skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> PowerBuilder

I used this tool at the State of [redacted] Dept of Taxation to develop the whole system. The database was Oracle (I think) and we would write the backend code as such:

1. Copy the 2019 code function "VERIFY_TAX_RULE_147B_2019()" to "VERIFY_TAX_RULE_147B_2020()"

2. Follow this list of rule changes for this rule to change the function

3. If there are any 2019 functions in this function, make a ticket to copy+paste those in a similar fashion for some other developer

4. Close ticket

5. Get another ticket

The front end for the forward-facing revenue agents would also get updated in a similar fashion, one Power Builder form for each year and window they needed, so if you opened 2020 taxes you would get "WIN_FORM_PAGE_A317_2020" and if you opened 2019 or 2018... you get the idea.

It was a horror from the usual "software engineering practices" standpoint on stuff like code re-use, but it was super easy to do and based on the risk analysis it was the best/easiest/cheapest solution to be able to test, review, and ensure the accuracy of EVERY tax rule we implemented with iron-clad certainty.

Someone in QA would just go to each function, make sure it calculated things correctly based on the requirements, and do a few other checks. We had a big QA department that would do test driven development on each pull request (if it failed, you went back to fix it again, so since we used Visual Source Safe we ENSURED it worked the first time; you know what I mean if you used VSS) and sit down with the developer for each function and go through it in a heavy review. I can't imagine trying something like that in React or whatever, you could never ensure the software would always behave the same way each time with the network latency and huge underlying security concerns for the framework and a bunch of other issues we would have had to overcome to prove it worked correctly every time. Backend frameworks would be even WORSE for our risk profile.

Most importantly: no one cared what the damn UI looked like as long as all the buttons and text boxes were there in the designated configuration. They were all Windows 95-style UI boxes and I doubt that the front desk agents would have been happier to use some Reactified "pretty" stuff.

The story is just to say that I agree with you wholeheartedly that the UI/UX space has exploded with useless garbage you don't need in a simple, boring business tool and 95% of software is just that, simple and boring.
This happens in many countries, farmers are paid very low prices and many times it's just not worth the cost of transporting it, crazy i know. Since cows need to be milked daily you can store up until some point and after that you dump it.
A solution is to make cheese out of it that has more added value and stores better, but takes work and infrastructure.
Using the cold virus to kill cancer
The modern way of living makes us weak and reliant on technology - It happens at a genetic level. Removing basic evolutionary pressures causes the species to evolve complex adaptations to constantly changing abstract cultural problems instead of more concrete and static problems in our environment.

In the context of recent human evolution, survival has taken the backseat to mating - But evolution has a way to balance itself out. Humans will become so overly optimized for mating that we will lose all basic survival abilities and our immune systems will become weak and fully dependent on complex drugs.
Mediasoup has a more low level API. It's more of a library/framework to make your own SFU (although there's an example SFU). Jitsi is more of a ready to use SFU. Mediasoup is newer, but has seen very fast development. Last performance comparison I know of had mediasoup as a clear winner over jitsi. But that's a fast moving target and the usual limitations of a benchmark apply here as well:
https://webrtchacks.com/sfu-load-testing/

Mediasoup has a c++ core with node api. Jitsi is java.

If you're experienced with webRTC, you will probably like mediasoup better. Otherwise I'd stick with jitsi.
I came with "Unique first utterer of this performative impredicative statement". I forged it as a profile title[1], and so far no one dared to contradict me. :P

Note that I won't lose my time in a preterition which is giving credits to Russell for the concept impredicativity and to Austin for the concept of performative sentence.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieu-lovato-stumpf-guntz-%E2%...
What are you running on it? Latest macOS or Linux…?
disclosure: I am with the Milvus team.

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Hope this answers your question.
Yep, my wife's still on the 6S for that reason. I'd love to find her a new iPhone that fits her must-haves (a small screen and a headphone jack), but at this point it looks like she might end up with her first Android ever (probably the Pixel 4a, pending how the size shakes out).

Keeping an eye out though!
Why was the cruise ship in those waters? The ship was in the news last November about how they had no money and canceled a planned cruise, and I can't figure out what it's been doing since then.
You can develop for iOS without actually owning Apple hardware.

I develop an app and use MacinCloud[1] to build the iOS version. Costs $1/hour on demand. The hardest part was getting a two-factor enabled apple id. I actually had to borrow a physical iPhone just to activate the two-factor authentication. Once it is activated, you can get away without an iPhone again.

