skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Help please somebody. I'm so upset. Firefox "disappeared" off my desktop and I got a notice that it couldn't find my profile file. Neither could I. I had to reinstall the entire operating system for it to work again, and my data is gone (bookmarks). My bookmarks are important data for me. If I can retrieve them, I'm leaving FFforever. And Mozilla. FF should be held responsible for my expenses and time. Help. I had no ff acct. I just chose it as my default browser.
SF's budget is actually much larger than Chicago's budget in 2019, $11B vs $8.9B.

However, Chicago has significantly more debt, and is on the verge of bankruptcy. SF is not.
Hardware acceleration is working fine on the Dev channel with a flag. Shouldn't be too long before it's on by default and available on stable.
And even that's misleading because of the high deductibles of all U.S. plans let alone if you happen to get a so-called high deductible plan (that qualifies for a Health Savings Account). To see a paid for benefit, other than those PPACA requires they be provided at no addition cost from the get go, you pay the annual "tax" in the form of a premium and then you pay the deductible, and then depending on the insurance and provider it will pay 50% to 90%. I estimate I'd have to spend ~$10,000 out of pocket before the first dollar "insurance" would pay. Per year, as the deductible resets.

Americans are consistently paying obscene amounts of money for no better results and in some cases, like the up thread type 1 diabetes example, vastly inferior.
I once got to the top for a non-tech related post when I shared my story about skateboarding 86km from Sydney to Wollongong. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5530044

Still amazed it was well received here and grateful for all the friendly and encouraging comments
VW does a huge amount of lobbying:

https://lobbyfacts.eu/articles/29-10-2015/volkswagen-top-10-...

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2019...
They've got New Armstrong pencilled in after New Glenn for taking people to the Moon.

I suppose after that would be New Sagan
following your steps at getting the strings, which in turn helped me get the code of the whole application

first of all, as per the code, the User-Agent must be setup to "iWalk-v2"

then doing a simple get request to http://35.246.158.51:8070 will return {"AuthURL":"/auth/v2"}

replacing the original url with http://35.246.158.51:8070/auth/v2 and then sending a json like '{"Seed": "3d375032374147a7865753e4bbc92682", "Password": "d7c6bdcfcb184bf587ceee7c7c28e72e"}' with "Content-Type: application/json" returns {"IsValid":false,"LockURL":"","Time":136764}

the Time here (as per my understanding in the code) is the request duration, which somehow contradicts postman's request duration field

now one weird thing I've noticed about this app is this, if i install it on a regular device, and connect that to a proxy, then type gibberish into the fields then click Login, the following code gets invoked

void _submit() async {
final form = formKey.currentState;
if (form.validate()) {
setState(() => _isLoading = true);
form.save();
_networkActions.login(_seed, _password)
.then((result) => _loginCompleted(result))
.catchError((e) {
_loginCompleted(new Token("", false, 0));
});
}

if a loading icon appears then I assume that the code passed the condition and passed this line of code "setState(() => _isLoading = true);" now the weird part is that, I don't see any outgoing connections from the app... (I use charles to capture requests)
What do you mean by access the data?

Activation lock effects the ability for the phone to be set up (e.g. activated).

Actual data on the phone is encrypted to a set of keys, that are themselves protected by the SEP, which checks the passcode, does the timer enforcement, and increments counters, etc.

The moment the device is reset/wiped the keys are gone forever and the data cannot be recovered (even if your took it apart and read the flash directly)
Or you know they can form a cartel.
> Have you heard of Elon musk?

The guy who failed at Neuralink and the Boring Company?

Might have to add Tesla to the above sentence, depending on if they run out of cash this year or not.
I would think you would want to decrease the occurrences of experience by letting someone else's hindsight be your foresight.
https://mrchromebox.tech
> makes the easy stuff easy, and the hard stuff doable

I like SQL, but I disagree. It also makes easy stuff hard.

