skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The new Ikea down the road is 344,445 sq ft in floor space over two floors - so about 170k in size - and it has a B&Q next door that's about two-thirds that size, although only one floor. That's within a few miles of the centre of London, there are bigger stores outside of towns and cities across the UK.

Supermarkets here can range up to 100k for the very largest, although they're apparently moving away from absolutely huge stores to stores in the 30k - 50k size. So
frontended doesn't make sense as a word. Fronted has many somewhat applicable definitions including

* provide (something) with a front or facing of a particular type or material.
* act as a front or cover for someone or something acting illegally or wishing to conceal something.
"he fronted for them in illegal property deals"
* stand face to face with; confront.
If the general atmospheric concentration of CO2 is higher, what might the effect be of indoor areas where one might be testing IQs. There was just a HN discussion on how high CO2 might get say in a regular bedroom overnight. How about a testing room with multiple people exhaling CO2, vs a slower diffusion rate from the outdoors?

To what end effect, I don't know. But it's an open and interesting hypothesis to explore.
> And yet mobile payments are integrated into Chinese e-commerce with the frictionlessness that Apple Pay and the others can only dream of.

That’s not a technology problem, that’s a political problem.
I've implemented this pattern a handful of times, and if done in a team I think it manages the complexity of large software projects in a way the traditional MVC pattern simply cannot do. The real value of this kind of architecture is not the reliability, scalability, or performance advantages (even though they are significant), it is the elegence in the way it manages complex systems and the associated business logic. The cognitive gains here are innumerable, and may even increase the velocity of a team provided the underlying infrastructure is in place.
Does anyone know of websites that make genuine use of motion sensor data? It'd be interesting to read about why the Safari Motion API came about in the first place.
>In the EU a company has to first prove the chemical doesn't cause you harm before they saturate you with it.

That's not possible. What the EU does is allow things which have been used by other people for some time once they feel comfortable that it's probably ok. In other words, they have guinea pigs.
The US has multiple states larger than Germany I think. Regardless, it is much bigger and requires more work.
Why do you use "should" instead of "would"?
>dioxins, used as an ingredient in Agent Orange, which the US sprayed during the Vietnam war.

Dioxins were not used as an ingredient. Small quantities of dioxins were unintentionally formed as side-products during synthesis.
Love all of the pictures. Great work!
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> Case in point? We’re still alive.

But we die younger than Europeans: 78.6 years in U.S. vs 82.4 in France or 83.3 in Italy.

I've always thought this was mostly because healthcare systems over there better tackle preventable deaths, but now I wonder if there might be some environmental factors at play too.

Data: https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-birth.ht...
Trump did a majority of his deals with them and both entities grew with each other. A lot of the deals had override approvals without a lot of review.

A link I posted earlier in this thread - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/business/trump-deutsche-b... provides more on this.
Yea, that's another great program for beginners!
Not particularly plausible. If you wanted to go that route, then linking rising temperatures to more uncomfortable learning and testing environments would probably be more plausible, but even that is a stretch.
To be fair, people on here would lose their shit if it had been called 'The girls's guide to pricing and hedging'. Interestingly it would be largely a different set of people.
They have it better because they got to leave first. Party members had to wait in line for hours. That was my reading of it
" People simply aren't willing to wait for stuff to load now that SSDs are so common."

You would think that. But, I have a 10 year old that is willing to wait 5 - 7 minutes for fortnite to start up. What a world.

"A research firm recently claimed that many PC gamers will switch to consoles as Moore's Law slows down."

I find this intriguing. I wonder if the next console generation coming up will be that time. Currently there is still a huge parity between the two regarding fidelity and frame rate (With PC being the clear winner.). I do recognize the gap is closing in though.
Yeah. True enough. Just looking at it all through the lens of survival of the fittest and evolution, I guess.
Deutsche Bank is somewhat notable from a political standpoint; Donald Trump got loans there after no other banks would work with him, and retired SCOTUS justice Anthony Kennedy's son worked there.
Large loans and real estate deals are not the type of money laundering this software detects. It is looking for unusual transaction flows between accounts. For example, if an account receives large amounts money for inconsistent purposes (e.g. computer services and farm equipment), or has large amounts of money flow through it while maintaining a relatively low average balance (e.g. 10 million received and sent when the account normally has 40k in it).

