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Oh, if its from the south, they got a little bit more customs & manners over there IMO. Try Maastricht, for example.

Literally, it'd be "what may it be" but I don't think a good translation is possible. It'd end up with something like "what is your preference?" but I could come up with a Dutch, formal version of that: "wat mag het u believen?" where "believen" is an equivalent to "wünschen". A German could say, in short, "Sie wünschen?" and with the correct tone and body language it wouldn't be rude. You could say the same about Dutch; tone and body language are very important in communication (I have autism and am in an autism support group where this was recently addressed wink.)

Or perhaps rather "what would you like to order", but shorter. A German translation would end up with "Was möchten Sie haben?" though the Dutch one you mentioned cleverly avoids "du vs Sie" aka (in Dutch) tutoyeren [1]. I find it weak; get over yourself and treat the customer as such. Heck, how about having pride in treating your customer well? Something thoroughly lacking in The Netherlands. And I get it; sometimes you're tired while working such job or it is late or a bad day but this isn't that; it is systematic, and rather rampant in "Randstad" (big cities in Holland).

The Germans use "bitte" a lot more, and are always formal in situations where the Dutch have swapped to "jij/je". Especially Vodafone Netherlands (who got their helpdesk ironically in Maastricht) is so obviously using "jij/je" on their support pages. Cringeworthy! Hello?! I am your customer not your acquaintance!! Also compare for example casual restaurants in Germany and The Netherlands.

It isn't that these rules of using "u" don't exist in Dutch; they do. Its just -slowly but surely- being used less and less with a turning point around the (wild) '70s.

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutoyeren
I'm not from SE Asia, but from Romania. This kind of thing happens everywhere:

https://www.vodafone.ro/shop/abonamente-de-date#tab-1

-> "Detalii abonament"

-> Social Pass: [...] (Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp, Pinterest, Twitter, Viber)

It's widespread around the world, except for the US, until recently.
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You're just repeating something that you read on HN. Entirely false.
It’s still a “real card.” The name and billing address are the same; it’s just the number that changes. AFAIK (not affiliated) Privacy.com integrates with MasterCard in the same way as prepaid gift cards or employee expense account credit cards do.

Regarding presenting your “real card,” doesn’t using PayPal cause the same problem? Paying for airline tickets is clearly a special case. Also, are you sure you even need to check in with the same card you paid with? Usually those systems that ask you to “swipe your payment method” are only reading your name from the card, and combining it with a confirmation number to look up your reservation. I know for a fact this is how trains in the UK do it, because I can buy a ticket with PayPal, and then use any credit card with my name on it to collect the ticket from the machine.
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There are plenty of countries where healthcare is affordable and much more effective. The ridiculous prices in the US are due to the perversely corrupt incentives in healthcare, not because of any intrinsic costs.

Hospitals charge $500 for saline solutions - literally $1 bags of salt water. All so insurers can charge customers premiums based on those high prices and simultaneously ensure anyone without insurance is f*ed. Its a joke.
I concur with your last statement. Similar to mathematics, it make sure a very good second degree as well. Econ majors are a dime a dozen, but Econ/philosophy double majors are much more likely to Ben precise thinkers. Same benefit to precision when pairing it with CS.
This, so much.

I have bluetooth headphone for the gym, because exercising with a cable is a faff. But I hate then. I hate that they run out. I hate that I have to, and often forget to, charge them.

From a purely practical standpoint, my year old phone barely holds a day of charge with a little usage. But at least now I'm still able to charge my phone and listen to music at the same time. I listen to music (on fantastic, wired headphones) for about 7 hours a day in the office. I can't imagine a world where I'd have to stop after 5 hours for 3 hours of charging before I could wire in again.

Until you can give me phones and headphones that charge by themselves - nay - until you can replicate my current experience, just without the cables, I'm not interested.
I am Dutch and I would also need a moment to process that request. I would never ask a guest to shower short because of the energy cost. Unless, of course, they stick around for a year and tend to shower for 2 hours each day. This is more about being frugal than being Dutch.
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I get the simplicity, but 1) I hate tangled wires 2) wire break, I take care of them but very often a minute crack will happen and your cable is now a random silence generator.

Maybe there's a middle ground solution.
I do some video editing contract work from time to time. I never know what I will have to use so I have pretty much used all of them. They are unstable because they require huge amount of resources, especially if your looking for 4k source material.

You must have a very powerful machine. I don't have many crashes when working on high end custom built machines, but they do happen.

From most stable to least stable for me have been:

1) Lightworks (2010 announced they were moving to Open Sourcing the code, still hasn't really happened) It has been used for decades now to make Oscar winning films. If you understand the analog way of editing video this makes a lot more sense. Its basically free but has a HUGE learning curve

2) DaVinci Resolve (Most people use it only for color correction but they have added editing recently) My preferred and the one I recommend to everyone when asked what to use.

