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> with IntelliJ 99% of what you described is auto-configured

It is not, that's what I'm saying. And I don't understand why, if IntelliJ is the de-facto IDE. I'm sure that a fresh project is a one-click import, but an average project that isn't fresh anymore, always have similar IDE-setup-magic problems. At least in my experience over the years.
the lawsuit isn't that they banned him. it's that they accused him of operating multiple accounts and some other statements that he claims are false and defamatory.
> my daughter's (kindergarten) assignments are embedded youtube videos

My seven year old has Youtube blocked on the computer he uses, we saw too many rabbit holes so that was that.

He wants content, he comes to me, I youtube-dl it, he has VLC
>and it's unfair to the children to just expect them to have good parents.

Also unfair because some parents are not rich.
Some aren't living in the right place.
Some are not highly intelligent.
Some are not woke enough.
Indeed very very unfair.

Lets hand over the responsibility to companies or to the state. Communistic coordinated child parenting probably isn't gonna make it better for the children but at least its fair.
> Is it a product of smart people simply not working in this sector or corruption?

Depends on the country/jurisdiction.

This reminds me of a story: college career fair is held in January. Government is there and takes resumes. Candidates start getting callbacks for government positions in late April.

Do I even have to explain that those still available late April for the summer maybe were not... the sharpest tools in the shed?
> Seems more like an issue for parents to manage.

No, if something is harmful and addictive it should be regulated, parents or not.

Instagram should not be free to get away with addicting children to social media because some parents are not as attentive as they should be. Children should be legally protected from this predatory behaviour by tech ogilarchs looking to embed themselves into the behaviour of young children.

Why not a kid's gambling site? I mean, it seems like an issue for parents to manage. Children don't have the resources so it shouldn't be regulated, right?

It's predatory, and should be regulated, and heavily punished.
If true, this is a BIG deal.
I have to say, I am completely skeptical of Blue Origin's ability to do anything in a reasonable amount of time and that they will amount of anything but Bezo's hobby. At least until they change their approaches.

That said, it's a very secretive firm with an unknown amount of progress.

I'll believe in Blue Origin when I see it.
I wrote 10kLOC last week. Most of the code didn't require much extra thinking, it was mostly a translation of an old TypeScript project to Zig. But measuring compile times with 10kLOC is really not a good argument.
Wow, the irony of the Veritas guy complaining about defamation. Do you think he realizes it?
Because preferences are based on emotions are not rational.

I’m talking about picking a tool that does the job according to the requirements (speed, memory, debuggability), not based on what some YouTuber said.

We are engineers and paid for results. It help with carrier to embrace it.
Everyone is a great parent until they have kids.

That's one of my favorite phrases and it always comes to mind strongly when stories like this pop up on tech-heavy sites like HN.
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Is it defamatory if it is in a private email between Twitter and him?

His claim is that Twitter defamed him, but he is the only one who published their statement. What am I missing?
how much tesla stock do you have and where do you keep your poster of elon?
SAP Ariba too expensive Anybody interested in building an alternative with me?
Happy to hear thoughts on the pros and cons of it!

Still not able to to believe that there are very few B2B software that does live bidding/reverse auctioning. It can potentially save so much for enterprises by smart sourcing? Thoughts?
Making money (and this site will take a lot of money to build, even if it's just to break even) via Amazon -- while competing with an Amazon property -- is not something that is going to work. I frankly think this is the central reason there's no goodreads competitor: how to make enough money to break even when Amazon becomes your enemy...
Society's collective morality is, more or less, the source of truth of collective decisions of right and wrong.
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To me, this article itself exemplifies one of the problems I see with social media, which is that it seems to instill in its users the feeling that they need to "PR" their online presence, writing articles and explanations for what would otherwise just be simple, noiseless decisions. IMO if you want to leave an online community, just leave- there's no need to put out a press release on your way out the door.
Perhaps you could say why it's such a big deal?
% of applicants admitted is not super informative.

Two more interesting metrics would be:

* how many applicants admitted actually enroll (and not go to some other college)

* related, bu what is the "rank" of the last admitted applicant: how far do they need to reach to fill their spots?
That's like calling a bike shed "civil engineering". I don't know what point you're making with the term "software architecture" other than trying to make it sound burdensome.
I would like to know about this too. Did you find any interesting article?
Woodworking.

It's creative, using my hands, and my mind. It's 1000 miles away from sitting at a desk typing. I wish I had more time to do it, but alas, the sitting down typing thing, pays more. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As a public figure, he'd have to prove malicious intent, and then there is the matter of how much injury he suffered
> > How can Google own the entire ads market and still be allowed to compete in it?

> They don’t. Amazon and Facebook both make a fortune from ads.

