skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Er, the article is clearly about "participatory games" (either single-player games with leaderboards, or multi-player games intended to be played with friends or family-members rather than strangers) and how they should work vis-a-vis accessibility considerations, like "assist modes." Should a speedrun of a game appear on a leaderboard if you had to play with aim-assist due to Parkinson's? Etc.

If there's an ELO matchmaking system in place, then the whole discussion—"How to play with people who are better than you"—is moot. So, for the purposes of discussion here, you should probably assume that there isn't such a system in place for the game in question. (The people who are bringing up examples from games with ELO presumably haven't read the article.)
It’s often not actually their kids. Using kids to take advantage of the system was and is a well known cartel tactic for getting across the border, and addressing this was the genesis of the child separation policy that began under the Obama administration. It is indeed terrible, but so is leaving kids with so-obviously-not their parents - especially girls, who have to endure a horrific rate of sexual abuse on the way to the US.

The people who are overly compassionate here are contributing to a human trafficking apparatus that is truly ghastly in its scale.
People in huts eventually band together into villages, villages start to trade goods with one another. Eventually the largest village is able to coerce (either using the threat of force via superior military or through infiltration, bribery subversion etc) the smaller villages into giving it the best deals.

The largest village gets very rich while extracting all the resources and goods from the smaller villages around it. The largest village is able to ram through treaties, trade pacts etc that favor it's interests, it is able to interfere in politics of surrounding villages and sometimes provides backing to despots or outright overthrow leadership of smaller villages that might be doing something the largest village does not agree with.
The origins of GPS, and the pioneers who launched the system (2010)
I’m also happy with Arq but do you find that it's CPU hog? It’s got to the point my laptop is unusable when Arq is doing its thing.
It depends heavily on what your threats are and what you are trying to control/prevent. For myself and for most Americans (making a big assumption here I know), the Chinese State is not a serious threat to be concerned about. This due to the fact that they are across an ocean and have close to zero effective physical force projection capability in the US. A greater concern should be domestic criminals (I.E. burglars) or the domestic government because both of those potential threat actors have the capability of using information from a home security system to cause one harm in some way.
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https://medium.com/@nfr.live.4k.tv/official-tv-national-finals-rodeo-2019-live-streams-reddit-450928edb805

https://medium.com/@nfr.live.4k.tv/how-to-watch-nfr-national-finals-rodeo-2019-live-stream-online-4bf7f895c8a9?postPublishedType=initial

https://medium.com/@nfr.live.4k.tv/official-reace-national-finals-rodeo-2019-live-streams-reddit-c3b591c1b940
What does he say that’s propaganda? Everything I’ve heard from him has been decrying the American government. You mean because he doesn’t decry the Russian government? Maybe he just doesn’t want to be killed? Not speaking out about something bad is not the same as speaking propaganda.
I think they were genuinely listening to their customers with Betamax, it's just a situation where the customers didn't use a product the way they said they would.

Of course we customers think image quality is important! Well, turns out, people are pretty cheap and were totally happy with sacrificing image quality of TV recordings in order to maximize the amount they could record on their, like, $20-in-1970s-money tape.
Reddit is somewhere I never go on my own accord. I generally Google something, land there, and then realize every single time how awesome it is.

I need to really take a few minutes to handpick some subreddits and visit weekly!
The taste must vary a lot. A few years back a friend of mine was experimenting with making his own liquors. I, having a bunch of juniper trees, got him some juniper berries. The resulting "gin" smelled amazing but tasted absolutely disgusting. My guess was that there are specific types of juniper berries that should be used.
> I would like to see if there’s demand. But I am talking about dead. As in no pulse.

This one is too weird.
I'm not proposing a consensus mechanism. Rather, a mechanism that allows anybody to encode anything, and anybody else to run searches over it, systematically. It would make it easier to inspect the data behind anybody's opinions, and thereby, I hope, make us collectively smarter.

Yes, systems to encode and query data already exist, but what they can encode is limited, and the way to encode or search for it is difficult. It's hard to think of information that Hode cannot encode, and the way of getting data into or out of it is extremely close to ordinary natural language.
And all the evidence against the government that is practically ignored? The thing about being a whistleblower is that the act of doing what is your “job” is illegal. Yes, what Snowden did was illegal, but that’s beside the point. We shouldn’t sit down and let the government screw us with bad laws.
Sweet! Looking forward to it.
That just means that they have a PR problem. It doesn't necessarily indicate a problem with their actual warehouse conditions, though there may be one; it's enough that people believe there's a problem.
Nor is there some universal standard or determination about who is allowed in. That’s entirely determined by who has power and how they choose to interpret the law or even adhere to it and what degree of violence they use in doing do. In the case of the current administration, that’s stripping children from their parents, keeping people in dangerous, overcrowded, disease-ridden conditions, allowing people to profit off this incarceration, and just generally deploying racist and genocidal rhetoric in doing so.

