jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So when you work with analog electronics, you learn that voltage is your friend. Playing with +/- 12V (a 24V range) for "analog logic" is innately cleaner than playing with 0V to 5V (5V range).

Lets say you make a design that has +/- 1V error. On the 5V circuit, that's 20% error. But on the +/-12V circuit, it is only 4.1% error. (Going much better than 5% or 1% error is nonsensical. Most resistors you'll buy are 5% error, and capacitors are maybe +/- 20% error). So you can see, +/-1V error is acceptable on +/-12V circuits, but maybe unacceptable on 5V circuits.

If precision is important, there are 1% or 0.1% resistors available, as well as matched-resistors (which have say 1% error, but all the resistors have the same degree of error, so your "proportions" remain consistent. You can manually-match resistors together with an accurate ohm-meter as well)

As such, +/- 12V is simply easier to make "precise" electronics on. Of course, the downside is that you've got leakage all over the place (more voltage means more power-draw)

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But now its 2021. Most parts, even extremely cheap "Jellybean" parts like the LM358, have low errors and low-bias. And USB's popularity as a 5V delivery mechanism has grown, everyone has a USB plug somewhere to use as the basis of electricity experiments.

So while electronic engineers way back played with +/-12V, today the assumption is that you play with 0V to 5V.
If you enable hand tracking (without controllers), they explicitly notify that they are collecting data about your hands. Combine that with your arm length, hand size / shape, height and I bet you'd be pretty unique. If there aren't enough bits, data about "the way you move" or stand, general posture etc. would be more than enough to identify you I believe. A simple DNN can eat that data like breakfast. I don't care much but it is interesting nonetheless.
Less than 20% is a soft slap in the face in many places. More so, if it's less than 15%. Some people use other "systems" though, so they might not even be paying based on the number on the check. If the bill is overpriced that's often a reason people use to skimp on the "percentage".
There's such a huge grey area, though. On one extreme: I work at a desk job and it'd be insane for my employer to fire me for getting a speeding ticket doing 70 in a 65 zone. On the other: if I were shown in a CNN video carrying a swastika flag in a parade, I absolutely 100% expect I'd be jobless by the time I got home. I wouldn't pause for a moment at an employment contract that says the latter violates their rules.
> there was no way for me to misconfigure CORS.

This is a pretty big issue because there are a shit tonne of bad resources that poorly explain CORS - so many places just slap a wild card in 'access-control-allow-origin', and call it a day.

Even a lot of the framework middleware can be confusing and unhelpful.

FWIW, once I actually got it setup, it was very simple, very easy. I highly recommend MDN's CORS page[1] as the only source someone should read, and to read the whole thing to actually learn it rather than just grabbing a library to solve the problem in 15 minutes.

Even then, I had to start with a small test project and test things at different levels to understand what a library would be doing. My back end is golang, and I used gorilla/mux, so I did things step by step to really know what was working and what wasn't. I've done it other ways with something like Spring boot and libraries where it's just a goddamn mess because it tries to automate too much for you and it becomes way too confusing.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS
They are like a mall. It appears to be a public space. It shares the characterics of one. But at it's heart it is a private space with camera everywhere and eager to throwout those who do not appear to be the norm.

Homeless, poor, young and oddities get removed from malls for being themselves. We're seeing the same online.

Governments don't buy malls. Malls are designed to get you to spend. These sites want you to spend and if you do or don't they will send all of the info they collected about you and sell it to someone else.

We need more hobbiest sites. Government should provide free spaces.
I’m interested. Can you email me as well. Same email format.
> I also think we're within our rights to pressure them to adopt standards we would like.

I think this is what's happening, it's just that the users of Twitch want something different than what you want. You might think they're the vocal minority or something, but Twitch is almost certainly making a data driven decision here.
Copyright, by default, is not at all permissive. Every license (including viral ones) are more permissive than the legal default standing, not less.

This is why one company I worked for refused to let us use Webpack 1.x- a dependency of a dependency was an ancient npm module from the time that adding licenses to modules wasn't very common. It wasnt until the 2.x line came out that they finally updated to a version that updated to a version that didn't have that problem.
Think of it sort of Twitter-meets-Substack.

It's still advertising/freemium, but with some big differences. We syndicate out the internal updates that reporters are already writing within their own newsroom, so while they work on their current formats, we just piggyback off of existing work. Then we revenue share from those ads/subscriptions back to support the reporters and news orgs doing the reporting.

There is money being spent on ads now, its just going to the wrong people. We're trying to fix that -- and align the incentives back so that everyone -- readers, reporters, us -- succeeds when we have good journalism, not clickbait.
I would assume most judges would view this akin to ignoring the DMCA request. It would be like altering a single bit in an MP3 and saying that it's no longer the exact original, even though you put out instructions telling the downloader to change the bit back.
True, but with the (used) pads you can reconstruct past messages.

