skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a corporation you open source at least pieces needed for interoperability, that is a valid reason. Otherwise you can get into the pains of SMB/Samba or drivers for paid databases for more programming languages one is able to support. For example Microsoft is working on the PHP driver for SQL server, this helps them by opening the door to PHP developers to use MS SQL and eventually pay for Standard or Enterprise editions instead of using the free Express one. It is kind of a freemium game.
I don't trust anyone who comes back with quick answers without any hesitation or pause. I remember a lecture from a while ago, I can't remember who was giving it but they were someone well known, where they asked people to implement bubble sort. The results that came back ranged from something like 20 lines to 2000 lines and every single one had bugs. I don't know how anyone who works in this industry for any length of time doesn't follow up every answer with, "...but there's probably some problem that I'm not thinking of at the moment".
I also use throwaways, but to give unpopular advice. I'd say that youre probably alright, but your state indicates an objective reality which is wasting time on things deemed pointless by your ego or soul, whatever you call it. Whenever we engage in such pointless activities, e.g. chasing money, our egos lose interest that feels as the unexplainable loss of life satisfaction. Activities that are deemed important by our egos are usually considered unimportant by our today's society's. The famous example is meditation: it seems meaningless, but for whatever reason it instantly brings the ego's attention and that feels as an unexplainable satisfaction in achieving something important, even though you can't explain whats being achieved. It's like lighting up an internal candle. Other activities are research of certain usually abstract topics, but also giving to others (not just money, but also time or knowledge). I'd recommend studying the bright side of occultism, and start with a short essay called "light on the path" (and to dodge the wrath of the orthodox HN community, I'm using a throwaway account). That essay has a few important references that will eventually lead you to less known books by Plato, Newton and many others. You'll laugh at the idea that Plato was just a philosopher. By that time you wont have lack of internal self validation.
> "there were several major issues that led him and his co-founders to build a new search tool. For starters, he says that there is too much information and nobody can possibly process it all. What’s more, as you find this information, it’s impossible to know what you can trust as accurate, and he believes that issue is having a major impact on society at large."

I may be jaded by (too much) past experience with similarly well-intended, laudable goals going awry. Things tend to get bogged down or go off the rails because the (good) idea is to fix what turns out to be a deceptively complex problem that exists for "reasons (tm)" which stack in wickedly circular ways and are thus not easily solved completely enough for enough use cases.

I wish them the best but the first likely issue I see here is that evaluating "trustworthy" is both subjective and relative to the context of the customer and use case. For example, any topic subject to a lot of Wikipedia edit warring is likely to be difficult to address "good, fast and cheap" enough for meaningfully sustainable competitive differentiation.
Let's assume that's true for a minute. Who does that benefit?

The wealthy in the US don't care, because they can and do invest in chinese tech companies.

The US government doesn't gain anything by banning TikTok. China can get most of the same data by scraping from other sources. I'm sure the US government can also get the data from Chinese companies if they want.

US tech competitors don't benefit from the TikTok ban because it shakes confidence in the laissez-faire attitude the US has had toward tech.

US citizens don't care because their interests are currently being represented by Facebook. I think I'd rather have China own my data than Facebook.

It all seems very confusing, until you recall that the TikTok ban happened because a bunch of kids organized on it to mess with the pre-registration for a Trump rally. https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/08/03/tiktok-ban-trump-is...

There is no pro-US or pro-democracy policy making happening. This is really just trying to graft meaning onto the actions of a childish narcissist with a lot of power.
Archive of full post: https://archive.is/9egFN
It's not ideal, but you can run Linux software on FreeBSD. Commercial enterprise tends to be conservative and not need bleeding edge Linux interfaces that may not be available through the linux emulation layer yet.
Using the Chinese version of Skype, which the CCP certainly has backdoor access to surveil without warrant or oversights of any kind.

