skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just don't.
This is not good advise unless for a toy app. The only time I've seen a direct DB access API useful and even remotely a good idea is to give another internal application or service access - for reporting or metrics data. Definately not for your public facing client apps.
- The database may contain a lot more info than the client apps need, you are sending back more data than is needed, which costs money.
- Apparently you have no business logic to transform that raw database data?
- If you have more than one client, you are likely to end up duplicating some kind of business logic in each client (say a native iOS app, native Android app, web).
- Security? I'm not even gonna start...
This whole article smells of someone who has not had a lot of real-world experience. Large application database a full of data that have no place being handed over to a app developer without any context or documentation of the database. It is much better to give back exactly what is needed for a particular view and no more.
If you neeed more or differnt data later, you version the API and do a rolling deploy after your clients have been updated.
The comment you are replying to never even mentioned California, they are just saying they would never move back to Tulsa.
First of all Google Maps is cruder than Google Earth, so let's just use https://earth.google.com/web

I think the point here is that it is interactive and can be made as accurate as you want by moving around, zooming in and looking at the center. Not at stuff at the edges which might be distorted a bit, because yes, it's still a projection. Go to Map Style and enable gridlines and then try to argue it's not accurate.
This isn't quite true anymore. Snap software will still automatically update even if system updates are off. You have to either edit your hosts file to block the snap domain or disable the snapd.service in a command line to prevent the automatic updates.
This was just answered in the coast phase broadcast:

Including a break for sleep is also a large factor in this profile given the time of day of today's launch.
Lol, I a Baltimoron, also live amongst garbage. It’s what happens if you don’t pay for street sweepers.
Yep. More generally, you can induce the yaw rate you want (up to a limit) in either direction, including zero.

I’m not an expert but IIRC with three rotors you need to be able to control a bit of roll of just one of them to have stable flight control.
Yup, the CPAP is a life-changer.
This is the precursor to a dystopian ape lead future.

"YOU MANIACS. YOU BLEW IT UP. DAMN YOU! GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!"

-Some astronaut in the future
$500 beta terminal cost, connections cut out every ten minutes, connection varies by weather. Latency variable, a bit worse than most DSL.
Is covering face necessary as a part of hijab in Islam?
In the context of the events, that lie was a guaranteed death sentence. Saying which is "worse" isn't relevant imo since it was the trigger.
Also, with the proliferation of Clouds (and thus Azure), fixes for attacks targeting Windows (Server) also benefit Windows (Client).
I really wish this tech was available outside of the Apple ecosystem.

If Apple continue like this, x86 machines won't be able to compete. I wonder if other vendors are looking at this and contemplating transitioning to ARM as well.
Video games 'good for well-being' says University of Oxford study
No, it’s 90% of the population.

https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Canadians-live-with...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2016/5...
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That and you can instantly find a huge tribe. In the past you had to deal with others around you as well, which challenged ideas. Now you plug in to this huge tribe of anonymous people around the world and assume you’ve found the truth.
There are a lot of Republican appointees because the Republicans have been playing political hardball with judicial nominations for decades. The Democrats eliminated judicial filibusters because Republicans were attempting to prevent Obama from getting any judges on the bench in the two years the Democrats had the Senate. Then they lost the Senate and the Republicans simply stopped allowing Obama to get judges on the bench, creating a huge backlog which they could fill when Trump took the presidency. Then they eliminated the blue slip rule to further weaken any control the Democrats might have over the process. And they have expanded state courts, a.k.a "packed them". All of this has the same practical consequence: controlling policy outcomes you can't win through elections by nullifying them in the courts.

Sure, this is a lesson about democracy. It's a lesson about how to subvert democracy.
Looks pretty good to me? I'm no expert of course, but at least it's not similar to Mercator at all.

https://i.imgur.com/D6fMLop.gifv (Native vid: https://i.imgur.com/D6fMLop.mp4)
The cutouts vary. It's not "every 10 minutes". DSL latency is not standard, it can vary a lot. Latency for the beta is worse than it will be for production. For the people this is marketed to, it's life changing. If you think it's overpriced, you were never the target demographic.
I believe he meant an icon for the running window, not one on the desktop or menu.
I feel like if they were going to do this right now they would have offered 32gb configurations on the M1 devices... as it stands they're going to have to offer attractive ~$2k devices for creative professionals who don't need bleeding edge cpu performance but would like a 20h battery and native ios apps.
Should the biological process through which most mammals carry on their future existence be considered an act of parasitism? I think being a parasite usually requires two conditions be met: 1 is that they're separate species, and 2 is that it's bad for the creature. Children eventually grow up and generally take care of the "host" that they sucked blood from, and their existence is generally beneficial for the species, so it's hard to define as a parasite.
California, Love It and Leave It
The article specifically has a quote from someone in Montana on CenturyLink DSL paying $120/month for 1Mbps, and getting 100x faster connectivity through their $99/month StarLink service (with some intermittency because the constellation and ground station network isn’t complete). Latency is acceptable enough to play a first person shooter, and target latency is 16ms-19ms (and meets the requirement for the FCCs rural broadband contract [1], which is latency below 100ms).

