skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think both are true. The important thing with the Tandy 1000 is that it had decent graphics and sound and so was attractive to the home buyer who probably wanted to play games. These eventually made it to the cheap clone market via sound and graphics cards, but when the Tandy 1000 was released, IBM compatible PCs were seen as business machines and not really game machines. In the late 1980s you'd be better off with an Amiga or even an 8-bit machine if you wanted to play games than with most IBM compatible machines.
Like all scams and spam, if it didnt work then people wouldnt do it. But I am struggling to see how it will work.
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I work in the tech industry. I'm somewhat rare in that I also work on my own vehicles, do my own maintenance, repair things, build my own stuff around the property, etc. A lot of coworkers at various places I've worked over the years view this as somewhere between "eccentric" and "slightly mad." "Why would you do that yourself, just pay someone else to do it!" is the common sentiment.

But even with electronics, in an office full of tech workers, I still seemed to be one of very few who was willing to get my hands dirty. I had a steady side stream of evening projects repairing phones, laptops, etc (or, more usually, buying the broken ones, fixing them or merging them together into working ones, and then selling the working ones). I was also, far as I could tell, the only one in an office of >1000 willing to do things like take a soldering iron to a laptop to repair a failed power jack, or even just do things like taking a laptop substantially apart to replace a power input board with a new one.

It never made any sense to me that I was the only one willing to do this sort of stuff. It's paid off well over the years, but it's quite baffling.

This, of course, means that a lot of new things seem to be designed by people who've never had to work on things or repair them, with the expected results of "This is more painful to repair than it has any business being, because you never thought about it." Some of the best vehicles I've worked on over the years were old gen Subarus - EA82, so late 80s wagons. Every time I had to do something on them, it felt like the engineers had considered that someone would have to do this, and made it as easy as possible within the design. Things like the fuel filter were on the firewall, instead of under the vehicle out of the way. The fuel pump was on a skid plate in front of the tank, instead of in the tank. There was a storage compartment in the back that would fit a CV axle, should you want to carry your old one. Etc. They were simple, and easy to work on - so I drove them for quite a few years.

But even today, I still constantly see the sentiment that "Well, it doesn't matter if it's easy to fix, we'll just recycle it and build a new one!" Usually in fields where recycling is poorly defined, at best - consumer electronics and EVs draw this sort of thing frequently. I view that as complete madness, because it's always going to be cheaper to repair something (at least if it wasn't a glued together hell to repair) than to crush it and replace it, but... again, this is an oddly minority view in the tech industry.

I'm not sure how to fix it. We have a lot of people who are afraid to get their hands dirty, designing the things that are supposed to be the future of our civilization. That's a real problem.

> No amount of utopian dreaming can make a battery hold any more energy or a piece of steel bear any more weight than it’s designed for.

Yeah. That describes an awful lot of the problems we're facing...
Hemingway had his own demons. His impressions may not be unbiased.

Still, interesting anecdote.
Do you have a window? Breath on the glass and examine the condensation. That'll get you a +/- on 98.6. You can measure how long until the condensation fades.

No window? Listen for rain, wind, crickets, birds. If you're in a city, what sound do car tires make when they drive by? Sound like wet streets, or snow slush?

Maybe you could get some info on how much condensation forms on a glass of cold water. But that might just be measuring the inside temp.
Byzantine solar eclipse records illuminate obscure history of Earth's rotation
You shouldn't be using IDs anyways. They are just bad for a lot of reasons. You can only have one on a page and it reduces your reusability. Use classes instead.
I wonder if your last sentence was the answer. Or, at least, one reasonable answer.
This is the best explanation I have read here. Thank you!
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Energy is guaranteed to be conserved if the Hamiltonian has time symmetry. The Hamiltonian of the universe may not have that property, and probably doesn’t. You can Wikipedia Noether’s theorem for more info.
> There is zero crossover between consumer entertainment devices and the car business, as evidenced by the poor state of tech in cars!

That looks similar to the state of MP3 players before the iPod, or smartphones before the iPhone. I think a self-driving car with a car-width display and hifi stereo (or better) could be a huge success, even if the self-driving only works on highways, as with the latest Mercedes.

> It's not an industry one can just "switch into."

Reminds me of https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-should-pull-the-plug...:

“Now compare that effort and overlay the mobile handset business. This is not an emerging business. In fact it's gone so far that it's in the process of consolidation with probably two players dominating everything, Nokia Corp. NOK, -0.68% and Motorola Inc. MOT

During this phase of a market margins are incredibly thin so that the small fry cannot compete without losing a lot of money.

