skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I like to work at small businesses, where I'm either the only developer or one of just a few.
Even with annual turnovers, through the website, of approaching $10million/year (in my current and last role) there is very little oversight of what I do - there's literally no-one to challenge me on a technical level.
That doesn't mean I abuse my position, but it does give me a lot of technical freedom in how I create the functionality the business asks for.
Yes, in the US. The Constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial for any “serious” offense, which apparently means anything where the potential sentence is greater than six months. Individual states can grant the right to a jury trial for lesser offenses as well if they wish.
> Bear in mind, even if Epic wasn't offering incentives for exclusives, it would still be silly for game developers to release on both: Sales on Steam would hurt their sales on Epic, and they profit vastly more from Epic sales.

That's clearly not the case yet, otherwise Epic wouldn't be investing so much effort into pulling exclusives, including games that already have started taking pre-orders on other platforms (to be fair, it seems like those are being honored)

Making their platform a bit less shit for users might help too. It's not like Steam is a pinnacle of good UX that's impossible to beat. Winning through quality and good support would certainly feel better than the impression of "We can burn money getting into this market, so let's buy stuff people want" they're leaving now.
Ah. They are fixed long term, that explains the huge margins. Here we do 3-months mostly so the lenders risk in terms of future costs of their borrowing is near zero. That’s why my rate is e.g 1.3%. I have part of my mortgage fixed at a 2y interest rate but I wouldn’t want to fix it longer (and I would hate to have pegged my rate pre-2008 to some interest rate based on the expectation of inflation from back then)
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> Of course you wouldn't know - this is why these sites are operated clandestinely, and you - the American people - will never know what your government is doing in your name at these sites.

And yet, you seem to.
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What about http://ssw.jku.at/dcevm/ ?
> Story points being used for the team and to tell management how much work is being done are not mutually exclusive.

That's the thing though, in reality they really are mutually exclusive. As soon as management starts using a metric to measure the team's performance, that metric stops being useful for the team to improve itself, because now there is a perverse incentive to inflate the metric to get performance rewards.
That's not what I meant. I didn't say "tests are hard". I said "It's hard to measure knowledge using tests", from the perspective of whoever needs to elaborate those.

In the end, tests end up approving a lot of people that learned next to nothing, as I myself succeeded in several by memorizing for the short term. I couldn't tell how many jingles I used to go through tests. In rarer cases, they also bombing someone with a reasonable understanding of the subject that maybe just was having a bad day or was sick.
Show HN: First Android Game
It might have even gotten IT the budget to upgrade, too. I bet it was pretty hard for IT to ask for many millions of dollars to upgrade in-house apps to be cross-browser compatible when there was no urgent need. A banner on every exec's page makes it easier.
Japan and South Korea succeeded due to substantial American occupation and influence. Taiwan is a similar situation. From the perspective of liberty, China is an abject failure. Australia succeeded because it was a transplant of Englishmen.

What narrative? What quack? What racism? Please clarify.

I didn't say all cultures were unsuited to self-determination. Many are. All I said was that some are not, and that we may do better if we recognize this and learn from it.
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Disabling all of the parts of the ME except the part that lets the computer stay powered on is fortunately now well-documented (NSA-requested HAP support).
Don't forget that there are also low temperature DAC routes that can use waste heat (climeworks, global thermostat, antecy, skytree). If you get the heat for free you only need energy for your fans. This drastically reduces the price. There are some good papers that do proper cost analysis on DAC. 100$ or lower is within range in a decade. I'm not in front of my computer now but if your interested I'll send the papers
Perhaps. Yet anytime a user clicks "no" to cookies it means Google won't be able to show targeted ads. But I'm purely speculating here.
This has all the trappings to make it smell very much like communist political repression, just ever so slightly softer.
I installed Arch on this Dell laptop without even seeing Windows. I personally would do as you suggest if I wanted Windows on it but then I own an MS "partner". Everyone else has to run the uninstallers and hope that they actually remove everything and not leave things behind.
Not all heroes wear capes. This was amazing!
The EFI partition is on disk, not in firmware.
It sounds like you got what you payed for and have used it for a long time. Did you buy what what was available at the time, or did you pay for what you thought it would be years into the future?

