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Personally i dont mind the in web chat features (intercom being one) but what I really HATE is when you click on it and it says 'Were not available pls send us an email'. So program the damn thing with your working hours and dont display a chat bubble if there is no one to chat with at that moment in time. If I want to email I will find your 'Contact Us' page. Sorry for the rant perhaps I am alone in this...
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Mercedes and Audi are easily the worst offenders right now.
Is the Low Latency C++14/17 Developer position UK only?
Tangentially related: For a long time I've always been looking for some software for particle simulations that is free or even open source, easy to get started, and at least somewhat visual. I'm not doing anything like that professionally, just want to play around with a virtual wind tunnel for the fun of it. I'm thinking of something like Blender where I would click together a 3d mesh, "turn on" wind and see what happens.

Does anyone have tips or hints? Are my expectations perhaps unrealistic? I looked into OpenFOAM before but always eventually gave up, as it seems quite heavy on headless, scripted simulation, and would need some significant run-up time.
The big differentiator between these isn't per se the way that content is shared/created, but the network itself. So, as long as the network is intact, then in my opinion yes the big players can just copy/buy every competitor and remain on top.
I feel like IG missed the mark with the 15 second video limit if they want an actual competitor to TT. The really really good TT content: original songwriters and musicians, semi-pro chefs, artists, woodworking, blacksmithing, skateboarding, sewing, just really passionate nerds teaching or showing off their skills benefit from longer-form videos.

The format of TT has made it really easy for people to share their hobbies but isn't plagued by the Wadsworth Constant.
Brendan Rich is on record saying that HyperTalk directly influenced JavaScript, e.g.: https://mobile.twitter.com/brendaneich/status/33768943772932...

Also it seems like what you're saying is confirming my point, not contradicting it? HyperCard has a presentation layer and a scripting language, and so too does the Web, both of which were directly influenced by their respective pieces in HyperCard. So how is this not analogous to the Web??
The matrix {{1,0,0},{0,-1,0},{0,0,-1}} has a determinant of 1 too, but it reflects along two different axes. So there's no way to distinguish from the determinant between the identity and between a reflection across two axes.

I think the important detail is if you're changing from right-handed bases to left-handed or vice versa during the transformation.
AFAIK if you want to immigrate on a work visa to Australia as a software engineer you'll need to pass an assessment by the AUSTRALIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY
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The driver has the option to slow down or fully stop if they cannot safely operate the car.
Sure, if they don't have a USB hub sitting around.
I think the criticism tends to be more focused on corporate espionage which this is decidedly not. I wouldn't say this is flipping any narrative on its head. I can't even tell the major differences between vine, tiktok, stories, snapchat, and now reels.
Realistically, a lot of companies copy each other's products and features, within the American tech scene. The cure - software patents - is worse than the disease; remember Amazon's one click patent?

How many team chat apps appeared after Slack, for example?
This is patently false. Anecdotally, I've never heard of CS students having trouble over figuring out what the terms mean, and furthermore, these are not strictly CS/software engineering terms. These terms appear in the dictionary (at least on Merriam Webster). If your students are having issue figuring them out, I'd encourage them to use a dictionary before arbitrarily and unnecessarily relating them to race.
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So he caved to the violent mob and literally had them change the words from his mouth. Is this really a good thing?

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How about a hack with a DIY button? Glue the button somewhere comfortable and let the button talk to the car. Impossible? Shmimpossible!
It's interesting that this apparently actually works, because I've never once been upsold anytime by one of these employees. Is it a specific type of person that it works on?
> The number of languages listed is laughably small for a 13 year candidate

Why would you expect a dev have more languages listed? Many jobs involve only 1-2 languages, so why should they have more? (Assuming you don't list languages you've used for a project once years ago, which you're unlikely to have much relevant benefit in vs learning them fresh)
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If let free to roam intellectually without hinderment, I think such a viewpoint leads to nihilistic cynicism, not constructive action.

Which isn’t to say a tempering perspective isn’t at all helpful, I just think in the absence of all optimism (& hope), there’s no room for constructive change

To illustrate, your viewpoint seems consistent with the statement: “There can be no great progress, no humanity taking root among the stars unless led by monstrous men.”

