skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So there's not, as of now, a "native" (not using the Android emulation) Flutter API in ChromeOS?
A lot of the most serious software engineering work that I have done had much the same ratio: coding the a solution that mostly works was easy. Making sure that it is robust against all kinds of failures (CPU, RAM, bus/external device failure, random bit flips etc.[0]) and does the right thing was a lot of work.

[0] The system I worked on was hardened against all of that and some more failure modes.
It has to be a good source of direct current, literally. It has to produce a steady, constant amperage regardless of grid spikes and fluctuations. Given that the grid is AC, this requires a relatively complex circuit and more careful engineering than is commonly done for the power supplies inside bulbs.

Edit: Sometimes LED current is actually high-current AC with a square waveform, especially with dimmable bulbs. This is fine provided it's well-regulated and protected from spikes.
AWS: Super Simple EC2 Scaling
Minority here (latino) - I literally don't think about it whatsoever. If you're actively looking into something like that I wonder why.

If anything I ask the engineering team about recent emergencies and crunch - but never `hOw rEpReSeNteD arE mInOritIeS`? That's gross.
I have the same at my local grocery, coffee shop, and gym. When you see the same people all the time it becomes awkward not to say hello.
For me it’s my first experience with a 16 bit game console - the Sega Genesis (if I am not wrong). Played Final Fight at my friends place and I still cannot rate any gaming experience higher than that. I have since tried playing Final Fight again, but it’s not the same.
Easily 4-5 days without recharging, with consistent use throughout the day. Official estimate is 25 hours of continuous use, I get around 20.

I just charge my headphone where I charge my phone, and never worry about batter life. Even if battery is reduced to 50% capacity it wouldn't affect my usage.
Replacement for C (not C++) as a low-level systems programming language.

(C++ and other language programmers often conflate C with C++, but the two are really different languages.)
Not at all. The only cumbersome thing about SQL, that is common enough and unpleasant to always spell out by hand are basic INSERT and UPDATE commands.

I use a set of 3-4 functions that I reuse pretty much in all my programs for this. It's no ORM, as it doesn't map classes to tables/data in the database. It's just a shortcut to generate and execute INSERT/UPDATE commands on arbitrary tables with arbitrary columns.

Also it has zero bugs, because you can hardly create bugs in something so simple.
Why an artist turned tech bosses into mythological figures
Aaaand its too late for me to delete my post.
Game of Thrones on Floppotron
Personally, I'd prefer actual native if that was my aim, as opposed to something that looks exactly like it, but actually has layers of styling beneath it in order to look the same. Why? Because if I want the native look, I'm more inclined to be sensitive to my app's size and performance.

That said, I do understand that many people want the seeming of a native app, even if there's a bit of a blowout in size and performance... it's just not my cup of tea however.

Here's a (random) post talking of performance of Native vs Flutter vs RN: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/examining-performance-difference...

>I feel confident in saying that a native Android app will perform better than either a React Native app or a Flutter app
I have written several queries that span hundreds of lines, primarily for "advanced" search functionality that lets you search by a huge array of potential parameters. Without using the query builder provided by the ORM the code would become intractable to mortals quickly. Having several dozen different parameters that are only set under certain special conditions is much easier if you can use your regular programming language to evaluate those conditions as opposed to writing everything in one big SQL statement even with named parameters.

Writing code like this here really gets old:

q = query(SELECT a FROM table WHERE (:PARAMETER_1_DISABLED OR table.field < :PARAMETER_1), ... 20 other parameters)

q.setParameter(PARAMETER_1_DISABLED, condition)

q.setParameter(PARAMETER_1, parameter)

.. 20 other parameters

compared to just

Type.list() {

if(condition) {

field < parameter

}

.. 20 other parameters

}

Also please don't tell me to avoid this problem by concatenating the SQL conditions to dynamically create the query... The end result is still ugly and might even introduce security problems.
So it does not sound encouraging for Flutter on $20 HDMI sticks.
They need to chill out with those transition effects... scrolling through the header felt insanely weird to me and I had to spend like a minute investigating why.
"Mawwiage is wat bwings us togedder today"

Life-long friendship-or-else, amirite?
IBM's Red Hat acquisition moves forward
Here ya go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842802
2 years ago my Nexus 5x died and I struggled a lot to find a replacement. I finally bought the exact same Nexus 5x, that I'm still using. I'm glad they finally released the rightful heir of the 5x :)
Just out of curiosity, why did you go with "lady" and not with "woman"?
One possibility: he didn’t care about buying the stock, but instead wanted to get paid for making the transaction happen.

