skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Edit: getting downvoted

You are getting downvoted because Webkit Engine is not updated with the browser. In this case iCab Mobile Browser. As noted in other reply it is merely a shell or skin on top of the OS Webkit Engine. Hence you are objectively wrong.
Weirdish use cases?

1) Allow homeowners to take a timelapse of their backyard. For each frame (or some video interval) determine what areas are in sun vs shade. Then greyscale the image and overlay with a heatmap showing hours of sun in each area. Or have 1/2 hour increment bandings.

2) Road monitoring of various types. Traffic count and speed. Common visitors / time of visit (garbage, street cleaning etc, postal, newspaper delivery).
One interesting piece not mentioned is how updating the name servers at your registrar is communicated to the top-level domain (TLD) registry operator's name servers (ex: Verisign's for .com).

The answer, for .(com|net|org) at least, appears to be that the registrar makes an [EPP][^1] request on your behalf. The protocol is documented in IETF std69 -- specifically [RFC5731][^2].

What I'm not clear on is whether other methods are still in common use. I'm also curious what the process looked like before EPP. If someone else here knows, I'd be interested in learning.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Provisioning_Protoc...
[2]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5731.txt
Quite. It will be a long time before the software industry will grow up at the present rate.
That isn't a long paragraph. That is a formidable wall of text.
How High Will California's Taxes Go Before There's No One Left to Tax?
But it would be a step up for people who use SMS on iPhone, which is everybody who texts a non-iPhone user, which is everybody. It would also be a step up for every Android user who texts an iPhone user that doesn't support rich texting. Apple is wrong not to support an interoperable rich text protocol, and Google is also wrong not to support it in Google Voice.
This seems to be a good approach for FAANGish companies if you can afford it.
Does anyone have an estimate on how much an ad like that would cost?

(The desperate obsequiousness of whatever sycophant put this together is vomit inducing. )
Also more from the consumer side:

"Hey Facebook, I am FFFFFFF why did you delete my account? You suck"
"Amazon why did you remove 50 Kindle books from my collection, I -bought- them didnt I ?"

Actually, typing that the New York Times or The Washington Post should have a feature once a week or every day where frustrated FAANGish customers get vent ti a large audience and have a chance at being heard.

It would help those who can't pay for huge ads out of pocket.
Alcohol was consumed more often because:

- Water was impure

- Juice could not be refrigerated
The launch costs weren't a driving factor but the launch restrictions made the engineering costs a driving factor.

There should never be such an expensive program again because hopefully we'd realize its easier to also build a massive 1-off rocket for it instead of years developing awesome folding things. Has all the money SpaceX have ever spent so far even come to 10 billion yet?
How much RAM does this tool use?
HN seems to have a radical anti-car faction, which is probably why you're being downvoted, but I agree. Turning cities into the equivalent atmosphere of a factory farm is a disturbing trend which seems to mainly come from one side of the political spectrum, the same one that's also anti-car.
Is there any truly hard money other than precious metals? If the internet goes down or partitions, then what happens to all those coins?
I have no earthly idea what “narrative“ you are referring to, or what kind of FUD you expect the media to spread. The story will either just disappear because nothing really happened, or it will be about “overly cautious” vs “better safe than sorry”, as this thread is.
Live demonstration for cyber resilience (European Space Agency)
Yeah, for sure.

Malcolm Gladwell wrote about his experience in a Waymo and he came to an interesting conclusion. Because self driving cars always defer to pedestrians, pedestrians will get very bold and not be scared about stepping off the curb in front of a self driving car. It could mean traveling through dense urban centers by car is almost impossible.

Of course, car owners vote in enough numbers that, if this were to happen, I could see cities installing barriers between side walks and streets like Las Vegas has in the strip area.
Yeah, a strong wind could literally cause an average delay of 15 minutes for all flights in a given area. It's not a big deal.

Anyone who knows US aviation knows that its foundation is "safety over time," precisely because it's such a multivariate problem and trying to be overly fixed to a schedule gets people killed.
That is true. I don't mind the pixel-perfect upgrade, but I wonder if any texture filter can do justice to vector games like Asteroids, where the bullets really lighted up the screen, it felt like they were dangerous and explosive.

I guess it all boils down to personal preferences. I grew up with consoles that used huge pixels, so in my mind they were perfect squares.
The key to a high quality product is simply to be unwilling to compromise.

Look at the Space Shuttle's code. Look at the code and systems to drive anything where any level of assurance must be maintained.

Quality is hard. It is all encompassing, and for all too many optimizing decision makers, it is "The crappiest thing I can sell without looking like a nitwit, or killing somebody, that takes the least money to develop or doing something so blatantly illegal I can't get the lawyers to realistically dig me out.".