Just saying that it is possible without the $1500 hardware. It still sucks that Apple makes one jump through all these hoops...

[1] https://www.macincloud.com/
> By that definition, iMessage is also not end-to-end encrypted because

True, if true (I've not checked the iMessage details), but unimportant.

Whether or not iMessage is end-to-end-encrypted by the actual definition of end-to-end-encryption, does not change the fact the Zoom's communication is not end-to-end-encrypted by the actual definition of end-to-end-encryption while they are persisting in claiming that it actually is.

If they held up a blue ball and said "our ball is bright green", that would be incorrect. If someone else held up a yellow ball and said "our ball is bright green" that would not make Zoom's statement any more correct.
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More info on the cruise liner: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCGS_Resolute

Seems buying one made in Finland can be a lucky charm as ice breaking is obligatory here.
But thats very doable. And no need for the unaccelerated ffmpeg wasm afaics, and no need to use a "sfu".

I don't know what Mediasoup does, was just commenting on what webrtc can do re the "the current state of webrtc" subject.
Off-topic, but now I can't even read corporate blogs because Medium is forcing me to log in. Sigh.
The US ought to invade Venezuela. It makes a whole lot more sense than invading Iraq or Syria. Venezuelans are hungry and destitute due to the regime, and the country's domestic turmoil has been spilling over into other nations where Venezuelan emigrants endure so much hardship in their travels that many of them turn to crime and panhandling just to be able to eat and have a place to sleep. It's truly disgusting the kind of inhumanity that Russia and Cuba have propped up in Venezuela.
Google releases location data for 131 countries
It is not even remotely a given that throwing the switch is the correct answer. The Czech Republic made masks mandatory, met that requirement by churning out a bunch of homemade masks, and have supposedly been quite successful in flattening their infection curve in doing so.

Going forward, misinformation gives every anti-vaxxer, skeptic, conspiracy theorist, and snake oil peddling bullshitter more ammunition with which to displace effective medical treatment going forward. Even the well meaning general populace becomes skeptical. You know what this results in?

Dead kids. Covid parties.

Trust in government is already so fucking slow people are throwing covid parties. And now you're suggesting that undermining that trust even more is the obvious answer?
Google Offers User Location Data to Health Officials Tackling Coronavirus
> This hospital ship was meant to house non-covid patients. It's meant as surge capacity for the NY hospital system.

The article is arguing that is a silly plan which is not relieving pressure on NY hospitals because the pressure is _only_ COVID patients.

How about “we’re shipping 10 million masks to NY, but only for non-COVID patient treatment”. It would be ridiculous.
Think the guys name was Nowicki
This is more of a low level API. Not some ready to use thing like Jitsi. That is already a big difference with alternatives.
Performance seems good:
https://webrtchacks.com/sfu-load-testing/

And it is very actively developed, which is arguably the most important metric in the current webRTC environment. Since the spec and browser implementations are a fast moving target right now and for the years to come.
And they forget, that a font face is only a tool. It's just like a golden hammer ...
Ditto, the 4-inch form factor with the original SE was perfect for one-hand use. If they removed Touch ID and made the SE full screen, I would switch from Android to Apple in a heartbeat.
So, I just watched this (and you can too, it's like 3 minutes). My conclusion is that animation shouldn't happen at this high a resolution.

I mean, I watched on a Pixel 3a, so maybe I didn't get the 4k HDR goodness, but it just didn't seem to add to the experience. Didn't help that the animation was tweened art in several places. I mean, it was all this hype for what seemed to be particle effects.

Really, I think lively animation (like FLCL) or style (Cowboy Bebop or Tatami Galaxy) makes a show much better to look at and enjoyable to watch.
My latest company makes custom furniture, architectural millwork and woodwork. www.valkyriewoodwork.com

3d Digital design, CNC manufacturing with laser and router machines, and we still depend on a lot of skilled and talented people on the bench.

So much of my time in software project management has been an asset here.
Twitter discloses bug that cached private files sent or received via DM
Bayer lost their trademark because Treaty of Versailles, but it became generic later in a court case due to lack of action.

Edit: Actually, I think Bayer lost it even earlier, during the war, through the Trading with the Enemy Act.
Nobody is able to practice 2 while holding 1 as belief. The opposite is ironically possible.
Since 2001? The CIA was actually trying to spy on the Russians via psychic powers in the late 1970's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project (edit- I suppose it was the US Army and the CIA)

There was a group of people that committed suicide to try and get their souls on a magical spaceship in the early 1970's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_gro...

