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v8engineon Ask HN: C/C++ developer wanting to learn efficient Python

Check out old Pycon schedules and search for 'efficient(cy)/improve/speed/performance'.

Every Pycon has at least one talk on it and they are usually filled with a variety of tips and insights.

Prioritise by keynote speeches, recent ones, country level ones and then city Pycon.

v8engineon Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

I am facing this issue in the recent versions of Android Firefox where if I switch apps and come back, or lock and unlock the phone instantly leads to the page refreshing and scrolling back to the point where I was reading. This is quite frustrating as I have to keep the Firefox app always open or wait a frustrating amount of time for the page to completely load and scroll down. Some pages with progressive loading will take a huge amount of time for the page to completely re-download and if you scroll even slightly, the auto-scroll to where you last left is lost.

I can replicate it with just a single tab and I have excluded Firefox from all my battery saving and memory saving features.

v8engineon Ask HN: In-depth sites for various industries' news?

I know of https://autonews.io/ mentioned before. They look unrelated but would you know of any connection except for their similar domain?

v8engineon Amazon Web Services In Plain English (2019)

https://web.archive.org/web/20190321175020/https://www.exped...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442597

v8engineon An iOS app update that annoys me

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/receipt-box-spending-tracker/i...

Did the developer change since his screenshot?

v8engineon Hedonometer: Average Happiness of Twitter over Time

Feels very US related. Twitter in India is all about COVID-19 second wave right now and that hasn't affected the graph even though the sheer mass of English speaking Indians should have had some effect. The only mention I can see is April 28, 2021 twentieth word 'oxygen'.

v8engineon Qutebrowser 2.0

Any reason my Antivirus considers it a problem? " C:\Program Files\qutebrowser\qutebrowser.exe is infected with Gen:Variant.Mikey.118185 " This is with Bitdefender.

I downloaded the prebuilt windows binary from https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/releases

v8engineon What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not

>"Won't this change mean we operate at a loss to subsidize your other company, which will affect staff bonuses".

I don't get it. Can you explain?

v8engineon Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)

Check out Dyscalculia.

v8engineon AWS services explained in one line each

Reminded me of these similar threads I read a while earlier:

Azure: https://web.archive.org/web/20190321175020/https://www.exped...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442597

AWS: https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10202286

v8engineon The Amish health care system

> Imagine how many social problems would disappear if people had more integrity and stronger morals. Literally every aspect of life would improve.

Reminds me of playing https://ncase.me/trust/

v8engineon List of software and things that use or support WireGuard

I see it in the "Other WireGuard goodies" section.

v8engineon New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system

https://twitter.com/tradel/status/1246526465207869440

v8engineon ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' free to download

Can someone point me to greatest hits on the ACM?

v8engineon Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

While your plane is falling from the sky?

v8engineon Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down

Yup. ai2html seems to what I was looking for. Didn't spot that because of all the freebird comments.

As for freebird, my search led me to this. https://github.com/freebirdjs/freebird

Seems to be the NYT has an array of pollution sensor IOT across the cities and they are using Freebird to control them. Just my guess.

v8engineon Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down

Can someone please tell me what the name for the technology used to create the graphics is? The text for the place names over the image is highlightable.

I know you can handcraft these by having the text overlay over an exact X,Y on an image but that seems overblown for just these maps than having the text rastered into the image loaded.

So, is there some tool like an SVG creator that helps create these with the responsiveness and everything handled?

v8engineon BigBlueButton: An open source web conferencing system

My search lead me to STUN and TURN server as this secret ingredient. I don't know what they mean though.

v8engineon Ask HN: STEM toy for a 3 years old?

https://csferrie.com/books/

The Baby University series is pretty interesting.

The titles go like Bayesian Probability for Babies, Neural Networks for Babies and Rocket Science for Babies.

v8engineon Unicode Is Awesome

As a lay-developer, I know unicode is what you need for international character support. Oh, so what are the options: utf-8, utf-16, utf-32. I will choose utf-32 just because 32 > 16 or 8.

v8engineon Deepfakes: MIT brings Nixon's Apollo disaster speech to life

  Also, it isn't difficult to imagine a future where people are criticized for correctly identifying deep fakes.

I didn't understand your scenario. Can you expand on that?

v8engineon One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment

You have a reader for the web comic idea. Reply here when available.

v8engineon Unexpected cracking found on critical Boeing 737 Next Generation part

For those curious about how this part looks, Boeing Pickle Fork graphic illustration:

https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/625886-737ngs-have-crack...

v8engineon Wikipedia contributions from IP address 127.0.0.1

https://xkcd.com/742/

v8engineon Show HN: I give you the most suitable outfit to wear depending on weather

Bugs:

Location: Achen, DE causes infinite loading.

Location: Anywhere in India gives Weather as passed and Wind speed as NaN km/hr.

v8engineon Satellite Images Show Vast Swaths of the Arctic on Fire

Whoever developed Gizmodo frontend probably never read any article on it. That's some really bad image load animation. That solid 1 second delay hardcoded in CSS + network delay for lazy loading just leaves the whole article a white canvas while I scroll.

Why would you want to re-hide the image after I scroll out of it? Scrolling back up gives me that 1 second penalty to make the image visible. So frustrating.

v8engineon Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?

Does anyone have any production experience for Yahoo Vespa? I've heard it competes with ES in opensource search.

https://vespa.ai/

v8engineon MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

It was antivirus in my case. It has web scan feature that MITMs https sites locally. Disabling the feature made it "MITM unlikely".

v8engineon Ramroot – Run Arch Linux Entirely from RAM (2017)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions_th...

I came to know about this from Puppy Linux.

v8engineon Gmail really wants me to say yes

Veritasium very recently spoke about algorithm optimizing for click through rate in the context of the bad. https://youtu.be/fHsa9DqmId8?t=783

It seems okay in this case though.