Regarding the source code thing: you’re either not paying attention or you’re a CCP propagandist.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/security/chinas-...
Am I the only one who still doesn't see what the issue with an old fashioned 3.5mm pair of cabled headphones? I have a quality pair of headphones that works great, that I can easily plug into anything, except nowadays many phones. I still don't get what issue wireless is solving? All this talk of battery life and easily connecting is ridiculous. What's so horrible about a cable?
GPL software can be monetized and locked away behind cloud services. If it's never actually distributed to users, then those users don't have rights to the source code under the terms of the GPL.

AGPL solves the AWS and MongoDB problem.
Yeah, see the SpaceX Falcon 9 user guide for comparison: https://www.spacex.com/media/Falcon_Users_Guide_082020.pdf

I expect once Starship gets beyond the prototype stage its users guide will become much more detailed.
I'm curious what you have figured out for "why?" When you say "value is more than revenue or profit" you are proposing an entirely post-capitalist way of thinking about the economy. I'm genuinely curious what you feel is different about Amazon, Shopify, etc. beyond a huge amount of debt, outside funding and interest rates that have made money cheap for more than a decade.
I teach undergrad CS, and recently wrote this to explain how to debug: http://justinnhli.oxycreates.org/debugging/

It's still a work in progress (I would like to add some worked examples), so any suggestions for improvements are welcome.
You seem to be using a different definition of accessibility than the commonly accepted one. What disability precludes the use of javascript?
New release with PHP 8 support?
No, just no. I got so tired of my airpods not connecting randomly, automatically switching to other devices at random times, losing most of their charge after a year, and so on, that I literally just use a pair of wired airpods now and it works great. Oh, except that Apple decided iPads should have USB-C but not iPhones, so now I can't even use my lightning airpods on more than one device.

This Apple worship is the ultimate banality of consumerism. The Airpod max is about the dumbest thing I've ever seen Apple produce. I personally think it will be a big flop, but I guess we'll see.
Happens to me with Powerbeats Pro too (usually the left one for reasons unknown).
Overleaf is a godsend for working on LaTeX documents.
A community-controlled organization could just opt to not be acquired (and indeed should, given this precedent).
> you’ll be getting things from smaller boutique farms

Bingo!!
It seems that FedEx and UPS are being tapped into for expedient Covid19 vaccine distribution. I wonder if these limits are in any way connected to capacity planning for distribution of the vaccine.
Yeah google's True Time system pretty much is the only one I know of.

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con...
bigyikes says >"It really blew my mind that I could aim directly at a human-sized target only 6 feet away and totally miss."<

No surprise. Even after years of training many, if not most, police officers miss close-up shots more often than they hit. There's a surveillance video somewhere of a security guard and a perp shooting their firearms at each other from about 3 feet apart: they miss every shot. One had a revolver and the other a semi-automatic. It is somewhat reminiscent of the "apartment scene" in Pulp Fiction but even wilder and less believable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6YBKdmOlM8

Shooting a target at a range is very different from drawing and shooting at real people who are moving toward/away from you, possibly with ill intent and possibly armed.

For police, entering a building with a search warrant is not something to be done with a firearm holstered. You have no idea what you're up against in that situation.
The issue is simple. Getting rid of the cable. Cable SUCKS when moving. It's almways getting tangled or trying to pull the phone out of your pocket.
Did that and got a second hand pixel 2. Battery needed replacing which is next to impossible without smashing the screen. USB port was struggling to hold on to the cable and google cut off software updates for it.
It's a good thing that network-level filtering is getting harder. If you can use network-level filtering to block ads/trackers/malware from your own devices, countries and ISPs can use network-level filtering to censor other people's devices. If you want to protect your own devices, do it locally, even if it means configuring Firefox instead of just the OS.
can you escape the "sandbox" and alter CSS values from the github.com host itself?

i.e. make the "login" button invisible, hide some text, etc?
Yah, it sounds that way.

