skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This point merits an explanation. The file /etc/resolv.conf is a configuration file for the `dns` NSS module used by the glibc resolver.

Google's async DNS feature uses Chrome's own internal DNS resolver which doesn't call gethostname(). It would be incorrect for Chrome to parse this file and attempt to "respect" your settings because NSS is a series of black-box system-specific modules. If you removed the dns module from /etc/nsswitch.conf then resolv.conf wouldn't even enter the mix on your system and then Chrome would do the wrong thing. If the dns module behaved differently on your system and /etc/resolv.conf was actually /etc/resolv.json or /etc/resolver.conf then Chrome would again do the wrong thing.

When resolving a name applications have two choices, either look up the name with glibc, send the request through the NSS gauntlet of black-box modules and take whatever it returns of perform the DNS request itself and ignore everything on the system. Any sort of hybrid approach would be more confusing.
> Very interesting. A shame that funding is always a problem - how much could that have cost? 200.000$ year?

Agree, the things we (at least in the USA) waste money on is astounding. We do it not only in government, DoD, but also the private sector. We've all seen individual people or entire divisions and ask ourselves "why are these people getting paid so much for doing so little?", and we stare at superficial 'constructions' such as a new "welcome to [insert city name]" sign that probably cost $100K to make and install. All the while, brilliant ideas that could be funded with 1/4 of these budgets are abondoned/neglected.

To me a lot of it stems from very weak leadership. "Leaders", from CEO's/top-gov't echelons down to the lowest supervisors who are afraid to do anything but keep pushing the same old rock forward to ensure self-preservation. I'd argue the cumulative affect of weak lower-tier supervision is perhaps more harmful than weak higher-level leadership, although ensuring strong leadership at low levels is the ultimate responsibility of higher-level leaders.

God forbid we take a risk and fail and stock price takes a hit. God forbid we hurt someone's feelings and cut their salary to match their actual contribution. We, as a society, are not doing a very good job of prioritizing the work that matters.

Wasted resources (most importantly, time) are the hallmark of fearful leaders.
It would be stupid. No restaurant reform can prevent employees from doing something bad, unless you want to mandate robotic "employees". The sane way to react to such videos would be to confront the employers, using a lawsuit if necessary, so they can fix the situation. All required laws already exist AFAICT.
> Case folding can be done in one or two ways, simple and full

Oh, it's worse than that. There can be locale specific tailorings of case folding rules.

By the way, do not confuse case-folding mappings with case mappings for up- and down-casing. These are different in Unicode.

Also, don't think this is Unicode's fault. This is the fault of humans for creating such rich scripts and languages and rules.
Tbh for me I only feel like 12500 to 13000 makes a difference. In other words, 10,000 doesn’t require much effort (purposely going out for exercise), but to get 12,000 does require purposeful exercise.
I assume you're talking about centralized cooling for server farms? The solution I like for that is to turn the entire rear door of each cabinet into a water-fed heat exchanger, with no change to the servers. Then your piping is orders of magnitude simpler and safer.
A Minneapolis City Councilman (who ran on a campaign of police reform) explains it pretty well here:

https://time.com/5848705/disband-and-replace-minneapolis-pol...
I won't argue with the fake identities part, but she didn't force the flights to be delayed. She didn't "crash the car".

It would be more like her driving through a known dangerous intersection, following all traffic laws, and still getting t-boned every few days because of low visibility. She didn't "make" the crash happen, she just knew it would.
The bulb doesn't have to be clear, the filament vibration would make the light flicker visibly (for sensitive equipment that is) even if the glass isn't clear. So it may be that the filament is far more susceptible to vibration than the glass on any type of light bulb. As I said, this is my interpretation, the text doesn't make it clear to me.
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I think the idea here was simply to use the excess energy to stock up on potable water, which people could drink later, rather than to also use it for pumped storage.
Gambling does increase risk, but it is not done TO increase risk. Risk is accepted (or embraced) to increase reward.

Of course it gets murkier when people talk about the “rush” of gambling, which is I think what you’re alluding to, but it’s not as straightforward as you make it or the most popular gambles would be those with the longest odds or the highest chance of complete ruin.
Nope. How does it compare?
In the US there's basically a 110% chance that whatever insurance policy you took has become a part of some derivative contract with swaps or whatever.

And everyone financially engineers insurance if they have anything resembling a free market.

Reinsurance in denmark: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=654d1fd4-cffc...

