skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter-Counterpoint: The features allowed you to specify different delays for feature and security updates.

Why not just take out the security one and leave the feature update, especially since 2004 has been, once again, a complete trainwreck that left many users without a functioning system until they manually blocked people from updating. I've been lucky enough that by the time my PC found out about 2004 it was already on the blocklist, but friends of mine haven't been so lucky.
Godot 4.0 new open world global illumination system
Does this include "traditional" numerical linear algebra (e.g. stability, conditioning) or is it the modern deep learning interpretation that linear algebra ≈ matrix multiplication?
Same with eastern PA, Bucks County comes to mind. A friend of mine teaches middle school, has her masters degree, and makes north of 100k. The property taxes in Chester Country, Delaware County, and Bucks County definitely reflect the salaries. The schools in those areas are generally pretty good, I've heard.
Did dinosaurs really deal with 12% oxygen? I thought that atmospheric oxygen content was already somewhat higher by the time the first dinosaurs evolved.
> I have use ROX for a long time - called RISC OS on X - it is/was basically a file manager based around RISC OS, as well as some associated desktop technologies (like app directories). I think it's fair to describe it as a dead as a doornail

Yep. That the project basically langusihed in obscurity and died out is emblematic of why I can't take Linux Desktop seriously.
There is a lot of genuinely good content on Quora. They went out of their way early to attract some high-level Silicon Valley talent, and that brought in a fair number of good writers. It was really cool, for example, to have physics professors explaining the Higgs Boson at the time of the CERN announcement.

It degrades over time, partly from simple reversion to the mean, partly because a number of topics have simply been talked to death. That's why they started paying people to ask questions. There's still good new content in a lot of areas, such as history and language, that are very broad and deep. But topics like physics and mathematics are largely moribund, because there's only so much that can be talked about at the roughly high-school level that most people can follow.

So it does look increasingly like Yahoo Answers, but there's still good content if you know where to look. It earned a very good reputation early and that high rep still has some carryover.
Can confirm, this has been deadly for those of us who have carefully curated a set of VST's in projects over the years .. there are songs I cannot open any more, alas .. until I find replacements for some of the synths. Well, its a forced upgrade, but nevertheless .. sad ..
Knocker-Up
A Renaissance of Genomics and Drugs Is Extending Human Longevity
https://xkcd.com/2287/ is another sterling example in the "just so" genre.
Yeah, it's a Late 2008 MacBook Pro unibody, 2.4GHz Core2Duo, 8GB of ram, 240GB SSD.
Yeah same here on the primary computer front. It's certainly the best hassle vs results computing device I've ever owned.
In Colorado you can shoot anything you want if it is harassing your cattle, even family dogs. An example from my hometown:

https://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/da-will-not-press-charge...
It lined up with the article, though. While the whole thing is alarmist, I don't think the headline is the problem.
> be a little pushy

Eh? Why would that be ok? I think it's worth asking them why they don't want it anymore. If they continue to say no, do you really think it is ok to start pouring it down their throat?

Consent can be revoked at any point in time.

For what it's worth I think most cultures today are crap at consent. I think many of us are victim to a pre-#MeToo culture where sexual harrasment was somewhat more socially 'acceptable' or 'accepted' [1][2]. I think of the memes of women who seem uncomfortable when Biden touches them. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk talks about his desire for a 'trauma-conscious' society.

To me there is no denying that often we have been hurt, and that there is not enough support for many people out there. I believe we don't get the support that we would need to heal from these things. Walking around hurt and unhealed is unfortunately the norm.

> That's a cute way to talk through the ideas

Rape and sexual assualt are very common, so I think this video is more than 'cute'; it's essential. I hope we start showing this to kids at a younger age, to help them grow boundaries early on. This also concerns consent for non-sexual contact such as hugs, or just any other type of physical contact with another person.

[1] women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWoP8VpbpYI
[2] men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6QxD2_yQw
> It’s cheap.

Until you cannot use your system at a critical time because MS decided you needed an update. Then the cost may be anything between what you paid, and the total value of your entire business.

> Not buying any electricity from the grid today? Or any internet or cloud services, or any rented office space?

There are regulations to protect people from arbitrarily loosing access to those things, and to provide them a means to dispute bogus eviction / cut-off notices. You cannot simply walk into a space you have leased and tell everyone to pack up and leave that moment. Except for the cloud services bit, but I contend that many businesses could avoid the use of cloud services if they so choose.

> or just ignoring the group policy options and the months of time you could choose to update

If I paid for it, it should be my prerogative to never update if I so choose. The fact that you can use an obscure GPO that may or may not work on this weeks minor revision doesn't sound very compelling.

> ignoring the “update at times I’m not using it” options

I have read many reports of Windows and it's users disagreeing what constitutes "using it".

