skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The most important part of GIFs for me is that they behave like images in browsers. They are always auto-playing with no concept of play and pause. You can drag and drop them from a browser to your desktop to save them. You can save an entire page and have all the image files save with it. I've never had this work for webm or other video formats.

The saving bit is the only part which doesn't work right with videos AFAIK. Sound-less (/muted) videos can autoplay and loop, and there's no controls unless you ask for them (via the `controls` attribute) or bring your own.

The examples in the article (the scenes are videos) autoplay, loop and don't have control in either Firefox or Safari.
I don't think you've been in a Kaiser facility if you believe this.
I know you're just being flip, but the benefits of "thoughts and prayers" isn't solely to ask some imaginary being for help.

The benefit is that it directs the attention of the community at large towards the problem. This raises awareness with the hope that those with the means to help will do so.

Its an anti-fragile method of asking the community for help without knowing the specifics of how they can help.

actually, now that I think about it, "Thoughts and Prayers" is no different than a "Call for Code" except that it is generalized to all society instead of just software developers.
The results from the study linked in the second article (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1610187) seems to be identical to the ones that I cited for 2011-12.
> What's the issue here?

The Axon employee misrepresented the contract. Or what some people call 'lying'.
Facebook Focusing on Privacy Is Like McDonald’s Focusing on Healthy Food
The article criticized SQL because the following expressions are incompatible

> SELECT * FROM table

and

> SELECT count(*) FROM table

This is actually not true, as both return table values. It then says that, in EdgeQL, every expression results in a 'set'. This is a distinction without a difference.

I don't disagree we can do better, but this is the same.
This is huge organization, assuming that something coherent is going on is unwarranted. Most likely people who made decision to deny didn’t even know about indicator not being installed By default in the first place.
Without generics (aka. Contracts) I don’t think so.

As much as I love how simple the language is in its current state (except for Go Modules, which still feels half baked), I don’t think the language is strong enough to live in an enterprise environment, yet. The tooling is good, and the community keeps growing and maturing, but the road to full enterprise embracement is quite long. I hope the statement in this article becomes a reality though, because I really enjoy working with it.
Well, keepass.com was registered in 2005, and keepass.info in 2006.
Thanks for the catch, yes I meant physician.
Because it's normally better: "most" people only see the first story, then it's done, ticked off.
Ha, if only you were really betting, I'd love to bet the opposite side of this. Nothing about how Facebook has been handling its recent crises would lead me to conclude that they 'know what they're doing' in regards to public relations.
For larger environments you tend to need a full-blown SLAM system that can close loops to avoid drift that accumulates inevitably.
I don't mean to be harsh that is just how people learn. It is something false about the world many people believe to be true and people learn from experience. I'm not sure the target audience for Keepass is anyone but tech savvy individuals either, I certainly don't know any non tech people that use it only LastPass and others like it.

I touched a hot (wood) stove when I was a kid by the way.
Because it's hard to tell the truth when you know the first reaction will be highly negative.

This comes to mind as an example of how things might have gone differently for Boeing if they'd handled this better: https://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/dodjcc/groups/02C2/Johnson%20&%2...
Like, as in dead reckoning? It's always a sketchy approximation, without a good caliberation, to zero the frame of reference, dead reckoning is guess work, until you hit the next benchmark.

By definition, it's like dunking underwater, and swimming in the dark with your eyes closed. You don't know how accurate your frame of reference is until you reach out to grab a landmark and open your eyes, to recaliberate.
What is EdgeDB? It is new to me.
Whilst the lack of prosecution of CEOs is disconcerting, I don't think it is fair to say that CEOs come out of a scandal better because of their exit package.

Sure, its a nice sum of money, but I think most CEOs still prefer not having the money and the scandal not happening.
That is not to say that current repercussions are enough, just that it is currently not net beneficial to have a scandal. Notably, with the current low levels of repercussions, it might still be net beneficial to risk a scandal though.
I find that the bigger problem for me is the number of RDBMs that use 'SQL' in the name somewhere means that non-technical people get confused between 'knowing SQL', as in knowing how to develop SQL code, and 'knowing SQL' as in knowing how to manage a particular database product (usually SQL Server). That's how I got turned into a DBA without realizing it.
Sounds awesome. I bought a chromebook last year but have not got Android nor Linux support. I dont think it ever will. Productivity is a bit limited. There are not many useful web apps or they are hard to find.
what's your point? honestly can't tell what you're trying to convey here
I think they don't have the "social" part though.
>It’s hard to view this in a way that ISN’T a jailable offense, at the very least.