So he buys at 60 knowing he’s already sold at 70. Whereas Icahn sells at 60 because he can sell today rather than at whatever price it will be in 6 months.
The parent comment is talking about adding motors to their existing blinds.

I'm saying: the power consumtion of an LED seems minimal compared to the power consumption of the motor to move them up and down.
Ask HN: Identifying _wamtcstandards in the Wild
For some time now, I've been finding an entity named "_wamtcstandards" in my cookies and local/session storage. What is its purpose? Where does it come from? The stored value seems to be a hashed or encrypted value that might be unique and possibly personally identifiable. When deleted, it will be replaced.
I wonder what you offer that existing platforms don't, considering that people have tiers on patreon where you can get to play with the streamer or donation tiers on other platforms for a similar reward/benefit
I agree but taxation and data breaches are orthogonal. To be clear, I’m not defending their practices (or lack of security).
I noticed Chrome Canary added a WebAssembly GC flag last week or so. SIMD too. I think FF had the GC flag for a while now.
"It has helped malicious actors during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the Brexit referendum, arguably helping to subvert democratic institutions."

Wow, it seems clear to me that some people only respect democracy when they win. I don't like Brexit but if people in UK vote for it, let them be.

The malicious actors and those that try to subvert democracy are the billionaires that buy Media in order to propagate lies that at the current time remain unproven.

A tax on absolute income is a very dangerous thing in any gobertment. But we already have it, with inflation.
I would leave the thinking to journalists who dedicate their careers to uncovering the truth. Stating you believe in a conspiracy without having any evidence undermines your entire point.
I just got into the micro controller world a few days ago and it's overwhelming how many options there are! Between the pi, the Arduino, the ESP8266, Wemos ans so so many more which all come in so many flavors it's really tricky to the "ideal" one for a beginner like myself. The project I have in mind would require to work on batteries as opposed to plugin it into a well. It sounds like you're suggesting that anything ESP8266-based would not be ideal not plugged into a wall. Could you share some pointers to what alternative might be better for very low consumption but still has wifi capabilities? Thanks a lot! I'll keep digging in the meantime, this is a fascinating world I'me happy to explore!
> just like they failed to implement per-site cookies

To be fair there has been an ugly solution to this recently, the `__Host-` cookie prefix:

https://www.sjoerdlangkemper.nl/2017/02/09/cookie-prefixes/
I should have clarified – it's a pet peeve for me when men do this exclusively for women/not for other men. It's definitely something I think it can be pretty observable during an onsite – for example, if you're waiting in a lobby or go to lunch as part of an interview, you can watch how men and women interact around a door. I've a man hold open a door for the sole woman in his group, and then walk through the door after her and not hold the door for the remaining guys in the group. Not trying to be super granular here – just for me, it's something I watch for. It's also an additive thing – if the door thing's just a one-off deal, it's probably not indicative of anything. If, however, it's paired with some patronizing language and other vaguely sexist things, it might actually mean something.
For the longest time, Overwatch was one of those third places for me.

Now my third place is more or less at home with my siblings.
If flutter supports hotfix, it's perfect for engineering.
It's a mobile, web, desktop (including Chrome OS) and embedded framework.
Uber and Lyft drivers plan strikes in major cities Wednesday to protest pay
> Unmaintainable,

Views are not "unmaintainable".

> restricted to SQL structures,

I'm not sure how that's a problem, since SQL is a fully-general data language.

