skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(For anyone going just by the title: this is the purchase of loot boxes.)

I’m personally against this for moral reasons having to do a lot with corporate greed and and then some to do with gambling in general, but I do want to point out this isn’t remotely new and isn’t something that the digital gaming/entertainment industry came up. When we were kids, we all used to gamble by buying Pokémon booster packs for $4 or $5 hoping they would contain a Charzard or a holographic Magikarp only to discover just another Koffing. That was specifically marketed towards and aimed at kids - probably even younger than those playing FIFA.

Although - I realize now that I may be speaking out of ignorance as I have no clue if the Netherlands allowed the sale of Pokémon cards to minors in the first place?

(I learned a few years ago that the smarter guys used to go in with a scale and weigh the packs to see which one was heavier due to the presence of a holographic card until Hasbro/TPCI wisened up and began adding blanks to make up for the weight difference.
Important quote:

> Patients may see Bennett's death as suggesting a short life-expectancy from xenotransplantation, but the experience of one desperately ill person cannot predict how well this procedure ultimately will work
Typically the function has access to whatever props or state it needs because it's in the scope of the component. It's not pure, but it's rare that I need to verbosely pass props into the function call and then accept them in myFunction. I don't typically test these functions in isolation as the component itself is pure and I test the output of the component as a whole instead.
Where are you located? Just because it’s in your contract doesn’t mean it’s legal or enforceable.
I tried to download their new Benchmark 3.0.0, but site seems to be hammered.

Softpedia has a mirror though: https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/Blender-Benc...
>I think it is important that normal Russian people have access to outside sources of information

I think this is true regardless of what they do with the information. Malice aside, I don't think freedom of information needs to necessarily serve another group's interest to be a worthy cause.
....and how is that different for you? You can only lose one job at a time, regardless of how it happens.

Here's my other buffer against job loss: I consult in between jobs, sometimes for years. In fact I think of it the other way: I'm a consultant that occasionally takes a job for variety.
I would say my main lesson is money spent on side projects is money spent on you. It's professional development with the potential upside of your idea taking off.

I realized that investing in side projects is a win-win; either the idea takes off or I've gained a lot of operational knowledge at executing on an idea.

There is the emotional toll on being tied to the success of the idea but it's much healthier thinking about the idea as a byproduct of your drive to learn something new.

This is only for projects that I've worked on alone, in isolation though. I haven't worked on a startup where other people's livelihoods are at stake.
document how you performed your daily duties so that the next person can reference your notes/videos. After that youve done more than enough
The externalities are definitely an issue, and some will need to be addressed, however I’d argue those would exist regardless of the economic system in place. Humans tend to be a bit rapacious in the context of any economic frameworks.

I am not against forms of socializing aspects of society. Fire service works wonderfully, universities are fantastic, etc.
They made two comments in 2018, and at least 4 in 2017.
Yes.

I may be in minority, but yes.

Understanding that "Free" is the only way to grow a platform, once there, I'd happily pay $X/month for Facebook, Twitter, etc that's customizable to the format and amount of tracking that I want.

That is completely unrealistic, of course, but that wasn't your question, so I can happily and honestly answer "Yes" :)
One thing to add, Taiwan formally gave up its claims to the mainland some time ago. While the One China policy still has some popularity there, it seems that the idea of Taiwan as a separate nation and people is growing day by day.
Russia admits conscripts have been fighting in Ukraine, despite previous denials
IIRC With an onion site you don't need an exit node to visit the site.

So all traffic stays within TOR.
This is some kindergarten playground “I’m going to take my toys”-level pettiness. Sure, they’re allowed to do this, but _everyone_ hates them.
Canada Post shutting down epost service making us download documents one by one
No, but possibly one of the greatest forces of good we have conjured as humans.
Then use the LTS versions?
Interesting article and rationale. I was particularly struck by this, which I've seen happen but haven't understood it in these terms until now:

> We’ve seen more than a few companies raise millions of dollars in funding, go out and hire an army of people in an attempt to grow faster. However, unlike most other software products, search tech is an inherently hard thing to get right. It requires a lot of tedious R&D iterations over long periods of time and it cannot be parallelized by having X number of people working on it in parallel.

> When a large team congregates around work that cannot be parallelized, we’ve observed that new work gets created to keep everyone busy - new nice-to-have features get worked on. This ends up adding complexity to the product. New team routines are invented because there’s bandwidth available. This ends up adding communication overhead and layers between users and builders and slows down the pace of innovation. This sadly becomes a vicious cycle that dilutes the core product.

(I'd go further than "diluted" - sometimes the essentials of the core product remain broken for years because all the energy goes to managing those side features, even though they don't work properly with a broken core.)
Clarification. Google STT has to services. standard and enhanced. we are just better than enhanced and much better than standard. enhanced is much pricier than standard if you wonder what the diff is.

