skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you should ask for it.

> you gotta communicate about this problem in the appropriate channels.

After years of repeating myself I have quite frankly given up. No one listens and nothing ever gets better on this front.
Principles of Imperative Computation
> The problem with the Windows registry, at least back in the day, was that it was a single file that could be corrupted and it would wreck your whole system.

Exactly. But Registry has been using NTFS and it's capabilities for rollbacks and recovery. Therefore, the problem is mostly solved. There are occasions [0] of bugs causing corruptions though but they are very rare.

0. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-n...
The “consciousness is the inflection upon the substrate of existential being” hypothesis suggests that consciousness does not arise from the complexity of the mind, the complexity of the mind arises from the technology of consciousness.

Firstly let me say human consciousness is many layers of personification and abstract meaning, all of which wonder of existential awareness of being as the ultimate actualization of those who have it.

This proposition is that it is existential reality itself that is dormant “potential of being”, which biotechnology animates and extends. The scope of consciousness lies in whatever the substrate is made of. In our case, likely the 2D crystal lattices of neuron microtubules.

These through aggregation couple and combine such that a shared resolution may capture and reveal an analog “image”, much like wave front holography. Many sub-scopes compete for the illusion of singular awareness consciousness which gets us wondering.

It is this holographic sieve that can be said the echo chamber of one’s personal consciousness. All of the wetware provides perception, enables action, and an ideal container for this process to occur.

Further, neural and behavioral strategies structure and develop character of individual cognition, creating such variety of conjecture as we find among us.

By this sieve of consciousness, and the distribution of potential over time, all strategies of life may emerge. That primitive continuity of will which determines to exist comes by the capacity to maintain corporeal scope of existential being.

Life technology emerges from the intrinsic capacity for consciousness as a sieve of the potential of existential being. Consciousness, how ever large or small is the inflection upon this potential of existential being.
Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood
I'm all in favor of junior developer reviews and approvals. I completely agree that if they can't understand the code, it's frequently a problem with the code. I'm against rubber stamps, where there's no evidence that they've engaged with it. Unfortunately that's the rule rather than the exception in my current environment. If e.g. a developer hasn't made a comment in dozens of reviews, and just returns an approval in a few minutes, junior or not it's a problem. My code isn't that good. Here, it's an epidemic among the juniors.
Reminder for anyone with keepass on iOS, make sure it isn’t the malware one. I had it and had to change all my passwords
php.ini is my experience of the worst of this, finding which of the fifty five billion config files is the actual one controlling the web server’s php and not the console’s is always a fun journey.

Luckily ctrl-r helps the second time.
Between your responses here and the treatment of candidates that appears to be pretty common, Im a big no on ever applying to your company. Your hiring process is broken.
To be fair, apps are a limited market. Games are fun for some time, and then you move on to the next game. Or you are addicted, and waste a steady amount every month to get the ever same experience. Apps are different. After you found your necessary set of functionality, you stay with them for years and years, you barely add any new app, or change to another one. And often there are even enough free or builtin apps around to cover your demand. So revenue is naturally smaller.
It depends. Can you compare a car and a motorcycle? Maybe, but they really don't compete directly in most cases. I play 90% of my games on my PC but when I play Co-op I always pick the console version of the game if possible because every single time there are problems with either Windows, the game, whatever communication software we use, the network, etc. etc. I can count on one hand how many times I've had these problems since the original Xbox. The whole experience also feels very different. I have also been lucky enough to not once have a console die unlike a PC and I own all my old consoles - again unlike all my PCs (try installing a PlayStation 1 era PC game on a modern PC).
The reason for the obesity epidemic is that the majority of the human species no longer recognizes unprocessed food as food.
I'm not sure they had food shortages before Chavez. He was famous for 'redistributing' farms that produced loads of food and giving them to a few impoverished locals who the produced close to no food for sale.
Some studies use niacin for its sensation of flush.
> Going to have to call bollocks there.

I don't understand. What exactly are you calling bollocks?
Blurring the line between gambling and gaming.
Can someone please explain Pink Floyd to me? Is it the lyrics that are cool? Do you have to be on drugs? I'm not being facetious, I would very much appreciate a link to a song, more specifically a part of a song that you like, and ideally a brief blurb about why you like it. I've tried on multiple occasions to listen to them, and my experience every time has been "this must just not be one of the songs people like."
Look at the review with pictures as well as the order amount. Search for similar items and compare the quality. Clothing can be a real tossup because it's hard to judge quality from pictures alone.
"Fellow municipal council members, I don't want to start the blame game, but in retrospect, perhaps it wasn't the best idea for our city to host the International Arsonist Convention"
Good phrasing!

