skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would the web have survived as a "popular" destination without EME?

I imagine that the w3c saw that large corporations had most of the attention of most netizens. Those large content producers/distributers want DRM. Did the w3c fear that if they hadn't accepted EME, most of those netizens would move off the web and onto the native apps which the video streaming companies would, inevitably, have produced?

I say "inevitably" because most of them stream to native and web anyway these days, and in many cases the native apps are wrappers around HTML5 players. In a way, the w3c's acceptance of EME allowed its reach to extend to more devices, where if they hadn't taken EME on the web may have shrunk.

(I'm kinda just thinking out loud here. Sorry for the rambling)
You're guilty of the sins of conflating orthogonal resources, aggravated by the fact one is a hugely overused proprietary, expensive and absolutely unrelated service, so the downvotes were definitely expected. Then even worse, you're editing posts to complain. Whoever may be contacting you though, here's my fuck you to them.
I think there was a service that operated similarly, for the sake of offering content filtering for parents. They were sued and shut down.

In general, DVD/BD streaming over the Internet would require breaking the DRM, which is a big no-no.
AWS gives you free resources to start with. They just aren't capped, so you could bankrupt yourself. They also seem to be good about fixing honest mistakes, but it's scary and long.
This was my thought, too. In reality, client side rendering today is “cheap” because you typically put a CDN in front of your application to serve static resources and scripts, and your backend only serves the API requests (if needed). Rendering everything on the backend means by contrast that you’re limited to the capacity of your server and the latency based on where it’s located.
No he's not. Most people don't find blade runner entertaining. HN is not in any way representative of the general audience.

Actually statistically speaking he's part of the majority.
Maybe to hot a topic in recent climate observations, but surprised nobody has really commented on this. Noting that my personal belief constructs / persuasions of the world are are not the usual on HN, comedy is something of a passive obsession both in litmus test of how healthy we may be as a culture, and also a student of the craft myself (again, in passing - but sharp wit, helps me avoid coming off snarky in my day to day interactions).

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel comes to mind and with the main character and Lenny Bruce modeling after Joan Rivers in real life - the offensive joke, is often one of just brutality with words that cuts like a tectonic start-up's disruption - deep, narrow, and disruptive to the very industry they are pointed at.

I guess without adding much beyond that - comedy is being eroded by a lot of things, without regard for its importance to all of us. I wish it wasn't that way, and maybe that's why I'm even on this post.

Like excellent tech that doesn't survive the eons by brilliant engineers in their craft, so are the comedians / pundits of just one generation behind us.

In most recent memory if anyone want's a YouTube watch - go checkout the roasting / celebration of John Stewart and his receipt of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain prize for American Humor. Last of his kind, we may never see someone like John Stewart in the circles of comedy in the future - much like we don't see great politicians of yesterday.
I have a question that wasn't answered on the blog, and might be silly for me to ask. Is SQLite running in WAL mode or not? I usually found that WAL mode usually allows better performance even in read-heavy workloads as it doesn't need to exclusively lock the database each time.

Otherwise, the post is a nice reminder for SQLite users that foresee a database switch to use the newly-introduced strict mode.
That's a problem with the SSD's controller. Wearing out in principle should only render cells read-only. But some SSDs are more aggressive.
I don't see choward's comment as offensive/threatened.

They are legitimately asking how the comparison works. You are comparing a web framework and a Cloud Serverless runtime, which is a bit odd. Maybe you didn't have context on Fresh/Deno, but that doesn't mean they are "threatened by the mere question."

I don't agree with the downvote brigading you're receiving but when someone poses a question like this in neutral language, reacting in this way certainly isn't going to help the situation.
Why not use Debug.Trace?
"1. Finish the last 10–20% of a project"

This isn't getting stuck, the "last 20%" of a project takes 80% of the time. This is when you start to get the REAL requirements.
Is it just me or was testing done with only four concurrent clients? In a mostly read only environment?

Wouldn't moving to a static site generator been a better direction in that case?

If you're maxing out at four people reading your blog, I can't imagine more infrastructure is better.
W3C is jointly hosted by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the United States, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France, Keio University in Japan and Beihang University in China.

Beihang University spends roughly 60% of its research budget on defense research (https://www.aspi.org.au/report/china-defence-universities-tr...). The People's Republic of China has done everything it can to shut down the open Web (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/chinas-global-reach-su...) while turning digital platforms, communications networks, and other technologies into tools of mass control and surveillance. Why is Beihang involved in hosting the W3C?
This is a foolish waste of time.
Star wars is a masterpiece. You just need to look at the aftermath of what it did to the cultural landscape. By far more influential then blade runner.