The rest is noise.
I've been mainly working in web development since 2009 (before that I did it sometimes but also lots of standards work and data handling), so in that field I have seen a lot of commonly accepted software engineering best practices in use, but those commonly accepted software engineering best practices were not necessarily the commonly accepted software engineering best practices of the modern day, but rather of the day that the code was written.
On the History of Scurvy Science
I suppose. If I buy a new Macbook I can immediately compile and run whatever software I like on it. I don't usually think of it as "rooted": in my mind, root access is the norm when you buy a general-purpose computer.
Japan whenever they have allergies, celebrities whenever they go outside, and China much of the last two years whenever they get told to.
>Can this be avoided for codebases that are old and large? Does anyone know of examples of codebases (public or private) that have maintained a high quality codebase that is large, old, or supported by a large number of contributors? If so, how is it done?

The thing is

if you took 3 x 10 years of experience engineer - one in web app backends, one heavy FP programmer and 3rd one in e.g kernel programming, then they'd have different definitions of "good code"

for web apps it's probably a lot of abstractions/indirections, DDD, patterns, heavy OOP, testability

for kernel code there's nothing wrong with gotos, ugly hacks for performance, 10 meters of ifs, stuff like likely/unlikely
The problem I had with LastPass is that if you have any billing problem then you're immediately kicked down with to the free tier with all the problems that entails, including loss of access to regular support. Worse, they had a bug that prevented me upgrading back to premium with new payment details. The special contact form for billing support was non-obvious and they were not especially prompt or helpful. I've since migrated to BitWarden. No problem exporting, thank goodness, but it wouldn't have suprised me!
Assume Los Angeles International Airport was suddenly unusable due to an attack. How many airplanes in flight would suddenly need to find a replacement place to land with limited fuel available?
You are trolling here aren't you ?

> Because something something about closed systems vs open systems and putting energy into systems (eg, people working on the codebase)?

Did you ever lead a project that spans at least half decade? And is this a coherent thought or something something whatever?

> I’m not sure what “best” means here, but there are other tools for improving software quality beyond tests, including and in particular formal methods.

There are other tools, but the one that makes refactoring possible is the best you can do regarding OP question. If you have a bad quality code, you need to refactor, no? You might want to have some other tools like superb docs, formal proofs etc. but those do next to 0 when you need to refactor and guarantee that you didn't break hell.

> What quality guarantees do tests make? That the build passes the test suite?

Notice the part about "good tests" which are "very hard" to do.
A kindergartener today will utilize Kepler data 15 years from now in a novel way we are technologically locked out of today. Technology will always breath new life into a dataset.
That would be the rational choice. But what about the decisions made on that blink of a moment? If where to be an escalation to nuclear I'm afraid there might not be an opportunity for diplomacy.
Yes, I agree. I don't think this obvious point needs to be stated any more than the fact that reduced video choice makes their service less compelling to many users who are likewise not required to spend time on youtube. Producers are not required to publish on youtube either.
Those kinds of things can be explained by any company that offers them. They're not guaranteed. Other benefits fall into a similar category where one company's coverage of health, dental, retirement, etc, will differ from another's. But I would not take any of those as meaning that the salary data for software development isn't useful.
> I think the idea is that if the launch cost is so much lower you can take more risk with the design as you can more easily justify launching again or take a more iterative design approach.

You can also remove large categories of risk by freely spending mass and volume.

> Starship is estimated to be $2-10M.

Don't believe the hype. If Starship works out, they can beat other paths to orbit by a fair margin, but it's not going to be a >10x reduction. Much likely much less than that, too.
It's quite sad that this is the level of discourse found on these forums. This place used to be great, but over the last few years I notice more and more of these comments which offer absolutely nothing or proffer misinformation to the reader.
> or anything related to Liverpool FC.

Do people still watch football?

What are the viewership numbers for Liverpool FC?

Does Man United still matter?

:-)
I'm probably not the only person here with a painful family memory of a cancer death possibly related to these machines.

I had a great-uncle who died of a thyroid carcinoma in his 50s. As a child, he and his friends would inspect each others' skulls using these devices. I have a vivid memory of his elderly mother helping him walk in the last few months of his life.

As the article says: "Years or decades may elapse between radiation exposure and a related occurrence of cancer, and no follow-up studies of customers can be performed for lack of records."
> "lack of visibility" can be a very useful design feature to get drivers to Slow The Fuck Down.

That's why I personally do, as I live in such a city with cars parked literally everywhere so that in order to drive safe I need to slow down. As you imply, it's almost a feature, not a bug.
I searched around for about 10 seconds, didn't find a way to demo or see a video, turned back.
"Applications are now being accepted to participate in Europe’s newest cybersecurity demonstration, bringing together cybersecurity experts to help ESA and European industry keep critical space services secure and resilient."

