skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the suspension idea fails here, because in the case of run-and-gun vs. cautious, a player that prefers one style will always prefer that style, whereas a driver will sometimes want comfort and sometimes want performance.

> So if a game designer can allow multiple playstyles at once without big downsides to the main intended one, there is literally no reason not to do it.

There's always the downside of extra work, at the very least. Sometimes 'multiple playstyles' is a design decision, but that needs to be the case from the very beginning. And sometimes, the design decision is 'run-and-gun,' and everything follows from there. Games that try to do everything tend to do nothing well.

There's another disadvantage of allowing cautious play: Even players who would be having more fun running-and-gunning may identify (or misidentify) cautious play as optimal play. As a result, you've designed a game that works against itself by incentivizing players to have less fun.

Edit: kaoD said it better than me, in this same post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20663319
Micro-services are not a magic bullet.

That said a it's fairly common too have need to cross services -- to have something aware of all services to coordinate some aspect. That thing, itself, could be a micro-service that helps you split up everything else.

Of course, it's much easier to build as a micro-service than to convert to micro service. It sounds like this article had a lot of coupled services to start with, so going to micro-services was not just isolating components but rewriting a lot of business logic
Yes I think I understand. Historical data is freely and publicly available but this lets me replay the market rather than just do static analysis. Not an active trader, just trying to clarify my thoughts about why I would need this/pay for it. Thanks
The Google's official hearing aid app works fantastically well. Latency is fairly low, and you can filter out parts of spectrum. If the phone has a decent microphone this app gives you super-hearing.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
The whole point of having guns is so that if somebody tries to take them away from you, you have the tools of preventing that.

The police in Hong Kong would be a lot more respectful if the (massive, dense) crowd was armed with more than laser pointers. The riots in LA where Korean shop owners defended their property. Etc., etc. Hell there were violent protests in Ferguson, MO not long ago.

"Gun Control" was originally just a mechanism to keep the (black, brown) population from owning guns; just a way of disarming the black/brown population. Look at the past laws, and current policing!

Some people in the US think "It can't happen here, now we should get rid of guns!" - as we watch the authorities putting children in cages, and protests in other countries where the police beat up protesters, and riots where people defend their loved ones and property, the rise of White Nationalism from "simmer" to "boil" and people still think we shouldn't have guns?

There's absolutely no way, in hell, Americans would willingly disarm - nor should we.
This might be a better link: https://learn-blazor.com/getting-started/what-is-blazor/

First I'm hearing of this project. It sounds cool, but I fear it will eventually die of neglect like every previous attempt to use !JS in the browser. Maybe if Microsoft pushes it heavily with their first-party sites?
In the united states the main commercial option for non-lithium batteries is Nant who is developing zinc-air batteries (but for usage alongside lithium)

Then there is Redflow out of Australia and Voltstorage in Germany.

Not sure on vanadium flow batteries
Technically Elizabeth Holmes hasn't yet gone to trial. The consequences for her aren't quite decided on yet.
Whew, that doesn't sound feasible, but I'd love for someone to do the math for me. It seems much more realistic to build HVDC lines from equatorial regions to the temperate zones, but even that is not very popular anymore as far as I know due to cost and NIMBYs.
Sharper Mipmapping Using Shader Based Supersampling
Kashmiris on India's decision: “We've been pushed back into medieval times”
What makes the designers intent so sacrosanct? The value of art is in how it is perceived, not the artists' intent. Often, the two are aren't in sync anyway

I also enjoy this style of gameplay. Just because it is considered a cop-out to designers looking to nudge me to be more aggressive or something, doesn't mean its an illegitimate tactic.

Or is this really about creating gameplay that looks exciting to that accursed YouTube crowd?
> Elizabeth Holmes got away with a slapped wrist despite defrauding some very, very powerful people.

Holmes hasn't gotten away with anything yet. She's been indicted on federal charges, and the trial is expected to begin in 2020. She could end up in prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes#Criminal_char...
Let's for starter say that we need to change something site-wide?
Sounds like better transportation could be great for improving living standards.
a) they all have money, lots and lots of money

b) they have been proven to not having taken action even though "safety advocates" have asked for years.

c) as such they are ripe for some cherry picked court to fine them

There are many many warnings we encounter in daily life which only exist to protect not just the consumer but the manufacturer or service provider from unscrupulous lawyers and political officials who would otherwise exploit the situation.

no snark intended, however we live in a society where someone else is always to blame and usually someone with money which can be taken by penalty or forfeiture in trial or settlement.
master / slave ....
You can virtually instantly calibrate the iPhone compass by waving it a 3 dimensional figure 8 pattern. It's hard to describe, but this YouTube video (for the original generation-1 iPhone (!)) shows it quickly: https://youtu.be/sP3d00Hr14o

