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I understand your experience, and based on mine I can tell you this: I absolutely hated the time I had an intern to whom I taught python, showed him the guide style and he insisted in writing things like this:

def some_function(arg1, arg2, arg3):
temp=arg1*arg2;temp=numpy.some_function(temp, arg3);return temp

Those innecessary oneliners where a mess. And the arguments names? Not shortening for the example, they guy did that. In the end whatever work he did, we had to dedicate one of our programmers who had an idea of what those functions where supposed to do to "translate them back".

I was almost useless work. Worse yet, we couldn't fire him because we were mandated by higher ups to keep him in the team for the duration of the internship he had to do to comply with some scholarship requirement with an institution we're related.

Again, the style guide we've written works for our team and the #1 rule is: code must be clear. There are a few other rules (variables and functions are snake_case, classes are CamelCase and so on), but those are derived from #1 and habits/experience the team has developed over years of work.

I also understand they situation you say: putting style/beauty/the linters as an objective and forgetting about what the code has to do in the first place. Can't really help you there, I am aware (and happy) that my team and I are in sync.
Ask HN: Bluetooth Handsfree/Headphones
Can you recommend a good pair of Bluetooth handsfree (preferred) or headphones for me to listen to padcasts or maybe music while doing chores or exercising?

Reqs:
- Good battery life
- Not very expensive
- Firm fit in ears

Don't care that much about audio quality

TIA
That, and it basically just works even if you have huge connection jitter, even if you switch networks during a call, etc. Simply put, using it never annoys me. Reliability beats any fancy designer UX every time.
> Name one other Network, be it payment or otherise, that has had less downtime than Bitcoin's in the last 10 years. Just one.

This is a goalpost nobody cares about. I've never had a credit or debit card declined because of network downtime, and neither has anyone I know.

> TX costs have been less than they have for several years now;

And still orders of magnitude greater than credit/debit cards.

> I personally just made a 3sat/byte tx and it cleared the mempool in less than a hour:
> And that was with a sub $1 tx I just wanted to play with to test what it was leading up the halvening.

Yes, let me get on buying coffee, and waiting 'less than an hour' for my transaction to clear.

> Lastly, let's not forget how you can literately move $Billions [1] for pennies with no middle men

If I needed a billion dollars moved, the banking fees I'd be paying would be a lot lower than what you'd imagine they'd be. In fact, if I needed a billion dollars moved, banks would be falling over backwards to get my business, because moving money is easy, and they can make more money from providing other services to me.

For the case where I need thousands of dollars moved, exchange rate uncertainty risk vastly exceeds whatever fees I'd be paying.
That's really interesting, and has an even stronger conclusion:

"When controlling for age, sex, and comorbidity,
Vitamin D status is strongly associated with COVID-19 mortality outcome of cases."
You are reading too much in to my psyche here, and I am not defending Austin. Like I said it has a lot more work to do, and it’s arguable whether much of the housing being built even constitutes a net social good or not, given the issues around gentrification and running minorities out of town, etc., etc.

My point was, responding to a comment that “housing costs are rising in Austin” by explaining it as “price rises are inevitable if you don’t build enough housing” is a very misleading statement. Maybe that is a true statement, but Austin does not satisfy the antecedent so it says nothing about the situation here. Unlike in many places, the housing is being built here, yet the prices are still rising significantly and forcing many out or into homelessness.

So clearly development is not a sufficient condition for keeping housing prices in check. Like you say, it could instead be totally driven by the job market. Or maybe development is a necessary condition, along with other things such as subsidized/public housing, job programs, etc. We have to move beyond armchair economist statements that are basically “har har har it’s supply and demand duh”, that don’t even capture all the straightforward/first order economics of all the various buyers and sellers of housing (demand for what type of housing? What type of housing supply is allowed to be built? etc.), much less the second order effects tangential to the economics. Your speculations are on the mark here, and we do need good studies that look at exogenous shocks to try to tease out cause and effect, along with lots of small-scale experimentation by governments.

Finally, I don’t know enough about Tokyo to comment in any way on that part of the post, so I did not.
The video was hosted on Vimeo which is generally less aggressive with quality and banding but this is still a good point.
Autohotkey is the only reason I still use windows at home and it makes work (where I have to use windows) actually bearable.

I have enjoyed reading the comments here, I have picked up some good tips; obvious ones I should have actually thought of.

