skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The warts from a dev perspective:

1) Oracle is really lacking in modern features/usability. Features where frozen in roughly 1999 and they are pretty still the same (mostly). (You are STILL limited to 30 chars for a table name FFS). They do add new stuff from time to time but anything existing isn't modified. Works but not fun to work with.

2) MSSQL needs NOLOCK everywhere (I've seen codebases with this on EVERY query). The default locking really sucks. I'm sure a DBA can make the locking sane system wide but I've never seen this on any of the DBs I've worked with. Also, SQL Manager is a PITA IMHO. Toad it is not. Almost all DB interactions via a 1G windows only install is a "bad idea"

3) MySQL is nice but will just silently eat your data from time to time. Auto truncate is evil, as is missing enums. These have both hit me multiple times in production. Note: Not sure if this is still the case since I avoid it now for this reason.

4) Postgres. Lots of nice features and easy to work with but the optimizer will sometimes do something silly. Sometimes you have to cast your bound variable just use an index. (id=? => id=?::NUMBER just because you do a setObject in jdbc)
I’ve been abandoned on updates by Motorola or whoever it is owned by on the current whim within a year of buying my G2 and G3 handsets. I don’t feel I can trust them or Google with my cash. Not only that Google makes it difficult to consider your privacy because at every turn there’s a trap.

And god forbid one goes wrong because the repair and aftercare service at least in the U.K. is dire. I was told a handset was water damaged after it failed. Turns out it’s shipped to a 3rd party repairer who blames it on you if they can’t fix it. I had to hit moneyclaim (small claims court) to get it back.

Ergo I bought a 6s and have had zero problems with it. It just works.
It's called experience. You don't fire people with experience.
Generally speaking, the political ones qualify. Moderators pick sides and nobody agrees on anything. The best you can do is troll people and become apathetic to other people's problems while you visit. Otherwise, you go crazy during your stay. Be it /r/pol, KotakuInAction, TheDonald, etc. etc. They're all toxic in my experience.

Some communities are only toxic if you say certain keywords. /r/hardware has good info for instance, but if you start a flamewar on AMD vs Intel or AMD vs NVidia, then the community immediately becomes toxic and its just not worth listening to.

In general, a lot of "discussions" end up like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJX4ytfqw6k

And that's simply not helpful to anybody.
I would rather support a chip maker with open hardware, even if currently not the most performant, than one which does nothing and relies on a crowd of volunteers to make it work.
That hypothetical score will just trend towards 50% as people who disagree with the slant of the story (or more realistically, the source, since people even here make knee-jerk judgments based on source without even reading the meat of the story) will vote it down and those who agree vote it up.
Yes legally it can't, but enforcing this on an open border with a direct road connection to the rest of the EU is going to be quite interesting.

Right now this situation exists in theory, but in practice pretty much nobody in the EU has any cause to try to import something via Norway, since its trade deals are quite similar to what the EU itself has.

But the EU has huge tariffs on some Chinese products, including slapping China with 30-70% tariffs on basic metal alloys in some cases[1][2].

The difference can be so large that it becomes beneficial for you as a private EU citizen to drive up to Norway yourself to fetch e.g. basic alloys at lower prices.

Nothing remotely like this situation exists within the land borders of Schengen today. There's the agreement with Iceland, but as it's an island enforcement is much easier.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/09/reuters-america-update-2-eu-...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/07/european-un...
I'm fairly certain Apple can do two things at once.

This was probably introduced in the GM seed.
Elasticsearch is massively more powerful and flexible.

The way I'm doing aggregation counts on top of PostgreSQL is very unlikely to scale to millions of documents. Elasticsearch pretty much acts as a real-time, horizontally scalable map/reduce engine so expensive aggregations get executed on multiple shards and the results are gathered back together.

You may find my talk from DjangoCon this year interesting: https://speakerdeck.com/simon/the-denormalized-query-engine-... / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzcvewgqYog
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> [...] because it runs ZFS, which basically doesn't work unless you have ECC memory.

That's a misconception, to quote Matthew Ahrens, cofounder of ZFS: "There's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem."

See also [0].

[0] http://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-yo...
Really happy to finally see this. Anybody able to get this setup?

