skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love corporate/financial/technology/mathematics thriller film genres but they seems to be a very small niche. Good ones are especially rare. My favourite is "Michael Clayton" (2007), and "Margin Call" (2011) is my second favourite. "Sneakers" (1992) is old but pretty good. "Disclosure" (1994) is also old but quite watchable. Dare I mention "Pi" (1998)?

Someone here mentioned the TV series "Billions" which is my guilty pleasure. The stories are so absurd but the great cast manages to carry it off successfully. The only criticism I would make is that, although the show is ostensibly about a hedge fund manager, it seems to contain almost zero actual finance or game theory stuff. The only occasion, that I can recall, when finance enters the plot in a semi-serious way is the episode "Short Squeeze", which was one of my favourite episodes.
What? So were those hours you could have worked or do you think they were better spent relaxing and low-energy?

What does you having more hours have to do with it?
When I start getting rusty, I fire up gtypist. It does key movement exercises (e.g. dedede dwdwdw dsdsds dadada) for many combinations of keys. It really helps. You do need to make sure you're following good typing practices however.
Google doesn't treat janitors any way. They treat the building services company. They do treat the contract programmers a certain way.
Do they cut down trees at every possibility?
Successful startups don't necessarily have to be _operationally_ odd; they could just choose an odd domain and then operate in the most boring, corporate way imaginable. There are so many underserved markets that the larger players either don't see as worthwhile or don't see at all.
Correct the mining itself isn’t too terrible. But is it not likely a local refinery will follow? I don’t think shipping ore to Australia or Malaysia will be cost effective.
Cursorless is alien magic from the future
How is a self-hosted GitLab instance less democratic than e-mail? The only difference between the two is that one is a major PITA to setup as a user.
Oh I was agreeing that Steam provides value, and supporting it with the suggestion that if they didn't people would opt out and just sell games without Steam.
> * Elite dangerous' star model is slightly more rooted in reality but it's just as RNG as NMS.*

I'm well aware of how Elite: Dangerous's procedural generation works. Frankly, I think it's is even more impressive than NMS's, since the Stellar Forge-generated galaxy has real structure to it: the spiral arms, areas of greater and lesser density, and so on.

> they seem to have given up on [planets with atmospheres]

Odyssey planets do have atmospheres, so I'm not sure what you mean.

> Also they're moving away from VR support rather than towards like NMS... [Frontier] dropped VR.

Well, first of all, FDev didn't drop VR. It works fine in Elite: Dangerous Odyssey. The way they implemented on-foot VR as theater mode instead of attempting to hack some kind of room-scale VR system into their engine—which has great support for seated VR—seems like a reasonable compromise to me. Contrast that with how NMS implements vehicle controls in VR. They do room-scale VR, so there's no transition to seated VR when entering a vehicle, which is controlled—and I use that term loosely—by basically waving your fists around in the air to work controls you can't feel. It's pretty awful.

Second of all, VR in NMS was very badly broken as of August, the last time I tried it out. And I'm running a brand new 5700X and 4070 Ti that can play Elite: Dangerous Odyssey on VR ULTRA at 45 fps worst case.

As far as the current direction of Elite: Dangerous? Sure, there's plenty to criticize, but after over 10k hours, I'm still really enjoying it. I'm still learning new things. I'm still following the story. I'm still engaging with other players. I'm still buying ARX. With NMS, after 367 hours every system, every planet, every station, every alien has started to feel the same. I no longer enjoy it. But hell, you might really, really love NMS. If you can pick it up on sale, you should get it.
You underestimate the power of corporations, and the logistical and political difficulty of supplanting them.

I receive internal company newsletters that talk about the need to get more water contracts due to climate change and the opportunities/competition ahead. It's not conspiracy, it's commerce. Like real estate, you buy it now when it's cheap because you predict it'll be worth a fortune in a decade or two.
Citations needed on this. Overtraining is well documented and detrimental to many things, but most research indicates a linear relationship between overall cardiovascular fitness and just about every measurable health outcome. It’s absolutely possible to train at the volumes and distances necessary for the marathon without overtraining.

https://peterattiamd.com/how-does-vo2-max-correlate-with-lon...
Isn’t this how the mobile Outlook app works? It takes all your account info, saves it to a proxy in the cloud, which is what makes the connection to your mail accounts. Then the mobile app talks to the proxy.
That's cool! It takes them a while to refresh the APU though to Zen 4 / RDNA 3. I guess it's harder than for laptops?
My wife ran into that landing bug. Right after the tutorial she struggled to control the ship. She was going really fast along the surface for her first landing, hit the landing button and for some reason the game let her land the ship even though it was going really fast ... but she got landed in a tree. The landing animation played in loop forever and so we had to reload the save, except at that point she lost interest.
Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University President Larry Summers said of the fellowship: "I think the single most misdirected bit of philanthropy in this decade is Peter Thiel's special program to bribe people to drop out of college."
Elixir and Erlang are very well established ecosystems.
> you’re in denial