(Provided you intercepted those, that is.)
>You don't want someone getting access to your account two years from now to be able to access every old message.

The messages I don't want people getting ahold of are either created with expirations or I manually delete them. I couldn't care less if someone 2 years from now can read a chat log between me and my mom if it means that I can actually read them 2 years and multiple devices away from now as well.

What I don't want is to be forced to message with one app for secure chat and something completely different for daily driving. It's a pain, and nobody in my circle is willing to do it (and I don't blame them).
> I hope this isn't crass

Eh, a little bit. I know for me, I was always afraid of using autopay because I get paid biweekly, so even if all my bills had the same due dates every month, payday was always different every month. Being able to tuck that money away made it less tempting to overspend.

As for getting out of living paycheck-to-paycheck, again, easier said than done. You're basically making the opposing higher minimum wage argument:
"Get a better job if you want to make more than $8 an hour."
"Get a better job if you want to have better control of your finances."

Plus there have been several studies showing that for many people, as their income goes up, they still have trouble saving because they unconsciously think that since they make more money, they have more money to spend. "Financial restraint" is easier said than done for many people, myself included. Simple's "Safe-to-Spend" has made a world of difference in my life and I'm honestly really concerned about how I'm going to keep it up when that goes away.
Facebook is relatively immune to ad blockers as most Facebook, WhatsApp & Instagram usage is mobile (and why Instagram's web version is very bare-bones and lacks critical functionality).
multiple keys with the same name? what do you mean? arrays?
Ok, now I understand why my GA funnels are so misleading...
You are forgetting that she is in college, and desires to continue to do so.

Overtly saying no will most likely result in family or friends of family going after her in Spain. Once you enter the Shengen area of Europe, which is reachable by car from Pakistan you can basically get anywhere. There are countless easily traversed borders to this area in corrupt/poorer countries. After that there's close to no border checks.

It is really easy for friends/family to get to Spain and make her life difficult there.
"apple shouldn't release it" is IMHO clearly wrong. They were absolutely right to release it when they did, at a stage where it was just about stable enough to write working apps but many of the features of the language were still being iterated on. Yes that means the language definition isn't yet stable, but the huge advantage us that iOS devs have the chance to influence the development of the language and it's libraries.

Whether or not it's the write time to use it in production is another separate issues that will depend on the app. For fairly simple applications it seems like it's fine to use it now. There is talk that Apple have banned use of swift within the company. That's obviously false, otherwise they wouldn't be able to further develop the language. I do fully expect that to use swift in a production project you would need high level authorisation and probably close coordination with the swift dev team. That would just make sense.
Does anyone else think that Nintendo's refresh cycle on the Wii is surprisingly short, by console standards? I wonder if they feel pressed to try to redefine console interaction yet again, after they were (arguably, I suppose) usurped in motion control by the Kinect?
It isn't actually very old – not much older than current releases on other supported platforms, because quite often security bugs affect it as well, and Adobe updates it as well.

Adobe has promised to support the NPAPI Linux plug-in for a few more years (IIRC till 2017). It doesn't get any new features, but security issues will be fixed, usually at the same time as on other platforms.
If the NSA put their resources towards educating and empowering third world children instead of perpetuating their oppression and spying on them, they could easily fund and equip the "One Supercomputer Per Child" project.
I don't understand; your numbers add up to 5400, not 300.
I Disagree..
Here's why. I was born/raised in Kitchener-Waterloo. I believe K-W is the best place to live, start a family, and be successful.

K-W has always been about innovation and engineering, and smart people with access to top technology and just simply people are willing to chat about ideas without the worry of it being 'stolen'. We are thought of a "small-town community" - 500,000 if you include Region. If you compare this to the US, we would rank in the top 30 of populated 'cities'. K-W is a community of people who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty to build great things. Personally, I've been involved with technology and the Internet since 1998 - from small 4 person startups, to being #4,000 of 20,000 at RIM, who did create the first smartphone, the iconic BlackBerry.. The impact successful people have had here is astounding.

(RIM's founders' money stays in K-W, look at the Perimeter Institute, and Institute for Quantum Computing - $100MM donated). At the end of the day no matter how big or small, its all about innovation, and smart people. UW put K-W tech on the map with one of the top engineering co-op programs in the world, and startups are doing big things.

So it's natural so many software/internet startups have started and thrive here, Communitech & the Accelerator Centre are the best kept secret outside of our community and the world is finally taking notice. $500MM and 164 new startups.. more everyday.. (http://www.communitech.ca/half-billion-dollars-in-tech-compa...).

