skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guess you could call me trilingual (swedish, english and spanish) and I'm having no issues with Android Auto understanding destinations even when my spanish/english is broken as hell, with music playing in the background or engine noises coming from outside.

Maybe voice commands are just not ready for polish (guessing Szczepańska is polish) but seems to work fine for at least english and spanish.
Only happened in DC for very few people, so I'm not sure your statement holds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensated_emancipation#Unite...
It is difficult to assess which company is more 'good' or 'evil' nowadays. Microsoft did a lot of good by competing with UNIX in the 90s (Windows NT was cheap compared to UNIX). They also did bad with their embrace & extend and other anti competitive behavior.

Microsoft is a much older company who recently transitioned from being a proprietary software company selling licenses to a company who sell that but who also do services such as cloud (Azure) and who also do all kind of FOSS and tracking (Windows 10).

I fear the future is going to be that the poor are paying with their privacy/time/focus (as a result of advertising and tracking), while the rich buy licenses to pay off the licenses. Heck, it is already like that. My Scrabble clone application (Wordfeud) costs ~3 EUR in the Play Store. The free version costs nothing, but shows ads (not sure about tracking). I figured 3 EUR is a good deal for me for a perpetual license to never see ads. However, 3 EUR for me could be a lot of money for someone who's more poor than me.
Whilst I agree, it's language features are meant to reduce some of those issues. The rope you have to hang yourself with is a bit shorter than you have in other languages. At least in theory.
Smartphones obviously aren't just a fashion, touchscreen all the things is a fashion.

IT fashions usually work that way - there is an actually useful killer application and suddenly the technologies used by the killer application must be applied to everything. Peer to peer (Napster), Ruby / "static typing sucks, testing is better" (Ruby on Rails), touchscreens (iPhone), JavaScript (one language for client and server), blockchain (bitcoin / getting rich through speculation), deep learning (great solution to SOME problems) - it's a fairly simple pattern.

Also, the car industry has looong product cycles, so what you see now is what was hot 5-ish years ago.
Just to be clear, the people cannot vote for the CE - from a limited pool, or otherwise. That was the proposed change in 2014, breaking the previous promise of universal suffrage, but the changes were shelved as a result of the protests, leaving the previous system in place - nominations and selection are still both made by the 1200-member 'election committee' which is widely considered to be a Beijing rubber-stamp group.
Eh... I have seen the same in Rust. People write tests with i32. i32 implements the Copy trait which means your can blindly clone it all over the place. When you try using some libraries with String or anything else they don't work.
This waist could be "understandable" if UK was a pioneer in this field. There are countries with excellent biking infrastructure already. Learn from them.
Hey, I'd love to be your little pet Newton. Trouble is, I can't get anyone to pay me to sit at home and navel gaze to my heart's content. Quite the contrary, the only thing people really pay me for is to get my ideas steamrolled into flattened pancakes, set on fire and tossed in the garbage, while they implement their own ideas, steal all the fun parts, then when play time is done, they dump these brittle kiln-baked balls of mud in my lap to spit shine and praise in front on non-technical product/project managers.

Every manager, without fail, steals the fun parts, coding up "the cool projects" that stimulate their curiosity.

And (THIS IS NOT A LIE), every single time I have witnessed a subordinate present an idea for some kind of concept that improves upon existing process, a manager will go out of their way to prevent that idea from happening, and instead do something else. If it were a suggestion to mass produce highly profitable peanut butter sandwiches, boss will find a way to eradicate the idea, and substitute a contradiction to reduce the subordinate's relevance. "Peanut butter? Certainly not. We shall make hot dogs instead and top them with beluga caviar and BBQ mayonnaise."

This is every boss. All of them. One build a real time javascript animated 3D spinning globe that connected cities with glowing, streaming comet trajectories, each time a real user completed a sale.

Another hand rolled an XML web service because he wanted to teach himself how.

Yet another would rewrite any and all JS AND clojure code in like 90 minutes, simply because it was faster for him to apply his superficial implementation than bother considering a subordinates version worth reasoning, learning and understanding work someone else invested.

Every job. Never mattered which.
For those who don't know, it's a play on "Anime was a mistake"[0] which is a quotation jokingly attributed to Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli).

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/anime-was-a-mistake
Build cheaper clone of Rubber ducky or BadUSB hack device with Digispark Arduino
Most people don't even know why they hate Java. And the rest hates it because their Chief Architect taught J2EE is a great idea.
> UI toolkits such as Qt use CSS (actually, Qt Style Sheets) to style UIs

This statement makes it sound like every Qt application uses CSS. That's not true. CSS is offered as a way to apply corporate branding to an application. I'm not aware of any FOSS Qt applications using CSS.
Joplin is the most famous of the ragtime composers. He aspired to be taken seriously as a classical composer. Although some of his rags were popular when they were published, recognition as a serious composer never came during his lifetime. Other composers of rags may not have aspired to elevate their pieces as serious compositions, but Joplin certainly did.

