skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It likely refers to the popular STM32F4 Discovery board [0], which is a devkit for that family of uCs. Good for prototyping, has an onboard programmer and everything. It has 1MB of flash, so I think this line means "if you wanted to use this board, you'd be better off with a full RTOS that can make use of that code space, rather than M2OS which is optimized for single-kB flash sizes".

The rest of your comment I agree with. It seems to be a half-baked academic project. Might be interesting if you know anything about Ada, which I don't.

[0] https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/stm32f4discovery.html
Maybe a tangent here, but I don't think it's accurate to think about Apple stuff as luxury goods.

For example, I don't think the volume they do in phones aligns with the typical notion of a luxury brand. The best-selling single smartphone model on the market is the iPhone. In analogy with the car market: BMW, Mercedes, Lexus do not have a best-selling model among them.

The iPhone is more like the Ford F-150, in terms of how it fits into the broader marketplace, than it is like a luxury car. The F-150 is not inexpensive! But it's not a luxury vehicle either.

Why am I bothering with this argument... because I think it leads to confusion about Apple's business, like the comment above. Apple does well because they sell products people want, on the high end of the range, but well within what a lot of people can afford.
Like every website?
$0. That HN post was based on a falsehood
Caveat if you are small business. Otherwise, with lots of charges it costs about $100k+ annually in validation, not including labor effort. A startup can hit this quickly, but only under certain circumstances.
> include the people that made a better hammer because someone used it to build something objectionable.

This is exactly why I find his argument absurd. Programming languages are just tools, there is no moral judgement attached to them. You don't get mad at people who manufacture other tools that are used for nefarious purposes.
Exchanges automatically cancel out GTC and GTD orders when splits occur.

Options are also split to take the stock split into account.

Trading platforms shouldn't have to do anything unless they are faking GTC orders by resending them out each day as Day orders.

But if your vendor is doing that then, get a new vendor as that's completely bush league.
And how many candidates do they think you can interview this way?

Let's say you hire 1 our of 10 candidates. Can you afford to give these types of assignments and manage them for 10 people to hire 1? Sounds completely implausible to me.
It's monopolistic behaviour on both sides.

Apple gets away with charging a flat rate of 30% on the App Store because there are no reasonable alternatives (Apple has worked hard to ensure that there are none)

Amazon gets away with negotiating this down because there is no reasonable alternative.

In my opinion this provides evidence that the App Store cut should be regulated.
Thanks for explaining, learned something new.
further down in the thread (other replies to my original post), the consensus seems to be that none of this matters. it basically boils down to "were you born poor or rich? what type of education did you receive growing up?"
The empowerment of poor people to move may be enough to just discourage landlords from raising rents in the first place. It's like when workers join unions and increase their bargaining power: even those not in the union benefit.
Pelosi does not have a term limit as Speaker. The 118th Congress will convene January 3, 2021, and the Speaker will be chosen by a majority vote. That is 17 days before the President is forced to leave office. For talking purposes since this all extremely theoretical, let's say there is no election and the office becomes vacant on January 20th. Instantly the Speaker becomes President due to the vacancy clause. That's why they swear in the Vice President before the President, just in case the guy dies in those few minutes between VP and Presidential swearing in.

Edit: If the elections were cancelled, January 3rd would roll around and if no President, Representative, or Senator has been voted on it would likely fall to the President of the Senate - recall they have staggered terms.
Not really. Front end devs should be aiming for a solid 60fps, so you only have about 16ms to do everything you need to do in a frame (less actually because the browser itself needs time as well). If you have interactions, network requests, animation, and calculations all blocking the main thread it'll be a horrible experience for the user. Giving up async and not letting the browser do what it can as soon as possible is just silly.
While I am aware of the technical specs, my point is about the wording itself. This was just an example. The "Docs" section for example doesn't actually hold any documentation.

Something about this website feels uncanny, hence my (joking) guess regarding GPT-3.
Some people give their best, but sometimes it isn't good enough. In those cases, the company will just look for someone else. Then that passion counts for little.

This is the issue with signalling passion - it causes people to drive their expectations of you higher. You have a higher chance of not living up to someone's standard.
Maybe it's just me, but these sentences are so vague and indirect as to mean nothing to me.

I think it's a shame because if you're going to accuse someone of something, at least make your accusation clear and direct so they can respond to it specifically.
Direct link to the executables: https://github.com/Nick-Gottschlich/Social-Amnesia/releases/...
If you have examples of AAA game developers that have moved their entire studio (not individuals using Blender, or outsourced contractors making one off assets) to Blender I'd like to hear it. I'm aware that indies, including many successful ones, and potentially some mid-tier or AA studios, widely use Blender. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about Naughty Dog, Blizzard, Treyarch, DICE, etc. I keep very close tabs on industry practices and work for a major game engine company. You yourself said "I can't say it's supplanted Maya yet by any means", I'm not talking about potential future growth, I'm talking about the current state of the industry in a very specific product category.
The separate companies would be:

Google (Search), YouTube, Doubleclick (Ads), Android (Android, gmail, docs, google drive, Meet, google cloud,
Stadia), maps and business listings (a Yelp competitor).

