skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> buyers will get up to 2,000kWh of charging for free during the first year.

That's about £250 worth of electricity - if you charge solely at home. From fast chargers, that's about £750 - £1,000.

Not a bad incentive if you do lots of long journeys and need to charge at a motorway service station. But perhaps not as generous as it sounds for more typical use.
Are they seriously expecting people to sideload a mossad apk on their phones?
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The various extensions / plugins that allow for custom data types, indexes, use of multiple programming languages to write functions, ability to use a foreign data wrapper to connect to Redis and build a VIEW out of the result or push data out to Redis/Memcached with a database function, varieties of powerful search capabilities, etc

It's got a lot of stuff going on in there.
I think the main reason these days is that there's still a fair bit of SQL embedded in other languages, usually as string literals with placeholders. And then it provides a way to visually distinguish it from "normal" string literals.
8chan Is a Mysterious Place to U.S. Anti-Terrorism Officials
Nextdoor is... very odd.

In Salt Lake City, where I currently live, all I see are people complaining about homeless people and "suspicious people", who are _always_ people of color just walking down the street (who I've actually recognized occasionally).

Yeah, people call others out on this sort of casual racism, but it doesn't make it go away. It becomes a hotbed of these kinds of thoughts. When someone gets a bike stolen, you'll always see a comment like "The homeless problem here is out of control" and sometimes a comment with a picture of some random (again, person of color...) walking down the street from a Nest cam asking, "Did you see anyone like this? My bike was stolen too."

It's so odd to me to see all this on Nextdoor because I live a block away from a homeless shelter (one of the "gritty" parts of the city) and I can count only twice that I've had issues with homeless people or crime. I've lived here for almost six years now and I've never felt nearly as nervous or afraid as some of these Nextdoor users claim.

However, there is a ton of amusement from Nextdoor users, as well. The number of times I've seen people call each other rude because they used the word "fuck" in their post is extremely high, but that could be because I live in Utah haha.

In short, it's my experience that Nextdoor is filled with the type of person who calls the cops on their neighbors for no reason (like noise complaints). These users would really benefit from just getting to know their neighbors in real life.
Hugo Barra to Lead AR/VR Partnerships at Facebook in NYC
Can you tell me whether I'm understanding this correctly?

Would this query result in, e.g. [(director: Null, author: J.K Rowling), (director: Spielberg, Null), ...] or would it be [author: J.K. Rowling, director: Spielberg, ...] or just plain strings: [J.K. Rowling, Spielberg, ...]? I still don't totally get the model here.
If you're dumb enough to do that... maybe they blacklist you from their recruitment efforts moving forward.

You could always install it on a virtual phone in a sandboxed VM.
Install a random app from Mossad on my phone? N-no, no I don’t think so.
> The biggest limiting factor on renewable adoption is cost.

Often the biggest cost for a solar project is the installation. If they somehow make these windows roughly as easy to install as a regular window, this could actually be a very economical approach.
Thier claims about encoding working in ffmpeg are also untrue..
Doesn't say what tool was used to do the syntax highlighting colorization.
Or was it done by hand?
Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener’s Prophetic Warning About AI and Ethics
I couldn't even get to refusing to trust an apk because their message doesn't render if you have a JS whitelisting extension such as NoScript.
Which version, and how easy is it for you to track the 'latest and greatest' Postgres version, as they come out?
> You're completely right that it isn't a marketing strategy, though.

Have you thought about creating a formal program to preflight more in-depth content? It's hard to justify spending 100 hours writing a blog post when the chances of having more than zero people see it depend on whether or not Elon Musk smoked weed that day or whatever. I realize it's partly just impossible to predict what people will be interested in, but that could be a way to encourage people to create more interesting stuff.
You’re probably expected to load it into your favorite static analysis tool.
What do you mean by area? Geographic location or technical?
A couple more clarifications: the addressable 32k memory space is mapped out like an old 8-bit micro (here's a diagram I drew: https://twitter.com/weeble/status/1112527587014787082?s=19 ) and is isolated from real RAM. Code, the lua VM and heap, none of that is accessible via this address space. There's also no allocator. It's up to you to arrange data by hand in the user data region. Pretty much the worst possible consequence of a buffer overflow is stomping the graphics attributes and turning the screen into a kaleidoscope.

