skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The debate about this bill has been going on for a while now.

Riana Pfefferkorn of CIS did a lot better job objectively addressing the issues (sans the overt political cheap shots) in her article. It lays out why it may be unconstitutional on several grounds. I'd recommend reading it if you want more detail on the bill:

THE EARN IT ACT: HOW TO BAN END-TO-END ENCRYPTION WITHOUT ACTUALLY BANNING IT:

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-ba...
Nice to see default TLS 1.3 support. Though it looks like the use_srtp extension for DTLS is still being worked on.
Are you saying, there exists some goofball who filters DNSSEC traffic, therefore DNSSEC isn't possible? If that's how you want to play it then Google now has a moral duty to implement NAPTR and SRV too. That way fallback and load balancing can happen in the Chrome client. Thus folks won't have to pay for BGP or VIP privilege anymore to be able to serve internationally.
That's a joke, and Beazley don't accept PR anyway.
How does this compare to Dgraph? Most recent discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23031762

Also, does it support GraphQL?
> I don't have much hope of Congress acting responsibly. At least the past 3 presidents haven't encouraged following constitutional procedures

I completely get where you are coming from but in this sentence I am getting the sense that "someone out there" will make things right and we just have to "complain enough" to get their attention.

NO.

I don't think so.

You and I have to take the action.

There's no angel looking out for us. Elbow grease and blood.

Constitutional procedures not being followed?

Take them to court!

It's more work than hoping and praying but that's how this country was founded.

On action.
But my lord, is that legal?
Annotations for Concurrency in Java. Miro's approach to coloring threads
I'm very happy to see 16:10 screens becoming more common. It's also nice to see more modern 17" designs. Looks like Apple isn't going to be the only one with 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports going forward (though too bad the 15 only has 2).
That's why they bought OwnBackup
How do you handle high-availability? Also, do you have some sort of persistency model for the community version which doesn't have HA?
> Try to setup a windows 98 machine as a web server

Just so you know, Windows 2000 is vastly more stable than the 9x branch and is perfectly usable, so you should upgrade.
I haven’t read of such things in my country but am hopeful that this will happen soon here in India.
Izmir bergama armağanlar-gaylan arası satılık elektrik su olan tarla 1.000 dönüm
They don't follow warm air and pressure differentials, they are warm air and pressure differentials. A monsoon knocks down trees because a monsoon knocks down trees. Whatever God is, if it is to be God, it must be utterly transcendent and unconditioned on circumstance, unlike any natural phenomena. Treating God like a human being, or really any being or phenomenon can only be a flawed metaphor.

God is nothing. God is not the Supreme Being because God isn't a being. To exist is to be conditioned, so God does not exist. These aren't wild, heterodox statements except to our current modern strains of fundamentalist religious thought which try to pin down God as a phenomenon we can observe and study. They are statements that have been made by theologians of all sorts of traditions including the Abrahamic ones throughout history.
Apparently I'm the only person on HN that doesn't understand what a "scanned look" means, and the author doesn't provide any images to illustrate. Could someone enlighten me?
QuestDB 4.2.1 Release. SIMD performance gain 20%. Clickhouse benchmark
If I post something on GitHub publicly I would love for someone to use it. That's kind of the whole point. Ego bump!

Only thing I could think of being salty about is if they re-package and sell it as their own and make a lot of money without attribution. Then again it's not like I was going to sell it anyways, so all the power to them I guess?
The process often derails at exactly the “implement it as vanilla as possible” stage. Usually because someone doesn’t want to change what they do and someone else doesn’t care enough to make them change.
I would say no: without list processing it's not really a lisp. It's something that looks like a lisp, but isn't.
The quoted scenario is about a second home purchased as an investment property. They likely have a great deal of equity in that home as well as their primary residence. If they do not have much equity in their investment property, they have either been extracting money from it for 24 years or failed to manage it as a business. They are not in the same class as "average blue collar workers", many of whom do not own even their primary residence.
As far as I know, people in the Erlang world tend to use NIFs for computation heavy tasks: http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html However, I have not done that myself, so I cannot tell from experience how that works.
I always studied at the last moment because there wasn't any point to do it earlier since you could not take the exam earlier.

