skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I propose that using web components for desktop/mobile applications is not a good thing.

Agree, every platform has it's distinctive look & feel and as a user I expect that my apps follow this for 100%.
Recently I checked out Flutter, with the 1.0 release i thought it's worth to play around with it. The first thing i did, was installing their demo app on my iPhone they showed on the release event. Within seconds I noticed that there was something wrong. They tried hard to reimplement the bounce effect during scrolling on iOS, but it just didn't feel 100% right.

I totally understand, that not every user out there has this sharp eye for things like that and that there is definitely a business value going cross platform, but this is not something I would be proud as a developer. It's the cheap root for the developer ending up in a cheap experience for their users. Share your business logic between platforms if appropriate, theme it for your CI if needed, but do the UI as expected.
Check out Witcher 3!
No problem, I love this idea, it would be nice to see more than just gmail and other providers out there. I also love your web layout it's really nice.
More importantly even though it is legal at the federal level now there are still states where it is illegal.
This is much worst than what we saw in Australia, current Indian govt headed by right wing political party with track record of human rights abuses have passed this order without passing through Parliament using a loop hole in the IT ACT.

This is likely aimed at upcoming elections for data analyses via ISP & to target journalists critical of the current govt in India.

But I feel that the International community isn't going to rally up for India like they did for Australia; I doubt even if expats would.
I highly recommend you give the Exile series from Spiderweb Software a chance if you haven't. It's a bit dated graphically, but it's engine has been kept up and there's some new Avadon series as well. It's hands down some of the best storytelling and I've easily played hundreds of hours. I've definitely played from night to morning without realizing it more than a few times.
Project idea: Neural network instructs cat when to go outside.
I don't see how that's true. How do you think healthy vegetarians manage to get by then? If there were more vegetarians, it would be even easier as well as there would be more fast food options.
Just as an FYI, there doesn't exist a way to deorbit those any faster than they are already decaying, so that's not a real option.
I'm not aware if there's dynamic economy

Kiiiind of? As in, you can see the framework of how it could work, and to a certain extent, specific actions by one player at-for example-the Grim Hex Orbital station can affect trade for another player, but it's a level of detail I wont bore you with by typing out a gigantic wall of text.

But again, it's not fully fleshed out, and lacks a few elements, but it's not nothing, and what it is, is enough to have spawned a trade war among players, which we are having loads of fun with.
What problem are these "alternatives" addressing? If I'm concerned about privacy and data sharing, Twitter, Snapchat, and Tumblr don't seem like good candidates.
> The ability for some sounds coming out of a speaker, when it's known they do not represent any conscious thought of any living person and has no influence or control over ones own life, to offend someone is probably a sign of mental illness in the listener.

This illness is very, very widespread.. doesn't make it less of an illness though.

> Once you've totally abandoned the notion that the involvement of a conscious mind is relevant, all kinds of things become possible.

> Much science fiction presumes we will engage in grand combat with AI when it demands respect -- it seems we are much closer instead to thrusting it upon them and exalting them above humanity before they've even got the capacity to recognize themselves in a mirror.

That's putting very beautifully and efficiently what I very much struggle with to express:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18502239

In a nutshell, I think we're not so much creating intelligence, we're destroying what's left of intelligence humans, and we will build a blinking LED yet, and then fall down and worship it because it blinks. No more responsibility, no more nagging questions, no more mirrors that can't be bribed.
Is this just an ad?
Where you go largely depends on where most of your friends are. I spend more time on WeChat as most of my friends are there. After I installed SnapChat, I don’t think I ever come back because nobody I know is on it.
As someone on /r/sysadmin has correctly remarked - if you are outsourcing to India, you should assume that all data they have access to it is now also freely accessible to the Indian government.
Theranos was bad for both reasons. Even if you remove the fraud, they were skirting all sorts of regulations around patient safety and the operation of laboratories.
Huawei buys tech from American companies. If that tech ends up in infrastructure which gets sold to embargoed countries, then it’s a felony on US soil and some allied countries as well. Huawei says it didn’t happen, U.S. prosecutors maintain that it did happen, through a shady HK subsidiary, while Meng was purportedly well aware of that.
I want a neural network to convince my cat otherwise.
Apple's Dan Riccio Says 2018 iPad Pro 'Meets or Exceeds' Quality Standards
> If you weigh the consequences of breaking the contract and decide it’s worth the risk why not do it?

