skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a source for his Ukraine invasion claims?

The last time someone mentioned this, they said he'd predicted they'd invade in 2014, which is after they'd invaded and annexed Crimea.
I have not visited any hackathon since late 2019, I so miss that events. I would like to visit some offline event for HN crowd.
I use firefox every day without issue.
You're not zeroing the data, you're just burning up the flash memory in some way... which is not necessarily going to reliably damage the actual contents of the data, most likely it'll probably just damage some built-in voltage regulator or IO. For a truly determined adversary, you could pull the flash chip and read the contents directly. It's much more difficult, but theoretically possible if the information is valuable enough.
A World of Winners and Losers. It's Time for Something Different
Right, it just looks like a Nazi salute and it serves the same psychological purpose, but as long as we call it something else it's perfectly OK. I think it would be wiser to ask yourself why this is being deployed at political rallies, rather than complaining about how it is 'unfair' to draw comparisons just because you can identify superficial differences.

It's so odd how every time there's an instance of a group of people throwing up what looks just like a nazi salute, some people rush in to explain why it's bad to take note of the similarity. It seems to me that if you're in a culture where people are widely familiar with Nazi iconography, and you're not exploring Nazism in some fictional or educational context, then you'd want to avoid doing and saying things that make you look and sound like a Nazi, such as training a crowd of people to do a stiff-arm salute at a political rally for theatrical effect, the same way it's a bad idea to hold up swastika flags and claim you were being 'ironic' or 'trying to provoke a discussion'.
Analogies are almost always flawed but they are powerful tools for forming strong associative memories.

They are a starting point for encoding new knowledge in a custom symbolic language known only to yourself. It is the basis for all learning.

Some other major tools for learning are mnemonics and spaced repetition.
Most startups fail because of business side problems, not technical problems.

Sales and marketing are hard, and most startups grossly underestimate how hard it is to sell their idea/product/company. The tech side is usually pretty easy by comparison.

So unless you wrote your backend with Access, you should be OK. And even then Access might have been the Right Choice at the Time.
Interesting, probably a better approach if you are not a fresher and already have your network, know trusted recruiters.

But not even to learn which are the companies hiring?

When you said "supplemented by going direct to specific companies", how do you find out the ones hiring?

Thanks for your reply :)
Archived: https://archive.ph/2022.09.19-104050/https://www.nytimes.com...
All it takes for a world power to be on its knees is a couple of years of dry and hot weather. It kills agriculture, nuclear and solar power plants, usually also wind ones. A combination of that and covid and war induced logistics disruptions is what is hammering EU now. It is not a single cause but a multitude.
I think it is reasonable to strip him from his rating at this point. This cannot be allowed to go on.
What if the pacemaker is the cheating device?
As far as I know he never gave a detailed description of how he cheats when playing online, he only admitted that he did it, and only admitted two instances, though from the recent chess.com response it sounds like it was more consistently than he admits.
My best guess would be that he has a friend shadow playing the game on AI and uses that info to figure out when Poot une moments arise.
Erm, this exists and it's called Ruffle: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

It works quite decently, but they can always use help.
I had a non-optional experience along this axis living thru the 2021 Texas grid crisis.

Being in the gulf coast region automatically makes it nearly impossible to fit a 2kW budget during the summer (unless you live in a large walk-in freezer), but during the winter I was able to get down to 800 watts continuous for a period of a few days. This included my computer, fridge, some lights and central furnace blower. The furnace is kind of cheating though - replacing the natural gas with a heat pump would instantly blow my 2kW budget all on its own. That said, you could probably get really close if you tried to hit the target with a modern heat pump and good insulation throughout.

The only reason I voluntarily subjected myself to this was because I was being billed $9/kWH thru Griddy (a wholesale, real-time rate provider) during the entire, multi-day incident. I did run a one-off load of laundry that probably cost me ~$50.

Requiring use of variable rate energy providers and forcing consumers to adapt habits to the available resources seems like one way to get people to pay attention to how much energy various things consume. It also seems like an effective way to mitigate one-off generation shortfalls.
I had flash on a Motorola Droid and it was awful. Not only did the VM have questionable compatibility for some reason, it also completely destroyed battery life. Cute trick, but not really usable for day to day.
The age old debate about what happens when mining ends? When does mining end?
It's not the 20th in Germany yet.
The fed in the US isn’t going to handshake another countries fed so they all act like opec but for interest rates.
Of course, I wasn't expecting pixel art. I played the remakes with the new modern art and I liked them a lot. But this angular art is a bit too abstract for me. Hopefully it will grow on me or at least it won't detract from the game.
We are saying the same thing with different words
FAA rejects proposal to halve flight-time requirement
Obviously you can't post like this here and obviously we have to ban accounts that do so, so please don't do it again—regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How many grandmasters have you listened to give analysis? I'm sure there are some that are hardly coherent
Hitler was a Nazi before the death camps opened. He was a nazi before he was chancellor, too.