It's highly likely that no one jail-able person (you can't jail a corporate entity) had enough information and knowledge of the situation to meet the criteria of criminal negligence. Nobody knows the full picture. That's just the nature of building a large system like this. I know what my code does. I have a pretty good idea of how it affects the whole system. I can reason able what edge cases I don't know about might cause my portion of the system to do. I can't (with any reasonable degree of confidence) reason about the end result of that edge case being fed through the entire system.
>The best practice when it comes to bad news is Robert Dilenschneider's advice to "tell it all and tell it fast"

When it comes to disclosing hacks, standard practice is to disclose a small hack first then disclose that the hack was "worse than previously thought".

Examples:

https://www.slashgear.com/outlook-com-hacks-is-worse-than-mi...

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3pqqb/the-facebook-hack...

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/21...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/13/equifax_security_br...

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/ba-hack-investigation-36...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/iran-hack-worse-than-reported
Open source (Apache 2.0), and implemented on top of Postgres. This is quite interesting. I love SQL, but there's definitely room for improvement.
Given that most of Androids stop receiving updates around 1-2 years on the market, official statement of support for 6.5 years actually sounds not bad, does it?
I'm a big fan of the 'brain in a jar' concept. We might need more than just the brain, but if quality of life is comparable for that individual via BCI to what they would have had with a full sized biological body (or better), it will happen. For one thing, that person requires fewer resources, such as nutrients, physical space and waste management. For another, it could increase lifespans and would definitely reduce cancer risk. I suspect it could eventually become a requirement for many types of space exploration.
It's such a weird claim to make especially since the post indicates most adult gamers play casual games on their phones.
Not really disingenuous at all - I read your comment the exact same way.
But that happens in every discipline by every level of experience. I would put good money down that you yourself spent hours wondering why the hell you got different results until you were in the shower and realised "Oh the salts!!"

Yes he made a newbie mistake - but then again 4 developers at my work yesterday with something like 80 years experience spent hours not noticing a duplicated line

I only hope you pointed out his mistake gently. If not maybe offer a beginners course :-)
Reminds me of Crystal Pepsi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi
> insulin (of the types people actually use)

Is this perhaps the key - people being steered off the old patent free insulin and onto more expensive treatments, without really being given the choice?
Yeah, it's because it is new. We released the first public version a few weeks ago, here's a blog post with the announcement: https://edgedb.com/blog/edgedb-1-0-alpha-1 Hope you will try it!
Not relevant. Article specifically points to casual games played on smart-devices. These aren't people frequenting internet cafes
Agree with the author that UEFI is bad for security. You have this huge binary UEFI blob in a pre os boot environment that does not run open source. After the motherboard,laptop manufacturer looses interest and they loose interest as soon as the product does not sell more new products UEFI remains unpatched and insecure.

The boot loader should be simple and relatively dumb IMHO, then it is secure. If it should be bigger then it should be Open source.

Management processors like Intel ME built into the CPU, firmware another x86 insecurity.
It is interesting to see new approaches. But SQL is so entrenched, so available and so good enough.. it will be a very uphill journey to compete
So if you can handle the "complexity" of SQL and don't use NULL, SQL is fine?
I've been on Nextdoor for months now. Here's my take on it: if you need to get recommendations for local businesses, it's great. Most of the rest is headache-inducing display of NIMBYism, self-righteousness, self-entitlement and armchair politics. It's basically watered-down Facebook -- without the benefit of having friends -- that happens to be a pretty decent complement to Yelp.
> ...everything works right up until you need it, and has all the features you don't want but none that you do.

I hadn't heard that before, but yep, that's about right. Especially when it's been developed by people without a lot of field experience.

> It'd be very interesting to work on something like bringing the easiest-to-use GIS solutions for hiking, research, or land development over to disaster recovery (assuming they're better than what you have).

I hasten to clarify here that we don't really want to give up what we've got already for GIS, we'd just love some help extending it. What we use is a specialized offshoot of https://caltopo.com/, built by the same developer but with additional features designed for search operations. That developer is himself a very experienced and well-liked search and rescue volunteer, and that experience is reflected in the features in the software (including the ability to host it locally). There's going to be a high bar to leap over to adapt anything else to fit the same niche and get the trust and adoption that sartopo already has.

But, for various good reasons, we still rely primarily on handheld Garmin GPS units for ground work. These need to be physically connected to a computer to get map data loaded and then search activity unloaded. It takes almost two minutes per device per operational period if nothing goes wrong, so in a massive multi-agency search, you can imagine the bottleneck this creates.

As a fall-back, we've started trying to use Avenza. It's ... okay. Anybody can walk up to a wall with a big printed QR code and start using their smartphone for navigation. But it still requires a network connection to get the search area loaded and it's not really ideal for retrieving search activities when a ground team returns to IC.

