skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago, I worked for a regional discount retail chain, in the Loss Prevention department (my job was installing cameras and other low-voltage systems). The focus of LP there (and probably at most retail places) was internal theft. They would try to discourage shoplifting, but employees stealing represented much bigger losses.

I remember hearing one of the guys reviewing video tape saying that they were tallying up a bunch of thefts (in this case, the subject was a cashier, and he was pretending to ring up items for his friends and family, but not really scanning it). The kid was 17, going to turn 18 in a couple weeks. The guy reviewing the tape joked about how the tally would be $1000 shortly after his birthday, when he would be an adult: "Happy birthday, you're under arrest for grand larceny".

It was sickening. I enjoyed my job, and I didn't mind if criminals were caught and prosecuted, but the attitude that led to jokes like that didn't sit well with me.
Take a look at the games from that era and the games you get right now. Sure, more has changed than just being able to update things, but the ability to fix issues later and continually update games has lead to much much better games with way more content. And you can always chose to wait a year for everything to settle.
In Finland, Kids Learn Computer Science Without Computers (2017)
That'd depend on exactly how bad the screwup was but Steve Jobs was notoriously unforgiving if you made a promise and didn't have a good reason for missing it. That might not have been the case here, since they clearly slipped it due to the Intel transition, but if he was in an unforgiving mood or someone else was looking for a scapegoat, remember this example of how closed the community was at the time:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/04/23...
But then all computers in your company can now move to Linux! Surely they'll love it when you pitch this news to them.
You can comment here for now.
This jives with my memory of that time as well. Apache just couldn't keep up with Nginx' async speed, and if you weren't having to deal with PHP (before FastCGI's adoption), there was no real reason to use Apache.

And post-FCGI's adoption, you didn't need to use Apache, so... why use it?
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2F...
Companies could unbundle security patches from UX updates if they wanted to. For the software I use regularly, I pretty much always want security updates and never want UI/UX changes.

Of course the incentives are totally out of whack, since bundling the updates is cheaper and many UX "improvements" exist to make the company more money, at the expense of the user.

Once users are conditioned or forced to auto-update why wouldn't a profit maximizing company make changes to increase its bottom line, regardless of how it helps or hurts users?
I have done this to host multiple services (running using multiple users and setups) from one host.
It's just not for you. Bigger dual screen makes sense for some people.
If this paper is not fraudulent, this could be the tipping point against climate change.

Gallium is cheap (~$300/kg), abundant (by product of Aluminum mining).

This process runs at 200C and 1 Bar (=0.98 ATM).

Temperature can be concentrated via greenhouses/mirrors to 200C with 0 carbon by-products, 0 advances in battery tech, 0 advances in solar tech.

We could start pulling more CO2 out of the atmosphere than we put in, and at that point we'd be pretty confident things won't get worse for the climate.

I'm sure there's a negative view of this and something too easy that I'm missing. But right now I'm very excited.
ExxonMobil targets 'net zero' emissions at operations by 2050
With discussions coming up about COVID19 antigen tests (aka: "Rapid Tests"), I find that the discussion inevitably leads towards sensitivity and specificity.
This comes to the definition of terms that much of the free will debate wastes cycles on.

Those that deny the concept of free will do not deny the subjective experience of free will. The subjective experience of free will was never under question.

The debate has always been about 'hard' free will, i.e., if the universe is fully deterministic, if 'choice' is an illusion.
Do the apps you run talk to hardware at all? I haven't run into a case where I've needed to run Windows apps to communicate with hardware, so I'm interested in whether that's something Wine has already tackled well.
St. Louis Made Their Elections More Equitable. Seattle Should Too
The federal fannie/freddie/etc subsidies should be addressed, also. These tax payer subsidies for only single family homes make housing less affordable.