In retrospect, they're remembered for the death camps, but they didn't start with them, and somebody looking to set up death camps wouldn't either.

The goal is to not have Nazis in charge who can make death camps. If you wait to stop then until the death camps are there, you've failed at the goal
Also during races with termal cameras https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/tour-de-france-unvei...
It really does seem like Hans is looking down at something after the first move.
Blockchain has a lot of potential, I believe what we have seen is not even 1% of what we are going to see in the next 20 years.
To be honest, I don’t understand why people keep acting like Google has control over Chrome(ium) with some iron fist. It’s dual open license. Microsoft is contributing so many patches that they have a decent amount of sway over it already. If Google ever truly steps over the line, Microsoft will just fork it and everyone will swap their upstream to Microsoft-Chromium..
Two hours in and I'm enjoying it.

So far the puzzles have been fun, but not very difficult. The plot is a bit heavy with references to the story of the earlier games, but perhaps not too much (my partner enjoyed it too, having only played The Curse of Monkey Island, but not the others).

The "new" art style is a bit odd at first but it's nice and consistent and it has a style of its own. All the earlier games had a different art style to each other too, partly because the early installments had technical limitations they had to cope with (and then there was that thing with the 3d graphics).

The sound track is very nice with some tunes you'll probably know.

I'll rate it four monkeys and a pegleg.
I don't understand your point, which effectively seems to be "not all games!"

This is actually a zero sum scenario, games that are pay-to-win would have been something else had the concept not been popularized. Even games that are completely structured around these gambling mechanics... no, they wouldn't necessarily be different games in an alternate reality - they'd just be a different use of the dev's time. So maybe a birdhouse. Also, if this was a derail attempt - well done, I'm now thinking about carpentry instead of how much I dislike Apple.
I'm not saying you have to document each line of code with equal rigor. In fact, there's an art to knowing what to document, and like most arts, you get better at it over time. Sometimes I feel silly about what I've documented and what I've neglected, but that's OK. I learn.

The "code changes way too often" excuse is basically a restatement of the myth that I wrote above. Yes, code changes over time. It's pretty easy to change the comment with the code, when necessary. The team members who don't do this aren't doing their jobs.

But at the end of the day, even if code deviates from comments that's still fine. Having an outdated, well-written comment is a historical record of what the code was supposed to be doing. That's useful.
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What do you gain by donating money to the university? Is there a tax break for such donations? What good came out of your donations? Is there traceability and accountability of each dollar donated?

I ask as I simply cannot fathom donating money to a university where the overarching aim is often to make money.
> Except we do have an idea not just from the news/knowledge

This is the crux of it. You're not actually penalized, it just makes you upset. You can choose to not be upset. I'm happy that people who most need help are getting some.

> But also from the fact that taxes fund this scenario.
> One gets their tax money (plus some) back. Another pays taxes, but gets none back.

This is false. No taxes were levied on you to fund this scenario.

If you want to count the downstream effects, the deficit is drastically down under the Biden administration, so this is part of a package deal that helps you out (not that the this would raise your taxes anyway even if the deficit were to increase).

Not to mention the effects of stimulus from people who would otherwise be paying money on a loan but can now spend it on other things, which will trickle up to whatever corporation you work for, so from this action alone you may actually come out ahead.

But I contend that you're not interested a full accounting or the dollar amount people are receiving, because if you were, you would be much more interested in the pounds being given to interests that clearly don't need them (military, mega farms, oil) instead of the pennies given to those that do.

The short of it is no taxes are levied on you for this to happen, it really is a win for everyone, and it's ok for these people to get a little bit of help that you're not getting.
I'm so angered that no one that I've seen has even interviewed Magnus. He withdrew, made one tweet, and has since been silent. The responsibility is on him to own up to this. He likely will just hide behind his dumb smirk and world champion status, though. He's disgraceful
I see my misunderstanding, they're specifically maintaining the webRequest interface
Sufficiently weaponized incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
I wouldn't describe it as a "falsehood that programmers believe", just one of those perhaps unfortunate realities that exist for some codebases that have a decent set of unit tests but little else in the way of up-to-date documentation that explains all edge case behaviour etc.
The only documentation you can really trust is that which 100s of others rely on regularly, but a significant percentage of the code most of us work with isn't going to fulfill that criteria.
The "your X has been replaced" pop-up doesn't handle the situation where an attacker knows your passcode.

