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> Highly disagree

I think what people actually uses them for is very different than what tech and marketing think its for, but there is a massive market and everyday people love it to play music, call another room in a big house, control the light, check what's on tv tonight and if it's raining tomorrow.

Having my 64 years old mom emptying her fridge and then randomly saying "Alexa, what can I cook with VEGETABLE ? [answer] Okay, remind me tomorrow morning" was something very opening, as was "alexa, where is my PRODUCT" to hear about when its delivered.

Especially since I - a tech user - was a first buyer of many of these techs but mostly don't use them.

My mom doesn't know how to use tech. She makes a face when the TV remote has button that are not numbers and arrows, she still doesn't understand nor care about what the 3 buttons at the bottom of her android phone do (home / back / ...), but she has fully integrated alexa into parts her daily routine, yet completly left it out of others that it could handle.

The last time I saw something that eye opening about tech for non tech user was chromecast/firetv.

So yes, I totally understand why those companies want that spot, because whoever gets my mom queries gets her ad profile, gets her delivery orders, her music subscription, dictates what compatible brands she will use, etc ...
It’s important to distinguish that that quote is referring the prevailing findings on cognitive outcomes, while the research paper I linked to looks at non-cognitive outcomes, which do persist.

I’m not an expert in the field but it’s an interesting question. It seems like a lot of research on childhood interventions converges around cognitive capacities being pretty innate, but socialization or behaviour being more affected by environment.
> For a modern Netflix series to take off, it is basically mandatory to have full-frontal nudity in the first season.

Really? As much as nudity in television content has grown, I think showing genitals is still pretty much not done. For example, Narcos didn't do it, as far as I watched it.
Meanwhile the article cites one of those veterans in the interest of balance: 'Yet, the man responsible for the paintings, Arthur Sherman, seems somewhat optimistic about the decision. When asked about the removal of his murals, Sherman responded, "That’s a good question. Time goes by and things change."'
why congratulate him if you don’t even know what it means? maybe it’s actually a terrible idea.
Yes, interesting article. Though, if this were a software announcement I'd label it vaporware.
WP 5.1 was the best version. If I could use it, I would. Most of us don't need a lot of bells and whistles in a word processor.
I would think the stability is in part due to its illiquidity. If the market drops 10% and you've "heard" it's going to drop another 40%, you might dump everything. If you don't get back in at the right time you can lose even more than if you had just stayed in throughout the drop.

It's rare for folks to immediately dump their investment properties because the housing market has cooled off.
People who buy Rings know 100% that they're security cameras with a doorbell feature. They compete with other security cameras, not doorbells.
I'd like to see that ordinary user that is configuring API usage policies on their home network
A bit off topic: what is this site? An unofficial Twitter mirror?
Google's New Phone App Feature ID's Legit Business Calls
Had to do the same for an elderly solitaire fan recently, may I recommend Most Popular Solitaire - https://www.goodsol.com/mps/ - for a mere $17
There is a great youtube video on this and similar can-US border irregularities. Search for "Canada-US no touching zone". There is another exclave near vancouver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkYlIA7mgw
Interesting. I remember (a few years ago) finding out about them through Wikipedia and that I would need a Chrome extension to use them (they had an example). So, I installed it to view it, but I never saw any other usage of it outside of that page/article.

I guess there’s not really much space savings[0] over an animated GIF even with an optimized PNG and max compression. It does explain why WebP is replacing GIF though[a]: being a video format, it can compress much better.

Off topic: Is YouTube still using VP8? Or have they switched to AV1 (the basis of AVIF)?

[0]: https://corydowdy.com/blog/apng-vs-webp-vs-gif

[a]: The popular GIF sharing site Giphy actually uses WebP if your browser supports it. Otherwise just browsing their site would use hundreds of megabytes (which isn’t good for mobile users with a data cap)
There is a ton of programming in research, and almost all academic code is written by the researchers, whether they are in biology, physics, humanities, whatever. This has some of the drawbacks you mention, but the solution is not so obvious.

First, almost all academic code is really simple from a software engineering perspective, but really complex from a subject matter perspective. Having a deep understanding of both the data and the relevant hypotheses is critical, and is often actually helped by writing the code yourself. Trying to communicate every feature requirement perfectly, and making sure every assumption is met, to a third party CS person might be possible but is definitely non-trivial.

Second, most of these projects are one-time use (code up some project over a few months, write a paper, never touch again), and so spending a ton of time + money making it robust and efficient is not really worth it. For things like open source tools that are expected to be used by a lot of people it's much more feasible to get engineers involved. The Chan Zuckerberg initiative is actually funding a program that essentially does this [1].

