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Excalidraw is horrible for this purpose! Don't use it!

There are at least 2 huge issues.

1. The biggest issue, it does not propagate selections so the interviewee selects something to highlight what they are talking about but doesn't realize that the indication the object is selected does not appear on the interviewer's version of the document. It makes talking about your diagram nearly impossible.

Google Slides doesn't have this problem

https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/3314

2. Excalidraw has this horrible design where placing a shape actually places 2 objects, a shape object and a text object. You type some text and then try to move the "labeled object" and only one of them moves. This is different than every drawing program in existence for the last ~35 years and is a bad UX

I'd even argue the whole concept is bad. You ask some dev to interview and expect them to use unfamiliar illustration software where while they're interviewing they get to struggle with learning new quirky software.
Why A.I. Moonshots Miss
I thought this was a joke too. I got a kick out of the idea of some high schooler or college freshman’s satire causing a bunch of parents to force their kids to remove flash in 2001 because its a “computer hacking tool”.

The other stuff like “you can’t remove Linux without damaging the hard drive” and that you have to send it back to the manufacturer to be replaced just seems so cheeky...
Software had the promise of massively decentralizing business; anyone with a computer and a bit of knowledge could start hacking away at a new product. It is a bit sad to see big tech becoming a way of even more centralization of power. I guess it had the potential for either; individuals being able to easily capitalize on it, or businesses being able to replicate infinitely and have huge margins from very little input capital. But maybe both are happening at the same time. A double edged sword, like so many other things.
Task-Agnostic Bert Distillation Efficiency by Reusing Teacher Model Parameters
Big Tech got so big because of Intellectual Slavery laws. That is the gravity here.
Ads aren't just intrusive, they're a manipulative dark pattern
Thanks for the example!

Wouldn't "piatto di brodo di pollo" translate to "a bowl of soup of chicken", as a more unnatural English sentence?

Greek is similar in that respect and I catch myself sometimes lapsing into such more micro-managed speaking, and I also noticed it in other Greeks (perhaps a few Italians also).
A while ago I gave stadia a try figuring it was a netflix kind of service in which you pay a monthly fee for all the content. Turns out that in addition to that, you are supposed to actually purchase the games.

Taken into account of google constantly pulling the plug on their services, that's not something I'm willing to do, so I cancelled my subscription.
Where I was brought up, I was taught how to estimate/measure meters in steps when in school, so everyone had a specific gait that measures a meter. 100 of those steps ~= 100 meters. No phone needed :)
The root of it, I think, is that mined diamonds are the standard for engagement rings. Culturally, having a mined diamond is (for many/most Americans) table stakes for what an engagement ring should be.

Getting a lab grown diamond or an alternative stone for your girlfriend can feel like you chose saving money or your personal views on diamond ethics over getting her something that meets those table stakes. It doesn't matter if it's technically superior (I rarely hear people discuss the quality of their diamonds anyway, beyond weight occasionally). What does matter is that you chose to give her something different than the standard, and the ring will always feel like it has a little asterisk on it marking this.
Please don't hijack the conversation to whinge about political correctness.
I can't tell if this was legit fear, outright propaganda or satire. Having had a computer in my life since the age of 8, this seems like one hilarious cliche on top of another, the kind of thing you'd expect to see as an ad playing in the background of the 1995 cult classic: Hackers :D
Why don't you like expect? It feels pretty natural to me.

foo.expect("already validated")
What saddens me is the intellectual waste the study and interpretation of these laws creates. There’s an entire generation with a normal distribution of potential and intelligence, and above average in work ethic - and they are arguing obscure religious laws in a yeshiva for their whole life. What a waste.
Have you considered moving them a few meters into France? Maybe your friend can squeeze in a Belgian living room, too.
I'm guessing following an enormous plume of smoke might not be a challenge.
Ask HN: How can I sell an idea to a FAANG company?
I recently had an epiphany which, IMHO, would be a very attractive business which complements at least four of the FAANG companies.

Does anyone have any advice on how I could possibly sell them on the idea? My primary goal is to get hired as the product manager for this new business.

How would I go about exploring this possibility within these huge companies?
Not good , Elon !
Oh, that’s nothing! Look up Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau on the Belgian-Dutch border.

