skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And increasingly the skill floor is getting ridiculous. Overwatch University on reddit recommends players post videos of matches for point by point analysis on how to get better, and half the posts are just frustration in dealing with the drudgery of playing so many matches to even climb.

Is Overwatch truly a game that you fundamentally enjoy, win-or-lose ? Or is Overwatch the kind of game where you can only enjoy it if you win?

If playing more Overwatch is "drudgery" to you, then perhaps you should quit. You should enjoy the games you play. I am serious: there's no real reason to stick to a game if it is making you feel bad. We should play games for enjoyment.

> you assume everyone will stick to the game no matter what and take whatever abuse or steps they need to git gud.

My assumption is that a good game must be enjoyed by the "losers".

Bowling, Golf, and races like 5k, Marathon, and video-game speedrunning, have no "losers". Its just people aiming to improve their own score over and over again. Maybe these games are more suited to your personality.

I have a 14-minute Super Mario World (SNES) speedrun (11-exit). Its not world-class or anything, but I did have to practice and study to get to that point. So its a thing I'm proud of.

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But yes, I truly do enjoy competitive games that I've chosen to play. BlazBlue, Super Smash Bros, and Competitive Tetris, and Puyo Puyo... I've played these games a lot because I enjoy them, win or lose.

Frankly, you are NOT going to get good at a competitive game unless you enjoy losing a LOT. The best players in the world are incredibly talented, with insane reaction times. And now that I'm over the age of 30, my reaction time has begun to decline, so I'll never be as fast as I used to be. Chances are, I'll never be a world-class fighting game player, its too late for me. Reaction times peak at around age 24 by the way.

That doesn't change my enjoyment of Blazblue or Super Smash Bros. But its something I've accepted in life. I still have a lot of fun playing the game even if I'm locked-out of being a world class player.
It's too bad that the site where I have the greatest need for emoji is also the only one that doesn't support them.
Unless your shop only had the commercial version, so your A(I)=B(I)+C(I) looked like A%I¤#B%I¤&C%I¤.
In theory, if enforced. That has not stopped the behaviors of a majority of the population.
Pension plans and pension funds.
Fight back against Google AMP (2018)
I do. It's rather minimal, but I like it. I use a Rhodia Goalbook, which has numbered pages and a nice month/day view in the front. I can jot down events on specific days, or I can do more longform stuff on the regular pages. I'm pretty loose with how I journal, and I don't require myself to do it every day. I'm a fan of Merlin Mann's "The first page is profound" method to get myself in the mindset of putting whatever I want in the journal.
LIDAR jamming is not illegal, which is likely what they have. Light switches are also not illegal but could be used in an illegal way.
Nixing freeway 50 years ago made Vancouver one of the most liveable cities /2017
it's worse than that : airplane pilots are certified for a particular set of aircraft (and that's why the 737 max came to existence). Even if a company wanted to boycott Boeing, on top of refresh its current fleet it would have to re-train and re-certified all its employees.

Weirdly enough, most of Air France & KLM fleet are comprised of Boeing planes
How is that proof of ability more than luck?
A solemn nod in the general direction of France is sufficient, and don't skimp on the olives.
"Donate time, not money. Contribute as a volunteer."

My experience in trying to donate any amount of time and effort to wikipedia has been nothing but pain and suffering at the hands of extremely possessive "little hitlers" that do everything possible to defend their "turf".

You are suggesting that volunteering at the corporate/entity level is different than volunteering at the wiki level ?
At pypistats.org download numbers of the last half year can be found.
* python3-dateutil has 271 downloads from non-mirrors in last month[1]

* jeilifish has only 106 downloads from non-mirrors in last month[2]

[1]:https://pypistats.org/packages/python3-dateutil

[2]: https://pypistats.org/packages/jeilyfish

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21702973
> Airbus isn't focused on profit

Why would you say that?

> profit (cutting corners)

Is profit the same as cutting corners?
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By no means every time, but actually sometimes yes.

If you look at professional teams, most of the time defenders win the 1:1 battle. That's why in 90 minutes a win of 3-0 is a good score!

Obviously in an actual game, it's more complex than that - a lot of defending is about denying opportunity to shoot rather than out and out tackling.

I reckon I could get in the way on occasion...

Remember the attacker has the disadvantage of having to move the ball, not just run, while the defender is free to move without the ball.

That's, in part, what creates the balance.
Windows and macOS have been pushing for sandboxes for quite a while as well, exactly to prevent this kind of behavior.

