skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint.
I grew up as an Army brat with a lot of siblings so I have few long term older relationships. I worked my way into tech by way of ITT tech and landing a helpdesk job after a couple months of unemployment. It was low pay, but better then the warehouse and data entry jobs I did before (circa 2000).
I've changed jobs every 3 or 4 years; going from helpdesk, to PC tech, to Network Analyst, to System Admin, and finally to Linux Administration. I've been doing Linux for the last 10 years.

I have landed every job through public job listings. I've maintained some contact with previous colleagues, but never had any real job opportunism pushed my way.
I'm sure their good recommendations have helped, and I believe I interview well.

Just putting this out there for people who have smaller social networks or feel shut out.
> I guarantee this game wasn't built with Unity

It looks like you're right - the announcement tweet credits threejs and houdini [1]. I measured 13MB downloaded, of which most are fairly bloated "assets" (here's a 3MB blurry png, for some reason [2]), so the "engine" itself looks to be less than 1MB.

[1] https://twitter.com/vlucendo/status/1614983883866390530
[2] https://summer-afternoon.vlucendo.com/assets/images/clouds_t...
Again? This is the third incident in ~12 months IIRC.

Is every other company hiding their incidents, or are MC developing a habit of actually not "taking the security of our users' data seriously"?
All well and good, but I don't quite see where OP takes his confidence from that there "will never be" a button to make up a human. Especially with the current progress in AI we're already seeing.
Thanks for the post :)

I am wondering: why do you use the obsolete <plaintext> instead of <pre>?

Why do you use the `ml` extension?

By the way, I noticed some issues in the page:

- trailing whitespaces

- mixed of spaces/tabs

- some wide characters such as ▽ seems to create aligning issues
And its not even the only reason. roughly half the kids end up asymptomatic but the other half still end up sick. Normally it's not too bad for them, but a small number of them do end up in hospitals, in ICU, or on a ventilator. What parent wants to unnecessarily increase the risk of that for their children? Some kids even end up with long covid, and a (thankfully) very small number end up dead. In the end, vaccines for kids was a great idea and with everything we know now they continue to be recommended.
Self Assessment is definitely not "20-30 minutes".

Anyway what's crazy is that we have to do this at all. In normal countries the government calculates the tax you owe based on information filed by your employer, bank etc, and then sends you the bill. If you agree with it, you pay that. You are required to do no work at all unless you want to dispute the bill.
On the topic of banks:

I have an account with an Italian bank that is also one of the biggest European banks, when I switched phone they asked me for (iirc) 3 different codes plus an additional sms otp, after that they first disconnected my old phone from the account and then they asked for my debit card PIN which I didn't remember because my card was replaced less than a month ago. I was then locked out from my account and I still didn't manage to get back in. To be fair I didn't even try to call their customer support, I just drained the account using Apple Pay which luckily was still working.
John sounds like a pretty good dude.
I'd say most people start their "career" around 30. Some people stick with the choice they made in their 20s while some people need to figure out something else. There is little pressure to make money or stabilize when you are 23, or 24. When you start your 30s you are more under that pressure and that's when you start to figure out how to make money.

Bear in mind, I am only 32.

> -Is there any hope for someone like me?

Yes?!

> -Is there any reasonable path to starting over?

Just start in anything in this industry or else.

> -Where do I even begin?

Getting a job in something that interests you is a good idea. Getting to college is another idea. Getting a job overseas (if you are American) is also another idea.

> -Will tech co’s ever consider hiring someone like me?

Don't focus on specific people or groups. Figure out which people need your skill-set and start from there.
I also did not find that my time at BUSINESS hurt my interviews. If anything, I suspect developers at non software businesses would have more room to explore and grow, or stagnate, than at a more tightly controlled tech company.

Perform miracles at BUSINESS and you may not even be recognized for it. You might also not get recognized for doing absolutely nothing.
There is no filtering of the led lamps possible, as they use phosphors to produce near continuum light. HPS at least had a collection of discrete lines you could avoid. LED lightning even taints 3nm wide emission line astronomy.

But astronomy can cope with light polution-- so long as it's relatively constant it can be calibrated out (leaving only its shot noise).

The human eye can't, but most people don't know what's been taken from them.
So the reality is that they could automatically calculate taxes for >>50% of households?
"Inside CNET's AI-powered SEO money machine - Fake bylines. Content farming. Affiliate fees. What happens when private equity takes over a storied news site and milks it for clicks?"[1]

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562966/cnet-ai-written-...
Quake Live was a browser plugin that you had to install to play the game. This game is built with web APIs, and runs on any device that has a WebGL-capable browser. It's a zero-install, no-setup, click-to-play game in the literal sense, without any marketing hype.
Those are used in a local clinic. I'm told they're not as high resolution as other options, but good enough for GPs + doing occasional obs scans. They're happy with it. There was some annoyance about choosing the model - there's a separate lightning and usb-C version, but at least now that will be finally unified.
It always comes down to absolutes, if you're sifting the question finely enough (warning, at some point this process will distort the grains, and you won't be processing reality anymore, but the result of your own mind, the cycle is fatal).