> require absurd hacks or custom dlls,

Views require neither hacks nor "custom DLLs" in any RDBMS I am aware of. Can you provide a concrete example?

> not properly source controlled,

There's no reason DB schemas (including, but not limited to, view definitions) can't be source controlled.

> You can't combine views easily

Yes you can, whether by "combine" you mean as joined source relations, or as criteria that need to be combined to slice and dice the same source data. That's, like, playing right to the strength of SQL and RDBMS systems.

> you can't cache results,

Well, not generally incrementally or in something like a recently-used cache; a number of RDBMS's do support materialized views, though.
Web development with DOM, CSS, etc. is a morass of complexity.

I'm really excited about a fresh approach to UI development. If they can pull it off, it is going to be very compelling.

It is going to take an enormous amount of investment. Something like this could only be done by a "FAANG" size company.
Really badass product. Well done. I will be buying in ~2-3 months
Three button inline controls usually gets you pause, volume up and volume down. This is essentially 5 buttons: pause, forward, back, volume +, volume -. Sure there are probably wired headphones that have the same control capability, but I've encountered them rarely if ever.
Rollers were connected to wheel with a plenty of holes, and there was a led + fotodiode that was used to detect the motion of the wheel. At least that's what I thought back then. (> 20 years, heh)

I also remember just two rollers/wheels (X/Y).

For example, this page: https://computer.howstuffworks.com/mouse2.htm says something about "optical encoding disc".
They're certainly meant to be entertaining. I really don't think they're meant purely as jokes, though. And which are the trick questions with trivial answers? I can't recall seeing any of those.

Any question that is poorly specified can generally be augmented with reasonable assumptions or approximations, so that an AI could potentially give an answer. W|A is a natural language interface after all, and seeing all the "W|A can" posts on the account shows that it can certainly answer questions that don't have a precise mathematical definition. The intent behind each question is usually clear to me, and to have an AI that is useful to humans, we expect the AI to infer this intent and make reasonable assumptions.

Even "focal length of the Eye of Sauron" could conceivably be given a rough answer from estimates of the eye's geometry (either from descriptions in the books, or a visual comparison with other objects of approximately-known size in the movie).

The interesting part of the account IMO is thinking through how a hypothetical AI might answer each question. Take the latest question, "derivative of the shore length of Tasmania with respect to ocean depth". This is poorly specified in that "Tasmania" only exists for ocean depths that are low enough to not completely cover it and high enough to not have another land mass connect to it, and I'm sure there's tons of other assumptions that humans would implicitly make in answering a question like that. But the topography of the Earth is approximately known, and I can see how a rough answer could be calculated. Thinking through these assumptions, and comparing current technology with what we'd expect from an AGI, is quite illuminating, and is what makes that Twitter account so awesome IMO.
Standard oil had major political influence and the energy companies today still have major political clout. Source: worked for 6 years for a vertically integrated energy company.

It’s not clear how big tech companies have the same political influence. Yes, social media has been manipulated I think to influence outcomes, but do social media companies themselves have that influence over politicians? To be clear, I am not saying you’re wrong. I’m asking a question.
> That's only an effective approach if your goal is to cripple many of the companies that you fine.

Don’t screw up egregiously and repeatedly and you won’t get burnt. ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯

Taking the gently-gently approach with fining companies has totally failed: they simply incorporate the cost into their margins and continue on like nothing actually happened; so yes, it is time to start burning companies that don’t do the right thing.

Maybe some will fail as a result, that’s ok: simply existing is not carte balnche permission to continue existing. At least the new gap in the market will probably make room for a new company that will play by the rules.
the uber one is certainly a lie. the simple fact is these companies have money, can very easily be portrayed as the bogeyman, bonus points because they are not companies to country that will tax them, and simply because most of the populace won't care because its not them.

talk to any of the uber drivers where I work, so take it as you will, and many will tell you of passengers who use uber/lyft because the drivers are friendlier, arrive on time, and tend to drive nicer cars. the arrive on time and don't just drive off because you need to go where the taxi won't is very important. and it is people of all income levels using them
I'm sure it wouldn't solve your pain issue, but requiring a press to register a click is a setting you can change.
> Sounds like a bit of code which was hard to trigger the negative test and therefore the fallback failed to work properly.