People aren’t objecting to some abstract notion of enforcing laws, they’re objecting to how power is operating to do demonstrably vile and unnecessary to things migrants with the framework of “enforcement” as an excuse. Rule of law doesn’t exist outside of how it is materially made manifest.
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At least in California, you can go after the manufacturer or the retailer:

Unless disclaimed in the manner prescribed by this chapter, every sale of consumer goods that are sold at retail in this state shall be accompanied by the manufacturer’s and the retail seller’s implied warranty that the goods are merchantable. The retail seller shall have a right of indemnity against the manufacturer in the amount of any liability under this section.

No implied warranty of merchantability and, where applicable, no implied warranty of fitness shall be waived, except in the case of a sale of consumer goods on an “as is” or “with all faults” basis where the provisions of this chapter affecting “as is” or “with all faults” sales are strictly complied with.

Any waiver by the buyer of consumer goods of the provisions of this chapter, except as expressly provided in this chapter, shall be deemed contrary to public policy and shall be unenforceable and void.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x....
European Central Bank may fast track its plans for a digital currency
Born and raised!
So does Oracle. It doesn't make it good enterprise software.
Engineers like to hire engineers (and designers/product people). I think its because the utility and scope tend to be pretty obvious and you can always see more and more to build. As a founder with an engineering past (although you never stop being an engineer!), I always find it a bit trickier to hire the non technical parts because you need to do their jobs first to really know what you need and generally, you need to navigate more ambiguity in an area of the business where you have less training and experience. That said, for the right products and business, you can probably get a way with borrowing resources from engineering for some marketing - I find that engineers with high EQ often make great digital marketers assuming they have some creative/content generation skills because they can really tune ads and think about the whole funnel in a very technical and numerical way. I have also found that it helps to have entirely nontechnical for the creative and advertising as well as there are a lot of places where engineers just can't always see past their engineering goggles.
Yeah, looks like the majority of their revenue is literally based on entrapment:

> Just over half of Getty’s revenues, according to industry estimates, come from distributing “stock” photos — images of generic subjects, such as “house” or “orange juice” or “corporate executive,” that a commercial client might use in brochures, websites or advertisements.
What do you use instead of mocks when testing?
Refusing to speak spanish is a myth. It's much more likely that you will not ever be able to learn catalan becasue poeple will always switch to spanish the moment they see you are a foreigner. Whether you want to learn spanish or catalan, both or none is up to you. You can live a normal live speaking english only in both places. Have plenty of friends that never got to learn the language beyond some basic pick-up lines and food-related sentences.

The salaries figures, 25K and 20K seem extremely low to me. Truth be told, I've been abroad for the last 6 years, but back then, no way we could hire anyone decent for less than 35K (Barcelona).

I would advise that you are going the earn 20K/25K, do not try to go unless you really want to survive like a student :-) Do not see how are you going to pay the rent with that salary, check prices online.

Both cities are very nice and you will enjoy them both.

Last time I lived there, Barcelona was more start-upy than Madrid, and Madrid more corporate than Barcelona. In any case, they both have plenty of tech, I would not worry about that. You will enjoy your time in either city, if you earn enough of course. Make sure of that first.
Since op mentioned FPGAs:

Do you recall NIOS custom instructions? It's similar to that in many aspects.
I'm not saying either of those things in that comment, what I was saying is that when arguing those things, whether you win or lose that argument with the judicial courts or with the courts of public opinion, it's not correct to summarize the argument as "Arguing that criminals go unpunished."

Win or lose, such arguments are about the appropriate amount of surveillance and the rights of people who may not be criminals but who are caught on "film," who has access to that film, and what can be done with the evidence in that film.