I think you might also be failing to account for situations where you aren't in possession of your phone for an hour or two. Imagine if police in a foreign country take your phone for a couple of hours and then give it back to you. Or you leave your phone in a hotel room to charge for a few hours. Or your phone gets "misplaced" for an hour after going through the airport x-ray machine.

There are many targets other than journalists too, such as people in the USA who develop export controlled technologies, certain tech company employees, defense contractor employees, other government employees, etc. I don't think you can expect every potential target to constantly set their iphone to lockdown mode.
Yes. Test _can_ very much be documentation if you write them as such, although they aren't complete documentation. Tests are the specification, ie the the how---documentation provides the why.

Test can be written to tell a story but most people aren't taught this way (or simply don't buy it or don't write tests).
> 3 4 and the Telltalle series... you won't miss much.

Fair enough about the others, but that’s a controversial opinion about 3, which is critically acclaimed and a classic for anyone played it as a kid in the late 90s. It only gets criticised because Ron Gilbert wasn’t involved.

The voice acting cast from it are nearly all in Return, along with lots of references, so it’s canon for Gilbert purists now too!
> US still having stable energy and farming capabilities

Don’t these industries depend on inputs from around the world?
No, but the price of bitcoin is set by supply and demand. And because miners have to liquidate bitcoin to stay afloat, the price will go down without new demand. An asset who's price goes down doesn't store value, an asset which continuously requires new entrants isn't a store of value.
It's Sartre's "The Look"
Sure but if you use like five languages then the differences between s.length len(s) and length(s) will blur when at the beginning of the day you need to refresh the cache for todays language.

i could memorize them all but it is less interesting than reading papers about optimizing algorithms for cloud economics or other more valuable (to me) ideas.
I don't fully understand what you're saying. Can you clarify what you mean by federal reimbursement/tax deduction rate incorporating labor costs?
I use it every day as my primary browser, but there's definitely been an increase in applications that will not work except on Chrome. It's not text content that's ever the issue, it's SaaS products.
I wouldn't risk it. Don't break the law in the first place. Comply with legal requests. If you're a journalist be careful!
I think one of my greatest improvements as a developer over time is my ability to sift and sort information very quickly. I don't need to remember a lot of details, but like you said: remembering pointers to information.

Combine these pointers with google and an intuition for finding relevant information, I will nearly always arrive at the correct information/solution.

It's like a muscle, you have to keep training it.
While very true, that's why marketing departments don't like uncontrolled leaks.

On top of it looking unfinished, many locations or features might get cut from the final game. And you don't want a big percentage of your buyers hyped for a feature you never officially confirmed.
What do you mean?

The entire point of end to end encryption is that the vendor does have access to the key material.
Great idea.

Why it may not work --- corruption.

This is something that needs to be actively managed on an ongoing basis. Otherwise, whoever is in charge of day to day operations will just hire friends, family and associates to provide all the maintenance services at inflated rates and look to scam the system in other ways.

For example, look for these same friends, family and associates to move into the apartments in order to gain inside influence --- maybe even "sweetheart" deals on rent at everyone else's expense.

I question if the short term "owners" have enough motivation and incentive to manage all that will be coming their way. At some point, it will start to look like a job.
Have you factored in human greed?
chess24's own video clip: https://twitter.com/chess24com/status/1571910045868392448
wouldn't this also mean they can claim that one total sales to inflate them?
It's not classy in the least, it's cowardice. This isn't just a game, it's Hans career/future/livelihood. I have no idea if he cheated OTB. I know his history but that doesn't mean it happened in this instance. As for Magnus, what he's doing is just bullying. He knows he's big enough and can throw his weight around. He can probably end Hans top level career without saying a word just by refusing to play in events Hans is at. It's a joke and completely unsporting. If you are going to do that, have the decency to actually make a statement or bring forth evidence instead of just making the rules yourself and how you see fit.
Out of the ones that you use, maybe (I've actually never had a problem with Google Maps). There are several applications that I have to use for work that either don't work on Firefox or have limited functionality, Slack being one of them (huddles only work in Chromium or in the Electron app).
First - I LOVE this. Very few people outside of prolific writers understand just how much "writing" is actually "editing" and "re-writing" over and over again. It's awesome to see the process of a prolific tech writer like Paul Graham.