First result for Denmark insurance swaps: https://books.google.com/books?id=XsbFBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA34&lpg=P...
Who says it’s the silent majority? The loud minority are those who keep bitching and moaning imo
This is a bit of a tangent but I think we can all agree that with the absolute glut of endless streams of information we are now relying more and more on heuristics to determine what information is relevant than we've ever done.

Yet people still go on about never judging books by their titles and all that jazz.

Is it finally acceptable to use appearances as a heuristic albeit an imprecise one and to expect people to put some effort into their appearance in aid of this?

I mean as valuable as every potential colleague, aquaintance, or other professional contact is I don't have the ability or the wherewithal to get to know everyone I meet on a fundamental level without any external manifestation of their inner nature.

Is there a balance between click bait and utterly banal that we can apply to articles, and people too?
It depends on the country of course. UK cows tend to be fed mostly grass.
It's not though; when submitting a native app to the app store, at least for iOS you're sending them an intermediate version; a version that can be compiled and repackaged by Apple for a specific CPU, e.g. 32 or 64 bits. They will also grab the assets intended for that platform, e.g. regular images for small screens, 2x images for retina and 3x images for iPad screens.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_representation
I had missed ansible-pull, looks like the exact pattern I want. Thanks!
Yes password protection would definitely make this more usable.

Have you also seen apprtc [0]? Could you point out if there are any differences you see there to Briefing?

[0] https://appr.tc/
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Also interesting (though different): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
I don't think it's about observing the filament directly, just that the filament basically being a spring is more susceptible to vibrations which would change the amount of light emitted.

I am totally guessing at that, but it seems reasonable.
A thousand times no.

Just like a stock market is undermined by insider trading, so insurance markets are undermined by fraud. Insider trading and fraud don't mean stocks or policies are mispriced. Insider trading and fraud are breaking the social contract of what the products are meant for, which is why they're illegal.

The article quotes:

> "she was able to receive relevant information beforehand that tells her if the flight was going to be delayed or cancelled."

Which sounds exactly like the insurance equivalent of insider trading. Buying insurance on something you already know is going to happen or not is fraud, plain and simple.

The insurance company had loopholes too, but the loophole that prevented the company from finding out sooner was that she got payment from the airlines directly, rather than the insurance company. That's not mispricing. She was arrested because she committed insurance fraud, plain and simple.
> Because cote, coté, côte and côté are all different words with the same upper-case representation COTE.

The last bit is wrong, at least in French. The upper case representation of “côté” is “CÔTÉ”. It infuriates me to no end that Microsoft does not accept that letters in caps keep their accents. I can believe that it might be language-dependent, though.

Also, a search engine that does not find “œuf” when you type “oe” is broken.

Very interesting article, though. I wish more developer were aware of this.
They do apply to all codecs, absolutely. Some just have historically more usage, so the encoders might behave better. There are still bugs though, I do remember hearing about some device producing an H264 stream that another device couldn't decode in HW. It's still not perfect.

Also, as many people have pointed out, VP8 is a more complex codec than H264, so harder to test coverage of all features, especially as most applications (especially on desktop) are not really doing RTC, which is quite a specific use case.

And phones DO have VP8 encoders. It's just that iPhones for historical reason don't have one. Pure speculation from my part, but I'm guessing they'll do AV1 someday as Apple is working on the spec.

But in general, even though HW encoders would be awesome for all codecs if they were working well in all situations, the reality is they don't always work, you usually need to build lists of HW that is supposedly behaving well with your use case. All advanced features (eg spatial layering) are tricky to implement in HW and are usually not configurable, so SW codecs will still have quite a lot of usage for the sake of quality.
You and your Dad are not statistically relevant. My experience is very different, and it is backed up by data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...

United States is between Congo and Iraq when sorted by rate per 10 mil. people.

The first european country is way down that list.
How many children learn the ins and outs of cmd.exe when modern PCs have so many compelling distractions not to mention no printed documentation to give direction?

Naive computer users get locked into local maxima until a need either knocks them into a more complete understanding of how to do things or they just give up. The adults in their social sphere are usually no better equipped to provide guidance.
>"the militarization and use of force tactics of US law enforcement are not a problem" then I'd like to hear why you think so given this evidence.

Just to play devils advocate, can't I conclude there is a problem without that problem being the "militarization" of the police force. In other words aren't I allowed to conclude there was a problem prior to the militarization of the police force, and really what we are seeing proliferation of video recordings that are now making us think these acts are new, when the reality is they happened in mass occurred prior to militarization of police...and as scary as it sounds accountability is increasing because of the video?

