skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great recap.

I remember being invited by IBM to a round table with Grady Booch. The guy just mouthed platitudes worthy of an architecture astronaut, and utterly disconnected with reality.
- Medics exist to protect patients, not the other way around.

- They didn't say: "we need to prioritize medics", they said "masks have no effect" and sometimes "masks are BAD for you".

- They have doctors in Japan/Taiwan/China too, but they said from the beginning there to wear masks.
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I wasn't suggesting they had to, or should happen. Just trying to understand the future plans since the "DB" term is there.
The problem with this analogy is that NFC, touch ID, speakers, and bluetooth are all in the MB/s or less range. On the desktop side, you have to deal with 10gb/s ethernet and 50-100gb/s for ram. It's just a whole different ballgame.
US to share AstraZeneca shots with world after safety check
Sigh...the wikipedia article has a picture of various memorials family members of deceased divers built at the Blue Hole. The most prominent one reads "Don't let fear stand in the way of your dreams"...isn't that exactly the wrong message? The guy whose quote that is died when he was 23 years old.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Blue_hol...
> However, it's a safe assumption that the vast majority of people Google support deals with are spammers. If Google gave a detailed explanation to all of them it would mean a ton of additional work – which would create an unsustainable situation at this scale.

You describe a situation where Google was going to put a whole company out of business -- probably ending your friend's job, as well as that of many other honest people -- rather than give them the information they needed to fix the problem. And you think this is reasonable, because it would be "a ton of additional work" for Google? We just have to accept people losing their livelihoods as collateral damage in the war on spammers?

Imagine if we applied the same logic to the government. If they think you committed a crime, they just toss you in jail and don't have to tell you why. They could catch a lot more criminals if they didn't have to waste time prosecuting them!

No, we need a Habeas Corpus for tech companies. If you are banned, you have to be told why. Make it a law. I don't care if it results in more spam.
I don't make a good amount.

I throw what I do have into equities (ETF, Index funds, individual stocks) and some options. I imagine this is a pretty typical answer.
This author's argument is poor. Anyone can drop a copy of SMB in the toilet. You can produce more. You cannot produce more of the $660k copy.

Rarity depends on more factors than "total in print".
Are you just looking for airports, routes, and schedules? FlightAware provides that: https://flightaware.com/

Not sure what you get with the commercial services, but even the free services are pretty good. It's what we used in 1st CAV to track the redeployment of the last units to leave Iraq in 2011.
The highroading by Europeans regarding race never ceases to amaze me. I've never experienced more overt racism than during my limited time in Europe (specifically Germany, Netherlands, and Denmark).

The real difference here is American issues are broadcasted more than European ones are.
Not only plausible, I'd say this is the most likely way it played out.

At the time of the Intel transition, Apple had already gone through the process once before with 68k to PPC. It had to be clear to the long-game thinkers at Apple that this cycle would keep repeating itself until Apple found a way to bring that critical part of its platform under its own control. Intel was riding high in 2006, but so had IBM in 1994.

Within two years of the Intel transition, Apple acquired P.A. Semi. The iPhone had barely been out for a year at that point, and still represented a fraction of the company's Mac revenue – and while it looked to us outsiders like the acquisition was all about the iPhone and iPad, in retrospect, a long-term replacement for Intel was almost certainly the endgame all along.
There isn't enough supply to support commercial versions yet. When there is, expect budget powerwalls. Used batteries would be perfect since home backup rarely sees full discharge.

This is a problem the market is perfectly capable of solving. Batteries are valuable.
Also: https://playground.diagram.codes/
That's right, I'm using the 2x2 characters and some off-center horizontal line characters.

Note aware of Unicode expansions, though more and more fonts seem to support the above.

Sparklines in the terminal sounds very cool, did you end up coding something?

Note that one other popular alternative (see for example the Unicode plotting lib for Julia) is using Braille characters, which probably have an even better support across fonts
Still seems strange to me they focused so hard on the ad fraud part of it, unless they had a sudden change of heart and needed an excuse to get Droidscript out of the Play Store. They could just as well simply have said that any app that allows for easy, arbitrary code execution is a security liability and won't be accepted on the Play Store, which does include a fair number of root-required tools that have been removed at some point before. I don't necessarily agree with it, but that'd be a pretty believeable justification.

