skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside, I am amused that you cut off the end of my quote only to restate the part you cut off, so maybe I was unclear.

Doing the deliberation, even if the answer ends up being "No" or "Not worth it", is a crucial part of UX design. Most people don't turn over those stones at all.

e.g. Anyone with spotty or slow internet has had the realization that most desktop software has never been tested on a connection slower or less reliable than localhost, and quality software where it rears its head immediately stands out.

It might seem like frivolous polish to be adaptive to the user's current connection speed, or it might give you a spot to put a smart variable knob that lets you build good software.

But I'd also point out that we're not used to writing software that cares much about the user's resources like remaining battery life. We just write our iOS app and then depend on iOS' battery-saving mode (global throttle). It's just not something we're used to thinking about, so it's easy to be dismissive.
Rich people already have their ways of maintaining their health and are fitter in general.
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Thank you. I will look into that.
The primary reason for thinking about AirPlay is that it
compatible with thousands of different devices out of the box.

This appears to be a solution for integrating AirPlay with NDI but it is pricey.
It's most likely going to be a bargain bin next year, so you might not need to wait that long, lol.
Tiny quantum computer solves real optimisation problem
The article describes the current format as a zip of files where the main content of presentation slides is stored in a `content.xml` file within. Yes, sqlite may have had file format vulnerabilities in the past, but I cannot imagine trusting it less than any xml library in existence.
>But I don't think that Cyberpunk fits in a PS4

From watching the game for a while (and seeing people play it on a few years old mid-tier PC's, albeit in lower settings) I'm not sure there's anything in the game that in principle would make it impossible to run on a PS4. IT's been in development for a while, I think before devs even had even access to a PS5.
The article states (and I have heard this independently) that the Boeing 787 is the only aircraft which does not use engine bleed air to provide air to the pressurization and air conditioning system.
High-end restaurants are such a microscopic part of the problem that this isn't really a point worth fighting over.
Can you elaborate about this? What are the gotchas when opening an untrusted SQLite3 database?

(I am developing a web application that will allow users to upload application files, which are SQLite3 databases)
Very cool! I have never actually seen many of these words in their root forms-- so the author has managed to present something fresh. Also makes me think that the English language is overly abundant in negativity sigh.
Or even we have no indication of this specific breach that you are talking about.
> Sadly, the author doesn't seem to realize that those wages come out of the pocket of the consumer. Lower the cost of labor and you lower the cost of the good that is provided.

Those pesky abolitionists apparently missed that too. Don't you think they'd have given up had they realized what emancipation would have done to the price of their clothing?
I'm being pedantic, and I apologize in advance.

> internet working

Wouldn't it be inter-networking/internetworking or internet networking?
Whenever I need to spell Arnold Schwarzenegger, I just look at my UC bachelor of science diploma on the wall. It’s very convenient.
In my opinion, the problem with <$> is actually a problem with Haskell, which is that there's too damn many "operators" -- it's hard to keep track of them all. This also makes them hard to search for. When I search for "kotlin question mark colon", the first page of results is flooded with results about the Elvis operator (also a very memorable name for future searches, if I forgot). Searching for "haskell dollar sign in angle brackets" unearths nothing.

Something as common as option types (which is basically how nullable types are used in Kotlin) deserves special syntactic sugar, in my opinion. Granted many of Haskell's operators are also common, but I wish they'd been able to limit the variety a bit.
What would be really awesome is a PDF competitor. Put fonts, images, media in tables. Open spec so everyone can use.

Perhaps an ability to lock/sign?
They are mostly just passing all the return costs off to the 3rd party sellers that sell most of their products these days. So it's no sweat off their back as long as they can be good enough to keep you coming back.
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The 787 also pressurizes the cabin to a lower altitude. Most aircraft pressurize to an altitude of 8,000 ft (~2,438m). The 787 pressurizes to 6,000 feet (~1,828m), which is a noticeable difference - it's like being in Denver vs. higher up on a mountain. Your blood oxygen concentrations will be higher as a result.
Looks like you can do it in OBS by using LonelyScreen.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/getting-a-live-video-...
Seems like people are having more disposable income and higher standards for quality of experiences.

That hardly matches the narrative that this is caused by people barely getting by and being poor.
It's dead to anyone who even kind of knows their stuff... So not much change.
Most Spanish speakers have never heard of Latine either.

Hardly anyone likes Latin@. It looks stranger than the others. It's hard to search for. There are at least 5 different ways to pronounce it.

Anglos use Latinx because it's the first gender neutral term spelled with all letters they learned.