Rolling forward to the head is required to get the most recent security updates. Which isn't that far away from how centos works today. With rhel you get security updates for the point releases (8.1,8.2,etc) for a while after the new point release comes out. With centos, the day that the newer version drops, they don't tend to roll security updates into the older ones.
I actually considered doing so, but frankly, upon broader review of the situation, it's clearly a lost cause. I genuinely don't think Etsy cares to solve this problem.
Broadly speaking, "Pro" in Apple's line is "the more expensive version." It's mainly in the Mac Pro and iMac Pro where it's a particularly significant difference for professional use.

Feels weird how the AirPods have Pro and Max as separate totally different products, but in in the iPhone where the "Max" has been used before, "Pro Max" is one product.

The rumored name I heard for these was "AirPods Studio", but probably the right call to not use the word "Studio" in headphones that don't have an audio jack on them.

But I'll take it over AirPods ASDF380C.
Huawei tested facial recognition that targeted Uyghurs in China
Silverblue, in my experience, is not really there. I like the idea. As of my latest try at it in August, I wouldn't recommend anybody recommend it unless they're going to be physically standing in front of the machine on a regular basis.
> edit: after a little thought it seems that moving to RHEL might cost us the least amount of money and downtime. Still sucks and not what we need to be working on right now.

And that is exactly what IBM is counting on. Vendor lock in.

We are switching to Debian-based distros because, frankly, we don't trust IBM not to knife us in the back even on RHEL for more money. Of course we have the advantage of being able to take the time to convert.
Given that he's apparently relaying something that actually happened, Bernstein can't be strawmanning it. In fact he can't be strawmanning it at all, as Microsoft Word doesn't make arguments or claims. You appear to mean something more like "Bernstein is incorrectly portraying how Microsoft Word works." But as I said Bernstein presents this story as something that actually happened, not a hypothetical example, so I guess what you actually mean is "I suspect Bernstein is making up this story"?

Regardless, Bernstein does in fact address this criticism in the note added yesterday. Yes, it has automatic list numbering, but in order to achieve the desired formatting, the users had, instead of altering the formatting appropriately, removed this automatic numbering, because Microsoft Word doesn't make these sorts of distinctions clear and explicit.
Whatever you do, don't buy an icestick. They're not cost efficient.

Check aliexpress for iCESugar. That's an iCE40 UP5K development board that's half the price (~$30) as the icestick and much more powerful.

It also works fine with the open stack.

Full disclosure: I own iCEStick, iCESugar, BlackICE MX and TinyFPGA-BX.
But this time its different! <- said before every large stock market crash in the modern era

Alot of things to consider, 0% interest rates for over a year now, once the fed's spigot dries a bit expect to see huge drops in the market and especially alot of the speculative tech companies.

Alot of working professionals have seen huge gains in money since covid, ie. no travel, no commutes, no buying lunch/breakfast at the office, no dinner out with collegues/family, no daycare(if they are parents). Add that up and its a gigantic monthly savings, alot is going towards home stuff/renovation, its also going into the stock market.

People are forced online, with lockdowns and other restrictions people have literally been forced to find new ways to shop and entertain themselves, some may be more permanent than others. Once they are over expect large crowds in every possible way(theatres, malls, concerts etc) and drops across e-retailers.
They specifically made Scientific Linux as a royalty free alternative to RHEL so I can’t imagine they’d jump to a royalty-encumbered value loss Oracle Linux distro.
You say you can't fathom it, but then you seem to subsequently fathom it. Dark themes are nice in dark rooms. If you assume most people spend most of their screen time in well lit environments, then puzzlement might seem warranted. But why assume something which leads to perplexing conclusions? The obvious answer is that people who prefer dark themes also tend to work in dark rooms.