Weird stuff has been going on forever, it's just that our capacity to report meaningless stuff has grown over time. A few decades ago you would have never heard about two ships colliding with zero casualties unless you worked in the shipping industry or maybe the Venezuelan government.
Both are illegal since the late 19th century. But Venezualan vessel was an official navy ship. So more offical commerce raiding?
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It's actually really good but I don't get the feel of wonder after all those years together anymore :) Huge db and feature scope definitely keep it away from any particular completeness despite size and age of the project. Hope to see something more focused @next.
What our leaders can do now
I trust Apple more than I trust some ROM maker not to install telemetry or something more sinister, honestly. Might be misplaced, but I can more easily trust Apple has a financial incentive, if nothing else, to not to bad shit, whereas the unknown 3rd party could be a cool person who is doing it for fun, or they could be a state-sponsored hacker trying to get as much malware on the devices of technologists as possible.
It never worked for me. I always got the impression the therapist was blowing smoke up my ass.

I also have a hard time rectifying the idea that you can pay someone to listen to you, and at the same time try and hold the belief they really care about and like you. If they care, why are they accepting money just to listen to you? To accept the premise of psychotherapy, and what they tell you in sessions, namely that they do care, it seems you need to achieve a suspension of disbelief that I never could.

I've always wondered what sort of damage that could do to you psychologically, holding that belief for a long period of time. I mean, the person who you place the most trust in, who knows you best, is also charging you an arm and a leg every week. You paid for their summer home.
My reflexive reaction is: I don't know. I'm not interested in empirical evidence but if there is evidence of some effect I hope the right people show an interest in it.

I keep wondering what the big deal is with admitting you don't know something. I don't know C++, I should have an opinion about some C++ library? Does it work or not?

When asked to defend my opinion about Reiki I would have to resort to a completely moronic line of reasoning that is of no use to anyone. I leave this to the professional skeptics.
It's interesting that Permaculture is already more than 26 years old. It's got quite a number ideas that probably seem very controversial to the average gardener or small farmer.

But the genius of Permaculture is that it's also way less effort. Work with nature, rather than fight it.

Chop and drop. Pull out weeds then drop them on the ground, let it turn into mulch.
Look at the Latin American countries where the US propped up dictatorships in defense against the spread of Communism. Compare those places to nations like Nicaragua and Cuba. Which are the places where people starve, and which are the places where people thrive?

The problem with decrying US participation in domestic political affairs in Latin America during the Cold War is that the US was successful in fending off the spread of Communism, so we will never really know just how much poverty and kleptocracy would have been established if the spread of Communism in Latin America had been successful. Today, the only observable counterfactual is a handful of paranoid, illiberal, dirt-poor nations where the government rules with an iron fist, which is certainly the case in Venezuela.
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> Private files sent via DMs were cached inside Firefox browsers for as long as a week, even after users logged off.

Note that it was Firefox only. I use Twitter on mobile Firefox (iOS) and was informed with this page:

https://i.imgur.com/41NbgeO.png
Rather uniquely, the project's assets are released "for download and experimentation" "to help the industry better understand 4K HDR and immersive audio in anime". Although the article doesn't say, the assets are licensed under the Creative Commons 4.0 (By-Nc-Nd) [1]. I know of only a few [2] other [3] media projects that release their source material under such permissive licenses. Although I am not personally in the market for 4K HDR media, I am pleased that Netflix seems honestly interested in improving anime's production tools and workflows, and granted such permissive access to something they paid a lot of money for, and the artists put a lot of work into.

[1] http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/Sol...

[2] Blender's "Open Movies" https://cloud.blender.org/open-projects

[3] David Revoy's "Pepper and Carrot" webcomic https://www.peppercarrot.com/
For some reason I can't reply to fulafel. But a full mesh is definitely not very doable when you're dealing with a larger amount of people. Close to all conferencing solutions today are working via an SFU for a reason. E2E encryption via the SFU gets more and more attention and is being worked into the spec. But it can't be counted as state of the art in webRTC today
I can’t imagine this would taste anything like a typical cup of AeroPress, where you can use pressure instead of brew time to extract more flavor. It gives a very different result. The awesome thing about AeroPress is that it’s so easy to experiment with all the parameters: brew time, pressure, water temperature, and different grinds. Fine grind, short brew, high pressure and hot water and you get something more espresso-like. Coarser grind and longer brew time and it’s more like French press.
Antiship missiles (AShM) or torpedeos would be the fastest way to get rid of a big ship.
But in this case they'd have a really hard time explaining why they thought that a cruise ship was enough of a menace to warrant launching AShMs at it.
This is different. A public health organization can only lie at large scale once before it loses the credibility that allows it to function in the first place.