I hope you don’t consider this a straw argument, but it’s worth considering. To believe that statement is to either believe that a “good” future is necessarily one of stagnation and extinction (whether in 1000 years or 500 million years) OR to excuse the actions of monstrous men. A pessimistic, cynical perspective means no counter-movement, no inclusive cooperative with the goal of space settlement. This isn’t exactly motivating.

(And to be clear, from the perspective of history, I do not consider Elon—definitely not perfect—to be monstrous. Neither is SpaceX the work of one man. Gwynne Shotwell is as much the leader of SpaceX as Elon is—although you wouldn’t know it by reading headlines as she doesn’t care for the spotlight—plus thousands of passionate workers (who are co-owners) who believe in this vision and many of whom would be pushing for it even without Elon’s leadership.)
> I mean that they don't require any explicit yields.

So in this sense, are Kotlin coroutines also non-cooperative? They don't explicitly yield, but do have a mandatory API to use for "blocking" calls.
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And you think that’s a reasonable solution for all of the billion+ people that login to some kind of cloud services?
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Because companies that do business here aren’t required to turn over IP in order to do business here and aren’t required to have a local partner? You’re comparing exceptions in one place with everyday requirements in another.
Guilty as charged. HyperCard was a super fun environment to play around in and really easy to make simple games in. It was great for luring people deeper into programming.
This is not as difficult to understand as it might sound, Netflix can only run recommendation based on the series its audience has watched, and you can only watch so many series in a week. Whereas for 15 seconds clips, the engine get feed hundred if not thousands times more data it would on netflix data. so
Normally dang (HN moderator) is willing to fix links to make things better. Should probably work here as well.
If unions don't aren't somewhat mandatory then workers are trapped in prisoner's dilemma.
Just one or two days ago I asked here on HN how memory allocations in C++ are considered to be more hidden than in Rust and got some good replies: Especially constructors, copy constructors, assignment operators etc. can introduce non-obvious allocations.

For example:

T t;
a = b;
T t2 = t;

can all allocate in C++. The equivalent in Rust:

let t: T; // won't allocate
let t = T::new(); // might allocate
a = b; // won't allocate
let t2 = t; // won't allocate
let t2 = t.clone(); // might allocate

So in Rust you can tell that as long as there is no function call, there won't be an allocation.
> Is this being engineered or is it because of the Trump interview on Axios?

Are these the only two possible reasons to choose from?
Florida seems to be having the same problem [1]. Looking at a graph of the number of cases [2], I see that FL and CA maxed out at roughly the same ceiling. I wonder if FL is also using the same buggy tool.

[1] https://twitter.com/euromaestro/status/1290798878401482752

[2] https://covid19chart.org/#/?stat=daily&norm=none&include=CA%...
Regarding the water heater. Actually the more you heat something the more it also cools down. Unless you have beyond excellent insulation the coasting method will not do good for long.
The heater will release more heat the more it possesses and so it would be best to instead increase thermal mass than temparature.

Somebody correct me if im wrong
Note that projective spaces are not vector spaces. There is no meaningful way of adding vectors nor multiplying by a scalar.

Meaning we have to be very careful about treating our projective transformations as linear maps, as they are, in fact, nothing like that.

Of course people doing graphics often pick a section of the projective space ("last component is 1"), then map that onto R^3 and off they go, sort of ignoring the "planes at infinity" and praying for the best. This is messy but I do not see a better way.
Honestly it sounds like it saved you some trouble.
> Mathematics is a tool to practice our hobbies .. see Feynman‘s biography

I think pointing to a math/physics expert's life story to defend your premise is a bit of a circular reasoning
Putting too much controls into touchscreen is horrible fad in automotive UI design. It makes the car look good and feel clean and modern, but the looks have negative effect to usability.

Physical knobs and leavers provide best haptic feedback and people can learn to use them with little distractions.
I agree if you know, e.g., that the list is going to contain thousands of items or is going to be iterated over in your inner loop. That's not premature optimization, that's just common sense. Hence the qualifier "premature".
I wonder if haptic feedback as seen in mobile phones could make touch screens usable by feel only.
Never mind these less common scenarios... What do they do about Windows updates?
He's being a bit hyperbolic. As I'm also European, I can tell you employees are off doing their own thing. If you do need help, you have to go find one.
Axios has no paywall, which considerably bolsters the shareability as it pertains to HN.

Reuters stories also fill that role now, as eg Bloomberg and many other prominent news sources have clamped down hard on their non-paywalled content.
> I suspect Snowden didn't even know the half of it.

