skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pessimistically for telemetry, but I suspect some of them are Javascript apps in a lightweight shell that have actual technical difficulties making a TCP IMAP connection.
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WARNING: shits full-screen modal in your face
on top of that more mature "easy mode" wrappers over Vulkan are beginning to exist too.
Maybe Apple could let each user pay to have Apple lock down their device since it is valued so much.
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Yes, actually.

* Cigarettes are stimulants and feel great when they first kick in, like a good cup of coffee.

* Smoking gives you a culturally-approved reason to take breaks throughout the day and go outside.

* Smoking is a social activity that provides an easy way to meet new people.

Of course, it is strongly chemically addictive too with serious negative health consequences, but the reason people smoke isn't only addiction or no one would ever start. I learned the above list by once genuinely asking someone why they smoke.
1. What is your blog about?

It's mostly about web programming and DevOps.

2. How often do you write on it?

Not as often as I would like. Been very busy.

3. Where do you host it (medium, substack, self-hosted, etc.) and why?

I actually just launched a new blogging platform at https://www.dynablogger.com so my blog is hosted there. It's a simple alternative to WordPress or Ghost. Check it out!

4. Link?
https://vitobotta.com
This seems really cool; I was poking around, but half of the links in your footer are broken (presumably placeholders for future pages?).
Because a single source of income (Google) isn’t smart for anyone. And the more money is involved (in this case, a gazillion), the worse it is to do so. What if Google just one day decides to not renew their contract? Mozilla’ll be out a gazillion dollars a year.
Well, okay guys, I'll give you a "solution" since this is proposing to use RF anyway. Instead of doing it entirely wirelessly use a very thin conductor surface wave transmission line (SWTL). That way only one conductor is needed and the RF energy is mostly contained within a wavelength or so of the SWTL (think "inside-out waveguide). The conductor can be very thin, like 28 awg. Or, for spanning larger distance, SWTL mode has been demonstrated on twisted aluminum cord used in normal power lines. It's just a matter of adapting the coaxial to SWTL launcher (sort of cone).
Personally i find people who treat everything as positive and refuse to acknowledge fundamental problems just as annoying who view things as utterly negative and only point out problems without trying to find solutions.
> I'm saying that the modern Western prohibition on eating horse is a religious phenomenon, regardless of whether people are comfortable calling it one.

And this is contrary to what people understand as religion, which seems to avoid carving reality at the joints: All of a sudden you can dispute the notion that people can be irreligious by pointing to some social conventions they follow, and demanding that those conventions are religion. That does not seem very respectful to personal self-identity.
They are runs by SJWs now so what do you expect?
JSON is easier to grok.

For anything non-trivial you will want inline comments.

Also while any JSON can be expressed in YAML, the reverse is not true.
This is great news. I love old stable APIs :)
Facebook's infrastructure is one global transparently replicated database. Siloing data by legal jurisdiction is a huge engineering change. Fortunately they have a head start - there was a big project to enable this for when they still had hopes of operating in China. It's kind of sad to think that this is now going to be used for Europe.
It's an (awkward) user friendly spin on what's ultimately a security update.

Previously, if an app like FB wanted a bubble, they'd draw a screen overlay via `WindowManager`. That's the same API often misused to draw invisible layouts over your banking app. Providing a purpose built bubbles API lets Android close the door on the riskier API.
Apple App Store Draws New Scrutiny in Japan, Epicenter of Gaming
syfy really good science information for being a entertainment channel I wish more places would do this like the history channel.
Just thinking about this some more...

Have any of you actually played Fortnite?

Do any of you know how many bugs exist in that game? I’m not even talking about “wall hacks”, rendering issues, difficult collision detection stuff or the many in game broken mechanics. I’m talking about the many, many out-of-game user interface bugs. Logging in fails 1/4 the time (need to reboot the app). Matchmaking fails 1/10 the time (just stuck in an infinite loop). Matchmaking for groups fails 1/10 the time (at least one person in the party will not be in the same game!!! How does a software company fuck up atomic transactions for the full party?)

lol Epic is not a company I want handling financial transactions. I’m very happy to buy Vbucks from Apple/Google/Sony and then “safely” use Vbucks in the Fortnite store.
There are more workers than software developers. Specialised version of Word and Excel are literally provided in the CPA exam. The general concept of having an integrated "suite" of office software compatible with eachother, G-suite or o365, is also very appealing.
Thank you for your kind words! We're working super hard right now on getting our newest form of content live soon, and we're excited to share it. It's a lot closer to the live-like experience we envisioned originally, plus we're introducing new characters!

