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Show HN: StackAid – Fund all your open-source dependencies
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No, not only the shower. I would unlock the apartment itself.
> Or maybe they say "enough is enough" and don't pay it.

That just leads to the appropriate government(s) seizing assets until the fines are covered. Even the biggest bigcorps aren't actually sovereign.
I've seen plenty of ads for a "classics" streaming service, not what I'm interested in, but they seem to be out there.
Well former minister Teeven is certainly a bit of an oddity since he used to be the leader of the fortuynist offshoot party Leefbaar Nederland. It is not often people make it from the far right to a mainstream party.

I'm not sure about all the leadership fights within CDA. Maybe Rutte didn't want that kind of rivalry to exist within his cabinet. One can only speculate.

As for Omtzigt not getting more credit he is certainly a popular man these days. Could win the next election.
Legal age of consent in the US is 16 in many states, 17 in some, and 18 in others - https://www.bhwlawfirm.com/legal-age-consent-united-states-m...

And to put a fine point on it, the age of consent in New York is 17 and is 16 in New Jersey.

So I think the focus on "child" is not only misplaced, but untrue. Rape is the real issue, so that's the real thing to focus on.
> Yelling at passing royals at a moment of deep solemnity: not fine, and stretching the free speech defence IMO

lol, my country's concept of free speech is in part based on the idea everyone should be able to tell your country's nobility things they don't want to hear.
People are used to bad software. There are lots of terrible software engineers out there who don't give much thought to user experience, and there are lots of PMs who don't know how to provide a sufficient level of specs. Orgs get big enough that inefficiencies are abundant, and "not my problem" becomes endemic. And then there are the PHBs in non-software-centric orgs who see software as an expense rather than a value center, and so try to cut costs and tighten deadlines.

Even netflix has its share of shitty UX, still, and they've primarily been a technology company from the get-go.
Heh, exactly. Succinctly put. Here's a longer-winded version: I'm an R&D Software Engineer. In a workplace setting years ago we had a Software Architect who would advise management and the implementation engineers. Me and my team were really struggling with a difficult implementation problem relating to some federated identity stuff. Management told us to go to the architect. We explained our problems and he waved them off as "that's implementation stuff, I don't do that, but the solution is very easy. Just get server X to communicate whatever token you need to server Y". It was off putting. He also told our management that our problem was an "easy one", without offering any helpful insight.

It's like saying "Traveling to The Moon is easy. You simply need enough thrust to overcome Earth's gravity well. Simple!"
No, it's just to make sure everyone is included, and to be vocal about racist behaviour and biases. There is a lot of engagement for those around this in the company.
Another one:
Starting a new video will result in audio being muted 80 % of the time.

They also stopped adding content from their massive back catalog. I was looking forward to seeing Disney content from the 50s and 60s but someone decided it’s not worth the cost and effort.
Thanks; and both agree, and understand.

Many big companies also have an interesting differentiation between what I'll call a "project manager" (who has authority over potentially transient project team members), and "career manager", who permanently supports team members (and then possibly also a "functional manager").

I also cknowledge that "team lead vs manager" is a distinction I use that does not seem to have a formal definition in e.g. PMBook, but I find most people intuitively grok.
I'm very excited about the no-code contributions this year. The entire world benefits from open-source, why should the only people who get to help make it better and shine a light on it be people who code? There is _way_ more to a project than the code.
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Math Is Beuatiful: One Man's Mission to Unveil Math's Beauty (Quanta)
My guess: most use Disney+ on their TV or mobile device. Very few use it on the website. The UI/UX is certainly not the best even on those devices but it's good enough (TM).
They're more likely to go back to wood. Electricity is also up ~8x since 2021.
>By the way that isn't how the law defines monopolies.

Monopolies are always about defining the market. Here they went with licensable OS market, purposely leaving out Apple entirely.

>The Court agreed with the Commission's assessment that iPhone maker Apple (AAPL.O) was not in the same market and therefore could not be a competitive constraint against Android.

Kind of reinforcing my point that the EU in this case was watching out for businesses, not users. Your average user when asked to name an Android competitor would likely name Apple.
Boys usually need more kinetic activity all day to calm the animal spirits. This is why farm schools for boys were so popular in the past centuries.
As a person who is starting a new freelance career in 10 days with 12 years of experience, I’ll keep an eye on the answers in that thread :)
so Apple and Samsung get most of the profits, and Google has to pay a huge fine for doing the open source thing and letting 3rd parties build handsets. If Google just built their own handset, kept Android closed-source and charged €800 a phone, the EU would have no problem with that but we'd all be worse off.
I am very glad you commented here as my initial skepticism of your claim lead me to do a spot of research that answered several unresolved questions I'd had about one of the most obnoxious features I've ever seen in a new car. My mother in law has a car with (apparently) electronic parking brake and I have loathed everything about it from the moment I first sat down in the car. This at least explains why an utterly unintuitive double toggle button replaced the "standard" mechanical lever on the center console and what notional benefits (hill holding) come with this system. I'd hate this a lot less if the manufacturer had included a tell-tale of some kind to visually indicate if/when the ECM thinks the P-brake is engaged.
Can you play audio explaining the situation asking for a call back number or email?

