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I'm an enthusiast who has owned dozens of vehicles and driven around a hundred. I have only seen this feature on a couple of euro luxury cars.
By sensitive stuff, what sort of files are you talking about?
I would ask why America is stuck with bad tail lights.
The 'Vop' (Vex OPerator) context in SideFX Houdini is the best 'node-based' graphical programming environment that I know of - however you're always working at something like a 'shader'-level. It's strength is in automatic use of SIMD and built-in parallelism (would not be a good choice to write an app in though!)
Is WPF/XAML the right way now to do quick get going windows app development?
The base price of the car in the article is $217k. I would expect it to have superior lights.

The xeon light addon for a porsche in 2013 was $2k.
Yes. This deal is amazing. Snapchat and Twitter stock trade between $25-35B these days. To buy them, you’d need to offer a premium. Say close to $40B TikTok for less than double that is an absolute steal. Not that even $100B would be an issue or fair price.

Say Microsoft buys it for $80B. Even if TikTok peters out and Microsoft gets back half that in profits, they’ll benefit in other ways through that time and the remaining loss is the cost of taking a well calculated risk. There’s no downside to this deal at all if it will cost close to the rumored $60B price tag.

To your point of competing in ads. They’ll still be far from FB and Google, but it should solidify them as a strong number 3 alongside LinkedIn, Bing, and their properties. Followed by Amazon before a drop off for Verizon, Twitter, and probably something I’m forgetting. Maybe Iac if including all their property spin offs (assuming they have stakes in them).

A man can dream. This gives a tiny bit more potential for a Google Adsense competitor. Still waiting for FB and/or Microsoft to try it. Yep I remember Yahoo failing. I think Yahoo tried Analytics too. Wouldn’t mind Microsoft Analytics against Google’s (when you need an industry standard analytics to show traffic)
Bingo. The conservative base on TikTok outnumbers the liberal base by nearly double.
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I discovered today that you highlight any text in Chrome by adding "#:~:text=ANY TEXT" to the end of the address.

Do you know any other tricks for Chrome?.
The stone cold truth is that if something is capable of generating value it will inevitably afford a developer to extend, improve, or maintain it - at which point the developer will instead develop stomach ulcers trying to maintain complex logic that would be infinitiely easier had it been built with standard software practices. Finally, it will be refactored, rewritten, or outright replaced, at great cost with actual code at one point or another.

Zero code is most often a corner that should not be cut at any medium or large enterprise - and guess where all the money selling SaaS or IaaS products comes from?
Anything you do consistently for a long time will have to become part of "who you are" not just "what you do". If you can't find a way to make it mesh together with your self conceptualization it won't last.

You have to come up with a background, a connection to your past and your being, a story that makes sense why this is who you are.

How this looks can be entirely personal. It may be a rugged individualistic stubbornness story to learn to face adversity, a story of family, about health and treating your body as a temple, or whatever else.

If you have a stronger competing story for your identity (eg my kind of person doest jog, that's some silly Instagrammer avocado soyboy thing, my kind of person drinks beer and watches TV) then you'll not keep doing it even if you successfully force it for some days or weeks.

Stories carry and propel us through life to a large extent.
Sorry for the late response, getting used to submitting on here, but thank you, and I agree, higher education in the US requires grit to get through especially if you’re not the “school type” yet it’s the baseline most people use to gauge someone’s “potential economic value” an ROI and I frankly just don’t agree with that. Some of the smartest, proactive, and most creative people I’ve ever met have been “structured education” adverse.

Im a huge huge huge believer of there being a massive opportunity in disrupting education, and I mean beyond the “shoehorn tech into everything” approach.

Education in the general term is the literal liberating factor within an individual. The more you understand the world around you the more confident you become in that world.

That’s why I push all my people and anyone who is willing to listen towards tech and other industries that are more “merit based” on the spectrum. As well as gravitating towards well paying trades that can fund their future intellectual endeavors.

I can go on about education forever but I’ll just stop before I get carried away :)

Thank you for the kind words @jbhouse
so your pocket PCR is a thermocycler, which is a thing that heats and cools samples of liquid to set temperatures for set times for a programmed number of cycles. Tube gets hot, tube gets cold, makes a few stops along the way, repeat. Now, what heating and cooling the liquid to precise temperatures a bunch of times actually does depends on what's in the liquid. The most common use case is something called Polymerase Chain Reaction (or PCR, hence the name of the product). As another comment explains, this basically lets you take a little bit of DNA and make a lot of DNA. You can run other reactions as well, such as reverse transcription, where you take some RNA and generate a DNA sequence out of it. There are a lot of reasons you might want to do that, but for example that's a common procedure in diagnostics when testing for viruses like SARS-COV-2. You can do molecular cloning work, which is editing and modifying DNA, stitching DNA sequences together, etc. It's a very useful took and a core component of most biological labs.