[1]https://chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/essential-open-source-softwar...
Genuine question, what good does the ability to buy and sell stock on the short term do for humanity ? Does it have any specific vertue appart from allowing one to make make money by betting correctly ? Why are not all sales required to be long term ?
Because the virus isn't coming back in Sweden, whereas its neighbours are already experiencing a second wave. Sweden's argument was always that it was "front-loading" the infections, so over the long-term other countries would see a similar number of infections as they experienced multiple waves.

That doesn't appear to be what's happening.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...

Also, Sweden didn't avoid an uptick in domestic violence.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iuGdja...
Here, from a lawyer saying “register your pcb”

https://garson-law.com/ask-dr-copyright-protect-your-softwar...
The same thing happened to Meteor.js, another project with which Evan was involved. Meteor started out with an ethos of simplicity and friendly developer experience. It lost it's ethos and was picked apart in the name of "scalability". This has left people in a lurch who were drawn into Meteor for it's simplicity and now have projects to maintain in a largely abandoned framework.

I've primarily moved over to Django with server rendered content and sprinkles of JavaScript where needed.
"Extremely supply-limited cities" could just mean outliers like NYC or SF, or it could mean literally every city in the country, depending on your definition. And by definition, isn't it impossible to have an extremely supply-limited city with very little barrier to home ownership?
This is exactly why I started using Nix.
Wait, I thought Bezos was a quant, not an investment banker?
yes (alternate Twitter frontend they call it, but same thing)
See reply above, yes they are.
Meaningfully deep holes in the ground require some maintenance as well.
I wonder why they decided to start from scratch in Kotlin rather than just add the interactivity feature to plotnine. Now we have two competing projects...
Actually all microphones can "speak". All speakers can be used as microphones as well. It's not like the conversion process only works one way.
'brittle' for sure, if you're requiring periodic updates.
> Operation Haymaker, show that between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people.

During the last administration. Interesting.
Depends, it does not do interactive 3D-plots. For that, Plotly is the only performant lib I know.
Pedantic: Speakers can listen and basically any speaker can be wired up to also be a microphone.
> The government subsidizes child rearing because it should.

why exactly? generally, it is rational to subsidize things that society does not have enough of and tax things that we have too much of. are we currently not producing enough children? this is not necessarily implied by birthrates being below the replacement rate.
There is not reason to be scared of a disease that don’t kill.

What about one that causes permanent lung and/or heart damage?
Not a strong conviction from me but I can see a case for liquidity when you can sell quickly.
The difference is that the Islamic State is destroying these things and sending a message that it must be destroyed. The Americans are saying "we don't want this art to represent us anymore". It's improbable that the art will be destroyed, and if it is, it'll be for practical constraints not a public display of aggression. Europe tends not to have equivalent problems. But I'd imagine if you had a series of works in public display that told the story of how the Americans came over and won the war while the pathetic European allies just did nothing you'd probably protest, because that's kind of bullshit. Taking down a celebration of white soldiers doesn't mean you don't respect them. It might just mean your views of the situation have changed in a way that requires a different work.

To say you "cannot imagine a disrespect to their work"... well yeah you can. It's the exact situation that the black soldiers were in. It's like complaining about the unfairness of rising food prices while the family down the lane already had food insecurity. Arguing to maintain the status quo, which is inherently unfair, on a basis of unfairness towards the privileged group is the entire point of trying to unpack structural systemic problems. We don't need to claim that a painting of white soldiers is made with racist intentions. It's likely not. But we can take proactive steps to change how we portray ourselves going forward.

This is but one of many instances of people having gut reactions to racial relations. People are happy to say they are not racist (and they aren't) and are happy to say they think people of minority groups should be treated with equal respect (and they do think this). But when confronted with the reality that historic structural systems have shifted power, culture, and wealth to one side- they have a gut negative reaction against actually changing the systems to create more equal outcomes.

Reducing racial inequality means changing cultural norms, weakening the historic gravy train of white real estate ownership, and transferring political power from white communities to black communities (and others).

The hatred of the KKK causes an insignificant amount of harm to the black community relative to regressive housing policies born out of longstanding traditions of keeping property ownership a thing of the whites. Unconscious biases at the office are not as pertinent as the public thinking on cultural heritage.
This is a point of view I hadn't considered, but is an interesting way of consoling my two points of view that secrecy is important but accountability is essential. This almost framed journalists as being a kind of law enforcement for the people, which is certainly an interesting way of viewing them.
> Do you have an example of Amazon doing this?