Yes, but they own search ads and a large percentage of web ads (though the non-siloed web is becoming less and less relevant each year), and they do everything in their power to put people into their ad funnel.

They control 50% of the mobile OS, 70%+ of the browser monoculture, and nearly 100% of search. They can order sites according to which ones use AdSense or AMP, neuter ad blocking (especially of AdSense), and collect behavior across the web even when website owners don't want it.

They're fucking up an entire set of technologies to further their goals.

That's not monopolistic. That's horrific. I don't think we even have a term to describe this yet, it's so bad.

We're all getting Big Teched.
There are esp8266/esp32 based solutions as well eg: https://hackaday.com/2017/06/17/bbsing-with-the-esp8266/
Apple had no issue with Epic selling crack to your kids... as long as they got their 30% cut: there are no universally good actors here, and deciding your opinions on right and wrong based not on what should have happened but on your general opinions about the parties isn't how any of this should ever work.
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It's reasonably easy for a specific Go release, but the details can and often do change from release to release. At some point we may write a more detailed, general-purpose binary size analysis tool that could dump JSON for bloaty to import, but today that tool does not exist.
>>If a company really cares to follow GAAP to the letter, teams are supposed to estimate how much of their work should be categorized as maintenance or keeping the lights on, and that counts towards OpEx, while development work counts towards CapEx (R&D).

The problem with following US GAAP 350-40-05-1D[1] to the letter is that if you capitalize development costs then you generally should only do this for internally developed software. If you "externally market" said software (which is now a capitalized asset on the balance sheet), which usually means selling to external customers upon which your revenue is then derived, you have to derecognize the capitalized asset before you can record any revenue.

IFRS differs from FASB (US GAAP) in this regard; it's more in line with what you noted. Having said this, since Squarespace is based in the US and subjects themselves to US GAAP, they expense all of their R&D costs. Skimming the S-1 it was interesting to note the $10.6MM in R&D credits for 2020 only (possibly due to the pandemic; not sure).

[1] https://fasb.org/jsp/FASB/Document_C/DocumentPage?cid=117617...
We should compare and contrast to other engagement mediums designed for children; i.e. Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, PBS Kids, Amazon Fire Kid's edition, etc.

For these, excepting PBS I think, monetary motivation is the same. More engagement equals more opportunity to show 'Baby Bottle Pop commercials'.

One major difference is gov't regulation over open airwaves (in America at least). There is no regulation in the app/product domain. Amazon Fire and Instagram are bound to whatever company moderation policies are in place at Amazon and FB (and App store moderation at Apple/Google).
Yep. It's no fun watching other people invent fake money and having it come true. I'll always be jealous that I could have been the one to invent JfengelBucks and somehow get people to accept them.

But I basically view it like any other tech lottery. I knew Sergey Brin in high school and was on the math team with him. I coulda been that guy, but I wasn't. Lots of us were as smart and capable as Mark Zuckerberg, but we weren't Mark Zuckerberg.

People who guessed that BTC would become the next hula hoop... good on ya. I hope you use your profits well and live a good life with 'em.
> Now this is pure speculation but they are not maybe working towards doing away with the gateway and going directly to the moon instead?

You don't assume the humanity doesn't need a Moon orbiting outpost, do you? Insisting that all materials and devices have to go to Moon or Earth with no intermediate point sounds, shall I say, interesting.
More likely the Chinese investors needed a way to evade capital controls in China and this was the vehicle.
The fact that someone acted immorally in one way does not imply that they are incapable of giving any moral advice. By your logic no human being can be trusted as a "moral compass". Just another problem with modern cancel culture - consistently throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
> a number of parents not savvy enough

I’m sure this is probably a thing overall, but I also distinctly remember some extremely tech savvy friends, people making their livings in tech from the 90’s, using iPhone with games and YouTube as an opium stick whenever their 7-10 year olds wouldn’t sit still in public.

They fought about it, so maybe it was a cultural thing, but it definitely wasn’t because they didn’t understand the mechanics of adtech.

I also have super techno-illiterate friends whose teenage son spends maybe an hour a day online.

I don’t pretend to know the parenting solution but my anecdata suggests the tech-savvy parents are not automatically better at this than their less-teched counterparts.
This is cool. Thank you for sharing!

I wanted to add to others suggestions to consider adding more genre-like categories. I realize they aren’t as specific as “world war 2”, etc, but I think you will miss out without the common popular genres there. For example, “best fantasy in 2021” or “best cooking book 2021”, etc, overlap with tons of interests and seem missing. Maybe write down every genre in Amazon search and see how your groupings compare? Just my 2 cents!
Solar panels will drop in effectiveness as they get dusty and dirty. They need to be cleaned periodically.
What we deploy has to work with any reasonable application; we build to the lowest common denominator interface.

