skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that "early adopters" are not the same as fringe groups. There's an important distinction.

As an extreme example, it would be the same as saying 4chan and voat attracted the same type of users in the beginning (as much as 4chan involves some fringe groups)

Corollary: a known, named extremism will have an opposite extremism that can be as bad as the thing it purports to oppose, though it will operate in an orthogonal way and it might not be always have a specific name.
Dodd-Frank is a very good thing. It’s not that regulation is intrinsically bad, it’s regulation that entrenches existing wealth.
Not only young people, this measure hits hard a lot of people with just a few months warning. There are many sectors that will be affected: live music (no way to move sound gear), tour operators (buses from the airport to the centre), repairmen, music schools... not to talk about regular people working in the center with no money to replace their cars.

I'm not against this measure in the long term, but the way it has been put in place is terrible.
And what happens during the switching transition then? Answer: both conduct for a very short period, hence the dependency of power consumption on frequency.
That seems to be a personal opinion, stated as fact.

And this complaint is doubly mysterious, because my post above explicitly labels that opinion as an opinion. That’s more than can be said of the vast majority of posts. Including yours.

(Which I don’t fault them for. Whatever disclaimers you may want would seem to just be needless filler)

(In my opinion)
I think the choice of this sort of app is largely a question of personal preference. What I'm trying to replace for myself is evernote, which is what I've always fallen back to when I've tried other offerings, but it doesn't support markdown, is largely dependant on a mobile/desktop app download and to my eye, has a distracting/unattractive interface/output. I know evernote, like other apps, have a lot more features than Notably, but ultimately at the moment all I'm trying to do is validate the basic premise to see if this is something other people like, too
I agree with what you're saying and the sentiment behind it (and the same goes for most of the other replies to my comment).

I just wonder: is there a better way than giving names to the public to make mob-rule style decisions? It's impossible for us to know the full context (which is maybe something the government should strive to provide for all instances of police response), and I can't help but feel that the public will make sweeping decisions, without due process, and without proper examination (which again, seems currently implausible).

While it's possible someone with more use of force is a rabid psychopath, it's also possible they've been in a lot of unlucky situations. I doubt the general public consider how true randomness can sometimes result in use-of-force outliers that are in fact behaving just fine, and have had a stroke of bad luck.
You can also have them return the product to you. Of course this costs money.

I don't think that storage fees specifically are a racket. What do you want Amazon to do, store a bunch of non-selling products indefinitely for free?

The lesson is that you shouldn't send a ton of products to FBA unless you have good reason to believe they'll move.
Several months ago, setup of a Citus Cluster seemed to be a not straightforward, while at the same time I was able to setup and run a CockroachDB cluster in less than half hour with docker. I've checked YugaByte documentation about setup, and CockroachDB still won in operation complexity.

I doubt that the same will be done with PostgreSQL or MariaDB anytime soon. People are begging for a good and easy psql HA cluster setup for ages, and it is just not happening (yeah, they are getting closer and closer), while such DBs fill a need with good results.
Bitcoin is busy shooting themselves in the foot. Can't wait for a better alternative to really take off.
Steam used to be the best way to make your game visible .. but now haha, not really.

Not that I am against Steam opening its doors .. the curation was very subjective which was problematic since it could mean life or death for a studio.

Right now .. I guess it is still better than nothing if you have an unknown game to sell .. but I would not have my game only sold on steam.
You can usually optimize integer arithmetic just fine, including the example you gave (both forms are equivalent - try it!).

Floating point arithmetic is different, but Java gives itself wiggle room by not exactly specifying many results unless you choose "strict math". That's not UB though: it's just a range of possible outcomes.

Java can't have UB in the C/C++ sense, since it would break the security sandbox. It certainly has things without specifically defined values, such as hashCode() and what happens under data races isn't entirely deterministic, but it doesn't approach UB in the C/C++ sense.
Not much of a twist really since Germany (the state) owns part of VW and they also want to protect jobs.
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YugaByte only added distributed transactions in the new 1.1 release (previously, it only supported single-row transactions). The architecture is a variation on 2PC and seems sound, but I think it's fair to say that it's early days. Meanwhile, Cockroach and TiDB both have battle-tested implementations.

YugaByte is pretty quirky. Rather than settle on a native data model, they offer several "personalities" that mimic other products (Cassandra, Redis and PostgreSQL), and you can mix and match them. But they've implemented each API with their own set of weird warts. For example, their CQL implementation has CREATE INDEX, but it does not index existing data [1]. You have to either create the secondary index before inserting data, or force a reindex of everything with a dummy UPDATE statement. Who would ship such a product?

More warts/Cassandraisms: UPDATE is actually an upsert; an update that doesn't match a row will insert it. And SELECT ... WHERE expressions can only use AND expressions (!) [2].

