skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really pretty, runs really smoothly (especially on OSes not previously supported by AoS), and those requirements really aren't that high (minimum Intel HD 3000 with 512MB VRAM + 1GHz dual core processor, that's basically any computer this decade).

If you still need to play using the original launcher, you can do that here https://www.buildandshoot.com/download/.

Additionally, if you don't love the models, feel free to switch them out. There are plenty of pak files available for download across the web, the first to appear in my search result list was https://gamebanana.com/skins/137550.
You would have done great with this question :)

Asking "Do you know the magic answer I happen to know?" questions is the great sin of technical interviews. Instead the goal is to keep the candidate comfortable and semi-confident while digging out their mindset about relevant technical issues.
Ouch, I loved this product. Especially storing all the data for a particular trip offline. It made planning a breeze, and helped when changing plans on the fly as well.
> * Everyone knows Uber and Ola don't own their fleet so who'll be accountable?

They don't own the fleet. But if the current regulation hits the books they cannot afford to lose their entire fleet as there is competition in the market(although barely). This is not that simple that the entire burden would be shifted on the drivers. I think what would happen is Uber/Ola would subsidize the drivers(thereby sharing the transitioning costs) to move to an electric motors.
Breast MRI in cancer survivors results in more unneeded biopsies
But how did he die in the original timeline?
The article didn’t link to the actual radar from @NWSSanDiego, which seems to be this tweet: https://twitter.com/NWSSanDiego/status/1136115889516867586
There are some who would argue that X Factor does, in fact, produce the best because best means nothing but most popular. Otherwise, you have to bring in subjective measures of taste which are open to being condemned as elitist.

(Personally, I'm happy to be an elitist, provided it's an open elite that anyone can join)
Funfact: The pollution inside the cars is even worse (unless you have upgraded the filters).
I've used Looker before and am mostly a fan. Contrary to many of the comments here, its not precisely a 'kiddie' tool for people that don't want to learn SQL; its more like a ORM/DSL for BI queries. I'd probably be using it in my current gig, but the licensing model doesn't really work for small operations.

Google Cloud has an actually great track record of acquiring data-centric companies and democratizing them. While Data Studio is pretty amazing for a free tool, it has many shortcomings for serious use, and Looker fills all those holes nicely, while also providing the ability to formalize processes around data. Instead of mousing around Data Studio, Looker allows for all of its resources to be defined in its YAMLish syntax and maintained in source control.
This seems different than the concept of infinite time, where prior to the big band there was something the collapsed into a ball of energy and maybe someday our universe will collapse back again (which has lost merit since we've seen matter in the universe isn't slowing down in spreading apart, but accelerating .. meaning in a few trillion years, atoms may be so far apart that light can't reach anything .. the eventual heat death of the Universe).

In the shuttlecock example, there is an assumption the shuttlecock is the Universe and there is nothing outside to observe the object. Same with "What's south of the south pole." It ignores the stars and galaxies past Earth itself.

There is also a theory there could be many other big bangs and universes next to our own, but they are all accelerating away from each other. We can't see the one next to ours because it's expanding itself, as is ours, and all these are moving away from each other. Imagine a room of beach balls and they're all just inflating, but also moving away from each other at the rate they're inflating. In you're inside one, it's not only impossible to see another one, but because of the speed-of-light speed limits, it's impossible to travel to another one or even provide/disprove it exists.

There are a lot of questions about what, if anything, is outside the observable universe. Are we sitting in a ball on some gigantic alien's coffee table?
Sure, except my family was Jewish and my father's relatives who did not flee did get killed. I have no love for Soviets but I really think we shouldnt normalize Nazi Germans.
Must be a slow HN day if we've got another post about Medium
Can anybody comment on the vim-keybindings plugin for Inkdrop. I've tried Notion, but I would really love a markdown/note-taking app with good vi-keybindings.
Google Stadia Pricing Leak, Will Have Both Subscription and Individual Purchases
I agree with the author: It sucks. But so does white font on a blue background, since we’re also talking about readability. At least they got that right!
Best part, a retread flying off can still kill you. Only not the driver driving the truck.
Humans think with language. Anything that can be understood can be written in language. The README acknowledges the need for further research and development but it's not hard to imagine how a more complex query could be written in English.

"How many bridges are there that are in the same state as any bridge designed by O.H. Amman and are shorter than the number of kilometers between the Earth and the Moon divided by the number of people living in the state and have a maximum load that is at least as great as the combined weight of all currently living Asian elephants?"

When someone walks over and asks, "What does this query do?" Do you just tell them that it cannot possibly be put into English? Of course not, knowing the answer and knowing how to say the answer in at least one human language are the same thing.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but at least in terms of the default behaviour of pledge with regard syscalls and configuring seccomp so the kernel kills your whole process when it hits a syscall you haven't whitelisted, it sounds the same, so it would be good to know what the differences are.
Growth prediction: Pedict the growth after a feature is added?
Hey Makers!