I don't think Google Cloud should be its own thing. I see the business software, Android, Stadia and Google Cloud all part of the same company. It's basically a Microsoft clone. I could even see Microsoft buying that part of the business from Google.
It has for many years:

https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/ITPI_...

Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911696

And love him or hate him John Oliver boils this down to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ
What Is Car T-Cell Therapy?
I started on a similar thing a couple of months back but didn’t make it to YC. I talked to a bunch of folks and demoed then an MVP, but couldn’t get any paying users. Covid-19 hit and I had to find a paying job to make ends meet after many months on it.

I open sourced my work to make something out of it. Not as polished as BaseDash or popsql. It’s MIT licensed.

https://github.com/nojvek/boomadmin

Congrats BaseDash on making it to YC and getting this far. I wish you best of luck. Even though I’m a bit jealous.
I think the reply was sarcastic due to your misspelling of "brick-and-mortar".

It's not an odd word choice, see also https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/07/apple-reports-third-q... and many others
I see a lot of those, but imo, 6 inches is insanely small and is suboptimal for most of my uses (mostly reading). I can barely get some textbooks to show up correctly with a 8inches display.

I assume it's feasible if you only read epubs, but what would a color 6in ereader add of value?

Disclaimer: I love the techand wish this was >6in
> Because Amazon is comparatively low-margin vs. other tech companies, improved revenue has a much greater effect on earnings.

Are you saying that 10% revenue increase has led to 10x earnings beat? That doesn't make any sense.
As Owen Benjamin says, his hobby is collecting scalps, it is not to collect money.
What about visiting a coworking space and blocking your grandmother's number?

Temporarily only
Many churches are used for elections, which has been fought in the past IIRC. As for paper ballot, just look at the dnc talking points on why mail in ballots is the only solution.
Here's an interesting randomized controlled study that shows nominal improvements when retaking the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV after 3 months and 6 months. https://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/13854046.2012.659219 There's a long discussion of how significant, if at all, those improvements were, which I only quickly glanced over. Apparently practice effects are well established, at least in principle, and there are some well known analytical and examination methods (albeit contended--part of the discussion compares and contrasts them) that attempt to correct for them.

People in this thread talk alot about gaming multiple-choice tests, but when I was given the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children at age 11 I mostly remember alot of pictorial and physical work (puzzles, blocks), mental arithmetic (e.g. 2, 3, 4+ digit sums), verbal memorization, and other visual and oral interaction, not much written material. And it was administered by a developmental psychologist in a 1:1 setting. I have no doubt such an examination might be susceptible to practice effects, but I'd be surprised if it were as significant as for common written examinations. In the county (state?) I went to school the gifted programs required a formal Wechsler or Stanford-Binet exam, which I gather was a far more common requirement than today. Perhaps that's too expensive of a gateway when you have legions of parents knocking down the door to get their child tested for specialized programs, or when concerned about bias--test every kid, rather than relying on teachers identifying a small number of children for additional screening and examination.
Agree with almost all of your points as someone working remotely for 14 years. I would note the following:

>>Of course that isn't the case for everybody: people with families and especially little children seem to be struggling massively.

Some families with little children might be struggling massively not because of WFH, but because many schools mandated remote learning which is difficult for young children to sit through without peer and teacher interaction. The more cynical amongst us would posit that elementary school mostly serves a dual "daycare" purpose alongside the educational mission.

If anything, WFH might be a struggle but would be triply so if parents hadn't been given the option at all. Let's not conflate the WFH privilege (which implicitly assumes such people still have jobs) with the difficulties of providing a workable remote learning solution for young children.
I might go so far as to say essentially none. Quite a few have published popular books, like Thinking Fast and Slow, but I seriously doubt the money from that funded further work (and it would be a crappy way to run a scientific career).
From 600 to 6000 Twitter followers in 43 days
A Ford F-150 is absolutely a luxury vehicle. And I don't see any way you can look at an Apple iPhone as anything other than a luxury purchase, regardless of the market share.
yeah, it usually is, that's how those device trees work. it's generally bundled with the "bootloader" (chain loader component of the firmware). you can even bake them into your kernel if you want, i believe.

