skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roku is actually more heavy handed than Apple. Apple allows any streaming provider to be on the AppleTV without making any kind of deal or negotiation.

No, streaming providers do not have to give Apple a cut. They can force you to pay on their website. You can not pay for Hulu Live, Youtube Live TV, Netflix or many others through the App Store.
Btw, for people who aren't living paycheck-to-paycheck, the interest accrual isn't the real issue to worry about. Imagine: if you spend $300 in a month, and miss your payment by a whole month once in a while, even at a crazy 20% APR, you'll have to pay $5. Unless you only have a few dollars to your name, it's probably not going to suddenly break you.

The real issue, I think, is the impact on your credit history for missing a payment entirely, i.e. not paying the minimum amount due. Even if it's $1, you need to pay all of it. That's the real penalty to worry about.
Although it sounds like you aren't immune to big tech riffs by using a roku, as this article shows.
See this comment a lot, and it's wrong on so many levels.

1. No, this is not a "cyclical perturbation", unless your cycles are long enough to include mega impact events like the ones that killed the dinosaurs[1]. The last time methane levels were this high, it was at least 800,000 years ago. The last time CO2 levels were this high was 3 million years ago. Guess what. The Earth was 2 to 3 degrees Celsius hotter back then than now. That means that parts of the Earth that are currently inhabited by hundreds of millions to billions of people will become uninhabitable.

2. Humans have never existed under the climactic regime that we are unleashing. Humans evolved over the last 400,000 years through a period of glaciation in a little cuccoon in Africa.

3. Civilization has never existed under any climactic regime other than the warm inter-glacial period from about 12,000 years ago when agriculture was first developed. Before that, it was a looong ice age that almost killed humans off completely. Before us, Earth was cyclical between glacial and interglacial periods about every 100,000 years. That cycle is now pretty much obliterated by what we did in the past 150 years.

4. Changes in CO2 concentration change have generally been very slow over Earth's history, on the order of thousands or tens of thousands of years. Such an abrupt CO2 concentration change is generally not seen short of massive volcanic activity or a planet-killer asteroid like the one that killed the dinosaurs and the majority of animal species 65 million years ago. Abrupt climate change means mass extinction for life on Earth. Buckle up, lots of shit is going to die and whole regions will turn to desert. Earth probably will not support our food production systems. Lots of us are going to die, too.

5. There has never been anything remotely like a CO2 "cycle" in Earth's climate history. There is no mechanism nor natural variation that causes CO2 to just go up and down in cycles that are predictable. If you want to educate yourself with some Science, here's a reconstruction of Co2 for the past 550 million years: http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange2/07_1...

If you can spot the cycle, I'm sure they'll award you an honorary doctorate in planetary Science, and you'll be hella famous.

[1] It's a stretch to call meteor impacts cyclical; they follow a power law distribution and are random enough that they hit about as regularly as rolling the dice. When the universe hits a hard 9, we take a beating.
And the relief when you see your name is nowhere near the defect.
I'm honestly curious why this isn't a problem in the UK. What are we missing?
If you are having difficulty navigating a project because it has many modules, I really don't think that is an argument for disavowing whatever best practices. Rather, it is more of an argument against whomever organized the code base in a way that they like and you don't.
Agreed, it’s a weird flex
Cpu registers are cache for...
https://archive.is/aUkmm
I did this and once they made me read it out: “three-four-echo-alpha-two-zulu…” At the end, I felt like I just gave them the world’s longest taxi clearance.
Hang on are you suggesting Port Arthur was a a 'false flag' operation?
If that is what you are saying? I have to ask whether you have done sufficient investigation to make such a claim. It is a statement that has potential to deeply offend and hurt, shouldn't be said lightly without robust evidence. I think you're seriously over estimating the organisational capacity of the Australian government and intelligence services (if you want to see the abysmal record of the Australian Intelligence services, look up hilton hotel bombing) and seeing shadows of the US political landscape in the Australian landscape - they aren't the same. The government in power in Australia at the time was conservative, and they did not want to introduce gun control. We don't have the same gun culture here, in a large part because right or wrong people don't believe the government has the competency and capability to pull off tyranny.
Top 150 is a weird stat to quote, as if you were trying to make your city (or town) seem larger than it is.

Assuming you mean the US, the 150th-largest city is Salem, Oregon, which has 174K people. [1] If that's the size of your city, and it's not in a part of the country that tends to buy Teslas, I'm slightly impressed that you have even have one supercharger.

[1] https://www.biggestuscities.com/
she didn't say them about 'her school' though, she expressed the sentiment of 'fuck school' which is pretty much as vague and general as possible. should your employer have grounds to fire you if you, in a private conversation, express dissatisfaction with the concept of 'work'?
I mean, anonymous handles and no in-person (or zoom) chat might make that sorta possible, but you can’t get around the problem.