I imagine this situation comes up frequently and not only with hiring.
Hey thanks! I actually never even thought of writing it up outside of here, I’ll have to let that thought steep for a while. I give talks to college game dev and CS classes every now and then, and there are quite a few tidbits over the years I’ve added in comments here on HN. Maybe someday I could smoosh it together into something coherent. I’m just not sure it wouldn’t be crushingly boring. :P
My install directories sure look like it's still that way. And I'm not using a decade-old git. I discovered this fact about git far more recently than a decade ago, in fact (though I was using it back then).
Just took a quick scan - funny, intelligent, in-depth technical content in here but very approachable. This has definitely hackernews community quality to it.

Thought this was interesting:
https://www.theautopian.com/this-junky-postal-jeep-with-a-ch...
What happens when everyone starts using ad block? Is the advertising market just going to collapse? I don’t think even the most willing consumer would sit through 10 ads for a youtube video.
It's the JavaScript of bombers.
Torque clockwise to lean more toward the left. Torque counter-clockwise to lean more toward the right. The bike follows a radius proportional to its lean angle.
yep, I have seen one check when I was like 7 and have absolutely zero confidence that I would be able to tell a real one from a fake. I don't think my bank even does checks. It doesn't do physical branches either, so how would I even deposit one.
What's wrong with the netflix UI? I think it's actually the best one, my only complaint is that they constantly change the order of the rows so I'm always looking for "continue watching" one. I'm sure they have some data that by doing that they increase some KPI, but it's really fucking annoying.
Wow, that's an impressive amount of images. How long did it take you to generate and curate so many?
Because it just boils down to the content that's available! Also it's a newer app to be fair.

Hulu's UX is way way worse. I can never figure out how to switch episodes for my current show and the "library" shows very few shows at a time, instead they optimized for showing beautiful photos of shows (weird tradeoff)
Do you not realize how discriminatory this statement is? Can you imagine making a similar statement about a different ethnographic group?
Domains can't share the browser cache of a an external resource. It was a privacy risk, because it could be used to track users across the web.
Record-Breaking Robot Highlights How Animals Excel at Jumping
I initially started out with music from outer space as an educational resource and recently dug through the classic of electronotes, but if you're looking for videos with a lower barrier to entry I'd recommend: https://www.youtube.com/c/MoritzKlein0 (perhaps also https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAudioPhool )
Necessity is the mother of invention and the US Military hasn’t had the necessity for anything newer.
Visit a record store. Usually the employees/owners will tag their favorites and you can see who’s taste aligns with yours.

You can also tell someone what you like and they’ll have good recommendations.
I only watch it on a smart TV, and I’ve had similar problems with HBO Max’s UI. Disney+ is fairly smooth, and comparable to Netlix.

I do agree with your last point, the search option is borderline unusable for anything other than exact titles. Both those services trail behind Netflix significantly when it comes to search.
All of that sprang out of https://startsmall.com, which I published back in 2010. The examples are dated, but the core concepts still hold 12 years later.
Changes were enacted in 2020 to make the program less spammy. Hacktoberfest is now opt-in and repeated spammers are permanently banned. The amount of spam PRs dramatically dropped after this change was implemented.
No thanks. I've been on Youtube since 2006, so I intend to watch videos at the same cost as I did then. I'm calling it the "Youtube Legacy" subscription.
>I doubt that Disney+'s interface is intuitive to anyone

It is quite intuitive for my 6 year old. She doesn't care about subtitles, or watching episodes out of order, or who the director is. She clicks on some random princess or whatever and boom it works.
Once you finish the main book, there's a few free bonus chapters provided [1] that help you implement soft area lights, bounding boxes (AABB in this case), and texture mapping. Beyond that, you might be interested in the "One Weekend" series [2], which is all C++ but is mostly general enough for other languages. There's also PBRT [3] which is an open source textbook/documentation for the pbrt-v3 renderer [4], but this is beyond the scope of "small exercise" territory. Good luck!

