skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be the magic "support" word - random openjdk builds don't bring any commercial guarantees.

This said, the likes of RedHat, Amazon and Azul are pretty happy to offer those guarantees, and I bet their prices are lower than Big Red O.
I always end up missing Google's operator behavior.

"Kubuntu" OR "KDE" -gnome site:forums.ubuntu.com

It's really powerful to require that every result must contain either "Kubuntu" OR "KDE" exactly, especially when searching technical projects that have variant spellings / brandings.
prefers-color-scheme is soon going to be a thing: https://caniuse.com/#search=prefers-color-scheme

The idea is to have one OS-wide dark theme switch and your browser to expose that preference to the websites. Latest iOS/Android/Windows already have that OS-wide preference, but, you know, it'll take quite a while before your favorite websites start supporting it.
> any functions in the order by clause must be moved to the select statement (e.g. order by lower(column_name))

What does this refer to? AFAIK, you can invoke functions just about anywhere including in the ORDER BY clause:

=> CREATE FUNCTION some_func (int) RETURNS int AS $$ SELECT $1 + 1; $$ LANGUAGE SQL;
CREATE FUNCTION

=> SELECT t.* FROM (SELECT 1 AS a) t ORDER BY some_func(t.a);
a
---
1
(1 row)

Are you referring to not being able to reference column aliases in an ORDER BY clause? (work around is to use a subquery)

=> SELECT 1 AS a ORDER BY some_func(a);
ERROR: column "a" does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT 1 AS a ORDER BY some_func(a);
We were told not to download any new versions of java due to oracle trying to extract money for it. Basically we are going to do the same.

Purge every oracle product slowly but surely
It's okay. I understand that feeling and I'm probably guilty of it more than I realize it. I tried to say "miss" instead of "better", but even that phrasing implies I'd rather have the old and I'm not sure about that to be honest. This stuff is hard for sure. Hence why these conversations are good for beers after a meetup :)
Show HN: Meetabit, a Meetup.com for Tech Communities
Because he was never the poor man's savior that everyone made him out to be?
I'm not so sure:

>And voting rights groups found an unexplained tranche — around 20,000 people — who had been marked to be purged because of inactivity in future election cycles, but were actually active voters in previous Ohio elections.

and

>The experience has left some voters like Jennifer Kulina-Lanese, a former veterinary professional, shaken. She got a call from the League of Women Voters shortly after it received the list, informing her that the county where she had voted just last year had started the process for her to be purged.

>“I still don’t know why, and that’s what’s scary,” said Ms. Kulina-Lanese, who is 45. “The idea that Franklin County was starting a process to remove me was terrifying.”
Offtopic, but I think that Rust memory model makes a perfect consumer of COM services :) May be it'll be integrated to other languages as an additional type system.
I found it inferior back in 2015 for programming but not general use. Nowadays I don't ever get frustrated looking for things, whether for work or personal use. What deficiencies are you finding?
Am interested in learning more but your contact info is twitter without DMs open (have to be mutually following). Mind opening DMs or posting your email to the about field on HN? Thanks!
And then after about 2 months of having to double-search 70% of my queries I always end up switching back...
I think he complained about licensing fees?
> There is no practical difference between homevideo and streaming, and homevideo copies of Ghibli films are everywhere (whether official or otherwise).

There very much is.

Ghibli is preserving the "value" of the film by not allowing it to be made into a commodity. He wants people to want to decide to watch the films and have them in physical possession, rather than decide to pull it up amongst the hundreds of thousands of other options at their fingertips. "I don't want to do it because the films would be treated as cheap commodities." [1]

Their approach to merchandising might shed a little bit of light into why is doing this.

> "With regards to merchandise, we resolved not to make more than 10 billion yen. If we surpassed that number, we would gather all the associating companies and berate the person in charge in front of the whole group. Really. One time, everyone got on our case about it, saying, 'You've got to sell more.' Someone from one particular company even said, 'We could raise the sales to 200 billion yen just by ourselves.' It's not a joke. If they did that, then Ghibli's characters would die instantly. I want Ghibli's characters to have a long life.

They see more to their characters and IPs than dollar signs, and they're taking active steps to preserve it. Which is why the collectors editions of their films (Spirited Away coming Nov 12) are finely tuned and have well thought out art books. The feeling and memories they're creating are more than just the runtime.

[1] https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-04-13/ghibli-...
Lots of brands are doing this.

We had Corelle dishes as a kid and when I dropped a plate and it exploded on hitting the floor, we all stood there just staring at it because nobody in 8 years had broken a single dish from that set. Mine landed perfectly flat upside down, and buckled. The new ones are so thin you can practically see through them.

I had a friend who went to yard sales looking for vintage Corningware dishes because the old ones were more shatter resistant.

IIRC she claimed the old ones were stovetop safe as well, which was a surprise to me because I never knew anyone growing up who used them that way. I think Emile Henry may be the only ceramic cookware you can do that with today, and those are chonky. Light, but chonky.
Our '91 Tacoma (simply called SR5 back then) made it well past 200k miles and only stopped then because it got caught in a garage fire a couple years ago and melted. Loved that rig
> But that's not what happened here.

Eh, I don't think you can say that definitively. I took it as WaxProlix not wanting to/being unwilling to talk about it because it's boring, and as they found it boring, they thought other people would likely (the word they used, which I think people are ignoring) find it boring as well.
My ex (German) had a dog named Laika when she was small and I knew a couple of Laikas in India as a kid -- presumably they were born around the time of Sputnik 2 (I was born after humans had already made the trip so these dogs were my elders).
I will do real and organic spotify music promotion
Yes, this argument comes up once in a while, and is handled by people who know more about it than I do.
For reasons I don't entirely understand, there's a pretty huge bipartisan opposition in the US to distributing national ID cards.
Also cuts off their future taxes
Ok, we've switched to that from https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/11/c-creator-bjarne-strou.... Thanks!
yeah there's a variety of "free at point of use" services driving the Internet and, sooner or later it seems likely there will need to be a change in how they're funded.

It's not just Docker hub, there's services like the various Programming language package repos (npm, rubygems etc) and the Linux distro package repos.

I would have had Github in that category, but now it's owned by MS, presumably they don't have many of that kind of funding problems...
FRU sizes are optimized to minimize warranty cost and must be balanced against things like design complexity, reliability and service procedure count/complexity.

This was a no-brainer IMO: Tesla wanted their cars to be superior and time to market was key. Why do handwringing about the cars that might be still on the road in five or ten years when that's beyond the warranty and beyond Tesla's life in business if they don't deliver a Model S with the target specs? They made the right tradeoff. This is probably one of dozens of design weaknesses that Tesla cars have, ones that allowed them to get way ahead of the competition.

Now that we have arrived at five or ten years later there is some nonzero risk to their brand. Do they have unreliable cars? How many Tesla owners still own the original car and how many of these were purchased second-hand? Folks who bought the original car and they encounter this failure mode might think about this expensive out-of-warranty repair when they go car shopping next. If there are a lot of them, Tesla could consider the financial tradeoff between extending the warranty to cover this failure mode and the impact on future sales.
Wow. Been waiting for this.
OpenAI Robot Hand: Today Rubik’s Cube, Tomorrow the Real World?
You're right that the government did a big investigation and ultimately didn't find a major problem with the software/electronic throttle control system, but mistaken about the other causes of unintended acceleration.

Ultimately Toyota recalled about 7 million cars (some twice). Dealers were installing the wrong floor mats, and these were trapping the accelerator pedal. This problem was well-documented as the cause of "unintended acceleration" incidents, including at least five deaths. Additionally, there was a lack of "brake override" system to idle the engine when the brake and accelerator were both applied (Toyota added one at the government's request), and some pedals manufactured by a supplier were well-documented as "sticky" (they recalled these cars and fixed this).

See the NHTSA report, pages 4-10 (PDF pages 15-21): https://one.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nvs/pdf/NHTSA-UA_report.pd...

In summary, there were real "stuck pedal" problems with these cars that led to unintended acceleration and fatalities and, eventually, recalls and fixes. And, yes, some or many incidents were probably related to "pedal misapplication."
> The claim is that any such system would still have biases.

Any system built by humans has biases, thankfully we're not discussing The Giver, we're discussing our system here in the states, one that heavily biases the wealthy to the point of punishing the impoverished, and I don't believe either of those were accidental, and I also put forth that the myth of meritocracy is put forward BY those in power to dissuade criticism of it, specifically by invoking the argument you put forward, that absolute equality is impossible. Because apparently, because we can't make everyone absolutely 100% equal in opportunity (which is debatable, but hey) we shouldn't even attempt to address the gross inequality present in our system.

For example, we could provide basic income so that struggling families wouldn't need to sacrifice time with their children to provide a base level of sustaining food and housing.

For another, we could make college free, since society at large benefits from an educated populace, and since dozens of other countries have and have reaped benefits as a result. This eliminates the barriers the impoverished have to education, and stops a gutless and corrupt system from signing up the poor to an impoverished life of servitude in exchange for a modicum of opportunity.

Neither of these does anything really radical other than take back power from the wealthy, which is probably why wealthy interests lobby so hard against them. Because while the rich preach meritocracy, they only do so on the grounds that the merit is money.

> We can make things more equal, but you get into the messy politics of who do we do it on behalf of (for example, why favor people living in the US over people not).

No I'd imagine we couldn't make a system that removes the advantages given from standing NATIONS. Do you have any other ridiculous ideas you'd like to put forth?
Unfortunately the info provided by about:support doesn’t separate changes made via the gui and changes made via about:config. It also includes settings that may have been altered by Add-ons.