The real issue is that this is only a problem in one direction: nobody complains when someone says “my wife,” and some people definitely complain when someone says “my husband”.

It definitely gets made about sex, and gay sex specifically, by the people making the complaint. They’re the ones making it about sex and not leaving it alone as a conversation about one’s spouse.
Just to comment on the math (not the actual numbers):

624k/1M is the expected number of serious accidents.

The probability of getting into at least one serious accident is 1 - (999999/1000000)^624000 = 46% (Every mile, you have a 99,9999% chance of no serious accident. You want that 624k times in a row).
I find there are mixed incentives. An evil paid dating site might try scammy things to get you to sign up. Some site I tried did this. Free to sign up and immediately got "too good to be true" matches that you could only access if you paid. But conversely, free sites I get lots clear predators either only looking for sex or scammers trying to get money. OTOH my experience on an actual paid site ($150-$400 a year) no free sign up, is that nearly everyone is seriously looking for long term relationship.
Interesting list of seafarers abandoned at sea, usually to to legal or contractual obligations.

This includes the case of Mohammed Aisha[0] who was stuck on board a boat deemed unseaworthy by the Egyptian government and stuck anchored off the Suez Canal. He forced to live aboard the ship alone for 4 years without pay, swimming to shore every few days for supplies. There is an interesting video on his situation[1]

[0] https://www.ilo.org/dyn/seafarers/seafarersbrowse.details?p_...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fddCfXvrw-0
Well, rent an ICE for your grand romantic road trip then.
No, not really. That died out rather quickly, as did singling “Happy Birthday” while washing one’s hands.
I used it several years ago to create deep links to a list of audio files on the homepage of a site I built. By default the controls were hidden, but if you clicked one of the titles in the list it would show the controls and update the url so you could share a link to that specific item with no JS required.
Some tough news to share (Patreon layoffs 36)
I think most technically do that here, the transponder is more as a backup. With one exception— the DFW airport will only read NTTA tolltags for some reason last I heard.

There’s also some interoperability- my Texas TollTag works in Oklahoma and one or two other states so it’s all consolidated with the lower rate. Those with TollTag accounts pay a lower rate on toll roads as it acts more like a gift card than a bill, it just autoreloads each time your balance gets low.

Another cool thing is that some parking garages can read your TollTag if you let them to open the gate for you. It doesn’t bill you, it just acts as an access card if you have a standing agreement with the garage owner (you can see this at UT Austin for permit holders).
That's why I went all in on Rokus. But then there was a new tiff between Roku and WB/HBO. Can't win, I guess. Now I've got AppleTV and Rokus.
Definitely a thing in the UK : http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/onlyfools/lingo/
From the article linked within your article

"A deal was done with India to supply 10 million doses. But it was always made clear the exact date of shipment could not be absolutely guaranteed."

I'm sorry did you put that comment for yourself as a reminder?
As analogical waves don't have a concept of samples, I'm not sure what your point is?
Elon has said many times they would use Lidar if they thought it was needed / beneficial. In fact he and the SpaceX team designed a Lidar into the Dragon spacecraft to help it dock with the ISS (which is obviously a HIGHLY sensitive operation with extremely strict rules), and he said it was perfect for that scenario.

He was asked point blank if they would use Lidar as Tesla even if they were free... and he said no. In their opinion it's simply not the right approach to generate photons and read them as they come back. It's preferable to simply read the photons that are already coming in.
Interesting; working at a company with a fairly high degree of psychological safety there is almost no heavy political fighting on Slack or other communication channels (except for the odd comment here or there). There is a high degree of focus on completing actual work and a level of professional behaviour that arguments like these would be very out of place. This is probably due to the size of the org; maybe with more people there would be higher levels of discussion overall and therefore more political chitchat; but I couldn't see it devolving into the bowels of Twitter...

I feel like a productive and healthy work culture basically eliminates the toxic discourse that can run rampant on Slack (I've seen it before; it led to the organisation banning Slack entirely!) and by having a safe workplace you wouldn't even need to mandate the removal of political or societal discussion.

To me this signals that there is a wider problem within the organisation and I'm not sure banning anything will change it.
There are some, according to Elon's response to this tweet: https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1340846145929670656
Oh wow schtum is German? I just assumed it was English. You learn something new every day. Ersatz is a good one, I gotta use that. Thanks for sharing :)
OP could be in Europe. German premium cars are a lot cheaper to maintain there (still more than a Toyota though), and somehow seem to have less issues than the US.
Actually recently Urban SC development has seemed to come to almost a halt. Even in Urban settings it seems they much prefer to just put in the V3 cabinets with the 250kW max pedestals.
It would cost more than ICE, but less than a full EV since the battery is smaller. It can be more environmentally friendly if it means getting more aggregate EV miles driven by everyone, since the battery in one Tesla could be used to build four PHEVs.