It runs real-time on NVIDIA Jetson Nano and RPI 3/4.

If you think we should consider other embedded platforms we love to hear what and why
China and Taiwan are separate states de facto, but at no point in their modern history has either outright rejected the one China policy.

One can’t talk about the main political fault line inside of Taiwan as if it’s a settled matter.
This is true and a valid use case I think. Slack has abstracted enough of their UI to be re-usable cross platform that any re-write would likely be a regression.

Look at 1Password and the amount of shit they get on HN with the beta version. Rewrites are hard and they take a tooooooon of time to do correctly and require a lot of engineering work to keep the product consistent across platforms.

Do I wish that electron apps were better optimized? Yes, however, I also can accept the tradeoff for apps that need to work "everywhere".

For the most part, Slack works just fine. Their problems are less the UI/UX and more to do with infrastructure. Slack rewriting to a native app would have a tiny (if any) effect on these outages.
My recent survey of Uber/Lyft cars is they're absolutely every bit as shitty as some of the Yellows out there.

No cabby objects to going to Brooklyn and hasn't for almost 10 years.

Uber/Lyfts at JFK constantly call and try to ask where I'm going before they pick me up.

The Curb app is fine.

The problem is not the medallions but the centralization of medallions. Owner/operators are usually much better than the dude renting the cab and medallion from some shady ass company.

The TLC should do more to fix the cabs - and we should support them fixing cabs and owner/operators at the expense of Uber/Lyft. The competition is good, but Uber/Lyft are no better than the medallion squatters.
Intel, AMD, Arm warn of new speculative execution CPU bugs
As I recall, the only major advantage of QuickJS is that it can run on machines where v8 couldn't dream of fitting.

Data sizes almost always exceed the size of the code itself. I wouldn't consider it surprising that the IR would fade away into the noise.

V8 can also make tradeoffs that QuickJS probably cannot. For example, v8 internally represents strings as 1-byte latin-1 characters rather than 2-byte UCS-2. This halves memory consumption, but adds a lot of code to the implementation that a microcontroller running QuickJS may not have room for.
McCarthy was my gateway to McMurtry and it was McMurtry who hooked me on Texas…McCarthy is from Knoxville after all so his Texas is as an outsider who never risks killing Pecos Bill by design and Blood Meridian wanders into the further west beyond El Paso.

Anyway, I am on another McMurtry kick since the new year that began rereading Texasville and then a first reading of Custer…For me, McMurtry is a triple threat of fiction, nonfiction, and essays: I enjoy everything he wrote.
DO NOT OVERUSE AN OXYGEN TANK. This will give you oxygen poisoning.

There are no weird tricks for weight loss. My best advice is to commit fully and indefinitely. Kill the illusion of yourself living your current life as-is but with a thinner body. you must grow / adjust / embrace permanent lifestyle changes and then you will eventually find yourself having the body that reflects those changes.

The most efficient method is to raise your base metabolic rate while maintaining an appropriate caloric deficit. Be sensitive to the difference between hunger and starvation. Get comfortable feeling hungry, but dont let yourself starve

the only tricks or tips that might help with this are personal experiences on your end. Finding activities, routines, communities, support systems, etc that make it less of a chore to stick to a lifestyle fitting to the body you want

HIIT training is a good way to quickly increase your resting metabolic rate for a short period of time (like a day) - do it responsibly though ofc.

The thing is, if you use weight loss tricks (like HIIT) and dont intend to continue them after youve hit your goal weight - your base metabolic rate will drop, and you will start rapidly gaining weight if you dont adjust your diet to match (which is much easier said than done, and hard to even notice it is happening tbh)

So no matter what you do, by the end of it you need to be living an appropriate life for the body you want if you intend to keep it. Might as well work towards building that lifestyle from the beginning
Thank goodness. I was genuinely worried they'd make Pokemon card booster packs illegal next.

Let kids live a little and learn the perils of gambling play money early. They can safely learn the disappointment of throwing 20 bucks into a box with no reward during a time when it's relatively consequence free, instead of throwing 20 grand into stock options and being shocked when it goes to 0.

Loot boxes are not really gambling anyway, because there's not even monetary payout. It's the most tame form of "money pit" there is, and I'm glad we're not continuing this trip down "make things I don't like illegal" lane.
Spouge is a genre of pop music that emerged in the 60's and 70's but which died away relatively quickly. It is enjoying a resurgence.
Care to elaborate? I've recently had to research E.164 and haven't come across this being mentioned. In fact I remember more sources claiming that the plus-sign is a required part of the format
Major kudos to the Blender team for the phenomenal work they’ve been doing. I only started learning Blender a little over a year ago, and the amount of progress that’s been made in that short amount of time is incredible. In a time when I’m often frustrated with the abundance of low quality and user-hostile software, Blender has been inspirational in demonstrating that it’s still possible to develop high quality, powerful applications (and offer it for free nonetheless!)
Even if none of the planes are returned, they likely won't remain usable for long. Much of the maintenance for Russian airlines happens in European facilities, not to mention getting replacement parts. There is a draft decree which would stop all inspections until September.

https://www.aviacionline.com/2022/03/russia-government-moves...
This. The oil shale fields in the northern US flared all their gas, because the fields were new and there was no pipeline yet.