While money is absolutely laundered via real estate and art, that's not what this software detects. The podcast The Dark Money Files is really good if you want to learn more about this. [1]

1. https://www.buzzsprout.com/242645
By that logic we should just ignore <problem> until we're too dead to do anything about it.
What's stack you're looking for and what problems are you trying to solve? I'm not in Munich, but I wouldn't mind spending a few months there and I'm available.
The problem is that currently if a browser does break every tracking mechanism they may be interpreted as running an adblocker, alternatively site operators may just block that browser entirely.

So if a browser does want to protect its users it is necessary to provide a fallback to allow site operators to make revenue from ads.

Hence this proposal: provide a system that allows the necessary steps for ads to work, without violating user privacy. Then browsers can start more aggressively blocking trackers.
The optimistic interpretation is that it was meant as "should have died <were it not for the advancements>"
Deutsche Bank is currently implicated in (or at the very least, relevant to) ongoing news regarding the US President's finances.

That makes it more newsworthy.
I never said asbestos was never used. I said no company, knowing what we know today, would continue to use it and that a regulation preventing its use would therefore be pointless.

Are there instances in the past where it has been used? Ok, sure. Are there instances where companies and people have flat out lied to regulators, both US and EU? I’m sure we can all think of at least one, there were criminal charges recently.

Clearly simply having a law doesn’t make it so.
> Especially since this isn’t the first time Boeing’s malfeasance killed people.

What are you referring to here?
> ... but I find doctors literally worse than useless in most cases.

Yeah, same here. My hot take is: if you're not an elite athlete then you're basically shit out of luck and you are on your own, regardless of how much money you might be capable and/or interested in spending on your problems.

I have retrocalcaneal bursitis and a chronic muscle tear in my left calf. I ran through nearly a dozen people, specialists and physical therapists and physiotherapists, and no one could help. They wanted to give me cortisone injections in my heel or sent me to the ER for DVT for the calf. I spent a lot of money to _not_ be helped by these people over a period of 4 or 5 years.

I eventually found a legit physiotherapist (he works with some local athletes... MMA fighters and a couple of NHL players, so there it is) who wasn't just out to take my money from me. Through him, the chronic muscle tear is now managed completely (when I feel it coming back, I give him a call and pop in for a few sessions of excruciating deep cross-friction massage that keeps me exercising without needing breaks) and the bursitis is managed entirely by myself through a daily stretching and mobility routine that he helped me develop.

I am honestly concerned about what happens to me in the future. If he retires or moves or if I move. If I have new minor/major injuries to contend with at that point then I'm going to be back to this dreadful search or worse, having to give up specific exercises that I enjoy.

edit/ Oh, and another horror story that I managed to forget about. I popped 2 ribs last fall (brain fog, was lifting too heavy while I was tired and just trying to grind a workout out) and couldn't get it properly diagnosed either. Went to my GP, he thought it was a muscle strain. Sure, okay. I believed him. So, I had a week long backpacking trip 3 days later that I ended up going on anyway. Hurt like hell. I knew it wasn't a strain by the time I got home. Popped in to see my physiotherapist and he was able to isolate and diagnose the issue in just a couple of minutes. How can my GP miss this? You literally rub your fingers between my shoulder blade and spine and it was as clear as day. I went to a Chiropractor for a few sessions, in addition to some rehab at home like rolling on a racquet ball, and now everything is back to normal. This sort of shit, "professionals" who are utterly horrible at their chosen profession, borders on fraud for me.
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I would bet on too much screen time for the whole family; seen it first hand. Parents sitting on their devices all evening and not interacting with their children. It's a missed opportunity for learning, especially at a young age.
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Hopefully F# feeds the ability to have functions at the root of a module into C#. It's a small thing, but needing to put pure functions on static classes gets old after a while.

I know local functions are a recent ish addition to C#. Hoping they keep going down that road.
Germany is already kinda the money laundering capital of the EU.
Developers with ADHD/ADD, how do you cope?
You mean today and every day for the last X years?
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They aren’t?
One of the interesting things my trainer did before we started was three sessions of analysis. Measuring flexibility, symmetry, strength, and recovery. We then put together a plan to fix issues identified from that to get to a solid baseline, so that when we work all the muscles together to get better systemic performance they participate in the motions as designed.

This was stuff that he learned getting a kinesiology degree SJSU and followed up with the personal training coursework. And for a data set of one, it has helped me tremendously.

So the bottom line for me is that while there is a lot of questionable stuff out there, there are also people who have actually studied and worked on the mechanics of how all this works, which lets them create exercises that achieve a specific result. For me, I'm not interested in being a weight lifter or showing off how strong I am or big my biceps can be, I just don't want to end up driving a mobility cart around Walmart to pick up groceries when I'm 80!
We need people like you to be journalists.
On the other hand, these businesses cause the public ignorance
For example companies that offer all sort of AI solution as some magic bullet. While covering up the inherent "bugs" in such systems.
The simple issue is this, politicians want these types of organizations to be either broken up or ended for the reason that they cannot control the message.

