skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qt apps break all the way to being unusable on my windows system when plugging in an external display or RDPing to the machine. I use Kleopatra, Electrum, Qbittorrent, VLC, they all have scaling issues where the text and icons does not scale correctly with the buttons and other components.
I've heard of people getting banned for repeatedly buying and returning high value items. I have a video studio and while building it out I was going through a lot of returns of items that just didn't live up to their product pages' claims. As I was nervous about getting canceled I made sure to call Amazon and the CS rep put a note in my file about why I had a high (like 10%, but of relatively expensive stuff) return rate. She told me she gets asked to do that once in awhile and that she'd never heard of problems once somebody had done that.
The Fiat 500e has been in production since 2013 (by Chrysler, in Mexico), but due to weird regulatory incentives, is only for sale in California and Oregon.
Maybe because in some networks UDP traffic is blocked by their administrator?
The Chelsea Affect (2002)
A stock buy-back increases the stock price, by definition (by creating demand for it where there was none). Absent buy-backs, the stock price would be lower. That statement doesn't require a "should".
i might be inclined to argue that
the number of things fancier than
two pairs of contextual rhymes
which present a clear principle
of morality in one simple sentence
could be infinitesimal.
This is the thing I would want to ask Matthew Prince about if I ever met him. Cloudflare working on AMP really surprised me, I would've expected them to make some sort of de-AMP product.
They delayed the rollout after people spoke out against it:

"In Chrome M69, we rolled out a change to hide special-case subdomains “www” and “m” in the Chrome omnibox. After receiving community feedback about these changes, we have decided to roll back these changes in M69 on Chrome for Desktop and Android."

I don't think there's any going back this time around...
The question is whether any of them were actually rioting. The protestors themselves argue that there was zero rioting on the part of protestors, but that white-shirted thugs worked with the police to assault protestors, who were then arrested and charged.

That said, I'm sure with any large group, there are going to be some who go too far.
https://github.com/revery-ui/revery

Cross-platform desktop apps with reason
San Luis Obispo. Charming college town which has restricted growth.
Already down?
Netflix is probably trying to better determine when you have passed out on the couch and are not watching anymore.
I'm getting mighty tired of the "exactly-once" thing.

Everybody and their uncles seem to have picked up on this trend of advertising at-least-once systems as exactly-once, then burying somewhere in the docs that you're expected to guarantee idempotency yourself to get the appearance of exactly-once. That was the state of the art decades years ago, it's the state of the art now, and it's pretty damn dishonest to sell quality-of-life improvements as a fundamental shift in the guarantees/properties of these systems.
Your variant 1) reminds me of the board game Hive. It feels like a hex-based, lightweight mix between Chess and Go (you win by surrounding your opponent's Queen Bee) where the pieces also create the shape of the board.
The Virtue of Not Invented Here Syndrome
https://github.com/revery-ui/revery

Cross-platform desktop apps with Reason
Obtaining AWS credentials via SSRF attack to access instance metadata (April)
When I was young if some guy picked up dog poop in a park and took it home in a bag he would have been locked up as crazy. Nowadays if you don't pick up dog poop in a park and take it home in a bag you're locked up as criminal.

What a world. What a world.
Nor do they know which app is eating their resources.

The hardware industry has trained them to think, "This machine is slow. It must be getting old. Time to get a new one!"

In reality, they've probably just accumulated applications that run in the background and/or put less developer time into constraining resources.
This is a perfect representation of the different philosophies behind the design of 3ds Max and software like Maya. I don’t have Blender expeience (yet) so I can’t speak to that.

I think most of us kind of understand that 3ds Max was designed more with the individual artist in mind, and Maya was designed more with the team in mind, but I don’t think the former gets it’s due. 3ds Max has a lot of customary details like this that should probably be adopted more on other platforms but hasn’t. I wonder if people just thought of these things as old-fashioned. I’m not sure but, for me, 3ds Max is the most inspirational software interface I have ever used.
The funniest thing I saw in recent memory was some Japanese tourists (in the US) break a law.