Hopefully the forthcoming SQL API should be saner, but it's very limited at the moment. It does not seem to support joins, transactions or indexes, for example. Meanwhile, CockroachDB and TiDB both have rich SQL implementations, including joins and aggregations, with cost-based query optimizers that can take advantage of multiple indexes and table statistics.

It seems more appropriate to compare YugaByte with distributed key/value stores like FoundationDB, Cassandra, Scylla and Redis.

[1] https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/explore/transactional/secon...

[2] https://docs.yugabyte.com/v1.0/api/cassandra/dml_select/#roo...
Indeed. I think credit cards took some 40 years to become mainstream.
Package managers are exactly the centralized "app store" model, and there have been plenty of periods where users have had to add third party repositories to get basic functionality (DeCSS, video codecs, ZFS, etc).

The difference is that Linux repositories are less noteworthy to attack, have a more distributed culture not ruled by capitulating lawyers, and can actually jurisdiction shop.

The ultimate problem is a lack of a cross-software security model of the OSs, Linux included. User-based isolation is cool and all, but orthogonal to the modern world [0]. For decades we've been continually looking for better ways of isolating local apps, while also rejecting centralized control. We keep looking, while centralization keeps ratcheting.

I'm still hopeful that a well done capability (handle-based) system would go a long way, but not fully solve it. Unfortunately that means shedding off POSIX/LSB rather than duplicating the entire monolithic OS environment for every security context.

[0] Where say even a local LAN IP address is security-critical information!
The question from the article is tricky because the Python modulus implementation differs from, for example, Java. See discussion https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2215318/difference-betwe...
> I never advocated eliminating undefined behavior from C, I advocate eliminating UB based "optimizations" from C compilers, particularly "optimizations" which rely on assuming code will never do what emitted code does!

OK, then that definition excludes register allocation as a permitted optimization.

If you want to compile C code without any exploitation of undefined behavior, that's readily available! Just pass -O0 to your compiler.
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Thank you for your excellent comments. I never understood what made vacuum tubes good transistors. How does the gate voltage control the commercial loan conductivity of the vacuum Gap?
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> If someone really cared, they'd run the most blase service on top of such technology and actively kick off anyone slightly controversial.

What's the appeal to users of a more inconvenient version of YouTube that has even more draconian moderation policies?

The appeal of BitChute is precisely its lack of censorship.
Folks, you can downvote me, but that doesn’t make what I’m saying false. Look at the law cited in TFA.
One I remember is MaidSafe: https://maidsafe.net/

There is a website out there that has interviews with about a dozen people who are working on alternative ways of doing the internet. Shallow google isn't throwing anything up I'm afraid.

Edit: Not quite what I thought I remembered but here it is anyway:

https://redecentralize.org/interviews/
All 90s GUIs have something that I miss[1]. I think the flat movement was a desire for hyper genericity .. but turns out that a bit (just a bit) of visual signal and faux skeumorphism (some widgets emulated actual LED keys found on hardware) is good.

ps: also, flat came after both the aqua trend where effects were everywhere and skeumorphism was pushed higher. Not that surprising in a way.

[1] beos, win311, macos classic, win95 (office97 era) and nt5
Even if you can't see it with your own eyes then you can be sure that thousands of companies (including the one I work for) are collecting a lot less data than they normally would (after all, it's often impossible to know exactly what data is being collected, for how long, and how it will be stored). I'm sure you've also noticed some websites even blocked EU visitors until they had time to comply with the law, at least I saw a couple of stories and comments about it on HN. And if the companies didn't care/worry then why would they even bother with consenting overlays?

A lot more people (and not just the tech folks) are also beginning to care about their privacy (not only because of GDPR but I do believe it has had one of the biggest influences, along with the Facebook scandals, China's growing dystopia, etc).

A lot of people (such as myself) also stopped using evil services like imgur, and use every opportunity to encourage people to do the same and spread awareness. Although I had mostly stopped visiting imgur links a long time ago, I didn't really start to bash them and block them completely until I saw their insane GDPR overlay where they showed how they share data with hundreds of different companies and even forced users to visit their websites to opt out.

Stopping people from using these websites/apps is a slow process, but just because you can't see drastic changes then it doesn't mean it isn't affecting them. Would you notice if Signal's userbase had grown by 20% as a result of people becoming aware of the importance of privacy due to GDPR, or if imgur/Facebook dropped by 15%? I wouldn't, but I did notice the likes of Google and Facebook facing multi-billion dollar fines. I've also noticed Facebook has been struggling a lot lately, and that Google has been facing a lot of backlash for their Dragonfly project.
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as others have pointed out, the problem of accounting/taxation is important to solve before cryptos can become the cash of the web. and it might not be solvable
Actual title of the article is "The Cities That Amazon HQ2 Left Behind" and that's what the article is primarily about, not Indianapolis picking up garbage. I think the HN title is misleading.
Right, but the "Ministry of Truth" isn't about truth either.

