skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because they feel that the tide is turning against 3rd-party cookies and maybe even fear legislative action in some markets.

The beauty is that Googles business works just fine with FLOC and their competitors don't.

When third party trackers "abuse" the ids one "obvious" solution could be to only allow "trusted" advertisers to receive it.

If, in a great stroke of fortune, the requirements to become trusted are basically "be Google" I wouldn't be surprised.
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Own a home, not likely. Not without at least a second job or income from a spouse or extended family.

This is apartment rental income, not ownership class income.
This is most likely a timing problem. If you type c# fast, then the back button brings you back to the previous query.
If you pause between typing 'c' and '#'. then it brings you back to the previous character only.

That is related to our instant search, where you don't need to hit the return key to search. This causes the problem, that we need to identify when a query ends and the next query starts, to create the correct entries for the back button. We do this via timing - if the pause between key presses is too long, a new, separate entry is assumed. As the DeepHN is a single dynamic HTML page, we need to implement and manage the browser navigation logic ourselves.
The impression I get is that it's usefulness heavily depends on the parameters of engagement, and how useful you see the plane as being hinges on what type of engagement you see as the most likely.

One of the criticisms is that the plane is too expensive to use against non-peers. What I'm reading between the lines is that all of this technology is designed to counter advanced enemies. There's no reason to use an F-35 in somewhere like Iraq because they don't even really have the means to combat F-22s. There's no point in expensive, fancy stealth fighters if your enemy lacks the ability to detect and counter much simpler planes.

That leaves the technologically advanced foes. The pivotal question there becomes "how well does the stealth work?", and the answer probably heavily depends on where the combat takes place. If we're fighting a proxy war in a third world country, the F-35 probably makes a lot of sense. Even if our foes have detection capabilities, they would need to get them deployed and make sure we don't destroy them. It also presumes that our advanced foe is willing to show their hand and give their detection hardware to the proxy country, giving up a future advantage.

This thing just doesn't seem capable of dogfighting, so a sheer technological advantage is a must in order for it to be successful. Otherwise it will have to be deployed with planes that can dogfight, ruining the stealth advantage. The open ended question is "Do we have a technological advantage, and can we maintain it?". Everyone's perception of the plane is flavored by their answer to that question.
Main advantage is the full sized keyboard.

If you do a lot of coding, it's just a better ride than "compressed" keyboards.

13" is a nice form factor, but I find the 14" X1 just has enough space to give a nicer typing experience.

Just my opinion, you should see if you can try one out, and see what you think.
It's all described in the FAQ[1]. Moreover, there are a lot of different technical decisions to improve stability, packaging experience, user experience, etc. One of the biggest such points - new Projects[2].

[1] https://rizin.re/posts/faq/

[2] https://rizin.re/posts/introducing-projects/
No, the author wants people to use versions higher than 8.
I can't really blame Lebedev for that, given how expensive EInk displays are, due to the patent/monopoly situation.
I have that one starred. ASETNIOP looks quite interesting to me. I just wish it was open source. Without that, I don't see how I could possibly adapt it to the various operating systems I use day-to-day.
How did you come to that conclusion? The point made is that Java 8 incurs costs compared to newer versions, so you need to "budget" for it. If you can't afford to not run it, then Java 8 would be saving you money/time somehow.
How private is FloC + IP though?
They seem to be aiming at professionals, although it also says they're after their current audience, whatever that is.

> the newly revamped Reuters.com www.reuters.com is hoping to attract professional audiences prepared to pay $34.99 per month for a deeper level of coverage and data on industry verticals
This is spot on. Other than Coinbase(which is very risky), the overall financial statements of companies going public don't have great revenue growth and almost no shareholder's equity.
The substance turns your thought process inward. You think about the thoughts you are having, and the associations behind those thoughts much more deeply than you otherwise would. You think about ordinary, everyday things in a much deeper way. This is what changes you. You could do the same thing with meditation probably.
The “controversies” section in the Wikipedia article doesn’t point to any coherent bias in Reuters or deliberate organization-wide ideological judgments. I am really not sure what you are trying to say other than “one of the largest news agencies in the world has made mistakes” which... ok?

It is true that Reuters tends to hew towards US-centric conventional politics and sometimes has problems with politically-biased reporters and editors. This is endemic to any news organization run by Americans, and similar issues will arise in any non-partisan news agency. Reuters is only “non-neutral” in the sense that any news organization will have some ideological baggage and some viewpoint.

