skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Foxconn does not pay their contractual coupons and the bond, they will be declared in default. While in principle they don't automatically need to file for bankruptcy protection, in practice they would do that (the various risks if they don't file are simply too high, and there's really no upside).

So, I don't think there's a realistic scenario where Foxconn does not pay if they don't file for bankruptcy.

If they file for bankruptcy, then it can be Chapter 11 (restructuring), or Chapter 7. In case of Chapter 7, their assets are ringfenced inside an estate. There is no need for civil asset forfeiture. If it's Chapter 11, then the bankruptcy judge need to agree that there is a reasonable chance that the creditors are better off if the restructuring goes ahead than if liquidation takes place.

However, if they fail to pay, but don't file for bankruptcy, then yes, civil asset forfeiture is definitely in the cards.

It's all just a silly intellectual exercise. We are talking about $36 MM spread over 20 years, or $1.8 MM per year. Foxconn has (according to wikipedia) revenues of about $200 BN per year, and net income of about $4.5 BN.
For a related fascinating conundrum in sampling lines inside a circle, see Bertrand's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_(probability)
This is how it works where we are. In our onboarding, HR showed us a tutorial of how to apply for leave, using her own account. "Oh see I took a month off this year, and it's okay if you need to take time off for yourself." My manager was also on leave then - he left a welcome message saying to contact X for GitHub access, even though it would be fast for him to do it now.

That's quite impactful when you're given the message that early, that the people in charge of rejecting your time off encourage you to do it.

There's also something on the wiki warning us about burnout. There's plenty of talks on avoiding burnout. Nobody attends them, but we get the message that it's costly to the company when it happens and not something to be proud of.
but then sells it to marketers
I guess this is the bill in question. Would've been nice if they linked to it or at least named it in the article.

Social Media Platform Duty to Children Act

https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/AB2408/
Twitter definitely used to allow you to enter a city, for example. I believe they pulled it after 99% of its type-in use case was for "near you" spammers.
> The UIViewController must be present in a UIKit app. Most classic UIKit apps have the lions' share of code in UIViewControllers.

I dont think you understand the point I'm making. Just because Apple has created a framework that has something called UIViewController which has child UIViews doesnt matter when using a pattern called MVVM. The V is just the _visual_ representation of the pattern. It could be a terminal console if you want, it doesn't have to be the "underlying" view of the platform! Don't fight the platform to align its idea of the view with a specific thing called a View in the pattern.

EDIT: and yes IB is an issue if you want to be programmatic. I do all my views in code.
I am leaving California next week, and I'm not sad to he leaving the morons who run the place behind.
In my EE degree (in year 2000), we had to implement something with external I/O as a state machine using logic gates (it was in an FPGA though, we drew the schematic). Pong is a way cooler exercise than whatever I did with a 7 segment display and a keypad. But the idea of state machines is still a big part of introductory digital logic.
> This item is not yet available

Hmm, impatient?

In the spirit of being constructive: I would recommend adding a gameplay video as the first media asset on Steam, since it really helps one evaluate the game in ways that snapshots cannot
Who in the world didn't foresee the market cooling dramatically as the pandemic "ended"?

I remember interviewing at real estate start ups during the pandemic hiring like crazy, as if this wasn't obviously a temporary boom period.

The problem is that the vast majority of startups suffer from a Markov memory problem where they can't fathom a world different from their current state no matter how absurd that view is to anyone with common sense.
Reddit was fine till Chinese invested in it.
Clickbait title - Gateway never really…created products, just licensed and repackaged them. It was pretty ubiquitous for a few years, however it obviously can’t be compared to Apple.
I understand the feeling, but I don't think it would work. People would get upset and get even angrier at whoever they already think is to blame, and after a while everyone would become desensitized to it.
Multiple choice is definitely problematic in some cases. For example, if you were say, learning chinese, certain chinese characters look very similar. If they happen to be next to each other in multiple choice, you'll probably get confused. Imo it's better to learn and think of them in isolation (perhaps even learning them months apart to reduce the chance of them getting jumbled up in your mind).
That's the convenient mythology.

