skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not forget that the 'wrong ethnicity' invaded Estonia in the 1940s and occupied it until 1991. As someone who has spent enough time in Russian communities which outright refuse to learn the language of their host countries, it's a little hard to sympathize with those of my fellow countrymen who cannot even take a language exam while also wanting citizenship thanks to the Soviet Union's occupation of the Baltic states. But yes, I agree that my particular situation is, of course, different.
If you look at it, Boeing has put improved technology in all of the other planes it makes, just not the 737. For instance they have retrofitted the 747 with fly-by-wire.

Fly-by-wire offers huge avionics benefits, reduces weight, fuel consumption, etc.

Planes with fly-by-wire also have inertial measurement units that contribute to envelope protection so they would have another input to work from rather than just the AoA vanes.
Most big government/military contractors are absolute shitshows because they get too much money and it's not very competitive.

Instead of having a good product or even marketing, they just bribe congress to have a gargantuan budget and somehow they always wind up getting a big chunk of it.

They should all be broken up as they're stifling the planet.
>I also wonder what might have happened to that other user whose account they tried to access had hey been successful. What would have come of that person's life / career had they used that as cover for Manning?

From the affidavit, the password they tried to crack was for the Windows user "ftp," not attributable to any person.

I don't understand how people can claim Assange is somehow at fault for attempting to save Manning from the terrible treatment she is still receiving for her deed.
> Wealthier parents can afford to donate, which turns into a bunch of benefits.

I live in (what has turned into) one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in my city. The elementary school has long been the envy of many. Not long ago I asked a long-time teacher from a nearby city, with whom I serve on a nonprofit board, what it was about that school that made young teachers want to work there — was it the additional funds from parents? Her response was no: it wasn't the extra funding, it was the parents themselves — educated, cooperative, involved.
And if you leave your shiny new car in the wrong part of town with the door open and the keys in the ignition, you're not calling for it to be stolen, but you know damn well it's going to be.

May doesn't want to call it a customs union, because her 2017 manifesto committed to leaving the Customs Union, but that's absolutely what it amounts to. I don't know whether Labour really want it, or even understand what it entails; I suspect they mostly wanted a point of disagreement with the government.
Capital gains are taxed when they're realized, and I don't think OP proposed changing that - only adjusting the rate so that it's not less than tax on regular income.
I think the political status of England should be decoupled from english, the language. The US have adopted it (while being on hostile grounds with the UK), so why can't we?
We're getting into nitpicking here, but what is the difference between a PS5 that is a spec-boosted upgrade of the PS4 and a PS5 that is fully backwards compatible with the PS4 yet still "next generation"? They're both AMD+AMD.
I can’t speak to any physical limitations that this poster seems to be speaking to (I only studied physics theory so I’m not too sharp on the details of lab / experimental devices / apparatuses) but I would guess intuitively that a fundamental limitation is that radio tends to be more coherent, so you aren’t relying on individual photons but rather aggregating a bunch of photons to measure a wave. In contrast, optical light tends to be incoherent (unless from a laser), so you have to measure individual photons and they aren’t really correlated with each other (so interferometry doesn’t work).
Depends on the number of devs you have working on the project. If you only have 1 then you can flex to 4 pretty easily and still have an efficient team. If you have 7 and flex to 10 then you're just adding inefficiency.
I doubt we’ll see broad 8K support in triple-A games for some time, but 2D games arguably benefit more from higher resolution, anyway. The Playstation 3, which ran most games at a maximum of 720p (many, like the Grand Theft Auto series, rendered internally at 640 or 512), actually supported 1080p output, something the Pixeljunk series used to great effect. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a sprite or vector-based game on the PS5 that does something similar with 8K.
Haha, that kind of looks like an e-hummer. I like it.
If "be google" is the barrier to entry, then the entire concept of competition in the free market is a lie.
> Maybe we need a word like "forecast" or "prediction".

Scrum (The org behind that flavor of agile) actually changed the language used in their guide back in 2011 from developers making a "spring commitment" to making a "spring forecast" for exactly these reasons.

https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast
Maybe this sounds a bit silly, but this is honestly one of the most mind-blowing thoughts I've read on Hacker News. Thanks, I can't believe I never thought of this myself in the past. :)
A quarter acre (10K square ft) is a pretty small amount of grass hence why this product is probably not worth it for you especially if quarter acre is total land ownage. But I'm more surprised how you only have to mow your lawn once a week. During the prime here on the East coast, you probably have to mow the lawn twice of week even if you don't obsess over it. It can get so long that even a high powered lawn mower will struggle if there is a little bit of moisture in the grass.
Mind-map inventor Tony Buzan passed away
> Other countries where it is officially used have nominated another of their official languages as their "EU" language (IE: Irish Gaelic; MT: Maltese).

