skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always felt that most "enforced-fun-games" were excellent at team building. Being "asked to cross an imaginary river" etc is a great way to unite the humble employees in their universal loathing of their woefully mis-guided management. Always had a niggling feeling that the 'bad games' couldn't be that bad by accident.
("Look, everybody hates everybody - could we push some more hate towards us, so they at least talk to each other?")

Or there are the "split into small groups to do a task" tasks, which are usually won by teams where one person 'just does it', whilst the rest are bickering around how to break down the task and assign r&r.
Again, not sure if this is the point, but you very rapidly notice which of your colleagues are both loud and useless.

Oh and final whine, 'the prizes'
There doesn't need to be one - but if there is, could it please be something that's actually wanted? Branded merch, $100 Apple voucher, ask the CEO a question etc...

..actually, I wouldn't mind asking if his bonus is an f'in polo shirt.
Not unthinkable that's how a human will read foreign language too.
Pricing model that saved us
Fear is incredibly profitable.
How I Audit Components for Accessibility
There's a subset of employees who really like games. Many places I've worked, those employees stay long after hours pulling out board games, video games, etc.

But there's another (probably larger?) subset of employees who like casual conversation, coffee, drinking, little 5 minute chats in the kitchen, and who have little to no interest in games. I don't think the proposal is going to do much for this subset.
$10K per car * 1 billion cars -> $10T. So more than the estimates of what it would cost to prevent climate change, but less than the estimates of what it would cost to mitigate it.

> isn't even sure mankind would survive +5°C.

Humans live in Siberia and the Antarctic. The human species will survive. But whether civilization survives is a different question.
New Buffee Amiga accelerator is aiming at reaching 1k MIPS
It does not mean China should resume live wild animals trade.
> I'm not necessarily a fan of your tone, seems pretty shrill.

I think it is important to be honest and upfront when we talk about accessability in software because I've seen so many times when developers and product owners dismiss it entirely. I really want to stress the point that thinking about accessebility as a niche is exclusionary and unethical.

I think about my time working at Net a Porter - UK upmarket online fashion retailer - where I brought up some accessability concerns especially around their terrible in-house captcha and it was dismissed as "they arent our target market" which is so blanetly untrue, but all stems from this myth that accessability is only for a small group of users.

> don't lose sight of the much, much smaller group of users who require the feature in order to use the product at all.

The people who need to use captions/subtitles are not a "much smaller group". I think about foreign language media, where i need the subtitles (like when I watched Dark on Netflix), or even primarily English media but has some forign language (I watched Lost recently - there's a fair bit of Korean and Arabic in that). Or even when you're watching TV around someone who's sleeping.

Everyone needs "accessability", and if you don't now, you will eventually.
February 1st 2021
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I’ll also mention that fencing used to be wildly dangerous to train in. When I learned to fence (Italian school longsword) we practiced with plastic swords and lacrosse gloves. Compared to wood swords with leather gloves this is an incredible safety improvement, and still we broke fingers from time to time. Even modern longsword fencing helms[0] (sport fencing helms can’t handle the abuse) are much tougher thanks to the presence of pre-drilled plate which provides better visibility without reduced protection[1].

0 - https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4a/15/22/4a1522079ba2951466fb... This type is necessary if you wish to practice with steel swords, among other protective equipment. Steel can cave in regular fencing masks.

1 - Against cutting blows, which is the main issue in practice. Such a plate would be disastrous in actual war, since it would guarantee that any arrow making contact would “bite” rather than deflecting.
They are just two different solutions that have pros and cons just like any two solutions :) A few that jump out:

- Setup time: Setting up GCP, setting up a certificate, adding a static IP, etc. is not seamless/adds friction

- Autoscaling and rolling updates (no downtime)

- Team management and collaborative environment with usage tracking, permissions, etc.