Star wars is definitely lower brow entertainment then blade runner but there's no denying the fact that it is far more influential.
Right, but, no, that should not be allowed.
You had me for a sentence. Shakespeare is the very essence of "public domain."

But then you lost me at the 2nd sentence.

Who TF cares what "high art" was then? Or who the groundlings at the Globe were? They apparently had better taste than the people at court. Not the first time.

In the early days of rock 'n' roll or blues or rap or hip-hop or jazz (etc.) only lower-status people were into it.

And your "theory" about Ben Jonson (not "Johnson") has been debated (and debunked) for literally centuries, along with several other possibilities. Are you just now discovering it?

People in every culture of the world always have and continue to love Shakespeare's plays. At the same time, there are children who can't be torn away from their Harry Potter books. If they read at all.
If there were hard limits, that would also mean that the billing system is on the critical path for all systems, and not just an after-the-fact ETL.
I feel it's a lot like the Java enterprise world of FactoryFactoryFactory-classes - a col league coined the term "horizontal abstraction" for this type of trend; you never build a pyramid/hierarchy that composes truly higher level/abstract reasoning - you just complect in various constructs - that all keep hold of most of the complexity from the level "below".

So you get to write 30-40 lines of yaml for each of your ten slightly different services...
> But in both countries it’s still technically illegal.

It would be nonsensical for activists in Japan to spend time advocating that abortion become technically legal without regard to practical situations where it could be performed.

This is essentialist reasoning ascribing some kind of soul to the law, which feels out of character for you. I suppose you could argue that sodomy is
'technically illegal' in many states, but that Lawrence & Baker carved out situations where it is tolerated.

Does the technicality of being prosecuted for non-consensual act of sodomy vs. an explicit sexual assault crime actually mean anything to the perpetrator if the penalty is the same?

> And which side “represents less than a plurality of voters?”
Party affiliation and political ideology are far from an exact match. That's why there are a handful of Republican governors posturing to uphold abortion rights.

Abortion is often a singular issue for pro-life advocates, who have had a particular motivation to mobilize built up over the past half-century. I personally have met a handful of people who hated everything about the Republican platform except for its stance on abortion, and that was the sole issue that decided their vote. Polarization has progressed to the point that there's only one

The pro-choice movement doesn't have the same fervor at this point, and I think a backlash is not going to be rapid due to a combination of:
- those who are pro-choice but happy to rationalize that it's now a state level issue and that the reversal of Roe v Wade was simply the correction of improper judicial activism.
- defeatist stances by those who feel disenfranchised and that voting is ineffective, particularly when done strategically to 'win' instead of based on a hard ideal
- those who would vote for abortion rights if a ballot was set in front of them but who personally find abortion repugnant or deserving of severe restriction
ML methods and statistics are routinely used in genomics research.

Luckily, the experimentation with the human genome is largely forbidden.

The consequences of unbridled changes in genetic sequences include truly disastrous scenarios. I thought COVID would be a clear illustration that everyone gets but apparently this is not the case.
And you just prove his point:

There won't be any middle ground since you already think fetuses are not "human beings" .

Let's not use religion and go with science. Which biologist, scientist, or doctor is willing to acknowledge and let alone prove that a fetus (unborn human per oxford dictionary) is not human? Take in consideration that the whole scientific community has to acknowledge these assumptions after lots of tests, etc...

Even news outlets are broadcasting women who are saying "hookup culture would be decimated" meaning they are using abortions as birth control.

There's no angle (scientific vor otherwise) to defend abortions other than convenience and lack of accountability.

R vs. W literally hands on the vote to states. California, NY, etc... won't change their policies.
Microsoft Money Sunset Edition still works. I can still download all my credit card statements in OFX (MS Money format). I use it weekly and have nearly 20 years of transaction history stored there.

I have no idea what I'll do if it ever stops working.

The killer feature I would switch instantly for is a way to automatically set part ownership of a joint account. I want to download credit card transactions and mark them as being 1/2 mine, so it doesn't throw off my budget tracking.

This feature does not exist in any financial software, sadly.
Yes, but the templates are written in JSX. No quoting nightmares, nesting is a breeze, the server side APIs speak like the browser ones, and it's really fast. With deno.dev hosting on the edge, it's server side like php, but way better. I used to like WordPress, now I love Deno.
Interesting I find stickers pointless; prefer a shirt that I can use as pajamas or a tea mug.
Postgres doesn't require a _dedicated_ server. If your requirements allow for SQLite but it didn't exist, you could conceivably run postgres on your app server to reduce the ops load if you really felt it was a significant effort.

