skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am taking them to small claims over it, but it’s such a pain in the ass.

It’s just crazy because they were clearly in the wrong and will likely lose. Who trusts a detail shop employee over a master technician at the dealership?! I could see them going to a different shop and downplaying the damage, but outright denying it? Wild.
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> Why is that a problem?

I feel like this will inevitably lead to some not-very-productive discussions, as it already seems to have started in some sibling comments.

Personally, I have to admit that there's definitely a trend of looking more in the direction of PostgreSQL, which is a pretty great choice - it follows SQL standards pretty well, has adequate performance, advanced procedural language with support for custom types and even nice projects like PostGIS, which let you work with geospatial data (previewing which is even integrated in pgAdmin). In addition, it has support for JSON (though personally I find the syntax uncomfortable) and other plugins as well, whilst being able to scale both up and down pretty far.

That said, I still think that MySQL/MariaDB is a sensible choice for lots of use simpler use cases, where you don't necessarily need custom types and advanced in-database processing with procedural languages (which in my opinion can be risky to begin with, mostly due to challenges in regards to testing and debugging such logic, outside of cases where you need to process a large amount of data and sending it over the network would be disastrous).

MySQL/MariaDB has a simpler structure (databases and users, instead of databases, schemas and users), good performance, very good driver support, excellent tooling (in my opinion, MySQL Workbench is ahead of pgAdmin, especially reverse/forward engineering and the whole ER visualization functionality), passable resource usage (a bit more RAM at idle and under load than PostgreSQL in my experience, at least with default container setup which you may/may not want to alter) and a nice ecosystem around it - be it clustering solutions or integrations with almost any language that you might want to use.

Also, projects like TiDB are interesting to behold, even though personally I wouldn't want to give up foreign key support for dynamic clustering.

At the end of the day, I think that either is a better choice than being stuck with Oracle which just feels more cumbersome and isn't as easy to run wherever you need it, licensing being a concern all of the sudden (and Oracle XE not letting you use certain features either, such as dynamic indices, which you might want to test on your dev environment/locally). Also, the modelling functionality on SQL Developer leaves a lot to be desired.

Cannot really comment on the SQL Server offering, because haven't worked a lot with it.

For anyone who's on the fence about what RDBMS to use, just pick whatever looks interesting from the top 10-20 here, do some benchmarks, read what others have said and come to your own conclusions for any given project: https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

It's hard to go absolutely wrong nowadays with any of the popular technologies (that have proven that they can survive for a decade or longer and still receive updates), unless you really misinterpret what would be a reasonable fit for a given workload.
>why the desperate desire to fit in with them? To be accepted by them? (Or, later on, play the game of sour grapes?) After all, aren't they worse off? Aren't they less desirable? This is incoherent. You say these introverted students are "outcasts" who feel out of place with these glad-handing extroverts. But if that is the case, then why would it ever be their goal to fit in with people you believe are so deserving of scorn and contempt? Why do you put them up on a pedestal and pout about not being accepted or even adored by them?

Presumably because one would still like to pass, even in a school with supposedly "emphasis on networking above studious reflection"
Randall missed a joke there where the Lite universe doesn't come with a full set of fundamental forces:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakless_universe

Still gave me a good laugh though.
Generally there are different classes of aerophoto ops and most UAVs so far seem about opening up markets that were previously closed due to high prices
> Protests happened before the Internet. Before telephones, even.

US Population, 1870: 38,558,371

US Population, 2020: 331,449,281
Not related to nuclear, but the startup Bloom Energy was aiming this by fuel cells. A small box could power a house for a year, as they claimed. Trouble was the box internals run at very high temperatures (800°C) and there was potential for things going awry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_Energy
> I think there is still no image preview in their file explorer. I don't know, I don't use it anymore.

Not in list view, but it's there (obviously) in icons view. It's always there in the file picker.

I'm a little torn here. I want the file explorer window to be as small as possible and I don't need the preview most of the times. However I'd like to have a preview when exploring a folder of picture, and the list view is always better than the icon view (sort, names, density, etc). I guess that a toolbar button to add the space for the preview on demand could be a nice to have feature.
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RTGs have been around since the 50's and 60's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge... For example Russia used them to power lighthouses in super remote parts of their coast. Space probes, mars rovers, etc. use them too.
yes it is /e/os getting updated but it is still android and I thought that most people here would be up for changing between the flavors rather than just sticking with the original.