[1] http://www.raytracerchallenge.com/#bonus

[2] https://raytracing.github.io/

[3] https://pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/contents

[4] https://github.com/mmp/pbrt-v3
The "space" for a cryptocurrency is a Venn Diagram solely occupied by one circle: Bitcoin. We're seeing a culling of these shitcoin also-rans, which took the money from the late-coming naive while enriching the early wave of speculators, like any other common pyramid scheme.
I never understood the issue with virtue signalling. Why would we discourage both:

A) the act of being nice and showing our virtue

B) showing other people the nice thing we did

...honestly I don't get it? Signalling our virtue seems like a great idea and would encourage others to do the same.
if google 1099s you thats an admission that they do in fact owe you money
I’ve not read too much on the Soviet space program, but whenever I read about Buran (a wonderful accomplishment per se) my thought process goes something like this: “The Soviets must have seen the Americans working on the shuttle thing -> the Soviets must have thought that that shuttle thing was great mostly on account of the Americans working on it -> the Soviets built a shuttle system for themselves -> the Soviets threw away lots of resources for almost nothing”.

Also, as it became apparent in the meantime, even the Americans didn’t get it right when it came to the reasons behind building the shuttle system. As far as I understood there were other, less expensive ways, that they could have taken in order to “improve” their space program.
There is a surprising lack of pixar Cars references in this thread... it's where I was first exposed to counter-steering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUWtaw5Fra8
…and I designed a viable personal flight device that with modern 3d printing (hollow like bird bones) techniques and really upgraded power (LiPo and beyond) and posted it on Medium a couple years ago…and people are still talking about VTOL stuff. Eww.

Granted, I probably need to design a catapult to get it up to speed without big battery drain…but there are really great innovations yet to even make it to prototype IMHO.
Well, that is something that is desired and also something we can already do in the JVM world.

What I mean is that semantics of existing code changes (and becomes harder to understand for future code).
No need to watch it. We are already living it.

That movie messed with my head.
> Have you seen the dollar’s buying power recently?

Yeah, its up like 100% over Bitcoin and like +30% over Euro, Yen, and GBP? In fact, holding Cash/USD has been basically one of the best performing things in my entire portfolio this year (after oil/energy)

Have _you_ seen BTC's buying power recently?
This is the unfortunate nature of _all_ privacy preserving technologies. Signal, whole disk encryption, the password to a user's iphone backup -- these are _all_ more beneficial to criminals than to the layperson.

It so happens that, until very recently, our government keepers have enjoyed unfettered access to data about our lives on a scale that is unprecedented. We will continue to see this same battle "privacy is only to the benefit of criminals" play out over and over in every medium.

For me, I prefer privacy and for government investigators to be forced to do their job. This has the unfortunate (for Americans) side effect of unraveling much of the American financial hegemony.
This. Just don't pull them directly from Google but instead host them yourself.
Just to play devils advocate, what if you just made a private subreddit for your family?

While I also struggle with the android/apple divide in my family I feel like getting them all to agree to use an existing social platform would be exceptionally difficult, but it would be orders of magnitude easier than getting them to use a custom or relatively unknown app for comms unless it did something really special or novel.
NetBeans had been struggling to get perceived as more than an also-ran next to Eclipse and later IntelliJ long before it was handed over to Apache.
https://archive.ph/m055f
It works well on the TV
I have experience hiring people.
You’re spot-on about Netbeans’ Maven support. If you need to resolve a complex dependency conflict, figure out where a transitive dependency is coming from, etc.; it’s trivial in Netbeans and all but impossible in IntelliJ.
Thanks Matt, not sure how I missed that. Glad to hear it!
Not really that worthy of note, but I worked at a small startup in SF in 2014 with 2 founders and 3 employees. We all quit within 2 days. It was uncoordinated and coincidental.

The founders were flabbergasted. I spoke with the others and the reasoning was the same. We were all very seasoned senior engineers, but the founders didn't trust us and handed us kanban tickets like short order cooks because they had PhDs. It was demoralizing.
How to implement a usage-based pricing with Stripe Billing
There's a new wave of billing / RevOps tools coming in that focus on 'usage-based pricing', and the most common question is: 'isn't Stripe Billing doing that already'?

They do, but there are things we wished we knew earlier.

We've deep dived on an example (reproducing Stripe's very own pricing with Stripe billing).

Disclaimer: I'm building Lago, an open-source billing API for product-led SaaS. We're YC backed too and partner with 'Stripe Payments'.
Nope. If your car lost power for whatever reason, the system would scavenge power from the inertia of the car and the brakes would still operate as they do when the car is operating nominally. The 1-10w needed to run the braking system is a rounding error in comparison to the 4-10kW of wind/rolling resistance at freeway speeds.
That's an absurd interpretation. They almost certainly mean that they're going to make sure to examine who's being let go for evidence of bias. If layoffs usually hit underrepresented groups harder, then the less racist thing to do is to make sure you aren't disproportionately firing, say, all your Black employees. That doesn't mean they're looking to fire more white people.
Advertising is to Ad Blocking as Viruses are to Anti Virus.