No I'm not! sobs in corner. Sigh, good points.
I think it's likely just to result in offshoring of site, which is a net negative, imo, for constructive regulation of these sites. I think the effort for age verification is going to turn back the clock on progress that has been made in content moderation done by the bigger sites in the US, by pushing eyeballs to less regulated sites overall.
Do you have any evidence that supports this? Twenty years of running anecdotally strongly suggests otherwise, but I’m open to an actual study.
>Government tech investment delivered the Internet

Hmm ... nah. The internet would have happened anyway. Also, we owe its growth to plenty of ISPs everywhere and quite possibly ... piracy and porn.

Even if it was true and the government single handedly created the whole www, that shouldn't be a carte blanche to just waste money that could otherwise be invested in a better way.

Also your bit about YC, YC is private money, they could throw all of it into the ocean and I wouldn't bat an eye. The government, however, takes almost half of what I make, for sure I'd like to know, with unprecedented detail, where and why my money is going to.

You couldn't be more wrong if you tried to, lol.
Maybe not putting pressure on this muscle memory to perform accurately, so a lack of intentional practice. We're not really punished for typos with spellcheck and IDEs picking up a lot of the heavy lifting, so there isn't a lot of mental pressure to perform well here. Or it's simply aging related decline. It may even be a waste of time to worry much about it.
> Is included on linux distros since a lot of time so there is no need to recompile it from source

bsdgames is my favorite package; see also /usr/games and

man 6 intro

> boring wandering, basically

It's not the only game to focus on exploration. As I understand it the exploration came first and the fantasy/puzzle game elements were added later.

Note debian also includes open-adventure, a 430-point version, and there are probably others available on various distros.
I think you are the one mixing things up. I never said anything about adult businesses being illegal. This is about banks, which are businesses, choosing to avoid transacting with other businesses in direct response to obligations imposed by the government. Anti discrimination law in both Canada and the US protects individuals, not companies, so it’s unclear why you would mention protected classes in a discussion about an Ontario-incorporated business and their commercial banking relationship.
The answer to questions of the type "Why are governments so bad/inefficient/wasteful/slow/etc.?" is always the same: Because they have no incentive to do better.

When you are literally the one who makes the rules by which the game is played, it's insane for others to expect you to make a genuine effort. Apart from the (infrequent) elections, which provide at best a very weak control mechanism, governments are free to do as they please, with almost zero external pressures, while also being able to tell all other players what to do. The results are completely predictable, and indeed unavoidable unless the framework were altered radically.
For a slightly modernized take, there is a graphical remake by Roberta Williams' company Cygnus Entertainment:

https://www.colossalcave3d.com

Probably not the kind of thing that will be a hit with most current gamers, but it is an interesting and surreal project.
yes, same. And the more time passes, the more this skews. My thoughts flow naturally into words when I'm typing, but if I have to speak them I forget what words I want to use very easily, and sometimes I'll have to pause for several seconds to recall what I want to say. It almost feels like spoken English isn't my native language anymore, and typing is.
Yup, from where I see it, the only thing(s) holding llms back from generating api calls on the fly in a voice chat scenario is probably latency (and to a lesser degree malformed output)
Isn't that what all the various VR glove type controllers are?
There's a big difference between government contract work that results in lackluster results and cost overruns, and research grants.

I think the article is focusing on the former, but the title is admittedly vague.
I’m not sure how you expect to answer that without access to the inner workings of content moderation decisions on the major social media platforms. Sunshine laws would be a good starting point for productive discussions.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/629611-south-florida-fa...

"With nearly 30 years of data showing significant progress, it’s clear that farmers in the EAA have done more to improve water quality in South Florida than any other private group in state history."
Sounds... strange.

> that's not a carte blanche to just waste money that could otherwise be invested in a better way.

What are some of the better ways to approach investment by the government today, compared to what we have?
I’ve seen multiple instances where 1 person leaving was extremely expensive.

In one case finding the source code took 8 weeks, at the end of that recreating everything from scratch was being seriously considered. The crazy thing is the employee explained where everything was when they left, the other person simply didn’t understand the details.
This is a noble and challenging goal, and I’d encourage you to pursue it
I'd try the same, but with more emphasis on your last point. Have your effort or that of a consultant focused on someone else within sight/similar of the troublemaker. Have the consultant ask the troublemaker for help in documenting this other staff member's processes so you build rapport and it's not obvious the focus will soon be directed at them. Prioritise the key bits first.