... probably.
Have you seen the Eva remaster? It’s pretty good. Also, newer series like Haikyu!! Have issues on all streaming services. Just look at the lighter beige skin tones. They look blue in some areas due to the low quality, it’s just weird. So I’m all for hq anime.
Do you have any examples of a webrtc video conferencing platform that provides a sufficient user experience over full mesh with 4 or more participants on disparate internet connections?

Im just saying that this library (and similar platforms) ARE the cutting edge of webrtc. At small number of participants, they use full mesh (which is e2ee), but at larger scale, they need to use an SFU (which is not e2ee without jumping through some crazy hoops - but this is being worked on)
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>So, I just watched this (and you can too, it's like 3 minutes). My conclusion is that animation shouldn't happen at this high a resolution.

probably just depends on the type of anime you're into.

School drama and slice-of-life? Who cares about resolution past a certain point, I agree.

Mecha or technical sci-fi? I want to be able to count the bolts and read the warning labels.
It's a rather structured stream-of-consciousness, thanks. I'm mainly afraid that because I really don't know what are the parts of our system and what they actually do that I'll screw this up. But I really trust my support system of senior devs and PMs and with my beginner mind this could be a great learning experience.
The selling point of cold brew is that it is less bitter tasting. Which means it's not a surprise when there's less tannins/antioxidants in the liquid.
Common Ground - Jarrett Heather “Word Crimes” Music Video Artist

https://vimeo.com/103615214

>"Yeah, no classes, just, you know. I think people really underestimate the value of just sitting down and reading the manual."
Speculating what could happen after rescue.
Generic.hypermedia.app: A generic Hydra console built with Hydrofoil
I'm not sure what the conventions are these days, but the $75k bounty seems reasonable for the severity of the problem (even if large compared to others I've seen). What's the record bounty size so far?
I see. In my part of the world, an expat is someone who took a job in another country. This country where they are currently resident isn't their home; they are merely there for the duration of their contract.
Breathing, visualisation, meditation, etc. may train to activate the brain and nervous system in different ways. Research show such practices even modify gene expressions by hormon signals.
Say Goodbye to WordArt (2012)
TensorFlow JavaScript – Show and Tell by Jason Mayes, Google
Trapped by Coronavirus, Nigeria’s Elite Faces Squalid Hospitals
There isn’t really such a thing as an “espresso roast”. Espresso is a description of the extraction method not the beans.

Traditionally espresso is made with a medium roast not dark roasted beans.

This Christmas I was given a bag of Starbucks “Espresso Roast” beans as a stocking filler. To me they just taste burnt compared to a decent medium. Not something I would buy through choice.

Also not a personal fan of third wave light or green roasts. I find them too acidic for my pallet.

All personal preference but give me a decent medium roast double espresso at right grind size and I’m in heaven.
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Most calls are not between large amount of people, a portion of webrtc applications would rather compromise on particiant # than security.
You watched it at one quarter of the resolution and on a tiny screen and conclude that "it just didn't seem to add to the experience"? That seems unconvincing...

There definitely are art styles that look great even at low resolution, e.g. games in cellshading look like zelda:windwaker aged really well. I am not really a fan of the art style used in sol levante, but for something like garden of words or other styles I think 4k HDR might be quite beneficial.
This is advertising of course. But if I had to select an SQL DB postgres is my only choice.

Perhaps I don't know enough about databases and their differences.

Anyone have some pros and cons of others?

Like why would I pick MySQL, Microsoft, Oracle, Maria etc over Postgres?

Apart from support that you gotta pay for.
Tesla Doesn't Change Growth Goal Despite Coronavirus Uncertainty
2019 Trends in GPU Price per Flops – AI Impacts
No (but i hope they exist, havent looked) - however not all webrtc apps are general videoconf platforms. You don't even need servers if you go full p2p.
>> CDC conducts critical science and provides health information

Lies undermine all of this. Lies undermine the means by which they accomplish their mission.

> the folks who were inclined to trust health organizations probably continue to do so as well

One point of ancedata: not all of us.
Does fractional scaling work with Electron programs like VS Code, Discord, Slack, etc? On Wayland? It is a blurry mess for me...
China’s Luckin Coffee faked $310m in sales
How many of Netflix users can actually use 4k? I use firefox so I think 720 or 1080 is the max I can get .. nice