Also, a great point about kids swiping randomly in order to proceed forward. One thing we're getting better at is explaining why an answer may not be right, so even if a kid chooses an answer randomly, they'll learn why that's not the correct answer.
They must have a valid reason, not "they don't use our payment processing"
So true... so many sites have a clause in their T&C's saying that scraping is not permitted but they're perfectly happy to let Google do it. Google should totally blackout any site with this kind of garbage in their T&C's just to raise awareness and get people to remove it.
Skin is quite good at not letting sunlight through, but it's not as good at shielding RF.
Well, space isn't a tangible (and finite) thing. It's the manifold in which the universe exists. Increasing the scale factor doesn't "stretch" space, it just makes... more of it.
How to Absorb Textbooks Like a Sponge
I've done asynchronous programming with the reactive paradigm where I specify a chain of function calls I want applied to data and it happens in a thread independent way. I have not done much programming with the new fancy "async/await" keywords. It seems like a worse abstraction because it mixes asynchronous code with synchronous code and is probably harder to reason about. Not to mention you can't do something like application wide backpressure unless everything is asynchronous.

Can anyone who has worked in both types of applications comment on their differences?
The hues and implementation of F.lux over the built-in options makes so that even with platform support I'm using F.lux instead.

Whatever I'm using on my Pixelbook is jarring. There is a subtlety to making it invisible when looking at the screen for a long time. Lot of the system implementations do weird and noticeable things to colors that I don't experience with F.lux. Sometimes I can't even tell if it's turned on anymore (although it's obvious to everyone who doesn't run F.lux).
Money in bank accounts is being circulated through loans. Examples of money out of circulation are coins in a jar, rolls of twenties under the mattress, or bags of cash next to the remains of D.B. Cooper.
Well, unless you can come up with a source (any source, even if it is in your native language), I can't judge your claims other than "made up". There's enough unsubstantiated (mis)information out there about sars-cov-2, we don't need you to post more without evidence.
Replaceable workers meet replaceable customers..
More extensions need to be reviewed. This seems like a good way to do it. I only install recommended or community promoted addons, since I am not capable of reviewing the code.
Strictly speaking our observations are not continuous. We pointed a large array at it and then the array probably went on to other work and looked elsewhere - so technically “was” is more correct, since we do not know what it “is” doing, rather only what it appeared to be doing.

Either way it’s a pretty uninteresting difference in tense.
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I've long wanted a really robust way of defining page areas for scraping, that could handle even relatively major HTML shifts.

My best idea has been to simply maintain a collection of "reference" URL's (e.g. of different products or articles) and identify unique start/end text for those specific instances.

Then automatically extract as many possible different "rules" for locating the desired content (pure structure and ordering, class hierarchies, classes/ids, surrounding text, etc.) and find the ones that are consistent across different instances.

And then just use those rules until they break on the reference page... and when they break, develop new ones.

I'm curious if anyone's built this type of thing?
I think I'm picking up a signal. "V"... "I"... "R"... "T"...
Yes, this addon looks like repackaging and selling someone others open source work. I'm really not sorry for that author.
My high school physics professor had a great take on this: The universe is defined as “everything”. If we ever find anything outside the universe, we’ll call that the universe too.
The point is that people would follow YouTube videos that promise CRACKED SPOTIFY to change that choice so that they can download a copy of a cracked version of Spotify filled with malware. That in turns reflects badly with Apple because it would be assumed that the platform is not secured and cannot be trusted with private / sensitive data (both in B2C and B2B settings). If anything, I think we should at least agree that it’s Apple’s choice whether run this risk or not on their own product.
> Reminds of software development estimation. You start out with a rough "ballpark" idea of the task and say it will take about 10 days. Then you actually start the task and realize how screwed you are.

Every time I wrap up my quarterly planning, I'm always reminded of this and how futile it is to make ballpark suggestions when the only thing you have is a one or two sentence idea.
You've got the wrong attitude. It's crucial to thoroughly explore a problem space before launching into half-baked "solutions" that risk compounding complexity.
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Firm agreement about the goals! Over at Dark (https://darklang.com), we've been referring to the space adjacent to Low/No-code as "Just code", to indicate that there's only code there and nothing else. Would be curious what other languages/frameworks the JourneyApps folks would include in "Pro-code"?
kind of yes, relatively from an "outside observer" that would be the case.

but if the usual laws of physics apply to that outside "observer" then it will not be able to observe photons from those objects.

the usual assumption is that space is basically infinite but we can only observe our own "observable universe" sphere of it. every point in space has its own universe basically.

see also cosmic light horizon: https://www.thedallasgeek.com/single-post/2018/06/11/Our-Cos... (the difference between regions we can communicate with and regions from where a photon coming toward us will eventually reach us)
Mozilla gets a few hundred million from Google. This may sound like a lot to you but it's pocket change to Google. They spend way more on their own browser as well as getting "free labor from volunteers".