Currently macOS is more agressive than Windows on this area, with Apple now requiring notarization for all software, which you can still bypass, but need to explicitly allow it.
... after that escalation we can have more "red flag" laws too. Perhaps arrest people who are thinking about doing such things. Take me for example. My 700HP daily driver can do 200mph, honestly. I've thought about driving that fast. Best so far is 81mph. 81mph over the posted speed limit. No other cars in sight. Straight road. Uphill. Another couple of seconds would have given me a bigger thrill, a higher number. Turn me in.
This sounds incredible. Finally an option that sounds like they actually do want you to profit and redistribute power more equally. Very curious to try it.
Yeah agreed. It is terrible that US has the largest prison population and it is also terrible that China has harvested organs and puts Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps. They are terrible in different dimensions and it would serve no clear purpose to me to try and figure out which is the “more terrible” one to focus the criticism on to the cost of ignoring the other.
a few months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19677721
> The China Tribunal has been initiated by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC), an international not for profit organisation, with headquarters in Australia and National Committees in the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

I find the fact that the media doesn’t report this, but they do report the re-education camps, suggests the sources aren’t very solid.
> I think the real danger is actually in the notion that "bias" is something done to deceive, and I have encountered people who imply this quite a bit in real life

I agree entirely. Bias is typically not something that is intentionally done in an attempt to deceive. It comes naturally to people because they look at the world through the lens of their own experiences and beliefs.

Everybody has a bias. The trick is to understand what sort of bias people (including ourselves) have, so we can properly understand what they're saying.
Neat, TIL.

In the US my only exposure to Mercari have been low budget Youtube ads that make it look like a side project from a high schooler. I guess that's marketing at work (or not at work).
> am I not a whistleblower if my reasons for reporting the company are mostly to get revenge on my asshole boss

You are a whistleblower, because he is your boss. It doesn't seem Trump is this persons boss; In fact, this persons boss may be someone opposed to Trump and quite happy about the accusations. The "neutrailty" comes from the percieved risk in taking on someone who has power over you.

> Shouldn't it be what is reported that we care about

Then the word "accuser" fits just as well.
Making Life Harder for Short Sellers
TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers
True as that may be, let's keep in mind just how juicy of a target Merck is, being a gigantic multinational with a market cap roughly equivalent to the GDP of Portugal.
> capital is a positive feedback loop in a way that labor is not

If that's true, capital sounds awesome!

An automatic wealth generator is something everyone should have, not something you want to tax out of existence!
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Defense contracts account for a fraction of their civilian revenues.
I've realized that I can still buy dumb TVs (for now), but their resolution will top out at 1080p. And that's fine as it's still Blu-ray resolution. Despite having a Chinese brand 4K TV since 2014, I haven't come across a single piece of video content that I felt I "must have" in 4K.

For video games, you can still buy 4K monitors and play them on that.
> Do they really outperform a basic index fund strategy? Any data on this?

Yeah, Piketty's book. But of course the Norwegian government and Harvard administrators are just a bunch of idiots, they have billions of dollars to invest and didn't think of a basic index fund! Now they can save a lot of money firing whoever was managing it for them!
They kind of cheated because they used a hard-coded polynomial approximation of log(x). So there is an implicit unrolled loop going over A_i*x^i.
I forget that everything I copy from SO, and everything I post there, is under a CC BY-SA license. That SA is "share-alike" and I don't think people really understand what that means. From Wikipedia's article on it:

"These licences have been described pejoratively as viral licences, because the inclusion of copyleft material in a larger work typically requires the entire work to be made copyleft."

Now how much code uses something copied from SO? And I wonder how copyright even applies to "code snippets"?
It also depends a lot on the nature of the workload. For IO bound workloads (like most web services), Fargate can easily be an order of magnitude cheaper than Lambda. But if your task is soaking the CPU then you can really get your money's worth out of Lambda.
You assume that financially responsibility is the primary or strictly required characteristic women are looking for. I am a man, so I am not going to offer an opinion, but it seems like a very bold assumption.
On Ubuntu 16.04, the default behaviour is definitely to copy it, and there are no tricks with hardlinks or anything else:

$ virtualenv foo
Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python2
New python executable in /home/administrator/foo/bin/python2
Also creating executable in /home/administrator/foo/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pkg_resources, pip, wheel...done.

$ ls -la foo/bin
total 3464
drwxrwxr-x 2 administrator administrator 4096 Dec 4 11:06 .
drwxrwxr-x 7 administrator administrator 4096 Dec 4 11:06 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 administrator administrator 2082 Dec 4 11:06 activate
-rw-rw-r-- 1 administrator administrator 1024 Dec 4 11:06 activate.csh
-rw-rw-r-- 1 administrator administrator 2222 Dec 4 11:06 activate.fish
-rw-rw-r-- 1 administrator administrator 1137 Dec 4 11:06 activate_this.py
-rwxrwxr-x 1 administrator administrator 252 Dec 4 11:06 easy_install
-rwxrwxr-x 1 administrator administrator 252 Dec 4 11:06 easy_install-2.7
-rwxrwxr-x 1 administrator administrator 239 Dec 4 11:06 pip
-rwxrwxr-x 1 administrator administrator 239 Dec 4 11:06 pip2
-rwxrwxr-x 1 administrator administrator 239 Dec 4 11:06 pip2.7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 administrator administrator 7 Dec 4 11:06 python -> python2
-rwxrwxr-x 1 administrator administrator 3492656 Dec 4 11:06 python2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 administrator administrator 7 Dec 4 11:06 python2.7 -> python2
-rwxrwxr-x 1 administrator administrator 2341 Dec 4 11:06 python-config
-rwxrwxr-x 1 administrator administrator 230 Dec 4 11:06 wheel

