skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pokemon Trainer Club accounts (what you thing of as "Pokémon Go accounts", even though they're used for other Pokémon services) in the past were more buggy than Google accounts, but for at least the past two years I have had no more trouble with my account than my friends who have Google accounts. Additionally, they created a feature where you can link Google/FB to your PTC login so if it does go down in the future you can log in with those other services if you wish.
It always does, or else the transaction won't take place (as long as it's voluntary, in the strictest sense of the word).
> That’s why millions of people clamor every year to immigrate to Russia for a better life

They literally do.
Don't forget that until a few weeks ago, the US was dependent on Russian Soyuz rockets for manned space travel.

For all that's wrong with Russia, their space program is still excellent.
Kind of funny how HN is downvoting you even though they all know this is the truth. People are so drunk on lies and political correctness that they can't even think straight.
If you continue your DVD method you may also want to look into "dvdisaster" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvdisaster
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It works like this in Denmark [1].

You open the MobilePay app, and touch the NFC thing. The amount and payee is shown, and you swipe to confirm the payment. The retailer's POS gets a message.

In a small shop without a fancy POS system, they just print a paper QR code. You can scan that, but you need to type the amount yourself.

[1] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5564e82de4b0edcad...
Aren't those buoy rings a bit too large? Most of those drowning kids seems to be having difficulty climbing them back.
Well opined piece, as a customer of Anylist for over 3 years you have my full support in this decision.
To give a very short summary, xoshiro256 is much faster but also has a much smaller period (however the period of the Mersenne Twister generator is way too large for most applications anyway).
YADIW = You Are Doing It Wrong.
I'd agree with that, but it doesn't require that productive people are "loners". Best programmers I know are brilliant in communicating with people, setting standards, and so forth. Even if they sometime crank out a library or two on their own over morning coffee.

What is way more toxic, are people who consider themselves brilliant loners, because they've just implemented a web server using only Python's list comprehensions. And that is surely evidence of their unbridled genius. You know, people who are decent enough programmers, but are so egocentric in their work, that it borders on being inconsiderate.

For example, I used to work in a team where we wrote a lot of Python. We were three and one guy out of us considered himself above PEP-8 (he was good on the SW subject matter and was tight with the manager, so that went on unchecked). For example, all indents were done with 2 spaces. Meaning when some of us had to fix or change his code we had to fight our editors/IDEs. We ended up autopeping his files by default and ignoring any complaints.
The Different Types of Hardware AI Accelerators
I’m not saying it’s a good bet. I’m saying that if you are going to throw the money out the window anyway, throwing it at new stuff is a much more promising heuristic (even if in this particular case it’s a bad move)
The software (as in the actual code for an implementation), should be ephemeral in my opinion.

The data model, protocols and knowledge base (docs, requirements etc) should be designed to last and be extensible.
This reminds me of a story I once heard about shipbuilding during WW2. Supposedly, although designs and blueprints were made in great detail, following them today wouldn't give working ships, because the workers implementing them at the time saw where the designs wouldn't work and fixed them of their own initiative.

In a way, the opposite of today's optimizing compilers.
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That's why I've been compiling the list of issues with Big Tech. Without understanding what the issues to be remedied are, interventions like a 3% digital tax can't be evaluated as to their effectiveness.
CppCast: Azure IoT
The core of the communist party follows an unambiguous agenda.

John Garnaut described this very well in his speech "Engineers of the Soul"

https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in
"being connected directly into your customers and letting them drive what they needed and balancing it with the engineering,"

Lucky you however, letting 'raw' Engineers interface with customers is usually a disaster. Engineers build tech, the company builds products, and they are very, very different things. A lot of pieces in there - support, training, docs, price, risk, leverage, IP, know-how, relationship management, legality, confidentiality.

Experienced Engineers who have a lot of exposure to Product, Sales etc. can do this, there's usually a role there for a highly technical person to support sales.

If it were only a matter of 'the customer saying we need XYZ and Engineers doing that' then great, but it's almost never that.
Why don't they put it into Agile books? They're called books for a reason.

Snark aside, that's the difficulty. The fix for everything in Agile is - instead of adopting some sensible practice (that could actually have been discussed in academic literature), have an argument about this with your team members, maybe they will get it.

It's a return to medieval times, where all the expertise was just the experience of the master.
I cannot help to ask: what are your background on Chinese history? What do you recommend for an overview on Confucius?

You seem articulate thousands of years of history, and one of the most ancient philosophy and culture system, and it’s impact in so few words that I dare not to challenge - because, as a Chinese myself, I never gained enough understanding on Confucius, and had no capacity to summarize its impact or origin to even fellow Chinese friends.

In the end, I doubt your credential as a competent commentator on such a complicated topic.