There's a reason there's now so few independent browser engines.
The other point of the PR stunt is "encouraging" Apple to do the right thing, outside of court. Which they didn't, to my complete and utter surprise.
Yeah, I managed to finally get a good one by including some artificial white lights in the frame.
They are beginning to exist but it is very unlikely that these will have the stability that OpenGL has. They will likely be more convenient, but if you are building something today that doesn't have very high performance needs sticking to the OpenGL API is probably a good way to ensure that you won't have to migrate to something else for a very, very long time.
Thanks for the reply, great info. We have definitely been looking at more things like Azure AD. (Or Okta maybe?) for the identity management stuff. Even AWS has one I think, but seems worse than other offerings.

It is an interesting idea to consider. We already are using Slack, GSuite, Chime, and such. More in one service could have some interesting security improvements.

Wow, I just looked into it they can even manage Macs. Very interesting. Most of our devices are Mac.
> This seems useful if you're expecting to pass your strings to a lot of C libraries, which is probably sensible for C++ (especially whatever vintage of C++ happened to introduce this string design); however, surely this is a negligible concern for most mainstream languages?

No, the system call interface of the operating system expects NUL-terminated strings as parameters all over the place, especially the filesystem APIs.
That sure sounds like GNU. Instead of building tiny tools that each do one things, just make one big tool that can do a bunch of things depending on which of a hundred flags you use. Not to shit on GNU; I use GNU/Linux on all my own computers. But I notice that a lot of GNU software suffers from severe feature creep.
> They even suggest asyncio could be a replacement for celery... It really is the Wild West out here.

Yes that is complete madness. The last thing I would ever want to do is send an email or use an external API (those are the examples in TFA) in an async thread as part of a request-response cycle. How does error handling or retries work for that background stuff? I don't know the exact ins-and-outs of Djangos new async stuff yet but my guess is that if that mail/API server doesn't respond to your IO then your response to your own HTTP request hangs?

Above all the central and undemonstrated claim is that there are any performance or management advantages to async. I tested sync vs async on this a couple of months ago. The best performance and robustness is with garden variety sync python with a good WSGI server:

http://calpaterson.com/async-python-is-not-faster.html

If anyone has any contradictory benchmarks please let me know. I haven't been made aware of any yet.
Sure they could; but I find it kind of hard to criticize their strategy of getting a hundred million people to commiserate with them before they try. Even better that Apple has decided to act like a big ugly baby about it; they must be over the moon.

I've owned and used Apple products continuously for over 30 years, and I'm not ashamed to say that I am rooting HARD for Epic on this. Apple doesn't give a shit about innovation when they are making money hand over fist. They are spending all their time nurturing their cash cow. It's time to butcher that motherfucker.
Data caps seem to have risen pretty fast recently under 4G, and the prices of unlimited data plans have come down. You can get unlimited 5G data plans, on a good network, for under £30 per month here in the UK. Even cheaper on a crappy network!

Of course, how fast and aggressively the prices come down depends on the competitive environment in your country. But it will happen.
Zig as of 0.6.0 supports both sentinels and length.
According to their 10-Q for this latest quarter, their operating expenses are 42% sales and marketing, 37% research & development, and 21% administrative.

https://investor.slackhq.com/financials/default.aspx
For most people, the time difference between reading 4/8 bytes and scanning for a null terminator is negligible, but there’s the other benefit of not having to worry as much about buffer overruns; If you append to a std::string and its internal buffer is full, it’ll realloc() its buffer. This does have the problem of the possibility of a realloc(), but I prefer that over buffer overruns.
Part of it is automation. "Peopleware" has an episode about human-mediated processes vs. machine-mediated processes that explains a lot of it:

In the past, whatever you needed done, was done through human action even if they used machines. So there was a good chance that somewhere along the way, there would be someone who'd notice and check/fix, or at least would be able to help you when things go wrong.

But with increased automation, every mistake is amplified and carried to completion much more efficiently -- and the humans you can talk to are often minimum wage people who are not very familiar and are not authorized to modify anything about the processing stages. There are 1/100 or 1/1000 as many people who can actually help you as there were 40 years ago -- and by that I mean actually help you, that is - fix wrong data, override automated processes, etc; not just read from a script.
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This is useless. It's just an ad and IMO inappropriate for Hacker News.
As a C#/.NET developer I couldn't agree more - more often than not most of us simply do not need async, but everyone's doing it so it's become a 'best practice.'
It has some extra features. i don't think it is a repackage.

You can do those with uBlock Origin, but users don't want to mess with extensions and want extensions to work out of the box, so they install many extensions leading to malware and privacy issues.
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It would be even better if it was terminated by 8-len%8 null bytes, as that would make blocked loops simpler.
> The market for Nvidia is basically just Nvidia

It's over 80% of GPU the market.