Obviously, we’ll never know exactly how much he knew relative to the entire scope of the intelligence community, but he pointed out multiple times that he had pretty broad access to a range of tools and KBs based on his work integrating various tools for the government.

He’s said himself that he doesn’t know everything, but given his ascent in the government contracting world due to his technical skill prior to his departure, I think it’s fair to take him at his word when he said that there wasn’t a whole lot he didn’t have access to in terms of IT systems and databases.
had the same thought :)
This is an area of research called natural image matting that has been going on for over 20 years.

Some influential papers include:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

https://webee.technion.ac.il/people/anat.levin/papers/Mattin...
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Snapchat is interesting - in my age group (mid to late 20s), it got obliterated by Instagram a few years ago, to the point where it feels "old" to use it. However it is very popular with younger people (college and early 20s).
apple, microsoft, hacking, and the nsa all in the same headline. this editor deserves a raise.
Main reason most US company are not operating in China, is not because they are banned, but because they don't want to comply with the China rules regarding total surveillance. Apple has no problem to operate in China and providing its services there.
However I have to say that I totally support the position of all the companies that refuse to operate in China because they don't want to comply with these rules.
I do think the rhetoric goes a bit overboard, but people are not wrong about the problem your comment addresses. That problem is orthogonal to this Instagram product. Imitation != theft.
Just don't pretend so well that the California Franchise Tax Board is convinced too.

It is interesting to me though that EU citizens have far greater rights on the Internet than American citizens do. For example it's almost impossible for American tech companies to deplatform a EU citizen unless they break local law. There's a vast array of laws and regulations from libel to privacy to others I don't even know the specifics on, all of which will be interpreted by courts that are evidently hostile to American companies. For example, calling an American a Nazi is never going to pass muster in a libel suit. Calling a German a Nazi is calling them a criminal, which is clearly libelous.
Amazing! Next 50 years is going to be crazy in space innovation!
Do you have a good concrete example? I'm aware of no location in the US where tiny homes are forbidden or even RVs. Laws can't really dictate what you do with your land aside from public safety concerns.

I vaguely remember few cases where people tried to sic the authorities on a tiny home owner and ended up wasting a bunch of money.
I understand that, and that's exactly what I meant to call out in an admittedly slightly polemic way.

This is the argument for banning Hollywood movies in every country that isn't the US, because it gives "illegitimate influence to foreign actors" or something along these lines.

It's completely antithetical to Western values.
Since Chinese companies are partially owned by the Chinese government, so it's not an apples to apples comparison.

Having sat in meetings with Chinese companies, in China, with their 'party member" representative directing the meeting and talking about the "desires of the state."...........
i speak in the spirit of creating an environment that doesn't allow large companies to destroy small companies by copying their ideas or buying them out, which i believe is beneficial to society at large in the longer run. It is my fundamental belief that if left unchecked, large tech companies will become monopolies in their fields (which might already have happened).
> In terms of actual return it depends when you pick your start and end date

Exactly. The 20 years range is cherrypicked for to make gold look good, it doesn't generalize.

If you had bought stock (and reinvested dividends) at the top of the market in 2008, you would've been better off with stock today. If you had bought gold at the top in 2011, you would've been better off with stock today. If you had bought gold at the bottom in 2008, you would've been better off with stock today.

Really, the only times where gold would've outperformed (to date) in the last 50+ years is around the time of the dotcom bubble and the last ~2 years.

Realistically though, you're going to buy the market at its highs and lows, you're going to exit at some point when you need to, so it's highly subjective.
My company stayed on NT4 until 2008 because it didn't have USB support. Network was fully locked down and any unknown MAC would cause an immediate search by IT.
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Perhaps Instagram? Or Twitch? Or Discord?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23144380
Perfect is the enemy of good.

Can you explain any solution for any problem that is reasonable for ALL of the billion+ people that login to some kind of cloud service? ;)
For < 10 µs latency there are hoops in any language, as well as the OS, like thread-pinning, marking CPU cores unusable for OS interrupt handling, all kinds of virtual memory issues, etc. And you can't afford a single network hop or even SSD access.
a tiling business, assuming you like working with your hands and care about doing things well
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> did they hurt their competitors by copycatting stuff?