When I'm on my balcony in the sun, I use a light theme. But that's only a few hours a day during the summer. Most of the time I'm indoors with the lights low and my themes dark.
You may have accidentally reinvented Icon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(programming_language)#Go...
Why do sites need to "release" dark mode? Everybody can change their user css easily, and put whatever text/background colors they want. The problem is that the css of most sites is an humongous monstrosity and does not cope well with a couple of simple changes (which was precisely the purpose behind the design of CSS!)
Nothing's wrong with a cable if you're content with it and have a solution that works for you. (There are lots of issues that cables cause for me, but they don't apply to you, as you're content! So it's not necessary to go into them.)

In arm's reach I have three different headphones: One is wired XLR, two is dual wireless and 3.5mm wired, three is wireless only. They have all been used in the past 24 hours.

Meet your needs however you see fit, and once you're happy, be happy! Others will choose differently. They shouldn't pressure you about it, and I certainly don't intend to either.
AirPod != Airpod Max.

"After the one-year warranty on AirPods Max has expired or the up to two-year AppleCare+ coverage has come to an end, Apple will charge a $79 fee for battery servicing."[1]

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/08/79-airpods-max-battery-...
Reverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring Summer 2020 Engineering Interns
I’d qualify that as “complex infrastructure software”
#2 acting aggressively simply because someone didn't comply is an abuse of power. The only justifiable reason to draw their weapons is if the occupants were viewed as a threat. To threaten as retaliation for non compliance is fucking horse shit.
This is not about IBM. It may not be a pleasant change for everyone, but it's a change that has strictly technical motives.

CentOS was acqui-hired because Red Hat's upstream for layered products (at the time mostly RDO/OpenStack and oVirt/RHEV) could not use Fedora because it was too far from RHEL a year of two after RHEL was released, could not use RHEL because upstream contributors would have to pay, and could not use CentOS because its releases had too large delays. The solution was to make CentOS releases happen timely by paying people to make them.

These days a RHEL downstream is not enough for the layered products. Some of them require the kind of bleeding edge feature that is backported every six months to the RHEL kernel, and corresponding userspace changes (BPF, virtualization, etc.) and cannot afford waiting for the CentOS release because development must be done in parallel with RHEL. So the solution was to move CentOS from happening after RHEL to before RHEL which is what CentOS Stream is.

I can confidently say that the reasons are technical because other CentOS downstream have the same needs (e.g. Facebook's) and they also want to send patches to CentOS for bugfixes or features themselves, instead of waiting for Red Hat to find out about that bug, or decide they need the same feature. Plus there's no reason for rebuilds to disappear. The SRPMs will still be released by Red Hat.
Austin Powers borrowed a lot from the original Casino Royale (the 60s spoof version), and the classic 60s spoof duology In Like Flint/Our Man Flint (fun watches that still hold up; Austin Powers even directly name drops them). Those 60s spoofs didn't kill campy/fun James Bond, and also show us evidence of this sort of spoof/serious cycle in Bond (and elsewhere) is likely cyclical. If history is to judge, we're about to the point where Austin Powers flutters out of collective consciousness again and given the right actors/directors/producers the Bond movies can do fun stuff again.
Not to condone unnecessary escalation, but I think the guns were drawn because of her not opening the door for a search warrant for 20 minutes. I think it's reasonable for LE to assume the environment might be unsafe after a display of non-compliance like that.
> 1. Log "intents to write" rather than writes themselves in Topic A 2. Have a separate denormalization computed and kept in a separate Topic B, which can be read from. This denormalization needs to be read until the intent propagates from Topic A. 3. Convert those intents into commits. 4. Deal with all the failure cases in a distributed system, e.g. cleaning up abandoned intents, etc.

People do do this. I have done this. I wish I had been more principled with the error paths. It got there _eventually_.

It was a lot of code and complexity to ship a feature which in retrospect could have been nearly trivial with a transactional database. I'd say months rather than days. I won't get those years of my life back.

