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> They do also still allow sideloading on android.

My point was, they had the chance and in fact did go completely sideloading on Android, but eventually caved and joined the Play store. Obviously there’s value enough for them to take Google’s 30% cut in the Play store, so why did they do it? Why wasn’t staying sideload only enough, especially when they are arguing they should be able to do it on iOS.

> Which was actually what their update did on Apple too

Sorry, but that’s 100% false. Adding an extra payment option in your app is not the same thing as sideloading and not going through the App Store for publishing and distribution. Apples and Oranges so you speak.
Interesting idea. I normally just nmap my LAN and pick the IP address I don't recognise.
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So true! Super Mario games are basically a giant learning curve of controlling your character, where steps are well defined and cut into levels.
I was going to say exactly this - Houdini is a set of APIs that exposes the (CSS) layout engine to you in CSS to do all sorts of custom funky things.
In the long run "fucking with production" as well <i>will</i> cost a fortune.
Speaking of which FAST also illustrates that such dishes are constructed with material/structure that cannot take heavy loads. FAST requires maintenance personnel on the dish surface to be attached to helium balloons so that their weight is reduced during inspection/maintanence related walking on the dish.
Those costs need to be amortised annually.

There are other costs from outages which occur infrequently but are highly costly because developers/support are manually touching the servers.

The cost really should be analysed as what is the median cost on revenue (or profit) as a percentage point. One off pricing is pretty meaningless.
I'm convinced that some games are actually Ender's games. Forklift simulator 2020? You're actually controlling a forklift somewhere in Germany and Hans is now out of work.
Sendy is without a doubt one of the worst written pieces of software I’ve ever had the displeasure of (a) supporting in product And (b) having to patch.

I would quit working in software dev and become a fucking gardener before I would work on Wordpress projects all the time, and Sendy makes Wordpress look well written.

Edit: cowboy is a very apt term for Sendy. If the cowboy were drunk, and tried to make babies with the cows.
They took the best features from a number of different projects and gave an equal opportunity for all participants staking to earn tokens. Most other tokens/projects have been VC funded with an uneven number shares allocated to early funders (aka pre-mining).
Very good. Thanks. Now can you explain why a legit and insightful comment / question got down voted on HN? What happened to this place? Is Reddit down?
To tune or not to tune the number of trees in random forest? (2017)
Dual GPU is a much smaller niche than "high end desktops".
The reason they’re the best choice is because I’m stuck with whatever OS the device ships with and android is a pretty broken OS.

Neither is nice but at least iOS gets updates.
Presumably that's what the other poster colloquially (and incorrectly) meant by "lease", as opposed to "rent"
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Does it make sense to call that 'frontrunning'?
thats quite good actually
I'm confused.

On the linked site, it's tagged as gender, feminism and cookbook.. the Sifter itself has no recipes at all? Is that some kind of trolling?
That's what the ID cards are used for, and have been for decades... Including for voting all over the world.
You put this fairly succinctly. And I agree wholeheartedly.

I think of the phrase “adding epicycles” when this kind of stuff starts happening.
Why do you think they are obliged to help you with that? They didn't promise any such thing in their user agreement.

Though you could easily upload your soft by simply paying $99 for a dev profile.
Any appetite to try Scala?
Yes. To give an example: many bitcoins are lost (ie deleted private key), or in accounts that presumably will never trade, so you should remove those when calculating bitcoin total market capitalisation.
JavaScript Code Plays Google Dinosaur/T-Rex Game Automatically
A lot of these rules/ideas likely apply to Satisfactory, though there are additional concerns like rate-of-climb for ramps and placement of objects is not (by default without using base-plates) fixed at 90 degrees but works in (iirc) 15 degree increments. It makes things differently challenging.
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That looks amazing. I'm going to be busy exploring its possibilities for the next few days.
I was under the impression that every year we discover more genes tied to "educational attainment" so the assumed heritable % for g increases. In another comment you mentioned 100% environmental--If you have a study, please link to it. Granted, you are correct at the other end, where if one grows up malnourished and lives in a war zone, this will have a oversized negative impact on intelligence potential, but the overall context of this discussion is admittance to Yale.

Intelligence is just one small aspect out of many of what it means to be a human. It isn't special any more than having freckles is. We really need to dissolve the cult we have created around it.
Women are a privlidged class in the west masquerading as a minority. This kind of B's just furthers their cause of playing the perpetual victim.
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Lots of reasons.

First, because minds are tremendously complex and much less well understood than things like fast and slow twitch muscles. That we see different distributions in one does not imply different distributions in another.

Second, because we have tremendous evidence of clear bias, discrimination, and oppression of certain groups and a direct link to confounds that make claims about people of certain races just being genetically smarter amazingly messy.

