skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think another way to frame it is asking what the default should be.

Continuing the SQL analogy from the OP, you absolutely should be able to UPDATE an entire table, but probably the syntax is at least somewhat to blame, because very rarely you want to run an update on every row. A simple change could be that an UPDATE without a WHERE clause is a syntax error (you could still add "WHERE TRUE", if that's what you mean to do).

Another example is how the React API uses funny method names like "dangerouslySetInnerHTML" for things you aren't usually supposed to do.

I'm a big believer in making invalid states unrepresentable, and a straightforward extension of that modus operandi could be "make unlikely states hard to reach".
"Tiny part" in reality usually ends up being as much as quarter (1/4, 25%) of user population. Just because people aren't completely blind/deaf/disabled doesn't mean they don't benefit from accessibility features.
In my last job until I retired this year, I spent 5.5 years writing only Swift at a large (not FAANG) company. It took the entire mobile team about that time to retire most of the Obj-C codebase(s). Swift is by far my favorite language despite having spent decades with C/C++/Java and Obj-C.

I am still writing Swift despite being retired but as part of my art generation work now.
We already have mailboxes for that. Here's an example of what it looks like if you're not familiar: https://cdn-s-www.leprogres.fr/images/A3755E4B-30EC-4378-99A.... They're around 25 cm wide and tall, and 35 cm deep.
I still have and use weekly my Rift S, Oculus was a great company.
The article is from the future. Smithsonian is for time travel.

The article states it is November 2021.
"b- someone in the couple is a stay at home parent (usually the mother) who watches the children. "

Also, these comments about "mother" are irksome to me since it feels like you're accusing me (or OP) of implying something I'm not. Not that it really matters but my wife and I (a father) work full time and during the pandemic I was the caregiver during normal business hours while my wife retained a normal working hours schedule.
Oh no, think of all that child labor going unexploited.
> and my gratefulness translates into feelings of loyalty towards my employer.

Yes and in turn translates to better quality work. In my case, I'm consciously adding extra web dev cherries on top every chance I can.

I haven't set foot in the office since the beginning of 2020, mostly due to lockdown. My boss is okay with it because he's happy with my work. I will never go back, I'd quit first.

Things I don't miss:

* The shared microwave always covered with a layer of grime on the inside.

* The office coffee machine, you drank it because it contains caffeine.

* Noise pollution from loud phone calls about things you have nothing to do with.

* Air con

* Air con set to a temperature you would change if you could.

* Staff toilets in general. Men's urinals without divider partitions.

* The small-talk encounters replayed every day with slightly different arrangement of words. They can be enjoyable too, but this is a cynical list.

* Driving and public transport, they both suck.

* Alarm clocks. For the first time in my life I wake up at the right time without an alarm.

* Not being able to make really nice breakfasts that take more time to prepare. (Porridge using steel-cut oats requires a 25 minute simmer, for example).
Dumb question: what's so hard about putting a screen inside a head-shaped box and connecting it to wi-fi?

Is it the shape of the screen?
Memory versus the Machines
We had an instance where a dev updated our content management system such that all values became "193". That got a conference room named after the event. :)
The difference there is that Snowden ended up in Russia unintentionally. There's a decent change he'd also be in custody now if he had made it to Ecuador though.
I appreciate your thoughtful answer, though I do not agree with your beliefs (to the extent that I think your beliefs are not only not-good for society but actually harmful for society).
macOS Monterey Users Report Connectivity Issues with USB Hubs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Express#/media/File:Ap...

Could be configured as a router, access point to extend a network, or could join a network wirelessly and then bridge devices on the LAN to it. Also had optical audio out. Really remarkable little device considering it came out in like 2004.
I am not really sure whether there is any way, given Facebook's corporate structure and investor/shareholder voice/power, that Zuckerburg could be overruled. The final decision, I think, is entirely his - albeit that he was probably advised by the top people around him.