The products were build on top of Kafka, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch where, over time, there was a desire to maintain some amount of referential integrity. The only reason we bought into this architecture at the time was horizontal scalability (not even multi-region). Kafka, sagas, 2PC at the "application layer" can work, but you're going to spend a heck of a lot on engineering.

It was this experience that drove me to Cockroach and I've been spreading the good word ever since.

> If you use an OLTP database, and generate events into Kafka via CDC, you get the best of both worlds.

This is the next chapter in the gospel of the distributed transaction.
Hint: if you pass it x, y, z where they are functions, it won't complain :) Python is (weakly) typed, so in your case, it tries to call 1(something) and that won't work. In (untyped) Lambda Calculus, everything is a function.
I read the jokes on some of the comments on here which I could understand bc it’s a bit scary thinking about if something like this could be true. Having Said that, I am a bit terrified and it’s because I heard of this gentleman and he is highly respected throughout the world in space Security. What he said was true and when whenever it is going to be confirm. Life is never going to be the same.
Thanks, missed that page. Of those two, only Stripe has donated to an organization. That leaves us with a mystery about what launching partners really mean.
Fediblock – a list of bad actor instances in the Fediverse
I went with what they call the "Axial coordinates". I think the alternative, "Cube coordinates", causes a lot of issues and confusion when writing game logic.
The question for me is, why do the Apple iphone, computers, appleTV etc. not support the "just works" experience on non-Apple headphones? Bluetooth is supposed to be a standard, no?

While I like the ergonomics, I'm wondering how much of the lack of it in non-apple headphones products is the result of Apple not fully supporting them and thus, monopolistic practices.

Replacing the cable with (modified?) bluetooth technology allows distinguishing "our hardware" from "their hardware" and adjusting software to only support certain features.

So, why would not apple devices only support these features on Apple headphones?
Builds systems à la carte: Theory and practice

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

I've always hated build systems. Stuff cobbled together that barely works, yet a necessary step towards working software. This paper showed me there's hope. If we take build systems seriously, we can come up with something much better than most systems out there.
I didn't see this before I wrote my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25337491), but the free Software Debugging course on Udacity is great: https://www.udacity.com/course/software-debugging--cs259
If you want your package to get there slower than walking it, then yeah you can use USPS. Honestly I do everything I can to not use them at this point.
Now if only HackerNews would relent in its zealous vendetta against eyes.

It's appalling how such major apps and websites literally took YEARS to implement Dark Mode after OSes added support for it, while plenty of minor devs had their shit ready to ship during the betas of iOS and macOS.

If their elite teams can't manage something as simple as an additional color theme, what confidence do they hope to inspire in their product? (then again most popular apps are actually crappy in other areas too; WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat etc.)
Bluetooth still sounds horrible compared to 3.5mm.
I think the grandparent is talking about a better WYGIWYG language, like HTML generally is. You can (and most people, at least on HN, probably do) edit HTML in a buffer.

Edit: changed parent → grandparent
You can only ask them for the source if you already have the binaries and you've gotten them from Red Hat. If you got the binaries from someone else, you can ask that someone else.
I feel Skyfall is the movie that proves Bond is a Time Lord.
Unfixable Kubernetes Security Hole Means Potential Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Embargoes. Sanctions. Tariffs. Freeze assets abroad. This is not a difficult problem to solve. It just needs some balls.
You would think the FAA would thoroughly test and vet the procedure of 'flying plane without MCAS' because now MCAS will be disabled, possibly intermittently, possibly at unexpected times. Thus, where is the data from existing flights showing just how 'rare' activation really is. It seems like the FAA avoided the question of "is the plane safe without MCAS" entirely.
Good question.

Yes. Old but gold. Brian Kernighan. Jon Bentley. Google them and their books.
If we had an actual Department of Defense, we wouldn't need Homeland Security. What we have is a relabeled War Department but that would have sounded silly after a war.

To wit, winning is all about framing the argument in the right way. Victors get to rewrite history not just because they won but because we want a world in which good guys do well.