Third, because for physical characteristics we don’t use broad racial categories but instead use ethnicities. “Black people” don’t have the specific physical characteristics that enable the absolute peak of running capabilities. Specific subgroups do. Expanding to racial categories (that were invented by humans to justify slavery and colonialism) is fraught with peril.

Fourth, because discussion of physical traits usually looks at the very very very peak while discussion of intelligence is usually a broad claim about all members of a race. This is not the same thing.

And finally, because these arguments have been used for centuries to justify literal enslavement. To justify denying voting rights. To justify all manner of horrors because it was just obvious to eugenicists that black people were less developed. And we should be extra careful of claims that, if followed carelessly, lead to genocide.
> Then something breaks on production, but you don't know what. You need to get on that machine and take a look.

If that's a problem you find yourself having at all, much less regularly. You have a serious observability problem.
Since the game costs a straight $30 up front and has no in-app purchases, subscriptions, or ads, there’s really no incentive for the developers to use “tricks” to make it addictive. It’s just what I’d call an old-fashioned “good game.”
I want to know if the photos are securely deleted. It's not enough that the mere reference to a file is gone. I want everything overwritten with zeroes, and the photo made properly irrecoverable.
MIT licensed Node.js modules sold using a private NPM repository
It would be possible to structure codetermination in a legally binding way that employees no matter where in the world have the exact same rights (barring laws in other countries restricting such a thing). As that goes beyond what German law requires most companies would probably not agree to that but it clearly shows how hollow the statements of management in this case are.

(It should be noted that the relevant German law considers "Betriebe" and "Betriebsteile" as the unit where employees are represented, so each individual location of a company is usually considered separate and employees at one location have almost no say regarding employees in other locations. In that way, the lawmakers had the same thought process as you)
Agree, a lot of guys complain about the "nonsense" that is taught at universities, and sometimes they are right, but other times it is just the core of things/other approaches/historical facts that don't have a clear objective but are very important in the long run.
Normally I find it hard to learn those on my own through internet, not because they are not available but because you don't clearly see what to do in the next day with them. While at university you may not care much at the moment but you get to explore them because otherwise you fail.
Until you get too many objects. That can happy quickly nowadays
"Software freedom" sounds like we fight for the freedom of software, not people. "Freed software" sounds like it was nonfree at some point, which is usually not true... Even though "libre" is not natural in English, it could get better with time, like with many other words.
I didn't carefully analyze the code base but in my mind it's a victory if I can skim code in an unfamiliar code base / language and within a couple of minutes figure out a problem (not a problem with the code, but how I was using it).

Did you run into bugs with it that required patching? I haven't to my knowledge.
For a small apps there's nothing checking against intentional malicious activity. Sure it'd be there in plain sight, but it's pretty unlikely really that anyone would read the source code of some random single person project.
>Government officials said Drovorub gets its name from strings unintentionally left behind in the code.

Imagine being a highly trained topnotch agency and being that stupid ;) ...really happy that something like that never happens at the NSA
Certainly. But it does add up and it does kill motivation for rapid iteration. :(
Bought an Intel NUC, installed Ubuntu, no hardware-accelerated video decoding on Firefox and Chromium needed to be compiled manually with a patch.

This functionality works out of the box on Windows (not that I installed it, as Windows 10 is a dealbreaker to me so I ended up returning the NUC and choosing something else).
Very cool. I did a little work investigating HoloLens for my company. We were able to setup a visit to a Microsoft office to try them out. This was a couple years ago before the 2 came out. It was still pretty cool.

I'm surprised they aren't used more extensively in industrial companies. They would be great for training. Citi Bank has a video on YouTube that demos their vision of use for financial companies too.
Germany introduced fees a while ago but then rolled them back.
To be clear, I'm not saying I don't care about the discrimination against white men, but generally speaking white men have more societal advantages in North America than Asian men such as likelihood in getting positions in leadership roles at companies, political positions, as well as desirability in online dating. My hunch is that's why it's not as 'highlighted' (for lack of a better term) than Asian men who are discriminated against.
This, and if all the devs shun a particular company as large as Facebook, it will just increase the salary offer until someone take it.

There's always a price for someone to bend their ethics.
The space age ended because there are few economical reasons to go to space. You can deploy satellites profitably and that's about it. Anything that goes beyond this has to be funded by a national space program and unless there is a nationalistic reason like a space race against the soviet union the national space program is going to be at the bottom of government priorities. The only way one could possibly change that is by reducing launch costs.
I've never quite understood the common reasons for bashing PHP. When I first got into web development, it was effectively the only real choice available. What it offered the beginner over the likes of Java and ASP (at that time) was ease of setup, a coherent model for simple data driven web page development (especially when compared to the likes of JSP), a great suite of built in functions, and comparatively excellent documentation. If I had to teach someone how to code now, I'd probably still consider PHP for the reasons above. Though Python has probably eclipsed PHP for many novice friendly reasons (docs and built ins).
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, I've had it on my machines in many different flavors, ever since 2010. However for at least the past 3 desktops I've had, there were always some issues during installation or fiddling to do after installation to get things running smoothly.