It was nice that Trump raised the standard tax deduction, making the home interest deduction less relevant. More of such changes would be good.
Google search ads are still entirely contextual - but YouTube likely doesn't have the same volume of advertisers to match how much niche content is out there.
Some 360 games shipped with console updates as well. Required to be applied before you could play the game.
This is to raise awareness for the mistreatment of rats in laboratory research situations.
I'm not asking for deportation to USA. I don't think anyone should be extradited to the USA given its legal system is stacked against the alleged. But trusting local law enforcement and judicial process in Russia is a fools errand.
The shift to the cloud has turned computers into glorified terminals again. For terminals CPU power is a lot less important than for a personal computer.
This story has stuck with me since I read it many years back. And then seeing it come to life in so many ways where machines are "optimizing" processes and workflows for humans is scary.
Thankfully we can still completely avoid subscription for music legally.
But they paid for the $4,000 treadmill, not expecting it to magically become the $400 treadmill.
Nope. I do not care about RSS feeds from Twitter. That was an example.
All my business servers are fronted by Nginx. I can't thank you enough Igor for such immense contribution to developers.
I've found an older list in that article: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-xbox-one-and-nintendo...

Notably: Rocket League, Minecraft, Fortnight, Apex Legend, Overwatch
There's an active discussion going on in this later story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29983071
Cursor based pagination has advantages. You can actually skip records for other pages and you won't miss or duplicate records between pages.

But the drawback is you can't have directly addressable pages. So it's just a tradeoff per app.

Some apps do offset/limit and then simply limit the number of pages to something reasonable, which is a pretty viable solution too.
Does that still apply if the "feature" is not one advertised by the manufacturer? They're framing it as safety issue and jail broken devices and leaked content keys get updated all the time to close those loopholes.
Yes. That’s part of the point. Browsers should better auto detect that I have multiple feeds.
I will say that as someone who managed a leased hosting environment years ago, we dropped our expensive F5 device once it became clear we could do the same load balancing in Nginx for the cost of a virtual server. Even with a small support contract from Nginx it was way cheaper.
No it's a higher level english word meaning "branch" or "group", we use an equivalent in French too.

If you had read the first two paragraphs it would have been obvious:
Findings In this systematic review and meta-analysis of 12 articles including AE reports for 45 380 trial participants, systemic AEs were experienced by 35% of placebo recipients after the first dose and 32% after the second. Significantly more AEs were reported in the vaccine groups, but AEs in placebo arms (“nocebo responses”) accounted for 76% of systemic AEs after the first COVID-19 vaccine dose and 52% after the second dose.

Meaning This study found that the rate of nocebo responses in placebo arms of COVID-19 vaccine trials was substantial; this finding should be considered in public vaccination programs.

My own interpretation is that people feel tingy after an injection and report pain even if what they received contained nothing potent.
"arm" has nothing to do with human arms in this context, but is a term in medical trials for the various groups the overall population of people participating is split into. "placebo arm" thus are the people that received a placebo.
I thought this was an interesting insight into what a fully-automated grocery store looks like. And also wild to think about how different things are when you design them for automation from the ground up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE
What if the missile just turns away and comes back?
I used grpc and grpc-web in a couple of jobs and found the following:

1) difficult to debug (various) but the over the wire being a binary protocol means you can't just look in dev tools and figure out what happened with your request.

2) reinvents everything http already has - literally in the source of the GRPC library it renames and groups all the HTTP error codes that can happen into GRPC error codes that are meaningless.

3) Versioning hell - Protobuf or whatever it uses does not seem to make sure the message and the schema match so if you happen to send or receive the wrong message format after a schema change you might just get weird errors - even a rudimentary checksum could have helped here.

4) What problem are you solving that you need GRPC - the only reason I can see to use it is scale (are you Google?) and fashionability.

5) Bad documentation - there are known ways to do everything with rest or graphql but often you are rolling your own way with GRPC and I was never sure if what I was doing was idiomatic.

What are the industry standard ways to get around these issues with GRPC?