Could some 'security testing' also require that consultants have overarching access, and at some point indirectly remind the troublemaker that there would be legal repercussions for an employee misusing access/control?
aka, The Cisco Way
An incredibly cynical defense of a man who has made billions of dollars enhancing the surveillance state. Utter nonsense.
I think “investment” in regards to government is meant less as “wild bet that will get us all rich” and more of “expenditure that will save us money 5 years down the road”.

Conflating the two is just disingebuous, and provides cover for all sort of unaccountable boondoggles like healthcare.gov (initial launch, not the hastily rebuilt version) and California EDD’s latest redesign apparently costing a shiny $1.2 bln https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/11/california-unemployme...
how do you cash out business amounts of money without a bank account though? if the bank doesn't want to work with him, it means he doesn't have anything to connect a Coinbase account to. Unless he wants to deal in large amounts of cash (which; cannabis clubs have to do, so it's not out of the question), he can't cash out.
Erlang is fairly established 37 years young language and Elixir got to build on top of Erlang ecosystem.
> The extra pay of Google doesn't matter to me.

> I never want to work at a big organization again and would rather die poor and accomplished than rich and depressed.

> I came to Silicon Valley to learn as much as possible.

> If I work on a high-scale system I need to have earned that by building, launching, and supporting that system from step 0.

Big respect for you. I quit programming as a whole because I felt I would never find people with your mindset in this field. The thought depressed me enough to choose another career.
No, the better solution (IMO at least) is to write code that can run on current GPUs without relying on upscaling tech. Upscaling tech should be something to use once your GPU is old so you can run new games, not something that new games should rely on to run on current GPUs.

As for Steam Deck specifically, the current display resolution it has is perfect for its size, a higher resolution is going to have marginal results - and actually worse results if you need to rely on upscaling to reach it (at which point might as well stick with the current resolution and target it natively so you wont even have the upscaler's overhead).
I’ll stick to an Apple Watch
I for one am actually pretty glad to see the role commoditized. Software's one of few roles where you need the deep theory component (a CS degree) to practice (land a respectable gig). My impression is that this is because we, the software industry, have done a poor job separating the theory from practice.

Much as you hire an electrician, as opposed to an electrical engineer, to wire your house, or a carpenter, rather than a mechanical / structural engineer, to build your house, I do think we should be finding ways to separate "programmer" from "computer scientist". These are both completely legitimate roles, and deserve to be paid according to their value produced - they're both quite high! But the fact that I need a deep understanding of data structures, operating systems, computer architecture, or other college-level concepts to write software feels like a shortcoming. If CS researchers can set standards for software, rather than _write the software itself_, we can more easily create on ramps and shallow ends for people to use.

Low code tools and LLMs are great steps in this regard, but I feel that they're still stigmatized from the enablement perspective.
Longtime Rubyist here that has worked with Elixir. It is only loosely based on Ruby's syntax - there is a _lot_ more punctuation in Elixir. Also much more explicit passing of parameters, including database connections and error handlers in the case of a Phoenix application. It's also a challenge to deploy OTP along other non-hypervised runtimes. BEAM and Elixir are very cool, don't get me wrong, but after some programming web services in Elixir I was ready to head back to Ruby. If I need a highly fault tolerant near realtime comms system, I'll look at Elixir, otherwise I avoid.
> Perhaps it is possible for applications that have small set of requirements.

Well, for existing applications it is extremely difficult, not because Elixir lacks many important features that C# delivers (although I'm sure it does lack some, and vice versa in a big way), but more just because rebuilding any project that's had hundreds or thousands of person-hours poured into it, that's currently satisfying hundreds or thousands of business requirements which may or may not be documented, is a huge project with few rewards; the investment is huge and the return on investment is... I mean, being on {sexy new language} is nice, but nobody's paying you for that.

But that's not what the OP's job is talking about. They just got a different job using Elixir, and are learning the technologies the same way anyone else does, and they're excited about this instance of it enough to write about it.
If this is true my fongrers are in a recession
> It's also a challenge to deploy OTP along other non-hypervised runtimes.

Pardon?
Let the people discover what to invest in themselves.
Making a wooden grasshopper clock according to John Harrison's principles [video
Scientists learn secret to hummingbirds' remarkable agility
don't fall asleep. You don't even need to run to achieve them -- about 42 hours should be enough to experience them without any exercise at all. The only trick is every time you get tired -- push through it and wake yourself up with movement or music. After pushing through the exhaustion you'll get a 'second wind' of awareness -- and a third and so on, as those later exhaustions occur.

The goal isn't to be at 100% awareness during these moments -- it's to not micro-nap and relieve the lack of sleep.

I remember once playing a game of go with a friend after 40 hours of no sleep (drug-free), and seeing purple electricity radiating across the stones and outlining the boundaries of their activities against one another. Walking down the hallway I experienced that recession of reality like when Frodo first encounters the Nazgûl in the forest and the path pulls away from him.