As for advertising and expensive marketing this is nothing like Apple has ever stepped into. It's a buzz saw waiting to chop up newbies

The problem here is that while Apple can play the fashion game as well as any company, there is no evidence that it can play it fast enough. These phones go in and out of style so fast that unless Apple has half a dozen variants in the pipeline, its phone, even if immediately successful, will be passé within 3 months.

There is no likelihood that Apple can be successful in a business this competitive.”

Of course, that doesn’t imply the car industry is similar or that Apple can find the magic that cracks open the market, but they may think making a side bet of a few billion (Apple’s problem is that their MVP is larger than what the CEOs of most startups can only dream of) to see whether they can is a good idea.
Maybe.

I think I'm also a pretty smart person in certain areas, or at least I should be by now having been doing this stuff for almost 30 years.

While I definitely always want to check myself, it's also part of my job to help the newer/younger engineers remember the golden rule of business technology:

Innovate in the business domain, not in the technical one. Keep technology simple and boring.

It's great to experiment, and sometimes the results of the experiments are winners. But generally you can tell winners from losers based on whether they make everything less or more complex.

NodeJS, for example, reduced complexity because it's one language everywhere and has a very simple single threaded execution model. Now with es6 modules, commonjs fading, we simplify even more.

Rollup/vite reduce webpack's complexity, but will also be replaced as native solutions emerge.

REST reduced SOAP/xml-rpc's complexity.

HTML5 replaced flash (and most of the browsers plugins), because flash had grown too complex with a massive attack surface and was impossible to properly secure. Remember ActiveX controls that would load and run in the browser with full permissions? I do. I wrote several.

Linux as an app server reduced Windows' cost and complexity.

Anything that adds needless complexity to the stack, no matter how interesting, will end up being a fad and replaced within a few years.
Tbh I have more sympathy for this, as long as the actual candidate actually went through the in-person interviews. Resume screens can be brutal and high-loss.
> because most software isn't distributed anymore

You're probably thinking of SaaS, but, still, what?

I'd argue we distribute software much more than say 20 years ago. Almost every web site you view is distributing non-trivial software (javascript, from maybe a dozen npm packages). App stores are making software distribution much easier for the average user. Programmers are increasingly using dependency managers to download libraries. Even every SaaS service is getting their software from somewhere, and the tech stack is increasingly complex these days, which means even more software being distributed and used.

Perhaps what you mean is "software isn't sold anymore", so the money is all in the services. Which is probably true, and this is probably where GPL is becoming irrelevant.

But then, it can be argued that the services model was in part the industry's response to the prevalence of GPL, which pushed businesses to find workarounds. People need to make money, and if software sales isn't generating enough dollars because GPL software pushes down the prices people are willing to pay, then they'd just invent reasons for users to buy services instead. -- which, if true, could be interpreted as a success story for the GPL.
"The key variable that this new information sheds light on is ΔT, the difference between time measured according to the Earth's rotation and time independent of the Earth's rotation. Thus, variations in ΔT represent variations in the actual length of a day on Earth."
My copy of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (basically an encyclopedia of scientific facts. Things like melting points, conductivity, etc.) has an opening from the current editor explaining that when he took over as editor he tried to track down the sources of a lot of the data. Unfortunately a lot of the sources for the data wasn’t listed, missing, didn’t seem to exist, or existed but was incorrect. So he undertook a program of re-doing a lot of the studies and finding new, accurate sources. Definitely gave me sort of cyberpunk vibes of “this data just showed up one day and nobody knows where it came from.”

Edit: I’ve also run across cases where data is just incorrect and you don’t know how. E.g. a chemical ordered form a supplier is listed as having a solubility of X you the most you can ever get to dissolve is Y and X is something like 13.7 times higher than Y so it’s not like a simple misplaced decimal.
Totally confused why folks are not understanding/believing what you've stated. I can attest, this is happening and at 'top' tier places. I can't tell you how spot on you are regarding the camera off strategy.
Scam is rampant on LinkedIn. I'm getting constant connection requests from obviously fake profiles with AI generated faces.
Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads
Doesn’t work unfortunately - if you set it to black it’s not going to do what you expect (the text is still grey, so you can see it).
> It is implemented differently in browsers

In 2022, that alone is enough to wipe it from my toolbox as a web developer. Ain't nobody got time for that.

(... there are lots of other reasons it'd be bad practice to rely on this as well, although it's nice for debugging when available).
> He doesn’t do paid sponsorships. That would probably double the revenue when looking at other creators who published their numbers.

Assuming everything else remained constant. I've seen creators comment that adding sponsorships really hurt their growth numbers.
My wife is Mexican. Us calling ourselves Americans drives her crazy (so I make a point, every time we visit her family in Mexico, of loudly declaring, "well, goodbye America!")
Don't let the assholes here gaslight you into thinking that Finitism isn't a somewhat hetrodox but still respected field of math. A bunch of great mathematicians historically have felt this way, and a few great ones today still do.