Anyway. This moment is a _very_ direct test of this question. Answering it, or more carefully, your emotional reaction on reading this, will expose some of your absolutes.
Very beautiful art style (that matches the evocative title) and works wonderfully on my potato of a phone.

Please make something out if this .
To me it seems over, the world is already divided into a few fiefdoms, I just fear that the politics will catch up.
Really living up to your username!
Apple’s geographical restrictions are account based, not current location based. Some apps are only available in certain countries.

Hence, even free, apps are associated with an account in a particular region. Also, it’d be easy to ruin someone’s life by downloading a free app like Tinder or Grinder to their phone.
I understood that to mean that 'each single move' should aim to move to the left and below the previous position if possible (presumably to reach the bottom left square as the game goal?); taking 'every square' to imply 'every square you move to'; and being further complicated by having a complex subordinate clause with restrictions to movement.

It's not a clear, unambiguous instruction.
I have frequented r/de for a long time (German subreddit) and it's very much on the student life / left-leaning site of political opinions as a community. It is fascinating how repeated reality checks with the rest of society regarding political and the social landscape (e.g. national polls, elections) seemingly violate the moralist self-image of this community over and over again which is represented in flabbergasted comments. How can all of these people be against my opinion?

I happen to share many of the popular ideas on r/de - disagreement and mud-slinging is not my point. Just this notable lack of self awareness and the, frankly, authoritarian mods that enforce their political ideas on others in a de facto public forum. I really understand moderation is a hard problem but deleting entire comment sections and putting threads into contest mode if the left-leaning political opinion is in danger is painful to watch since the essence of democracy suffers: pluralistic (but respectful) discussions and arguments. The main points of debate here seem to be nuclear power, COVID and migration. Very divisive topics.

There has been a very interesting example of this in the case of the Bavarian lockdown which enforced an actual curfew of citizens in March 2020 when COVID was new and entirely unpredictable. This law was later taken to the Verfassungsgericht ("Supreme Court") and the discussion did a complete 180 degree turn strictly for political reasons and social media dynamics.

First, there was massive support (against COVID deniers) [1] where top commenters complain about the lockdown being too soft (!) and users even threatened others with violence (pepper spray to cite a specific comment) if they dont wear masks in public or take walks doing the curfew. But later, when the law was challenged in court, COVID became politically irrelvant and it was an opportunity to undermine the conservative leader of Bavaria, Markus Söder. Suddenly the curfew was a sign of a police state [2].

As long as the own agenda is propagated in a specific moment, you can collect upvotes with fitting comments. Facts and consistency just don't matter.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/de/comments/kcxnin/harter_lockdown_...

[2.1] https://old.reddit.com/r/de/comments/q2jtka/vgh_bayern_coron...
[2.2] https://old.reddit.com/r/de/comments/z1vwuk/bundesverwaltung...
Qntm appears to try rather hard to hide his real name, maybe consider editing it out of your comment?
Testing Nvidia’s GeForce Now RTX 4080, the most advanced cloud gaming platform
I'm getting that mug!
> Sorry buddy, the level of ignorance you continue to exhibit about real-life solar is astounding. The fact that you say tuff like this continues to show you are what I call a “google search expert”. Go build something. Learn. Maybe then you’ll understand.

Good thing the industry has specific metrics and models for all of these things and there is plenty of data published for integration studies. GTI on a fictional perfect bifacial system on a good day at that latitude in January would be 70-80kWh not 50. A real utility system in easy transmission range of LA including an 85-90% performance ratio is about 50kWh/day in January. You can see clearly from the posted graphs that the system has poor low light performance, less than ideal tilt and that's where the missing energy is. A utility site or well sited standalone off grid system (or one wherebthe building was designed with solar in mind) would not have this.

3.8kWh/day/kWp in January in california isn't some magical ideal. It's completely normal.

> You mentioned Singapore. One of our customers has a 300 kW solar array there. Care to guess how much power they actually generate. Hint: Rain. Lots of rain.

You completely missed the point here and made it for me. Weather is not latitude. The idea that solar is useless anywhere outside the tropics or that a summer optimised system's winter performance is representative of a winter-optimized system is a myth made up by insane conservatives. Local weather has a larger effect than 50 degrees of latitude during winter. Tilt is also very important -- you do not want to install an off grid system (or a system in a saturated market) at the angle which maximises annual output, you install it at the angle which maximises winter output.