Given many numbers (billions), how would you find the 1st, 3rd and 5th highest values?
Category theory can do better than relational database theory: the open-source categorical query language CQL extends SQL with generalizations of abstractions such as schema mappings and queries while supporting automated theorem proving and fixing foundational semantic issues such as null handling.

http://categoricaldata.net
I'm seeing a lot of exponential technology. If Jeff B. takes more risk and focus, it could be possible. We'll see.
Austin. And it’s already having tons of growing pains.
Do you have source for calling it an "influx"? According to the city's annual survey (from 2017)[1], 70% of the current homeless population lived in SF county before becoming homeless, 21% lived in another CA county (which may include, say, Berkeley or Oakland), and only 10% came from outside CA. I'd hardly call 10% of the current homeless population an influx.

[1] http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Poin...
The article's thesis is that building more housing does not reduce wealth inequality. Which makes sense. However, that's not why people are demanding more housing in places like San Francisco. They want more housing so that housing prices and rents will stabilize or decline. This allows people at lower income levels to have better quality of life. They are, of course, still at lower income levels. The article calls this a failure. Others may call it a success.
Haha I’d like to hear more about that. Do you live in the Bay Area? I work at one of the tech companies and have noticed that it mostly seems to be new hires that spend a lot on cars. I think the VP in my org actually drives a Toyota. I really don’t understand the expensive car obsession around here.
Nope the us government is single biggest spender. Your own link tells you that. You are including a bunch of companies together. Please stop spreading fake news.

If you include prescription drugs us government spends 329bil. So I think us government is pretty vitial to medicine in this country.
Usually doesn't mean anything more than self-promotion, which ironically mostly seems to be used to not become a better place to actually move to.
The intrusive parts that you see in a lot of firmware today fall into two categories.

One is like Intel ME. It supports use cases you as an end user do not give one single damn about and could easily do without, if given the option. Clean and remove as much as possible with no remorse.

The other is like SMM. Believe it or not, it's only accidentally the intrusive and insecure monster it has become. The point was exactly what it says on the tin. System Management Mode. The OS would ask the 'system' to do something it didn't know how to do, like change some power configuration in a laptop, and the firmware would handle it and then give control back. But these operations were delicate and needed to not be interrupted. And the hardware involved was delicate and needed to not be touched in the wrong way, lest the system hang or even fry. So it was locked away where the OS couldn't touch it. And then people started noticing they could use an untouchable special execution mode in other ways, and, well, here we are. The unfortunate thing is that because of how it started, you would feel some pain on most systems today trying to get rid of it. Your OS does not have drivers to change the CPU thermal characteristics properly and in accordance with silicon design (because the vendor did not develop one or make the information available to the outside world). So removing SMM will make many 'nice' features stop working. You may lose the ability to suspend and resume. Your power draw may be stuck too high or too low. It's possible on some systems you would be fine, but on others not so much.

Like the people demanding that graphics vendors provide open source drivers rather than binary blobs in the hope of making things better, really what's needed here is advocates pushing for the tasks performed in SMM today to be migrated to OS drivers, and from there to open source drivers.

You as a single tinker today aren't likely to get all this stuff working with the non-existent documentation.

Blame the silicon vendor for doing things in the most scary, back-door-ish way possible. UEFI didn't make them do that. The same crappy business practices that drive all bad proprietary software decisions did.
The four rings and their purpose was copied from VAX and VMS. It was specifically added by Intel trying to convince DEC to port VMS.

The GE-645 had 16 protection rings in hardware IIRC, and was designed so that unprivileged software would see essientially an unlimited number of rings. It's a very different model in practice (and way better IMO).

