skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nonsense. So someone is going to buy a brand new car and then sell it at an enormous loss shortly after? The cost of the reliability and modern features has to be paid by someone and it doesn’t make any sense to assume that someone else is essentially going to pay for you by taking that loss. When people sell used cars it’s usually because there’s something wrong with it.

Yea, you can find nice used cars but it’s a crap shoot and not everyone has the time to wait around and look for that one car.
Because if they told you that you smell, you could counter that being tidy was not in the job description and take them to the court.

They'd rather be safe.
Also working in both I don't have this issue. I generally find types make refactors faster - I have less bugs from the refactor.
Updated, thanks for the suggestion :thumbsup:
Your dad did the math wrong. LiFePO4 batteries last significantly longer than lead acid, 2-10 times more cycles. They can handle higher loads and charge faster. They are also more energy dense so they take up less space.
I won’t win any argument over price or the remote, although a case for the remote makes it at least tolerable.

I wonder how much this has to do with the apps we use and the generation of Roku. I mostly use a few apps: Plex, Netflix, Prime, Tablo and iTunes. On the TCL I have, the Roku is clearly underpowered. The UI is sluggish and both the Plex and Tablo apps struggle with 1080p content. During the Olympics, the NBC app barely worked.

Anyway: choices are good.
For a “critical piece of software with no alternatives” you could imagine having one to a few crashes a day, but not hundreds of them. Using such a buggy software for “critical” stuff would be close to insanity ;).
> All I see is posts against the tories online but every election they've been the majority.

They got 36.9% at the last election.

They also fought against moving towards proportional representation because they knew it reduce their power.
>Why do doctors continually perpetuate this notion that slipping softly into death (palliative care, hospice) is preferable to continually trying to avoid it by way of riskier and riskier attempts at treating the root cause?

Most end-of-life decisions don't involve an otherwise healthy young person who might expect another 50 or 60 years of good-quality life, they involve someone who has multiple serious health problems and is definitely going to die of something in the very immediate future.

We're not talking about saving lives, we're talking about briefly delaying an inevitable death. How much suffering would you be willing to endure for the possibility of another few days or weeks in a hospital bed?

Doctors know what these deaths look like. They know what it feels like to effectively torture someone for no good reason. Doctors overwhelmingly choose palliative care for themselves, because they know that extraordinary medical efforts for very sick patients are invariably brutal, miserable and futile.
Some, not all of them of course.

But some believe any old shit that vile hate rags like the Daily Mail bombard them with - let's not pretend that xenophobia and ignorance don't exist among voters in the UK.
> The FAA is not a global organization, they don’t have oversight over any of the crashed aircraft.

The FAA has bilateral agreements with other countries and the EU for certification[1]. I read recently but can't quickly find in this that the FAA trusts EASA's certs for Airbus flying in the US.

The Ethiopian agency also trusts the FAA and EASA for this information[2]

So, it's not really tricky here, we can blame the FAA for the crash of a US manufactured plane in a foreign land (if the problem was the FAA's certification process).

[1] - https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/international/bilatera...

[2] - https://web.archive.org/web/20180215175924/http://www.ecaa.g...
As someone who reads a lot of articles online, I agree with you.

Medium, and similar websites, should push their images via HTTP2.

But as everything in life, it depends, read my use case for lazy loading…

I maintain a few marketing websites for a game studio, and as you can guess these websites contain several high-resolution images that —according to the marketing team— need to be loaded all together from the front page. This is obviously a stupid requirement, but I don’t get paid to complain, instead I decided to add lazy loading to these websites. Many users just visit the home page to access the navigation bar, and jump to internal pages specific to the games they are interested in, they don’t care about the rest of the content, so why should I —as the maintainer of these websites— force the immediately download of all these heavy images?

I, too, pay for a limited mobile plan (CAD $95 for only 3GB per month, yeah, I know, it’s very expensive) so of course I want to avoid the download of unnecessary resources from every website I visit. Unfortunately, I do not maintain every major website in the Internet, so I cannot optimize things for the masses. I can only give a good example using the websites I maintain. I am looking forward to have `loading="auto"` enabled by default in every modern web browser, that or 5G with less expensive data plans, but that’s a different story.
There is no incentive for a company to spend their time explaining what you did wrong at an interview if they are already sure they don't want to hire you. And if the reason for not choosing you is not very constructive, there's no point at all in sharing it.

Your best bet might be to ask about how you did at the end of the interview. I had some luck with interviewers explaining me a solution to an interview problem that they would consider perfect.
Is it this? https://roli.com/products/seaboard/
Wait, type checking is good again?

Suits me.

