skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For creative pursuits, limitations can counter-intuitively be good to have. Not only do you learn a lot (and have fun) when you're forced to understand a system well to work around its limitations, but it removes a lot of the distraction of choice ("option paralysis"), so you make creative decisions instead of technical ones.

That's why it was all so much fun. I had so much fun that I'm still actively maintaining one of those originally DOS QuickBasic game engines -- it was ported to FreeBASIC and modern OSes long ago, but it's still got that DOS look and various limitations.
> What do you think are the benefits that a small number of miners can achieve by forming a cartel? Isn't it just an effort not to put a specific TX in a block?

No. If it is more profitable for the miners to go rogue and start selling "double-spending a service" where they create massive chain reorgs, they will. Any blockchain that can not deal with the scenario of the miners going rogue is worth absolutely zero.

All the quotes you are pulling from the forums are at best covering only the "happy-path scenario" or handwaving the fundamental issues we would have with one chain being so fundamental and yet controlled by a handful of miners. Satoshi's proposals only work if the value of the network is low enough to not be interesting for malicious actors.
Twitter partners with UK govt-backed, CIA-linked Reuters to censor views
'backronym' - like it, thank you.
Sounds like it does just what it says. If you don't want to unfollow everything, why would you install an "Unfollow Everything" extension...?
Only Maps. But ditching Maps has been really difficult for me. It's just vastly better than the competition here where I live.
Developer here. I can confirm that it’s harder and more time/effort-expensive to build a UI framework or design system or custom component than using existing ones. I absolutely abhor working with designers who think that software design is about the freedom of expression of their personal creativities and tastes instead of the pragmatic, simple execution of fulfilling a business need both for the business and the customers.

Design systems should not exist in a silo. Design systems should be consistent across a platform, so if you want to practice your freedom of expression, make your own platform. Or, design a website, where there are hardly any constraints.
I would rather look for a different job than being held hostage for months, just me though.
> Can Hydrogen be used to store energy at the scale of a power grid ? The peak vs minimum variance in renewable sources is still an unsolved problem, and the only good solution (nuclear) has become politically untenable.

Nuclear has mostly an economics problem. The capital costs are massive and the path to profitability is unclear during the continued buildout of renewables.
What are the about:config settings I need to set to stop every kind of snooping like this?
Thanks, that sounds promising! Any recommendations for good Discord servers fitting the topic?
I’m still on Photos. I’d like to move to something else, but I don’t fancy being locked into iCloud.
> Our solution was to move the typing of this information to the application layer, and just store the arbitrary data in a NoSQL solution. This worked perfectly, and to my knowledge it's still working without a glitch.

> This was before RDBMS solutions supported JSON, and if I were to do this again, I'd probably just continue to use MySQL, PostgreSQL or whatever, and store it as JSON in the database.

Both solutions sound like anti-patterns to me. I was under the impression that the correct solution in an RDBMS would be the introduction of a custom type for the address that would cover all of your use cases, and all the associated operations, indices, etc. (in PostgreSQL, maybe even with PostGIS support for spatial operations and spatial indices). That not only keeps your logic, data integrity checks etc. on the server but also doesn't need text munging for every operation.
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For me personally I use pretty much all the Google apps. Drive, Docs, Keep, Maps, Home, Gmail, Duo, Search, Photos...

The reason is I have an iPad, Pixel, Windows desktop, MacBook Pro and Linux laptop.

Google's ecosystem is the only one that works well across all operating systems, and Google Home has by far the best voice control.
If this is a joke. It went over my head.
I still use Google Maps. But CityMapper is excellent in urban areas (where available), and organic maps is great for walking directions.
The Impact of Third-Party Scripts on the Facebook Outage
but that isn't very smart strategy because it prevents you from spending every dollar that you have ever earned.

At some point you want to open the floodgates so you don't leave any quality of life on the table.

You can't do that on margin loans, whereas you can if you are able to engineer a tax efficient way to cashout without paying capital gain tax
Finding and reporting an asyncio bug in Python 3.10
Rather than downvote me, address why you think I’m wrong.
- Google Maps. It's still the best maps app even though the quality of information they display and suggest has gone downhill.

- Google Photos. About a magnitude of magnitudes faster than Apple Photos when uploading/syncing/sharing/literally anything with photos than Apple Photos which are always stuck in some limbo with no indication of what is happening.
...it solves one specific problem: how to write code that can be conveniently used from C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Swift and OpenCL at the same time.