Another benefit to using a user.js file is that your changes are persistent. If Mozilla changes a setting via an upgrade, like they did with experiments and plan to do with DoH, your changes aren’t overridden.
Kodak isn’t the best example since they made a digital camera back in the 70’s and sat on the tech!
Just opened it!
The bactericidal effects study is behind a paywall (but seems to be readable here: https://www.academia.edu/10777146/Bactericidal_effects_of_lo... )

See also: 53GHz has some anti-microbial effects when combined with antibiotics: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265134435_The_Enhan...

Interestingly the antibiotic resistance is only seen in one particular number on a graph, whereas the other numbers show that EMF seems "beneficial" as it is slowing bacterial growth. Naturally the question is, what happens if you throw human tissue in the mix too.
What are á and à?

Putting double S on option-s just makes option-w for Sigma more grating. If they were going by shape, it'd be on option-b, which is equally stupid. But since it's on S, we can conclude that... someone at Apple knows German, but nobody can even name a Greek letter? That Germans are right and Greeks are wrong? What?
> America's PRESENT. IS. A Chinese-style surveillance state.

Maybe in cities, but my rural town just barely got stop light cameras, so I highly doubt this is true of rural America.

Plus, use of the surveillance is more reactive than proactive. In China it is proactive. Drive around in a car with a taiwanese flag bumper sticker and the secret police will disappear you in the night. In America no one will bother looking at the footage unless a bank robbery happened and your car was the getaway car.
Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in Real-Time, even when offline
Very similar in Washington (state) too; when you get a driving license or state ID the voting registration is built right in.

There's also mail in ballots by default, at least in King county (Seattle/Bellevue, much of the suburbs). (I think the whole state)
Even regular police officers on that page earn 350K! damn am in the wrong industry.
In my experience, you don't get what you don't ask for. In other words, your work/performance rarely "speaks" for itself. If you believe your work is representative of a promotion, then you should absolutely talk to your boss about it. Even if they say "no", you can follow up with "what do I need to get there?" and demonstrate a willingness to grow and level up in the organization. That can kickstart a process where your boss is actively helping you get a promotion. (Assuming they're a good boss...)

For now, I recommend compiling a list of achievements and work that you've done that illustrates your growth. When you have this conversation, your job is so sell yourself as worthy of a promotion. You can't just say "I'm working more". That won't fly. But you can say "In the last 6 months, I've accomplished X, Y, and Z. I proactively identified problems M and N, and recruited Joe and Sally to develop a solution, then implemented it within six weeks. This solution saved/made the company $A, and increased productivity by B%." Numbers and data generally speak more than words.

Another piece of advice that a former boss told me is "don't ask, tell". I'm not sure I'm 100% on board with this, but the idea is that you go in with something like "I've done all of these things (see above), and it's time for me to move up to the next level and get a promotion to Senior Whatever." This shows confidence and assertiveness, which is generally a good thing the more senior you get. I'm not 100% convinced this works, but it has worked with me for the last few bosses I've had, so... YMMV.

Good luck.
That's very disturbing as there seems to be no basis in statute (IANAL either). Course being Wiley I can't read beyond the abstract.

The FT has run frequent articles particularly, but not solely, US and UK focused that appear to contradict that, including some quite in depth pieces.

Not the most definitive of the many they've run, but from first page of search a US-centred piece from a US author, who's also a US lawyer:

But the controlling legal rule is universal and rock-solid: in every US jurisdiction, boards are allowed to use their “business judgment” to pursue ESG (environmental, social, and governance) principles for the purpose of creating long-term corporate value

Which is what you'd reasonably expect, as short-term pursuit of shareholder value can be of extreme detriment to the longer term prospects of the company - and therefore shareholders.

https://www.ft.com/content/6e806580-d560-11e9-8d46-8def889b4...
I thought this would be of interest given that Meetup.com changed its business model and will be charging meetup attendees.

I organize a number of technical meetups, such as HelsinkiJS which is the biggest developer meetup in Finland, and have found Meetup.com lacking. To scratch our own itch, we built Meetabit which includes some additional features such as the ability to accept talk proposals and sponsorship offers, have speaker profiles, archive of talks and related materials, export data etc.

It does what we need and we haven't been actively developing or promoting it recently, but it has still grown organically to around 10K users and multiple meetups organized each month. We are likely to put more resources into it given the recent changes at Meetup.com. Worth adding that the service is free both to organizers and attendees; our long term plan is to have the same business model as Stack Overflow by promoting relevant jobs to members.

I'll draft a blog post explaining things in more detail, but in the meantime feel free to ask questions in the comments below. Also, if you'd like to take the service for a spin and your city isn't listed, shoot me an email at oleg@toughbyte.com and I'll add it.
A privacy-oriented search engine (as in, results without personalization) being hyped on a site called HackerNews? I'm shocked!