This is with virtualenv 15.0.1.
That title is better imo, this one is kind of misleading, insofar as it overstates the problem.
This is the Fallacy of Gray. Just because neither option is perfect, doesn’t mean that one option isn’t better. It’s clearly easier for a bloc of concerned citizens to solve problems in dictator-land than in bureaucracy-land: in dictator-land, you just have to remove one (probably very unpopular) guy, while in bureaucracy-land, you have to... um...
Jumpshot (https://www.jumpshot.com/) is created, owned and operated by Avast (same people sitting in the same offices using same data/servers). 100% of data use for the analytics is provided by that browser plugin. Nothing is anonymized. They (Jumpshot) have unique user/hardware id, url, referrer, IP all browser information and others so they can create their reports. I'm surprised that it surprises anyone after the years of them doing that. They (Avast) are not a nice company.
It's always done intentionally, by printing money one way or another.
They did this for a long time with backing up the "end-to-end encrypted iMessages" automatically to iCloud (where Apple and others could see them in plaintext) and no way to disable just iMessages from being backed up.

Sometimes you just have to think this stuff is done on purpose by Apple for whatever reason, because it doesn't make much sense otherwise to "omit" something like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

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

> Particularly in relation to the Uyghur muslims, I can't find any evidence that they're having their organs harvested

Yes, these things seem to get mixed together, which I agree is bad, but not as bad as both as these things are even in isolation. When someone either tortures or kills people, but never both at the same time, lumping that together as "torturing and killing people" is not really accurate, but why nitpick while they're still doing it and others excuse it.
I dont think this is true any more, especially with the changes in the last few years.

My beef is with Spring. Spring seems to make simple problems very complicated. Its like you have to learn a second more complicated API on top of the original. Plus when something goes wrong you get some 100 call deep stack trace. I just wish there were more pure Java applications without the Spring magic.
> Flight search interfaces don’t seem to filter on equipment.

I suspect this is going to change as booking web sites can use that feature as a selling point.

Here in Australia just recently I booked a flight for mid December and was very surprised to see the type of aircraft listed on the bookings page.

Now that I have seen this information, I myself will be expecting to see this information and will happily change booking sites if required.
Huh. Thanks! I really missed the memo there. I wonder why 1035 doesn’t mention that it is updated-by 1123.
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Machine Reading Comprehension in Production
Nearly 50% of part content of Airbus planes are American made.
> We define the UserProvider interface

I'm strongly against creating interfaces for non-library (not shared) code, that will only ever have one concrete implementation. I see it all the time in internal service code, code that will never have a second implementation. It makes code hard to navigate, harder to understand, and tedious to manage as instead of updating one file, now you'll need to update two.
The title should be tagged with [AD]
Interestingly, it's the culture of Java that makes it verbose.

You can write concise pure Java if you don't rely on libraries, have unit tests, or do things the Java way.

It's too bad, too, because there are some things to love about Java, really. It's simple, it's super fast thanks to the jvm, and it's well supported.
Don’t the companies now also give different financial reporting? Alphabets companies have wildly different expected growths and margins expected. It totally makes sense to be clear with investors that Google’s margins aren’t suffering, Alphabet is just investing upfront capital in Verily or Fiber
They've fixed it in the web, mobile will be fixed in the new release according to the linked comment. Maybe threaten to sue them if this is a priority for you.
Misleading headline - if you disable location services everything works as expected:

> To be clear, completely turning off Location Services does work

The only issue is that there are some system location services that cannot be toggled individually, like you can for individual apps. So if you want to turn them off, you have to turn location services off entirely.

This is still not great of course but much less dramatic than what the headline implies.
You can add android to the list, any app which is given storage access can access any of your files there. So, if we had downloaded sensitive.pdf from email and it lies in the downloads; theoretically any of the dozen apps which has storage access permission can siphon it off to their server.

Android Q has 'scoped storage access' to prevent this and individual folder access permission; but is optional and will be enforced only in the next major android version which by android update standards will take another 5-6 years to get widely adopted.
Can you suggest a nice and robust tablet to be used in the kitchen by the elder?
It should be waterproof, of course, with a bright screen, good audio, and robust enough to withstand minor shocks.