De facto - bear in mind the system that we´re talking about moves rather slowly - recessions always have real financial or economic system causes, and quite often are seen coming in advance by some people.

People who are at the right points in the financial system, who for example can see bad debt starting to build up (takes months, but there's always a clear pattern of people starting to skip payments etc), companies starting to run out of runway with no revenue coming in, again their banks will typically be able to spot this fairly quickly. Changes in fuel costs are very significant, especially in the US, too many people drive too far to work, petrol goes up, this multiplies quickly - this one hasn't even really hit the system yet, wait for winter.
Seems like for every bad law coming out of Texas/Florida lately, California's quick to copy it with their own twist - abortion law was copied for guns, now the social media laws.
"No one gets it on the first try"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW5cB2UWTX0
None of those were direct-to-consumer in the US. They all sold through retailers.
These are not the issues.

If you were to 'take over Iraq' the first thing will happen is that one of your political challengers will use all of their means to usurp you.

The issues are power, control, corruption, clan loyalty, incompetence, dysfunction, bureaucracy, radicalism, laziness, embezzlement, short nearsightedness, lack of key resources, petty infighting, political inconsistency and duplicity from supporting nations, bureaucracy etc..

What happens when the entire system is corrupt? The Judiciary, Police, the Army, the politicians? Everyone is trying to embezzle, selling votes, stuffing ballot boxes, using multiple ledgers, giving their family members jobs, handing out MD's to the rich kids?

Some Billionaire owns the TV Station and is lying about you daily, destroying your ratings. There are protesters outside your door while you're trying to 'plan the buildings'.

The guy who funded your campaign to ascension wants special state-guaranteed contracts.

The rebels in that 'ugly border area' have killed some civilians and the locals want blood.

... and consider that many of the same kinds of constraints exist even in modern countries.

'Building Bridges vs. Schools' is completely pedantic exercise.

They should make the game called 'Saddam' and see how a regular person might fare at that 'job'.
It's all true, but times are changing. Soon it will be cheaper, as lift cost drops, to just send a thousand cheap, heavier probes towards mars... than one super engineered probe.
Agreed. This is why the "metaverse" needs oversight as well. It will be a new frontier ripe for gamification, explication and general behavioral control.
Arguably at least there's good purpose behind those...

<tin foil hat>And after all, they left the Pyramids and Stonehenge behind here, right???
This is an honest admission from Logitech that their keyboards are universally "bad" and mechanical keyboards are now offered at every price point - good enough to hurt them. I'll give this a pass unless they offer a hot-swappable board.
I've been a Tesla owner for a couple of years and I am anxious to sell it. I no longer want to be associated with that company.

I've had my eyes on the Lucid Air Touring as my next car, but stuff like this doesn't instill confidence. The absolute disaster that is Tesla's build quality and servicing is one of the reasons I'm switching in the first place!

The whole EV market is a disaster right now. If you want an EV from a "mainstream" manufacturer, be prepared to pay enormous dealer markups and be bullied into upgrades.

I hate it.
I tried to Ctrl+F for these, but they're actually in the screenshot.
I have such fond memories of these systems. I was lucky enough to go to a magnet high school in the late 90s and we had a lab full of these. Getting such early exposure to not only UNIX (well, AIX) but also the RISC architecture definitely had an impact on my computing career.
Python just gives you a choice, use named arguments or refactor your API and use objects for options. It is up to you how you are going to use it.

What I don't like though is when all those options are hidden behind two-stars keyword argument and it is difficult to understand what options are allowed, what they mean, what type they have and so on:

def example(**options):
...
Uber has scale, they are processing $15+ billion plus in rides a year. Millions of customers and millions of drivers that need tools built to service them.
Where are the pictures?

