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> For Java in particular, is it Oracle JDK or OpenJDK, what's the difference, and why should I care?

I know it’s mostly about a sentiment, but if you or anyone is curious — there is basically none, OracleJDK is a fork of OpenJDK (which is the reference implementation) with basically negligible changes. License wise OpenJDK uses the same one as Linux so you can use it as you seem fit, while the current LTS OracleJDK (17) is free to use until the next LTS release + 1 year, but unless you need corporate support, you really have no need for that.
Sure "Machine Learning Research at top tier AI company" is a different boat.

I'm talking more about "Data Science/ ML Department at a typical company". You won't see salaries above comparable SWE roles there. Most likely, the SWEs will be better off.
This dependz on the index type, but PostgreSQL also supports queries based on arbitrary attributes of multi-attribute indexes: both GIN and BRIN can be used for queries on any of the indexed expressions.

Maybe eventually PG will also get index skip scans for btrees, which could allow for arbitrary columns searches in the btree; but we're not there yet by a large margin.
I would actually say the opposite. We're getting better. In the 80s and 90s campaigns would do all sorts of crazy contortions to prevent getting caught in"gaffes", whereas today politicians just flood the zone with so much content that a misfire won't damage you.

Think back to the 80s when Dukakis, in attempt to seem more hawkish to the media, did a tank photo-op that ultimately had the opposite effect[1]. I can't think of anything in modern history that's had a similar impact.

Or look at Donald Trump, a candidate who never really cared about what the mainstream media had to say about him, and was openly hostile towards it. He was able to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016, albeit by some narrow margins in certain states.

[1] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/dukakis-and-...
Try this instead:

https://archive.ph/q6FG8
I am self-hosting on a fairly cheap VPS. It is also possible to mirror on Github. And there is chiselapp.com
B2B Pricing in a Downturn
The mistake-making side is much larger than the mistake-fixing side. This is a display of great, foolish optimism.
I've used Deming's ideas to optimize ads and it did work way better than bayesian ab testing or ML-based approaches. However, management did not like that I was using something so old, so I had to rebrand it, but it was Deming still.
Right, I was adding more detail as to why US roads are wider, they're arterials. That and signal spacing and lane width is based solely around throughput in most of the US.

Too much online literature throws around "subsidizes" blindly without going deeper.
This usage is so idiomatic and ubiquitous that you can see "np." or "pd." or "plt." in just about any code and assume that the user is using Numpy or Pandas or Matplotlib.

Now that I think about it, I really should set up a "snippet" to type this for me:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
How exactly was I minimizing anything? I even mentioned "slavery, genocide, and colonial oppression", so what did I miss? These bullshit insinuations of antisemitism are garbage, show me what I said that was wrong, show me where I trivialized anything, don't just accuse me of thoughtcrime based on your own kneejerk assumptions.
It's the lowest-possible effort response to any criticism of capitalism.
That is great, my ramblings weren't necessarily directed towards your approach (I don't know your case), it's just something that is often on my mind lately, especially with big corps doing it more and more openly. Sorry if it sounded like that, I hope everything works out for you.
I'd prefer to see less use of "all one has done", "just", "easily", and "trivial".
A commercial app is just a blend of software bugs that encourages profitability (not too many bugs, not too few).
You're the product. I'm not sure they care what you think.
This can happen in native UIs as well. I've had to add hysteretic behaviours to prevent the appearance of a scroll bar somehow obviating the need for the scroll bar, so it vanishes and now it needs a scroll bar, repeat as fast as the toolkit event loop allows.
Sounds like tiktok has discovered 2008 humor? Maybe a signal that the old and uncool are getting established there?
> cant be weeded out by selective pressures since it happens after reproduction

if there was a population that didn't starve after sex, they might out-compete a population that did, say, by passing on learned behavior to their offspring
Five years ago I considered Austin to have some of the worst drivers in the US. Although 99% of Austin drivers I consider to be safe and courteous the remaining 1% would drive in an absolutely reckless manner such as turning right from the far left lane, which I saw happen on more than one occasion. Disturbing to think that is only getting worse.
You are quick to dismiss this as political.

Counterpoint: what makes 40 hours a week the sweet spot? Why is 40 more productive than 50?
Great observation. I think this is often the case with overrated developers. The fact that they churn out a lot of lines of code can make them seem highly productive.
You can store images of Pikachu. Can your .txt files do that?
Yeah this is probably a needed feature. There are some good philosophical objections to post imports, but they’re overwhelmed by practical arguments for it. it’s a solvable problem.
Here's the problem: developers cut their teeth on twitch video games and so they have no compunction about forcing users to play a video game at every app and every web page we encounter.

