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Are there plans to make these "trading capable"? Would be interesting to be able to track their live performance, compare strategies, and even add some of these to my portfolio
Here in Australia it seems like a month can't go by without a high profile sports person being accused of abuse/drugs/alcohol or other.

Maybe it is something about the ultra-competitive streak - being "driven" - that makes it not nice to be around?

Personally, I gave up playing even the lowest grade of social hockey as people seemed to have forgotten the "game for fun" part and were "playing to win" - including hard shots at your legs, playing on no matter the breach of game rules unless the ref whistled etc.
You can. Block windows update addresses in hosts or install something like Wpd or shutup10.
By all means, write a check to pay for it. Or do you want other people to pay for it?
> The reality is their existing solution backed by a CDN would also have worked if they encoded the videos correctly.

For folks who might not realize you can fix this post-encode, you can do this:

ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -c copy -map 0 -movflags +faststart out.mp4
In all fairness, during the first XML migration, I'm sure internal MS folks were just as baffled at the previous format.
Yeah, it really depends - in many cases an attacker gaining local access is game over anyway & less technical users will at least have harder to guess passwords. In other cases it's indeed a bad idea.
We've changed the URL from https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-misfit-helped-lead-co... to that, since it's not only unpaywalled but also seems to have more detail. Thanks!
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iMessage is a pure messaging service - there are no recommendations, no feed, no following friends, no status updates, no likes, no profiles, no stories, and no connection to Facebook at all. Most importantly, no advertising since they actually make money off the products, which means no incentive for gaming engagement metrics. They want you to have a good time and sell you another device next year, not glue your eyeballs to the screen.

Since there is no “Apple social network” to be spoken of, there would be little reason to include them.
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Man I wish Xcode was a decent IDE
> One thing that might be helpful, if I'm in favor and you're opposed, then maybe identify one obstacle - it can be as big as you wish - where if resolved, you'd be in favor of reparations. Then maybe that is worth engaging with.

On the contrary; if I represent the status quo and you represent a new idea, the onus is on you to defend it. It's your responsibility. Put it out there. Say exactly what your thesis is, and back it up, and defend it. Sunlight is the best disinfectant - anything about your ideas that are indefensible will be shown to be so, and what's left will be gold.

To make my point via reductio ad absurdum, let's flip the script and use something hyperbolic: you represent the status quo, and I represent (heaven forbid) some new variation of racial cleansing. But, I declare to those opposed, "engaging with those who don't like the idea [of racial cleansing] is a fool's errand, because a lot of these people will just cherry-pick whatever objection they can think of in bad faith." So, I say to you, the skeptical defendent of the status quo, if you don't like the idea of racial cleansing, "then maybe identify one obstacle - it can be as big as you wish - where if resolved, you'd be in favor of [exterminating a race]."

To me, flipping your proposition on its head like that makes it pretty obvious that it's unsatisfactory as the starting point of an intellectual discussion. It even tends to beg the question: you've made your position the 'null hypothesis'. The status quo should be the null hypothesis.

> And even in good faith, people who don't like the idea all have different reasons. Start with the root axiom "Slavery is wrong", people will be happy to engage with you on that. Disregard them and move on to the next syllogism, you'll have a different set of people objecting.

Yes, exactly. Your job is to answer every set of people who don't like your idea. Just because you believe that this new thing is moral and right does not make it so, and it is the acme of hubris to distain to justify your proposed actions.
Glad to see it at least at the bottom of that screenshot :)
Most neck warming gear is too uncomfortable (imo) to wear indoors all day, but I discovered I love bandannas specifically because 1) 100% cotton and 2) you can adjust the tightness to whatever you want, and for outdoors you can even go with 'double layer' of bandanna for even more warmth.
You can still get brand-new 65c02s and related peripherals as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21902281

Also, from 2017:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14883776

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14450945
I didn't come up with the quote appears in Chess circles a lot. I think a chess master said it.
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I've always been curious about Gummo and his backstory. Thank you for posting this.
I really appreciate Ben Eater's production values. He doesn't gloss over mistakes, but it's not just a direct recording of experiments. His videos have a definitely planned direction and it makes it much easier to watch.
have never been pulled over in the manner you describe and drive through those states all the time. sounds like a made up or embellished story
Nicotine itself isn't highly addictive; at least, not as mythologized in the anti-smoking campaigns. Its addictive potential is strongly dependent on factors like speed of uptake (itself a function of method as well as chemical formulation), and behavioral and social associations developed at the time of habituation. It's why cessation alternatives like nicotine gum have very poor track records, and why vaping has the potential (partly realized) to be both a considerable benefit to public health as well as considerable impediment.
She already had formal approval for her publication to be public well before the ultimatum. The ultimatum was in response to management saying "Actually, we're going to change the process on you because we find this work embarrassing." She did not make a decision to publish on her own.

