skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also see: https://www.messagebird.com/en/

Though, getting your own business-API would be cheaper, I've heard WhatsApp is very picky about granting those and instead prefer you work with a third-party partner instead [0].

Then, there's click-to-chat for simpler communication if the client's WA number is known [1].

[0] https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/general/26000239/?category=52452...

[1] https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/general/26000030/?category=52452...
The position output by a GPS receiver certainly can (will) have lag. That's probably what the poster I replied to was referring to, and I hadn't thought about it.
Solar plus battery near the equator can be sized for 24/7 power with relative ease.

But no one would do that, because we don't need power at the same rate all the time. Near the equator, where most people on the planet live, our need for energy is correlated with when the sun is shining and air con is running and people are awake.

This is why solar is better even at the mythical "baseload" than nuclear is.
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Rocket League costs $20 when it's not on sale. Say you get 50 people to buy the game. That's $1,000 in revenue, let's say that 80% of that is profit. So that's $800 that Psyonix/Epic make.

I would imagine the staffing costs to keep Linux and macOS versions of the game running are more than $800/week.
Yes, I would also be ticked off if the shoe store sold off my personal info, or really used it for any reason other than selling me shoes.
Thanks, that is what I was hoping for.
That last one, at least, was claimed as a feature when gmail first went live: Grouping messages more smartly based on content, and showing them strictly chronologically instead of in a "confusing" tree so recipients wouldn't miss a response that was in another branch.
got it. thanks.
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Let’s say I have a database with 1TB of data. I export it daily to S3 with this Snapshot export. Does it mean I will be adding 1TB every day to my S3 storage?
uh.... sorry but that's now how we do things anymore.

Please submit this as a medium article with unnecessary and unrelated images or as a corporate blog post so that you can improve your seo ranking.
"The UK was among 19 nations that initially supported the law."

That's quite rich, ain't it? It's OK, after Brexit UK will become a colony of US anyway since they will rapidly do bi trading deals and implement US style anyway. You know, the style that allowed stuff to halt for 20 years because Disney want it in 1999.
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You mean, like arrays of microscale acoustic generators? Maybe if the wavelength was small enough, one could manipulate singular molecules with nanometer precision? 3Ghz ultrasound at sea level has a wavelength of about 150 nm.

Perhaps the endgame of this would be a phased array that can generate phonons with extreme accuracy.
Thanks, haven't heard of jabba. I use sdkman! and others I know use jenv.
Just because a game is available for a platform doesn't mean that it will always be supported for that platform. That's like people complaining that the Wii U version of a multiplatform online game isn't getting patches anymore. Yeah, that sucks, but you're making a mistake if you think a platform will be supported indefinitely.
If I remember correctly, there's a battery friendly mode that can be enabled in the file menu which stops background indexing.
We're not sure it's matter, but let's just say 'dark matter' is a useful abstract label (like 'teapot'). We know that SOMETHING is perturbing our models that are useful (to simplify the analogy, let's just posit that newtonian orbits are casually affected, for example) by measurement. As much as an orbiting 'teapot' is ridiculous, it's also provable that something is unaccounted for, 'teapot' or 'dark matter', whatever the label.

This does not mean that it's matter specifically (just a label), but is a phenomena.
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1. Nitrogen-14 has 0.99998807418 of the mass of carbon-14.

2. After 1 year, 0.99987945993 of the original carbon-14 will remain.

3. 1 carat of pure carbon-14 diamond will therefore lose 287.5 picograms of mass in 1 year.

4. 287.5 picograms of mass equates to 25,839.2 joules of energy.

This amounts to 0.818 milliwatts / carat for the first year (and a very slow decline after that). Note that this is the maximum possible output for a pure carbon-14 diamond. Usable energy will be less, and I'm assuming that the diamonds would not start out as pure carbon-14. Practical outputs are probably in the small-number-of-microwatts / carat range.
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>Do you have a private office at work? It is like sitting in the same pod as a teammate.

And therein lies the problem: we should all have a private office wherever we work, preferably without crappy lighting and with suitable heat / cold temps and a comfortable chair and so forth. Instead we get open offices with the guy three feet away feasting away on his boogers all day and the guy next to us whose headphones leak noise everywhere.

This is such an issue for me that it is one of the top five reasons why I went freelance - so that I can work in enjoyable professional settings with good hardware.
I appreciate the note about complaints. I try to filter these kinds of things out (like amazon reviews that say "it's not what I thought it was so I rate a zero").

I will look into the security conf the next time I try it out. Thanks!
Google has a near monopoly on search which is unrelated to their competence serving adds.

