skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My answer to this question these days is: "What good is a bycicle if there is nothing you can ride it on?" Sure bycicles may be hard to engineer, but the environment in which a bycicle could be useful only existed in a select few places on earth.

I think the author is to quick to dismiss road quality as a primary issue.
Kudos for providing a nicely-formatted transcript of this talk and not forcing us to watch a video. Learning about defunctionalization (and lambda lifting, which is closely related) was how I first managed to understand what this "first-class functions" language feature/pattern was all about, and why it could be useful. It's something that should be generally taught as part of any introduction to functional programming.
> I use vim and my work-macbook has a touch bar. I haven't really noticed a difference in user experience between the touch-bar version and the physical esc-key on my personal macbook pro without a touch bar.

Of course you don't. You use ctrl+[ or rebind caps lock to esc, and you don't use F-keys with vim. But outside of vim you might use the F-keys or Mac keys. I know I do. Cause I'm too shit with multitouch.
That’s something for these businesses to figure out. In the real world, we had the advantage of the card holder needing to be present.

Maybe the model needs to change to force digital currency purchases to happen outside of the game? That way the purchase is divorced from the play and the parents can still retain control.

Or maybe accounts need to be set up in “child mode” by default, which caps spending at $50/month?

Or maybe the game rating agencies can be made to mark all games with micro transactions as Mature (since they basically need an adult present at all times to make decisions about the game)
Anyone know of any good code blogging platforms?
Whats your shtick?
They mean the fact that the game came out in instalments, which is a ridiculous complaint and has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Don't worry, there's plenty of room in my heart to hate and wish ill upon all the scummy fraud-enabling private dragnet spy corporations.
I stopped buying FIFA/Madden/etc. games. The team building mode seems like it'd be fun, but oh damn, you only have x games you can use that specific player so you have to buy contracts which costs points and good luck trying to stack your team with various players by making good trades vs the spend funds approach.

Give me a game where I can play it and GM it in such a way that if I make Joe Blow look like a star, I can trade him for an actual star and repeat the process until I have the dream team I want or whatever without spending money, I'll buy the game again. The last Madden I bought was the one with Gronkowski in the opening animation and was just disgusted with the "fun" mode being weighted heavily against you just playing and having fun.
This is cool. Except it's driving me nuts that I can't figure out what's wrong with the first picture, or at least why it would immediately break.
People who can buy an iPhone a month for months on end and not care. One of my friends is a whale, he just doesn't really care about the expense.
You can look at the history of the fax machine. There were primitive fax machines very early, but they were a bit cumbersome, but more importantly nobody needed to send documents that fast anyway. It was easy and normal to send a guy on a horse, and for business purposes at the time, that was more than fast enough, for the distances that were being covered by the first fax lines.
I often wonder as I am building/fixing something (often my bicycle as it happens) and I happen to toss an extra screw in the trash how miraculous a simple screw of this type would have been to a middle-ages craftsman. The precision of keeping all those threads perfectly spaced is one thing, but the technology to make them in such volume at these sizes (often quite tiny), and in volumes so as to make them essentially disposable is a true marvel.

We think a computer is an impressive piece of technology, but many of the things around us that we consider less than mundane are just as incredible if we look just a couple hundred years back.
The Toaster Project is a good example of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODzO7Lz_pw

https://www.amazon.com/Toaster-Project-Attempt-Electric-Appl...

He attempted to build the basic components of a toaster from scratch. Smelting metal, molding plastic, etc. The book is a tough recommendation because he sortof gives up on the later parts and limps to a finish, but overall its a fascinating look at how difficult these processes are if you build them up from scratch.
Most banks in this world don't provide this service. This is why my "spending" debit card is Monzo because its all kicks ass!!! The second I spend £££, the Monzo app bleeps and shows me the amount and the store (with address, company logo etc.) I was shocked that big banks in the UK like Barclays, NatWest et al, don't bother alerting their clients immediately.
> The decryption keys are held on user devices. Apple never has access to those keys.

You are confusing iMessages with iCloud. The keys to decrypt everybody's iCloud mail, iCloud drive files, photos, calendar, app backups, etc. are held on the server. By design. For Chinese users, these servers are now controlled by the PRC. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/02/5-things-you-...

The distinction for iMessages is also not relevant in practice. Whoever controls the keyserver (China) has the ability to wiretap all iMessages conversations. (Lie to Alice about Bob's public key, read the message Alice encrypted for Bob, and then encrypt with Bob's public key and send on to Bob.) https://www.lawfareblog.com/iphones-fbi-and-going-dark

I don't understand how Apple employees can justify working there knowing that they are directly helping the Chinese government find and disappear dissidents. They have not even tried to protest.
So you don't have a problem if that reduced pay is still north of $200k/yr, all else being equal?
I remember hearing about one guy asking his bank to essentially block any gambling transaction as he was an addict

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45652429

Obviously there are ways to cirumvent that but it seemed to help him.