People on this thread have a lot of ideas about what they'd do if they got to be the sysadmin for every container running on our fleet.
> These days many kids have cell phones. For better or worse, that's what parents are doing. I don't know why, I'm not a parent and I don't know any children, but I know that as a young kid a cell phone allowed me to walk home alone or with another kid at an early age, so I can imagine justifications.

Our 11-year old travels to school on the train. Last week he set off to school on a day that (thanks to Covid19) he was supposed to be doing "home schooling" (there's a rather crazy timetable, he's got two [different!] days each week in school, three days at week home-schooling). So, we called him on his cell phone : "get off the train as soon as you can, we'll come and pick you up, you need to get back home ASAP"

In the good old days he'd have been blissfully unaware of his(our) mistake until arriving at school, at which point he'd have asked an adult for help, and would (probably) come home by himself.

I'm not convinced that kids carrying cellphones around is a net benefit, but here we are...
R&D = Research and Development. In many orgs product development falls under R&D. That would include all of the people involved in developing the product including engineers, product owners, QA, graphic design, etc.

One tidbit I recall about that is there are often tax grants for business development that include R&D expenditures. So while it often feels weird to think of your primary product as tangental to "research", there are potentially some tax benefits to categorize it as such.
It was a world-wide pre/post test to be sure. I think that most companies will be better off to go back into the offices because the alternative is to carefully think through the work and write a lot of things down.

People would rather talk than write, on average.
Hey, I made a game recently for people to gain an intuition for Kelly: https://beatkelly.celebi.me/ Let me know what you think :)
>This can be used for CP but also for known-bad fake news or inflammatory content.

It worries me that anyone thinks it would be a good idea to have "fake news" and "inflammatory content" blocked at the device level. Obviously cloud providers can do whatever they want (though I doubt it catches any more than the lowest hanging fruit, encrypting then uploading would be uncatchable), but the idea that my device will have a list of disapproved content, and I'll have to appeal to the government to be allowed to view it in case of false positives? The day that becomes a reality freedom will truly be dead.
> boosting the bass artificially

To clarify a bit, I think that, by "artificial", you mean the boost does not correspond to how the human voice actually sounds, which is true.

But in another sense, it's not artificial. It's a natural side effect of the physics of how microphones work. In building microphones to be directional (favor sounds from, say, in front), they've also made it where the amount of bass picked up is heightened when the mic is very close.

So NPR is artificially (with a high-pass filter) removing a natural side-effect (of directional mics) to avoid getting artificial-sounding boomy bass.

Also, this is one of those accidental invention things where what was originally a side effect has turned into a valued, essential feature. Like guitar amp distortion is part of the electric guitar sound. Or like how resonator guitars (Dobro, National) were invented to be louder but now people like the tone.
> I know people don't like the specific decisions python has made recently (me too!), but the process for deprecation and implementation once those decisions are made is at least clear and unambiguous, thanks to backwards compatibility policy adopted in PEP 387, i.e. way back in 2009.

> "Wait for the warning to appear in at least two major Python versions. It's fine to wait more than two releases."

> PEP 563, the one that apparently breaks pydantic, was accepted during Python 3.7. [..] It was eligible for full implementation in 3.9 according to the backward compatibility policy

Can you point me to the warning that was raised in Python 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9? I don't find it on a quick look.
Is there truth to the philosophy that you should sync;sync;sync;sync?
Don’t forget that pretty much all software that touches medical data will have to go through various approval and regulatory processes. Which sometimes take up even more time than actually writing the software. Hence high costs in this industry.
There are kind of two main points by Kelly:

1. Investment returns are multiplicative and should be looked at as a geometric series. To optimize the portfolio, optimize for geometric mean not arithmetic mean.

2. To optimize the geometric mean of some specific games, apply some specific mathematical rules that Kelly derived.

Then 2nd part is not applicable to general market investing. The 1st part is.
If it makes you feel any better, Epic also sued Google; that lawsuit just doesn't get much press, as the narrative surrounding Apple's store is so much easier to attack due to how almost all Android devices technically support sideloading (though as a second-class feature which is actively crippled and discouraged by Google in ways that are maybe anticompetitive).
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More React will solve everything.
> Mostly, the reason kids don't do those things more is exactly because we had the government ban those things for kids.

I completely disagree. We don't allow those things because we know kids shouldn't be doing it. If there were no drinking age laws kids would still not be drinking and smoking weed because parents wouldn't allow it. That was kinda my point. (let's not talk about the outliers, obviously some kids smoke and drink)
"The same reason you can’t put software you want on a Xbox/PlayStation/Switch."

Stop using this argument, its daft and convinces noone.

Furstly, which law or court case actually establishes that those business practices are right and proper?

Secondly, which law or court case establishes that smartphones can be equated with game consoles? There is a huge body of law that governs mobile connectivity, spectrum, emergency services, etc. that has no bearing on a gaming device.
Seems a bit political to be on HN, but we'll see if it stays up.