I don't stay with the original OS on my PC why would I do the same with my phone. If my original PC OS stops getting updates I change to a newer one. I figured most here would be used to that.

Uber, that I can remember. Didn't like the micro g aspect, but I hear that may have changed. Also banking apps but I don't use those myself.
I don't see how the gun example fits here at all.
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> Yeah but you need to provide proof of ID and the like if you book a flight

This was the initial thought, so seems like you agree.
>Do drugs or advances in nutrition and training play a significant role?

It seems like nutrition is a minor factor compared to the intrinsic nature of the QB position itself. In other words, even if non-QB positions like running backs and linebackers adopted Tom Brady's exact diet such as avocados and exotic water, etc, that still wouldn't extend their career into age 45. The brutal physical nature of those non-QB positions depends too much on strength and speed and those attributes decline too much into the 40s. Long before Tom Brady, other QBs like Steve Deberg and Vinny Testaverde played at age 44.

As for drugs... if the NFL allowed steroids, it might be possible for physically demanding positions like running backs to play at age 45. But a drug policy change is unrealistic so that's more of a thought experiment rather than a practical way to extend a football career.
The NBA was physically tougher in the 90's compared to now due to rule changes which favour the offensive player.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/redeye/redeye-the-nba-is-way-...
If all your endpoints are at least somewhat under your control (i.e. the thing doesn't need to be accessible via a web browser on a vanilla computer) you can reduce "exploits" to "exploits of my implementation of TLS/my VPN of choice" plus the bootstrap issue.

If the endpoints are not under your control to that extent, then I'd argue that "all the residential ISPs in US" is just as bad as "all of China/Russia" due to botnets.
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I have no idea how it works under the hood. Knowing what I know about Firecracker from watching the publicly available videos, I was shocked and thought it would never happen.

On the other hand, CodeBuild has supported Windows containers for years and at least CodeBuild for Linux is based on Fargate, so the service team figured something out. (I had to figure out how to word that. I can’t say “they figured it out” since I work for the same company. But I couldn’t say “we” since I’m so far removed from any service team in the consulting department that it would be disingenuous)
No, Tauri!
Yeah, and there are a lot of horror stories about credit lines being cut off at exactly the times you need them. I remember one on a personal finance UK forum about someone who quit his job and was going to draw on his standing home equity line of credit to start a business but then had the request denied because "lol you don't have income anymore".
Actually I'm not sure what you're talking about. Give specific examples of those things?
Check out the sodium mod [1], if you haven't already. I've had great success eeking out a few more precious frames with it on older hardware. IIRC, it works on both x86 and ARM processors.

[1] https://github.com/CaffeineMC/sodium-fabric
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Examples of such pressure from the government? Do you mean when Trump threatened to remove section 230 protection from social media companies because he didn't like "the way he was treated" on their sites?

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/23/916096008/justice-department-...
Or legally required to provide a chronological feed, which even logged-in users don't get
I can't wait for them to start pitching a personal self driving car for your 5 year old.
A company astroturfing? I don’t believe it. Anyways, I’m playin this great new game called Raid: Shadow Legends…

At this point in life, a company not doing stealth marketing like this is the exception. I can’t trust any endorsement by pretty much anybody to be genuine anymore.
GNOME 3+ is confusing and difficult to use. Many of the design decisions are strange and break GUI conventions that have been around for decades. I have tried to understand and use GNOME 3+, but it is utterly frustrating and does not work for me.

I have to use GNOME 3+ at work because RHEL is the blessed Linux distribution and IT does not allow EPEL / third-party package repos that are not strictly required for business purposes.

RHEL 8 removed all desktop environment choices except GNOME 3, so every day is frustrating. I would rather have a Windows desktop and just SSH into a RHEL machine, so I don't have to use the GNOME GUI, but IT does not have extra computers to hand out.
Nope.

The concern is exactly the same in both examples: broad spectrum surveillance on the many to catch the few.
It's been perfectly reliable on the devices I've constructed.