Textbook example of how a career criminal thinks.
I can’t answer as to Game of Thrones, but with regard to people believing in climate change, it is useful to consider what changes they have made to their lives or compromises they have made to see whether they really believe it.

So for example, some friends who are big believers in climate change, tell people that they make the sacrifice of buying a Tesla and a Prius, and bought their “retirement” house directly in the middle of an area that is directly in an area that is likely to have flooding issues in the 30y timeframe. They are both late thirties.

Do they believe in climate change? Or do they say they do?
Obviously your mind is made up, but I don't think you've considered that you don't really know that someone is a VP at X company on Blind, either. They could be a janitor.

People are welcome to enjoy whatever fiction they want to read. I'm just saying you'll probably find more useful and reliable information elsewhere.
Agree.. Are there any major social app that you can absotely trust your private data with?
A Nuclear-Powered Tunneling Robot That Could Search for Life on Europa
I think this is an excellent criticism of Electron that seems to be buried. Sure, it’d be nice if the RAM usage and disk footprint of electron were smaller. Maybe the creation of some sort of shared single instance of chromium will happen, someday. But even if it does, the browser rendering process is really latent unless you’re extraordinarily careful. It’s very challenging to make sure that your app responds to input within one frame — batching updates with requestAnimationFrame creates a visible delay when dragging and typing. It’s possible to do better, but it’s hard and almost nobody does. And it’s easy to do a lot worse — RAIL isn’t aggressive enough.

(My angle on this — I do high-performance 2d/3d animation work in the browser and in electron, with extensive testing of latency, energy usage, frame rate stability, etc)
Automotive doesn’t pay well by tech standards. Amazon’s engineers in Detroit are paid far better than their automotive counterparts.

Detroit has a good tech talent base, but sadly, it isn’t up-to-par with the coastal tech hubs.
I got used to tree style tabs so I wouldn't be able to switch, those extra windows which are necessary in chrome were awful
One thing that could be really cool, would be the UI of RSS readers applied to social media. Like, you could have the ads and recommendations in their own branch of the tree.
They are completely crowd funded, and with how much they have raised (>$200 million), it would be silly for them to sign with a publisher or seek investment. In the beginning they were looking at signing investors, but they raised enough to not need that. Also, with the 2 million people who have already backed the game, they do not need to do traditional advertisements. They do have a presence at game conferences, and produce quite a bit of video about the development of the game as pretty much their only form of advertising.
Qt had been available under the LGPL since 2009.

Up until 2005 or so Qt had indeed a relatively complex licensing scheme where the available (i.e. the license of Qt) and compatible (i.e. the license of the application, due to their GPL exception allowing applications to use MIT, BSD, ...) differed by what was then Qt ports (e.g. Qt/X11, Qt/OSX, Qt/Windows). After that they always had a uniform licensing model for Qt, were the licensing was independent of the platform.
[aside] @burtonator - what do you use for your pdf rendering? pdf.js? When I used electron a while ago it didn't natively support PDFs so you needed to roll your own with pdf.js. And the UI code to get full-featured PDF support (like a native browser) was quite complicated. Just curious if you found an easier way.
> This project cannot work.

This assessment is not supported by the links you posted. Here is a summary of the critiques you linked.