So, Google could theoretically be terrible at advertising and yet still make insane profits from it. Just as Comcast’s internal IT systems might be a mess. This is why monopolies tend to be less efficient over time, nothing is forcing efficient operations.
It's not very good for english speakers in the US, either. The bang syntax is fantastic, but the search results are crap.

Didn't someone demonstrate pretty conclusively that underneath all of the specialization it was just bing?
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Thank you for the implicit praise!

Seems like this would be an interesting list of essays - is it publicly shared?
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While Google may be paid per click, the value of that click (how much companies are willing to pay), is directly dependent on their conversion rates. So Google is incentivized to get you the most converting clicks as possible.
Are you saying that enterprise people prefer Postgres?
I've seen people type "example" into the address bar, hit enter, then click the Google link to example.com, without realizing that they could just add ".com" to the end of their initial query and go directly to their destination.
You should take a look at Dominus Galaxia—it hews much closer to the original Master of Orion philosophy while having some nice bits of modernization.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1173590/Dominus_Galaxia_K...
Robot employment agency is taking over human jobs
That is one way, but sometimes they do show up / try to mimic other traffic / etc. That part of things would be reduced.
> The graveyard orbits are ~40,000km above the earth's surface

They're also in a ring in the plane of the equator. Easy to avoid.
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Does this mean we can finally use a 4K monitor on OSX? https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-526
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My concern about Google isn't big enough to justify going through this.
Thanks, now I understand it. Then it makes sense to delete the earlier snapshot and only keep the latest one to not store redundant data.
Use an open message protocol
Originally no. Then the first rev with ads had ads that were unobtrusive, obviously adverts, and often relevant.
That is utter nonsense:

"However, the New York State Health Department reports the average vaccination rate for measles among the nearly 200 Jewish K-12 schools in Brooklyn — mainly in Borough Park and Williamsburg — is 96%, six percentage points higher than the statewide average among private schools. In contrast, six other New York counties have a vaccination rate below 50%."

And just to be clear, these are Orthodox K-12 schools we are talking about.

https://health.data.ny.gov/Health/School-Immunization-Survey...

> The rate of vaccine refusal for Orthodox Jews is radically higher than the general public--second only to Jehovah's Witnesses on a proportionate basis.

Where in the world are you getting such utter crap data from?

There were some schools at 77%, but that was not vaccine refusal, that was just kids who hadn't made time to go to the Dr., when prompted virtually all of them vaccinated. And that's from the CDC itself.
Remember when 3D TV was the greatest thing ever?
One of the things I find interesting here is the SQL support via JaSync. A competitor to JDBC using netty and kotlin coroutines, or on Java Completable Futures..

https://github.com/jasync-sql/jasync-sql

Spring R2DBC and Vertx are built atop that library. I'm also working on a micro orm using it. But it's really nice to see that become a first class citizen in the IDE.
The -word syntax still tends to work for me on subsequent searches (when I searched for a similar query but without the -word).
> I wouldn't even want that with my wife/girlfriend.

My partner moved in full time last year, such that we now share an office in addition to the rest of the house. We're coping, but it is honestly more problematic than I expected as we both are on the phone part of the day and need focused work time at other points. A 1984-style telescreen of some remote colleague staring at me all day work drive me nuts, but more power to the parent poster if it works for them.
This doesn't sounds like bad information to me, especially considering the lack of conclusive, empirical information on death rates, pathology, etc. It just sounds like normal speculation to me.

For example, initial reports only days ago claimed that human-to-human transmission was not possible, but that's been disproved already. Combine that with the government's mismanagement of SARS/African swine fever, and you've got plenty of reason to speculate.
Oh, interesting.. did he say how he perceives Tim, or what role he sees him filling?
And? Vaccination rates among Orthodox Jews is the same as the general population, only the close contact part is different.
> It's not easy and go to market will take a looong time so I'm keeping my day job but I believe it's a problem worth solving.

Is your solution technical, or do you also have a solution for the fact that it's a service banks have no incentive to offer? (And incentives not to)
EDIT: Probably a misreading on my part if the author wanted to convey it's the first implementation of RFC8684

Title is editorialized & factually incorrect.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/urlsess...

Apple has had MPTCP publicly for 3 years at least:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201373

MPTCP was used internally for even longer.
These are product-centric questions.

> What business risks or blockers exist?

Thats not a question that's readily available to developers, nor is it relevant until the project comes up in planning.
There’s nothing wrong with my no-email policy
Reminds me of this http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/resources/death-positive-...
All the companies I ever worked for did, so I think it's normal even though it's some BS
I think the best thing about MOO2 by far was the rather memorable audio/music. Especially the unique music they had each time you interacted with another race.
This headline is a little sensational.

When I ran a brick and mortar business where we took bookings, Google Ads were imperative to us getting new business. So were Facebook Ads. When they weren't running for some reason, or weren't optimized, we could feel it in the pocket book. AND, it wasn't too expensive. I was able to pay around $300 per month and get a lot of business.