Then on the extreme end of devils advocate, lets say we all watched 100 videos that made us sick to our stomach...how many millions of police interactions have we not seen that might suggest the bad acts is a drop in the bucket compared to the overall data. Not unlike maybe a few bad actors that have looted or committed arson, or committed murder during the BLM protests, do those acts suggest the entire culture of BLM movement is tainted?

One of the things that really makes me sick about the George Floyd death which doesn't get a lot of attention is that the prosecutors/state attorneys originally swept it under the rug and refused to bring charges. Thank god for the video, even though it didn't stop the act, we all see the tragedy we see the victim we see the cop and attach names and faces...but who knows the names of the prosecutors who watched this video and said "no, nothing wrong here, no charges?" Nameless, faceless people protecting the officers behind the scene enabling offices to act any way they want knowing they will be protected...and maybe if we corrected that problem and officer didn't feel they could act in any fashion they wanted and receive protection perhaps we would see officers act a little differently in the streets.
> would require training and practice that simply isn’t available to cops

Generally agree apart from this - if cops don't have training to be expert (or at least above-average good) shooters, then that's a failure. We've read tons of articles about militarization of US police. If they have budget for armored vehicles, for sure they have budget for (very cheap but quality basic) 9mm ammunition for practice.
That's fair, but as long as you packed your assets correctly it was bearable for the time IMO. So much available storage meant that you could duplicate textures instead of seeking all over the disc for instance.

Also streaming assets was rather uncommon at the time, Naughty Dog is really pushing the envelope here. It was especially uncommon because most games streamed the background music in real time straight from the CD, so if you wanted to side-load assets on demand you had to be very clever about it lest the audio got interrupted.

As a result you generally had long loading times at the start of levels but that's about it. Some games were really bad about it though, and had long loading times all over the place (some even when you do something as trivial as opening a menu) but that could generally be attributed to shoddy programming, not a weakness of the console per-se. Overall I think in hindsight the decision to use a disc drive was the right one and cartridges ended up being a rather severe liability for Nintendo at that time, although of course it's far from the only factor at play when comparing the successes of both consoles.
> are just drinking more often but smaller amounts?

Probably. I don't measure my water consumption, but I'm guessing that I drink smaller amounts. Even if my average hydration level is the same, it never goes too low this way, which means that I feel better.

I don't have any objective way to measure the health benefits of drinking a certain amount of water, but it definitely makes me feel better to be more hydrated, so I'm guessing it's good for my health.
10k steps is about 6km give or take.
Some people think of that as a feature.

I saw that you can save it (as a JSON file) or export to PNG,SVG or the Clipboard (was that what the icon was?).

So I prefer people let me use a tool without creating another online account.

Also, glad you have an option for people with a different view of this. And also for simultaneous collaboration, too.
Guess it depends on how inflated the 10k figure is. If very inflated then your argument is kind of irrelevant; also, citing a more realistic number could be valuable for people looking to motivate themselves.
Isn't concurrency a strength of Go? Does your current implementation perform well?

You do not put forward any good reason to make the huge effort that rewriting a production system in another language entails.
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You live in the midwest United States; you're not the user we're talking about.

We're talking about the person in small-town India who has a Micromax Black Q385 spark 3, 8GB store, 1GB ram, 5.5" screen, which they bought for $50. They also get their Internet access through the cellular equivalent of a drinking straw.

(Even still, my personal guess is that this URL bar change isn't about them; it's about the desktop experience).
> How about 2,300 vehicular deaths a month? Or 2,300 gun deaths a month? Because those numbers have been consistent for decades.

Those are 'real' accidents; and if some are not, like DUI, there are laws against them that are enforced. If tomorrow, society stops charging DUI offenders people would protest too.

That's not the case with police brutality. We have seen again and again the police face no consequences for their brutality. That's what the people are protesting against. If every one of these cops were appropriately fired, charged and jailed, this wouldn't be a big of an issue. That simply does not happen.

The second point being, theoretically people trust cops to keep law and order and to ensure safety. So it is rightly expected for them to have higher standard of conduct and the fact that this does not happen is a systemic failure.
Not just that.

I've noticed a difference in success from my associates who worked in college and did not.

Those who worked no jobs, or worked jobs that were close to their career were able to either network in school or network through those jobs, helping them in their careers.

