skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and which has killed millions of civilians in the middle east

The US didn't kill millions of people in the Middle East. In fact it lost thousands of soldiers and a trillion dollars trying to keep the Iraqis from killing eachother. The US stepped inbetween two warring factions that have been killing eachother for hundreds of years and tried to stop it.

> and which is sterilizing women in border camps

The US doesn't have border camps, it has detention facilities for illegal immigrants, which most every nation with a border possesses. Trying illegally sneaking into Canada (or Australia, or most any nice country), you will be detained at a facility until they can remove you from their country for violating their immigration laws.

The US Government doesn't force sterilize women at the border or at non-existent border camps.

There is one specific doctor - Mahendra Amin - at one facility that has performed eight surgeries over three years, with wide debate still on-going as to whether all or none of those surgeries were requested. From that basis you're attempting to proclaim the US Government is broadly doing something, which is obviously exceptionally misleading.

I'd suggest reading more about the subject:

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-archive-only-on-ap-immigr...
Starting with Qt 6.0, it should be possible to make QJSEngine/v4 (their custom JIT JavaScript engine) optional in your application:

>Make JavaScript an optional feature of QML.

>Having a full JavaScript engine when using QML can complicate things and is an overhead especially when targeting low-end hardware such as microcontrollers. It is however extremely useful in many use cases.

Source: https://www.qt.io/blog/2019/08/07/technical-vision-qt-6
Would love to hear more regarding Microsoft evil, invasive and user hostile.
I've certainly consumed the last ~5 year PR propaganda, and am not aware of the bad stuff?
Keybase
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So similar to India's UPI?
>Regardless, Twitter can do what Twitter likes.

Hopefully not for much longer, and what a sad day that will be for corporate bootlickers.
If users have to sign up (create an account) in the traditional flow, I think this is dead in the water :/
My thoughts exactly - some very long walks in the fresh air and some good nights of sleep would be my top priority!
Why? What market is there in open source any more?
You Can Measure Height on Apple's iPhone 12
:D just to be clear, the rules were made just for the case study. I'd never recommend following these rules in a professional project. They are part of the method of the case study, not its outcome; the outcome is a couple of (hopefully) interesting patterns and insights, without trying to prescribe anything.
I just checked 6 laptops. None have Safari available. Also checked three smartphones - no Safari possible there also.
> An idiosyncrasy of Axler's book is that it introduces determinants only toward the end

I think the idea is that determinants do not necessarily belong in linear algebra proper, at least not with as prominent a position as they are usually awarded in textbooks. More specifically the idea is that determinants are being excessively and detrimentally used in linear algebra proofs. Axler actually published a paper called "Down With Determinants!" in 1995, for which he won the Lester R. Ford Award. Quote from the introduction:

> This paper focuses on showing that determinants should be banished from much of the theoretical part of linear algebra. Determinants are also useless in the computational part of linear algebra.

Paper: https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/awards/Axler-For...

Wikipedia page for the award: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Halmos_%E2%80%93_Leste...
"In a statement emailed to The Verge, a Verkada spokesperson said: “Verkada does not tolerate sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior. This isolated incident was investigated and all individuals involved were disciplined accordingly."

So, it was investigated by deleting the evidence? Stellar company!
https://qmlbook.github.io/ Is by far the best if you plan to use QML (strongly recommended).
Forget pay cut, give me a raise to work remotely
I'm just discovering UmbrellaJS. This is pretty sweet. I hate to say it but I like jQuery but don't like the heavy load times it comes with.

Although, yes, I don't need jQuery but I would love to do things easily without bloating up my code.

We will be looking into UmbrellaJS more.. thanks for this.
Of the three you listed Vue is the most 'opinionated' in that it ships with official router, official store (vuex) etc and that is a huge deal.

With React and particulary svelte (for now) it's a mishmash of possible choices.

Where that bites is when you have 3 choices to make with 4 options.

4^3 === 64 - so any project you pick up/come onto has a 1/64 chance of using a stack you've seen before.
Also, when it comes to the stimulus programs, if you made too much $$ then you don't qualify. Even if I had qualified for unemployment, I wouldn't have qualified for the extra $300/week and the $1200 stimulus plans.

The only thing really keeping us afloat is we fled the USA and move to my wife's town where she owns a home and there's a low cost of living. Luckily I was raised with the philosophy that if I cannot afford to buy a thing in cash, I cannot afford to buy that thing, so I have never had any debt.
If you really must! A little static site generator is a nice one. The great thing is, it's the kind of thing you can pick up whenever you have a spare few minutes, as there's always some new little feature you can add...
Not a solution for most people, but if you didn't know, it's very easy to replace the new tab page with a custom one using a minimal, local extension. In your manifest.json include

"chrome_url_overrides": { "newtab": "ntp.html" }

and if you want it to work in incognito tabs

"incognito": "split"

(you will also need to go to your extensions's detail page and flip on "Allow in incognito").

