skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great points! Any hints regarding preexisting linters for go code that errors if we execute outside (an already opened) db transaction?

Also, regarding writing tests against real PostgreSQL databases, isolated per test and without losing speed, I can recommend to take a look at https://github.com/allaboutapps/integresql - disclaimer, we are the authors.
Iirc, Brave browser began disabling QUIC because the connected server was able to fingerprint the connecting party, and they deemed it an intentional part of the protocol design. Essentially connecting anonymously to a server is not possible. I'll try and dig up the blog post.
> Yes, this is quite well known.

Sure, thanks for that Terence Tao links! I just wanted to confirm the efficiency of C notation to "see" what happens with the bits at the lowest level in this case, at least to those used to C. Now thinking about it, literal C would be even more concise:

if ( x & 1 ) x >>= 1 else x += ( x << 1 ) + 1
Local businesses would stay open if they don't have to pay absurd rents, or that vacant storefronts are actually available for rent.
Yes, but it's not "the singularity".

Saying AGI will be like iPhone and therefore underwhelming, is not to demean iPhone. But to place in correct perspective the overinflated ( I think ) sense of self importance and impact of so-called AGI.

It's not underwhelming wrt an average week in Techcrunch, but it's underwhelming wrt to the mythos and delusion that surrounds AGI.

Underwhelming does depend on perspective. But my perspective is not to demean iPhone, just to bring AGI big heads back down to earth.
95% is good enough to the vast majority of people.

To get 100%, you use NoScript or turn Javascript off. Not many HNers even go that far.

You don't have to use 1blocker, it's just an example of a well-crafted solution that has made it so I haven't seen an ad since I started using it. There are free solutions.

The point is that you need to temper "ugh $thing is a turd!" when you're talking about fringe expectations, else you're completely disconnected from the conversation everyone else is having.

You could call uBlock Origin a "turd" for its privacy violation of having access to every website you visit and request you make, but that's not a good way to have that conversation, either.

Sounds like there was more to your decision than this situation though. Chrome + uBlock work fine on macOS.
Can you explain what is invalid about it? The list of functional cookie permissions on the consent opt-in specifically mentions cookies to remember log in details.
I think the point is that even though it is called a phone, it is actually a portable super computer, and in many cases the only one people have. We can’t pretend it is only a device we use to call other people, it is the gateway to our digital lives. From banking, access to government services, to connecting to our loved ones and leisure.
Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving the biz
The new Viking Age is upon us. Soon they will have all our yellow round 1x1.
Asynchronous HTMLRewriter for Cloudflare Workers
The US used to have tens of thousands of troops in Taiwan. The US military formally withdrew in 1979, although it has quietly retained small numbers of US military personnel in Taiwan ever since, responsible for training and liaison with Taiwanese military forces, but not enough to be militarily significant.

A quick, unexpected, massive deployment of significant US military assets to Taiwan would put Beijing in a very difficult position. Either Beijing attacks, and starts a shooting war with the US – which would do massive damage to the Chinese economy; or else, Beijing doesn't and loses a lot of face in the process.

It would be a rather risky, high stakes gamble, but one in which the US might come out in front.
Hey, I'm a user here! I never expected a tilde site to get on Hacker News again; I thought the wave of interest in the tildeverse died out years ago.

I don't really use the HTML part of it; I only interact on the command-line forum and play with some of the games/sims.
The one thing you should never do with a screwdriver
Whatever the Remarkable is marketed as, it's an e-reader.

Pretty much by definition people buying e-readers are buying them to read with.