But I have no intellectual capacity to either endorse or deny your statement.
Its crayz how young everything is.

1970 for co2 monitoring.
Groq's Tensor Streaming Processor
Do a bit of reading on the mitochondria, ATP and the electron transport chain. I still don't understand exactly the mechanism, but it seems that our cells might share some characteristics with photosynthetic cells, and certain kinds of light might increase energy production on a cellular level. From what I remember in bio class, light energy sets off chain reactions by displacing electrons in photosynthetic cells. This paper was from 2008, and they specifically call out low-intensity red light and near-infrared light. Seems like this idea has been floating around for a while now, and somewhat well backed up.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996814/
https://photosynthesiseducation.com/photosynthesis-in-plants...
Beatles/music analogy rather backfires, no-one remembers Paul McCartney albums or Freddie Mercury solo projects.

I could spend years listing bands that have split up, the lead singer or guitarist tries to go solo, utterly fails, band goes for reunion tour 10 years later. It's a known band cliché.

A large software project is a lot of hard work of basically a bunch of people trying to write a story together. It's different to sport. One asshole pulling in a completely different direction is enough to drag everyone down.
You're getting downvoted but I think you make a valid point. Brilliant loners can be really useful for a business. They're the visionaries. They're the ones who change industries.

But imagine having Steve Jobs on your team, and trying to get the best out of him within the constraints of a project. It'd be impossible. Brilliant people like the ones you've listed need to be the ones leading. That's why I don't want them on my team.
All of which you get with Gitlab plus a first class CI/CD system out of the box and a more popular (read familiar) interface which reduces the friction for new developers to get started with KDE.
Yep. I recently went and watched one of the compilations of election night reporting and couldn't believe how blatant their bias was.

Funny thing is that I am still a liberal on most issues but how does anyone expect me to identify with the current left when they don't even want to allow posts and comments about blood donations to gay victims for political correctness reasons?
I think, you need to read some history books... preferably Chinese, or Russian.

For most people from the West, the political thinking of people in power here is almost martian.

Both Russia, and China spent a big chunk of their history under foreign occupation, and the occupation it was very savage, and brutal. How do you reconcile your imperial ambitions with understanding that your global superpower polity began its existence as a country of a slave?

How do you live as a big man you tell you are when your driving impulse is a preoccupation with your vulnerabilities, and your identity as a power holder being that of an enemy to your own people, having to server as a tributary, or vassal lord to some Hun/Mongol/Tatar/Manchu khan on your own home soil?

This is the reason of immense insecurity of ego, and character you see there through the history. And that cutthroat, survivalist attitude is also because of that. And the incessant urges to do chest trumping, and prove themselves are also because of that.
Also, even if they support it, it does not look like Apple has released an app or SDK for Android.

So there would be no apple account registered on the phone.

So each app wanting to implement apple login would have to :

- pretty much implement it from scratch

- still have a very subpar experience compared to any other login mechanism (even way worse than email + password) since they would have to ask users to find their obfuscated apple email address.
I don't consider earning cash back to be a reward, but I see the credit card as a product that lends money based on a risk evaluation.

At that moment in my life, the risk on lending me money was high and therefore the product I could access was limited. There was little incentive for the bank to risk lending me money, so I needed to purchase my way into rebuilding my credit. As the risk in lending me money decreased, banks became incentivized to offer me lines of credit so the cash backs kicked in.

Rebuilding my credit has allowed me to access lower rates on my mortgage , investments loans and other financial tools that have greatly contributed to my quality of life. I would consider that to be the reward.
I created my curriculum using the topics in the book: Elements Of Programming Interviews In Python https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Interviews-Pytho...
This seems to be a thing in this forum as well - the highest-rated sibling comment to yours is one who attacks black lives matter as Communist in a sort of pseudo-intelectual way.
Everything Old Is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly [pdf]
Perhaps now that reddit is Chinese owned, they're trying to infiltrate to see how much they can get away with by medling around with external affairs in order to model them after their own internal policies.
Did facebook stop using it internally? I'm personally in the phabricator camp, but if it lost the backing of facebook I'd be seeing the writing on the wall.
Nor do they demand you implement their SSO system if you use any SSO or your app would not be available.

That's a pretty big argument specifically against Apple!
I agree that the Road to Serfdom is an interesting read. Even if you don't share the really conservative view of the author (and the Austrian school as a whole), it gives you the ideological background that underlied the dismantling of the western Welfare State (which is what Hayek calls “road to serfdom”) during the 80s and 90s.
Until it defeats that sandbox and installs malware on your targeted phone because you’re a dissident...