Second - I have used asciinema to record various writing and/or coding sessions in Vim, but does anyone know if there's a native vim plugin for recording "replays"/playback sessions like this? Closest I found is https://github.com/chrisbra/Replay but it hasn't been updated in some time.
I’m not aware of any events that successfully capture what HN is. If you want to make contacts, go to YC startup events and meet people. The smartest and most talented people aren’t usually wasting their time with general catch-all tech events. They’re on a mission and aim to meet people who can genuinely help them accomplish it.

I’m not spitting at hackathon type events, but let’s be real — they target recent grads.

I’d love to be proven wrong on this, because I’d promptly attend the events that I don’t believe exist.
2x-5x? Color me skeptical. Depending on what's behind that statement, it could actually be a bit insulting. I've been to US tech conferences; US developers aren't doing anything differently than the Northern European ones. Many times, I've heard discussions of at those conferences of processes that are more broken than the ones I wrestle with.

It's a combination of corruption, collusion, widespread inefficiencies that limits high salaries at the margins (meaning that the marginal company available to each employee is never desperate), very high pre-payroll hidden taxation. Also, importantly I think, a lack of competition between multiple globally dominant tech companies with huge profits per employee and a very obvious pathway to monetizing each additional employee's labor.

So, complex answer. But I'd stake money that collusion, often silently government-sanctioned, is significantly more common than in the US.

An example of this is very common in Norway, where practically all education is state-funded and the number of students for each profession is directly decided by the state. Private-sector interest groups have almost direct control over some of these processes, disguised as a public debate in the newspapers leading up to quota decisions. This leads to an almost planned economy of the availability of professionals.
Keeping old ideas in your brain will help you come up with new ideas.

Agree! Though, "Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them" doesn't mean that you should literally never remember anything. It's just not necessarily clear from context-less quote.

I can't tell you the number of problems I have figured out
while going for a long walk

Happily, you are in agreement with the author of the quote - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Allen_(author)

The point is not to forcibly resist remembering things. The point is to free yourself from the burden of remembering things that can simply be filed away (ie, reference documentation) so that you can be more present, focus on what's important, and free your mind up for more creative/productive thinking - including those walks where many of us get our best thinking done. :)
Ask HN: Is it hard to build a billing engine?
I was wondering why building billing systems (subscription based or usage based) are hard for you?

What are the use cases/edge cases you need to think of when building internally?

We are building Lago, a billing API, and I am asking your main pain points when building billing engines.

https://github.com/getlago/lago
That's because Stable Diffusion is built with PyTorch. Which isn't optimized for anything but CUDA. Even the CPU is a second class citizen there. Let alone AMD or other graphics.

Not saying PyTorch doesn't run on anything else. You can but those will lag and some will be hackish.

Looks like Nvidia is on its way to be the next Intel.
Concussions are still very much a thing.
Is there a solution for this problem in real-life?
Weird Ways Technology Is Changing Our Behavior
Wow, the cookie pop-up in that second link is something else. The toggle options are between orange and blue, with the default choices being orange. Which one means on and which one means off? They're both equally saturated. The switch points to the left on orange and to the right on blue.

Then, the button choices at the bottom are "Got it!", "Deny" and "Save preferences."

It seems like if I choose Deny, I am safe but I can't be sure! What am I denying exactly? And if I click Deny, does it matter how I set the switches above?

If I click, I am in big trouble :P
I respect (and sharply disagree) with what you want to be, but the second amendment was always about individual rights. Those rights have been slowly removed by the states. Heller reaffirmed them, as the first line of the article points out.

EDIT: Just noticed jaywalk and others answered much more artfully than I did. Sorry for not checking first.
Maybe you could put him under conservatorship first, and then do whatever you wish.

As long as conservatorship is a feature at all, might as well push it to its logical extremes
There is zero need for surround sound -- the plot is infinitely more important than knowing which direction a sound came from. Surround sound is completely and utterly a waste in every respect.
What do you like about the show more than the films so far?
I think the problem may be in the "performance compensation" built into their "experts" portfolio.
They have struggled with credential stuffing, captchas were the only way to stop our login pages from being bombarded at one time. They are getting better with it though but I would rather not lose a tool of last resort.
Magnus' reaction in the last tournament where he made 2 moves and left is not helping either. If he has credible information, he should come out with it, otherwise he is putting in jeopardy the career and mental health of another player.
2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer