skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Facebook is expected to maintain a leadership role” in the Consortium, in the sense that—as the news article states—none of the other nominal Founding Member companies are bothering to do any steering of the Foundation. AFAIK Facebook wants to get away from the helm of the Libra Foundation ship and give it over to the rest of the Founding Members ASAP (because that’s better for Libra’s image!), but the Founding Members won’t take Libra seriously until it gains traction (which it won’t until Calibra launches.) Kind of a chicken-and-egg thing.
That's such nonsensical marketing spin.
I suppose to those (including myself) who haven't really experienced most of the religious and other sectarian violence first-hand, the tenuousness of peace between two supposedly civilized Western European countries is a bit hard to appreciate. (Even if there are some analogs in the US with the former Confederacy and related racial tensions.)
Mattermost and Sfox
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The metadata (size of allocated block, and whether it is in use) is already there. I really wonder why this is not checked. In a normal libc you should get a "double free" panic.
One more part of this is the original British Police.

They had a requirement that any applicants be at least 5'9", and in order to cut an even more imposing figure, they wore tough Beaver Top Hats, which served a dual purpose: raising the height of any officer to at least 6 feet, and to protect their heads against blows from unhappy citizens. Police in the UK have worn some form of head protection ever since.
Thank you, those are very kind words.

Have you discovered Hard Mode in the menu? That might scratch the high-pressure itch if you every get bored of relaxing!

PS: and please tell your Desert Golfing friends!
Well I mean you also have smaller individual countries like Israel that don't seem to do too bad.
>They have different priorities IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS.

That's precisely your error in reasoning! You are violating the ceteris paribus principle by inventing multiple contexts.

We don't exist in multiple contexts. We exist in a single context. The one in which we schedule work - The Universe.

Ceteris Paribus either:

We are in a time-unconstrained Universe in which priority(Urgent) > priority(Important). In such a Universe we would schedule Urgent tasks first.

OR

We are in a time-constrained Universe in which priority(Important) > priority(Urgent). In such a Universe we would schedule Important task first.

So which Universe are we in?
Looks great! It actually reminds me of these LED staffs or POI that some spinners use. It's conceptually similar; you can get some pretty cool images from a long exposure where someone is spinning. However, the image is somewhat visible to the naked eye just from the speed at which these Poi are spun.

https://youtu.be/4N2XH1Gx8dQ
> You can turn off bluetooth, but if you turn it on to talk to your headphones or car, you get opted-in to ibeacon location services.

> You can turn off wifi, but if you turn it on to talk to your home router, yeah, more location services opt-in.

Are these true? Bluetooth iBeacons, from what I understand, are now restricted by each app's Bluetooth access in iOS 13. And for Wifi, can't you just disable location services in Privacy settings?
It could be argued that some "developers" should be restricted to pencil and paper, but it's a different issue. Even hipsters deserve to multitask at their computer.
Generally yes. You can use gui tools like Matillion or AlteryX to orchestrate, or you can just run SQL as commands or view materializations. With the advent of natively scalable SQL based databases such as Snowflake, SQL is clawing back territory from the 'Big Data' databases rapidly. It is way more flexible to throw a ton of hardware at SQL as opposed to pre-conforming your data for specific usecases with non-relastional databases. Obviously if you're talking realtime or sensor data SQL may not be your best strategy, but you're question is really broad.
Mmm nope, they could replace the workers with more expensive programmers. So it gets into a question of how many office workers can you afford for the price of one programmer. Often not at all obvious, especially as programmers can often trend towards huge inefficiency in enterprise/corporate environments. ROI of business IT projects is not always positive you know.
The theory of bailouts is that they are value-destruction-avoiding, like bankruptcy restructuring. The banks lost a lot of money on the mortgage backed securities, but lost much less than they would have had those assets been sold at fire sale. The government came out slightly ahead; it got a part of what value wasn’t destroyed in a catastrophic unwinding of the banks.
You spelled ethical wrong.
The problem with JavaScript is it's a separate programming language.

If you could use C# on both the front and back end, that would be a game-changer for enterprise shops, and very useful for everyone else too.
I don't like the obsession with returning to what's natural. It's deceptive and totally glosses over the underlying rational for why things are/were a certain way.

These "stimming" behaviours are better described as "soothing" behaviours. Yes, some of them stimulate and excite us, but they occur in response to stress (e.g. loud noises or boredom). Of course you're going to become depressed when you actively stop yourself from soothing, the stress is just going to run rampant through you. That doesn't mean you have to embrace them completely though. You can learn different ways to cope, ones that the less aware can tolerate better.

That's just my two cents though.
Yep, I've had endless trouble with Unity on linux. Simple stuff like GUI lagging out, it not finding my android sdk, etc.
It's faster, but only under the specific design condition of both having to wait for storage to finish and not caring about differences between the presented storage options.

If the design condition allows asynchronous operation and I don't need to wait for background tasks to finish before I reply, it's not faster unless I somehow care more about background CPU time per request than I do about things like storage guarantees.

If the design condition requires durable storage to have happened before I reply, putting it in Redis doesn't even count as getting started.
The demo clip has been disabled by google drive due to too many plays. Does anyone have a copy/backup he'd be willing to share?
Pro doesn't give you source code access, just you need to at least have a Pro license to buy source code access (which is very expensive).
FWIW there is an update to this article at - https://www.peterbe.com/plog/update-to-speed-comparison-for-...

TLDR; this update is not about redis vs postgresql but about caching!
This is huge... but the biggest thing remains if the Windows platform will be ready to meet this hardware. It's painfully obvious that Andromeda and Centaurus and all this hardware has been there and solid, but that Windows' true universal platform structure hasn't been good enough to meet it.
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Well, if there are several pointers to the same memory you need some kind of logic to handle the number anyway. I don't think using free is a good idea in such cases. You need a wrapper which checks for the counter and then decreases it and frees on zero.
No, they don't make it easy (and more importantly, it would violate their terms). You just have to pay to remove the splash screen.
Why NPM lockfiles can be a security blindspot for injecting malicious modules
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I don't doubt C++ is faster than JS, but JS in modern browsers is more than "fast enough" no matter how much faster C++ may be. If you're doing the kind of things most web pages do (render some UI, information and inputs, adjust UI, take responses from those inputs, validate and send) then JS is very, very rarely a bottleneck in performance.

What JS engine does QML use? Because if it's a relatively modern one (V8, JavaScriptCore etc) and you're experiencing huge slowdowns just creating and modifying UI components then I'd seriously question the JS code you're running.
It's quite possible that EU member states simply have different philosophical views and considerations as to the value and effects of freedom of speech. In fact, the United States is quite exceptional, but it too draws the line somewhere (assault, threats, child pornography).
Humor can't really be taught, expect by life experiences. So, you either have it or don't. And the same goes for specific kinds of humor. Some people can't get irony, or black humor, or the fun in puns, or other kinds. That doesn't mean they can't find the humor in other genres.

From your comment, it seems like you overanalyze it. You talk about whether:

"[it's] supposed to profoundly compare pure happiness versus struggle for progress"

-- as if you expected some profound philosophical revelation/insight from it.

No, it's not supposed to "profoundly compare pure happiness versus struggle for progress". It's supposed to make a tongue in cheek comment about "pure happiness versus struggle for progress". And about how "progress" is not the be all end all.

It's not supposed to say something so profound that people haven't thought of before, or which is deeply philosophical and goes to the core of our being.

Just to say things that a lot of us have felt/thought, about the futility of certain pursuits or how some achievements turn out not to be that great after all, in a funny/casual manner.

As for the mechanics of the joke, it's the classic (found in countless jokes) reversal of premise and conclusion:

Men think they're smarter because they do X and dolphins do Y, dolphins think they're smarter for the same reasons.

Immediately this brings up the relativity of view points, and how interchangeable they can be.

Then it makes you consider the particular example, and how what we think achievements could just be BS busy work (or even actively harmful to us enjoying our short lives). Not in a "what a deep insight / discovery", but in a "yeah, it might be silly, but I sure felt like that some times too".

Then there's the listing of the achievements (mere well crafted listings can be a source of humor in themselves, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole... ). It goes from something most would agree as good (the wheel), to something subjective (New York), to something inherently bad (wars) but nonetheless a mark of our "progress" as species (animals might fight, but they don't do wars).

>...or take the whole babel fish thing; Why a fish for translation?

Now that's more the ocd you talked about. Why not a fish? It can be small (consider something like a goldfish), and has a shape not that bad for fitting into one's ear. And it's a living organism (so not inorganic rock which wouldn't do the translation as good). What Adams primarily wanted to have there in his story was something organic (not a technical babel-gizmo), and that could fit an ear.

It could just as well have been a babel-worm, or babel-ant or something just as well, but fish was one good option, sounded friendly enough (better than a worm), a little out of place too (doesn't it need water?) and Adams took it.
Unfortunately that video isn't available here, are they POV POIs? Do they project an image in the air according to their angular velocity?
Wow, warheads looks fun. Very complex. I'll be giving it a play tonight!
Things tend to happen extremely quickly in real emergencies. They might get some bad trade deal but people wont starve.
The best data we have on mtotocycle injuries shows that about one third of motorcycle head hits are in the chin area. It's a totally different hazard model.

