skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This and Idealo are what I use to track prices for products I don't need urgently, like harddrives, to get notified when the overall market price drops or a sale goes live

what i find really interesting is the 'search subscription' where you can filter products to your liking and then track the search as a whole. i only discovered that today so we'll see how it goes. the filters worked well for sure
Maybe this could interest: https://divan.dev/posts/animatedqr/
I guess I'm one of the last ones to ditch Firefox. I moved to chromium very recently and everything's just smoother. I totally get why people do that.

Firefox still has some use insofar that adblocker blockers don't target it as much.
It seems to me a parody of modern entertainment, not necessary comedy. The way the economy rewards influencers, entertainers etc, basically bullshit jobs, we are sending the future generation into a world where this is all that humans do and no one wants to work on anything real anymore.
The logical conclusion of this maxim is "tweet more often".
Yeah maybe they can give him back all his former slaves too
I am honestly curious: what makes CL so fitting for this domain?
While noble, I think this misses the profit motive and me-too FOMO effect of industry strategy.

Never attribute to purely good engineering and design that which is incentivized by profit.
That hasn't been my experience at all - except for the graphics card issue where there is really some work to be done before the specific driver for the card works.

For everything else Linux is actually a lot easier to work with than Windows - where you may need to download specific drivers for it to work.

As for your comment about config files - the same is the case with Windows where instead of config files, you may need to tweak registry keys.

If you don't mind the default settings, it is about the same experience on Linux and Windows. When you start tweaking things, then your mileage will vary.
> I work at an ISP and not a single customer has ever even mentioned IPv6. There zero demand on the residential side.

It is one of these things that customers who know they want it will look for an ISP that offers it. There is no point in asking one who doesn't in 2021 because they will be like "oh we will look into it", and then close your ticket.

> I am a customer, and I just filter out providers that don't have IPv6 as I assume they are incompetent.

> I wouldn't waste time asking someone to support it. It's 2021.

True. Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks like this. The ISPs that don't support it usually have huge ancient antiquated middle boxes that can't be upgraded. I wouldn't choose an ISP with old cumbersome infrastructure.
Seeing the original I can understand the cover up, the original looks nothing like a lamb, and doesn't look like the usual human-headed animal, it's just disturbing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this keep the endpoint accessible for any bot/script that is willing to "invest the work"? E.g. if I only plan to query the endpoint a few times per day, the captcha won't be an obstacle.

I mean, if that's an intentional exception for personal scripts, that's awesome, but it doesn't really seem to serve the expectations of a CAPTCHA then.

Also, while I like the idea, I fear this could stop working in the long term.

With cryptocurrencies, PoW works because the "good guys" (miners) and the "bad guys" (double spenders) have equal access to computing power: If the difficulty increases, both can simply add more mining hardware and stay in the game. If the "bad guys" threaten to get an advantage, the system can always increase the difficulty without risking to lock out the "good guys".

With CAPTCHA, the situation is different: Here, the "bad guys" (spammers) still have as much computing power available as they can buy and stuff in their data center. However, the "good guys" (regular users) have hard constraint: They have to use whatever hardware the browser runs on (which might just be a smartphone) and they can't spend more than a few minutes to solve the puzzle - otherwise, the user will probably grow impatient and give up.

This means, you can't easily increase the difficulty of the puzzle without locking out regular users. If the captcha grows popular, there can easily be a situation where you'd make the captcha unsolvable for all regular users ling before it would become unsolvable for spammers.
They are profitable exactly because they don't pay workers the worth they produce. Profit is literally that.
Show HN: A Minimal Image Viewer for Windows
Rouille
I’m a long-ish time user of LibreELEC and holy crap! That blog post is like “there be dragons here, there and everywhere”.

I’ve recently moved on from LE on RPi to OSMC on some British media centre hardware that I forget the name now. The main reason was because some (all?) of the x265 stuff I downl^H^H^H^H^Hacquired wouldn’t play properly.
Seems based in Austria (surprised to see it here, I thought it was local only).

Minimum salary as per collective agreement must be displayed on the job listing, but for skilled workers it's a mere reference. I asked 40% more than what was advertised for my current job and got it.
There was recently some kind of fundraiser to hire a developer fulltime to make the trackpad support on Linux closer to macOS.
It's mostly around federation and abstraction of the lock in's of a particular cloud provider.

For example, I might want to run my own hardware for a certain reason and then also run workloads on AWS, but I don't want to have to manage different sets of API's , auth methods etc.
It's amazing how much more readable Lisp becomes with those type declarations.
It seamlessly works with VcXsrv too after you set your DISPLAY. I've been using it for years too, even back in 2018 while running Sublime Text within WSL 1 as a primary code editor.