> ignoring the bandwidth metering options

If I am not on a metered connection, I should not have to use settings relating to that to manage when my computer updates.
I see this much like the Civil Rights Act. There was no way segregation was going to be ended without significant legislation and enforcement from the federal government.
Bottom line is that the sort of large scale reform needed to end systemic problems of police misconduct is going to be extremely difficult to achieve via local reforms. Congress needs to end qualified immunity, end civil asset forfeiture, increase federal oversight, and potentially write new laws governing the use of body cams.

One idea I've seen from police reformers is a 'Missing Video Presumption' law. The basic idea is that if the body cam (or vehicle cam) footage goes missing and there is a conflicting account of events, the court will presume the video would've corroborated the civilian's version of events. This would give an extremely strong incentive to not turn off cameras or sabotage video as police have done in a number of cases.
Wait, isn't it inexpensive enough that you can deduct it all in the first year? It's been that way for a while I thought.
Well in this case they are in an unlimited size buffer. Once the blockage is cleared, all messages are delivered at once!

I've seen the postal worker doing daily collections in the lobby and the container they use could probably hold the letter volume for a month or two without issue.

Also, to be clear, my office has been there for nearly 15 years. In that time I've known of 4 or 5 blockages. It's actually very reliable.
Apple stores had specific function and well-defined goals. Brand, hands on, direct sale, all spring to mind. Microsoft stores seemed to have a motto of "Copy Apple stores". I didn't get their reason for existing.
So what are you asking for exactly then?

Linux distros have power and customizability, but it's not easy to use. That's par for the course.

Windows is (like macs) slowly becoming more walled gardened and controls removed from the user, in the name of making it more user friendly and un-breakable.

So either a user learns to be a power user, and go with linux, or stay as a "normal" user, and give control over to microsoft/apple/google etc. There isn't any other choice in the design space of operating systems.
[OP here]

4096 colours. :-)

Otherwise, yes, pretty much. I bought a 2nd hand A310 in 1989 and it easily outperformed the fastest machines my employer sold (e.g. the IBM PS/2 Model 70-A21, a blazing 25MHz 80386DX with 64 KB of secondary cache) by a factor of about 8×.

Given that the state of the PC OS art at that time was MS-DOS 3.3, which very few people bothered to put Windows 2 on top of, Acorn's RISC OS 2 was astonishingly advanced, too.
Fixers Know What ‘Repairable’ Means–Now There’s a Standard for It (EN45554)
I had an iPad2 which I jailbroke and used with a bluetooth mouse back then (mostly just because I could).

I can't imagine it's still impossible for them to add similar functionality if it's the only thing holding it back from running macOS.
COVID-19 Economic Impact and Recovery Framework (working paper) [pdf]
Requirements have been imposed on Wirecard’s authorisation
Thank you very much for sharing this info. Now I can use wttr.in in a varied manner
It reminds me of one video (unfortunately I can't find it at the moment) where journalist vs pro rider were racing each other with different bikes - road, city bike, old lady's bike.

What was surprising that pro on lady's bike couldn't match layman journalist on proper road bike. Basically all the energy spent on women's bike goes to flexing (heating) the frame. City bike built like tank was better as at least it was sturdy.

However it also shows that good bike is so much more important as you would think pro would match you riding anything with two wheels.
I don't use PureScript because xyz. Change my mind
I don't use purescript because:
- lack of good documentation and/or examples (most of the times the only documentation a dev has are types and you can't expect that everyone will understand it)
- error messages are not really friendly to read most of the times
- lack of css libraries, which are very important if you can't write your own css library. There are some wrapper around Material UI made with purescript but most of there are outdated. The only way you have to customize your UI is by hand
- lot of times you have the impression that you are doing a lot to get little in return
- if you leaves the types to the compiler you end up with we a lot of weird type everywhere

Please help me change my mind because I really like purescript as a language and I think it have lots of potential
Author here. I personally don't have any strong feelings against C++ (it's just a language/platform I don't prefer), but my target audience is delighted that they don't have to mess with C++. It's one of the main selling points of the book!
In this line of thought, I need to dig into Google Colab more. I think I’m showing my ignorance a bit as I’m only vaguely familiar with it’s capabilities. I think it maybe can already do much or all of the things it needs to in order to accomplish my example, for instance.

Does any self-hosted and/or open source analog of Colab exist? What would that look like? Connect to a cluster you have access to and run things? It’s the GUI that makes Colab work as much as Google and associated services. The price is right too, although Google knows what you’re running, if not why. However, if you can’t pay, you can’t exactly complain if you are cut off.
TLDR UK regulator (FCA) tells Wirecard to stop all transactions and to freeze customer's accounts
Background: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/06/17/social-...

