skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is 3 years old but still pretty well done explanation of the case MH370
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd2KEHvK-q8
> I was here for about a week before I discovered that this place was related to startups.

Took me a lot longer than that. The occasional post I saw, I thought people were being spammy and it was tolerated as a type of Tell/Ask HN as long as it didn't get out of hand.
I closed my PayPal account some time ago. I'd heard too many horror stories like this one.
Because most mgmt seems to have no skin in the game. When they make bad decisions, the underlings often pay for it. This is especially true when they write corpo-speak blog posts "taking responsibility," which includes laying off 10% of the workforce.

A CEO cutting his own pay seems like a much better first step. It signals accountability.
> Do you mind me asking how you got into server software engineering for a video game?

Honestly, it was just chance. My first job out of university was at a smaller studio, and they needed a junior to help out on the backend. That being said..."be lucky" isn't very useful.

Some more useful info: there are a few different things one can do on the backend of a multiplayer game. There's the core game replication logic, there's web server/matchmaking/database work, or just infrastructure management type of work.

I think core game server work is the most specialized. For an authoritative server, it's the kind of work where you write the game server's simulation of the game and replicate it to all the clients. Games can also be peer-to-peer, but I don't have any experience in that area. The people I know who excel in this area have strong math and computer network skills. A book like "Multiplayer Game Programming: Architecting Networked Games" is an example of problems in this space.

Web server application work is what I do. Includes work like writing matchmaking services, authn & authz, robust purchasing flows (both in game and real money transactions), retrieving/storing database state. I think someone could break into video games if they have previous experience doing web server development, even if they haven't necessarily solved the same types of problems. I've worked with people who had web server experience outside of games.

Infrastructure work is exactly that. Involves the usual sort of work like IaC, CI/CD, cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP. Sometimes they're called dev ops engineers.

> how is the work-life balance.

It really depends on the company & the team. The places I've worked highly value work life balance and reject crunch culture. There have been some late nights to solve an outage or hit a deadline, but those have been far and few between.

I think probing about it at the interview stage and reading reviews about the company on sites like glassdoor are the best way to avoid the hellscapes.
Echofon Is Discontinued
Wow that sounds like a step forward for privacy and the consumer…
> I understand why he so completely misunderstood the PRISM slides he leaked.

I wouldn't hold it against him, most of the tech community completely misunderstood those slides, too.

PRISM was... A web front-end that would produce warrants, that would be served to the various internet companies, who would respond to them by providing the information requested. [1]

But half the people in the tech community seem to think that it was some magical all-seeing-eye-of-Sauron that had backdoors and zero-day-exploits embedded in every webservice we use, where some spook could press a button, and your texts and emails and photos would immediately appear for him.

The NSA also did things like spy on unencrypted cross-data-center traffic (SSL added and removed here ;-) ), and use zero-days against people and organizations, but that wasn't part of PRISM.

[1] There's a lot to complain about, here, but its all splitting hairs about particular legal questions (FISA courts, whether the firms in question were pushing back on these warrants enough, etc), and agency mandates.
Oh yeah. Sorry I did not realized we were talking specifically about M1. In 2020 M1 already existed?

Previous models also have a T2 chip.
They should try doing it themselves. They’d soon see why.
There's a small points threshold before a submission makes it from /shownew to /show. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

This is a good Show HN, though! so if you email me at hn@ycombinator.com, I'll help you and then put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
Interesting. Can’t think of any faults in your logic!

Are you actively working on this?
Challenge is that the biggest, best customers are most inclined to get something that is part of a big product suite. So you can start a competitor, but likely stuck with with low end of the market where there is the least chance of actually eeking out a living, until you get big enough for a big company to come knocking.
"Tell me you're engaging in age discrimination without telling me you're engaging in age discrimination..."
Epic Games is still fighting their antitrust case against Apple so the federal government isn’t going to swoop in and take over the case. If Epic truly fails and DOJ doesn’t see it as a favorable outcome, they might further explore antitrust litigation.
WordPress Community Team Proposes Adopting GitHub to Improve Collaboration
The part where he had flown the route in a simulator is compelling as well. What a long article though
IMHO, it may be those impulsive murdering types are best kept in jail.
It seems they are building a monoculture of people who have been nerds uniformely throughout their life. No room for experimentation here, lads.

Good for them. The nerds who have dared to live, the misfits, and just about anyone else who finds that whole spiel atrocious will go somewhere else.

Fuck that noise!
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-52015/Astro-Languag...