Also, contrary to what this article states, ragtime pieces are not all "happy, joyful, playful, danceable, and uplifting". To take Joplin as an example again, although many of his piano pieces are lively and melodious, there are also melancholy pieces like Solace and Bethena Waltz perhaps reflecting the troubled life he led.

The article is also wrong when it states Joplin had no intentions in the way his work is performed. Joplin did not want his rags to be played at fast speeds. This is often the case in many recordings (including, in my opinion, with Joshua Rifkin). My favourite performer of Joplin's music is the late Canadian musician John Arpin.

I listen mostly to classical music and love Joplin's piano music, but even today, there's a lot of snobbishness about Joplin's music from some quarters in the classical music field.

But wherever you start with Joplin's music, the sound of a rag is irresistible.

By the way, if you are in the UK you can listen to an 2017 episode of Composer of the Week on Joplin on BBC Radio 3 here. BBC Radio 3 is the BBC's classical, jazz and world music radio station.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04z0qqt
I use CarPlay for 2 years on a daily basis on my VW (w/ touch screen). The head unit is placed in the middle of the cockpit. In time you build up muscle memory so it can be a similar experience with hard buttons. The only catching point is if your phone is slow, features like CarPlay behaves nondeterministic. Thus, it becomes very distracting.

Also, to reduce distraction I suggest using Siri with CarPlay. It works like a charm and you don't even need to look to the screen.
My USB Blu-ray drive failed after two years and new ones cost about four times more than they used to. I shrugged it off and added one more hard drive of redundancy instead.
I've had the Audi for around 1.5 weeks now, and I've already learned how to navigate the system without looking. Can easily go from navigation to Spotify in Android Auto without paying attention to where the radial is or what's showing on the screen.

Compare with the Renault Captur which I could never learn to use without having to look at where I have to tap on the screen.

Edit: while driving, I'm not doing things in the onboard system that I haven't done before, like browsing through settings and other things. I'm only interested in doing modifications to already running things or turning on/off certain systems while driving, and those were much easier to get learned under muscle control when having a radial than using touch controls (which with touch I never managed to actually learn).

I guess an easy way to compare them would be to say, going from navigation to Spotify would require me to:

(radial): drag radial down, three clicks to the right, and click

(touchscreen): find button about 10cms from the left without looking or any tactic feedback
HTML/CSS/JS is arguably the most successful UI platform in the world, so this is obviously wrong. You just want HTML to not be about UI.
Meanwhile people are porting old features from Java into newer languages. I say newer and not more modern because it's yet to be clear that many of the new shiny languages aren't actually ahead of the game in some areas but behind in others. Maturity of their ecosystems will be a good tell down the line.
I would not call them "best practices" anymore, since those practices only bring a notable decrease on loading, rendering and painting performance. As well a bloated architecture in the short term and a huge file size.
Do you know if zulip is useable with only the keyboard?
I think it's an easy cop out to say, "Doing literally anything other than focusing exclusively on the task of driving is not worth talking about."

The reality is, people will be adjusting their radios while they drive. They will be looking for open restaurants, changing their destination, and a number of other things while driving, and pretending like they're not worth accommodating ignores some very fundamental principles on the topic of economics.
I mean, a hurdy-gurdy is a bit of a hybrid of harpsichord and viola :) Add in the organ and you get this.
It's interesting that that article doesn't mention obesity.
Larsvel may be built on the shoulders of symfony but it achieved to build a great ecosystem dragging in new people. So he is right.
You criticize OP for having a narrow view and then support your claim with anecdotal evidence... I'm happy that your partner and her coworkers have some integrity, but that doesn't have much bearing on the overall industry.
Thanks for your voice, and pointing out the defect in my thought. I came up with my view by my observation on Chinese SNS platform, and no factual basis like a professional survey or any data could support my view.
It let me feel bad that in the political environment in China which is not allowed to talk about politics freely, it's hard to find factual evidence to support my stand.
Like many people my age (early 50s), I now need reading glasses. My distance vision is fine, but my phone held at arms length is slightly out of focus unless I put on my reading glasses. This is the case for many (most?) people my age. I hate any display on a car that I can actually reach. No touchscreens for me.
Browsers hold figurative guns to our head forcing us to use JavaScript.
Yep. I really don't remember right now. I haven't started a new project this year.

Well, I'm sure I can start one, but i'll be slow at it.
Looking to create a backup of your Playlist Metadata? Here's how: https://habd.as/post/backup-restore-macos-mojave/#itunes
It is checking DNS resolution, not actual availability.