I’m just a hobbyist so I don’t get very involved but what would you suggest as an alternative maximum?
Don’t JSFuck with me: Part 3
Chef is worse. It's discouraged to use `override` in Chef cookbooks but nothing says that you can't, and introducing spooky action at a distance is just part of your life now.
FWIW, you don't actually have to spend that much on a dock.

Since the docks weren't initially available, I purchased a $20 USB-C hub from Anker on newegg (with passthrough charging, SD card, USB/USB-C/HDMI) although there are even cheaper ones some as low as $10 for HDMI only. It fits pretty easily in the nylon bag with the charger so it's now a portable dock which I can also use for work due to the full linux desktop on the steam deck (I combine it with a collapsing BT keyboard and mini mouse when not at a desk).

Controllers you can get pretty good USB ones for $10 with better form factor than the switch and easier to replace.

The openness of the steam deck really helps with peripherals.
Emulators can be used to play old console games.
This is the central problem with all programming today.

You can think of everything as configuration. Parameters of a function are just configuration for that function.

What we need is traceability of every value in a system, not just configuration. You click on any value and you see a graph/chain of all the transformations this data goes through right back to the source of truth. This is how we should code. Think about how difficult this is to do today with your current IDE/editor.

Every task in software is wanting to change what is displayed in a user interface of some sort. Usually you have to make your way through a labyrinth to figure out what to change where, and also what side-effects will occur.

If this is not smack bang in front of your face when you are coding, then you are just adding more and more tangled data flows and complexity to your system.
Personally, yes. I'd imagine it varies by person though.
it doesn't matter if the adventurer is wealthy or not, people why take extraordinary risks, should pay their rescue themselves (or have special insurance covering that stuff).

why does the public have to pay for all those extreme sports people who need rescuing?

they obviously should be required to have additional insurance...
On this point I agree with you. And in my experience, it happens as often with seniors as with juniors. The famous “LGTM” on a 1000-line PR ;)
>United Kingdom have energy price controls

pretty limited ones speaking as a UK energy bill payer. And out energy ends up pretty expensive.
The social console is the Switch. You can have split screen. Or local wifi where one console is the host. I used to play D3 with workmates this way. You also get 2 controllers with the base console.
This title is stupid.
That and aliexpress has cracked a nut that eBay hasn’t even figured out: consolidating shipments from different sellers in one package to minimize last mile delivery costs.

Some of these “bag in a bag” deals might be consolidation “misses”
Hey, this looks really cool. I'm currently making a youtube watch party site, I'm a bit confused on why someone would spend 40k on a 1 year license for browsing though.
We do this to some degree already, but it would be nice if rescues could be repurposed as military training. The cost of a rescue is small compared to baseline military burn rate, and it's good training. Someone gets lost in the forest? Pretend the person who got lost is a high value military asset and bust out those fancy thermal camera drones for some practice. (Civilian departments in wealthier/larger areas have those now too, but less expensive ones.)
Pay for Apple Arcade. Games in there are guaranteed not to have ads, spam, or microtransactions.
I knew about Ctrl+Shift+L but never thought to try using it to rotate through multiple credentials. Thanks for that!
counterfeit isn't really a valid term from software given its typically a 100% accurate copy of the original unlike a knock off handbag. By that logic installing from a mirror would be counterfiet.
Usually luck.
Try Alien Isolation on iOS.
Did buying a Switch ruin your life??
I'm a bit confused. Are you saying the Vita competes with Consoles and PCs? Surely it competes with phones?
With added bonus of "when they try to shill 'public sector bad' political point as public sector is working overtime to save them".

That was particularly distasteful of that company.
And what are the repercussions for the CEO who lied to Congress about this?

TikTok is irredeemable. The effects on users and United States interests are all negative. There is no reason not to shut it down.
Poor person gets cancer? Well we don’t have enough money to treat them, sorry but they have to die a preventable death through no fault of their own. Rich person does stupid, risky things? We have millions to spend on search and rescue efforts.
sounds like you don’t know what philosophy is and why it’s dope, so rather than me try to explain in a comment on hackernews, I would say try reading Plato
In 1971, Nike Hired a Student to Create Its Swoosh Logo for Just $35
Why anyone would continue to use their service after their amateur hour
operation was revealed is beyond me. That's not to say their competitors are guaranteed to be better. Really, you shouldn't depend on any offsite service for password management. Use something like Pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/), self-hosted bitwarden or at worst, GPG encrypted text files (which is essentially what Pass does).
Pokemon red is still the best mobile game
People can and do object on ethical and sometimes religious bases when they are forced to buy insurance against their will. An approach that wouldn't force anyone to buy anything and would be socially efficient is to just not send a rescue for people who haven't bought rescue insurance (effectively privatizing rescue, most likely) but this is politically unpalatable for most western cultures - you see the same with medicine.