Actual free speech would, quite obviously, not depend on the content of the speech.
I can't imagine something that destroys small business as much as Dodd-Frank being a good thing on the balance:

https://www.mercatus.org/publication/how-are-small-banks-far...

Some relevant statistics:

https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/no-there-arent-too-ma...

>>Community banks have been instrumental in helping the nation recover from the financial crisis and economic downturn, yet their numbers continue to dwindle, declining by roughly 1,500 since 2009.

..

>>A new survey from the Federal Reserve and Conference of State Bank Supervisors found that community bank compliance costs have increased by nearly $1 billion in the past two years to roughly $5.4 billion, or 24% of community bank net income.
I hear this incredibly often. Can you explain why this is, or do you have a link or two that's convinced you on this point?

I understand NIMBY-ism which, to some extent, is responsible for impractical zoning laws and, in turn, higher rents and home prices.

Beyond that, however, why is this the case? Wasn't America just more prosperous in previous decades, due to the political/military victories we enjoyed, and the lack of international competition we faced?
It's a baby step, but that was to be expected. You can't realistically expect everyone to switch to an EV overnight, but this kind of plans will accelerate adoption, which AFAIK isn't going so well in Spain.

If this experiment works, then new, more aggressive ones will be put in place elsewhere.
Amazon is entrenched in a lot more than just government. Consumers, shareholders, merchants... a lot of people depend on Amazon to be around and in good health.
Postgres FTS with trigrams (pg_trigram extension) works really well for many search applications. Most of the effort would be tuning the FTS dictionary.
Haiku doesn’t have much of a technological edge at the moment, given that the current goal is to reproduce BeOS 5 PE to its fullest extent before modernizing.

Where it does have an edge, though, is how’s its being designed first and foremost as a desktop OS with responsiveness as the top priority above all else. The latter especially is depressingly uncommon in modern operating systems.
Great questions.

Tesla's problem isn't by intention. It's by NEC (and local) code requirement.

For the second question, why not lay it across the sub roof: Water can be very damaging. What insures those wires (over 20-30 years) will not be damaged? For a conventional solar installation the wires are elevated and protected due to the cavity of each panel. Local codes generally require that no wires touch the rooftop, so that prevents the daily ware/tare.

As for the latter idea, I do believe that's Tesla main goal. But to practically do this is an engineering feat that hasn't been solved yet. Can Tesla do it? Sure. But I haven't seen them invest in a solution yet. Heck, Elon is focusing on too much and not fixing this issue. It's okay, he's got bigger fish to fry. But since it's not solved, they will continue to live with this problem.
There's an infinite list of things you could do, for example:

- wireless pentesting of GPS, RFID, NFC, garage doors, car remotes, etc.

- Receive NOAA satellite weather imagery

- Track airplanes using ASD-B

- Amateur radio voice/morse code/digital modes

- Run a GSM base station using OpenBTS

- Capture every FM radio broadcast in your area, simultaneously

- Transmit a DVB or ATSC stream to your TV
Can it be used in editors, say VS Code, to provide fix-its or suggestions for improving code on a line-by-line basis? If so, that sounds great. A lot of languages are missing this in their standard distributions and devs must rely on third-party offerings.
>However, an appeal to popularity, "Everyone uses the wifi at starbucks" is strange to see from someone who is advocating better security practices.

I would call it an "appeal to practicality"

I mean, sure, you and I carry mobile plans with tethering capabilities; my iphone/verizon combo is nearly always better than your average free or included with purchase wifi network. But I also have a device that was like a grand up front and the service is north of $100/month. It's a totally reasonable and practical solution for me, sure, but for someone who doesn't work in tech, or for someone who has kids, etc, etc... for a lot of people, spending that much on connectivity is not particularly practical.

(you can get cheaper tethering setups, of course; those that I've tried have been worse in the areas where I've tried them; it has been more than a year since I tried, so the 'verizon is the best if you don't care about price' statement may be out of date, and of course, different areas have different coverage. YMMV, of course. My main point is just that if you want tethering that is consistently better than free wifi... that's going to cost you an amount of money that might be impractical for most people.)

I mean, sure, you could still just not use data... my computer would be more secure if I left it off. But it would also be a lot less useful.
Reddit only banned anime porn that depicted characters under the age of 18. Regular anime porn is very much still there.