* They are using RO-BOOMS, a proven tech since 1988 for oil cleanups

* They are painted black, which makes them hard to see

* When testing the booms at the Marin Facility, waves would cause gaps underneath where garbage could pass through the barrier

* They haven't tested them yet to see whether they collect plastic

* The author couldn't find the public proposal

* Many of the above comments are now admitted to be out of date

* Author believes the momentum from the project could lead to real change but some changes are needed for a workable solution

* Author desires transparency

* No scientific reviews have been done on the project

* Sections of the feasibility study require editing

* The feasibility study doesn't account for extreme ocean currents

* The feasibility study doesn't prove it will work

* Doesn't capture plastic at depth

* Further testing and analysis is needed

* Biofouling hasn't been solved yet

* Available advanced computer simulation software was not used in the design

* Some sections of the feasibility study are out of date due to design changes

* More than one ship will be required

* Several design hurdles haven't been overcome yet

* Legal issues regarding bycatch haven't been resolved

While certainly many of these are valid, they are also pretty much what one would suspect from early stage modelling, prototyping, and testing. The authors you linked actually deem the project worth the time of providing professional critical feedback, and they believe that the momentum can lead to real workable solutions.
HN is a heavily moderated asset of a seed accelerator. I wouldn't be so sure that surfacing the best content is even the objective.

Lobste.rs seems a little more tech-centric. Reddit seems a little more open. All are limited by STEM groupthink, but HN is the 800lb gorilla for the time being, so we all just have to put that in our pipes and smoke it.
I'm not. I would. It's pretty harmless. The chance of serious injury seems lower than that of crossing a busy street.
The pervasive belief that how it looks is better than how it works. End-users can be conditioned to wait for the application to catch up if it looks nice. If it's ugly, most folks will simply lose interest.

I prefer functionality over appearance, but I'm just a crusty old RDBMS DBA so I'm not sure my opinion can count for much.
>national security is a sham

Now the chinese would just need to infiltrate single infrastructure.

What did the Indian govt do when it was revealed that the Huawei was siphoning off data from BSNL (state run ISP)? Other countries have started to ban Huawei telecom products.
This particular case was about the individual I think, buying up HP gear and sending it to Iran. I don't even think it was a Huawei thing, just an elitist level money grab.

But Huawei is also being accused of enabling the Chinese government spying apparatus. Many governments are wary of using their gear, and are considering taking their gear out of network.
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Check out pyqt, it's fast, cross platform, and super full of features
After almost 20 years, the original Torment is still unparalleled in many ways. It redefined what it means to tell a truly great story in a video game.
The mystery viruses far worse than flu
That's a possibility. But I still think there must be a more direct proof. A shorter proof that can be understood by anyone who is familiar with Euclid. I believe a proof by using only mathematical methods known to Fermat must be possible.
Postmortem Templates
Baldur's Gate was really difficult as a kid. Without fully understanding how the stat system worked or the pause/play combat, my siblings and I really struggled with it.

What we would do to overcome the difficulty was ramp our characters level when starting the game. In Candlekeep Inn, we would buy as many darts as we could afford, and throw them at the sorcerer in the lobby. Before he could retaliate, we would run up the stairs to safety.

Repeat this a few dozen times, and he eventually dies, and you get a huge XP boost. Then you export the character, start a new game, and do the same thing.

One time we did this enough to be able to kill the character's father before leaving Candlekeep. Good times.
I JUST signed up for their service this week. :(.
They do have a paid subscription service that pays for promo materials. I suppose it depends on how much you trust the organization to firewall different money sources.
I'm confused by your response. You quote the article, but you seem to disagree with it. The author explicitly states that this is a data locality effect. The access characteristics vary because of cache effects, as the article explicitly states: "When the strings are short...they are more likely to occupy the same cache line.... As the strings get longer...fewer strings will fit inside a cache line. Eventually...you don't gain any significant benefit from locality."