Also, how would requiring insurance for this even work logistically? Do we station cops anywhere a risky activity could conceivably happen? Do we arrest people if we think, post facto, they did something with a risk of rescue (like go on a hike) and didn't buy insurance for it?
I'm thinking OP is referring to the Spencer? Definitely a jewel of the midwest hiding in a small town.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Museum_of_Art
Ask HN:What are the challenges that you face when hiring good developers?
As a startup founder or business owner, what are some of the challenges you encounter when hiring potentially skilled developers?
Cinema / 65' TV versus iPhone. It is definitely not the same experience. I own many consoles and more than one gaming PC and I'd never play a game on a phone.
The UI is pretty confusing—I’m not sure what to do. It also seems to show the top score before I’ve made my guesses?
The advanced students looking to boost their grade could easily lower their score intentionally, so they get sorted into the beginner group.
I had big cultural shock when I came to Canada just because of that. You talk to a person (especially in business environment) and you have no fucking idea what are they saying. Dealing with muricans was a breath of fresh air. They mean what they say and if they say something it is as good as on paper (at least this was my experience). It is my impression that in Canada many are pathologically incapable of giving straight answers (there are pleasant exceptions here and there).

I was told many times that I am "too direct". Well for some reason I prefer it this way and refuse to bend. Maybe it hurt me few times but I think it had also paid back.
I suggest you leverage the open source nature to gain publicity, and offer a hosted cloud version. Change the licensing to a clear cut apache license and remove all the current "strings attached" usage clauses and put any "enterprise" features in a specific folder to make it obvious. Companies are more willing to pay for a hosted service, especially if you can figure out compliance like HIPAA, SOC2 etc. Another value added service is a "managed hosting" offering, where you connect to their GCP/AWS/Azure account via OAuth and deploy the (managed) instances directly on their infrastructure, billed to their own cloud account.
It doesn't make financial sense to build batteries or nuclear to fill in a variable gap that probably won't exceed 4 weeks, and might not even happen in any particular year (or decade if you have cross country links).

It doesn't even make environmental sense compared with fossil based methane (though greener methane sources are available).

See https://twitter.com/DavidOsmond8 for a real time simulation of how Australia would cope with 5 hours of battery storage (he has some in depth articles that go through his methodology too).
Sorry, I don’t see what this comment has to do with the OP story, at all.

Carbon fiber has been used in automobile construction for nearly 2 decades in a production capacity. It’s a mature technology which has proven itself.
Property taxes won’t change if these values collapse. A city may reassess values in the future but that just means some people go up and some go down with the final receipts the same.

An owner may walk away from a Mortage and the bank will pay the taxes. If taxes are not paid you move into tax liens that trade and may be able to get the property just for the taxes on it. In the end property taxes get paid.
> Could Russians have done it still? Sure, not all actions need to make sense, but it wouldn't be my first guess.

So what is your first guess. Because I think it makes plenty of sense that Russia would blow up the dam, but even if we accepted your premise that it doesn’t, then for what actor does it make more sense to blow up the dam than Russia?

You may be the one who needs to take a step back and question if you’ve been consuming propaganda.
Same for me in US English. For example, right now it’s “18 - Good”. It was “469 - Hazardous” just three weeks ago though.
In general, those sports do require special insurance. Includes rock climbing in alps - rescue gets really expensive if you do not have it.

And second, these rescues are typically cheaper then searching bottom of the sea or moving massive military equipment half the world around without advanced warning. Rescures in these situations simply do not have infinite resources and work with what they have.

And third, climbers typically do not try to use the situation to launder liberarian "public sector bad" while being actively rescued by damm military. The company called for help 10 hours after loss of contact, the company made whole series of "yolo" decisions too and then tried to turn the situation against their political enemies... who were just paying their customers rescue.
I have another concern - if I am lost in the atlantic, will half the US and canadian navy mobilise to save me, like they did for these guys?

I don't have the confidence that they will.
Managing environments / staging / cicd / configurations is like the hardest part of my job. Its fundamentally messy.
After reading this I feel like I need to call the police.
The product reviews are often pretty good on aliexpress. They don’t seem as “gamed” as Amazon, but often there are few(er) reviews and the auto-translations can be quite cryptic.

Aliexpress is particularly popular in places that don’t have a big eBay or Amazon presence.
You described how Unity fares with web games. How does Godot compare?
Yeah I think compression would be good. Wondering if there's a good way to build a frame by frame tool that keeps track of different 'data flows' and then only sends the delta of what's changed.

Would love to chat more about this. Feel free to send me an email at: joenewbry@gmail.com
Ask HN: How do you highlight “talking people out of bad ideas” as a strength?
Looking back, some of my most valuable contributions as an engineer have been convincing other engineers to reconsider proposed designs, or even full projects. My guidance has helped them avoid wasted efforts, over-engineered solutions, and maintenance nightmares.

