skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. Refresh rate is just as important as resolution. I can feel my eyes physically hurting as I'm looking at text while I'm scrolling it up or down on a 60Hz monitor.

LCDs don't actually "refresh" at 60Hz like CRTs do. (The screen is not "flickering" in a LCD.) Not sure what you are actually reacting to. A faster refresh rate with a panel type that has lower persistence make look smoother when scrolling perhaps.
Dr. Fred Brooks mentioned this paper yesterday as the most important paper written in computer science during his "A Personal History of Computing" lecture at UNC.
That would also explain the tendency to still bet on "rare metals" aka copper as a transmission medium for the Internet.
"I will accept any business that comes my way, no matter what" is a political position, and not neutral.
Buses are slower than getting your car. Metros are faster.
Thank you very much, has been very important to know that with Nvidia card, glChAoS.P (at least) runs on macOS.
Yes, Intel need of HD 4000 GPU, or above, that supports OpenGL 4.1.
Thanks to supporting me in macOS testing... No, I don't stop the OSX develop, but I need more collaborative people, like you (also tests and feedbacks, on several PC, are importants).

...and mostly ... I don't would your daughter to stop math study ... :D ;)
This could seem like an easy way to get more people interested in braille, and also help them write. Now they need typewriters, or special indentation tools (in order to write), but this seems a lot easier, faster, and more fun.
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I think you're seeing hypocrisy when it isn't there.

There's nothing hypocritical about US citizens not wanting US companies operating under US law to censor their US media for the benefit of the Chinese government, even if they may be perfectly fine with their own demands to censor their own media.

You may dislike it, but it's hardly an inconsistent position.
Politics exists because we are selfish. Recognition of the fact that we are selfish and that the political civil order need not necessarily be a part of every facet of everyday life is how we ended up with such ideas like “Separation of Church and State”.

Otherwise we would be picking state religions, giving tax advantages to the favored religion, and maybe even burning heretics at the stake depending on the current political mood. Probably Jewish people would have gotten killed or exiled for one reason or another from the United States as well.

Somehow on matters of theology, while debates and biases still exist, even atheists can live life surrounded by Catholics without fear of persecution. On the time scale of history, that’s a pretty neat feat. Whatever politics exist in various churches, are by and large outside the scope of the national government.

The reason our politics is so vicious these days is because we have such a large Federal State that is substantially more than a mere national government. A government which was founded more or less to ensure the common defense, provide for bankruptcy courts and keep the the United States a free trade area back before they even had the term for it. The more functions you want to graft onto the State, Federal or your home State, the more you are inviting the political preferences of your neighbors and fellow citizens into your own life, and the more you have at stake come the next elections because the next President can always undo the entire regulatory legacy of the previous one. This is why laws originate in Congress where it takes a law to undo a law. If your rights only exist by Executive fiat that the next administration can undo with the stroke of a pen, then you don’t really have them.
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Probably meant: business should make profit, from that profit the business can save some money for the rainy day. And I agree.

However I don't know who are behind PINE64 - maybe they have some long-term investor backing them up, and they try price at this point as low as possible to get the community going.

Actually, I would be interested in investing to this pine thing.
Why not look for a local option for your gear? I understand that some equipment may not be available locally but surely you can find most of what you need. If their prices aren't competitive with online retailers, look at what else you get beyond the equipment such as customer service, repairs, etc.
The NIST has a helpful decision tree to determine whether a blockchain architecture is appropriate for your use case.

https://www.nist.gov/publications/blockchain-technology-over...
(page 42)
I'm Noah—one of the creators. Glad to answer anyone's questions!
You live in a world where the dominant programming languages include things like JavaScript, PHP, and Python. It's not that no one cares about functional programming, it's that almost no one cares about _any_ kind of structure. (Yes, that's an exaggeration, but not by a lot.)
> crap SQL that MySQL taught you

This seems like an unfair characterization. You're blaming MySQL for "teaching you" nonstandard practices just because it allowed you to use them, but where did you actually learn these practices originally?

Although strict mode only became the default 4 years ago, it's been available as an option for over 15 years, and is mentioned in numerous places in the MySQL manual -- including a dedicated page on the strict-mode implications on GROUP BY and aggregation.

Anyway, I don't see how the need to rewrite some poorly-written legacy queries makes modern versions of MySQL "irrelevant". Seems ironic given the topic of GP complaining about MySQL's extreme commitment to backwards compatibility. If you don't like MySQL for personal historical reasons, that's fine, but this hardly seems like a solid argument for discouraging others from using it.
As much as Microsoft would love to kill 32bit windows, 16bit line of business apps are sadly still a thing in some large companies. Companies that may not have the source of or cannot for a variety of reasons port the code to 32bit or 64bit. Because 32bit windows can still run 16bit apps it will continue to live on in the consumer and end user space. But as far as I know windows server 32bit does exist but is not licensed such that it can be used in production.
But the way the media will title it would be "Nazis afraid of speaking up against activists for fear of impact on their career. Good"
REI is my favorite place for outdoor gear. Return policies aren’t as good as they used to be. You can get around the return policies by buying high end gear. I had a goretex jacket where the membrane taping failed after 8 years and the manufacture replaced the jacket for free.
Open your favorite browser (I am using Chrome on macOS and have tried Firefox on Linux, we are also testing other browsers) on your laptop/PC, go to https://play.tidb.io

Now you can type any SQL text and enjoy the power of Wasm.
> Too bad they didn't just let objects take anything as a key

They do, except they get coerced to strings in whacky ways. Objects can be used largely like arrays, and Arrays are Objects, but Array is more suited for an ordered collection of numerically indexed elements, and so has relevant properties and methods, like length and indexOf.
I kind of figured you did, but I wanted to underscore the difference because I feel like this fact is usually trotted out for (and gets) a knee jerk.

To be fair, I think it's a dumb state of affairs too, but overhyping problems is often counterproductive.
Call me cynical every day of the week and twice on sundays, I'm critical because at this point, a letter doesn't feel like they are taking much ownership of the issue.
People wanted those benefits for themselves, and there's little question of trying to reap benefits for one's self and then push the potential downsides elsewhere.

I realize climate change is a broad societal issue that does indeed heavily involve externalizing costs to society, but I think it's difficult to dispute that the ideal scenario would have no impact on them, and when it comes to Google's business and other employees, the outcomes probably slant negative.

Are there employees who don't mind working with energy companies? Are there people who explicitly don't want to limit Google's customer base? Do they make Google worse? Should we be critical of them?
It’s worth noting that a patch around 2 months later removed the Equation Editor entirely, because more security issues were found and binary patching wasn’t going to be sufficient.
I'm sure Palantir or the current incarnation of Cambridge Analytica can whip-up an "employee background check" service that can sniff out inchoate SJW-ism from "edgy" tumblr posts from 2002 or liking American Idiot on MySpace.
He's living in Cambridge now. I read an interview last year where he talked about moving out of Germany since it was 'no longer open to other cultures'. Strangely enough his plan at the time was to move to the USA during Trump administration. Looks like he decided to move to another country under a nationalist/protectionist government to find his openness towards other cultures...
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Unexpected genome transfer in nature after transgenic mosquitoes release(Brazil)
> The possibility that a Libra node run by Mastercard or Andressen Horrowitz would suddenly start running malicious code is such a bizarre scenario to plan for and is better solved by simply enforcing protocol integrity and through non-technical (i.e. legal) means.

Hmm, I'm not sure I'm convinced. While "Mastercard as an entity turns into a malicious actor" doesn't seem like an important threat model, it seems to me maybe guarding against mailicious actors within (eg) Mastercard, as well as external attacks on Mastercard is? And justifies this stuff?

The possibliity that a node run by Mastercard would suddenly start running malcicious code doesn't seem that bizarre a scenario to me, if we remember it can happen not just cause the CEO of Mastercard directs it to, but because of criminal activities from hackers as well as employees for their own gain.

Am I wrong?
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USD $150 [1]

[1]: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone
That may be. I was mostly trying to address the claim that "[i]t's not technical debt [because] there is nothing to [...] maintain."

Financially speaking, it's more like an annuity than a credit card.
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It's quite possible that there will be a court challenge to the non-political requirement. The recent case[1] about union dues for public-sector employees made clear that SCOTUS doesn't want to be in the business of deciding what is political speech versus some non-political opinion.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-1466_2b3j.pdf
> In practice this results in dramatically reduced transaction costs. For example you can transfer money with an API call.

Just as a relational database with a web frontend would.
We need this information to correctly gauge the interest on different kinds of foods we should keep available to purchase in the cafeteria.

It's also helpful as we can notify you early if you have some undiagnosed medical issue. You could unknowingly spread your illness to your children without this early detection.
We're even able to reduce your monthly health insurance premium by providing this data to the insurance company!

This also enables us to find troubled Individuals before it's too late and address building drug issues before they're full addictions. We'll be able to get them the required attention they need to get back on their feet and be productive members of our society. (Maybe not here though)
Indeed. This type of behavior only makes sense if defending trademarks never incurs a penalty when it gets overly aggressive.

I will avoid buying anything at backcountry.com (unless I forget, which hopefully I won't), so I guess that's a bit of a penalty this time.
Trains don't do hills very well. Train tracks are always mostly straight and level. They do that extremely well.
You misunderstand what I'm saying. This isn't about disagreeing with how anything is written, this is about the responsibility of developers to know what they're shipping.

If devs can't do things like be able to tell what dependencies a module/library has, then they shouldn't use that module/library.
You do a basic background check and investigation which I'm sure Google already does and just add strong political opinions as a parameter to flag. If you're willing to protest against your employer then you are probably already sharing strong opinions on things like social media so these individuals should be detectable.
It's probably much easier to just say "oh that doesn't apply to us because we're in a different category" than to fight the validity of it in the first place.
Social justice would be great and we hope that, someday, the identity politics progressives will actually show some interest in promoting it instead of cancel culture, outrage, and grandstanding.

(You know your movement has a image problem when even Barack Obama is stepping up and criticizing "woke" people: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50239261)
More power for you is directly linked to making society better. What a fascinating coincidence.
Years ago I tried buying some ski skins for a buddy as a gift. Somehow the box arrived without all the parts (and there isn't much to ski skins, so this was dumbfounding). Took multiple phone calls and emails with support, where they seemed at a loss of what to do (I dunno - replace the item / do a return, duh?). Think I finally got my money back and bought them at REI. Love their little goat icon, but otherwise soured me from buying from them.
> my agenda, for transparency: I want to send SOC's in space on tiny RISC-V satellites

I've seen your posts in multiple threads K0SM0S, and I generally enjoy reading your thoughts and opinions. When I meet people I find interesting, I like to ask what they plan on doing with their lives. I understand completely if you don't want to share further details, but I for one would be interested in an off-topic detour into your intentions with these microsatellites. One application I always toy with in my head is a time+location verification service, but I don't think satellites are strictly necessary for that one unless you're trying to work around region-specific laws that would regulate towers.
Surprisingly these protests appear to work. Last summer, employees protested a multi-billion dollar contract with the DoD and was subsequently not renewed for 2019. Albeit, their efforts may have been wasted since the work will just be transferred to another company and internal leaks indicate the project will still leverage Google’s cloud service.
Love fishtailing the Hellcat at 70mph.
They don't download less bytes, they just throw them away. It's a solution to a different problem (that the site has become unusable, not that it loads unbearably slow)

Disclaimer: I'm a googler, my options are my own, I am not connected to the AMP project.
23 megabytes does not seem, by any metric, “tiny” to anyone that I work with.
> Someone should do a story about all us Googlers who are sick of the politics.

So you are sick of politics...

> it’s a common topic among like-minded people in informal conversations.

but it's a common topic.

I think the real reason you are sick of politics is because you don't agree with the politics being discussed, not politics. The reason you don't talk about politics isn't being you are sick of it, but because "most of us are afraid of the outrage and call-out culture negatively impacting our careers."

Even in a throwaway account, you can't be honest with yourself. Are you really sick of politics, or are you just sick of other people's politics? What are you really trying to say. Your comment goes back and forth and it not clear. It's a throwaway account, so maybe you can actually say what you mean?
The fallacy here is “affirming the consequent”: you are taking a principle (which I'll accept for the sake of argument) of if something is to succeed, then it will have had “it won't work” opposition, observing the presence of the fact described in the “then” clause, and concluding that the “if” clause must be true.

But even if the principle is valid, you can only conclude the then clause (conclusion) from the if clause (premise), not the reverse.

While most breakout successes may be mocked as impossible, most things mocked as impossible do not turn out to be breakout successes.
Is this used on YouTube?
I am always surprised by devs that have a strong sense for O notation and how it affects code complexity, but have no clue about the bloat in tools or libraries they throw on the pile. So version 1.0 comes around and they immediately need to refactor to get down from a 15 second page load (or from a huge file/data stream).

Fine tuning code is one thing, but installing a bloated package for one tiny feature should be well-considered at the time of implementation because every addition adds to the tech debt bill.
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The main point of contention with SMF was the dismal lack of documentation on the XML required when it was first introduced into Solaris 10 (what we call "putback"). At the time, Sun had the inventor of XML on their payroll and suddenly XML started showing up everywhere, but XML has no business in configuration files on UNIX, which were traditionally designed to be trivial to understand and parse by both humans and tools like sed, AWK, grep and cut. As if that wasn't bad enough, adding insult to injury was that the configuration to various services was being stored in a private copy of SQLite, and there was no documentation on which application was storing which settings -- the only way to know was from reading the blogs of the engineers working on SMF. As you can imagine, this led to a lot of frustration, because the primary users of SMF were system administrators and they were basically left to fend for themselves: lacking documentation and third party developers not wanting to waste their time reverse-engineering SMF to write XML manifests for their services.

