skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is about time top executives will receive jail time for these kind of breaches.

I'm afraid jail time is not yet provided for in the GDPR.
Then how come I use both teams and zoom just fine under wayland?

Pipewire support is there for a long time now.
Painkillers That Don’t Kill – Science Connected
Write a breaking test for that XAML element to look like Mica in Windows design language.

Remember, no code without breaking test.
yeah, partitioning is very good at almost any level, with very few exceptions.
Sharding on other hand is pure tradeoff, I haven't looked into hard, but I guess 1 computer, where database sits, cannot have unlimited RAIDs of hard drives. So question is, should I push for 1 server only as long as possible, or when its better to shard between multiple?
Back in the start of the century I used to run two X servers. One with a Linux desktop (tried various stuff) and one with Nvidia's proprietary kernel module, purely to play games, and have any crashes not lock up my whole machine. It worked beautifully. Eventually I switched to the red side, and I stayed there as much as possible.
Fedora is the new Ubuntu [video]
Linphone if you mess with it.
Low-latency encoder are not exactly known for producing bit-efficient streams.

Their purpose is to dump the frame into compliant stream in least possible time, so the compliant decoder can decode it back. It doesn't concern itself with using less bits; if it does, it is nice, but not deal breaker.

So if the hardware encoders can produce VP9/HEVC/AV1 at roughly the same bit-budget, it doesn't make sense to use the more complicated one. It makes sense to use the one, where you do have to pay less fees, though.
I think one should always listen and seek out advice, but in the end always go with our own gut. As we gain experience, we will get better and better at filtering out which advice is better ignored and which should be implemented in some form.
Toward a quantum computer that calculates molecular energy
This is a respectable attempt at an answer (bar para 3 anyway) and exactly what I so rarely get. I just get shut down because "it's art" and you don't question it. It's art so it's beautiful, it's art so it's valuable. The angry grunt from people or the silent downvotes here is the usual, so I appreciate this answer, or an attempt at thereof

I don't agree with what you say but I do appreciate your trying. Not enough karma to upvote you so a simple thanks must suffice. I wish we had a chance to talk in person on this.
I think people with enough experience in software development know quite well if the code they are currently writing is going to be testable or not.
You can do something like this:

export interface OpaqueTag<UID> {
readonly __TAG__: UID;
}
export type WeakOpaque<T, UID> = T & OpaqueTag<UID>;

And then use it like this to create a newtype:

export type PublicKey = WeakOpaque<Uint8Array, {readonly PublicKey: unique symbol}>;

To create this newtype, you need to use unsafe casting (`as PublicKey`), but you can use a PublicKey directly in APIs where a Uint8Array is needed (thus "weak opaque").
> the whole world is utilising H.265 for everything else.

This is very hyerbolic. There's plenty of places that the HEVC licencing catastrophe stopped its use. The release of 3 more MPEG codecs that compete with it is not a good sign for example.
Both are right and both are wrong, that is the whole point with Linux Desktop since forever.

My anecdotes are also based on hardware bought with Linux pre-installed on them.

While System76 and Tuxedo are good options for technical users, the best buy audience will never get to them, at very best they will buy an Android or ChromeOS based device.
I don't know about moral arguments, but there is certainly a practical one for having 50% less potential criminals on the street.
Oh shit thanks, I didn't know
PSA: don't use linux.die.net. It's horribly outdated.
I've been using Fedora as my daily driver for some time now. It's very solid, no-worries and just-works.
This is just about the best justification I have heard for type calculus.
If the four center pads are GPIOs, then you can put a single 0.45mm via (0.2mm drill) in the middle of them and tie them together. That gives you one extra pad at least. I’ve done this before with JLCPCB’s regular process.
Are you sure you were using wayland firefox? It is not always apparent. Also, follow the sibling comment on hw acceleration.
Spinoffs have a long and sorry history in NASA advocacy. The problem is that advocates went from "NASA had some minor role in development of technology X" to "NASA is entirely responsible for technology X". One sees this over and over again, to the point of the claims being outright lies. "NASA gave us integrated circuits" is a great example.