> Their cards are not significantly more powerful than what AMD offers

AMD can't compete with Nvidia's high end. Especially with the new 30XX series, which crush the performance of Nvidia's 20XX series.

> and their drivers suck because they're constantly using them for anti-competitive crap.

Their drivers have a lot of features that AMD doesn't, like G-Sync, DLSS, RTX and others.
Sadly, no. Mimestream already uses SwiftUI for parts of the UI, and SwiftUI requires Catalina. I plan to release an iOS/iPadOS version in the future, so Mimestream will be investing even more heavily into SwiftUI. At some point later this year, Big Sur will become a requirement, too. I sympathize with those that remain on Mojave, especially those who need to run 32-bit apps, but as a 1-man project, it seemed like a necessary tradeoff to make.
GNOME also has this feature built-in called "Night Light" in the display settings.
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>I still managed to be bitten by the very common issue of error logging getting lost in a hidden callback that doesn't look like a callback because of the magic of the async keyword (a common issue in node as well).

What do you mean, any example? I have code full of asyncs and never had problem with logging
The comparison is the they are both devices that limit installation of software. They're rather similar in that regard. I'm not sure that "This product can only exist if you allow us to have a monopoly" is justification for allowing a monopoly when it comes to video games consoles.
I used to work on govt project that uses a Windows stack and advocated for implementing chef. I feel like Chef totally dropped the ball in terms of marketing / building features out for windows. The documentation, community and reusable recipes was ahead of it's other competitors but needed a lot more. I went to 2 chefcon's and almost all keynotes and workshops were linux focused and every time I brought up a question that is remotely government or windows focused I feel like I'm being treated like a 2nd class user. Government is notoriously slow to adapt to new changes / software, that could've been a space where they could grow with the popularization of containers. There are a few projects I consult on where they still can't / won't use containers.

With that said I'm glad I moved onto a *nix based project and got to learn Ansible and docker
Ugh, I'm sorry -- I don't know that I've ever seen/read a book on the subject. (And now I'm horrified at myself for that admission.)

A practical suggestion: If you live in a large metro area, reach out to the city or county purchasing departments, explain that you're new to selling into the public sector, and ask if they have any procurement fairs or seminars scheduled. (A sidebar: Federal sales are a whole other ball of wax and I'm not the most qualified to talk about them.)

* If they say yes, you've got a chance to show up and meet people face to face, which is rare in government sales and can give you an edge. People buy from people they remember.

* If they say no, put on your best aw-shucks humble act and ask if perhaps you could schedule a 10-minute informational call with someone from the department, just to better understand the process.

Either way: Selling to the government means keeping some things in mind. The following is cut/paste from an answer to a similar question I provided about two weeks ago:

* Do not wait wait for them to decide they need a solution and then engage; your business will die. Success comes from educating prospects, helping them understand the benefits -- hell, even helping them write the RFP, if they'll let you -- and being the preferred solution before the bidding process formally begins.

* Related: All of your meaningful sales will come from formal proposals submitted as part of an RFP process. You need to get good at being the insider who helps them write the RFP or you need to get good at writing better, more compelling (not cheaper, not fancier -- more compelling) proposals. Even better? Get good at both.

* You'll have high insurance requirements. Don't let them faze you too much -- commercial liability is cheap. Errors and Omissions, on the other hand, can be pricey and you want to avoid having to have that if possible.

* Get very good at finding local partners, even if you don't need them. Big projects that leave some of the money in the community are more compelling.

* If you are not a woman or a minority, get good at finding local partners who are certified as women-owned or minority-owned businesses. Some public agencies set up their RFPs with an automatic point deduction from your score if you can't tick this box.

Happy to chat more if it's helpful.
What is this framed circuit board that belonged to my Great Uncle?
Mozilla files IRS form 990 ("Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax") annually due to their nonprofit status. This can be found at the bottom of their "State of Mozilla 2018" annual report [1] and contains some details about their financials (as of November, 2019 at least). The linked page itself also contains some information about how Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation are structured and operate.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/
It would be ironic if the next post was Read Fewer Blogs.
Also borks colors and brightness and can't be fully removed without windows reinstall.
I’m eagerly awaiting their next announcement. In a recent interview with Peter Diamantis she said they would have something in August but nothing yet.

Any one have any updates?
But that's not failing the test. The point is that you are supposed to see it as A or B, and that will give the test administrator insight into your viewpoint.
That doesn't really answer the question, what the parent is really asking about is whether we are living on the surface of a manifold that's due for some kind of a collision with something else.
Ugh, I'm sorry. We are expanding to web fairly soon, though, so hopefully you can give it a try when it's live there!
That is your configuration, which you (may) want to manage.

Your whole infrastructure contains much more than that, and managing all that as a coherent whole is what these tools do.