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The license for QT has been evolving quite a lot over the last year or two, which makes many developers very nervous to use it without a paid license. Have you seen what they’re doing?
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I wonder if the street racers and car mechanic hobbyists of the near future will become electrical engineers to effectively do the same thing. Instead of installing better spark plugs or cylinder heads, enthusiasts start playing with capacitor improvements and voltage tuning?
It can be tested in the other direction too: is there research that can confirm or debunk the opposite claim?
This sounds great. We already use https://percentpledge.org though. How is this different?
There is also Atrira[0,1] project by Blender Ukraine.[2]

[0] http://atrira.org

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe_eWhXBsRMEVegCf3l8yDg

[2] http://blender3d.org.ua/u/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0/23.html
And here I am shoving a 6 inch screen on my handlebars, because I'd crash if I had to wear my reading glasses while riding. Take my advice and don't get old.
I have a really large chat app with thousands of users and I realized the other day that I accidentally re-render the root component on _every keystroke_. Still, it's not a disaster and I haven't bothered to fix it because no-one notices.
Yes, at ATC’s discretion. Which you won’t receive, at least not cheerfully, at a busy airport.
In fact we've got one of our Developer Advocates doing a live broadcast right now over at https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-meetup/virtual-2020
There is no harm in adding something to the dependency array that you don't expect to ever change. The linter is your friend; make its job easier.
It feels like this time is different because of the ongoing lack of demand. International flights from the US are looking to basically be nonexistent until there's a vaccine. After that, it's very plausible the business travel economy won't ever recover fully.

I agree that some of the more foresighted countries are making some of the right moves (though Saudi Arabia is probably kicking itself for not moving forward with the Aramco IPO last year), but I really wonder what the effects will be on the political stability of places like Iran and Iraq - they're not in great shape to start with, and this kind of economic shock seems like about the worst possible thing to really exacerbate all the problems that exist already.
Only napkin math. The typical sources of climate change denial don't see biomass as a threat (Because it is tiny, growing slowly, and augments fossil fuels, not replaces them), so they don't fund any research to attack it.

The proponents of it probably know that its numbers don't look great, so they don't push for research that thoroughly audits it.

It's also difficult to thoroughly audit the carbon costs of a complex supply chain that has to move tens and hundreds of millions tonnes of lumber - when the costs greatly vary based on how the lumber was sourced.
CL has approx 50 employees, operate around the globe and are on track to do in excess of 1b in revenue this year... So I disagree with your assessment.

There are many businesses that operate in the 10figure range that dont require 10's of thousands of employees.

To me LI is more indicative of bloat. Especially since they are owned by MSFT.
I have worked as a developer advocate at AWS for almost 4 years now. I think this article gets one half of the equation, the public facing part, but what they are missing is the second half, which is that developer advocates also serve as a bridge back from the end customers to the engineers inside your organization.

My job is to be a credible technical voice to customers, but it is also to be an accurate representation of customer needs and wants to the engineers who are building the products. I go out and do customer facing talks and live streams on Twitch, and use social media to talk about my company's products, but then I listen to these customers when they come up to talk to me after my conference talks, or when they send me messages on social media.

I take those learnings and go into product management meetings and tell the PM's about customer problems, and I write proposals for things to build to solve customer problems. I influence the customers to use my company's products and use them better, but then I also influence the product roadmap to have the right things being built for the customers, based on what they want.

So dev rel / dev advocates work in both directions. At its best it is a bidirectional channel that translates internal knowledge into external awareness, and external complaints and issues into internal awareness and solutions.
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Is that investment just finding a place to park money? Or does it do something good for the every day Saudi citizen? I don't follow the issue closely enough to know.
Decimate in the classical sense would be to reduce by 90%, not 10%.
First makes 5.9M cars per year and is planning 50k Mach e. That's 0.8% of their line electric.

VW seems to be the only major manufacturer that's really going all in on electric and it's only after wringing their hands from the emissions scandal.

The old automakers seem to only want to do this in the face of bankruptcy.
I use InfluxDb on number of big gov production services, and never had a single issue with it. I use it for all metrics (applicative and infrastructure).

Its easy to deploy and its x-platform. Not sure what are all the comments here about - maybe for really huge loads which I don't have experience at, I usually use separate influxdb per service.
I think the logistics of this are too onerous for a site like HN. Even Reddit doesn't have anything like this. Between search engines/crawlers getting a different page than normal visitors, X free articles a month, and per-articles paywalls (such as sites that have removed the paywall for all COVID-19-related content) I think there is no easy way to tell if a site has paywall or not.