I am glad I am not they only person who started programming using this language. I have to say that in my limited experience the documentation for Autohotkey is second to none despite that the syntax could use improvement.
Is there another solution to this problem that is a sufficient replacement for 90% of situations?
> Rule of law is important

I find it hard to blame the citizens of Alameda for not respecting the rule of law when Alameda brags about being a sanctuary city.
speaking out of my ass but from experience, it's probably just an intern that was told to put fake data in there that happened to be fan of 'The office', I can tell you with 99% of certainty they don't have the rights
It certainly isn't completely raytraced, because current hardware can't support that. If they use the new hardware, they're using it in some kind of mixed mode. Whether that means only for certain materials, or whether they're able to use it to do "fat rays" that approximate only the general direction for indirect light, or whatever else. But direct, hard shadows are quite cheap (comparatively) on today's regular, rasterization-based rendering systems, so that part isn't surprising.
Quickbooks will do you fine up to $100M in revenue or 8-10+ years in operation. When you cross either of those bridges, you should think about implementing a "real" ERP.

But this doesn't happen until your team (accounting/finance/CEO/CFO) start running into roadblocks in either piecing together financial statements, or the month close process starts taking weeks of manual labor, or there's a HUGE accounting issue and everyone discovers the forecast is way off and the company has been burning cash faster than expected.

At this point you have the organizational momentum to do the crazy amount of work required in getting an ERP up and running, which requires getting most of your business flowing into it so that it'll even be remotely useful (otherwise everyone goes back to Excel).

What needs to flow into it? Everything you're doing by hand to update your three sheets. You need to get revenue/income in there (sales orders, purchase orders etc.), product costs if you have them, payroll, bills (internet, office supplies). Hopefully you use something like Bill.com, and this becomes a (slightly) simpler process.

Maybe you have vendors in Europe where you pay in Euro, so you now also have to figure out how you're going to convert currencies. Maybe you have warranty on your products, so you have to balance accrual accounts. This list goes on, and on, and on.

Every company is different, and you might not even recognize the overlap between two ERP launches besides the fact that they're using SAP.
there have been a couple games over the decades that do this well, I too am surprised how this isn't built right into the engines for everyone to independently opt for doing that
That works in certain fields - for instance, many of us here on HN can indeed walk across the street and get a new job if our employers are teetering into miniature surveillance states.

To be honest, though, the average worker doesn't have that kind of leverage, they don't have pockets deep enough to wade through the interview cycle, and many of the other employers they'd go work for are doing exactly the same thing. For them, the alternative to employment at a company deploying these kinds of tactics is very much destitution - especially right now.

I'm with you on one thing: if my employer demanded minute-by-minute accountability for my time, I'd leave, no questions asked and minimum notice given. I have that choice, though; when discussing things like UBI, I always try to remind myself that someone for whom that support would be life-changing is in a very different situation from mine, with a much more constrained set of responses / actions available to them.
>> reCAPTCHA spies on our users and makes them waste their time, while our first goal is to respect them

Some are using reCAPTCHA to detect bots, but I see many sites that appear to be using it specifically to slow down users. Users are to be respected but customers are to be mined for their money. Sometimes that means making things more difficult than is strictly necessary. If an onerous reCAPTCHA is required to delete an account or qualify for a price discount, so be it.

There is a reason it is so much more difficult find one's way out of a casino than it is to walk in.
Why would sharp shadows rule out raytracing? And how would they achieve this quality of GI without it?
Let me throw in an anecdote that may amuse some: I was working for a now defunct large game company when Epic and Tim Sweeny came in to demo Unreal Engine 3 very early before the PS3 and XBox360 were launched. This was about 2004. Their demo blew away executives in particular. They showed multicolored lights casting multicolored shadows on a single high detail character. One of the lights was behind a stained glass window, projecting beautiful patterns. Soon after a deal was signed to use the engine throughout the entire studio. In retrospect that was a good decision and I have a lot of respect for Unreal Engine and Epic in general.

Edit: found the video of the demo levels that shipped with very early UE3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m7T5ay_8DI

However UE3-generation games that finally shipped had none of the visual effects from the early demos. The multicolored shadows could only be rendered with multiple passes, at least one per light, which proved to be too expensive for larger dynamic game scenes. It took years of work from the demo to shipped games, and an army of unnamed engineers to wrestle the technology into a product.

UE4 had a great early demo of dynamic global illumination using something like voxel cone tracing if I remember correctly. To my knowledge that tech demo was never incorporated into the engine and never shipped.

Epic is famous for their demos, and I love them for it... at least now that I no longer work professionally in that field. If anything it charts a long term technical direction for interactive entertainment.
Everyone has a choice: yes or no.