It should include a handful table support.

It needs not be super perfomant, since it should essentially show recipes, at most video recipes.

It could be without a battery, since it will be used on the kitchen table only.

It should have a mobile internet connection (a SIM slot), since Wi-Fi at home is not guaranteed.

It should support Android, but this is a personal preference...

Ahhh, and it should be cheap... :-)
No, start something small now and do YC when you have 10 paying customers who don't churn after a few months. I haven't read any business books in the last few years, for the most part it's just about making software customers want and will pay for. Business management itself is not as complex a problem as making something people want until you're way past $1M/year.
Twitter can help you produce great content if you have ADHD
Oh no kidding. I'm putting puts on BA ahead of their upcoming capsule failure in two weeks.
Ah, I didn't see that. Well then in that case this seems somewhat reasonable?
Have you tried Spring Boot? It reduces lots of the "complicated" stuff to declarative annotations and will provide you with very reasonable defaults for most use cases.
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I find myself doing this often and it’s annoying. Usually it’s because I want to use some other implementation for testing that never materialized, and then the interface sits there.
> Then this should have been the comment.

I simply noticed that it took literally a single search on Google to get to know about it.

Not trying to defend the OP.

> But this article isn't evidence of Google having a liberal orthodoxy

Or the opposite, if literally members of unpopular party work there and have that kind of power.

It supports the poster thesis (phrased in a provocative way) that this kind of issues are not unknown at Google, either one way or the other.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crenshaw-calls-googl...

I guess the part of the original comment (now dead) that says (quoting)

> That one guy: what a relief, because I’m literally a Nazi.

> Everybody: no. Leave that part at home.

> Guy: my rights are being trampled by a liberal conspiracy!

is exposed here https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/google-sued-bias-clai...
"I habitually use a VPN, and Wikipedia does not let me contribute ..."

Lucky you.

If you had been allowed to edit, your edits would most likely have been reverted so fast as to be confused with an automatic process. New pages would be up for deletion immediately. A swarm of people with far, far more time on their hands than you could ever have would block you every step of the way.

There is this notion that well meaning, knowledgeable individuals can make small, worthwhile contributions to wikipedia and slowly refine the resource as we all chip in our little bit.

This notion is false.

It's a real shame because I would love to contribute time and effort in the way that people think they can contribute to wikipedia.
Compared to the currently fashionable Go, Java has quite little boilerplate. Java 8+ has a number of quite powerful APIs in the standard library, some limited type inference, reasonable interfaces that allow default methods. The compiler has a well-defined custom processing interface (@annotations) which allows for powerful boilerplate-reducing things, from Lombok to Spring to JUnit.

80% boilerplate is a large exaggeration.
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> Places like gitmo aside
enough said.
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Google founders’ exit signals end of era at search giant
I really enjoy using spring boot. My problem with Spring is that it feels like I’m mostly metaprogramming with annotations.

Also I hate that I need to literally use a program to create the boilerplate for a new spring app. And I can’t run my program without special IDE settings.
TBF, doing most of what a Waymo car can do is the easy part.
> 2. Sly TVs never get Internet access in my house. I don't plug Ethernet into them, and I don't set configure their wifi. If I must give one access because it needs a firmware update to fix a bug or something, I temporarily set my guest wifi network's password to something random, configure the TV to use that, apply the fix, then reset the guest wifi password back to the old value.

Are there any negatives to doing this? I'm running into issues with a Vizio soundbar working with a Vizio V Series tv and was contemplating connecting to the internet to see if there's any updates but was holding out on finding a fix. I may have to try your method though.
The cold start from using lambda has a number of causes

1. the time to initialize the VM

2. the time to create an ENI if you are connecting to a VPC[1](until the NAT alternative rolls out globally)

3. the time to initialize your language runtime (Java seems to be the worse, scripting languages the best)

4. any program initialization done outside of your handler that runs once per cold start of your lambda runtime.

A fully “warm” instance avoids all four when run.

Is my understanding correct that a “provisioned” runtime that isn’t “warm” will only avoid the first two?

What state is a “provisioned” instance in?

[1] I refuse to use the colloquial but incorrect statement that the lambda is “running inside your VPC”.
"Where we could plan down to the minute of when to make course and sailplan changes."

As a racing sailor I get that you can PLAN when to do these things, but Windy isn't giving you info from models accurate enough for this to be optimal. It just make you feel good and the picture are pretty.
The A380 was a bet that didn't payoff, it's a bit different than Boeing's complete rotten culture of the past 20/30 years.
You also said "competition works best between between groups of freely cooperating individuals", but why? What's wrong with competing alone? It's still coeperation on a societal scale, e.g competing as an individual in a competition is still co-operating with the competition itself.