Anyway, every business is different, and I think local business owners need to consider whether Google Ads are good for them based on their own unique situation.
Print ads don't call home with your identity when you see them, they don't tell a dozen different companies who you are. The magazine may have some general statistics on it's customers (maybe differentiated by region?), but they certainly don't give the advertiser enough information to uniquely identify every person who sees an ad, along with individual demographic information and information on what ads the reader has seen elsewhere. The print customer database is (probably, hopefully) not linked into other third party databases that list what your hobbies are, what shelves you look in at the store, and what other publications you subscribe to.

If online news only had static first-party ads that were the same for every customer (or possibly every customer in X region), uninformed by Amazon/Google/other browsing, I'd be more than happy to turn off my ad blocker.

If the newspapers produced a daily epub, I'd be happy to pay for it. Even then, epubs can contain references to third party images and other resources (not sure about PDF, I despise PDF for lack of text reflow). My personal ideal for online subscriptions would be an OPDS catalog that I could subscribe to; this supports login-based access, and I could use fbreader or any other app to read.
Oh that's one I haven't tried, which I should, if for no other reason than to improve my 'complaining about space 4x games' meta-game.
We all manage with oil. The key has to be getting the resource without making the region worse, which hasn’t been the case with oil.
No,France has not built any new nuclear power plant in decades, the only one being built (flammanville 3) is a mess, and there are goals to reduce the share of nuclear to 50%.
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Entities are, very broadly speaking, only useful for games. ECS is a type of composition programming and, I agree, it certainly seems to be a better approach.

Rust traits are essentially static composition, and Rust seems to be eating the programming world.

I cannot fathom what a language with dynamic/late-bound/ECS composition would even look like. Hopefully we get to see some interesting stuff in that space.
I don't like Comcast, but at least in my experience, others I know and companies worked at, it's been surprisingly reliable. Used them at multiple locations over the past 15+ years and could count the number of outages or other issues on one hand. Is that unusual?

Do we know what the data says about it? Statistics on uptime, ping, speed, customer response turnaround...
> Ideally, this forces people to expand their search/search harder for qualified people. Simply "ticking the boxes" would probably be risky for the company, as you have no idea on if they're the right person.

So “ticking the boxes” is risky, but right now it is too easy to just add candidates?

How can you square those statements?
> I have to admit, that at the beginning using brackets was not easy for me. Once I’ve realized that the brackets are just on the other side of the function name, everything was simple and I could code very fast.

Yeah, having automated insertion of brackets/parenthesis is necessary to adopt, otherwise you find yourself annoyed very quickly. Once you've adopted to automatic insertion of that, it's hard to go back to language where you don't have that...
HDR is the only good idea they’ve had for a long time.
>In the context of any given project, that's, if anything, a subcategory of Essential. The software is a tool to do something, and the functional requirements are what define the purpose of embarking on the project.

It's not that clear cut.

For me "Essential" is what captures the essence of the problem domain and the requirements in actual use.

On top of that, there are lots of "requirements" that are there due to bribes, idiotic "brainstorming" where everyone felt obliged to chime in, what the CEO's spouse things should certainly be there, recent fads, over-thinking it from some execs, etc.

The distinction between the "essential" is of utmost importance.

First, because these "required but not essential" area is where an engineer can look for tradeoffs (to the benefit of essential areas).

Second, because those items might hamper the essential functionality (like a requirement to build a website in C, because the CEO heard "it's the fastest language", can hurt security, maintainability and other aspects, or the requirement to make a banking webpage with small fancy grey on white fonts because they though the design is "cool" hurts readability).

Third, because engineers should not just operate on a "follow orders" basis. They also have an ethical responsibility towards the final users (society at large for public software, customers, the customer's employees, etc).

And, of course, because not being able to make that distinction, means that the engineer can't tell good from bad, useful for useless, and it's all the same to them. Whether they can convince the customer it's another thing. But engineers should absolutely be able to make the distinction.

>There would be no software if there weren't a set of requirements.

Which is neither here, nor there. There would also be a hell of a lot of better, faster, more reliable software, if bogus requirements would get pointed out, and removed.
The search results were changed to add a favicon and hide the URL. Adblockers wouldn't help with that.
A couple of things to point out for new Clojure readers.

The 'def' form should not be used inside of 'defn'. Local bindings should use 'let'.

When using the STM, 'ref-set' should not be used most of the time.

(def names (ref []))

(defn add-name [name]
(dosync
(alter names conj name)))

The 'alter' function will call 'conj' and the return value will be the new value of 'names'.
My grandparents’ generation and my parents’ generation aren’t about to invest any effort into learning a new app. They’re happy with Whatsapp, it was the first to do what it needed to do easily, and unless a new app offers a compelling new feature, they’re not going to find it worth their time to learn it.