During the beginning of the pandemic, it brought about some truly bizarre situations: https://www.thebulletin.be/coronavirus-store-dutch-border-ha...
Emacs yank. If you're familiar with Emacs or Vi then you might already know some shortcuts.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85390/what-is-meant...
AWS Partners with New Relic to Contribute to Pixie OSS
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> and that you have to send it back to the manufacturer to be replaced just seems so cheeky...

This reads to me like some scripted item a jaded customer service representative reads to a computer-illiterate customer complaining about something on their computer, who of course believes it.
> The Adequacy authors began as trolls on Slashdot and Kuro5hin, other technology-oriented discussion sites.

It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying.
I’ve long thought that ending distribution of a copyrighted work should start a short (2-3 year) counter before the copyright on the original becomes unenforceable.

That should include ending distribution of unmodified versions of works.

(Han shot first!)

Alternatively, we could just move to a mandatory licensing regime. That would immediately commoditize the streaming services, so each one could carry all programs (as it was back in the days of VHS and DVD rentals).
Show HN: TDD Bottom-up vs. Top-down by examples
Those combinations are indeed quite common in Belgium. Another example: myself :-p (Sébastien Doeraene).
Sounds like that android box a few years back. I forget the name, they kick started a crazy amount of money. Promised so much. Right before shipping it out they change it to require a credit card and too much info to turn the thing on. Ended up in the bin.
I think it's a testament to firefox wanting to provide a better experience for the web.
GPT-3 is the editor. The hard part of writing is getting a decent idea onto the page. GPT-3 can't do that, it doesn't think for itself. It is good at the second part of writing, creating a coherent string of sentences describing an idea. But since GPT-3 doesn't have decent ideas, the final product doesn't end up being interesting either. The most interesting use cases for GPT-3 involve pairing it with a human who will contribute the actual thinking to the project, with GPT being there to come up with interesting turns of phrase and nice conjoining sentences. Having an AI in the driver seat is still a long way off.
What will happen to all the "purchases" people made?

My immediate thought when Stadia was announced was "I'm never buying games at full price from Google if they are dependent on a service not being cancelled"
Not an expert, but I did recently upgrade the pickups in an older guitar. I learned that not all pickups are wired to the guitar the same way. Seymour Duncan HotRails had to be connected differently than Seymour Duncan VintageRails, for example. This would be a complicating factor to any hot-swapping system.
I believe the reason why Indonesia does not list atheism in government forms is because in most Shariah influenced jurisdictions, atheism would amount to apostasy and hence be deemed a crime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_athei...
It's free to use for games you purchase. The membership comes with a bunch of free games and discounts for purchases.
Portraying widely held opinions as propaganda is quite counter-productive, bordering on denial. Given that you provide no reasoning one way or another, I cannot say more about your personal views, but...

Denying Python's simplicity is surprising. Clarity of syntax, avoiding superfluous tokens, and ordering of code in speak-order are a few of the reason for it's simplicity. Interestingly, Python fails at syntax clarity exactly where it adopts functional-style construct: list-comprehension for example.

Like it or not, a language, like Lisp, which insist on polish notation is just unnatural, at least for most western speakers. (I don't know any spoken language that would map to placing verbs first in a sentence.)
Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud.

The Google unit, which sells computing services to big companies, is under pressure from top management to pass Amazon or Microsoft — currently first and second, respectively, in cloud market share — or risk losing funding.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260
> Competitors are going to find it increasingly difficult to create products that can compete with Apple's tech stack on a technological basis.

No one is stopping anyone (outside of US economic sanctions) from getting an ARM architectural license and designing their own CPUs to compete with Apple. There are countless vendors to choose from if you don't have the experience to do yourself, there are IP cores for everything from battery management over memory to AI available on the market.

The problem is that, rather than go the expensive Apple route, most seem to be content to pay top dollar to Qualcomm (or for lower classes, Mediatek) and get buggy hardware and BSPs in return, instead of pushing Qualcomm to deliver better quality.