So what would be really sexy is an iOS/Android app that copied basic Garmin features, but had area map data stored locally (a la HereWeGo), and could communicate directly with sartopo to download segments and markers and upload tracks. That would be sooo nice.
Although mentioned in the article, I would like to emphasize that https://puri.sm are selling laptops with disabled and cleaned (with me_cleaner) bios. I hope more companies follow.
Whether it's the US or the UK or wherever, you need to be an active participant in your health choices and reading up on the materials available to you.

That isn't affected by whether your healthcare is socialized or infinitely expensive.

You probably have more choice in a non-totally socialized healthcare setting, but only to the extent you can afford choices. Neither extreme is any good, but the ideal is a golden median with many affordable choices.
Is there any list of TLDs sorted by credibilityy score?
It might make CEOs care more about safety of their product. Specifically, it might balance out the commercial pressures to take risk for profit.

If calculated risks by coorperations regarinding safety come down on the less risky side, that is a good thing.
My only reference point is my own middle and high school experience (plus perhaps those of my classmates). From that reference point, on average, the younger teachers did a better job of actually engaging me and my classmates while simultaneously getting shafted by the school district. There were of course outliers (one or two older teachers were fantastic, and I recall at least one younger teacher who was sub-par), but "plenty" wouldn't be the quantization I'd use in either case.

It's a bit rich to accuse me of ageism when the exact problem I'm pointing out - of younger teachers getting the short end of the stick despite their skill - is literally ageism manifest.
It's like your introductory offer ended, and you call your cable TV provider to cancel, and customer service telling you if you cancel, it will affect your credit rating.

It's a lie. To keep you paying.
Interesting. I just use RDS and it always seems to take 15+ min even though our database is tiny.
We're not discussing whether or not a scandal is good. We're discussing how a CEO behaves after a scandal has already been unveiled.
You want to make it appear as though something was being hidden from the executive team so they can deny any culpability.
When I used to install Keepass on a new computer, I would Google "keepass" and then hesitate a moment before clicking the .info domain. The best solution I could come up with was to start using KeePassXC instead.
Hate to tell you C and C++ switch offers the same compile time safety as Rust here.

Just don’t add a “default” clause.
This is eerily similar to my experience. I absolutely love my OnePlus 6. 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB storage is phenomenal, and double the resources of the pixel 3
I have trouble finding good mobile games that are immersive and not overly gimmicky, cartoony, require repetitive tap actions, or require annoying in app purchases. I seem to bore quickly and find most of the games on mobile to be pretty childish.

I’ve found some I like, but by and large they seem to just exist as commercials for in app revenue. Give me a good immersive game for $20 and I’d do it.
The prescription drug market is hardly free.
Thanks for sharing, I wrote this article after I felt the amount of indoctrination happening under our eyes!
In my limited experience with it, Citizen is trash and incentivizes bad behavior.

I once watched someone live streaming themselves following police into a call at a private residence. Unsurprisingly, the police officers responding forced the person back out onto the street. Now, I am all for accountability, bodycams, etc. but ordinary people holding up their smartphones _should not_ be following police officers into active crime scenes and any company that incentivizes or gamifies this behavior is, by definition, trash.
No, no. Jail time would definitely make this problem, and many similar corporate malfeasance problems, go away.
That’s been true since the days of FarmVille, and one of the reasons Zynga was at a time worth more on the market than EA.

Financially the gambling engines have eaten classic gamings lunch.
I understand that they can be made to autoplay with no controls, but I don't even want the possibility of them being paused. This way the format has no choice but to behave as expected across everything.
I was born in the early 80s, went to school in the US and Germany, and really cannot connect my experience with yours. If anything, there was a universal attitude that math and science were harder, while the others were easy to pass with just enough engagement in class.

But the dominant theme of my recollection would really be that there just wasn’t any such narrative of “the humanities” vs “tech”.
I would just like to point out that IE up til 5.0 ran on Unix including Solaris. Isn't that a bit mind blowing?
This is fairly classic engineer thinking and what I was referring to in my comment below.. you can wrap a GPL library in its own program, put that program on a separate VM on a separate physical host in a separate physical building, talk to it only over a network interface and your program's resulting interaction with it might still be construed as linking.

Similarly, your program might statically link against a GPL'd library, but only pass bulk data through a programming interface in a coarse manner, and the result may not be considered linking. The FSF FAQ even explicitly addresses this case.

GPL leaves these kinds of mechanisms blurry and ill-defined (I presume intentionally), it's just that as engineers we are commonly only taught how violations manifest in the usual case.
I was really hoping that this would be a clickbait title... but it's neither an exaggeration nor reading between the lines.