I suppose the main issue is the physical construction of the dongle itself - I've had reliability issues with 3.5mm cables for as long as I can remember, but I wouldn't exactly call disintegrating cables "bluetooth vibes".
Nice in theory but what if they fall into the wrong hands?
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As a parent of a 15 month old I can absolutely see myself giving them a smart watch instead of a smart phone for keeping in touch when they start school, but I don’t think it’ll be an Apple Watch. I’d want something cheaper and less capable, and preferably made for kids.
Personally I really like the GNOME UX. I was very skeptical when I tried it for the first time a year or so ago, but after a while of using it, it just started to make sense and really feels like a coherent system rather than the cobbled-together messes that most other Linux desktops (and Windows) are.
Exactly! Good example!
/e/os has been absolutely consistant, no issues for my use. Having said that I really only use the phone for basic functions.
In Bucharest, the city started cracking on AirBNB, the problem is that the landlords are greedy and will risk legal action to get that sweet foreigner money. Not sure how much we can blame the local governments on this one.
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The paper of record in Finland is the Helsingin Sanomat (hs.fi). The Helsinki Times is an unrelated minor English-only operation.
Same news from yesterday.

She refused to do her job. They offered to resign her and she claimed retaliation, which the labor board investigated and rejected.

These sorts of employees are poison to the company in various ways.
I agree with the latter part, but for the former note that Earth's surface is 2d: you can go around holdouts; unlike roads you don't care about the fiber being straight.
This argument is almost never useful. Times change.

People survived hundreds of years ago without electricity or running water, so it should be perfectly fine if the government shuts off utilities for protestors, right?
> If the vacuum-"filled" ball were put into another vacuumed container, a small child would have no trouble separating the halves.

Hell, they would likely come apart on their own due to a low pressure differential and gravity pulling at them.
One of us!
I found the UX of GNOME very inspiring. After a set of innovative changes around 2015 i switched to the i3 window manager, passed its learning curve and now i am a happy user of a stable, constant desktop experience for over 6 years now.
I'm saying that creating a premium product cannot be distilled down to one feature/dimension/characteristic and it's a fruitless task to just ask people on the internet to do it for you.

1) Many people can't specifically identify and articulate which characteristics lead them to prefer one product over another.

2) Many people have different reasons for preferring the same product over the same alternative

3) An individual is probably preferring a set of characteristics that overdetermines their preference (i.e. if you remove one of the set, their preference still doesn't change) and the set is comprised of individually not-very-important characteristics.

Would you be confused if someone said that they prefer a Porsche Panamera over a Honda Civic? They could probably say they prefer the size of the Panamera, but that's clearly not sufficient explanation because they also would prefer it over a CR-V. Then they'd say the materials used are better. But would they now accept a CR-V with the interior redone in ultra-premium materials? Very unlikely.

The reality is that their preference is a complex mixture of things that they struggle to even detect never mind articulate. "Good product companies" get this, and bad product companies just stare in befuddlement at why their CR-V with fancy leather isn't outcompeting Porsche. Of course when you ask someone to explain their preference, they cannot. They don't have the language to describe it! It's a silly question to even ask!
That was also the argument for putting lead in fuel for cars in the first place.

The answer just seems "not enough political pressure to phase it out".
Does this not jeopardize giving kids their autonomy? Feels like the parents saying yes to this may also be in the life360 or obsessively tracking their kids camp.

Great for peace of mind, not great for building independence in my opinion.
The FBI (government) told Facebook (private company) to censor things that aren't illegal, and they did.
In this case, social media === government for all intents and purposes.
Mine now looks mostly like this, so that I don't have to re-learn UI conventions: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/04/02/2130
Mildly interesting problem: law says email with financial information needs to be encrypted. Email goes from the Accounts Payable clerk to Verizon Accounts Receivable, but triggers the automatic encryption process. One needs to create a free login and read the email in the (secure) web portal. Verizon complains. Talk with the Verizon AR manager and he tells me "I have 40 people who access that mailbox; I am NOT going to create a username and password in your system and then share that with those 40 people. What happens next week, when one of them leaves?"
There is never* a good reason not to have Enter do the reasonable thing when there is only one possible action

