skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But the people for whom it would lower premiums would hand over the data,

Progressive Auto has their Snapshot devices which provides them your driving habits. People signed up for it not realizing that their premiums could actually go up because they're a shitty driver even though they are "really good drivers". Once the word gets out that insurance premiums are going up because of this, there will be lots of screaming into the void on the internet.
The ability to simply cancel any subscription without clicking through increasingly desperate "Don't go!!!" nag screens is easily worth an extra 30% for me, too.
Oracle SQL is not the devil.

I can code up SQL easily and find errors. I use sqldeveloper and granted It's not as helpful as say coding Dart on Android Studio IDE in pinpointing where a problem is and making suggestions. But I've been able maintain single sql statements 800 lines long, perform knapsack in a single sql statement, and develop complex packages in Oracle.

If you really want to see super complexity, download and create an Oracle EBS 12.2 virtualbox instance and checkout the PL/SQL packages in the APPS schema and the schemas themselves of which there are over 200.

I've used NoSQL and other SQL databases, each which had their challenges. I like the free tooling that Oracle provides - The APEX app builder and XE database are nice, if not hosted on Oracle Cloud - try the libvirt instance to evade Oracle's cloud grip.

I think the problem here is developer experience and a negative bias toward Oracle, which is understandable and prevalent in the developer community.

Cheers
> Apple’s offerings are quite polished so I don’t think they’ll fall out of favor

Any iOS devs care to weigh in? Apple's system could just as easily be a godawful mess. No personal experience but I've seen people online complaining about how StoreKit sucks.

They've had in-app purchases since 2009 and no competitive pressure from other SDKs, because they can block them with app store policy instead of needing to offer a better product. That sounds like an easy environment for it to become an afterthought; the people using it have no choice in the matter if they want to be on the App Store.
Oh the horror of remote work! A finding: "..and spend fewer hours in meetings."
Millions of Microsoft Web Servers Powered by Vulnerable Legacy Software
It's a good point. To quantify it, I guess you'd look at total user count and percent of all users on the platform?

Most of the ills we're trying to avoid don't seem to easily slip around, if there's a law that says "If you control more than 25% of a market of more than 1M users..."

I don't think anyone is arguing that Apple shouldn't be allowed to create an iEcosystem.

But what we all want is a future where Apple's ownership of the iEcosystem can't be used in such a way, and generate enough profit, that no one can ever overturn Apple's position.
Because end-users own their phones, and Apple restricting the ways software can be loaded onto the phone is robbing those users of their rights. The same applies to game consoles and other similarly locked-down devices.

If I buy a table, I can choose to stain it a different color, or put a tablecloth over it, or cut the legs off, or burn it for firewood. I have the right to use it however I want for whatever purpose I want, because I own it. For some insane reason bootlickers are willing to throw such rights out the window the moment you try to apply them to computer hardware and software.
Steam does have rules about it, but they are not strictly enforced. If your game have it's own backend / website then you can freely bill people there after you onboarded them via Steam.

IAPs are different: here Valve actually require you to process payments through steam when game is running via Steam. But even in this case a lot of games can be launched independently after installation through Steam.

Also on top of this Valve already decreased it's comission from 30% for large publishers.
There will be larger players who won't bother with any cut -- they want to own the relationship with the customer, and view any intermediary with hostility.
Great question! If you check how the Greek Medusa ended her life then you might see some linkage with building headless ;-)
I have to give you +1 because there is still a lot of people who don't have experience but write on their blogs with tone that seems they want to be an authority. Which is off-putting for me of course and you also have good line of thinking. Only that for this specific one I don't see it.
How would you know which type you are currently reading?
> insurance companies are now following suit because they got hammered with life insurance payouts for 2020 and first half of 2021.

So life insurance companies are requiring COVID vaccines? Or health insurance companies, or both?
I believe people are over conflating the "friction" involved with using an outside payment system (such as Stripe or PayPal). Apple ID's already allow you to attach your PayPal account as primary funding...this is just giving developers that direct choice now.

PayPal, you confirm checkout total, login to paypal, confirm subscription or price. Done.

Stripe, you can use their standard checkout page, autofill your card info, or just use Apple Pay to confirm the subscription/item, pay. Done.

What's changed is just giving developers that flexibility. Ultimately saving them money, they can hire more devs, and make their products hopefully cheaper (and better).

Most consumers will still have no idea that their checkout is not happening with Apple, and it's happening elsewhere (aside from PayPal Checkout being obvious with their checkout/login flow).

Apple could absolutely adapt their native subscriptions SDK to support the status of a third-party app, though I doubt they ever would. They tried to do this with streaming services (HBO, Netflix, etc.), but they shut this down recently
In my experience both Oracle and Microsoft documentation is usually good to excellent,I actually want google to search specifically on ms docs site most of the time. I do find AWS docs to be lengthy and incomprehensible.

