skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly are you considering a "success" and which part of the country do you live in? At least in CA, at the turn of the century Fry's was the most reliable vendor for computer equipment. EVERYONE went there. On Black Friday, the lines were crazy. 20 years later, it's a graveyard of old knockoffs.
A company can refuse to hire (or even fire) employees for any reason it wishes, as long as the reason isn't one in the short list or protected classes.

What you eat, drink or smoke is not the basis for any protected class unless it's linked to a religious practice.
That too (that was an annoying thing about Fry's too; I had totally forgotten about that!), but the returns process at Fry's also treats you like a criminal, whereas Amazon's is easy and asks no questions.
DueFocus is a comprehensive time tracking software powered by machine learning that fully analyzes your workflow and how you are focused on work in real-time. This application is great for self-management and teams. It is available on Mac OS, Ubuntu, and Windows. Moreover, DueFocus has 30+ integrations with project management tools such as Jira, Gitlab, Github, Asana etc.
Discounts drive pick-up truck sales at U.S. automakers
The one who approaches and has initiative has control over the size of their pool. If you sit around and wait for potential partners to approach you, it's quite a bit more random and variable.
Mine was a Friday "hey we got bought, it was just enough to pay off our debts basically so no your stock is not worth anything, the good news is you're all hired by the acquiring company so show up at X on Monday for your new job, have a nice weekend!" so of course I showed up at X, signed their shitty employment contract, did whatever they asked, and spent the rest of the time reading novels in my terminal and finding another job that wasn't a huge open-floorplan low-wall-cube office hellhole.
Initial Pricing Will Never Be Right, But Try Anyway
I’m having a really hard time tinkering away at my beginner electronics project in San Francisco because I keep sitting down to do it and then realise I need a new component and then having to stop, place an order on adafruit and then wait a week for it to arrive.

Online stores aren’t great when you are just in need of a $1 component. ideally you’d be able to just nip to a real store and quickly get what you need
I have a 3A as well (I got as soon as it went on sale to replace my Pixel 1) and I'm embarrassed to admit that I drop it all the time but nothing has broken so far.
Megadelay on railway after lightning strike due to software design error
I added EA to the 'ignore all their products' list 10 years ago. Nothing since then has made me feel this was a poor decision.
Knot theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_theory
> and US maintains its trade war with China across Govts.

Bzzzt! This prediction won't even make it until November of this year. Trade war will wrap up just in time for elections...

Magic!

> VR will take off big time.

Is this a prediction from 1999?
>What's the difference between personal brand building and talking?

Brand building is a genre not an action. Brand building writing has almost zero researched, rigorous, useful content.
I dunno, I like it. Unlike other leisure-time activities being discussed here, smoking usually occurs during the workday and makes people stink for hours. It's on par with a severe personal hygiene issue, which I think is also a reasonable barrier to employment if it's affecting other employees. I would very seriously consider quitting my job if I had to smell cigarettes due to a coworker.
Have you used a particle system lib?
The native MacOSX is slow also on AMD GPU, but WebGL works fine on Chrome, also faster (but it not works on Safari)
Pretty much this, its intentionally kept as a blackbox.
Not in a way that's relevant for your employer 10 years later. It can be a nice anecdote to mention, but don't put it on your CV.

By the way, I started coding at the age of 13.
Does it matter? If you're hitting two birds with one stone so to speak what's the issue here?
Canada has nothing that compares to what Fry's was. Best Buy is about as good as you can get in Canada for computer equipment or electronics, and Amazon.ca is too expensive for Canadians, compared to the prices for Amazon.com for Americans.
Very cool. I've ported it and played around a bit now. Anybody got any pointers on how I might add arbitrary flat sprites like trees to the mix?
Why I Use R
Honestly that's rather expected from EA :D
2019 was the Year of the Pig. I think someone is up to no good.
Another alternative is the entr command -
https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-entr/
I can only comment on this from the perspective of a very active Battlefield 1 and 5 player, the current use of cheats is pretty much an epidemic right now on all of the PC servers. There are cheat programs that you can use on the Windows clients, carpet banning based on what OS you are using is totally the wrong approach here and continues to show EA & DICE have no handle on this.

Instead of doing this, they should just add a vote to kick feature on the servers which would solve a lot of the frustration.
Do you know what site works extremely well without js?

Amazon, unironically. I did an entire transaction the other day with noscript on before I realized it. I'd never want to work for them but their tech is impressive.

Only thing that didn't work was the logout button.
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Aha, I've been following your main account but didn't know this one existed. Definitely impressive!
Same here. I found Sim City 5 to be awful at best and a total fraud at worst. Since i wasn't able to get a refund from support i had to charge back via my credit card provider.