IMO we're probably going to have to migrate back to a hardware model to describe the memory regions to hardware to protect against the cache based Spectre variants the same way we protect against Meltdown.
Mental healthcare is absolutely a salve for a lot of homeless folks. We used to have sanitariums and institutes - some of those were terribly abusive (seriously, they were horrific in some cases). Instead of fixing the abuse issues people found it easier to solve the problem by shutting down the evil institutions... then everyone who had been receiving treatment was forced onto the street and expected to take care of themselves.
The polyfill principle addresses this. As long as transparent fallbacks exist, there's no reason new technology can't be rolled out for the benefit of the significant userbase that can take advantage of it.

Anyone who cares about their data bill should be asking very serious questions about why we're still stuck with the massively inefficient 32-year-old GIF format as the only widely supported way to display an inline animation, especially as many superior alternatives like FLIF, BPG, etc. have been released over the last several years.

GIFs waste absolutely ungodly quantities of bandwidth. Any semi-modern video codec is at least an order of magnitude more efficient. Any way you slice it, the continued dominance of GIF is, at best, an egregious oversight, and it has a direct dollar impact on anyone with a metered connection (this is your phone, but increasingly likely to be your home connection too).

As a community, we need to make an alternative to GIF a real priority.
Go aligns well with Google's frequent rewrite policy.

C# is truly superior to Java in tons of ways, but adoption really hurts it's utility. The main driver for Java the last decade or so has been that it's good enough and has a library for anything.

Need a DB driver for an esoteric datastore that died 12 years ago? Java has it. That's the selling point. It will take a decade or more of C# on it's current trajectory to catch up
CA is actually quite well-managed. One of the reasons we pay so much in taxes is precisely because CA legislators have a better grasp of financial realities than their counterparts in red states: if you want to spend more, you need to collect more money to pay for it.

And CA voters like to pay for things. Red-state voters do not; they like to pretend that people will do things for free (i.e., teachers) until things break and they accept the reality that nice things cost money.
If normal updates do not require admin perms then it must not have been installed in a system location, and they must be doing something system-level with this particular update.
> Not sure if applicable to the US, but in my home country you can sue people if you want money from them (as one would expect), but you can also sue "to determine whether a payment is needed", which means you initiate a lawsuit that can result in you paying the money.

In the US this would be a suit for declaratort judgement in which formally you asked the court to declare you did not owe money, but functionally it seems generally similar.
Yeah, I've used it quite a bit and would consider myself an intermediate user. It's a very pleasant language to use (everything is an S-expression underneath, and computation happens via "term rewriting") once you get used to it, but it's declarative nature of programming makes it similar to eg. Haskell/Lisp and quite different from eg. Python/Matlab. It's basically unmatched for symbolic manipulation and algebra, so it's very popular among theoretical physicists (that's how I encountered it).

My only gripe with it is that it's not open/free (as in freedom), so the platform is limited by Wolfram's imagination (and different pieces don't always compose nicely, unlike say, in Julia) and I don't want to become dependent on a computing platform whose future is murky (bus factor of one, at least from what Wolfram takes credit for). Otherwise, I wouldn't mind paying for a personal use license and using it more.
i have no idea. i have wondered just the same. what happens with the value when the time is up? maybe we can look at how time leases work in the UK or canada as suggested below.

also, in china maintenance is only done when necessary and when it brings profit.
To the extent that economics is about how incentives influence behavior, to assume that SF legislators don’t understand economics is itself probably a misunderstanding of economics.
Define computer?

Before plotters or oscilloscopes, there were harmonic oscillators which could perform Fourier transforms and the reverse operation and print the result on a piece of paper. It's a vector device too, albeit a mechanical one, not digital or even electronic.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0INsTTU1k2UYO9Mck-i5...
No doubt he has vision and the ability to execute. I’m a huge fan. We wouldn’t have electric cars on the road, wouldn’t have AI-assisted driver tech for consumers and would be paying Russians to launch satellites for us if it weren’t for him. He also makes bold statements and doesn’t always deliver on time. Bezos tends to keep things closer to the vest. Both have changed the world. The perception that Bezos doesn’t often over-promise and under-deliver or at least deliver late after talking big is probably why some people see him as a more competent CEO.
They found world's biggest fish
Even you can't believe how big fish is this
That's unbelievable
http://bit.ly/2FHl4pM