Moreover, she's not an auditor, and she has never been accused of publishing confidential information. My story about an auditor was an analogy.
I'm kinda in the same boat, except I smoke hookah occasionally. Like, once every four months or so. Guess I'm addicted?
better return than S&P500, but right now its seems so overvalued.
A lot of these abstractions come from consulting companies that need to pad their hours. I used to think it was very intelligent developers indulging in intellectual masturbation, but I’ve seen it happen too often to be a coincidence: some complex CQRS Mediator pattern on a small project where there will only ever be one implementation, or to facilitate unit tests that add dubious value.

Not surprising in a field where ethics are a distant second to money.
When posters from rural areas complain about "coastal elites" (often a dogwhistle for PoC) stealing from their hard-earned living via taxes, this is one of the things that flashes through my mind. So many - SO many - of America's small towns cannot sustain themselves through honest business and labor.

https://texasmonitor.org/in-small-town-texas-speeding-driver...

These are the people who erase the visceral horror of slavery from textbooks, who detest cosmopolitanism, who advise hard-up city-dwellers to simply "move to where the jobs are" (nevermind that they denigrate immigrants). But god forbid you suggest that these small towns aren't solvent, can never be so, that they have to move. That the future for America is a progressive urbanism with higher population density (and the advances in public infrastructure policy that will have to come with it). That's socialism. But dragging travelers out of their cars for a protection bribe (if you're lucky enough not to get Sandra Bland-ed) is a-ok. /s
>There's been times where I've spent weeks or even months going down a path that has ultimately proven fruitless, including spending really long hours on it. That certainly counts as work, but if it results in no meaningful value being produced, then what's the point?

how do you do this and not get fired? i got a lecture earlier this year about how spending two weeks on a difficult problem in a project that i'd just gotten dropped into was not befitting of a senior software developer.
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The meaning of "American ancestry" used above is "United States ancestry", not "North-or-South-American continent ancestry". Hispanic Americans certainly have plenty of deep American ancestry in the latter sense, but for relatively few of them this American ancestry is from United States.
You really have to go out of your way to even set up an iDevice without any passcode protection in the first place, and you have to go out of your way to set it up without any protection for app store purchases, so this is a customer who went through multiple opt-in screens to let anybody with physical access to the device buy anything on the app store they wanted, and then handed off the device to their kid...

I hate predatory apps as much as the next person, and there is a lot of garbage out there, but at some point, the customer also bears responsibility for their actions.
Playing video games makes for better surgeons. No joke, and the improvement is substantial.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-surgery-games-idUSN2J3039...
According to another respondent, they had a photo "taken" from the exact moment they scrolled by an ad. The author of the tweet confirmed the same happened to her in the same thread: https://twitter.com/PickledBoba/status/1338658784391000064.

That's quite strange. Even if we presume Twitter is doing everything aboveboard, why would they activate the camera when the user is not taking a picture or streaming?
Chess puzzles just never have realistic positions that you'd encounter in a real game so I can see why it wouldn't help you in games.
I just finished taking a defensive driving course to get a speeding ticket washed.

The course material mentioned a couple of times that, quote, "driving at an unsafe speed" is illegal. And what's unsafe takes into account the prevailing conditions (so you can be ticketed when going the speed limit if, say, it's raining), and also the fact that deltas in speed are more dangerous than absolute speed (so if the speed limit is 55, everybody else is going 60, and you're going 40, you may well get a ticket 'cause you're creating a danger.

Almost sounds like the police can pull over and search whoever they like

Yep, that's true within 100 miles of the border - an area that accounts for the vast majority of US residents. I've been stopped several times near the Mexico border for no real reason; one office asks me questions for a minute or two, just long enough for their drug-sniffing dog to make the full round of my car and come up empty.
Show HN: Two Birds One Stone (iOS Game)
You must have shorter hair than the OP.
Except this ignores reality where Google has consistently made UX worse. Remember when Google search actually remembered your preferences? Or when you could set blocked domains in the account instead of only in their browser?

Or the complete overhauls of UIs?
What is it that makes web dev less appealing on MacOS?
Knowledge is knowing what happened. Wisdom is realizing what is likely going to happen.
IOI gold medalist here.

Most coding competitions tend to assess a specific set of skills: puzzle solving ability; algorithmic knowledge; and being able to code fast. All of these skills are useful in "real life" programming.

However, since the code you write will be thrown away post-competition, your focus is on churning out solutions that "just work" — proper engineering practices and maintainability isn't relevant. All your code needs to do is to generate the correct outputs.

