skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that unaccountable police are a big problem, but I feel that I cannot support the BLM narrative even though that narrative might end up making police more accountable. For one thing, it disgusts me when I see this narrative pushed dogmatically even though it is far from clear that it accurately describes reality - and especially, it disgusts me when I see people try to make it taboo to question the narrative. I view that level of thought policing as a real danger - while perhaps it does not endanger people's lives, it does help to turn society into a place that is unfit for free-thinking people to live in. For another, dogmatic belief in the BLM narrative has led to actual violence.
And too late for International Fixed calendar.
Note that OpenTimestamps itself doesn't actually use a blockchain. But while the protocol supports multiple time attestation mechanisms, almost everyone using OTS uses it in conjunction with Bitcoin (the public calendars all timestamp via Bitcoin). Thus almost all OTS timestamps are depending on the Bitcoin blockchain for their timestamp security.
1. Putting the management UI on a local system requires some custom networking setup, and is full of security footguns.

2. Most customers who want this have multi-site setups; in that case, you need paths across the public internet too. Again security footguns, and also reliability ones.

3. Remote work is very very common for IT people.

4. Recovery from configuration mess-ups is harder if your control plane has to run on the same network that you've messed up.

There are on-site controllers available. They've just lost out in the market because of the amount of in-house IT expertise they require. No one wants to deal with that shit, and outsourcing the security and reliability problems to a specialized third party is usually a good idea.
Have you worked for ubiquiti too like GP or are you just sprinkling random whatever words?
Please separate storage from brokers next
Do you use typing in Python?
That's really old news. I guess the paper has just properly described the effect.
1. That's untrue. Partitions are limited to what a machine may handle, but topics may be scaled across many ordered partitions.

2. This is generally handled by the client library transparently. Have you ever needed to manage this state manually?
Please consider writing up the story and submitting as an HN post, that sounds horrific. Thanks.
Comfortable line-height usually has enough space for any diacritics. If you want to go tighter, you’ll need to know you won’t have them. But that’s true today too.
I happened to still have it in my browser so I took a screenshot for anyone who missed it.

https://i.imgur.com/kJLMX5L.png
So does most sin. Do we need to be ethical if we are not evil?
Yeah, EVWest has been doing the work for a while now. You are correct that it currently isn't cheap, and is more complicated/DIY than anyone currently wants to call "easy", but that's the definition of "we have the technology". The next steps are productionizing it/industrializing it, which I also pointed out in my comment.

It exists as an "artisanal" option today. Per VW's roadmap they expect to have more "off the shelf" components in the near future. Ford doesn't have it on their radar at all it seems, but as I point out that's likely a blindspot on Ford's part that should be addressed (and if they don't do it, the aftermarket will, even if it starts "bottom up" from the "artisanal" shops).

> The problem is that competent electric pickups have been "coming soon now" for most of a decade

Beyond the ones you mentioned (Via Motors, Tesla Cybertruck):

Rivian have been taking preorders and are expected to deliver some of the first ones this year.

While Ford don't have EV conversions on their radar, they do have new purchased trucks. The electric version of the F-150 is supposed to be their second EV following this year's Mustang Mach-E. Rumors are that the official launch and some very early presales could start as soon as the end of this year (though most analysts are expecting Ford is likely more serious about a 2023 model year).

GM has been relatively cagey what they have planned for the big spectacle 2023 model year, but many indications are that among the "12 currently unannounced EV models" for 2023 at least three or four of them are going to be trucks across the Chevy and GMC brands, on the "Ultium" platform they beta-tested in the 2021 Hummer EV.

Lordstown Motors has seen some fraud concerns and stock shorting controversies, but is entirely focused on EV Trucks right now (similar to Rivian) and were expected to have deliveries of their first model (the Endurance) start last year, but are seemingly delayed to at least "late" this year/early next year.

(Fwiw, the "coming soon now" for the Tesla Cybertruck is also "late" this year/early next year, with delays noted due to pandemic reasons and usual Tesla timeline slippage.)
Looks like the 1d4 used a Realtek network card while their latest boards use Intel which I guess is the recommended brand for pfsense/OPNsense.
> Why not use box-shadow or border? Those properties are super expensive to animate. If we want a buttery-smooth transition on the button, we'll have way more success with this strategy.

Border I can understand, because it affects layout (though if you make balanced changes to top/bottom widths, admittedly a bit harder than it may seem at first if you use an easing curve, it would be possible for the engine to recognise it and skip layout, though I have no idea if they do).

But box-shadow? Huh? Why would that be expensive to animate (let alone super expensive)? It doesn’t affect layout, it’s just painting.