3) Sony now Magix Vegas Pro - My previously recommended and preferred video editor does a great job on keeping the work flow the work flow and not getting in your way (Lightworks actually does this best but man it is hard to get through the learning curve)

4) Adobe Premier - This thing is a BEAST but it is the defacto standard. Moderate learning curve but it is cross compatible and has every tool available. Great eco-system.

105) Final Cut Pro - I cringe when I have to use it. Only reason this thing has such a following is it is so hard to learn another video editor. Premier was the standard and somehow Final Cut Pro took over around 2008. Boy I really never liked it, but I was always in the minority till the Final Cut X came out. I have lost hours of work and I have also lost hours of work because case sensitivity is optional on OS X and MacOS.
Are you talking about this specific article? I thought it was unusually factually dense for a blog site, since it is in effect a tl;dr of another, very meaty story.
I also like auto preview. But I would never want them to start advertising their shows to me (like Amazon Prime does), that's going too far.
Econ should move that way too. Most Econ undergrad degrees are so watered down than Econ grad schools prefer Math and Physics majors who can actually do the work.
Surely the video is muted by default, why is that a problem?
Don't put Baltimore on the rest of us.
Facebook never clicked for me. I've had an account for a long time, but log in maybe once or twice a year.

But Instagram I love. I check it a couple of times a week. I love seeing images from my friends and having comments barely visible is exactly what I like. My only problem with it is the increasing frequency of ads. It's sucking a lot of the joy out of the platform for me.
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Making cross-platform video editor is no easy task, kudos. I'll definitively check it out.

May I suggest working on your logo and loosing the AdSense ads on your page?
Unfortunately, AdSense ads are borderline malware these days. I got one for MacKeeper and another for a fishy VPN.
Ask HN: Is it possible (convenient) to code an Android app using only Kotlin?
Is Kotlin ready for prime time? I’d like to learn android development, but I’ve always hated Java and strived to avoid it.

Is it possible (convenient, no major roadblocks) to create an Android app using only Kotlin? Or is it likely you will need to drop into java to interface with popular libraries?

How does Kotlin/Java compare to Swift/Objective-C?
I'm glad the cops in Toronto are paid extremely well. A Constable can earn $90k. There's less likelihood of a cop going to such extents if they don't need to. Of course that's not the only reason, but is likely part of the solution.
Same thing would have happened in France for sure.
I saw once a client whistle to get the attention of a waiter. The waiter didn't come, the restaurant owner did, asking (loudly) the client if she had lost her dog.
I like how they do very good engineering (just straight C++, Swift, with little to no external dependencies) with a very small team of apparently very talented people. Most of their products are typically owned by one or two people. It's also pretty smart of them to make all of the clients available as open source and keep the server implementations private. This way they don't have to license QT for example.
Looks really nice, but it's also double the price. For me, the upgrade from the Andonstar A1 (40$) to the ADSM201 (160$) was definitely worth it, optical quality is massively better. But from ADSM201 (160$) to ADSM302 (300$), I'm not sure.

Also, from 300$ it's not that much more that you'd need to pay for a proper stereo microscope.
Hah! Cool, he blogged again.

The key question here is: does self-regulation work for social media? I'm not sure it does. Their end goal is to create a Skinner box. That's all there is to it. And that goal definitely conflicts with what we actually want/need.
I went with an iPhone SE because a) headphone jack b) it isn't a huge surfboard of a thing

I hope there's another small but beefy phone when I next come to switch. Honestly I'd even sacrifice the 3.5mm jack for a smaller (but still useful) smartphone
Waiters in Amsterdam are really the worst. I lived there for a while and have become highly appreciative of friendly waiters, which are apparently quite normal in the Netherlands, just not in Amsterdam.

Side note: De Bekeerde Suster in Amsterdam has friendly waiters. It's become my go to spot for that exact reason.
I see the point from both side, here. I guess both tech could live together as alternatives.

There's one thing I would ask from manufacturers who go the bluetooth-only way, though: please first make sure a bluetooth receiver can handle multiple connections.

I have bluetooth speakers at home that I've put on top of my sofa, so I can watch movies comfortably without annoying neighbors with loud sound. During the day, my phone is my media center, playing music. But I also want sometimes to play sound from my computer, like when I watch a youtube video.

In order to do that, I plug the speakers' jack to the phone, and connect the laptop through bluetooth. This is awesome and is better than jack only speakers: I can easily plug two devices on it. But if everything was bluetooth only, then it would be a regression, as I could only connect one device.

Could bluetooth multiplexing be a thing? (or are there reasons it couldn't happen?).

