skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Industries where money comes in by the bucket have no problem spending it with a shovel for specialized knowledge they don't have.

If you're a contractor, your best bet is to focus on an industry to understand the needs of that industry better. Rather being a Python developer, you can be a contractor who builds usable solutions that happen to use Python.

Industry knowledge, referrals, good prior work and marketing are important. These $150/hr jobs won't fall into your lap unless you put an effort to position your lap that way :)
Because people want to play games and https://xkcd.com/1200/
That's very cool to hear!
Nuclear power today is about 10% of overall power generation. Were it 100%, INES 7 catastrophes would be happening every 3 years. That's before you account for wars and low safety culture plaguing significant part of the world which does not operate nuclear currently.

Engineering in 1970s was overall solid and not that much behind on material science and control systems theory than today: they could get people to the Moon and back after all. Dismissing the catastrophes to that is a dangerous hubris.
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> Moxie isn't ever going to acquiesce on the points he's stubborn about

Yup, indeed. https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ was written after I mailed him to ask if they'd consider interop. (https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom was our overdue response)
You're 100% correct. It won't be fool proof, by any means. But, it'll be better than the current situation, which is to have only the confirmed cases and no estimate of actual cases.

I'm thinking of making the best guess on the fatality rate, time to double, etc, and allowing people to tweak the variables. And using the officially reported death numbers.
I could be wrong, but I believe the developers of PUBG are Korean, not Chinese. Whether they are ultimately owned by a Chinese company, I do not know.
I've become wiser over the years, but the top 3 were

3: Windows/Symantec Defrag (pre-Vista era) When I had 10-40GB hdds it used to be mesmerising watching the blocks fly around the screen. Eventually I find something else to do and pretend the computer's broken.

2: Macromedia/Adobe Flash. Sometimes animations just didn't want to work. Tweens are notoriously random with complex drawings. Delete and start all over again.

1: Editing HTML after using a WYSIWYG editor. Code clean-up. It takes ages.
Is there a link to sample books rendered using this tool? Did I miss it in the README?
Louisiana's horrifying 'Cancer Alley';more than 50 times as likely to get cancer
Olm: An implementation of the Double Ratchet cryptographic ratchet
I don't get this xkcd. If you steal my computer while I'm logged in you can't log into my bank account of you don't know the password. Which bank has indefinitely long sessions? Mine's time out after like 10 mins of inactivity.

The only plausible attack scenario is if you steal my computer while I'm logged into my KeePassX. It has all my passwords visible. But that session times out as well.
Other uses: failsafe generators for critical city infrastructure (communications, fire and police, hospitals). Rural self-sufficient towns far from the grid. City-center car-charging capacity (the grid is most places woefully inadequate to run massive car-charging needs).
Correction Northport is not in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, its squarely in what is considered the Northern Lower Peninsula.
I thought the UI isn't that bad until I tried Gravit Designer. I don't know if it's comparable to Inkscape in terms of features, but to me as a more occasional user it's a vast difference in usability(even considering the compulsory online account with Gravit). Maybe more proficient users would feel different but in Inkscape there are so many buttons and switches visible at all times that I constantly have to look for the right one.

But again, that's just me as someone using it every couple of months; in general I always manage to get the stuff done in Inkscape and it seems pretty solid behind the UI.
elementary OS has one, which is well-enforced in their first-party and many third-party apps: https://elementary.io/docs/human-interface-guidelines

Of course, as soon as you go outside that, you run into the fragmentation prevalent in the Linux desktop. For light computer users or people who can get by without a bunch of specialized graphical apps, it works well and is very intuitive.
The author wasn't making a "moral equivocation".

She was explaining how concerned citizens were trying to make a difference in 2 different countries, and were prevented by the government from succeeding.

I find the article to be reasonable and balanced. I suggest you more carefully read it.
Stop flying blind and monitor your AI
One additional thing to add. I live in Wisconsin, and know a lot of people inside and outside of the cities. It's a misconception that rural whites are exclusively red. Sure, there are reliable "base" groups, but also a huge swath of people throughout the state who are generally swing-y. For instance I know farmers and "white working class" people who are staunch liberals.
I’ve been I’ve been using TransferWise and Revolut for GBP to Euro and vice-versa.

Revolut is the cheapest one and I can not understand the 50 euros charge as the exchange rate is super low.

Just checked my Revolt and 1000 USF to EUR is 1090,84, in google the exchange rate would bring me 1091,20. I don’t get your 50 euros difference.
Really you are going to come back at me with a Privacy vs Safety fallacy.

If that is all the justification you have, you have already lost the debate. That kind of justification can be used for all manner of dystopian programs. Authoritarians have been limiting privacy and freedom for centuries on the basis of safety.