Now admittedly my perspective on this sort of thing has been skewed by using Firefox, where WebRender completely throws out the old performance guidelines (and box-shadow is certainly not expensive to animate, and the multiple-element version will certainly be a negligible smidgeon less efficient), but I thought and would expect that even in the old inferior rendering world that all the other browsers inhabit box-shadow is not expensive to animate provided you’ve used the standard hacks to GPU-accelerate the element’s rendering.

Certainly I’ve never observed any smoothness issues on animations of box-shadow.

I’m interested in whether I’ve forgotten something here, or whether Josh really is overstepping in his description.
Yes, this is true. You can access the Unifi controller on the local internal IP.
Why would someone choose Confluent Cloud over the Kafka offerings of Azure/AWS/GCP?
Battle of Palma
I disagree that this is hyperbolic -- to be in the wilderness is to be alone and away from humanity. A starlink train is a stark expression that one can never really be alone anymore.

When I was a kid, it was a fun/rare occurrence to see the occasional satellite -- they were more common than the night's meteors, but not by more than a factor of ten or so. Today, there are oodles.
Autotools is a pain for development. autoreconf is slow, configure is super slow, and the Makefile generated by automake is a monster that adds seconds just to do a no-op make and it is impossible to hack. So for development, I simply hack up my own scripts to generate the config headers, directly parse the Makefile.am (which is surprisingly easy to parse) and generate my own Makefile. This works well because development only need a specific environment and a simplified Makefile. But I value autotools and keep maintaining the configure.ac, because it really saves you a lot of trouble in supporting users.
It was the time where autists were still in control :D No way today a business school product manager let engineers ship millions of next gen communication equipment sounding like loudly dying lamas :D

If I understand correctly there was absolutely 0 need to make it noisy to your ear by default except for the tester at the factory to test if it worked.
China and Brazil have greenest central banks, activists say
The only time I've seen DNS failing after seconds, about six seconds iirc, was when an host had three DNS server configured, all of which were wrong (public DNS servers, used to query an internal zone).

It took seconds for the request to time out because the host tried all three records one after another, and gave up only when all three had failed.

But, uh, that's an uncommon situation.
> By early March 2021, Islamist rebels had begun to besiege the town of Palma. The rebels beheaded civilians from nearby villages, as well as refugees who were trying to flee the town. On 7 March, the rebels took the border post [...], isolating Palma from the rest of Mozambique. The civilians who remained in Palma faced starvation. ACLED analyst Jasmine Opperman argued that an assault on Palma was expected, and that security experts had warned foreign embassies and the Mozambican government that the militants were planning an attack, only to be ignored.
Does Florida typically throw billions of dollars at vaccine development?
Microsoft didn't really have a comparable App Store at the time, not to mention, Apple hadn't really made a comparable App Store for the Mac yet either. The iPhone app model was more analogous to the business model of gaming consoles (and Steam), except with lower barrier to entry.

Today, I'm sure you could still publish independently of Steam... but you'd be at a disadvantage.
One advantage of Kafka is the ecosystem effect. There are many systems (Flink, Kafka Streams, Pinot, Druid, Presto, etc) that connect to Kafka. I'm not sure about the extent of Pulsar support here, although I'd love to learn more!
There are two major differences.

For one, the compiler can force you to check for None. Trying to use an Option<T> as a T is a compile-time error, you have to write the pattern match to use the Some case.

For another, and this is the big one, you can write a function which takes a T, and you can't pass it an Option<T>. The compiler can statically confirm if your variable has already been "nil checked".

I used to write a lot of Java code, and since you can't know for sure that null-checking has been performed (among other reasons, that might change with a new code path) you just kinda sprinkle it everywhere. And still forget and get runtime errors.
In many ways logic itself is emotional -- the feeling of pieces fitting together perfectly, the feeling of things that were unclear becoming clear; all these kind of feelings drive people toward logic as a way of thinking about the world.
Ruckus seems pretty good. You can use their unleashed APs without cloud/controller/subscription. POE, and can connect up to 75 devices. I just installed at my hotel.

We had ubiquiti, but the power outage usually corrupts the controller, and requires constant resetting.
Wait, for real?

Lightning is even dumber than I thought - and I already thought it was DOA.
Can't resist to point to the "Die GNU Autotools" book, which when read as English expresses the feelings of many, but it's actually German. https://books.google.co.jp/books/about/Die_GNU_Autotools.htm...
"Apache logfile" might be the format, just like "800MiB of json". Just a guess.
At the beginning of the pandemic the world health organization was saying that there was no evidence of human to human transmission, when there was. The surgeon general of the United States was saying that masks don’t work. Right now a lot of the establishment dismisses the possibility of a lab leak out of hand. If contradicting any of these narratives were illegal, we’d be in a worse country and I’d be trying to find the America of the 2020s, just as the Soviet mathematicians and scientists and entrepreneurs and engineers did before me. And that last point is why we shouldn’t ban free speech beyond that which poses a clear and present danger: because the damage to the country of losing people who value free speech in particular and freedom in general is much greater, over the long term, than the danger that comes from dealing with an informationally enfranchised public.
I’ve actually been using dotnet 5 on Linux recently. It’s been really successful, and to your question; I put performance critical bits in a .so with which I can use pinvoke. Speaks to the power of C, really because there’s been amazingly, no issues with ABI or strict layout or anything.
Is there any message ordering guarantee in NATS? With Kafka you can achieve this by using keyed message and messages in the same partition will always be ordered