> Hi everyone! Sorry for not posting the announcement here, too. I can confirm that we’re going to add Astro support in v2023.1. We will keep you posted on our progress once we start working on the issue and will ask you to give Astro support a try and share your feedback with us. Please keep monitoring the issue for updates.

Sounds like it's coming soon!
My dad is an anesthesiologist and likes to joke that he can knock you out for cheap. Waking you up afterwards costs extra.
I use it to run my Windows games. In fact this became a bit of a hobby in itself, trying to make a game running by Wine.

If everything else fails, you can always try a full fledged Windows VM. Performance is... not like bare metal, but the results can be surprisingly good.
Guess what happened to the guy who used this number while playing lotto?
If you don't respond PP give the benefit to the person submitting the ticket. Meaning they would have gotten their money back, and PP would not have awarded it to the person not responding

Generally this sounds off, but these "HN help me get customer support" posts are getting a bit too much
Domain name is worth more than most small businesses
The only app I use with wine on OS X is Mikrotik Winbox.
What you're describing sounds more like Internet addiction.
ChatGPT prototyped our new website feature
I have been told I run a "small business" not a "startup."

So that's what I do and it's not an option in the poll. I would have chosen the second option but I'm not the CEO either, I fairly quickly hired one. I am not qualified to be the CEO. Founder, yes. CEO, no.
It looks like this particular client gives account random names until it resolves their chosen name. It took several seconds for me for the name Snowden and his picture to pop up.

Nostr is still quite rough, but improving fast.
So this might be a good case for some lawyer: this question and email follow up definitely make unreasonable barrier for somebody who finished high school 40+ years ago.
Why does it need to be a fork and not contribution to this repo?

There is no end of feature requests, but polite way is to appreciate what is already done by original authors and fill your requests as GitHub issue.

Disclaimer: not affiliated to them, just find your comment disrespectful.
As a hiring manager, I’d be _more_ interested in hiring the person after hearing this. Especially if the reason they were insubordinate made sense!
How does this compare to say Prisma? I want to write SQL more than I want to write Javascript. I got really hung up on writing joins with Prisma and don't want to use a raw query. How would this compare assuming they're comparable, thanks in advance.
We are heuristical which may not be logical, but it makes sense from an organism perspective.

For example since the world is uncertain and chaotic we seek either to conserve or expend for future gains. This can explain many stock trading behavior, despite often being a non optimal viewpoint
This could be an accurate auto-response to just about any comment on these types of threads.
With a little bit of effort, it's easy to bridge the gap without having to switch to LaTeX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlX_pThh7z8
It appears there are also a handful of studies on nih.gov [1] I won't link all of them as they are easy to find by the BPIFB4 gene.

[1] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35087020/
> t's not quite the same thing if you take into account taxes. If tips are cash only and missing from the bill, the worker gets more money.

Tips, cash or not, are subject to taxes usually where they exist enough to have been considered in tax policy. (E. g., in the US they are subject to both income and payroll taxes.)

If you mean “it is easier to commit tax fraud/evasion with cash tips than other compensation”, that’s probably true, OTOH, tax authorities tend to also be aware of this and scrutinize people working in traditionally tipped fields, especially if they repirt less tips than are “expected”, for this exact reason.
Cool. It fits nicely with the google search experience I’m used to. Could you do Twitter? Maybe substack too
If you don't mind me asking, how do your other workloads access the storage on it, NFS? The stumbling block for NFS for me is identity and access management.
If investors see layoffs and judge that the company just became more valuable, either they are right or they are wrong.

If they are right, then isn't the job of management, in a principle fundamental to the US economic system, to follow their wishes? Management doesn't have to do whatever investors ask for, but there is no real justification for them to do something which is both against their wishes and against the interests of the company.

If they are wrong, then surely the problem is that most US companies are having their decision-making driven by a group of people who are paramount but who are making misguided or misinformed decisions. Any tweaking of the exact incentives which doesn't solve this problem is both a distraction and subject to the law of unintended consequences.

Note that I am not strongly in favor of either sweeping layoffs or of the specific US variant of capitalism in general. I just think that one should be honest about to what extent problems are unavoidable to the extent that one cleaves to a given system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha#Death

He rubbed shoulders with giants of Theoretical Physics, and was on the verge of taking India into the nuclear club, in 1966.

Its speculated (including an ex-CIA anecdote) that he was assasinated. USA couldn't handle the fact of India growing into a Nuclear and Space power. Another Indian scientist Sarabhai also died under suspicious circumstances. But Bhabha's seemed especially a strategic concern for US policy in those days.