Clearly the Surface/iPad are not comparable to e-screens for that specific purpose and the obvious UX (usability) fail in the Remarkable in that regard means there is still a significant market gap for people who want an e-reader which bridges those two worlds, particularly (for me and many others) reading technical manuals.
You know, we have these things called gas plants... They burn gas and you can turn them off if you don't need them...
You can even generate the gas with excess renewables if you really want to...
Show HN: Generalized CSS Selector via Examples
MobiScribe
When Teams breaks, it's Teams's fault. When Jitsi breaks, it's your fault.
Graphtage: A New Semantic Diffing Tool
Nice writeup op. At the end the blinking pairwise can give someone seizures. It made it uncomfortable to look at it. Could you please please make it unblink.
Because it's frictionless. It's very easy to set up a Zoom meeting with anyone in the world.

When I tried MS Teams, my impression was that it required a fair amount of advance configuration. This is no problem if you're meeting the same people repeatedly and they work for the same employer as you. Indeed, as the name of the software suggests, it's good for "teams". But for me, anyway, this hasn't been my typical use case.
Why do I have tears in my eyes because of a technology ad? I have not felt this emotional about a technology product since Steve Jobs. I think even more. That was an amazing ad (video on their home page).

I have loved and used paper and pen as a primary tool for thinking since I was young. However, typing is much faster, and now that is my tool - the keyboard. Still, this clearly has its place.

My main interest now is whether it can be 'rooted' and a native Linux OS used on it, and/or whether it can be used with end-to-end encryption compatible self-cloud services like Nextcloud.

To me, open hardware and software is a necessary way forward for humanity.

Edit: I see it's very hackable indeed, from comments above, e.g.: http://www.davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm/
> Great points! Any hints regarding preexisting linters for go code that errors if we execute outside (an already opened) db transaction?

I'm limiting the open connections at the moment and using the default Goland linter. It won't show you these kind of errors though and I just remembered that I saw it somewhere else, but I don't remember where it was :D
One thing I always find interesting about Wittenoom Mine is that it's construction and then sale to CSR seems to be the seed capital for Lang Hancock and his daughter Gina Rinehart to build a giant empire in iron ore mining.

Gina Rinehart is the wealthiest person in Australia.
Failure by WHO team to visit Wuhan sparks concerns over virus probe
"VSCode on the other hand spends seconds starting up"

I tried this and was surprised to find that VS Code is quite slow to start. However, opening subsequent files once the editor has started is fast and I pretty much always have VS Code running so the slow initial startup doesn't seem to be a big problem - at least for people like me who are terrible at closing programs...
It can read epub without DRM: https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000676163...
To put it in the same category as those other games is a stretch.
Flexible OLED Display in Action
The problem in Germany is that coal displaces renewables but since renewables have the EEG they get paid anyway. Coal doesn't play nice, so to speak. There is an excess of coal in the German grid.
I liked the promise dangled by things like Atom and VSCode, but Atom’s development has stopped and VSCode is spyware, in addition to all of the most interesting features being in closed/proprietary plugins.

Text editing is one place I’ll absolutely never use nonfree software. In addition to the privacy concerns (my editor has the highest security requirements of any software I run), it’s also my most-used tool, and, as such, must always be able to be inspected and modified, as it is an extension of my muscle memory.

You might lock me into a cloud or an API, but my most critical tools that take up the deep parts of my habits will remain under my control.
China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs
> According to the ePrivacy Directive, they should not last longer than 12 months.

( Quick search about cookies)
The article is written in grammatically correct British English.
Brutalism became popular because it was cheaper and had gained popularity in the West.

Stalin rejected brutalism firmly. Brutalism first gained traction in the Eastern block after it had gained popularity in the West.

He rejected the austerity, and he rejected examples of it such as proposed by Le Corbusier twice: both when Le Corbusier proposed an austere Palace of the Soviets, and secondly when Le Corbusier wanted to raze large parts of Moscow for a redesign along similar principles as what Brasilia adopted.

The austerity in Soviet design came under Khruschev as a cost-cutting measure to increase the housing stock, primarily, and while you certainly find more monumental buildings built in a brutalist style, that was the same thing: It was an end to the excesses of Stalinist architecture in favour of signaling a focus on saving money, and an actually desperate need to cut costs.