Given the other constraints of the system, the main place this code is likely to be used is in a script dedicated to assembling a "cartridge" file, and if the output overflows the target space (likely map or gfx ram) then it's just going to bail out with an error anyway, it's unlikely to care about the stomped-over RAM, given that it can't affect Lua variables or code.
IBM have their own JVM implementation - they could ship that. Or ship their own build of the OpenJDK like many people do.
This is a very PC centric article, but the same can be said about any connected device--from cars, to baby monitors, to buttplugs. If it has an internet connection, the firmware should either be open source or in open source escrow, so that if the company dies or decides to not support their device anymore, the hardware itself can continue to live.
> Duck Duck Go doesn't use it and they do okay.

Right. My point was FB/Google would cease to exist in their current form employing hundreds of thousands of ppl and responsible for US tech domination.

Would we as a society ok with losing all that and turning FB into a 100 ppl company that no one cares about.
Well, you won't be able to use Virtualbox anymore.. at least for 64 bit OSes :(
The Plot to Liberate Russia’s Internet and Give Russians Access to Telegram
Not quite. That'd still result in blocking ~20% of requests on Windows (~30% on Linux). https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview

Slowly making progress though. Apparently in the US 95% of users' browsing time is spent on HTTPS sites.
Jeff Bezos unveils new plans for Blue Origin spaceflight
If you look at buying games, expansions, etc., there seems to be a trend. Ranking them in order of content/$, it goes as follows:

Games > Expansions > DLC > MTX >> MTX that contain temporary boosts only >> Loot boxes.

In my mind, banning MTX's seems to be on the same level as banning DLCs in general. They are a worse value, but they are the same kind of thing. Personally I wouldn't support banning MTX's.

I would definitely support loot boxes being treated as gambling (ban for those under 18, regulation for adults). MTX's containing only temporary boosts is something I've yet to decide upon.

Also, I think that tcg booster packs (like with Magic) should be classified as loot boxes/gambling and treated the same under any loot box law.
Please don't support more government micro-management of our lives. I agree it's a dark pattern, but if we don't get hurt, we'll never learn.
Unless you're willing to backport that support to 10+ year old browsers, it will never happen. You need UNIVERSAL support. Edge cases, corner cases, and plain old "bad ideas" included. This is what the incumbent has going for it.
Agreed on all of that. Further, I wouldn't embrace something intending to displace SQL without it being authored by someone like Anders Hejlsberg (Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, TypeScript). That sort of involvement grants confidence that it's as "correct" as it can be for most users. That matters for buy-in. It can happen, Kotlin is a decent example, but is not embraced as widely as TypeScript has been. I'm sure that confidence plays a big role there. The stakes are much higher here with SQL, than in Java or ECMAScript.

There's plenty of brilliant people out there, but when you're talking about replacing the most successful data storage language in the history of mankind, you need everything. SQL has been "killed" many times, everyone wants to sell something. It would probably take involvement from a FAAMG entity. I think the first clue that there's no real room for technical innovation and we're staring at only the opportunity for technical churn, is that no FAAMG players, who definitely operate at-scale, have tried to displace SQL outright already.

TypeScript or Kotlin are really the closest, best and most recent examples of what would need to happen. For me as an end-user, ubiquity and skill-reusability matters. If you don't like SQL, there are ORMs.
In the financial industry, I have a seen a couple places where SQL was the interface for their payment systems. Mind you that these payment systems were not written using any kind of relational paradigm.
The only hole I can see in this plan is that it would require our government to change a standard for the better.
If none of these conditions apply to gifs, why should they apply to videos in img tags?
Java had the Object superclass, and that's how generic methods and classes were written before version 5.