Given that, then this seems to me that his passion for this is strong enough to overcome any reservations he or anyone around him might have. He's not dumb, and he surely knows what's what re current PR and image problems etc, so this looks (to me) like an expression of belief in what his vision is for the future.
It always struck me that 50% efficiency is better than 0%.
> How is this determined?

That's my personal judgement.

The actionable response would be progressive taxation on corporate profits which would stop companies getting quite so large, and force (or strongly encourage) companies that wanted to continue growing beyond a certain point to split (which would have the effect of spreading control/power over the economy around).

> The funny thing is Facebook (or Meta I guess) could fall of the face of the earth tomorrow and humanity would not really be impacted other than temporarily losing WhatsApp groups and having to migrate to a different chat program.

Isn't that exactly the problem though. So much of societies resources going towards something that isn't ultimately that important. The opportunity cost here is huge.
Windows 11 is the perfect time to switch to Linux (especially for first-timers), using WSL2. Then, once you're familiar with Linux, it's a shorter jump to replace Windows completely (and appreciate how fast Linux can be without WSL)
Why would Texans be shocked? These are the laws they voted for. Maybe Guardian readers are shocked.

If Texans are shocked, it's because the shooter was arrested at all. The victim had pulled his car onto the man's driveway. The man said he thought the victim had a gun. That should be all that's required.
Yup. Even if it's just to add a WHERE 1 = 1, at least then you've deliberately loaded and then set off your footgun.
The Climate Countdown Is Loudly Ticking and the Global Climate Event Is Here
There are two reasons why the climate crisis isn’t seen as a war or a pandemic. Firstly, it’s not experienced as intensely at the moment and secondly, we hear about it almost all our lives and we grow indifferent since it also doesn’t affect our short-term lives. Thanks to science, our knowledge of climate change is firm and we also know that once we exceed a certain threshold, our path to climate imbalance and horrible consequences are irreversible. We have another Paris Agreement moment coming, COP26. Things need to change really soon.
That's nice. Can you use it?
And when those bathrooms are closed, those garbage humans will shit on the sidewalk, instead, to the delight of everyone.
Separating work and personal Git accounts on your laptop
A good friend of mine is a Roblox developer. He said the problem is the exact opposite. The first game he created was one he would want to play and got feedback that the game is too complicated for people who play Roblox and to make it easier. Now he makes easy games like you describe. Its what sells, so he builds it.
> During the recent Facebook outage, certain Oculus devices were effectively rendered useless due to their inability to connect to the larger Facebook platform. It’s unclear if that specific incident is partially to blame for this change.

No, it's absolutely clear that this has nothing to do with the outage. WhatsApp and Instagram were down too. Their infrastructure does not care if the parent corp is called Facebook or Meta.
SELECT, wrap it in a transaction, then either look at row count or SELECT again before COMMIT.
When doing interactive maintenance/querying (which I discouraged, but we all know it happens even if only in “break glass” scenarios), I would generally

select *
--update <blah blah> [or delete]
from <blah blah>
where <blah blah>

which allowed me to execute the entire query as a select (or if I accidentally hit "run the whole buffer" it was safe), but then allowed me to highlight and run just the update (or delete) statement and ensure I had the same where clause as determined by my select statement pre-flighting.
Which is why I don't read the articles the vast majority of the time. It's rare that I find an article worth reading slowly, but when I do, I slow down and read it. I come to this forum for the comments, not for poorly written articles with low amount of substance. Certain blogs or websites I'll read at a slow pace, because of historic experiences showing the quality is high or will spur interesting comments. Pg is a good example, I'll read those slowly as I find the writing to have a large amount of interesting ideas. Contrasted to the article in this thread, the idea isn't very new or interesting to me, and the signal to noise ratio isn't exactly good. When the signal to noise is bad so often, I want to spend my time with something else as well, and why I choose not to waste 10 minutes reading it when only a couple will suffice.
https://youtu.be/xwI4r8TTpNw

https://youtu.be/lgLWRJCB5Lk

There is a recent trend of saying your dogs favorite words while on the phone.

