skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible.

I've used both in production, with all sorts of advanced features, and (to my surprise) I've never yet found a difference.

I would have a hard time leaving Aurora though. Not because of normal "vendor lock-in", but because of the operational worry-free scaling, backups, replicas, point-in-time restores etc. that it offers. Basically, I'm "stuck" on Aurora just because no one else offers MySQL/PostgreSQL databases like that.
The oxymoron "idiot savant" was used for the first time by John Down during his studies. The etymology is in the scientific literature.

Today we would use a less controversial term like "savant syndrome"... It seems appropriate given the title of the book (and the plot).

I always took it as an eulogy to the plasticity of the human intellect: we always have something to learn from anybody.
Direct connections for audio or video calls are a patented ‘invention’ that is why the major vendors like Microsoft and also Apple changed to server based communication.
He could have just said "I was working with System76 in April of last year on implementing LVFS but they went dark and shipped with a proprietary tool, I'm not sure what happened but I'm disappointed. If you're interested in running a distro other than what they're shipping you might want to consider a different OEM."

Instead he went over their email exchanges and trivialized the amount of work they need to invest to change systems and what they needed to do to rectify the situation. Oh but they're no need to apologize, just right the injustice.

He completely ignores the fact that they're a business with external motivators driving their decision (i.e. needed to ship, Meltdown, Spectre) and he just complains that they left him hanging.

Sure they could have sent him an email giving him a heads up on what was going on and why they were tabling the LVFS implementation but this sort of thing happens all the time in industry.
Same reason people are on LinkedIn, FB, etc. I don't switch because all the people in my call list are on Skype. Also, I don't have any smartphone, only PC and laptop, so I don't even know or care what kind of apps for iOS or Android there are. ON teh PC I have to use "Skype Classic", which MS would like to get rid of (default download is the app for Windows 10). That app is unusable, and I'm tempted to add "literally" for emphasis but I'll wait until this new meaning of this word is (even) more established and the original one more forgotten :-) For example, in the app I can't even control my online status unless I keep the app open, while old Desktop-Skype lets me choose the status and I can close the window but the service remains available through the taskbar icon. I'm also unable to see a list of my contacts filtered by who is online in the app, which I consider to be as basic as it gets.
I'm not a US tax expert, but crypto would work the same as appreciated shares in Canada with similar numbers.

Even then, you're still out $12. Though magnifying the impact of a $5M effective contribution to $55M with donations to causes that I support is tempting.
ISPs Say They Don’t Make Enough Money
Maybe the main title would be too long if it included “and google’s voice assistant”
There are many ways to make something a "choice" that you really have no choice in.
If I recall correctly, the adverts omit a certain frequency range from the assistant's invocation phrase which human's won't notice is missing

Edit: Yep, omit / reduce tones in the 3000 - 6000 Hz range https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/5oer2u/i_may_ha...
Alright, will follow up with an email.
Gnome 2 had their problems with UX too. I remember especially one release where the designers had found out that "spatial" was important and the implementation of their focus on that meant that every folder I opened opened in a new window.

Also I think the general idea that options == bad started in the Gnome 2 era.
Hey, dial it back a notch, okay?

My "admission" was that I could not find any data to support your claim that ".07 isn't likely to kill anyone either".

The NHTSA's statement on why .08 was chosen: https://one.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/pub/alcohol-law...

A TIME article considering whether .08 is too high: http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2025301,0...

The National Academy of Sciences recently recommended lowering the limit to .05: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?Rec... (there are a few links to pdfs at the bottom with more details)

My original comment was a plea for people to reconsider driving while "just barely legal", because it wasn't worth the risks. You want to know if there is actually any risk. Well, here you go.
There was a discussion earlier in life about how Django didn't support prepared statements. I didn't believe this, as no ORM I've ever used didn't use prepared statements by default. I asked around, trying to verify this claim. I got "what are you trying to do?" I'm trying to find out if Django's ORM uses prepared statements by default. Outside of that one ticket in Google search results (I'm not tuned into that ecosystem, so I can't discern if it's reliable proof or not), it seems like nobody really knows.
> sought-after science or technology fields

Hell, I did major in one of the sought-after science or technology fields, and unpaid overtime is an infuriating, unavoidable fact of my life.
::Somewhat tangential anecdote and plea for advice::

I just finished my third semester of using C++ (with Data structures 1) and we use NO modern stuff in class [1]. Raw pointers. New and delete. No Lambdas (although we learned about function pointers, though not function objects). I completely understand why (we're learning low level stuff and it's worked for the last 30 years so whatever), but now I'm trying to ramp up and learn modern C++ for a personal project I'd like to start working on (basically an audio plugin using JUCE).