A cute dog is dancing in video
Just watch this video and try to control your laugh
http://bit.ly/2ZK1XVs

See how a Turkey saved the life of his friends
Even those birds also have love in their hearts
http://bit.ly/2WhAiZS

Sometimes our feet smell are so bad even we feel ashamed due to our feet smell
Now you can get rid from this just follow this simple method
https://zoomtips.blogspot.com/2019/04/Smelly-feet.html

Guy made world record
He drive car on two wheels
See his video how he is driving
http://bit.ly/2ZOYaWX
I hope they introduce it only if it keeps the language as simple as it is today even if it means generics will not be as powerful as other languages. I mean we have a ton of languages and Go is a unique one. If a project or team really needs generics, they can always use Java, Rust or something dynamic like Python or JS. I don't see much point in turning Go into another Rust or Java. Not that Rust or Java are wrong but with Go being so simple, we have all sorts of options. If it turns into another beast of a language just to solve what other language already have then we lose the simple and fast Go we all like.
Note that the article is dated 2006.
If the ATF can do Ruby Ridge and Waco and get away Scot free with precalculated murder (the first)

But they didn't get away scot free, did they? Among other consequences, the governments' actions at Ruby Ridge and Waco inspired a couple of psychos (McVeigh and Nichols) to commit an atrocity of their own to take revenge. [1]

Fast-forward to the occupation of the Malheur refuge by the Branch Dildonians several years later. This time, the government waited them out. They knew better than to take a third swing at the hornet's nest. They were arguably afraid to go up against US citizens using violence as a first resort.

You can see that as a good thing -- and I do -- without having any sympathy at all for the beliefs and actions of the Malheur occupiers, with McVeigh, or with Randy Weaver for that matter.

[1] https://www.history.com/news/how-ruby-ridge-and-waco-led-to-...
Very, very confounded correlations study. Given the greater prevalence of schizophrenia in urban dwellers and the negative effects of air pollution we have pretty strong reasons to suspect urban living is less healthy than rural living. But in a modern economy the highly educated and high socioeconomic status people who are disproportionately healthy will almost all live in urban areas.

Correlational studies are only ever suggestive.

All of these are due to behaviour, not environment.

> Causes of death contributing most to the increasing rural-urban disparity and lower life expectancy in rural areas include heart disease

Diet

> unintentional injuries

Working on a farm is ludicrously dangerous

> COPD, lung cancer

Rural people are poorer and poorer people smoke nope

> stroke

Diet

> suicide

Comparatively easy access to guns and poisons

> and diabetes

Diet
Are talented employees and advisors mostly people who have gotten rich from IPOs and acquisitions? Or is it possible that there talented people entirely shut off (or shut out) from the world of startups and venture capital?

This also predictably entrenches existing imbalances. Consider for example that 70% of VCs are white [1], and that three quarters of white people don't have any black friends [2]. That's over half of VCs that are significantly less accessible to black founders, simply because so much investment happens via this "club".

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/14971/who-are-venture-capital...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three...
GoPlay – A iOS Player Based on FFmpeg / OpenGL ES
Neither Neuralink, The Boring Company, nor Tesla has 'failed' yet.
I think this was obvious just after UWP was released. It was like a separate ecosystem that got all the new goodies (eg Win2D) bit was fairly incompatible with the other ecosystems (WinUI kind of like WPF but not really, complicate AOT deployment builds that took an hour to compile, nerfed DLR, no explicit MT, a sandboxed app model, Windows store that no one wanted, etc...). Now they are saying that you can have the new goodies before you commit to the restrictions of UWP (if you ever want to), which is really how it should have been in the first place.