The Prius is one of the most reliable cars on the market. This whole EV = less complex = more reliable idea is way overrated by the EV community.
Roku strong arms content providers all the time. Apple ID much more neutral when it comes to content providers. No, Apple does not force content providers to pay through the App Store.

Roku forced HBO Max to make a deal.

https://www.cnet.com/news/roku-hbo-max-finally-strike-deal-s...

Roku strong arms Fox

https://www.techhive.com/article/3519910/roku-fox-and-the-th...

NBCUniversal Peacock

https://awfulannouncing.com/nbc/nbcuniversal-threatens-pull-...
You do it to understand the problem you're working on before you start writing production code. If you understand the problem you're working on, there's no need for prototyping, which is probably true for most code an average programmer writes. I tend to write prototype code to learn how something new works before writing production code, or when I have multiple ideas how a system should work and need to iterate on them and pick what I should actually ship. If you know you need to build a specific feature and how it should work you don't have to prototype it.
Neat, thanks! So nearly a 1 in 2 chance of getting into a serious accident in a lifetime. Not great odds IMO.
One can object to a proposed solution to a problem without contributing to the problem or being part of the problem.

Opposing the explicit carve out of 25% of a recruiting pipeline specifically for HBCU candidates, for example, does not imply one is racist.
It's also the same month that Lambda School was launched⁽¹⁾, and there's no doubt re. Allred's prior interest in gaming Twitter⁽²⁾.

[1] https://twitter.com/calebhicks/status/1093885962059272193

[2] https://medium.com/user-acquisition-for-hackers/exploiting-t...
I wrote my website (where clients could hire me as a 3d artist back in 2008) I had zero experience with php. I liked the idea of using include("page.php") to insert part of a page into a "layout". I remember my friend (who was a better programmer than me at the time) telling me to not use $_GET["page"] with include, so people could not include unexpected pages via URL. I was like, yeah, that's kinda obvious. I feel the same way about sql queries.
AppleTV+ is everywhere - including on Roku.
> Conflating these things is a favorite straw man of people who simply feel scared and angry that they don't always get to be jerks with zero social or career implications (try going around saying you are a satanist and see how that affects your career, this isn't a new thing, just people are whining about it more loudly lately). They are very much not the same.

I find it hard to believe that the anti cancelation argument is purely made by evil jerks (e.g. I don't consider lex to be a jerk). You don't think it's easier now than ever before to be 'canceled' by a social media mob? Don't there have to be some negative consequences to allowing for permanent cancelations? By all means, people that do extremely horrible things should be shunned but how and where does the line get drawn for the more mediocre offenses? Also, people are fallible, they screw up and make mistakes. Do they have a right to make amends and be forgiven for dumb things they did in the past?

It almost seems like it's trending towards a crowd sourced social credit system similar to what the CCP implemented.

I am not on the left or right, but shouting social media mobs with pitch forks doesn't seem like the best way to achieve internet 'justice'.
Wouldn't it be the reverse? If we're killing off the viruses that cause dangerous symptoms, wouldn't there be selective pressure towards less dangerous symptoms?
Thanks for bringing this up. I am actually very excited about these features, but they are still not quite available for most of us Java devs yet. The LTS version that contains them doesn't release until September, and it will take months (if not years) for many shops to upgrade.

My critique was more targeted to the Java of the time period this article was written in (2014), but these new additions are another point for the "Just write it in Java" folks.
It’s not just waste barrels. The same sort of thing happens with oil tankers when the front falls off

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
But not if that involves gay husbands or racist police or housing policy. (And since housing is Topic #1 in SV that might prove a bit difficult.) Only the weather, who you saw dining together at the yacht club, and ... IDK. You can't even have a good old vim/emacs at Basecamp.
> I'm not sure what motivates this.

Privilege and meta-privilege, mainly, and the underlying assumption this privilege engenders that the poor are morally or mentally deficient.

An example: there was an article posted on hn recently titled (and I'm paraphrasing here) "How to be rich". To utilise this advice one had to be already financially comfortable, with safety nets and backups and whatever to begin with, and, from this position of comfort, to rationally accept and take large risks. The article carried with it the implication that, now that you have the advice in your hands, only the willfully stupid or lazy will remain poor.

So, in the end, a) one feels judged, b) one has wasted one's time on an article/video/etc that c) promised and failed to relieve the crushing stress burden and mental load that poverty brings.

Being poor, particularly during your formative years, carries with it a debt that is never paid. If you are poor and have issues with health (physical and mental) you are very, very unlikely to ever be rich in any objective sense. Being poor affects your patterns of thought, your behaviours, your language, and your culture. But the worst of it is that poverty robs you of the opportunity to do things like "move fast and break things" that folk on hn seem to think is so simple and easy. If you are poor, you only get one roll of the die.
I didn’t realize I didn’t want myself to exist.