Lots of head tilting in all these videos.

Dogs are clearly interested/curious.
That's the point. It demonstrates that, despite it being very hard to displace the incumbents, it has been done.
re: UPDATE without a WHERE

In SSMS (the main query console tool thing for Sql Server) you can highlight a bit of code with the cursor (as if you want to copy/paste it) and press CTRL-E to execute it, its really handy when you've got a big sketchpad-like series of SELECT statements and you're doing exploratory tinkering.

But if your UPDATE statement is accross three lines, its a little bit too easy to accidentally select just the first two lines and not select the third line that has the WHERE clause. Then CTRL-E and you've footgunned yourself.

Its never actually happened to me, but I've often thought it probably has happened to some people.
If you put a small program/interface around SQL entry, you can trivially verify that a user entered a reasonable query before allowing to execute.

I think validation that a query is going to do what you want is up to the user of the database, not the database vendor.
A particularly nasty aspect of SQL UPDATE syntax is the predicate order, i.e. SET is before WHERE. So when you type it in order, there's a dangerous phase you have to go through if you hit enter by accident.

Having run an `mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda` (note the missing partition number) by accident, I've learned to start potentially destructive commands by typing first whatever makes that command a comment (# in shell, -- in sql), then going back to the start of the line to remove the safety when I'm done.
Do we have the same concerns with Samsung being nestled so close to the mainland and North Korea? I myself don't imagine they'd do so well without US support either. If we're talking geopolitics, if Taiwan falls then frankly I expect Korea, part/all of Japan and the Philippines are next. If that impacts those foundries then I'd be curious how to regard former and current TSMC management's comments at that point in time/circumstance.
Nothing Is More Disruptive to Education, Than Deming
Fair point. I didn't. To downvoters: Doesn't mean that EVERY article has to be like this. Just saying to for occasion magazine type consumption this is really nice to me.
studying the behaviour of a monkey when introduced to a typewriter doesn't. Studying the formation of a few molecules in a controlled environment hardly explains how living forms came to exist.
Zuck going "all in" with VR headsets and FacePlant.
Holy crap! :)
Still will be a long, long time for such things to be viable in a courtroom.
> There's very little mention of this in the news.

Associated Press, NPR, CBS, Yahoo News, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Independent, Reuters UK, France24, Sydney Morning Herald and SKY News all covered this.
How actix-web's application state and Data extractor works internally
Hard reset would log you out, but the more significant question is “are my existing purchases tied to my FB account?”
Let me give you the example of a test that hadn't ever failed on a dev machine or on staging or prod, just on the flaky CI infrastructure.

Yes, I'm mostly agreeing with you that the tests should be fixed, but I have seen ones that were perfectly fine (given the constraints) and what should have been fixed was the CI.
> Market mechanisms will only fund things that will obviously succeed in a short time.

Glynn research institute.

For that matter celera, which arguably shows that the market will fund things that will obviously NOT work in a short period of time; anyone with half a brain could have told you that they were unlikely to be able to 'patent half the genome' but it's like greed and not understanding the narrative dominated.
Even now in October you wake up in the darkness, and it's dark again at 4 pm here. When WFH you can decide flexibly what time is the best for you for an hour of outside activity. You can go out at noon to enjoy few minutes of gentle sunshine. Then, being recharged it feels awesome and the total productivity is great.
Games Relying on CEG DRM Should Now Be Able to Run with Steam Play
> In 2012, Assange communicated directly with a leader of the hacking group LulzSec (who by then was cooperating with the FBI), and provided a list of targets for LulzSec to hack. With respect to one target, Assange asked the LulzSec leader to look for (and provide to WikiLeaks) mail and documents, databases and pdfs.