I am just exploring about product design and management. I stumbled upon this problem of predicting the growth after a feature is added to an existing product.
I know it's a bit vague of a question but I am not looking for specific solutions too. Let's understand the problem (generic) first.

There is an app ABC which has 100 million monthly active users. The product owners are planning to introduce a feature Y which solves a very basic problem of the users.
Let's assume it like a shop app. Users end up wasting their time to find out the item they want whereas there is data enough to predict what the user might want. The app is still doing good and so are the competitors.

Even though it is not a big hurdle for the business, the users go through a tedious process which they don't address or think about but assume it is their fault at not being efficient.
What is at stake is the UX purely.
In order to solve this problem, the product people have come up with this idea which will be incorporated in form of feature Y.
Now the question arises to quantify the benefits of building this feature at a high cost (both technically and operationally). How do you come up with that number?
And going further, how do you justify it?

What is being proposed is basically a hypothesis of a feature that must result in a good UX, but how can that be quantified?

For ex: how did facebook justify new reactions by numbers over Engineering effort.

Please provide your views on the process. If there are any resources you refer to, please share them too.

Thank you very much for your time :)
Looker Acquired by Google for $2.6B to Offer End-to-End BI Solution
I can't speak for 'everyone'.

The thing I'm getting at here is not whether you, or I, personally drive or not.

It's that public transport is built (necessarily) for the public. It's lowest common denominator. Very, very few systems worldwide are actually comfortable places to be.

A car that has air conditioning, your own seat, space, etc is more comfortable than a tube carriage that's crammed to the rafters and is 30+c.

A specific individual might prefer the cost/time/whatever tradeoff of one over the other. But to pretend that cars are just strictly inferior is only true in a situation where public transport actually works properly - which is really vanishingly rare.

Even in a place like London with its' fantastic tube network, it's completely normal for people to stand armpit-to-armpit in a sweltering carriage. A car might be slower, but it provides an opt-out for that discomfort, and some people will choose that unless you literally ban it.
or simply here's the flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164140344@N07/sets/72157708768...
> Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier was the first known fatality in an air crash when his Rozière balloon crashed on 15 June 1785 while he and Pierre Romain attempted to cross the English Channel.

Let's be very clear about how bad an idea this was: it was a balloon filled with hydrogen, with a chamber beneath it filled with hot air warmed by an open fire. An open fire. Beneath a container of hydrogen.

Later ones filled with helium were more successful, as they allow the balloonist to control buoyancy without dropping ballast or carrying enough fuel to maintain lift sufficient for the entire craft.

But who sticks a hydrogen balloon over an open fire and expects good things?
almost no-one i know that uses waze knows that it's a google product. some even say "i don't even know why google doesn't buy waze!".

(in my country, waze is the go to app for navigation for everyone)
You don't need to get all the customers, you just have to find your customers.

As long as you find enough of them, you'll be ok.

You are wise to avoid trying to make an everything for everyone app. No one will want to use it.
The Toyota Camry of Cybersecurity: Israeli Soldier Built on a Foundational Idea
IANAL, but based on my reading this is my opinion. Consider the release and success of the mobile game `Words With Friends`. Not only did it largely clone the scrabble experience, but it completely dominated the mobile game space for a time. I found a Quora[1] question which gives some details about the legal relationship between Scrabble(Hasbro) and WWF while researching the topic.

Short version, can they sue you? Yes, just like anyone in the US can sue anyone else for whatever reasons valid or not. In Hasbro v Scrabulous, Hasbro dropped the suit given that they were losing and Scrabulous had run out of money. Had they continued the suit they would have had a judgement on the record regarding the legality of cloning the game experience and possibly been ordered to pay legal costs had they actually lost. As it happened they didn't need to win because they just buried their competitor with legal fees.

[1]: https://www.quora.com/Did-Scrabble-sue-Words-with-Friends-Wh...
Are ads > paywalls?
The question is intentionally ill-posed. The goal is to find out how you model the problem, not that you guess some magic number.
Reminds me of Bluejacking back in the day. Take a group picture of a bunch of random strangers in a store, then send it to as many open Bluetooth connections as you can find and watch people scratching their heads trying to figure out who was "watching them". CompUSA was always a good candidate store due to the volume of "techies" in one place.
This alone isn't evidence of that, but it's not the only data point we have. We've got 20 years of observations. They dropped X11 (and didn't use it for the main display in the first place), created new process APIs (like GCD and background tasks), deprecated standard libraries like OpenGL (and don't support Vulkan), designed their own programming language, etc. All of these point in the same direction.