Unfortunately, they might not understand privacy concerns, but even if they did, they don’t have the language fluency or technical capacity to verify the claims of security.
I'm sure you've thought of this, but one thing you could do eventually is give a visitor a walkthrough, starting with the type of workload they expect, and highlight at each step what the most important levers available to them are. By all means stop short of calculating actual values etc, but just give people some entry point other than the full list of parameters, however nice the write-up under each parameter is (unless I'm missing something in the UI!)
> What if Google is just taking credit for clicks on ads just because people would have been searching for that stuff anyway?

I don't think that's the case. I mean, in some case yes there are companies buying ads when they would have been among the top search results anyway. But assuming that many ad creators are probably savvy enough to know where they rate in organic search results, they're likely not targeting adwords where they'd be high in those organic results.

I.e., competent users of google advertising are, by definition, users that avoid paying for results they would have gotten otherwise.
Wiarton is pretty far from Toronto. But I dunno how many receiving/sending antennae they have for « Toronto Centre ».
Really? Where? I overview Edwards AFB last week (with clearance as Joshua Approach gave me a shortcut across the restricted areas,) I flew close to Vandenberg last month, not an overfly, but just on the edge of the airspace, I also flew near Fort Huachucha, AZ which is an Army Intel post. I flew right near the Yuma Proving Ground on another trip. Even flew right on the edge of the series of restricted areas containing Area 51 — not a single place was GPS jammed. Even Camp Peary and a few other extremely sensitive sites aren’t permanently jammed.

Even jamming near Nellis and Area 51 is done by NOTAM and not perpetual.

Maybe there is some permanent jamming somewhere but pilots would know about it as GPS availability knowledge is safety critical.
> Scala has the advantage that it allows OOP or Functional Programming, which Clojure does not.

Clojure certainly allows both, that is what protocols and multi-method dispatch are all about.

CLOS has Object in the name for a reason.
Possibly? Or they think that their payments are required to be ranked fairly on Google's service and view it more as blackmail than anything else. Searching for "amazon" brings up an Ad paid for by Amazon, searching for "books for sale" brings up paid Ads for four different book sellers - if any of them stopped paying google they'd be, at best, the fourth result - and the first Ad result is for the first organic result, the next organic result is the fourth ad, the one after it a sub-page in the last result and the fourth organic result is craigslist which didn't pay for an Ad. In fact, Amazon isn't even on the first page of results except for their Ad.
My experience growing up in America mirrors your description here. I’ve found the average American to be ok with bullying, sabotage, dishonesty, and malice.
That opinion is subjective, and Magenta is useful in other contexts.
I enjoy taking the opposite approach. Advanced start, impossible, Elerians, or any race with full negative picks plus telepathy. Rush out some cheap ships with no shields and piles of MIRVing nukes. Straight to the silicoid or sakkra (anyone with a good species and weak government), blast their starbase and mind control the colony. Immediately start shipping the population around using freighters, and the impossible difficulty works in your advantage, since you know have a super-species under your control. Properly managed you can outgrow anyone now. Keep the momentum up and steamroll anyone else who you can't be friends with and keep harmless.
> You can also mitigate the problem by playing on the hardest levels, which lets the enemies cheat shamelessly.

I honestly despise games that do this. I understand why they do though: writing a difficult AI can be quite hard to do.
TLDR: Con man writes a fake story about a con man, just for clicks.
My question was of theoretical nature, i'm not up to mischief of that sort. Though i'm often thinking about the vulnerabilities of our technological society, and the (false) assumptions we have about that. Compare it with lock picking.
Most are easily bumped, or not even bothering with that, the door kicked down, some window used instead, and so on. Now, when someone kicks your door down, that's getting noticed, sooner or later.

But what about cheap SBCs dropped somewhere with a battery and some custom periphery working as a relay? Of course the SUVs could find that. After the fact.
Wow, this is absolutely amazing! I’m planning on using PostgreSQL at a deep level for YC Startup School, and I haven’t been able to find too many super in depth PostgreSQL resources for what I’m doing (looking at event generation, permissioning, and view refreshes). I’m sure this can help deepen my expertise :)
And recently Duck Duck Go has integrated with Apple maps which is really neat.
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That's one of my favorite tool to try to get a brainstorming session back on track, to point to the fact that one of the sticky notes or items written on the white board is so vague it could be used for {insert ridiculously out of place business}
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I find that in the US, anyone who communicates with people in other countries uses Whatsapp. It was the first easy way to communicate across borders and not have to worry about international charges. It’s also better than SMS/MMS.