You're right that brutalism was seen as progressive, but initially that was the case in the west.

Le Corbusier actually accused Stalin of betraying the revolution when his proposals were rejected - he saw his proposals as revolutionary, but Stalin wanted a much more traditional style.

Stalinist architecture is anchored in the French Empire style, which you also find echoes of in parts of the US Federal style [1]. See e.g. Moscow State University as a prime example [2]. It has columns, and all kinds of architectural flourishes that you expect on more monumental Empire or Federal style buildings, and no sign of brutalism.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_architecture#/media/Fi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinist_architecture#/media/...
Catering Point of Sale (POS),Tablemanagement in Python, PyQt5 and PosgreSQL
Python, PyQt5 and database PostgreSQL.

The target of the project is a point of sale (POS) for catering purposes as a open source project, including tablemanagement for 100 seats, 20 tables with 2 places and 15 tables with 4 places. Splitting and combining of tables and seats. Programmable buttons for 10 maingroups of producttypes and 5 subgroups with 18 choices, so 900 products in total.
Is there an Electron alternative that uses the OS's rendering engine (Webkit on macOS, Edge on Windows), for developers who think that bundling a whole browser with their app is not the right tradeoff?
This is true, but I don't think most people go through a complicated opsec calculus. Blasting a home address out to hundreds or thousands of strangers will feel weird for most people. I found lots of threads from people asking about this when I went out looking to see if this was a normal worry. I know ~three pieces of information is enough to find almost anything on someone and I still don't want to make it any easier for them.
I don't know if you're already familiar, but pandoc perfectly bridges this gap for me. You can write things in markdown, then covert it latex no problem with pandoc. You can even make templates for it, and write mathmode in markdown.

It certainly makes for less _noisy_ source files in my opinion, and it also means that you get to take advantage of the fact that, if you want to, you can easily convert your markdown to HTML, with maths using something like mathjax.

This was a bit of a ramble, but I honestly can't say enough nice things about pandoc.
Dynamic Speculative Optimizations for SQL Compilation in Apache Spark [pdf]
Sakshi Mishra Q&A: Challenges of Climate Change and Advocating for Women in Stem
You're presumably talking about the advertising ID. The question I have for that is, how are they claiming credit for making it opt in when they were the ones who made it opt out to begin with? Who ever thought that was a good idea?

Why does it even exist?
To read the summery:

"The intermittency of other sources such as wind and solar photovoltaic can be addressed by interconnecting power plants which are widely geographically distributed, and by coupling them with peak-load plants such as gas turbines fueled by biofuels or natural gas which can quickly be switched on to fill in gaps of low wind or solar production."

So we can burn the fossil fuel natural gas or a similar gas generated by decomposing bio material. That seems a bit of an odd proof. It seems pretty obvious that burning fuels that releases carbon into the air solves the issue of providing a baseload for renewables, but it has the general problem of releasing carbon into the air. Biofuels are also pretty controversial since they take up a lot of land and fertilizers are not themselves carbon neutral, and current methods for both creating the fuel and the fertilizers has shown to be a major contributor of methane leaking into the air.

As I like to say in this kind of threads, lets ban the act of burning fossil fuels for power. If the market can manage the energy grid without fossil fuels then let the market do that. Which ever technology comes out on top is less important than the fact that we can purge fossil fuels from being used when there is a cleaner alternative.
> an accurate description