StackOverflow is mostly useful to quickly (and often dirtly) solve issues that are burning now, without getting deeper understanding of the subject. This isn't universally true, some answers are exceptionally good.
as of April 2021 Solarwinds still shows up in Gartner reports read by managers and 'thought leaders.' until they start losing prestige in the trade rags you can expect them to endure as a corporate standard, best practice, industry standard, and "enterprise grade" solution regardless of what common sense and competent system administrators at your company say.
>In all three countries, the pushback is primarily from populist/right-wing political movements.

This article says, at least in the US, the poor and young are the least likely to get a vaccine. You have any data for your political assertion that it's primarily right wingers? Keep in mind, politicizing COVID is what got us where we are today.

https://www.vox.com/22587443/covid-19-vaccine-refusal-hesita...
I expect both Apple and Epic to appeal.
It is not tax fraud [1]. Merchants are violating the terms of CC provider. The merchant agreement explicitly forbids merchants to have different cash price from what is charge with the card.

It is fairly common in geographies where CC providers can't litigate/enforce easily . It is not a penal crime, only a contract violation between two private parties and settled in arbitration/civil courts .

[1] Such Merchants also may commit tax fraud if they don't declare the cash income for tax purposes, that however is not directly related to Credit Cards or payment medium and usually even if they do commit tax fraud, they don't pass on their tax benefits for GST/VAT or Income Tax (10+% in most countries) to the customer.
I've found I learn best organically. If it doesn't spark joy, I'm not going to dedicate the time.

Recently, I've lost interest in tech/coding/math but motorcycle repair, racing, and engine internals are cool!

It's always been internal validation.
Yes, I get that, but it would be nice to have a practical, non-contrived example, if one can be found.
Comparing Huawei ExaGear to Apple's Rosetta 2 and Microsoft's Solution
https://habr.com/en/company/huawei/blog/577208/
I can’t wait for smart TVs to use eye tracking to profile people and for employers and insurance to buy the data.
/s

Eg, I’m sure some potential employers for customer service jobs would love to know if their candidate had autism, as long as the data was framed by the seller (by some ml) as “subject has some antisocial tendencies” /s

https://magazine.medlineplus.gov/article/eye-tracking-techno...
I have outsourced my memory to zettelkasten/(second brain) type of notetaking. I'm focusing on trying to understand the fundamentals and core ideas instead of just memorizing stuff. Went back to school after 10 years, let's see how it works out.
Technically, if you've got the know-how, you could code your own graphics acceleration drivers for nVidia cards on MacOS, it'd just be extremely hard and expensive to do so.
Maciej Ceglowski is one of the very best writers on the web, no question. It's a shame he does not do it more often.
A dog is not something like a “point of view” or a “reference frame” in that it can be thought to exist independently of a living, breathing being.

A personalistic interpretation requires a "person". Would a rock or a cell phone qualify as a person? I'm not even sure the authors of that reference would accept a dog, despite saying the concept is extremely flexible (they discuss agents "social" agents but not "dumb" agents).

It's not clear to me that the mathematical description can exist independently of the agent that has some knowledge, for some definition of agent. Even if it can be make to work with no-one's "abstract knowledge" what would be the physical meaning of that? (Not that the physical meaning when agents are present is clear, to be fair.)
The biggest WTF for me is that you can't put parameters in `EXPLAIN` queries. This killed support for `Queryset.explain()` on Oracle in Django.

Seems like such a weird limitation, and the error messages definitely where not helpful.
> This is the argument Epic's tried to make, and it isn't particularly convincing.

It's not an argument, it's a question. Some people have clearly answered it as yes, yes they would. This shows some distinct value provided to them by Apple. Value that's worth something, though perhaps not 30%.

Apple's next step is to provide a compelling enough offering that developers and consumers alike pick it over the soon-to-be competing offerings. Wouldn't that be awesome if they pull it off?
The comment about it being a shotgun was a bit tongue and cheek, but my point was that it seems like she's more interested in demonizing people who are different than trying to actually understand them.

You see that when she refuses to consider the opinion of someone who was born in a certain place. You also see that when she implies that her coworker is breaking company policy and creating a safety issue- if that was actually the case why would you wait 6 years, when no one can prove or disprove the accusation? It seems like she wasn't actually concerned about the safety issue, she was more concerned about collecting a critical mass of "receipts" before she publicly disclosed her alleged victimhood.
I agree that travel planning is a common (and often bad) startup idea, but I disagree with the reasoning.

Part of the enjoyment of many trips, for me, is the planning. I get to learn about the city, see which places/activities I am most interested in, and gain some small level of insight into the location, the history, the culture, etc. I enjoy talking with friends about what we want to do while we're there, or asking what they liked last time they visited, so I don't feel a huge pain point here. There are certain aspects of travel I don't like planning, such as transportation, but that seems to be where travel startups have been most successful (booking flights, etc.)