For example, my current home PC has a Intel i9-9900ks on a nice gigabyte motherboard and a NVIDIA 2070 Super. When I try to boot into Ubuntu 20.04, the display driver always fails (black screen / a mess of pixels). I had to boot with some grub flags in order to get to a stage where I could install the proprietary drivers. This is because of the open source drivers for NVIDIA GPUs being terrible, it's not the fault of Linux but that's not the point, it's a bad user experience for at least half of the users with a fairly modern discrete GPU.

A few months ago my girlfriend (who has a degree in computer science and is currently getting her Phd in mathematics) tried to install Ubuntu on her Razer Blade 15 (2018). Initially the she had some trouble with getting the NVME drive to show up (it was an issue with UEFI settings), we eventually fixed that but after installation, the wifi didn't work. At that point she gave up and ended up going with WSL, she was up and running 30 mins later.

Maybe if you buy a dell developer edition or thinkpad, you will have no troubles.

The average user is not going to want to hear that they have to either return their NVIDIA card and get a AMD one (a nonquestion for people who need CUDA / tensorflow) or go read some wiki about how to resolve the issue. They will just go back to windows/mac.
This is very illegal.
I get the feeling that WhatsApp works better as "Less is More" application. Basically, a superior SMS. From my experience, it is mostly used by immigrants as a workaround for international call fees and texts.

I would actually focus more on 1 on 1 interaction and photos. Maybe even integration with mobile payment systems and remittances.
Programmer crack!!!
I had one and it was a lemon. It was so bad that I gave it away and got a second-hand laptop to work for almost a year, it made me so much more productive.
I, with some education, consider the associating an individual's ethnicity to a culture one of the main precursors to humankind's absolute worst atrocities.

Not atrocities perpetrated some rich guy back when criticising the King could get you hanged. Atrocities perpetrated by mild-mannered, intelligent - and yes, white - people who understood the trendy psych theories of the day, at least as well as they could be. People like us designed machines, computers, chemicals and networks to do some of the most evil things ever done.

The attitudes that precursor that should attract your attention.
Errors with npmjs.com affecting multiple parts of the service
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Rorschach inkblots run through an object detection algorithm
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Instagram could face up up to $500B in fines in class-action lawsuit
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Got your bag? The critical place of mobile containers in human evolution
On the bright side, we now have collections of "coffins" [1] - problems that have a simple solution that is difficult to find. Those were given to undesirable applicants to justify weeding them out.

[1] http://www.tanyakhovanova.com/coffins.html
Stumbled upon this whilst trying to publish an update to a theme I maintain:

npm ERR! code E404
> 'normal' users

Don't say this. The quotes don't make it any better - this is like outright discrimination to consider that people who need a well designed website are not normal. Every user of your product is a "normal user".

Remember that people's ability doesn't exist at two extremes - Just take eyesight. It is just a fact that people's eyesight starts to deteriorate, especially as you get older. This is incredibly normal, and just because you've gotten a bit older and can't see like a 12 year old doesn't mean you deserve a segregated web experience.
Lawyer Explains How Meat and Dairy Industries Cost U.S. Taxpayer $414B a Year
Thanks for correcting.

In my opinion, "emotionally manipulative" is in the eye of the beholder. So in a way, you're both right. As for the underlying question of, is it helpful? I think it does help to visualize the scope of a disaster which people are asking to have trouble comprehending.

Like Stalin said, one death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic.
The direct Google Groups list I think: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/_oKp...
We know that HN is visited by a fair share of Facebook employees.

Can some of you weigh in (anonymously?) on this topic? Do you guys do hard deletes of user data instead of just soft deletes? If so, are logs or backups kept? For how long?

In other words: if I'm a user of $POPULAR_SERVICE and I delete my account at time t0, is there a t1 > t0 after which every trace of my data is gone from the platform?

My (cynical) guess is no, but I hope I'm wrong :)
I love it too, and I was delighted to find official support for it on my Kobo eReader.
As someone who tried it 5-6 years ago when it first popped up in my bubble, reached end-game and got bored, is there some summary of how the game has changed since? Of course listing every single change doesn't make sense, but any big changes to the core game?
For Docker, I've found Docker Deep Dive to be a good book - https://www.amazon.com/Docker-Deep-Dive-Nigel-Poulton-ebook/...

For K8s, this book is from some of the k8s authors themselves - https://www.amazon.com/Kubernetes-Up-Running-Kelsey-Hightowe...
I have app stacks that deploy a dozen containers in seconds because they are stateless and close to "functional" – just transformations over inputs.