EDIT: They're only in the PDF: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04780-4.pdf

From the VUX-1 LIDAR product specs, it seems they flew over the area no with an airplane at > 2,460 ft. to collect the data.

http://www.riegl.com/products/unmanned-scanning/riegl-vux-1u...
That's not always the right way to go either. A professional using a particular device on the daily will be proficient in its usage regardless of how terrible the user interface, simply on the basis of how often they use the thing. On the other hand, how quickly an amateur can pick up a device and start using it will be heavily dependent on how intuitive and instructive the interface is. These two can often be conflicting, though not always. For a product that has a lot of "amateur" users (many home appliances), a touch screen can often be the right paradigm to choose.

A classic example of this is the situation where an experienced cashier on an "analog" system can just fly through the buttons and complete transactions in no time, while at the same time a rookie would take that much more time to ramp up, figure out, and internalize the various button mappings. A darker interpretation of this would be that the system is optimization for fungible workers, where swapping out one cashier at will for another has negligible impact on productivity.
You wish for the impossible and you get what you wish for. Anyone holding Wisconsin politicians responsible for the fiasco? Bahahahahah. I was kidding.
That's good context. Thank you for the reply.

A few years back, both my brother and father wanted to learn to program. Actually, relearn in the case of my dad. He was doing assembly programming for fun when I was a kid, and he taught me Basic. So really, he wanted to re-learn after a 30 or more year hiatus.

I tried to turn them both on to DrScheme (PLT wasn't named Racket yet). I figured the language is elegant, the tool is friendly, it's got libraries for tons of things, and the syntax is really simple. Kind of the "learn the language in the first part of the first chapter" approach in SICP, and then get to doing something fun. It's a much better language, environment, library, and implementation than Python. But it really didn't pan out.

I'm sure we can blame me for being a poor teacher, but my brother got turned off completely, and my father seemed pretty annoyed it wasn't anything like he remembered. After that, I showed him Python, and he ran with it for a few months before he switched back to doing his pet projects in Excel. He's older than both of us, so he can do whatever he wants :-)

Anyways, I kind of like Scheme, and I've been installing various implementations of it on my computers for the last two decades. Of course I must not like it that much, because I almost never use it for my pet projects. Maybe that's because I like numerical stuff and am too lazy to sort out an infix macro that makes me happy. It's just easier to use Python or C++ (or lately, Rust).

Elsewhere, you made the comment "The Lisp version looks similar to the Python code, plus parentheses". Apparently it wasn't obvious, but that was intentional :-) I just wonder why people (like my father) find Python so accessible, when you can make Scheme look nearly identical if you ignore the parens. In every way that counts, Scheme is at least as expressive and has much better implementations than Python... Yet people prefer Python.

If I ever make my own compiler, I'm inclined to use parens as delimiters for expressions. I'll spare you the details, but it won't really be a Lisp, and it would be more block structured. I only bring this up because in your first reply above where you were proselytizing and pontificating, you were already preaching to the choir. Since that OP way up there made a comment about it not scanning well (looking at it with blurry text), I wanted to hear from someone who doesn't like Lisp what it would take to make it likable.

And of course all my comment did was draw attention from two people that want to defend Lisp. :-)
This is a classic case of overengineering a solution to a nonexistent problem.

On YouTube, the video and the description are also linked. They exist on the same page always.

And even if the concern this solution is covering is what if the video is somehow shared without the description, away from YouTube, then the video could just as easily contain the description or URL or QR code pointing to the file.

This is a just horribly unusable QR code.
If you have a React Native adapter on all platforms, why not just use React as your standard?
Notably, there was Computer Space, by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney (1971, Nutting Associates/Syzygy Engineering), the first coin-op arcade video game, also made from TTL logic. This one actually pioneered the approach.