It's funny, I frequent a government-owned website for people with disabilities and receiving public benefits, and one of their UI elements is a marquee message "You have a message!" which scrolls from right to left. If you are deft enough to click on it, you will discover that your password expires soon! (Your password always expires soon) That is actually not the important message section of the site but the system notifications that don't tell you anything about your benefits status or applications. It's a laugh riot every time I see one of those message marquees. I've quit clicking on them because I've figured out they are worse than meaningless.
Alternative thesis: most people are getting tired of working hard only for the lion's share of the reward to go to a small handful of people at the top.
flox team here, happy to answer any questions :)
Uglier is relative, but I will give you that neither unthemed Swing or JavaFX are too fine looking.

But I would say that e.g. IntelliJ looks quite good and that is a basic theme available without much tweaking, plus it can be very snappy (when jetbrains doesn’t ship it with a decade old JVM with shitty default settings. It is fixed in recent versions).
Here is an article explaining the 2019 outage and the issues with the satellites: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/galileo-accident/

The article argues that the Galileo project has a bit too many participants in the development. Europe does have some hugely successful multi-participant international projects like Airbus or CERN but it is indeed more challenging to run projects funded by 30 countries each having different culture, language and interests.

It's really a re-occurring theme with no easy fix. The European countries are too small to do such large projects by themselves and our multi millennial history is about fighting each other, so it's not always a smooth sail.
"No criticising the state religion!"
Pretty much. There's been a tendency among reactionary sorts to attack any piece they don't like by saying the writer is "just a journalist", ignoring the actual piece, and ignoring any credentials that the author has, like in this case, the writer of the piece is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami.
Isn't it hard to divorce free-market from capitalism at this point of time?
I skimmed what appear to be reliable references, and they all mention the Latin -> French -> English etymology for plumber, and they do not reference "plumb" in the sense you are using.

I suspect that plunging in and making a poor argument doesn't reflect well upon you. I am happy to be corrected, if you can provide a rock-solid reference: the English language is a wonderful midden.
Or McMaster Carr. RS, with it's laggy backend (I assume, as their recent UI shinification didn't change it: it was bad before) could learn a lot from them.

Then again, McMaster Carr want you to use an app on mobile and the new RS site works on mobile quite well, with the lag more hidden by the inefficiencies of mobile browsing in general.
They are versioned and the log of their changes can be seen by using `git log` on the notes namespace inside `ref/`.
you may be correct. the issue has been closed for further review. a scaled attack might only prevent new nodes from entering the network as existing connections would be spared even when the maximum limit of peers is reached.

however - and i mean this - you need to watch your mouth buddy. you've been unnecessarily rude. i have decided not to respond with force - so either stfu or press your luck
Because it makes you more predictable to other drivers.
I think Gerrit does this with their Note DB: https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Document...
> That's the whole shell game of A/B testing. You're testing your way to what works best for you and not your users.

A/B testing is a tool. Any tool can be misused.
that's more a concern for UX designers, where the chief value should be consistency
Add absolute piss poor control/regulations on what's on the road. I've seen more crashes in a week around LA than in my entire life. Half the cars had bald tires, at the first sign of rain you saw a crash every 10-15min

At least 25% of the vehicles on the roads there wouldn't be considered legally road worthy in western Europe
>Corporate personhood with rights afforded to actual citizens but separate from actual citizens laid the groundwork for a whole mosaic of wrongheaded schools of thought.

>"Amoral, effectively immortal fictional entities can be created at will with the rights and privileges of ordinary citizens. What could go wrong?"

You realize that the "immortal fictional entities" you speak of are just groups of "ordinary citizens", right? That's the logic behind the Citizens United ruling, ie. that ordinary citizens don't lose their free speech rights when they band together (either as a corporation or a labor union).
Healthcare was not coupled to jobs in order to exploit employees. It was a response to government interventions preventing companies from paying employees more and so the companies started offering healthcare plans as part of their benefits in order to pay people more [0].

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...
This was genius.com’s pitch at one point right after they secured a massive funding round from a16z I believe - “annotate the web!”.

Didn’t really work out for them:
https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/genius-sold-medialab-w...
There are plenty of people that dislike a free press.
Sorry about your sister, but how is that relevant?

Some shocking statistics: more children are sexually abused at school than by a pastor/whatever at church. Plenty of women abuse children, if your point is men are abusers or something?
Why doesn't your company want people to work on weekends or overnight?

Hire some people to do it, those who want to will apply. Some people would rather work on weekends and have days off in the week. Some people are night owls who would prefer to work overnight.