Is there a Go equivalent of Object?
"They're misquoting me! This is unfair!"

Well, that is to keep it brief because there's not much to refute on the other two 'things'...

> letting this happen, and then letting your users get fucked for a year

Is out of their control. They're not responsible for Keepass.com. That's both simple and obvious.

Apparently, if they put up some kind of banner on their website it'd be all cool and dandy?

Do you feel the same about uBlock Origin?

Let's get this straight. That uBlock Origin warns users that ublock.org is fake is a service. They do not owe you that service. They owe you two things: jack and squat.

You sound like you're entitled, but I ask you again: what did you contribute to make the problem go away? Did you donate money to the problem? Did you contact the project?
This is already supported in HyperV VM, and the concept is old: it is called ballooning.

Basically a driver in the Linux guest (hv_balloon for HyperV, but you have the same things for KVM, VMWare etc.) can artificially "inflates" its memory use when detecting too much unused memory and give it back to the host. When the guest needs more memory, the balloon driver will give the memory back. Couple with hotplug memory support and things can be pretty dynamic.

Not sure if they do something more sophisticated for WSL2 though.
Right, so SELECT Table1 and SELECT 1 compose to SELECT Table1, 1 in the same way that

SELECT 1

and SELECT * FROM TABLE1 and SELECT 1 compose to

> SELECT * FROM TABLE1, (SELECT 1)

Aside from the different syntax, it is the same kind of composition. Not sure what EdgeQL has gained here, then.
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As demonstrated by a $50k+/mo account who's Google reps only recommend one-size-fits-all strategy and can't be bothered to listen to feedback that such a strategy only works with advertising to end customers and not B2B advertising.

The account rep is just a marketing vector for Google to their paying customers.
Unfortunately, Android covers that already.
Some sites (looking at you, imgur) are really bad about that.

Doing what this article recommends shouldn't cause those problems, though. The only notable risk is linking a format that mobile can't load.
We can do better than saying everything always needs to be "better".
Red Hat already distributes Java in the form of openjdk. Surely the packaging format is irrelevant?
They usually just blame marketing and wash their hands of the finished product.
Totally agree. Took an HVAC course during my grad years and there's specific standard and regulations windows adhere to for houses to prevent over heating or cooling which means the view factor to the sun is usually way below optimal. I'm willing to bet the net energy required to cool a house during the summer is negative if you try to place the windows that is more solar optimal. But I can see this working for cities with tall buildings. But there will be new technology required to wire all these together properly for a building scale.
We had a free market for drugs. So free and freely abused that it gave birth to modern journalism (muckraking) and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. For good reasons few yearn to return to those truly free times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Food_and_Drug_Act

https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h917.html
You know the keywords don't have to be in uppercase, right?
What you are describing is quantum physics compared to mobile games.
This is just....such a bizarre example. What Linux desktop environment are you using that provides no more user-friendly method to sleep the system than the `systemctl` command? Or are you suggesting command-line-only installs should have a better interface for this? What would the precedent be for that use-case?
Same goes for JavaScript. It's so ubiquitous that it's worth putting up with the downsides.

It'll take several unicorns and Fortune 100s hiring thousands of engineers to code in an SQL-alternative to create an ecosystem large enough to eventually overtake SQL.
>Imagine an internet where Comcast, AT&T, et al, have such granular control over access to your infrastructure

They already do, tho, we call it port filtering & deep package inspection, and when they do that, people get mighty angry. ;)

Also, you seem to implicitly assume that they'd have come to gain as much power as they have now, but that seems doubtful, given how different this would work.

Also, I think you (unintentionally!) attack a strawman there - the point here consists more of matters like congestion control.

Besides:

I said what I said about hoping for cooperation between RINA & GNUnet for a reason:

RINA lacks the anti-censorship mechanisms of GNUnet, while GNUnet lacks some of the insights from RINA research.