I'm totally up for an argument that what Ring does is appropriate. I'm just not up for arguing that questioning Ring is "Arguing that criminals go unpunished."
Once again, the "in the default install" line should be read as "as long as you don't do anything interesting".
What's a quick view? I just press F3. It's quick enough for me.
They may not be marketing towards consumers anymore, but they will happily sell a $10/mo single PC license like before. I've been using them at home for sometime.
Sure, definitely. Or just retrain Parrot on VC Medium articles and have it write itself :-)
If it's so easy then why have so few websites done it? Google has understood what Google/AMP haters refuse to see: web performance is not an engineering problem, it's a product and marketing problem. Coercion is exactly what's needed to push website owners to prioritize performance, because HN's monthly whinefest isn't cutting it. Here's two basic things AMP offers that stripped-down HTML can't do: a world-class CDN that many website owners won't justify investing in, and a clear, marketable incentive to develop a mobile-efficient website that VPs, marketers, product managers, and other business stakeholders can immediately understand.
Wow - typo in the domain! Thanks for noticing. Bit strange that someone upvoted a broken url though!
The quoted long lines are unreadable on mobile unfortunately
You might want to look at tarsnap then.
I would pay _more_ for many products, if they offered this option.

I don't want whatever dark patterns and bonus features ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20061101-03/?p=29... ) marketing came up with this year. I want the basic functionality you had at 1.0, with all the bugfixes since.
I did a quick search that there are 3 LICENSE files. 2 of them are close-sources. Do you intend to open source all the files?
The most important part of the article:

"While the paper is based on patterns and trends and, as such, doesn't confirm a direct cause, ..."

Please be carefull jumping into conclusions. Further research is needed for that.
Slide summary from the authors: https://bcerp.org/wp-content/uploads/Session3-AlexandraWhite...
> 7% higher risk in white women (HR = 1.07, 95% CI: 0.99–1.16)

The confidence interval clearly includes 1.0. I'm tired of all these studies being uncritically reported on in the press with no mention of the giant error bars.

IMO medical researchers need to raise their standards. 95% is way too low. Also, journalists should be ashamed at the state of science and medical reporting. It's ironic that you can read articles blaming tech for the spread of fake news and then turn the page to the health section and read garbage like this article.
Backblaze personal backup used to only keep files for 30 days from your last activity, although I see they now let you keep old files for a year, for an extra $2/month.

Personally, I use Arq Backup and Backblaze B2 (their “real” cloud storage). Arq is a one-time paid app that does differential encrypted backups to your choice of local storage or cloud provider.

Keeping 1TB of backups cost me around $5 per month, and the files won’t disappear on me if my computer stops working for a month.

https://www.arqbackup.com/
BackBlaze by far - I moved from CrashPlan when they screwed their consumer offering.

BackBlaze has a stable client (even though it lives in system extensions) that uses fewer resources, as opposed to the buggy POS that is CrashPlan. IIRC CP client is Java, BB is native.

BackBlaze's restore is far more robust (I got timeouts trying to restore large files from CP) and more intuitive.
“DRM: Defective by Design (TM)“

I forgot where i heard that quote but it seems apropo.
This also goes for logging and even string-ification in a lot of popular Java libraries. It's certainly good to write methods like getName() if you foresee an issue with changes down the line, but precisely because toString is universal, it may well be invoked somewhere outside what you're writing.
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No I don’t think so.
> the sample space changed! Now the possibilities are not just all possible arrangements of 7 children, but all possible arrangements of up to 7 children [...]

> the "stop condition" now is not when there are 7 children total

Your answer makes no sense to me. If you consider the space of possibles combinations that can lead to having a boy and a girl, why do you stop at seven children. Why consider five boys and one girl but reject seven boys and one girl? Both of them are end cases that could be reached.
Hi, I will try to highlight some benefits.

You probably know the Helm, right? Helm is a great way to install and manage the life cycle of complex Kubernetes applications.

The Service Catalog mentioned by @derberg gives you an option to define some plans and automates injecting credentials into your business application.

And Helm Broker combines those two mature CNCF projects.

Benefits?

With the pure Helm Chart end-user needs to go manually through the whole Helm value.yaml and figuring out what should be adjusted to have a free trier. With Helm Broker, you have an option to create predefined plans like free trier, enterprise etc. which can be then selected by the user.

Second thing is that when you are installing e.g. MySQL via Helm Chart then final configuration like pass,URL, etc. will be printed as a plain text and users need to inject them manually into a business application. With Helm Broker this process is automated and a user can simply create a binding between MySQL instance and business application and as a result, all necessary credentials will be injected into this application.

Additionally, you gain an extra security layer which prevents your e.g. MySQL instance from being removed when it is still in use by external applications. Such prevention is not possible when you are using only Helm.