> “Social contact” used to be something we didn’t have to think about. It was a byproduct of going to the store or the gym, often viewed as a positive byproduct. Since the start of COVID-19, it comes at a high price. Today, it can perhaps be compared to carbon emissions: an unwelcome byproduct of economic activity. One can lead to pollution; the other to infection. In economic terms, social contact has become a scarce resource. It has become the linchpin between managing infections and protecting the economy – it is what is driving up infection rates but is also needed for economic activity. By treating it as an economically scarce resource, it raises three critical questions that we began to address in the paper in a data-driven way:

> How much room do we have to open the economy (“social contact budget”)?

> How do we best spend the budget (“return on social contact”)?

> How do we grow our social contact budget over time (“reducing cost of social contact”)?
This is disappointing, although I'm not surprised.

One of the best things about the Microsoft stores is that they provided an obvious way to get individual attention on software issues. My grandfather was a frequent visitor of the Microsoft stores to resolve his software issues with his SurfaceBook and his generic Dell Laptop.

This type of one on one, in person attention was really useful to him and made the Microsoft brand much more approachable. He loved going and he's gotten really great with his computers!

Disappointing news for him and for me, although I can understand the business justification.
I really wish someone would pick up and modernize the ROX Desktop -- which is the Acorn RISC OS UI, on top of Linux.

http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/

It would partner really well with a distro such as GoboLinux or possibly even sta.li.
Great read and better distinction
I always remembered walking along the Charles, really far west of the Mass Ave bridge and asking myself "why is there a Microcenter here?"
> Is the American justice system so broken and law enforcement so incompetent

Structurally—not necessarily individually, though often that too—malevolent, not incompetent, at least as is most relevant to the issue at hand.
Don’t forget the /json
In the 80's, I wasted far too much time writing PROGRESS 4GL "Applications", which was 4GL code applied to a particular database ..
So maybe 30-60% are clearly justified.
I think they are more similar than not. The military does have mechanisms to investigate and punish misconduct, but so do the police, internal affairs departments. I believe the difference is internal vs. external initiation of claims. I don't see the military being very open to criticism from non-military personnel, in other words, they close ranks too. I think its more to do with tribalism.
> You're consuming

and most people are fine with that. There's a bit of an elitist mentality that goes with being a programmer - that everybody should be as interested in tinkering as they are.

Most people are dumb, non-thinking consumers of output. Most people don't want to have to open their washing machine and tweak the wires. Most people don't want their fridge to be able to do anything other than being a fridge.

And most people want their computers to play videos and read emails and websites.
This is the reason why hummingbirds are the most amazing creatures and their blood should be studied, more deeply.

They basically have the ability to pull in oxygen at an order of magnitude greater ppm than hemoglobin based mammals...

But their metabolism requires a really high sugar intake constantly.

But their speed and endurance is stunning, some humming birds migrate btwn north and south america....

They are also fiercely territorial - ive witnessed two fight literally two feet from me - attacking and pecking at eachother, with the loser of the battle falling on the ground... (whom i picked up and brought him to bart in an uber i was catching - he woke up and escaped my grip and i was in an uber with a hummingbird flying around... ill never forget that experience, the driver loved it)
Sure! You'll be welcome.
Also, Apple has continued to pay their retail employees throughout the closures. If the Microsoft stores were already struggling for profitability, closing the stores may have been the better choice rather than to having to layoff and then try to rehire.
The microcenter in Cambridge is borderline distance from the T -- take the T to central, and then blue bike for 10 minutes -- there's a bluebike dock right in front of the place.
> It's not really comparable to the others however since the focus is on building shared libraries and frameworks, you still need to bring your own UI.

So it will be Kotlin for business logic and Flutter for UI?
Ask HN: How to start developing a SaaS product as an Android developer?
I'm an Android developer who has an opportunity to develop a SaaS application.

The potential product will require a website (CMS to upload audio files and add meta-data about the file), an android and an iOS app (to stream the uploaded audio files). It'll have two types of users - listeners and authors.

I'm reading a lot of articles about how to start with SaaS projects and it seems it requires a lot of work wrt user authentication, management, database etc

How do I, as an android developer, make learning all this easy for me? I already know java and a bit of Kotlin & PHP. I am familiar with HTML, CSS, JS, MySQL and Apache but have never created an end to end product. Where do I start? What all frameworks should I learn?

TL;DR How to choose a tech stack for an audio focused SaaS as an Android developer who is most proficient with Java and only familiar with other web tech.
Measuring image similarity with N-dimensional vectors
The way I think about this is that the old generation of DB tools make it possible for application developers to use databases. With Prisma we want to make it a delight.

There are an order of magnitude more application developers today than just 10 years ago. This enable us to invest much more in the tools we all use, resulting in higher quality and a much better experience.

So to turn it around - why _not_ build new and better tools?
When people say that raw pixels look better, I point to this set of screenshots from Final Fantasy 6: https://www.resetera.com/threads/crt-shaders-scanlines-ot-be...