Even if you're willing to accept the idea of cardinalities of infinity (and I think you ought to), I find that the more broad acceptance of 1. The axiom of choice (vs the axiom of determinancy, it's opposite) and 2. The law of excluded middle to be highly suspicious.

If you reject the axiom of choice, you're just in alternative but still correct math.

If you reject the law of excluded middle, you've ended up with intuitionistic or "constructive" logic, where mathematics is considered to be purely the result of the constructive mental activity of humans rather than the discovery of fundamental principles claimed to exist in an objective reality. That is, logic and mathematics are not considered analytic activities wherein deep properties of objective reality are revealed and applied, but are instead considered the application of internally consistent methods used to realize more complex mental constructs, regardless of their possible independent existence in an objective reality.

Notably, in intuitonistic/constructive logic, infinity is rejected until it can be "constructed", which also means that Cantors diagonalisation argument is not so naively accepted. While that diagonalisation itself was constructive, Other related and stronger theories from Cantor are not.
OSLabs and SingleSprout Speaker Series are related to a bootcamp called CodeSmith, so they tell their grads to add those to their resume to seem more experienced. I wouldn't call it fraud but agreed that it misrepresents work experience, and it's very obvious when you see one of these resumes because they all look the same.
Nope. Pretty niche field that has small world vibes and such a person would get flushed out pretty fast
This was mostly useful back in the days when we had to manually query dom during development and debugging. I've seen some pretty horrible things but never have I seen this in a codebase, not even in a commit
Surely the answer is "look out the window" and the intent of the question is to see whether you follow the KISS principle.
This would be impossible for us because despite hiring remote people from all over the UK we take photo ID and various other forms of identification as proof they can legally live and work in the UK.

I get how this would be a thing when you're hiring from other territories. Got to step up the checks and balances in that scenario.
Biden on destroying Nord Stream (prewar) https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1574685985115607040
It’s fairly easy to extend R with plus and minus infinity. It’s called the affinely extended real number system and you can extend the usual operations to somewhat work in it. It loses most of the interesting property of (R,+,x) but keeps enough for arithmetic to work mostly as expected.
Do you believe in 0?
Intel’s 13th-gen "Raptor Lake" CPUs are official, launch October 20
All snowflakes are unique. Would a red snowflake be more unique? You might personally find the color axis more interesting, but it's just one of a huge number of axes along which the snowflakes are different. The red one is more interesting to you but it isn't actually "more unique". The same is true for your vases.
Use Matrix (I know it is not a replacement for social media). As constituents of a tyranny Russians should anyway.
What if you destroy your therapist by asking unsolvable but grave questions you entertain? Are there any meta-therapists for therapists?
These scams have been happening for decades. It's as hilarious as infuriating when somebody shows up to a job site and it's clearly not the person that was interviewed.
Ask HN: Did you use CSC for filing foreign qualification?
CSC wants $824 for foreign qualification and "first year agent representation" in my state (PA).

They would be submitting a registration form (15-412, $250 to file) and docketing statement(15-134A).

Am I missing something? Does anyone think it's worth it to use CSC in this case? Headache to file these?
I would have to agree with this. When using services like BetterHelp, it has always felt super transactional. Like a drive-thru experience, but therapy.

If you're going to be spending out of pocket for anything, at least try getting help through in-network therapists. There are so many fantastic mental health practitioners who are amazing that do not subscribe themselves to online platforms like BetterHelp.

What's better? By spending less out of your pocket, you can see them on a more frequent basis.
More meta:

I wonder if there's an opportunity in the future to tie work identity and work payments to a crypto wallet - i.e. "Your Github is tied to the wallet address, you apply to the job with the wallet address, you log into work accounts with the wallet address, and we pay you at the wallet address." Almost like the next evolution of Yubikeys.
Later in Hikaru’s stream he analyzed some of his own personal best games and one of them only got a 43% engine match score. So whatever the tool does, it does not conform exactly to ideas of whether a super GM played good or bad, at least not for any single game.

(Sorry for the dupe reply, too late to edit my other comment)
That makes right now a great time to do this. Germany is currently very much resolved to keep NS2 closed and no one expects Russia to budge on NS1, so it's not like a viable option is taken off the table, deserting Ukraine over gas is (still?) beyond the pale as far as the mainstream is considered. But the German electorate may change their minds in the coming weeks and months, and Russia might start dangling NS1 carrots too, so blowing them up now is a great way to kill the domestic German political issue while it's still small and not devolved into paralysing trench warfare. I wouldn't be too surprised if the German government had secretly given their go-ahead to whoever is behind this.
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GM delays return-to-office mandate after employee backlash
My first PC was a Tandy1000RL. It was used and fairly obsolete by the time I got it, but I squeezed every drop I could get out of that thing. I learned DOS on it, and learned to reinstall DOS and deskmate after I accidentally blew away the OS with a misplaced deltree command. I spent quite a bit of time trying to make games in QBASIC.