It wouldn’t be the first time — see NSO group and its many exploits. Here TikTok makes it even easier!
Huh, that's interesting. I'm a Brit with a Chinese wife and spend a lot of time over there as well, so I'd hardly call my views America centric. There are a dozen countries I've spent more time in than the USA. It is possible I have a geographic bias, Facebook is barely a thing in China.
it's been my experience that if you have to pay rent or keep the money for taxes you will pay rent and then later get punished for not paying the taxes, because if you don't pay the rent now later is going to suck anyway.
Wasn't TikTok also caught intercepting the clipboard contents of the phones on which it was installed? Not sure about malware, but it could certainly be qualified as spyware if it actually does that.
I got into LaTeX (not plain TeX) many years before I even wrote my first line of "normal" code (MATLAB). A couple more years passed before I really got into proper software engineering.

LaTeX being understood as a drop-in Word replacement is precisely part of the problem. It is just too arcane and different. If, like me back in the day, you approached LaTeX as an "alternate word processor" and from there delved into its backend/plain TeX, you are in for a bad time. Understanding it the other way around (some TeX, general ideas and patterns, then the rest [macros etc.] just falls into place) is a much healthier, holistic and sustainable approach that just makes sense. But in our case here, that is infeasible. It would require young engineers to learn a completely alien skill and cease being productive for many months. I reckon CS students/grads have the edge here, given their background and different approach.
no, since I own my apartment, currently saving for second one (could already buy at least another 2-3 apts in my hometown with what I have), the monthly savings would be negligible, while quality of life would be significantly lowered especially for my children

I mean if you own apartment what you will save, the rest of your expenses is almost same anywhere you move, the difference in service prices is negligible

though we stayed at father's place like a year with child after moving back to Europe while looking for apartment and doing paperwork, once the apartment was ready we moved out immediately
I just recently started using Lua through the sol2 library. I'm basically providing some flexibility through my input file to my users. I'm very surprised by both library and Lua itself. For my use, I don't feel a lot of performance hit, and gets a lot of flexibility.
I think these statements are ignored because the authors seem inept and this behavior is expected.
"by using the email account you registered with"
AMEX is a three-party system, whereas Visa/MC are a four-party system. The difference is that AMEX themselves issue their cards, whereas for Visa/MC it's the customer's bank (on license by Visa/MC). Since the customer's bank sets the interchange fee, a merchant can't possibly know what it's going to be before the transaction.

With AMEX the merchant does know the exact fee structure and can therefore decide to accept or not to accept AMEX ahead of time. That's essentially the argument why the fees for AMEX were not capped.
>Alongside the change to the content policy, we are initially banning about 2000 subreddits, the vast majority of which are inactive. Of these communities, about 200 have more than 10 daily users. Both r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse were included.
Thanks for the comprehensive reply! I also think that "self experimentation" (basically scientific studies with n=1) + comprehensive data collection could work. It does for science, after all. But as you said, we'll have to consult a doctor, as this experimentation could eff up the body more than it is now.
1) Communicating is part of the job
2) Don't think about it in terms of 'failure'. You're just doing work. Sometimes the route is direct, sometimes it's not.
3) 'Time boxing' really has to be done, because products are not made in a vacuum. Time is money and it's a huge constraint. So everything really does have to be boxed up and parameterized by 'time' in the most reasonable means possible that doesn't screw everything up.
Technology is pretty great and solving everything through data and technology gives good kick to programmers as well.

Is what we are building today becoming the reason for this depression ?

At the core, "having someone to talk to" would definitely help these depressions.
I don't know how many will see the comment but I was a member of the_donald sub and subsequently migrated to the new thedonald.win

There is a significant shift going on that people aren't realizing. The days of the "platform" being a monopoly over users is coming to an end. The cost of running a website, even a bandwidth heavy website is going lower. As major social networks and platforms crack down on controversial content, these communities don't vanish. They simply move to some other place. In the conservative community this idea of "censorship" is increasing to the point where it is becoming a serious movement. Many alternatives to mainstream media are actually gaining a decent userbase. Here is what is going on that I can see:

Twitter is replaced by parler

Youtube is replaced by bitchute

Reddit subs are replaced by thedonald.win (you can get your sub hosted by them now)

Twitch is replaced by dlive

Just to show you the growth of some of these platforms. Just look at the growth of thedonald.win. Apparently it is ranked at something like 1,250 for the USA by Alexa. That's staggering considering this website is only a few years old.

If you are a web entrepreneur, take note because there is a growing market for "conservative" or "censorship-free" social media now.
Not as convenient as a dump, generally, but there are also regularly unattended weigh stations for trucks all over the place. The scales are always on. You can drive across those and you don’t even have to stop, just slow down. I have even driven over them while the weigh station was attended and the dude manning the booth did not care at all.
I'm still wondering why there is no electronic SEPA mandate. When you want to authorize e.g. for your landlord to be allowed to withdraw rent payments from your account the landlord has to physically mail you a SEPA mandate which you have to sign and mail to your bank.