One will never stop trying to outrun the other. Ever.
It's kind of ridiculous to anticipate an event that's never happened before.
I didn't miss the /s, but I feared others might think different ;)

From what I've read, the decisions to make Buran look externally like STS orbiter was a political one, and the engineers at MiG OKB weren't happy about it - they have been working on a bunch of space planes for some time, including the infamous suborbital fighter. However the similarity was found to have political benefits in the weird opposite of kremlinology and the decision stood.

Not having USAF's annoying requirements though, they were able to design a better system anyway. (Pre-USAF involvement STS was also better, but congress cost cutting made a necessity of begging DoD for funds)
You seem to be assuming that countries may decide on their own freely who they associate with. This is the case in international law, but not in reality, as can be seen in many examples concerning Russia or the US or China.

Realpolitik vs ideal-oriented policy. It wasn’t the buffer states driving the decision, it was the US and NATO. They had to choose between buffer states and expanding NATO. The developments in Ukraine were predictable and likely avoidable had they chosen differently - see the fate of Belarus or Georgia or Ukraine before 2004 and before 2014.
Do we have any Netbeans users here ? It would be good to hear abit about the good/bad stuff (Thinking Java development mostly). How good/bad is it compared to IntelliJ ?
Because it increases engagement.
This has never happened to me on iOS App, Fire TV app, on browser.
Link to explanation on README: https://github.com/avaneev/prvhash#proof_math_is_engineered
'good product people' jumped out at me.

Disney has _passionate_ engineers, not necessarily good. Disney also has the mantra of "we will tell you if your idea is good," rather than empowering their software team to make positive changes. Finally, they pay far less than the industry average, so if you believe in a correlation between good pay and good people, you can see where they come up short.

It seems Disney relies on passionate people will do what is right for the customer in all aspects of their business. That's fine for working in the theme parks, but when you miss out on talented engineers, the folks that work there are passionate but get either blocked by lack of knowledge on how to make a desired change (they don't hire the best), or lack of management support to make the change (we will tell you if your idea is good).

All in all, in sums up to mantra "Disney is bad at tech."

Other data points - their website is horrid. I figured out once that only 23% of the page showed me information I wanted (reservation availability, park hours, etc...) and the other 77% was branding, whitespace or terrible nav UI.

D23 attendees had to install 2 apps, log into 1 and then were able to buy merchandise in the 2nd app.

And so on...

And their TV app is also buggy. I have 2 shows that I have watched all episodes that won't clear from the "currently watching" list. There is no way to 'give up' on a series and remove it from the currently watching list either.
It also logs me out if I walk away for a few minutes to grab some food or whatnot.
Since I'm replying 5 days late, I assume you'll never see this, but I'm so with you. I assume it's mainly a function of designing a suitable client. e2ee, federation, open standard, rich or plain text, media-capable, etc etc.
Kitboga is one of the best "shaming vigilantes" attempting to embarrass these kinds of scammers into reevaluating their life choices and choosing a more honorable life path

https://youtu.be/6ccdd2HSY30
I think the point being made is that many projects start as an idea that is then brought into the prototype phase, iterated upon, and then is complete whenever the project delivers a significant increase in current capabilities compared to the current systems.

This in contrast to the F-35 project which apparently decided all the capabilities up front and then has went about designing an aircraft to somehow reach all those goals. Whether or not it will is a subject of ongoing debate. It also somehow has wound up making 3 different airframes.

A good example of this would be Soviet copies of the B-29 & the V-2. In both cases there was pressure to "build our own that is better". Apparently Stalin got involved in both cases and demanded that a way be found to produce a domestic copy first, then learn from that, & produce a domestic design next. Not sure how accurate that is, but it seems to have worked out. Soviet long range bombers & Soviet missile systems are certainly nothing to scoff at.
Prices have gone up because we have demand side inflation:

https://www.mercatus.org/publications/inflation/inflation-la...

Which is mostly driven by putting trillions of dollars into the economy. The Fed had 1 trillion on it's books during the 07 recession. It has 8 trillion on it's books now. That's a major problem.
Moral illusions may alter our behavior
Completely agree on GDPR. Unfortunately there is so much money to be made in selling to people. I hope legislation wins out.
Creators have their own e-stores, I've supported those.

Your suggestion is like buying a record from Walmart to support the artist, instead of buying it directly at a show.
The director of Factorio has a history of sexism, homophobia and racism; claimed that "statutory rape" is an "SJW term"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-director-of-factorio-sh...
Forget that, I want to know which bright minds at Disney decided to launch Disney+ in a foreign language country (Croatia) without offering dubbed version which they already have for virtually all their content.