I suspect it's harder to block these in app purchases at the bank level though, unless everything goes through Apple/Google pay and you block at that level
As an outsider looking in (from the US), what is the difference between the current Azure Germany vs the new locations they're standing up in Berlin and Frankfurt?

Frankly, I don't understand the point of the last 3 paragraphs of this announcment.
There's always pain after a USB spec gets released. This has been pretty much par since USB 1.0 - switch chips were flaky back then, USB drives were quirky and getting them working on anything other than a specific version of Windows was a crapshoot, etc.

Eventually all-in-one chips get less buggy, cable manufacturing gets cheaper and we move on to the next spec level and repeat.
I picked a food bank that I remember volunteering with when I was in high school: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...

"Food distribution" here is everything that the food bank does to put food in front of people. Storage, logistics, networking. As an example, I worked in a warehouse alongside forklift operators, carrying boxes of food between refrigerators and packing distribution boxes destined for delivery. As another example, this food bank owns and operates community gardens. They also have a dedicated "Meals on Wheels" program for taking prepared meals out to senior citizens and the infirm.

The fantasy of working out of a garage is crushed by the basic nutrition needs of human beings. A single working garden is half a garage on its own, and a walk-in fridge is another half a garage. We generally want to imagine a food buffer of two weeks. A single block-sized warehouse can be far more practical for county-sized food banks than a network of restaurants, garages, church basements, or other small repositories.

Edit: While I might not have been compensated with cash, the forklift operators were employed. Many volunteers were, like me, in various programs that required that they volunteer with the community. Employment with the food bank generally meant additional responsibilities; they couldn't ask volunteers to do certain kinds of dangerous things.
I don't have any C devices myself, and given the issues I've heard with C chargers, cables, and devices, I'm inclined to say "maybe". But I think the answer is rather "no", because of course in the long run, this mess will probably sort itself out and we'll be able to swap chargers super easily.

Two weeks ago a charger of mine finally broke on the hottest day so far (it was getting hot since day one, ~8 years ago, but this day finally did the trick), I ended up taking out the hard drive behind twenty screws and unplugging the laptop keyboard, because I didn't have a replacement charger. I wouldn't have had a replacement C charger either, but that would be different in years to come.

I guess more universal chargers is more better. Looking at you, work phone (Apple branded, and battery draining unlike any OS I've ever seen, so having only one charger is super annoying).
One interpretation is that a major differentiator for Apple is privacy. The moat they are trying to create gets a little narrower if other companies are required to catch up. It's aligned with their incentives to ship privacy features, but not have it be required by law.
Eh, as a third culture kid with a US passport and 50%+ friends being international/TCK - it's honestly because the VISA process is appalling.

Out of a sample of 10 international students I went to school with at Stanford 20 years ago (I just eyeballed my FB friend list and took 10, totally biased anec-data I know):

• 4 are now citizens - all their green card processes took 7+ years, except the one person who got it via marriage

• 2 are STILL in the green card process

• 1 intentionally went home for opportunity

• 3 left due to VISA expiration issues. 2 went to Europe, 1 went to Canada. 2 are CS grads, 1 has a PhD in ML.

It massively sucks. We're talking about amazingly resourceful people who got raised at whatever sheep farm in Kenya and Uzbekistan, made it all the way to Stanford via merit-based scholarships and what not, and then got ejected from the US because national policy... and now some other country with friendlier VISA policies got 'em.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware.

Happy I was a bit careful with that comment.
Why not cross-post your free content to Medium, LinkedIn, etc? Then you can take advantage of their distribution while pointing people back to your own site.

I'm wary of companies/products built entirely on top of other products - too much risk (see Zynga). Same concept with Medium.
This applies going forward, not retroactively (Turkish constitution prohibits retroactive laws, except for pardoning or release of criminals). There is an "as far as possible" clause grandfathering former procurements and enabling the administration to make a case-by-case exemption.
Seems like spam.
this is a weird place to spam...
I think you might be able to fit your needs in free tier of mailchimp/sendgrid itself. If not, AWS SES is the most cost effective way.
>Recumbent is horrible to ride in traffic (you are below the height of most traffic) and the handling is atrocious.

I disagree. Some of them certainly are 'below eye level', but that is an awfully broad criticism of the group as a whole.

I ride a LongBike Slipstream. The length of the bike is LONGER then a Smart Fortwo. I sit eye-level with almost every sedan I've encountered. SUV's and raised pickup trucks are indeed above my eye-level, but sporty cars are usually below it.

I usually get exceptional room allotted to me by other drivers when I'm on the road. The exception being assholes, but luckily the are the exception and not the rule.

