skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is CCs basically give a zero interest rate loan for upto 45 days. This means if you spent 1000£ through CC rather than a debit card, the 1000£ will sit in your bank account and earn interest, also 1000£ spent on the CC would have earned you reward points that could be redeemed as a statement credit. Thus in effect by using CC, one would have spend less for the same transaction.

Also taking credit and closing them in time with CC could boost one's credit score, which may be useful in the future ocassion when one requires a bank loan.

Is that not sane personal finance advice?
Hex: Keyboard-driven, grid-based drawing
From Developer to Dev Content Creator – My 2020 Story
What about consolidating `RUN` stuff to as few lines as possible so that your images aren't gigantic?
I like the concept, but so many questions -- Who is behind this? As in, what bank? If it is a debit card, I have an account somewhere holding my money. Is it insured? Is this just a branded card from an existing bank, or is this a new organization? Is this even real, or just another "build a landing page to see if there is interest"?

"How it works" needs to answer the financial side of this product, not just what percentage of profit goes to trees.
> Remember Quicksilver?

I'm still using it. :) It even works on the M1 Macs with minor tweaks, when I gave the new ones a try.
People are getting way too excited about this.

The real costs we are missing is the prices insurers pay for procedures by billing code and provider.
The military takes orders from the civilian government. But it’s a military operation at the end of the day, involving targeting decisions in a theater of war. Just because civilian officials dictate that targeting doesn’t change its military nature.

The requested discovery sought information about how targeting decisions were made for military strikes overseas. I see the argument for why, when a US citizen is involved, there might be a due process issue. But there is undeniably a huge state military interest in secrecy.

As practiced in the developed world, the rule of law does not encompass courts second-guessing military decisions overseas. Courts are primarily domestic and civilian by their nature. The Supreme Court has found that certain due process issues are implicated where US citizens are involved even with respect to conduct overseas. But there is a tension there with the legitimate prerogatives of the executive with respect to military action.

I’m curious whether any other developed country releases that sort of targeting information. To me knowledge, US courts are already more willing to intrude into military action abroad than courts in other countries.
This is true. There have been proposals to alter the `while` syntax to fix the scope leak, as well as proposals to extend `for` to support ranges, but none have been accepted (and they aren't very compelling in my opinion).

Honestly, I'm not sure why people think it is such a big deal. I've written a lot of zig, mostly gamedev stuff, and I rarely use that construction. I find that the vast majority of loops are over arrays or slices.
Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00057-8
I do not think that a person noticing that they are the only person of colour in the room is being racist.

You might as well say that it's sexist to _notice_ that the tech conference is all dudes.

It's the same victim-blaming absurdity.
This is only a consequence of what happens in court. Suppose someone owns you a certain amount of gold according to an agreement, but it turns out they can't actually deliver the gold. Then there's no point in refusing a settlement in legal tender and taking that person to court, because the court will then value the debt in legal tender and force you to accept the legal tender anyway.
> What if he's not dead?

Then you wouldn't be inheriting anything in the legal sense of the word. That's why it's a contrived scenario -- it doesn't exist in reality.

Besides, the point is moot, as Medicaid nursing home care isn't Medicaid medical care, which is what the original topic was about.

> My parents were nurses, they weren't completely poor so they surely had to pay for it, but not rich either.

The government here heavily subsidizes the healthcare plans of people near poverty (up to 4 times the poverty level), not just the poor.
my hope would be that btrfs subvolumes could each be keyed differently, which would enable finer granularity of management than whole disk at a time.

and ideally, the contents could be encrypted but still send-receiveable.

thus, I could have an encrypted subvolume of, say, my photos, and send a snapshot of that over to a friend for backup. and they could send me some of their subvolumes, again securely, along with incremental updates over time.

with LUKS, we'd need to agree ahead of time how big a partition to make for each other's encrypted contents & there's not really any way to insure, when I use my key to unlock & incrementally update my subvolume, that my friend "forgets" and unmounts the subvolume after I update it. Big ask, but if btrfs did add encryption, it'd truly be the only file system tool we needed.
Yeah, credit history is something I never really cared about as I don't have any interest in getting a loan or touch anything else related to credit histories, so I'm probably a bit biased in that. I also guess the cost of living is so low where I live so I (together with many others) don't need to be able to take loans, not even to be able to afford a house.

Edit: not a complaint, just found it funny that someone thought of to downvote me a minute after I wrote my comment, because me and others around me don't need credit to afford a house? HN sometimes is funny.
Seems like another case where a successful Chrome extension was bought out so it could be used for either:

1. Mining the users' traffic and reselling it as market research, or

2. Using the users' computers as a pool for a residential proxy service, or

3. Replacing and inserting ads into users' browsers.

This is unfortunately quite common.
ECC matters
I've found extensions doing malicious things that were not obfuscated, by inspecting the code. Obfuscated code is just not worth installing at all. Too much work, for little benefit, to review it, when alternatives exist.
Then it’s a sign that they haven’t open sourced their extension, which is a red flag. Minification may be acceptable though pointless.
The description in the article makes it sound like Sony came out with a much better low power chip. I'm not sure how big a factor battery size is for these watches, but they might not have had much choice.