Not exactly the same thing, but going after your VP of Marketing is pretty similar, if they do this to their best employees, what they won't do to a smaller 3rd party that they feel it's on their way to profit.

Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-sues-former-aws-marketi...
Wickham was really on to something with ggplot and it's graphical grammar concept for plots. That and Tidyverse in general, I believe, has saved R from irrelevance.

I wish more projects would use that way of thinking but it seems that in the jupyter/julia/python world there's too many choices and they all attempt a "kitchen-sink" approach for visualization.
> all the banks would happily loan me $215,000 with $35k down, but no bank would loan me $15,000 to buy a $50k house.

This seems like a made up problem. Those same banks would also gladly loan you $40k with $10k down, and you could have the remainder to fix the house up or make huge payments every month. Furthermore, if you already have $35k it shouldn't be too difficult to save another $15k and buy the house cash. If it is, you probably can't qualify for the mortgage payment on either property based on your income.
We used to despise web scraping and tried to dump data from an industrial system by listening to raw Modbus RS-485 traffic. Turned out that there was no way to get the register maps from the vendor nor the firmware.

We ended up writing a scraper for the main unit. Once they have been installed and configured, they're likely not going to be updated unless absolutely necessary (such as when adding new, unsupported controllers to the bus).
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By that logic I can only live in Faraday's cage or not complain at all??

You can complain about banking system and be proponent of bitcoin while having a bank account and paying for goods with fiat currency.
I can read Svenska, and I've been a lay judge in the District Court of Oslo, Norway for many years, so I know a thing or two about Scandinavian court proceedings. At best the link is inconclusive. At worst it proves conspiracy. Whatever the case, just adding papers to an already undertaken interrogation, could either falsify the original interrogation, or make it unusable in court. Further more, it could implicate the signatory, and that is of course why the one party has reservations against doing it. If there's visible tampering, the interrogation could be dismissed by court. And if not, they could be prosecuting based off false evidence. As for the party responsible for such tampering, she could at worst go to jail for document forgery, at best she'd be reprimanded for not being vigilant enough. So I'd say that's pretty damning. Otherwise I tend to agree with the Swede tpmx, who thinks these kinds of things are better explained by legal experts.
I believe op is saying that a person could “afford” a $500k house at $100k down at 20% would happily instead put $25k down (or $28.75k, to keep numbers accurate at a 5% down) on a $575k house.
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge
Banksy is a profiteer. He has his own "team" that verifies his work. Come on. He's just a graphic designer that figured out how to make better money off people who are anti-system because it's the cool thing to do. If he really gave a shit about "the causes", theres a good saying that sums it up. You do more good from changing the system from within, rather than throwing pebbles at the windows.
The composition API is opt-in, but will likely be the de facto standard if/when the majority of projects and tutorials use it.
I completely, 100% agree with you.
I took a cursory look; the text is justified basically everywhere. If you take a look at the FAQ, the author mentions he did it all by hand ("carefully selected words", I may be misquoting) without the use of any software. Pretty neat, if not rather obsessive.
I'd like to recommend that you try pulumi. Terraform is definitely a fantastic tool, and it really does have just about everything you want (and is extremely google-able with easy to find experts), but I think the bring-your-own-language paradigm is better for this particular use case if a few things are true:

- Your team is comfortable with at least one of the languages Pulumi has native support for, ideally your codebase/infrastructure repo is already written in it.

- Someone on your team isn't going to hang everyone else and themselves with the wide open nature of a fully featured programming language at their fingertips

- You've got some innovation tokens to spend

I think HCL is going to get more and more like a fully featured language as time goes on -- if they ever lean in to it (and introduce support for alternative "language runtimes" or something) then I would go terraform and never look back.

It's hard to recommend pulumi over terraform because of momentum, ecosystem, etc, but it does seem like a better base to start off of (and it's what I use for my own stuff).
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That is what i found:

https://minewiki.engineering.queensu.ca/mediawiki/index.php/...

Honestly i would have thought it to be more expensive.

At higher depths the ground pressure is enormous and you need a lot of bracing.

Then there is water management, air, transportation of the dug out material...

When there is rock you usually need blasting or gargantuan drills which i am not sure even exists in the required diameter.
Hi HN! Author here.

Sharing a book I released today about building developer portfolio sites.

A few months ago I reviewed several hundred dev portfolios on twitter, and found I was giving the same feedback over and over. I also had a lot to say on the subject; I've been involved with hiring for many of the orgs I've worked for, and I've reviewed a whole lot of portfolios in that capacity. I also work as a career coach for a local bootcamp, helping recent grads land their first role.