Now I'm way more motivated to do stuff as early as possible since I can clear them off my to-do list as soon as they're done.
Cheating is a form of fraud. It's both just and practical to prevent those who use fraud as a strategy from establishing positions of responsibility.

There are two questions:

Should it be the job of teachers to catch cheaters? If not teachers, who?

How do you salvage "borderline" cases where someone cheats but may not use it as a life strategy (at least, not yet)?
Agree this is probably the most beneficial application. You can reference it almost like a contract.
The Difference Between Brand Asset Management and Digital Asset Management
Spot on with your amusing guitar analogy. Getting to play notes seems like an afterthought, but when it does it plays for you as if it reads your mind to do so. The problem is the setup and that's the part that I dislike these days, the patience to to configure the tools is not there, a lot of the tools are like black boxes, something goes wrong and it isn't visible or or it is too complex to enjoy the process.
Tunnels connect MIT buildings; they can even connect a community in quarantine
I don't know about the US but speaking for the UK, landlords have had a ridiculously easy ride in recent decades. As a result, people with spare money customarily invest it in buy-to-let properties, the cost of housing has rocketed, and vast amounts of cash are continuously siphoned from poorer people to richer people. We don't have to vindictively celebrate these people getting wiped out, but anything that discourages customary amateur landlordism has to be a good thing.
Her total mortgate exposure is $1.2m, not her currently owed amount.

$24k is a yield of only 2% so yeah she's on razor thin margins... which does explain why she's immediately in jeopardy from the slightest economic wobble (not that this is a slight wobble).
Erik Naggum has been dead for 11 years. I’m not sure it’s useful to bring up his contributions to the culture if we are discussing what Lisp is today.
I used only the mouse. I was able to get pitch, yaw and rotation to zero but never translation.
Beekeeper Studio v1.3 – Bugfix Bonanza
1) I didn't write the article

2) If your argument is that Santa Clara and San Mateo counties are also bad (if not worse), I don't disagree...
It's ironic that this is the same site which created https://growth.design/case-studies/trello-user-onboarding/

Which is probably the least user-friendly thing I've come across in a while.
That would limit the refactoring to a few common operations, and even those would be increasingly harder to implement for every new language added.
Agreed. Running a company with a sustainable business model and healthy profits, not being propped up by VC money would probably do the local economy of one such a city perhaps more good.
> We should technically be the last to be automated.

I disagree, developer work will be automated as soon as it is technologically feasible, especially given the high cost of software development labor. I foresee AI software development platforms starting to take over new application development at some point, building applications that humans have minimal access to the source of. Existing apps by humans will likely need human maintenance until AI is able to reason about larger legacy applications.

We’re already starting to see no-code apps taking off, and AI will drive the proliferation of that technology as it becomes more sophisticated.
RocketLab tests new hyperCurie engine that will power its deep space delivery
The appropriate response time depends on what is being decided

When it comes to deciding who I will be working with I would rather take the time (hours/days/weeks) so that that we make a fair (un-baised) decision

As for deciding to whether to evade a baseball being thrown at my head, I would prefer the faster response time. It okay to be biased against fast moving projectiles :-)

Any time you deal with people you need take the time needed to eliminate any biases that are common to many humans
I don't think decency has anything to do with it. Profits are king that everyone bows to. I can see a management meeting where inevitably someone throws the idea of webcam surveillance into the rink. After all it is simple to understand, it "makes sense", (micro)managers will really enjoy it. So it will pass with flying colors.

And as they say, the rest is history. Good workers will eventually leave. Some will adapt. Software and hacks will appear that can trick key presses and mouse clicks. Eveyone will become 9 to 5 no matter what.

