skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it would be interesting to codify the known heuristics of forensic accounting into a software package (maybe even AI all the things!), then create a company out of it in partnership with prosecutors and regulators to root out fraud like this through both technological and legal means. i'm sure there have been some efforts to that end, though not commonly known.

it would help rebalance the legal system toward the service of people over corporations.
Very good point. Russia is a good example of this. Despite our economic embargoes / sanctions the majority of the population goes on without a beat. Some in big cities surely miss some things, but overall the Obama and Trump sanctions get shrugged off. China would suffer a lot more if the same sanctions were imposed.
Ah, no upgrades yet, but in a few years it should start paying (not literal) dividends.

A usual international round trip may be 4 flights, so if you visit home 2x/year then that's already 8 flights. Add in a conference per year for another 3 flights, and maybe a few domestic flights for vacation or travel and that's how you end up in that range.
Russia totally recovered by any metric you can pick, from household income to average life expectancy.
Heck, moscow in 80's looked like dumpster fire. Now it looks like a proper european capital city.

EDIT: to prove my point, russian life expectancy from fed -- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=qTgj
You've hit the nail on the head. The real difference is input latency.

Tweaking acceleration curves will not help overcome latency of 2-3 frames which is common on Linux compositors (33-50 ms of delay, causing target overshoots).
The US at the federal level, maybe.

But it'll likely just fracture into smaller regional Nations made up of the states.

Worst case, it's 50 separate nations.

Especially now that we'll likely see a shift back towards state level autonomy, with the federal government's bungling of the SARS2 pandemic.

The US is decentralized to begin with, the USSR was not. Decentralized systems fare better in collapse situations.
Sunlight involves going outside, which we know is good for your health (barring pollution, of course).
Snap's 3 Pillars of AR, Part III: Content
Show HN: A Chrome devtools driver to make web automation and scraping easy
Just out of curiosity, what's with all the freaky class names? Like class="sc-jTzLTM ipDHfO", class="sc-jzJRlG hdyVuB" etc.
…what? The repository [0] shows up as "unavailable due to DMCA takedown," and links to a notice [1] that explicitly references the DMCA.

[0]: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop

[1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/05/2020-05-0...
I don't agree with flagging, but if I could downvote posts I'd downvote this one because it begins an old discussion but not from a new vantage point. Old discussions with blocks need blockbusters. As an exaggeration, I might offer P ≠ NP as a seed for discussion -- does it matter if I'm right?
Tangentially

https://forum.bela.io/d/1277-c-real-time-audio-programming-w...

>we just released a course on C++ Real-Time Audio Programming with Bela. This is aimed at beginner to intermediate C++ users, so if you have so far been using Bela with other languages and you are interested in tipping you toes in C++, this is a great occasion. If you know your C++ stuff, you may still want to check out some of the more advanced topics (ARM/NEON assembly, state machines, fixed-point maths, timing, block-based processing).
Functionality, power, perfomance, no unicorns, no FUD, low bs factor: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

And a fraction of the design costs!
I agree, but at least looking back that was pretty much the only way to keep going. The government wasn't able to solve (or even recognize) the problems of the "ordinary people", so the people had to deal with solving the problems themselves. Of course this will never be as effective as having an actually functional government, and it will lead to corruption in all levels of society.
Re: military boondoggles, the US has been at war for over 222 years of its existence, at least in the sense that it was involved in at least one war in each of 222 different years since 1776: https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/50473
Why not get a serological test?

They are being offered inexpensively at least here in NYC by commercial urgent care facilities.

I expect the mail-in Labs will get geared up pretty quickly also.
Others can speak for the military, but among civilians, it seems almost nobody learns orienteering anymore.

I only have anecdata, but the last several times I've been on remote camping trips, I've taught folks the basics myself. And a relative's son, a Boy Scout, was told by his troop leader that the Orienteering merit badge was obsolete, don't worry about it.
How many people on the boat do you need that know celestial navigation? Sounds like something you could have someone go to school for to specialize in and then make sure you've got at least one on every boat rather than make everyone learn. We've got plenty of ways to defeat jamming, the newest block of GPS satellites have ways to increase signal power in certain areas and anti-radiation missiles can blow up a jammer. GPS only comes from space so it's pretty easy to find someone on the ground messing with it. We also have things like star trackers that are used on satellites to determine position without GPS that could easily be implemented on a boat if not already on there. These systems could be hardened against EMPs and only brought out in case of absolute emergency. I don't see the need of every navigator having their own sextant.
It's Time to Legalize Building
Bits of Unsolicited Advice – Kevin Kelly
API for getting spoken language for an international telephone number
This is a perfect description of input latency. You stop moving your finger over the target, but the cursor keeps moving for another 33-50ms, causing you to overshoot.
For many of us, this could be better than ever since instead of being a conference focused on attendees and shared with the rest of us, it'll be designed for sharing on the web. Be really curious to see how it pans out.
All Apple stuff's that way, it seems. A lot of it's the software. Just compare the effect of Safari versus Firefox or Chrome on MacBook battery life. One of these projects clearly gives a quite a large damn about power use—the other two... not so much.