> Union dues cost around $700 a year. A new video game system with the latest hits sounds like fun. Put your money towards that instead of paying dues to the union

Deplorable, but this stark arithmetic is amusing to me. With such a reduction: unionizing is an office pool to hire a lawyer, to negotiate for better wages and benefits. Those negotiations are often successful, with an expected payout significantly more than $700. And hey. When you compare it to a large-but-reasonable outlay of discretionary spending... $700 doesn't sound that bad.
Thank you for this, I’ve just taken an initial look. I had understood that TLS would be a no-go in such a constrained environment, but perhaps I am mistaken.
the problem with medical service in the US is the prices. We really need cost controls here. The medical industry should be highly regulated in terms of the prices they can charge.
Agreed, especially given that U.S. income per capita is higher, making it true that taxes are even lower for two people of equal income.

The double-edged sword: when income per capita is higher, the price for healthcare rises too (demand for healthcare is extremely inelastic).
Animated gifs are compressed, and do require decoding. Hell, so do non-animated gifs. Since animation was added in the '90s, GIF is basically just a really inefficient (but extremely well-supported) video format.

I agree that there won't be wide adoption of AV1s until it can transparently be interacted with just like gifs are now.
Red Hat is commited to "maintain" the UB images, that means, basically, they will only provide critical updates to the ubi-8-appstream repo. For paying customers, this is the bridge to move workloads from centos to rhel and vice versa.
I wish it had slightly more details, like what does the last query on the page actually return?

Also I am not sure how it's better yet. SQL is typed and has a ton of historical overhead and used in many different database softwares.

This kind of just seems like a slightly different implementation of NoSQL syntax.
True. I wish there was a good way to stop that.
The purchasing analysis is interesting as it doesn't seem to take into account ads on mobile games.

Here's a direct link to the press release: http://www.theesa.com/article/65-american-adults-enjoy-playi...

And this is the Essential Facts PDF: http://www.theesa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/EssentialFa...
Yes, exactly. There are vulnerabilities to be aware of (primarily, losing control of your account, which would be catastrophic), but at least replacing the hardware is just a shopping trip.

This is much better than getting an elderly relative off Windows XP.
Any lifetime that depends on an io loop or user input cannot be determined within the loop Period. Even if you have an asic designed for garbage collection. It cannot even be dynamic.

Basically in these cases you have to extend the lifetime to beyond the point of indeterminism into the point of determinism or in other words move the life time outside of the loop.

Worst case scenario you move the lifetime to right before termination of the program.
I'm a SoFi Money customer.

PayPal Cash Plus has a ton of features, but there's lots of fees [1][2]. You earn no interest. It's not a good deal, other than it being familiar.

Square Cash, now known as the 'Cash' app, is a strange hybrid of a P2P payment network and a spendable balance that gives a debit card and you can direct deposit into. You earn no interest. It's odd. It targets a hip young consumer who wants ease and convenience and doesn't know any better. It has... some... virtues? Just not ones that make it worthwhile to use it instead of some rival that earns interest.

Depending on your exact use-case, it will vary which one of these is ripoff-tier and which one is so-so. I have a low opinion on nickel-and-diming fees for convenience features, so I find the PayPal Cash Plus offering the most grievous. Square Cash just has a weird use-case that isn't my use-case.

[1] https://www.paypalobjects.com/digitalassets/c/website/ua/pdf...
[2] https://www.paypalobjects.com/digitalassets/c/website/ua/pdf...
Sounds like Nightcrawler to me.. creepy.
I think "ease of use" over SQL is not the hill I would die over if I were trying to displace SQL.

It's far too embedded throughout the entire industry and as a data analyst, learning EdgeQL vs SQL and then being locked into a new startup database that could disappear in a year doesn't seem like a high probability strategy.

I wish the people all the luck but unfortunately SQL is "good enough", pretty standardized (I can use just about any relational database and get useful data by knowing the basics). The inconsistencies may be mathematically "ugly" but it's not hard to wrap your head around and overcome.
Thanks! Those are the goals, among others (we also want to make it trivial for companies to issue card products or launch online lenders).

I suspect Getbabb may have difficulty with the crypto angle. Not clear. Railsbank does not intend on becoming a bank and operates with a lighter-weight regulatory framework than we're aiming for.
Something most people ignore about this topic, things get old.

Addicting clicking games get boring.

Sure it's weird to see a middle aged mom playing these worthless games, but give them another 2 years and they will move on.

Gaming has only evolved to be better. And we have already achieved unlimited entertainment if you are a PC gamer.

Worse games in the future is a near impossiblity. Or at least informed consumers are able to avoid the blight of micro transactions.
Why not Rust? I write both, Go feels incomplete, Rust is younger but is much more mature and filled in. I can write faster in Rust, its much like Python development.

The mix of functional and imperative styles is odd, but not bad.
> PNG support sucked at the time, too (see e.g. IE6). By now it's far superior to GIF in every way.

IIRC the stuff which broke in IE6 were features GIFs didn't support at all (translucence and gamma correction).

For GIF replacement you'd use palettes and binary transparency, and it was supported just fine since IE4.