This may sound like a slightly obsolete but otherwise well thought out system until you notice that revoking the SEPA mandate requires you to contact the vendor first which is kind of silly.
That’s not really how credit cards work though. You only ever pay credit card interest if you carry a balance from month to month. Cash back doesn’t just reduce your effective interest rate; your effective interest rate can already be zero simply by virtue of paying the full balance due every month. And the credit system does literally nothing to discourage this behavior; in fact, the credit scoring algorithms incentivize it.

The money for cash back comes from transaction fees. It would have to. People go out of their way to find ways of maximizing their return from these kinds of systems so any cash back scheme that could be too easily gamed would fall prey to these people.
That actually happened once, albeit to a “merchant”. The US mint used to let you buy $1 coins, online, with a credit card, for $1 each and free shipping. You could literally buy your entire credit limit’s worth of $1 coins, deposit those same exact coins at your local bank branch to pay your credit card bill before it came due, and straight up profit from the cash back.
Interesting this systems already exists. For Mastercard it’s called MDES for Merchants, or to give it its full name Mastercard Digital Enablement Service for Merchants.

It’s an extension of the technology that powers Apple Pay and Google Pay, and basically allows merchants to get a virtual card issued to them.

In the EU that would require 2FA to happen, along with describing to the customer what the billing schedule is (required for SCA but being implemented slowly).

The end result is the merchant gets a non-expiring virtual card to bill the customer, and the customer get the ability to disable certain merchants by asking their bank to destroy the card linked to a specific merchant.

Unfortunately all of this stuff is very new, and there are a bunch of issues that will prevent merchants from using the tech. But it is happening slowly.
They did get banned too. chapotraphouse was a large left leaning sub that has been banned.
Does everyone have an Apple contact or just big/medium companies?
Can you just acknowledge the fact that it's hard to have nuanced sides while standing as a candidate in America ? I don't know what you're going on about, even your president with his anti establishment rhetoric needed a nomination from 1 of the parties.
Lessons we learned building PipFeed mobile app
IIRC, languages like Java and Go compile quite fast, and they are even safer than Rust...
That's pretty fair seeing that China bans a lot of content/apps/sites that is not produced in China.
You can thank us later for fixing that Milosevic problem that the EU should have dealt with itself.
I did that 7 years ago. I was 28 years old and by that time spent all of my adult life chasing startups (both my own and helping others) without much to show for.

After living abroad (London, Berlin, Kuala Lumpur) I got back to small village of 1500 in the middle of nowhere, worked remotely and also bought some land to farm.

It was a big change to be back in place where I never fit in as a child (and escaped as soon as I could at the age of 15) and where I still struggle with small town mentality till this day. But it was also much needed break that gave me opportunity to not work that much, meet people whom live doesn't revolve around startups and after all I see it as a positive life event.

I've lasted there for 9 months or so and then moved to a city nearby, where I still live till this day. I am back in tech 4 days a week and then coming to my farm for two days a week. I would say my "sabbatical" helped me build new foundations of my current life.
> what discount chains do to poor communities is act as the only provider of goods

competing in an environment dominated by multinational corporations which all utilize complex supply chains (offshore companies / transfer pricing aka tax avoidance) , there is only 1 strategy left for competing. It dates back to 2 brothers[1] from the UK meatpacking industry in 1915. This strategy is: Squeeze both the consumer and the producer and siphon profits from the middle:

From "Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World"[2]

> The Vesteys’ basic formula for gaining market power—squeeze them at the producer end, squeeze them at the consumer end, and push all the proﬁts into the middle—was a philosophy that they also deployed, with astonishing success, in the area of tax. It is a formula that underlies the size and power of multinational corporations today. In those early days the tax haven world was in its infancy, and governments were groping in the dark to understand and to tax emerging multinational corporations. (They still are.) Relatively few tax havens existed then, focusing mostly on the ﬁnancial aﬀairs of extremely wealthy individuals. Rich Europeans looked primarily to Switzerland, while wealthy Britons tended to use the nearby Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

what is described in this thread is just a symptom of this. What is so damaging is that if you want to compete against multinationals and be more than just a mom-and pop shop it is now the _only_ game in town.

[1] Vestey Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestey_Group

[2] Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Islands:_Tax_Havens_a...
Definitely not in the sense that China would treat HK issue like anything but its internal issues.

Its action of directly imposing the national security law upon HK only asserts its position, that Chinese government doesn't see there is any need to start negotiation, with anyone.