Trying with the latest node/npm gives me an error:

$ npm profile enable-2fa
npm notice profile Enabling two factor authentication for auth-and-writes
npm password:
npm ERR! code E401
npm ERR! 404 Unable to authenticate, need: Basic, Bearer

Somewhat related, what's the HN communities thoughts on publicly showing whether a package maintainer has 2FA enabled? On the one hand it's giving out security details but it would also give a bit more comfort that (some) of your hundreds of dependencies are a bit more secured from malicious updates.
its fucking hard, i got 3 insane little kids and vaping is a crutch to keep me from losing my shit most days
Nope. Why? Shit happens.
And the laptops only come with USB-C ports, and I'm yet to meet anybody who owns anything which can be plugged into one of those without a dongle (I suppose excluding their Mac charger :)).
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That's part of the plot for Dan Brown's Digital Fortress, although like other Dan Brown books it certainly leaves room for someone else to tell the same story better.
Same here. 2013 15” MBP here. I get 5 hours easily on High Sierra and the thing has been hammered since it was new.
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thanks bud but realtalk i'm still a mess lol
Imagine a beowulf cluster of grits?
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Right. I thought we were talking about Macs not iPhones but I see that the rant went on and included iPhones.
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Yeah sorry about that..I was a bit confused on how to read it. There was a lot mixed in there. I think we're clear now :D.
Oh good. Now I won't read it, since I've already seen MST3K really speak to this issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WspeHC7eoOI
1-2 kind of require having a proper UI testing framework in place. And when you have that for your platform that you want people to develop for, surely you would release it. I haven't seen any of that.
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Keep in mind that this only happens if you turned it on using Disk Utility. If you did the normal upgrade (the vast majority of users) you didn't go through disk utility, and everything's fine (presumably). Still a terrible error, but affects far fewer people than your comment implied.
In my experience there is plenty of civil debate and discourse going on, just that Facebook isn't where it's happening, except may be some closed groups.

Even in the small city I live in, population ~87,000, there are two regular philosophy meet ups and a skeptics group. The local state university hosts regular guest speakers. There is a tonne of podcasts and books produced from around the world with vastly differing opinions.
So how do you test if you are affected?
I don't have much respect for the school system's standards for what age is appropriate to start teaching different subjects. Children in my family start reading around 3. I consider reading a power tool that bootstraps further learning. If I had waited until school to start learning, I would have been held back in my development for years.
that's the point of instant, but I added a 200ms delay just in case someone is a slow typer.

and the redirect is necessary since iframe-ing is not always possible
What I miss about Slashdot more than anything was the editors and writers using the comments section to fact check the stories.

Ye ghods, do I miss that.
so how do you test if you are affected?
Apple can buy panels in any shape or size they want, that doesn't demonstrate general panel availability in any way. Do you think the notched display in iphone is an off-the shelf module?
The problem is the average adult has a miniscule attention span. Giving a bunch of data and a path to a conclusion, or even contrasting viewpoints, isn't going to solve the problem.

One of two things will happen:
1) They want a summary, and denied that, will lose interest.
2) They will look for the summary that reaffirms their viewpoint and discard the rest (echo chamber/bias).
Also interesting is that 2 centuries later, we're still trying to fight latency. Now with specialized wireless lines and shorter distance fiber, then with pigeons and couriers.
I also decided against another macbook.

Apple quite obviously sees the notebook market as secondary. I don't blame them. i-device sales far outpace notebook sales.

But not everybody feels that way. I can get a pretty damn impressive linux box for the same cost.
1. Eternal September.

2. https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths
I actually don't think you are my target audience. We aren't targeting end python users. You have to remember: there are 2 ecosystems. Production at big companies and data scientists here.

I am not target data scientists. Granted, we will have python bindings later, but there's a huge amount of data engineers that know java just fine and need it for production. That's who I'm going after here.

You could try again when we have our python bindings out there..for now just wait I guess?
Well, crap. Looks like QR codes are the better idea, then. Thanks for saving me a boatload of time!
The way they wrote the article really convinced me that it was a minor issue.
The mouse thing really irks me. The moment the mouse needs charging is the moment is stop working. So why am I expected to then not use the product while it charges? A product that used to have a wire connected to it and is sitting right next to the computer? How is having a hole in the bottom at better than having a hole on the side?
Generally speaking, you wouldn't want to run queries like this against the system of record (your database) in large applications where there are a lot of user queries, as that will impact performance.

Hence why solutions like elasticsearch and apache solr exist. They scale very well horizontally, allowing you to spread the load between multiple nodes.

Again, this comes down to what your use case is. If you have a tiny app with a relatively small number of users, using postgres for this functionality is probably ok.
Aren't these font sizes modifiable in Accessibility? I've turned on things like contrast and reduced transparency just to make it easier to read, and I'm very young.
My mod was less successful, and the colors are definitely off. Having done the mod myself and seen how cumbersome it is to get the LED strip perfectly oriented in the CCFL gutter, I'm not likely to try again.
There's a good chance that GP has the 2016 MBP (that introduced Touchbar). I have the "cheap" (hahahaahaha) version without Touchbar, and have had intermittent problems with the left shift key and the cursor down key (sticky, or unresponsive unless pressed very firmly) - quite annoying. Oh, and the battery life, if you actually use your CPUs, is rather short.
Couldn't you just turn off FileVault (decrypts the drive), let that finish, then turn it back on again?
Ah, God. And they just added that header to WhatsApp. They show no respect to 4" phone users.
> Wouldn't black market identities be worth MORE if they weren't so easy to get?