"During Cysec’s annual conference in April 2022, ESA’s OPS-SAT space lab will be made available to select, invited applicants to test their winning ideas in a controlled, robust environment – precisely the type of experiment the 30cm flying CubeSat was created for. The results will help ESA and European industry advance and further perfect cybersecurity in space."

The in-built robustness of OPS-SAT makes it the perfect flying platform for ethical hackers to demonstrate their skills in a safe but suitably realistic environment,
Zoning is good. It came about because industrialists were building factories next to people's houses and they were dying of pollutant inhalation. You need rules for what kind of buildings can go together, but the historic mistake (intentional or not) was to zone retail away from housing and force everybody to drive to get to anything that isn't a single family home.
Well, probably you are right, but for me ecosystem, libraries, tooling, editor support, performance, etc is far more important than language syntax. But we all have our preferences and that's ok.
Small change recommended by industry:

^ surveillance of and value extraction from
I'm going to add an emoji reaction to this comment so that everyone on Slack sees that I'm online and "working". </troll>

Fake productivity is absolutely why I will never ever work in any other white collar sector other than tech. The "butts in seats" culture of consulting and banking is so outdated and cannot end fast enough imho.
Same. Most places in the US aren't built in a way where everyday errands are walkable. I feel insanely lucky to have semi-randomly ended up in one of the few places that are. I'm in love with the format of small European cities, enough that I'm considering attempting to emigrate before trying to start a family.
SRE has 5 full-time jobs and makes $1.2M a year
or the Taiwan alerts xD
If you were making the same thing at the same time, it'd be about 30%. That is, previous space missions that have built 2 flight articles have spent about 30% more.

Doing it after the fact--- some design work would be saved, but how much of the tooling and supply chain still exists? Parts are going to need re-engineering, etc.
Because "if you attack us, we'll obliterate San Francisco" is much better insurance policy. And SK has been pursuing missiles for NK decapitation strike for past few years with US blessing. So it's also message for US to keep SK on leash and that US ultimately is culpable for SK behavior.
That’s strong incentive to give up living downtown, parking costing 1/4 of far more spacious accommodations (with lots of parking).
Worth fighting for! I do with things like https://demo.mro.name/shaarligo/
If one believes that, why not own gold and other precious metals? It's true that the dollar is not backed by anything except the government's decree that it is legal tender, but cryptocurrencies have not even that.
>First of all, the final bill is typically larger because more dishes were brought

I suppose that makes sense in certain cases (eg. you getting appetizer + drink + main + desert vs just a main), but utterly broken in others (eg. you getting a $15 main vs a $25 main). If tips were truly based on service it'd be a flat fee per plate or something, that varies per restaurant.
I’ve seen the transition occur in my company where DX is trumping backwards compatibility, “simplicity”, and inter team cohesion.

If you can’t bother to write the if statement that guarantees backward compatibility and follows a defined standard in use for almost 20 years, you are a horrid engineer IMO.

This is why there’s a general trend toward all things becoming complicated, brittle, and shitty.
> Literally none of the examples you gave are in any way comparable to injecting a completely novel medical intervention both in mechanism and function

Exactly, and that's why I listed them. The 0 long-term data part and interaction with novel technology is so commonplace in everyday life, it isn't the core issue and IMO, it's a byproduct of some other concern. The core issue for many people is 0 long-term data + [something]. The [something] is interesting. Here you identify "novel medical intervention both in mechanism and function" as the [something]. That [something] can be researched online, debated, etc. My guess is that if you had 0 concern over how mRNA vaccines work (like you had 0 concern over cellphone radiation), you wouldn't still be waiting on long-term data. Using your earlier example, it's like saying "I have 0 concern that cellphones produce harmful radiation, but I still want to wait for long-term data before using this new technology because long-term data is the most important thing in my decision making process." No one does that. They focus on the radiation, because that's what matters, and once they're comfortable with that concrete, specific concern they make an informed decision.

The 0 long-term data is a concern we overcome everyday without much hesitation. The fact that CBD oils have well understood food chemistries ignores the fact that their largely unregulated production process, quantity of application and internal/external application processes in combination with an infinite number of genetic or medical pre-conditions or other substances like over-the-counter drugs, alcohol, etc. could have an unstudied long-term effect. We have 0 long-term data on this and no one cares, because in the "0 long-term data + [something]" equation, if there's no [something], no one cares about the 0 long-term data part of the equation.

> the risks imparted by direct health intervention that has failed animal trials repeatedly

OK, now we're getting more detail. Now you can research and debate this more specific concern.