Once Europe saturates summer PV, adding more doesn't become useless, you just slap some on a south facing wall or use it as a fence in a paddock.

Read. Pay some minimal amount of attention to what you're responding to and to new developments. You also have to learn to listen to people who know more than you think you know.
48 Hrs. is a fantastic movie -- maybe Eddie Murphy's best (and first) -- but I need you to explain the connection between that film and Elizabeth Holmes or her current situation.
The large population of people who focus less clearly on blue light would beg to differ!
Ask HN: Fully remote role but not allowed to work outside the country
Happened to me twice.

Does anybody know why companies that offer fully-remote employment contract, don't allow the employee to work outside the country even for relatively small amounts of time?
Instead of just giving the next square you're supposed to jump to, how about just highlighting all the squares on the board that you already visited? I think that would make the game both easier to understand and give the player an incentive to complete it (the "gotta catch em all" effect)

Edit: ... or maybe not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34461415
The art style reminded me instantly of Alba: A Wildlife Game, available on most platforms.
All popular internet discussion places are built on likes, upvotes, and other superfluous praise signals.
> Eg when an airline had a public API where you could get someone's passport number and details just from their boarding pass https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minis...

Underneath all the garbage, good story. But Holy Hell, why do bloggers write so terribly and self-indulgently? That's a half hour of my life I'll never get back that shouldn't have been more than 10 minutes. Don't they have Ritalin in Australia? They really should.
Well, considering how absurdly expensive they are compared to other ESPs, the money has to be going somewhere?
Children's clock firm asked to rebrand by Rolex lawyers
Google isn't doing AI slowly, it's doing it slightly more privately.

LaMDA, brought to you last summer by "this chatbot is sentient and I'm going to violate my NDA and hire a lawyer to free it" headlines, is Google's alternative to chatGPT.

> Everyone else in the field is worried about safety, alignment, and bias.

…

> And here I am excited by the possibility of AI out-evolving us.

This pattern matches a meme, but I want to be explicit rather than put words in your mouth: do you think that being smart automatically means being kind or that being evil necessitates being stupid?
Is instant chat replacing the inbox?
That would be missing the 'in order' part (not that it's much relevant, since you should already know how to backtrack to any visited square).
Thinking of blob urls lol
The tax rates are comparable between the US and many EU countries, all things included. Yes, your sales tax is much lower than the usual 20% (for some things, often lower for essentials) VAT; your income tax might be lower in some cases, but when most people in the EU talk about "taxes" and "tax rates", healthcare plan costs are included in that, as well as pensions. When Americans talk about "taxes" and "tax rates", your premiums, deductibles and etc. aren't, and it's up to each individual to save money for retirement. According to some online sources the median tax rate is comparable between the the US and the OECD median for Europe.

And you also have non-insignificant property taxes.
Ah ok! If this is part of some sort of chess training course, this would make sense. Sadly, HN is really bad at presenting context for a submission.
Also, while we learn “innocent until proven guilty” in elementary school in the US, it doesn’t apply to poor people.

Under our peculiar pay-to-play “cash bail” system, it only applies to those who can afford the fee.

For the rest of the people it’s very much the opposite: stay imprisoned (and lose your job etc) until not proven guilty.

To avoid this, many people take a loan from a “bail bondsman” that comes with a service fee of around 10% of the bail —- which might easily be tens of thousands of dollars and leave a poor person in crippling debt for years or forever — regardless of guilt.
Opening this in Brave on an iPad immediately crashed and rebooted the device. I don't think that has ever happened to it.
What problem are you solving with microservices? Scaling? You can run the same service everywhere but route traffic to specific endpoints to pools of the same thing. These are devops problems and don't necessarily need to be reflected in the code.

Are you trying to solve a problem with code organization? I've heard of folders, they do a pretty good job. Most of the time though, microservices tend to get in the way of delivering VALUE to the company I work for ... because someone thinks 'this is the way.' I was hired to deliver VALUE, not beautiful code, not code that follows this year's 'best practices' that aren't, or even bad code.

I will always write easy, simple, and clear code that delivers VALUE. Microservices usually get in the way of doing that, for basically arbitrary reasons.
> For example, CDC carb heavy food pyramid turned out to be a total hogwash and ruined health of countless people.

I would guess that reality is closer to "the carb heavy food pyramid turned out to be total hogwash and had negligible impact because almost nobody cares what the government wants them to eat".
I get constant best result for C:
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I am fascinated by the psychology of this as much as anything.

Any organisation is a meta-brain, and has emotion running throughout.