They brought a bag lunch of sushi to the zoo, and sat down as a family to eat it at a picnic table. Shortly after they started eating their sushi, the parents proudly started drinking 24oz cans of Sapporo.

Yes, the Japanese tourists were violating American drinking laws by drinking in public!

(And, yes, I know that what they did is perfectly legal and culturally appropriate in Japan!)
Your comment has a typo that I suspect you'd like to fix before your window expires...
Dropbox has shaved 20% off data centre costs by adopting SMR storage
Do you have a link to that book perchance?
It sure does. It says MS is still pushing bloat.
By all means, hide the truth from the users and flat-out lie to them. After all, what's it of their concern which site they are browsing? The main thing is they see the ads.
"America naturalizes more new citizens each year than the rest of the world combined."

Source?

"it is interesting that Republicans give to charity at a vastly higher rates than Democrats [1]"

Where is the [1] source?

" I’m sorry for people who have bad luck, but where is their family? Their church? Their local community? How is someone outside of my community or family circle my problem?"

Isn't this the argument here that there is an empathy problem, as your post is displaying a lack of empathy?
Show HN: Open Source Boat Monitoring
Are you suggesting that we had 7% inflation last year, or am I misunderstanding you?
Freedoms are fine as long as they're mine and not someone else's.
I like how your proposed alert notification is in capitalized letters and post hoc. "DUE TO RECENT LEGISLATION RESTRICTIONS ON CELL TOWER PERMITS IN WILDLIFE AREAS, AT&T HAS DETECTED THAT YOU ARE NO LONGER WITHIN OUR PLATINUM CELL TOWER COVERAGE AREA. YOU ARE NOW IN THE IMPENDING DEATH NO EMERGENCY SERVICE ZONE, GOODBYE."
I think he's referring to this sample (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtdoc-demos-photoviewer-example.html) - replace Image by VideoPlayer, tweak the ui, make some menus, add a few interactions and you're good to go from what is visible on your screenshots - were I still a freelancer I would maybe have quoted two weeks for that ?
> Nicely demonstrating that just as "open source" is open to multiple interpretations, so is "free software". Within certain communities, there are widely-accepted definitions (from OSI, FSF, Debian, etc) but not everyone automatically understands the terms according to these definitions.

At least for "free", it (used to be?) very common to add an "as in" after, like "free as in beer" (you don't have to pay) or "free as in speech" (you can do what you want with it).
Could you share more?

Is it a safe city?

Can you walk in random directions without fear?

How difficult is to get visa?

Do they speak English?

What kind of expenses are you looking at monthly?

As someone with fully remote job, I am wondering whether I should go couple of months there. I am on the verge about it.
> instead optimising for hardware cost

I imagine a big reason that they're on old hardware is cost - just because it's relatively cheap for someone in the West to get a decent modern machine at a reasonable cost doesn't mean that it's the same everywhere, especially when there's big disparities in the purchasing power of the native currency vs. the sellers/manufactures currency. It's not so much an optimization, I imagine most users on legacy hardware don't choose to be, it's more likely that they can't afford more modern hardware or it isn't available for them to purchase.

Another huge reason for users to stay with older operating systems (especially in business and government) is dependencies on legacy software - if an organization relies on software that has never been updated after Windows 95/XP and doesn't function on later versions then they're going to be stuck using legacy machine configurations until the process can be changed to something else.

> stopped caring about resource usage and efficiency (energy usage and operator time)

How do you know that they don't care about how efficiently they can use a machine for whatever they're doing? It's a baseless assumption.

Even if your user percent that's stuck using older hardware/operating systems is in the single digits, that isn't an excuse to ignore their requirements IMO. Doing so is a sign of sloppy engineering, akin to designing a new mode of public transport, for example, that doesn't cater for disabled people.
Complex things are complex. Attempting to simplify complex systems below this threshold of complexity invariably ends in lost capability or lost fingers when the sharp edge you didn't know was there sneaks up on you.