And for what it's worth, there are serious competitors to every Apple product. There have been Windows laptops with 32 and 64 GB of RAM years before Apple finally updated their line. Samsung puts up a diverse lineup of phones and tablets that definitely compete with iDevices. Sony has AirPod clones (admittedly they're bulkier, but have more selection in earbuds). There are a number of Apple TV competitors - Roku, Amazon's TV stick, Chromecast to name the most popular ones.
It is not lost, just a little more dilute than usual, and the gunk is not the end product, just a step in between. It is like prematurely harvesting grass. You get shorter stalks, and some extra work, that is all.
Interesting, Wired does the same thing. Must be a Condé Nast thing.
I wonder what the eradication program entailed.
Yes. I will show a show hn post when I get it all running
CFF is faster and cheaper because it is built natively into CF (vs. using Lambda) and sits at AWS Edge Locations instead of the AWS Regions. IMO, the UI is more intuitive and developer friendly as well.
The original Super Mario Bros sold ~40 million copies, excluding all the re-releases. It’s not a rare game at all. You can buy the cartridges on eBay for less than $10. Complete in box versions for a few hundred at most.

The only thing rare about this big sale is that it’s sealed in the box in perfect condition. All that extra money just for packaging material. Collectors are truly weird.
The biggest battle is public schools, which are about as intrinsically authoritarian as can be. When schools reopen, then barring drastic measures (which by definition most people won't take), people are forced to send their kids back.
What level are you at that you have to stay forever at your current place to get a promotion but aren’t able to afford a place closer to work? If you’re trying to go from E8 to E9 (or vp to president/CTO), I’d understand but at those levels you should be clearing nearly 1mil/yr or well past it. If you’re below that, you could easily switch workplaces and likely get a lot of money.

Maybe joining a startup on the hyper growth track would be good financial returns. Only need one of those to do well to buy the house with cash at your likely experience range and the compensation they would be rewarding you.
This looks really good, in particular the method used and resulting output seems great. Unlike Flutter Web, Jetpack seems to output reasonable HTML(which will result in better accessibilty). In particular I loved this:

They try to approximate the behavior of the canvas-based implementations used in the other Jetpack Compose targets. Under the hood, they recreate the look and feel of the components on top of the DOM, under the constraints of the browser layout engine.

This seems to recognise that you'll not get a pixel perfect result, but that's okay because the web isn't a blank canvas.
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Have you actually tried it? I didn't really notice any lag at all. I believe the Stadia controller connects directly to WiFi to skip the hop on whatever you happen to be playing on and reduce latency. Was actually pretty surprised.
Yes, but in some of those cases, the borders have been set while the water hasn’t.

Like this hilarity:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.1205633,-89.1155927,15z
> These are examples of YouTube following copyright laws imperfectly, which is basically guaranteed to happen on a regular basis at their scale

Given their entire copyright takedown system is (in)famously entirely automated, I would have thought it would be trivial for it to always follow copyright laws to the letter.. if they wanted it to.
Stadia's death doesn't mean the death of game streaming. There's other competition in that area on the market (GeForce Now, XCloud, PS Now), and unfortunately it seems pretty much inevitable at this point (as much as I also hate the idea of it)

But I can at least say I'm glad Google isn't getting a foothold in yet another area of technology
It looks like the farmer's land spreads across the border. How is that possible? Or at the very least his land goes all the way to the border line. Either way, in today's age when the line can digitally recorded, why do we need the stone? Both countries know where the line goes through. Could they not just ignore that one stone and let the farmer do his work? I was hoping they would just ignore it, instead I see that he has to put it back, else face criminal charges too.
Most of the people in Europe are war-weary since wars have been had in their front-yard, as compared to some other countries who only fight on foreign soil but still seem aggressive. So I would think it's easier to keep peace with your neighbors.
Have you used it recently? People are definitely blowing the whole input lag thing out of proportion. Sure it might not hold up if you're a competitive gamer, but for the leisure gamer it's definitely not noticeable assuming you have a decent internet connection.
I tend to agree with the down thread sentiment that to some greater or lesser degree both masking and non-masking are political sentiments as much as anything.

What I wonder about is how that came to be - and how that outcome can be avoided in the future.

I can see why this happens if there's a policy that helps some and hurts others to greater and lesser degrees; so people might support or oppose it.

Other policies have a snowball like quality about them - where once some amount of support or opposition arises they attract more of the same because of coalition logic. I support X and Z because I care about them. I support Y because the supporters and Y also care about X and Z.