I worked on software for phones and tablets right around the 2/3 split for Android, up through Android 5 or so. We had lots of testing devices of all quality levels. The joke-but-actually-100%-true around the office was that an Android tablet left unplugged on a desk over the weekend was always dead when you got back on Monday, while an iPad forgotten in a drawer for a month would have a useful amount of charge left on it (and come to life instantly, of course, as if it had never been asleep). Didn't seem to matter how much the Android device cost.
This is a pretty good piece of software, I started using it when it was an Inkscape addon, the only problem I have is, in order to make simple edits like fixing a typo you need to open an external program.
WeWork Will See SoftBank in Court
Is It Safe to Come Out of Lockdown? Check the Sewer
Aligns with my experience, good read. Although it is hard to read with bold and thin text for some reason ;)

Is there a print feature with the for the checklist?
Never sponsored a project before. I keep getting a 500 error on Github when trying to pay.
>> have you ever lost more than a few hours to "required tinkering" over those years

- Not really. And Linux ecosystem has improved tremendously in last 10 years.

For one of the colleague at the office, tried some Thinkpad , but that was not such a good experience. Now everyone on the team (> 30 people) gets Ubuntu Laptop or Desktop.

If you are going to use it main dev machine, then definitely Latitude. Ask Dell guys to preinstall it for you. They will install proprietary drivers for you.

I also have Macbook Pro 2015 model. Don't expect trackpad experience like it. I always use external mouse and keyboard any way.

Not tried XPS series yet, So can't comment.
No, that wouldn't be clean-room. Wikipedia's definition:

> Clean-room design (also known as the Chinese wall technique) is the method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any of the copyrights associated with the original design.

If one of your engineers has to download and study the leaked source code, they've infringed Nintendo's copyrights.
If both sides of the comparison run inside Docker that is still a valid comparison. With Docker the benchmark should be a bit more reproducible by anyone.
The Wayland Protocol
Planet Nine Could Be a Mirage
Car owners is a all or nothing problem. You need to provide a ton on public transport options and make them great before people give up cars.
I haven't ran Linux on another machine in anger for a long time so I can't compare the between laptops.

I have run Linux on my old MBP 2015 though, and the trackpad is usable but as soon as you boot macOS again you realise how crap it was on Linux. Tweaking accels/speeds can bridge the gap a little but it's still not nearly as good.
I wonder about the national differences. Hungarian news portals do as you said, jump straight in, lay out the overall idea, then go into details. Even for long form articles.

German news on the other hand, especially long form, starts from a very personal tone, sets up an emotional texture, introduces a person by name and makes them likable etc. till finally in the middle they get to the matter. It's really frustrating getting used to this.

I fell like the US is sort of in-between.
Probably a preprocessor generating those..
> It is why they feel that they are allowed to both destroy the community's own work [2][3][4] and steal it for themselves [5][6]

You oversold both examples.

2, 3, and 4: That's a hosted(?) emulator distributing, or at least referencing, Nintendo IP, and not in a fair-use context.

You're mildly right about 5 and 6. Nintendo stole the header of ROM files of content that was stolen from Nintendo. The author of the header would have a claim against Nintendo, but seeing how they'd have to explain how the ROM got distributed in the first place, and it's not clear there's enough information in the header for it to be eligible for copyright, I doubt they'd say anything.
On almost every Reddit post (European subreddits, German especially) with people asking advice on torrents related cease and desist letter, there are comments "remember not to use Popcorn Time either" and similar even though the post's OP doesn't mention this software. It's like they are conducting a multi front war on Popcorn Time. Glad to see them pissed off and helpless.
Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Manilla, Ho Chi Min, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok, Karachi, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Osaka, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Kigali, Luanda, Nairobi, Dubai... etc.
What evidence do you have for this?
Shelter-in-Place Compliance Remains Low, UMD Research Finds
How do you compel anyone to do anything with violence?

Many ways.
> Also YouTube removing the videos from 2 highly credentialed doctors is a verifiable fact, not some subjective theory.

Those 2 "highly credentialed doctors" just got an unprecedentedly strong and universal condemnation from the two main American medical associations. Just because you like what they are saying doesn't mean they are right. Think critically instead of seeking your evidence to support your opinions.

https://www.aaem.org/resources/statements/joint-endorsed/phy...
Most antibodies to viruses don't last forever, the question is not if you can get COVID19 twice (you almost surely can) but how long in-between are you protected.

