jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you already use a PoS, why would you replace it with another one that only supports customers who own an Apple device?

Did you read the article?

At checkout, the merchant will simply prompt the customer to hold their iPhone or Apple Watch to pay with Apple Pay, their contactless credit or debit card, or other digital wallet near the merchant’s iPhone, and the payment will be securely completed using NFC technology.

This will accept contactless cards, Google Pay, etc. as well.
> If you already use a PoS, why would you replace it with another one that only supports customers who own an Apple device?

What makes you think it only supports payment from Apple devices? The press release is pretty clear:

At checkout, the merchant will simply prompt the customer to hold their iPhone or Apple Watch to pay with Apple Pay, their contactless credit or debit card, or other digital wallet near the merchant’s iPhone
Oh, the Word "mark changes, annotate and pass away" model of change control doesn't work when everybody is using Word either.

It's basically deeply flawed, and once somebody decides to go through that road, your best bet is to read the annotations and redo them manually on the original document. That works about as well if your original is in Word or any other format.
Fair, we'll see. Zoom's screen share and participant control features are superior from what I've seen. It's also demonstrated scale with webinar and is the de facto choice there. Integration for Zoom into calendar events and just sharing abilities are pretty seamless. I don't like that I have to use a Google account to join Meet.
So on the nose..
> why would you replace it with another one that only supports customers who own an Apple device?

It's not only Apple Pay:

> US merchants will be able to accept Apple Pay _and other contactless payments_
What's the point of putting linters into CI? Is the point to fail the build if the code wasn't pre-formatted with i.e. Black? Or is the point to autoformat and autocommit the formatted code?
Hardly. The EU has been far more pro privacy than the US for a long time. We haven't used it to block US companies from doing business here. To the contrary, we've bent over backwards with various agreements to allow it to continue. But the last two agreements got shot down in court. Give us reasonable protections and you can compete on a level playing field with every other EU company.
Incredibly melodramatic. Comparing yourself to someone denouncing an anti-semitic persecution (and by implication your opponents to anti-semetic persecutors) is not really a good basis for discussion. I cannot find anything resembling an argument in this entire article. If the swedish education system is so uniquely, shamefully terrible, wouldn't we expect it to actually lead to worse results then that of other countries? Is there any evidence for that?
How many people need multi master, though? I'd guess it's much less than 1% of user base
Sounds like the 5S auditors have invaded your workspace!
Quite low considering India has 22% of world's population.
>Working from a lower cost area could be all the market supports in a few years.

At which point, SF and NYC would be low cost areas as well. This won't happen for various reasons but real estate is determined by demand of which employment opportunities are a big component outside of resort communities and similar.
I did some of the physics work (but was not the lead) for Papyrus racing games in the ‘95-‘97 era. Email’s in my profile if I can help.

My recollection of Vice City is that the vehicle dynamics model is not particularly realistic but optimized for “fun gameplay with a hint of realism” whereas Papyrus optimized towards “realistic gameplay with a hint of fun”. :D

Our physics engine was deeply, deeply tied to a particular isochronous rate (30 Hz, then later 60Hz, IIRC) with all kinds of hackery to make that happen and divorce rendering rate from physics rate. (On the PSX, we ran physics engine tied to the VBlank.)
I wonder what the implications are as far as facilitating folks who wish to take undemocratic steps that would seem to bring us closer to far more serious restrictions, imposed by those same folks as far as how a democracy is or isn't allowed to operate.

Is it someone's right to use a platform to push an agenda that leads to impacting other people's rights?
> If their friendship relies on you installing an app on your phone, that's a very shallow friendship isn't it?

This argument doesn't make sense. You can't just ignore practical aspects entirely and justify it with a cheeky "if they're truely your friends they'll accomodate ahah".

Sure if I want to send a private message to a friend I don't care whether its via SMS or whatsapp, but if I'm in a group chat with 5 of my friends I won't send a transcript of the conversation to the one person who doesn't participate.
In fact you had to be on a call, otherwise the dial tone would drown out your voices.
Then doubling down on the narrative that drives these people, one that is directly opposed to peaceful transfer of power: the illegitimacy of the election results. That's an incredibly dangerous message from the President of the United States, he's telling them to go home in one sentence and riling them up in the other, that encourages further insurrection around his persona.

Facebook is in the right not to allow that spark when whole situation is a powder keg.
The suggested summary removes the 'for at least 2 weeks' bit. That's quite important.
> Either way, they should not be an arbiter of public discourse.

They can be, but they should lose their platform status and be treated as a publisher, ie. take full responsibility for content on their pages. You can't have both.
Yeah! They should suspended the CEO of ANTIFA from FB, Twitter, Parler, WhatsApp, Telegram, and the Dominos app!
> It almost has a tilt shift kind of quality like it’s you’re focusing on one point.