Similarly, travel apps don't know what I like. A museum about a certain artist that I'm interested in? Great! A concert for a musical genre I don't have strong opinions on? Meh. And while the software could take my interests into consideration, inputting my preferences to useful levels of detail adds friction to the process.

Finally, I prefer my trips to be flexible. I rarely plan what restaurant I'm eating at; I'll walk around and see what looks good when I'm there. And if I see something near where I'm staying that seems interesting, I can do that instead of whatever I had planned for that afternoon. Travel planning generally strikes me as more limiting than freeing.

Perhaps there is something great that just hasn't been created yet, or maybe my travel needs are sufficiently unique that I'm just not the target market, but I'm not holding my breath.
Well, maybe, but it works as "single monolithic versioned protocol" with different server implementations, and it works OK-ish.

I understand that's not perfect and such approach has it's own downsides, but for now it's OK.

PS: I'm not matrix developer, so my opinion maybe wrong, but from user and sysadmin perspective I don't see/feel any problems with it
There is an annual Mad Max 'Cosplay' Festival in Edwards, California with a Wasteland World Car Show.

https://www.wastelandweekend.com/
Relm4 v0.1
Your main logo (top left hand corner) directs to a bad url btw.
This is a good observation. I don't know if there's a name for this psychological effect, but I observe it in many areas of life. The basic rule is:

The fewer future choices you think you will have, the more risk-averse you will be when making the current one.

You're more willing to roll the die and lose if you know you'll get more rolls in the future. Americans generally take fewer vacations than Europeans, so the opportunity cost of a single trip is higher. Because of that, it's natural to choose safer known vacations. Trying out someplace new and running the risk of it going poorly is harder to swallow when that may be your own significant trip in a year or two.

A European is more likely to gamble on a new destination because if it doesn't work out, well, they've got a couple more trips coming soon to even it all out.

(Also, there is the practical matter that Europeans have access to a much wider variety of vacations for less money because everything is smaller and closer. Americans do in fact vacation in a wide variety of places, but those are usually different states in the US, which is mostly invisible to Europeans. Most people in the US have visited a number of other states.)
I guess more generally, a point beam can expose everything that's directly accessible by raycasting through the numerical aperture of a hole without reflections, so long as you can alter the angle of the emitter.
No. Some technologies are hostile to the people forced to use them.
Indeed, it is ridiculous that "identity theft" places a burden on the person whose identity was used - if someone opens an account in my name and the only "evidence" is having provided something that other people (e.g. my mother or spouse) can know, then in any dispute it should be illegal for that fraud/debt to appear on my credit report.

That's the way how most of the world has mostly solved identity theft, however, it's not that easy to implement in USA because there's no system of universal secure IDs in USA (by design) - there's a multitude of ID forms, some of them are not really secure (easy to forge, no verification if it was really issued by the institution who did so, no easy process to quickly verify online if the provided credential has been lost/stolen/revoked, etc), and there's a sufficiently large minority of potential customers who don't have a valid ID.

It would be helpful to have laws that clearly assign the credit fraud risk fully onto the defrauded companies instead of the people whose identities were used, as experience shows that this would rapidly result in improvements to fraud elimination (there's all kinds of measures that simply are not taken since they add friction), however, a proper solution does require a decent state-run identity system as the foundation of trust, and USA has made a political decision to not have one.
Quick plug that system76 uses core boot in modern hardware. If anyone is in the market for a Linux pc anyways.

Not sure if anyone else installs it by default, it's been awhile since I've looked.
I actually thought the board above had only 512 MB, hence my comment, but even 1 GB is quite limiting. The HiFive Unleashed (previous SiFive board) has 8 GB and that is quite tight for some of the larger builds we do, or for doing parallel builds.

The bigger problem with the board above is the single core.
At the moment, the capabilities of technology simply don't permit the level of... generic-ness? that vendors like OTel -- and customers really -- want. If you try to push everything through a single pipeline, as a single kind of data, you necessarily lock yourself out of most of the value you should be getting. You need a heterogeneous stack, with specific tools for specific purposes.

Opinions vary but my experience is that Prometheus-style metrics are by far the most important thing to invest in, and deliver the majority of the "observability value" to the broadest set of architectures. Tracing systems like Lightstep can be super useful, too, but to deliver value they need a lot more end-to-end integration effort, and the cost of setting it up can very very easily outweigh the benefits it provides.