For a description see https://www.masswerk.at/rc2017/04/02.html

Syzygy Engineering (Bushnell and Dabney) soon became Atari, but still entertained links to Nutting Associates with Atari titles appearing under the Nutting Associates brand, as well. (E.g., Pong was Computer Space Ball in the somewhat fancier NA version.)
It is possible and airliner crashes show that. They happen even less often and almost every single one had a precisely defined cause that was discovered after rigourus investigation. The reason why we do this despite the events having small chance of occurance, is because the impact is enormous and we give it as much scrutiny as we possibly can to prevent it from happening again. The same level of scrutiny is not happening with school shootings.
Analog Oscilloscope Pong
I'm glad this is such a safe space for this kind of garbage spam. I was looking for someway to burn my whole life savings.
The fed has stopped adding to the money supply and making it more expensive to borrow. That alone will make a big difference in inflation. If it hasn't peeked we are close to it.

My fear is that getting to 2% inflation is going to be very painful to many. The economy will have to slowdown. And that usually means many people will slow their spending and many will lose their jobs because of it.
I hope this doesn’t sound pedantic but it’s “affected”, not “effected”. It’s an error I see a lot and it’s easy to fix if you just remember that “affect” means “to impact”.

So if what you’re trying to say someone or something was impacted by something else, you say “affected”.

Also as a general rule of thumb “effected” while grammatically correct is rarely ever used in colloquial talk in the context of what it means which is executed or produced. So people almost always mean “affected” when they make this mistake.
But why do we assume small social media companies are less addictive or harmful than big social media companies?
You're conflating developers who write in Go with developers who write Go. It's easier for me to write weird "function returns function" tricks than it is to fork a compiler.
Was always curious about that from an outcome perspective. It seemed like a company could go "manager-lean" (ax manager count, retain employees) for awhile, easier than vice versus.

I'd imagine a lot of paperwork got back up, but presumably the company business roughly kept going. True or false?
Star Citizen :(
Please do! email in bio and also I'll try to look out for the Show HN!
I'm not prepared for testing and debugging at real-world breadth!
They used to offer an $18 yubikey, but the cheapest one today seems to be $25. So a bit better than $40 but still way more than say a house key costs
The security guard with the gun at the school couldn't even stop the shooter in the recent shooting and got killed. Same with the security guard in the Buffalo shooting. Someone with multiple AR-15s is still going to murder your whole family.
Use of a drone-delivered automated external defibrillator in a cardiac arrest
I have quite a bit of remote sensing experience from the field and I've since left archaeology to work in autonomous vehicles where I get to play with sensors my former annual salary couldn't have purchased.

I strongly believe remote sensing technology is important, but it's usually just a first step in guiding and supplementing traditional fieldwork rather than replacing it. Having pretty landscape models to ogle at is nice, but typically not all that useful academically without time-consuming additional analysis to map things like artifact scatters or statistical models back onto it.
If it's truly just a handful of people (five or less), this feels like it'd merit a face to face conversation. We're internet strangers making armchair assumptions about other strangers, and it very well could be they have reasons for working beyond normal times.

(Doesn't mean they're good reasons. But starting with a honest conversation, showing them evidence of working beyond the pale, and explaining why you're concerned about that should go a long way to untangling something deeper. Maybe they have a horrible home life they're wanting to distract themselves from, to which there are other solutions for.)
I went inside that in the mid-1990s when I was a teenager. It was really cool. I had no idea where I was going, too. My dad just walked up to me and asked me if I wanted to go for a drive, and didn't say anything. Suddenly, he randomly pulled off of Rt 2 and followed a country road in the woods.

We pulled into the visitor's center, outside of the mountain. He often took the family to things like this because he worked for the power company, so I just thought we were stopping at a place that he heard of at work. Then we got into a bus and drove inside and took a tour.