>TBH the current design is efficient enough, is well understood both in terms of the technology. Almost all improvements now are iterative.

"Efficient enough" ?
All of the land-speed records for human-powered vehicles are held by recumbents.
http://www.ihpva.org/home/

It's ok if you don't like them. But please don't pass off your opinion as fact.
The Microcosmos
You can insert any LaTeX markup in org mode as well as just using their syntax..
Instead of punching down on the literally the most vulnerable people in our society, why don't you direct energy at all the wealth being accumulated at the top? That situation is much more harmful for our social safety net.
Most of the larger charities simply spend more of their budget on marketing. Is that desirable, and should the charity leadership be compensated handsomly for that?

It's a tough question as they may just be redirecting money away from charities with less marketing spend.
I've mention this a few times I think, but there's an old TV series about this topic, James Burke's Connections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)#Connec... episodes can be found on Youtube.

About how one development leads to the next and so on. And how a break in the chain (eg. New York blackout of 1977) could lead to the entire collapse. The underlying topic is still, or even more, relevant with today's technological dependance.
Pneumatic rubber tires
Unreal has had gltf support for a while now, reducing the dependence on fbx for most common stuff.
A lot of this is due to dark patterns from day zero requiring a payment method to create an apple id and/or itunes account.

Apple has since relaxed this requirement, but it is like running a gaultlet to do something like remove your credit card from your account. There are also self-serving weirdnesses - somehow you can set up a child to "request a purchase" from a parent, but you can't set this up if they are 18 with a family account.
Except that even Apple forgot certain options in their 50$ USB-C charger and it is therefore non-compliant with specification. Apparently USB-C is hard.

source: https://twitter.com/USBCGuy
"It's almost certainly the case" without any evidence whatsoever? I mean, there's a lot of companies who have a reason to promote Google's fraud-based business model (mostly, companies being defrauded by it).
What would you say makes it "almost certainly" about Amazon?
Ask HN: How do you work on your personal product/market fit
As of lately, I've been struggling with the feeling that the organization I work for doesn't recognize what I bring to the table.

This can very well be attributed to a multitude of things, but from the outset it looks like a product/market fit problem.

Perhaps continuously iterating on the 'product' will not lead to any desirable results if I'm addressing the wrong market.

Any similar reflections or ways to navigate it?
Madden, a cornerstone of gaming for a lot of people really, has it too with Ultimate Team or whatever.
I'm sure they expect it to be miserable, but expecting a miserable job and being happy about it needn't align. They might not have the necessary skills to be employable in not-miserable work, and might not have the necessary means or time to acquire those skills.

What it ultimately comes down to, I think, is: we have enough wealth as a society that if we wanted to, we could allocate resources and labor in such a way that nobody (even unskilled workers) would have to do work that miserable, at that pace, for that low compensation. But it's not an emergent property of the market, and we'd have to sacrifice some economic growth, and some payout for people higher up the ladder, to do it. We have to collectively decide whether that tradeoff is worth it, and these folks (understandably) are arguing that it is, and asking the rest of us to have some empathy.
Sounds like one of my previous employers.

The next company I worked at was industry, not medical, and this one did it right. So while there's black sheep out there, not all of them are.

Side note: whether a device can fall back to becoming inert on a failure depends on the type of device and the specific risks involved with that failure mode. It may be that stopping to do anything is the wrong thing to do, e.g. in a blood pump.
Seeing as google has my search history for the past 14 years, they should be able to KNOW that I'm a slightly more technical user and can take advantage of power user features instead of treating me like an idiot
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The irony of this being behind a paywall. An expensive paywall at that.
I think it's confusing because he's talking about a feature for Medium publications that most people don't even know ever existed. For a small handful of publications, Medium had allowed them to offer their own "pay to subscribe" program where your subscription fee went directly to the publication. I think of this as a failed product experiment that Medium's been slow to kill (Medium is very slow to kill failed experiments in general).
Your company blog first, Medium 2 weeks later and always mentioned that 'my posts are posted [insert url here] 2 weeks earlier'
did you mean hosting a DIY mail server? that's one of the tougher setups I've done, and the result was mail going to spam folder because I couldn't get DKIM right.
OP is definitely better off using a service.
I think it's less about the road quality and more about pneumatic tires. Same for cars. Would you rather drive a car on a dirt road with modern tires, or on a highway, directly on metal rims? The answer seems obvious to me...
Why not? How else are they going to learn how to handle money? Or do you believe children should receive every adult responsibility all at once on their 18th birthday?

Sadly these app publishers take advantage while these kids are still learning. The boy probably would never have spent £700 on the game if that had to be spent upfront. "Microtransactions" in games can't die soon enough.
Dev.to is well run with good features.
ITerm2 support broke, you need to turn off "Allow sessions to survive"...

