skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really true.

The standard, from In Re Walt Disney, is that business decisions aren’t reviewable unless “the exchange was so one-sided that no business person of ordinary, sound judgment could conclude that the corporation has received adequate consideration".

In, Shlensky v. Wrigley, the Chicago Cubs’ were sued for refusing to install lighting for nighttime games: their president believed baseball was best as “a daytime sport." This is absurdly nebulous (and kind of bizarre), but the Cubs nevertheless won.

That decision was based on Davis v. Louisville Gas and Electric Co, which says “the directors are chosen to pass upon such questions and their judgment unless shown to be tainted with fraud is accepted as final. The judgment the directors of the corporation enjoys the benefit of a presumption that it was formed in good faith, and was designed to promote the best interests of the corporation they serve.”

It is probably true that this policy earns Netflix some intangible goodwill. It might plausibly make them more money. However, even if it didn't, it would still be within its rights to implement such a policy.
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The US is running out of bikes as demand spikes due to coronavirus
> The most recommended solution is to chronic anxiety is to always just refocus on the task you're currently doing and continue on.

Usually I'm relaxed in the morning, then go to work, enter a state of flow / complete focus, then at the end of the day I'm anxious (this becomes worse when I enter the supermarket for my evening groceries, even as I continue to think about work) and my breath is messed up (short, shallow breathing).

How would your method help here? For me it seems there is a contradiction, or not? Could you explain?
On servers you don't manage.
Github repo: https://github.com/alexwennerberg/gourami
The military meaning of amphibious warship is a bit disappointing.
"So why not use it to test the premise that an insular, educative family can be a refuge and a moral counterweight to the ubiquitous and inevitable intellectual tendencies of our time"

Indeed, and one of the many reasons why, more than 20 years ago, we made the decision to educate at home. And so far, it's working for us as a family - and quite well I might add (2 children have almost completed engineering degrees and 2 others are doing well academically and are senior NCOs in Air Cadets).
SpaceX's spacesuit changes astronaut fashion from the space shuttle era
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_powder

From what I'm told my grandfather had fun with the cleaning ladies at the pharmacy he worked in by sprinkling flash powder ingredients on the floor, so that when they swept them up together the mix would go off, making a small poof, scaring the cleaning ladies.
I'm not an artist myself but I follow David Revoy, who [0] uses Krita and other open-source software extensively for his Pepper & Carrot comic [1]. His blog [0] is full of posts about how he does his work using open-source tools.

There are plenty of fantastic artists who use Krita but I find him interesting because of how dedicated he is to using open-source software for all his work.

[0]: https://www.davidrevoy.com/

[1]: https://www.peppercarrot.com/
The Definitive Classic Mac Pro (2006–2012) Upgrade Guide
Well, my head is spinning, but I've made a bit of progress. I thought I'd start by trying out a few of the ones you and others have characterized as user-friendly as well as one of the more bare-bones ones.

The (hopelessly unscientific) test plan was:

Challenge 1 - write live system ISO to USB drive and boot it on my 2015 MacBook Air (which, though old, still counts as exotic, I guess.)

Challenge 2 - make sure display, network, trackpad and keyboard (+ intl. layout) work correctly. Be able to SFTP to my Mac

Challenge 3 - with little to no docs reading (how is the package manager invoked from CLI?), use the terminal to set up the right environment for a couple of relatively portable hobby projects I've been recently working on (on Mac), compile and test them. This includes, among other things, installing clang or g++, SDL2, Wine (to run an ancient ARM assembler) and finding a usable GBA emulator.

Limitations:

A: 8GB RAM. More ambitious stuff (KVM macOS, VisualStudio Code) will have to wait for an actual install.
B: Deliberately avoiding exposure to the docs is silly but I thought
such an approach would give me an indication as to whether
there exists a distro that uhm, "thinks like me".

Candidates:
Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, KDE Neon (which, if I'm not wrong, is Ubuntu LTS preconfigured as the latest KDE) and Void.