Those who had to work retail or similar jobs had a much more difficult time getting their career paths started.
I wouldn't necessarily say that DUI is a victimless crime. you might not hurt anyone, but you've exposed everyone on the road to excess risk, which could be argued is a type of harm. I'm not sure jail time is necessary for DUI. having your license suspended is already a severe punishment in places where you really need a vehicle to get around. requiring an interlock whenever the person is allowed to drive again also mitigates the risk to others in the future. of course, then you would have to decide what to do with people who just drive a friend's car or drive on a suspended license...

I think this might be a good example of a larger structural problem. culturally, we accept that going to a bar with friends or having a few glasses of wine at a restaurant is a reasonable thing for an adult to do. but a large portion of the US is set up in a way that bars and restaurants are not within walking distance of homes, and the public transit is poor or nonexistent. if I, a 145 lb male, have a cocktail and a glass of wine at dinner, I'm pretty likely to be above the legal limit by the time I leave. I don't do this; I either drink less or arrange a different way to get home, but I do think the combination of law, culture, and (lack of) infrastructure pushes people towards committing a crime here.
My take is that it is important to understand the basics:

- UTFs
- [canonical] equivalence (form, normalization)
- [canonical] decomposition
- [canonical] precomposition
- case mapping
- case-folding
- localization
- the reason for all this complexity
(hint: it's not the UC's fault)

You don't have to really grok the details, much less memorize them. It does not much more than TFA's ~1,500 words to explain the concepts.
The USB issues were related to a critical flaw in the LPC clock, according to the Intel errata. USB expected lifetime traffic for the affected processors was 50 TB while active at most 10% of the time. The errata implies lower voltage systems aren't affected.

To me that says simple design flaw. Something like overdriving a transistor to get more performance out of it, without realizing what relied on it. That will cause slightly different failure conditions from electromigration.

https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/600834

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11110/semi-critical-intel-ato...
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Just imagine you or a beloved one is the victim of police brutality in one of these cases. Take a second to think about it, and see if you're still on the same ground.
for those who are interested:

It's nice that company replies to download requests (which they got in very large numbers - no doubt!)

I'll cite from email reply:

> "Due to the very large number of download requests we have received over the last few months, we are currently working on a plan to add a download page to our website which will contain more user friendly versions of the binary builds. Our current focus is however on the core layout and rendering elements of the browser, so it may take us a little time before we can have the download page ready"

so it probably will be available to general public in some time
I generally disagree with the impression alexashka is conveying that we can’t have higher standards ‘because humans‘. There is plenty we can do.

However, it is worth pointing out that there are around 750,000 police officers in the US. It is hard to deny that finding and or training 750,000 highly capable people is a very difficult problem.
> No restaurant reform can prevent employees from doing something bad, unless you want to mandate robotic "employees".

No of course not, but there are measures you can take to reduce bad practices, which is why we do those measures for restaurants! Let's make police accountable for their crimes the same way we make restaurant owners and employees accountable for e.g. food safety issues.
Methane isn't as bad or terrible as it's made out to be https://www.alltech.com/features-podcast-blog/frank-mitloehn...

And the measurements for beef in regard to climate change was a global average, using Brazil burning down Amazon forests. Unless you're eating that beef you can find beef that is carbon neutral or even a carbon sink. It uses up land we can't grow crops on and without meats we wouldn't have enough.
Would you agree from personal experience that calling them something like "primary" and "secondary" or "1" and "2" would be less confusing to 6-7 year olds?
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> 3. There's no reason a dedicated x86-64 dongle can't be sold for ARM-powered Macs that need to run software that hasn't been ported yet. It would be a spectacular coup if those x86-64 dongles had chips made by AMD but I digress...

Fun suggestion, so I'll bite :-) would a USB-C dongle actually be a speed improvement compared to host dynamic binary translation? Especially since all RAM operations would need to be funneled over I/O...
It used to be. In modern engines it's really no longer the case. Just did a mini test running both attr and class name selectors on 10000 objects. In both instances the paint was fully complete in a single frame.

Agree with the rest of the stuff you've said though. I just don't see a place for this library.
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Ask HN: How do you generate customer reports?
I have a customer that wants periodic reports on certain metrics like number of requests, failed logins, incidents, etc.

While this data is available in a monitoring system, it's not very presentable, and mixed with all sorts of other metrics.

What do HNers use to generate pretty reports from raw metrics? Is there a tool or service I can feed this data into that will create a nice PDF and/or web page?