It still works and it's quick and easy to do.
The majority of people would find that play style very boring (I would've thought everyone, before seeing your comment) and there's a class of problems in game design where the most fun way to play and the most effective way to play diverge. So maybe you have to make some assumptions about what "the most fun way" means, but you do so in hopes that players don't have to feel conflicted about it.
As an added benefit you can now put a notebook or drink between the each side of the keyboard.
In all fairness, in Boston/Cambridge, students have been ripping open the top of rental trucks on Storrow and Memorial Drives since long before there were navs/phones. (Admittedly, the warnings didn't used to be as prominent as they are today.)
I'm also pretty sure the average sedan does 0-60 in the same time a 70's supercar. A BMW 330i can do it in 5.8 seconds. A Lamborghini Countach did that in between 5 and 6 depending on the model.

A Miura could do that in less than 7 seconds. And then would burst into flames ;-)
That is a great book review.
> in his parents garage.

and their bank account...

which is not to diminish his accomplishments. It's impressive as hell what he has managed to do, but it's kinda hard to overlook that detail.

A project like this would be impossible for the vast majority of the population of the richest country in the world, even for adults with a college degree. Besides the cost, the time investment required for a hobby like this is huge, and what you produce would be effectively worthless in 2019 (financially, at least).
The goal is to kill the competition through underpricing and then hike prices, right? Did the killing competition bit fail?
They may not want to get rid of the hardware, but they may want to run something other than z/OS on it. RHEL is well supported on both IBM midrange and mainframe systemd.
Do you still enjoy it and how do you keep your love for it? I took up writing for a bit years ago because I love stories and reading, but I quickly found out I hated actually writing. I enjoyed ideas, intros, getting started...but none of the rest of it and it felt like work and a bother. I stick to reading now and wonder how common it is to have fun ruined by work when you aren't realistic about what its like on the other side. Like people who love taking photos...then learn to hate cameras as they struggle to earn shooting weddings and instagram models.

I love Chiang and wish he had more and longer stuff. Quality over quantity I guess.
In a way I am glad to see the thorough rejection of my comment.
Ask HN: Recommended reading about small companies being sold?
There exist many publications (like Techcrunch) which write about tech and startup acquisitions, but mostly those news focus on medium-to-big exits.
I'm wondering is there any good case studies or mediums where you could read about tiny-to-small company acquisitions. The type where a founder of a few have developed something cool and in the early stage of the company, when the product is not yet properly for sale nor marketed publicly, it is bought by another company as an investment into the talent and tech.
It would be interesting to read into how these types of deals happen and what seems to be the composition of the sold company in these scenarios.
It's EPYC that has ECC. Threadripper is for enthusiasts, not the professional market.
When I learned to drive in the 1990s, the driving instructors just told us to rely on signs most of the time.

That's what I did before sites like Mapquest. The first time I used a map, I was very far away from home.

Now I mostly use a GPS so I can route around unpredictable traffic. Otherwise, I usually know where I'm going.
I tried to find the details about the current mini-forks but I couldn't. Do you have a link? I guess the number is small because the mining pools are well connected and none of them want to waste resources (because they loose money).

Probably 3 forks is a good number, but I'd like to see some data. Anyway, it's a linear problem that is adjusted automatically by the difficulty to find the next block. It's not an exponential problem that makes the protocol unpractical at scale.
> Severe pain due to psychosomatic causes sounds like mental illness to me.

In that case you're assuming both the psychiatrist and the GP overreact.

> Every health system I've dealt with funnels to medication pretty strongly.

Because patients often insist on medication because they do not accept that the ailment can't immediately be diagnosed.
It's really the humanity of the books that gets me. Division by Zero is one of his pieces that I find myself thinking about all the time for that very reason. It just captures this somberness about how relationships can grow and change and sometimes end.

I do now have a Ted Chiang shaped hole in my life after finishing his collections. I just haven't found another author that really gets into the heart of what sci-fi can be.
Those plateholders that you can only view the plate from straight on were pretty popular for a time.
L6 is staff at Uber. They have this weird 5a/5b thing. Meaning Amzn/goog/fb L7 = Uber L6. Msft would probably 65/66 map to Uber L6.
I think there is a middle ground. Apps could announce the upcoming railroad crossing just like they do with a left/right turn. Somewhat of a silly example, but if there is a river at the end of a road and your only option is a left or a right, the app will not help stop you for driving the car into the river, but the instruction to go right or left does (albeit accidentally) help you avoid that. I don't see why it won't do the same with rail crossings.

Although you should focus on road signs more than you do the app, there could be a dangerous situation in which the app says "make a left turn at the light", but before reaching the light there is a railroad crossing. Of course you need to stop at that, but the app can enhance the situation but treating it like another instruction. I see no problem here but an overall safety enhancement.
NYT reports Epstein was taken off suicide watch, and that on suicide watch, he would not have had something to easily hang himself with, plus, he would likely have had a cell-mate to keep him out of trouble.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-...