What other goods or services do you expect to use for years and then get your money back? If Spotify removes your favorite artist, do you expect to get money back for the years you already payed for while you listened to that artist?
Do these have 4k screens and work with 4k monitors?
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Presumably they're still loading a version of the website which Trident/Edgekit which used to make up for the discrepancies between the other browsers.
1. Cross platorm parties are already available. Why would it not work for two different clients (steam and epic games)?

2. If you played the game for years you cannot get a refund from Stream
And also never seen before nor since.
Again, not looking for a perfect solution. So I take it loading a different boot-loader first wouldn't be enough?
The VOiCES Dataset
Oh yeah. Used to be they had 'hanging parks' where folks who owed money and couldn't pay would go to 'hang themselves'. Except they had help (from Yakuza etc). So add up 'homicide' and 'self-harm' mortality statistics and you might get a truer story.
The exclamation point in "Pop!_OS" is making me uncomfortable.
As usual, my mind frames such things differently.

There are a lot of assumptions baked into this post that will not universally apply. I look a bit at things like page views, but I'm much more interested in other things. Looking at the numbers can help me tease out a few things, but those numbers are generally secondary to how I parse things.
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I know I'd heard about this but I quickly forgot.
That isn't a canteen. Like the article says, the closest thing we have in the US is the Ikea food court. You collect various foods on a tray and pay at the end. It's more customizable than restaurants where you order a main entree. Canteens have variety, apps/mains/sides/desserts, that you can pick at will, and are semi-self service.

Canteens (stolavaya) are alive and well in Russia, and were my favorite places to eat because of the variety and thrift.

Here's how one is arranged:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ml0F97OZu6k/maxresdefault.jpg

Here's what your tray might look like at the end:
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0c/46/f7/cc/...
would sign that. Basically what you learn in a good CS program isn't trivially accessible or more or less "soft" knowledge requiring only a (very good) command of the language you already need for day-2-day communication. It requires logic and strict thoughts – while those things aren't necessarily making you a good coder, this are skills not wielded by the masses anytime soon because they require (for most people) to really sit down and learn.

For art history you probably go there, look into your textbook and just start talking about random stuff associated with limited data and if you're audience isn't really into their code/peer-bias-bubble/.. there is a big range of "reasonable" things you can say. (saying that as a physics major with a lot of CS friends and random acquaintances which I regularly impress by just introducing random facts (they don't think a STEM-guy knows...) in conversation and giving them a techy twist...)

As to the salary question: apparently a lot of people see academia as a sort of fancy tradeschool with guaranteed above average income and of course this is not the main objective of academic ventures and if everyone thinks that, some has to be the below-average-guy or gal. For the average person studying solely for the purpose of eventually making more money is just plainly stupid.
Apple Legal Demands That a Tiny German Tourist Association Change Its Logo
the reverse business idea of calljoy! the customer enters a tentative appointment in an app and a bike courier goes make the appointment in person :)
This may be a management culture thing, but I would regard that happening as a massive red flag and immediately start looking to quit.

Formal warning, perhaps, if it actually contravenes a written policy, but in this case is unlikely to have been one. There was no actual financial or reputation loss to the company.
> It's so heavily regulated that professional racing is no longer an engineering challenge.

If you look at the different approaches taken with regards to aerodynamics (particularly this season) and engines then there's still plenty of room for engineering challenges (at least in F1, I don't know about other series).
I buy retail hot coffee whenever I feel like it, which is more than a couple times per year, but nowhere near every day. Coffee is not a subscription, unless you buy one of those bottomless mugs or something. This is why I think the people who give financial advice to give up Starbucks and become a millionaire are missing the point, and I am not one of them.