EDIT: sorry to be so negative about GRPC, I personally think it's a missed opportunity is all, in theory it could be amazing. And Sonora looks like an awesome implementation.
Yes. But foolish to dismiss it as just “populist nonsense”. There are many in government, police etc who are desperate for this.
How do you even get a legit copy of Office 97 these days?
It sounds the same to an american english speaker without knowing a word of Russian since we can infer context and use the same farewell structure for the deceased.
Age of Empires 1 had AI scripts that were written as production rules in a very Lisp-like syntax. (You can still find some online.)

Not sure if they integrated a full Lisp or Scheme system, but since the rules were not arbitrary source code, nor doing unification, etc., they could have just hand rolled a custom reader, and written the rule engine itself in C...
Who decides what is antisemitic? It seems to me that based on your logic all speech can be prevented assuming some arbiter declares it antisemitic

Boycotting can hardly be considered protected speech if that's all it takes to silence it
Has this ever been tested? If Linux can decide license requirements for modules that implement their apis, I’m not so sure Microsoft couldn’t block Wine if they really wanted.
According to that article this is being driven almost entirely by hospitalizations in the 70+ population. That group is nearly 100% double vaccinated in Scotland.

What you are seeing here is classic Simpson's Paradox. It is exactly the same thing we saw earlier with Israel with delta. Here was an article on that which covers how Simpson's Paradox works in that situation [1].

[1] https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...
blood on tesla's hands when they market the feature as full self-driving, then in the fine print say "but not really." now they're going to put the full blame on this taxi driver who was basically using the feature the way it's been marketed.
> And the people who might crow about "security" - my device, my rules. I can block it on the network if I want.

We've entered a sad dystopia when the manufacturer is the leading security threat to the integrity of my personal devices.
Maybe these graphics? https://web.archive.org/web/20090228234133/http://wiki.codem...
From the article

> Aurora Serverless also doesn’t support read replicas to offload analytical queries to them, so no luck there either.

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 does support read replicas. Although it’s still in preview.
Interesting part:

> We had a lot of gratitude in the Open Source community — particular for our fixes to make bash pass the tests. You have absolutely no idea how much Apple contributed to the Open Source community, as part of this project, because it was a secret project — at least to people outside Apple — so we didn’t advertise the fact. But I expect we contributed about two million lines of code, to hundreds of Open Source projects, over the course of that year. A lot of gratitude — but it wasn’t collective, and so Apple was still faulted for “using Open Source code, but never contributing back”. We fixed at least 15 major gcc bugs, for example. You have no idea.
I do, but, If it also happened in Germany and France which frequently criticize Israel, seems like it anti-BDS has nothing to do with silencing criticizing Israel... because they haven't stopped since.
> If the CEO sets a goal for the business, and you 'gave it a good goal' but failed, causing the business to miss its goal, with consequences including lost revenue or lawsuits, in that CEO's eyes you fucked up.

Are you under the impression that for example lawyers are fired every time they lose a case and a company has to pay out?
What was Intel's former Bitcoin hashing ASIC?
>We could start pulling more CO2 out of the atmosphere than we put in, and at that point we'd be pretty confident things won't get worse for the climate.

Not sure that would be terribly efficient to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere to pump through this setup.

Would be fine for many other reasons though.
I wonder how it behaves with "non clean" CO2 sources. Like say at the output of a coal fired PowerStation.
I suspect I'm experiencing some of this in a small home with poor circulation. Any suggestions for inexpensive room monitoring sensors?
Personally I hate adding dependencies to my builds so for this I use macro lists

#define FOO_ENUMS \
ENUM_HELPER(Apple) \
ENUM_HELPER(Banana) \
ENUM_HELPER(Orange) \
ENUM_HELPER(Pear) \