Disclosure: I work for Confluent
It sounds like the author's conclusion, that he would pick MySQL over Postgres, was heavily influenced by his recent encounter with a Postgres performance cliff where some django ORM code inadvertently uses subtransactions: https://buttondown.email/nelhage/archive/22ab771c-25b4-4cd9-...

For that, I would like to counter with the 10+ years old quadratic locking bug that remains unsolved in InnoDB: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=53825
I don’t see how an NFT is any worse (or better) than something like Duchamp’s Fountain.
Your criticism is fair in general, but in this case CNBC claims the fact checkers were actually lied to when they attempted to confirm:

"Media outlets, including CNBC, reported it as news after it was confirmed by unnamed sources within the company, who apparently lied to several reporters."

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/30/volkswagens-name-change-of-u...

Also, I took a screenshot of the press release in case anyone missed it:

https://i.imgur.com/kJLMX5L.png
Don't be so weirdly picky.

"times less" is division.
I'm not sure if this is a joke I don't get but speaking about weird cultural mix-ups: Copenhagen is not related to the Netherlands. I'm actually glad that people are getting EU states all mixed up but we're not there yet, guys ;)
frontend <-> backend, use JWT

users <-> frontend, use OAuth
Those should not be drawn by font. I believe the only way is for the app, e.g. terminal, to intercept and draw them directly, not through the font. Otherwise you’ll get horizontal gaps too https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/449
It would take an excellent product, that's it. Best in class performance, efficiency, range, reliability, design, value, etc. for a single model is what is needed to prove their ability.
Microsoft wouldn't let WPF die. Anyone writing enterprise desktop applications is using it heavily.
Microscopic Robots Deliver Drugs to the Brain
I guess what I wonder is why they didn't go with an embedded library or something of sorts. Some NoSQL databases handle it without Zookeeper.
There's no real conclusive science for what you're proposing. The body could be impacting the mind and altering one's personality but we haven't learned enough about the brain to really know for certain. Opinions on this topic are likely from anecdotal experiences and not real science.
Yep, it's very useful for channel-based state machines, you can turn transitions on and off between states.
But if they could make grandma marvel at the sound of two blackholes merging by transposing a faint gravitational wave to sound, I suppose we could amaze grandma by taking some kind of wavy view of the digital signal while someone load the picture of a cute girl's black hole.
Many fonts are designed so that you’ll set at least 1.2 line height. 1.0 barely fits the characters themselves
We run a fork of GoTrue, using the migrations in this PR:

https://github.com/netlify/gotrue/pull/254

tbh, our fork[1] has deviated a bit from Netlify's so we need to spend some time with them upstream'ing any changes that they would want to merge (perhaps magic links, Azure logins, OAuth scopes).

Long term, I think we will need to run 2 different forks because we have different requirements for multi-tenant. So the benefit here would be sharing "OAuth providers" (eg, if we add Okta, we upstream it, if they add Twitter logins, we pull it)

[1] https://github.com/supabase/gotrue
There’s nothing unprecedented about a company temporarily changing branding and tweeting about it during April Fools day.
There was verification - and intentional misleading on VWs part - before talking about it. It was not quite the "read press release and instantly write articles" timeline you've dreamt.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/30/volkswagens-name-change-of-u...

> An unfinished version of the initial press release went out briefly on VW’s U.S. media newsroom website Monday morning before it was taken down. Media outlets, including CNBC, *reported it as news __after__ it was confirmed by unnamed sources within the company, who apparently lied to several reporters.*
That's weird. Most places report rpi's idling below 1W

https://raspi.tv/2019/how-much-power-does-the-pi4b-use-power...
The 1865 "Red Flag Act" "required all road locomotives, which included automobiles, to travel at a maximum of 4 mph (6.4 km/h) in the country and 2 mph (3.2 km/h) in the city, as well as requiring a man carrying a red flag to walk in front of road vehicles hauling multiple wagons.

The 1896 Act removed some restrictions of the 1865 act and raised the speed to 14 mph (23 km/h). "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_Acts
<sarcasm heavy="true" comedy-intended="true" do-not-hate-me="true" smiley="true">

What do you mean!? Forethought!? That's BDUF! YAGNI! This is the problem with you damn tech weenies: all you want to do is fix things and think!