Unfortunately, if you buy a PocketPCR, you end up with a device that doesn't have a heated lid. This means that you have to add mineral oil to all of your samples before cycling them since otherwise you could screw up the reaction/lose your sample. As someone who has dealt with that before, take my word for it that it's a royal pain. Splurge a bit on the heated lid.
Agreed you’ll basically own your content and In that process you’ll learn how to put your content to the right audience and you’ll learn about marketing. It’s hard at first but i found having my own blog more rewarding
and Geforce Now, Xbox Streaming, Playstation Now, and Shadow. It's a fast growing area, and the main reason why I'd go for the 5G upgrade at some point.
There is this startup which came up with the solution for the airborne problem.

https://yourstory.com/2020/07/startup-bharat-kanpur-crestkit...
The comparison isn't about efficiency - PV struggles to get over 20%. But the fuel is burned offworld which has plenty of benefits!
Well, use your imagination duh.
Can't get blood from a stone. If the money isn't there then pensioners are going to take a haircut. That isn't right or fair, it's just reality.

This is why defined benefit pension plans are just too risky for most people. We should shift all retirement plans to defined contribution with individual named accounts. Those are much safer.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24046595
> It is really interesting that major open source initiatives are now being ran by corporations.

That should not be surprising, as they now all depend on OSS. I think this can be a good thing. The resources they bring can help OSS, and thus all its users and contributors.

> I feel this will be open source in the sense that it is being developed in the open, but not in the sense that they will foster an environment of community contribution.

I think it's reasonable to worry about that. But the Linux Foundation works very hard to foster contributions and comments from all. The Linux kernel, Kubernetes, and many other important OSS projects are in the LF. I think LF has a good track record.

Full disclosure: I just started to work for the Linux Foundation. But I would have said the same before.
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That's bullshit. The MAX aircraft are not the same as the earlier 737 line. These should be completely certified as new aircraft, and my guess is they would fail real certification. The required "design changes" are nothing. Not only would I not want to fly on one of the MAX aircraft, I wouldn't want to live underneath a procedure - departure, airway, approach - used by a MAX.

Go for it. Let them fly. 'Boeing has built so many, we can't let them fail!' Uh huh. Political Sunk Cost.
No, the engines are not low. They can't be, because the wing is low and the landing gear is short.

The engines are wider than the old ones. They are also much further forward, in order to avoid being low enough to hit the pavement. (part of the engine is higher up than the underside of the wing) These differences mean that the engines can act somewhat like canards, generating lift near the front of the aircraft. The engines themselves, even when not powered, generate lift.

The lift increases as the nose rises. This means that raising the nose becomes easier the more the pilot raises the nose, which is a hazardous way for controls to operate.
I don't think its possible to visualize Mongo data out of the box due to the fact its schemaless. They have this product https://docs.mongodb.com/bi-connector/master/ which I have not used but it looks something that would be able to solve the issue? I have tried also Metabase with Mongo and it works to some extent but when I tried the queries didn't work etc.

I think your best option would be to custom build some dashboards using some HTML and JS and some API that serialializes your data or if you need BI tool then either check out their bi-connector or maybe build some ETL workflow and save your data in Bigquery or something similar. From there it would be easy to use Metabase or something else to visualize your data.
I also don't get it, here in many European countries that is very easy to know and we don't make such a big deal out of it.

Public servants have a progression table, so by knowing their level, you know the salary.

Companies either have an union agreement, so it goes back to the same level agreements, or they have internal evaluation with salary matrix, so again by knowing department and skill level, it is relatively easy to get the salary value, minus possible bonus.

They are even part of some job offer descriptions.

So at the end of the day it is hard to grasp why it is so sacred to discuss it on US.
The defaults changed in Android 10:

[Starting] In Android 10, MAC randomization is enabled by default for client mode, SoftAp, and Wi-Fi Direct.

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/connect/wifi-mac-ran...
> Sadly your pay has little to do with merit, and more to do with perception, connections, face time and ability to handle office issues better than your cohort.

These are merits. They mean you're easy to work with, people want to work with you, you know how to make and maintain important relationships. You'd make a good leader. You can recruit talented people. You can get preferential treatment from vendors. Your projects get noticed.