#undef ENUM_HELPERP
#define ENUM_HELPER(name) name;

namespace test {
enum Foo {
FOO_ENUMS
};
}

#undef ENUM_HELPER
#define ENUM_HELPER(name) #name,
const char* fooEnumToString(const Foo v) {
static const char* enumNames[] = {
FOO_ENUMS
};
return enumNames[v]; // may want to check v is in range
}

or if they aren't consecutive

#undef ENUM_HELPERP
#define ENUM_HELPER(name) case name: return #name;
const char* fooEnumToString(const Foo v) {
switch(v) {
FOO_ENUMS
default:
return "*unknown*"; // or throw or assert etc..
}
}

I'm not alone. Major open source projects use this style. No dependencies required
Yeah, that is the danger I tried to allude to in my second paragraph.

I hope we do see phone/OS/store ecosystems that focus on longterm stability of features and UI. Keep devices repairable by end users, supply parts for the whole of the phone's lifespan.

Fair phone is trying to do this for phone hardware, and Framework is doing similar for laptops. We still need OS and store ecosystems.
Here at HN.

I never read anything about Zig outside of HN.

What I remember was mostly that Zig should be easier to use than Rust, because Zig doesn't have lifetimes.
Abuse, a 1996 PC side scrolling shooter, had a good chunk of it written in lisp.

https://github.com/antrad/Abuse_1996/tree/master/data/lisp
>"Israel is its own nation and it isn't America's business what it does to its own citizens."

Syria is its own nation and it isn't America's business what it does to its own citizens.
> I will stick with my modular solution: an ipad on a music stand.

My smart rower consists of a C2 Model D sitting in front of an old-school panasonic plasma TV in a spare/theater room. Both components are over 10 years old by now and neither show the slightest signs of giving up the ghost. That TV doesn't even know how to talk to the internet, and I lost the USB cable for the PM4, so everything is effectively off-grid.
Two Phase Commit
It's never been a thing in Silicon Valley. This sounds like someone misunderstanding or inflating the stakes.
What is the carbon byproduct like at the end of this process? What happens with it? Used in soils amendments? Other uses? Sounds promising.
I think the "Steve Jobs" part is just a random assumption from the parent.

More likely he'd have problem being hired at that level simply because he would be associated with a major failed project, Jobs or no Jobs.
> Who decides what is antisemetic?

The Majority.

> Some arbiter

Nope. The Majority.

> if that's all it takes to silence it

Nope. anti-semetic is kinda big deal. We all should treat it as such and run from it like fire.
Nginx always worked better and didn’t need to be tuned like Apache until you got to really enormous scales which were rare while even a little load on apache would require tweaking settings and experimentation.
So you're defining it as the capability to automate steering, accelerator and brake? (i.e. the three things that constitute driving)

By that definition self-parking cars can also fully self-drive.

My definition of driving is being able to do all the tasks required to pass a driving test, i.e. driving around a city (intersections, roundabouts etc.), motorway, country road and car parks.
Remember all the smash and grab retail lootings? The Target store that was burned down? It was all on video. Hundreds participating. How many prosecutions came out of that?
This drives me nuts. The irony here is that one of the things social media does is force us to simplify our discourse to the point of infantilization. Subtly does not get traction.

We need binary truths! Myths and myth-busters.

None of the author's "myths" are myths. They are all true in a general sense. What the author is correctly pointing out is that there is more subtly. That to understand the real situation requires a deeper look.

Of course, that would never get traction on social media, so it must be framed as "No! They are wrong!"
I crossed paths with someone who joined ND around the time they were purchased by Sony. According to him, Sony told them "You will be working with other Sony companies. They will not be using GOAL. Switch to C++."
I think that stretches the definition of 'echo chamber'. That's simply what a community is, a group of like-minded people with shared views.

There's nothing automatically wrong with this. People can have shared criticisms of others if there is some meaningful difference between the groups that justifies that disagreement. I think people mistake 'hurling outrage' with simply two (or more) groups being fundamentally in disagreement.