Super interesting. Could something like this be created for declarative UI paradigms like SwiftUI and WPF?
It is a form of public protest and backslash.
You can eat two brands of dogfood.
And Apple, which makes up 41% of Berkshire’s value today, and Bank of America, which is another 14%.
On the surface of it, I look back fondly at those times. It was certainly a good environment to learn about computer basics.

But realistically, I also recall getting pretty frustrated at times. Such as when I just wanted to play Wing Commander: Privateer, but had to spend hours messing with memory settings in `autoexec.bat`/`config.sys` and rebooting just to get it to run. And then I had to spend hours more fiddling with the memory settings, IRQs and the like, just so I could get sound from my Gravis Ultrasound/Soundblaster instead of the PC speaker.

But still, I can't help but feel nostalgic!
Utter rubbish with public transport too. Quite often it will suggest the slowest lines to a destination.
But in that case, wouldn't you visit that store last? And know what the prices the other stores offers are?
Maybe it's time for Firefox premium. Same as on youtube premium or gitlab premium, no ads, no annoyances, additional features, maybe better performance, maybe some value add cloud features, all for 1-20$ a month.
Which non-flat design language do you like most?
Hacking a WhatsApp account with the help of ethical hacking: https://www.hackerslist.co/hacking-a-whatsapp-account-with-t...
> with the recent trend of bringing up race everywhere from shampoo ads to Netflix series to fake news to fake election I can't trust anything which mentions race in the title.

I'm not aware of such a trend. Is your claim for this trend evidence based? Is it peer reviewed? Can we trust your claim since you also highlight race in your claim?
Why are you presenting rainwater and compost toilets as negative / mediaval solutions? It's like criticizing a bicyle, They are perfect efficient solutions. If you eat organic food, your excrement is more or less fertilizer, no need to spend resources and energy treating them
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I mean, that makes sense. Culturally, that society has, at crucial times, decided to “just follow orders” even when the orders were reprehensible. It is not particularly surprising that Europeans don’t rock the boat.

Nobody brings politics or activism to work and that has yielded certain outcomes over the last century.

I actually prefer the mission-focused thing but I wouldn’t be convinced by the Europeans who are notorious conformists.
Phillip Cross: A Mystery Wikipedia Editor Targeting Anti-War Sites
Shared machines, trolling, tricking someone to install this. At least ask on the first run what is going to happen
miss-labled, Google is not dropping MDC or MD for that matter.

This is an independent shop dropping MD
You may not know this but your question is somewhat ironic.

The narrative of doing this "for their own good" is a lot like the language used to justify abducting children from native families in North America to "kill the savage, save the child" and "civilize" those children in white schools.

"Civilized" is an extremely loaded term and it's worth reflecting on whom we label as "uncivilized" and how we actually behave in comparison.
Holograms Are (Maybe, Finally) Real: Eyes on with Light Field Labs' SolidLight
The press are trying to tell a story. If that story will sell better taking a negative angle on an event, then the story will be negative. It's not personal, or even political (depending on the organisation). It's just business.
If with "biased" you mean that they (europa.eu) are the official online resource which publishes the treaties in question, verbatim, you are correct. It's an unusual use of terminology, though.
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There are still many Windows programs that default to current Code Page instead of UTF-8. I prefer to have the encoding explicit in the file contents rather than rely on some external file type configuration.

This is just a loose recommendation, cito does accept files without the BOM.
This is very much like the speed limit on highways.

You can't put a private investigator on the tail of every business owner.

Personal expenses will be justified as business expenses, it's a matter of catching the very big and obvious cases, doing it so very publicly with the help of the press and try to scare all the other business owners in order to scale down the amount of personal expenses that they claim as business expenses
jsonb isn't a blob, JSON attributes are queryable and indexable like any column (in Postgres at least). And as somebody else says, read models exist for analytics use-cases. I wouldn't (at some scale) use the same DB for analytics as for production use anyway, it would require crazy indexes on the production DB and you'd have to take analytics into account for any schema change. Not to mention that anyway, quite often the prod DB schema requires domain knowledge to query and interpret correctly: read models can be built to abstract this domain knowledge.
>But I'd like to vehemently push back on these ideas: Rug Pull Index is not a startup. It needs no vision, no mission, and no explosive growth. The last thing I want is to be a spineless digital coordinator of yet another tech startup. [1]

vs

>Our long-term vision is the creation of a decentralized index coin (ERC-20) on Ethereum that will allow investors to gain diversified exposure to the best data assets sold on Ethereum. [2]

Who should use your site but others who also want to offer data asset funds? Why do you build the exposure for rugpullindex instead of directly creating the fund?
If I have data and want to share it, I don't need rugpullindex.