It is useful to keep this in mind when reading any particular story, since any journalist is capable of bias and any story should be read critically. It is not useful to pretend that this human imperfection is somehow a problem with Reuters. It seems like an unfair (and dangerous) way to discredit legitimate journalism.
Well-known since the netflix prize challenge:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265973077_Robust_De...
that's one of the reasons I love Fossil so much. Way better backend than Git.
There are devices you can buy for a few hundred that place the image of the person you're talking to directly in front of the camera. That way you can look at who you're talking to while also looking directly into the camera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nCYWhYagqk

There are also a lot of homebrew DIY versions of the same device:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AecAXinars
They should try showing the moderator a blurred version of the image first, and allow the moderator to slowly unblur it if they need further confirmation.

Or use ML to auto blur specific parts that are likely to be gore etc, and allow moderator discretion to remove the occlusion.

I bet some pretty basic tricks like this would help a lot. A high resolution image of all the gore (or whatever) inside it is probably not needed to come to a decision in most cases.
I don't think that it is a "fun" factor that keeps people addicted. It's the fear of withdrawals.
I struggle with this. How do you know when to sell for good?

I suppose it is when you predict opinion is going to work against this and public opinion seems a very slow moving thing. Unless some sort of crazy event occurs.
Yeah, somebody really needs to solve the micropayments problem for real. I have no problem paying for content, but there is no way in hell I'm paying $35 a month for a Reuters subscription just to read one or two articles a month. And same for NYT, WSJ, yadda, yadda, yadda. I mean... if we all paid for monthly subscriptions for every news site we read a couple of articles a month from, we'd be paying $600 / month just for news. I think that merits a "C'mon, man" response.

If nothing else maybe these sites could have plans that are tiered somehow, instead of going from "5 free a month (but you have to register and give us your info)" straight to "35.00 a month for unlimited." Give us "$3.00 a month for 10 articles, or $8.00 a month for 20 articles" tiered plan options or something.
Here in the practical world, being able to throw out legislation is naturally conservative and, besides that, structural forces make the Supreme Court more conservative than the electorate. The idea that the Court should rule in an impartial way is nice as a soundbite, but does not and has never really described how it operates.
This is not true. USB microphones do not have as high quality as XLR microphones connected to a usb interface. In general, USB mics have a lower signal to noise ratio (SNR) and a higher noise floor.

Does this matter for gaming or calls? Not really, as it will definitely sound better than crappy laptop or headphone mics. But there is a marked difference. The AT2020 usb mic doesn't even go up to 20khz. Not to mention the A-D conversion from a dedicated unit and the mic preamp are going to be better than the onboard electronics of a usb mic.
No your intuition is right. At its highest levels of consistency settings Postgres will also throw an exception which application code is supposed to listen for and retry the transaction as needed. This is functionally the same as what you're doing with Sqlite.

The main difference is that this can happen more often for Sqlite because it has far coarser write-locking (where only one writer can proceed globally at a time) whereas Postgres is much finer so in practice this is less of an issue (that is B has to be the same database row in Postgres whereas B could be totally different bits of data in Sqlite). Postgres can also relax various consistency guarantees if they're not required, but that's effectively "papering over the problem" as you say.

Although I would say that the presence of these exceptions isn't necessary a concurrency bug. Just automatically retrying the transaction is usually perfectly fine from a correctness point of view (this is optimistic concurrency vs pessimistically locking things). The only reason Postgres doesn't do that for you automatically is that done blindly you can waste a lot of performance on retries and the application may want to control what it does there to minimize performance impact (aborting after n tries, exponential backoff, etc.).
I recently implemented all these do not track headers that exist in my companies applications. I hope more devs consider doing the same. You can still get valuable analytics without tying identifying information to every request
Pretty wild. Expense and hassle aside, it makes me wonder how the pressure hulls are fabricated to begin with.
Self Hosting always implies more work, generally its attractive to entities that have data protection requirements. Them offering a hosted alternative is a proven business model (Gitlab for example).
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Yes, but other outlets with subscriptions still have ads as well. It seems to be a strange holdover from print news where you also had to pay for a newspaper ... with ads.

There was of course a physical paper that had to be printed and delivered so a base cost at the very least kept printing and delivery down to reasonable numbers. The ads could pay the reporters wages, etc.

I'm not sure what the new rationale is for double-paying for the content.

It would seem to my naive brain that the more eyeballs on your ads, the more money you make from the advertisers. Needless to say a paywall (even a free subscription wall) blocks those eyeballs.
It's not profitable yet because people can still switch to other browsers. When chrome has a monopoly, they will be gone in a heartbeat.

Also, look into what chrome recently did to the APIs adblocker extensions use, even in the current market google is already making adblockers less potent in chrome.
Because the first half of the article was praising Java 8 and it’s various benefits.