Welcome to 1985 folks :-)
Yes I wanted to do this initially but some things, like function overloads are kind of a mess. It depends really on what tags you need. You should look through the typescript issues related to jsdoc. Additionally, it's a bit of a mess trying to output declarations if you mix ts and js because enable checking js disallows emitting declarations, and declarations are only emitted for ts. You can get around this by setting your editor to check js, but leaving it off in the config. But then at that point I have no idea how you'd create documentation for that.

In general, contrary to what you'd expect, documentation options for ts seem poor. Typedocs is painful and ugly. I'll be trying DocFx next but it looks like it has a complicated workflow.

Also you should imo have some typescript experience to be able to write the jsdocs in a way that they work how you expect (e.g. typing a parameter as an object does not work how you would expect, it).

So next thing I thought was to just write js and accompany each file with a manual .d.ts definition. This works when you consume the exports of the file but it doesn't when you're within that file (see https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/30304) which makes it useless imo. Also even if it worked, now that I think about it, I'm again not sure how creating documentation for that would work.

In the end I've reluctantly settled for just switching completely to typescript and hopefully the documentation situation will improve when tsdoc gets farther along.
Two things have helped when I've felt adrift in the past:

* Reflection: Think about what activities are really useful for introspection (this is person-specific) and do a lot of it. For me, it's journaling -- I started writing a lot. I came across an interesting site recently (750words.com) where people write 3 pages a day and it trains you to just get your thoughts out. Seems interesting.

* Make a big change to your environment: Take a sabbatical or a big trip. Go to a place where you can immerse yourself in an environment that feels completely different. Actively try to get inspired and to find yourself.

Good luck, friend!
It's literally the first slide after the title!
For me: HN, Reddit, Indiehackers and a few private Slack groups.
Same trick worked for young me when I started dating...
This hits home for me. I bought 100+ albums on iTunes, and accidentally did so on two different accounts that can never be merged. Every time I buy a new device (which feels like all the fricking time), remembering passwords and trying to get access to two different accounts is a PITA. I most certainly don't feel like I own the music in the way I did with CDs. So now I stream and haven't bought an album in over a year. That sucks for the artists who make essentially nothing from the streaming services, but buying doesn't feel like a legitimate option.
Also, Android is more than the SDK: almost every game running on this platform uses the NDK.
well I don't do any stock market stuff but I seem to remember from a high school class the wisdom that puts and calls were extremely volatile and you should stay away unless you were really really good.
though I agree with you mostly I feel you are ignoring a couple of things

1) Pain, often pain management becomes a much bigger issue than going all out fighting vehemently to prolong your life by a few more days/weeks/months. Its hard to understand what chronic pain does to you and your mind unless you or a close loved one goes through it. Often pain management also aligns with 'slipping gently into the night'.

2) Incentives, hospitals are in the business of making money and they's gladly run marginally useful tests and medicines until they max out whatever coffers they can. as I see its not long before the ethical/common sense minded providers get overpowered by the money making machine and give in. as it is perhaps you are not aware there was a study that concluded most (IIRC 75%) of a persons healthcare expenses happen in last 18months of their lifes. just ask yourselves this, would you rather give your inheritance to your kids & grandkids or some hospital trying to maximize profits by promising you random treatment that increases you life by a few months? ultimately this should be your decision to make but there should be strong protections around the options providers can present to you.

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Siri actually works pretty well for me on tvOS, unlike iOS where I find it worse than useless.

“Siri, play the song X in Spotify.” “I’m sorry, I can’t do that right now.”
>Life is still life, and death is still infinitely worse.

I assure you that this is untrue. There's a reason why people on the upper floors of the World Trade Center jumped from the windows, and it's not because they expected a soft landing. There are many, many things in this world worse than a peaceful death.
Spent a lot of time at Superchargers bored as hell because supercharging sucks. Wound up talking to hundreds of other Tesla owners over the course of hundreds of supercharging sessions.
Nuclear is much more expensive per kWh than renewables.

The intermittency of renewables renders nuclear unable to coexist with them. Nuclear is inflexible and wants to be able to sell all the time, but can't do that when renewables crash the price on the power market. You might say this is a renewable problem, but it's just as much a problem of nuclear being too inflexible to adapt to a dynamic power market.
If you want to see what changed between two versions you are merging (both without your changes), your currently in progress merge, and your current version before you started merging.
Maybe in order to certify the octopus is free-range the certifier should demand they be farmed in intellectually stimulating conditions, like with coral and rocks and the ability to trap fish with various types of camouflage.
The Epic/Steam War Is Here and Game Devs Are All for It
> Many of the fancy foods on here come from Whole Foods

.. did we read the same list? Do you think lentils are "fancy"? Spinach? Mushrooms? Them starting with algae is probably a weird move, but regionally they are very available.