No; it turns out that's giving systemd too much credit (sadly). See [1].

The problem appears to be that RDRAND was signalling success, but producing a nonrandom value. This is bad and a violation of the specification.

Can't speak to Linux kernel development, and in this particular case, that isn't the problem.

The linked bug involves systemd using the world's worst random number generator. A security engineer goes into more detail on this twitter thread[1]: https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1125840275346198529 (or unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1125840275346198529.html?... ).

> At least the result is a failure to generate a key, not a compromised key.

In fact, the result is a compromised key -- the bug report is due to colliding "globally unique" identifies generated through a flawed random gathering process.
Google camera needs Google play services. If you use aosp, you lose Google camera. You are free to use other camera apps, whose output will generally not be as good as Google camera's.
I've heard that in Prague due to explosion of AirBnB rentals it's difficult even for software developers to rent reasonably priced apartments. I guess this is a counter reaction meant for a city that hosts >10% of country's population.
Web perception toolkit – object detection and URL mapping on the web
No one has (yet) mentioned the main reason I ignored Flutter when it initially came out and why I continue to have reluctance - It's google. They have a terrible track record with products AND with libraries. GWT? Dart (pre flutter)? NaCl? How about all those initial Angular devs?

That's not a statement on the quality of the result (though some of those examples do indicate concerns), but if I'm not alone in avoiding a product that tackles a real industry need because of the source, that's a bad sign.
Do you mean e-residency (https://e-resident.gov.ee/)? I work there, happy to answer questions if you have them. The value of starting a business in Estonia vs. elsewhere depends on a number of factors - we mainly focus on folks from outside the EU (or citizens of the EU but living outside it) who want an EU based company they can run remotely in English which is tough in some jurisdictions
This seems like the spiritual successor to the Nexus 5x.

Mid-range phone and specs with a great camera.

Also if you're a google fi customer you can get a $100 credit, that drops the price substantially.
I am still awaiting Tesla so spin off the autonomous driving group at some point to limit liability
Reduced it by %10? I think you might un-xaggerating! I agree with the sentiment however.
it's not just what goes over the wire. that's 560k of JS that has to be parsed and compiled, which is a shitload.
Of course you're assuming that TSA won't be involved with rail travel if it became more popular.
Yes - I've also heard criticism of bio-degradable plastic cups from environmental groups.

But, I missed it if you said it - what material should we ideally use for disposable cups, currently?
We have $80 retail smartphones that blow this chip out of the water, so I have no doubts you can make a very good performing $20 Flutter stick. It's just that currently, it takes about 10 years for any sort of mobile throwaway hardware to get some sort of open source support that would make this possible for the home tinkerer.
With exception of the Verizon model the bootloader on all Pixel devices can be unlocked (iirc) but it wipes data for security reasons.
> But the man who would become my second husband desired a child, so I made a child happen. That’s our dynamic. He writes checks; I make things happen. As noted, I have money of my own, but he out-earns me by a factor of 10-to-1 and he talks a good socialist game on Twitter, so our arrangement seems only fair.

It’s not specifically relevant to her experience as a mother or her established career as a professional writer, but the author’s husband is David Simon, best known for creating of “The Wire” (among other HBO shows). Her reference to his Twitter persona made me laugh :)
The pricing out of existing residents isn't caused (much) by local taxes either.
I thought the wider spectrum of light coming from LED streetlamps means they can be run at a lower brightness to provide the same visibility, which means less overall light pollution (less reflection back upwards) and less power usage.
I don’t think it’s grandiose at all, this TED talk explains the effect pretty well https://youtu.be/7a5NyUITbyk

Radiative cooling functions both during night and day.
Fair enough, sorry for reading it as flippant, which I kinda did.