Your two examples seem to come after the wheels have fallen off and the magnitude of the problem is evident to all. And they call in a consultant who might see a DAG or (more often I suspect) might see opportunities to sell 120 off shore developers and a rewrite using IBM/Java

But anyway, if you had walked in a year previously with exactly the same plan would you have gotten any traction? A maths heavy white paper explaining why your ideas are the same as theirs but better would have met enormous emotional headwinds.

Maybe our scientific revolution over the past few hundred years is a blip. That does worry me. If better solutions are avoided because of emotional reactions, it costs us all.

Sorry this is starting a lot of thoughts and I should cover them more carefully. thanks for the insight and congratulations- soujds like a fun career !
>> we take the security of our users’ data seriously

I take the war in Ukraine very seriously, and a few other things, but I'm still going on the piss tonight.
Have to raise my hand then to shock you.. what else should the coordinate that is also indicated on the axes mean?

Yeah, but it's not clear that the instructions text is talking about that symbol, *because it doesn't say so* explicitly.

Sometimes a small level of information redundancy is good for communicating with humans, instead of forcing them to make the correct inferences in place.
Providing cloud services and thereby improving digital connectivity in poorer economies == colonialism.

OK…
Thank you for the link. It is such a good read.
Ask HN: How do you test your microservices?
In previous discussions, I've noticed a few comments which complained that microservices were close to untestable, specially locally, and this was one of the main sources of negative sentiment towards this architectural choice.

However, these discussions tend to overrepresent developers experiencing problems than those who don't experience any significant problem at all as they managed to get things working. Therefore it would be helpful to hear from success stories and benefit from experience.

With this in mind, what'l strategies do you have in place to test microservices? What techniques do you use, what technologies do you have in place, and how do you structure your deployments?
I disagree. L'Hôpital's rule is not discussed, it is simply presented without proof. And I think it's very important to carefully construct logarithms, exponentials and trigonometric functions, e.g. through power series - else the properties of these functions are just arbitrary axioms. Don't Hubbard and Hubbard claim themselves that the reader should be familiar with power series (somewhere in the chapter on Taylor series)?

Don't get me wrong, I really like the book, but I don't believe it replaces a book on single-variable calculus. I think the authors would agree.
You can't "stifle local competition" for cloud services when the locals don't even have internet access. What course of action would The Register have these companies take? If they ignore these regions they're racists who don't see their potential. If they do business there they're colonizers.
I'd love an e-ink side monitor to browse documentation while I'm coding in the main screen or whatever, but certainly not for $750. $250, tops.

It's a shame the technology hasn't reached economies of scale yet despite the Kindle, it has so much potential for signage and other mostly static applications.
I think that point is it should be taken into account.

> Someone is is genuinely mentally unwell in a way that results in them harming other people must still be kept away from society!

That is extremely poor and dangerous argument for putting them in jail in bad evidence. But yeah, when innocent people get into jail, it is fairly often on arguments like this.

> No one is currently convicted on the basis of a confession alone[1]. Normally a confession just means that the investigation into the confessor is more thorough than it would ordinarily be

Bases in innocence project, people who were provably not guilty were sentenced to death on confessions. And there is literally zero reason to think it is stopped happening.
The direct inspiration of WebAssembly was asm.js, which is what the talk is about. A future where everything targets asm.js and vendors don't take the next step and create wasm.

The talk has predicts a lot of what is happening around wasm.
What is the definition of “Zero-day?”
I think normalization and compound glyphs are orthogonal concepts.

The point would be to have only one canonical binary representation. A representation that is also free of all kinds of "compromises" which are only there for legacy reasons…

Additionally the whole madness should be resolved that Unicode mixes content, representation, and layout (especially as it fails miserably at all of them).

Than there are the problems that Unicode is actually incapable of representing all kinds of scripts. (Just think for example about stuff written top-to-bottom, and not LTR / RTL). Some "unimportant" things like Math can't be represented in Unicode also…

And I won't even talk about the issue that the committee was taken over by some political movement, namely the woke fraction.

I think it's actually a kind of joke that we still didn't mange to invent some sane text format for computers. Unicode doesn't cut it.

But frankly I admit that we won't get anywhere — as even Unicode is full of madness it works "good enough" by now through even more layers of madness on top, so we won't get rid of it ever again. That ship sailed I fear. Still I can't stop banging my head when I hear about things like issues with normalization, something that shouldn't exist in the first place in a sane world.
WhatsApp always comes up in comparison to Twitter, but they are fundamentally different. WhatsApp is mostly one on one interaction, while Twitter potentially allows every user to interact with every other user, it's unbelievably more complex to do that at scale compared to WhatsApp, not even talking about all the extra features Twitter has. Search probably being best example of complexity differences.
> Having claimed North America and Europe, the cloud giants hope to add Latin America and Africa to their empires

So... It wasn't colonialism before entering LATAM and Africa?

Or it's only colonialism if it's LATAM and Africa?