Your site could use a filter for various data markets. Then data providers from each market could check if they have something valuable to offer.

To push your site, you could try to establish the ocean protocol in one market segment. That would lead to investors who create datasets and portfolios. You create a healthy market which allows you to create the index coin for that market segment.

Right now, investing in the index is risky because competing data sets to core assets of the index could drive down its value fast.

[1] https://rugpullindex.com/blog#WereNOTAStartup
[2] https://rugpullindex.com/about
> let's say I have a fax machine at my house

I haven't seen a fax machine in 20 years. I'd be surprised if anyone under 40 knows what they looked like.
Lol. Exactly what I thought :)
It's hilarious that developers throw their hands up in the air when any one of the FAANG companies actually get questioned as a moral place to work.

"Well I GUESS I CANT WORK ANYWHERE THEN"

Really? There is a vast amount of smaller companies that are great employers and where you will enjoy your work just as much.
The sabre rattling between Turkey and Greece likely makes Cyprus fairly unattractive for large American corporates, however.
Seems same as always to me, suggestions I have seen a hundred times before along with videos I've already watched.
A far more nuanced article than the clickbait (not a problem to me) title implies. Also the clearest definition of ACID I can recall.
I like how the very first paragraph walks back the title.
My expectations mirror your own, but a few of Jeff's thoughts imply that they won't take this path:

> App bars become UINavigationControllers. Standard controls just need light branded touches. Lists can align with modern UITableView and list-based collection view APIs. Menus are just UIMenus.

> And the best code is often no code :)

> The time we're saving not building custom code is now invested in the long [...]
I like "more humane web". Humane part of the web has really disappeared in the past decade or so.
It is the copious amounts of whitespace that I find so very offensive in Material UI.

My secret guilty pleasure at work is shooting down any mention of using Material UI design in any of our software haha.. it is just silly how much pleasure I get from it :)
This is just my uninformed guess, but in the old days this function did indeed require rows of desks with people manually plugging in wires to connect calls.
Why can't you make a proper, first-class supported custom type in your database instead?
It might make the majority of people lose trust in them, even if they were doing it for the right reasons and were actually going to use the money for the right purposes. People just associate that kind of behavior with scams and poorly run organizations.
I often put json blobs into MySQL tables. Modern MySQL has support for accessing the fields in the json from normal sql. You can also create computed columns that deref the json, and even index it.

Other rdbms often have even better json support.
To be fair, Japan has specific digital service offerings in a lot of niches that outdo most of internationally aligned competitors with their eyes closed.
Andrew Ng Announces Data-Centric AI Competition Winners. Who Are They?
To the best of my knowledge, there exists no term in the medical lexicon denoting the category of "interventions 'tomp believes should not be covered in some or all cases by health insurance."
Does that mean they are rolling this back?
Why is it highly questionable? It's pretty common to shorten long words or phrases.
Yes, you can make a memory leak when targetting C, C++ and Swift. Same as when you code in C, C++ and Swift directly.
Hey HN! Here's the rundown:

- I've been on every banned incel subreddit.

- I get lonely at night and I wish I had coping mechanisms for this.

- ex-lonely is a group of lonely people who talk to each other. To feel less lonely.

- I actually thought making it free would be morally upright. Then I realized charging a fee is the easiest way to discourage trolls etc. from joining.

- Feel free to ask any questions! :)
For this kind of simple use case, a userscript makes more sense than a full extension, which has the benefits of making the code easily auditable and forkable.
Fucked if I know why you can’t type expletives on your iPhone - seems to work fine for me.
You mean you installed something that advertises to unfollow everything on your behalf, you went through a whole checklist to unpack it and coax chrome into loading it from local, and then you somehow consider it to not have your consent?

I mean, that's a pretty high bar to set for consent. But clearly yours wasn't quite enthusiastic enough...
There should be an interface description language that works equally well for FFI and RPC. It could be agnostic of the transport mechanism and the type system used to describe messages, and merely enumerate possible methods in a hierarchical (and composable) way.
what about Firefox's forks such as Waterfox[1], Pale Moon[2], IceCat[3], SeaMonkey[4]...? Genuinely asking.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Moon_(web_browser)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey
Why would family be a lock-in factor for GMail? It’s just email.
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I have over a dozen Google apps installed on my iPhone and iPad, but there are only three I use enough to have an opinion about: Gmail, Maps, and YouTube Music.

