skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has Microsoft noticeably meddled with GitHub yet?
Why is the developer on the hook for the penalties? Shouldn't that be Steam's job?

I suppose it could be an issue if the keys were being bought directly from the developer's own website, but G2A is offering to reimburse the developer for 10x the cost of the chargeback in such cases, and the developer in the original article is claiming the real problem is with fraudulent keys being bought on Steam, not on the developers' own websites.
I have thought about doing something similar for PDF reports in a CAE app. Concluded it won’t scale. I need to handle high-poly meshes, 1M vertices and more. That’s why instead I’m using 600DPI jpeg images, rendered on GPU.

But when you know the mesh is low-poly, the technique is really cool. It should be trivial to port from Python to any other language, also from SVG to e.g. PDF.
Well enough for hospitals to agree with my OC.
Not an expert, but surely regional pricing makes sense for countries with a much lower average income (or the reverse).

I want people all round the world to play my games, not just those fortunate enough to be born where their dollar is strong enough to make it affordable.

Disclaimer: I don't really know anything about exchange rates or value of money across borders. Cost of living and average income rates are complex!
Bookworm definitely has a two-page view. I'm using it on Elementary OS
wasn't Satya part of the Azure platforms from day 1?
There was an old joke: "What do you get if IBM merges with Apple?" Answer: "IBM".

(Though these days, Apple could buy IBM..)
If you sell a product with huge fixed cost and tiny marginal cost you need to have price discrimination.

If you sell for the same price in China, Latin America, Africa and Europe imagine how much money you are leaving on the table.

Even if you believe optimizing your revenue to that extent is unvirtuous, you should still support price discrimination because it lets millions of people in poor countries enjoy your product. There is no way they could afford US/Europe prices.
Show HN: Repeat tests. Repeat tests. Repeat tests
The Super Green tariff uses power purchased directly from renewable generators (PPAs), not certificates (REGOs). It also carbon offsets your gas usage.

Our other no-quite-so-super-green tariffs also provide 100% green electricity but do so using a mix of PPAs and REGOs.

There's more info here: https://octopus.energy/blog/generators/

(I work for Octopus Energy)
I think it may have been RHAT's plan all along to get bought by IBM.
Yes, only ever seen phonics taught in the UK - wasn't aware there were alternative approaches, let alone any controversy on the topic. It might not be clear from the original article, but it isn't just single letters, there are also digraphs (i.e. two letters that make one sound, e.g. bee is read b-ee), split digraphs (i.e. where a digraph is split by a consonant, e.g. a-e for cake), and later on things like the magic e and suffixes with a-y for baby. There's some resources at https://www.gov.uk/education/phonics , and you can look on iPlayer or YouTube for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphablocks .
You should have been able to ping them using an FQDN but I can see how it would be confusing to have to do that.
"Keep your plastic trash out of my ocean!"
I have thought and wondered about this for a while. It would make things interesting if Ubuntu had the resources of Microsoft but would be allowed to be independent in regards to the OS itself. If they wanna push Azure thats ok. You dont necessarily need to use Azure to use Ubuntu if you dont want to.
I think the level of "sounding out" can vary. I learned to read "on my own" when I was 3 or 4 by realizing that the story my dad kept reading to me each night had the same exact words spoken on the same page. I realized the words on the page were related, so I would scan ahead and see the symbol "by" coming up, and he would say "by"! I picked out other small words and linked them to symbols and then linked larger sections of words. This ended up like sounding it out, but by word-parts, not by letters. My parents were surprised to learn that I could read when I read aloud a long word on a road sign as we were driving. "Tippecanoe."

With my kids, they did not follow my path and were uninterested in relating words to their sounds as we read books together, so we went with hooked on phonics to solid success, where I first learned rules (as a college educated adult mind you) like the sound of "x" (I had never realized what it was, like "ks" in "ax" - pronounced "ah-ks") and where I learned that a vowel typically says it's name if followed by a consonant and another vowel. I hadn't developed sounding out letters, I only sounded out parts of words in relation to other words I was aware of. I think this could be part of my issues with spelling in school.
And Microsoft offers the same support for a similar fee — the big change here is that the support is offered directly to the customer rather than through a reseller. Further design / build support can be acquired through the big consultancies as consulting engagements.

