skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How difficult would it be to extend this to notable death notices? Scraping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2022, for example. And perhaps even alerting based on saved text strings.
Not sure why I am being downvoted for this - I just legitimately want to know how useful this is and if its worth paying for.....
The linked page does indeed include the videos (if that’s what you’re asking). Scroll down a bit.
Seems like a signal for 2 things:

- Pressure from stockholders for Apple to find more avenues for recurring revenue

- Price of iPhones is going to go up even further, and "subscriptions" are a convenient way to mask the full increase.

Wouldn't be surprised if we are seeing "ad-supported" iPhones (like Kindle tablets have done for years), what with Apple becoming a 'services' company.
OpenWebDocs is focused on MDN/CanIUse browser compatability data AND MDN content. Many people who used to work for moz on MDN now work with them. OpenWebDocs.org
I tried to explain to a previous employer how much their little "brainteaser" test was turn off to legitimately talented engineers. I explained that everybody in town knows about the test and basically refuses to even entertain the company because of it.

Bear in mind this is a place building relatively simple web apps... standard line of business stuff. The test was questions like "how many words can you unscramble from these letters" etc.

A majority of the engineers felt the test meant you "knew you were working with smart people". A majority of the code was unmaintainable sludge. (though a few people were extremely talented)

I no longer work there.
Airflow have design issue and performance issue, If you want to have some details, you can find some reason on this article: https://kestra.io/blogs/2022-02-22-leroy-merlin-usage-kestra....

For other workflow engine (dagster, prefect, ...), we decided to use a complete different approach on how to build a pipeline. Since others decide to use python code, we decided to go to descriptive language (like terraform for example). This have a lot of advantages on how the developer user experience is: With Kestra, you can directly the web UI in order to edit, create and run your flows, no need to install anything on the user desktop and no need a complex deployment pipeline in order to test on final instance. Other advantage is that it allow to use terraform to deploy your flows, typical development workflow are: on development environment, use the UI, on production deploy your resource with terraform, flow and all the others cloud resource.

After, it will be really nice to have some independent performance benchmark. I really think Kestra is really fast since it was based on a queue system (Kafka) and not a Database. Since workflow are only events (change status, new tasks, ...) that is need to be consume by different service, database don't seems to be a good choice and my benchmark show that Kestra is able to handle a lot of concurrent tasks without using a lot of CPU.
Looks like if you do pay market rates, you still get execs running a company into the ground. The high salary comes with the expectation of results.
Some people seem to forget that in high-level programming languages, lines of code seldom map 1-to-1 to processor instructions.
you can only stuff about a mil into a briefcase, rich people won't handcuff themselves to a measly mil
Also the book "The Invincible" by Stanisław Lem tells a story about distributed intelligent lifeforms.
Really nice as they are described in a very unique un-anthropocentric way, i.e. their rationality is hardly understandable by the space faring humans encountering them.
I don't buy this argument. It's the same argument used for "Well the Democrats can't talk about/attempt doing X because the Republicans will misrepresent it and twist their words" when at the end of the day the Republicans will manufacture whatever they want regardless of what the Democrats say. Better to be called a "socialist" while actively trying to do something that will help people verses still being called a "socialist" while doing nothing.

Kremlin is going to Kremlin, aka lie and spread propaganda. Let's not pretend that protestware is making their job so much easier, it's a tiny drop in a tsunami of lies and disinformation that the Kremlin puts out daily.
Rethinking Infosec for the Web3 Era
The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism (2014)
I am functioning at a certain level, but I am certainly not proud of the level I am at. It is not a matter of accepting my quirks, it is that I wish to understand them as well.
"GitLab for Open Source" is a program that requires an application as well as occasional renewal.

So, all the open source projects who choose not to do that for various reasons, small teams and businesses, hobbyist projects like hackathons which generally have more than 5 people to a team.

You know, just off the top of my head.
> It clearly means that, _other than paying taxes like everyone else in the free world_ I do not have to pay for it.

So, other than paying for it, I don’t have to pay for it?

Again, I find this sort of comment confusing.

> This is at the same level as finding a free penny on the street and going "No, but hang on, _someone_ paid to mint this penny so I am extremely confused as to why you would say this penny is free?!"

I think it’s closer to calling the food in the refrigerator at my house “free”. Or calling repairs at the auto shop “free” when the insurance company (who I pay) pays the shop.
Maybe possible? Not supported, don’t do this, lots of room for misconfiguration.

I haven’t touched Tails in years, but they used to have a pretty exotic network stack. I wouldn’t want to try to make that work with VMs.
funny i am the exact opposite, always disappointed when the bag of carrots I bought is full of skinny little guys. so much more chopping to get the same amount of carrot!
Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting (2020)
Same, we have 50 people who access some (private) documentation and 10 people who use the repos. We're going to be moving away tomorrow.
Well, I think that's being hypersensitive.