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/7618
I agree. The burden of responsibility for how and when a credit/debit card is used is on the owner. Unless of course you are the victim of some kind of fraud.

"I gave my child my wallet and he spent all the money in it!!!"

duh?
No, my fast app (VSCode) is an electron app. Steam is slow, Photoshop is slow, SourceTree is slow.
I almost fell into such a trap before. I knew about the mechanics, but I was willing to give the developers the benefit of a doubt. And so I started playing, and after a while started to acquire shortcuts with money. Once, twice and at the verge of the third time, I realized what I was doing and stopped immediately.

The money you use is never much, but that is just part of the design to make you throw out even more -- a few cents here a few cents there and suddenly a sizable amount builds up.

Now I am 33 and have a bit of experience with addiction. That helps identifying these traps -- Dopamine kicks are always the same, chemically induced or by stimulating your brain with rewarding gameplay. But to be sure, would I have been born 20 years later, I would definitely be hooked on that particular game and still throwing money out for -- not much but a faster reward-cycle.
Sure, but that's just the license. If an ISV makes a support contract with them, they can include the necessary clauses in that contract.
ReplayVR
A (VR) testing framework for Unity.
C0de: https://github.com/eusebiu/ReplayVR-Demo
It's probably a bit easier for me as I'll actually play the games with my kids, but the ones my daughter are into are more in this vein. Roblox specifically with Robux or whatever. She has her own Apple account, child one, and when she attempts to make an in-app purchase, it must go through me. And I am aware before the prompt comes up because we've got an understanding that if I see a request for it and we didn't discuss it prior, it's going to be rejected.
We've replaced the link above.
> The horse, with its four (not two!) legs is an even more ridiculous comparison.

The comparison is, as I understood it, the rider balancing on the horse itself. I've only ever done this myself with saddle and stirrups, so I don't know if this is significantly more difficult without those.

I think you're being a little generous with the canoe. Boarding a canoe without a dock (that is, climbing in from the water) is tricky, and requires some thought about where your weight is. (Since the lip of the canoe, in my experience, sits well above the water line, and you're about to pull down on the edge to attempt to board, but that same motion is the motion that moves the edge closer to the water which will flood it.) I've seen plenty of people flip and subsequently flood a canoe after an unsuccessful attempt to board.
I did NOT know about the Tree, SS Tree, and SS Tree 10 logos actually meaning something, but if that's what's required roughly a quarter of the problem solved.

Another quarter would be mandating clear markings for the Power Delivery capability: I suggest PD{amps}A OR PD{watts}W as text markings, and also the use of some color code; yes both.

The other 50% of this would be to REQUIRE that marketing use specific terms so that search engine results would be useful and to BAN re-use of those same terms if a feature is not supported.

Ideally that last step would include a suffix 'max' for indicating the highest supported tech protocol.

E.G. the current cable could claim (some lesser modes skipped) USB SuperSpeed, USB SuperSpeed 10 max, PD3A, PD5A max, PD15W, PD60W, PD100W max

While a lesser cable might drop bits from the enumeration of the specification. It would also allow searching by a wattage/amperage (in case it matters: E.G. some devices might support 5A but not the higher volts, others the reverse).
Yes, there are massive systemic problems everywhere. Feel free to go ahead and policy change away the war, disease, hunger, homelessness and so on if you can do that?
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It's not somehow fundamentally easier to manage a charity than it is a product company of similar scale and size.

This is empirically false.

Companies fail far more frequently than similar charities do. The core reason for this is companies operate on a much smaller margins. A charity that distributed 90% of it’s donations last year could distribute 80% if it’s donations this year if they collect half as much. Combined with often significant endowments and failure is rarely a major concern. Companies on the other hand are almost never in those situations.
you can buy a quality bike from 10-20 years ago for ~$300 right now on a second hand website, and probably put $50 in maintenance / year.
Lower quality, second hand bikes will be a lot less than that.
Maybe the human work will shift to robot technicians, and how many blown servomotor assemblies or control boards you can swap out in an hour, but there will always be human standards that need help enforcing in some industries.
Another valid point, but my point is not that he is a dual citizen, it is that he gained his citizenship in NZ to hedge against catastrophe in the US, and is now calling on the US government, which he does not trust to avert catastrophe, to solve his business problems for him
Regardless of what the guy says, the fact is there have been numerous quiet policy changes that target legal immigration.
I don't see why this "massively sucks". Obviously, the American people, and the government they elected, don't really want these smart people in their country contributing to their economy, so there's other countries (the ones with friendlier visa policies) where they're more welcome and they should go.

You can claim that Americans are shooting themselves in the foot with these policies, and electing people like Trump, but if that's what they want to do...