If you place your VcXsrv config in your Windows startup folder everything automatically works. I haven't touched my config in years. The machine boots and it's all good, complete with proper clipboard sharing so you can copy things to and from WSL.
Yes, a moat is not a profit centre, it is a cost centre. You appear to have misunderstood the point you replied to.
Thanks!

I could still read this two ways however: one where the memory is on the peripheral, and one where the memory is main memory, where the peripheral is copying to/from using DMA. Which one is it?
It’s incredibly easy to spend a lot of money on the cloud, indeed. I remember using Google Cloud’s translate API on a bunch of documents — it took several hours for the bill to pop up at $1500. This was a hobby / personal project of mine, Google did not refund it, because of course I should have read the pricing more carefully.
Rethinking Herd Immunity
This is my experience as well. I've witnessed colleagues and other developers boast about their vim configurations and plugin ecosystems (and supposed gains in productivity) non-stop ever since I started working as a software engineer professionally.

Yet here I am with an almost out-of-the-box configuration, not a single plugin and my productivity/output is usually considered (far) superior to those of my peers.

I've never understood this widespread obsession with tooling. It's virtually never been the bottleneck for me in any software project I was involved in. The main obstacles I've found are usually of social and/or organizational nature, followed by sometimes (far off) the involved technologies. Tooling isn't a concern.
Yeah, but Microsoft is equally unhappy about windows native software going extinct and being strong armed to use google chrome engine for their edge browser !
I always go there not only when I need a cheap vendor, but especially when I don't know exactly what exists on the market because they have such a superior index and filter for finding the product you search for.

Especially Amazon is exceptionally bad, Even if I sort by price it isn't guaranteed they really show them in order and even if they do, the filters/search terms are often so broad that sorting from cheap to expensive just shows 100 pages of crap first.

Idealo is somewhat fine in terms of capabilities but I think the geizhals UI is far superior.
In a perfect world where everyone used IPv6 ULAs this would be a solved problem. I wonder if we will ever get there
Choosing AU$ on the pricing page does not show the price in AU$ it displays the selection chosen before.
In the 1980s, Pascal was all the rage. The Apple Lisa and Macintosh programming manuals had two examples for every API call: Assembly language, and Apple Pascal.

But I think when Microsoft settled on C for Windows programming, Apple and others jumped on the bandwagon. And since the languages are actually very similar, I think that Pascal was mostly seen as irrelevant after that. It lacked a distinct niche apart from C.
uhm... everything? "open" as in anyone can make a website and if it's has one good article, it will show up in some google query's result.
In general even if the card isn't contactless, a decent phone, which can perform contactless transactions, can be hooked to the same account anyway.

In fact I deliberately own a non-contactless credit card (from my good bank, who were happy to send me the non-contactless version when requested even though their default is contactless) and then enrolled that card in my phone so the phone can make contactless purchases.

Thus, my credit card can't be hijacked to do remote purchases because purchases with the card require a physical connection, and yet I can make fairly large card purchases contactlessly, because my phone vouches for them after I unlock it.
Where are you looking? (UK/EU/US/etc)
No screenshots, unfortunately.
React is still a hot commodity/demanded skillset, so position discoverability is probably simpler.

Have you checked job boards like Indeed? Are there any large companies you are aware of with Elm as part of their stack you can make connections with?
I will be the curmudgeon here I guess.

Microsoft has been following this strategy for a while.
Announce something useful. I click in and look forward to
start using it. How do I download it and get started?

Oh I need to install a beta version of Windows on my computer to use this feature. I dont want to do that.

Then weekly or biweekly new stories pop up and I hope it has had a proper release, but no, insider only.

I would prefer if MS announced, "tool under development to be released 03/25" and then "ready for production today".
Synched so that you can get the correct version of windows to use the new tool/feature/framework.

It says it will ship with the next version of Windows,
so it will ship in Windows 11 then?

I wish there was a meta tag on Hacker News that identified
if a program, platform, airplane, city building, etc is
vaporware, under real development or production ready / move in ready / book a flight ready etc etc.
I'm not sure, but I don't think I mentioned it's in Europe. Just across the Italy.
I feel like large enterprises primarily see AWS as a way to outsource capital expenses.
Agreed, when using my phone I am very frequently waiting for it to do something. Start Google Maps, wait 5 seconds, click the search bar, wait 3 seconds before the keyboard comes up, type a few letters, wait between 0 and 10 seconds for any letters to show up...

It's hilarious when you think about how ludicrously powerful these devices are compared to what we were using 15 years ago that wasn't that sluggish. And of course by hilarious I mean dreadful.
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My favorite billing mistake was forgetting to delete an unused elastic IP address and then realizing I was being charged $34 / month for 2 months just to have it exist while doing nothing.

Edit: It's exactly $33.62 and I was mistaken on what caused it. It came from having a NAT Gateway just idling which is $0.045 per hour x 747 hours = $33.62 on us-east-1.