If you can't play this game, it doesn't matter if your technical skills are better. You won't have a chance to put them into practice. You won't have allies. No one will want to work with you or listen to your opinions.
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And what if it's a bike in the incoming lane? Or on the separate bike path on either side of the road? Will it detect that?

Does the oncoming bike have a headlight?

My car doesn't have matrix headlights (since I'm in USA) but it does have a necessary tool. It has a camera which detects oncoming vehicles.

In my experience the camera works quite well. It dims my headlights more quickly than I can react manually. It also dims them when there's a lot of overall lighting (such as street lights).

I can't attest to the specific situation of a bicycle. Around here, riding a bicycle after dark is a dangerous thing to do.
Certainly companies should respond to job applicants, but please don't post like this to Who Is Hiring threads. It breaks the rules at the top.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24045183.
They cover that in the documentation.

What were the motivations behind creating GDScript?

In the early days, the engine used the Lua scripting language. Lua is fast, but creating bindings to an object oriented system (by using fallbacks) was complex and slow and took an enormous amount of code. After some experiments with Python, it also proved difficult to embed.

The main reasons for creating a custom scripting language for Godot were:

Poor threading support in most script VMs, and Godot uses threads (Lua, Python, Squirrel, JavaScript, ActionScript, etc.).

Poor class-extending support in most script VMs, and adapting to the way Godot works is highly inefficient (Lua, Python, JavaScript).

Many existing languages have horrible interfaces for binding to C++, resulting in large amount of code, bugs, bottlenecks, and general inefficiency (Lua, Python, Squirrel, JavaScript, etc.) We wanted to focus on a great engine, not a great amount of integrations.

No native vector types (vector3, matrix4, etc.), resulting in highly reduced performance when using custom types (Lua, Python, Squirrel, JavaScript, ActionScript, etc.).

Garbage collector results in stalls or unnecessarily large memory usage (Lua, Python, JavaScript, ActionScript, etc.).

Difficulty to integrate with the code editor for providing code completion, live editing, etc. (all of them). This is well-supported by GDScript.

GDScript was designed to curtail the issues above, and more.
This seems like a very good thing, and I’m surprised it wasn’t the rule already
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I tried to install qt the other day on Ubuntu, I couldn’t find the free version. I gave up and moved on to an alternative.

Why are they shooting themselves in the foot there?
Visual Studio was a very nice wyswyg but they ceded the mobile space to others.
I'm confused. Isn't the whole complaint that the honks are too loud? Isn't an alarm worse?
I'm not here for micromanaging my water heater or refrigerator.

Both need to hold their temperature as long as possible and get up(or down) to temperate at some balance point between speed and efficiency. I want my provider to even it out and set a reasonable price between the variable extremes so I don't have to think about it.
Which means 0% sales from Steam games, so even less.
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He's focusing on the incorrect statement you made. The straightforward thing to do here, if you think the rest of your argument is more important than your mistake, is to concede the point and move on.
And it's definitely not future-proofed. Languages can change a lot in decades, from pronunciation to vocabulary to grammar.

People think it's crazy that we still have people editing 50 year old COBOL programs today. Imagine how annoying it'd be to have to use a 50 year old computer that hasn't had "accent updates" and needing to emulate the speech patterns of your grandparents to be recognized.
In theory that's correct, but in reality the law isn't being enforced. There is a huge amount of fraud.
I'll speak for myself only, but if the choice is between the US gov't (or any Western gov't) having my data versus China having it, I'll pick the Western countries.
My first 'new' car was a 2001 Hyundai Elantra, and while they're economy compact cars with minimal features in the US, they have a lot of upgraded features in Korea. One of the silly things I did in my early 20s was to swap out US parts for Korean parts - and I was able to sell my US parts for more than it cost to import their Korean upgrades.

So, for no good reason, I had an econobox with OEM wood-look dash and trim, chrome handles, OEM gauges for oil pressure, voltage, and fuel economy, upgraded stereo and suspension, leather trim, etc. It's silly what kind of hobbies spring up when you're living in central Pennsylvania and maybe aren't using your free time as productively as you could be.

Point is, definitely check out the factory options available in your car's country of origin - but also make sure you know they'll definitely be compatible with the increasingly computerized systems you're swapping them in to, and make sure you're not doing anything that's going to end up failing annual inspection.
First off -- thank you for this conversation. It has caused me to think more-deeply about the meaning of pixel-values in a display context. It has sent me into the standards, too. In particular, I found this document useful:

http://www.color.org/WP40-Black_Point_Compensation_2010-07-2...