Here's what I've been doing to try and catch up (I have two weeks off before my internship starts). I try to watch Bjarne and Herb's keynotes but they often are speaking to an audience already familiar to modern C++, so this posts video is great! I've discovered the brilliance of Sean Parent, so I'm watching all of his talks. I've ordered Scott Meyers Effective Modern C++ (and hopefully he uses the money for a new haircut /s). I've browsed through the C++ Core Guidelines [2]. I'm reading the JUCE tutorials (and source code) which is beautifully written.

What are other good resources? I'm particularly interested in developing GUI's. I'd like to see some tutorials written like Herbs talk here: for people new to C++ and new to modern C++.

[1] This is our textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Program-Design-Including-...

[2] http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines#...
Perfection is the enemy of good. You have to have a product before improving it. Blah blah blah. God forbid you tie yourself to that git ecosystem. eyeroll
Why? It takes a screenshot every 10 minutes or so. Easy to misuse data between screenshots. And I really doubt management is looking very hard for data misuse, they most likely care more about employees wasting time.

Also the software now has your data as well so you have to trust a 3rd party company in addition to the one you're doing business with.

In addition, the screenshots are getting shared around the company increasing the risk even further.
Sorry to break it to you, but Hangouts is dead.
“SPIRAL: Synthesizing Programs for Images Using Reinforced Adversarial Learning” [pdf]
6 cloned horses help rider win prestigious polo match
Except by that standard, me pouring waste in the river, instead of paying to have it properly disposed is "ethically and morally correct."
System76 UX architect here!

This vastly trivializes the work System76 does for months and sometimes years leading up to a product release. We don't simply take an off-the-shelf product that already exists, throw an OS on it, and sell it.

System76 works with upstream manufacturers (like, yes, Clevo for laptops) to determine what types of products to develop, including their specifications, design, etc. for months up to a release. These products do not exist before we enter into these conversations.

Once that has been determined, designed, and goes into production, we start on firmware. We ensure all components are working together and with the Linux kernel (often requiring changes to the components' low level interactions with the OS, since the upstream components themselves are often manufactured with the assumption they will be used by Windows).

Once that is complete, we test with Ubuntu and Pop!_OS specifically, ensuring the OS is working perfectly with the hardware. If there are any OS-specific changes to be done, we write that behavior into Pop!_OS and/or our "driver" which is preloaded on all machines (and available in any Ubuntu-based distro, Arch, Fedora, etc.), with the intent to upstream that into Ubuntu, GNOME, and/or Linux itself as quickly as possible. When this is more generic like ensuring HiDPI works great out of the box, this actually ends up benefiting competitors like Dell's XPS 13 probably as much as it benefits us, but we put in the effort to file the bugs, track them, write the code, and get it upstreamed.

Once all of that is complete, we finally offer it for purchase and market it with all of our pretty photographs, sales pages, etc.

What ends up happening, then, is Clevo offers a machine with a similar-looking chassis for sale as a barebones laptop. This is the result partially of the decision making System76 has made for what to produce in the first place. These products, however, do not contain any of the firmware or driver work that System76 has invested in. They do benefit from the nice photography and advertising System76 has done, and since they look similar, people assume they're going to get the same machine for cheaper "directly from the manufacturer."

Edit: regardless, this is a bit beside the point of the linked blog post, and is also becoming less and less true as we work on designing and manufacturing our products completely in-house.
Culture should be defined by the conversations and efforts of people applying their agency when and where they see fit

Not forced by top-down elected officials put in office by wealthy elites

If humanity wants to be lazy and not provide for each other, that's it's prerogative.

And what's the point of doing all that if only other people are benefiting while you're toiling 72 hours?

Nationalist pride "culture" is authoritarianism with a soft touch
Step-by-step synthesis of DNA: how whole genomes will be synthesized
Not really, but a letter grade is lacking a critical feature of mpg- anybody with a third-grade education can quickly estimate the exact gasoline costs of operating a prospective vehicle purchase. How do you translate a "B-" to dollars?
Seems like you can both be right in different circumstances. Humble Bundle got to a nice acquisition married to GCP. Snapchat has successfully unwound. I haven't looked into it in depth but it seems examples on both sides abound.
That is the joke. The communist government, that was supposed to liberate the people, created this situation. It didn't work like it was supposed to did it?
Wordstream Acquired by Gannett
Why brands like Amazon unfriend actors like Swara Bhaskar
it is a right of passage for each generation. In your 20s you are called lazy and entitled, then in your 40s-60s you say the same to people in their 20s.
> they seem to just not realize that people might find it totally creepy.

MOST people dont or dont care. The same with #deletefacebook.

There is a vocal minority including the press, and then there is everyone else who just wants cool things to work well and easily, and doesnt care at all about privacy.
I think #2 can be really simply fixed: they always have to identify themselves as machines. Once you know it's a machine you're talking to, you treat it as a less-awful version of the voice prompts we've had on phone systems for years.