No. It's already illegal to buy and sell identities, so black market demand for identities is likely at a maximum already. I'm just using that number as a proxy for what your clicks on the internet must be worth. I'm basically making the assumption that Value(Clicks) < Value(Black Market Identity), which I'd say is a fair bet.

> So the more we tax / regulate it, the harder it is, the more valuable they get. Win-win for everyone.

Again, this wouldn't be true for black market identities, but let's look at clicks.

What I'm saying is that the click you give a way is worth too little to be taxed at all.

Say 1M click data points is worth $1K (which I think is still very generous given the amount of noise) that means each click is worth 1/10¢. Any company that sells the 1M clicks to another company will pay taxes on the $1K of income. So if you increased taxes, you would discourage them from selling your data to another company. This doesn't change your behavior though as a consumer. You still give away an untaxable 1 click at a time (1/10¢): which is not taxable as a gift because of the size of the amount (even 1K clicks is only $1) and because the company can easily argue they provided you with a service in exchange for that 1/10¢.

What you're looking for is a way to penalize companies for receiving data (i.e. for every data point you gain, you owe some $x in taxes.) This would need to be legislated since that's not currently how tax law works.
Fn and Ctrl positioning seem to be like vi vs emacs, but every ThinkPad from the Tx10 series on seems to support swapping those as a BIOS option - and a hacked firmware and instructions were available for my old W500 to do the same.
What if you used command line diskutil?
I remember getting my house's cable modem slashdotted in 2001 when i launched a community site (half-empty.org) I built -- what a wild ride that was. (If you are reading, thanks to Tim Wilde and the rest of the DynDNS crew for all the memories helping me, a young kid, get that site into an actual DC :))

I remember always rolling my eyes at the Linux and Free Software crowd on /. and the anti-Microsoft zeitgeist that you could find at the top of pretty much any thread, even if it was about something completely unrelated. At the the height of it these people were painted as communists by Microsoft (and if they had any real visibility in the media, I'd imagine they'd have gotten the same treatment.)

But here I am today sitting at my desk at Mozilla committed to working only on open source software for the rest of my career and never writing another line of proprietary code, after having seen enough good and pure-intentioned closed source projects morph and turn bad after the pointy haired bosses, the "visionaries", and the investor class got enough control over them.

I guess those days have always been in the back of my mind. It took a lot of life lessons to really understand how important the things the /. community was always debating back then around software licenses, privacy, and IP really were. Images of "billg" as the borg were fun, but behind those gags were serious conversations that ended up shaping our world, and ensuring to one degree or another there would always be a hedge against corporate control of software.

In today's world of mass surveillance, corporate consolidation of internet infrastructure, and the call for censorship of speech on the web, a community like /. is sorely needed. Here we are on the modern day equivalent, a site owned and operated by a startup incubator. It's fortunate that a community like this exists at all in some form, but how truly times have changed.
Yes, I was first flabbergasted too but as miserably tested the APFS encryption interface needs to have been (if at all?!), this seems to be basically what is going on.
> That's a lovely idea, but said requirement isn't in our election laws, and it's quite clear that plenty of voters lack even basic critical thinking skills.

I mean, sounds to me like you're both saying roughly the same thing. The question is what is the solution to the problem of an electorate which is unable or unwilling to think critically?
Agreed on it not being clickbait, although I wish he went into more detail about how Sagan et al came up with their estimates, since that seems to be key to his whole argument.
http://www.inference.vc/my-notes-on-the-numerics-of-gans/
I do wish they kept an SD card reader, I use that quite often and now have to use an adapter.
I think there's more keeping things in check here than at ./ when group #2 joined.
Median makes sense to me :) I was just pointing out the discrepancy -- cannot (should not) specifically make a contrast between median of one data set and mean of another.
Non amp version, sorry about that
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That's perfect for an X series, a real one, like the X[346]0 line which ended with the wide screen takeover.
Apparently the bug only affected the GUI app.