I see some examples brought up where developers are not putting up with it - that is correct. For developers, typing <> productivity, so that will not stick. But there are other occupations around - admin work, marketing, data entry, HR, etc... Productivity in those occupations will dip, some people will leave, but in larger scope work will continue. Companies will compensate by hiring more people, it won't be visible on a balance sheet as "survelliance tax" because no one is tracking. And the world will go on. Worse off than before, unfortunately.
Both Chrome and Safari on the iPad
Samsung hails the rise of ruler SSDs for the data center
Probably $27k of income per month with $29k of expenses, implying a $1.2M loan due in a few years? Just speculating.
Basically all web languages compile/transpile* to JS since that's the only thing with wide support, at least until WASM is 100% equivalent.

What's your definition of transpiling and what are you looking for?

* I personally find the difference meaningless, lots of languages use intermediate compilation targets like C or JS or LLVM IR or assembly so transpiling and compiling mean the same thing to me
Yeah, seems to not be a problem after 2 days of fasting. I kind of focus on protein and fat before a fast to try and get there a little earlier.
Like games and software, the staff needed to make a song varies a lot.

If you want your [game, software, song, ...] to reach a certain level of polish and fame, you need a similar number of people working on it. Mixing, mastering, recording, composing. You need someone who's very good with sheet music and knowledgeable about all parts of an orchestra if you have any orchestral parts you want played on real instruments.

And so on.

Can I make a song in a week that'll impress a few tens of thousands people? Sure. People write in to me all the time saying "this is just what I needed!" They don't notice I banged it out in Ableton in an hour because it's what they needed. It's what I needed too, so it was easy to make it good enough. Just like you can make a game or a piece of software in a week that'll scratch a lot of people's itches even if it's not perfect.

Recently, I got back into photography, and it's the same. I can take a great picture on my own and impress a lot of people, but most famous photographers have a staff that rivals the biggest non-unicorn SV startups. Editors, lighters, second (or third) shooters, general A/V crew, marketing, office staff, etc.
Tulsi seemed cool. It's weird.
Being a landlord is much less profitable than intuition would lead you to assume.
Suggestion: Add support for passing the topic via URL? https://showcase.metamate.io/hackernews-trends/#!topic=kuber... or https://showcase.metamate.io/hackernews-trends?topic=kuberne... maybe?
If there's anything I've learned from Kerbal, the last 100 meters is the easy part - it's getting to the same place at the same time and at the same speed that's the trick. I can't count the number of times I've screamed past my space station at an extra 1000 m/s.
> The neighbors would gather in large numbers at the auction of the farm and bid very low prices on the farm and its contents while intimidating other bidders.

Emphasis added. The world has changed. Today, if folks attempted intimidation, such auctions would be attended by hoards of cops in riot gear. They'd be there to protect the rich, who will be happy to outbid the locals and sell the property back to them at twice the price.
Google’s Pixel Division Undergoes Shakeup After Disappointing Launch
Setting Up Single Sign-On for NodeBB
It's not about testing, it's about using it. I know how to use a REPL :)

GraalVM simply is not production-ready, though I follow its progress with great interest. That said, it's hard to compare the process of integrating with GraalVM against a language that actually just has fast startup.

Babashka is pretty cool, but it's another example of something that isn't quite Clojure. Nice if you can tolerate various "almost the same" languages, but Clojure itself is still weak in these domains.
Anyone who owns a 2nd home in Boulder is not a blue collar worker.
Than you really have to stretch the principle of charity beyond what it reasonable. Just read the first of the ten commandments and there is a very jealous undertone about other gods.

"I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have any strange gods before Me."

From this statement it is very clear to me who God is and that is not the Universe, society nor the father of time.
Jokes on you suckers

They’ll just hand more cash to themselves and keep filling you full of shit about how the game works

This is plain old rich v. poor

As long as the literal majority feel guilty for demanding figurative sacrifice in the form of higher taxes (something modern day elite families benefited from as children) this is your society

Enjoy it! Country by of and for the people, right?