I've come to believe that logs are a trap. Everyone understands them intuitively, so they feel comfortable using them for basically everything, without thinking very critically about the ramifications. And even when logs are structured, they have no substantive schema, so there's no backpressure, so to speak, on usage. So the signal/noise ratio almost immediately goes negative. And they just occupy enormous amounts of time and memory to manage, process, analyze, etc. Although I'm sure it's not a universal truth, I've found that everything you might normally think to log is actually much better served by in-process request tracing. In general that means maintaining the log events of the most recent N requests for all of a set of application-defined categories. This is basically a real-time view of a system, with history proportional to, I dunno, rarity? of the request class. You don't ship these anywhere, you ask the applications directly. It seems weird to describe but it's just vastly more efficient to manage, and equally if not more useful for debug and triage.

YMMV.
Is there a particular language that you needed to use or have skills in? That's a very important qualifier.
What about Python's "with" statement and context managers? Or Common Lisp's "with-" macros? Or Java's try-with-resources? I'm sure many other programming languages have automatic exception-safe resource management constructs as well.
By your argument, we CAN commit murder, but it has a very high probability of additional adverse consequences (such as life in prison)
I’m currently taking my first foray into the world of MS applications for work. Have to write something that interacts with an EWS server and I’ve been… overwhelmed with not only the disorganization of their docs, but also the super strong push to do everything in C# instead of just telling me which SOAP (yes that soap) parameters/documents to use for certain actions. If anyone here wants to defend MS and tell me I’m horribly wrong and point me to some fantastic docs somewhere I would be so delighted to be proven wrong.
The degree to which our ethics should be consequentialist, or they should evaluate intent is worth discussing, but as consequences become more significant intent becomes more insignificant. I don't care if someone 'looks bad', or breaks any law if they prevent nuclear war.

Stanislav Petrov disobeyed orders in the face of "30 layers of verification" telling him to report 5 incoming nuclear missiles.
I'm not sure why the hate against MSDN - at least for .NET, I found the documentation to be one of the best in the business -even a decade ago. I'd only put Go's docs ahead in terms of helpfulness. I cut my teeth writing .NET code, then switched to Java writing apps on Android - the step down in doc quality was quite significant.
Experts Link Chinese Hacker Group Grayfly to Sidewalk Malware Attacks
We should care if they are a monopoly, because if they're a monopoly, then they simply shouldn't be allowed to exist.

Even if they aren't a monopoly, they shouldn't be allowed to engage in anti-competitive behavior.
The title should rather be: „Oracle Is the Devil“.
Separate types is fine, but JSON doesn't specify a minimum range or precision of the number type that a implementation must have, so the number type is unreliable (and string has to be used instead). To handle any number, a JSON library needs to use an arbitrary-precision number type, which no common one does because of the huge performance hit.

So, no better than XML really :D
Potato Patahto
I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority, i.e., the long tail, of companies claiming to have some form of "AI" turn out to have nothing that could even generously be called "AI." Judging from my limited experience, I'd expect this to be especially true in production code.

The not-so-secret dirty secret is that "AI" for many or most companies today is akin to "sex" for high-school students:

Many claim to have it, but few actually do.
Netflix did not get an exemption. They still don't link to Netflix.com from the app since Apple dictates that they can't direct people to paying for subscriptions outside the app store. When Netflix did do some IAP subscriptions, they costed more to the user and were only available for a limited time.
Somewhat unrelated, the case where I want to "Google search some specific site" is well suited to duckduckgo bangs, if there is a bang for that site.

!msdn will search MS's developer network
Conquering Cerberus
QT?
Yeah man, fuck that guy and the kids he's trying to feed. Tim Apple needs another boat, baby!
How Bitcoin, Regardless of the tech, is a Scam
There's something about this concept that seems so realistically appealing to gen z to me.

I guess to some degree this is what clickhole already is.
QT https://www.qt.io/ is one option I know of. There might be some Python or Golang libraries?
https://www.linuxboot.org/ is another open source UEFI replacement too.
Yes and there is also Ctrl+R which kicks off a recursive search which is what I use most of the time but what about the complex 2 liner with pipes and dates 19 commands ago? :)
Thanks for pointing that out. This is still magnitudes less things to manually check for correctness than an entire proof.
This is exactly the example that's been on my mind. Had I known how horrible NYT's unsubscription process is, I would have never subscribed in the first place. I'm sure they extracted an extra month or two out of me because of the friction they introduce, so in management's eyes that's probably a win. I will never use NYT again in the future, but I think a big label letting users know an app isn't using iCloud payments could go a long way to cautioning users about a user-hostile experience.

Even if a developer makes subscriptions easy to manage today, without tie-in to Apple's infrastructure, they could change that process on a whim.
When I write "to myself" I try to be clear and concise. It actually helps me more to encapsulate my experience than free association writing does.
Synthetic Differential Geometry with Nilpotents [pdf]
the one thing containers addressed was their use as a countermeasure to rising costs from greedy VPS providers, and as an agile framework to quickly evacuate from a toxic provider (cost, politics, performance, etc...)

providers in turn responded by shilling their 'in house' containerization products and things like Lambda for lock-in.