And web browsers are very complex beasts by design, by accretion, and by necessity.

Sorry, I guess. Does bemoaning it actually help anything?
It's already down...

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-original-diablo-is-now-playable-...

https://www.techradar.com/news/spend-your-lunchtime-playing-...
First HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927972

They rolled this out 10 months ago but rolled it back after community backlash.
Forget About SaaS: Software-as-a-Lender Could Be the Next Big Thing
I never understand these context-free posts. The domain of what could be interesting to a hacker is very broad, but shouldn't we say something?

Anyway, the actual title seems to have almost nothing to do with the meat (such as it is) of the article; the point seems to be the content of a handout distributed in class by the author, a teacher of a feminist and queer theories class, called "Some Notes On How To Ask A Good Question About Theory That Will Provoke Conversation And Further Discussion From Your Colleagues". The guidelines aren't bad overall, even if they'll probably say nothing new to any curious hacker; they're mostly just addressing "Some Notes on How to Ask a Good Question" (a very important skill for everyone, hackers included), without much focus on the social-theory part of it.
I'm done giving tech companies my private data
I certainly don't feel bad throwing a wrapper on the ground if the whole ground is full of wrappers already. I wouldn't anymore anyway, but it's largely true - people feel worse about committing a crme when they know others don't or aren't doing it.
I was suprised to learn about the Google project [1] for endangered languages. There are languages in Southern Africa that have less than 10 speakers, some eerily distinct from each other.

I don't really know how to manage a normal job and hobbies but somehow be involved in this vanishing part of our history.

[1] http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
Building a Scalable React App with Next.js
Dentists extract 526 teeth from mouth of seven-year-old boy
This is unbelievably dumb.
What's the best and the worst thing about this city in your opinion? I'm dreaming about moving to Spain and hesitate between Barcelona and Valencia
My job is remote. Moved to a lake near family in Alabama. Couldn't be happier. Very low cost of living. I also get to go wakeboarding on my lunch break
> You can’t have nearly open borders and free everything.

The point of the article is precisely that the US _doesn't_ have free everything, much less adequate support for the poor.

> it is interesting that Republicans give to charity at a vastly higher rates than Democrats

This is because churches are are automatically considered 501c3 charities in the US. Another way to look at the issue is that Democrats generally support a systematic approach to social welfare - i.e. a sufficient government-run social safety net - rather than an uncoordinated collection of religious groups to administer benefits.

> I’m sorry for people who have bad luck, but where is their family? Their church? Their local community?

Not everyone has family. Not everyone attends church. You realize that impoverished communities are a thing, right? Have you never been to the rural South? To an inner city neighborhood?

> How is someone outside of my community or family circle my problem?

Wow. I don't think I can make an argument that will give you a basic sense of human decency. For someone who mentions churches several times, you seem to have missed one of the core lessons about caring for thy neighbor.
I think they lose money on every car, but are required to sell a certain percentage of them to remain on those markets.
Good reason to de-Google my existence. When an evil thing is actively trying to destroy the Web in a way even Microsoft didn't, it's time for that evil to get destroyed.
That's a Qt Widget example, you should look at Qt Quick for a way to build more modern-looking interfaces. With Qt Quick user interfaces are described in QML, a declarative markup language, and you can write most (or all, if you want) the business logic in Javascript. See for instance:

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtdoc-demos-photoviewer-example.html

(Edit: by no means I'm saying that your work is trivial to replicate, apologies if this comment came across like that - just wanted to point out that there's more to Qt than Qt Widget.)
Analyzing the EU – Data, AI, and Development Skills Report 2019
My understanding is that it's still up for debate how linear or nonlinear melanopic sensitivity is, which is the main thing we are attempting to show in the plot.
Sorry, but you are completely incorrect in this matter. White collar crime is prosecuted fiercly in Germany, especially when it's a case that got public attention. However it takes far longer than it would in the US, because prosecutors are extremely thorough to guarantee a conviction.