> how do you not feel hungry? If I don't have meat, I tend to stay hungry.

You need to think more critically, you probably crave meat because you have it almost every meal. Entire subcontinents and religions avoiding all meat products for millenia probably didn't all just "feel hungry and perform bad".

Just like like it's easy enough for someone to start eating meat, it's just as easy for you to stop.
"We now insist that Web pages load in a quarter of a second, when we had no problem with two seconds in 2009 and four seconds in 2006."

Not true at all. The "scientific" benchmark of "instant" page loads is 250ms. This is the goal. Pages should load instantly because they can load instantly, poor connection or large content notwithstanding. Four second page loads were absolutely not "okay" in 2006. They weren't even the norm.

Always aim for those 250ms, everywhere. For example, if your programming workflow takes more than a second to do a build iteration cycle, it's bad. Slow tools are bad. The status quo may be bad, but that's no excuse not to aim higher.
Well are you disputing the damage inflicted to the environment by meat consumption, or are you saying you should be allowed to harm the environment with no limitation or consequence whatsoever?
I completely agree with you, but the criticism isn't usually with typing number, it's typing complex higher-order functions or this kind of things. Where the time lost isn't in typing out the code, but in understanding what the type should be or (worse) what does this cryptic typing error means
One thing I can't find much evidence of is Uncle Bob's experience in delivering commercial software. I get the feeling he works mainly on toy examples which might explain some of the things he advocates that, like you, don't match my experience at all.
I do have to say, this way of the N9 is really efficient and quick. I use it on my Jolla 1 phone, and you dial to the hour, and to the minute. Just two press/swipe actions. Not 20 up-up-up presses.
if you were to accelerate a Toyota sedan (any of them) to 70mph, then stomp on the brakes while holding the accelerator to the floor, the car will absolutely come to a complete halt in about the same distance as if you didn’t have your foot on the accelerator.

Are you saying the additional, let’s say, what?, 60kW of power being applied to the wheels will require no additional effort at the brake pedal to overcome.

Colour me unconvinced.

I’ve never tried to imitate a burnout at 70mph / I’m not convinced the circumstances are the same.
Also surprised by how relatively inexpensive real estate was.

It's not just the price, it's whether you can get financing for it. As noted elsewhere, there are areas where a 30 year mortgage is simply not an option.
Nice. does it support animations as well?
Would be nice to have somekind of mouse hover effects
As a side note, I’m offended by the commenter above you.

Rather than being offended, I think it would be more persuasive to others if you were able to quantify what you've witnessed.

You imply that there are buildings that did not need air-conditioning when constructed, but do need it now because of climate change. I don't know what the answers are, but let's consider what statistics would be useful to defend your statement.

First, since you are talking about air-conditioning, we can probably restrict to summer temperatures. It's not clear if we can look only at daytime highs, since higher temperatures at night are also uncomfortable. Since we're talking about a threshold, we can probably restrict to the single hottest month. For Phoenix (and I'd guess the rest of the Southwest?) this looks to be July.

So to tell a compelling story, you'd probably want to show that the average high or average low for July has increased significantly since the time the building was built. How much is significant? I don't know, but if the claim was that it didn't need AC when built (as opposed to saying that it needs it more often now) I'd think we'd want to see a change of about 5F (2C). There might be a good argument for a lower number (perhaps humidity has also increased?), but it likely would be less convincing than a large jump in temperature.

Finally, you'd want to show that the increase in temperature is due to climate change, rather than the effects of urbanization. More blacktop, more buildings, and more air conditioners (!) will increase the number on the thermometer in an urban environment even if the climate hasn't changed. On the bright side, most published temperature records have already been adjusted to remove these Urban Heat Island effects. But do realize that your perception that it is hotter might be affected by the build up of the environment, so the temperature either needs to be measured outside of urban areas, or adjusted for the non-climatic changes.

So instead of taking offense, could you perhaps point to a historical chart of July temperatures for where you live, showing that the temperature (adjusted for urbanization) has increased significantly since the buildings were built?
Paperplane That Always Comes Back
I wonder if it has anything to do with people showing unannounced and uninvited on the sub continent historically actually had to land there, i.e. the Portuguese and the British.
This is a supported feature on Google's Clock app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

You can trigger a Google Assistant routine including turn on the lights, report the weather and start playing podcasts.
This actually doesn't sound like a side effect, but, rather, an intended one: an attempt to contaminate patenting in the industry.

I find it a smart move. Not sure what it really bears though: "for the greater good of the industry" incentive or just a PR move with a string attached.
My personal experience strongly disagree with yours. Not every subreddit develops a community where people recognize each other, but many do. Or, as you say, I'm imagining it.