I have a Garmin 645 Music and wouldn't get anything bigger to replace it.
These prices are fairy tales. It's a figure next to no one will actually ever pay.
Insurers pay less. If you ask for a discount you will pay less.
> And why is this?

I'm not saying all obfuscation is necessarily bad, just something to look out for if you're trying to sleuth around for malicious intent by the addon's author.

Typically if you want to hide the fact you are collecting the browsing secrets of the addon's user, you would use some form of obfuscation (in order to have the addon in good standing by Mozilla and to stop a simple sweep by people like myself who first look for things like http:/https: in the source).

Note: Obfuscation is NOT the same as minification, and I don't mean minification when using the word obfuscation!
Oh amazing! I haven’t bought stuff on eBay in a while but I’ve absolutely used your service before. I remember using it A LOT back in the early 2000s - it was my secret eBay super power before others knew about it. Thanks again and so glad it’s been life sustaining for you. Cheers.
Yes, I'm aware, I followed the Alpha Dogfight trials closely.

If anyone else is wondering, they used a 3000 foot cone with point at the nose of the simulated aircraft, any time the enemy got within 3000 feet and 1 degree of the boresight of the plane, a certain number of hits per simulated frame were counted as hitting. Get X number of hits, that's a kill. For the livestreams they wonderfully represented this as a health bar.
The guide briefly mentions Unraid, which I'm glad to see. But I understand it doesn't fit the criteria since it's not free. IMO it's worth every penny for those of us who want an experience without a lot of this sysadmin(for lack of a better term) stuff. Unraid has been the perfect home/media server experience for me.
Better would have been to legalize sci-hub or make the journals illegal. This is just regulatory capture.
YMMV, but most of our in-house applications use a few of the Aspose .NET libraries. Many of them are written to interact with our billing and document management systems (primitive VCS). I have written a few applications and most of them would be useless outside of our environment. I have released some PowerShell scripts to an industry specific forum, though.

The biggest barrier to releasing our applications as open source are organizational. It would take a number of approvals to do so and our developers would have to review the code first. We have a small development team with a large backlog of work; it’s hard to argue that they should spend time to do this instead of a higher priority task.
> A Bit like a table of Nutritional Facts for food, but for extensions.

Great idea!
Agreed. Interestingly, there's a dead comment saying much the same thing.
Stats Are the New Analytics
So basically, the society pays money to do research and then pays again to access PDF/HTML files with enormous license fees. Looks like a win-win strategy from publishers. They have effectively co-opted "open access" to make public institutions pay even more money to host PDF files.
A new open security key: Solo v2
And like all Randroids, you of course consider yourself to be in the latter category, right?
The no.1 personal finance advice is pay your credit card balance in full every month.

The exception is when you have a credit card offering a 0% interest promotional period. As long as your overall credit utilization is low, you can pay the minimum each month to maximize the amount of time your money sits collecting interest. I usually pick up a new 0% promo card every year to get cheap financing for large purchases while my money appreciates in the stock market.
Yeah, where I live you have exactly the same protections using credit card vs debit cards. Credit cards here don't usually have good rewards either. If you spend 10000 euros you might get 10 back in the end of the year, hardly something to hurrah for. Sometimes they give you a free TV if you open up a bank account with the bank and change to the bank to receive your monthly salary, but that's about it. So don't really have any reasons to use a credit card instead of a debit, as I only spend money I have anyways.

If I remember correctly, banks here also always give you a debit card when you sign up with them, while credit cards have to be applied for separately and also usually has a yearly fee, compared to debit cards that are free.
> "now available in version 6 with much less restricted licenses"... that's quite a weak praise given that it is available as LGPL, GPL or commercial non FOSS licensing.

I was already writing UI applications with an LGPL licensed Qt 4.x, so the version 6 hasn't changed in that regard, just like version 5 didn't change either. And I'm sure Qt was already FOSS in earlier versions, but 4 and 5 are the ones I can confirm having FOSS licenses.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/...

Starting with 2021 old wind farms will be build back, since there is a new rule about 1000m,new ones cant be build, hence reducing the available area.
I get the criticism about Twitter and Facebook, on their inability to curb hate speech. But Parler? It does not and will not do such thing, at least in the foreseeable future. It is their mission, why would they change it?