The big shift here is the customer now pays Microsoft directly rather than the reseller. They now own the customer relationship, which is everything in software sales.
Which is indeed not Docker 19.03 :)
Which is exactly the purpose of a knob in meatspace too :)
It is! It has been trained by (probably) the Russian Navy. It escaped and now lives in Norway.

https://www.newsinenglish.no/2019/05/03/white-whale-now-name...
More direct link without all the ads and clutter:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxFlIZpAT7a/?utm_source=ig_embed
This scheme of naming binaries is popular amongst Elementary os apps. Maybe that's were the Dev took the idea from.

I don't mind it, and if it bothers you, you can easily alias it to something else
Which is why I'm having trouble finding sympathy for the devs. They're complaining that they can't have the best of both worlds:

They want to sell their game through their own storefront to avoid the platform fees, but they don't want to deal with chargebacks or fraud.

They want to give away hundreds or thousands of free keys, but don't want the keys to be resold and don't want to exercise due diligence when giving the keys away.

They want to recoup their losses when fraud does occur, but don't want to expend the effort of sending G2A evidence of the chargeback to get the 10x refund.

This is called being a business--each dev needs to decide whether avoiding Steam's cut is worth the headache of being your own seller. Trying to fight the entire concept of reselling itself is a much more time-consuming and futile effort than just choosing one option or another.
You have access to GPU hardware in web frontends, through WebGL. It’s faster, also more power efficient.
They made paid GitHub account benefits available for free.
Ah, the joys and pain of a rolling release :)

Sorry for the snarkiness in my previous comment, if you get the chance perhaps you can look into helping with this issue. Contributing to the distributions I use has taught me a lot about the tools I use every day.
All of the AR in MCU Movies Through the Years
Yes. You can get all that when you sign up for a business account here, but usually not on residential accounts.
Why Is Measles Back?
Money? Chargebacks aren’t free.
You're in for a surprise then...
Chargebacks are a costly process. The processor will charge a fee ($15-$25 is a fair guess) and you lose the money from the transaction.
Hopefully this helps demonstrate to VCs the strong viability of red hat's model, which triggers more investment and creation of competitors and companies to fill the void after red hat is bled dry and destroyed by IBM.
It’s a bummer an animal was used the way he was, but very pleasant the locals have embraced him :)
I'm not sure if IBM acquires good products and makes them shitty or just makes shitty products from the ground up. I can't say how realistic it is they'll screw up Red Hat, but every IBM product that I've used in the last few years has been absolutely atrocious. At this point I just assume everything they touch turns to shit unless shown otherwise.

I hope that I am proven wrong since I actually quite like the RHEL / CentOS / Fedora ecosystem.
Digging more about IPv6 representation:

- It's possible to stick "::" in many places

- It's possible to have :0000: before or after "::"

- leading zeros (:0001: is the same as :1:)

- "Text Representation of Special Addresses", so the ::192.168.0.1 representation

- hex uppercase vs hex lowercase

see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952
He should stop talking to music producers and execs and start playing shows, releasing music independently and hustling to get his image out in the world. The era of "breaking in" has been over for decades. Luckily for him it's very possible DIY a music career now, just not one that nets millions of dollars.
> And noone asked me for accessibility, zero people.

It's possible that blind DAW users have just gotten tired of trying to advocate for accessibility in plugins. I thought I had a chance on this thread, since I would potentially be reaching several developers, including future plugin developers who haven't yet chosen a toolkit, instead of having to write to one at a time.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Anthropomorphism
I'm pretty sure that 1.0 + 2.0 == 3.0 in IEEE 754. :)
Now, 0.1 ...
also multiplayer games generally don't work with pirated copies. not to mention how many titles are locked down with absurdly intrusive anti-tamper software at launch these days.
G2A is mainly useful for things like multiplayer games where piracy isn't an option. That's the main reason I use it at least and I pirate everything else.
Americans on average engage in riskier and unhealthier behaviors than people in similarly developed countries. It is unfair to place the full blame on the medical system for lower life spans when they are not causing them.

The people with the highest life expectancy in the world are Asian-Americans living in NJ.
you forgot one more thing: they don't distribute their crap as a regular self-contained .app, they give you a .pkg which asks for elevated privileges during installation (this is why I don't have it installed)
This seems like wishful thinking. These are exactly the same things that are always said. You may be fine for a few weeks, a few months, or even a few years, but IBM will inevitably interfere enough to cause a serious culture shift (or collapse).
“Old school IBM values” presumably refers to their time in 1960s-1980s when they were real innovators and inventors. Now they’re just a consultancy shop.
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Hopefully this helps validate the red hat model to spur more investment into the space and create a new crop of competitors to fill the void after IBM ruins red hat.
How to Divide Founder Equity: 4 Criteria to Discuss
They could buy IBM almost 2x over with their cash on hand.
>Victims could not even prevent themselves from being constantly added to the "Jimmy go kill yourself" group.