Claims that space spending had a 8:1 (or 24:1, or whatever) payback via spinoffs have typically just assumed the spending has the same macroeconomic payoff of private R&D spending, which demonstrates absolutely nothing.

Without that contribution inflation, one has to somehow show that a particular technology would not exist without the putative spinoff contribution. And that's really difficult to do in most cases. Here, the military has had an interest in high power millimeter wave sources for a variety of reasons.

The argument remains, also, that if spinoffs are an inherent part of research, then it doesn't matter what the research is on, and so you get the highest payoff by funding research that makes sense via direct benefits, as the spinoffs come regardless. You'd need to argue that fusion is somehow better at producing spinoffs than other research. I find that likely; I suspect small scale research is more likely to provide spinoffs, as desktop technologies seem likely to have more applications.
I think the original title is less informative than the editorialized one. Is it link bait? Probably not.
see also https://telegra.ph/Vanced-Discontinuation-03-19
I agree with Android. I've been trying to get into it for the last 2 weeks now and it's such a mess and it feels really outdated and the flagship IDE leaves much to be desired. Very frustrating experience.
Nose was pointed down according to some security cam footage (unverified).

https://twitter.com/ChinaAvReview/status/1505834279275999236
It's not silly. The target market for GNOME is nobody (except maybe GNOME developers themselves).
> Nobody at Microsoft who has decision-making authority actually cares.

> Acknowledging this is the first step. The second is figuring out what would make them care or how to remove them so someone who does care can take over. That's a much harder thing to do.

There's the challenge.

Who cared about "hardware"? Jony Ive and Jobs perhaps?

Who cares about OS performance? Linus Torvalds. I'm sure there are MS insiders who we don't know.

Who cares about the desktop? .....

The funny thing is the desktop was a solved problem with the mother-of-all-demos, and everything else is sugar on top, and yet there has to be this continual awful rebranding. Ok we went from VGA, to HD, to 4k HDR, but the underlying design and UI doesn't have to change so poorly each time.
The Dangers of Sleep in Antiquity
Hot loading C WASM into the browser while preserving the state of the heap
I know I'll get downvoted again but here's my resolution for life: will never fly on a Boeing airplane again.

Edit: I know the statistics, I just get horrible fears in planes and Boeing is all over the news, hence me avoiding them. To each its own, I guess.
> Even if it is easy to spin up a container, seed a database inside that container and drop and recreate that database after every single test

You would create a container image with everything already prepared how it should be, and you destroy it after every run - that's already a lot faster than what you're proposing.
The GUI example:
1) Make the webdriver based test click a button which does not exists yet. The test will fail, you know that there is no other button which by chance matches this selector.
2) Add the button to the app, the test turns green,
3) you Continue to extend the test to click another botton, etc till it fails again

The Game example:
e2e tests for games probably do not make much sense (I've no experience here). So you will have components/unit tests. Those have a defined interface and behaviour. You want to change this, you change the test first like in any other project.

The Audio engine - what is an audio engine?
Of the three bridges over the Firth of Forth I'd say that the suspension bridge is by far the least attractive:

https://www.theforthbridges.org/

Also I believe the suspension bridge was replaced for most road traffic precisely because it is difficult to maintain the main suspension cables:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Road_Bridge#Structural_i...
If you mean “network transparency” (even though X isn’t it either unless you restrict yourself to xmotif. It pretty much sends bitmaps very often), then no, wayland isn’t network transparent. But it can use the litany of streaming protocols allowing for much better responsiveness.
The decisive factor in this case is the price - of the main board, and of the WiFi module.
Making money and caring about users are related, but there's definitely a difference between making a good product that people would like to use, and trying to make money. The latter may well make you rich, but it may make your product much worse, which you shore up with lots of salespeople and complex pricing schemes and dealmaking to keep people locked in.
Stayed on Win7 in hopes MS would get their sh*t figured out by now. Looks increasingly like my next PC will need to be Linux and some VM's.
You can if you use it from an up-to-date web browser (or if microsoft would use an up-to-date electron build as a base).
Decoding the Design of In-Flight Seat Belts (2018)
That matches the flight data posted from mlex reference:

Everything looks ok until:

6:19 AM UTC with the flight at 29100 ft (aprox 9 Km)

as of

6:22 AM UTC it's already at 9.000 ft (aprox 3 Km) dropping at vertical speed of -6,016 fpm

Excluding Terrorism, probably catastrophic Horizontal Stabilizer failure due to incorrect maintenance procedures.

Edit: Data available from past flights, shows this specific airplane in almost constant daily use, since at least Nov 2021. So it does not look like this was a flight after coming out of any recent major maintenance event.
Is there a Twitter client/URL without replies or comments?

The ratio of users who jump immediately to ill-founded conspiracies or equally useless/malignant/ideological commentary is astounding to me. I don't want to see/hear/know their thoughts---online or in person.
Good article, one remark, still.

> breaking from the legacy is hard for the sake of backwards compatibility

Generally yes, but in case of Windows the hard part of the problem is already solved. I think it was just the wrong priorities. Specifically, Windows SDK could do following things to enable new styles/controls/behavior:

1. Require new apps to call an API to switch to new stuff, like InitCommonControlsEx

2. Require new apps to include an XML manifest with some flag or version number, like they did with high DPI support

3. A nuclear option — implement new userland, write new apps against that one; NT kernel supports multiple subsystems at the same time, Win32 is one of them.
Next step, please don't call your variables ..._percent but interpret 0.5 as meaning 50% of the reference value.
Happened to a collegue, going to an art market.

They: how much?

Seller: 1000 USD

They: I give you 10 USD

Seller: Sold

Since there was no counter offer, the 10 was still way too high.
Hear Me While You Can
Recorded voice of nature from various natural forests and ocean
It's a really interesting video and I enjoyed it -- thank you. A nagging request would be the use of SI units throughout, but I suspect that is an en-us translation issue ;-). [For example, for others, 210 feet per second is about 64 m/s]

Something I might like to cheekily request -- at some point, the difference between v^2 = u^2 + 2as and what you observe will become really quite significant, and I suspect the Magnus effect on both the airsoft pellet will be quite significant. Could you do Schrilen photography and illustrate the air pressure changes at the same time relatively easily with your setup?
Two literary giants standing on the shoulders of other giants looking far into the future and seeing how history might repeat itself over and over again.
> Ok then keep your five month old at home (that's what you want me to say right)? And now you want to say "then keep your four year old at home"

No, I am just going to say that now we have vaccines and treatments for covid, so we should treat it like other diseases. We don't quarantine people with measles, even though it is way more lethal and more contagious than covid.
You are already bad at the javascript word.. just look up the gnome-shell code base, it uses js as a scripting language, nothing performant-oriented is implemented in it for God’s sake.

Is luascript the bottleneck of AAA games as well?
I'll downvote you for a poor grasp of statistics. Today a few thousand flights on Boeing equipment took off and landed safely around the world. One crash, without any news whether it's Boeing's fault, and you make up rules for the rest of your life.

To draw an equivalence, do you still breathe air with an airborne virus running amok?
The lack of serious consequences of doing harmful business is indeed one of the big issues we have got in western society imho.
Breaching human rights like privacy is just a risk trade-off where the company makes a cold calculation of weighted costs. Companies are well protected against individuals by means of juridical and financial power imbalance.

Fines are usually something to laugh at and well worth the cost. Even if not, the burden is on the company and not the executive.