On the contact tracing APIs, I cannot consider Apple or Google responsible for their underwhelming adoption. Whilst the concept itself seems flawed when it comes to reaching critical mass, especially in the US, where any sort of obvious government tracking is frowned upon (confidential ones seem to be OK, for some reason), most states did not want to work on this, and at most relied on “manual” contact tracing.
There is no reason to have multiple computers, apart from a laptop and workstation for people who need to be able to work on the go.
Not only upfront cost, but license costs, update management, hardware replacement and finally disposal and recycling are piling up.
I fail to see the upside, honestly.
Anyone has considered LG oled tv as PC monitor?

I use LG55C9 as my main display. 4K oled 120hz gsync. Absolutely gorgeous.

Will change it in few years if ghosting become a problem. 8k oled is coming soon anyway.

Cons : had to disable auto dimming in firmware.
Qt is fully open source since 2000 and nowadays most of the components are lgpl3. I'm still sad that some people are spreading so much fud about it 20 years later. Same with the bloated thing, people complained that qt and kdelibs were bloated and now that qt and the kde frameworks are modular they complains about too much librairies.
No, I'm adept of (anti)survivorship bias. In other words, I like to study mistakes. And Zig offers a great field of study in that regard, as many issues are seen with a naked eye (i.e. even to casual passers-by).
Says you. The lack of imagination is astounding.

Solution 3, the most common solution available and that has a 100% track record: the market changes. People build new things, people buy different things. They don’t necessarily stop buying iPhones, but it becomes less important.

Case in point, Microsoft retains a PC monopoly with Windows. People still buy PCs. But no one really cares that much.

The smartphone App Store market is barely a decade old and we are ready to treat it like a utility to be enshrined for 50 years. It took decades to regulate electrical generation vs distribution. It also didn’t really “open things up”, it just enshrined the existing players as the standards.

The only pipe dream here is that the government will somehow force Apple to run other people’s App Store software on their devices, and remove any curation ability. Considering that curation and integration is what Customers actually want, I don’t see how any government enacts this in the consumer interests. It’s only in the interests of other vendors.

At best it would be an independent App Store approval process regulated by the government.
I feel like what you're complaining about is the equivelent of Calculon's critique of a screenplay: "no, I don't like the font". I am very much not a genius (check the user name) and it took me less than a minute to understand the payload operator (which IIRC was taken from Ruby or something).

Let's say `for (x in y) {}` replaced the payload operator. It would still exist in:

- if(some_error_union) |value| {} else |err| {}

- if(some_nullable) |value| {}

- while(some_nullable) |value| {}

- switch(some_tagged_union) { .some_tag => |value| {} }

And any that I might be forgetting. Is your suggestion that each of these should have separate syntax, thus complicating the language with one-off syntax?
Unrelated to the security implications, Microsoft Edge is doing tab suspension natively in the latest builds.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/09/17/microsoft-edge-slee...
Tesseract? The page does not refer OCR anywhere, neither does it appear on its issues.
I built a GPS rig for my car from a Palm III, a bunch of serial adapters, and a GPS antenna liberated from a minivan back in 1999. It took every bit of 15 minutes to get usable locks and data. It probably took longer. Sometime I'd be at work before the map started moving.

I have a little clip-on geotracker I bought in 2010 that I use for cross-country train trips. It takes at least 10 minutes to lock on, and since it can only be either "on" or "charging," but not both, there are long gaps in the tracks on the maps.
I thought the latest executive order requires them to publish the negotiated prices. Is that not the case? In the end I think they should have to publish the actually paid prices at the end of the year.
Yes but it’s a first step.
Ah, preparing them for the countless hours of PR’s!
Does anyone have any experience how this might fit inside a company? Getting sign off from peers can be tricky when everyone is busy, but perhaps only a few reviewers are needed, and as long as everyone is given the opportunity and time frame it sounds like a fair way to move forward with design decisions.
Note: Obfuscation is NOT the same as minification, and I don't mean minification when using the word obfuscation!
> They only talk about cores, do they even use GPUs?

From my experience (animated movies) GPU is still very experimental because of how limited it can scale, and definitely not use in render farm.

And I'm not even talking about the cost.

GPU rendering demos focus on speed, but of the biggest problem with full feature is flexibility. The more complex your image is, the more problems/artifacts you will "create" on it. Your render time can be x100 faster, if you need to spend two days to fix a problem for each shot, the quality VS speed ratio completely fall over.

Everything get easier, slowly, so maybe one day we will have a 100% GPU farm on big budget projects, but for now, CPU is the most predictable way to manage large scale rendering for both sides (sysadmin/artists).
As a scientist, it is of my opinion that this is rather absurd. Research should be viewed as being for the betterment of humanity and furthering our knowledge, not personal prestige
As a kid, I was dumbfounded that passwords worked on NES games, and Castlevania III was my first introduction to the concept. I still remember staring at the screen not comprehending how putting in this combination of icons would get me my game back. I knew there’s no way they could manually create a password for every game state, but I also had no conception of discrete states, algorithms and hashing, so I literally could not conceive of how this thing in front of me worked.