The people who still bankroll these companies cause me massive confusion.
I've been to the Boston, Chicago, and DC-area Microcenters, and had good experiences with all of them (although the Boston one could use a larger parking lot). Never actually been to a Fry's store--it seems that Fry's mostly set up west of the Mississippi and Microcenter east of it.
Canada is like 1/10th the size of the US's population. These things don't necessarily scale linearly.
Digg looked great. Even original digg looked way nicer than current reddit. The problem was big redesign.

They really fucked it up. Ads were being shoved left and right without knowing what really was an ad and what wasn’t. It’s the same fuckery reddit started doing and scaled a bit back. I still hate current reddit (all the pop ups are really annoying)

Moral of the story: don’t do massive redesigns. Listen to your customers (not your VCs). Change one small thing at a time, A/B test it, UX interview it with customers, then roll it more % of customers. if no red flags, increase % over time to 100%.
Nitpick: Upper marginal employee NI rate is 2%, not 1%. So the high income marginal tax rate (and maximum average tax rate) is 47%, not 46%.

Nitpick 2: The employer also pays 13.7% NI on top of that million-pound salary, so the actual tax wedge on the employer's £1.137m outlay is 52.4% (and would approach 53.4% at multi-million salary levels).
> 9. Global carbon emissions are not reduced, mostly because of lack of initiative by China and 3rd world countries.

Per-capita CO emissions [1]:

United States 17.5
Australia 16.75
Canada 14.67
Russian Fed. 12.18
South Korea 11.78
Norway 11.71
Finland 11.53
Greenland 11.07
Netherlands 10.96
...
China 6.18
Mexico 3.91
Brazil 2.15
India 1.64

If lack of initiative is to blame we need to point the right culprits.

[1] https://cotap.org/per-capita-carbon-co2-emissions-by-country...
You are right, it makes sense
I built myself an ebike with a Bafang BBS02 18 months ago, and use it constantly. The main problems are:

- No safe parking anywhere. So far so good but it's only a matter of time before my bike gets stolen.

- Range. Much too short (less than 40km in my experience).

Yet, it's fantastic. It changed my life. It almost totally replaced my motorbike for every trip except the longest ones (I live in Paris so most trips are short).
I agree as the biggest test of new language features that involve syntax changes is not the superficial situations it makes easier, but how that feature works with other features that currently exist.
Ah ok. That makes sense. In that world, they can even use miniature black holes once they can stabilise and capture them in a field, to generate energy.
Same. And it's a shame too - the new Jedi game looks really nice. But it's got that scarlet EA on it, and that's an automatic no from me.

Stories like these reassure me that my boycotting is justified.
The definition of working hours are the hours when the employer can tell you what to do. If they want to say you can't smoke at night then it's no longer free time and they should be paying overtime.
Nightly charging maintenance, to me, sounds worse than oil/gas maintenance.
Breakthrough study on interactions could improve development of medicines
I use Chrome OS daily to do my job and I think it is fantastic. IMO it is the ultimate work machine for your average knowledge worker.

At my company, all the software that we use is web-based (SaaS), with the exception of software engineers, who are using local tools to develop web based applications.

For non-engineers, the OS provides an extremely simple client to use to do their job. The OS is a slightly better web browsing experience than the Mac, and since all you need to do your job is a browser, it works great. The OS presents your google drive cleanly as a local filesystem, so you can even avoid any local storage completely. The OS is security-first, and is far more resistant to malware than a Mac or Windows machine.

For engineers, you get all of the above and a well functioning linux distribution on which you can build software. Since everything we deploy is on linux, it's closer to our production environment than the mac.

The best part of the experience is how the cloud oriented nature of the OS lets me treat my laptops like cattle rather than pets. If you lose your device, just grab another one. All your stuff is up in the cloud. Strange bug? just power wash the machine and start over.

I also think that journalists or hobbyists may have a hard time appreciating the OS. Yes, it is terrible at things like video editing, games, audio editing, etc. But for a work machine in an enterprise environment, it's fantastic.
> they should just add a vote to kick feature on the servers

Wish this was more common. Seems to work well in all the games I've played with this feature.
Yep, but my guess is that Lobsters is probably around 1/100th the size of HN on any dimension you care to measure (some recent stats: https://lobste.rs/s/8yumgi/killed_by_google#c_ugdtol). We explicitly have a narrower scope and are not interested in trying to dethrone/replace/etc HN. But ultimately, "split" is too vague a prediction to be judged as accurate or inaccurate.