See the Hurt Report for details.
Up to implementation:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/how-i...

all the major ISP lobby groups signed on to a voluntary set of privacy principles based partly on the FTC framework. They specifically pledged to follow FTC guidance for opt-in consent before sharing sensitive information and to “offer an opt-out choice to use non-sensitive customer information for personalized third-party marketing.” Browsing history would be subject to an opt-out system.

Harris encourages Internet users to go to their ISP’s website or call the ISP to figure out exactly how they can opt out of tracking. It’s not convenient, but the option should be there.
This is a great game! One request: there's a way to turn off the music but the sound effects keep playing. Could you make that button turn off all sound, not just the music? Or add another one to turn off the effects as well?
Yes, exactly. Xamarin is already a good cross-platform solution for "apps" and so Blazor is hopefully the missing piece for the web. The JS-based cross-platform mobile solutions are just not in the same league as Xamarin, IMO.
I use Elm and by having a language that puts constraints on what ultimately is executed in JavaScript and manipulations to the DOM, you can manage to write complex programs and have them be relatively efficient in size and operation.

Of course Elm isn't without its problems, too, but I think it may be on the right path for web applications.
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It is market adjusted, but still competitive.
No. Unfortunate coincidence.
There is no on size fits all tool for good ETL processes IMO.

We just built a pretty involved ETL process over the past couple of months that had two key components, a true batch ETL process and then a real-time synchronization between two Postgres databases on different servers. In our case, real-time is basically less than 2 seconds for this application so nothing insane, we routinely see it working in about 300-500ms.

We could've solved it all using just SQL to be fair, but found that it was better even for the batch ETL process to utilize SQL only for the data CRUD and leave the business logic to the application code we wrote (it is in nodejs). This let us take advantage of some caching which reduced the database server load dramatically during the processing, id lookups and other known values being the core area we reduced with cache. It also let us keep our business rules in code which is where we have them for data validation etc, so we could reuse existing code sections to maintain consistency and not try to replicate some pretty sophisticated validations and transforms in SQL.

I have also worked on projects in the past where the entire process was done using SQL and it is doable but I'd say it was less than ideal and definitely can cause significant overhead on the DB servers which is unnecessary most of the time.

I had one project where the entire ETL process was in MSSQL with stored procs and SSIS, spread across multiple servers. That system worked really well overall (integrity was super good and reasonably maintainable for SQL people), but again strained the DB servers a lot and was fairly slow. We moved most of that ETL process to C# at the time given it was a MS house, and the difference was dramatic. Load on the DB servers dropped and ETL that would take hours to run on SSIS with stored procs etc took minutes with C# and the utilization of memcached. In fact on that one we even wrote extensions for SQL Server using .NET and had SSIS call our external code which used the caching engine to reduce DB lookups amongst a bunch of other things. Pretty damn cool solution but definitely wasn't simple, lots of smart people worked on that project to make it super reliable and fast.
I haven't taken the course, but one of the instructors personally benefits from more people thinking the American bailout was a great success. Their free course for people without any prior knowledge is unlikely to be a trustworthy source.
Thank you! The entire game was developed on Linux as well ;)
Please do, I'd be very interested in seeing it and I don't think I understand exactly without some visuals.
> I went to a meetup focusing on Blazor recently and was really surprised when I found out that Blazor is not "run C# in a browser using WASM" like I thought, but was instead "use your browser as a thin client to C# on the backend

That's not true. It can run client-side on a WebAssembly-based .NET runtime or server-side in ASP.NET core.

I find MS has generally been taking a Manhattan-project style approach these days, trying everything at once and keeping what sticks.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/hosting-...
Only 58% of the population in china lives in cities and therefore is responsible for pollution. The other 42% are most likely emitting almost nothing. Telling them to cut their emissions even further isn't going to work. Meanwhile Americans with their pickup trucks and 30 minute commutes could trivially change their carbon footprint by simply getting a more efficient car.
Two thoughts:

I'm in the right age bracket to make some money doing this, so hmmm,

and for some people, it helps. My girlfriend used to use ASMR when we were long-distance. It's never done anything for me, but other friends of mine also swear by ASMR to sleep.
It looks like some sci-fi movie with virtual girlfriend.
Much as I love Rust, some of its advocates have a tendency to drop into conversations like this and oversimplify the situation, suggesting it be immediately used for everything under the sun, with limited context.

There are many factors that go into deciding whether to integrate a new language into your project. For example:

- Tooling

- Build process

- Library support

- Developer expertise

- Interop

Any of these can cause lots of friction, especially when your codebase has more than one language. Not to mention hiring challenges, man-hours required to do a conversion, etc. That's not to say it's automatically the wrong decision, but it's certainly not a simple one.

