skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WoW is a theme park MMO, and exclusive content for hardcore players exists as long as 1) it does not take too much time to develop 2) it is inclusive enough 3) it is minor.

So Yog + 0, Sinestra and Ra-den worked, for example, and a highest difficulty also works but having raiding as a whole exclusive before a massive grind is no longer acceptable. And usually the mythic only mechanics are an after thought.

There is no way I as working human being can compete with MMORPG players who have no life. But I sure as hell am not going to finance them with my sub.

But Blizz and I have different goals anyway. They want me to stay subbed. I want to complete certain content on a certain difficulty (one below the highest) and then quit, doing something novel/fun/useful instead of doing the same shit over and over and over again (or die trying). Because ever since they removed lockout on gear (start of M+ dungeons) the game has become too no-life-friendly. I cannot compete with such.

The comparison is moot though. Cannot defeat the Lich King? You can see the cinematic at the very least. But that is the only result. The one where a boss can only be defeated once would increase realm community perhaps. But even the top 100 guilds per faction achievement did not pan out to improve faction balance.
There are devices to measure IOP, most used but kind of inaccurate with a small „air burst“ on your eye. There seem to be more accurate measurement methods but they involve „touching“ the eye.
MasterPlan: A graphical project management app for single users or small teams
I move my screen back and don't wear glasses during work. I also have an eye chart hanging in front of me across the room. I stuck to near-far focus exercises for about 6 months at some point. My eyesight has not improved. I do notice completely different ability to read the chart during the day - sometimes I can read letters 5x smaller than the large letters, and sometimes I can barely read the large letters. Sunlight and how tired I am matter a lot - early in the day on 8+ hours of sleep like today means I can see almost as well as 20/20 (but at night I can't read the large numbers, though I can read the small with glasses). Sometimes doing the near-far focus exercises helps for the short term. Breathing deeply seems to help. I seem to have a ton of stress related issues breathing deeply helps relax.

Unfortunately, the tldr is that my vision has not objectively improved permanently.

Story of my life really - I very much question most people's ability to improve in most areas, but that's a different topic.

P.S. I have the same disbalance as most here - one eye is both faster to focus and sees better. I close one eye when I do near-far focus.
Airships Could Overcome a Century of Failure [video]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31365307
I read it as: "We have a massive website and this design will help us bring consistency to all pages". I've worked as a web dev on some massive sites and almost all suffer from design fragmentation. It's very hard to make every page look consistent unless you're really on the ball with a framework like this.
You can run windows 95 on a browser and then a browser on that windows, and then run chromium wasmified so yeah we can go pretty deep
HD630 is the integrated GPU on Intel’s Kaby Lake line of processors.

That narrows it down to coming from 10s of millions of computer perhaps?
Not that much of a joke, a lot of companies are using binary protocols for internal services e.g. gRPC, and REST for external. So, best/worst of both worlds (depending on whether you are a glass half full/half empty person)
Button pushers: the artists making music from mushrooms
I tried Bluetooth headphones a decade or two ago and at the time it was unusable. Then recently I thought to myself: it has been almost two decades, wireless audio is probably a "solved problem" by now, especially with its newfound notoriety after apple ditched audio cables. So I just bought some new Bluetooth headphones, and I'm thoroughly underwhelmed, it is nearly as bad now as it was then, high latency, audio drops (even some failures to connect at all, with no way to debug). Bluetooth headphones are the new printers, they fail (partially or completely) at their job half of the time and yet people just accept that as a fact of life and go with their days.
I've known many people with spectrum disorders. Some were difficult to work with and you make accommodations. A few were assholes.

Universally, the assholes with spectrum disorders used their diagnosis to get away with abusive behaviour and, in two cases, sexual harassment.
That's true. I stand corrected.
When visiting China as a teenager in the early 90s, my brother and I decided to invest our hard-saved cash in a Micro Genius. This was a rip-off of a Super Famicom which I'd seen a Malaysian school friend play back home in Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Genius

There's a photo of us smiling at the counter of a department store, handing over money. We bought a couple of multi-game cartridges. 190-in-1 and 27-in-1 or something.

We tested it in a Hong Kong hotel room, and briefly played a few games. Then imagine our dismay when we eventually got back to Australia and the thing wouldn't reliably load a game. We were blowing on cartridges and all that.

One day, we gave it a shot up in our non-A/C, second-storey bedroom. It was a 40 deg C day, so absolutely cooking upstairs. The console worked! The games loaded! We got to play an assorted of games we'd been eagerly waiting on.

We eventually decided it must be the heat and on the next day I can remember us taking it in turns with a hairdryer trying to warm the console or cartridge to get a game to start while the other person played. It might let us play for several minutes and then fail. Unfortunately, this trick didn't last for long and then the console was surpassed and the games no longer kept our interest.