With regular media outlets they have sufficient influence to manage the message getting out. With all these new outlets their influence is severely diminished or none at all.

So they peddle the terms fake news, foreign influence, hate speech, protection of the your rights, when all they want to do is protect their position. All of the issues raised are overblown and have existed in one form or another but the difference now is we, we the people, have the freedom to express ourselves to others, find facts from sources politicians do not influence, and make decisions without their input.

just be careful in lining up to restrict an outlet or group until you realize the ultimate benefactors
No script doesn’t block trackers though, it only blocks some classes.
One can also try out the original mainframe/PDP-10 version of Zork, running the original MDL code, on a modern computer, see: https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/confusion-mdl for relevant source for the MDL interpreter / https://babbagefiles.xyz/zork-confusion/ for discussion.
Europe has an interest in promoting their state-sponsored airplane manufacturer, Airbus.
I gave you an example of a company, knowing what we know today about the dangers of asbestos, continuing to sell their product despite knowing it contained asbestos. They were concerned about the dangers internally and proceeded to cover it up.

This is an example which directly contradicts your first paragraph.
I don't know, he could also work in ad tech and have a net negative impact on society. In that case just paying him to do nothing would be better. :)
This is true, I agree. Even if you don't use the exact Starting Strength program (cleans can be intimidating for a novice), the info is good.

I'd also like to add that I've tried GSLP and found it to be my personal favorite between these 3. More important than that, however, is just going to the gym consistently. Don't get too hung up on picking the "perfect" program.
Try to use that argument to sell F# to the large majority of .NET shops.
They are also unable to harness fire or combustion... arguably a prerequisite of civilization and the easiest way to acquire/use exosomatic energy.
Unlike most commentors my experience with F# hasn't been stellar.
I feel the language itself is well designed and the community is great but there is just so much of it.

Any source code that i try to go through is sprinkled with so many new keywords, so many different way of combining stuff, that there seems to be so many syntactical stuff going on. It is really making me struggle.

It just feels like a language where the maintainers are going overboard with. And I am sure that once I understand it, I would love it, but the path to get there is so hard.

Pretty much no tutorials or articles are out there and reading sources for small projects is not viable for me either due to the keyword noise and too many ways to do something.

I did not feel anything like this when I taught myself python, ES6, lua, Crystal etc. F# just feels too big.
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Tongue-in-cheek? I thought this kind of extending was what people are blasting Boeing for?
IQ is not intelligence. IQ is a number determined by a culturally biased test.

The most likely reason scores are dropping, is that test-makers are not keeping up with changes in culture. People are 2019-smart and getting lower scores because they're not 1970-smart.
Ask HN: I feel lost and don't know how to move forward
Long-time reader / submitter. I've run a successful consulting agency for the last 10 years and have been CTO and a few large and successful Bay Area tech companies. Lately I decided that I wanted to try something different and join the corporate world.

I studied my butt off for months on the brain teaser problems that these companies are known for.

I replied to recruiters from Amazon and Google who had been emailing me. Amazon was interested in hiring me for an SDE3 role and Google said they would place me after the interviews were concluded.

My Amazon phone screen ended with them deciding I wasn't "senior" enough, and moved me from the SDE3 to the SDE2 interview flow. I decided to continue anyways. At the on-site, I was asked a question that I feel like you need to have seen before to nail it. I ultimately got the answer, but I think it took longer than they wanted to see and I think that axed my chances.

Google allowed me to go directly to the on-site in Mountain View (I skipped the phone screen). All of my interviews went very well except for one, where I presented the naive solution first (and mentioned this), hoping to move on quickly, but the interviewer forced me to go through a test case which ate up all of my time. By the end of writing out every step of the algorithm from start to finish, time was up. I have no idea what I could have done differently. What sucks is that I knew the optimal solution, I just wasn't given a chance to write it down or explain it. The recruiter mentioned that they wanted to see consistency and this one interview tanked my chances.

I'm feeling really down. I've shipped tons of products, managed teams, write solid code (or at least I think I do?), and feel like I'm a pretty darn good developer. I know it shouldn't, but this has really gotten to me.

For those who have been in a similar situation, where are you now? What did you take away from these experiences? I need a pep talk. Thanks.

- D
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It seems pretty different from a password because you're not giving control of your domain: if they broke their contract, you could take it back at any time.