We need to have a system where the current executives get jail time for these kind of crimes. This ensures that executives will only accept such a role when they are certain that the company is "clean", i.e. they wont risk jail time because of previous CEO's fuckups.
One reason you might negotiate directly is if you have a loyalty membership / status with the hotel chain — you probably don't want to book through a discount OTA (because, depending on chain, you may miss out on the benefits of your status), but you can absolutely negotiate the price by emailing the hotel directly, and keep your perks.
We need a system where you could only downvote you, if you could post proof of a recent flight on a Boeing. Easier to avoid if you are in Europe.
Curious, are you on a laptop?

If so, how much of a time investment was it to reach the point where you were no longer customising to reach parity with "batteries included" desktop environments (battery bar, sane sleep/wake-ups, volume control)? And how does it handle being plugged/unplugged from external monitors?

I have tried to switch to tiling WMs several times, but I have always found myself going back to Gnome as soon as it's a rabbit-hole of config files to do something "simple" like, adjust volume, or organise monitors. That is, features that are quite discoverable in standard DEs.
The language density isn't everything. The biggest benefit of Rust over C++ is the module/package system. if you can replace a 50 line utility with a crate (1 line of toml) that makes a big difference. You'd rarely add a library dependency in C++ to use a small utility function.
> Let's say from.. I don't know, 50 years ago. Taxes were increased such that social security is 2-3x what it is now. Some level which basically guarantees you have descent money for retirement. Sure you should still save some more over the years, but you won't be completely fucked.

Social security is, essentially, a de facto PAYGO system*. The issue with PAYGO is that you need a stable ratio of working aged taxpayers to retirees who draw income from the program. This is untenable with current US and OECD demographics, which is why countries that use PAYGO in part or in full are 1. raising retirement ages and 2. transitioning to a mixed model where income replacement comes as much as possible from savings and investments.

> In that situation, there is no way 150% of the GDP would be invested in retirement savings.

Retirement in the US is much more than social security. This figure includes pension plans, 401Ks, and IRAs. It's also a cumulative amount, so the annual input to grow the proverbial pot is significantly less than this.

However, if you were to take the expected outlays from this and, instead, fund them through direct taxes, you're likely looking at an additional 1.2T USD in social security taxes each year, which would more than double the social security tax rate. This looks remarkably similar to how much workers in countries that rely almost entirely on PAYGO programs currently pay. This is also with current demographics - the picture becomes significantly bleaker once you project out several more decades.

> I guess that just makes it a foreign concept- but most people in this country can't throw 10-20k a year into retirement funds. That's a massive part of most peoples income.

Other countries actually do require forced contributions into employer pension or invested retirement accounts. The idea being that, if you start early enough, you only have to contribute an small portion of your salary each year to replace a large percentage of your salary in retirement.

> The social security pot would be massive, instead of inflating the stock market.

Social security funds are actually invested. Government debt is an asset class and, as with everything else, a large amount of demand for an asset class has supply side repercussions. The same applies for private retirement investments. Also keep in mind that only portion of any good retirement plan will be invested in equities, and that pension plans are increasingly turning to alternative investments, such as private equity and real estate.

*The social security "pot" will be insufficient to cover expected outlays in a couple of years, which is why it's better to think of it as a PAYGO program.
That's what is usually confusing about mathematicians. They don't think using a depth-first tree going straight to the goal like someone from IT would, but rather go breadth-first, painting plenty of interesting concepts along the way, and chaining them seemingly aimlessly together until they crystalize right toward the right solution seemingly magically.

In his Physics Project Wolfram when talking about "Branchial space" is toying around the idea of recombining trees. Where one configuration of the state-space can be reached by various ways. This general concept of recombining trees has for example been used in generative flow networks https://yoshuabengio.org/2022/03/05/generative-flow-networks... where they use it to directly generate molecule graphs that have useful properties among the sea of useless ones.
Yes.