I didnt read the second half because I couldnt make sense of the negative headline with the positive text.
Block number is used.
vs Audible $149.50/year 12 books
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Do you get the impression from the post that he was actually listening to my description of the use case? ;)
Apparently you didn't read the last sentence.
Not only that--different species have used different parts for the thumb. A Jurassic pterodactyl ("wing-finger") had the earliest known opposable thumb. Pandas have their choice. Primates are late to the party, but might have a claim to most use. Some cats have joined.

The most important key-chord is space, followed by backspace.
The title paints Java 8 in a negative light, maybe change to "You can't afford to lag behind Java 8", or "You can't afford to not run Java 8+".
I'm pretty sure you could easily buy a Tesla if you wanted to with 3 million in the bank. It's like somebody with a Virginia ham under their arm crying the blues because they don't have any bread.

In all honesty, sounds like you are in dire need of perspective. You should take some inspiration from your username and hit the road.
I've entertained some people with rants about that period; but when i try to write it the bitterness becomes too concentrated. I got to do some Good but trusted the wrong people and it cost more than i shoulda spent.
While this does not resolve your current issue. Have a look at https://signalwire.com its from the same people who created FreeSWITCH.
> and that causes weird language dependant problems. Rust will panic(). In comparison, a broken country flag just renders weirdly - which isn't ideal, but its fine.

My point was exactly about whether languages should enforce string encoding. I maintain that strings should just be arbitrary byte arrays, and only text processing methods should enforce the appropriate encodings - that would mean that accidentally splitting a UTF-16 code point would be as painful as accidentally splitting a grapheme cluster: anything that wants to render the resulting string will have a problem, but anything in between won't.

> It will tell you the number of UCS-2 elements in your string, which is the number of codepoints + 1 for each UTF-16 surrogate pair.

Oops, here you are completely right. I was under the mistaken assumption that Java String.length() would return the number of 16—byte chars in the string, when in fact it returns the same useless number as the chars().count() method. Sorry about that!
That's what Elixir's Broadway framework aims to do fwiw.
> If subs-only model improves reporting and rids the pubs of propagandizing, I’m all for it.

Yeah, if.
Stylus addon removed from the Chrome store
Yeah it is almost as if people have different priorities and resources.
Observer was incorrect in his 'observations', but you're getting ridiculously conspiratorial here.

Governments and Central Banks create immense value, they serve many purposes.

They can do things we don't always agree with but that's inevitable.

If government disappeared civilization would halt.

If Central Banks disappeared, basically the same - everything would stop.

Most of the important things that the Central Banks do are published, you can watch it happen.

Aside from their obvious value, the very concept of a 'common medium of exchange' is also immensely useful for society.

Despite your claim, you're free to use 'Santa Claus Dollars' to do what you want, but that would server no purpose.

And you also don't have to hold currency - we live in an era of computers, you can immediately exchange any USD you have for any zillion other kinds of store of value or currencies.

You like Swiss Frans - go ahead - buy as many as you want.

Crypto serves no real purpose as a currency or a store of value - if BTC and every crypto went to $0 tommorrow, the only thing that would change is we'd stop wasting energy on factoring prime numbers.

Obsevers comments about 'governments extinguishing BTC' are nonsensica: nobody is trying to stop crypto, and frankly, as of today they don't care. If the US and EU decided together to ban crypto you can be assured that it would probably be worthless very quickly - there are very few people who want to put vast sums in an asset that could land them in jail.

Finally: "Better yet it can be extinguished but it would require government to do the one thing it can't possibly do:
A similarly deflationary dollar"

Is also missing the point because nobody wants hyper strong currency but a few people who misunderstand currency.

It would be nice to have dollars that increased in value over time, but that feature of currency would be very costly and having damaging effects on the economy.

What we want is a currency that maintains it's value but very slightly depreciates over time. Just a tiny bit. That's ideal. That way you don't have to worry about your current accounts falling in value, and if you want a better store of value you can do that.

If there is an issue with the Central Banks then we should address it because we need 'good money' a lot more than we need to collectively imagine that 'special long numbers' have some kind of value.
Sorry I was unclear, by toggle I meant more like shift than capslock, you have to keep pressing don't know what's the correct terminology for those kind of keys.
Low frequency outcomes over large number of events can produce surprising numbers. 0.01% of 2B people is still 200k people. If each of them posts a single image once a year you’re still going to get around 600 pictures of child abuse per day.
The best system for me is the one on the Sennheisser Game One I have and probably many others.

There is a microswitch in the mic boom, so that it is disconnected when you lift it away. I mean, you can't get more simple: when it is in front of your mouth, it is on, when it isn't, it is off. No need for a LED. Also, the headset is passive, with a good old jack connector, I consider it a plus.
Most of HN crowd I'm sure can spend a few extra bucks per month to get quality news.