I would also love to know if I'm an edge case, or if other people here are doing something similar as well.
Nice. I don't like any of the more popular frameworks for the reasons mentioned. Looks worthy of a shot!
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Those are good points, but I'm more outraged that I can't just hand someone an AUX-cable and let them play music. Nowadays you have to fiddle with bluetooth (which for some reason tries borrow your contacts) and it just isn't worth it.

It is beyond insane to remove the headphone jack when we have no even half-decent alternatives. This is before the detail that today you can be absolutely certain that all your bluetooth devices are remotely hackable.

Most people that don't seem to mind the disappearing of the headphone jack only seems to view it from their own very narrow perspective. Yes, you've just bought some decent bluetooth headphones and love the cordless freedom, I get that - it is awesome. But that is a very narrow use case that isn't going to hold long. I've alternating between cordless and wired headphones for many years and there is no reason even on the horizon to stick with cordless headphones.

Also, you have to pay $100 extra for that bluetooth connectivity. So, a wired headphone for $100 will cost you $200 if you want it cordless, and that goes with the assumption that you have aptx. And I don't even have a clue of whether I have aptx.

And a decent wired headphone will just last (spoiler, good headphones have better cables and connectors than that $25 headphones that break all the time), the cordless version will not be that cool when the irreplaceable battery dies.

Also, I have to spend tons of money on adapters I have to carry with my all the fricking time just so my phone manufacturer can save a few cents, it's ludicrous.
The basic mechanisms for building a neural network from scratch are almost disappointingly simple (provided you know a little bit of calculus and linear algebra). And setting up a basic network in an existing architecture is pretty trivial.

I'm currently busy with the neural networks and deep learning specialization on Coursera.

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning

The trick, as far as I can tell, lies in with the various techniques for setting up your data, tuning your hyperparameters, and picking the right architecture for the job. At least, this seems to be the message of the course. It seems to still be a bit of an ad-hoc field. There are a number of techniques and things to try, without there necessarily being more than a shallow theoretical understanding from the experts as to why they actually work.

Then, of course, there are the experts and researchers who come up with entirely new architectures. Now that actually takes skill.
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Building a metro requires enormous investment, with a huge but very long-term payback. Most of that return is not direct in the form of ticket revenues, but externalised in the form of economic growth along the metro routes, as well as environmental and social benefits.

Even where you have private companies building and operating metros, it's usually with the direction and financial support (such as land grants and loan guarantees) from governments.
As a tourist who has attempted to learn the language, I've been told to "please just speak English" nearly all of the times I've tried it (much to my dismay!)
> Tried Davinci Resolve as well. I generally like it, but find it less intuitive to use than Kdenlive (surprisingly, given one is commercial and the other is open source).

Initially Davinci Resolve was born a color grading tool, not a non-linear editor (that's why there a whole tab dedicated to color). The NLE capabilities were added after it was bought by Black Magic Design. That may explain this lack of intuitiveness.
Well you're free to buy as many guns as possible. Don't know if there is much freedom left besides that.
Sure, if you only ever consume terrible news then it would seem that way.

I can cast sweden in a similar light. Or even Disneys magic kingdom.
> Lightworks [...is] basically free

I've looked at Lightworks before, but it looks like the free version only exports up to 720p? If that's the case, that's an immediate deal-breaker :(
I visit Belgium quite regularly. I've also noticed that people never really greet each other in the streets, unless they're already familiar. In the Netherlands it's quite normal to greet pretty much anybody.
QT was very liberally licensed for a while. Are they back to copyleft or something now?
Finland is just killing it lately, I wish Sweden could be more like Finland.
I've heard this a few times over the years, I'm not sure if it's urban legend, speculation, or based on something that actually happened. OP claims they worked at Paypal so they may not be willing to go into detail, or it may just be completely made up for Internet points (which so far seems to be backfiring).

I came across a video[1] a few days back while looking at electric car hobbyist stuff that makes the same accusations as OP. According to the Youtuber, when he had hundreds of transactions at once via a group buy on an account that he claims has moved millions of dollars through Paypal as a business account, Paypal froze the funds and he suggested to his customers that Paypal did it so they could invest the funds for six months and make a ton of interest. It's a bit tin-foil-hat sounding but it's just plausible enough to make one wonder.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1rYgD8luGw
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Well C macros work at the text-level, Rust macros run at the AST level (but not the type level, that is you cannot construct syntactically incorrect stuff but you can construct wrong-typed stuff).

So I don't really know lisp macros but I guess it's still closer than to C.
I don't think "C-style macros on steroids" is at all a good description. Rust's macros and C's really aren't that similar.