We have far less of an acceptance of plea bargains. Pre-trial deals are almost unheard of, because the defendent can "come clean" at any time of the trial and the timing must not enter the judgement to their detriment. OTOH a defendent also has nothing to gain from co-operating early beyond whatever he/she is absolutely required by law to do. This means that the prosecussion will almost always have to do the entire work of proving beyond any reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty. Which they have to do on paper long before the first hearing is held.

Hence, cases brought to trial in Germany are generally water-tight. Stadler is almost definitely going to prison. The only question is for how long and who else he implicates.
I don't need to get permission from Jeep to modify my car, I just need to get it inspected and approved. This is clearly a power move to protect their industry.
About 15 years ago we, the techies, killed the IE6 super monopoly (they basically had 100% browser market share). We installed firefox on any device we could get our hands on.

Guess it is that time again.
Starting a Media Company in the 21st Century: Can It Be Done?
VR resolution drops very quick when you look at something virtual from half meter away. If your virtual screen takes up to 1/4th of your screen for example it will be reduced to ~720p in a vr with 4k resolutipn per eye. Virtual desktops are not really useful as you think.

Plus VR strains your eye really quick and that comfortable to wear for long periods of time
Interesting side note: https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt of the same author has been aded to the C++20 standard. One of the few inclusions into the standard which (IMHO) can be universally considered to be a good thing. If you're coming from printf() or iostreams, fmtlib is a joy to use, especially together with pystring (https://github.com/imageworks/pystring).

Both libs don't fix the underlying problems of std::string, but at least they reduce the pain of working with strings in C++ considerably.
Import some diversity and they will have things to do
It's known as US capitalism
I want to thank you for making me aware of Ripcord. So far I'm very impressed with it.
403 forbidden. Can someone host this?
Like with the Mueller case? I see an awful lot of people in the news corporations and government stating "facts" of "crimes" for which there was no prosecution, because there wasn't any or not enough evidence to move forward on a conviction. Which verdict was reached there? Not to turn this political, just showing what you are saying isn't true though and a very big major case with 2 years of media hysteria to back it. Nothing has been proven in a court of law, when it comes to the President anyway. I see no presumption of innocence by CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, LA Times, or practically any other major "news" corporation.
Here in the USA, slavery is still legal under case of incarceration. In Florida, Texas, and Louisianna, prisoners are forced to work without pay. In other states, you are charged "prison rent" that is magnitudes higher than you could ever make working per day.

As it has always been, this prison slavery system generates massive profits for the companies that use it, such as Amazon and Walmart. If you are a free worker, it is likely you will be shouldered with student loan and medical debt. Not to mention the debt accrued when financing a home.

Our nation was built on free labor, slavery is one of the driving factors of American economic success. Yet the workers do not enjoy first world rights and living conditions, it makes you think about the efficiencies of such an economic system.
There is not much that I remember from 5th grade, but what I do remember is that after half a year of teaching us chess during Chess Club, our teacher has beaten all of us simultaniously while facing the wall and announcing his moves after we announced ours.

It's rare to see that much expertise and skill in action.
On an extremely tangential note: If you need some fun, short shows to relax, watch White Gold on Netflix. Stratego plays a small part in the second series.
There are always options available, some people have to work harder/be more creative in accessing those options. You have open source which allows you to work on the type of projects you enjoy and who knows becoming friends with other contributors could lead to jobs in that type of field. There is the option of working on your own projects, for which really sky is the limit. You could try going to a startup where there is always a challenge to be solved.