You could probably create a list of sites that have a paywall anywhere but I'm not sure if that would really provide a huge benefit.

For me, if a site has a paywall and I'm not willing to pay for it then I'll often read the comments to determine if I want to consider paying for it (normally only after I run into the same wall multiple times) or if I want to go looking on the internet for other reporting on the topic.
That's on our pipeline! Right now we support sliders, but we'll be handling csv data soon.
Pretty sure half the reason SA and friends promote violent, reactionary interpretations of Islam...

Is that a common abbreviation for Saudi? We used to use KSA when I lived there, but I don't trust South Africans not to be violent either. ;)
> Most major research uni profs are obliged to teach 2-3 courses per semester.

IME, that's a heavy courseload. At the university where I work (not as faculty), it's closer to 1 course per semester on average. Maybe 2 occasionally, but that leaves very little time for research.
I just checked, it doesn't happen in an actual elisp buffer, but every time in a standard .org file. It'll always throw a 'Lisp error: (scan-error "Unbalanced parentheses")'.

You might rightly say that evaluating lisp code directly in an org-mode code block might not be the best idea, I just don't expect it to mostly work but mess up the syntax depending on comments.
I don't need a ton of memory so whatever DIMMs are electrically compatible with the CPU will do the job (I imagine that 8 DIMMs of 8GB each is common?). I want it as a development platform for this PCIe 4 peripheral, so that's a hard requirement, and I would like if it resembles a production server as much as possible, so 8 channels at 3200MHz is desirable.
I too want an AMD ThinkPad but none of the ones with the new Ryzens are 15". It sucks that they've decided to cripple their AMD line for no reason.
Strategy is about simplifying idea in order to let the audience understand easily, and hopefully convince enough of them to act according to the implied direction in the idea.

People who actually write strategy articles, and do not practice them, mimicking that by fabricating a convincing picture, and hopefully entertain their readers.

That's why such strategy articles seldom wroth reading...
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then. . . why did the Arab states (Saudi Arabia) join with Russia to overproduce and sandbag prices?
Here's the video link:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...

Unfortunately there's no transcript on the official video
If that's the case, the problem isn't with video evidence, the problem is people don't know how to make logical arguments. Facebook didn't say they would be moderating discussion in that way.
Can't you just put code in `def main` and then have `main()` at the top-level if you don't need to worry about imports? It seems like you can probably get pretty far as a beginner before you need to worry about being able to both import and run the same file.
to confirm one is to debunk the other of course.
It's not strictly a "wrong leaders" problem. It's much more systemic than that. Elect a good leader and the oil will provide the impetus to tear that leader down.

Industry also won't form because of Dutch disease. Who wants to build a factory in Saudi Arabia even if it weren't unstable? Everything just costs too much because of the oil - land, materials, labor.

Sovereign wealth funds also don't really solve the problem because 1) they attract corruption like flies on shit and 2) they're vulnerable to confiscation from foreign governments if they decide they don't like your face (e.g. Venezuelan gold in London).

I suspect it could be that there is no simple solution to this. Potentially you are just fucked if you're a poor unstable country with oil and theres nothing you can really do about it. No leader will save you and no policy will help.
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> International flights from the US are looking to basically be nonexistent until there's a vaccine.

But there's likely going to be a vaccine in less than a year. It will take several years to know to what extent it's really safe or effective, but people who travel a lot for business can get it right away if they want.
The volume of the Unihertz Jelly 2 (77.4cm³) is more than 13% larger than the volume of an Apple iPhone SE (2020) (68cm³)!

I consider that to be a good reminder that there is no free lunch: If you build such a small smartphone, you suddenly don't have enough space behind the screen for a flat battery anymore, forcing you to increase the depth of the device to fit an adequate battery. You then end up with a device with a similar volume as one with a larger screen.
> I mean, this happened just a few years ago back in 2015, right? And 2008, and 2001, and 1998

The point here is that sub $40 oil is becoming the new norm. While these countries can weather a 2-3 year drop in oil prices, those short term drops are more and more frequent and the bottom keeps getting lower.

Between electrification of transportation and reduced travel which may last for another 6 months (or much longer, it's not really clear), demand is down. On top of that, any time oil stays over $50/ barrel for a prolonged period of time, shale oil and oil sands production increases putting downward pressure on prices.