Americans are losing standing in the world for looking so pathetic.

The people protesting in Hong Kong and the Mideast, in the face of despots have taken the title of exceptional from people that can’t stand up against ... yeah him. An idiot
Winamp 5.8 is released
I'm so happy the station is not rotating...
Very cool for finding old HN topics, like this one where Paul Graham is conspiring that bitcoin was created by a government (2013).

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5547423
Thanks, I know see better what you mean. But, wasn't that achieved prior to Rust by realtime OSs like QNX?
It just moves the basis of trust from a diverse network of private CAs, any of which can be individually punished or distrusted if they misbehave, to the single centralized system of DNS, which rolls up to whomever controls your TLD of choice--entities who usually can't be removed, punished, or replaced.
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22752641

On the Enterprise page, the meaning of the copy is clear, but some of the text reads as if it might have been written by a non-native English speaker. It doesn't matter to me, but it is more likely to matter in the Enterprise space.
But my Blockchain Deep Learning Dog Walking app is going to change the world!! I went to Stanford so I must be right! /s
Ah, that makes way more sense. Thanks! Me read bad sometimes.
Tell that to ISPs who insert ads into every non-encrypted location they can find.
start with mobile phones. The apps on your phone are tracking everything.
Reminds me of the implied echo in Greek Mythology. The Titans created the Gods. They tyranized them out of fear and were later near entirety overthrown except for the collaborators or most merciful among them. The Titans shaped man and the Gods breathed life into Man. The Gods tyranized man out of fear of them....

Accidental or not the implications long term are of a cycle of overthrow and self fulfilling prophecy.
LibrAvatar – Federated, Open Source Avatars
>where much more land becomes easy to use to for housing

what are these revolutionary changes that will make the wild wild west more hospitable? is it public transportation? is it more investment in local schools? is it small walkable main streets? none of these things will happen the way you imagine they will. how do i know that? can i predict the future? am i a city planner? no. you're repeating everything that everyone said ~50 years ago when rich people migrated away from cities. i've already brought this up elsewhere in this thread. like seriously just take a step back and pattern match for 2 seconds.
He's been dead for a long time, though I've seen his posts being brought up now and then on the Lisp forums. Honestly, I'm thankful that these situations are rare. Most of his Lisp wisdom has been distilled from his other qualities and integrated into many contemporary Lisp libraries. This saves us from the need to dive into the verbatim Naggum posts from the c.l.l archives.
Very much this. Not in the UK (US here), but there's been a bit of a resurgence in butchery as a profession. So, this leaves me in the rather nice position of having not one but two 'real' (USDA inspected) butchers close by, but many butchers these days will also ship.

My subjective experience is the quality ranges from "noticeably better" to "OMFG how have I never had something this good before better" than the supermarket offering, though clearly at a higher price point.
The GP’s point is that the system that incentivizes this is flawed and needs to change. Do you disagree?
Basecamp is a decent company and is actively blocking this effort:
https://m.signalvnoise.com/employee-surveillance-software-is...
In the large scale, the current crisis is a joke. Do you want water? Your tap still works. Hungry? Put on a mask, drive to the supermarket, and wow, they still have food...

That makes me sound like a crazy prepper, but if the water shuts off and the supermarkets don't get resupplied I'll probably be dead within a week.
Here I disagree. HTTPS gives guarantee to visitors of the site that they can trust the information being served to them.

A malicious actor hijacking plain HTTP connections does not necessarily have to inject code that harms the user's computer directly. He/she could also just alter bits and pieces of the served content to trick the user into doing something not in his/her interest.

So while having better browser sandboxing and protection is good (and welcome), HTTPS is still necessary.
Indeed. I find the people who complain most loudly about how easy and profitable it is to be a landlord generally have no first-hand experience on the topic.
> "What continues to shock me about HN is how many people seem to think there's a choice between casualties and economic harm."