30 years later, I still have the useless boxed console in my garage and can't bear to throw it out.
discussed on the frontpage at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31365307
Germany doesn't distinguish between long/short term, it's a simple ~25% flat tax no matter what
Just use a captcha image. Not foolproof, but would eliminate a huge swath of bots.

They don't even try this. Why?
I used to work for a Japanese corporation.

You think you have it bad?

Japanese corporations say “Hold my Asahi.”

I’m talking around-the-clock meetings. Our Shinagawa headquarters was this huge building, with two floors dedicated to meeting rooms, and those rooms were constantly full.

It has to do with the consensus-based methodology they use. It requires regular feedback between stakeholders.

If you miss a meeting, you could find your team booted from the project, so managers often grab any poor random schlub from the engineering floor, and direct them to attend a meeting, where they have no clue, whatsoever, about the topic. They are only there to “stake a claim.”

I often saw people fast asleep, in meetings.

I have a general policy that regularly-scheduled meetings should always be avoided, but that never seems to happen, IRL.
I don't know how many times I have been linked this video, but it is several, and I imagine almost all of them have never actually cycled in Finland during the winter. But I have, for many years, and I can tell you that it does in fact suck!

If the cycle paths are not plowed, you basically have no forward momentum, and even if you manage to cycle in it, your bike will refuse to go straight, especially when the snow is wet. And if they're plowed, they're still slippery to a point that wet asphalt could never be. Ever had to hard stop a bicycle on the snow because a car pulled in front of you? Not fun.
Hair dryers can be quite useful. If you have a small engine that won't start like a lawnmower, heating it with a hair dryer will often allow it to crank.
You make a good argument about people growing up with digital clocks not understanding a clock face.

Maybe if you fill in the area covered you could more easily see it’s relation to pie charts.

A clock face is actually 3 pie charts on top of each other, indicating the ratio between hours, minutes, and seconds left in a sequence.

It might not be intuitive that it only covers half of the hours in a day (12) but then covers all minutes in an hour (60) and seconds in a minute (also 60).

By looking at the long hand (minutes) you can see the fraction of an hour that has elapsed if you color in the area between the “12” at the top, and for example, the “6” at the bottom. That would be half an hour. Or if the hand was in the “3” it would be a quarter hour, and you and see at a glance that a good majority of the hour is still remaining.

Seconds work the same way, with the skinny hand. For minutes and seconds you can just ignore the big numbers (or multiply then by 5 because 12 * 5 is 60).

But because the hours only cover half a day the ratio covers only half of that day, but you can still use the clock to decipher how much time has elapsed (or is left) between midday and midnight.

Having grown up with digital clocks, and only sweated through the difficult lessons of learning to read a clock face and not used them practically, even at school, you may not have realized this ratio (staring at the clock waiting for class to finish does not obviously indicate this property because classes are not evenly divided into hours)
The customer's problems are different in the different roles, and the work and the rewards differ because of that. What that looks like here is that the customer of the Line engineer is external and the customer of the Staff engineer is internal. Relationships to internal or external customers are different - based on trust, confidentiality, shared culture, and the overriding fact that you work for the same or different organizations.

Impact at the Staff level frequently requires a step back from coding. External customers generate revenue. Internal customers operate as cost. That's the Profit center / Cost center division. Line engineers create value through new capabilities in market and in maintaining customer relationships - through code. Staff engineers create value through improving efficiency inside the organization - so Line engineers can deliver more. If customer revenue is recurring, returns from customer relationships compound. In comparison, Staff engineers need to demonstrate their impact as compounding returns on efficiency. That can be creating tools or creating policy -- whatever it is your work has to align with greatest impact. That may not be code.
There used to be a thing where you bake motherboards in the oven to fix them
Facebook should be afraid of Shopify’s ‘Audiences’
If this was the norm, society would have collapsed long ago
Generally when I watch a code demo I appreciate if the demonstrator doesn't use keyboard shortcuts, because I'm trying to focus on the actions not the way you get to those actions. And having a mouse move around gives you a moment to think about the last thing they said and how it fits with your projects.
Poporntime is not illegal strictly speaking, it's a software that allow to display movies as you download them via torrents.
What is illegal is the source of the torrents not there mere interface provider (which also allow you to see legal)
This is just the cost of a meeting. The opportunity cost is a different factor, it's the cost of not doing what the dev would otherwise be doing.

Given that your not hiring devs to make up hours lost to meetings, the opportunity cost is the cost of not shipping earlier or with more features.

The caveat is that this all assumes you know what to build, if you don't attend meetings.
Everything is, of course, blurry at the edges.

If your job is doing something that basically all companies of that size do, you might be staff. If your job is something that contributes to a product or service that your company sells, you might be line.