That might change. The presence of England, which can't choose anything but English, means Ireland can costlessly designate Irish for reasons of ethnic pride. But almost nobody in Ireland can speak it -- without a ringer to choose English, Ireland could be forced into designating that instead.
I was impressed to find many interviews of Estonian politicians speaking it fluently.

That's a pretty niche area of interest, if you're not Estonian.
They didn't take a police report from me because the hit and run was by a city employee.

No, they have not gotten better.
My empirically-confirmed heuristic is that the time to deliver a feature set that someone would actually want to use is 2.5x-3x of the time I think of when asked for an off-the-cuff estimate.

Basically, multiply initial estimate by a number between e and pi -- no joke! It's a bit of a problem given that PM's think they're being generous with a 20% pad.
Globalization still has sharp edges cutting up those who aren't benefiting from it. You can preserve culture while still enabling commerce and shared prosperity, but it takes work.

My opinions as well. That's what we're here for!
Law makers do this all the time, they're called sunset clauses. If you're saying it should be automatically applied to all laws, well the idea of automatic anything sounds nice if it actually works as intended, the problem is it so often ends up not working as intended.

The problem with your cited pattern isn't the duration of laws. It's the founding principle of the "big power" to only serve its own interests. With that founding principle, it can only ever require constant vigilance to push back. One possible alternative founding principle is the "benefit corporation" that requires by company charter, to have social benefit in addition to seeking profit.
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This looks great, please add an RSS feed ;)
Fair enough. >.5ms is needed for this.
No, because average speed doesn't increase the number of collisions as much as speed differential does.

If everyone is going 70 mph, it's quite safe. It's the one moron going 50 mph or the one asshole going 90 mph that will cause the crash.
The OP is talking about remote workers.

In my home country (Australia) foreign currency cheques apparently take up to 8 weeks to clear.

The bank my Thai business uses say it can take “up to several weeks”.

Sending a check isn’t solving anything it’s creating a fucked situation for the person you’re paying because paper cheque’s are an antiquated method of payment.

In countries outside the US domestic bank transfers are usually free or very cheap with instant - a few days clearing time (we pay about 12 baht on transfers - 38 us cents - scheduled two days ahead, or 20 baht for same day).

Even foreign wire transfers are relatively cheap - I made a $300 “donation” to an open source maintainer last month. I elected to pay the fees at both ends, it cost $36 (and that’s a fixed cost, it’s not % based) and arrived in a different country the same fucking day.

Edit: oh and despite you constantly claiming “no fees” for cheque’s, every bank I’ve checked said they charge a fee for processing a foreign cheque, and none of them specify how much. A bank fee that they won’t tell you before you’re in front of them in the branch is a fee that’s too ridiculous to publicise.
Very interesting! Though it seems like you'd grow accustomed to this font and lessen it's effect if used regularly as part of a study process.
It doesn't really work. Even with a great connection you will get kicked off of their servers.
You might just not be hearing about what's happening in this area. Off the top of my head, formal tools are being applied at Microsoft (slam, everest, sage, Z3, ...), at Amazon (AWS security), at Netflix (tla+), at numerous hardware companies (Intel, AMD), at EDA vendors like Cadence and Synopsys, in avionics (DO-178C), and of course in academia (CompCert, L4 verified kernel, ...). I'm probably missing a lot.
I absolutely feel your pain. As a matter of fact I've been lobbying internally for a refresh of webMathematica for years. Maybe something is going to come out in the near future. Please hold on :)
>Asking questions is OK.

Is it?

Questions have built in assumptions and implications. Most questions don't have enough to be of concern, but some questions definitely imply things beyond the question itself. When asked 'Does it all take that long?', many hear an implied 'Make it not take so long.' command. It is not implied all the time, but it is implied often enough. This does not mean someone has low self-confidence or needs therapy.
nope.
you need to know how the thing that you're responsible for works. no exceptions.

what you can have is an interface to another service/team that represents the boundary of your service. When shit breaks and you isolate the breakage to this dependency you wake them up (preferably you detect and you raise this automatically). bonus point if you thought about this as you were building your stuff and your service can work in degraded mode while the thing is solved.

owners for services if okay as long as owner == team. if owner == individual you're doomed + people owning critical things will hate you and their job.
To be fair, it's much less niche than interviews with Estonian politicians in Estonian, if you're not Estonian.
I think China is in the awkward transition between “post-colonial country doing well for themselves” to “global hegemon”. I’m sure at some point it would have come across as arrogant scoffing to gripe about Americans, too.
I'm sure the agreement people made to play had language about changes to the service, 100%. Lawyers dont miss this kind of stuff.

"I don't understand how online games work or terms and condition" is not the same as false advertising.
It seems as though they would have a hard time doing this. If the website is based in America, they can't take it down. They probably can't extradite either; the rule is typically that it has to be illegal in both nations.