Right now in congress the EARNIT act is attempting to use that very argument for the "safety of children" we all need to give up E2E encryption

No I completely reject your premise that because of safety I need to give up my privacy
Yeah same issue here, much worse performance than the XQuartz releases. Dragging objects, especially arrows, is extremely laggy and awful. I've moved to Affinity Designer for now, which is better in almost every way except that unfortunately it is not easy at all to add LaTeX equations. Also the UI looks somehow feels less native macOS-like than the XQuartz versions, they're still not even using NSOpenPanel which is a huge pet peeve for me
I'm not entirely sure that IKEA coffee table would be able to withstand the weight of 45 or 60 drives plus chassis, either.
This is from 2015 FYI. Here's a more in-depth summary: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinknudson/2015/11/10/everyth...
It also doesn’t look or feel at all like an OSX application. I won’t say it’s unusable, but two minutes in and I don’t care for it much.
This comment makes me think of Theranos [1]. The founder was a master of manipulation and business-speak, and created a multi-billion dollar (valued) start-up based on an impossible and non-existant product, and so strongly blamed the engineers/scientists beneath her for not delivering on her unrealistic promises, that one of them committed suicide.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8488126/

Fake-it-'till-you-make-it form of management (FiTYMi?) is becoming more and more common.
python is supported by easy to learn basic syntax + great math/science libraries.

as i typed that i thought: python is the excel of programming languages.

it also has very solid web frameworks (Django, Flask, etc.).
Maybe the poster meant that the words don't imply ¬∃¬
I used to have this problem. A break from caffeine, forced daily reading, and liberal use of the pomodoro technique pretty much fixed this. It also helped me when I took a several month break from social media and other sites that use machine learning algorithms to maximize engagement.
If you can you see your own (suspended account) tweets when logged in, you could use your auth cookie to scrape them.

Not sure how to do that with Twint off the top of my head, though.

We tried to use Twint in production but it didn’t work for us. I ended up writing one that works very well. Let me know if I can help you get your tweets.
These are not straw man arguments. I have actually dealt with all three of these examples in my career. The python one is particularly relevant to me, but I’ve had push back on running our API over HTTPS “because if they want to hack you they will anyway so why pay the extra cost”.
'The Clock' for OS X is the best out there if you need to do anything serious across time zones. Featureful but not bloated. Ability to rename clocks to something more meaningful is genious. If you ever do the 'that person starts at 9am in Tokyo, what is the time then in Seattle' or Sydney, or Hyderabad that app is worth the $5.
I think you mean either 2.5 or 2.8.

2.49 was the last one with the really inscrutable old UI, 2.5 was a big overhaul but still had a lot of basic functionality buried behind hotkeys or menus, and 2.8 is the relatively recent one with a lot of that basic functionality exposed.

I don't follow the blender development process too closely, but I think Blender Guru's videos kicked off a lot of the 2.8 design work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWacQrEcMHk

Along with lots of discussion elsewhere as the actual redesign was underway https://devtalk.blender.org/t/blender-2-8-user-interface-des...
So it's 100% a good joke, but misses the entire point.
I like how you wrote "solves that" when the product is not there, never was and probably never will be. Your article was from 2011 and the company which should have made this thing real now invests in:
Ocean thermal energy conversion and Floating wind turbines

https://www.naval-group.com/en/activities/products/#

Hilarious.
My lighting is currently a mix of a clamp-on utility light with parchment paper diffuser (key), a window (fill), and a cheap old desk gooseneck lamp pointed at my sheet (I had used it as cheapo outdoor movie screen and now it acts as a clean background for current VTC needs).

Cam is the basic 1280x720 Microsoft Lifecam USB webcam I've had for years but is still much better than any laptop cam due to placement flexibility and better optics. OBS lets me color correct and exposes the manual controls for focus, exposure, etc.

I did grab a USB headset from work before work-from-home started, but I found it had a frayed wire and isn't any good. Instead I am using my (wired) cell headphones with their integrated mic instead of the USB headset.

I dug out an old USB audio interface I had packed away and tried it with a Shure vocal mic, but that led me down another hole of messing with Voicemeeter to tweak EQ and noise reduction because it's really meant to be held right up to your mouth (for singing, etc) and picks up background noise if I have the levels up high enough to use as a desk/stand mic. For the time being I am sticking with the headphone/mic for simplicity's sake.

None of this is what I'd use if I had been handed a couple hundred bucks to put together a VTC setup but it's all stuff I had laying around and looks/sounds so much better than everyone who's just using built-in laptop cam/mic/speakers.
In my own experience IntelliJ is slower than VS Code to use... It will depend on what you're doing as VS Code has an interesting plugin module to not hang up the UI/Editor itself...