Then create your ntp.html page (can be named whatever, just change the json to match), with CSS file(s) and image(s) as needed. I made a simple flexbox "speed dial" page with sites I specify rather than changing based on some kind of "frecency".

In chrome://extensions/, flip the "Developer mode" switch and then click "Load unpacked" and choose your extension's folder.
A reminder to those in poverty, that the council was willing to spend 60,000 on "art" which was prioritized over funding low-income housing among other things.

>‘How can they get grants for arts projects when we can’t get grants for homes? I could have bought a new home for my family with this money.’
You appear to be shadow banned, but this comment is spot on. Cars do not scale well in urban areas because the space taken per passenger on the road (and when parked) is far too big.
>We have known for months that the IFR is <0.01%

I don't think that's quite correct (in the US anyway), but if you have evidence otherwise feel free to share it.

* 2,046 people age 35 and under have died of Covid-19 in the US as of Oct 10. [1]

* People under 35 constitute 49.5% of the population in the US. [2]

* An estimated 9.3% of the population has antibodies as of September [3]

330,00,000 x .49.5 x .093 = 15.2 million people in the < 35 year old age group infected as of September. Maybe 16.7 million now with the increase in cases since then, so:

.012% IFR for people < 35 years old
(obviously it would be higher - probably about double I would guess - if you did people 40 and under)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_Unite...

[2] https://www.infoplease.com/us/census/demographic-statistics

[3] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/09/less-10-...
> That's the thing that Lisp/Smalltalk/Forth/Tcl proponents, who lament the unpopularity of their favorite language [1], frequently get wrong. ... but that those don't really matter that much in most practical use cases,

This statement does a good job of summarizing where I've landed on these sorts of languages, myself. Viewed in terms of Amdahl's law, the most you can improve a system by adjusting a single component is the impact of that single component. From a systems development point of view, the most impact you can have by changing programming language is to eliminate or reduce the cost of expressing your system's processes in a form the machine can understand.

Notably, this still leaves open most or all the other problems that beset software projects. The requirements are still under specified, the team is still subject to staffing constraints, funding still has to be justified and acquired, legal and business and scheduling constraints are all still there, and is the business viable at all in the timeline that you have? [1] The list goes on and on... and because the language doesn't really help, the value prop for niche languages goes way down.

That negativity aside, I do see potential counterarguments to this in the fact that an expressive enough language can help you improve your process to the point where you get answers faster and more reliably. But even that argument requires both a leap of faith and the willingness to take on the risks that implies.

1] Looking at this list, it's written in a way that might seem to imply startup/VC-funded project work - but that's not intentional. Those issues are also almost all faced by internal corporate development projects - either IT or for externally facing projects.

> [1] I don't mean to imply that you're one of them, I'm talking in general.

I didn't think you were, but thanks! :-)
You're not wrong but I expect they'd make it so that the various models would be similar enough (at least within a given CPU generation) so that you could use mostly precompiled artifacts instead of rerouting everything from scratch.

I've always been pretty skeptical of their approach though, in order to be usable they'd need excellent tooling to support the feature, and if there's one thing that existing FPGA software isn't it's "excellent".

Getting FPGAs to perform well is often an art more than a science ("hey guys, let's try a different seed to see if we get better timings") so the idea that non-hardware people would start to routinely generate FPGA bitstreams for their projects is so implausible that it's almost comical to me.

Maybe one day we'll have a GCC/LLVM for FPGAs and it'll be a different story.
UK mobile phone firms to be banned from selling locked handsets
So a company that sells to an industry that is primarily a blue collar boys club hires sales associates for culture fit (with the industry they are selling into) and then acts surprised when they abuse internal resources for amusement and make wisecracks that are wildly out of line for most white collar business environments.

The company is just acting shocked about the gambling to appease the public. Everyone knew something like this was bound to happen eventually. The cultures just aren't compatible.
This has been my experience on mobile twitter for years, and in the last year on the desktop one as well. I thought it was a passive aggressive push for users to log in or install the official apps.
I dont know anyone in the banking industry who can do a meaningful change but can you as a team suggest some sort of standard on bank statments? As a person who has to stare at them all day, i find it stupid all banks in india have different formats, some use total, some dr cr, some running net and other nonsense. Thats fine on paper but digital versions are even worse. None are machine readable. I want a statement which can be fed into excel or python or whatever.

I am saying thks because you say you interact with banks in building infrastructure. If your one suggestion can help, thousands of people would thank you. Plus it wont cost any money to banks to switch to a standard export format
> I adopted a book that is a great book, very clear and clean, but students did not understand it.