And the evidence is unclear, and in some cases worrying:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-ja...
Tech Jobs in the Time of Covid
cool, looks like we've mostly conceded each others' points and are only left mainly with a semantic disagreement over the scope of the word "learning" in this context.
Well I wanted to specifically measure cursor distance rather than mouse distance so acceleration doesn't come into it. As long as you can sample the mouse position frequently enough, you can get an idea of how far it has travelled. All I had to do to convert pixels to physical distance was use a tape measure to get the width and height of the visible part of the screen.
I have a first-gen Ryzen system (the one that people have had issues with on linux) with an NVIDIA graphics card.

PopOS has been rock solid on it. I have 19.10 but will be upgrading to 20.04 this weekend. As someone who doesn't want to spend all day futzing around with my system and just get work done, I'm very happy with this distro.
thanks to the magic of supply and demand millions starve
The information hierarchy is unclear because they did not use best practices in design. As the other commenters said, you have to read it like a book. A better site would have larger, bold headings with darker text than the body text. There would be more padding between the sections. There would be a jumbotron at the top that identifies the top 1-3 reasons for me to use this site, so I can understand in 5 seconds if I want this service and don't have to spend 3 minutes reading the entire text.
Thank you!

Maybe it's easier to read on a PDF? Here's a link to it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1muiO5ze7asCp9tHcF-t_mf_tIBe...
Geospatial Data Analysis with Postgres
All of that together, the end-to-end latency between moving your finger and the result appearing on screen. The trackpad firmware & driver, the display compositor, the hardware cursor overlay (or lack thereof) combine to give you the total latency which makes using a non-mac touchpad frustrating.

You can observe this effect by comparing a magic trackpad 2 vs the internal macbook trackpad, when connected over bluetooth: there is a small but noticeable latency that makes the external trackpad less precise and less "fun" to use than the internal one.

Edit: you can observe the same difference between a standard corded mouse vs a bluetooth mouse. Or, in my case, a 125Hz USB mouse vs my PS2 mouse back in the Windows XP days - the difference was night and day.
With the Thinkpads there's just the one nub, but the middle mouse button is easily reachable for scrolling.
The Clinton trial was about lying about a blowjob. He did lie, and he was a sexual predator, but I fail to see how it had anything to do with his official conduct (it was poor personal conduct but that's a different story).

Trump engaged in a shakedown of another country for personal gain (including blocking money that Congress had appropriated) and then engaged in a massive coverup. I'd consider that to be a collection of crimes.

Roberts did not allow witnesses to be called, and did not allow the hearings to be recorded. The GOP refused to participate in the trial at all and declared before it started that they would not even consider a guilty vote.
It's almost disheartening that there are folks out there that like the clump, cluttered busy mess that is sourcehut.org over the clean, beautiful design of the Stripe website.
15! There are some 2 million kids in New York. Surely you'll find more gruesome fates among some of them.
I'm just curious what exactly the deficiency is on touchpads with Linux? I have a fairly commodity Acer laptop (Swift 3 w/ Ryzen APU), and the touchpad is accurate, sensitive (no noticeable lag at all), two finger scrolling works, tap to click works with one, two and three fingers, etc... I haven't changed any settings except sensitivity and whatnot in the standard Ubuntu settings GUI.
This use of unprecedented is not unprecedented by Apple.
Israel's IIBR finds antibody that neutralizes coronavirus
He asked questions on the first audio call, linked above.
Debt and healthcare are used to ensure that you don't have the freedom to walk away from immorality.

If you're in debt for your (or your kids' and/or partner's) house or education, or depend upon your employer for healthcare, you are not free to walk away. You might be able to switch jobs for something less objectionable, but so long as "not doing the immoral thing" means "my kid might not get treated for their cancer" just walking away is an option for a vanishingly small number of people.
I have a Mac, but I also have a Linux machine. I go back and forth depending.
Well your comments been flagged now so I can't read it again. My point was that you made a low effort generalization about the economic and geographic situation of HN readers while calling out others for doing the same thing.
1- Apple puts much bigger trackpads on their machines. I've got a 2015 MBP that had a huge trackpad on it when it came out, now it looks tiny compared to the new ones. The Surface Pro's trackpad looks like it's about 2/3 the size of my MBP, and half the size of the latest MBPs.

2- The trackpads are flush with the body of the machine. I've often used PC trackpads where you were expected to scroll using the right side of the trackpad, but it was basically unusable because the plastic bezel was in the way.

3- The finger tracking is phenomenal. I don't know, it "just works", whereas PC trackpads would often lose track of my finger, forcing me to repeat the movement while pressing harder.