This is happening b/c of perfect storm of things coming together, great schools who foster students ideas - WLU, UW, Conestoga, (55,000+ students) companies who further foster this talent, RIM, OpenText, Desire2Learn, and 400 other high-tech firm, that encourage entrepreneurship, giving people opportunities
to see their ideas come to reality, and in my opinion is the best place in the world to start, & build a technology business.

Now about people defecting to Sunny california,. Call us crazy Canucks, but some of us love 4 full seasons, including the snow! More opportunity for us here to build a company, & raise a family (median house price is $250,000), with median family income of $90K,. (2005),.. I could go on and on here, but people who are here know this..:)

Jay Klesitz
I'm very curious that eating meat only once a day is a compromise for you. How much did you eat before you started thinking about this?
How uppity of me, to let my desire to work in a job I like get in the way of a recruiter's money.

I am thoroughly cowed. I've seen the error of my ways. Thank you.
I know it's difficult to interview people on these complex topics but is Sadek Drobi really the best they can do?
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/ic/segments_edd.aspx
Look at Operating income chart on the right (set is as year to date). They made 0.2 Billion in FY 09 and have made 0.9 Billion USD in FY 10 till now (includes projected earning for Q3)
Apple is more than capable of not passing back information about devices and features prior to their release - for instance, instead of identifying their next iPad as 'iPad 1,2' during their internal testing, they could just send out 'iPad 1,1'. While they didn't disguise their test units in the past, I doubt they'll make this mistake again.
oddly enough I have heard managers at my own company deride a product for being too cheap.
I think this article misses a HUGELY important factor in Jobs current ability to manage and lead Apple.

What did he learn from his initial departure and in the years before his return.

Jobs is a different person. I'm sure getting kicked out of Apple was devistating, and cause much soul searching. The 'what would I do different next time' theme had to have been there.

He went on to found NeXT which never became a smashing success, but was likely another huge learning experience. If Jobs was so infallible and could lead any tech company, why did NeXT not have the same success as Apple did initally?

Then he went off and worked in a completely (or mostly) different industry with Pixar. That must have been a HUGE learning experience. Now he not only had media contacts, but really new the inner workings of that industry.

With Pixar, Jobs was now working with more artists, learning more about aesthetics, animation, etc. All the while, the technology industry was still growing in this area, and the core of these technologies was not yet available to the personal computer.

THEN, he goes back to Apple. He's got a better understaning of aesthetics, and character development, and he leads with some really innovative designs. I wasn't a huge fan of that first iMac, but that lamp base type one was truly a character and a computer all at once. Much more personable.

Then he gets into music with the iPod. Now he's able to better use the expertise he's gained from all his previous experiences.

iPod goes into movies, media and technology are blending faster than ever before.

I ask, if Steve Jobs hadn't been ousted from Apple originally, would Apple be what it is today?
I've worked for several companies that outsourced work. Only one project was what I would consider at all successful, and in that case, the US company was owned and managed by several people originally from China, and some development work was outsourced to China, to a company owned by the president's brother. How that managed to work, I'm still not completely sure, but it actually did, for the most part.

In the other cases, the costs were much greater than expected, both because the companies we outsourced work to did not perform as expected, and because we had to spend extra time managing them and correcting their mistakes. The poor quality of work by the company we outsourced to was the main reason I left one job - I just did not believe the company could survive given the quality of the product. Plus I was tired of putting in 60-80 hour weeks trying to make up for the crappy job they were doing.
Yep, what the author fails to account for is that even locally run projects have a chance of complete failure, and huge budget overruns. It isn't that outsourcing created the problem, poor project management likely created the problem - and it exists regardless of whether your developers are on- or off-site.
Lots of software jobs have minimum educational requirements. When I did control systems software, an engineering degree (or the odd physics degree) was a hard requirement. Where I work now, certifications are mandatory and the interview process includes a real-world project + demonstration (which you're paid to complete).

You have this false impression that every software job has the same requirements. There are plenty of jobs where candidates have no hard requirements, but there is a large number that do have certification & degree requirements and/or rigorous interview processes.

Jobs building dating apps for dogs have substantially different requirements than one building brake control systems for cars, even if the job title for each is "software engineer."
Considering the last post it was 70% and has apparently increased 5-fold since then, is this something to worry about?
Thanks for this! I'm at a point where I am way more annoyed by cookie banners all over the place than whatever tracking is being done on me that I almost wanted to go back in time before GDPR, now I don't have to :)
> neglect and abuse

There's a lot of hidden complexity and subjectivity in those two words.
To be clear, the legal turmoil in question is over the current ownership of the original Amiga brand and IP, not AROS itself. AROS is published under a license that is not OSI approved but is actually a fork of the MPL with the word "Netscape" changed.
It's a poor legal argument, but seems like a solid civics arguments. Sadly they aren't trying to appeal to the public or lawmakers, they are trying to appeal to the judge, so it seems like wasted effort.
HTML5 is a huge improvement over the HTML4.01/XHTML madness that was going on back in the day. And it's fine with me to allow non-closed singleton tags.