What will be left? Will it still be "Unix" in any meaningful sense just for having a C compiler and running an old version of Bash? Microsoft Windows did that, too.
Ridiculous government regulation needs Uber style treatment.

India is faaar from any electic car infrastructure. Like another comment said above, it's purely a PR move by the govt.
It's why I put in: unless you have to use it, which means: if you target Windows. If you target anything else, you're probably not using it unless you already happen to have it. I agree that most IDEs are crap, it's pretty strange when you think about it, software developers developing software to develop software, but developing it badly so it now sucks for everyone.
Joyent Public Cloud EOL
I don't understand your statement.
This is not a solution at all. The churn rate on drivers is probably too high with Uber/Lyft services (most drivers aren't full time and do this when they feel like it). This means while the EV adoption is under the cutoff (40%) in your case, no new drivers would be joining while lots of drivers who are already active drivers become inactive.

This means not only are Uber/Lyft not acquiring any drivers (or just signing up a tiny percentage that have EVs) while they lose a lot of their existing drivers.
It must be doing something right otherwise why spend the time writing a thousand words about how bad it is? If it were truly bad it would just fade into obscurity
But the trouble with the South Pole and Shuttlecock metaphors is that you assume those objects are literally everything; all matter. If you define the Universe as Everything there is (seen and unseen; where what we see is the "Observable Universe") there is no outside location from which to observe it in entirety.

That's where the analogy really breaks down, but I guess it's still a useful thought experiment so long as you realize the limits to the domain.
Those things are not done on the same schedule.
Ask HN: Feedback about Berkely Skydeck
Hi All,

We were accepted into the Berkeley Skydeck accelerator and we are trying to decide if we should join.

We just went through another accelerator which was great for perfecting our pitch and other general company setup but now I really want to dig down and build the product alongside our first hire. I have 2 main questions:

1. Is the program a distraction from building our product?
2. Is the venture network and demo day worth the time commitment and lower valuation investment ($100K at $2M valuation).

Any other feedback is appreciated as well.

Thanks
I have a TECK 207 (or 227) that comes with a split spacebar. The firmware it's not super configurable (I would love to put a TMK/QMK firmware) but it has at least a way to create a second layer, so with the left space I have the "inverse T" IJKL cursor keys on "homerow", PgUp/PgDown, Home, End.
Places like LA leave people in a situation where they literally need a license from the government just to step outside their home and fetch milk.

You call this freedom?
I love my iPad, but I’m getting a bit concerned there’s just no viable alternative anymore, and that’s worrying long term. I can’t really complain that Apple are sitting on the platform and not innovating due to the lack of competition – they’re pushing ahead aggressively with advanced features. Presumably the devices are profitable enough to justify the investment, and they see their technology advantage as a moat against competition that they need to make as wide as possible.

Still, it’s disheartening to see the lack of other options. It might be nice to have a cheap tablet running an open OS I can hack on as well as my beloved 10.5”, but there’s very little I could do on a cheap tablet that I can’t do on an iPad anyway so there seems to be little point.
There's the famous Afghan skin bag: cut the skin around the belly, pull it over the head of the victim and tie it like a bag ; then let the victim bake in the sun and slowly die of exposure, while being half-asphyxiated inside their own skin. Oh, of course the victim will try not to fall on the ground for a while, where dust, ants and insect will exacerbate their suffering. IIRC you can agonize this way a couple of days before dying of thirst.
No, I'm saying that the way that the Nazis defined German identity was their biological model of "racial" classification, and not a cultural feature like ethnicity. The Nazis then (as today), have an explicitly biological notion of identity, not cultural.

I'm not making that up - it was right there in their laws that I linked to.

Otherwise, why shouldn't people who had been living in Germany for generations, speaking languages closely related to German (Yiddish, German Romani), be considered German?

How can you interpret those laws as being about anything but racial categorization - unless you have an agenda to sidestep and downplay the fact the Nazis repressed and murdered people whom they saw as not being part of their own presumed "race".
It is not even about technology being revolutionary, it's about where they competitive advantage lies. To put it bluntly: SpaceX and likes are technology companies. Uber and AirBnB are "law-bypassing as a service" companies.
Bottle of Lies
MTN Group to sell its shares in NYSE listed JUMIA
I don't think your expectations are the limit, but rather what your users (and their users) will end up actually doing, whether or not you expect or foresee it.
Huawei to sell stake in undersea cable business
One thing we know for sure, is that the Old Ones used a definite lettering system with a fixed transliteration scheme into the latin Alphabet.
Up until 2 years ago, I ran Squares Production Engineering Infrastructure group, this included all datacenters and networking. Included automation for both.

Most of our stack was CentOS, MySQL, ruby and java. The DC automation, such as it was, was mostly homegrown layers on top of kickstart.

I don’t know of anything we depended on that was AGPL.