The book distills everything I've learned into a tactical guide. A portfolio site is only one small part of the job hunt, but I believe doing it well can offer a huge advantage.

I've made it free-to-download because it's targeted at folks looking to break into the industry, people who just invested their life savings into a bootcamp or graduated college with debt. I feel weird charging for this.

(Sorry for the double-post: forgot the "Show HN" prefix, and couldn't delete the original!)
there's no inherent need for a growing, or even stable, population. this is only a rough proxy for having a sufficiently productive working population to support those who can't work or have retired without undue hardship.
Self-storage businesses are not universal. There are plenty of countries where they don’t really exist at all for individuals (only for corporate customers). There, people who are moving out of their flats and e.g. going abroad for a year and need to stash their stuff, are used to just finding someone with some spare space in his basement or garage. In my experience, people don’t really seem concerned about security; the real valuable stuff might be left with a family member while what goes into the storage space is just the furniture, kitchen stuff, and books.

But since finding a storage place is already a pretty standard part of the local Craigslist/OLX website in these countries, there isn’t much room for a new website to come in and disrupt things.
Very minor request: Pressing "extract" provides no real UI feedback as to what happened. Until I "discovered" the correct tab, it felt a bit like the button was not wired up to anything.

No UX expert, but would it be possible to do something that signals to the user that something did indeed happen?
The comment said that sentence alone is incredible. I didn’t realize it meant just for a corporate press release. It also isn’t that big of a deal when Amazon likely would not have said that if they had gotten the JEDI contract. But they are on the offensive against the administration so they aren’t even saying this out of pure knowledge. But as part of their own strategy.

I don’t see it being special in any circumstance for those reasons
If you have issues coming up with a strategem, just take two random words from the dictionary and add 'technique' to the end and riff off of that!

The Franchise Hospitality Technique. The Dirty Diplomat technique. The Proper Element Technique. The Bee Trustee Technique. The Linger Expansion Technique. The Path Feast Technique. The Brink Intelligence Technique. The Deficit Omission Technique.

Gotta admit, I'm a little tempted to make a humor productivity parody blog using this technique after seeing a few that came up.
I happen to have been looking at IBM typewriter fonts recently -- https://archive.org/details/IBM-SelectricIITypewriter-Correc... -- so I can say it's actually Courier; the uppercase A is an easy giveaway. You can see all the other body fonts there too; Light Italic for the italics, except for some keywords at the start of lists which are Courier Italic; the page headers are Letter Gothic, as are I think the headings (though I thought it was lowercase Orator at first so I think these fonts are all running together for me).
I was rooting for Mercurial or any other to get a minority but significant market share. I don’t like mono cultures. Ah well.
The fact that stocks can be bought and sold quickly has a use, namely that the price should signal how the market values this asset.
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I agree that the Whatsapp photo backup issue is fairly pressing on lots of devices - my partner's phone runs low on storage all the time, and when I clean it out for her it's always because I find that her Whatsapp group chats are eating ten gigs of storage with videos and photos she doesn't care about. But dumping them all is also pretty problematic because she works on the assumption that the ones she cares about will be there.

The big problem is game data backup. The market has bluntly rejected Google's opt in system, and something needs to be done.

Users care far more about the stuff that isn't backed up in Android, not the stuff that is. And far too much backup is hidden behind opt-ins that regular users just skip during backup. It needs to be on by default and opt out.
I share alot of the same feelings as expressed in the article. Parks, camping, and 'wild areas' are victims of their own success. Where I live the largest Provincial Park is an 8 hour drive away for me, but only 4'ish hours from Toronto. The article talks about car-camping and towed trailers but even areas that require a 2 hour canoe trip and multiple portages to get to and it is still decimated by tourists.

Even though the barrier to entry is high, and isn't in the same ball-park as these car-campers there are far too many people trying to spend some time under the trees, and the park is being damaged.

Contrast this period with the 1980's. Disposable income is (apparently) lower now then it was back then. Back in my childhood several of my neighbours would have campers, or boats, or snowmobiles; and many opportunities to use them throughout the year. Now when I look around I only see 1 on my entire block, and with entire segments of the economy closing for good, factories being emptied; I see the golden era of the union, and 'extra' money as a thing of the past.

So how are all these people able to afford crowding our parks? The article talks about this decline almost as if it's a recent thing, but I have seen this same pattern going back over 10 years.

The only way I can find a reasonable amount of peace and quiet is to goto Crown Land, and multi-day canoe trips into the wild.
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And if a kids goes back to school and infects an at risk family member - imagine being 10 years old and being responsible for the death of your grandpa or mum who is on treme risk register.

Puts missing some crammed for test into perspective.