RISC-V is a processor ISA, not a platform spec. you may be interested in the SBI: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-sbi-doc/blob/v0.2.0/riscv-sbi...

the details of how all this stuff works at a human-collaboration level has changed a bit since 1993. there's a higher level of collaboration expected. vs intel and ms bossing people around.

edit: you may also be interested in https://doc.coreboot.org/arch/riscv/index.html and https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/25/1209 and https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2019-02/msg000...

not exactly "desktop" yet, but hopefully you can see how that might look, given the existing linux infrastructure :)
> with an agreeable potential-colleague

This is a huge part of it to me. In a whiteboard/pair-programming interview, you get the ability to judge the company and potential colleagues. In a take home, you get absolutely nothing out of it.
I believe it is $600 per week in addition to the normal state unemployment amount. The actual amount received is more than $600.
I never thought of it as a luxury. Actually quite the opposite. A luxury is something that I pay a lot of money for but don’t use it a lot. For me at least. The price per minute used is quite low...
Are stock splits necessary now that many brokerages have fractional shares? It seems the true metric is percentage gained or lost rather than the price.
If you want serious economical analysis by an actual economist, I'd suggest maybe not going on hacker news, for example you could go here https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/... . Its a different argument, but the first part before it gets overly political is especially a good, by-the-numbers approach to basic income. I would point out though that the original blog is not much of an economical analysis so I don't see why my comment not being a scholarly article can be held against it.
What country? In many countries cycling again traffic on one-way roads is actually legal.
That one is the easiest to solve -- separate discovery from hosting. You want to find a video, you go to a search engine. Any search engine you like. They all index all the videos everywhere. Some may even be dedicated to video or make recommendations etc.

The biggest problem there is that all the hosts want you to use their search and do what they can to get in the way of any third party turning them into a dumb pipe. But this is where some kind of P2P service could really have an advantage, because it doesn't have to care about that -- let it be a dumb pipe on purpose and it wins, because there are a thousand companies who would love to be in the video search/discovery business and not have to pay the cost of hosting the videos or worry about a centralized third party host locking them out next week.
>A median is a median

>in a country where the median salary is just under 85k$ per year

If $85k is the median salary for the country, that says nothing about the median salary of US expats in the country.

> But it is also the case if you have a EU-US dual citizenship

How is that relevant when we were taking about people with US and Swiss citizenship?

>Also it's not that complicated to migrate to Switzerland is you are an American with a EU passport (get an Italian passport if one of your grand-parents was Italian and bingo),

It's not that hard, you just need to have an Italian Grandparent, go through the process (which can take years depending on where you live), move to Switzerland, find a job, then live there for 10 years.
Apple confirms new iPhones probably won’t arrive in September
The beauty is I even tried read. Just look figures then done.
Re-Ask HN: List of companies NOT using Agile methodologies?
Lets not get into discussion that "real" Agile (or Communism) hasn't been tried yet and so on... :)

Would be great to have a list of companies NOT using Agile/Scrum or any other forms of micro-management and commoditization of engineering. The list of engineer-friendly companies that is.
Absolutely, we have a couple customers using BaseDash as a headless CMS. Edit history is especially nice here because you can always look through past iterations of content.
> America's involvement in the Middle East and Afghanistan are "not just talk".

Huh? I didn't say that. I thought it was pretty clear when I said "talk" I was referring to Document Number 9.

> How, exactly, is the violent approach that the US has taken to the protests currently going on within its borders so much less of a dystopian nightmare than in Hong Kong?

Because the dystopian part is the sense that the curtain is coming down there and it's all over, not anything to do with the quantity of bullets or tear gas. What's going on in the US feels more like a step on the long, dirty road of making progress. It was good that the police acted against protesters the way they did, because that behavior wasn't new, and it reinforced the protester's points and lead to a tipping point in public opinion.

> What clear, demonstrable, direct support does TikTok give the CCP that I can point to as a reason why I disdain it, the way I can point to Github's ICE contract or Microsoft's JEDI contract? I would actually be quite interested in evidence of such a thing....

> This...is not the gotcha that you might think it is. Even if they're implicated in harm, ByteDance at least has the dubious excuse of being compelled to do so by the state.

ByteDance's willingness or unwillingness is not my actual concern, and I honestly don't really care about that. What I do care about is the fact that they're under the control of an organization where Document Number 9 reflects official policy goals, and TikTok's popularity gives that organization potential capabilities here that it shouldn't have.
It's a drop in the water compared to Nginx usage.
The Software engineering and real-time group at the Universidad de Cantabria seem to be pretty well credentialed in this area. They produced a viable RTOS some years ago called MarteOS ( https://marte.unican.es/ ) This is no small feat.
I mean, "Boulangism" isn't that far from it, though I guess he could have called it "Breadero" instead...
The coming cull of workers over 50
It's not a circle!

https://media0.giphy.com/media/F5rQlfTXqCJ8c/giphy.gif
Constellation Software
I’m running into some of the same issues working with cloud native applications. The tooling and observability just isn’t there yet. I think the future is bright for the tech but it’s just very early. Fighting the AWS console is the worst.
In the first paper¹ describing the language design, by its creators, they state that:

“Our implementation of Julia consists of 11000 lines of C, 4000 lines of C++, and 3500 lines of Scheme”.

