skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it possible that they haven't figured out how to sandbox the little bit of code that handles the notification from the rest of the webpage? Maybe this is solved already by the webpush standard but some websites are a ridiculously overcomplicated hot mess of javascript ads which make my phone heat up, I don't want them waking up my phone all the time and draining the battery.
Scientists Find Record Warm Water in Antartica
JavaScript Webpack Introduction
I know a lot of drug users and they all do it to kill their pain. No exceptions.

And they all progress towards harder drugs. They either progress or stop doing drugs. Nobody started doing drugs directly shooting heroin.

Comparing psychedelics to sleep is just laughable.
> is it too much to ask that the first thing we see on the home page is a brief description of what the project is, and some of the benefits so a curious chap can decide if it's of interest?

It's not too much to ask, especially if you actually look at the home page and not the release notes that's clearly linked here.
For years I've been growing steadily more worried about UB and its nebulous, Heisenfootgun nature. I got a few paragraphs into this noble work, scrolled down to check how much was yet to go, and decided to try reading the Rust book again.

I mean, I'll stick with C/C++ for now. I can write 'good enough' code which does what I expect and seems to be reliable. I just hate the feeling that without spending a truly ungodly amount of time on it, even the best code is peppered with unknown unknowns waiting to bite me at some critical moment.
Ground stations are going to be wayyy cheaper in Mali
Out of curiosity: Could you explain your reasoning with numbers?

Cheers!
You still cant crawl through all the local contacts with mobile HTML app. Contrary to native app. So thats a no go for FB from the start i guess.
I think the real answer is that you don't have to trust an employee's expertise.

I can give you a real life example.

Years ago I did work for this company that built flight simulators for the government. Millions of dollars rolling through their company. One day I get called up by this company and the woman is panicking because their website went down.

Well, come to find out, the entire site was running on a server sitting in an office of their building and the electricity went out due to a winter storm. To say that I was floored is an understatement. I started asking questions.

Well, when I did, the "sys admin" (and I'm putting that in quotes...) started talking to the owner of this company and it was ultimately decided that I couldn't be trusted.

Fast forward a few years and around august of last year this company contacts me again for more work. They apparently scored another huge government contract, built a new facility to be able to house actual government planes so they can strip them down and turn them into flight simulators and so forth.

While I'm at the facility I learn that they're running all their software off of a server sitting in the building. Now, this isn't completely unreasonable, especially for government work. But I again started asking questions.

- Is it environmentally controlled.

- Do you have a generator?

- Do you have multiple lines in case your ISP goes down (which 100% will happen at some point)

- Do you have backups?

- ARE YOU EXERCISING THOSE BACKUPS AT LEAST ONCE/QUARTER?

When this got back to the "sys admin", he was livid. I also found out that they didn't have the source code for the latest changes I made, despite me pushing said source code to a private git server this "sys admin" had stood up. Said virtual server apparently got removed when they moved facilities, but despite this the guy accused me of pushing it to my private github repo based purely on the fact that I stated in no uncertain terms that I had pushed that to the git repo.

But this software was a part of the government contract.

I just sent out an email the next day thanking them for the opportunity, but that I would have to pass on it.

My point is this.

They're an engineering company, that's where their expertise lies. But due to the nature of what they're doing, they were forced into the software side of things. They hired an incompetent.

Companies like these are probably better off throwing money at the problem and putting it in the cloud. The skill level required to successfully run something in the cloud and not completely lose everything is much lower. That's not to say there isn't skill involved, but you don't have to hire someone who may or may not decide to run your software that's involved in a multi-million dollar contract in a closet in your building.
It's slightly different.

{ ret_type _ _body _; }

Notice the second underscore at the end? The compound statement contains a nested function definition followed by an expression statement which "returns" the function just defined. The function definition alone wouldn't work.
Maybe the historical form of amateur astronomy with a telescope in the garden might die out (others have made some reasonable counter-arguments). But maybe instead, space based astronomy will become cheaper and more accessible due to the drop in launch costs? My understanding is that a lot of astronomy research (as distinct from amateur stargazing) is limited by atmospheric concerns, so maybe that would be an improvement.
> besides you don't want to go read the implementation of your functions every time do you ? IDEs show us only prototypes for a reason

The IDE can be changed to show you assertions in addition to the signature, just as it also shows doc comments. That the signature is special isn't some law of nature, it's just habit (and users of untyped languages don't even have those).

> How would you for instance specialize a generic function in Zig ? ... and properly dispatches between both ?

No, you'd need a single definition with a comptime branch.

> I'd be hard pressed to say that it is "as powerful" given what I'm seeing for now.

What you're seeing is personal taste. In my taste, that Zig doesn't allow overloading and has clear dispatch is clearer is more preferable (in fact, it's touted as one of Zig's biggest strengths); in yours, it is less preferable. That's perfectly OK, but it's got nothing to do with expressive power (which has a pretty good and precise definition: https://youtu.be/43XaZEn2aLc). There is a reason why some languages are more complicated while others are simple -- some people aesthetically prefer the more complex languages while others prefer simpler ones. What is impressive about Zig is that despite being simple, it's not giving up power, at least in those aspects I mentioned. C, another simple language, cannot do those things.
Interestingly this seems like what mighty app(https://mightyapp.com) is doing
It's gonna be great for their drones too. Perhaps for whole EVTOL market.
The interesting question: is this caused by the tobacco, or is this caused by the fact that the mucous membrane in the mouth normally fully regenerates every 8 days? The cells shouldn't be alive after two weeks.
This focuses on the use of lithium for treating psychiatric disorders, as a mood stabilizer. However, in addition to this, there is lots of evidence[1][2] that trace amounts of lithium in general populations lead to lower rates of violent crime (and has general neuroprotective effects). I think this connection makes sense logically, if large doses serve to stabilize the mood of bipolar patients, small doses would likely have at least some effect on 'regular' people.

It is possible to buy trace mineral drops which contain such small amounts of lithium as to be safe for everyday use (as a bonus they also contain other useful trace minerals, like magnesium). I personally have been using them for years.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1699579

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263055240_Standard_...
Genuine question, why do people here use Dropbox or box when Google drive is far superior?
Barcelona supercomputing centre tests Spain’s first open source CPU
Many Lean folks do get it, but clearly not all...
was about to complain but then I realized it's just a release note page

that said a tiny [remove desktop] tag in the title would have eased the process
I was comparing with a cold not with influenza.

We could try to make the comparison you are suggesting instead. But to make a valid comparison we need to consider:

Is influenza infectious for 10 days before any symptoms show?

How many people get the influenza vaccine each year? I.e. is there some herd immunity built up?

The symptoms of influenza are universally nasty for everyone infected. No one with the flu is walking around and going to work (if you think do then you don't have the influenza virus you have a cold). It seems that at least some people with this new corona virus just have cold like symptoms and therefore will not by default be self-isolating like people with influenza naturally do.
clang blocks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocks_(C_language_extension) also don't suffer from this problem :D
It's very nostalgic, that's the only way I can put it.

Something that just resonates with me. The UI is very nice too, big and bold.
Meaning isn't intrinsic. It's not something you can measure externally, it's part of a relationship between a sentient being and an object.

So either all meaning is subjective (i.e. we each individually find meaning in things) and intersubjective (we can understand what meaning others find in something), or there is a creator who can say "Well, I made you, and here is what I meant by it."

Which does mean it's still subjective, but God's meaning gets prioritised because they created us. (And Lucifer's fall was because they said "Hey, what if we don't have to listen to _your_ meaning, and can come up with our own instead?")
Albatrosses strapped with sensors help spy on illegal fishing boats
Why Airbnb Is Moving Off of React Native (2018)
In my case because Dropbox support for Linux is far superior.
It would be great if these sorts of posts would include a description of what's big about these releases. If you were already excited about this Guacamole release, then you probably didn't need the reminder.

Looking through the notes, this looks interesting...

> Similar to Guacamole’s support for SSH and telnet, Guacamole can now provide terminal access to Kubernetes pods using the same mechanism as kubectl attach. This allows Guacamole to be used to interact with Kubernetes pods without requiring that those pods host an SSH or telnet service.

I have never used Guacamole or K8s (still stuck on Docker) but I assume this makes connecting to a containerized desktop much easier.

Great work to everyone involved.
Because it is a much more seamless experience, at least on Mac, where it is properly integrated with Finder?
I was not aware of that. I have tried to find (and even purchase) revenue information for private companies in the USA, with no success (reached as far as SEC filings, but couldn't get detail revenue, P&L info). And I don't trust revenue information on websites like Zoominfo and Owler as they are way off the mark for Indian companies.

Good to know that this is possible for the UK too (I wonder if that is why India Ministry of Corporate Affairs allows this too). As a director in a private company, I always viewed this as a possible privacy violation (that anyone, including bad actors could know my income if they wanted to).
And what happens when I don't have any signal? Writing an offline-first mobile website is INCREDIBLY hard. Where are you going to store the data? How are you going to detect the network connectivity without polling and hosing the battery because the radio doesn't timeout? Geo-fencing events?
Basically, the assumption is that you have your SRV records set up properly. Modern XMPP clients, like Dino, will then reconnect automatically to a server that they can access, and read history to find anything they missed. Horizontally scaling XMPP servers exist, it's probably up to you to find one that works well in a multi-site configuration though.

Your other option is just to give everyone their own XMPP address on a subdomain for each site - foo@dublin.example.com, bar@brussels.example.com, etc. I do this with a number of independent XMPP servers and it works fine. Then you're just depending on ordinary XMPP s2s to communicate between them, which is obviously well-supported.
The home page itself also doesn't really explain what it is... unless you already know.

All I got is that it's some remote desktop client that runs in the browser. Then I had to assume that the server probably needs to be in the same network as your target computer... And theres some extra login to the client itself?

And then I noticed that that image is actually a video. ._.
Yes, I did indeed post this before the comment from the co-founder.

Sticking to DO!
I can highly recommend "Programming Rust" by Jim Blandy. Personally I found it got to the differences from C/C++ a lot quicker than the official Rust book.

Of course Rust still has plenty of undefined behaviour, it is just restricted to unsafe blocks. (There are occasional exceptions, such as the infamous floating point cast bug [1].)

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/10184
Uh, go to the home page?

> "Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway [RDP]. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH."

> "We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required."

> "Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser."

The link you have clicked on is the release page, you could just gone to the home page ("click the title") to see what this was all about.

Bonus: There's even a video on the home page, I played the video and I instantly know what the software is.

Most open source software homepages don't provide that level of context, just walls of text.
Why do photographers prefer a matte screen? Doesn’t that diffuse and blur the image and colours?
Was referring more to the fact that the rc135s are going to be plugged into that entire sigint network that is running out of Truman annex
Facades on 1,400 Buildings in New York Are a Threat to Pedestrians
My thoughts exactly as a non-american. I just find this amusing and all I can say is welcome to the club of being spied on with impunity.
OK, this is probably a very dumb question, but I'm trying tio understand the usecase.

I put things that I want to sync with Dropbox in /Dropbox and take out things that I don't want to sync.

Why would I want to leave things in /Dropbox that I don't want on Dropbox?
See my other comment. I was comparing to one of the viruses that causes a COLD not influenza.

Colds are quite different to flues.
Take a look at Alfred (1).

(1)https://www.alfredapp.com/
> What are the common use case of file attributes?

CephFS (a distributed filesystem) uses them to allow users to control the layout of directories and files, ie. how they are split into chunks and what pool they are stored on; and each pool has its own replication settings.

https://docs.ceph.com/docs/mimic/cephfs/file-layouts/
on mac you can use it with 'java -jar snowflake.jar'
Fair enough, I guess I should have asked why Mac users prefer dropbox or box.
Products for 200G on 50Ghz channels (up to 96) have been available for some time now, so you can up your numbers quite a bit.
I guess you could come up with some concept of migrations for data structures?
Innovations like... the cloud?
Piercing the shield. Breaking the functionshield cloud security library
If you're a Node/JavaScript developer, you might want to keep code in Dropbox, but putting node_modules in there will tank it.
I've looked at using this before to provide a "thin client" legacy desktop app - is anyone doing the same with Guacamole? Care to share your experience?
Have you got a citation for that claim because that figure seems a little hard to believe.

In terms of your general point: it really depends on your business. In my last job there were 4 DBAs out of 12 total IT staff and they were constantly busy. In my current job there are no DBAs in a much larger team and yet no requirement to need one either. The two businesses produce vastly different products.
WHO provides status report here: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

Seems to provide some useful data
Even serious athletes used to smoke. Here's a famous photo [0] from the Tour de France of the cyclists smoking in the 1920s. The accepted wisdom was it "opened up your lungs", which might even be correct if you're already a habitual smoker. And there are plenty more anecdotes of elite footballers, tennis players etc being heavy smokers up until the 80s or later.

[0] https://twistedsifter.com/2011/12/picture-of-the-day-vintage...
Yes you are right. I misread.
Any monkey can puke thousands of lines of code. Producing code so boring that fellow humans can understand it immediately is the real challenge in programming. It requires much more effort and care than blaming everyone else for not understanding a sophisticated pile of mess.
Using Makefiles with Go (Golang)
I used lithium orotate for years, and yeah, it worked far better than an antidepressant for me. I then got labs run, and my urine creatinine was elevated, indicating diminished kidney function. I was taking Lisinopril and creatine at the same time which 100% triggered it in combination, but it's still good to coordinate with your doctor and monitor things. Trace amounts can have an effect.
Java. Nuff said.
I assume we'll be calling this moos code?
Why coffee?

I've both drank coffee and not drank coffee for years. The only difference is you are more alert (blocking adenosine).

How do you go compare it to drugs?

If it's a joke or sarcasm, it's not clear (to me at least).
Farewell to NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Its 16 Years of Discovery
I will frame this and put it on my kids bedroom wall. No one should get addicted to smoking and the youngest minds are the most gullible.
Don't underestimate how cheap smartphones + solar is and how cheap Starlink actually is.