That was one of the coolest things I ever saw as a teenager.
He wrote:

"I can look at blurry C code and know generally what things are and what’s going on without a single character being legible. Lisps don’t typically have the same convenience"
Unfortunately, Victoria 3 is rather unfun due to a number of fundamental flaws. The trade system is even more tedious micro than HoI4's trade system. Plus, the simplifications to the economic simulation introduced (chiefly infinite supply and complete lack of stockpiles) remove most fun mechanics (and a sense of realism). In Victoria 2, a very strong strategy as an early industrializer is to stockpile machine parts to delay other countries from industrializing. Victoria 3 simply has no analogue intentionally. Heck, Victoria 3's embargoes can't even be country-specific, they're good-specific and not even absolute! To top it all off, the developers are very explicitly encoding their political biases into the game's balancing. There is simply no reason to not be woke in Victoria 3. The only benefit that you receive for not being extreme lib-left is the ability to magically make more infrastructure appear with more "authority" mana, but the amount gained is insignificant.

I'm sure mods will make the game somewhat more fun and I'm probably going to buy the game for that reason, but after playing the beta I have absolutely no faith in Paradox's ability to live up to Victoria 2 despite it being a heavily flawed game that ended up being mostly a commercial failure. The worst part about all of this is how much effort they're spending on completely inconsequential things, like replacing the icons for POPs with horrendously ugly, anachronistic 3D characters. Something tells me that it was just an attempt to recoup losses from CK3's development. But don't worry, I'm sure Paradox's newfound console audience will enjoy Import-Export Trade Deal Manager 2022 and keep the company afloat.
The cash won't get "uncomfortably low" for profitable money printing machines (e.g. Apple) for quite a long time.

They just won't have quite as obscenely large of a dragon-esque hoard to sleep on.
Bicycles are significantly less risky than the motorized type. You still get cut off all the time by people that can't see you but you are going a lot slower when you hit them.
I found this app a few months ago from another HN comment. Unfortunately it was slow and unresponsive. I started looking for other options and found TablePlus which I’m loving so far.

Hope they can improve, might give it another go once I have time.
Models for Team Productivity
The Race for the Stratosphere (1999) [pdf]
> in contrast to the 4MB MobilePlayer released by Audible (now owned by Amazon) a few years earlier.

Great for those 5 minute workouts.
> If you want an EV from a "mainstream" manufacturer, be prepared to pay enormous dealer markups

Just a year ago people were getting GM/Chevy Bolt's out the door for $19k - $25k. Granted, those did have battery recalls. Might be worse price-wise now though as it looks like even 2 years old ones are selling for more than that on my local craiglist.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoltEV/comments/ms9qbp/2021_bolt_pr...

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoltEV/comments/lff7ff/a_data_point...
I don't believe 10x is actually possible as a single developer. In 20 years I haven't met one.

I have however run across people able to lift up entire teams and even surrounding teams. So instead of 1x10 it was maybe more like 15x1.5, so still a huge boost, just not technically from a single person.

I will take a "multiplier" over a 10x any day of the week.
Do you doubt weather forecasts from NOAA? What about projected trajectories of hurricanes? The pint of these rhetorical questions is to point out that we all rely on “government projections”. We rely on the Department of Agriculture’s projections. Etc. Your comment is in no way helpful or insightful or humorous.

Do you have any valid reasons to doubt the CBO’s work in this instance?
Falstad Circuit Simulator - https://falstad.com/circuit/
> UIStackView is much more boilerplate to use than just a HStack/VStack.

It is. It's also far more flexible in return.

But the point is that if someone has to ask this question then they don't have enough experience with UIKit to be comparing SwiftUI and UIKit.
Not in consumer context for sure.

Ultimately with any service you’re only protected by your contract and the PR value of a breach of trust. Unless you’re using an open source app and rolling your own sync, an app where trust is paramount (1Password), or one where a misstep is a huge media hit (Apple), you’re at the mercy of that company.

Microsoft fwiw, probably uses location to spot fraud and is unlikely to breach user trust imo.
Congrats on building a company that is making money sustainably.
They pump during the day when solar is strong. (The nuclear plants are long decommissioned.) The pumps would fight the pressure.
A brief overview of options for addressing mass shootings and gun violence