Sounds like a good reason to be a threat, albeit a not so smart one.
Yes, this is the thing people forget. As I've heard it said: good accessibility design is just good design. The classic real life example is curb ramps, which were mandated for accessibility for disabled people but are useful to everyone.
I totally was using the brackets. Thank you!

You've totally saved me tons of time and effort
Was thinking the same thing. Leaving stuff in public that resemble known consumer electronics will guarantee they perform disappearing acts ASAP.

Ideally, you'd want something firmly attached to a wall, something that looks industrial/enterprisey, like it's an important part of the building alarm, water, power, HVAC or network system. Then people won't fuck with it.

And when you're installing it, wear a brightly coloured safety vest, helmet, badge, clipboard, safety boots and a tool belt around your waist. That way you look super official and nobody will question you and I just made this stuff up, no guarantee that it'll work IRL :)
Better scenario is the worker is outside mowing their lawn at 11am or grocery shopping or something. They basically 'disappear' for an hour and nobody can get ahold of them.
What is the appeals process?
True, but it the resulting negative connotations are still in the minds of most of the population.
Unless you're a machine
Texans shocked to learn they live in Texas. Film at 11.
Yeah but did you put them on a cart? No!! N.. oh you did. Ok fine but did you put them on a cart near an X-ray machine? Ha!
I don't know about that. Look at climate change and you see the reverse: we are likely are responsible, but plenty of people aren't prepared to accept that.

I suspect there's a large factor of rejecting that which is personally inconvenient.
Enter the metaverse: the digital future Mark Zuckerberg is steering us toward
React is both.
Because some journalists, who tend to be white people from affluent backgrounds, like to continuously perform racial self-loathing to signal that they are not the "wrong kind" of affluent white person.

Actually, that's more of a side benefit. The real reason they do it is because they enjoy racial stereotyping (cf. Avenue Q's "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist"). White-bashing is a safe outlet for that urge. If it were still socially acceptable to stereotype Asians as soulless, interchangeable technicians, they'd do that too.

White-bashing is also the socially sanctioned way to signal that you're racially conscious. This qualifies you for elite white people jobs like the Harvard admissions committee, where it's important that everyone have the mindset needed to limit the representation of the racial groups considered undesirable.

(Note that Harvard does not consider white a racial or ethnic group; only non-whites are racial/ethnic. You can see this from their yearly report of admissions by race, where whites are not mentioned and the racial percentages mysteriously add up to only about 55%: https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics)
Good one! It don't think it will ever happen though since Apple is an integrated company with no separate incorporated units, AFAIK. There is no need for a "mother" company like in Meta's or Alphabet's case.
How Twilio Is Shaping Segment
Fuck off David Brooks.

There are more strikes happening in the USA now than ever before in my lifetime. Most Americans want free, or at least cheaper healthcare. These are not isolated beliefs. The fact that this jerk wants to label a few things 'The American Left' and then decry them as isolating just means he either isn't paying attention to what Americans actually want, or intentionally ignoring obvious trends.

Frankly he's isolated and out of touch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqZ2PPOLik
Is his oversimplification true to the original researchers findings or is he inserting unproven claims?

What makes it pseudoscience and what author’s would you recommend apart from the ones you already mentioned?

Gazzaniga is featured on the documentary, is the documentary any good?

What’s the real story here and what sources do you recommend for an outsider?
> What’s up with the devs? These games are terrible and are just a waste land for our children.

Aren't those games made by other children? For those, the time is all but wasted. And that would explain the simple gameplay.

edit: Reading other comments, it seems I've been totally unaware of how much money is on the table in this game... So it's probably not other children creating most of the content.
Leaked photo of Facebook’s Meta smartwatch shows camera notch
> I think there is not a lot of competitive pressure, if there was, the salaries in Europe and Canada would already match the US ones.

Not necessarily, if there are productivity differences.

However, I do agree that there _not_ being a lot of competitive pressure is a plausible option. I was asking, because your comment suggested that there was some market pressure, but just exactly calibrated enough to equalize salaries but leave COL adjustments in place?