Results:

Challenge 1: unremarkable. All worked right off the bat except for Void, which made it as far as showing the mouse pointer but then froze.

Challenge 2: well, boring ;) All distros were pretty much ready to use and required minimal tweaking. With the tweaking part ranging from effortless (Mint) to minor headscratching (Neon). Not sure whether /etc/X11/XF86Config still exists but I did not miss editing it today.

Challange 3: more interesting:

Neon: all worked as expected except some trial and error required to get Wine working: wine32 was required but it wasn't getting installed by default, apparently. (Not a whole lot easier on Mac anyway, with separate downloads & installs for Wine and XQuartz)

Ubuntu: I failed as apt refused to acknowledge the existence of the packages I needed. This is weird as I believe Neon relies on the same package database. Though undoubtedly my fault, not reading the manual, it is perhaps a bit interesting that I could not readily find my way around the problem.

Fedora: everything worked except for Wine, as the live system ran out memory (disk space) on installing it. Not a big deal, everything else worked very well. Aside: I'm an avid runner and "DNF" is not the most likeable of names for a program I have to use very frequently! j/k..

Mint: everything worked at take one.

I know this isn't even scratching the surface of the surface but I think for now I'm going to go ahead and play more with Mint and Fedora after installing them on MB Air hardware or MB Pro VMware.... with a mind of getting back to KDE/Neon eventually.
If it's asserted often and loudly enough, it becomes true - at least in the minds of most people.

Huawei spends over 15 billion USD/year on R&D, which puts it in the same league as Apple and Google. Only a few companies in the world spend more on R&D. That's the real reason why Huawei is viewed as a threat. The US has been happy for China to produce cheap knick-knacks. Now that China develops and produces its own cutting-edge technology, it is perceived as a threat.
You can't actually send a tweet at the push of a button (unless you're connected with twitter oauth with the right permissions), but what you can do (and that button does) is opens the tweet composer pre-filled with the quote, ready for you to then just hit "Tweet"
The mapping template language(?) is frustrating to do anything in though. Its documentation is somewhat hidden / distributed, especially any special variables / util functions, and suffers from limitations like the foreach operator being limited to 1000 iterations. Unless you're literally returning entire database objects (unprocessed, including all the type info) or something similar, it's pretty limited.
Just learning about this now, and it looks really nice. I’ve been on the hunt for something to replace Sequel Pro, and this looks like it might do the trick!
>> Government identification may be required and we may ask you for more information in order to verify your identify

Same issue as I'm currently having with Airbnb. Though I have never ever provided any ID before, nor did I ever book anything, they asked me for an ID to prove my identity upon requesting account removal. How exactly does my ID _prove_ anything in my case (apart from the fact that I have an ID copy of a person who has the same name as I entered into the Airbnb profile page). Seems more like one more obstacle to prevent people from deleting their account.
"If debugging is the art of taking errors out of programs, then programming is the art of putting them in." -- someone far smarter (and funnier) than me.
The difference is, when baffled by something found in nature, you assume you just don’t understand it well enough. When baffles by something found in programming, you assume everyone else is a moron.
Pandemics, Politics, and Beliefs
I wonder what the difference between managed serverless and having an EC2 instance w/ Firecracker loaded up on it would be.

I've used Lambda and I fear maintenance burdens due to the underlying environments migrating; they'll keep the runtime for a running function for you but if it's old I don't think you can update that without having to upgrade runtimes.

Also you get billed in 50ms increments at minimum, and so beyond that there's little incentive to make a function faster / a lot of incentive to stuff more logic into a function and make it less composable.

I think I'd rather define an AMI w/ Firecracker using Packer, and stand up a box with Terraform, and write logs to CloudWatch, and have a much more predictable billing cycle / greater control.
OK, but... they didn't build the mountain. It's only the existence of the pyramids that inspires. We don't have any records of the amazing, inspiring, innovative plans to build the pyramids—or at least, if we do, they sure don't have cultural currency.
Depending on who your card is through, some companies started offering this. It's often just hidden in the web UI.
All I see is a whole bunch of dollar signs floating away.