What’s the difference between inviting Jimmy to that group and just messaging him in private asking him to kill himself? Seems like a pointless feature. (Let’s remember that users you’ve blocked could never add you to groups.)
I am not a big Zoom fan but everyone else but me at work has issues with Zoom. One vendor we do calls with sometimes gets the web version instead of the desktop version any time he joins a Zoom call.

My biggest pet peeve was Ciscos version. I had to install: a browser plugin, which wasnt used, then a desktop app, then a follow up desktop app to support voice and audio. What the actual heck is Cisco smoking!? I was shocked. I cannot believe the sheer incompetency and what saddens me is they probably advertise Webex as a solution but it is such garbage on a Mac. I dare not ask what its like on Windows or Linux (ha!). I hate to say it but Webex might benefit from becoming an Electron app.
Years ago got an account with Abebooks because I didn't like Amazon keeping such a detailed list of every book I ever thought to read or bought as a gift for someone else. Then I found out Abebooks is still Amazon. (Didn't have this list to refer to back then.) Closed that account and now buy my books through Alibris and the used bookstore by the university. Feels good to support independent booksellers and resist the Amazon-Borg collective.
Detection of light sources from environment maps
It may work out for the bank in the short term. But saying Redhat is a separate entity within IBM won't last long if they're driving down their own revenue by fighting each other. IBM leadership holds all the cards now and all the Redhat execs are in a glass house facade. What IBM wants is revenue from the acquisition, not confusion and price wars. There is no best team, there is only one team now. And that team has one goal above all else: show how this acquisition was brilliant and the wall street numbers to prove it.

Remember that what IBM paid for Redhat, based on the fact they had to finance a big chunk of that liquid cost, has interest tied to it. That interest cancels out the revenue Redhat will bring to the plate. So... I'll say it now for those who don't want to do the math: your Redhat licensing is going up soon. Better have locked in those 3 year deals prior to today.
Not so sure. I mean, yes, what you say is right, but there are problems nevertheless, see eg Wikipedia:

> Reproducibility

> The IEEE 754-1985 allowed many variations in implementations (such as the encoding of some values and the detection of certain exceptions). IEEE 754-2008 has strengthened up many of these, but a few variations still remain (especially for binary formats). The reproducibility clause recommends that language standards should provide a means to write reproducible programs (i.e., programs that will produce the same result in all implementations of a language), and describes what needs to be done to achieve reproducible results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#Reproducibility
The problem with review keys being done with limited time is that once the license expires, its the game and developer that get blamed and get poor reviews.

One of the biggest problem with resellers is review-key fraud
It doesn’t have to be perfect. If kids don’t understand every word or every abstract theme of a book that’s okay. If kids aren’t maximally challenged by every sentence, or if the teacher interjects a definition of a word they already knew for the benefit of less prepared students, that’s also okay. Kids who are a bit ahead or a bit behind will still generally stay engaged if the story is interesting.
Ask HN: How did you find a freelance ad expert?
So my wife and I have built our ecommerce website and now we're ready to start marketing, but we know currently nothing about ads, and thought it would be best to have someone experienced help do it at the start.

For those in that position before, how did you find someone to help, at startup friendly rates?
The complexity of tests tends to go up faster than the complexity of the functions under test.

One of the thought experiments I use for teaching testing is to remind them that nobody wants to read your code. The next person to read your test is probably going to be reading it because it’s failing. They are in effect already having a bad day. Don’t make it worse. They will assign that negative emotion to you.

This has started to affect all of my design thinking. I’m probably only reading your code because I’m trying to hunt down a bug (or my attempt to add new functionality has failed spectacularly). Every time I run into a function that contains code smells, I have to stop long enough to figure out if those smells are the bug I’m looking for or something else. In a particularly bad codebase, like the one I inhabit now, by the time I finally find what I’m looking for, I no longer recall why I was looking for it in the first place.

This is not good code. It’s shitty code written by people who aren’t emotionally secure enough to write straightforward code. Or are running from one emergency to the next, all day every day. Or both. Or are young developers just copying what they see around them.
I'm not sure how to phrase this in a non-combative, constructive way, but I do think it's a really good question.

Facebook's PR team and legal team are arguing two completely separate things right now, and I'd like management to explain how they reconcile those views.