My gut feeling says these devs aren't telling the whole story.
But....Tesla doesn't have L5 self driving. It's bogus. It doesn't exist. Samsung has an in-screen fingerprint reader. It works. The technology clearly exists and works. Whether Samsung fucked up in the past or not is irrelevant - the fact I was pointing to was that the technology to make in-screen fingerprint readers clearly exists, as an Apple customer I'd expect them to integrate it with their usual level of polish. Do it 4x as good as Samsung. Because at the end of the day it's not about Samsung - it's about why Apple hasn't decided to introduce this feature yet despite the pandemic painfully showing that having just FaceID is not good enough. This is not a rant to say Samsung it great and apple isn't - just purely saying that once again we're in a position we've seen hundreds of times before - other manufacturers have some fancy new features that Apple hasn't integrated yet. As their customer I wish they'd hurry up.
Sounds too good to be true. Is this open source and available on F-Droid. If not, it should be.
Apathy from higher classes is not really something endemic to India, and I doubt its intensity is much more here than in other countries. In fact, the "rich people" who can escape to 5-star hospitals in India are in an extreme minority. The real reason is that the people are used to not expecting things from the government. It is a common conception here that if some public service comes from a government agency, it is bound to be of terrible quality. The public mostly tries to avoid government schools and hospitals as much as it can even if alternatives are several times more expensive and as a result, corruption in those institutes gets ignored and dismissed as something natural even when they get more funding.

That's what I feel is the main problem - India is what happens when People do nothing.
Not exactly. Certainly it is a black hole once a neutron star's mass fits within a certain radius, but since it is then not a neutron star any longer, the question is how that condition came about.

Neutron stars have an effective outward pressure that is caused by the Pauli exclusion principle [1]; two or more fermions such as neutrons cannot be in the same state (which includes location). A strong enough inward counter force from internal gravity (or from an external force) will cause a net motion inward, overcoming the outward force, such that enough matter (more accurately, enough mass-energy, not just matter) is within the critical region.

See for instance [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/06/13/the-...
It's a pity they didn't ask our advice; we could have told them exactly what to do to minimize damage.
Yeah, but this is a VC backed venture, they won't do that.

The cloud could be the worst thing that can happen to the Internet.

Privacy and Ownership should not be treated as abstract ideas.
Great piece of software for e-commerce businesses to manage sales tax complexity. I hope Stripe will make it even better.
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I'm not sure the business case makes sense? A web browser is something most employees would need to be running throughout their working day. So, something like 8 hr/day. Even assuming that their claim of "16-core Xeon per browser" is slightly embellished, these machines aren't exactly cheap.

I can see €64.26/mo (~$77) from Hetzner for a Ryzen 3700X octa-core box, so assuming a box can be shared by three users (maybe from different time zones), that's still ~$25/mo per user just to pay the cloud provider.
> ...after taking into consideration the information that you have provided, we have confirmed that we are unable to reinstate your publisher account.

I hate when using euphemism slides into flat out lying like this. They are not "unable" to reinstate the account, in fact they are the only party able to reinstate the account, that's why the account holder was contacting them instead of someone else. They are "unwilling" to reinstate the account.

I know it's all just bullshit but it bothers me anyway.
As we're listing alternatives, Lucidchart also supports generated UML Sequence Diagrams, which lets you use their GUI after generation to customize it / alter as desired
No, it's the bad hardware. With high-end hardware, it would be no problem to just run something like anbox and immediately have most of the important apps running. Except asshole apps that require DRM/safetynet of course, but I don't use them on my current android phone anyway.
Overpopulation is what drives many problems worldwide: hunger, global warming, resource exhaustion, wildlife extinction, etc.
What I'm learning about Mighty reminds me of a recent development at work: I have to use an ETL tool that is terribly resource hungry and consumes 5GB+ of RAM without doing much. My macbook pro only has 8GB of memory, so running Chrome and some other applications gets me close full memory usage. The result are frequent and frustrating crashes of the ETL tool. New hardware is not an option for the moment, so we decided to give Amazon Workspaces [0] a try.
It's basically a big Windows desktop (16GB RAM) running in the Cloud that I can just access like any other window. It consumes around 500MB of memory on my machine itself.

For highly interactive or latency-bound applications this is probably not an option but for asynchronous work (me launching jobs that take 5 minutes to run) I really appreciate this flexible cloud extension to my current setup.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces
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> Your argument is basically "my relationship is political because I am gay". I disagree. I think that reasonable people understand that your marriage is not political.

My argument is "my relationship is political because I am gay" and part of why I make that argument is because people have told me they think it's political.

So - you disagree. About what, precisely? If you don't want to believe me that this has happened to me, and happened to others, that's something only you can decide and control.