1984 and Brave New World - written by old Etonians and Oxbridge students (Blair and Huxley) - were imaginative works that were about setting goals for the ruling elite. A visionary guide for the governance administrators and an (unheeded) warning for the rest of us.
isn't all of this what they tried with UWP and WinRT ? It utterly failed. People want their useful win32 apps. Those are the only reason I boot on that OS once in a while.
I usually haggle on large purchases like home appliances or furniture. You can easily get a small discount, or free delivery.
>terminal velocity?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity
Wouldn't patches still be considered derivative work?
> no side taskbar

This is literally the first thing I do on a fresh install. What the hell were they thinking

> start menu further ruined

but whyyyyyyyyyyyy

I honestly never had a problem with Microsoft Windows over its UI decisions until Windows 8.

Windows up to and including Windows 7 were actually ok, because you could put the start menu on the side, switch to classic UI, turn off the graphical embellishments that your shit laptop didn't like, and so on.

Windows 8 became very tabletified, but with options to switch to classic UI, and Windows 10 is the same but arguably a bit more bizarre.

Neither UI was really consistent or knew what it wanted to be, and worst of all, the user can't decide what it should be.

But whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
You don't need a type system to do this. Generic operators/functions and composite structures are sufficient and more flexible. Some languages let you encode this in type systems as well, but that's an orthogonal feature.
European Lisp Symposium 2022 (Livestream)
It's still better than prison and as long as one lies low and doesn't organize protests it's quite a safe Soviet utopia. The issue is that Moldova's airspace remains closed, it has just opened today for international flights and all fligths to Kishinev go through the Romanian airspace. I doubt that Romania would pull a Lukashenka on Snowden, but who knows. Currently there is NATO presence in the sky 24/7 in Romania's North East close to the Moldovan and Ukrainian border. Also the future of the breakaway region remains uncertain, as they are highly dependent on Russian gas. Moldova too, but to a lesser extent. If the Ukrainians close or blow up the gas pipeline and then the self proclaimed PMR is at the mercy of the EU.

For these reasons it's probably safer for him in Azerbidjan but he will only be admitted for up to 90 days with a Russian passport. In Armenia he could stay for up to 180 days on a normal visa, but both Armenia and Georgia have extradited fugitives to the US in the past.

He doesn't have too many options.
You have misread the comment completely. The commenter isn't unhappy that they have to teach at all, in fact it appears that they are happy with that ("There is no shortage of people who want to do a good job teaching"). The issue is that they're forced to do far too much of it, and in this specific case grading hundreds of handwritten lab reports per week.
Yeah most of the gigs I’ve worked at where the big consultants have been involved have been all about the billable hours that the consultants can charge, and the internal managers who facilitate these transactions - in order to be able move to a cushy job in the same company, some months later.

It’s quite literally corrupt, but everyone seems to know and nothing gets done - because politicians are part of the revolving door. People like us who actually care about doing a good job are just cannon fodder.

Mostly I’ve just learned to avoid such projects like the plague. As a small enterprise software player, the best customers where those who still had skin in the game.
No, there was a shift.

The Win9x/ME (please read as DOS based) series of OS was intended for home users.

The NT/2K was intended for business users.

Only as an example most games at the time would not have run on NT/2K, and Win9x/Me was essentially single-user only.

For some reasons with XP the good MS guys decided to force down the throat of pro/business users (that were very, very, very happy about Windows 2000) the bells and whistles and graphics they didn't ask for and force down the throat of home users (that were very, very happy about Windows 98, not so much about ME [0]) the complexities of the NT, user access, permissions, NTFS, and other things that at the time made no sense whatever.

Basically they (the MS guys) unified the two branches into one and the result was (of course) a compromise.

[0] I know it is hard to say this, but ME, beside some quirks that there was no time to fix, was not as bad as it has been depicted, as a matter of fact the "best" bastard retro system you can make today is a Windows 98 with selected components of ME integrated/backported or a ME with some features of 98SE brought back, the failure of ME (not entirely unlike the later Vista one) was greatly induced (IMHO) by two factors, underpowered hardware and issues with drivers, both - if you want - essentially the responsibility of OEM's.