I think most people who call themselves Latinx are fine with Latine when they hear about it. So probably Latine will take over.
I can’t quite follow your logic. Is it that poor people should pay more because they don’t have the tools and resources to maintain their health?

I.e., there’s a greater risk that their lifestyle leads to bad health outcomes that society will have to pay for?

If so, what other groups does this extend to that should be taxed? Should video games get a “health tax” because gamers tend to have a more sedentary lifestyle?
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The US needs a more substantial train system. Sleeper cars are refreshing and train travel is extremely enjoyable.
"One time I found John Kemeny’s email and showed him my amazing BASIC6 monstrosity. He wasn’t very happy about that. "

actual LOL.

Kemeny seems like he was the kind of guy that had a good sense of humor and every good comp-sci professor needs counterexamples.
I remember in 1976 we were using mark sense cards to write programs, and we definitely had to slash the letter O. I think we also had to slash the Z to distinguish it from a 7.
I see this sentiment on reddit often. However, the logic only works if the worker in question had a higher paying job prior to getting the job at amazon. If the worker got paid less, or was previous unemployed, then the the act of amazon hiring him reduced the government's burden. Also, let's say amazon replaced his job with a robot. Now the worker won't be on amazon's payroll and he's no longer amazon's problem, but now there's one more unemployed person and less money being paid out to workers. Is that much better?
App for busy people that want to fight climate change
I feel a million times healthier after losing my airport ramp job earlier this year.
Why the downvotes? This is pretty insightful.
This article has genuine information not easily accessible. The true owners of Mindgeek’s debt are still unknown. The title might be a bit forced, but nothing warranting so much derision.
> Still, another person familiar with the matter said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not believe Microsoft was a key avenue of fresh infection.

Thoughts on this? It seems unlikely to me that someone who compromises literally the enterprise desktop OS manufacturer isn't going to take advantage of the situation.
Reviews about the company or service rather than the product are a pet peeve of mine for food. I want to know if it is good food first and foremost. I could care less if the waitress gave you a dirty look when you asked that your steak be cooked well done.
That would be a moronic reason. Fortunately, it’s not the reason Russian actors are widely suspected.
Replace letters by line of codes and it will have the same result.
Yes, the same logic could be extended to tax sedentary entertainment products.

Or just let it take its course... Hail freedom! (for corporate marketing and optimizing addiction potential of all products) Boo regulation, that's anti-competitive and communist!
I'm not sure what these snippets are really supposed to show. This one:

if (file == null) throw new Error("File must exist");

is literally one character less code than this one:

let file = file.ok_or(Error::new("File must exist"))?;

and seems to be easier to 'read', but that's of course in the eye of the beholder.

More generally, accepting an optional file seems a bit bizarre; shouldn't the job of dealing with am missing file value be done by the caller?
Lost interest after the first few paragraphs.
Not annoying at all, I appreciate you pushing for clarity. I believe you are correct, I’ll do some research too.
We may have seen an explosion in the oldest galaxy in the universe
None of this is going to work. Let the robots do these jobs and bring on the Universal Basic Income. Anything short of that is unsustainable and inconsistent with capitalism.
A centralised government means it's easy for rich companies to pay-to-win.

I think we shouldn't have copyright enshrined in law and just use 2 parties contract to prevent copies (eg. I purchased/accessed this from you, I promise I won't copy or you can sue me in a private court).
Sure, it's not the same level of protection but copyright is proportionally useful to how useful / how much money you can make.

By doing this, you're giving freedom to experiment to everyone, remove legal friction in society and successful products (which are more likely to attract clones and piracy) will have a bit less revenue. Not a bad deal in my book.
> Lard doesn't contain trans fats, which is what fast food is full of.

The FDA has banned partially hydrogenated oils (artificial trans-fat) in the US. The phase-out process won't be 100% complete until January 1 (certain specifically exempted products containing trace amounts can still be sold until then), but for the vast majority of PHO-containing foods, 2018 was the last year that they could be manufactured and 2019 was the last year that they could be sold (in the US).
Is it a cash account or a brokerage? I figured it was an additional .8% to whatever you're already making
I'd take that bet. There are so many people that will leave a 5 star review for a discount without thinking twice.
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I typed that on my phone and it auto"corrected" to add a space in internetworking. I'll leave the error in place and just post this comment instead even though I still have time to edit it.
I am not surprised, it's a dirty little secret in the software industry that we employ a lot of Russian and other potentially vulnerable Eastern European software contractors. Not to blame anyone specifically, I mean the threat could equally come from India or China. Or even a direct hack. It could also be an insider threat from an American as well. Since software development is a complicated profession, it takes a lot of intelligent oversight to ensure that critical paths are secure; especially as we migrate to cloud and site wide solutions.
Why not post some sources for that weird claim?
OBOGS is supposed to be a relatively mature technology at this point, but many military aircraft have had significant issues with it over the last decade or so, and it's interesting to see similar issues crop up in civilian aircraft. I'm kinda mind-blown that the air quality isn't monitored on passenger aircraft, because the military has been doing it for decades.
I once actually briefly lost consciousness in my seat after boarding due to fumes coming in with the bleed air. I had some other things going on at the time and was physically and mentally burned out, but still as a more or less healthy young man I passed out in a plane seat for a few seconds largely because of the bad air.