Here is a list of all the domains that are available (as of when this post had 2 comments): https://pastebin.com/SXWzgxnH
How it made through ] production in the first place is really baffling. There are supposedly thousands and thousands of engineers, industrial designers, QC and other product people working in the automotive industry. And yet between 2010 and 2019 you'd be hard pressed to find a model coming without a touch screen. This is insane. This seems like a basic usability and safety issue.
Don't forget all the opium money that was being poured into the North, killing Chinese people with overdoses was very profitable.
Please, elaborate on the first statement. In CSS a class is a class, we're not tied to group things. Original CSS wasn't group purpose, mainly due the lack of properties, you could see more single or a couple of properties per class.
If this were correct startups wouldn't have a chance to dethrone an incumbent, because companies would adjust course long before.

The thing is: Some people may even see this. But then they have to convince their boss. And maybe that boss has to convince their own boss. Or HR. Or both. And then you get into "but does this mean a part of our workforce is incompetent" territory and so on.

Something doesn't get corrected just because it affects the bottom line. Someone has to fight for it and with a topic like that you probably won't win many friends by doing it.
Before Arduino, Basic was quite loved among hobbits.

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

http://learn.parallax.com/tutorials/language/pbasic

ic0nstrux (nee XGameStation) also had Basic support for their DYI games console

http://www.ic0nstrux.com/products/gaming-systems
It is, the data also includes owner information so lost pets can be returned to their owners.
Kunsh Technologies Awarded Two Back to Back Leadership Awards
Is Audi's target market also a complete subset of that target audience, or is it at least significantly overlapping with that target audience?
Pinning libraries using Qlot solve the issue of being on the bleeding edge.
I discovered this word yesterday and thought it is so beautiful that I had to share it.
I think you're getting at the core of the situation. Ultimately the interview is going to be stressful because it can only end in two ways. But I think there are ways to mitigate it, as suggested by some of the proposals in other comments.

Another cause for stress is simply because the whole process is just so damned opaque. There's not just a power asymmetry between hirer and applicant, there's also an information asymmetry. At the end of the day, you don't know what the true criteria were used to judge you. You don't know if you hit a mark and was just passed over in favor of a better candidate, or if you bombed without realizing it, or one of the interviewers simply didn't like you. And at that point it's not simply losing out on the offer, it's losing out the time spent to get a rejection that blandly says that you weren't the right fit. And sometimes they don't even remember to reject you.

Like the intrinsic stress of being at the mercy of an employer, it's part of the process that one just has to get used to. But one wonders if there's some better way. Perhaps pre-interview rubrics and post-interview feedback? Make applicants sign a waiver so they can't use it in a lawsuit. At least it'd be more transparent than the status quo.
Quicklisp and ASDF do not support semver. But you can use Qlot to pin some libraries to a particular version.
“Dick, this guy must be either very smart or very lucky. He constantly claims he knew less about what was going on than anyone else in the field, but he still made the crucial discovery.”

Rosalind Franklin would probably disagree.
Candidates don't often appreciate the unequal disincentives for the interviewer in making the wrong call. For the company, hiring one poor programmer is usually worse than rejecting 10 good programmers. So a coding test which reduces the rate of false positives is useful, even if it increases the rate of false negatives.

As an aside, this lopsided penalty reminds me of how Typhoon forecasters in different cities systematically bias the predicted stormtrack toward their own city:
https://twitter.com/m_clem/status/1081953447358984192?s=19
Imagine that a large number of people in the Netherlands thought that what the Netherlands did in Indonesia were right and justified, and that the Netherlands should still have colonies and Indonesians should be ruled from the Netherlands to this day. Imagine these people still fly flags celebrating Netherlands rule of Indonesia and name their schools after the officers responsible for committing those atrocities in Indonesia, which they deny actually happened.
Most poorly written java project I saw was incredibly poorly abstracted, it was basically maps with strings as keys and values all over the place.
You don't need to look at the button to use it. I forgot exactly how the Audi one works but once you're used to it, it's like: Press, Turn right twice: Map. Press turn left once: Audio player. Press: Play. You don't need to look at the controller and, when you're used to it, you don't even need to look at the screen. With touch screen, you'll never get used to it to the point of doing anything without looking at it.
The furthest along is Terrestrial Energy, they already passed the first step in the Canadian review process.

Moltex Energy is still in the first stage of Canadian review process, as they had to relocate from Britain to Canada. Because the British regulatory system is not really active.

There is also Flibe Energy and they actually want to use lithium fluoride (LiF) and beryllium fluoride (BeF2) salt (hence the name). But that is a much longer term project and they are not anywhere close to commercialiastion. They are also working in the US Regulatory system that is not close to being ready to even start a serious commercionalisation process right now. They are also not targeting commercial energy as their primary market.

There is also ThorCon power I don't know as much about them and they are not engadged in any Western effort for commercialisation as far as I know.