The answer to this is actually the opposite of what people commonly suggest. Just let people with irreconcilable differences go their own way which is why I like the researchers suggestion to improve tools to shield oneself from hate.

Instead of demonizing so called 'echo chambers' I think we should just call it what it is, freedom of association.
Similarly, a person I know took a Customer Support role (the technical kind) for a few years as a "rest" after their startup died. It makes sense -- the technical skills help a lot with debugging issues, and support at big tech co's is fairly well-paid.
Yes, almost exclusively low speed serial comms (ASCOM to the mount) and it generally has been flawless.

The only lesson learned is that there is a wine config file that maps serial ports out of the box and I had to nuke that config to pick up my serial port (it was on /dev/ttyUSB0 vs/dev/ttySx)
"You're doing it wrong" as SRCUM peddlers like to say :) If you look at EcoHealth NIH grant for Wuhan you'll see that only about 25% of the grant money actually went to Wuhan. I'd guess you in your grant application didn't have 75% allocated for general sales and administrative/whatever money black hole and thus for example couldn't hire as a visiting professor/consultant some useful people :)
I think he has already gone down in tech history, and it wasn't as "one of the worst, most abusive tech barons".
Many of those people were called computers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

They were eventually replaced with ... computers.
> This process runs at 200C and 1 Bar (=0.98 ATM).

Let's not be misleadingly precise. It runs at 1 atmosphere.
Steam's refund policy is no question asked within 14 days and less than 2 hours of playtime.
I'm not generally one for expanding federal jurisdictional reach, but there's a much clearer federal connection for: internationally imported shipping containers leaving a federal port facility on a (primarily) federally regulated mode of transportation devoted (primarily) to interstate commerce... than there is for 90% of what legally gets classified today as federal jurisdiction.
I don't know how surprising it is, considering ease of use and "just works" beats all other considerations every time. If it didn't, we'd still all be using Novell.
Same. An editorialised title may have been preferable, but I understand the rules here generally don't allow that.
Most people?

(Though I'd say it's not about Aspergers or not, it's more like an anti-authority personality trait or not, in general).
Office 97 has autosave, which works quite nice, I'd say better than current Office but worse then Open/LibreOffice.
An Inside Look into Microsoft Rich Text Format and OLE Exploits (2020)
Seems he should have been given more time. These myths seem lukewarm. What about the facebook files from just a few months ago [1][2]. It's hard to get a sane feed these days, they force their feed algorithm down our throats.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_leak
Former Intel engineers made 3 generations of mining ASICs in their fab, under the name 21.co. The first generation was alright, the second generation was middling, and the third one was some absurd DRM chip which mined, but enforced mining incomes to be paid to them in part, and it never saw any market usage at all. They had some stupid plan of providing the chips for to free to consumer electronics manufacturers who would use the consumers power to mine for free to them, and the DRM would ensure that 21co got a kickback.

Their third chip was absolutely bonkers and could never have been profitable, it used expensive power delivery, packaging which couldn't be cooled except by individual pressure mounted heatsinks directly onto the die, and wasn't even particularly efficient versus the rest of the market. People estimated to me that they were in the order of $10+ just in packaging due to being a FCGBA.

Some details might not be completely correct there as it's based on leaked pitch decks and things, but that it was a third generation chip that included DRM is absolutely correct (they provided them as "development" hardware for some hair brained IOT thing so I literally have one).
Whether there is any value depends heavily on your application.

If your Apache is responsible for 0.1% of your costs then this is at most what you can save, even if Nginx was magically zero cost (like zero to install, maintain, zero computing resources, zero outages, zero hiring, zero project risks, etc.)

From my experience, most projects have way more important problems to solve and better opportunities to pursue than chase those very small improvements. Frequently it does not matter if one is 10 or even 100 times faster than the other.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28967354 178 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28873458 28 comments

Prior: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adma.202105...