4- The multi-touch is great. 2-finger scrolling feels way more natural than using the side of the trackpad. No wonder it's been (often poorly) copied by basically everyone else.

I don't doubt that some PCs have very good trackpads, but Apple's has been consistently a pleasure to use on every Mac I've used, to the point that I don't bother carrying my mouse when I travel with my laptop.
It's not to be vindictive to a thief, it's to deter a thief. There is no point in steeling something that has no value.

They could do this without the destroying hardware by linking serial numbers to people, making it trivial to look up who owns a serial number, and then enforcing receive stolen property a crime.

Who is they? Apple? The state? The number of ways that could go wrong is endless.
Copy and paste the real world with your phone using augmented reality
In Java if you want to map a function over a list you write `list.stream().map().collect()` and in Kotlin you write `list.map()`. The functional programming APIs in Java are atrocious. Lambdas are much easier to write thanks to anaphoric macros and other syntactic sugar. Data structures are immutable by default. A big one that isn't mentioned often is that functions can exist outside of classes so your code is not as tied to Java's style of OOP.
You might be able to argue the header was implicitly licensed because the author knowingly distributed it.
Please do not require to login!
The sharing via a second unique url would be great for teams and I could use it right away. If I have to convince all my colleges to login that would kill it for me :/
BOMBORA | Reno | Onsite or Remote | https://bombora.com/about/bombora-careers/

Bombora is a global B2B intent data platform, processing billions of content interactions daily to detect intent signals from companies around the world. We practice agile development, with over 30 applications created and supported internally. We are polyglot, primarily using C#, Java, and Python. Substantial portions of our workload are containerized or serverless, and we are continually evaluating and adopting new tools and practices.

We are currently looking for an experienced software engineering manager and a senior software engineer.

Amazing team, generous learning stipends, comprehensive benefits, growth potential and meaningful impact. Learn more at https://bombora.com/about/bombora-careers
It's a bad product according to me and everyone I have worked with professionally who has used it. Sample size of maybe 15 opinions.

I suspect it's badly engineered because of how horrific the mobile experience is, since they use Rails for everything instead of going API first and building native mobile. But I don't think the engineering matters quite as much because it's such a small product with a small surface area. I just wish a small, bad product wasn't touted as the "majestic monolith," because we have nothing to learn from it.
It's hard to trust thieves who demonstrably ignore laws when it suits them.
I'm coming from the 8 hours sleep, 8 hours of work, 8 hours of other stuff. There will obviously be things like chores and eating in there, but I think there is meaning and purpose derived from those things as well.
Quick setup for RHEL8:

$ sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/preview/r...

$ sudo dnf module install nvidia-driver:latest
Antibody tests are becoming more available. So that's an option for me and possibly my young children when I can afford to pay for it.
Can you please show at least one example that you consider to be "great"? I'm curious.
yes, i refrained from using the word "synergy" because most people don't differentiate the common pejorative understanding and it's M&A usage.

it's a fascinating component of how companies are often overvalued in m&a activity.
> No, it's not a "significant risk". It's basically the flu to the young.

Normally being wrong on the internet is just ignorable, this isn't. At its best, this is 10x more deadly that the flu (more so for young people because almost no one dies of flu while young). You can dismiss that if you like, most people are right to not.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-younge...

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52003804
Are you asking how to be satisfied with being inadequately conscientious?

Don't be. That way lies misery for you and those around you.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/raising-your-...
To this day I have no idea how one should handle client secrets in (F)OSS applications, and I'm often wondering if I'm the only one. I guess what this text says in 4.13 is "just don't put it somewhere for anyone to see", which means that the only solution is to make the id and secret configurable and let the user register the application with its OAuth provider, which of course most users wouldn't know how to do. As a result, applications like Thunderbird simply put the secret in the code with a comment above it "please don't copy these values for your own application". I really don't mean to shame Mozilla, what else are they supposed to do?
they are auto generated by `styled-components` - a great option for "css in js" in the React ecosystem
Q&A: Steven Sinofsky on his book about his Microsoft career
> This is why you should never host your open source project on a US server. You're one DMCA notice away from being destroyed, needing a lawyer to counter claim properly, etc.

This is an excellent takeaway that should be upvoted.
> the criterion by which you should choose your next language is not employability, but expressiveness.

What a weird choice.

If you are looking for an out-of-the-mainstream language, you can't really tell right away if a language is expressive or not before you actually dive in.

Myself, I go for "exotic looking". I read the brief description of the language, look at a few snippets, and the weirder it looks, or the most foreign the main concepts are, the more I'll be interested in studying it for a few hours.

The point is not to be expressive, it's to stretch my brain.