But it would be nice if you could at least assume I'm telling you the truth about my own life and experiences, and engage in debate accordingly. Otherwise just be up front about the fact that you don't think I'm telling the truth about this, or that you think I'm wildly mistaken.
Maybe a dumb complaint, but I hate the name. I have a really hard time not reading it as the active name "Generate Server". Like, I'd expect it to be a function that generates servers (whatever that means, since what it's dealing with isn't something I'd normally call "a server" either). It bugs the hell out of me every time I read Elixir code. One of those things I have to keep reminding myself: "OK, it's not what it looks like it is, at all... what did these misleading terms actually mean, again?"
SSDB doesn't support every single Redis command, it's only a subset. Most people don't even know about SSDB. There's power behind the Redis snowball.

We've switched to SSDB, but with that we lost the Redis community.
> India's fundamental problem is that it is overpopulated

This is utter nonsense. Taiwan, Korea, Isreal and the Netherlands all have higher population densities.

India's TFR is less than 2.2 with the majority of the states at sub-replacement levels.

Rising living standards result in slowing population growth. This is something that Malthusians wilfully ignore.

India faces a multitude of challenges. I will not pretend to know the answer for any of them. But, I do know that pointing to overpopulation as the root of all evil not helpful in the least.
This looks nice, but I don't think I'd want to pay $10 for a color picker, especially one that would only work on my Mac...
When was that? I remember evaluating it in the late nineties. I was fascinated by the idea of roundtripping UML-generated C++ code but it took so much effort to generate the code I wanted I gave up quickly.
>I think the big reason for this is most dealers know there's little maintenance cost on EVs, which is where they make their money.

Bingo - the real rub for existing car manufacturers - their existing dealer networks.

Then again from the frequent Tesla repair horror stories I see it seems Tesla would do well to court a lot more dealers/repair options.
You could overlay the instructions onto the Ikea chair leg directly and show me where the bolts go in etc.
I will use this to stream Inception
I just see an entirely blank page. Chrome incognito mode.
It's not ugly, and it works. Congrats on shipping and thanks for sharing!
There's something wrong with a notion that a single actor can cause enormous damages, spread them out between community members and suffer no consequences, and I'm not even talking about only credit companies.

For example, take an action which makes everybody spend an hour of their time. Disposing snail mail for example. Lets say there's 300M people in USA. Lets say only 100M of them are affected. Lets also be charitable and say that an hour of their time is worth $10. That's a 1B damage right away. It is a Fukushima level damage.

I don't have a solution, but it is disturbing that we allow actors capable of causing such damage just go do their business, take risks, and if risks don't work out - just file for bankruptcy and suffer essentially no consequences
At their price point buying more ram is a cheaper alternative. Most folks have little use for dedicated gpu.
How about a Vinyl fence?
I haven't seen that big of a jump in any watch these last few years.

A few Rolex models are being sold 2x their MSRP. I believe Rolex, like Nike, are throttling down machines in order to keep the charade going? Giving middle class, and wealthy people a check, when most didn't need it didn't help much either. I heard a few guys mention, now I will get that Sub with my check.

Rolex is a nonprofit entity. They stopped selling parts, or technical manuals, to Independant Watchrepair Shops.

So if you ever buy a new Rolex, the minute the warranty goes, you are essentially forced to send it back to the factory at outrageous prices.

I still repair Rolexes, but it takes longer because I have to hunt down parts.
It's also worth mentioning that a hypervisor's API, like Xen's, is much more stable; the Linux one is constantly growing.
utility companies and chip-makers really don't have to worry about going out of business any time soon
> Sparklines in the terminal sounds very cool, did you end up coding something?

It seemed to me that the existing tools were about as good as I was going to achieve on my own. I got distracted from my use case and will have to circle back, hopefully soon.
I kind of agree, although I'm not sure it's fair to say that the problem with Android is that you can't easily replace it with another OS. That's not really an Android problem.

It's incredible what a smartphone can do given its form factor and a lot of that is thanks to their use of SOCs. I have no experience with OS development for SOCs, but I hear it is much more involved because a new version of the OS must be created for each SOC - specialized to work with the device tree supported by that chip. As I understand, Google doesn't do that work. Manufacturers have to fork Android and implement support for their SOCs on their own, then they have to maintain that fork as new Android releases keep coming. It's no surprise then that manufacturers don't want to invest addition support into other operating systems like LineageOS.

There's probably a better way to do things. I'm sure manufacturers could make information more available to OSS communities which would allow them to do the work themselves more quickly and effectively. Like you mentioned, standardization would also go a long way towards making our current smartphone ecosystem more friendly to third-party OSes. But ultimately, none of that is really Android's fault.