If you might want to use multiple app instances connected to a shared DB, I would say it's probably easier to just use a local postgres container for dev and a managed cloud DB. Really not that much effort and you get automatic backups.

If you plan to never use a shared DB, SQLite is great though.
The choice of CPU appears to be some kind of deranged Euro-mysticism, as if making a portable in Germany with a Dutch CPU will somehow improve their privacy.
Line art is e-ink's strength, which is why it's featured so often in adverts or boot / sleep screens. Durer's rhinocerous is phenomenal on a high-quality, large e-ink display.

Most photography would benefit by being run through a halftone filter. That's default in "Regal" mode, though "Normal" (highest-quality) mode doesn't do this, and the result is a somewhat posterised image (16-shade greyscale on my Onyx BOOX Max Lumi). Dithering would be another option, and might work.

Onyx's most recent image update (as of a couple of days ago) has some improvements in image display which apply to its book reader (NeoReader), and seem to be an improvement.

Video should be presented at A2 or X mode. Though quite honestly, animation and e-ink are usually a mistake. As jarring and distracting as animation is on an emissive screen, it's pure anger-fuel on E-ink.
Ask HN: After KeyBase buyout by Zoom what do you use?
I have not been keeping up with the latest chat applications, I really enjoyed KeyBase and was really, really hoping they would release @keybase emails next, with paid storage, and become yet another encrypted email option.

I have not seen much from them since the buyout in their blog, I can only assume it is basically abandonware at this point. It would be nice if they open sourced more of their infrastructure.
My strategy is simple: I just walk to the person's desk, have a chat and kindly ask if he can help me. Health point : I walk. Social point: you get to understand the person better and feel if he/she's under pressure.

It doesn't scale. But I work only with people I need to meet.

Customer is different. I'll pick the phone more often than not.

Yeah, meeting people is more stressful than sending emails. But in the end, it gets better.
> That said, I'm pretty sure the Haskell runtime is very complex, so it might still be the wrong language.

While the Haskell RTS as a whole is a big (and marvelous) piece of engineering, it is not actually necessary to understand all of it to contribute some smaller patches.

The RTS is written in fairly readable and clean C code and it is possible to make local changes to e.g. the memory allocator without having to touch code in lots of different places.
Thanks. Scar tissue sometimes breeds insight. In further conversation on this phenomenon, I would argue that "long lived databases" are not so as result of brilliant design. Rather, it happens because the database itself is neglected and largely misunderstood, and gets less investment. And they live on and on...managers come and go...no investment. And then, years later, some poor bastard is stuck with a hideous mess that can't go anywhere. Don't let this happen to you.
No one else is responsible for your bad life decisions.
Please name the company.
Eh, sometimes the predecessor is me, the fact that a large refactor remains between me and the end goal is still a blocker.
BookStack – open-source, self-hosted, for organizing and storing information
Most startups don't have significant sums to spend to convince consumers that they want or need a product. Unless yours does, there's no way to succeed other than to make something people want today.
Those have no bearing on the autonomy of the donor. The ethicalness of declining to donate isn't contingent on support of medical professionals nor the concept of active or passive action.

What does supervene on the ethicalness of the action is autonomy. Bodily autonomy gives a donor the right to back away at the last minute, not the concept of passive action or medical support. I'm not disagreeing that those exist, but they don't lay the foundation for the ethicalness of the action - bodily autonomy does. No one, not even the government, has more say over one's body than oneself.
>Luckily, the experimentation with the human genome is largely forbidden.

That taboo will certainly never be broken!
I dunno. It's not a perfect language but it's sufficient. The bar is pretty low.

Type classes were first proposed around 1989 and Haskell adopted them early on. They made parametric polymorphism tractable. C++ finally adopted Concepts in C++20.

There's literally cruft in any useful language that has been around long enough. Keep searching for that diamond though. It's out there somewhere.
One issue is there’s no active signal of current load on your communications partner.

If I’m visibly on the phone or you get a busy signal, you know I’m tied up. If you fire off an email, you can’t know if yours is one of two or one of two-thousand emails I have to process.

If I’m overloaded, there are emails that I won’t get to, pretty nearly by the definition of overloaded. If I’m overloaded and you have no signal of that, it’s not likely to go well for our communications, but doesn’t (necessarily) mean that I devalue your time.
Something like remind us (too indirect? general case?), or better settle up (like, settle a bill).

Or something like that, a bit more equally balanced (even if the obligation may not be), rather than final notice from the debt collectors :) Because that's the point, right? A gentle but firm hint?
>Not really, that's the point.