How can they enforce this?
reddit link syntax doesn't work on HN, btw.
I feel sad for the likely future where you can't go anywhere without seeing English. It's one of the reasons tourist traps feel so grotesque.

Easy for me to say when I'm already fluent in it, but one of the most novel, equalizing experiences of travel is being in a new place and not having the crutch of your native language.

Of course, also easy for me to say when none of the downsides of EU fragmentation affect me.
Is there any prediction on the future of stand-alone gaming consoles with 5G and streaming games(e.g., Google Stadia) coming soon?

While I'm not really much of a gamer now I spent a lot of my childhood playing video games and the thought of dedicated home game consoles going the way of arcades makes me sad.

I think I'll finally pick up that Switch I've been planning on...
Thank you! I'll take a look!

Edit: Seems like it's bugged? `fields are not currently supported`
Obviously the proof will be in the pudding, but it looks like 5 years is now the (aggressive) goal for rebuilding...

https://apnews.com/0978e08a5e4848348cdb80745ab2ab8a
The beautiful old Breton town of Saint-Malo was also rebuilt "historically", but not "exactly" - where they could not find original plans or reuse stones from buildings, they recreated them in a style that they felt was a best approximation of how it had looked before. (That was after the Wehrmacht made a holdout of the town in August 1944, and the Americans dealt with it by expediently bombing 80% of the town to rubble.)

[] https://paysages.ille-et-vilaine.fr/IMG/jpg/5_3_stmaloarretc...
I think a lot of the issue is the misconception that G/W/T feature files can essentially replace specifications/requirements. They can and absolutely should REFLECT the requirements, but they are ill suited to act as the actual specifications themselves.

Feature files to me are most effective when they act as a roadmap of the steps one needs to take to effectively test a given set of use cases, NOT a 1-1 carbon copy of the requirements. It should tell a non-programmer what the test is doing without having to dive into the code, while being a scaffold to which a programmer can build their test logic into. If one needs to look at the requirements, one should do just that, read the requirements document, or in the developer's case, read the requirements set forth in the user story. Scenarios are guides to how to navigate what the test is doing, not what the application itself should be doing.

Also, I often see programmers attempt to write a BDD test and run into a case that doesn't quite fit flush into G/W/T, then ask the community of how they might go about writing that test. Instead of understanding flexibility, they are met with an abrupt "that's not BDD, you are doing it wrong, if you did it the BDD way everything would work out". That's discouraging, frustrating, and destructive. G/W/T is not gospel, and it doesn't fit all test cases. I see nothing wrong with fudging some tests to not follow Gherkin to-the-letter if it better facilitates a test while still remaining clear what the test is doing in plain English within the feature file's scenario.
Yes, it is rumored that PS5 is Zen 2 + Navi and Xbox Scarlett is also Zen 2 + Navi. That leaves room for different RAM, different numbers of CUs, different accelerators, etc. but they're expected to be pretty similar.
HN effect? Site's not loading for me.
re: " I can already communicate with anyone in the world, "

Summing up some of the other comments: 5G isn't about (personal) communication per se. No more "accessing the cloud". With 5G we'll be wrapped in the cloud. Etc.

I'm not saying it's imperative we go there. Only that that's where we're headed. For better of worse. Like it or not.
I'm not sure about that book however this one: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-UML-Statecharts-Event-Drive...

got on my reading list by virtue of the misfortune of dealing with code written by programmers who adopted the book's approach.

The thesis was that state machines are a powerful formalism that can be fully verified because all the states and edges between them are known. That's half-right: they are powerful because state transitions are essentially "goto" by another name. In practice goto-based programming is brittle to requirement change. The damning part is that state machines don't live in isolation: they interact asynchronously with other state machines and the world at large. The dynamic behavior of these interactions is probably important! and not part of individual state machines. You'd need to co-simulate them.

I feel state machines have their place where no higher-level construct (usually I prefer coroutines) fits the job and it can be kept small and rewritten on requirement change.
I'm amazed that you're amazed. It's the bucket listing isn't it. Somehow we all want to experience Paris, New York or Switzerland before we die. I wonder why. There was another HN thread about tourism and travel once, and someone argued, at least with "tourist traps" you know you'll be having an experience, if you do your own thing (that's never been done before) you might end up being disappointed. And travel/free time is limited.

But yeah, the thing promised (e.g. Paris: a magical romantic city) vs the reality (a metropolitan with people who can be rude, plus other obnoxious tourists) differ, I guess your standard tourist lies to themselves saying they're having a great time. Which is easier with Instagram, you curate your own memory, and as a bonus you get validation from other people while doing it.