except it's a lie. SNI isn't "more secure", it leaks information to a possible MITM.
Oh give over that article says nothing about it being named Canola because of the word rapeseed containing the word rape. The earlier assumption about the naming of Canola oil is just incorrect.
Telegram has desktop clients, syncable chats, and groups chats since ages..
Yes, of course. People wouldn't be crazy enough to install the binary blob of this extremely sketchy company, would they!?
Well, all I have to say is that this is the first practical gravity battery that isn't total garbage. In theory you can scale it up and eventually have something worthwhile...
That really is surprising considering it’s just an island (or a few islands? I can never remember wether Ireland/isle of man is included.) It’s weird how expensive housing can get when there’s so much empty space.
After reading, this seems_very common_ and it seems like an odd app you single out... After reading about commenter about Apple having a competing technology (Car Key), this makes a lot more sense why Apple is singling this person out.
Amazon lost money every quarter as well for years. There is a huge market in government and defense IT globally that Palantir could potentially tap into. Historically, it's been IBM's gig, but that could change very quickly.
link project information: https://github.com/DirkJanJansen/Catering/blob/master/README...
FWIW, if you're using libreoffice write you can save your file as a flat odt file (.fodt), which gives you a version-controllable format
> Apart from the paedophile angle, there is an interesting philosophical question of whether something is a crime if there is no victim, and whether you should go to jail for something you hypothetically might have done at some point in the future.

Sentencing generally has three primary factors:

- Deterrence: The harsher the sentence, the stronger a signal we send to people who might commit similar crimes in the future.

- Rehabilitation: How do we help the criminal so that they don't commit crimes again in the future?

- Retribution: Eye for an eye.

Since there's no victim and no real harm in a sting like this, I don't think retribution should be a factor at all.

Since the "crime" was a construction by the police rather than a real-life situation, I don't think deterrence really makes much sense here. That can be left for the real-life instances of the crime.

So I think the overriding factor in sentencing should be rehabilitation. Getting people like this help so that they can control themselves. I'd say even prison is too much. Ideally, they should be released on parole while they're being treated and not added to any sex offender lists.

Were this to be the end-result of the sting, I think this practice would be totally fine, comparable to (forgive the comparison) animal control neutering strays. Better to get people help before they commit a real crime than after.
This happens at a lot of places in Las Vegas, too. I don’t give any business to places I can’t prove my age, walk in, and pay with cash without a record being made of my whereabouts.

The real issue I find is that your data is being handed off immediately by the bar to a third party provider, with whom you have no business relationship. The moment you hand over your ID, the bar is uploading it, and now the data is entirely out of your control. They could publish your home address (if you’re foolish enough to have the location where you sleep on your ID card, which is effectively public record) and you’d have no recourse whatsoever against them when people show up at your house, or at your hotel while on holiday (because the hotel bar published/leaked a name+location+timestamp).

At the least, it’s a major privacy violation; at the most it’s a physical safety issue.

Make a fuss. That shit’s absolutely over the line. Take the whole group somewhere else.
I want to thank Apple for offering me free marketing with its app store. But then I submit an update, and surely they come with some far fetched reasoning requiring me to change my app. The latest one, I had to remove the following question from FAQs :"Does this app work on Android and iOS? Yes". That's it, can't even mention Android. I consider this too much. It would make sense if Apple had developed MY app, but they haven't. I have put into it several man months and now they get to dictate what I can say in the app. We need an apps strike
How is it like Borders? It's a warren of different rooms on different floors, half of which are more like a warehouse than a retail store, with a huge selection of used and new books shelved together.

I loved the separate technical books stores, too, although they still have a great tech section in the main location. I assume the standalone PTBs shrank then closed because people were browsing more than buying.
Having a lot of experience in both legal (academic and lawyer) and tech (developer and founder), I totally agree with you and think you framed very well the situation.

As a lawyer I can full confirm that our industry works as you have described (as regards documents workflows), and with my tech background I can also confirm that most features of dev-oriented solutions like git are mostly uninteresting from a lawyer's perspective.
> This would be like Wal-mart putting up signs telling everyone they have to pay Visa fee's.

This actually happens in Australia. Because AmEx charges an extra 1.75% to businesses, stores display a warning at checkout that using an AmEx card will incur an extra fee of 1.75%.

Edit: Here's an example graphic from the Australian Government website, explaining that it's illegal for a business to charge more than what it costs them:

https://www.accc.gov.au/sites/www.accc.gov.au/files/Surcharg...
Joking aside, they should have "maintained" they build system before it took 3 hours to do a build.