The potential efficiency gains from this (think of calling into one of these instead of your traditional phone menus) are substantial. We should start looking into how to regulate AI (even if it just starts as "AI should identify itself as AI when they're using human communications channels") to make it work well for us.
I have no interest in any project run by the De Beers group. They are a monopoly and they massively manipulate the market for diamonds.
Clinical Trial Tests Novel Chemotherapy Treatment on Peritoneal Mesothelioma Pat
Tech Giants Are Offering Startups Free Patents in a Bid to Foil Lawsuits
I've been told by a US expat that we must have "the fittest fat people in the world", since everyone bikes here. Young, old, fit, fat, everyone bikes :-)
I think the table is attributing greenhouse to gases generally, not to man-made gases; as a result, water vapor wins. (OTOH, turning clouds into drinking water at scale would be a cool way to fight global warming and deal with drought at the same time. My understanding is that storm seeding has a pretty seedy history, though.)
Taking on a hate content policy will be a big task. So much music, while being dramatic and theatrical, is open to a lot of interpretation as to whether it is truly hateful or just expressing a point of view in an over-the-top way. A song might honestly express strong emotion, in a questionably hateful way.

For example, will "Hit 'Em Up" by Tupac be removed?(https://open.spotify.com/track/0Z2J91b2iTGLVTZC4fKgxf)
The song calls for violence and murder of other people and their kids.

Tupac, Biggie, and others around them were literally murdered because of their music, or associations related to their music careers. How can you argue a lot of their music isn't hateful? Should no one be listening to this music, is it wrong to listen to it?

It is Spotify's choice to host the kind of music they want, but this will be a difficult policy to enforce equally if that is at all a goal.
Though that quote in particular is attributable to Kenneth John Freeman's 1907 dissertation at Cambridge University, rather than Socrates (as it is often attributed).

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-childre...
I couldn't agree with this more! What really characterizes 'enterprise software' is that the people selecting and buying it are different people than the people who have to use it.

'enterprise software' is sold to stove-pipe organizations. It can be all sorts of awful for the people who actually have to use it, as long as the people making the purchasing decision come out of the deal looking good. The software vendor isn't set up to be able to iterate and improve based on customer feedback, and their customers aren't set up to be able to offer that feedback. Hence 'enterprise software' remains in a perpetual state of awfulness and anything good about it is purely accidental.
Drivers almost kill me all the time. It's not illegal until they actually kill me. Why is that?
Did you just license your phrase?
This novel, along with 'Crime and punishement' deal with completely opposite personalities. One has a very optimistic view of the world, the other, Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment, despises it and justifies violent crime with this mentality. Wonderful works, both of them. Unlike many, I read TBK first and decided to read Dostoevsky's other works and fell in love. Notes from the underground will always hold a special spot in my heart because of how much I can relate to the protagonist unfortunately.

Can anyone recommend other similar works of literature? I haven't read many books like this but I found Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund and Steppenwolfe by Herman Hesse to be on the same lines (deal with existentialism).
Thanks, Pineapple person / people.

The benefit to society from donating to charity can range from positive, to zero, to negative. Often negative. Anyone with money can donate, but it takes a lot of work to donate to things that make the world better. The Pineapple fund seems to have put in the effort to donate to projects with high positive impact, in a way that does the most good. (It's possible to donate to good projects in bad ways, such as by requiring them to use the money to build a building with your name on it.)

Doing the work can be exasperating, because you think "I'm giving away money, and I have to do all this work too???" But it's the work that makes the difference.
I might end up writing react code at any random time in my future, I'm currently curious on how one would do the equivalent of "VueJS component computed properties" in React.
Another really easy way to do this is to simply augment or replace your openssh daemon with Teleport. We just added a feature to master that handles CA rotation automatically for an entire fleet. Check it out on GitHub https://github.com/gravitational/teleport
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
If Google was saying, "any Restaurant can sign up to be reachable by Assistant -- we have lots of customers that will be excited to call them", your analogies would apply and we wouldn't be discussing. In all of your cases, the restaurant opted into a form of reachability.

Maybe we disagree about whether opening a phone line is opting into be called by a robot. I don't think almost any restaurant thinks of it that way, and if they did then it wouldn't be necessary to fake human vocal inflections when you call them.

The view you're expressing is what reminds me of telemarketing -- it's a presumption that the fact I open up a channel means I've authorized you to do anything you want with it.

Regarding your parking lot analogy, I think we're going to have exactly these arguments about usage of public space. Will stores with counters be ok with Drones flying in to stand in line? Stay tuned!
This is where we'd love to have your community input on Fedora/CentOS versions. Fedora Atomic Host has had very recent kernels available, and I don't see why that wouldn't continue with the Fedora version of the new OS.
Java has changed a lot over the years, for example generics, lambdas, default methods, type inference, and new things are in the pipeline, for example value types, data classes, and pattern matching.

