in the world already, now Cracktorio will be more widely available to unprepared public. :/
Actually, that... would explain a surprising amount about government dysfunction.
Not just that. Holding up a blank sign can get you in trouble and will have the police bothering you on suspicion that you might intend to write something on the sign that could potentially offends some people.
Thanks. I appreciate your follow up and you are right. There is time for sure!

If you ever want to reach out and just bounce some stories or ideas just mail me at joao@$hnusername.me
Forget about CEO, could you even be a competent manager if that's how you think?
They also need to be honest with themselves about whether TikTok is a competitor, or if TT has simply won a completely different business that happens to take customers' finite resources (time) from Facebook.
You know what I love? When I’m reading an article and the site throws a pop up in my face. No wait I hate that.
Mudge held a significant position within the Department of Defense.

That doesn't happen without having any skeletons in your closet identified and investigated.
I meant to mention that the photo of the cash was at a somewhat oblique angle to the camera and, I think, can reasonably be assumed that it is of little use to a counterfeit effort. I was surprised when PS refused to open it.

Here is the shot:

https://as1.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/00/73/03/66/1000_F_73036638_40D...
What if you showed up carrying a corpse with “I was murdered by the person carrying me” carved into their chest?

What if you showed up with a bomb vest? Or showed up in a stolen military helicopter?

I’m not sure what the value is of these very obvious cases where common sense dictates that there is a plain and obvious limitation to this policy. The point is obviously to limit harm that people do to themselves and one another, not to function as some sort of philosophical thought experiment made concrete.

What is the purpose of this “what about”?
Ask HN: App for keeping notes on friends/family?
I recall a couple years ago I saw a comment on HN that someone's uncle used to keep detailed notes on the people in this life (e.g. not just birthdays but whatever they told him the last time he saw them or heard about them).

As a follow-up, a couple people posted apps that helped folks keep a "database" on the people in their lives. However, I can't seem to find this comment anymore, and no search on Google is helping me find what I'm looking for.

Does anybody here recall what the apps were called, or know something similar? Pen & paper doesn't work for me organizationally and while I could use any note-taking app it would be nice to have something specifically for this.

Thank you!!
I've been reading The Courage To Be Disliked” about Adler's theories, and it's very interesting. According to him, we all have feelings of inferiority. It's normal and could even be healthy, it'll help us to improve. What's negative is the inferiority complex: when we internalise our feelings of inferiority and use them as an excuse to avoid changing.

The idea of feelings of inferiority being a normal part of living is freeing, it helps to accept them.
Just What Is Balut? The Controversial Philippine Street Food
Along similar lines: If you haven't tested or dry-run your restore procedures, you may as well not have backups either.

That applies more for things like SQL databases and the like, more than personal files on disk. But yeah.... if you haven't tried to restore your database or other data repository from a backup file that you've squirreled away, then you effectively don't have a backup either.
Author here. I wanted to get my head wrapped around when Bazel was an excellent build solution, so I interviewed six people with a lot of Bazel experience and picked their brains.

This somewhat long article hopes to answer questions about Bazel for future people in a similar position to me. If you know a lot of Bazel then you might not learn much but if you’ve vaguely heard of it and are not sure when its the tool that should be reached for I’m hoping this will help.
I read The Age of Spiritual Machines quite a while back and it was obvious at the time that Kurzweil’s predictions were pretty far fetched, but they were also very far reaching, thought provoking, and sparked much internal (and external) debate within me. I am not someone who takes much part in tech communities outside of this one so I don’t know what circles you are referring to. But yeah: Kurzweil makes some predictions that don’t come true. It’s been a long time, and it is quite possible that I’m misremembering, or viewing through rose tinted glasses, so please take my follow up question at face value: So what? What’s the harm? If one thing stuck with me from that book, it is that deep gut-level social understanding of the tech we create lags far behind the creation of the tech itself. In a world of personalization algorithms and addiction under the guise of engagement, isn’t that lesson more relevant than ever?

Edit: I’m reading some of the criticisms of Kurzweil’s claims in the article. It is clear that he was wrong about growth rates in many areas and about life expectancy growing unbounded. Perhaps my skepticism kept me from taking these claims at face value at any point. Perhaps it is dangerous for someone to be making these claims to the public. I am not sure.
(1) People don't genuinely want to be evaluated on their predictions. If they did, they would (a) make probabilistic predictions and (b) make well-defined predictions. Example "with 80% probability, there will be more than one million Americans over 100 years old in 2040."

(2) Prediction on long timelines is too hard. It's more useful to generate ideas about possibilities. With the small samples here, people are almost just as likely to be lucky as right.

We saw a microcosm of this early in the pandemic, where some groups got really excited about forecasting the number of cases. (1) I didn't see anybody quantitatively evaluate their own predictions and own up to how good or bad they were. (2) Everyone pretty quickly gave up even trying to make predictions over a month away. It was too hard. So it devolved into fitting short-term curves and then I think mostly they gave up forecasting altogether.
Probably a better link than whatever the Instagram post is (behind a login): https://blog.patreon.com/a-note-from-jack
Ask HN: Where do you eat your lunch?
Where do you buy it and where do you consume it?