I never thought to say or do anything about it.
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> Unless the app tracks all incremental changes to apply when the user clicks "Save" instead of dumping it all back to disk, which seems difficult and error-prone to implement.

That's the point of using SQLite instead of implementing it yourself. Because of how SQLite supports transactions, you can just update the database as you go; your changes will be physically written to disk, but they won't actually replace the old version from a reader's perspective until you explicitly commit, which is an atomic (and typically fast) operation.

The downside of this approach is that if the application crashes while writing to disk, the database file itself might be in an inconsistent state, accompanied by a rollback journal (or write-ahead log) that contains the necessary information to recover it. But if you manually delete the journal, or otherwise separate it from its database, you get data corruption.

That's probably fine as long as the user is a sysadmin who can be trusted to Just Not Do That(tm), but it's very user-hostile behavior for an office suite.
I think that's the answer.

In order for a country to cut itself off effectively enough, it has to be (a) huge enough to replicate any service its citizens might want that is found elsewhere and (b) authoritarian enough to crush/jail/imprison/ostracize them for circumventing it.

So far even Russia hasn't managed both. I don't think any country but China can pull it off, so we're looking at worst case a Real Internet and a ChinaNet. The only other countries that will succeed will be backwater countries dooming themselves to perpetual backwater status (I can name a few but won't).
I'm not confused about hot pockets being the same as honest meat pies. Insofar as they're even in the same category, hot pockets are a pretty sad alternative.

My point was that their nutritional value rests on the same qualities as any other food. Overabundance or lack of certain nutrients. Say lack of fibre, or too much saturated fat.

Excepting certain unequivocally harmful ingredients like partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (which could just as easily be added to homemade meat pies in the form of shortening), I don't think the number of ingredients or processing steps will materially affects the nutritional value of a food independent of its nutrient quantities.
Fair enough. Like I said, I was being needlessly pedantic and it still communicated just fine.
Meh I was an android user, linux etc, but apple's products do just work. In addition, their closed eco system allows for longer shelf life of their products as they maintain them.

Every damn android phone I had, within a year or 2 max, the updates stopped, I would be multiple major versions behind. Android is a disaster as there's so many hardware variations and screen sizes. Developing great apps that work on all phones is a pain.

Don't get me started on Linux where the graphics drivers are just shit. Every thinkpad and other laptop I had always had some issue recognizing external monitors on boot and bugging out. One monitor would work, another wouldn't, then the actual laptop display wouldn't but a monitor would.

Even as a developer and tinker, I got tired of having to spend countless hours fixing bugs and shortcomings of products that should just work.

I'd never own anything but a macbook pro for software development.

Apple does it right.
Plus the feudal model only works if there's a definite hierarchy.

The "everyone gets to get in everyone else's business" model clearly is a disaster. This disaster.
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
They shouldn’t even bother offering it on the PS4 and the old XBox. It plays well on the PC and I presume the newer consoles.
> Does anybody have any details on the Russia attribution?

FireEye (who discovered the SolarWinds breach when investigating their own breach) have said they are currently unable to attribute it[1]:

"While some have attributed the attack to a state-sponsored Russian group known as APT 29, or Cozy Bear, FireEye had not yet seen sufficient evidence to name the actor [FireEye subsidary VP Carmakal] said"

However US Subcommittee on CyberSecurity member Senator Richard Blumenthal said about it:

"Stunning. Today’s classified briefing on Russia’s cyberattack left me deeply alarmed, in fact downright scared. Americans deserve to know what's going on. Declassify what’s known & unknown"[2]

Having done some work in this field, attribution is definitely possible and fairly reliable with enough data, but releasing that data is usually not done because it shows what data sources you have access to.

I'd be relatively confident that there is classified sources showing it is at least probable[3] that the source is Russian if subcommittee members are tweeting that.