I have app stacks that deploy a dozen containers over an hour because the orchestration takes time: signal the old containers to drain, pause for an app with a very long initialization time to settle, gradually roll traffic to the new one to let caches warm, and then repeat.

In both of these cases, deployment is a function of the application. There's nothing infrastructural that puts a time floor on things.
The authors seem to want to redefine "sustainable" to match their moral values and policy preferences. They should get their own word — this only muddies the discussion.

"Sustainable fishing" means just that the populations do not decline. "Zero tolerance for marine mammal bycatch" has nothing to do with this. Taken literally, it's also a completely unattainable goal, which makes me doubt the authors' intentions. What's next? No mammal killing in agriculture? Good luck. Even biological agriculture farms have snake shelters to keep the vermin numbers in check.
Women are a privlidged class in the west masquerading as a minority. This kind of B's just furthers their cause if playing the perpetual victim.
TikTok's US employees plan to sue Trump administration over executive order
Yeah why focus on boring luxury stuff that has almost no industrial value? Manufacturing fuel in space by finding water on the moon is a much bigger priority.
Ask HN: How do you forward your email addresses?
I have many domains that I have purchased over the years and I use Hover.com to maintain them. Their email forwarding services seem very limited. I run mu own postfix server but I usually end up forgetting to run postmap service restart when, approximately once a quarter, I'm adding a new domain for a new landing page.

I also tried to give every company I interact with a "burnable" email address so I can just switch off their spam easily (and use + syntax to file them too), but its always ended up being a hassle to set up easily.

Am I the only person with this problem? Am I missing an obvious solution?
Non-constructive snark with zero correlation to the topic at hand.

I have been visiting -- and repairing -- PHP 5.X websites for years. They are anything but stable. I did maintain Java mastodons for years and they have been both (a) stable and robust and (b) legacy. But PHP projects I was in long time ago -- far from it. Could be anecdotal evidence.

To not make this annoying for future readers: I am okay with legacy code sitting untouched (although I will argue it is usually more broken than you seem to imply), but I am not okay with advertising a language that definitely didn't help the reputation of the IT branch in the eyes of everybody else. PHP sits on a broken foundation.

I have a right to express my opinion and you have a right to express yours. Let's leave it at that since we aren't going to achieve anything here (except flags for non-constructive posts).
I tried one of the truck driving simulators. Got stuck behind a slow minivan. Where is the fun in simulating the most frustrating part of my workday?
https://youtu.be/YQiW_l848t8?list=PL463AA90FD04EC7A2&t=1640 is a decent starting section, and I know he is hard to listen to, but very worth it and you get used to his speaking style over time. That said, here is a transcript: https://www.scribd.com/document/76968236/SOURCED-TRANSCRIPT-...
That's fine. I'm sorry if I've offended you. I meant that for the purpose of these discussions about US university racial demographics, Arabs are white.
I think that means that you wouldn't be able to give such a name in cases where it has become a standard for the other gender, meaning it would be tricky to add new neutral names. It's also quite new additition so I don't think there are any cases that have went to administrative court yet.

According to https://www.kotus.fi/kielitieto/nimisto/henkilonnimet/etu-_j... the standard for same gender is 5 people that are alive, i.e. once 5 men and 5 women have that name, it could be given to either gender. Not sure what would happen if there was a huge imbalance though (like 1000 women with the name & 10 men). At least Rauni and Kaino have been granted to both genders after the law came in effect.
Seems like already covered in vimtutor.
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I was a bit annoyed by photosynthesis not working as expected. In one of my first games, I used algae to create oxygen. However, this did not remove carbon dioxide, and the overall gas pressure in my base mysteriously kept increasing. I know it's not a physics simulator, but given the name of the game I expected a bit more realism around oxygen production.

Overall the game is a strange mix of physics sim and quirks that don't make sense. For example, industry produces heat and heat spreads as expected. Solid, liquid and gas phase changes happen more or less as expected, leading to fun stuff like steam explosions. But then heat can be deleted in unphysical ways, heat can't
be radiated away into space like in the real world etc.
All of these will happen one day. Author will be on the right side of history.
Understand that I played with this a year ago, so my memory is a bit hazy.

I believe that what happened was was after looking for any way to disable just assistant (e.g. under the "Assistant" system settings option) and not finding any I have up an tried to disable it at the app level. At the app level I saw (and still see) only a option to disable all of Google.

It probably did not occur to me at the time to check the default app settings.

> via one of two settings

I only found the default apps way, what is the other?
I've used similar services for Web hooks - if you're developing eg. a slack bot you'd have to deploy to a public url constantly without a tool like this, which shows down development considerably.