I know it's not the biggest mistake ever, but these things creep up on you when you use CloudFormation and it continuously fails to delete resources so you're left having to manually trace through a bunch of resources. It's easy to leave things hanging.
I think the real problem is that “some guy wrote some crazy shit on a forum and somebody liked it” became newsworthy. The fact that this journalist didn't even check the story on Google, is certainly a problem but no the main one.
Why is this HN-worthy? It's been around since the late 90s and not only for tech stuff but down to a box of cereal bars.
That does indeed work but it's quite different from piping. But thanks that has increased my productivity!

I use fzf a lot so I'll be adapting it for that too :)
Open as in no spyware required.
Ensembles aren't used much outside of competition or serious industry... windy/predictwind/CMAP have usually more than enough weather for the average boater
My understanding is the that airline passenger lists are the equivalent exit “check” for the US and Canada. They are shared freely between the two countries as are entry checks into respective countries (hence the US or Canada can confirm an exit based on entry to the neighboring country).

That said, I think it’s mostly just “we can check if needed” and it’s not matched up automatically though that might have changed? I know if you’re an immigrant and you check your I-94 record with USCIS is usually wrong and missing data.
It's not lighter or smaller than a TLR and it doesn't have a focusing device.

If there were some way to couple a rangefinder, I'd be interested. There's a reason, though, that medium-format rangefinder cameras cost $thousands.
How much of a tinkerer are you? Try this: https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps
With a caveat that typically "it was seen as AI-worthy" only because people expected the full solution, which would require an AI, but learned to accept a partial but much simpler one.

For example, free-form document search used to be considered AI problem, because people assumed the program needs to understand the documents and the query, the way a librarian or an archivist did. It turns out that some fuzzy matching and a silly graph algorithm can get you 90% there - so search is now called "non-AI". But it's not the people's understanding of AI that changed. It's that the AI part of search is the unsolved remaining 10% (that would also make it not suck).

Same story with machine translation. It was considered AI, now it's 90% solved with clever algorithms and a big corpus. Definitely not AI - but again, only because the AI part is the remaining 10% that would make machine translation not suck. Note how business and legal language is still translated by humans - that's because the 90% that was solved is good enough only for casual use, where people are willing to tolerate mistakes and to meet the machine halfway.

Point is, I'd argue people still have the same vague definition of AI as they always had - a program that is smart in general sense, that can navigate its environment and figure stuff out on its own. A program that, if you squint hard enough, could be considered a person[0]. Problems that transitioned from "AI-complete" to "doesn't need AI after all" are ones for which we found good enough solutions that didn't need the AI.

--

[0] - At least to sensibilities trained on science fiction, which very much broadens what you'd consider a sapient life form, a person.
> once you've worked a bit seriously with AWS

Kind of a chicken-and-egg situation, no? Unless you're on the company dime, learning to work with AWS entails that risk. A beginner simply won't know how to configure all of these things.
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The Spiral Staircase Myth
A very good (and proven/old) price comparison tracker from before Web 2.0. I find it a bit cumbersome to figure shops who deliver to my country (NL) but if you're in German-speaking Europe this is AFAIK (still) the go-to. In The Netherlands, we got Tweakers Pricewatch.
Many ways. For example, it is more compelling to choose Linux as the target platform for new programs, because that way the program works both on Winoows an Linux. Therefore, more software for Linux world.
>With cryptocurrencies, PoW works because the "good guys" (miners) and the "bad guys" (double spenders) have equal access to computing power: If the difficulty increases, both can simply add more mining hardware and stay in the game. If the "bad guys" threaten to get an advantage, the system can always increase the difficulty without risking to lock out the "good guys".

No Bitcoin PoW works because of economics and game theory; it is rational if group of people invested a lot of resources into mining and building consensus that they will stick to that consensus in order to preserve their wealth.

Read what Satoshi said in the Incentive section of the Bitcoin Whitepaper: "If a greedy attacker is able to assemble more CPU power than all the honest nodes, he would have to choose between using it to defraud people by stealing back his payments, or using it to generate new coins. He ought to find it more profitable to play by the rules, such rules that favour him with more new coins than everyone else combined, than to undermine the system and the validity of his own wealth."
I struggle to understand what's so interesting in X(AWS/Azure/GCP/Alibaba/SAP/Oracle...) Cloud that it appears basically daily on HN

I see it like +-decade old (in mainstream) wrapper/apis over managing VMs/Infra while being proprietary as hard as possible

What's the difference between this and javascript frameworks posts? (except js frameworks being OSS)

How many years have to pass until "Cloud" stops being $hot_topic?

Were "admin" topics (heh you know those guys that were predecessors of "DevOps") 10-15 years ago hot too?
Not really. Kodi is written in C++, it includes a python interpreter so add ons can be written in Python.
WHAT??????