Edit: FireEye/Mandiant has a good primer on how they do their tracking of unknown groups. Attribution is similar: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/products-and-services/2020/12/h...

> Not looking to start political flame bait here just curious what details are out there.

Just wait until you see what happens to this reply. But <shrug>.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-15/fireeye-s...

[2] https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1338972186535727105

[3] Probable in the "words of estimative probability" sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_of_estimative_probabilit... and https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
Isn't that all about tracking and knowing what you do with "your" computer? If you know more about customers you can more easily manipulate them.
When it's not possible to offend - ultimate freedom, right?
> never actually seen many of these words in their root forms

The humor of this is that they generally don't occur that way in English. That's why you haven't seen them!

(This is discussed in much greater detail elsewhere in the comments.)
You're responding to someone that agrees with you. But also states that everyone else is review-farming and that if they don't do it they will be left behind.

I.e. your plan is doomed to fail.
If the only acceptable response is a 5 star review, or nothing, it's not a scale: its a binary measure.

If the review response is mandatory, its not a review.

Hoardes of people tell me to stick to 2 and 4 star reviews for honest assessment of the good and bad in things. I think they may be on to something.
There is a decent amount of content on Netflix covering the man behind the website. He injected himself with some protein that was supposed to make him more muscular in public as a publicity stunt. Pretty controversial but also pretty interesting.
FusionAuth (the company for which I work) have a similar model with a free (though, in our case, not open source) community edition for developer reach and to lower the barrier to entry.

Then support and enterprise features are paid for by the enterprise. If you can find the right levers, it works.

This has been a common business model. Redhat did it, Hashicorp does it, Rancher I believe as well. The entire SSO Tax group of companies ( https://sso.tax/ ) have variable pricing because companies will pay for features like SSO that devs won't.

The question, especially with an open core model, is what happens if the cloud providers do to you what they did to mongo or elastic. I found this article interesting: https://joemorrison.medium.com/death-of-an-open-source-busin...

I think the jury isn't out on opencore as a business model and auth is certainly the right kind of horizontal platform play. And there's certainly room for all kinds of business models in auth, as it's a gigantic market.

Disclosure: I work for FusionAuth.
So there is no way to login on any device that isn’t your own?
I can understand the utility part of the argument.

But human beings have an innate drive for fairness in society. People will actually work against their self interest if they feel they are being treated unfairly.

The counterpoint is that the “small part of the problem” logic works both ways. If it’s such a small part, it shouldn’t matter if it gets taxed. Taxing would have little impact on the consumption dynamics while having a much larger impact on the perception of fairness
Quake? Flawless?! I played that on a 486 25 that was rated as the minimum spec and it would barely load and crunched along at 6 FPS but I loved it and was happy to get it. I played Skyrim and fallout 3 on a MacBook and it was truly painful but again that doesn’t detract from the incredible work, artistry and effort that went into the game and that it carried the genre forward.

If you came to different conclusions chalk it up to subjective differences. I completely disagree that it’s a dumpster fire but I suspect we want different things out of cutting edge games or technology in general.
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Swing is part of the core JDK and fully mature.
SSO support is a hard requirement, so it's a pass from me. SSO is not an "enterprise" feature. It's a feature demanded by enterprises we sell to. It's also good security practice internally.
Another angle still, is why does Amazon get to have the benefit of workers who eat and have homes when they do not pay enough to enable their workers to eat and have homes?

If we could set aside the suffering of the individual (which we cannot) one solution would be to let these companies devolve until they are entirely staffed by starving homeless people and see how that effects the productivity of their workforce.
If I build a static binary for each platform I want to release it on and we don't have another a.out to elf transition... Oh, and building it will end up needing a special environment as opposed to the stock JDK.
Chinese citizens are legally required to spy if asked. Don't know about the other countries citizens.

https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corpo...
> The iso downloader you can find on windows site is actually a assembler that assemble the iso on your disk from files on mincrosft server.

You can actually still get an iso, but you have to be using or spoofing a non-windows operating system (I've only tested Linux, but I would assume Mac/*BSD as well)
I know you say it in jest, but poorly administered regulation can be worse than no regulation at all. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, or something to that effect.

I’m not against the idea of taxation, I just think it should be done equitably and properly thought out, not haphazardly applied in a reactionary manner.

It’s like the idea of regulating check cashing places. I concede that they can often have predatory practices and deserve to be regulated. However, people who advocate completely banning them don’t necessarily realize they can also provide a valuable service and lifeline to poor communities.