For those with marginal service, this is a material improvement. It’s also firming up the case that StarLink will generate billions of dollars per year in revenue (eclipsing SpaceX’s launch revenues), from both government contracts (rural broadband and DoD) and unsubsidized subscribers. This doesn’t include revenue from StarLink’s contract building missile tracking satellites for the Defense dept (based on StarLink sats) [2].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/spacex-gets-fcc-...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/6/21503165/spacex-space-dev...
I'm not sure the authors anxieties are cause or effect in this case.

It sounds like they poured their soul into something and now are dealing with the fall out of it failing.

I think this post is nothing more than an emotional release. A cathartic venting of the disappointment of failure.
How about “Better than human”
serverless (well, lambdas) would be very expensive for any truly significant ETL work. if you have long-running jobs of any kind, that's precisely the opposite of where serverless shines.
Well, you are assuming many things from his blog post, no? Get off your high horse, little man
You just need to modify a directory with two different programs using different windows files apis (and create case-insensitive duplicates while doing so). How common that is will depend on how often an end user accidentally tries to create duplicate files (if that's infrequent then a completely case-sensitive system would also only cause issues infrequently), and in the proportion of programs using the different windows file apis.

I think you're right that we would expect that to happen only rarely, but it seems implausible to expect that there's an entire windows file api with zero usage.

Side-note: I don't think explaining "Cookie recipe.txt" and "cookie recipe.txt" being different would be thaat hard -- if they look different then they are different. As long as granny doesn't have to worry about zero-width whitespace or other garbage in her file names then that's a good enough rule of thumb.
> I wonder if other vendors are looking at this and contemplating transitioning to ARM as well.

Perhaps, but with what hardware? The PC era was defined by mostly open hardware that had a high degree of interoperability. ARM does not bring the same.
A pyramid was moved once by cutting into pieces
TSMC, which manufactures Apple's chips, presumably at a profit, has a net margin of ~40%.

https://www.tsmc.com/uploadfile/ir/quarterly/2020/3PTwU/E/3Q...
Caring isn't fundamentally good or right. It just happens to be a feeling that humans have. We probably have it because it gives our species some advantage over other species. It might be that a more "right" way of behaving is aggressive eugenics to create better life for future humans or even a future species. Animals often do this by killing the runt of their litter or hen-pecking each other to death.
One thing that could be done is for schools to actually teach geography.

It’s extraordinarily relevant to history and current affairs. It gets a bad reputation because there is of necessity a significant amount of memorization. Knowing rivers, cities, mountain ranges, climates, the relative size and population of cities and countries really enhances your understanding of both historic and current events.

And I really hate to be one of those the-US-is-really-terrible-at-this guys, but it’s been my experience that the US is really terrible at this.
> We can’t please every student or every customer

I think the customer metaphor may not be great for describing the student-teacher or student-school relationship.

1. Students may be paying for education, but often the government is also paying for it (consider the cliché that "even full tuition only pays for half of your educational costs at our university.") This is particularly true at community colleges, where the students are more like the beneficiaries rather than the customers.

2. Teaching might sometimes be akin to coaching (or even therapy or parenting), where the instructor is trying to help students improve in ways that they presumably want in the long run but might occasionally vigorously resist in the short term due to the difficulty involved. Ideally a learning or training curve would be perfectly smooth, balanced, and self-motivated, but this isn't always the case.

3. Possibly contradicting #2, it probably isn't possible to teach someone unless that person is, at some level, willing to learn. Which is to say that teachers are like facilitators who help students to succeed at teaching themselves.

4. Most university students aren't paying out of pocket, nor are their parents; often they are saddled with massive student loans. This means that the loan company may be the paying customer the university is actually catering to, and the student is more like a token that is being passed around.
Office productivity is now in the cloud.
There are plenty of successful states that aren't focused on tech. I moved to one of them, and I'm enjoying my life a lot more.

I was miserable in California – it's not for everyone. I'm betting that tech won't come to my area any time soon and that's a great thing.
The GUI.

Linux and other Unices have much better CLI, but the GUI of Windows is far more consistent and complete than the dozen or more variances in UI frameworks/libraries/etc. of the Unix world... that is, until recently, when Electron and other non-native monstrosities took over with their superficially pretty but otherwise horribly unusable dumbed-down mobile-ish UIs.