It shouldn't be surprising to anyone that knows anything about cameras that if you don't have the lens lined up properly you'll get a tilt-shift effect. This is basically a rig that does controlled "lens whacking", where you don't mount the lens but you hold it freely to let light bleed through the mount and mess up the focal plane (https://philipbloom.net/blog/the-art-of-lens-whacking-real-l...)

I bet if the lens was mounted properly it would look... like a normal wide angle lens.
Exactly my thinking. It's just too obvious to me. Now that it's too late they're playing the "moral" card.
That's just your opinion.

By and large the BMW i3/i8 has received wide praise amongst motoring reviewers and has seen strong sales.
Many important databases do contain 100-byte rows. Sometimes the biggest tables contain 100-byte rows, and then smaller tables contain larger rows.

I'd have to disagree with your assessment of the value of math.

It's nice to see someone trying to do performance benchmarks, but there are some serious problems with the benchmark presented at symas.com.

1) The benchmark hardware used fusion I/O. If you can afford fusion I/O, and you don't care about compression, you should use InnoDB. But you didn't measure InnoDB. If you use fusion I/O you probably actually care about compression, which you didn't measure, since you disabled compression. Why even report space used if you've disabled compression?

2) You used libc malloc to try to make a "uniform test". TokuDB recommends the use of JEmalloc, and you mentioned that some other storage engine requires TCmalloc. There's a reason to use a better memory allocator, and some storage engines need it. You've misconfigured at least two of the storage engines.

3) You wrote TokuDB code using the embedded API without passing the flags that make the high-ingestion rate possible. I'll be the first to admit that the documentation is poor for Tokutek's embedded API (the API that looks like Berkeley DB), but that doesn't change the fact that you are misusing the software. In particular, it appears that you used `0' for the flag argument to the DB->put() operations, meaning that every write is preceeded by a query. Since you apparently didn't mess up the LSM-based API's, it's not a fair comparision.

4) You ran your benchmarks for 20 minutes on each storage engine. That's not nearly long enough. For example, the system won't have aged at all. Interesting things start happening when the the database has been running for a long time. Interesting things that are predicted by the math.
>People just don't trust authorities anymore, because authorities time and time again have misled them.

It certainly has to do with trust in authorities, but for many that loss of trust happened in childhood and left them with a paranoid mindset and diminished capacity for logical reasoning.

See:

“Associations between adverse childhood experiences, attitudes towards COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine hesitancy: a cross-sectional study”

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/2/e053915
Yea, maybe bring your cat or dog but literally pack like you're going on vacation. If they arrest you before leaving the country then you were screwed already.
Cool.If would be great to know how musk distributes his time between Tesla And Spacex.
Just a guess, but charging by the old school barrel jacks requires next to no protocol support. You just need to provide the correct voltage, and supply enough current.

Whereas with USB-C, you need to speak USB-C before it'll charge.

EDIT: oh, and it gives you the ability to avoid potential security attack vectors.
Thanks for pointing that out :) I wonder if they naturally had that narrator or if they hired an outside voice actor.
Formerly known as Freebase Gridworks as also mentioned in the article you linked
Maxar (Formerly DigitalGlobe) is hiring a software engineer for the Product R&D group based in the Westminster, Colorado office. Maxar operates the highest resolution commercial imaging satellites in the world. See some Maxar images here
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000007013566/cor...
and apply for the software engineer position here:
https://digitalglobe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MAXAR/job/W...
I was under the impression they ran a variety of Facebook personality quizzes and aquired the data through that against the Facebook TOS. Do you have a source for them "buying them" from Facebook?
They tried a little bit, didn't they? https://www.cnet.com/news/heres-why-the-facebook-phone-flopp...
I didn't read it that way at all. I read his comment as saying the list has a list of 3 books labelled as mandatory and non-fiction (and an unspecified number of books which maybe be any of optional and fiction), and then giving that list. He didn't call the books anything at any point.
True, and our perception of calories out is equally flawed. The average healthy adult male is supposed to burn 2500 calories a day. What if you're not average?

Maybe those people who are naturally skinny are doing 2800 a day and the fat people are 2200. 300 extra a day will add up to some serious weight gain in the long term.

Not to mention, maybe 21yr old you was at 2500cal but 35yr old you is only 2300.

So many people blindly carry on as if they're either average or young, wondering why they're still gaining weight. Then they'll start saying silly things like the laws of thermodynamics don't apply to dieting...
I wish people would focus more on PROGRAMMING rather than LANGUAGES. A better question might be, what area of computer science do you want to learn next?
Woops, missed that. Good article though.
For some reason, this is linking to Salon's mobile version. The standard version is available at http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/12/16/21st_century_s...
There's lots more interesting stuff on her web site, too: http://vihart.com/
Yes, they are actively destroying the network effect (more people = more useful) in this way. I hope they'll stop this before it's too late.
Same version number for me on OSX.
And I'm using the forum-version updater.
The video on the first link has the guy saying "Should we really be spending N dollars on soccer research!?!"

Prime example of misinformation that I was just discussing with someone yesterday.

He'd probably say we wasted billions on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Array so that NASA could listen to the radio.
Does it help to turn it around - you are paying a (probably marginally) higher price in the brick and mortar store in gratitude for the service (advice, time, hands-on experience with the gadget) they are providing. Nothing stolen, but fair compensation provided for information obtained.
Excellent guide and very nutritious.

On a side note I wonder how the pandemic will impact food service in the long run from the perspective that before the pandemic many people never prepared their own meals. Now in many areas people are for the first time limited to groceries and produce instead of restaurants and fast food. If people continue their own food preparation moving forward this will have interesting consequences for nutrition, poverty, food availability, and so forth.

As an interesting example my son attends a Title 1 school which means many students are utterly reliant on the school for meals while other meals are almost always fast food for many of these students. How parents are not able to afford to feed their children and yet drive new cars and give their children cell phones is a different conversation.
I did and I loved every moment of it :) Also in meatspace, enjoyed Bletchley Park in the UK.

Re: books, I liked Robert X. Cringley's Accidental Empires, but it covers only until 91 (or 93 if IIRC for the 2nd edition) of the PC industry and not really technical.

edit: also, of course: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
> Podcasts in particular do not scream "credibility"

Except when they have on doctors who are experts on viral disease. For example: https://peterattiamd.com/category/podcast/
Union symbol is not on the keyboard.

Sure, make it easy to type then we can use it instead of +

However, anyone who has been programming for a while should be able to puzzle out what + is doing.
What will it take to get the ECB to print money?

For better or worse, most of the medical costs are going to be spent on the older generation. More debt will become the burden of the current taxpayers and then the next generation.
Purely anecdotal but my wife is a doctor and plugged into a lot of other uk doctor moms and it feels like new children are doing relatively well thankfully. A friend had her 6 week old contract it and she's already back home and out of hospital now after just a few days of readmission. Never safe but hope this can give you a slight bit of good news.
https://csunplugged.org/en/
I think your average HN-er would be surprised by how knowledgeable the staff of politicians are about various things.
What about candidates who don't have several hours to spend on a programming assignment? Everyone seems to want one nowadays, and I don't have time to do one for everyone who asks.

I've done a bunch of programming tests, without progressing to the interview stage after doing them, and now I usually refuse.
Not in a single interview ever have I been asked about the runtime of an algorithm. On the other hand it is mentioned in almost every article about interviews for programming jobs. How many companies do actually ask such questions? If your future job is mainly building standard business applications, web sites or whatever, no one cares about theoretical runtimes. If your future job is somewhere in research, game, database or operating system development or some other fancy stuff, no one will care to ask for trivial things like asymptotic runtimes. Personally I think most of the time people - interviewers and article-about-interviews writers - just mention Landau notation because they think it makes them look smart without realizing how trivial it actually is.
It's a startup. Startups are notoriously hustle-and-bustle.
I don't even.. everything about this. Just no. Nope.
o lawd
If I run a social engineering attack on your credit card processor so that charges made at your store get paid to my merchant account instead of yours, is that not theft of revenue?

It's a similar scenario - you buy the inventory and do the work, I take the revenue.

Or, to take my benefit out of the scenario - if I place your CC processor account in sandbox mode so that none of the charges are actually captured?
Jepsen[1] is the killer app that's leading me to learn more about
the Clojure and Go ecosystems.

I mostly write Python by day but since Jepsen revealed consistency
problems in etcd[2], I've had to learn more Clojure/leiningen to see
if the ?quorum=true option fixed them.

What I've learned so far is that Clojure's error reporting sucks unless
you use something like Cider[3] and that etcd till fails to pass Jepsen
with ?quorum=true

1- https://github.com/aphyr/jepsen

2- https://aphyr.com/posts/316-call-me-maybe-etcd-and-consul

3- https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider
Switzerland and Singapore are both on that list, and fit the bill for "lower taxes, fewer public services".
As far as I know Github has always been profitable.
I think the question was more along the lines of what bundled module or functionality in Flask + SQLAlchemy specifically and uniquely makes REST interfaces easy to build.