> Provided access were always to memory, such that strings in an array of strings exceed cache size, it would not be a locality issue and string length would still result in a performance variance

If you always miss the cache, then performance will no longer vary with string length.
Marketer’s Guide: How, When and Who Uses Emojis
Star Control II
The site isn't even built yet!
Conflating group-hysterical episodes like those around "Satanic Ritual Abuse" with the long and disturbing career of a predator hiding in plain site is really rather disingenuous. They are very different phenomena. Further to that, the associated hysteria in the 1980s may well have obscured real issues and perpetrators, and helped the likes of Jimmy Savile continue to get away with his crimes. Crimes where there is no suggestion of ritual, or satanistic aspect, just a long career of awful abuse.

I'm not sure what the rest of your conjecture is about at all.
> Can someone explain how a Chinese company is subject to a US embargo?
From the article: "She was detained at the behest of the U.S. for allegedly misleading financial institutions about the company’s Iran business, causing them to violate U.S. sanctions."
VS Code is built on Electron, which means it has a huge advantage from my point of view as a user: I can just remove stuff from the UI that I don't need and tweak it a bit with a few lines of CSS. I'm not sure what quite big sacrifices I'm making for this.

There are definitely awful Electron apps, but that's usually because of the developers, not because of Electron.
Using cloudflare DNS over ISP is definetly better, but you definetly need VPN/ToR or both to stop govt snooping on your online activities.
> Well NASA put a man on the Moon and America's economy boomed at the same time.

Yes but you've missed the point. Those billions have turned out to be a net positive for the world. But at the time, why should someone dying of cancer fund a literal moonshot? Why should we antagonize the nuclear armed Soviets over a dead rock? Why this, why that?

> Also, your tax dollars are absolutely being handed over to private organisations in one way or another.

Then it incurs the same penalties! The opportunity cost argument still applies. "Why did we fund this business over that business?"

The majority of private businesses have no exclusive government support. They are free to fail with zero impact to society. This means their apps are crappier but no one had to suffer to make it happen.
Looks like the whole Gibberlings website is temporarily offline, but it will be back up shortly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/baldursgate/comments/a736rl/gibberl...
about RD2 , what do you mean it pushed boundaries? if are you referring at programming I want to know what you mean since I did not see anything new in it(just asking not want to contradict you).

The graphics and animations are good but I seen similar on other games.
Has anyone that played BG also played Dragon Age Trilogy? Is it a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate? I loved BG1/BG2 in middleschool/highschool.
I let my cat in and out of the side door a few times per day. When it's near dusk and the light shines directly through the glass, he won't come in. Like he thinks it's going to take him to another dimension. Very strange, but also very typical cat behavior.
Alexa devices are your property. Your home is where you use Alexa devices. Both are paramount in this context.
Ramamoorthy sentenced to 9 yrs for inflight sexual assault on Spirit Airlines
you should consider yourself lucky. you could have signed up a while ago and invested in it
I thought it was a brilliant idea for builds. Not many customers?
There are people with good results for high throughput Haskell (worse than C, not by much, with code almost as complex as C). But for latency, the GC alone kills it.
Two minutes on YouTube would demonstrate that the game isn't a scam. SC being a scam has become a meme/echo chamber, it doesn't really matter whether or not it's true. The game could launch and people would still call it a scam.
TFA mentions that the air above it gets cold and sinks creating a cold air layer, presumably it is more dense. Any idea how dense this air would be?
I love my cat.
Given that Microsoft recently acquired the primary Electron developer, GitHub, that concept seems plausible. And I have a difficult time finding fault with it.

You see endless 'concerns' about Electron resource usage. What you don't find are complaints that it's unstable, or that it only works on some desktops, or that it's hard to understand or use. It's solid, it works on all desktops and it's about as easy to use as such a thing can be for contemporary full stack developers.

For better or worse I think the whinging about resource usage isn't going to hinder Electron much.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
> I have since removed those reactions from the original video (originally 6:26-7:59).