Sure he cooks on a fire because it's practical. You don't need to fetch gas/fuel for your stove. Now with Starlink you won't need to go to town once a week to check your bitcoin transactions.
Does this not cover it?

From the front page

https://i.imgur.com/ZOyoNQ6.png
>>I have an experience related to this. We used to run a [scalable SQL engine, PaaS] for ~$1000/mo, but it wasn't cool enough, so people started migrating stuff to Spark, Databricks, S3 etc. Now the infra costs are ~$8000/mo + several people to manage it build tooling around it (~$6000 per person).<<

IMHO cloud services are only really logical options for new startups or ventures. Existing IT shops that are already heavily invested in infrastructure ops will NOT readily move to the cloud unless there's an obvious attempt at power-grab or subvert the IT/Ops fiefdom.

>>People just want to run their selects, man.<<

I read that in the "Dude's" voice. :-)
In my experience food is the easiest reward for training dogs because it works with all owners! But food as a reward has a lot of problems if you don't move away from it asap you're seriously limiting what they could achieve.

e.g. if you want to be able to get their full potential and have an outcome where you can trust them to never pick up food from the street, never accept anything from a stranger. Training them with food you will never get to a level where you can leave them alone with raw meat next to them, then leave for 2 hoursand KNOW the food will still be there untouched when you get back.

we had a border collie who past away some time ago, and she was extremely food driven. She lived few months on the street until I found her. She was happy to obey until she smelled food then she would no longer listen (once she ran across a busy street because there was a garbage bin on the other side of it ... Even she was still less than 1 yro when she came to us I was never able to get that out of her.

I raised also several Belgian Malinois (all from the same litter). We had them just after they turned 3 months so they could learn as much as possible from their mother and siblings before they came to us.

3 of them I never even had to bother using treats as a reward because they were so "hungry" for verbal praise. All the dogs I had, the Malinois were unique as they all shared this crazy possession for praise. They were so smart that when left alone they would just go in the garden by themselves and play "I throw sticks into the water and then jump in to rescue them", and they entertained themselves like this for several hours (usually until I had to tell him to get out because it got dark).

They never received a treat during training and I could switch to clicker really soon. All the Malinois coming from the same stock (all siblings). 1 of them would have little interest in my praise during training but learned very well when using his prey-drive as a motivator (e.g. the reward was to throw a ball as soon as they do something correct).

It depends on the animal but breed is less important than character and age. Also dog training is never about training the dog but training the owner to respond correctly to the dog. I recommend everyone who owns dogs who are still at the puppy age to get them off food treats asap and get a lot better results out of them.
Fancy Clojure REPL
It's important to note that the Hagakure and Bushido were late additions to Samurai culture -- the Hagakure in particular is a nostalgic idealization of a way of living that was almost lost by the time it was written -- and in many ways are idealizations that were seldom followed by the actual warrior class. A bit like samurai fan-fiction!

Western circles often mistakenly believe the Hagakure truly embodies the Samurai spirit, when in practice most Samurai didn't follow it and weren't as selfless or honor-bound as the code would have you believe.
This is a fair criticism of the IoT movement, but it is an unfair criticism of a specific product if there are no evidences of it.
It's just gonna be routed thru China. Probably each country internet is going to go first thru local provider, unless you've got some sort of privilege (same as it is now with VPN's).
That might have worked for the specific hardware BT needed those developers to manage but it's not good advice in the general sense. Systems Administration is as much a detailed speciality as being a software developer. There's so many edge cases to learn -- particularly when it comes to hardening public facing infrastructure -- that you really should be hiring an experienced sysadmin if you're company is handling any form of user data.

As an aside, this is one of the other reasons company directors like the cloud -- or serverless specifically: it absolves responsibility for hardening host infrastructure. Except it doesn't because you then need to manage AWS IAM policies, cloud watch logs and security groups instead of UNIX user groups, syslog and iptables (to name a few arbitrary examples). But that reality is often not given as part of the cloud migration sales pitch.
Thanks! Any reason PSQL is better than MS SQL? How about mysql?
Working on computer vision & perception system that allows delivery robots to drive autonomously 99% of the time, with only occasional remote human assistance. Making sure robots need less and less assistance, and this is while having hundreds of robots in production doing commercial deliveries.

https://www.instagram.com/starshiprobots

Technology and business do work, so we probably will have thousands of robots within a year, and millions not long after that )
Is there any reason to use dropbox over onedrive? This feature has been in onedrive I believe since Windows 10 release? (Also onedrive has linux clients too so- I use it on Linux itself and the linux client by abraunegg supports this)
I vaguely recall something about the making of the movie where they acknowledge that this wouldn't happen, but it was done because that's what the audience expects.
Maybe the submitter could highlight they view as noteworthy in this release?