What about not so lucky people, though?
386 files changed? This has to include more than just the fix, right?
Cited plandemic2 as a source ...

It's been proven fake by a number of sources!
Upgrading a Java 8 application is not easy if you have a very huge code base. The article focus on performance considerations, what about migration costs?
Just a quick shout-out to how far the language has come. Scala and Kotlin really lit a fire under Java's pants, and now the language is moving forward super-quick. Releases every 6 months, lambdas, fork-join, var, records, code looks and reads nicer, and the ecosystem is perking up too. Spring Boot, VertX, lots to look forward to.
As someone born and raised within the Schengen Area I would never call the U.S border, anywhere, open in any way.
> I find it hard to say the usage was improper English.

And who here said it "was improper English" specifically, in these words?
> I'm not sure I understand why PostgreSQL would be "overkill" for something?

For one it requires more expertise to set it up and monitor. SQLlite is way easier to use. And if the app is coded right, it can be easy to replace SQLite with a more powerful client-server DB like Postgres when necessary.
> When writing a file (or changing metadata like permissions), the entire directory inode may have to be rewritten.

That isn't how inode filesystems work -- if you change a file's permissions, it's just an inode update on the file -- not the containing directory.

Even in DOS-type filesystems (FAT/exFAT), it's just a record update in the corresponding dirent for that file.

If you add a new file to a directory, that causes an mtime update on the directory's inode.

The rest is accurate -- many older filesystems have lookup performance that scales poorly with directory size (for DOS filesystems and BSD UFS, you have to do a full directory scan). Also ls defaults to sorting output, which is O(N log N) and can be slow in large directories.
I honestly think there is a case for removing this post as misinformation. At least adding a note or something. In general I'd expect the level of conversation to be higher on HN than this. 0.2% is a ridiculous and dangerously bad bit of misinformation that continues to be put out.
The ModMic is also excellent, and you can attach it to existing headphones [1]. I use this at home with my prized Sennheisers.

It baffles me that some people don't seem to care about their audio quality on calls. The most obnoxious are those who use speakers and you get echo on all your talking, and despite telling them, they still never bother to get a decent mic.

Another common offender are the Bose QC35s: they have a terrible mic - I wish people would stop using them.

All the Apple things have great mics. I always keep an old pair of 3.5mm earpods in my bag as a good, portable laptop mic.

[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ModMic-GDL-1420-UNI-Mute-Switch/dp/...
agreed; when I started reading this I thought they were saying if you are running anything below Java 8 it’s faster
I see this argument a lot, and I think it is more hollow than it appears. I am certainly not the same person now that I was 10 years ago. Indeed, I am different than the person I was 1 year ago. Life happens, people change. Directing this change with psilocybin seems like a reasonable choice. Sometimes it may misfire, and you will be a bit worse off; but sometimes humans get depressed, angry, or otherwise negative for lots of other reasons.

I watched a movie once that made me deeply depressed for weeks. Thin may have permanently changed my personality too. Should we ban movies because they make people feel and think things that they haven't felt and thought before? (That's as close as I'll get to cancel culture uproar in this post)
An Exploration of Public Engagement with Obama and Trump on Twitter
You just have to do the TikTok hold
The thing is, it's not at all clear this was caused by psychedelics, so much as psychedelics and the lifestyle that goes with it shape the sort of dysfunction we observe.

If they had been in the midwestern USA would they also be dysfunctional but taking prescription painkillers? Mental health problems are common, and confirmation bias is real.

There is also the danger of reverse causation — and this may apply to cannabis. The epidemiology there suggests psychosis may cause people to take cannabis at higher rates, rather than the reverse.

Finally... I've also often wondered what partying so hard would do without the drugs. I've experienced festivals both with and without recreational drugs and it often feels like the sleep deprivation and over-stimulation have as large an effect on my subsequent mood as the drugs did.
> we've been down this road already with stuff like DNT

Let's not forget that Microsoft deliberately murdered DNT by making it the default value. Had they not made that move, there's a good chance, we'd have seen DNT honored and eventually codified.

> They've already burned that bridge, I'm not inclined to keep offering them new bridges to burn.

I agree, if you give them no option whatsoever, there will never be legislation reining them in. With FLoC, you could outlaw other forms of tracking and add significant fines. Without it, politicians will not move a finger over concerns to damage the industry.
> the first half of the article was praising Java 8

It wasn't though... not sure why you got that impression? (I do think though that the text could use a few edits for easier reading - maybe it just isn't easy to understand when skimming)