Not all the plugins respond in time while typing, but I can at least keep typing and it continues to function with basic editing (general worst case).
> python came up without a platform to support it

What about numpy (+ its ecosystem, scipy/pandas/etc)? I get the impression that's contributed a lot to Python's growth over the years.
When Linux is a Boeing 737Max, then FreeBSD is a Airbus A380 and OpenBSD is a A-10 Warthog. xD
Oh it's been too long if that one's irrelevant.
> There are some good reasons to use DSLs in this case, mainly tied to sandboxing and fussing with traditional API contracts. A DSL isn't attempting to be a general programming language, it's task suited.

It's not a DSL, it's a full on programming language. It's like claiming Action Script was a DSL, it wasn't.

It means tons of code in that language in order to create custom business logic, it means re-implementing things that were already written in tons of languages and so on and so forth.

So a new language makes sense but it's a trade-off.

Apparently there is the possibility of using other languages, so let's see if the integration is as robust.

https://godotengine.org/article/introducing-csharp-godot
"I've had this happen often enough with libreoffice that I've stopped using it."

But did you had it with inkscape?

Also, what was the issue with libreoffice that blocked you from completing your work?

Because, I can imagine many issues with libreoffice, but mainly with microsoft office documents, importing them etc. but experienced no issues with the actual program - except it is horrible from a designers point of view, but I also despise microsoft office. So if I had to designe a page, I usually used - Inkscape. Which I like a lot more than Illustrator.
I assume most people use the browser built in password manager with no master password. If you can launch chrome, you're in.
What is the set of operations that are supported?
I believe these were something like the Kaypro, where there was no onboard graphics...just a serial console. So, no reason to change it, other than maybe some tweaks to the ROM for branding in the admin interface and boot-up.
Is it possible they would be served by a different standard where C is a high-level assembly? Although admittedly, "&*p" to me reads as 'load p' and therefore undefined behaviour
Is React Native Dead?
Dwitter on the JavaScript Demoscene
Not familiar with Fedwire. Surely it won't be free to move fiat via any payment network.

Do you happen to have a source? PS: seems not to be available to retail customers?
Jitsi is on a roll! By the way, Does anyone know the challenging part of e2e in video chats? Thinking out of intuition, it would be keys are exchanged during handshake and binary data is decoded on the clients? I'm just wondering how could Zoom miss it?
I found the 1.0 beta unusable on Windows and filed https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/879, which seems to have been completely ignored.

I find the 1.0 release candidate also completely unusable, and have filed https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/2307. It looks like just now it might finally be getting some attention. (I did deliberately express my opinions much more strongly than the first time.)

But until multiple critical issues are fixed, I can’t use this, and must stay on the 0.92 series.
Love those vector-display word processors. https://www.museebolo.ch/operation-sauvetage-dun-vydec-800-t...
I was thinking that if you could shrink them down a bit further it would be a great back up generator for cell sites or hub sites. But then, that would really make the 5G conspiracy theorists heads explode.
I grew up with this disability and was diagnosed with ADHD at a young age. Are you sure that this is something new are are you just more aware of your tendencies with age? Either way, what helps me is the right environment and preparation. I have to make a space that is distraction free and if that isn’t possible, I rely on noise canceling headphones or random color visualizations in the background on a separate screen. CBD also really helps calm me down but that is probably because I’m on the spectrum as well..
Didn't the infamous SecurOM also do this?
Just curious what the big 3 you're considering are?

- gcc
- clang
- msvc
- intel
I looked at the chart you linked.

I don't see how you can draw any conclusions from it, as each country has different testing and death reporting.

Also, the USA contains many cities and large rural areas, so the rates would be different.

But most importantly, regardless of how the graph is interpreted, it doesn't answer any questions, such as:

- when should we stop social distancing? forever isn't an answer.

- do ventilators help or not?

- how much testing do we need to do? tracing?

To conclude, I think you're confusing data with information.
Every tom, dick & harry now with WebRTC & TURN servers is here.
There's two didn't attack models, "steals permanently" and "runs code on and returns to you" (which includes both "steals from your hotel room and puts back" or "installs malware on"). Yes, for the first one it's hard to get to the bank account and I agree the comic is inaccurate. For the second, it's very easy to install a keylogger or a cookie-logger or a malicious browser extension or whatever.

Riot installing a kernel module is more like the latter.
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What’s my best option if I want to write an online book in this style but from an IPad? It seems like I’m stuck using something like Ulysses and the setting up a tool chain on a VPS or something... anyone have any tips?
I mean, if you are logged into your email that's pretty much game over for most sites including possibly your bank.