It’s quite sad how effective cloud marketing penetrated the dev community.
Oh god thanks. This issue plagued me for the last 5 years, to the point I joked my desktop was possessed.
They should. I think that if there are grants for scientific research, there should also be grants for open source projects.

Right now there is a complete framework for research grants (national organizations and the European Research Council), but afaict no such thing exists for open source projects. I think this should change.

Also, there should be structural government support for security hardening/audits.
Ask a person about UNIX, they'll list Mac, Solaris, whatever. All UNIX distributions! I listed a bunch elsewhere in this subthread. Feel free to check them out, but for some reason I'm beginning to suspect that you're probably not going to.
What will the new entrepreneurs need to do and be to be successful in the 2020s?
Would it be viable to create a business to take the old panels and basically just mount them out in the desert to provide nearly free power (assuming you just do morning loads)?
Serverless is a pretty ubiquitous term meaning the servers are fully managed for you and abstract services are made available instead.
I'd hate to be the maintainer of that mess, good luck!
App Store bug temporarily preventing apps like YouTube from launching for some
> thoroughly useless and anachronistic.

As a native English speaker, and armchair linguist, I feel that that sentence describes a rather substantial percentage of English usage, grammar, and (especially!) spelling.
I often connect to production databases in read only users to do various data analysis. Is this something you can do with SQLite (besides maybe SSHing into the machine)? If not, how do you get around it (if it ever even comes up)?
It also handles NoScript well

Text, images, and no scripts
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This is what vendor lock-in looks like.
A _lot_ of people (myself included) buy Intel and only Intel. Maybe there isn't a good reason by a strict price-performance option, but I like the wider choice of motherboards and I just trust their compatibility more.

Also, all our desktop systems here are Xeon because we've had bad experience with ECC support on AMD.

Edit: Honest truthful non-inflammatory comments get you downvoted and mocked. That's some toxic community you've built here, @dang.
Shenanigans of Serverless
If you have ssh access to your web host, you may be able to upgrade it yourself. I needed something more recent for django 2.2 and had to download the latest sqlite, compile it, put the lib in some folder and add the lib to .bashrc so that python3 could use it (ld_include_flags or something like that).

Look for it on google, it’s possible to do it..
Gmail was introduced after Google was already popular. The Google home page’s claim to fame was always its simplicity and fast load time.
Anyone who doubts this argument should also take a look at the increasing role of private companies to circumvent your 4th Amendment protections on behalf of your government. A limited set of examples:

-License plate location databases
-Cell location databases
-Contact databases

The 4th may prevent your local PD from gathering all that data on every citizen, but it doesn't stop them from buying it from private companies that collect it. This is a problem.
They don't.

You haven't put forward any arguments that supports your position though. You mentioned unrelated things. This is not a paper from the Chinese government or a communist party so why should. That kind of reasoning is a slippery slope in my opinion.
Cognito has an awful API and worse documentation. It's also super limited in terms of how user metadata is represented, is hard to query efficiently for users meeting certain criteria, and produces super cryptic errors when integrations aren't set up correctly. As a whole the Cognito product feels like some weird bolted-on POC that AWS decided to charge money for. Compare that to a real _product_ like Auth0 and it just falls to pieces.

If the appeal is about free usage under 40k monthly active users, you probably don't need an external complex managed auth solution in the first place.
Congratulations, on finally having a tablet version of Krita. I think years ago they planned to make one for Windows Phone but we all know what happened there.

Looking forward to the phone version.
Isn't this legally the case? There's a random place on the internet and people upload details. Not payment info, and I honestly am not clear on how much the rest is protected (USA). This is exactly what Zuckerberg called people "dumb fucks" for, and I don't think anything (legally) has changed.