Was this book Axler perhaps?

A great book that mixes concepts and calculations is Shilov.
Because compared to swipe/NFC payments, it's a downgrade or a sidegrade.

Advantages:

* cheap, no need for a dedicated terminal

Disadvantages:

* requires internet connection for both parties (credit cards only require the merchant to be connected)

* cellphone is a single failure point (eg. losing it, battery running out, dropping it), whereas you can carry spare credit cards

* scanning is worse ux than tapping
Jordan Peterson might be a bit controversial but he does have some good ideas.

“So, keep your head high and don’t do the things that you know lead to meaningless outcomes or belittle you (especially in your own eyes). Eventually, your brain will kick itself into overdrive - it will get easier to hold your head up high as these positive habits will start to happen naturally.

But first, you must make a little bit of effort yourself to start moving in a positive direction.”
How to boost happiness hormones in everyday life
If you want to participate in the discussion about this feature, you can go ahead and comment on it in the tracking issue over at [0]. Oh wait, you cannot - it's set to private. It's almost as if Google didn't want any input from the community about Chromium, the open source project. Weird.

More seriously though, it seems the feature calls [1] to get the list of products to show on the new page. The call is made every time the new page is opened as long as Google is your search provider and the user is signed in (not sure if to the browser or Google services).

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=113085...

[1] https://www.google.com/async/newtab_shopping_tasks
Thanks. Happy to hear any feedback after you tried it. The frequency is not predefined but actually changes slightly to improve the overal accuracy. On average intervals are 7, 15 and 35 minutes depending on your setting.
Build a game if you haven't built one.
Normal phone Siri. Not sure if it works for the HomePod
These are unsolicited offers to buy a good. In what world are they not ads?
The merchant fee sucks for poor people because businesses likely raise margins to cover it (if they see significant volume via credit cards, like grocery stores).

Every transaction I make nets me 2-5% 'cashback'. Great for me since I get 5% back even on things like my electric bill and Internet.

But for everyone else paying cash at places where credit is primarily received, they're basically being fined for my benefit.
The key thing about it being iterative, I think, is that it builds up the justification for seeing that this is an effective and reasonable solution, one step at a time.
The times you’ve been there, did you make the rounds at popular touristy places? Rent at those places are extremely high, $3000+ for a 2 bed in heart of Brickell. If you move in lands away from touristy place it’s not that impressive. Home insurance is high because of hurricane / flooding risks.

Like I said, not a good place if you want your money to go far. Plenty of things to like about it if you visit, like the food, the pretty scenery at popular places.
You can send money for free P2P with a myriad of services in the US. Credit cards serve a different purpose.
delivering high-quality insights at a large scale is never a trivial job
> nothing remotely compares to killed civilians in the middle east

The US didn't kill millions of civilians in the Middle East as you've been attempting to claim. It did attempt to prevent the Iraq civil war however, an inevitable result of the fall of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. I'm curious if your premise is that Saddam, or his family, was going to rule as a dictator forever - denying all human rights to the Iraqi people - so as to prevent that civil war from ever happening.

And if you really want to talk orders of magnitude: Mao genocided 45 million people in just four years from 1958 to 1962.

Washington Post: "Remembering the biggest mass murder in the history of the world"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

https://archive.is/50HBS
“In Southern California, the definite article “the” gets placed before just about every freeway or highway, whereas in the Bay Area just the numbers are said.”

— https://www.kcbx.org/post/how-you-refer-us-101-says-lot-abou...
I'm not a professional dev, but Qt is what I use for any personel project that needs a GUI. I don't think I had to use any resources outside of the official tutorials and documentation on the Qt site, it's well documented. My only complaint with the documentation is that for a lot of their example projects, it doesn't explain it step by step, it just shows you a bunch of code and it's up to you to look up what the different functions do. I was originally going to try to make web apps for my projects, but even with no prior C++ experience, working with Qt was easier to pick up than learning javascript and all the associated tooling required for web applications.
I used it with regular tiles. to place item tiles on top of background
It's not that I don't understand the article, it's that I disagree with it.

Helping nazis and white supremacists "off the mat"? No. They need to get over the civil war and decide if they want to be in this country or not. That means:

- Stop with the racist behavior.

- Stop making it difficult for anyone but MAGAs to vote.

- Get the government out of our lives, like they say they want, which means lay off abortion and birth control.

- Stop trying to turn this country into a christian theocracy.

I've been living with this shit all my life (63 years), and we've been heading in the wrong direction for much of that time.