It is personally satisfying to finally get a complete understanding (even though I long ago understood it conceptually).
Oh silly me! A quick look at Google would solve my problem quickly but I didn’t bother to do that. I have somehow disabled the location access for the Watch Faces. So while all the other faces shown no problem, Solar Dial NEEDS my exact location to calculate the sunrise and sunset and other related times and therefore could not work properly. Problem solved. Everything now is correct as it should be.
Care to share how exactly you earned from that? :) SEO Network domains (or link blogs) are usually built for Google crawlers, not actual human eyeballs. They don’t rank high, they boost the rank of other sites.
Unfortunately I make heavy use of the DVR functionality (live TV, TV guide, looking at upcoming recordings etc) that both Jellyfin and Plex provide, but third party clients like Infuse ignore. But thanks for the suggestion! Who knows, maybe I’ll be able to pair Infuse with some kind of third party DVR client in the future.
An Analysis of Privacy on the App Store
…in the wrong direction. Rather than validating the concept of paying for individual operations, the humane thing to do would be to smash the system entirely.
Maintainer of ziglearn.org here. I have just now added details on using stat and directory creation + walking here:

https://ziglearn.org/chapter-2/#filesystem

And details on reading the next line here:

https://ziglearn.org/chapter-2/#readers-and-writers

fread/fstat/fgets/fopen is now all covered. The build system is something I need to cover much more thoroughly, but is something that will take a long time.
Dohackathon spacetravek app second component
This just makes sure you’re using correctly licensed libraries, it’s punishment for honest people.

I can circumvent this system by taking the snippet I need or just wholesale copying the library and changing around a few variables.
So what is the right way to configure Docker such that both the container and my host user can alter files in the volume?
We’re fast moving away from physical cards being necessary. With the ubiquity of Apple / Google Pay, the TreeCard feels like a gimmick more than a solution.
Ah, my mistake. Shame to put that much effort into putting something on film and have it look so awful that you think it must be CGI
What do you think about the argument about it allowing you to keep your money invested for longer?

Say you're ordering something large like a car. You can pay the deposit on a debit card, and lose access to the money immediately, or you can pay on a credit card, and keep your money invested for another month or so, still earning you money, until you need to settle.

A credit card gives a consumer liquidity. I don't think it's an unusual economic concept to say that liquidity is useful and helps you use your money more efficiently.
Star Wars was saved in the edit
Hi, I am currently writing ziglearn.org which aims to show a lot of detailed examples.
Why did they “censor” the video (flash up the title page) when the wives were introduced?
> Yeah, credit history is something I never really cared about as I don't have any interest in getting a loan or touch anything else related to credit histories, so I'm probably a bit biased in that.

Fair enough! I wish that were the case in my part of the UK ;)
1. The article is a copy of the original: https://theconversation.com/scientists-suggest-us-embassies-... . I wonder if scitechdaily is just a content farm or if they had a license to copy that content.

2. This Vanity Fair article believes it's mass hysteria: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/the-real-story-behin...
The Visitor pattern is great if you want to process a data structure as "stream" without actually instantiating it, in the same way you can read a file line-by-line instead of loading it completely into memory.

For example, serde uses the visitor pattern to encode its intermediate representation. If it used pattern matching instead of the visitor pattern, it would have to instantiate its intermediate representation as an enum, which would add unnecessary overhead.
> Then the competition section comes. It is the part the authors have to consider competitors of their proposal. Thinking about an alternative solution instead of their suggestion requires people to focus on the problem instead of blindly loving and defending their solutions.

One of the most powerful tools I have found towards constructive discussions is moving away from binary (works or does not work) to options (implications and imitations). The encouragement of generating multiple options allows discussions to consider different ideas. It also allows to think about limitations and implications. The best part is that it puts decision makers to accept these limitations and implications for the upside that they give. On the other side, it allows employees clarity on where the decision makers want to go.
I work in medical and we have a ton of review processes. Problem is that you don’t get the time to do a real review. There is also no real process of handling the review feedback so even if you find the time to understand the issue management will still go ahead with what they wanted to do anyway. Not sure how to handle this. It seems there is no amount of process to ensure that people act in good faith.
I'm mostly mesmerized by movement of the arms and hands.

If he made balancing robot he wouldn't be an artist, he'd a magician.

Layperson can tell something is off but artist can know what is off and have persistence to try different things until it isn't.

BD Atlas moves like typical website designed by programmer looks.

Spots movements on the other hand in the last video BD released is closer to artistry.
The DoD has done a lot of simulations (some for the purposes of higher fidelity, but that's definitely not the only reason), but this is the first time it's truly tried to fold a simulation into the formal acceptance of an air vehicle, and committed this hard to high fidelity at scale.