I say this as a long-time Win32 programmer who actually started writing software for DOS and briefly for Win16 --- the CLI in DOS and Windows is so much less consistent and powerful than the *nixes (and PowersHell is a real abomination of syntax, as powerful as it may be...)
"poor driver support"

Please expand on this gem. Bear in mind that all drivers in Linux are delivered by the kernel. I'll grant you that not everything is golden in Linux land but the sheer pain of finding and updating drivers in Windows is an order of magnitude worse than in Linux.

You get them out of the box in Linux, in Windows you don't.

What sort of Window Manager are you having problems with? Why not try another one?
A few years ago, there was a similar incentive scheme by a businessman to revitalize the Jewish congregation in Dothan, AL that he grew up in. The plan was launched with great fanfare (see here: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/us/an-alabama-synagogue-o...) but failed badly: https://www.timesofisrael.com/billionaires-scheme-to-revive-...

None of the newcomers stayed, too much casual racism, no qualified jobs and bad weather.

You'd think this Oklahoma scheme will work out just the same. In Tulsa you get unbearable heat in Summer, tornadoes in Spring, bad schools (the private school for your kids will really bust your budget), driving everywhere, and racist rednecks, lots of racist rednecks. Good luck to anyone who avails himself of this program, they'll need it unless they are native Oklahomians and know what they are getting themselves into.
Conservation of genius.

Nice paper. Two columns. Why? In the 1980's computer science conferences like STOC and FOCS would hand out telephone-book sized proceedings, and it took two columns to squeeze it all in. Not relevant now, but the two columns make it that much harder to read on a tablet. I don't generally wish ill on anyone, but it's hard not to wish that the editors responsible for this idiotic convention would just die or retire in either order.
True. But 2020 is right now.
I think it's disingenuous of ArsTechnica to report two of the worst case posts on the Starlink subreddit as if they were common.

The source used for the comment "every 5-10 minutes" doesn't fully clarify that point. Many users in the Reddit subreddit post that is quoted stated that the person likely installed it incorrectly and the cutouts were from trees blocking the signal. So "every 5-10 minutes" is not what most people are seeing. Source reddit post the article uses: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/jsnd52/starlink_d...

Key reply:

> Based on the disconnects every 5-10 minutes. I would definitely say the obstructions are causing issues. I had the same problem last week and timing between disconnects. Put mine a little too close to the house. Moved it yesterday and today my connections were holding with no disconnects for anywhere from 2 to 3 hours with maybe a short 10-30 second disconnect between.
Single thread performance of M1 is 70% faster than top Ryzen U series chip(4800U).
Any place that wants to be the new Mecca for tech has to be pro tech worker and not pro tech company.
People want something like a persistent REPL, and for whatever reason most IDEs have either not supported this or supported it badly.
It's on github not disney.com, and mostly still accurate.
I'm terrified of heights. I used to install antennas and satellite dishes. It was great I had to get over my fear. I got to the point where I enjoyed getting up on a two story roof and walking around.

Fast forward 15 years of not doing it and I'm terrified to go up on a roof.

My point is you may have an inclination to be afraid of something but don't let that limit you. You probably can face your fears and overcome.
Amazon had its ups and downs, but with them and Uber it was never a great intellectual leap to see how they could be very profitable. That's not at all the case for Google or Facebook. As late as 2002 Google itself wasn't convinced that it could succeed by selling ads, and their next best idea for making money was so uninspired that Silicon Valley spent several seasons mocking it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance
"If selected, applicants are required to strictly stay in the Tulsa city limits."

Once you factor in relocation costs, the fact that urban apartments in major cities are offering revised rates & X months free, and that you're still in a city (free coworking doesn't make sense if you're concerned about the pandemic), it's moot.

Thinking wildly aloud, maybe one idea is to have collective bargaining rather than money. Say, X number of remote employees offer to move to Tulsa and participate in their economy in exchange for say, giving Oklahoma tribes back sovereignty for their land (see https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/05/indigenous-lead... )
i was tethered to a windows box for photoshop and then i discovered Krita. it is such a joy! the UX is very thoughtful (unlike my experience with gimp which i could just never get used to). its also very powerful with GMIC (you get content aware fills and other things that used to set Adobe apart. not anymore!)
There's nothing especially wrong with keeping your feeds focused on like minded people, so long as you understand you're not the world.