Consequences may vary, but then again, no-one is owed anything legally, morally, or otherwise so to act as though every individual does not have or exercise their own self-agency is disingenuous.
Some great tax benefits to this. I bet there will be more than a few Twitter folks that will discover states without high taxes or cost of living.
Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War
I believe you! The documentation says one thing, but in practice there are often hidden gotchas that can be extremely frustrating. Especially with respect to Azure, but even with the regular product. Microsoft has amazing sales teams, and some amazing engineers, but the overall quality of their engineering as delivered perhaps could use some work -- too much frustration, not enough delight.
Corona is going away this summer? No one told me. How nice of it to give us a break.
Can you not use software for the 80% that are amenable to it and humans for the other 20%?
For the first time, scientists can see how brain records memories as we sleep
why do you want that, out of curiosity. The description seems to mimic human eye and reduce load on rendering processor, but it seems like less information for the player at once
Suffice it to say, this has been heavily tested by thousands of businesses, and there's hard data behind many of those that land on requiring a card on file up front that has nothing to do with hoping people forget to cancel. It's about activation rates. If your service requires the user do some initial setup work to get value from it, like integrate your whatever into their website, they're MUCH more likely to follow through on that work after having given you a credit card to sign up (and perhaps had to discuss with their boss or IT dept or whoever to approve using the company card).
As a daily Pushbullet user, thank you for posting this!
It's maddening that the best way to escalate a Google customer service issue is social media.
LSP has one immense advantage over IDEA: it's not a proprietary product coupled to one IDE.
Can someone explain why this comment was downvoted?
does it have to be non-deterministic? couldn't they add an option to hint which should be prioritized? maybe

hint_prioritize_cpu_begin()
...
hint_prioritize_cpu_end()

or something?
SAP was particularly successful because not only did they make money, but so did the Systems Integration partners.

At Accenture, for example, there were projects where 30-40 full time consultants were flown in from all over the country to do big SAP implementations.

...so you could see how Systems Integration partners heavily sold SAP products.
No one has to put up with anything, everyone gets to decide, and they even get to review that decision on a daily basis!

Don't like what a job is asking you do to? Don't like a policy? Don't like spyware? Peace out.
I think it remains to be seen. Unity's big upcoming feature seems to what they call the Data Oriented Technology Stack. Essentially, this supposedly allows you to put far more non-static objects onto the screen than is usually available in a game engine. I do agree though that what Epic's doing here is a huge deal.
Discover Python and Patterns (27): Music and Sounds – Design Patterns and Games
Can vouch for the life science industry being like this as well. Management threatened to make us check in every hour of work. Spending an eighth of that hour writing an explanatory email was pretty toxic.
It didn’t seem to reflect well the way cloth moves when sliding across another piece of cloth. When she was climbing, I’d expect the scarf to sort of wrinkle/bunch up, then fall to her side, not just cleanly slide off.

However I could see them adjusting the physics for the demo to ensure the cloth actually fell by her side so we could see it swaying as she climbed.
Show HN: Bifocal News – Democracy-Driven News without Hidden Bias
Agreed. I really did see benefit to the changes I made that reduced our permissions requested based on the initial email we received from Google. When even that was rejected though, I kind of got slammed with a "well.... what do I do now?".
Also worth noting that just about every redlight intersection has cameras mounted on top pointing at traffic in each direction.

It's pretty much impossible to navigate through a city anonymously in a vehicle.

Now with facial recognition software getting so advanced I'd water it's impossible to walk through a city anonymously as well.

They don't necessarily need aerial imagery when every intersection has HD cameras pointing at you.
The benchmark is results, not your public image. Where is Boeing's Crew Dragon/Falcon Heavy/Reusable Falcon 9/StarLink constellation? Where is Ford's EV manufacturing capacity and charger network?

When you are an innovator, you get some latitude to shit post. The public may not look fondly upon your antics, but shareholders have stood behind Musk (and if results continue, will likely continue to do so). California needs Tesla and SpaceX more than they need California. The rest of the world (China, Germany for Gigafactories, several countries have begged for one), and other states (Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado all have incentives to Tesla on offer), have shown they're willing to accommodate. No one is rushing to do the same for failing behemoths such as Boeing and Ford (both of whom are performing substantial layoffs, [1] [2]).

There is a balance to be struck between operational flexibility and public safety. IMHO, Alameda County overreached.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23021873

[2] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/11/ford-f11.html
Anybody else afraid to click some of the links in that post until you hear about legality of accessing (and controlling!) a DEA camera that's likely part of an active investigation?
There's this, which didn't find much: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/vitamin-d-a-rapid-review-of-th...

> We found no clinical evidence on vitamin D in COVID-19. There was no evidence related to vitamin D deficiency predisposing to COVID-19, nor were there studies of supplementation for preventing or treating COVID-19.