I'm on your side as far as the "why the hell is this the case", but I think this is the world that (USA and others) live in.
This is what they use to make that green drink.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQAG0JEb718
That was my conclusion after getting all excited about serverless initially. I was seeing lower latency, no coldstart concerns, and easier log access/ability to debug just by going back to having a server. Plus having your entire deploy be completely governed by a gigantic YAML file that no one's ever bothered to fully (or even properly) document gets old very fast. So I'm back to using servers.
Giving up just makes the story so boring.

Not a good article in my opinion, too many layers of depression to make a rational point.
But apparently only in the bottom sheet. Scientist estimate, though, that humanity might be able to achieve 60fps scrolling in other app areas as soon as 2035, on a schedule right after cold fusion!
I thought so too, but then, I could never manage it myself. I imagine a solution would be to build a receiver with a Bluetooth antenna for each channel, so that it would be device-agnostic, and a mic port for calibration. Maybe a traditional RCA port for a powered subwoofer.

But if it were so simple, I'm sure someone would have done it by now. There may also be weird licensing issues involved, like perhaps Dolby/DTS don't want to certify such a system, and so access to whatever you need to decode their signals isn't readily available.
There are a few advantages. Not worrying about maintaining and securing underlying infrastructure is huge. Not worrying about load balancing logic is helpful. Having isolated blast radius of application failures is nice. Overprovisioning can be a real problem depending on the underlying machines.

And then when you get into the surrounding services and features you really start to feel the benefits. Want to have canary deployments? Want to have a queue of failed events? Want to start piping data into a data lake for future analytics? Need to introduce a decoupling message queue in front of an expensive operation? All of it is almost turnkey.
Try finding a cognito user from a cognito identity, you can't.

Visit the amplify-js and amplify-cli github repos and search for cognito issues.

Try using the cognito console, it is a litter box of warning messages and exceptions. Try connecting Cognito and Pinpoint if you are in Europe, 2 years and it still doesn't work, but no indication.

See its cloudformation configuration and how many field changes cause a Replace. Yes, replace Cognito and goodbye users.

Until recently user names were case sensitive, and they didn't have basic account enumeration protections.

Its UX is exactly how DynamoDB can do damage to a product.
> If you fail, the last page is corporate training on the topic.

In my work, the policy is 3 strikes and you are gone. First two fails are trainings with tests and third fail is an instant fireable event. As we work with clients and and their data, this is strictly enforced too.
Push-to-talk "walkie-talkie" style audio. It's very handy, bit it's a learning curve and 20-somethings today hate talking to people. I think it could catch on (again) eventually.

see the "CB Radio" craze of the 1970s.
> This is not lawful under both the GDPR and the CCPA.

INAL, but from my understanding that's exactly what GDPR itself suggests to do:

> The controller should use all reasonable measures to verify the identity of a data subject who requests access, in particular in the context of online services and online identifiers.

Thats mainly because [2]:

> There is a very real concern of fraudulent requests from bad actors, who might use a customer’s data for nefarious purposes.

While it's great to know that noone else is able to delete my account, it still feels shady af.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#d1e1374-1-1

[2] https://konfirmi.com/blog/gdpr-personal-data-id-verification...
my favorite db format
If your load is within a reasonably small range, Lambda is quite expensive on a per-computation basis. But, if your load varies wildly (and especially unpredictably), you can spend less time worrying about that than on a build-similar on EC2 solution.
Do you think that the cost calculator does a poor job of estimating the financial hit?

The claim is that getting out of the regular instance-and-EBS-volume architecture avoids cost.

The question being whether "avoids cost" meant Amazon, or your business.
Still need STUN servers in order to tell you your externally-accessible address, no?
Biggest issue I see with this latest breed of Intel chips are their thermals... looks like you'll need a motherboard that can push quite a few watts to the CPU and you'll need a cooling solution (liquid cooling or a high-end aircooler) to remove the heat.