If you work on the deployment, monitoring and debugging of the CI that builds your SaaS, are you staff or line?

If you work on the deployment, monitoring and debugging of your CI system that QA uses, are you staff or line?

If you work on the deployment, monitoring and debugging of the point of sale systems that your brick-and-mortar stores need, are you staff or line?

If you work on the security of your company which includes the SaaS that you sell, and sometimes you talk to prospective customers about those security issues, are you staff or line?

The biggest question around all these is: does your company management think much about the staff/line distinction, and how will that affect what they do?
Good point, thanks for checking out the code! I replaced db.Query with a db.Exec for the SELECT count (just to avoid the row iteration/deserialization) and I'm seeing closer performance.

I'll post an update and credit you.
Check out the mui.com website. The whole doc site is built using their material UI component library, yet it looks nothing like a cookie cutter material design app.

That is to say, if you put in the time a material site can definitely look good.
It all makes sense if you assume he’s a dumb guy who got rich by accident.
Isn’t trying to reprice a shrewd move at this point? The market has taken a huge hit since he made his move and the options for Twitter haven’t exactly improved.
My hunch is that it's not so much about size, but the rate of growth. What large communities I've seen that have managed to maintain their identity have either been so esoteric as to not have a lot of growth (their numbers having accumulated over a large amount of time), or some aggressively maintained expectation that newcomers should lurk before they post.

I do think it makes some sense, if you have a sufficient influx of new members, a large proportion of those you interact with will be strangers, and that's fundamentally different from a group where most people you interact with are familiar faces.
It seems as simplistic to say it's the norm as it is to say it's an isolated case.

Why not just prosecute where there is evidence of wrongdoing.
> when there are some heavy stuff on the main thread the audio may get glitches

Where have you seen that? TFA is just using oscillators, not ScriptProcessor or anything, so one would expect all the heavy audio work to be happening outside the main thread.

Personally I use webaudio to do dynamic music for a game, and even though the game is reasonably heavy (3D, physics, etc) I've not noticed any particular glitching.
Somehow HN's submission wrangulator dropped off the 8 in the Title. Suggest editing & hitting update
you're correct 240 if you say well the American economy is 10 times the size of the German (it's a little over 12 I think) but I wonder if we might see that the rate of German unicorns is growing at about the level it should be in recent years, that is to say the disparity in number of Unicorns is more Germany starting late than anything else.

Aside from that of course the EU has made it relatively clear it does not really want unicorns like Twitter or Facebook. So I mean if you take away PII violating companies from the mix then things might look more equal also - but perhaps that is more of that pesky legalese bullshit you seem to find onerous.
> I find your take on alternative forms of agriculture a little too optimistic.

I've read a lot about alternative agriculture systems and methods. Maybe that's where my optimism comes from.

> the figure of 75% it is not that simple

I know that 75% is not so simple. But meat industry needs cca 75% of the agriculture land and meat is produced mostly by feeding the animals seeds and vegetable oils, so ... yes, it's a guess, but if we'll account for other stuff, like antibiotics ...

> conformed by not edible material that would have to be produced anyway

The ruminants supply a fraction of our nutritional needs, so I would argue, that we don't need them and that we can switch to more sustainable (less land expensive) sources of food. I would return that "non-edible" areas into forests for wildlife/biodiversity, which they were previously and which could even reverse our climate/extinction events currently happening.

Other non-consumable material could be composted and/or left in the fields as a mulch. Exposed soil kills microbes/fungi in the soil.

> Would you pass a law banning having children

No, I would not, because I now know that there is better way.

That population is still growing is a result of our exploitation of poor countries, poverty, a lack of education, and our religious and governmental practices. As we see in western countries, the developed and educated countries have a tendency to stabilize their population.

So the current growth will stop on its own, in time. But we have to make sure that we set the correct example for the new billions, or we'll together eat the Earth dry, till nothing than deserts will remain.
Man the time is ripe for Textron or Bombarbier to put together a 737/a320 competitor. Boeing is so hobbled right now.
> I am not sure, but if I remember correctly employer must prove they are not discriminating.

That seems backwards, at least in the US.
> orchestrated by members of eBay’s executive leadership team after the newsletter published an article about a lawsuit filed by eBay accusing Amazon of poaching its sellers, authorities said.

Is this kinda thing covered in the meeting minutes? "I move that we send death threats to the couple." "Seconded!" "ok, all in favor?" "Aye!" "motion approved. ok, now on to 'new business'..."
> Johannesburg's rival, Cape Town, would also lay claim to "great weather".

I lived in Cape Town. Would not live there again.

Winter is very very cold, it rains every single day and the wind is insane, making you need warmer clothing than you would think.

Summer is very dry, it never rains and the mountain keeps catching fire which gets spread by the constant high-speed winds.