So, yup, definitely fishy for him to be taken off suicide watch.
It looks interesting and should find a niche in LoB apps. The runtime is much to big for consumer facing apps.
As Student Debt Rises, Teens Are Rethinking the College Experience
Yes, and correct.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20659097
Daimler pilot delivers packages direct to parked cars
> you can't have a piece of encryption that can only be broken if a court says so

yes dammit, that's why I stated I'm against backdoors. I'm not stupid, prime factoring difficulty (or equivalent) is seemingly a fundamental feature of the universe not subject to the will of man, stop assuming I'm stupid.

> and give one to some entity of government, but there is no guarantee that they won't abuse it or leak it or lose it.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! they will abuse it! I said so! Has all sentience been sucked out of this thread? Has every last neuron here been devastated?

I'm fed up with this. Discourse here is like the offspring of The Golem and Sisyphus - witless strength of one and the relentless compulsion of the other becoming a novel synergy of turbo-futility where fuck all gets done but in increasingly impressive quantities.

People complain about society. Hint: we are all society.

DanG, if (ok, when) you're reading this, sorry about this. Flag away. I'm tired.
The biggest discussion is in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20661919 (202 points, 5 hours ago, 178 comments)
I'm saying it's complicated. Sometimes there is no clear right way.
> Let's say USSR at 1941

That's a very good example of a case where people were not acting as a single group at all. Most of the soldiers were simply leaving everything and retreating, because at first they were not sure if Hitler was really worse than Stalin (http://www.solonin.org/en), groups of people were joining with German army sometimes hoping to get rid of soviets and sometimes because wanting to kill neighbours (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera), food was being captured from all the areas that potentially could end up under German control, which ended up causing the famine in Leningrad. So even if from afar it looks like a single group, it was much more complex and turbulent close up.
Published version: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2019-letexier.pdf
8k/month to do a $20/hr at most job. Just hire another meter maid, they can actually restrain someone or conduct first aid.

Classic small town logic, all about the shiny new toys.
I disagree. If you pay attention to where you’re being routed you can totally learn special awareness and routing in your city. Some people don’t, but those are the same type of people that were always lost in the age of paper maps.
I have a nice stack of used routers and firewalls, cost a small fortune. Good luck on ever trusting those in a critical application, and by their very nature that's what they are for. So I can see some of the reasoning behind this, but once you have physical possession of a device it would be a relatively small affair to open it up, flip a jumper to 'yes I mean it' and then to be able to get it back to the same condition in which it left the factory.

But since smartphones are mere terminals and computers are trending that way too it won't be long before a freely programmable computer will be a rarity.

Software distribution is now centralized to the point that we have lost a lot compared to just two decades ago. Freeware and shareware would be unthinkable today, direct-to-the-user by virtue of downloading from the creator. App-stores and self-bricking hardware are the new normal.
The biggest change that helped when I developed temporary RSI when playing video games in my mid-teens was learning and switching to Colemak.

Natural keyboards (Microsoft-style) helped a bit, but the curved Kinesis Advantage really taught me that you should try to never raise your keyboard angle, and instead keep the keyboard flat at a height where your fingers rest on the home row, wrists straight and naturally held at a comfortable position in line with your lower arms. When done well, it’s like your fingers are hovering over the keys on the keyboard, pushing down, but it can cause strain in your arms as you don’t have any palm rests in this position without buying a Kinesis (and re-learning how to type on a straight column key layout). But by far the biggest difference was learning Colemak, it means my fingers rarely leave the home row and typing is less of a chore on my fingers, but still affects my wrists.

For your mouse hand, the Evoluent mouse may look (and feel) funny, but it certainly is less stress on your mousing wrist. You can fake this with a normal mouse (when you remember to) by rotating your hand, wrist and lower arm 90 degrees, placing your hand pinky side down next to the mouse, palm facing the mouse. Then keeping your wrist in that same vertical orientation, slowly move your thumb and first two fingers to cover the mouse. It’s a loose hold, not as easy to use as the normal grip, but it’s much easier on the mousing wrist. Don’t move the wrist in this position, when moving the mouse, try to remember to move your whole arm if possible. I’ll admit, I only use this mousing technique on days when I’m extra sensitive to RSI, normally my mouse movement is halfway between this extreme and a normal mouse grip—generally I modify the mouse grip to not cup it so tightly with a more horizontal wrist and that works okay...