> you just do actual science and studies/trials

You could simulate it in the lab or animals all you want, but you need to study a large sample size of people over long periods of time to see any long-term effects in humans. That means in order for this "wait and see" philosophy to work for you, you need a large number of people to disagree with it.

> not fear mongering the population into authoritarian complacency over unstudied medical interventions that have not mitigated excess deaths at all

And more specific concerns. This is the heart of it IMO. Now you can have a conversation.

When you refuse to have a conversation or make a decision until you have robust long-term data, you're creating an impossible hurdle that you yourself can't possibly adhere to consistently with every new technology, medicine or medical procedure.
> specifically architected to not use databases. You're posting this comment on one now; HN stores everything in RAM and periodically journals snapshots out to disk so they survive reboots

Yep! And for those that didn't know, this strategy on HN and other paulg projects is actually what inspired Redis! See this antirez tweet https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1110468354542919681 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19498379
+1 for Mercury for biz banking

(no affiliation other than as a satisfied customer)
There are plans, but they are not always coordinated. I wouldn't be surprised if before the US could get troops in the area China invades, asking the US navy to provide cover fire (in large part this politics - China could do it themselves but knows that the US needs to be seen as responding so giving the US navy a target is good for both). China and the US are not on great terms, but China has a lot to lose in this scenario and is in geographical position to respond faster. (South Korea is closer, but North Korea is well set to defend against their invasion so China is my guess).

I have no idea what Russia will do in this scenario. Anything seems possible.
NAD already basically dropped Chromecast support, confirming the suspicion that buying their products would have been a bad idea for me. And any company whose business strategy is to sell to users of the Logitech Duet is going to go bankrupt.
> Rational people quickly become emotional about parking, and staunch conservatives turn into ardent communists

I don't follow the reasoning. Conservatives are against taxes, right? How is not wanting a tax on parking, something that is naturally free, "communist"?
> In more of a real-life scenario, millions of people have spent the last 20 years wasting way more than 15 minutes standing in line to take off their shoes and get x-rayed every time they fly in an airplane to protect against a "potential national security threat" when the only thing that actually needed to happen was locking the cabin doors while the plane is in flight.

Where the unstated goal is to prevent hijackers from turning airplanes into aimable missiles? Yeah, I like your argument, what are the counterpoints?
“Totally free” is not a benefit. I want a transactional relationship with a company that will compel them to help me when things go wrong.
> Laboratory data suggests

What laboratory data? The page you linked doesn't provide evidence for that assertion. It's also been nearly 2 years so where is the real-world data?

Also if what you claim is true, does this policy make sense?

> Calif. health care workers who are asymptomatic with COVID won't have to test or isolate to work

https://abc7.com/asymptomatic-california-health-care-workers...
Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite
Thank you for your suggestions. I've been considering what to do about my Firefox setup for some time (switching to ESR vs one of the forks, which I have to research first). Thing is, I'm using a heavily-customized profile with lots of extensions, Violentmonkey [1] userscripts, containers (including Containerise [2], and Temporary Containers [3]), and a custom user.js (based on [4]), so I should also revisit the settings for all of these at the same time as it's been a while since I last did so. It's all on my to-do list but as the current setup works well, there's always something more urgent to do instead.

1. https://violentmonkey.github.io/

2. https://github.com/kintesh/containerise

3. https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers

4. https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js

The LTSC suggestion is also good. I'm already using a heavily-debloated LTSC with lots of unnecessary packages removed (including the hidden ones, which are not supposed to be officially removable), and all kinds of customizations for privacy, security, performance, and convenience. While I'm satisfied with my setup (automated with custom scripts I've been maintaining since Windows 8), the number of hoops one has to go through to have their computer do what the user wants and nothing else, or a "User-Agent" that gives actual agency to the user these days is truly astonishing, and makes the goal unattainable for most people.
I'm only guessing but this looked like a silent DEFCON 3. Grounding all planes might be just standard procedure.
It was probably over 10 years ago now that I had my hallway moment with Guido van Rossum (creator of Python) at a PyCon. I gave him what was probably an incomprehensible pitch about the shortcomings of generators as coroutines for concurrent network server programming and why I thought stackless python's approach was what Python should adopt as its primary approach to concurrency.

Guido listened attentively despite my rambling being essentially a poor rehashing of a proposal rejected 10 years prior! I was too starstruck to remember a concrete thing he replied with, but I remember it being kind and detailed. Was an incredibly formative experience for me about how those in a position of authority and privilege should behave.

I doubt I was "right" in any universal sense. Green threads make FFI difficult and costly, and cheap and easy FFI has always been one of Python's most compelling features.

I did switch to being a Go programmer as soon as I could find a job using it and haven't looked back. I don't think there's one right abstraction for concurrency, but I think I could live with Go's for the rest of my career and be happy.

All of this to say: +1 to gevent.