Gmail and Maps work well enough for me, and I have no complaints. I much prefer the street view navigation on the Apple Maps app in areas where it’s available, though.

YouTube Music, which I mainly use on the iPhone, is sluggish and buggy. Album covers, for example, are often slow to load, and sometimes the wrong covers appear next to songs in playlists. I only stay with it because I have a bunch of playlists left over from Google Play Music, which I was satisfied with, and because I encountered annoying technical problems with both Spotify and Apple Music when I tried them a few years ago.
Why is it a problem?
Honest question. In the mediterranean basin it was a necessity to collect rain water and store it in a big underground cistern.
Most people don’t do it now a days, but old houses still have the system in place.

If you use it, you keep the first rain waters of the season diverted to allow for roof cleaning, then you set the pipes to store the water during all the winter.

You also have to keep some control of water quality. The traditional method is throwing a lime stone in to the cistern to kill the patogens.
I found Google Maps worse than Apple Maps in both Japan and South Korea, it's kind of crazy that's the case given that Google has had such a lead. It makes me wonder whether Google is investing much into these products anymore.
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> I don't know why the industry (or people?) in general have a problem with accepting this abilities gap.

Because it's not in their interest to accept it openly.

What would be the point of a employer to tell their employees that they are mediocre at best and no matter how hard they try they will never shine? That is the exact opposite of the carrot dangling ever slightly out of reach.

Why would someone blessed by luck tell their employees he didn't get there by working himself to death?

McDonalds is a money printing machine despite not using world class chefs. Telling everybody they can code depending on effort and hiring them for relatively cheap is a solid business plan.
It was on a Chrome store before, it is just bad etiquette to do something without asking once
This is my open-source project. I use it almost daily for simple whiteboarding, notetaking, online whiteboard sessions.

The idea is to have a simple and highly usable, fast alternative to more complex software such as Miro or Mural.
This. And then in a few years, "we've always done it this way." And then the agents of the bureau of expansion will have to meet their metrics, and will unionize, ensuring they get their bonuses and perks.
> Most of your points I'm ignoring

Easier than a counterpoint, sure.

> Sure it can happen, but there needs to be actual evidence before anyone should assume it is widespread.

Do[1] you[2] read[3] the[4] news[5]?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-01/russian-b...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-billionaire-behind-the-bigg...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2021/04/16/ta...

[4] https://slate.com/business/2014/05/richard-branson-tax-fraud...

[5] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ywang/2021/08/24/companies-link...
DDG for me is 90%, so I use DDG and append !g whenever I don’t get the results I’m looking for. I’d rather have google search as a choice than a default.
As long as 20% concentration is sufficient, I've found no difficulty securing local supplies.
Black Lives Matters is important because companies discriminate against black people and there is police discrimination and brutality against black people and whoever the police deem undesirable in the US, not just in one or two regions, but in every sizeable city in the US. So it's hard to see your friends discriminated against and employers (the only entity with enough political power to effect change in the us) making the problems worse. And amazon and other tech companies fund city council seats and fuel tons of money to defeat referendums that hurt their profit. Yes, ideally politics would be fought over outside the corporate sphere but due to politicians mostly only listening to corporations in the US at the federal and city level, that isn't possible.
Isn't using human excrement as fertilizer a big no for food safety?
Launch a Side Project every Weekend
I added a contact whose name was all the expletives and now it ducking allows me to swear.
Awesome find. Here they are on YT, I was the 97th subscriber:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chod_eCaGWI
That might depend on who you're asking: http://www.strozzi.it/cgi-bin/CSA/tw7/I/en_US/nosql/Home%20P...
That's an important point. Note that depending on definitions you might say (West) Frisian of Lowlands Scots claims this title.
I never read ToS. Not being a lawyer, I have no way to know which clauses are enforcible, and which aren't. For the same reason, I am not capable of putting a correct interpretation on many of the clauses.

So I never read them. I don't consider them to mean anything. If you operate a public website, that's like erecting a billboard. You can attach ToS to your billboard, but nobody's going to read your ToS; they'll just read your billboard.

I'd like a plugin that can auto-click ToS popups. Like, click any button that says "Accept" (or "So sue me, sucker!")
The same reason people collect stamps, or watch birds, or watch trains, or whatever. They like to learn, and they just find it interesting, and they like to share with others who do the same. No one will claim that this behavior has great utility beyond that, though certainly good hobbies are valuable ends in themselves.

Also, I immediately noticed the site does not have a map and does not give addresses for these buildings.
Can you build native iOS apps in Flutter?