Regardless, my argument still holds. Whatever semblance of community there is, it's obvious it won't appreciate someone disrupting it in order to make a buck.
Have you tried using AltDrag for window positioning? I've been using it for years and it's been a real life saver.
A Japanese spacecraft just blasted a new crater into an asteroid
Candy bars and sneakers seem to be in this category where manufacturers would rather reduce the quality of the product than raise the price.
What I mainly liked about TS is that it's basically plain js with some typeinfo sprinkled on top. So no barrier of entry for existing js developers.

Now I work on a project with Elm for the frontend. It's not as easy to just jump into, so wouldn't use it for a project where lots of developers sometimes have to make additions. But once up to speed, Elm is great.
Agreed. I would have no problem paying $100/month for a platform that let me stream any movie and tv show I wanted. Hell, give me packages instead (such as Disney content or Fox). The worst they can do is require 5 different accounts across 5 different services that all provide random content with overlap between services. Do you think folks would be fine with paying for 3 different cable boxes and subscriptions? No of course not, and the same applies here.
I'd encourage a multi-pronged approach:
* Job boards make it easy to find jobs, but it's a volume game
* If you find a job or company you like, you can go the extra mile by cold emailing someone on the team for an informational interview -- you can learn a lot more about the job, the team, and get a leg up versus other candidates
* You should definitely tell your friends you're looking and ask for referrals

Like @pradpk said, the quality of your resume and anything you apply with is key. Job search success is basically (Volume ) x (Conversion Rate).
First off alochol is a strictly regulated substance and a drug. I hope we're not actually treating speech on online platforms as if it was a dangerous substance.

Secondly, when I go to the store I obviously consent to having my ID checked. What has never happened in my life is that I bought something on an online platform, and one week later the company representative shows up and asks me for my information.

It's one thing to enter some place of business voluntarily, it's an entire different thing for a private company to actually pursue me to my home. In fact, the alcohol store owner has literally no idea where I live, because unlike facebook store owners aren't in the habit of keeping track of my home address.
> laws preventing family members from prolonging the suffering

This would be inconsistent with the profit motive, which incentivizes patient treatments not cures.
In my last job I used arch and awesome. One monitor and 9 desktops. Liked that very much
Can't you just make/use a browser plugin that removes all ping="" attributes from anchor tags?
I still have and use my Zune HD. It works relatively well, is very small, has a long battery life and headphone jack, and most importantly I get the ironic hipster cred for using a Zune in 2019 ;)

The "Metro" design language of the Zune devices, including the HD, influenced the Windows Phone and other Microsoft products. The Zune was the first device to have the tile layout many miss from the Windows Phone.

Zune Music Pass, an all-you-can-listen monthly music subscription service à la Spotify, was way before its time. I think it was the first such offering ever.

Unfortunately its "app store" had a total of 47 apps. On the plus side, you can install every Zune app ever at once :P

It also runs IE5, I think? Maybe IE6? It barely supported CSS at all.
They are really good at cashing checks and charging more on top of that: http://www.investigativepost.org/2018/02/19/taxpayers-fund-i...
Ask HN: Dealing with Preferential Treatment
Hi all,

I've been tormented for a while about some things I notice in the way our engineering teams work (I'm a software engineer in a tech company).
It seems like engineers are quite noticeably split into a handful who get access to more interesting/high-profile pieces of work and opportunities to grow, and the grunts who get assigned more menial pieces of work, with no serious growth prospect.

Since I'm quite new in the industry, I'm wondering if this is normal or usual in the field, or if it's a red flag that should make me wonder.

Does anyone have similar or contrasting experiences?
The problem is not the missing extra angle of attack sensor, but incompetence at every step.

If I understood correctly, MCAS trimmed it so much that the pilots were unable to bring it back manually.

This sounds like Boeing engineers didn’t even put a limit on the maximum trimming that MCAS can do, not even to the maximum theoretical limit for the plane/engines.
Is there a summary of this hour-long video?
> Suffice to say, the average PS1 JRPG contains a very archetypal story.

I'm not sure how others feel but to me I've definitely noticed a much stronger emphasis on wowing visual effects in today's RPG's and a much weaker focus on the story and plot lines as was the case in past games.
I kid you not, I wrote and posted this whole thing in less than 5 minutes this morning after having bought the TV yesterday. The word "clickbait" is giving me too much credit, yet here we are.
I know a lot of languages already, so unless there is a significant advantage to using a given language I'd probably pick one of the many I know already.

Typescript has significant advantages over vanilla JS, so that's why I use it. If those other options offered a significant improvement over Typescript AND said features were something I needed, I wouldn't hesitate to use it. For now, getting better at the languages I already know seems like a better use of time.