I certainly didn’t realize I wanted to take all my own rights away.
While the house may have a 100amp setup, the actual utility from the pole is probably capable of 200amps. Changing out your main breaker to 200amp is not that hard but may cost you an additional ~$1,000 for parts and labor.
Corporations vs the people who actually made the decision.
In my experience working for a US subsidiary of a Japanese company, there's very little "push back" by underlings. That's simply not part of the culture.

As for peers, rather than underlings, the key word is consensus. Which is only achieved after endless months of interminable meetings during the day and interminable socializing during the evening. Maybe they finally reach consensus because they're worn out by all the discussion?

I hate touchscreens on the dash of moving cars. This interface is (perhaps?) worse, since the guy was making mistakes even in a stopped vehicle. But it would be interesting to try to use the interface while moving. One's hand is probably more stable down low, resting on the console, rather than extended out in space reaching for a touchscreen?

Either way, the interface is much worse than physical buttons on a console or dash.
I did exactly this recently at work. I had a feature set I've been wanting to add to the customer service portal but very little time approved so we built a part of it using very little dev time. The feature was very popular and well used. Everyone wanted it expanded to do more (basically a task system which saves people from ad hoc management of various tasks). Before too long, the full version was approved and was built in very short order because of lessons learned with the mvp.
Ha. I'm trying to convince people to delete flags that were released in 2015.
Arguments in Favor of Patents Are Rooted in Economic Misunderstanding
Yes, it's my phone since 2017 and I happy with that. I will use it until EoL.
> Considering DDT was banned in 1972...

DDT was not banned in the US in 1972. The use of DDT in agricultural applications was banned in the US in 1972. As far as I know, it's still legal to manufacture and still legal to use for mosquito control.
I wish there were a language that I could use for both prototyping and production, but Go isn't it.

Although I have been considering using it for production, it's not what I need in a prototyping language at all.
PHP has supported SQL parameter binding for at least 17 years now. It's the standard way to execute SQL queries and it replaces any usage of mysql_escape() or related functions.

It seems your criticism towards PHP is the use of legacy code which is kept for backwards compatibility.

No sane person in the industry writes code like that. Those who do would have had concatenated user input to SQL queries in any language anyway be it Java, C# or whatever fancies your boat.

https://phptherightway.com/#databases

In my view, PHP most glaring problem is the often outdated negative image it carries outside its industry. But that's to be expected when a technology is 25 years old while striving for backwards compatibility.
It’s not a problem anywhere, it was just an excuse for a handout to the financial industry in 2005.
Uber Eats subtracts a penny if you get the exact minimum for free delivery
Not a good idea. That is not a good idea of you let anybody in a management role see your prototype.

It will be the product. They will start selling it straight away. If there are any problems, you, my dear young and foolish friend, will be the one at fault. It is your wonderful self that will staying up all hours desperately trying to fix the problems.

Otherwise peachy!
"Just ignore the lidar in situations where lidar and vision conflict and you have the original decision."

Then why have lidar? If it's only purpose is to agree with vision or you just discard it, then why even have it?
That was the great mistake by the car manufacturers. Look at how popular the RAV 4 Prime is now, they can't make them fast enough and it's selling for higher than MSRP due to demand. They just needed to put this in SUVs and trucks and it would've been very popular. People like driving SUVs and trucks, but they also don't like the low MPG and huge gas tanks. If they could do most of their short/medium trips (groceries, school, work commute) on pure EV and not use a drop of gas and still use this large comfortable SUV for road trips? It would be very very popular with the right marketing.
https://sci-hub.se/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.10...

This seems relevant to that thought, I think.

> Microbial degradation of DDT and its residues—A review
> Looks innocuous, but I guess past behaviour from this group left enough of a bad taste for Greg KH to be suspicious.

The idea of the kind of research they previously did is to submit patch requests with some kind of trick or hidden agenda first, then do some analysis of the results, and then later on publish a paper explaining what they did.

Now here they are again submitting a weird looking and seemingly poorly conceived patch. Who knows what they're really doing? Perhaps they're working on some kind of new paper, with who know what purpose. Maybe they'd find out in 6 months. Maybe it's a failed line of research similar to the previous ones which they won't actually publish. Or maybe they just have no idea what they're doing. Either way, it seems like a waste of time at best. The mass ban and revert sounds like an appropriate move.
That is a net benefit to the company and employees. The DEI committees I've seen are filled with some of the most viciously aggressive people. It's simply not possible to have a conversation with them about these issues that doesn't start with "you're right, I'll shut up and listen to you tell us how we should fix things."
Which phases did the vaccine go through?
This is how industrial capitalism is profitable: by socializing the cost of its pollution. If chemical companies had to pay for their damage they wouldn’t exist