There is no business value to fixing this problem. Ship! Ship! Ship! Ship! We need to float the IPO or SPAC or...something so we can all get RICH! Who cares if the damn font system is broken!? I don't remember seeing a story card or epic for that in Jira.

Now, there has to be -- like -- hundreds of blockers in Jira you should be working on right now instead of futzing with the tech bullshit.

</sarcasm>

On a serious note: is it possible there's a reason why everything is just slightly shit?
I would be willing to spend an incredible effort to keep something POSIX instead of using autotools ( https://varnish-cache.org/docs/2.1/phk/autocrap.html ). They may have been an acceptable solution to a problem before the turn of the century, but things have changed enough that I’m not convinced they’re still delivering much bang for the buck.
Hadoop launched in 2006, the same year as AWS' cloud portfolio. HBase showed up in 2008.

Many of the hiccups with running Hadoop and friends in containers or on cloud VM's boils down to how hostnames are resolved and advertised; not any significant design issue.
That old post has a heavy emphasis on the problem being "undocumented features", which is absurd, since most Microsoft products have undocumented features. These often intended for use in automated testing, or used internally by the software, or for use only by the developers and support personnel. SQL Server's `DBCC WRITEPAGE` is a great example of the latter.

There are plenty of APIs intended only for Microsoft to use. There are significant features locked away by registry settings with zero documentation.

Windows itself even has entire APIs that were explicitly designed and intended for external that are effectively undocumented.

The real issue is easter eggs (or any code) that a developer snuck in without approval. Sadly, the post goes on to claim that even approved easter eggs should not be shipped (with the implication that them being undocumented is the problem), but that is absurd.

Better cease all development on Windows/Azure/Office for the next decade so that all the undocumented features can be properly documented.
Probably not since from what I understand Google and Apple use the same protocol
2 days before April Fools day is not April Fools day.
I just wish there was a disclaimer for government accounts that basically says: For entertainment purposes only.
"People who just come here to lie" is flamewar/battle language. So is "push back on people", in fact. What I've noticed is that when internet commenters use such phrases, they're coming across as far more aggressive than they think they are. Everyone feels like they're just playing defense while others are committing outrages.

That kind of thing just inflames the problem further and take us into deeper circles of hell. You can respectfully provide correct information without doing that. Your arguments will be more effective too.
You don't need to legally change the business name. In fact, many of the businesses you're familiar with are incorporated under unfamiliar names. Rather, you can often just register a trade name (aka DBA name), which is a sort of formal alias which in principle is readily resolvable to the business name. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_name
This is good advice. Postings with Java, Ruby, and PHP will almost certainly be a huge mess and will have lots of room for "coasting"
> Maybe less rich than if they hadn't gotten caught, but still richer than if they hadn't cheated in the first place.

Which is exactly the calculation that their lawyers and executives made, more or less.

You're right that it's a failure of society as a whole. A failure to make bad actors pay for negative externalities.
Before Raft (2013), if you wanted reliable, consistent distributed metadata store you had to implement Paxos which is notoriously difficult to get right. Every service that needed some type of leader election or highly consistent store let Zookeeper deal with that problem (Mesos, Spark, Druid, Storm, and a ton others).

After Raft, it became easier to just implement that layer yourself and so most projects after Raft (or probably more accurately once people started seeing how stable etcd was, ~2014), just used Raft internally where they would have previously used zookeeper.
At least you use the word 'fulminate'. That counts for something :)
> Quebec is the Texas of Canada, if I recall correctly.

That's my understanding too. Or California with a more serious Calexit movement.
I remember that I was fascinated reading this book in a book store and eventually bought it. I had a good time reading it. But the only useful thing out of it is the parsing chapter. Actually just the `/\G.../gc`. But that is already more return for me than many other books.
I'm only in my 30s but I'm able to do things I never could 5 years ago.

Their was a very good atlantic article about decline posted yesterday, I would hope by the time I get to 60 I'd have the funds to hire people to work on my side projects. If only to hop into the code myself to fix things.

I very much hope I'm still programming in my old age
Which ones of VW’s size, on March 30?
As soon as it appeared, when I was like 16 and an adept of philosophy, classic theater and general litterature which were, with video games, big escapes at the time, we were all talking around me about this network of people looking at themselves yelling in the void.

A few years pass by and everyone is addicted to facebook for news so much that my parents became fascists, my sister went through communist then populism and now post stuff like the EU is going to steal our savings, my friends are either gone off of it or completely vain selfying their vacation to no one in particular.

And now I post yet another comment to myself, marvelling at my english and smiling at my little twist. You're right, we don't talk to each other at all we just show our best angle to ourselves while raging jealously at other people's better angles.
Lick the boot harder. How did anything work before telemetry? How does tomato/openwrt work so well?