I played a lot of old games on it, mostly purchased from corner stands in the super market and the occasional box title from Ames department store. They just sold the disk in a sleeve with a short description of what I was purchasing. I was constantly frustrated by my lack of VGA graphics, sound blaster and sometimes available conventional memory. Tandy graphics (which I learned later was really just a souped up version of CGA) were not that commonly supported so I was often stuck playing games in 4 color CGA mode. I eventually upgraded the RAM from 512KB to 768KB, which cost me $75!

The annoying double density 720K floppy drive was a non stop hassle requiring me to learn pkzip and zip spanning to split the contents of the then common high density disks on a school PC so I could then get the contents onto my hard drive. I had to go to my uncle's house if I wanted to get data off a 5.25" disks, and when he did the copies as a favor for me he usually returned a high density 3.5" that I still couldn't use directly.

I have no idea why I have such fond memories of that thing but I do.
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Fascinating. Is there any more info online about the study group?
It is very rare we get the subject of MySQL on HN Front-page considering HN have been pretty much Anti-MySQL, so I will take this opportunity to ask;

Does anyone know if MySQL 9 is on the roadmap? Or are we going to get mostly small iteration and bug fix release only?
A couple of weeks ago I received this email:

"Hi, Billy

How are you?

I checked your Codementor account, it is great.

I am *** **** from Ukraine.

I am 32 and I am also a computer programmer.

I want someone who can help me.

Would you lend me your account?

If you borrow it, I can earn a lot of money.

I will pay 100 usd every month.

Regards."
Just noting the same thing here for me, I tried looking at an example and it failed with this error. I think I would not even hit the API for the examples, just show it. My 2 cents.
100%.

If this wasn't on this end of the labor pipeline, it would be spun as "Marketing" or similar.
The Zig Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation entirely sustained by donations (and now a couple support contracts). We pay 3 developers to work full-time and also offer a pool of hours that other core contributors can bill the foundation when they do Zig work.

As far as I'm aware, not all foundations pay their core contributors, including the Rust Foundation.

On top of that, we don't have any big tech company in our board of directors and never will, this is another difference with the Rust Foundation (and many others).
Apple refuses to fund development of their own apps and platforms, yet sinks a billion into Carplay?
>Now it's starting to get worse and worse.

Wait until the EU-mandated intercompatibility kicks in.
I'm using an LG 5k ultra-wide. That's overkill but it works. Note that I had to download LG's software before it looked quite right, not sure what was up with that but it works great.

Just stay at 4k and above and you will be good.
Wait after this winter...
Has anyone considered opening a criminal case against such people? Evidence of fraud shouldn't be too hard to collect.
Something like

name = {first: "Jane", last: "Doe"}

isn't obviously unreasonable. Which actually sets name to the string "[object Object]".
Been there. This happened about 3 years ago, it was also horribly blatant. We interviewed a candidate who blew us away, superior candidate, easy "yes" from everyone. then when he started, it became pretty clear within 2-ish weeks this was not the same person. He could not do basic BASIC tasks. The ironic part was, we did a video call, but none of us could remember what the original guy looked like, and we did not record the video.
If the other thread [1] is to be believed there is no guarantee that the developers on the other side has similar skills. No need to dig up arbitrage when it could simply be a scam.

Even the person they hired here to pretend to be Connor said himself that's he's just a junior that would pretend to be a senior. Maybe the idea is simply to get a well-paid job, work a couple months, get fired (maybe even with a generous severance), and repeat.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32996457
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Sometimes just the possibility of it working, and the person's desperation, will cause them to try it. I've heard enough instances of people paying others to take exams for them that it doesn't surprise me that some people trying to do an interview that way, too. They think just getting the job will do something for them, and (for whatever reason) think they'll be able to keep the job once they have it.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that these people think they have high-level skills, but some other factor is preventing them from getting the job. Sometimes it might even be true, but I'm better against them having the skill level they think they do.
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You're not taking IDs until after the offer has been accepted. How do you verify the person who was in the interview was the person you hired?
Factoid: "snuck" and "drug" have in common that the irregular conjugation is the non-standard one, but are different in that "snuck" is a neologism of the 19th century whereas "drug" is in fact the older standard form, gradually supplanted by "dragged."