The collection of flares could easily be seen from space. It resembled a large city in brightness.
That "load more" is extremely annoying. I believe it's an a/b test because I only see it with one of my accounts. It seems to get triggered when the http referer is from another social site. I found you can get rid of it by re-opening the link in another tab by control-clicking on the tweet timestamp.
While the site is hammered, I'll point out that you can get automatic Blender updates through Steam if you're so inclined.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/365670/Blender/
Yeah this is fucking horrible. I have tons of shit open

I shouldn't have to see all of it to find the one thing I want. I should be able to pick from the app.

There's an app out there called ubar which replaces the dock and it's functionality is amazing. But it's memory hog and freezes all the time.

I'm forced to use a Mac for work

Probably the most powerful machine I've ever owned. I have a giant ass 40+ in curved monitor.

I still prefer my 10+ year old Dell laptop with an aging Linux distro on it.

Hell.. I prefer Windows.

Using a Mac is so painful. The moronic fn key placement.

Using a terminal reverts back to using the Ctrl key but everything else uses ⌘

There's no real concept of window management.

The version of Bash is 10+ years old.

I've always hated the "menu bar" but now that I have a monitor bigger than Lizzo's ass I really hate it. Having to drag my cursor 45miles up to get to Edit is idiotic.

The number of apps I have to install to get it to function like a real desktop makes my system tray look like it did on Windows XP SP2.

Nevermind whenever my non-apple Bluetooth headset connects it auto-opens Apple Music even though I've never once used it and I never will. There's zero way to disable this functionality. Zero.

MacOS is an abortion
The donor isn't always anonymous. The article mentions some surrogate pregnancies where the husband's sperm was supposed to be used to fertilize a donor egg.

Even when it is anonymous, that doesn't necessarily mean anything goes:

> Today, choosing a donor is like ordering out of a catalogue. Women scroll through dozens of men’s profiles, searching for traits they believe would make an ideal biological father.

If somebody sells you one thing and then delivers something different, it's fraud. I'm pretty sure even outside of western countries, fraud is illegal. When a licensed professional does it, it's professional misconduct and that's serious as well.
I used to play a game called runescape and there was this client called OS Buddy that had data dump of all 'buy' and 'sell' orders in the grand exchange.

put the data in python and I calculated the "flip" ratio, average and liquidity of the items.

Now that was all profitable, but around this time there was a phase where everyone discovered that you could do pump and dumps and make obscene profits. They worked exactly how normal pump and dumps work, a select few insiders buy a bunch of the random item and then after a few days they annouce it to the clan and start selling their item. I could see a surge in abnormal buys for items with low liqidity and effectively have a birds eye view of all the pump and dumps before they aree 'Public".

I never had to have a job through high school as i could sell the GP and make around $50-60 a day!
You can definitely find instances where it has failed some workers, overall though the tide has lifted everyone’s boats. This is where a limited social safety net is warranted.
Or perhaps it's just an attempt from straight men to not have to confront the fact that what they say is harmful.

Again, it's easy to say that I'm creating a straw man, but the facts are thus.

The OP said:

- My games of Catan work because we don't talk about things.

- Social media is bad because I have to confront the fact that I will disagree with people on things.

- These things that I will disagree with my Catan buddies on should either be "agree to disagree" matters or matters that don't get discussed.

- LGBTQ+ issues were one of the examples of such topics. Neither option is acceptable for LGBTQ+ people.

No examples of what sort of "LGBTQ+ political topics" either of you might mean have been given and yet I, the one providing examples and countering them, am the one creating the straw man?

All I can say is that, once again, you need to listen to the people affected when they say that what is said is harmful and stop acting like the LGBTQ+ people are the problem for telling you that it is, in fact, harmful.

EDIT: You're also defending a man who actively tried to justify using a slur. Doesn't reflect well on you, does it?
If anyone is interested in a little script that grabs an image from a webcam pointed at a 7-segment LED display and returns the numbers it finds, let me know.