Does YouTube allow video edits now?
DSF calls for applicants for a Django Fellow
less confusion for https://hyper.is/
This seems like a sudden shut down, only giving users a few weeks to migrate.
Does she use Etsy by chance? Seems like the big place for that kind of thing.
Could be, but I just checked again and the App takes ~29MB, and the two background processes take ~24 and ~136 for a total under 190MB. Whether it uses 1.5% or 4% of my RAM is meh either way in this case. Windows 10
My neighbour growing up had a great patch of wild rhubarb in the back yard. Giant stalks with giant leaves. Turns out his septic tank was leaking and it was directly under the rhubarb.
No. Perhaps it's a reupload.
There's pipenv now, which wraps pip and venv to do all that in a super simple way.

It has some performance issues but it's still quite a recent project.
My alarm clock is from the early 1980's. All of the buttons are more prominent and many times bigger than any of the buttons on my 2010's smartphone.
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looks like kivy will be a nice choice these days, actively developed, multiple platform, decent looking
Agreed. I would also add they are completely rewriting what is the size of project approachable by “indie” game devs. A success changes the rules of the game dev ecosystem.
just to be clear, "this guy" isn't just some random person. atiyah is one of the best mathematicians of the 20th century.
Front-end, Back-end or Full-stack?
I still wish Signal would allow you to register with just a username or email. One thing I liked about Wire more than Signal, but even less people I'm likely to meet will be using Wire vs Signal, which is already rare enough.
If you’re on a Mac, open up activity monitor and watch which apps use the most energy. For me, the energy used by Atom, Slack, and Chrome is vastly higher than the energy used by other apps (inc. Safari loaded with tabs). It’s possible to make an energy efficient Electron app — you just need to aggressively shut off event loops when there’s nothing to update, which is hard so most app (and site) devs don’t bother. (I make complex animations on the web, so I’m hyper attuned to perf and energy use)
They raised that money in part by saying "We're going to spend this money on game development." I don't think they could turn around and spend $50M of it on advertising without inviting lawsuits.
My greatest accomplishment as a kid was beating BG2 on "Insane" difficulty as a solo character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa8JV3z-Oeo

I must have played through the game at least two dozen times and I never got tired of it. To this day it's still my favorite game of all time. Modern RPGs just don't compare in terms of storytelling and gameplay experience, in my opinion.
This is probably the use-case. There's other obvious usecases as well; advertising, p2p loans, annoying the Winkelvoss entity, etc.

Since I said no even to an interview, it's hard to say what the parameters are for their thing, but I hope they fail.
( Not a vegan, just sick of picking up the check for the meat industrial complex )

Don't forget the massive amount of subsidies we give to the meat industrial complex so they can develop antibiotic-resistant bacteria, destroy the earth, make people work in reprehensible conditions, and make our people sick and overweight!
Yep, mine was 70k PLN :) I'm in Bytom, in Upper Silesia region and unfortunately I know nothing about living in Wroclaw. I suspect flats there are 3-4x more expensive than what I paid though!

PS. Regarding smog, I was considering leaving the area altogether because of it, but an air purifier turned out to be a life-saver. Now I can have clear air inside the flat and only have to deal with the pollution when outside.
They're also incidentally available DRM-free for a few dollars in the GOG winter sale:

https://www.gog.com/game/baldurs_gate_enhanced_edition

https://www.gog.com/game/baldurs_gate_2_enhanced_edition

https://www.gog.com/game/icewind_dale_enhanced_edition

https://www.gog.com/game/icewind_dale_2

Some friends and I just started a BG2 game last night.
Prohibition ended because people were sick of it and it was repealed not because people violated the law and the government decided not to enforce it after all.
I hate to have to correct fellow HNers in a public forum but you two have left me with no other choice: Ultima V is clearly the best of the Ultima games.
It seems to work for me: https://msropendata.com/
As is usual in Haskell for this kind of question, you can theoretically capture the information at the type level, and there are good odds somebody is working in a GHC extension for that.

But on practice, I don't think you are missing anything.
the eventually clean litterbox algo :)
I think they're referring to the marketing budget, which isn't accounted for in the development budget.