And those anti-censorship mechanisms would make your point entirely moot.
My house has 4 walls and a roof to cover solar panels in before it makes sense to make my windows solar panels. Unless it is one of those skyscrapers where the entire exterior is glass.
most of it is in the blue i think, but from the surface of the earth this range is scattered so the next peak is in the green-yellow. I'm sure there's UV we could capture with windows
Aren't you buying a license to copy the software compared to buying a license for the subscription to the software, in this Adobe scenario?
I don't think you used Go that much:

- Go runtime analysis is as good a Java but 10x easier to use, and it uses way less resources than your Java equivalent ( JavaMissionControl, JMX, JVisualStudio, thread dump, Java Flight Recorder ect ... ) Have you tried to leave JFR on when running in production? I can run pprof / tracing with 0 problems, no corruptions of dump or hit on performance.

- NewRelic instruments code using an SDK you have to integrate into your code, there is nothing magic, NR has also the same SDK for Go: https://newrelic.com/golang

- For the generics / package it's on the way to be fixed.

For C# I agree. I think people don't realize how many companies are actually using Go on large project even outside of k8s / cloud world.
Java has javax.persistence as a standard interface for ORMs, almost in standard library, and third-party ORMs use it.
lol my thoughts exactly...
Meh. It looks like just another graph database with a (possibly) better query language.

People of HN: if you really want to make money, make a open source (open core or whatever) horizontally scalable version of Versant OODBMS (Object-Oriented DBMS).
Actually quite a lot of people told us they thought EdgeQL was inspired by Tutorial D :) Have you had a chance to actually try to play with EdegQL?
I predict that users will go on calling AV1 video (or any other formats we use in the future) “gif”s anyway.

The word “gif” will come to mean “animated image”.
I used next door in the white burbs. It didn’t seem too bad. It Was mostly people setting up garage sales, or the trying to get the whole street to do some kind of themed Christmas lights. The biggest flame war I saw was a bunch of people ganging up on a cop who said he didn’t want the local marijuana dispensary to open up cuz it would bring in the riff raff...
Why did you think this was good and for whom?
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I think I said the wrong thing when I said not to "trust" adults; what I really meant is that it's dangerous to teach kids that adults are infallible; otherwise they can be taken advantage of by those in positions of power. I think it's important to teach children proper behavior and to show by example that adults are beholden to the same rules as they are, including their parents.
Maybe the movement could and should clarify their goals for world domination do not include dancing baby gifs?
I wonder if you could have a multitouch digitiser on the back of the device and somehow detect which finger is which. Then the input would be based on the finger rather than a particular button.
When they say a terrorist attack - are they referencing themselves or...?
Not entirely true - Scott Gray knows: https://github.com/NervanaSystems/maxas/wiki/SGEMM

IIRC his kernels shipped in cuBLAS at some point.
how does the IRS know you only have wage income? if you also have cash or some other income that's not automatically reported then their pre-filled form would be wrong
that reads like a rationalization of selfishness. however, the rationalism underlying capitalism neither attempts to encourage nor discourage amoral behavior.

capitalism instead acknowledges that people will sometimes (often?) have selfish intentions and redirects that penchant toward productive economic purposes through competitive counterbalance.

it's still not ok to be a jerk, but if you are one, the system counteracts your selfishness with that of others to reach a greater good (in the form of efficient allocation of resources). "because capitalism" doesn't excuse bad behavior; rather, it brings bad behavior out in the open so other social structures/norms can deal with it.
Spin several goroutines, do a `select` on them. It's right in the Tour of Go.

Cancellation tokens are harder, though.
It happened to me too, submitted the link, tail -f httplog | grep blogpost, the usual bots, one to three up-votes, then it fell off the "newest". Left the terminal open and went on with work. When I was about to close down all open terminals and go home for the day, I noticed there was traffic! So I quickly checked HN and there it was, my post on the front page! I was so euphoric I couldn't prepare the dinner, walking around in circles, putting the plates in the refrigerator instead of the table, etc. Biggest surprise was there was mostly Macbooks, and also quite a lot of RSS readers in the User-agent.
> microtransactions in casual games are winning in the financial sense, despite the complaints of "hardcore" gamers.