On this article (which really says very little aside from "we claim that a lot of complaints contain racial bias, therefore the people complaining are wrong and stupid and we don't have to listen to them"), one of the linked articles in this side bar is this one:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/apr/09/tv-panel-shows...

I wonder why working-class white Britons might be a little upset?
Yours is also a very HN comment these days.
>This view of higher education as training students or increasing the socioeconomic prospects of students is fairly new

I’d argue the idea of college being vocational is not very new. The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 was, in part, a way for training people to better integrate into a more industrialized economy.

“to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.”

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/7/304
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Cool! How is this different from other HN apps? I think there is room to innovate here — I have an iPhone and iPad, and I check HN many times daily. But after trying several apps, I always go back to the web.

I haven't found one that makes it intuitive/easy to comment, upvote, downvote, collapse/expand, and search. UI improvements like dark mode are certainly a plus also!
I expected NASA to choose 2 providers. I would have done that if I were in their shoes.

Instead, they choose SpaceX alone.

This also gives them major cash infusion for their Starship development program, which their Lunar lander will be based on. Basically, Lunar lander is a modified Starship designed to land on the Moon.
Just because something sounds silly doesn't mean you should just dismiss it right away, cynicism doesn't really help.
> You’re going to have a really hard time defining what’s “fair” for a black box algorithm to do.

To which the two biggest counter-arguments are:

1. “So don’t allow black box algorithms”

2. “This is why the search engine company should be separate from the company which owns all the other products”
(2) is what we do, modulo that we don't run dnsmasq. (We slip our DNS configuration in via our init).

I'm not persuaded by appeals to what DNS was or wasn't built for (unfortunately neither is the IETF; to wit: DNSSEC). I agree with you that the ask here is big! But I'm not convinced there isn't a cleaner solution that works within our constraints.
You turn on autopilot by pressing the stalk twice, there is 0 interaction with the touch screen for that purpose.
One reason that comes to mind is that it would be a totally new use case for Dragon capsules. SpaceX had originally planned them to use propulsive landing on return to Earth, but abandoned that plan in lieu of more traditional water landing returns. To land on the moon (and Mars) they will need to pick up where they left off and continue with the propulsive landing plans, albeit in a much lower gravity environment.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/07/19/propulsive-landings-ni...
Respectfully, if you think lane centering plus adaptive cruise control is ‘basically the same’ as Tesla autopilot, you should look into a little more.

Lane centering does not allow you you totally take you hands off the wheel and let the car drive itself. It’s just a small assist to help once you’ve almost already crossed into someone else’s lane. To be fair, autopilot is not supposed to be totally hands off, you’re supposed to still touch lightly touch the wheel every few seconds. You still need to monitor it.

Adaptive cruise control is pretty nice, but only useful on high speed highways.

They aren’t even comparable really. The Tesla is truly driving itself, while the other is just an assist in case you mess up. Also Tesla is beta testing the next version of autopilot that can drive in cities, and obey traffic signals.

But, we are rapidly approaching a time where lane assist & adaptive cruise are becoming ’standard’ on most vehicles and I think that’s great.
I'm familiar with several of the pre-tesla lane keeping systems. They were terrible and were notirous for a bit of pinging between the lines. They couldn't see the edges and their algorithms lead to back and forth trying to keep in the lane. Tesla doesn't do that, it's smooth, follows the curve. There could have been a decent one. Lane following is just the smallest thing. It's different than lane departure warnings of course.
I saw a fun debugging issue the other day on r/lisp that almost made me want to walk away from lisp for good.

You have a function
(defun my-val () "a string")

Referentially transparent, easy to reason about right? Wrong. Lisp strings are mutable, and everything is a reference. So if you do something like this

(replace (my-val) "b" :start1 0 :end1 1)

(my-val) => "b string"

I appreciate that CL doesn't force everything to be immutable, but it seems like at least strings would benefit from being treated as immutable values.
> You can't transfer your site away

From an investment perspective, that's a pretty big positive. High switching costs locks existing customers in.
I agree it's too low, but any higher age would be "bad for business"
Furthermore, is it really up to a book review site to solve the problem of identity and anonymity on the Internet? Seems like the wrong place in the stack to focus on that.
Scientists create mechanism to precisely control soundwaves in metamaterials
I think what might be interesting is like two-sided louvers over your roof. black on one side, white on the other.

Flip from one side to the other to help maintain temperature by absorbing or reflecting sunlight.
If it possibly might end badly, it must never happen out of lab. One can't even predict how it could end up. Low gains, gigantic risks for everyone and everything living nearby.

This is an act of eco-terrorism done by corporations. It shouldn't be treated better than oil spilling.