skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a previous company most of the business is run on C++ applications that expose web APIs (SOAP/REST), is that web enough for you?

C++ is used because there's a lot of heavy lifting in message handling, transformation, and latency has a big impact on business. Any "glue" layer between a computing backend and a presentation backend adds expensive milliseconds to provide a response. If you just want to handle concurrency without care for much else, your usual dynamically typed language will do, and you solve your problems scaling horizontally.

But latency is something that can't be solved scaling horizontally.

Java or Python are used for less critical stuff (admin/management panels and such), but anything transactional is 99% of the time C++.

That said, the framework had terrible interfaces and it implied linking to a multi-GiB .so library, but in the end relatively few servers could handle 50k (relatively complex) tps with less than 20ms latency. I can barely get 20ms with a hello world django app on my laptop.
Until you realized you have been setup. The box you log into has child porn or those logs you download have them.

Now you pay up or cops are called.

Trying to play a hacker may get you in more trouble unless you really are one.
Being more charitable, it's possible they changed their minds, rather than they were lying.
It was meant sarcastically.
Funny, in the US, I live in a 1906 craftsman house (it was a mistake to buy, and my wife is afraid of change plus it's a non-trivial monetary loss to switch) and everything I dont like about it is the opposite of what you describe.

The quality of new houses is obviously much better, as I now realize having lived in both (sure, it looks good on the surface until you actually live in it and try to make modifications or run into issues). Plaster, old wiring, wooden windows, hardwood etc. really suck compared to drywall, plastic, laminate, etc. The only old houses I saw with good quality are the ones that were gutted out and redone with new stuff. Thank god this one was almost entirely rewired, if the entire house was as bad as a few places with old wiring, I would have definitely moved out.

The garden is a huge hassle. I waste 30-60 minutes a week on it and it still mostly looks like crap, I am not going to spend any more time and not going to pay anyone on principle to make it look better - it's like spending money to buy a Porsche to park it in your driveway for display, pointless. Next time I'd opt for less garden.

It has slanted roof (in place with minimal snowfall) - colossal waste, I cannot finish the attic because it would only be livable for gnomes, I've seen finished attics like that; I cannot go on the roof to enjoy the views - I wish it was shaped like a cube! Slanted roofs are 100% pointless unless you have massive snowfall. The only reason to not want a house shaped like a cube is sentimental attachment.

All the nooks and crannies waste a ton of space (speaking of small), it's ~15% bigger on paper than our last apartment but lives much smaller.

It's in a great area, but because of all the sprawling gardens it's quite a walk to a pub or a shop - compared to your average dense townhouse development.
> Why would "they" create Snowden?

If it was an affair beneficial to NSA, please elaborate why non-US state actors didn't have their own Snowdens?
>Do you generally exhibit other symptoms consistent with others in this thread, or do you think it's just one area which you suffer in?

I think I exhibit pretty much all of them. From the chronic lateness to being unable to start doing something that doesn't interest me to being unable to put something down that does interest me. This was just the one thing that I didn't realize how useful it was until it stopped working for me. Sure, my work was shoddy compared to what it could've been and I could never feel pride in it, but at least I had something to show for it.
I assume it followed an attempt by Google to influence how these funds are directed at Mozilla. Is Servo a threat to Google? Perhaps reinventing everything in Rust is just a detestable waste of resources?
Curious what Epic would do if game developers started offering an option in their games to just not pay the 5% Unreal Engine tax and passed the savings onto consumers.
I've gone back and forth over the last 3 decades. My dad has been an employee at Intel since 1995, so I started with the original Pentium and basically upgraded my CPU every year from the 90s to the mid 2000s. I don't engage in fanboyism, I just like to have the best bang for my buck. So I've had a few opportunities to try AMD CPUs - mainly the Athlon series (Thunderbird, XP, and 64 series). My biggest issue with the AMD CPUs was always heat management; those chips got HOT. In laptops they were almost unusable after a few months because they would get so hot, components would start to melt. My first AMD laptop I had to send back after 3 months due to the heat issue. It cost me $99 to get it repaired and a 6-week wait time. That left a bitter taste in my mouth and put me off of AMD. Do you know if the heat issues are still prominent? I wouldn't mind giving AMD another chance
I just run every single load with a single "extra rinse" cycle, since I hate leftover detergent/smell on my clothes (and I already use "fragrance-free").

With the extra rinse, I've never had any kind of buildup of detergent in the machine. I know this because I wash my shower curtains with just water and bleach every ~month to remove mildew, and there are zero suds.
Likely the total cost of the car mattered most vs efficiency.

Most people can't afford 40-50k euro cars. More like 20k or less.

I've been pleasing with Tesla/Musk to target the 20k market ever since Musk said they aren't interested in the sub-35k market (which turned out to be more like the sub-50k market in reality).