(Context: I am the admin of Lobsters.)
Dunno, I can only hazard thinking ‘intentionally underpowered to force our developers to think more ‘
The way I understand it (which isn't that well either tbh) is that most modern anti-cheat softwares run off of some Hardware ID (HWID). An amalgam of ids from your GPU, CPU, OS, Mac adress, and so on... that are somehow combined or hashed into some uniquely identifying ID. This is a bit harder to spoof than an IP address ban. And most are robust to gradual changes. Like Theseus' ship, if you change your GPU one day, OS the next, and so on... is it the same computer you should ban? Most HWIDs generated by games won't change until a certain number of those variables are messed around with.

Once again, I'm no expert but I think that's at least helpful.
Wine and Proton are the last solution, and work exceedingly well, but companies such as EA are banning people that use those solutions for well no good reason.
This is why I personally prefer Scala to Haskell
I think about the only place that cable lacing is still actually used is in space craft wiring harnesses, where the harness is generally not modified once built. Even then, NASA at least doesn't use the single continuous strand method of lacing. We tie "spot ties" which function identically to Velcro with the exception that you have to cut them if you do modify the harness.
It's quite ridiculous if that's the case. Someone getting him or herself willingly into an addiction (especially nicotine) should not constitute a "disability". Unless they're classified as mentally disabled since they couldn't judge right from wrong to begin with, in which case they have other issues to worry about.
It also tends to get abused against really good players. Servers need more active admins.
The "C++ Core" guidelines get pretty close to standardizing the 'good parts' of C++.
> If I as a taxpayer am funding someone else's healthcare

Universal health care or not, you already are helping to fund everyone else's health care.
Agreed, Rust can certainly handle lazy evaluation. All the iterator types for example are lazy, hence the .collect() method which eagerly evaluates a lazy collection.

Hiding the fact that a lazy value needs to be mutated to initialise it is a little more work (since a nice API lets the user treat the value as if it doesn’t need to be mutated), but is certainly possible.
State law dictates the legality. There is no federal protection. About half the states list marital status as a protected class.
This was also my interpretation.
Does anyone have head injury statistics? I know falls are a major cause of preventable death in the US, but I don’t even know how those break down between someone on a bike vs an old person falling over.
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I'm not sure how common vs not common Interface Builder usage really is. At any rate, I'd say "typically" is a stretch.
It makes little sense to talk about other languages in discussing VS, given that C, C#, and C++ are the primary supported languages there.

Obviously if you're doing other things you're doing other things.
I'm part of a Battlefield V community and the state of anticheat on this game is absolutely horrific. We see players blatantly cheating for weeks, sometimes even months without getting banned. This has made one of the game modes (Firestorm) almost unplayable and drove most players away from this mode.

The shocking part is that we've compiled a list[1][2] of 380+ cheaters with video proofs and we've transmitted this list to some DICE community managers and employees. For a few months they checked this list from time to time and banned the offending people but they stopped looking at it entirely since around summer. We've tried to get in touch with other people but without any success.

The whole community is outraged by the apparent lack of care given to the cheating issues, and the fact that they seem to ignore all the reports made by the players through the platform Origin.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/172J_dqCTZpDpOBbhgvtT...

[2] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmXAY-Q-QrfflsHrFX...
Both should be prohibited. The sooner society agrees to this the better.
Em3ev and Luna are the name brands if you’re buying it with a battery (nice since it will be wired up for you).

Chargers are a pain since you want an 80-20 charge cycle.

The name brands have options for this and you know what battery cells you’re getting.

I used the meanwell hlg 54a to make my own chargers. They are the best value and ul listed if you don’t mind doing your own connections and have a voltage meter
JScript is misunderstood. It isn't a proprietary JavaScript competitor. It's just Microsoft's implementation of JavaScript. They had to use a different name when talking about it in order to get around trademark issues.

There were some differences from Netscape's implementation, but they're pretty minor compared to the dialectical differences between competing implementations of pretty much any other language.
You don't need to be inferring the statement wasn't pre-approved. Musk has stated as much in court documents.

Where you are wrong is your claim that it needed pre-approval under the first agreement. Only statements that Musk, in his own opinion, believed contained material facts need pre approval. Gloss on publicly known figures is not material, that is what Musk thought he was posting, therefore it did not need per-approval.

The SEC tried and failed to push the argument you are trying to push in court. You can view the complete docket here. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7946295/united-states-s...

You can find musk making the admission I claim he made above in this court filing. You can also find a better version of the argument I made about the tweet not needing pre-approval. https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.501755...
It’s like the bad wig effect: You only notice the vapes that do smell.

I was very surprised to find that a coworker was secretly vaping at his desk. He’d been doing it for weeks before I saw him take a puff. Nobody noticed any smell.