That's a misrepresentation. Both sides understand that economic harm is guaranteed. The question is when the economic harm of quarantine-caused business collapses and job losses exceeds the economic harm of casualties. Personally, like most of HN, I'm fine with extending the quarantine but, being HNers, we can afford to weather the storm; the majority are not so fortunate. And even I don't think that the US can afford to have the quarantine last much longer than another month or two.

I don't think the 1918 pandemic is necessarily good guidance for that since households were more self-sufficient then.
Community Advocate at GitLab here, it'd be great if you can add this feedback to this issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/24629 Thanks!
But would all those cheaters still have become cheaters if the act of cheating had been more difficult?
I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that someone who started cheating because they saw an easy opportunity to do so at some point would never have cheated at all if that easy opportunity had never been there to begin with.

"Oppurtunity makes the thief" as the old saying goes.
Congrats on reaching 1.0! I'm always interested in new GraphDB solutions and glad to see the Cypher integration and Neo4j wire compatibility here.

I'm excited seeing the progress being made in this space recently (this, redisgraph, etc) - the wider ecosystem is still immature but promising.
She's probably not counting appreciation and principle reduction. Her 1.2 million in mortgages is probably on ~2 millionish in property. Last year she probably saw their value go up a few percent while paying down 40k in principle.

Her profit is probably in the 6 figures and the 24k is cash flow.
We used tesseract ocr, plus other image processing libraries to improve ocr's chances, and although we were close to usable results there were still many challenges. One major problem was that different data sources had completely different page layouts, and often times the original documents were out of reach and the client only had available the scans of fax transmissions!

The bottom line was that we were able to achieve very good results consistently, but the margin of error was not acceptable for our specific use case.
Each dinosaur was modern for its time.

And so was XAML. Time is passing and now it takes significant excavation effort to find out a project that uses it. Git-for-desktop used to be a XAML app, now it is an Electron app. And so on.

QML is a palliative or compromise if you wish: let's take existing widget-tree-based UI and add some declarativeness to it at least to compete somehow with the web tech stack flexibility and explosion of ideas. Desperate move I would say.

As an C++ UI developer and then UI architect I was working on one project that transitioned from pure desktop VB + native application to pure Web based app. So "I've been there, seen that" and many times since then, all pro et contra of all these.

At some point I've asked myself the question: "Ok, what would you add to Web UI stack so it will be really useful on desktop?"

So I took C++ again and made the Sciter. It is a modern engine that works as on modern high-res monitors and GPU hardware as on ancient XP machines. It supports as retained UI as immediate ones a la ImGUI. As C++, Go, Rust, Delphi as script. As Angular (data bound UI) and React UI (vDOM,JSX) approaches as classic direct element tree composition from native code.

Yes, all this is using HTML/CSS vocabulary because it is a) convenient and flexible, b) 90% of UI developers are Web developers these days and c) HTML/CSS are here now and for generations to come.
Hey Pete, sorry to hear you had trouble viewing our comic book case studies :/. Was it the slide format that threw you off?
Resilience requires redundancy and ‘slack’ in the system. Like morality, these are costs that get competed away.
SpaceX seeks $656,000 from California as Musk battles to keep Tesla factory open
It's like Salesforce, that crap is ubiquitous in large companies. Have you ever used it? It's a nightmarishly clunky piece of trash and yet Salesforce is a 150B behemoth.
trying to learn from your comment,

Would it matter the interest/equity proportions of the mortgage payments?
Also what about the other costs associated with owning the real estate (taxes, maintenance)?
Could someone comment on how secure such a container is, at least nominally? Should I be able to theoretically run untrusted code on such a container if the system is bug-free and I add proper error-checking to the code? Or are there things that you'd need to worry about the code being able to access? Any considerations regarding sudo permissions?