We agree that bit-depth is independent of maximum light output. Where we appear to disagree is on the meaning of an ideal bit, in particular whether or not it is acceptable for the (gamma-corrected) intensity difference between pixel-value 0 and pixel-value 1 to be greater than the base intensity of the display at pixel-value 0. I believe that I'm arguing for the concept depicted in Figure 3 of the document above (relative colorimetric), while you are arguing for the concept in Figure 4 (black-point compensation).

There is an important pragmatism to your approach -- high contrast ratios are technically difficult, while higher-resolution gradations sitting atop a pedestal of minimum intensity may be more technically-feasible. Increased subdivisions between minimum intensity and maximum intensity do reduce banding, as you suggest. Such a rendering choice can portray the content of an image at the expense of the creator's intended contrast.

A linear display output with no offset will yield an intensity proportional to the intensity value assigned to that pixel. Higher bit-depth does not make for greater intensity, but rather more gradations between maximum intensity and zero.

As a scientist or as an artist, when specifying pixel values I expect the intensity, on a calibrated display, to reproduce a calibrated fraction of the maximum light intensity. It is helpful to understand that not all systems render with this intent.

In the original reply, the thought-experiment display had a minimum brightness of 1 nit and a maximum brightness of 100 nits and 255 brightness levels between them. That spans a factor of 2^6.7. The discrepancy between our opinions represents differences in a choice of rendering intent. If I had to specify the rendering strategy for portraying 8-bit pixel values on such a display, it would have less contrast in the shadows than the highlights but equal contrast in the highlights when compared with an 8-bit display with a minimum brightness of 0.4 nits and a maximum brightness of 100 nits (which is capable of 2^8 dynamic range). Your strategy would yield uniform contrast spanning the shadows and highlights, but less contrast on the 1-100 nit display than the 0.4-100 nit display.

In that situation, I suspect that most people would prefer your black-point compensated rendering strategy, as the shadows would not be crushed. I simply wouldn't market/sell it as a true 8-bit display, though I understand why a manufacturer would choose to do so.

Thank you -- I learned something useful.
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> and more to do with perception, connections, face time and ability to handle office issues better than your cohort.

These things are all extremely important pieces of keeping a company functioning well. To the extent that if you're good at these things and mediocre at whatever your main job is you are probably more valuable to the company (as in very literally adding more value) than someone who excels at their main job but can't cope with working in an office. If it's true that people who are good at those things are being rewarded more than people who aren't then we are actually doing pretty at basing pay on merit.

Office politics are, obviously, something you need to be good at to achieve seniority in an office.
That's not anywhere near accurate, and you can't break HN's rules like this. We have those rules for the simple reason that people vastly overinterpret what they see and jump to wild and sinister conclusions, as indeed you're doing here.

I don't know if other sites work the same way that HN does. I just know that I've spent countless hours studying the HN data on this, and the conclusions are extremely clear: the vast majority of comments like what you're posting here, insinuating astroturfing or brigading etc., are entirely made up based on what people imagine they see. Therefore we ask users not to post them unless they have some evidence to point to (see
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Running into views that you disagree with does not count as evidence. This is a widespread community with millions of members from all sorts of places and backgrounds. It's inevitable that opposing views show up here, including about China. That's entirely natural.

If you need more explanation, there's tons at these links:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Sure they are, most modern Windows software is a mix of .NET and C++.
As for modern Windows programming, UWP has been able to target ARM since ages.

Yeah, not everything will be available, then again it doesn't matter how much software is available, if only a subset of those 8% of the computing world population is going to get it.
> a man with a dry cough

Anecdotally, this could have been the reason the other 25 didn't contract the disease, and not really the mask.
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This breaks the site guidelines. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here.

If you need explanation about why, see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
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To me it seems a bizarre approach to have no actual goal state and have your source of truth be a chain of scripts.

Why not:

- Have an ORM definition/schema.sql explicitly defined

- Continually test that production_schema+pending_changes=goal_schema

This way, no chain is required: The only scripts you need to keep hanging around are any pending changes yet to be applied. And you can mostly autogenerate any changes required, so the need to cobble together scripts manually is much reduced.
> The same goes for the refrigerator

What do you mean? Fridges generally run at the highest reasonable temperature. Are you proposing adding more thermal mass to them?
I think the main issue with most general purpose visual programming languages is, that they are still languages. So they are modeled in a way that resembles a text representation and can often be mapped to a sequence of symbols (a language). However, there are far less tools if you leave the explicit text representation (things like compatible editors, version control, etc.) so it comes down to being an over-the-top syntax highlighting at the expense of the before mentioned other tools. So, I think that visual programming would only become a viable alternative if it were to let go of the ideas of textual programming (language based) and become fully graph based.
I guess you never used an IDE.