The first case is reasonable enough but the second one is toxic; not just because people will go against their interests (not in the sense of things that are good for them but things that they do not support) but because no one will ever admit to others and generally not to themselves about just why they support a policy.
Would love to hear more options in that bottom left box with differential dataflow et al, because for me that's where all the really interesting work is happening.
> I have an utterly ridiculous name that has been made fun of my whole life.

I'm sorry to hear that! That sucks.

> If you think this is a path to genocide then you are just fucking dumb.

I think it's more complicated than just "if a name being mocked, then it is a step on the path to genocide". I would suspect that it is true that for every genocide that has been committed, steps to dehumanize and otherize the target group have first taken place.

So, I would argue that mocking names is a _necessary_, but not _sufficient_ condition of a genocide. But, again, that doesn't mean that _every_ instance of a name being mocked fits the context of dehumanizing and otherizing.

If you carefully read my comment, you can see that I make a pretty qualified statement: "Making fun of names because they are foreign or different? It's a step on the path, yes".

> ...you are just fucking dumb.

I don't know why you've taken such an unnecessary rude and antagonistic tone to make your argument. It does _nothing_ to convince me that I might be mistaken. It does nothing to advance the discussion or argument.

I hope you treat others better in the future.
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Where do you draw the line between marketing vs flat out lies? There's a conflict of interest between consumer and sales person.

I just tire of the subterfuge.
Ah, "Antifragile" done quick? Nice.

Even shorter: there's no single absolute optimum; if you optimize for efficiency, you lose in other areas. But if you optimize in other areas, you lose in efficiency, of course. Everything in real life is a compromise.
> macros are bolted on

As I understand it, macro is at a metalanguage level above the current code (eg. C macros vs C "normal" codes). In lisp, this metalanguage is in lisp forms, and thus it is parsed by ... the very same lisp parser for the code. Therefore the whole language is available to you at this meta level, and for all the meta levels above this meta level (ie. for macros that build other macros), so it's lisp all the way up.

I am not sure why you see it as "bolted-on".
They've killed off their in house game studio.

The VP of Stadia is leaving.

They recently (a few months ago before killing their studio) had a major "Sign up for stadia trial to get a free stadia controller and chromecast ultra" deal.

Sounds a lot like inventory liquidation, flagging adoption and them giving up.

It can take years to be an overnight success but they seem to have lost that vision.
My understanding is that the vast majority of these M&A destroy capital. The reason to own dividend stocks is not because they pay dividends but because they don't have tons of cash lying around to spend on low value projects or M&A.

It would be a lot more insightful to discuss the aquisitions that have a known positive impact. The truth is probably that each company had just a few very important acquisitions (that should be more closely scrutinized).

Our current tax laws make vertical integration or even conglomerates more tax efficient. Greater scrutiny of anti-competitive mergers is needed, but we should also make separate companies just as tax efficient (VAT tax, etc) and otherwise closely examine how we can change economic incentives here.
I find it ironic that many people in this thread are extolling the virtues of lab grown diamonds, as they are nearly indistinguishable from natural ones and cost around 50% less. But they still cost quite a bit, whereas cubic zirconia is also nearly indistinguishable to the naked untrained eye and cost a tiny fraction of that cost.

Those who see value in a synthetic diamond over a CZ should also see the value some perceive in a natural diamond over a synthetic. And those who see value in a CZ over nothing at all should see why some value a synthetic diamond and so on.
This is quite insightful. I never thought of it this way but I think you are correct.

If I could rephrase it a bit more clinically, the signaling of fitness (wealth, social status, etc) is important to the human mating rituals. And diamonds are integral to that in a some cultures. That underlying need is probably innate will not change. Therefore, as you said, you can't just say "NO", it needs to be replaced with something else.
A highly visible fashion accessory that could "save lives", the virtue signaling opportunities were irresistible to oversocialized types.
DDoS attack on Belgian government, affects DOJ, vaccination, tax portals
The Epic vs. Apple Hearing Is Already a Disaster
https://cve.report/CVE-2021-21551
But the MBAs have already done the [creative] thinking. They just want to throw the spec over the fence and have coders code it. /s
This is where Microsoft has won. Gamepass is that. I don't even have to buy games anymore, there's so much available 'free' to play.
When this first appeared I thought I remembered it had been picked up by the mainstream press, but I can't find a mention of it on news search.

You can imagine how easily the masses would have accepted this in 2001.