You don't have to agree with the equivalency I'm drawing. I'm making the point that if someone shies away from $5/month, and it's not clear to you why, maybe they implicitly recognize the value of a subscription in the same way I do. Describing a different perspective is not saying I am right and you are wrong.
Hey There! I lead the Engineering Recruiting Team at GitLab. In addition to emilycook's reply, which I think summed up your question, I would say that we require aptitude in certain programming languages, which we measure with coding challenges, not years of experience. Many of us here are self-taught programmers (including the VPE of Engineering). You are welcome to apply and take the code challenge, or also start contributing to the open source project.
Short heart-to-brain distance may also predict an ability to handle high G-forces as a fighter pilot. https://fightersweep.com/1411/agsm/
Ask HN: Is anyone using anything besides Git for version control?
Just wondering what else is out there in the world of version control. Anything new and exciting? New and exciting additions to older and familiar version control systems? Or is git just the thing and there's nothing else?
simplicity would be better IMO. open source would be better. not changing up an app I already like would be better.

In many ways Gopher was better than the web, because a gopher client could make more decisions about how to present the data than the web, for which the presentation is mostly prescribed by the content provider.
Using Fortran in Jupyter CNA be extremely handy to learn certain algorithms by interactive exploration. Despite all the nice and modern alternatives, Fortran is so popular in HPC world that still generations of students will have to learn it.
Just thought of togapunk, and found it has a single mention on instagram and another single one on twitter by different people 8 years apart.

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/togapunk/

https://twitter.com/hashtag/togapunk

edit - am now wondering about a crack team of ancient greek philosophers using resonant pendulums to try and hack an airgapped ankythera mechanism.
> Which sounds a hell of a lot like denial through minimizing.

At that point I was just calling out an exaggeration, which is not the same thing as denial. It might be possible in a very niche case, but "if you ever" portrays it as a typical result.

> So I post saying: "even if it is 'about zero'... any amount of time needlessly taken from other humans against their consent isn't cool right?"

You interpreted "about zero" in a different way than I meant it. You seemed to take it as a small amount in every case, when I meant that it could often actually be zero.

The difference is important, because you can make an argument that a small delay harms someone, but you can't make an argument that zero delay harms anyone.

> It seems like a statement you seem to agree to but haven't stated as much.

I agree that small delays can be harmful, but there's a threshold before I think we can assign blame.

> Instead, you edited my words to try and prove the point that I have 'unrealistic expectations'.

I'm sorry I omitted words. The omitted words don't change my argument. If you think they do, I think you're misunderstanding the argument.

"You do realize even if it is 'about zero'... any amount of time needlessly taken from other humans against their consent isn't cool right?"

Every time someone drives they waste some amount of others' time needlessly. Everyone, always.

When you said "any", were you using it in a non-literal sense? Or do you think other wastes of time are not "needless"?

If you answer "no" to both of those, then I think your standard is impossible, and you're holding phone-users to a higher standard than everyone else.

I'm really not trying to distort your view. If I'm still not understanding something, it's not on purpose, and I really welcome correction.

Please believe me. I did not have any intent to distort your statement when I removed those words. I did it to make it clearer what words I was focusing on. To me, "waste" implies "needlessly" in this context.

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And then entirely separate from that, I assert that it's possible to use a phone while stopped without causing any delay, if done right.
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You would call Iran democratic? You would claim it protects the liberty of its citizens? Allows for religious freedom? Iran's elections are widely considered shams: https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/05/12/irans-farce...
The important thing is, that to make the tax a pure carbon-negative incentive, that the revenue from the tax should be simply paid back to the taxpayers (of course divided into equal parts).
One other is Fossil: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Intel is joining the 5G infrastructure game.