USA and India were 'almost enemies' in those decades, a period when India refused to be bullied by either side.
They’ll have to make their money on $50 refrigerator water filters instead. You know who you are!
Yes. Believe it or not, getting certified for a number of standards in the IoT world require some proof that you have access to the device in order to pair with it. This is often something like a button press during the process, but a unique qr code on the device itself can also suffice for some standards.
Quality furniture, especially hand-crafted, is expensive and far from being universally affordable. It's quite likely that the same thing will apply here wrt "artisan hand-crafted content", and thus AI-generated stuff will still constitute the vast majority of what the society consumes.

That said, if it gets good enough that you have to be an expert to tell AI-generated stuff from human-made, does it really matter? The upper classes will always play the silly "look what I can afford!" status games, and these often don't have an utilitarian component to them - something doesn't need to be actually better, it just needs to be recognized as more refined. Well, and cost more.
They never found the plane. Most likely the lead pilot crashed it intentionally, but we don't really know. The person writing this blog post is more certain about that than the Malaysian authorities, but bloggers are allowed to speculate more than government commissions.

There's some neat math people used to try and find the plane that gets alluded to, but not explained in depth, and the post is a reasonable summary, but didn't really change my mind much and my previous awareness was based on overhearing cable news, so it's not really anything new.

It's written well enough to be entertaining, but isn't really enlightening.
Would you rather have McDonalds and Burger King operating all restaurants instead of having millions of small restaurants?
> their neighbor who is working 40 hours a week and taking home $25,000 a year, while they sit at home playing xbox for 50k a year

And they wouldn't be mad that inmates are getting $100k/yr in court mandated housing services sitting in a cell doing nothing because for some insane reason we decided that it's a good use of our money and their time? Does it suddenly make it okay as long as they're suffering while they do it?
I use Paypal to buy stuff on ebay all the time. My wife got locked out more than 10 years ago for no good reason, so I buy things for her if she wants something on ebay.
Nice,
One thing that is missing from all these appointment bookings api's and webhooks is letting us bring our own payment solutions.
Webhook for creating a booking but not accepted until they pay.
After creating a booking have them redirect to my payment page with a callback url when payment is finished?

Lots of ways to accomplish this feature.
NO I DONT WANT TO USE STRIPE!
MH370 likely had systems that enable tracking deliberately disabled by someone in the cockpit (or they all failed at the same time). That's not part of the threat model for good reasons.
Downloaded but could not log in because I have cookies disabled on iPhone. Would be nice to have a cookieless login option (unclear if it is possible, API key?).
It's worth noting that the general class of reaction described here ("Haloform reaction") was discovered in 1822, and rediscovered after that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloform_reaction

Organic chemistry is a very old field whose older literature can still be used and remains relevant today.

Also, inhaling anything you produce in a lab, even if you did distill it, is idiotic.
Even among users that self identify as a startup driven person, there’s wide spectrum of what that means. For example, I mainly doing startups for fun as hobbies, never been motivated to take on funding, or for that matter even take the time to sell any “successful” ones I have managed to fine. To me, I just enjoy the challenge of finding new ways to build businesses, but idea of operating a business is not fun.
Is Scalable OLTP in the Cloud a Solved Problem? (CIDR 2023)
Look at the right side of that pond. They have a racing yacht on display.
It seems they're the ones with 8 GB of ram, so probably closer to $75 each.
cargo clippy is good at yelling at you for using `as`

I generally recommend starting with clippy set to pedantic and then disable all the lints which are too pedantic (or don't agree with, some lint style choices which are generally not grate but singing still got best option).

Anyway `as` is one of that "is not perfect but we need something now" design choices and most of it's usage have now better choices".

So maybe in the long future we will even see `as` depreciated and looked against in rustc without clippy.
Consumers just don't understand how these things help the manufacturer earn a little extra money by invading their privacy. If they only understood how important this is to them, they would be much more cooperative.

/sarcasm
Huh? A lot[0,1,2] has been done considering how little we know about what has actually happened and a trivial search would enlighten you.

Also, real-time streaming of GPS position for the thousands of flights in the air at any given time is not a trivial problem (but technology is improving and ICAO is pushing for such solution[3]).

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/08/us/mh370-fifth-anniversary-ma...

[1] https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2014-04-10/malaysia-airli...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-pr...

[3] https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/9/11184544/un-flight-trackin...
Thomas does seem at least open to having the discussion, and has mentioned social media market position in previous opinions.
The update adds a message box shown on startup that reads as follows:

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Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3
So far I've used it to reference ideas from books I've read before.