> Hiring remote workers directly would greatly speed up the process of salary equalisation (adjusted for COL).
With databases, start a transaction first, then update, and look at the number of rows affected.
If it's an oh shit moment, rollback, if not commit.
It feels like the author has a notably loose idea of what the "this" is that she's been through before. She's applying lessons she feels she learned through personal trauma involving her son's autism to the analysis of a global pandemic.

I appreciate the general notion that we should be skeptical and that experts can be wrong, but I'm just not sure what the one situation has to do with the other. She could just as well have written the same style essay about why, since her son had autism and was not well understood, the earth is also flat and climate change is a hoax.
I listened to a podcast recently that spoke specifically about how the container unloading is a major issue. Certain areas have zoning restrictions about stacking empty zoning containers only 2 high (Santa Monica??). So the container hauling trailers have largely got stuck holding empties so they can't clear the docks which means we aren't clearing the ports quick enough. I know there have been recent strides to to bypass some of these rules but it is like a slinky and will take a while to catch up. My guess is that "normal" is still 9 months away.

The other big factor in this speaks to your point. We are importing far more than exporting. Containers have gone up 10x in price over the last year and we need to get all these empties back to Asia, etc.
Metaverse has ALREADY been renamed to FacePlant.
Driver shortages in the rest of Europe / the world aren't causing problems with fuel availability or supermarket stock.

Given similar complains and conditions a few years ago, and that Germany, France etc have since made improvements, but the UK has only added border controls and added barriers to working, it's no surprise that EU drivers left the UK.
Purely out of curiosity: why does poor capital utilization concern you? It's their gamble, their resources, their right, I think.
Compose Multiplatform Goes Beta: Stabilized APIs
It's allowed (obviously). I just think it illustrated the parent point that pre-teens will spend a lot on this platform once the "payment barrier" has been reduced. I know when they first started playing Roblox paying for stuff was a pain. Once we smoothed that out, the purchased items started increasing. It's all within reason (thankfully) and my kid works so it's up to them how to spend their own money (another lesson on saving vs spending)

Edit: Thanks for mentioning https://privacy.com - I never heard of it and will check it out!
I think there's a massive difference between having accessibility options and hard-coded accessibility options. I don't like subtitles on my English language TV shows; however, having the option to turn them on doesn't affect my experience at all. Adding text to speech doesn't impact my gameplay either, provided I have the option to turn it off.
Thanks for the data!

I am quite excited to see what kind of knock-on effects that will have on the rest of the economy in eg Mexico or India or Ukraine over time.
I’ve heard of IT departments who place USB sticks around the building and then send nasty-grams to whoever plugs it into a device on the corporate network. (I don’t know exact details.)
He specifically said that it is likely impossible if both parents are working normal hours. So if there is one parent looking after the kids and the other parent is still being interrupted constantly then I don't think it's unreasonable to say that they could make some adjustments to improve the situation.
It's amazing to see that the video is from 7 years ago. Within the year the Amazon Echo was released and folks put microphones everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Alexa
Great news! Mandatory Facebook account was a massive "own goal".

I can't believe it took this long for the policy to be reversed.

The damage to Oculus among enthusiasts was huge. But I guess the Oculus brand is going away anyway leaving just 'Meta' and 'Quest'.
> also, the murder was silently condoned by a large fraction on the left.

that sounds like the oppsoite of a neutral picture ...
No, this would be an Oculus-specific account. There are enough legitimate criticisms of Facebook that we don't have to go around inventing false ones.

Edited to cite the announcement transcript[1]:

> And as we’ve focused more on work, and frankly, as we’ve heard your feedback more broadly, we’re on making it so you can log into Quest with an account other than your personal Facebook account.

> ... I know this is a big deal for a lot of people. Not everyone wants their social media profile linked to all these other experiences.

[1]: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/meta-facebook-connect-2...