Regardless of what you do, you have to have your own initiative, a path isn't gonna just appear out of thin air and open for you, you have to open it up yourself.
Python3.8: Debugging with f-Strings
URLs are one of the few things the modern web has retained that has allowed it to be truly interoperable across different devices, platforms, and walled gardens. If we loose the URL, we loose the web. I don't like this at all.
Your real keyboard can have a virtual representation in your VR space, just like controllers are
Do you have any suggestions on where to find any english language documentation about the family? I am ravenously curious.
> 100km range fits the commuting needs of 95% of the people in western Europe.

There's a bunch of problems with this though:

* Finding charging spots can be difficult, most workplaces don't provide them, many residential buildings don't either, if you live in the city and park outside just forget about it entirely, finding a spot is already hell; having to waste an hour charging every two days makes the "fit" way worse, even more so when the few charging spots are completely out of your way.

* The range figures are usually without A/C or heating, both of which eat significantly into EV range.

* It's nice that 100km range fits into people's commuting needs, but there's no provision for non-commuting, how do you go see your parents, or on holidays, or drop by friends a few cities over, or go to your cousin's wedding?

My own commute is like 15km, but if I were to get a car (rather than use public transport) I'd get a plug-in hybrid: sure a 100km EV is more than enough for my commute (I even have an electrified parking spot), but a trip to go back to the family is 600km, and that's if I don't go and see cousins or whatever.

Even if there were enough charging stations on the way (there aren't) transforming a ~6h trip into 8~10 would not be fine.

Hell, with a 100km range I couldn't even round-trip to the nearest ikea on a full charge.

So sure, if you've got the money and room (aka a house at least) to own two cars and keep one charging overnight you can get a short-range EV for your commuting.

Not sure that's the majority though…
"Care to cite a time where that ever happened?"

There's a documentary about the Mayo clinic on netflix. In it, a woman finally recieves a diagnosis of her mysterious and debilitating illness, of which she is pretty sure she would die from without diagnosis or treatment. She responds to initial treatment, which makes her hopeful the quality of life will finally approve. Then she no longer has money, and cannot have treatment anymore. She leaves the clinic and we never know what happens to her.
>You're just comparing a typical dev salary in London to an unusually high dev salary for NYC or SF.

If you make much less than that in SF or NYC, there is no point in living in such an expensive place. Go make that London salary working in a rural area of the US.

>Because you don't have enough money. There's no cap on medical bills. See for example the article I linked to regarding the $500,000 bill for dialysis. The person in question had insurance.

From your article: "A few days after the treatments began, an insurance case manager called the Valentines warning them that since Fresenius was out-of-network, they could be required to pay whatever the insurer didn’t cover. The manager added that there were no in-network dialysis clinics in Montana, according to Jessica’s handwritten notes from the conversation. (The insurance company disputes this, saying that its case manager told Jessica there were no in-network dialysis clinics in Missoula.)

Jessica repeatedly asked both the dialysis clinic staff and the insurer how much they could expect to be charged, but couldn’t get an answer.

Then the bills came."

So basically, insurance said they would not pay for the clinic this person selected and since they have zero agency they kept going and got the bill that they were told they were going to get. So sad. Did they actually pay the bill? Of course not. They took a credit hit.

>Holy crap, you really mean it. It happens all the time, as you can find out just by googling.

What was one individuals name who this happened to. Not a study. Not "we think it happens". What is the persons name?
Deep learning can't really guarantee to find a global optimum in most nonconvex problems. However, this chess variant is definitely not something that is likely to pose serious issues to modern systems. DeepMind's StarCraft 2 AI does just fine handling vast variation and imperfect information.
> I don't think the two most cmmon criticisms hold up. The first one is that surveillance affects many people adversely. I don't think that's true. Nobody has an interest in eaves-dropping on average citizens, it's simply a waste of resources. The second one is the slippery slope line of argument you brought up. I don't think there is a lot of evidence that, in states of law, surveillance has been abused or employed illegaly.

What about in the current case of the Nicaraguan government?
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/nicar...