Now it feels like it is kind of too late, unfortunately.
How do you go about finding a trained guide? This is the part that has always confused me. In Michael Pollan's interviews on the subject he basically says he was lucky to have money and connections, and otherwise avoids answering that topic.
They said they will make a formal post-mortem investigation as well as make a post about what they will change.
I think the information will be contained in one of the two posts?
Would a retroactive tax like this be constitutional?
Are there historical instances of 1) and 2)being successful in reducing housing prices in a high-demand area?
> SQL is extremely expressive, it's almost impossible to build something that cannot be expressed in an SQL query.

If that were true, people would build RDBMS’s in SQL.
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Not necessarily common because garbage collected languages tend to not get used for high performance tasks, but a huge amount of modern optimization is in improving contiguous memory access and avoiding pointer chasing to use CPU cache more effectively, in java allocating arrays of primitives type is about the only way to do that. Similarly in c# they added spans to achieve this with better ergonomics, but both basically come down to avoiding the garbage collector for better performance.

Another big one is trying to allocate as much as possible on the stack, either through the language like c/c++/c# or by using local variables and hoping the compiler will do the right thing for you with java. A lot of the work gone into java vm's over the decades have been trying to improve this. Even java sacrifices it's OO purity to make integers and floats value types on the stack, that was to get non-laughable performance.

> This...isn’t true.

It's not even remotely controversial, saying garbage collection is slower is like saying water is wet.
Found a stash of these stickers (free first come first serve)
You are very, very wrong.

Maybe I should have clarified that it was gigabit capable. They weren't offering gigabit speeds to home users yet. Technically it was 2.44Gbit shared between each group of 24 homes.

This is not overkill, it's how the GPON standard based fibre works. Any fibre you're going to install anywhere is going to be gigabit capable. That's what the standard is.

It was not more expensive to put in gigabit fibre than to put in 100Mbit fibre.

Plus, even if it was - why would we install something that is only okay for now, rather than something future proof and rip the whole thing out to replace it later? Why build a country wide network that's only fast enough for five years?

Also, you have no right to claim to speak on behalf of everybody regarding your personal speed requirements.
This is the wrong direction.

Let's get the history in place first. The relational calculus set up a set of operators. That's what Codd worked with. It was combined with a natural language project at IBM which gave us the vaguely English like syntax of SQL.

> In EdgeDB, the data schema is formulated in a way that is much closer to the contemporary application data model. ...Unlike SQL, EdgeQL can easily extract arbitrary data trees.

This is a reinvention of the the hierarchical database, one of the architectures that was abandoned when the relational database came along. This was all fought out on a large scale in the 1980's.

The fundamental idea that you have a highly structured data tree is what the relational model threw away. "Data Oriented Design"[^1] does a pretty good job of explaining why, but roughly: we're accustomed to programming where we have an object/entity/value that represents a conceptual "thing" in our discourse. We compose things into other things, subtype things, and otherwise deal in things. And this turns out to be a disaster when lots of people need to extend and reuse hunks of the same database. If you give up on things as first class parts of your data model, and only talk about relations among attributes, a lot of those problems go away.

If you want to improve SQL, look at going back to the relational calculus without the natural language veneer. There have been a number of systems that tried that, though none have gotten real world traction. I'm also blanking on their names at the moment, so if someone who's memory is working better can help me, I would appreciate it.

[^1]: http://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodmain/
What datacenters are here? I thought everyone was throwing their servers out in Utah. Would be a bit mad to build a server farm on land you could make millions on building housing on instead.
Should people talk more to their neighbors and try to hash things out? Sure. Personally I would very rarely ever call the police.

But at least see the point of view of someone who might very legitably not feel comfortable knocking on someones door. A single person, with no family now has to run the risk of retribution with no help. Live with that fear everyday their neighbor might attack them directly or indirectly.
I suppose he/she meant Go discourages it relatively compared to Java, not that Java encourages it.