Just request a password reset and change it to whatever you'd like.
Checking our hubris with checklists: Learning a lesson from the XO Laptop
Bloomberg editors are gullible & brainwashed. Russia will agree to anything, but historically they have never been verified actually reducing pumping oil to any extent.
Such consensus seems to be motivated by necessity. A lot of partisanship under the guise of 'we have voting majority'
> Same in Sweden, UK, parts of central Europe and large parts of eastern Europe

Exactly.

Locally.

I live in Italy, it affected us in 1986, then everything went back to normal.

And the laws in place are there only for precautions, nobody wants to lift them and be held responsible in case something happens, but the death toll of Chernobyl wasn't that scary as people like to imagine.

From where I live to Berlin is ~= 850kms (~525 miles)

From where I live to Warsaw is ~= 1,100kms (~715 miles)

From where I live to Pryp'yat' (where the Chernobyl plant is) is just 1,665 km (1,000 miles)

But, from where I live to Catania (Sicily, Southern Italy) is about 1,050kms (~630 miles)

So yeah, it was far from global.

It was global locally to continental Europe.

Global means that if the temperature goes up one degree celsius in the North Pole, the sea level rises in Australia.

BTW from the map you posted it's clear that Northern Italy, where I live, was hit harder than most of Sweden, Germany or Poland.

We eat mushrooms and vegetables without any particular concern.

Despite that, the global cancer rate ranking is (every 100,000)

1 Australia 468
7 France (metropolitan) 344.1
8 Denmark 340.4
9 Norway 337.8
13 UK 319.2
15 Germany 313.1
23 Sweden 294.7
24 Italy 290.6

Belarus, where the power plant is, ranks 32nd

32 Belarus 260.7
I'm shocked at how much negativity there is here for Inkscape - it's long been a go-to example for how great open source software can be, in my mind.

These days, I often use the (non-free, $26) Vexlio [1] software since it works better for my use-case (diagrams for use in Latex documents). But Inkscape is clearly the more fully-featured product for most users.

[1] https://www.vexlio.com
I have several wrenches in my toolbox. But if someone is going to give me a new one, I'm gonna accept it.

That's the same idea here; sure, maybe the CIA and NSA already have the capability. But what's the harm in having it twice? There's actually benefits from the aspect of checking one against the other, not to mention one may reveal something the other doesn't.

I'm not saying this is what will happen. I'm simply saying that power seeks more power.
"Pressure sensitive pencil"

I assume this was only missing in the MacOS version, because I used a wacom tablet with inkscape already 10 years ago.
It's another manifestation of the classic "it's expensive to be poor" situation. My personal struggle is with making the call re: understanding vs. getting things done compared with the return on investment. Understanding things is fun, though, and our systems are built upon enough analogy that understanding usually transfers (if only in part) to something else down the road.
The book “The Distracted Mind” is a pretty good overview of the science behind this. In terms of how to alleviate distraction, they recommend taking restorative breaks like walking in nature, standing up, making tea, etc. Even looking at pictures of nature can be effective. If you can substitute these breaks for the constant need to flip over to some other novel stimulus, over time you can build up your attention span. (Also, for me, I find meditation can really help build your focus over time. You can start with concentrating fully on your breathing for ten breaths, and work up gradually from there. Even a few very “mindful” breaths can be very effective.)
If you're open to changing the protocol, might I also recommend XChaCha20-Poly1305? :)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-xchacha-03

It's fast and constant-time even on mobile devices (where AES is often variable-time or slow due to a lack of AES-NI).
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I’ve found that, like anything else, you can train yourself out of this kind of behavior simply by being conscious of it.

If you’re reading something on the web, pull the tab out into its own browser window and maximize it. If your OS of choice has a “silence notifications” option, use that. When you realize that you’ve gotten sidetracked just remind yourself that that’s not good and return to what you were doing.

Essentially this is a lite version of some mindfulness therapies. Over time actively centering yourself back in the moment will help your concentration just like it helps with anxiety.

While it doesn’t really help you, I thought I’d also relate a bit of an anecdote. For years and years I had a list of some of the “classics” that I felt like I should read because they were apparently so monumental we have to force every high school kid in the US to read them. For years I tried and made no progress - I could sit down with a fiction novel and be lost for hours, so it wasn’t my concentration, but any time I picked up something by (for example) Dickens I would spend three minutes actually reading and then my mind would wander. At some point I would notice that I’d been reading the same paragraph over and over and give up, disappointed in myself again.

Eventually I just realized that I simply hate Dickens and no amount of effort was going to make me start liking him. I had to admit that I was just never going to get that feeling of awe that I felt like I should have for any of his works and gave up and moved on to books I actually liked.

It won’t work if it’s something for work, but perhaps you’ve been focusing on things you feel like you should learn, but don’t really want to learn.
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Did anyone in this HN comment section actually read the discussion on Reddit? According to the devs you can delete the executable if you're really that worried.

They also talk about in more detail here:

https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-null-anti-...