If you want to play with that, check the installation docs: https://github.com/kyma-project/helm-broker/blob/master/docs...
and example use-case: https://github.com/kyma-project/helm-broker/blob/master/docs...

I can spoiler that in the near future we will create the interactive tutorial, similar to that one: https://katacoda.com/rafter/scenarios/rafter, so getting familiar with Helm Broker will be much easier.
Since the FCC Won't Act on robo-calls, Congress Finally Passes Traced Act
Kotlin takes some inspiration from Scala. Not much, though, when you get down to it. The most immediately notable things are default constructors and companion objects.

In actual use, I find the two to be a night and day difference. Scala is actively, desperately straining against the confines of the JVM. It's managed to implement some semblance of every major feature from Haskell on top of the JVM's object-oriented core, but it often has to resort to clever hacks in order to do so, and its language features are a rat's nest of edge and corner cases.

For example, it takes Java's already confusing type system where most, but not all, things are objects, where some types can be reflected on, but not all of them, and where there's even a special annotation to help programmers deal with legal code that the compiler is somehow unable to type check, and it tries to render it more manageable (I guess?) by adding even more concepts to the mix: Class tags, type tags, and weak type tags. The end result is. . . well, if you really, absolutely must higher-kinded types and also the JVM, I guess that's as good as you're going to get.

Personally, I like Scala. It's my main language right now. I want an ML-style language, but am trapped on the JVM, so it suits me well enough. But if others want to observe that, no matter how much you might like mustard, it's still not a tasty thing to put on pancakes, well, I can't in good faith say that they're wrong.

Kotlin takes completely the opposite approach: It accepts that Java's decision to use an unholy blend of type reification and type erasure can't be unmade, and then focuses its effort on unifying the type system. Which is the kind of conservative and pragmatic approach that arguably represents the soul of Java. If you're looking for a revision and not an outright revolution, Kotlin is more likely to be your jam.
Nope. In the US we continue to let the flailing zombies buy up thier competitors. Everybody loses in the end.
Reddit is like a general-purpose version of HN. Both cultures seem pretty egg-heady to me
That's a circular explanation, but maybe I'm reading it that way because we aren't aligned on what 'consumption' means. For a durable good like a house or a couch I think it would be something like expected service life / interval * over-or-underuse multiplier.

The interval technique makes sense to me on goods that are used over time or taxed over time. You can pay for a house all at once, and if you were only paying property tax once I think I would agree with you that the tax is consumption tax. Yet property taxes are annual, so in order for property tax to be a consumption tax we would have to enumerate how much consumption is occurring during that year.

Consider something simpler, like a sofa. We both buy the same sofa with a service life of 10 years. Did we consume the sofa when we bought it? Or do we consume it over its useful life? If I jump on the sofa daily and it lasts for 1 year, I've consumed it in a year. If you barely sit on it and it lasts you 20 years, you've consumed it over 20 years.

Does that make sense? How are you defining consumption?
Norton Utilities, XTree Pro Gold, and Borland Sidekick were the tits on MS-DOS.
> Most of Air France & KLM fleet are comprised of Boeing planes

Are you sure about that? On WP I see 79 Boeing out of 223 planes for Airbus, but I’m not expert. Is there any wider fleet to consider? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France

KLM has 13 Airbus out of 123 airframes, that part is correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLM

HOP is mostly Bombardier/Embraer, etc.
You can turn it off entirely.

You can't load a page, though, and say "hey, please render this in Reader Mode".

And you cannot (at least on Mobile, I've nuked Chrome/Desktop from orbit, it's the only way to be sure) configure the Reader's styling at all.

I basically hate the font choice, size, margins, and about everything else.

For Firefox, I apply a custom stylesheet to _its_ reader mode, but at least I can do that, and it's only once for all the sites encountered through it.
I've also used org-mode and tried to make the switch to pocket notebooks[1]. My reason was that org-mode just wasn't as accessible to me. It's not as practical to use when away from a keyboard as a physical notebook is. However, writing as much in the physical notebook as I do in org-mode would fill it too quickly. I also can't be as structured in the physical notebook as I can in org-mode.

I guess I'm still figuring stuff out. Lately, I've been mostly using the notebook for taking notes of measurements or prices at the store. Maybe in reality my reason for trying a physical notebook is that I missed using a writing utensil.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J535NN2
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This. It's high time to regulate rent seeking.
Some looked creepy, others looked average, others looked practically real. You can still retouch them a little using Photoshop and you have something that is 99.9% real. Good enough for a campaign.