[Edit] I don't mean you, rsynnott.

My father fought for the British Army in Malaya. I'm not campaigning for the suppression of information about the crimes the brits committed there.

Among my ancestors are people who were in the cotton business, in Liverpool; the ships went from Liverpool (manufactured goods) to the Gold Coast of Africa (sell goods, pick up slaves) to American colonies (sell slaves, buy cotton), and back to Liverpool. I'm not campaigning to block that information either.
> Game mods often can't be open source as you don't have copyright on the original game files.

Don't most game mods simply patch the executable if there's no mod framework available? I would think that the patch engine and specific patches aren't violating the original game's copyright, simply because they wouldn't contain any of the game's assets or code (aside from maybe memory addresses and executable names for hooking)
That also was my question. The wikipedia article on the format addresses it in the second paragraph

> "a.out" remains the default output file name for executables created by certain compilers and linkers when no output name is specified, even though the created files actually are not in the a.out format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.out
How on earth can x ray cost $69,210.32? Here in Finland it costs something like 20 € (well, I know that's not the true cost, but still).
> Seems like a simple UX bug that could be fixed if you send the developers a bug report.

Something tells me that they don't want to actually fix anything and are just virtue signalling on HN.
Stickied at the top of this Reddit thread is a “Pros and Cons” list to a rival “stablecoin”.

Crytpo-fanatics will never learn.
> We are Re-inventing roads to solve global problems. At Carbon Crusher, we are committed to help solve climate change, making a positive impact on our planet.

> Our proprietary built Crusher

Why is "proprietary" important ?
This only works for western music
I am having a hell of a time adjusting to a streaming-focused music world. On one hand, I love having access to pretty much all the music I want, and have discovered a lot of new artists (through no help of the apps themselves, however). On the other hand, having my library randomly switch on me with songs disappearing, album covers swapping out or renamed is driving me NUTS.

Not to mention the general buggyness that's on iOS Music. I feel like maybe it's just me because people generally enjoy it, but the app is a pretty terrible experience overall (Slow, buggy, messy). It sometimes refuses to play a song! Maybe I'm just getting old.

I'm on a family plan where the cost per person is negligible, so I can deal with it most of the time, but I do sometimes miss the ipod days.
I agree with that but I see 90% of the time people just complaining about the high salaries. As much as those salaries may seem ridiculous the Bay Area is a very competitive place and I do not see many competent execs taking a massive downgrade in compensation just because they may believe in Firefox on principal.

That being said poor performance is for sure something to criticize on - although to be fair we are talking about competing with some of the largest and most entrenched companies on earth - not an easy job.
i can't seem to find the book by that title by that author.
I did find a book by that title but its 800 something pages long and don't think its the title you referred to.
do you mind providing a link?
My wife’s parents are from São Jorge, and they still have a bunch of family there.

According to them you cannot actually feel the tremors. They all live on the central south coast or eastern tip of the island, and the tremors are happening on the western half, but it’s not a terribly big place.

Hopefully this will turn out to be nothing and will just stop, but it must be very odd to have the potential of a sudden disaster unfolding, yet it seems like just another quiet day on a quiet island.
No gratitude? Maybe just in a different form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVp7i6Qf9T8

My friend who works at a nurse also had a pizza party too :/
I think you are reversing causality here. No doubt the EU could have seen similar numbers of refugees from Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan, had they allowed them in.
I enjoy these hypothetical what if's and am really rooting for Zelensky. My guess is there are quite a couple of candidates that if they're not murdered in all this would be in a good position to step up. E.g. Navalny, or even exiled people like Mikhail Khodorkovsky (aka Citizen K). The scary thing is that a power vacuum after Putin is like rolling the dice which might as well usher in the next dictator. Russia after Putin needs to be managed like Nazi Germany was managed by the allies post WWII. With army bases all over Russia to ensure a gradual adoption of rule of law. China will be pissed but that's the only chance to secure long term peace. But before any of this happens I fear things will need to become a lot worse to justify such a step. (e.g. wide scale use of chemical or nuclear weapons and RU invading other countries like the Baltics, Moldova, Poland etc).

guess all of this is spitballing because war turns any future unpredictable.
Mozilla laid off most of the MDN team in 2020 [1], then shifted the responsibility of updating MDN from Mozilla to the community [2], then created the Open Web Docs organization to take over the job of funding MDN [3].

And _now_ they come asking us to pay for MDN? I am not optimistic about this.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132494
[2]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/12/welcome-yari-mdn-web-docs-...
[3]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/01/welcoming-open-web-docs-to...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hope you enjoyed the link regardless
In most cases the choice is not between an Electron app and an (imaginary) "good" app. The choice is between an Electron app and no app at all.
> I think we should expect this kind of thing from teenagers: there's a certain level of out of the box thinking and risk to reward inversion that comes from youth. Brazen solicitation of associates / operatives on public forums is certainly unique, and not a tactic which most other actors would pursue due to the risk involved.

Reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game

Hoping to earn himself expulsion from the school for his ruthlessness, he sacrifices his entire fleet to fire a Molecular Disruption Device at the planet. The Device completely destroys the planet and the surrounding bugger fleet. He is shocked to hear the I.F. commanders cheering in celebration. Mazer informs Ender that the "simulations" he has been fighting were real battles, directing human spacecraft against Formic fleets via an ansible's instantaneous communication, and that Ender has won the war.
Yes, an alternative answer to OPs question is that, literally, desktop apps do exist. I don't think they literally thought desktop apps don't exist, though.
Show HN: Postgres.js – Fastest Full-Featured PostgreSQL Client for Node and Deno
Ask HN: Why did Google kill Google Now Snapshot(Cards)?
I used to love the cards in google now but after burying it, google has finally decided to retire it completely. WHY?

I came up with three guesses but none of them make any real sense:
- Traffic was dropping from their apps.
- Encourage more voice engagement
- Hide how much google actually knows about you

This was truly the only user-centric product I have ever used.

If you don't know what I am talking about here is the launch blog: https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/stay-top-your-day-proactive-help-your-assistant/
Getting off topic, but I imagine TSA might inhibit travel enough that the real net impact to business would counterbalance any new TSA jobs.

And it is funny that we’re not talking about security. This is a good example lol
Battling that trumpet since 1994, but here we are, with enough systems still using bare bones C.
It's a second factor, not first. This is fine.
I use it occasionally, it tends to be my app of choice when I need to modify a MySQL database directly.
Yes, but do they also back the far left? That is, are they simply sowing division and civil disunity, or are they preferring to tilt things one direction?
Aww I really miss Aaron. I used to be angry but now I'm just sad.
He has a safety tie
Hi everyone.
A bit more than two years ago I released the first version of Postgres.js. A fully featured PostgreSQL driver for Node.js written as a learning experience out of curiosity and annoyance with the current options.
It greatly outperformed the alternatives[1] using pipelining and prepared statements, while providing a much better development experience safe from SQL injections. Since then I've been busy building things using it, now running in production, and although quite delayed I'm so happy to release a new major today with some really exciting new features:

1. Realtime subscribe to changes through Logical Replication [2]

It's now possible to use logical replication to subscribe in realtime to any changes in your database with a simple api like `sql.subscribe('insert:events', row => ...)`. Inspired from Supabase Realtime you can now have it yourself in Node.

2. A Safe Dynamic Query Builder

Nesting the sql`` tagged template literal function allows building highly dynamic queries while staying safe and using parameterized queries at the same time.

3. Multi-host connection URLs for High Availability support

It's really nice to be able to quickly spin up a High Availability Postgres setup using pg_auto_failover[3] and connect using Postgres.js with automatic failover and almost 0 downtime.

4. Deno support

It also works with Deno now, completing all tests except a few SSL specific ones which requires fixes in Deno.

5. And much more

Large object support, efficient connection handling for large scale use, cancellation of requests, Typescript suport, async cursors.

[1] https://github.com/porsager/postgres-benchmarks#results

[2] https://github.com/porsager/postgres#realtime-subscribe

[3] https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover
hopefully they do. guess the bitter pill is that the work for this needs to be done at home (not in Russia or UA).
Lots of people hate their jobs.

In the case of being a writer, having some sort of PR output (like a website) is part of managing your brand or whatever I guess. Of course it isn't mandatory, but I bet people have done things they hated more for money.
So the artists themselves saw some of this growth, too... right?
Papa, Believe
Remember when the stated goal of the shit load of money they got was to open knowledge to everyone?

Now they will do whatever to be a business!
But a lot of that is the cost of concentrated solar.

On the PV side, batteries are not known for being especially cheap. Lazard puts the wholesale cost of PV plus four hours storage at 8 to 14 cents/kWh, as of 2020: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

And four hours storage is just what you need to shift peak daytime sun to peak evening demand. You need more to get through a windless night. To cover reduced supply on cloudy winter days you need some combination of overcapacity and long-duration storage, which typically involves some kind of turbine.
Steve Jobs is dead, and Apple's primary responsibility is to its shareholders, not its users. Subtly and pervasively hamstringing PWAs doesn't protect users. What would it even be protecting them from? PWAs that work well offline? No, it just coerces developers into writing native apps and distributing them through Apple's App Store instead.
We got to put army bases all over Germany because we conquered Germany. We're not likely to do that to Russia, especially without bleeding a lot.
It's not just corruption, it is an idea that seems very correct, but which is subtly wrong.