* hyperbolic but I cannot think of one beside "let's force our user to discover this new nifty flow they would never use otherwise"
Why a weird omission? If you're trying to find a building, the color or the name would both be helpful, while a description of some internal, invisible aspect of the building would not.
I guess it's quite subjective because...I love the default theme
FB censored the Hunter laptop story during the election at the behest of the FBI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN3PIGLDscQ
> exaggerated excitement

Recently had some American friends visit. They were yelling across a nice restaurant at each other. It was so embarrassing, especially because I'm originally American.
Feels very similar to the real app. Zooming in with key macros isn't as accurate for some reason. Blown away by wasm. Truly the next frontier.
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The opportunity for abuse is huge. This gives law enforcement the ability to select a person and go search for a crime in their history. That isn’t how the criminal Justice system is supposed to work. They are supposed to look for perpetrators of established crimes.
So, before the GDPR there were no cookie pop ups forced onto users to be compliant. But to be compliant now there are. But it’s still not the fault of the GDPR?

And guess what? None of the companies that exist solely to track users had to change anything because of the GDPR. But one private company - Apple - forced app developers to allow users to opt in to tracking and companies like Facebook announced that it affected their revenue by billions.

Maybe the government isn’t effective at regulating tech?
It is actually the most elegant answer to why we're here.

I know Occam's razor is not a valid scientific argument, but supposing that everything just exists removes the arbitrariness of it all, our subjective view of the world in particular. It's the simplest explanation of it all.

I also believe that the simplest axiomatization of this theory would be a paradox. From a false postulate, any true (and/or false) statements can be derived. Including that which describes/corresponds to our reality.

It only takes 0 == 1 for everything to exist, but that's something we cannot logically prove, nor use at our advantage. It's a useless theory of everything, but a neat one.
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Was it easy, though? We already knew it was a bad idea to start with, and yet it took almost a century to phase it out.
It works perfectly fine if you plug in every night in your garage and don't drive more than 100km a day. If your commute is longer you might need 3 or 4kW, but probably not 11kW.
>I think third place these days is Tizen which is in a worse place than the two big ones for apps,

iirc third place is KaiOS, a proprietary fork of the discontinued FirefoxOS [0]. It's primarily used on feature phones though. As for app support, an official youtube and whatsapp app are available on KaiOS.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
Palm is back now too. They make ear buds and a mini phone.

https://palm.com/
> Of the players in the NBA list, only Karl Malone was playing at a high level

Looking at the stats, so was John Stockton. His assists per game did drop over time, but overall stability between 1988-2003 is remarkable IMO. Essentially always 82 games, always in the starting five, always on court around 30 minutes or more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stockton#Regular_season

In the light of this thread, interesting quote from Wikipedia -- I didn't know he was considered a "physical player": "Stockton missed only 22 games in his 19-season career. In his first 13 seasons, he missed only four games (all in the 1989–90 season) until he missed the first 18 games of the 1997–98 season due to an injured MCL in his left knee sustained in the preseason. That was the only major injury in his career, and he never missed another game after returning from that injury. Stockton earned the "old school" tag for his physical play; surveys of athletes and fans alike often judged him among the toughest players in the NBA, usually just behind teammate Karl Malone. Stockton's tenacity also earned him a reputation among some in the league as being a dirty player, as suggested by a poll Sports Illustrated conducted in 1997 where he was voted as the second dirtiest player in the league behind Dennis Rodman."
> The way users can vote on issues with "thumbs up", "heart", "rocket", and "fanfare" emojis (instead of simply "up" and "down") is another

Those emoji votes reduced a significant amount of the "+1" and similar low content comments which could take up significant space on a regular repo.

We could look at other issue tracking systems such as Redmine. Pulling up a feature that's in the next release https://www.redmine.org/issues/3088

> +1 It would be very good to get this, as we have to hide our estimations from some roles :(

> +1 on this one!

> +1

> +1 It would be great to have estimated times integrated in the allover times permissions system.

If you look at the comments on GitHub issues from before the expansion of emoji votes to what they are, there are fewer "fluff" comments.

The reasoning for this is in https://github.blog/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-request...

> While people have been able to include emoji in responses for a long time, using them as reactions resulted in a lot of noise. In many cases, especially on popular projects, the result is a long thread full of emoji and not much content, which makes it difficult to have a discussion. With reactions, you can now reduce the noise in these threads.