Lack of sleep is incredibly psychedelic. Take this from someone who has done many -- and good luck ;)
Most of us write crud apps and aren’t hackers, we just used to be.
For me the big sell of Elixir/Erlang is that it makes running "background jobs" a complete breeze with no concern for blocking IO bringing the entire server to a halt, especially in a web server context.

At my last job I had to do a bunch of HTTP requests in a webhook handler and if enough happened at once, the entire site would just crash due to all the OS processes being busy. I found myself desperately wishing I was just using Elixir instead because it would have been trivial to just spin up a Task to do it and move on.
Sports are played for entertainment, that doesn't mean that there isn't a huge business around it.
The Mathematician's Weapon|an Introduction to Category Theory [video]
My raise was delayed/canceled last January, and I loudly announced that I was looking.

I have always trained new employees in the use of puttygen and pageant for logins without passwords.

I take care of tablespace problems regularly, that would prevent trucks from leading our loading dock.

I don't have to take malicious action; all I have to do is walk away. And they know it.
Even Spotify is missing probably more than 5% of what I'm looking for, which makes me strongly doubt that claim.
Same thing in our case -- we didn't want to move to the US right away (wanted to spend ~6-9 more months in Taiwan anyway). It ended up being a 2 year slog through covid, was brutal.

Wish we would have had an overwhelming urge to get married when we were visiting my family in the states instead.
Yeah no, I think I can easily play a game without.
> undocumented functions that are understood only by the developer and god

oh the irony :)
https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Lore#The_Atlas
An employee who accomplishes only some of their allotted work accomplishes some work!

The best solution to that problem is almost never to simply get rid of that employee. Why would you be confident that a replacement would set up and do it all? Would any of your current employees do that? I assume not, else you would have them doing it by now.

Just because something is in a job description does not make that thing feasible, let alone reasonable. Too many employers are willfully blind to that reality.
Happened anyway? You have any idea of the value that was created by having it happen many years earlier? Modern integrated computers let alone the Internet were brought into being because of defense investment by the government. These things rarely happen entirely organically in free markets. You think SpaceX would exist without heavy early investment by NASA, or later money from the commercial crew program? Unlikely.
[dupe]

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38208742
I did the same with a MHCOZY Zigbee dry contact relay and two Aqara door/window sensors. I use the dry contact relay for two doors, and have two more channels to use for other stuff if I need to.

Additionally, I tried using an Aqara vibration/tilt sensor for more accurate "partially open" status reporting but it was a) not sensitive enough b) too unreliable c) too slow to update. I guess it's more meant for detecting impacts or falls.

I've also toyed with the idea to mount an ultrasonic distance sensor at the top of the (rolling) door, which could measure how far from the ceiling/far wall the top of the door is, but it'd be pretty bulky and problematic to power mounted on a moving part like a door.
> Last month, Tumblr said its iOS app was pulled from the Apple Store over child pornography found on the platform. According to a Twitter user who claimed to have found the illegal content, Tumblr had initially failed to take down the images, despite repeated complaints about the problem. (As of Monday, the Tumblr app is still unavailable on Apple's App Store.)

I think you can also look at the various discussions of this issue online. The user perception was that it was inordinately difficult to report abusive content.

The second comment on this thread reports that even the moderation that was taken was ineffective. https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/a2r4h4/whats_...

I also recall an instance finding problematic content and now knowing how to report it. I think it didn’t occur to me think “I think this person might be underage, better hit the share button”. TikTok for example makes it incredibly easy to report offensive, unsafe, or illegal content.

Whether or not Tumblr management _intended_ to have very poor controls against CSAM doesn’t change the fact that they did in practice. And when push came to shove, instead of protecting user expression on their platform, they banned a whole category of content rather than building the tools and policies needed to make it work.

Worst case, they could have, instead of deleting all adult content, removed the toggle for iOS users and made them go to the browser for filtered content.

Even if you hate Apple for censoring their platform, it was Tumblr’s choice to apply that policy to Android and web users.

This response and earlier comments also fail to address the fact that the iOS app had a toggle to block NSFW content. It was allowed in 2017, and it was allowed in 2022. So I’m not sure why they had to purge non-CSAM content and remove the toggle in 2018. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/11/tumblr-sensitive-content-t...

Is there insider info that challenges any of that?
>Without the West Bank there's not enough territory to form a Palestinian state.

Monaco would like to have a word with you.
In-Q-Tel seems to be doing well from the outside. Curious what people think. I’m also confused why the EU pursues broad megaprojects instead of adopting the model that produced their antecedents. Is there some historical reason?
software development is not hard at all. the reason everyone thinks it is hard is that there are too many software developers and 99% of them should have picked a different profession