The alternative for many might very well be attempting to hunt down and censor anything they find objectionable, so their feeds can be both representative, and clean.
I recently spent 30 minutes figuring out why the Bluetooth pairing process wasn't giving me the pin number I needed to pair my new wireless keyboard. Ugh. Eventually, after searching through forums, I updated the right modules to get it working. I want to use Linux as my daily driver, but I am frustrated by little things that don't work or go wrong.
Still, many/most abortive procedures happen after 40 days, in the US at least.
Whilst the OP is after ostensibly practical examples, I would add something I haven't yet seen mentioned and that is education. If you are wanting to learn more about computing and how operating systems work, Linux is excellent at giving you this opportunity. It actually takes one of it's weaknesses and turns it into one of it's biggest strengths. Because you often need to tinker a bit with scripts and problem-solving in order to get certain things working the way you want, you learn a lot.

For example, when I was into gaming in my younger years I was lucky to have access to a family computer rather than a gaming console. Because of this, I gained experience tinkering with config.sys and autoexec.bat in order to make my games run on limited memory, and later, learning how to add hardware like 3D accelerators for faster performance. If I had been stuck with a static console without any room for modification, I may have taken a less interesting career path as a result. I feel a similar lamentation when seeing kids with iPads, but feel hope when I see them tinkering with Minecraft :)
> I'm originally from an Eastern European country and only realised the racism in Eastern Europe once I lived abroad for multiple years and drew parallels with the highly mediatised US racial tensions.

I've been having exactly(!) the same "only after I lived abroad" experience.
With the RgbColor example, a language that has mutability permissions (like Rhovas) resolves this easily. If you don't have mutable access to the object, setters can't be used.
Cable failures endanger renowned Puerto Rico radio telescope
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His partisanship was always circumstantial. I think he's renewing his position based on the increasing polarisation rather than actually "switching teams".

It's more like political divestment, as the costs of polarisation have increased.

His actual values - basic libertarianism like open borders and free trade and limited government - haven't changed at all. That's precisely why he never backed Trump, and instead continued plugging the values he espoused even as that drew fire from Republicans.

For instance: note that he donated a lot more to Rep candidates than to Dem candidates, but it was almost exclusively where the relevant contest involved a pro-markets versus anti-markets debate.

As Republicans have moved away from markets into populism, his spending is less and less partisan.
> If you think it's overpriced, you were never the target demographic.

Isn't that true of every product?
> Linux runs better on both new and older hardware.

This is very much debatable. What's true however is that if your HW is not supported by at least Windows 8.1 you're SoL.

> Better as in programs open faster, the file manager opens faster, the task manager opens faster. Everything uses less memory and less CPU cycles. Everything is snappier.

I haven't observed any slow downs in Windows 10 for ages. As for "less memory and CPU cycles" it's just outright false. Windows offers much better hardware acceleration for everything: display rendering, video encoding and decoding, RDP (VNC in X11/Wayland taxes the CPU quite a lot and forget about effectively streaming video via VNC), etc. Linux is quite horrible in this regard.

> Linux users don't have to worry nearly as much about malware, trojans, viruses, exploits. It's more secure.

Unless you're obsessed with downloading software illegally, it's not an issue in Windows either. I don't remember the last time I had to deal with malware for my +20 of friends using it.

> Linux distros generally don't annoy users with stealthy automatic forced updates.

Windows updates are very much in your face.

> Linux distros have a better app store experience than Windows, plus most of whatever there is free without much if any risk.

Except there's 100 times more software in Windows.

> Linux doesn't have any phone home telemetry type "features" built into the OS.

No one has ever proven Microsoft accesses or downloads any of your files, or uses telemetry data to find out what applications you're running.

> Linux user experience is much more customizable. There are a much greater variety of tools at your disposal to customize how you want your desktop to look and operate.

This one is true however with a lot of choice comes a lot of confusion and doubt.

> Linux is free.

Windows 10 OEM license can be bought for as little as $10. This is 100% irrelevant nowadays.
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It'll be a non-problem once VR is more accessible. I can imagine Google Maps in 3D (and pr Google Earth) will be a killer app that helps pushes VR forward.
I found my peak of productivity with WSL2 and an Arch Linux VM. Truly the best of both worlds.
Something feels very wrong about covering the entire planet in satellites just so rural residents of the developed world can get faster internet.

Sure, in theory, the entire world can have access but that won't come for free and won't be in any way affordable by the vast majority of the world population.
It’s only an “integration” test because you split things up too much. In a monolith, it would all be unit tests against a mock DB.
What a Nuclear Bomb Explosion feels like (2018)
It would be more compelling contrasted with ones that did not work.
This is great and I've bookmarked this to buy later, if it had sorting/tagging/advanced filtering options I'd spend $50 on this, maybe more.

I have a very large collection of assorted YouTube rips I've gathered over the years and would love software to help me arrange it.
Wait for actions instead of reporting whatever they self-proclaim? But that would take longer and lose the “newsworthiness”.