> But based on consistent human behaviour of one tribe towards another, isn’t shock in seeing it more than a bit naive?

I'm not expressing shock. I'm expressing anger and the refusal to normalize this.

It's not like Hamas and IDF enjoy the exact equal respect in (the polite companty of) the Western world. I can mention Leibowitz, and nobody in their right mind would attempt to smear the man; but quoting him would be different, and saying it in my own words ouldn't go over smoothly at all. Netanyahu goes around talking about how the Palestinian Mufti gave Hitler the idea to kill Jews instead of just re-settle them, a German protester holds up a sign just quoting Netanyahu, and gets arrested. It's been an unadulterated shitshow for a long, long time, and it seems that as a German citizen, I can't claim neutrality, the actions and flowery words of my government make that impossible. That goes tenfold for US citizens. That ship has sailed in my books. So the least I can and must do do is say "not in my name".

Also, Israel isn't a monolith, Palestine isn't a monolith. Individual actions and reasons for them are on a wide spectrum, and are culpable for what they do. There's warmongers on all sorts of "sides", and they use each other to justify each other. It's not human behaviour, it's corporate behaviour for lack of a better word. People do and justify things in groups they cannot justify as individuals. For me the dividing line is not between various tribes or nations, but human individuals on one hand, and any and all "tribes" (that rise to the rank of nationalistic, jingoist delusion and express themselves in murder) on the other. Maybe that stuff was good for something 50k years ago, but we kind of have to decide if we want our technology, or that. Insisting to keep both together might just mean we won't have either.
I have experienced only joy switching from ntpd (and worse, openntpd) to chrony.

Why aren't you happy with the ntpd->chrony move?
Which itself represents a reply to https://hh360.user.srcf.net/blog/2019/02/towards-an-intuitiv...
At the moment it's 3. It will likely increase at some point. This is not a bad value though. Wait for some deals and you'll get to roughly $100/year cost of ownership.
The picture is of the late Edwin Jaynes, author of Probability Theory: The Logic of Science.
Rockchip - the maker of the rk3036 CPU are pretty good with their open source: https://github.com/rockchip-linux

>>We have $80 retail smartphones that blow this chip out of the water

I'm interested in things that plug in to HDMI.

This for example is $150 https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/X99-TV-BOX-4K-UHD-RK3399-4GB-32G... and uses the newer rk3399 chip http://rockchip.wikidot.com/rk3399
...and now I’m a Nazi?

Plenty of other folks picked up on IQ. It’s that obvious of an issue. You realize accusing me of having a problem with women and minorities isn’t helping right?
> "that is a {guy|lady} that I work with."

"Person" also works in this case.
+1 for they. "Lady" seems patronizing to me - would you call someone a "gentleman"? To me, "lady" describes a woman who is "traditionally feminine" – I get that when people use "lady" today they don't typically mean "traditionally feminine," but "lady" is still evocative of a time when women were seen as delicate/demure/less than men.
That is an interesting point, it is actually a strategy in the game to speculate on the opponent deck composition so it would make sense not to trivialize it here.
You want proof that something is insufficient? Proving a negative. Alright lobbyist.
For comparison, the `ls` in GNU coreutils is a single 5,310 line C file[0], so I think nnn's codebase pretty much par for the course (nnn has much more functionality than ls with 1K fewer lines of code). Splitting into different files makes more sense when you have a bunch of independent subsystems, but nnn is just a file manager. As someone who has dug through nnn's source code enough to track down a bug and propose a fix, I found it to be a pretty easy codebase to work with.

[0] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/ls.c
Most people aren't trying to get to sleep while driving. For the rest, there are curtains.
I will stop here out of respect for the moderator.
True, but (unfortunately) it's hardly an outlier in today's ecosystem.
mm, couldn't it just be a button that sends a form?
See other comments, they're actually the same file. The heading names in developer tools are just slightly different.
Isn't the 3 water resistant but the 3a is not? I don't have a water resistant phone, but that's actually a feature I wouldn't mind paying more for.