Does competing turn you into a strong coder? Absolutely. Does this equate to being a strong engineer? Nope. Software engineering isn't just about coding fast.

This is anecdotal, but from what I've seen (as a trainer and friend of several IOI medalists): some of them appreciate that coding != engineering and proceed to develop their engineering skills. Others don't and remain stuck at the "I'll come up with a fast solution" mindset.

Whether one or the other happens very much depends on the person, plus, I believe, whom they end up working with. After all, we've all heard about the "10x" programmer – and when your colleague or subordinate appears to code at 10x speed, you just might think twice about whether you're qualified to advise or guide them. That results in their keeping any bad habits they might have.
> It's not clear that reparations are a good idea in practice, or something to be "achieved," or even strived for (they might do more harm in practice to the group they intend to protect,

This is a very patronizing argument. If someone breaks into your bank account and steals your cash, then later is caught. There is no valid line of reasoning that goes "well I'll only give the money back if you tell me how you plan to spend it first". "Oh, you planned to spend it all on bubble gum and sweets? Then no I don't need to give it back, because I think that might do you more harm than good."

Argue on the merits of the topic, not based on knowing what's best for people.
Had a good laugh at the bottom of the release: "Like the FTC on Facebook(link is external), follow us on Twitter(link is external), get consumer alerts, read our blogs, and subscribe to press releases for the latest FTC news and resources."

Like us on the platforms we're issuing orders to.
half as wide. cinematic 2.3 aspect ratio, maybe more.

less snark comment (but also true), just jaw dropping that these pocket PC's do so much. on the down sides, I think the main think that floors me, just stabs me in the heart, is that they are still almost totally trash at communicating with those around us. Google dropped Project Eddystone, that sucked; totally straightforward sensible way to broadcast a url to the world about you. Apple has their file sharing AirDrop, which Google continues to make floundering attempts at (Beam, then Fast Share/Nearby Share), & never via any open protocols or specs. amazing personal communicators... totally reliant on completely centralized infrastructure. The couple Bridgify/Open Garden alternatives, it all seems too stack specific & lacking the layering of protocols & extensibility that allows communication tech to grow over time, become of enduring value.

I forget what it is but someone was telling me the Bump competitor in Japan is still used, that you still have a physical little ritual with your devices that causes them to exchange contact info. That kind of real.world connectivity seems like it ought be just the start, for how tech can augment the real world, versus us needing to start & navigate the digital to connect. We're doing little favors, entrenching connectivity so reservedly in the digital all space.
> So is the UK, last time I checked they're not doing so hot either. You can add this kind of argumentation to the list of ailments. Geographic or some other sort of fatalism as an excuse for what is social failure.

Exactly. If the US population (for instance) had the community spirit to voluntarily comply with virus control measures, and the social cohesion to support those who couldn't work during that time, we probably would have gotten it under control and life would be something close to normal.

The people who make lockdowns necessary (and the subsequent economic damage) are the ones that fight them tooth and nail.
It’s easy too see why it doesn’t reduce crime....

because civil asset forfeiture is a crime.
I think there's a lot of intersection, even among religions. (Feeding the poor, for example. Or helping widows and orphans.)

I imagine the 3 would quickly reach agreement, but they'd also agree to keep your views (atheist) out of the announcements. Can't advertise good deeds of that nature, of course!
Hikaru Nakamura's take on the statement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrN16c3DTzE&feature=youtu.be...
Berlin is the end of that route, so the arrival is a bit later than ideal - Paris to Hannover (say) will be more conveniently timed. Maybe the ideal pairs are 800km rather than 1000km, but there's quite a few of them - I've done London-Glasgow, Paris-Munich, Munich-Budapest, Paris-Rome, Turin-Salerno. Even if it does end up being 10 or 12 hours, it can still be more convenient than a night flight in terms of "can I finish work here at 18:00, have a decent dinner and a good night's sleep, and be ready to start work here at 09:00" - that's the question that actually matters.

> got from one house to my other house in 2 hours with a 1h flight

That sounds pretty exceptional. 45 minutes is usually given as the minimum time to go through airport security, since you have to allow enough time to not miss your flight if you do get pulled out for some reason (or be prepared to sometimes miss your flight, I guess). Airports are usually about an hour away from anywhere in the city you're going to. So I'd say 3 hours' overhead is the norm, and it gets worse if you're trying to fly after a day's work because the transport system of the place you're going to is usually shutting down by the time you arrive.
Depending on how they define "winner at programming contests", this might narrow down the population to just a handful of "sport programmers". The same handful of guys win all the contests.