Because I know of no such thing -- it's still very much roll-your-own or use a third-party library.
Working hard is a necessary but not sufficient condition for success. Like Patrick said, working very hard at digging ditches is not going to land you in a C-suite, obviously, but very few people end up successful WITHOUT working hard.
The BLM protests were so large that large numbers of non-protestors used the protests as cover to vandalize and loot, but the protests themselves were never organized around vandalism or violence. And indeed, investigations revealed that a number of the worst instances of vandalism were in fact instigated or committed by undercover police officers or members of the right wing, including the head of the Proud Boys (and he has admitted as much in public interviews). (The BLM bears some blame for organizing events knowing that non-protestors would use their protests as cover for committing unrelated crimes. The LA organizer admits that they deliberately disregarded this risk.)

Today, the protestors themselves were engaged in the acts of violence with the stated intention of intimidating legislators into disregarding their statutory duties. Several of the people breaking into the Capitol building organized the protest, and at least two of them are far-right-wing legislators and members of right-wing terrorist groups like the Proud Boys. The female protestor shot and killed today was shot in the act of attempting to break into the legislative chambers and her social media reveals extremist views supporting violence against legislators, which strongly suggests her plan, had she succeeded, would have involved threats of violence to intimidate the legislators trapped in the building.

The violence today was so different from the BLM protests that 3 White House staffers resigned, almost all of the Republican senators walked back their electoral objections and spent their time during the debate excoriating the President, and Republican leadership and cabinet members have openly begun planning to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president before his term expires in 14 days because of the danger they think he will attempt to inflict in the next 2 weeks.
Well, just search. But even just last week there was an article from a UK minister explaining that many dozens of Paris-style attacks have already been averted in Europe as a result of GCHQ spying. But that the tide is now growing so strong, and the terrorists much more wise after the Snowden leaks, that it is basically inevitable now that the UK itself will be attacked. The terror plot/arrests in Belgium recently were also guided by UK intelligence, he said.

Whenever you see "terror arrests made during dawn raid" on the news in UK, it's easy to dismiss it. But it happens pretty much every month now, and has been like that for a couple years now. Every one of these raids is potentially to stop a major terror attack; but the public is never told of the exact details of what they were plotting because otherwise that would defeat the purpose of averting a terror attack.
I think the genre is due for a revival. Another to look at is inkle's 80 Days. It has some simple illustrations, but is mostly a choose-your-own-adventure style interaction with focus on conversation. Very well done.
On the 2nd floor of Wean Hall at CMU somebody has sprayed a small patch of hydrophobic coating on one of the urinals (I think it's the 2nd floor, but definitely it's floor 2, 4, or 5). The stream normally turns into a "sheet" falling down the back of the porcelain, except around the patch -- where it hops off and turns into a thousand little droplets that bounce merrily down to the drain. Unless the person who put it there keeps re-applying it, the coating has had an impressive lifespan (at least 1 year in a semi-public toilet). Anyway, if you happen to be in the area (and male) you can try it yourself.
Thanks for the tip. I wouldn't dream of even applying to work for a company that used a product like this.

Rather than micromanaging the time of one's employees, how about looking after their accomplishments? For programmers, stuff like regular code checkins, how many of those checkins resulted in bugs being closed or feature requests being implemented, whether performance-critical portions of the software actually got faster, used less memory &c.
I hear this a lot, but no one ever gives me a search example that bears it out. I !g sometimes after I'm just not seeing what I want on DDG, and as often as not, the Google results are even worse.
You shouldn't rely on Mother Google or Daddy Facebook to fight your battles for you, because their interests are not the same as yours.

Real Names was protested to death the moment that Google+ came out; my understanding is that their compromise was that your entire Google profile was to use the same name, but that name could be a pseudonym so long as it was realistic. (If your legal name was weird, well, too bad, send in some ID.)

There's nothing we can do about this now, whining about it on HN. Choose to stop using YouTube, switch to a new account with a pseudonym, use Vimeo instead, start your own.
I think we need to ask ourselves whether providing the mechanism, markup or specification for which version of an image to load in order to maintain one and the same INTENT across clients should be the responsibility of front end developers/designers?

In my opinion, the only work the designer should have to do it to declare a particular image should be displayed. It should be the client<->server's responsibility to do its best in fulfilling that intent for each and every visitor.

To me, this is clearly a content negotiation issue and should not be solved in the form of verbose markup. Just because as designers we CAN always add markup, doesn't mean we should...not to mention the additional work of preparing multiple versions of the same image.
Uh, you are the one being melodramatic here, and childish, and arguing strictly from emotion.

You are trying to suggest the really vapid idea (over and over and over) that because no "names" are being supplied by one side (in a realm where divulging names might be harmful in itself), then no harm was done.

Hey, I'm a big supporter of transparency and whistleblowing activites.

And I still say to people behaving like you - do you have any clue whatsoever how illogical you sound?
So I signed up for an account, yet I was still unable to decipher what exactly it is. It says its a network 100K strong of coders and has the occasional competition. But I'm not sure what content is there to occupy time spending a year "playing top coder".