Any way you look at it, there is no good news for oil-dependent states.
It is probably pragmatic/conventional wisdom that it will kill mainstream adoption if they are openly linked to it. It is deeply stupid but I can't say it is incorrect.

Now they have a point with FOSTA - it was already risky when they don't know if a naked body is 18 or 17.

To be blunt stupid inputs be they customer norms or laws get stupid results - it is how systems work.
I would caution against mounting phones on handlebars. I used an iPhone for a few months, and then I noticed my camera would constantly jitter - constant shaking and bumping damaged the camera’s autofocus.

Using them once in a while is probably ok, but I think the internal electronics of a phone are not rated or tested for such constant “abuse”
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"Today friends, I have great pride in announcing that Jio has designed and developed a complete 5G solution from scratch. This will enable us to launch a world-class 5G service in India using 100% homegrown technology and solution. "

Wow, that's amazing. Maybe the US and the UK can also import this 5G tech in our networks? I'm getting tired of ATT's fake 5GE.
To me LI is a tower of Jenga. Years of growth, mutliple acquisitions, M&A and almost no downward market pressure put them into this position of bloat. But your points are good, very very good. It take a lot of people to run a large org. But that's not always the best way...
> “HSA for Charity.”

Nice rebranding on DAF, which get a bad rep as a rich persons tool to avoid taxes.

This is pretty genious
Flights account for very small single digit demand for oil. The main driver of the low demand is lower economic activity in general.
In the long run the cost of energy approaches 0 and ultimately heat dissipation and space (and hence, speed) will be more relevant. But short-termism and individual greed have reigned supreme in most energy rich companies. At least Canada has a diverse economy to take up all the petro-refugees, even if we didn't build a serious wealth fund out of our oil as the Norwegians did.
We decided to roll our own state management library
As with any technology, the right tool for the job is highly dependent on what the job is.
If this is true, there really isn't any true reason why a user would expect it. It's kind-of out of the blue that Microsoft and Facebook would have any connection. Microsoft's services are more or less compulsory work services, and Facebook is in a completely separate leisure space.

In short the only entities that benefits from this is Microsoft who gets more revenue, and Facebook, who gets more user data.

The users are simply being literally sold.
500 might be a bit low. But maybe 5000?
Yeah, I was in no way insinuating that Nagios is superior in general, or even to Prometheus, just that it does the job well for some use cases. Monitoring is tricky and you definitely need a tool box because each problem has a different optimal solution.
Thanks for the answer. In practice, the "MIT" option sounds very similar to the much more standard "buy a license to integrate the code into proprietary software." As I'm sure you're aware, that's the model that Ghostscript has used for 30 years or whatnot. Is there a particular reason you're risking your customer doing a source release instead of taking this avenue?

My (incorrect) understanding of your MIT option is that it would essentially be a buyout, in other words compensating you for the lost revenue from a public release. I've seen that happen as well.
Biomass only makes up a small fraction of the energy economy. Wind and solar have much more promising futures.
Which extended features you need to have on the bicycle computer, for example? I'm already overwhelmed with features my bicomp has. (I use SC Dash M50, because I like it small pebble like size).
How to get a SRE/DevOps job under 40 days?
Maybe just with the software but with the hardware no way. On modern EVs it's too complex, miniaturized and tightly integrated to be able to play around.

Anyway, just like with Tesla, I expect that if you mess with the factory software to extract more features or performance you'd normally have to pay for, the manufacturer will void your warranty or lock you out of their charging networks.

The EV future doesn't look good for custom tuning.
They do, though.
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Not long range, unless you allow for gimmicks like changing batteries that will not be available for the general population.
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We're moving from Datadog to Prometheus for this reason
To bankrupt and slow down other oil producing countries that have even higher costs.

As an example, take a look at Alberta, Canada, with its giant oil sands projects -- on the world's largest deposit of crude oil on the planet -- basically unprofitable now.
Taken to another level, why is HN showing articles from news sites at all, when it's own guidelines say if media would cover it, it's probably off topic?
Thank you, will check out the documentary.
> ... And by 2030, all of our products will be too.

Good for Apple for offsetting office use, but Apple is a hardware company. They are putting carbon in the atmosphere to make and ship their products and that can't be ignored. 2030 is not ambitious enough.