If you want a short introduction to what Rust's macros actually are then try this: https://danielkeep.github.io/practical-intro-to-macros.html#...
In combinatorics counting is always the best strategy. People are usually not good in counting, computers are better fit. So no surprise.
The Dutch love to practice their English. At the same time, ignore the requests, unless there is an urgent need to get the message across. Otherwise you'll be forever stuck. Another good trick - usually this won't work if people know your background - is to say you don't speak English, that way at least you get some time in, which is the biggest factor in learning another language.

And thank you for trying to learn the language of your destination, that alone should get you a lot of credit with the locals.
So basically the system is built so that officers can steal from suspects if the money they have is acquired through illegal means. Is there a racial subtext here? Obviously this could not continue unless a significant portion of the police community was fine with it. What's the common police officers pay in Baltimore? How long are they trained? Are they trained professionals (lots of training) or just thugs with guns (very little training)?

I have no experience in this field but I would guess they have a low pay (financial incentive) and very little training (leading to lack of professionalism). Is it so?
I moved to the Netherlands from the UK (where nothing happens without someone saying “please” or “are you sure ?” at least two times) year ago.

Dutch directnesss was something that would freeze the blood in my veins at first but after getting the hang of it, i’ve come to enjoy it (they can be direct but another good thing is you can be direct back), because if they don’t have patience for BS, neither do i.
False? Is it? I've yet to see a satisfactory answer to the criticisms that were posed about the security of Telegram.
What's funny though, is that this often isn't true in the workplace. I worked at Apple for a while, an American company in the Netherlands and their way of giving direct feedback was tough for a lot of people.
Frankly, if a rescuer takes some risks climbing a crane to rescue someone, then he shouldn't do it. I don't get it when people say: "he's putting rescuers at risks by getting stuck here". Climbing a crane is not complicated. Anyone with climbing and rope work can safely climb and rescue someone up there.

I would fine a world where all risks are forbidden to be very sad. I've climbed plenty of cranes and rope-swinged many bridges and viaducts. Of course it's illegal, but for me that's what brings pleasure to my life. Of course I could fall and pancake on the floor. Of course that'll cost the society. But I work, and I cycle instead of driving to work, so I suppose that I would cost the same in average.
Could be interpreted as "Of course it works, would people buy it if it didn't?".
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So is Signal and at least that is secure.
I think the Cosmological Principle can be applied to these situations. The CP roughly states that when we observe the Universe we are seeing a representative part. We are not living in some "special place." Applied here (and in other situations where groups of people act for good or for bad), it would mean that the bad behavior is not because the police are inherently any worse than anybody else, but rather the evolution of the situation led them to this behavior, and, importantly, would lead most sets of people to this behavior.

So replacing the actors would either need to be done periodically, or would have to be done with an entirely new set of rules.

This is also my bias for things like the banking crisis. When something like that happens, it's too easy to blame something like greed. But that's missing the point. If you don't change the rules or some other aspect of the game, you are going to get the same situation again.
Because this is a shit article pushing a political agenda with absurd rhetoric pandering to a niche that happens to be prevalent on HN?

After reading the last paragraph, I went straight for the flag button;

"It is not just Baltimore cops. It is cops. They will shoot you in the face in front of your infant daughter. They will choke you to sleep for selling cigarettes. They will shoot you in the back for walking away. And they will get away with it so often that we are shocked when they are indicted."
Thank you for that share, this is something I want after having read the article for a project I'm just starting on.
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Ah, that's nice!

... unfortunately, I'm stuck with python2.4 or 2.6 on most machines my Python code has to run on. :/
Speak for yourself. I care about privacy, and I couldn't give a shit about something so minor as link prefetching. I suspect I'm far from alone.
I dine out in Amsterdam quite often and have yet to encounter a rude waiter. What did happen is that one day we had a party in the upstairs part of a restaurant in the inner city and due to a shift change they totally forgot about us. We had a great time but went home hungry, nobody went to alert the staff to the party because we figured it would be more fun to see if they ever turned up :)
And of course the compulsory military service..
And a placebo effect, perhaps? Not for the person using it, but for those who were tested. I imagine that some would not carry explosives anymore, afraid of being detected. Some would change their behaviour and the soldier would also change, moving the magic-wand and "detecting" because both behaved inconciously different?

Until it's known not to work, it might have really helped in some cases.
They're the type of person who don't understand the line between 'having the right' and 'having to exercise that right'. It's like those videos of American people being assholes to cops, or bringing huge guns everywhere, because of their rights.
There is no mystery why taxis are expensive in Sweden. Deregulation legalizes price gouging, meaning few people will ride independent taxis or look a new companies. That doesn't just limit competition, but also puts more taxis on the road in relation to riders. Meaning higher costs.
There is - it's called providing both Bluetooth and minijack.