Also watch out for wrist/finger/positional strain from non-computer activities you do regularly, including how you grip or put extra strain on your body when commuting or when using exercise equipment. There’s always a balance — you want stress to build tolerance, but you don’t want to take it too far and build injury instead. Listen to your body! :)
The problem with those so-called "universal' background checks is that

a) Every killer in the past few years PASSED the NICS check, which to my mind implies that background checks are a panacea. We should repeal background checks and not bother, they accomplish next to nothing except cost a lot of money and time and produce no worthwhile results. Everyone who wants a gun can get a gun, even in Europe. Plus, it all stands in the way of enacting real security because we pretend we don't need that.

b) Expanding checks to all sales of firearms, even those conducted face to face as some states have already done, is just more panacea PLUS it does harm to private property rights by insinuating the government in between a private exchange of goods, which is a draconian act.

c) For any such universal check system to operate, it must include registration in order to know who has what. Thus background checks are just the camel's nose under the tent with the idea that registration much 'logically' follow as the next incremental step. After registration comes confiscation, as witnessed in New Zealand, Australia, UK, Switzerland (soon). The confiscation part is by no means theoretical, but rather it is part of the plan.

Learn these lessons. Pay attention to the absolute slaughter that was the 20th century and please don't repeat it.

Our colonist predecessors got uppity about a 5% tax on tea and that helped lead to open rebellion and here we are today with crazy taxes and further and further impositions on what one can do with their own legal, private property. Enough is quite enough! Nothing would please me more than to witness another Lexington and Concord moment, another Paul Revere because it would show that we have a backbone and principles. We can't say we are free people the way we live now under all all these laws and restrictions (my father calls it 'law-ism'--the worship of laws). Being really free for once would be a welcome experience after so many decades of downward spiral. I would at least enjoy not forfeiting half my income to taxes.
That's genuinely exciting to hear. Thanks for letting me know.
This looks way more like an actual framework :)

But why is it prone to sql injection?

https://github.com/Usbac/wolff-framework/blob/master/system/...
(Line 294)

(This was the first LOC I randomly picked)

Oh well, I better stop looking further.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60174/how-can-i-pr
This is how I was taught to position my hands on the keyboard in 6th or 7th grade (I can't remember) and to this day I thankfully don't suffer from any wrist pain or fatigue.
Indeed, that is one of the purposes of those keyboards.

For myself, I love the TrackPoint so much that I can't bear the thought of using any other kind of keyboard with only a touchpad or a mouse. So standard ThinkPad keyboards it is for me. I even use a USB ThinkPad keyboard on my desktop at work!
My phone compass is pretty consistently wrong (probably because I use a case with magnets in it), but the AR navigation feature works well for me. It asks you to point your phone camera at "buildings and signs across the street", so I think it's using Street View-based image recognition.
> a) looking for something not present in en.wiki

That's what I was getting at with "for subjects which transcend cultural differences". It's hard to name something which transcends cultural differences and doesn't have an English-language wikipedia page.

> b) not proficient in English.

Yes, my suggestion was that Wikipedia should focus on excellent translations of content that is originally generated in English. Perhaps the software would highlight passages needing translation help from the non-English-language editors would who today be working on parallel/redundant pages in non-English languages. ("the suggestion would be intense focus on automatic translation of English pages, rather than creation of parallel pages in n languages.")
Energy Harvesting Tutorial with the TI BQ25570
This is great advice. I really enjoy ergonomic keyboards, and having as little strain on your wrist as possible is key. On "regular" non-split keyboards I ignore the touch-typist tenets and keep my wrists relaxed, so my index fingers are on an arc roughly around `qwefjiop`. Much more relaxed than forcing your fingers to an unnatural "home" row.
About six years I was on the losing end of a head-on motorcycle vs. SUV collision, breaking both of my wrists (as well as a broken right femur and several other injuries that were minor in comparison).

I had "casts" that wrapped around my arms from mid-bicep to the tips of my fingers. Additionally, I couldn't walk due to the broken leg. There were a few months where 99% of my time was spent lying down in bed.

The solution to my "can't type" problem was a pair of standard #2 pencils. I had them pushed up into the ends of the casts so that the eraser end was sticking out and basically just "hunted and pecked" with my "two fingers" until all of the surgeries and subsequent healing were complete.

After a while I got pretty good at it too. I wasn't doing "touch typing" at ~120 wpm obviously but it was probably close to the days when I sent and received Morse code at ~18 wpm.

Luckily, this only lasted for a few months and then I was all healed up and back to normal. My doctors said I should expect arthritis at a relatively early age, though, and that carpal tunnel was certainly a good possibility too, so at some point I may need to come up with a better solution than a couple pencils -- something more like what the author here managed. Hopefully I've got a few more years left and the technology and available tools will continue to progress in that time.
I have my wrists straight when I type, but I used to have a problem with left hand's control key; every time I needed to press ctrl+<somekey> my writs bend and it started to cause pain. Then, one day I decided to map my capslock key to act as ctrl (found online that this was a thing) and once I learned to use it, all the pain was basically gone. It maybe took a week or so of learning to get used to it.