The statement might as well be "tourist has bad job performance". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Korotkevich) And that isn't surprising given how much he has to train everyday to stay on top. He even turned down offers from Google/Facebook just to continue qualifying for the big annual competitions like Google Code Jam and Facebook Hacker Cup.

For a more in-depth account on how the top people train, you can check out this guy's advice on how to get two gold medals in IOI: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/69100 and his training schedule: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/69100?#comment-535272

Or this guy, who won IOI this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Cc4Yk2xe4&feature=youtu.be...
I thought web browser asked you for permission before using the camera?
It's just a great lesson in what we can accomplish with a singular purpose.
Spring works as a maintainable abstraction because it is known well enough within the industry that you can look for, and find, "Spring programmers". The framework's documentation, tests and release notes work to create a relatively coherent layer above the language, which would end being recreated a thousand ways by just as many creative coders if it didn't exist. Most of these in-house frameworks would be undocumented, poorly tested and unmaintained as soon as the lead coders left that department. Even for these standout projects that would be arguably better from a technical standpoint, none would offer the social advantage of a ubiquitous framework such as Spring provides.

The desire to write new code is often so strong that I've seen Spring being itself re-wrapped in a local flavored "frameworks" that only brought value by ignoring parts of what Spring could do out of the box. The solution is most often to strip off the overwrapping and bring the app back to Spring primitives.
My immediate reaction to this idea is that it's effectively "conversion therapy" but then after I let it sit for a while longer, it seems like it's really yet another option/tool available to people.

I do really have to wonder how it would be used (ie, forced-detransing someone) but on the other hand, if someone is not comfortable in their body and has no means to modify their body to their liking, could this help them in the long run? Or are they supposed to live in ongoing anguish because one part of them doesn't line up with another part and they can do nothing about it?

This is an interesting idea, with wide-ranging ethical implications.
If there's anything you can credit the Google team for, it's using IntelliJ as the basis of the Android IDE.
I thought this might interest a few people on HN.

In related news, Cellebrite claimed last week that they've cracked Signal app data with their Physical Analyzer product:

https://www.cellebrite.com/en/blog/cellebrites-new-solution-...

It's not entirely clear from their post what this actually means, and so far I have seen no acknowledgement or response from anyone representing Signal.
PCI/DSS hasn't yet, so that's holding up a lot of them.
The winners of the Kaggle/Facebook million dollar contest were disqualified for cheating.
There's this old scene in the Simpsons where Grampa Simpson stands up and says, "Sure, we COULD fix up main street," and everyone in the town hall meeting cheers, and he says, "shut up! I'm just saying we COULD blow all our money on a stupid little street," and the townspeople cheer again and lift him on their shoulders.

Anyway, your comment reminded me of that.

I'm less familiar with lead in water. If that was just lack of science knowledge, that's different than, say, deliberately putting lead in water to make it easier to profit off the people drinking it.
This is so insane.
Also, Steph Curry is not really short, he just looks that way next to NBA centers and forwards, but he's actually 96th percentile in height amount American men.

A better example would be Muggsy Bogues who was a full 12" shorter than Steph Curry and he could dunk.
This sounds like the thoughts of someone recently born.

This was inevitable in atomized western societies with relatively high rates of health issues like obesity and diabetes. And how were you to muster people in these fractured societies to "comply"? There is no national identity or Philia. Consumerism only brings us so close. Diversity is our strength, remember?

>If there was actual compliance with relatively modest rules, that just demand that everyone acts with some sense and makes some small concessions, life could have gone on normally, with a lot of people still alive.

Citation needed.
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Jesus only said to love one another, have compassion, care for even thieves and hookers, meet people as they are not how you want them to be.
Simpler analogy you cant be a good chef if you spend 12 hours a day just making bread.
I stand by my statement that Docker is static linking for millennials.
So was the election hacked too? I'm a little confused how Biden can get 80 million votes, and almost no one watched his acceptance speech today. 40k views on youtube.

The 6k vote flipping in Michigan was claimed to be some sort of computer error. But why were the logs deleted? that seems like a hacker thing to do to delete the logs. A judge just released the audit report.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/...
I don't get it. Why is the stream done via phone instead of just clicking a button on a webpage? Is there some advantage to using the phone?
> Thoughts?

Sure—why not set an example by starting your own fund?
Hi all, this is my first iOS game. I have had the idea in my head for over 5 years (you can even play a version of this from back then online here http://ideationapps.com/2birds/2birds.html - but the web based version is terrible compared to the polished iOS version - not just graphically, but gameplay too). I finally had enough motivation to jump through all the hoops to get it in the App store.

There are a few other things on the site giving technical information which might be interesting too, but you can judge that for yourself.