There's perhaps no strong logical argument either way, but from a style perspective, I prefer to use closing slashes to make it absolutely clear what's going on.
Last I checked their API was useless, can anyone comment on upload/download speeds (i have 10gbit servers could use backup location)
User clicks in form of "likes" are already public so why would scroll data be so sacred?
I freaking suck at modeling and I've been at it for years. Been working with Unity and shipping stuff for a decade. It helps to know how to get the right partners I guess, but I've always been able to get stuff done with Unity. Now the momentum I have with my app store, maybe there aren't many ideas anyone could throw at me where I have to do much more than load up a few things I already own and push stuff around. I barely write code... But its' a lot of experience, unity has gotten massively better. I used to write a lot of C# and trained collaborators on Playmaker. Now it's more focused on just keeping the working directory clean, I don't really like their collab stuff, I prefer to maintain my own git.

What I do and have done is never the same as what most people do for spit and polish, but I'd say Unity has the functionality especially now for people who "can't 3D model too great". I'm pretty sure Unreal can function similar too, maybe with a slightly steeper curve but some neat efficiencies. I think that reality is aaaalmost here though.
Thanks for checking it out!

Assuming Unreal does add their verse programming language later this year, I'll be open to recreating the same project with Metahumans instead.

Maybe I'll even apply for an Unreal grant!
I think the more you write the less you make sense and you’re really grasping at straws here. Nothing you say at this point is more than strawmen, meanwhile everything I have said is not only internally consistent but makes perfect sense. I think you should give it a rest.
The question appears to be highly relevant to the position. I would hire the candidate that completes the feature request over the 10x Programmer that cannot.
For a much better solution, give Djangy a try: http://www.djangy.com - it's heroku for django (and eventually other WSGI frameworks)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
I did not say anything like what you are suggesting. Those are all things to be concerned about, but dosimeters aren't an effective way to measure or prevent them. If the backscatter machines are completely safe, dosimeters for such a large group will still cause a panic because there will be false positives. There are other devices that can measure radiation more accurately and reliably.

I feel contempt for the TSA as much as everyone else around here, but one has to be aware of the halo/horn effect. I don't know if banning dosimeters is the best decision, but I can see why they did it, and it seems rather unobjectionable compared to most of the TSA's actions and policies.
Supporting evidence? What's it about Lyme that people would make this stuff up? The medical establishment still practices medicine. Practice being the operative word.
Having just switched from Amarok 1.x to 2.x, I'm underwhelmed. But as a linux user I have never used, nor needed itunes.
The thing with the flash crash is this: the market dropped 1K points immediately because the computers and their operators refused to provide liquidity when the initial suspicious trades hit the wire. While the event may have been caused by a computer, the extent of the drop was more because computers pulled themselves from the market than because high-frequency trading is somehow financially evil. I think people need to understand that a lot of the high-frequency trading actually helps to stabilize the market. What you saw during the flash crash is what happens when liquidity dries up because the computers are not trading.
America's greatest period of growth, the 1950-1973 expansion, took place within a highly regulated financial system.

The "devil" of returning to that level of regulation hardly seems unknown.
I agree, it will be interesting to see where it goes.
The communists also ate potatoes.. So potatoes must be awful, too.
Doesn't make sense. Announce a 30% raise in wages, then a week later announce that everyone is fired?
Heh, well, I can't think of a good way to prove that one, so I thought I'd be careful not to overstate my case. :)
React hooks disprove the hypothesis that javascript's spread operator has a negative impact on readability.

Moreover, to argue against the spread operator, first you need to argue in favour of array indexing in terms of readability.
the best reason i remember was that it wasn't unanimous. my submission had to go through several people, and while the guys who i had direct contact with showed that they liked me, the decision came after their meeting with the CTO.

They also knew before hand and gave me a chance perhaps i would do something very impressive. i'm not saying my submission was perfect, i might have done a couple of things wrong, or during that period they might have found someone better, there might have been several reasons i think, but i still learned a ton about Rails.
I think they wanted him to do a 3 hour code test before they even talked to him
As the son of a cop, I learned very early on that you should never talk to cops or any law enforcement. They are not on your side.
Yes, "liberate" the people with bombs and assassination.

History appears to like iteration.
On reddit today there is no room for political debate. it's just 'accept the views of the subreddit or be banned'