[1] https://julialang.org/blog/2012/08/design-and-implementation...
But the 30% cut by Apple has been standard from the beginning. Why does that suddenly come into question once they have been successful? Serious question, I'm not an expert in antitrust laws.
Very few people are paying full price, up front.

It is like leasing a car, except it is a hand computer.
Westinghouse is easy.

Just like GE, they ventured into finance in order to chase returns. While that arm was returning scads of money, everybody turned a blind eye.

Of course, at some point your finance arm crashes.

In Westinghouse's case, it effectively killed the company by draining it of cash. At that point, Westinghouse had to start selling off portions of the company to fund itself. And thus began the downward spiral.
So this is all interesting from a technical point of view but from a business point of view it makes no sense. The amount of time that you had a talented DB dev working on a project that could have been solved by spending ~25K on a new system seems silly. Bring the new system up and move the data over the network doing the conversion as part of the move. 100TB over a 10G network is ~22H theoretical transfer rate.
Got only one comment (Basecamp) for the previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23988203
There's an exception to this for wide-format color laser printers. I have occasional need to print 11x17's, but relatively infrequently. When I do have the need, I can't afford a delay, and I often need to do a quick repeat when I spot a small mistake or something. Unfortunately, the jump from a color laser that will handle 8.5x11's to 11x17's is like at least $1,500, whereas I can get an inkjet that will do 11x17's for like $300.
I did say “annualized”....
oh no, it was a few hours a day for a few days, then... picked up a couple weeks later, etc.
The aftermath of the STEPS project and its code is discussed in this thread by one of the STEPS authors/developers and others:

https://github.com/damelang/nile/issues/3

This HN post has links to many of the STEPS artifacts and their successors:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19844088
It's $2,400/mo in addition to the regular unemployment amount. The total amount is more than many US workers, like teachers and construction workers, make while employed[0].

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/atd-U...
SEPA Direct Debit has the advantage of being instantly revokable from the customers side for six weeks after booking date, that's usually enough for any fraudulent actors to stay away.
Interestingly Banks will take some of the merchants cashflow as collateral, similar to how PayPal does this, to ensure there is actually cash available for the reverse transactions if they should be initiated.
Isn't ads the first thing a company will cut if things look bleak.

It depends on the advertiser and the industry. For example, immediately after 9/11, and again when states started locking down, ads for local auto dealers evaporated almost overnight. But others were ready to take their place.

I wonder if it's also because these are Q2 results, and those ad campaigns would already have been budgeted and allocated. But I don't know what Facebook's Q2 months are.
Can UNIX even mean Linux? I usually hear Linux described as UNIX-like.
>> > Samsung + Huawei -> Google

> Oh come on. That's some serious reaching to prove your point right there.

On the software front it's right on the mark though. Those devices wouldn't be much without Google. I know that Samsung in particular has had some other platforms (Bada? Tizen?) to try to break that dependency, but correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think it's been successful. AFAIK Google also has some kind of hardware requirements posed on the OEMs, so they influence hardware design this way.
While I wouldn't deny the Google has a poor reputation for customer support across their product range, I can report a notable exception - my Google Pixel (1) phone purchased from the Google Store in 2016. Every time I have had an issue I have utilized the phone's support chat service. I have always been connected to a live support agent in less than a minute. Whenever I have had any issues, I have been sent a replacement handset next-day, including twice after my 2 year warranty expired. The most recent of these episodes was last month.
Unfortunately we are far, far beyond what is right or best or even fair for the country. It is one party versus another, and they have but one mission: to gain and hold power by any means necessary. Our elected officials no longer work together, they barely speak to each other, and it is likely to continue this way for some time.
Possibly related: new iOS and iPhone versions are released in mid-to-late September.
How are yours doing?
Thats how I was at the beginning. I'm an extrovert and my wife is an introvert. I think I was buying a bunch of stuff for time wasting projects (HD bird cam with live streaming from a RasPi, tons and tons of LEGO sets) to keep my mind off of being stuck at home. But as I've settled into this new normal (and not gonna lie, the tax bill helped) our spending has massively shrunk.
Strava is often unideal for touring, because its recommended routes are where all the local sports cyclists are forced to go due to their thin little tires and lust for speed. Tourers might have thicker tires and so be comfortabke with less smooth roads if it means avoiding cars.
> It seems you might be the person who prefers to get news from headlines

How in the world did you conclude that from GP's comment?
Debugging those got a lot better in the new Firefox dev tools.