Life is weird...
yeah. the 10x-er usually play the role of wrecking havoc and after that the 0.1x-ers usually clean it up and stabilize it. If you're in that situation you need to get to greener pasture after you've put a reasonable amount of effort into explaining why this is bad + trying to raise awareness
Did not see that coming.

Press Release:
Qualcomm and Apple® today announced an agreement to dismiss all litigation between the two companies worldwide. The settlement includes a payment from Apple to Qualcomm. The companies also have reached a six-year license agreement, effective as of April 1, 2019, including a two-year option to extend, and a multiyear chipset supply agreement.
Somewhat off-topic, but the touch-typing website linked showed an example of simpsons paradox after I tried it for 10 minutes to get a baseline.

My overall speed decreased over the 10 minutes of practice, but each letter either was flat or improved; the tool is apparently designed to give you more practice with the keys you are slower at, so as it figured out which keys I'm slow with, my overall speed decreased.
I don't disagree with pwthornton, but I'd also point out Sony has a looooong history of hype-hype-hyping the heck out of their hardware, far beyond its actual capabilities. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest they ship "ray tracing" capabilities that work on one launch game, and every other (serious) game developer takes one look at and says "no thanks, the 'conventional' pipeline for me, thanks" because in their rush to get it in there and get it shipping it'll have some critical oversight that renders it nowhere near as useful as it could have been. (For instance, not having enough bandwidth to and from the raytracing elements to be able to keep up or something like that, or if you use that mode it turns off too many other useful features so that nobody ever really uses it, for example, if you can raytrace but then architecturally have no practical way to post-process the image because it's all set up to be shoveled straight to the display, few game developers may find it that appealing.)

I still run into about one person a year on the internet who still can't understand why we're not all running Cell processors in our desktops, or who still thinks the PS3 has never had its power "fully unlocked", the answer being Sony hyped them well beyond what the tech could actually handle. In the end, it was merely about the level of hardware we'd expect for that amount of money at that time in a console, and was somewhat ahead of the XBox 360 in some ways and somewhat behind in others, not some sort of massive cutting edge next step thing that nobody caught up to for years.

I'd say take Sony's claims with a grain of salt, but that's probably not strong enough; do something more like divide everything they say by 4 or 5 and you're probably getting closer to the truth.
I wonder if pc-engines will come out with a new board based on this. The APU platform is getting a bit long in the tooth.
> Old, sad white men

Would it be better if they were old, sad black men?
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Actually it started out as a 2x2 matrix (scope/schedule), and all of them were scope = flexible and schedule = inflexible (of course), and they started adding the "resources = flexible" row so that they could walk back their claims of scope being flexible, because of course it wasn't.
As I understand it (and I'm not an expert) the difficulty around PS3 backwards compatibility was an effect of its weird architecture.

The PS4 (and XB1) are structured like most other PCs. It makes sense the peripherals would still be compatible, and it would be easy to make games backwards compatible.
That's an odd comment because it is just a new iteration of the same architecture- it's an x86 computer.

A new os and other bells and whistles doesn't change that. Its just going to use a better SOC.
The essential quote is toward the end:

"The term SOA has been so co-opted by vendors trying to sell stuff that I think it will die off as a term."

I think it did! I definitely didn't remember what it stood for. (The author does provide a definition, but it's on the 25th time he uses the acronym :) )
> These are all legal terms of art.

More like the art of legalese, TBH.
Is there any reason to think the companies given access didn't slurp up the Facebook data for themselves? Have any of them denied it or tried to qualify what they did with their access to the Facebook API?

Back in the day, I was part of a team that built an app that used Facebook Connect/what they were then calling the "Graph API" for login, and our app certainly saved all the data that Facebook made available back into our own database.
Not OP, I'd be perfectly fine with a tax specifically on limited liability, and I think you vastly underestimate the value of that arrangement to the company owners.
Hmm. I don't know about JSON and REST, but an API would definitely be interesting. In general, I think Wolfram (the company and the man himself) has a very narrow Mathematica-centric view of the world. Every feature begins and ends in the Mathematica notebook interface. That's very limiting.

A good full API would let me use a sane interface (see my other comment about the horrible notebook interface experience with more complex expressions), it would let me use Mathematica in server environments, it would let me make use of Mathematica as a service (which I'd like Wolfram to offer).

Related: I always wished for a Mathematica computational service in the cloud, so that I could offload my larger computations right from the interface. Instead of computing that matrix on my crappy local computer, send everything off to a powerful computer and do it there.
This is my favorite all time comment on HN. Thank you for these words. I agree!
Also keep in mind that our best guess is that the previous attempt to restore Notre Dame is what started the fire in the first place.
Learning to Sell as a Technical Founder
The difference is that driving is mostly under your control, while flying is not.
Evaluating Rio
What If Microsoft’s Skype Integrated XRP?
Would you be willing to share a bit of what happened, so that others know what not to do / why not to do it?