Being "gracious" is fine. I'm OK not rubbing an election victory in their faces, but every vestige of the Republican party needs to be wiped out.
A peer-to-peer backgammon game where you can challenge friends using an invite link
Were you by any chance looking at 6 non-Mac laptops and 3 non-iOS smartphones?
+1. I figured it was anti-abuse.
At the moment, this is #180. At #173 is an article about walking as a superpower. Did I mess a memo about superpowers as the meme of the month?
I often wonder what a current Amiga would be in order to capture the qualitative jump the original offered when it was launched, and somehow preserving some of its identity.
Move on. You deserve a better company than that.
Undo in emacs isn't on a very intuitive place.

Those people are complaining that they don't want to learn a new complex UI (what it is - I have wondered in the past if it wouldn't be better for me to simply disable org-mode and edit the files as plain text). Getting using to the undo is part of it.
The fun thing is that you have a number of ways to pay electronically in the US, PayPal and Venmo are pretty widespread.

What is missing is an effortless way of asking to pay, like by scanning a QR code. Contactless payments using NFC in cards and phones do not quite cut it, and require a terminal.
But that doesn't sound scary enough. They need to justify tyranny on a global scale.
Oh cool! I hate when i forget that i could be shopping.
A placebo doesn't have therapeutic value but it doesn't mean it has no effect at all. And the Meningitis vaccine doesn't have therapeutic value in the contest of Covid-19.

In fact, there are even placebo surgeries. They put you to sleep, cut you open, and stitch you back without actually doing anything inside your body. It is far from nothing, the anesthesia and the incision are real. It is important because you want to compare the effect of the actual operation to everything else that is involved in a surgical procedure.
A TOS is not private law.
Framework churn is real. I no longer recommend JS frameworks simply b/c the opinion of the framework developer drastically changes over time. So, you are constantly re-writing completely valid and working code to keep up with the latest version of the framework. The JS language itself, on the other hand, seems to be very stable with long deprecation cycles and steady improvements. So, it is much easier to build on.
I had a similar idea and registered remoteteams.fun haha. Are the activities prerecorded or is there a live mediator?
I download for offline viewing quite often. It is available only on mobile devices and the videos are available offline for 30 days post download. Solutions exist to view video from phones on laptops.

But all that doesn't go to my argument which is that YouTube, not myself, may not see your use case as legitimate since they provide a subscription service which enables offline viewing. I doubt that because the way they have implemented it, for whatever technical, contractual or just on whim reasons, may not meet all your specific needs they see you bypassing controls to implement in your own manner as legitimate.
>the only way to test it would be to infect a bunch of people

That's not actually true. You can get a database of people who've had it and follow up on them to see how they get on in terms of reinfection etc.

I'm kind of curious in my own case - I had it in Apr, had a positive antibody test in Jul - if I'm getting further exposure and antibody top ups. Probably I am as a public transport user in London but there's a limited access to test labs and the like.
Building an in-browser image editor with React
I am impressed that Chomsky maintained his sharp mind well into the old age.
My impression is that the accelerated computing side of AMD is receiving far, far too little attention. For example, their flagship GPU is still not officially supported by ROCm (AMD's answer to CUDA) [1]. Imagine the 2080 Ti not being supported by CUDA.

I've become a huge AMD fan, both because of their hardware, and because of their commitment to open source. But while the battles they have one against Intel on the x86 side are impressive, it seems that CUDA is leaving them far behind.

[1] https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/887
Uhhh ... by playing the kind of competitor that nVidia couldn't have imagined in their wildest wet dreams?
Hi Aditya, thanks for asking. OCEN is more a protocol than a product. Akin to UPI. It will require the APIs to be integrated into the system. We are a registered Technology Service Provider on the OCEN framework. We will help organisations integrate and get on the OCEN framework.
Cursed MinGW cross-compiling techniques
How to be happy, according to science
I would expect them to do The Beatles edition at some point thanks to 4 audio channels hard panned left and right.
Been having this exact same experience for weeks, maybe months. Desktop on two OS’s and mobile.
Specifically SFTP is a SSH subsystem, when your client connects to a SSH server it gets to specify what subsystem it intends to talk to, and so a remote SSH server can choose to offer the "traditional" shell service, an SFTP server, or any arbitrary thing. In this way SSH subsystems are rather like ALPN in TLS (except years earlier) which is how HTTP/2 works among other things.

The SFTP protocol itself, the thing spoken over SSH to the remote SFTP subsystem, is pretty simple, although I don't think it was ever formally standardised, https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-13

You could in principle talk SFTP over some transport other than SSH (e.g. you could use ALPN to select it over TLS), but nobody does.
I live in Spain, and I can relate having good weather and plenty of sun light increases life-quality :)
One more step

Please complete the security check to access retrohax.net
Nooooooo - how are people still saying this. There is little evidence at this stage that immunity can be gained in this way, for this particular virus.
That or Achronix