However, SMF is actually very well designed and this makes it very powerful: I can for example declare configuration files as my dependencies in the XML manifest and when I import it, SMF will know to watch those files. If they change, SMF will call the manifest's refresh method, whatever it is. That's barely scratching the surface. What I think no one on the outside realized when SMF came out is that it was part of FMA, the fault management architecture, which makes Solaris and his derivatives be able to heal themselves provided the system is configured with enough redundancy, even on really unreliable shitty hardware like intel / AMD based systems. Nowadays SMF is well regarded and well understood, but the engineers rightly regret making it use XML, and it took years for the documentation to reach that expected level of high quality which we're so spoiled with in the rest of Solaris and illumos manual pages.
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I doubt this is going to do anything.

About 50% of the population in Germany are renters, not owners. And for the other 50% owners, many just own a unit in a multi family building, not the whole property.

For manyyyyy of these people there simply is no option to conveniently fast charge their electric vehicle at home. No renter will want to invest in a pricey wallbox at a property that they don't own - even if the landlord would allow such a wallbox to be installed (most don't want any modifications to their building). And for the apartment/unit owners, a German court has decided that all the other unit owners must agree to such a wallbox being installed, so that's another obstacle.
4) post as unrelated criticism on a thread about something completely different
When someone's ethereum CDP is liquidated onto the market it is auctioned off for Dai before the collateral no longer backs the Dai. The price feed determines when a CDP is in need of liquidation. This mechanism is important because it keeps the system overcollateralized.

There is also something called global settlement. This is for major upgrades (they are doing one on the 16th) and also in case of emergencies. The price feeds in this case are used to determine Dai holder's proportional claims to the collateral (using the target price 1 Dai = 1 USD). It may happen happen Dai holders get less or more depending on the circumstance. In addition Maker is a major Ethereum application so if it failed the price of Ether would tumble. That is part of the reason they are expanding to support more collateral types in the update slated for the 16th.

So every Dai is a rough promise for one dollar but that does not answer why Dai is stable day to day. It works like this: When the price of Dai falls under 1 dollar, CDP owners will buy it up and close their positions at a discount which will put upward pressure on the price. Likewise, if the price of Dai goes above one dollar then fresh CDPs will be opened and fresh Dai will be sold on to the market, putting downward pressure on the price. If that isn't enough, the interest rate is manually adjusted to fine-tune the supply.

In the future part of the interest will be payed in to an optional savings account for Dai holders. The idea is that by adjusting the APR the demand for Dai can be fine-tuned. When rates are high people will buy Dai and lock in in a savings account. If demand is too high rates can be lowered causing an inverse affect.

https://blog.makerdao.com/introduction-to-emergency-shutdown...

I hope that helps.
This should get interesting when apps like Slack / Spotify need to ship their next update, I wonder how they will workaround this issue
The Geocoding API is free on Android:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8218764/android-geocoder...

Presumably Google would like to change this at some point but it'll be difficult since it's built into Android proper rather than the Play SDK or similar.
The reply down thread to this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21446225
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Show me even 1 corruption scandal from 8 years of the previous government the level of the 3 I posted above. The most I could find is Nowak forgot to include a watch in his property statement (oświadczenie majątkowe). He got fired.

Meanwhile Szyszko "forgot" to include land and a house in Mazury lake resort worth hundreds of thousands of PLN and nothing :)

> They were in power for 8 years and they actually managed to start serious work on that particular solution half a year before they left office, becuase they knew they absolutely have to.

That's one interpretation. Another is - when you don't have single majority and have to coordinate with your coallition partners stuff takes more time. When you actually ask people and do all the proper processes - legislation takes time.

On the other hand you can do it like PIS does - change law in 1 night without any review, and then it turns out it contains logical errors, duplicated articles, and have to be fixed 9 times (like the law about KRS was :) ).

I much prefer slow and steady to fast and chaotic. Law is in may respects like code, and PIS is doing spaghetti code.
Blatant and obvious lobbying by the extremely powerful German car industry.
The subsidy includes premium brand plug-in hybrids such as BMW 330e and Mercedes C class - i.e. typical company cars that will very rarely use the electric engine.
As gibolt mentioned, it also helps VW selling their new models.

Why not subsidize public transport instead?
Why has the German government been unable to make (useful) climate protection laws in the past years, but these odd subsidies are no problem?
You also can't make a reasonable argument that that's a "random" word choice, either.