> When creating an encrypted APFS volume in Terminal with the diskutil command line utility, the actual hint is shown, rather than the password.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/05/macos-high-sierra-disk-...
Then we've already lost. Is there any way forward, or do we just give up?
These methods focus on finding extraterrestrials with an equivalent or greater technological advancement to our own. How would you find an alien civilization with a 17th-century Earth level of technological development? We were not emitting radio signals or using light pulses to communicate, nor were we flying around in antimatter-powered rockets.
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I have an x240, which is okayish otherwise, but I'm quite annoyed that it is the model they decided to try dropping mouse buttons. x230 and x250 both have them, but of course x240 had to be the one I got.
Ethereal allows to generate new testing accounts via an API. Every account is a full featured IMAP/POP3 mail store with the condition that all emails expire after 7 days from the account.
What’s the status of the FST-01? It seems to be permanently out of stock.
Yeah that was classic Man-in-the-Middle attack.
How deep do you want to go Bruce Momjian has a ton of talks on internals and other advanced topics so if you want to dig deep would highly recommend them :
https://momjian.us/
«too traceable for criminals (Zooko)»

No. Zooko denied it: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/864341289374023680
If you're doing this then there's no reason to use git. Just sync a raw directory.
If you want to reset your password, it's pretty much standard operating procedure: https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht201487

Not sure where you got that quote from - it's not in the link you pasted.
well, strictly speaking storing the password itself is a good hint, no?
Hi all--My name is Andy and I'm a PM here at Cockroach labs. We are currently working through partitioning as a key feature of our 1.2 release scheduled for April 2018. Our solution can be found at this RFC (https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/18683). One thing to note, we don't require you to define your partitions up front. We'd love to get your feedback on this feature--please feel free to comment on the RFC or reach out to me directly at andy@cockroachlabs.com.
> The question is what is the solution to the problem of an electorate which is unable or unwilling to think critically?

I'm of the opinion that fact checks from reputable sources are beneficial when tackling moderate/undecided voters. No, hard-core "Sandy Hook was a false flag" folks are never going to be convinced, but they're not the audience for sane coverage anyways.
I think it's been at step 3 for longer than most sites have last. I know I'm part of group 2, but I've seen a somewhat consistent culture since I arrived over five years ago.
Maybe not clickbait, but he sure buried the lede. Thanks for the TL;DR. Wasn't clear what his point was from a quick skim.
The link you provided documents account recovery, not password change. Also, the word "waiting" does not appear on that page anywhere.
WTF the logo is upside down! How could they have fucked that up?
> taking an excellent bowel movement in one's own toilet

On the other hand, as the saying goes: I make a nickel, boss makes a dime; that's why I poop on company time.
Isn't the Surface Book the one that iFixIt rated as "[unrepairable, made of glue]"?
That's fair - I wasn't raising it as a personal concern however, I was raising it because I've seen many other concerned about US involvements.

With that said, do you feel there's no difference in security when having servers in, or outside of the US?

A lot of people seem to distrust US involvement, and prefer out of US as much as possible. Do you think this is completely bunk, because the NSA is so unstoppable?

To me it just seems like being in the US just adds to possible problems. Thoughts?
Thanks I knew none of that.
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There's nothing wrong, but little good either.
But it looks very sleek now, with big graphs and fonts for the crucial information.
I was really hoping for a 4:3 aspect ratio, the golden ratio for developers.....this is just very disappointing ...
I have no idea, I'm not the one advertising the feature lol. I literally said that I've not even researched them, and that it is "perhaps end to 2 end". Beyond that, I know nothing about them.
> For your security

Translation: we can't be bothered to come up with a secure solution so we offload that onto our users.
Sorry. I have a point -- towards the end. Even if it's one that gets me downvoted:

In my personal life, I've been wrestling with the decision to "do the right thing" and, for example, pay for digital media I consume. Help a friend in need, who doesn't really reciprocate (because, "the children", among other things). Purchase the health care insurance that takes away money I could otherwise spend on immediate treatment.

In each area, I've felt increasingly screwed over.

Shrinking catalogs, and money I paid spent on lawyers ensuring ever-greater rent-seeking as opposed to actual access to content.

My friend's health on the rebound, while mine has suffered, including from the depression induced by their abandonment of our friendship once I was, apparently, no longer necessary.

A health care system that keeps jacking prices and trying also by legislative manipulation to push me out the door of coverage, regardless of my best efforts to work with it.

In all these matters, I'm coming to think that part of my failed response comes down to a simple matter: Don't pay. Stop paying the very systems and people that or who are screwing you over.

So, here we have the NSA, that is (who are) ever more showing themselves to be incompetent with regard to what we hope they would accomplish, and outright aggressive and abusive with regard to us and matters that we consider commercial contract law, not their business, distracting rather than helpful, etc.

Helping prop up private IP rights and rent-seeking. Domestic spying. Accumulating so much data on everything that they can't see the needle for the haystack -- so, grow the haystack!

I'm hardly one of these bullsh-t "Conservative" (that's with a big "C", to differentiate from the actual noun/adjective, "conservative"), "shrink/starve the government" types. Government plays an essential role: It is the definition of our collective organization and governance.

But in some areas, I really want to say, let's simply stop paying for this shit.

Because when we pay for it, we only make it stronger. Not the effective governance we aspire to. Instead, this incompetence that also threatens aggression against its own society.