I'm not a "hardcore" gamer - I'm incredibly casual. I hate microtransactions because the focus has switched to "addictive" play rather than "rewarding" play. Microtransactions are usually BAD for casuals - You might have 10 minutes to play but can only play for 5 mins without paying up. You might have one night a week to play, but it wants you to log in for a few minutes every couple of hours, etc.

BUT the lack of alternatives means that there will be plenty of money spent on them. So I think this is a matter of "microtransactions out-earn flat cost games despite likely player preferences", not "hardcore vs casual".
Downed PG&E transmission lines are also implicated in causing fires in the state, just another argument in favor of decentralized, on-site generation.
Unlike socialism where people do what exactly?
My guess is that in this case many of the sites copied content from other sites i.e. substantial copyright infringement. That is illegal.
I hope go 2 does not introduce generics. Having used Java for about a decade (and C# 4 years) I can't say I miss it.

And we use Go for a relatively big EHR program.
Having used splunk's query language... I'd hope that in general vendors start with an assumption of SQL support and maybe try tweaking it at the edges rather than burning the house down - SQL has survived this long because it's extremely expressive and any replacement for it is going to need to match that expressiveness.

All that said I think it was originally structured to partially be a human readable language and it fails pretty hard at that - that's a facet I'm sure smart people could revise to make more natural.
CleanTechnica reports that VW sold 10.000 eGolfs in EU in 2018 Q1 + Q2, so that claim of "1400" sounds very very wrong.

According to Wiki they sold 30k vehicles at minimum before 2018. Nowhere near Tesla 3 numbers, but claiming that it only sold 1400 vehicles is just wrong.
The C# ecosystem is such a nice place to be. Libraries, frameworks, tooling, cross-platform support, development tooling, extensions, powerful robust languages - why would anyone want to give that up in favor of a Google property. No thanks.
No, the post is saying that it's good that government is getting a taste of their own medicine: govt has allowed corporations to screw over common people, so it's a bit nice to see govt also getting screwed over
> The only strong contender to realistically replace Java is C#

I haven't used C# for a few years, being stuck deep in my firmware hole. But it sure seems like Microsoft is angling C# that direction. 'Open sourcing it' and making the language more and more cross platform.

A consideration with enterprise software vs web scale infotainment spyware is the former; each transaction has a vastly higher value associated with it then the latter. And the life span of the software is much much longer.

Go needs to be efficient because of the low revenue stream per transaction. And goggle doesn't care about maintence over the long haul because they rewrite and throw away code constantly. Vs enterprise where code is used for decades.
Oh, come on. You have to have an old phone lying around to factory reset for shits and giggles. Not like they'd burn good zero days on a publicity stunt.

Remember, this thing'll be getting picked apart by everybody considering the source.

Unless you're afraid of getting black bagged that i...<SIGNAL LOST>
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Between this and WSL, I'm wondering how much longer can Apple retain developers on macOS. It feels like they've been neglecting that side of it for a long time now, in both software and hardware. They have a lot of accumulated goodwill from older times, but it's going to run out eventually...
The raw numbers are less important than the quality of those numbers. The HN audience is unlike any other when it comes to visitors who are more likely to accomplish your "business goal".

By that I mean, this community will signup, tinker, praise, buy and complain, at a much greater rate than any other form of web traffic.
Challenge is obviously meant to be reversing, not installing.
The term "skinnerware" should be used more:
https://m.facebook.com/notes/richard-garfield/a-game-players...
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You really think SQL is incredibly simple? I think TFA makes a pretty convincing argument that it is anything but.
That is an acute observation and something I might consider dumping SQL for, or rather, I feel SQL could be upgraded to include