It is so long as you define a human as having a certain level of brain activity.

>Severe mental disabilities such as completely missing brain?

I mean severe autism or something like that.

>Because otherwise you'll arrive at conclusion that a hydatidiform mole (look, I'm repeating this exact keyword for the fourth time here as a gentle suggestion for you to type it into Wikipedia) is a human.

I looked into it a bit.

First, it is quite dangerous for the woman so removing it would be acceptable in every state. I don't have an issue with this.

Second, some of the situations there is no embryo tissue. I don't have a problem calling it dead in this case.

Third, I am not sure about a partial one. I think it is a malformed human, but I am not really knowledgeable about this. Just because somebody has a chromosomal issue doesn't mean they are not human. Down syndrome people have chromosomal issues but are still humans. Just because there is a difference in viable doesn't change the humanness of the person. You may have justification to remove it from the uterus to protect the mother though.
World Map Origin – How Did Cartographers Create Before Airplanes and Satellites
It’s difficult to accept the results without looking at the query plans to see how the queries are running and if they are optimal. Seems like it’s just a straight dump of data into PostgreSQL and letting SQLAlchemy handle some queries and indexes but no analysis of the indexes at all.

Could be able to squeeze more perf out of both SQLite and PostgreSQL.
The Goodwood estate holds another event later in the year, it's a retro vintage weekend at the racing circuit called Goodwood Revival. They race priceless vintage cars and most of them are raced very hard and occasionally some do crash.

Have a look on photo / video sites for "goodwood revival crashes" to get an idea. It's a fantastic weekend and seeing these old classics doing what they were designed for is wonderful.
This is 100% correct. This is a dashboard application that is mostly read-only for users. There is a cron job that imports and writes new data once per day.
Disney Patents Mobile Robot Locker to Carry Guests' Items at Theme Parks
ScaleUp Healthcare – your digital health toolkit
Refusing to spec it would have just given us another two decades of Flash-equivalent hell. Developers want features, and you can either provide a road-map for making them cross-compatible and specified or you can refrain from doing so (at which point developers will do whatever, and then some private company will provide a closed-source solution, every browser will support it because it provides a service end-users want, and instead of any piece of the story being open the whole story will be closed and it'll be a quarter century before something standardized replaces it well enough to uproot the de-facto closed standard).
Is this still up-to-date? Wasn't VISTA replaced by a COTS product by Cerner? And isn't EPIC implemented in Caché and its Object Script (i.e. not in M)?
>> Why? To someone who thinks abortion is the murder of babies, what you advocate is priority inversion error.

> Except that (virtually) nobody on the right truly believes that it's full fledged baby murder. They believe it's bad, but clearly, from their response, it's not anywhere near as bad as that.

So? That doesn't affect my point at all. They don't have to think abortion is "full fledged baby murder" for what was advocated up-thread to be a priority inversion error. They just have to think of it as being more wrong than whatever persuasion tactics the "counseling clinics" use. Given that all but the most extreme persuasion tactics themselves typically rate from "not wrong" to "mildly wrong/annoying," that's not a hard bar to pass.
Remembering the legendary Enrico Pallazzo (2010)
> Once again, SQLite happily stored my UUIDs on this column and even indexed them, but to get these across to PostgreSQL I needed to fix the schema and properly declare these keys as strings.

In PostgreSQL you're leaving performance on the table if you store UUIDs as strings instead of as the built in UUID type (128-bit value under the hood)
[patent links. You may or may not want to click]

There are lots of patents on electrophoretic displays.[1] And unlike some other industries, these patents are actually used in lawsuits by some players [2]. And anonymous insiders suggest that litigation and threats of litigation, together with enforced secrecy agreements really shape the industry [3].

[1]: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=electrophoretic+display...

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2017-12-20/e-ink-su...

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143779
Not necessarily as a startup. Big companies with established products, existing revenue streams, and profits can afford the marketing budget to convince a wide swath of consumers they need this new thing that they really don’t. But startups with just one product or service generally can’t afford to be pushing on a string like that.
Researchers uncover brain waves related to social behavior
Jeeyon Shim carved a new path in crowdfunding for her keepsake games
The URI resolution idea is 99% crap.

That is, most of the time you don't want to publish subjects and predicates as resolvable URIs. However, people see so many examples of http:... that they don't release it's even possible to make non-resolvable URIs.

I used random UUIDs all the time but that is a super-fraught area since some people really want them to be in temporal sequence so their database index is happy.

I've also done the content addressable blob store thing.