No other 24/7 company with good compensation struggles to hire for these jobs.
It's not only buttons, sometimes the whole UI moves. Many mobile websites use sticky headers and footers that stick or unstick, appear or hide according to the position of the users in the document, how long since they touched the screen, scrolled, etc. I either switch to reader mode or savagely use uBO's element picker to select and permanently hide those elements. At the end of the treatment either the header displays only when I scroll to the top and the footer when I scroll to the end or they never display. I really don't care because what I want to read is the content in between.
It's how most companies think they work, but really very few companies actually track output. They track time. They're not measuring how much work you do, but instead how much time you're available for. The idea of a 4 day week is that people stop procrastinating, wasting time, daydreaming, sitting in meetings doing nothing, etc, and that saves a day a week. The employer gets the same amount of work for the money, and the employee doesn't have to pretend to work any more. Everyone wins.
Ask HN: Online courses with video, text, quizzes or a mixture – which is best?
What type of instruction do you prefer when learning a tech-related course (e.g. a programming language)? Do you combine different teaching options?

Examples of different teaching approaches:

- Text and interactive exercises (e.g. 'educative', 'codecademy')

- Video (e.g. Udemy, Pluralsight, YouTube, LinkedIn Learning)

- Video and interactive activities (e.g. Scrimba)

- Books (printed or ebook)

For me, I have found video is massively varied. Although instructors may be familiar with a subject, not all are good at teaching. The best instructors understand their subject but also explain their subject clearly. Also, overly long videos can make watching video a chore. But there are always exceptions (e.g. Harvard online CS50?)

What is your experience when taking a tech course? What do you prefer and why (e.g. video, text, quizzes, interactive, books etc)?
The common refrain in 2015 was that we were < 5 years away from having self-driving cars operating at scale without the need for a safety driver in most major cities in the US.

At this point we have a public robotaxi service in one suburban area and two robotaxi services operating under restricted domains in SF that are open to the public behind a waitlist. The cars have problems with rain, fog, or snow, and expanding to a new city still takes a ton of time. Having joined the industry after the hype of 5 years ago, the reality now is nowhere near the vision companies we’re selling back then.
>To be frank, your position is beyond the pale.

No, I think you're misinterpreting. Let me elucidate my position in more detail.

It is fair game for the employer to be upfront about all of this stuff BEFORE the employee is hired. It needs to be in the job description. The employer wants someone who can bond and party with the team, and it is within his right to look for such a person.

It is not right for the employer to find a person who is not this person then force him to conform.

That is my stance. Looking for employees who like to drink, party and socialize with the entire team is fair game.

Obviously the man in the article was hired because the employers THOUGHT he was that person. The fact that he wasn't was miscommunication likely from both parties. Regardless of the law he doesn't fit in with the team at all. Getting fired is bound to happen.
> You're saying women should stay with their abusers

........what?

> That's not a question. I'm trying to make you realize how wack you sound

ok?
My guess is that it was originally an oversight and this option was added later, but turned off by default to avoid a "breaking change". Would be interesting to dig through the changelogs and commit history to see what the story was.
There's an option in Firefox to disable auto-updates for an extension.

Not as easy in Chrome, but there's ways to do it. For example here's one: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...
The current version of the Amazon Prime Video app (and maybe also the HBO Max app?) on Apple TV has one of the worst examples of this I’ve ever experienced. In their featured listings, they should cards of shows/movies in what is basically a portrait view. When one of the cards becomes active, after a second or two it becomes wider and its content and background image changes and the cards to its right are pushed out further to the right. So as you’re looking at a card and you begin to read it, its entire contents is modified! It’s so maddening.
I've been using FreeTube for quite a while now. It's great for subscribing to channels that you don't necessarily want to infect your regular YouTube feed and recommendations.
so what if it reads your passwords if it has no network permission to exfiltrate?
Yeah, in a show about friends surviving dinosaurs it really didn't make sense for the last 5 or so episodes to be about 20% dedicated to a romantic relationship (LGBTQ or not). There's a fan version of the show out there that omits the romantic parts of the final season (the straight romance, too) and the final episodes are all like 5 minutes shorter.

It's a really fun show overall, even for adults. Highly recommend, though I now let parents I recommend it to know, that in addition to people getting eaten alive and nightmarish mutant dinosaurs chasing kids, there's some kissing and an out-of-the-blue forced teen lesbian relationship. I have a feeling that won't land well on HN, but in person every parent I explain that to is understanding and thankful for the heads up.
I just bought 24x 6” stainless steel rulers because every time I’d reach for one it’d be across the room at a different desk. Now I can capture a dozen at a time in their remote location for rehoming. Problem solved.

Also on my list of buy too many so I’m never left without: sharpies, microfiber cloths, jumper cables, rice (carbs), frozen sliced sourdough (fancy carbs), pocketable protein/energy bars.
20 requests/sec is absolutely nothing for a server in 2022. Even if you have many relationships, any individual server will handle the load without any fuss. Worth that can happen is a few minutes in the propagation of messages, which is not exactly a big problem. Seriously, there is no technical reasons we don't self-host; only "cultural" ones (it's hard, it's work, it's painful, and such)
But it would be pretty nice if people with commit access could add notes directly to commits in Github.
All the examples are a case of unfortunate timing: asynchronous things doing late UI replacement that happen to conflict with the time window in which you click.