So that's the answer. The reason Renault/Hyundai/VW are winning despite having worse efficiency and smaller batteries is because Tesla isn't even competing with their 20-30k euro cars.
This doesn’t really work as an argument. Obviously the thing to look at is the purchasing power. If the amount of bread, industrial equipment, and land, that you can purchase with a given amount of currency A, varies much more than it does for currency B, then the purchasing power of currency A varies much more over time than that of currency B.

This is obvious.
Interesting question: why isn't Mozilla in this business too? They've got a cross-platform desktop app toolkit sat right there, and big enough developer mindshare to be interesting. There's room for a Firefox-flavour web dev IDE in the market, surely? Firefox dev tools, only with edit-in-place and live debugging for server-side assets. Seems odd to me that they've never gone that way, given everything else they've tried.
> Many Israelis that I know are thrilled about the trend towards stronger diplomatic ties (and with that, peace)

And how do they feel about returning the territories they have illegally annexed or occupied- the Golan heights, East Jerusalem and much of the West Bank?

Because otherwise "peace" just means enjoying what you stole without fear of consequences.
Commercializing the project proper seems incorrect. If they want to take on consulting due to their experience that seems far better.

I never said nobody can make money.
Who wants to donate when their CEO makes 2.5million/year?
FireEye’s bug bounty program goes public
I've been saying for years that Mozilla should have a services department to do consulting and corporate support for Rust. No idea why they'd leave millions of dollars on the floor like that.
Yeah, each subsequent "lake" was just "Skylake, maybe with a few uArch tweaks, and on a more-optimized 14nm node, and/or sold pre-overclocked as high as we can make them run."
How fragile is your world view that the writing of someone else who's giving non violent advice is "dangerous".

Every person who holds an idea you don't like is not "dangerous".

People who hurl epithets at free speech are a lot more dangerous in my mind.
>They don't have anything that compete in core count, but if you look at the 9980/10980 series with 18 cores, its very competitive on a price basis per core with the 24/32/64 core threadrippers.

That's not a fair comparison, considering that price per core usually goes up the more cores there are. Also, if you check pcpartpicker you'll see all the i9s with greater than 12 cores are either sold out, or well above their MRSP.
It's a story about technology using the social capital of someone who is deceased. If someone wrote a posthumous editorial in the NYT and signed it with their name, or released an album of new music (not newly discovered or remastered works) we might similarly want to talk about what it means to have a dead person somehow still presenting content.
Why does everything need to be taxed?

Just increase the frequency the "legitimate" trash collectors bid on the contract (if needed) and pay for it. Sure it will be a little more expensive because you aren't subsidizing it with cardboard but it doesn't really matter since that money is going right back into the community (through however the thieves spend it).

This is only an issue because government is a mess of silos, fiefdoms and incompetent resource handling. The people who deal with the trash contract feel slighted because they don't want any extra money coming out of their bucket even if the net result would be a wash for the community as a whole.
> If you need raw SQL, use SQLAlchemy Core and just don't use the ORM features.

How heavy is that?
Google: We'll test hiding the full URL in Chrome 86 to combat phishing
Po-tay-to, starchy tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum.
Am I to read that as you rooting for Rust to die?
This goes nicely with the old concept that "A sufficiently competent FORTRAN programmer can write FORTRAN code in any language".
Why not just pay this 60$/year? I mean if it's something important then it's worth paying for. If not - there is cheaper storage available when one can archive their containers.
You can't seriously be suggesting that knowingly choosing to become a firefighter, where the main task is endangering yourself (for which people are also selected, as you have forgotten), or that not wanting to deal with boring JIRA tickets is the same thing as being sent to dangerous neighborhoods where you could very likely be assaulted and/or killed, when you don't have to because there are also other places where crime is not out of control and a real and measurable risk to one's life and safety does not exist?

When you choose to become, e.g., an Uber driver, you are NOT primarily signing up to willingly expose yourself to risk to life and limb, like a soldier, firefighter, policeman.

You have a very abusive mentality about that which seems more fitting for some industrial age foreman or something; "you don't want to risk cutting off your arm? You can quit, and dozens of others will replace you!"

But I suspect you really don't realize that, because people like you that want to force others into unhealthy, unsafe, and dangerous situations, are usually the ones who live the most privileged, sheltered, and comfortable lives where the biggest risk they see is the possibility of eating non-organic produce.
Nice breakdown, thank you.

This had me in splits:

>> “ Yup, had to get it out quick so I went simple!“

> “What the actual fuck?!”
i'll cop to the fact that its mainly bc i wasnt around for that time so i'm just reconstructing things from how they look to me today
I did notice how you replaced annexation with occupation.

There will always be part of population that is less smart (for various reasons). They'll always vote for those parties.
The problem with that is that it is all or nothing. The milder approach I had in mind was that apps require you to register an account outside the app (like amazon) but the purchase is initiated inside the app and outside Apple api.