What's next, HN commenters hyping Tor and Signal?
> Today, it looks like Tesla will fix the problem if you're within the warranty, and outside-of-warranty repairs can cost $1,800 to $3,000, depending on your location. Tesla’s method is to replace the entire MCU.

This is ridiculous. Can we all agree that this is ridiculous? Because that's what it is. If we can at least all agree that this is indeed ridiculous, perhaps the collapse of modern civilization can be avoided.
I think it's perfectly reasonable. Package maintainers are stomping their feet and huffing about making a change that is in everyone's best interest. Why shouldn't the distribution set strong guidelines and enforce them?

Too much is often sacrificed at the altar of backward compatibility. Move forward and leave the laggards behind.
Does that bug I filed capture it? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567606
I will be that guy and probably disliked for this but I use Bing. I get points for just doing what I always do and I almost always get what I need. I’ve got a few hundred Thousand points saved up and am waiting to get enough to buy something new. When Bing occasionally sucks like it does when searching for news, I go to Google.

I use DDG as part of TOR but the results are just not that good, and I really want them to be.
Wait until you read about what the military and CIA did to humans without their consent.
Again, would a government economist from a (hypothetical) administration dedicated to financial regulation and interest rate setting have a personal motivation for choosing economics as a career?

If no, why does it change anything that this administration is called "bank" for historical reasons rather than "federal interest rate administration"?
(In Chicago) I get almost the exact same thing.
It's $5. All of that money goes to the authors right now (VC is funding the operations). Plus in the case of this article, some additional money went to an editor and copy editor.
It becomes much easier to understand when you realize that the modern Republican Party opposes centralized voter ID at the national level and supports stricter but wildly patchwork voting ID requirements at the local level for the same reason: it makes it harder for demographics they don't like to get acceptable IDs for voting.

For example, in 2015, North Carolina's Republican state legislature literally looked up the forms of ID statistically most likely to be used by black people for voting ID in the state and banned those for use in voting, while leaving the forms of voting ID most used by white people as valid. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/29/the-s...
I'm not sure DDG can actually do much to improve search results with the way they operate. They aren't a first class search engine, they get results from other search engines.

Perform a search on DDG, then do the same search on Bing. You'll notice the first results are the same.

In order for search results to get better on DDG, they first need to get better on their partner search engines (which I believe Bing is the main) so as far as I can tell it's out of their control.
Those two pictures of Belka and Strelka are really of those two dogs, taxidermied and placed in the space museum in Moscow with their capsule between them. The crate or living quarters they rode in is also in the museum, in a different room.

Amazing museum by the way, housed in the base of a sculpture of a soaring rocket!
Devil's advocate:

Many people aren't even bothered to try. The company I work for still writes new stuff in Python _2.7.3_ - not even a recent release of 2.7. Some of their stuff will be difficult to convert, but a lot of it really is trivial. They just don't care to put any effort into it until things start to break down.

I can understand why people get frustrated by situations like this and are tempted to call out programs still running Python 2 and those who advocate for keeping it.

I'm a huge fan of some of the features introduced by Python 3, so I switched and am not interested in going back. However, I think there is room for other interpreters to step in and continue supporting Python 2 even if the PSF wont.
Renting a car: Factoring in the fees
The CanvasBlocker extension which has been around for longer than Firefox started implementing anti-fingerprinting measures does exactly this: spoof canvas readout values. Since blocking Javascript is no longer an option for most people, blocking fingerprintable APIs simply breaks many sites. What we need is frictionless ways to spoof values for these APIs unless the user trusts the site in which case real values can be sent (example the site needs to work and fake values will not be useful to the user).
2600 meetings still happen.

The 90s bbs meetings were more fun and usually less tech focused.
Yes, that is also one of the legacies of the GI Bill.

If you think you're being clever, you really need to read up on the legacy of the GI Bill. Perhaps, you could start by reading the article I linked to.
Well that is a massive engineering fail to decide to make the "infotainment" system tightly coupled with critical car functionality.

A good engineering team would have decoupled them. In an ICE car half of your dashboard could be non functional (climate control completely broken, etc) and the car will still drive because the two systems are decoupled.
Clearly you haven't tried to do half of these things without an ID.. and a good portion of the other half would likely be illegal. You are correct about the constitutional right however.
Great name for a band!
Well they definitely can just like Microsoft can with all their open source projects which require CLA and all the other big corps with same open source model but the already published code also stays under the currently assigned license. They can only change newer version's licese which would probably cause a fork and do more damage than help
All of these statements just made them one of the greatest companies in my book.
I'd love to hear what other things come to mind regarding feature parity. We have been hitting a few of those out of the park lately and are slowly running out of obvious ones crossing fingers
What does your contract say?