If you need to drop $$$ on a high-end motherboard and cooler to actually hit top performance it can obscure the true cost of the CPU, because you can easily drop an extra $100 trying to cope with its power and thermal requirements.
They could have made it low friction opt-in. “Click this one button in our email to you and we’ll import your account.”
Just switch to Windows and WSL. For most cases, it works just great/not noticeably slower.

There's a lot of bullshit on Windows too but nothing near OSX levels of wannabe big brother shit.

Can't think of a better long term short right now in the market than Apple (and sister cult Tesla but the electric story is at least in the early days so they may do ok)
Self driving cars don’t need to be 100% autonomous in all possible scenarios in order to be useful. Self-driving reliably on the highway? Hell yes I’d take that (just think of trucks - having a driver to the highway is so much cheaper than having someone drive it cross-country). Self driving reliably in a few major cities? Oh, you mean cheap robotic taxi?
If it's decoupled, it's plenty testable.

Serverless covers 2 scenarios very well: when you have volume so low, that you don't want to pay for reserved capacity: if nobody is using the stuff, you pay next to nothing.

And also if there is a lot of load, it's very very easy to scale it to cover very high demand.
We have a few paths for this type of thing.

One is to simply zip up the entire database and send it across the wire. This is most applicable for local development and QA testing scenarios.

Another is to have something in the business application and relevant tooling that allows for programmatic querying of the data we need to look into.

We also have some techniques where we do ETL of the data range we care about from 1 SQLite db to another, then pull down the consolidated db for analysis.
SAM provides a pretty painless way to test locally and is core to most CI/CD with Lambda.
Firefox Preview + Dark Reader works really well!
I can't even tell you how many times a dev came to me with some weird question that was very simply answered by "just use sqlite."

I've never thrown more than 20GB of data at it, but it always handles things admirably, and it often (to me) makes the right calls about the level of complexity required (accepts column type defs but really just doesnt care if it maps to string.)
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I suppose what OP is saying is, if an innovative company figured out how to do those things, obviously using the technology/universe we already have, then they'd have him as a customer and/or investor. They'd have me too. These are all great consumer-focused features that would be game-changers for a credit card company.

It's simply utterly bananas that all it takes is for someone to get a few numbers from me, and then they have the ability to arbitrarily take my money, making it my problem to dispute it. This goes for credit cards and ACH transfers (which only require routing number and account number). The company who figures out how to fix this will have it made.
US critics of stay-at-home orders tied to fossil fuel funding
Go into PayPal and check under "recurring payments," or "subscriptions." LastPass should be under there. Click it and then revoke the authorization and they shouldn't be able to bill you any longer.

Outside of this I am pretty sure no company is able to automatically bill you on PayPal without your consent, except for a select few companies like Nintendo (where you can pay on your Switch without authorizing any PayPal prompts).
The problem is that a developer doesn’t really understand the business complexities and nuances - he studied computers, not business.

I feel there is a gap to be crossed, and settling into a common language and common communication practices are ways to bridge it, but I could never say I understand the business.

I get some basics. We have lots of areas, we need workflows, we design parts, then make them, then sell them. But I certainly don’t have enough knowledge to really understand it.
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This shows how much Windows has fallen out of favor with tech enthusiasts: there is no way we wouldn’t have heard of a new system32 executable for almost 2 years back in the day. People would rush to diff the hell out of any beta and patch release. Now nobody cares.
If it's a recurring payment then yes, it should be under PayPal's My Preapproved Payments.
I just wish they would have made it for the LGA1151 socket and not for a new socket again which will only support one or two generations of CPUs.
English seems pretty forgiving on this, at least compared to Chinese "measure words".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_classifiers
It is important to note the limitations of the study (written in the discussion section of the paper) which still call for trials of HCQ to get the final answer on if it works or not.

Trials exist, luckily. It's all a matter of waiting.