The JDK libraries has also grown. You could probably spend a week just learning about java.util.concurrent.* and how to write efficient multithreaded code.
Google buys domain abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com
The spec hasn't been finalized yet, IIRC, but you will be able to roll your own when it does, as it'll be an open protocol.
Overcoming Anxiety
I didn't know about this aspect; thanks for pointing it out. Do you know how plausible alternatives would be? I guess the chemistry of the serum is pretty specific and maybe challenging to replicate, as in human blood transfusions most blood products are taken from a human donor rather than synthesized.
I disagree with the terms of plenty of things that I use anyway, and I ain't dead yet. I do realize that it could jeopardize me in the future, but the convenience outweighs most of my cares. It's horrible, really. I imagine it's how smokers with no intention of quitting feel.
Packets over LAN are all it takes to trigger serious Rowhammer bit flips
Honestly, at least from my experience, 4-5 minutes is lucky. What I see is more like 15 minutes, regardless of the technology. Skype, Zoom, GoToMeeting, Adobe Connect, it's all confusing and hard to use for non-tech participants who aren't experienced with it.
The first sentence in TFA:

> The Web Authentication API (also referred to as WebAuthn)
For one: no grid, walkable streets and bars and restaurants with terasses
It's really hilarious to me that some new amazing technology comes out and people immediately are like "how can we not use this?"

The right approach would be to open an text file and start writing all your hardware drivers, an operating system, a database system, application services etc. so that you'll never ever be locked into anything, and you'll always be 100% in control of everything at all times.

Shit, at that point you'll also need to make sure you fabricate your own chips, lay your own pipes, invent your own transfer protocol, etc. as that's the only way to be absolutely certain you won't get locked in.

But then at that point, you've created a prison of your own demise.
The downvotes, now mostly corrected, were probably from people who don't spend much time around children. When they hear crying, it must be that of an adult woman [0]. Therefore it signifies something very important. Or maybe their brains are just easily hacked. Few people want to consider that latter possibility.

[0] adult men also cry, but when they do so in public it is usually interpreted in radically different fashion...
Fair point. I don’t use a desktop at all because I use a tiling window manager.

When I worked at a Linux distro (endlessos.com) they had modified Gnome to have a universal search bar on the desktop. It was targeted at a different group of users than me, but it seemed to make sense based on that group.

Hopefully Gnome does sufficient user testing to deliver a useful experience to some significant group.
They probably already asked the businesses first, then just did the test at random times.
To all those who are moving to xubuntu or mate because gnome is janky...well it can be janky on Ubuntu.

Fedora 28 and Gnome were made for each other. They look and work brilliant. Try it out (and don't let dnf vs apt hold you back)
It works fine if it's the expectation that you set.
So lock your phone every time you set it down. Never leave it unlocked.

I used to have my iPhone lock 5min after I pressed the sleep button. Now that TouchID makes it very easy to unlock, I have it locking immediately.

When I let my friend's 4yo use my iPad, I triple tap the home button and press "Guided Access", which can prevent the user from accessing other apps until I disable it. (I do this because I'm worried about what he may accidentally search on the web, not because I'm worried he'll steal my data!)
Aside: I can't hear the name "Skype for Business" without thinking someone took a perfectly suitable chat client and attacked it with Kragle.
Binary size after compiled. Also time to build - just turning on C++11 more than doubles the time to run the processor. (I hope C++20 modules fixes this)
"There is a reason that the US has laws about the minimum that people can get paid on a salary."

There is no federal law in the US about that. California has such a law, but it requires being reported to be enforced, and as such, is not very often enforced.
Almost quit beef due to the info in Cowspiracy in which I believe they pointed out that if everyone were to switch to grass fed beef there would literally not be enough grassland to support it (this is probably true, with the assumption that various plant crops continue their unsustainable land footprint). However, having seen also "The Magic Pill" on Netflix, I've concluded the optimal solution is probably more, healthier beef, and less plant agriculture land. The real problem isn't the cows, it's what the cows eat, which is mostly corn, soy, grains etc. Put as simply as I can: if humans committed to eating fewer carbs, and eating grass fed fatty meat and high quality plant oils for the bulk of their calories, the resulting system would produce huge carbon capture because grassland in its 'growth phase' is a very efficient carbon sink, and is more supportive of healthy soil than fields of corn, soy, and grains.
Show HN: Terraform provider for Dropbox API
There are far more effective tax loopholes than donating to charities. Also if this person really wanted to reap the benefits of taxes, they would have to reveal who they were, which is not what they want in the first place.