That's the other odd part about this complaint: you're trusting a company like GitLab not to break their terms of service, which is a potential factor to consider but also one where they'd have severe negative outcomes to their business if they went rogue. Since you're already trusting a number of other parties, why is this one so much scarier?
I think you misunderstand the linked doc.

Oak Ridge Electric Company, which is a tiny municipal utility that sources electricity from TVA, has 7.09% participation in its green pricing program (which presumably bypasses TVA). This has nothing to do with TVA itself and how it generates power.
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This laxness appears in free trade negotiations where the second party to the country wants to forbid certain kinds of US agricultural goods and prepared foods and the US rebuttal is that that is protectionism. To be fair, there really is some real protectionism based solely on the protecting an economic sector now and then.
This is a great programming language homepage content wise. The copy and examples are good, gets right to the point.

But the navigation needs some work. The problem is the top logo isn't clickable, so I can't go back to the homepage from any of the subpages without clicking the back button, and the subpages don't have the primary navigation at the top either.

Edit: also the navigation should be repeated in the footer.
This is far too big an issue to get into in this very limited forum, but suffice it to say the question is not as cut and dry as you appear to think:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_copyright
Just over a year ago Airbus paid a fine to Germany for bribery. So it appears they have their own corruption problems.
Bermuda rigging:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_rig

If you're not familiar with sailing rigs, you probably don't even notice it as anything other than, "that's what most modern sailboats look like." This is precisely because it is a extremely efficient at sailing upwind. And their fastest speeds are roughly doing perpendicular to the wind.

Boats like you see in pirate movies and such have what is called square rig. These boats will sail their fastest downwind, but struggle much more in other directions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_rig

EDIT: So I just realized that the Wikipedia article does not have a great explanation on the actual physics here. I'll do my best, though this is all subject to my (mis)understanding.

Obviously, just putting a sail on a raft with no other modifications will just push your raft downwind. You have some ability to control direction with the rudder, but that's it. To sail perpendicular, you need to start leveraging other forces. The main ones are lift force from the sail shape, and drag from the centerboard. [0]

Bermuda rigging uses a triangular sail that is rigged along the axis of travel. (Compare to square rig, where the sails are perpendicular to the axis of travel.) The sail has enough slack that, as wind fills it, it curves. The sails then begins acting as a vertically-oriented wing, using the airflow over the surface to generate lift -- though, in this case, the lift pushes the sailboat sideways.

So you have the wind attempting to push your boat sideways... That is not helpful for moving forward. Enter the centerboard, which resists this push by simply increasing the surface area of the boat under the water. In order to move sideways, the water has to be moved. So you have two opposing sideways forces, and the result is a bit like pushing a wedge -- the boat moves forward.

Also of interest in the physics is speed. So a boat sailing downwind can never go faster than some fraction of the wind speed. Because if it was, the apparent wind would either be zero or a headwind. However, a boat moving perpendicular or upwind can actually move faster than wind speed, because it is utilizing more forces than just the raw wind. And, in fact, the faster a boat moves upwind, the faster the apparent wind is, moving it yet faster.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centreboard

Really small boats might get away without one. For example, a Hobie Cat (around 16 feet) is using a combination of its hull and a large rudder surface to achieve the same effects.
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The actual Opinion piece is available on the USA Today website [0].

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/05/22/facebook-i...
As someone who works at a financial institution, it's news generally because money laundering activity tends to be highly profitable for banks, since they get to collect fees on those transactions. There are almost no incentives for us to flag transactions on our own (unless we're being super humanitarian) without legislation/regulation, because as long as they get their money there's no downside except for victims of the crimes that the money originally originated from.

At least in my opinion, the legislation and big-deal-making is merited in cases like this, for the benefit of society.
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Forget the bike, what color of shed are you going to keep it in?
Not really. There's a large difference between catastrophe and hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths distributed across the country and across years from many different issues. One is very visible and the other can be hard to see but is still very significant. Just because it's not killing everyone doesn't mean it's not killing a lot of people or making their health and happiness worse.
A tool that encourages you to shoot yourself in the foot is a bad tool.

If a language encourages bad patterns by making good patterns overly verbose, the language should address that.
Unfortunately it's nearly impossible to boycott them altogether, at least in the U.S.

If any billionaires out there were considering starting a company in the commercial airliner market, now would be an opportune moment...
EU regulator launches probe into Google over data privacy
If you read the original article cited by the NYT (it's in German), it is using 'bug' not in the sense that all software has bugs, but in the sense of 'basic functionality was not working'. And that should be alarming, for critical software.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...