But how do you quantify that impact and highlight it as a strength, when a lot of it is has to do with subjunctives and hypotheticals? And how do you delicately word it on a site like LinkedIn, where the coworkers involved might happen upon it?
How many times a year do you think people get cancer vs get lost at sea?
It should also report the syntax and so on, and actually you want a way to directly modify configuration values. So if you think this through, you will end up with something like https://www.libelektra.org
Senate Committee directs assessment for creating a Cyber Force
Why Bridges Collapse, NOVA special
Every rescue attempt is a practice run for something more important in the future. Whether it's a cat stuck in a tree or a Billionaire in the bottom of the ocean, first responders must attempt rescue for the benefit of humanity.

Explorers always make plenty of rookie mistakes. I'm sure there are plenty of lessons for future explorers, first respondents, regular people from these events.
Battle for wesnoth :)
Ahh yes. The bi-monthly shit on ops comment threads.

Ops folks can barely reverse a string. We should not exist as a field. Every company regardless of scale should just use 4 manually provisioned EC2 instances. If that doesn’t work your code is shit and you aren’t using Elixir / Phoenix! Anyone even attempting to use Kubernetes should be branded with the Hetzner logo and forced to work at McDonalds.

Fear not HN. McDonalds here I come.
Really, looks like our expectations are doubling every 6 months. This question needs a little more exploring, although it's bound to happen somewhere and we'd love believing we are close to the maximum possible.
Frankly, I've just given up. It's just heaps upon heaps of utter trash. Every time something just slightly nice is made, it is quickly drowned out by the 1000s of clones are almost always much worse and full of ads and microtransactions.
Does Wegovy work?
My mom would read these to me when I was a kid in Argentina. I’m surprised to see it here. It was something I had almost forgotten about. Now I’m curious about how my mom got to Tintin in the first place.
Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)
It's a big club and we ain't in it.
I'm going to disagree with you. CI/CO is absolute. The issues people get stuck on is twofold:

Calories in is largely correct, however it comes with a few small cavaets. If you eat an excess amount of food (and I mean a LOT, 6000cal+), you probably cannot disgest all of it. For normal sane amounts of calories you're going to digest the vast majority of them. For certain folks, they may have trouble digesting certain types of food. This is going to impact far fewer people than most think, I believe.

The much bigger one is calories out. What you burn can change a lot. Certain bodies adapt their calorie burn quite quickly to calorie reduction. Unconscious effort changes can heavily increase or reduce calorie usage.

There's very little about sugar that inherently makes it "constantly store energy" for certain people. Its calories like anything else, and if you eat tons of it, it's just tons of calories.

The final note is that certain people can have huge swings in water retention depending on food eaten. Salty foods do this for most people. But that isn't true weight gain, and should be largely ignored.
As an engineer, I consider all those those very much my job.

"Negotiating against" scope creep maybe not quite, but it is my job to provide decent time estimates for expanded scope so they can decide if it's worth it.

To be fair, I'm coming from a place where I have familiarity with pretty much our entire platform. If I were new, or delving into some aspect I haven't worked on before, I'd expect some understanding that it's going to take me time to familiarize myself with it, but I will familiarize myself with it in order to work on it. If the PM is an expert on that area, they should be willing to take the time to answer questions.
Since when is eating an appetizer from a restaurant for the "rich"?
Agreed. I buy real factory service manuals for any car I plan to keep for any length of time. They go for about $100 on eBay and are worth every penny.
> Most Mastodon instances have stricter rules than other social media.

Mastodon instances might or might not have particular world-views and rules. That's not the same as "mastodon as a platform" has it. Instances are set up for all kinds of world-views. If some of those worldviews don't win out in the marketplace of ideas, that's still not zealotry.

I think that there are things about those "stricter rules" that can be (but should not be) confused with "ideological zealotry" : the desire of moderators of those instances (moderators who do not have the resources of a large company behind them) to keep civility and not expose themselves to legal risk. And I think that there's also the lack of another common driver of zealotry: the drive for "engagement" even if via outrage, and thus profits to feed back to the VC. The absence of that in Mastodon could be confused with "a different, countervailing zealotry", but it is actually not that.
i don't think you're supposed to call people names here.
Is it still being played? Back in the day it was one of the few good Linux games.
In Britain we often just pretend we didn’t hear them and hope they leave.

A problem ignored is a problem solved.
For that kind of manager, just employ their other brilliant strategy: a long awkward silence. And make sure to keep eye contact throughout. It will go much better!
Wildfires will do that :(
Comfortably Numb is my favorite song, of all types. For me, David Gilmour's amazing guitar solos are the best part. Psychedelic rock is the genre and I don't know anyone else that sounds like this band.
https://youtu.be/x-xTttimcNk