There are advantages though: six months ago I had an opportunity to relocate to CT, and realised that with the amount of constant strong wind it gets, I might be able to live completely off-grid using 4 - 6 wind turbines on the roof of the house.
This does make me wonder if this is completely isolated and just a few bad apples or something more widespread. I know of a few other complaints of harassment from security at big tech companies which i initially dismissed because they come across as almost fantasy.

Considering the complete psychos we're dealing with here its lucky Devin Wenig's message of “Take her down,” wasn't interpreted differently.
> how does he know initially that he is like other cats without seeing himself

He can't see his head or maybe his back, but can see the rest of himself, surely. And he can hear himself and smell himself
Hubble finds tiny 'electric soccer balls' in space
Just a few days ago someone posted some snarky HN comments on React's initial release thread talking exactly about HTML and JSX being hackish, and all I could think was "well... it is." The popularity and success of a project doesn't mean that all its core assumptions/opinions are good, only that the project is popular and successful.

Vue isn't perfect but I much prefer how it still lets you separate out various concerns. If it had half (or even 1/3) the community React does I think it could surpass React.
PayPal allows paying with a credit card without needing to create an account.

If the OP doesn't have this, there's literally a checkbox for this in the merchant's settings on the PayPal's admin panel. The drawback however is an elevated risk of fraud.

Edit: ... and they don't have this enabled - https://fruits.de/c/v9kgq
I'm curious to try a solution such as electrochromic glass, but to get a better blackout the glass seems to need to be tinted. But on the Dreamliner plane, they seem to have solved this. Not sure if it's just uneconomical at a house scale.
If you do a lot of outdoor sports, it's nice to have different season. I do skiing in the winter and I look forward to snow storm for example.
Yep. They’re decoupled completely from the “go” bits in core.async that are meant to make up for the lack of green threads. All of the channel operations have blocking variants that work fine with regular threads now, and they seem likely to work fine with fibers.
It's not as simple as NIH. Using cgo means you have to build and link external dependencies in another language. Compared to Go, this makes it quite a bit more difficult to build and distribute than a single binary. But I think the biggest reason is cgo is slow. Unlike rust which uses the C calling convention (correct me if I'm wrong) and has no garbage collector or coroutine stacks to worry about, Go has a hefty price to pay when calling a C funcion. For something like sqlite that causes a noticable slowdown. Typically what I like to do in this case is write a C wrapper around the slow API that let's me batch work or combine multiple calls into one. With sqlite, instead of fetching rows one at a time, I would write a wrapper that takes some arrays and or buffers to fetch multiple rows at a time. That amortizes the overhead and makes it less significant. When that's not possible, I use unsafe and or assembly to lift just the problematic C calls into Go. That can sometimes work wonders, but it's also not a magic bullet.
> you'll feel your body complaining about your life choices pretty quickly.

Beautiful landscape and super nice people but I was there in Spring and I struggled with modern clothing.

All my time there I kept thinking how on earth did someone 1200 years thought that was a good spot for a settlement.
Cool, thanks for the recommendation. I'll look into Astro.
I think the author was making the assumption that people understand fractions or at least ratios.
I don’t think they were stating it as in they had examples, they were extrapolating from other left leaning activities like BLM vs Insurrection. Similar aggressive approaches but only insurrection gets attention as bad.
I played competitive FPS games for years at high ranks with a Bluetooth headset before learning of the delay. I did not notice. However, for a while I switched to a Bluetooth keyboard and until I realized the input delay was severely impacting my performance. Wireless mice (non-Bluetooth) on the other hand have low enough latency that most pros are fine using them.

Some advice for Bluetooth headset gamers - Bluetooth completely breaks the audio for some games like Battlefield 1. The only solution is to go into device manager and disabling Handsfree Telephony on your device.
Couldn't agree more. I think "unhinged" is the perfect descriptor. I like a lot of what he proposes and how he thinks (when he's not attention seeking), but I absolutely cannot stand the pathetic meme crap and shit-posting he does. Sadly, he also reminds me of the failed coup guy, but I honestly think he might be more dangerous. Because not only is he desperate for attention, he's also pretty clever. That's a bad combination and I fear old age Elon is going to be even more trouble...
Good engineering is a team effort. Engineers unwilling to listen because of some self-percieved superiority complex are bad at that. And they hardly get any better.
Plenty of front line software at big tech companies like Google is written in Java.
I mean, Thomas Edison may as well be a 200 year old Elon Musk. Practically all he did was be a hype man.

Ford was pretty similar from my reading.

Both men had early career success and worked harder than most at achieving their goals. But their ongoing successes were very much political and public perception. Ford especially was incredibly politically active and noisy about it.

I imagine Elon's legacy (should he be remembered) will not be his twitter shitposting, but electric cars and rocketry.
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