There was a lot of scaremongering around the time that voat was launched, the "under 18" part was often left off when people were using that ban in an argument.
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Maybe if you can find the exact right real person who reflects the statistical reality you've already measured, and if you don't feel it's creepy to obsess over this one person in your target demographic, and you don't end up needing their consent to disseminate information about them. It's much easier and approximately as effective (more effective wouldn't surprise me) to make one up.
Here's an example of what can happen if the compiler doesn't perform these optimizations:

That's a great article, although I don't think it shows the advantage of assuming that undefined behavior will never occur. Rather than assuming "no undefined behavior", wouldn't it be legal (and preferable) for a compiler to just let the overflow (or lack of overflow) occur, and make the same optimization? For me the entire point of contention is the difference between "undefined" and "implementation defined". Maybe I'm wrong about the details here, but I think this is a case where a compiler could be just as fast without the nasal daemons.
My friends that live on the other side of the country? I text them once a month or so to keep up, not just like their photos on facebook and feel like I'm still friends.

I guess. Thing is that everyone has different preferred communication mediums. I've had several old friends with whom I reconnected with on Facebook. When they dropped off this, they dropped out of my life again. One tried texting with but for me, personally, texting is the least pleasant or personal medium possible, good for coordinating appointments and nothing else.
It very likely has a real effect for some people, beyond just placebo.
We used a balance bike (well normal bike with seat down and pedals removed) on 3 occasions, probably a total of 1h30 at most. Then put pedals on and kiddo just set off and rode.

There's probably a wide variance in these things.
https://github.com/Debian/dcs
Are there any good examples of a cross platform application written in Qt that is available on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows?
Honestly I doubt it.

1. If Amazon is providing a service that is as good or easier to implement than others, people don't care enough about competition or open markets to decide based on that.

2. From the govt perspective, I'm on the front lines of the DoD cloud discussions and I can tell you that even though we don't want a single provider, and hopefully I can push hard to ensure we have multiple providers, Amazon has the mindshare in the govt and growing.
AWS’s managed FTP service too
They don't really need to do anything sneaky to figure out what to build next. They generally build things that their customers are banging down their doors asking them to build.

The main difference with AWS vs Azure or Google is that they have been focused on the space longer and they have really optimized the rate at which they can build out a new scalable, reliable, secure, mananged service.

Sure, the UI/UX is usually not great, and the documentation is imperfect and there are features missing, but they get the hard things right, they charge per second/hour/GB, and they improve over time.
Also sperm count because of recreational pharmaceuticals causing disruption to the the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis...
Thank you for posting this! I recently installed linux on my MacBook Air and the biggest thing I missed from macOS was how nice the trackpad was, especially scroll inertia and 3-finger drag. Now I'm completely happy with my decision to switch.
I appreciate the precision!
Well, your impression was wrong. Goat was created by racists and sexists to be racist and sexist and anti-semitic. If they fooled you with a veneer of grandios cries of all-caps censorship than you are easily fooled, or willfully ignorant.
This book looks great. Thank you for sharing!
By unique societies studied, over time - not by numbers of individuals. This is what I was told in Anthropology class.
I don't publish videos. I watch them. I'm not gonna bother flipping through 90% nonsense on the off chance there's something interesting available. There's nothing technical that prevents sane people from uploading videos on BitChute, but there's not as strong as an incentive for them to do so.

The platforms are fundamentally good ideas. There just needs to be a way to bootstrap a diverse community before they're killed in the cradle by angry nerds.

To observe the ideological flipside of this conundrum, I invite you to browse many Mastodon instances, where discourse is driven by the most unbearable carelords imaginable.
Aka the "Apple app store" and "Trader Joes" model of competition: Build a platform for other people to innovate on top of, then steal their best ideas after you've validated that they work well on your own platform.
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The same reason why I can't just get your lawnmower even if it's visible, in your backyard.
Then the right should have no need to use the service?
If by third-party you mean unsigned, then yes, I think that's incorrect.
I agree on the responsiveness part and would like to add that the fact that BeOS dropped you to a debugger shell when it crashed is something missing from modern desktop OSs. Just like the Lisp Machine (Genera, at least), introspection is something that’s present in Haiku and BeOS that was cut out of many modern desktop operating systems for “security” and “ease of use”.
That's why I think MongoDB's new license which prevents AWS etc from hosting as a service without open sourcing makes sense (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18229452). Amazon barely contributes anything back to the community and is known for destroying OSS businesses.
I found this to be the case as well.

In my experience: it's allowed me to focus all of my emotional energy on the 5-8 actual close relationships that I have, rather than burning myself out living like some kind of small-time celebrity with an audience of hundreds of casual acquaintances that expect me to like posts and respond to messages at their beck and call.
Thanks, the post on herd immunity looks very good.
They did not lay their own fiber either. Where do you draw that boundary?
Yeah, traditional hosting companies such OVH...there was rackspace as well but it's gone now.
Ohto Horizon Needle Points are amazing pens. Definitely one of the best I've tried, especially when writing on Repap (ie the Ogami notebooks.)

Slightly confused by them talking about the Kaweco Brass but having a photo of a non-brass Classic tho'.