Things don't go from 1 minute to 3 hours overnight. The company and the developers had to work with it daily and didn't bother to take care of it at any point over 10 years. It's not a technical problem as much as it was an organizational and human problem. Inertia does add though so that's certainly difficult technically to replace now and getting more difficult by the day.
It doesn’t. Or if it does, no one here has yet to explain why.
> Rickover's quote on new reactors vs existing ones is apt to every development in this field.

Indeed, it's easy to get carried away by the promises of new exiting tech on the horizon.

Then again, we're never going to innovate if we expect everything new to immediately prove superior economics.

> Sodium cooling is temperamental with the US navy abandoning it due to leak problems, and France having mixed experiences. The coolent catching fire whenever it leaks is not so fun.

Indeed, sodium has downsides. As well as upsides, which is why most fast reactor designs to date have used it as coolant.

> Fast spectrum with metallic fuel and pyroprocessing was demonstrated in the IFR but is messier than you might naively expect, with leaks of xenon that need control.

Well, isn't that true for all reprocessing? When you crush or otherwise process the spent fuel, the radioactive noble gases will escape.

> The HEU for startup is also problematic but maybe derated plutonium could be used.

HEU for civilian applications is non-viable, I think. Modern fast reactor designs are designed to work with HALEU, before (potentially) switching to a U-Pu closed cycle. One can of course quibble where to draw the line between HEU and HALEU. The current 20% is certainly a conservative choice. But it's also a quite minor hill to die on.
Or would hedge funds and REITs just buy these spaces (or keep them to rent out after building them—a common practice for developers) and continue to charge high rent with more empty storefronts?

I’ve thought for years that the growing number of commercial vacancies, even pre-Covid, would “sort itself out.” It certainly hasn’t yet.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by the PDFs and EPUBs being rasterized - that's always happening with anything that is displayed on a screen. Do you mean that it is converted to a raster format and stored like that? (outside of a frame buffer that is)
Call for Testing: Ubuntu Touch OTA-13
I Compiled NASA‘s Workmanship Standards into a Single PDF
Utility to schedule daily alert based on data retrieved from MySQL database
So use ESNI.
Haha wow, that didn't look as impressive as I imagined it.

Were it hard/impossible to finely weave it back in those days?
Way back when we had immersion water heater with a big insulated tank in a cupboard in the house (a was common in UK then) we'd switch the heater on when we needed it. An hour before having a bath say.

Where has is available most people have Combi boilers in the UK, very little or no storage, instant hot water in demand.

The idea would be that you notice the electric price is negative (or a control system 'notices' for you) and turn your immersion heater on. The water retains enough heat you have plenty of time to use that water.

If we have excess solar this is an inefficient but easy way to slurp it up. Hydroelectric pumped storage would probably be better but grid capacity for that seems low.
aaah okay so it functions as a bouncer :) was a bit confusing as they mention 'forget' bouncers :)

thanks for the update
Convenience is definitely important, which is why mixed zoning is helpful.

Instead of digging through amazon trying to find the one item that isn’t fake, hoping it’s what I actually want or need, needing to be home at the right time to sign for the package, and waiting for delivery, I could just make a 5 minute trip and hold the item in my hands before buying it.

Local businesses still mostly thrive in cities with mixed zoning despite the presence of online businesses. Some things do get crushed (small electronics stores just can’t possibly match the variety and endlessly cycled out stock of the newest items online), but there’s space for some things.
Workflow platform Titanoboa: GUI is now free for commercial use
I remember working with a product called oracle case in the 90's - managers could write systems - no developers needed was the blurb. The problem with all these things is the corner cases, things that are exceptions to the normal flow.
Oh that is great. Didnt knew that. Thank you
> The real evil in this story, I would say, is the typical "innocent until suspected guilty" approach people tend to have for certain crimes, specially when children are involved.

Yes, it’s really not helpful.