At the beginning that will be easy to simply not register and not use games that require registration. But well, micro-transaction started that way and nowadays all the major player do it that way.

Platform like XCloud that bundle various games from various studio will be used, and that basically mean you have a single app in your iPhone that can download a variety of content, all outside the control of Apple.

I'm not an idiot, I will whitelist and use the tool available in said platform, but that's one more thing to care about. One problem for which Apple just worked for me and won't anymore.
The Palestinians are also the ones with a terrorist organization as a government, and who flat out refuse to acknowledge the reality that they are the party without bargaining power, yet refuse to compromise.

I don't have a dog in the fight, but looking at how long it's been going on for, they really have only their own stubbornness to blame and they will a get an ever worse deal the longer they hold out.

I'm not talking about fairness or justness here, just that there are realities to face when a stronger state clashes with a weaker one.

There will never be an independent Palestine state in the form they are holding out for. They need to accept that, make the best deal they can get while they still have some bargaining power, and move on with their lives and focus on improving their quality of life. If they stick to this path they will continue to suffer in poverty and eventually lose it all.

It's unpopular to say this, perhaps, because one feels for the Palestinians. Nevertheless, I think it's true.
UCSF is my alma mater but this wave of press about aeronabs is just ridiculous. This is research lab level work, far from the clinic. It should not even have been announced via PR, just publications.
Many people consider that synonymous. Hell, if anything i tend to consider corporate speak to be even more damning than a lie.
Leaflet.js for me. A very clean code and nice API, with a great community.
Israel suspending its annexation is excellent for Palestine and very good for Ethiopia. There are ongoing negotiations with Egypt and Sudan about the Abay(Nile) River which is somewhat tense. Sometime ago Trump administration wanted to mediate, which was accepted by all parties (with some reluctance) but very quickly the mediator wanted to become an arbiter.
The Trump administration was perceived to favor the Egyptians. They tried to pressure Ethiopia into making concessions which it was not prepared to do. The end result was Ethiopia withdrawing from the US mediated effort and soured relation between the two countries.

What a lot of people here(In Ethiopia) think is, the reason Trump Admin was favoring Egypt's weak(er) negotiating position over Ethiopia and the other Nile basin countries is, he and his administration wanted to secure Egyptian support for the annexation of Palestinian territories.

If the annexation is off the table, USA will have a little less reason to use its power to pressure Ethiopia into an unfavorable agreement.

Frankly, the whole US effort was quite absurd. USA was seen very favorably but the rush to make Ethiopia the sacrificial lamb (to steal some poor people's land) is something that will have a lasting negative effect.

This article provides some background of what's going on.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/22/trump-administration-af...
GPT-3: An Abstraction of Time vs. Money
There could be some legitimate value in having accounts continue to operate. This situation is a bad example, but suppose a famous person dies and the deceased's family or attorney wants to give updates to existing Twitter followers on the deceased's last wishes, funeral arrangements, circumstances of their death, etc.

Some possible approaches:

(1) Leave the account open but take away Verified status.

(2) Update accounts to a new state like Verified-Estate or Verified-Family to indicate the account is official, but in a different way. (Or add a separate Deceased status, orthogonal so that an account could be marked as both Verified and Deceased.)

(3) Allow certain specific people (deceased's lawyer, spouse, executor of their estate, etc.) to create a dedicated memorial account, and automatically make the followers of deceased's account followers of this new account.

I think any of these approaches could handle the current situation. #1 would leave it as a ghost account. A political organization shouldn't meet the criteria for #2 or #3.
Digital goods have almost zero cost other than the payment processing, compared to manufacture, distribution, warehousing, retail space... This is apples and oranges. I can sell a SaaS license thru Stripe for 3%. A subscription through the App Store takes 30% every single month.
Amazon Alexa could be exploited for theft of voice history, PII, skill tampering
Yes, although if you're saving up to send your kid to study in the US and you hope to follow them there, favourable PPP won't help you much.

If you have an opportunity to move to the US and earn money, you can return to Taiwan and buy a house more quickly than if you stayed there to earn.

So you do still have to compete globally, in some cases.
In a way, I guess that's true, in a more practical way, how do you account for the fact that $10000USD in one country buys you a car, and in another it buys you a house -- without using PPP?
they bundle all of their dependencies inside the snap, so even if the projects the snap depends on makes breaking changes and you update your system with those changes, the snap will still work. Snaps also update on the fly without user interaction, which some people like and other people hate.

Personally, I think Flatpak makes more sense than Snap. Snap's all tied up with Canonical
Reminder: Tencent owns 40% of Epic.

https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...