I've also used it to explore books I have not read before by asking the bot questions.

Some people have told me they use it like a reading companion. They pause while reading the book if they have a question, and use Konjer to answer it.
i'm shocked that 50% of people are willing to do it. I wouldn't do it simply for the hassle, setting aside any ideological opposition to mass surveillance by my dishwasher.

Having stuff in my friend's "smart home" stop working because there was a hurricane and it couldn't connect to servers far away was also vindicating, tho.
Completely separating styling from content seems dogmatic in this context. It certainly makes sense when working with long documents with standardized style, or ones that need to be processed with code, but I don't think that really applies. From what I understand, even ATS resume processing is a blunt instrument that assumes the content will be commonly formatted word docs or PDFs, and sending it better quality data will not yield better quality results. I think defining styles in an OO.org document would suit the task much better. Different strokes for different folks and all that, but this seems like a hammer thinking everything looks like a nail.
Also affected by that notice, I ended up buying a new washer instead.
Losing your job is a big deal to the average person, but a salary cut is immaterial to a big tech executive. An executive salary cut would save hundreds of jobs.
People are laid off because the company is trying to spend less. There are multiple people in the same role and the headcount can be decreased to decrease spend on overall salary without decreasing the salary of individuals. But just because there is only one person in each executive role does not mean that money can't be saved on executive salaries.
All while not giving out information relevant to independent repair shops or those who want to service their own appliances. We no longer own anything, we merely lease it from the manufacturer.
I don’t see the point in making this open source to begin with, it’s not like their target audience even cares. When you’re selling to developers etc it could make sense. But when you’re selling to doctors, HR, teachers? Eh. I guess maybe they could score a few free bug fixes, but I don’t see much added value beyond that.
I knew the first half of that sentence, but I'm shocked that it had SIMD way back then. I looked on wikipedia but didn't find anything about that tidbit, do you happen to know where you learned that?
>tradition is to brave subzero air temperatures and water temperatures of 34 degrees

Good read, but: all that detail and couldn't be bothered providing a (bracketed) degree-centigrade comparison.
so, must vi 4/attention
> Yet GCP is behind Azure and AWS.

This isn't because of the sales team. It's because of the flawed leadership strategy that was App Engine. They squandered precious years attempting to build a walled garden for cloud and GCP has been having to play catch up ever since.
i will echo what others have said, avoid aws for the higher charges, a cheap vps should be plenty

i run nextcloud on a vps from a gaming provider and got it hauling, heres a few things i learned

- avoid the snap of nextcloud, i could not get it working 100% (many apps would mysteriously not work etc), i am using a manual install from zip w zero issues

- if you are planning on using s3 as backing store, set it up BEFORE any users, otherwise you may lose data on disk. with that said, i use local storage and backup to s3, using s3 as the backing store in nextcloud made it obviously slow

once youre setup i recommend tuning php-fpm following their guides
I'm curious how many people who criticize full self drive have actually ridden in the car while it navigates city streets. It makes about as many mistakes as a 1-3 years of practice new driver. I don't own a Tesla so I've ridden with friends. It's a barely noticeable difference between human and FSD operation, with very few overrides necessary.
worked at startups in the past but don't intend to start one. I think in general owning a business is quite costly and time consuming. Depends on your jurisidction of course but in general you'll have to take care of your own healthcare, pension, there's no paid time off and what else have you.

Given the costs/risks I think of starting a business more of something you do if it's the only way to get what you want but I'm weary of it as a sort of lifestyle choice which startup scenes are sometimes eager to advertise it as.
3. We want our appliances to work until they break down - not until the company updates the software so they break down faster (or instantly [for our safety of course]) so we need to buy a new appliance.
"My high school career was defined by the discovery in my early teens that I had been raised in an obscure Jesus People offshoot cult, followed by a several year process of distancing and extricating myself from this environment without excessively antagonizing my family.

Coding was as much a stimulating intellectual challenge as it was a pretext for gradually increasing the time I spent away from both home and my customary social obligations, down at the library's computer lab."

your move, interviewer.
Why weren't you using the Linux version of Quartus?
But you're right. Just tried it and it told me:

"Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: Public-key credentials are only available to HTTPS origin or HTTP origins that fall under 'localhost'. See https://crbug.com/824383"

Unfortunate :/
You and I are in agreement. It's one of the reasons I think trying to break up Google is actually a terrible idea for the health of the Internet (in any frame of reference other than an anarchist "burn it to the ground" mentality).