I'd like to know whether their lawyers are right that users have no expectation of privacy, or whether Zuckerburg is right that privacy is the future of Facebook. If Facebook's lawyers aren't misrepresenting the company, then I'd like to know why Zuckerburg and management are so hesitant to make the same arguments in public press releases.
You don't need price discrimination. You can make money without it. You want price discrimination to make even more money.

Edit: a lot of people seem to be confused about what I'm saying and are telling me how price discrimination is good. I'm not saying it's good or bad. I'm saying it's not a need. Existence proof: many companies that don't do it.
R.I.P. Red Hat
Their blob has no features advantage, and neither performance advantage anymore vs Mesa. While it is known to cheat and violate OpenGL spec to show better results.
Standard Firefox has a dark theme built right in. Select Menu - Customize. There's Default, Light, and Dark. And 3 densities for the UI.
On reading more, I don't really see how this particular legislation played a mayor role in things like the ABC raid?

I doubt this "anti-encryption" legislation is what allows the police to stomp into a journalist office and take things like cameras as the ABC warrant allowed.

I mean, clearly a law supposed to help combat terrorism is gravely misapplied when used to search for a journalists source, but the real problem is that journalism seems to lack pretty basic protections at all in Australia.
Maybe if Whitehurst becomes President of IBM?

Currently, Rometty is Chairman, President, and CEO. Best practice is to split the Chairman and President positions.
It is probably some mix of opioids, long term impacts of continual growth in the obesity rate, and the fact that a lot of people now have health insurance with $8,000+ deductibles. These are all fixable problems.

There are fundamental problems with the most popular and attempted solutions. Opioid deaths ballooned when high-dosage users had the prescriptions/sources pulled abruptly, overweight Americans have been deluged by misleading and conflicting advice for decades, and every political party's proposal for healthcare is to just spend more money on it (differing on where exactly the funds will come from.) We need new ideas, not re-attempts of the old and failed ones.
Your user experience will be the same regardless of which node you choose, since you can follow people regardless of what node they're using. Every user account is constructed as @user@pixelfed.tld.

But, yeah, onboarding is a rough problem to solve when your goal isn't for one server to contain all the data. It requires learning some new stuff that I couldn't be bothered to learn for far too long. If privacy-conscious people aren't willing to learn them, nobody will and these projects will just die.
It seems to me life is meant to be lived most with the people you live near. No matter how much technology improves the ability to communicate long distances, it's never the same as being with those people. So maybe it does mean visiting only every few years, and maybe even less often. It's hard when those people are family though, because then you have a permanent connection with them. But sometimes friends drift apart (physically) and you make new ones (locally) instead, and that's okay.
Running Arch as well and I use the Calibre Flatpak to manage my Kindle. I plug it in every month or so and haven't had any failures in the last year. I've found that Flatpaks solve the problem of some older programs not working well on Arch or some programs not getting updated on Debian.
My understanding of things like this is, until the day the acquisition closes, the teams should be fighting tooth and nail against each other. Since that was very recent closure, this is normal.

OTOH, once the acquisition closes, the businesses are still run independently until "business day 1", though they can cooperate on deals. Likely if they are fighting after closure, its over the integration and account/revenue control. This should be resolved by management, and more often than not, as an exec you have to lay down the law on this. Not everyone will be happy, and even the customers eyebrows will be raised sometimes.

RH likely has better relationships with various customers (finserv, etc.) and likely should control these accounts. However, much of this winds up in internal political manuevering.
Most likely the video creator has a webpage open, waiting to send a request to the zoom localhost webserver after 90 seconds triggering the install.
Correct.

This is true on both android and iOS, but on android the 'system' photo picker is an intent which fires up the gallery/google photos and typically has a pretty bad user experience, so not many app developers use it.
Hire an office manager.
> UK: "Reading-g." (Really. Every BBC presenter does the double-G ing on everything-g.)

I had a hard time believing this one. It's subtle to my ears, but I'm a believer now. For those who are curious, check out the clip below [1]. You'll hear "hunting" & "willing" shortly after the linked time

[1] https://youtu.be/kngB7PzsDzM?t=48
Yes. For example, 7! is already divisible by 8.

The smallest integer that 8! is divisible by, and that 7! isn't, is 32 -- much less small.
I use those fancy overpriced handmade soaps and they don't cause any skin dryness or itchyness.
IBM spends so much on R&D. I am not sure if the company is solely focussed on short term profits.