Their dumping power can be almost limitless.
It does mean something and the demarcation line is whether the parties doing it are allies or not. In this case "the West" is the reference point as within this group there's usually a natural or if needed forced consensus on who's an ally and who's the enemy. For example Russia annexing Crimea is widely considered in the West illegal. [0]

Now whether you consider the historical claim of a state established by the UN but with no support from the Arab world, one of the two parties that actually mattered, over that party's land, and the numerous wars to expand further as being legitimate compared to Russia's is an exercise left to the reader.

[0] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2020...
Thanks for the tip for Word! Those settings are put real deep in the options.
And the flip side is that STOKE and friends can find new, faster ways to compile code... only for short snippets :).

That said, compilers and superoptimizers can go together well. One of my favorite examples is using program synthesis to generate peephole optimization rules for a compiler[1]. The synthesis step takes a long time and only works for short snippets, but if you can turn the results of that into rules a compiler's optimization system can use, you only have to pay the synthesis cost once and the compiler can apply those rules to speed up large programs.

[1]: http://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~sbansal/pubs/asplos06.pdf
Amazon Alexa ‘One-Click’ Attack Can Divulge Personal Data
If Apple removes Fortnite from the app store, it'll become a class action lawsuit in my opinion. Kids have spent hundreds, maybe thousands, of dollars on vbucks on their phones. If you just take that away..... you owe some people some money.
Yes, this feels like it reinvents prepared statements in a less portable way. It kind of goes against the spirit of their opening justification for using it: "SQL is code, you should be able to write it, version control it, comment it, and run it using files." If that's the goal encourage the use of a way to leverage native SQL that could run on any platform or engine.
Right, the implication to me is that Epic believes a 10% fee is reasonable since they say on their website they'll lower prices if Apple lowers its fees.

So if Apple reduced fees to 10%, the price to pay with Apple would be the same as it is through Epic direct pay. In other words, Epic doesn't expect a 0% fee.
Depends on how much value Apple (not anyone else) puts on having Fortnite on the App Store. They are infamous for disregarding what customers say; sometimes with great results, other times, with less success.

Apple decided, a long time ago, that their platform would not be a gaming platform. Even though they often show off games at WWDC, they aren't really there for much more than eye-candy, to get developers thinking about using the base tech for other purposes.

I would love to be able to play better games on my Mac. I have a few games on the iPad (none from Epic), and I really only play solitaire on my phone.

For all the scorn heaped on Mac as a "toy" computer, it's a terrible gaming platform. iOS, on the other hand, is supposed to be a big gaming platform, so Fortnite might be quite important, there.
A mounted FS per installed application so you can run different versions side by side.

I like it for large standalone apps, less so for command-line utilities. It easily beats untarring some third-party thing to /opt.
That doesn't help against expiring base images though.. :/
What does snap do that flatpak doesn't?
Rumsfeld's contribution to Riot Theory:

> "While no one condones looting, on the other hand, one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have had members of their family killed by that regime, for them to be taking their feelings out on that regime, ... I don't think there's anyone in any of those pictures ... [who wouldn't] accept it as part of the price of getting from a repressed regime to freedom."

https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2003/04/11/Rumsfeld-Looting...
Lyft joins Uber in threatening to pull out of California over driver status
>People can already buy PC titles anywhere they like. EGS, direct purchase, steam, GOG, twitch, whatever. There's nothing to allow.

This is unrelated to them supporting their 'direct pay to developers' stance on their own storefront. And no, people can't 'buy PC titles anywhere they like' as every game is not multiplatform / storefront.
The Science of Sourdough: How Microbes Enabled a Pandemic Pastime
I was hanging out with a friend who is also parent. As happens pretty often, the kids are all off somewhere else getting into trouble. Eventually, one starts wailing. My friend looks at me and says, "Ah, the sound of learning."

I always tell my wife is that my goal is not to keep the kids from getting hurt, just to keep them from getting maimed.

It's not just that pain is a good teacher, though it is. There is an even more vital lesson that the kids need to learn. "I can handle pain." They need to see themselves survive and push through difficulty because I believe witnessing their own resilience is the foundation of not just good self-esteem, but strong self-esteem.

In the US today, we're expected to raise our children like hothouse flowers. We get them to blossom by creating a maximally nurturing environmennt and shielding them from all possible adversity. That's maybe a good strategy if they can be shielded for the rest of their lives, but unlike orchids, eventually our kids will have to leave the greenhouse. They need to be able to handle what's out there and not wilt.
This may not be a big deal for small-time projects. But does this mean e.g., the official Node images for older runtime versions could disappear? I recently needed to revive an app that specifically required node:8.9.4-wheezy, pushed 2 years ago. An image that specific and old will quite possibly hit 0 downloads per 6 months in short order, if it hasn't already.
Main benefit is the sandboxed app environment. Snaps are also bundled with their dependencies, so you don't need globally installed dependencies to run the app like you do with apt.