Also:

> (big text)Completely recycled ... (small text) We’re committed to one day sourcing 100% recycled

Seems pretty disingenuous.
> Every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort

That is a 10% reduction. Killing nine out of ten would be a 90% reduction but 'in the classical sense' it would also mean that the lucky guy would have to kill the 9 remaining people.
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Back in 2015, costs for internet were not cheap,here in India. There were many who couldn't afford (including me).In those days(2015), I used to be on 2KBps network(You read it right, kilobytes per second). It was Idea Cellular's ₹68 2G plan(USD 0.91) where it provided 1Gigabyte of data for month. 3G plans were costlier. There was no 4G until Nov/Dec of 2015 when Airtel introduced 4G(it was hyped,but it was also costly.) There were no much 4G smartphones. Airtel wifi devices were advertised very much.

In 2016 Nov, Jio did amazing job by giving 4G data free for almost 4 months(10GB per day was limit,i guess. Also, 2G speed afterwards). It then introduced cheapest 4G 1GB/day plan for ₹400/3 months( 5.37 USD for 3 months) .Few other cellular network companies gradually went bankrupt, but others too introduced cheap plans(comparable to jio plan). This way,they revolutionized Indian internet and i am thankful to them for providing Cheap and Good internet.

But,it certainly was a curse for other ISPs(only jio,airtel(which bought few rival companies like tata docomo), and idea/Vodafone(both which got merged), state owned BSNL are remaining.
that's exactly it -- they take an existing form for the ansatz (or the general idea of it, at least), and make it more flexible by replacing pieces with neural networks that have many more parameters, while maintaining constraints required by physics. I think this will become very common in the future.
ask vs guess: https://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-bet...
Biofuel is a small industry. But the big difference is it's carbon neutral because the carbon released into the atmosphere came from the atmosphere.

Oil is releasing carbon from prehistoric atmospheres.
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> CO2 pales in comparison to the ecological devastation in Chinese factory cities, the large amount of plastic particulates/trash in our oceans and completely unsustainable economic doctrine of infinite growth.

No... not remotely. While these things you mention are a big threat, and truly terrible disasters themselves, they pale in comparison to the planet changing disaster that is Climate Change.
On the theoretical side, ML can be used to find a conceptual pattern in the existing literature. E.g. here's a paragraph describing a novel idea, go read all physics (and beyond) papers and find those that describe similar ideas.
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and SoftBank have invested in the largest solar project in history. MBS is no dummy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/softbank-and-saudi-arabia-an...
I once read about devs that get bored with long projects and thrill at starting new things, and the other kind that doesn't want to take new projects until the one that she/he is working on is "finished".
Maybe you are the first kind and that's why you are enjoying the unexpected situations you face giving technical support.
This problem was created by social media by choosing which articles to show in your news feed based on engagement. That is, how much you'll emotionally react to it.

The solution is not to add another layer of "fact checking". That's super dubious.

Get rid of what got us here.

News feeds organized by engagement are evil. Dismantling them would solve both the production and consumption of emotion driven information.
Up to 5% of car fuel in the UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Transport_Fuel_Oblig...
Prices have dropped more frequently because of US shale oil. Electrification is a very small factor (yet).
> OpenAI publishes in closed journals (actually conference proceedings) because that is where all the cutting edge research is published and reviewed.

Ok. So whats the point of OpenAI then ?
Didn't Volvo say they would go 100% electric before 2023?

They are not as big as VW, but that sure should "all in" to me..
I don't know how linked in is handling it, but in a typical layoff situation (I'm unfortunately familiar with several personally, and many more corporately) if you are rehired after your official termination date, you get to keep whatever the termination package was. The company considers you a new employee.

It needs to be this way for certain legal reasons.
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I wonder why they added this limitation. Does somebody know if there another explanation other than Lenovo trying to maximize profit by forcing every customer who wants to go for 32GB of memory to get the most expensive CPU as well?
> "Try it out" live demo loads forever for me. Possibly overwhelmed by requests?

If you're using Firefox, try to disable Enhanced Tracking Protection. It did the trick for me.
This still largely ignores the Data Sovereignty issue for non-US citizens. The US government still maintains control and oversight of US companies that rule the non-China markets. Data flow still runs through US data centres or even through US companies.

This is a huge con for citizens of non-US countries that simply don't want traffic and rules exported by the USG. Since, as non-US citizens, we're not subject to any of the "protections" afforded to a "US Person".
The fact that a significant portion gets swiftly laid off with seemingly no consequence suggests these complexity concerns are overstated.