The raw pixels on the "bricks" look flat and kind of illegible. And it's very natural to read these "bricks" as bricks because their rectangular shape is so stark on an LCD pixel grid, and the discrete brightness-changes between the stark square pixels of each "brick" suggests roughness.

But on a CRT (or an emulation of one—note how the illusion works with basically any of the CRT filters in the post), the "bricks" seem instead to have realistic bump-maps, jutting them out of the wall slightly; and the intensity-waveform nature of the CRT makes the edges of the bricks less uniform. And yes, while the "brick's" surface is blurrier, in this case that actually makes it much more legible that these "bricks" are actually weathered stone masonry (with randomly-angular smooth-ish faces), not rough "bricks" at all!

Which makes a lot of sense: who builds a castle out of bricks? But you'd be forgiven for thinking Squaresoft were idiots who never saw a castle before, if you had never seen the game on a CRT.
I facilitated a talk at the London RISC OS user group by the lead architect of RO, Paul Fellows:
http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/2012/PaulFellows/

From what he said about ARX, I suspect not...
Only saw this too late to edit but it's a good point. I put source at the bottom but clearer to put link above and quote marks.
That's beside the point. My reason for linking the example was to illustrate that departments have been disbanded before and it's a more aggressive strategy for change than attempting to reform an existing department, not a call for lawlessness.

"disband the police" fits on a sign, but it's an incomplete statement.
In order to clarify for those unaware: '2004' here is not referencing a year, it's a version/release number for Windows 10 (with a build number of 19041, just because Microsoft likes to confuse people).
Young children like stories about elephants, which are larger than most mammals, and horses, which outsprint people. Why should they not appreciate that birds are better ventilated than mammals? (after all, it's clear to anyone that the birds of the air are less vertically challenged than the beasts of the earth)
Do you plan on just selling the book in the traditional way once it is done? I really have no interest in books-as-a-service.
As far as I can tell, yes I can download them and apply them but it's at my control when/if.
I only ever used perl for regular expressions from the command line when sed failed me. Perl just doesn't have the mindset of python IMO.
Like social democracy
> building natively for the two platforms?

Because I am solo-dev. Would like to reuse as much of my code as possible on both platforms.
No, because police are trained to not get into situations where they are at greater risk whenever possible (and it doesn't endanger others). Like it or not, a significant part of officer training in the US is for 'combat-like' scenarios that are active and violent, and risk management, and it's at least partially to keep the number of officer deaths down. That and they're basically allowed to shoot someone who maybe has a gun and looks like they're drawing it, which may also contribute towards the relatively low number of gun-related officer deaths. It also results in more people getting shot than need to.

And as others in the thread have said, it's actually really really hard to accurately shoot a target with a gun, and the number of non-fatal gun-related injuries probably far outweigh the fatal ones.
Transaction Deadlocks on ActiveRecord Associations
Well they are certainly working hard to make it 99% certain that a member of every group hates them... It isn’t anywhere near that bad though; people come to the police for help. There are suburban and small town police that probably go days without actually interacting with civilians in an official capacity regularly. Maybe some sort of rotation system at the state or county level would help.

A stark difference is respect. The command of it, the teaching of it, really everything. OCS tends to not fuck around when drilling proper bearing in to potential officers. Enlisted salute officers, period. know them or not? It doesn't matter, they are an officer and you show that respect. Police arm themselves to demand that respect and authority, granted they are sometimes in hostile situations and need that but generally they really don’t.

I’m disgusted that unarmed people end up dead at the rate they do during interactions with the police. I will ask why we as a society didn’t care that much until now, it’s a deep culture that formed. Another gigantic difference between police and military is that there are safety valves and “turning on the military” to solve an issue is a major fuck deal, it’s a war fighting machine. The police are sort of like society’s janitor; they get called when a home owner doesn’t want a homeless camp in the park near their home. The police, generally, don’t have that many tools for dealing with homeless, mentally unstable, drug addicted, and otherwise marginalized people. There is supposed to be a crime to lock people up, we don’t fund mental hospitals, etc. if you watch some of the videos it looks like they’ve become very good at fabricating crimes to justify force and arrest which are effectively the only tools they readily have.
Did anyone create a bug report for Apple I can duplicate?

Apple usually prioritizes bugs by duplicate count.
I'm no chemist but we learned in gymnasium about the dangers of having 2:1 HHO gas https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1907.003... I can't find a better article in English
Disclaimer up front: I work for GM, this is solely my opinion and it is my opinion alone.

I think the tech press doesn't believe that Tesla is building a self-driving product.

I don't know if camera based computer vision by itself will ever be enough for full self driving. I think we can demonstrate that it is not enough at this time, and we can also demonstrate that human vision also fails at times; human vision has the benefit of some extremely specialized "software"