Take a substance like chlorine. It is put into municipal drinking water because it kills things - things that can kill us or harm us. It is credited with making municipal water a lot safer.

It has been shown to be safe and effective for most people.

The key is most people. Some people, at the edges of the bell curve, cannot tolerate chlorine. If they drink water with it, or bathe in water with it, it harms them. I have family members who have this sensitivity. Since moving to a place with well water, their health has improved immensely.

If you were to be guided only by studies that show the safety and effectiveness of the chlorine treatment, then you could overlook the fact that some people are outliers.

Evidence based medicine will guide you to things that will work for most people in a given situation. However, for a specific patient, you may need to depart from that evidence.

Limiting doctors to only evidence based approaches prevents them from treating specific patients.
And then the compiled code is doing something under the hood to do whatever the language thought it said.

And then the cpu is doing something under the hood to do whatever the assembly code thought it said.
Thanks! We are very excited turning roads into a part of the climate solution. Road construction and refurbishment is a very conservative industry and unfortunately they often want to stick to the way they've done things before. But we're working on disrupting this leveraging YC, cool green climate tech and documentation from our long track record!

There are huge amounts of lignin in the world which is the base for our current binder. With our current producer volumes and without leveraging synthetic bio we can reach USD 2bn in yearly global revenue.
If we were to leverage all the current lignin supply in the world we could Carbon Crush 1.5million miles of roads every year.
How 'bout if I go one commit back, and get what they wanted to give me for free one commit ago?

Anyway, if we ignore for now the circularity of that definition of "professional" and take it at face value, then swapping out your open-source docs for a political message would fail the definition of professional, not just based on the "earn a living" part, but also on the "specified professional activity" part. Assuming we're using their repo because it's, like, for programming computers and shit, we might be surprised to find out they had changed their profession from computer-programmer and computer-program-explainer, to worked-up self-important opinion-haver. Which even fewer people would pay money for, by the way.
If you put the constraint that an 'x' set of connections on a square board is not allowed -

ox
x.

So that 'o' is prohibited from playing in the empty spot there because 'x' already has a connection - you get the game Crossway - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30517/crossway // http://superdupergames.org/gameinfo.html?game=cross // http://www.marksteeregames.com/Crossway_rules.pdf
I don't really care about Thorium that much. A Uranium Fast Breeder can be almost as economical and is more achievable in the short term.

The most important is to get a molten salt cooled or molten salt fueled reactor licensed.

The problem with all these projects is that they are either government driven and then the resources are very devised and 99% of the time it will not be commercial. Or its semi commercial and then those companies have huge issues with financing.

The closest thing to a molten salt reactor that might actually be commercial (with an actual operational license) in the Western world will almost certainty come from Canada. Canada after their Candu project was sold commercially looked for a next generation project.

They have a very well respected regulator that is fully committed to actually supporting next generation designs and have implemented a process that actually makes it practically possible to get to a real commercial reactor.

See: https://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/reactors/power-plants/pre-li...

Terrestrial Energy is the closest in actually passing Phase 2. They hope to complete it this year.
GIF89a left some things undefined (larger than 256 color palettes, timing 0 frames, partial frames, etc), so while the text of 89a is fixed, modern GIF decoders handle s superset of GIF files, just like modern CSV files.

Also GIF89a supported embedded text to be drawn, which is not implemented in any modern decoder I am aware of. Web browsers certainly don't support it. So GIF89a is not technically still in use - we're using a more recent, less standardized flavor.

If I recall, there are other things like this related to modern GIF versus old GIF89a gifs - I ran into a lot of this working on hiding information in GIF file encoding choices (not in the images or file, but simply in choices made by the encoder). Then I scanned zillions of online GIFs to see if someone else had done this, and kept finding weird edge cases in GIF89a.

I think there are also many currently used GIF extension blocks that are in use that were not in the GIF89a spec. I'll see if I can find a list and dates they appeared (remember, GIF89a allowed anyone to add extensions to the format, and many companies did). MIDI is one type of extension block that was once embedded in GIFs by some vendors. PCM audio is another block that appears in some GIFs (so would these not count as GIF format being modified later?)

So even GIF89a is not exactly the same :)

MIDI, v1.0, still works and reads just fine. And it's still widely used (likely the most common flavor of MIDI in use).

Current readers read ancient CVS files just fine, so there are modern behaviors, but the original file format is still also in use.

The tar format in use was made a POSIX standard in 1988, older than GIF89a. The extended formats do not have .tar extensions.

TROFF seems to use the exact same file format it did in 1973: https://troff.org/history.html. The extensions you mention are making it have different output formats, ore making a new version to process the same file format but with code under different legal provenance.
I'm afraid I don't see the difference. Can you clarify?