The case may be stronger on a greenfield project - though some of the above still applies - but then in many cases you may care more about iteration speed than performance, landing you with a GCed language.

Edit: I've been informed that the parent comment was trolling
McDonald's and other similar companies are having a hard time convincing potential employees to sign the existing agreement. If they want to convince more people to agree to work for them, one option is to offer more money, which McDonald's at least can certainly afford.

Or, more snarkily, what have the investors done to "earn" this?
Judging from the commenting history of the author of Poemas del río Wang, I would say that they would be very interested in hearing your feedback and would be receptive to any criticism that could improve the accuracy of the reporting.
Zoomers sdoes to be the popular term nowadays.
This looks like super cool hardware. The hinge in particular!

I think hardware and software made by the same company can have big advantages.

For me personally, I don't really see much use case for something this size the same way I don't see much use case for an iPad. If I have a lot to do, I'll use my laptop. If it's something quick, I'll use my phone. I don't have much need for an in between currently. I'm sure there are use cases for this that I haven't thought about, though.

And not to say I wouldn't want one, looks great!

EDIT: As a phone replacement (new product video for Surface Duo just shown), this is even more interesting!
They called Intel's old price "pathetic." That's hardly a low level of discourse, and not really tantamount to name calling.

It isn't a particularly insightful comment, I'll acknowledge that, but this response seems like it lowers the quality of the thread more than the comment it is replying to (and arguably breaks the sites rules by suggesting the other poster have ulterior motives for posting what they posted).

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

And:

> Please don't make insinuations about astroturfing. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried, email us and we'll look at the data.
> too much centralization

The purpose of a capitalist, laissez faire economy is to decentralize control. Turns out the result is central planning by a cartel of magacorps.
> In German, "cabbage salad" == coleslaw. In English, "cabbage salad" != coleslaw.

Of course. This is a purely hypothetical exercise, in which we are speculating on an alternative means of naming food items which is more descriptive as to what those items are. Such a derivative of English, I contend, would look similar to German in construction. That is the point. Coleslaw is merely picked as an example of how such things would look.
You can expand a section lower down on its App Store page to see what's the iaps are. In this case I think it said unlock full game.
I created a video and proof-of-concept demo of "visibility precomputation." The goal is to determine what geometry, in a 3D world, is visible from a given volume. If you know the answer, you can deliver the world as streaming geometry, which is much lower bandwidth than streaming video, and it doesn't require users to pre-download the world (i.e. no expansion packs).
From my extensive experience watching episodes of "How It's Made", frozen foods still often are hand-made. There are enormous assembly lines, heavily automated but with some steps done by hand. Especially those that involve irregularly-shaped, delicate, or sticky objects[0].

They did do an episode on frozen pizzas[1], and it is fully automated. But the techniques are difficult to adapt to making individual pizzas. Sauce, cheese, and toppings are sprayed all over the assembly line; the stuff that falls off is dumped back into the hopper.

They also did an episode on building pizza-making vending machines, and it does seem as if that was technology that was ready years ago.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_htXkd0djzE
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqULgulLq3Q
Same can be said for wrapping yourself in bubblewrap every morning. It all depends on the situation and the risk you expect to encounter.

To be clear, I'm not in doubt of the safety superiority of motorcycle helmets when riding a bike. But wearing one at a jobsite seems to introduce more risk then it prevents (as @dsfyu404ed mentions).
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Ok...

I mean that's technically plausible, but why would any commercial entity do this? Isn't it the equivalent of throwing money into a fire? Has Facebook made any indication they're going to do this?
There can be many pointers pointing to the same allocated memory. For example, if you have a cyclic list with two elements head.next and head.prev pointers will both point to the second element and free(head.next); free(head.prev); would be double-free.
such bullshit. someone has to fill in the relevant taxes paperwork and handle the invoices. who does that is the accountant, even if it has founder, owner or some other label attached, and the time it takes to handle the paperwork is not free, whether you pay for it in money or work hours.
I use Xamarin Android and while you are right about the ton of googling needed, it was always to search for Android API and almost never because of Xamarin itself. Once found, it’s straightforward to convert from Java code to C# except a few cases (layout parameters for instance). The other issue is coming from a nicely design framework (WPF, Silverlight or WP7/8) the Android APIs feel ugly at times (gesture handlers for example).
Also nice for differentiating it from the rest of non-SQL code.
Because in this case the problem is a second pointer to the same chunk of data. Nulling the first doesn't null the second.
To add, I recommend Adguard, 1Blocker X, Wipr, or Firefox Focus. Out of those, I believe only 1Blocker X has a cost, although AdGuard has a subscription for DNS privacy and security/custom filters.

I personally use 1Blocker X.