I always thought it would be enabled on Windows 10.
Everyone I know uses MS Teams instead of Skype by now. That might be an option for you.
Geizhals is basically the opposite of modern advertising: Provides a very useful service to the customer but only costs the advertising party something for successful conversions. And it basically does not need any tracking beyond the outbound links associating a transaction with them.
Tangentially related, I wonder what happens if you wear a shirt that has a benign picture that matches a CSAM hash? Will everyone who takes a picture of you end up getting flagged by detection algorithms? I’m thinking in a similar vein to the magic DVD AACS number people printed on T-shirts mugs etc.

Will this become a great way for camera shy people to pollute any paparazzi shots of them?
reminds me of the old apache project sites where they would tell you the latest version, changelog and how to download from a mirror site but somehow not tell you what the project even is.
Would it be too reductionist to say "developer experience"?
Hearts Fitted Scoop T-Shirt
“Do not give too much to the devil”

People want the other side to be as evil as possible. Not a commendable tendency.
Because the contents of the table is changing the statistics are becoming out of date.
the risk is minimalized by reading the docs and proper planning.

EDIT: got to love the holy downvoters
Show HN: A tool to convert a PDF into a a perfectly formatted but “fake” DOCX
The cost of providing open plan office facilities is already priced in to most office-working people’s salaries, whether they’re aware of it or not. If it turns out that office facilities are cut back over the long term, you would expect that to apply some upwards pressure on wages. WFH is complicated by a number of other factors though, there’s lots of things that will also be providing downwards pressure. Like all of a sudden having to compete on expected compensation with somebody who lives in rural Ohio, or Manila, or any other place with a lower cost of living than the place you currently live.

Long term effects are yet to be seen, and anybody who thinks they know what they’ll be is just guessing.
There are PalmOS android emulators so conceivably you can run the TimeSheet app on it on Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.perpendox....
https://www.styletap.com/
How many consumers have electricity plans with per-hour charging, and even know what the price is per hour?

This information needs to be embedded into the UI of the EV, and for that we need regulation and standardisation.

Requiring that all employee car parks have chargers is another solution.
I think simple bullet points and screenshots would probably be both easier and better.
I could never get VcXsrv to work with DPI scaling well. So many hacks upon hacks...
I do not have the time for alerts in my personal life, billing PTSD is not fun.
Why would you want to abandon graphical UIs for TUIs? Honest question, I want to know what advantages it might have that I am not seeing.
Please run "sfc /scannow" and dism /online /restore-health" to verify system integrity.
To be fair, the concept of passports (in the modern sense of a document required to cross a national border) is a relatively modern invention, on the close order of only about a hundred years.
Absolutely this. I switch between Android, Linux and Windows daily, and UX consistency is more important than "nativeness".

It seems to me that the only people that really make a fuss about this are Apple-only folks ( macOS+iOS).
I nearly made myself a very nice footgun not long since.

So MediaConvert (video transcoding), direct s3 upload to s3 bucket, bucket fires event to my application, my application builds the job and submits it to media convert with the output bucket as the destination.

Straight forward enough, unless you happen to be copying a config tired and put your input/output buckets as the same bucket...

Fortunately previous-me was paranoid enough to have put in an if check and die if they where the same but otherwise that could have cost a lot of money.
I used to work there as Senior Sysadmin for several years. My pay was competitive with most offerings the Austrian IT market can be brought to bear.
The web isn’t a first class citizen on desktop as you can’t run new AAA games in one. The real difference is the web is a more limited UI that breaks down when your also forced to use the more limited interface of mobile.

For example on desktop the top 10% or so of the screen is taken up by the browsers UI and tabs which is normally fine. On a tablet in keyboard mode your left with ~40% of the screen being useable. Native applications sidestep this by not needing the browsers UI.
If your only experience with GNOME is Ubuntu, give Fedora a try. The parts are 95% identical but (in my opinion) the user experience is a lot more coherent, because it's all designed together and nothing's bolted on.
Valve only did this so that it could effectively bundle its software with retail CD copies of games, back when they existed.

When you dive into Steam, you'll see that it hasn't really changed in a decade. Valve are basically sitting back happy with the $billions pouring in each year owing to their 'first mover'/monopoly position.
Can you let me know which developer it is? There are a few with the almost exact same names. Thanks!
My advice is to not use docks. They cause too much troubles. It's game over as soon as you try to plug multiple displays and/or 4k displays.

Connect each display with a dedicated cable, thunderbolt to HDMI. Works better.

The only issue then is with Macbooks only having 1 or 2 ports, not much you can plug. Use a bluetooth mouse/keyboard to save ports.
Who told you to call their customer support for a refund? AWS (and other cloud vendors) practically never refund. They will give out credits for their platform but that won't help you much as a private individual who just lost hundreds of dollars.