- Optional integration with a pipelining service for training, tuning, deploying models in a single tool

And a point of clarification: Practically speaking, neither tool is free. Both require a cloud instance so they will cost roughly the same for the end user (Gradient also supports preemptible instances).
Tobler was an open source map hacker
My approach with a recent personal project (i.e. no actual scaling required) was to have the MQTT server just listen on localhost. Application connects without TLS on the loopback interface. Clients connect over WebSocket (TLS) using their existing OAuth access token as the username and "x" as the password. The application involves an API as well so client credentials are already in use.

I used jpmens/mosquitto-auth-plug <https://github.com/jpmens/mosquitto-auth-plug> for the Mosquitto side of things, with a query along the lines of:

SELECT "hardcoded password hash" FROM oauth_access_tokens WHERE access_token = "%s" AND scope REGEXP "\bmqtt\b";
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from a user experience point of view it doesnt really matter how much of a distribution platform is compromised, if you reach a tipping point where it become useless.

The only real way to use apps stores these days is to have prior knowledge something is legit
Hard disagree.

Leaving people to their own devices, you will have a couple of go-getters who hobnob with managers and everyone else cut out of the cliques.

Liking your coworkers is a mutually beneficial relationship for everyone and setting aside structured time to do it makes it more egalitarian.
> if i borrow a share from you and sell it

I think some of the confusion is people talking past each other.

I think some people latch onto the whole concept of "borrowing" as the supply inflation. In the housing market, when I buy a house it is OFF the market. There is no "borrow someone's house & reintroduce it into the supply and gamble on the direction of the market".

Can you comment on how that interpretation is wrong?
Thanks for the suggestion! We are currently working with some partner customers on featuring their applications on our site.

Quick definition of how revisit rate is used across the industry: it denotes how often a satellite has the opportunity to image an area. So with our full constellation, we'll have a revisit rate of 2-3 times per day for latitudes < 60 deg N/S (info on the website), meaning you could put a tasking order over a certain area for that frequency. Although we expect most of our applications to need something more like a weekly cadence for image collects.
In general, scammers want to know that something is popular, before they decide to clone it?

I wonder if they had bought website visit statistics via e.g. Alexa? And in the app store, they'll see how many downloads? ratings? already existing apps have, and can decide, based on that?

Meaning, "who was first" can work fine, most of the time?

> "theirs could be available in another store, and you copied theirs from there"

And one would need to check different app stores, e.g. who was first in any of Google Play and Apple's App Store?
>Certain high value crops only use drones today due to the resolution, so we'll be able to support those applications.

For a farm sized area, wouldn't an autonomous drone be a lot cheaper&better?
I can confirm it is true. Often when meeting new teams i get Summon The JSON decks with me. It is great to just hang out a little bit, play and talk. It takes away the steam from official team formulation.

I am strong believer that such creating human relationships between teammates solves a lot of trouble down the road.
The thing is you don’t want HR catching wind of things. It’s not that people rat on each other. But people are known to blurt things out when prompted (someone divulges a “secret” and often the other person divulges a “secret” in return. It’s just conversation.)
In my last school year, after three month doing security CTF, and for all my C projects since, i started bringing with the string its length and did everything i could to avoid using \0. I think almost all non-deprecated C stream function give you the string length (or bits received rather).

The reasons are multiple: its faster to use write() than printf() (and you don't have to flush to synchronize), its way harder to exploit, and easier to move around in different buffers. And i got to wrote my own string library during my project, and that was fun.
Are you saying that Slack uses mod_php? According to a Slack Engineering blog post[0] from 9 months ago, Slack has been using Hack/HHVM since 2016 in place of PHP. My understanding is that HHVM can only be run over FastCGI, unless there's a mod_hhvm that I'm unaware of.

[0]: https://slack.engineering/hacklang-at-slack-a-better-php/
It's really a balance though. Some of those viral diseases could have permanent consequences that outweigh the benefit of a stronger immune system. For example, Polio could leave you crippled, or Mumps could leave a boy with sterility.

Do you have a link to the data for the claim about it being a serious illness that causes a better immune system? My understanding has been that exposure to a variety of pathogens and minor illnesses would be sufficient.
The actual headline is saying that the country’s first digital nomad is accepted under Croatia’s new visa
The fact that you are disputed in saying this by multiple comments on this thread suggests it’s not as simple as just accusing someone of spreading falsehoods.