Even without Google's vendor deals, I doubt the likes of Samsung, Motorola, or any other major smartphone manufacturer would start supporting LineageOS. It's hard enough to even get Linux suppport from desktop/laptop manufacturers. LineageOS is a really amazing project, but I don't think it's the one paving the way for open source operating systems on smartphones. I think most of that work has to come from the hardware side with projects like the PinePhone.
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You can use Watshapp multiple ways on Linux, including the web browser version [https://itsfoss.com/whatsapp-linux-desktop/].

Although, if you're using Whatsapp at all you're either massively ignorant or stupid. I mean, giving Facebook your phone number is just not wise.
> The point isn’t what you call it. OP’s point was and I agree that you don’t need to have full control over every device that can possibly run code. Just let it be a device that does its thing.

That's not how I read the op, who said "It's a phone, use it to call text and guide and browse some internet. That's it". The tone in that reads not like "you don't need to..." it reads like "you should not...", which I disagree with. I rarely use my phone to make calls. I use it as a multi-function tool of tremendous capability. If I wanted a simple flip phone, I would have bought one of those, instead.
I am typing from an M1 MacBook Pro with 16GB.

edit: you have to select the SSD size then you can choose the RAM.
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Eero, if you want virtually no setup troubles along with no control and no insight into your traffic (the flashy traffic screenshots in the app are USELESS).

Otherwise, you're looking at Microtik/pfsense/opnsense.
I don't think Python and C++ are really comparable here. Python was meant to be fairly minimalist from the start. I think if Python "feature froze" right now it'd still remain relevant for a long time. As you mention for its core use case you could argue that it's feature-complete already.

C++ on the other hand was never small. It was never an objective. C++ started as C with classes so it was really just a way to have proper OOP in C. Then it grew and grew and grew, adding more paradigms along the way.

C++ is in a relatively tough spot because it has to maintain backward compatibility all the way back to C89 while at the same time attempt to stay relevant when pitted against Rust, Zig, D and friends. You can't simplify anything because you'd lose backcompat and if you just feature freeze you're doomed to become irrelevant in the not-so-far future.

Unlike Python you can't really argue that C++ as it is now is feature complete. Dependency management is still a nightmare (as is the entire build system really, given that you don't have any standard C++ build system). Concepts are also a great addition to the language IMO that I've been missing for as long as I've used the language.

Coroutines are also fast becoming a standard tool for system programming (for better or worse, but that's a different discussion), and C++'s support in the standard is still experimental.
Gradual typing gives you the option. You can be as statically typed as you want.
Dart is gradually typed. So when I'm writing some flutter code, I may not know when types I need in the moment, I can omit type signatures until I work that out then write my types and go back to update the code.
a very narrow search in to google might do the trick. try something like "site:https://www.fs.fed.us/t-d//pubs/pdfpubs/ file:pdf"
For how many years I'm hoping for something like that against Apple and Google monopolies!

Very good news. Let's hope that the procedure will be successful and will open the way to more competition for appstore alternatives.
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Can you elaborate? I can see how Google can scale this automatically. But I don't see how Google can terminate, say, one million apps a day, if each termination entitles the spammer a one hour conversation with a technical representative.
Crime is just a delineation about who's allowed to exploit people for money.

It's the exploitation that's bad whether it takes the form of scams or profits
But if you have to hit the buffer pool (memory) then you have to cross the PCIe bus. With fast NVMe storage you might get similar speeds going directly to storage (e.g. DirectStorage) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25956670
Reminds me of many favorable quotes on and descriptions of Stripe being a “tax on the internet”. Now it has come full circle and they have bought an internet tax company called TaxJar.

https://www.inc.com/james-ledbetter/why-stripe-is-invisible-...
Yeah, sequence diagrams are the only ones I really like. Sometimes I auto-generate a UML class diagram from my code for a slide but I always have to trim out excess stuff I'm not interested in and usually add some annotations to make it say what I want.
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Hi. I made this. Its mostly plain JS, all of the diagram, except the arrow heads, are simple div element
This has been posted to death at this point, and it blows my mind that people still think this is interesting. Remember how lackluster Stadia was with video games? Imagine how fun it will be with Airtable and Figma!
On a related topic, I actually chose my phone around ~2004 based on the full Opera Mobile browser being included (Nokia 3650 I think it was). The ability to bring up and use almost any site and browse around in a 2 inch screen like a little portal into the web was great. It was much much better than any other mobile browser I had used because it was fully rendering instead of converting for mobile (though that may have been an option). Was one step away from what people started to experience with the touch phones that came out a few years later.
It's official, the M2 is coming to new Apple MacBook devices later this year
You may be able to find more information on the National Forest Service Library - https://www.fs.fed.us/library/.

You're right though, I've found searching for these lists to be very time consuming and the databases do not tend to be very user friendly.