That's amateur stuff. Our car does this intentionally. As your finger is in mid-air, on its way to hit something on the touch screen, it's detecting this motion and then shows a context bar in the top and bottom by the time you land your finger. Which often overlays whatever you were going to touch.

It's so comically bad that I think a team of engineers is laughing back at the factory: "look! he's trying to touch something again!".

The other prank they included is traffic alerts. You're sitting in a traffic jam for 10 minutes already and then my music stops, only to hear: slow traffic ahead.
Yes, but when I tried, it was kind buggy. May have improved since then.
> Mastodon is about as far from trading in for another Twitter alternative as you can come and that's largely what makes its design so difficult to grasp for Twitter emigrants.

A protocol has no inherent value. Its value comes from its application. And, Mastodon, as one of ActivityPub's applications, is nothing better than Twitter fractured into many smaller islands of Twitter: instead of upsetting Elon and getting the boot, if you upset the Mastodon server operator you happen to choose, you run the same exact risk of being deported off that particular island. If you're going to subject yourself to the whims of a dictator, you might as well stay on Twitter and reap the benefits of the larger network.
A great one lately is Wikipedia's new search with suggestions. If I'm typing in the search bar, I may type a complete query and then press "Enter". Well, if my mouse happened to be hovering over a suggestion, then "Enter" will choose that suggestion instead of completing my chosen query instead.
Then no, Azure Functions probably won't be good for that, because it sounds like you need a git repository on your VM which does require filesystem access. Isn't the cheapest Digital Ocean offer $4/month, I don't think you'll find anything much cheaper than that for what you're doing.
Meta’s Adversarial Threat Report, Third Quarter 2022
Ask HN: China Protests?
What's happening? How widespread are they? Any noteworthy technology-related developments (since this is HN after all)?
Fossil seems like it would be really useful for long-running internal projects at a company. But the problem is that you need to force people to learn Fossil instead of Git, and companies (perhaps rightly) don't want to pay people to fumble around with an unfamiliar system.
Nothing to do with EuroNews. This post itself seems like a scam to get more visibility for a random crypto scam channel.
Honestly, everyone knows this. If you're creating sites that do this in 202X you're just being willfully ignorant/lazy. There are plenty of component libraries for rendering placeholder components in the popular frameworks, react has the suspense API etc etc for exactly problems like this.
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It was common in the UK too until it was made illegal [1], still happens, but less so.

1. https://www.gov.uk/using-mobile-phones-when-driving-the-law
>Everything I’ve read leads me to believe theft will remain a problem- it’s a very poor area, with limited employment options and a weak law enforcement presence.

How is the region's pest control policies?
"My sister is an ER doctor in the US; we don't turn people away."

They make them wait for hours, make people who are in very bad shape fill out paperwork before treatment and then charge astronomical and seemingly totally made up prices. The US definitely has the spirit "I have got mine, I deserve it and fuck everybody else"
Any other (local) range would be fine. 127.* does seem to have some strange behaviors
GPS can be much more accurate than what the article says. For example, over the continental US the extra WAAS satellites provide accuracy down to more like 3-4 feet for GPS based aircraft navigation. These satellites broadcast correction signals to allow receivers to adjust for small fluctuations in the standard GPS signal. Using that system aircraft can navigate in 3D down to about 200 ft off the ground for a landing approach without the need for any ground-based equipment or transmitters at the airport.
McMaster Carr is one of the greatest websites there is. It's incredibly easy to find just about any kind of hardware.
You can store images of Pikachu in a Git repo too.

The real answer is that the notes are not part of the commit hash and are mutable, which means that you can use them for temporary information and/or to add notes retroactively.
> If someone's job is in customer service... you don't need research to determine that if they are not there, the phone/email doesn't get answered.

Except perhaps in the case of very small companies with a single CS person - someone else can answer the phone?

Can they never have a holiday too?
I don’t think you need 51% to affect things at the margins. At one company, we were early to the “remote is OK” and “remote is good” camps. It helped a lot with recruiting and retention, and let us hire a better talent pool. Post-COVID with everyone offering remote the benefit has dwindled for companies early to accept remote work. I think someone offering 4 day work weeks would be able to hire talent they wouldn’t normally be able to. If the promise of “same productivity, less hours, same pay” is true, then they’ll outperform and out recruit.

Mass strikes are certainly quicker though.
It always amazes me that all types of nutrition are folded into the single "calorie" in these discussions.