Here is a quote:

“speaking as the project lead for Matrix.

1. It's true that Synapse can use a lot of RAM.”
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Thanks! Is the process like with traditional trading, where you transfer money into the Coinbase account from your bank, and then buy whatever? Do you transfer coins to a physical wallet?
Melanie Reid [0] is a journalist and experienced horse rider who broke her neck and back in 2010 aged 53 [0]. She now writes a weekly article ('Spinal Column') that describes her continuing experiences of being tetraplegic. Very insightful concerning the resultant life-shattering injuries.

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Persistent Login Cookie Best Practice (2004)
I can see it around me already.

There will be most likely no changes to how we used to do stuff.

I, for one, wouldn't mind screens in the shops and some protection for the cashiers. Its probably the biggest factor for spreading flu, since they are huge point of contact.

But it won't happen. The moment we beat the covid, everyone will rush to strip and burn anything that is remotely related to covid.
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Actually it's the opposite of database normalization.

Normalizing removes data redundancy. This adds data redundancy.

When I design a database structure, it's common to start with the most normalized representation possible. And then to denormalize the minimum necessary for performance reasons -- duplicating rows and/or columns just like here so certain data can be retrieved more quickly, whenever indexes aren't powerful or featured enough.
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My friends use different apps and wearables and it's annoying

That was the problem my cofounder Tom and I had when we were trying to share health activity.

Why is it that a Strava user and a MapMyRun user can't workout together?

Or an Apple Watch gal and a Fitbit guy - how can they keep each other accountable?

MyFitnessPal and Lose It, Headspace and Calm, Peloton and NordicTrack... the list goes on.

What if there was one central place that connected with it all, enabling you to join teams with friends - no matter the apps or wearables they loved - so you could work on shared goals together, across mindfulness, fitness & nutrition.

That was the question we kept asking ourselves. So, we built it. And now we're releasing it.

We just put an upgraded version of our app, Cabana Health, on TestFlight - and we would LOVE some early feedback! (https://cabana.health)

If you use the code HNFORUM in the "Referred by" section of our sign up list, I'll be happy to get you on our app right away to try it out! [no waitlist for you!!]

I'm also interested... has anyone here been dealing with the issue my cofounder and I are trying to solve? Any wearable / health app users here!?
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The one place I don't see silver being talked about as "Reddit's next target" is reddit.
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Amazing. All slurs and no substantiation. They might be right, but there's no way of knowing from that post.
I wrote one of the first comments about the article when it was first posted. I specifically noted the authors confusion on Citadel because the new language was not there.
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I want to strongly recommend the game Wavelength (there is an app and several online knock offs: https://longwave.web.app/)

It's very casual and doubles as a wonderful conversation starter.
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some TGW limits are documented here: https://aws.amazon.com/transit-gateway/faqs/#Performance_and...
I'm missing a way to stop the video or even move back/forward in the video. Fun though
Wow, this is why the left needs to pay more attention to the right. This whole premise completely misunderstands the issue.
In addition to some of the other recommendations here, I really enjoyed "Building on Quicksand" by Pat Helland and Dave Campbell. A lot of eventual consistency made more sense to me after I read it.
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Y Combinator is hiring for a Product Engineer to work at YC itself and help us run YC's Work at a Startup.

Work at a Startup started as a lean MVP two years ago by Jared & Matt (https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5g-work-at-a-startup) as a free-to-use hiring platform for YC founders to meet and hire great early employees. It has become a suite of sourcing and networking tools that founders and job seekers have used to connect and find jobs. We’ve helped land key hires across hundreds of YC startups -- from founding engineers to VPs of product and operations.

We’re now looking to bring on a Product Engineer to help us scale our impact even more. You’ll be working directly with two former YC founders/engineers (from Box, Twitter & Lyft), and a small software team with kind people who are eager to help you get up-to-speed. You’ll be relied upon not only to help us tackle our hefty roadmap, but to also explore how YC can leverage its unique structural advantages to help our founders hire great people even faster.

In this role, you will:

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