They kneecapped Snapchat pretty effectively when they stole the story feature, first in Instagram and then in Facebook proper.
How are they going to know? Are you one of those people that thinks people shouldn't be allowed to work on their own car?
The point is that they probably also wouldn't then insist on a consultant doing an unreasonable migration and threatening to not pay them if there was downtime. And they probably wouldn't call around to other consultants with the same requirements, apparently telling them that the first consultant refused to do the job.
Well, if those hard milestones include "building an AI system to solve a given problem" then I'd agree with you.
I'm hoping, as they push more to support creation, they address their compression/encoding on Android devices.

On my Pixel, the only way I can get high-quality videos in my stories is by recording using the Camera app, and then sharing to Instagram. If I add any text/sticker/overlay, the final video has obvious artifacting.
The 'excuse' I've heard is that cheap touch screens are cheaper for manufacturers than the old style of dashboard that had 10k little small plastic parts for all the buttons, sliders, and whatnot.

However this makes me wonder: is it still cheaper when using a large expensive panel like Tesla does? And even if so, what place do such cost-cutting measures have in [ostensibly] luxury vehicles?
Note this is the second paranoid Durov's message in a week (first was a pretty PR-ish rant about Apple store fees and in-app purchases a week ago - looks like this prevents him from launching of some grey token project). If anything, this tells much more about the financial state of Telegram.
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A company making N billion in revenue is a lot different than its profit, and LOT different than an individual making even one billion of personal wealth. There's a reason the adage is not about millionaires. 1 million, 10 million, even 100 million isn't really "world-changing" amount of money. But 1 billion is, and there are currently just over 2500 people in the world that have at least 1 billion in personal wealth. People don't really understand just how much a billion dollars actually is. It's an obscenely dangerous amount of money for a single individual to command.
Wrap it before you tap it? No, say Linux developers
> No you need not if you use standard software development tools that do it for you.

The belief that you just need to use "standard toolkits" and accessibility "just works" is wrong.

> When there is a clear law that states that you have to make your software accessible you have no choice but to implement accessibility.

There is no law that mandates implementing accessibility for all commercial software.

> As far as why there are no cottage industry of shady lawyers: Maybe those shady lawyers have bigger fish to catch. Maybe there isn't much awareness about it in the legal circles. Could be variety of reasons why.

...or maybe the law doesn't actually say what you think it says.
$10M is a debunked urban legend; the actual figure is only $3M, which is pretty standard. Microsoft's whole ad campaign for Win95 cost about $200M after all.
Right, it is concurrent, but it is still costly. It brings rarely used data into the caches and pushes useful data out of the caches. If some parts of the heap were swapped out, the impact of concurrent scanning can be quite dramatic.
You do see the buttons that do almost everything you'd want to do while driving on the steering wheel right?

Along with a voice operated climate control, you don't need to touch the screen, ever
> Hyperinflation is the phenomenon when people wake up and realise that real estate and prices rising is not a function of real prices increasing but rather their money losing value.

That is not actually what hyperinflation means.

> We already have extreme asset price inflation...

Sure, but we don't have asset price hyperinflation.

> In my opinion it is only a matter of time before people realise what is going on, start dumping their dollars/euros/pounds/etc., and use something else for their daily transactions and savings, probably crypto at first.

Dump the dollars for what? Most people have no savings, they have a monthly paycheck that goes right to expenses for the most part. That alone greatly limits the velocity of money and therefore the rate of inflation.

Those people that (rightly) expect inflation (not hyperinflation) have already piled into other asset classes.

Either way, there can't be hyperinflation without a commensurate increase in money supply, which can't be achieved just by people spending their money more quickly.

> It is worth noting that every fiat currency throughout history, without exception, has hyperinflated and collapsed to nothing.

That is untrue. Hyperinflation is exceptional. Inflation over a long time can erode a lot of the value, but that isn't hyperinflation and it's not necessarily a problem either.
It could be bigger than that. Imagine a little badge for open-source apps that don’t use any closed-source SDKs. These apps could be prioritized in search, and the users would benefit: less garbage in simple apps and higher battery life.

This won’t directly drive income for the app store in question, but it may drive perceived value of the platform as a whole.
Corporate income tax was just cut by 40% (from 35% to 21%). Almost 2.5% of the entire federal government's revenue.
Using HN's search with the term axios.com, I see lots of articles from months and years ago, some with massive point totals. I don't think this week is much different from the past.
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