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-modem-stateme...
That quote is implying that mineral prospects, notably lithium, were a key consideration in the U.S. decision to go to war in Afghanistan. Stick your head in the sand if you'd like. This is an ongoing war that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. If that's not conflict, I don't know what is.

I didn't say "lithium is to be avoided". I didn't make any prescriptions. My point is that lithium is not renewable and has been of key interest to geopolitical strategists for decades. And yes, it has motivated deadly conflicts. This is only going to heat up as time goes on.

I'm not advocating that anyone "avoid lithium". It's just not a renewable resource and people have fought over it. They will continue to fight over it.

(Afghanistan isn't the only place where people have fought over lithium:
https://www.freetibet.org/lithium-tibet )
This article seems rather inflammatory and focuses on what other news stations do too much for an article centred around an Amazon product, I think.

I'm of the opinion that local crime reporting an neighbourhood watches and whatnot should be handled by the actual locals, instead of a giant corporation, but this article doesn't seem to support this view, either. I'm left to wonder what this article would suggest, because it seems to be suggesting doing nothing is better than locals handling it.
Steve's Old Computer Museum
Absolutely! PyTorch and React are two of my favorite tools ever.
No, you said "Communities have the legitimate power to do what you describe so long as no individual rights are violated." That is not in fact a principle of classical liberalism, which favors individual rights but is not controlled by them. American conservatism draws from classical liberalism, for instance.
Some of our teams use Darcs, which is older than Git but has many of the same advantages at a raw level. Unfortunately it's not very well supported by CI tools and there's no fancy web front end like Github / Bitbucket to use.

I'm not a huge fan, but it looks like we're going to keep using it for the foreseeable future.
Can somebody explain what exactly happened to petroleum engineering?
They say

> In the meantime, it will continue to be available for purchase on Steam; thereafter it will continue to be supported on Steam for all existing purchasers.

So it sounds like nothing will suddenly stop working?
And this is to go to pitch of almost every startup.

“You should invest in us because if we just get a small percentage of $large_market we will be extremely valuable.”
I think you're wrong on the bakery case, they eventually won in the Supreme Court.
> Now if you walk in with no referral

You mean like, say, an ER visit?

Though, actually, the one time I've been referred to the ER by a doctor (he called ahead and everything), the billing was still a shitshow. Insurance delayed paying for months while they tried to work out a way to claim it was a pre-existing condition (this was pre-Obamacare), until the hospital gave up and tried to send me directly to collections for upwards of a quarter million dollars.

Given that most private practices (around here, anyway) usually have lucrative hospital affiliations, the incentive to keep doctors happy by keeping patients happy really doesn't exist.
The author exploited this by adding a space to the URL so it no longer started with http:// rather (space)http:// but it looks like the call to Replace would be ineffective if the URL started with HTTP:// as well.

bool flag2 = file.Location.ToLower().StartsWith("http://");
if (flag2)
{
file.Location = file.Location.Replace("http://", "https://");
}

I trust the new version isn’t vulnerable to this...
Request for startup: If you want to disrupt payments, do a gateway that captures U.S. major debit transactions and handles them at 0.1% + $.30 (still a healthy margin) and redirects the rest to a higher-fee processor.

Little known fact: Major debit card interchange is regulated by law at 0.05% + $0.22.[1] That's right, a twentieth of one percent. The gross margin for a processor like Stripe that charges 2.9% + $0.30 on these transactions is just astronomical. A U.S. payment gateway that specializes in low cost debit card processing arbitrage would instantly start saving startups money. It also give them the option of steering their customers to low cost debit, for example by requiring it for discounted annual subscription rates.

This would work where other efforts have failed. Crypto never took off for consumer payments for a variety of reasons, among them no wallet penetration and no consumer protections. ACH is inconvenient to set up and also has poor consumer protections. Debit cards on the other hard are widely available, safe and easy to use.

[1] https://www.burlingtonbankcard.com/home/interchange-plus-cre...