There used to be Transatomic Power, but the never wanted to use beryllium fluoride either and have open sourced their reactor design.
no, the pixels stay
Maybe SOAP isn't so bad after all. Like GraphQL, it can aggregate multiple "API" calls (actually service/protocol invocations) into a single, typed payload to the client, also exposes a typed state model (WSDL ports/interfaces), has uniform error messages, takes care of security contexts and transaction boundaries, models asynchronous/message-queue-based invocations in the same modelling universe rather than binding directly to HTTP, etc.
Yes, PHP is still widely used for new development.
Nvidia to make its full stack available to the Arm ecosystem
I don’t think so. From memory it’s just a big collection of images that were all provided over email and manually added to the page (we got a space just for a laugh at the time).
CoreCLR started to implemented Tiered Compilation https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/...

It's experimental currently, no profile guided optimizations _yet_
"Give me convenience or give me death"

Sometimes I wonder what the endgame is. When all things (and people) have had as many iPads as can possibly fit shoved into every opening, and I need only mutter a desire for an Amazon drone[0] to appear to satiate it... what will I actually /do/?

[0] Which may or may not be a person...
Ok but imagine a circular grid of N nodes. Following the circle, the stations are connected to the grid. Of course there is a small, inevitable mismatch at every connection. Then, when connecting the last node, you might get a problem which can only be solved by adjusting the settings at the other nodes.
Why I'm using react-testing-library instead of Enzyme
All web devs used JavaScript because browsers forced us to. PHP is, and has always been, a choice.

As compile-to-JS has matured, many of us have switched to things like TypeScript. That kinda ruins your glib analogy.
Fiber-based job system with extremely simple API
> the AC: the buttons are shaped like a human, and you press the part of your body where you want air

I was driving a friend's newer car down the freeway once, and had to call him to find out how to turn on the godam defroster. There were so many knobs, switches, and dials that influence this, all labelled with icons so I had no idea what they did. Turns out that you had to push two buttons, toggle a toggle, and turn two knobs. Madness.

My car has a selector that you move to "defrost". Then it defrosts, like magic.
As always: I would download a car if I could :).
It's a giant image map (thousands of <area> tags) based on a single 1000x1000px image, which is hosted directly on the million dollar homepage.
The advent of proprietary communication tools isn't really something I like, be that slack or discord or other services.

Something tells me that in 10 years neither service will be hip enough to warrant extensive support. If they were to hold relevant business critical information, it would need to be archived but will probably just end up being lost.

That is at least a difference to mail. Also external contacts could be invited to the appropriate channels, but I don't really see much engagement from these users if that actually does happen.
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Well, there was no slavery in Libya until Team America decided to drop in.
This seems pretty low. People depend on electronic navigation almost exclusively these days.
Note that the material you quote from Wikipedia is in error; the simple-to-meet “reasonably related” standard only applies for disparate impact cases where the discriminatory effect is based on age over 40, which is not under Title VII; the Title VII test is a much higher bar and once the disparate effect is shown requires showing “business necessity”, and even then disparate impact discrimination can be found if the employer declined to adopt available alternatives with less discriminatory effect.
Well, it is a 15-year-old static image. It won't be changed.

Judging from a pastebin linked from a neighboring comment however, most domains are quite specific enough that pixels can be left as is (you can't really use "clinicalimaging.net" for something other than, well, clinical imaging). In the other words you are really buying a domain and its historical legacy including pixels.
Luxury car makers seem to keep putting more and more not-directly-related-to-the-act-of-driving features in cars every new model, so that leads me towards, "Yes."
Just don't use navigation guy, memorize the paper map! /s
Here's a thing: the shareholders may very well know not to expect gains in perpetuity, but surely something could be done to boost growth just this last time? Given how much money is at stake, plenty of extreme things can be done before the particular growth source is exhausted. And we all have to suffer the collateral damage.
> If it became absolutely certain that an overwhelming majority of Texans wanted to secede,

why does it need to be an overwhelming majority (what does that even mean exactly?) and not a simple majority? In case a non overwhelming majority of Texans wanted to secede, should their will be thwarted by a minority of their compatriots? It does not sound very democratic.
In my experience most people don't like Java due to experiences they had before Java 8. This means they were used to the bloat, config as XML style world which made Java a pain to write and slow to run.

Once I show them Java 11 with var keyword, lambda's and streams they start appreciating how modern the language has become. Then you throw in frameworks like javalin or sparkjava and suddenly they are not as hostile as they were before.

Honestly the only things I would really like out of Java these days are data classes and possibly native runtime compilation out of the box. Containers solve the latter issue, but id love to just build a binary and run it.

Do that and its on the same level as Go in many ways which nailed the tooling and deployment model, even if the language has issues. Java already has the tooling.

I suppose a decent syntax highlighter library like pygments or chroma would be nice too.
Using Push Notifications with Service Workers and Node.js