If the vape juice is unscented, the only aerosolized compound should be propylene glycol– the same substance used in fog machines.
Biggest Errors and Misconceptions in Mobile A/B Testing
Ask HN: Android dev – Kotlin back-end dev
Hey guys. I'm doing android for 4 years and I'm thinking to move to Kotlin back-end development.
I'm here to ask some questions about this.
Here is some basics that I want and I don't like in android.

1)I want to study basics(such as algorithms, DS, networks, databases) rather than study new features that Android(or community) roll out every 0.5 year.

2)I want to be on top of the service architecture, making rules for front-end devs.

3)I want to work more with hardware.

4)I want to make something interesting, such as a taxi back-end, car-sharing back-end.
I don't want to write any software that only relates to money or accounting. So, no boring stuff, just fun stuff.

5)I want to care about security.

6)I might want to make some data analyses on the data that I have.

I've recently quit my job and doing freelance android development and have time to study something.

Please tell me it I will get what I'm looking for and what are the pros and cons of back-end dev, or in comparing to android dev.
Thank you!
To further your point, there is always a risk that some assumption you're making will turn out to be wrong. You should build the product only when the risk of not building it is greater than the risk of your assumptions being wrong.
Are the prices better than Amazon? I've never been to an electronics store that is doing better since 2000 except for the Apple Store, but I live in CA. Even Best Buy in CA is empty and more expensive for the most part.
I would say that there is a lot of obvious evidence for the horrific failures of trying to impose a single culture in a place where multi-culturalism already exists. These failures have been so bad that the idea of cultural purity has earned a bad name.

The argument of what would be better if we started from scratch will hopefully never be relevant since most of us are in nations with multiple cultures.
Good beginnings, but could use some work. I've used a decent amount of these services like bond.co, Handwrytten, and manually with lob. Excited to see a new mobile app come into the space!

Some of my observations if it helps:

- No pricing information up front, or any information about what it's going to send

- No delivery expectation statements, is it going to arrive in a couple days or a few weeks? Longer?

- Play store screenshot shouldn't use a Bob Ross-esque text but actually something that someone would send on a postcard

- 3d preview at the end was cool and a surprise factor, but would have been nice to control it with my finger and have the auto rotation slow down so I can see what I am sending

- Would be nice to be able to zoom in/out on the photo instead of being stuck with showing all of it

- Address field had no autocomplete making it time consuming to tap out
good point, as i didn't word it correctly at all: how tricky is it to control diseases _among_ plant cultivars?
Every time I hear this talk I can't help but feel that enterprise and industry is getting a free pass. Industry has a much larger impact on co2 than consumers, i think. I'll make improvemenrs where I can but I'm honestly fatigued from this talk. I'd sooner write my congressman as this should be a government docket item.
Hanger 1 at moffett is only 348,480 sq ft, that is an absolute unit of a Frys at 400,000. Maybe I'll have to drive over to Chicago and check that out before their inevitable closure.
I think core guidelines [0] are aiming that.
Some of it is already supported by tools like clang-tidy, but as far as I understand the ultimate goal is to have some sort of flag (e.g. --sane) that would only accept 'reasonable' subset of c++ and reject legacy stuff.

However this document is a bit raw, lots of todos, so I'm not sure how close are we to such flag.

[0] https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines
> All Corellium has done is virtualize hardware that can run iOS

This is a downright lie.

>The Corellium Apple Product makes modifications to iOS that allows it to be installed on, and run from, Corellium-developed or Corellium-operated hardware. Such modifications include disabling loadable firmware validation, disabling self-verification of the FIPS module, adding Corellium software to the “trust cache,” and instructing the restore tool not to contact Apple servers for kernel / device tree / firmware signing.

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> But if the user provides the IPSW to run

Ok, but that's not how Corellium works as is evident from the links in TFA https://i.imgur.com/RXe2aE2.png
It's been a really really long time since EA last made a game I enjoyed. Like the Command and Conquer series, even Generals and Zero Hour, as much as they were a departure from the "real" C&C series.

I wonder if there'll ever be such a time as the nineties when it comes to new interesting game genres.

Nowadays it's just same FPS games with different graphics. Monorail with quick time events or battlefields of some sort. And of course same golden goose EA sports games every year. Cookie cutter.

Or maybe new interesting games come out all the time and I'm just too old.
Was going to say this. I recall getting regularly booted from Day of Defeat games for alleged cheating. Nope, I just happened to be pretty dang good at that game.
A fairly good high level PowerPoint on the topic: https://www.slideshare.net/chrisma0/beat-your-mom-at-solitai...

The last page has links to more in-depth info.