It uses the ironically-named “Let’s Go Digital” training set for the Tesseract OCR program. It works somewhat poorly, but good enough to read my hydronic-heat boiler’s display to let me know that it didn’t fire up in the middle of the night, so that I can get up and clean the flame probe.
And those services (societal infrastructure) should be operated (or paid for) by the government.
Then they should hire more devs.
Maybe they want to improve their fingerprinting heuristics by providing an illusion of anonymous communications over Tor? /shrug
Look up the (possible) etymology for Jazz for a similar scenario.
A friend of mine solved that problem by replacing the light switches in the kids' rooms with those 30 minute timer switches.
Dumb question, why not disable interrupts during each iteration of the inner loop (+6 cycles per iteration = +42 cycles total)? Was the audio device using NMI? Or maybe the 224 cycles of that loop was too long a delay to respond to the interrupt?
Mad props. I never managed to finish a one night project in one night.
Yep, thats totally planned. I’m also intending to allow uploading of text files so you can use it for sharing entire directories / small projects
Is this essentially a "Sign in with Rownd"? Similar to how "Sign in with Google" works? albeit with some anonymous user-tracking helpers at the front.
Learning by Lurking
Try:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-ministack-stx
https://satechi.net/products/stand-hub-for-mac-mini-with-ssd...

Guess this is what "modular" means. Now if there was just a cableless solution, we'd be living the Jonathan modular concept from the 80s.
"Stupid" is a pretty accurate description for someone who thinks something lazy and misguided is accurate and clever.
OP here. More shocking to me is that I have quite a bit of published code that these folks can inspect, and running apps they can run -- in the languages and technologies they're interested in. Yet no one asks me about reviewing any of that.
That just sounds impractical. You interview somewhere and get hired, but you can't start for three months? And you just don't do any real work for your old employer either for an entire quarter?
> Free speech does not mean ...

Just be honest and admit that you are pro-censorship in this particular case.
More and more, in mobile apps/UI, we're having features at the distance of the thumb, and for some reason we haven't yet been able to do away with this visual reference that comes from a different age and different method of interacting with a machine.

More over, phones are so big these days that having an input bar at the top of the screen, that get's used all the time, can be considered a UX non-sense. I really wish this becomes a design trend.
Ha! But in all fairness, multiple references, with references coming from verified previous employers. A quick phone call to the candidates prior employers to verify employment/listed reference will flush things out quickly. Also, most people are terrible liars when pressed ... even on the phone. It does require effort by the hiring manager though.
Duktape is half the size (runs way more places), but is 2-5x slower.

https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html
I'm not sure why this is down voted. This is exactly what I feel this is.
to disable retweets on Twitter you can add "RT @" to the list of muted words
lol this is great stuff, thank you for your insight and advice, techdragon. satellite instrument and cubesat linux ecosystem = this is relevant to my interests, so ty again
> the packages are part of a game of skill, not a separate game of chance in itself.

hahahhahahahaha lolwut! that's hilarious, is that what EA actually argued too or did the judges reach that conclusion on their own from a reading of the statute!

Either way that is hilarious and obviously not the intention of the parliament, but I'll leave it up to them to figure that out if they actually care as much as the executive branch did.
When I've had to work a notice period it has been a month (in the UK).

I focussed as much as I could on handing stuff over, going into "question and answer" mode, and generally refused to go into meetings for new projects, excluding myself from discussions on the basis that it was better for everyone if I did not.

I did some genuinely new work in one case to help a colleague I liked get started.
>Why should hospitals be forced to provide care to sick people? I mean this 100% seriously, what would you do if hospitals just straight up refused patients that were expensive or annoying to treat focusing entirely on “profitable medicine?”

They should not, unless hospitals have the power to tax. Or the hospital is getting reimbursed by the government.

>“Well the government should provide that transportation then.” — They are via this regulation.

Politicians like to do it via mandates for businesses because they can avoid being responsible for problems and have a convenient third party to blame. It also avoids them having to increase taxes.
I'm sold on Kotlin and have been working professionally in it for a few years (mixed Kotlin/Java projects server-side), so take my opinion for what it's worth.

Integrating with Java's existing build systems (Gradle, Maven) was one of JetBrains initial design goals to avoid the separate ecosystem requirement that initially came with Scala. I admit building Kotlin has some quirks, notably around annotation processors - but overall it is very seamless.

I am happy Java is adding new stuff (records, switch expressions, sealed classes), but I worry it is increasing overall language complexity vs. the fresh start that Kotlin was able to take. Supporting the legacy patterns in the language adds to the complexity any given Java developer is supposed to know.

Overall I think the sane defaults and nudges towards the right patterns Kotlin pushes are a much bigger deal than just reducing boilerplate - though that is nice too.
Hey, could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot lately, unfortunately, and it's not what this site is for. Also, you've been doing it for a long time - that's a problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22999487 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20472906 (July 2019)

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Incredibly well said!
Your generosity gave you the best possible outcome in this deal. Impressive.