> There is some evidence that daily vitamin D3 supplementation over weeks to months may prevent other acute respiratory infections, particularly in people with low or very low vitamin D status. This evidence has limitations, including heterogeneity in study populations, interventions, and definitions of respiratory infections that include upper and lower respiratory tract involvement.
Are there any technical details available for nanite and lumen works?
I would also like to see the most popular searches and most recent searches, etc with your tool.
We ask for the cc now, but then still get a final confirmation before charging. The idea being that we won't charge you for forgetting, but you are also showing some interest by being willing to put the card in, and when it comes time to decide to pay, it's only a button press away and they don't even have to dig out their cc.
If you look closely enough at Haskell, you’ll realize that it also can have a lot of mutable state. Haskell just puts state into various monads and STM to make its functions pure. You can even spawn numerous isolated threads, all with their own state, and have them communicate with one another like you do in Elixir. It does provide a lot of structure and guarantees compared to your standard imperative language, but I assure you mutable state is still there.

To be clear, the Elm model of putting everything into a big tree and and transforming that at every user input is very unusual among even FP languages, and is not the model typically used in Haskell. This might be what you are thinking of.

Edit: I also want to point out that Elixir processes can be registered globally to act as singletons, but by default you can spawn any number of agents or other processes at runtime, meaning they are not singletons.
so active people of color in environments with sunlight wouldn't have this effect?

like countries closer to the equator
Let me clarify by stating that I am not necessarily claiming that there is/was a software issue with DocuSign. There are also some big procedural differences between signing a hard copy and the way most electronic signature systems work. I could have been fooled by the user.

Regardless, I am sure there has been a version of a some document signing software somewhere that had a bug with immutability. Now paper documents aren't immutable either, but you couldn't accidentally change one with a bad where clause in a SQL statement, and casual attempts will leave evidence of the change.
It used to be that way 3 years ago when I worked at Google. I don't have a link, it was personal knowledge. I'm 100% sure of it. They actually paid more for the zurich office cause taxes were so high.
I've tried them all from Apple, Bose to the many generic versions. One of those "generic" companies by far stood head and shoulders above the rest. JLab. I have no idea what is going on but Jlab has made the best bluetooth headsets I've been able to find at ANY price point.

jlab echo sport was the best (they stopped making the good ones of course so you need to find the ones wired together on ebay).
Big Uber Shareholders Rebel on CEO’s Pay Package Amid Coronavirus Layoffs
Good points. I've been on all sides of this and most (good) VCs are looking for a very specific type of partnership. Thus finding the right VC that's going to love (and nurture) your idea/team/traction is a lot like finding a partner in life.
No they don't. They have two choices; quit or be fired. Personally, I would quit, but I've got that type of personality. Others can't just up and quit so they comply.
Physics and character animation haven't kept up with the improvements in graphics. Especially for VR we need big advancements in both.
Depends, could you elaborate on what you did say because I don't follow. Thanks!
IIRC for many craft the real thrusters have only one strength setting, on and off - all control is solely through carefully timing the thrust duration.
okay and now explain Italy
I've been wondering for a while Unreal doesn't just make the Unreal Browser.

You download and install it.

Then you give it a URL, and it streams down a map, and downloads DLLs containing behavior custom to that map. While you're in a map, you can walk through a portal to another map. Or you can just keep moving in a direction, which streams more and more map.

If you're in a multi-player environment, you connect to a server for that environment. If you're in a solo area, you're just running locally.

Isn't this what the Oasis (from "Ready Player One") is supposed to be like? What stops them from doing this?
I'm surprised nobody has really pointed out - living through a lockdown and global pandemic is a hugely stressful, scary, and isolating experience. Especially if you're living alone, or with roommates that you're not very close with. I'm pretty introverted and I still feel that way, don't be too hard on yourself for having those feelings.

I would be cautious about overfitting too much to this exact scenario though. Normally even if you were working from home, you could still have a very active social life, get lunch with nearby friends who also work from home, do activities after work, go out on the weekends, etc. I know people that are extroverted and have really enjoyed working from home.

And even if it's really not for you, as other comments have pointed out, there will still certainly be co-located workplaces in the future. Even if almost every company were to go remote, you're definitely not the only one that likes being around other people and I'm sure companies will accomodate this (whether it's a small optional company office, or paying for employees to use a co-working space like a We Work, etc.)
> And I hate to say it... but it possibly creates unintentional racial bias in interviewers

GP is trying justify racism by interviewers when the people being interviewed and the people mentioned in the article are two distinct groups. This is HN so you can't just say "don't be racist", but even from a logical point of view this doesn't make any sense. How does perceived poor performance of one group justify discrimination of another unrelated high performing group.
Both Unity and Unreal Engine offer their source code on Github...

Both engines have bugs, and one of the biggest complaints about Unreal Engine is that any feature not used by Fortnite is half-baked until Fortnite uses it. With Unity, the biggest complaints are about the relatively transitory lifetimes of some of their biggest-marketed features, like rendering pipelines or networking code.