I guess there is probably some berkelydb floating around, and the datastores team uses mongo for an internal app.

AFIK, they still mostly run on this stack but are moving to k8s, then k8s on cloud.

I know nothing about the new legal change, but do know I often had to talk legal down from being overly cautious and paranoid about other technical issues they didn’t understand.
I just don't see the win of that over supplying the thing with the OS in the first place, unless the commands to do it are a nascent versioned ecosystem along the lines of brew, apt, etc.. It seems like the whole point of not supplying them with the OS is to make the versions less tied down. If there's some opaque command to get an arbitrary version, that's not going to help anyone.
My strategy is to check if CSS Grid is available using Javascript ; if not , then use flexbox . The layout might look off but the page is still usable. And you dont have to redo your page when the IE11 finally does go away.
One thing the article doesn't say was that early attempts to recreate Fogbank failed because the materials used to make it were too pure. They had to put back in the impurities to get the same product.

(I read about this in a Navy magazine when my son and I slept on this ship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Little_Rock_(CL-92)

as a Cub Scout activity.)

My guess about Fogbank is that it might not do much at all from a weapons physics standpoint, but it is highly rigid so that the weapon maintains its dimensions throughout the process of launch and atmospheric reentry, never mind the long time of sitting in the launch tube.

Aerogels are fun materials to play with since they are amazingly light and rigid; drop a piece on the floor and you hear a very high pitching ring thanks to that.
Some of our best fictional stories are in cycles. The "Hero's Journey" is often a circle with growth, where you end up where you started from. Every season of The Wire pretty much ends in a circle.
The standard solar panel has an input rate of around 1000 Watts per square meter, however on the solar panels available at present you will only gain roughly 15-20% efficiency at best. Therefore if your solar panel was 1 square meter in size, then it would likely only produce around 150-200W in good sunlight. [1]

For example: 2 square meter panel x 1000 = 2000 x 0.20 (20% efficiency panel) = 400. 400 x 5 hours of sun hours = 2000 Watt hours per day. [ibid]

In 2012, the EPA range for the 60 kWh battery pack model was 208 mi (335 km) and the 85 kWh battery was 265 miles (426 km). [2]

A Tesla gets about 3.5 miles per kWh, so you would be able to get about 7 miles of driving distance per day (5 hours of sunlight) of charging.

Ref:

[1] https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/solar-panels/how-much-electr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Battery
Essential Optimization Methods to Make Apache Spark Work Faster
One of the coolest projects I ever worked on, was automating a handbag production system. I long ago divorced the idea that the projects and the tech should be judged by the product of the company.
Here's a blog explaining the decision : https://www.joyent.com/blog/joyent-announces-strategic-chang...
People spilled gallons of ink about the Nationalist Socialist party. Something gets written about because it is relevant, not because it is good.
enjoy reading your blog.inkdrop.info. i think $5 a month is a right choice. wondering your primary customers are from japan or from non-japan users ?
> I would really love to find some good drawing books, online courses or other source material that structures the learning process in a way that can give some positive reinforcement

That seems to be the problem with learning to draw from imagination - it's just very hard and slow process, and the positive reinforcement is stretched over months or years of training.
It's interesting to compare how theatre went from scripted shows to improv. Soon painters will ask audience members to draw some random shape for them to start.
Disclaimer: IANAL

Trademark: if the game is trademarked, you can't re-use the name. Anything with a trademark needs to be replaced with a new name/logo that is sufficiently different as to not induce confusion in the consumer.

Copyright: all the source code is rewritten so there is no copyright there. The game assets like textures and levels are under copyright and needs to be re-created from scratch as well. Or require the player to own the original game and provide an import method. A lot of Doom engines for example would require you to provide the WAD files.

Patents: this might be more tricky to work around. Patents protect algorithms and methods of production which might be integral to the game. I am not aware of games who are protected by patents.

These are the 3 legal pillars of legal protection
SOOOOOoooooo is google a publisher or a search engine? You're describing the responsibilities of a publisher.
I think its because of the ease of startup -- its essentially a good looking by default blog (as long as you ignore the paywalls, newsletter signups, "Join Medium" popups" etc) that is free and takes like a minute to get started with.

So people join, start publishing then realize its too much work to switch so they just continue using it.
> Hence IE11 is never going to get grid.

IE11 actually has grid. As does IE10. Admittedly an older version. But it's a bit mean to call IE out on lack of standards support when they actually introduced grid in the first place.
I really don't think that this is valid in this govt anymore. Remember that the they ran the elections on fear, lies and deception.

Development was not the agenda. Communal bigotry was always the main focal point. We have to remember that at least 2 well known terrorists are there in the parliament now as members. So please don't fool yourself with wild imaginations like 'development'. Set the bar low and they'll be always lower that!
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