skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows and Mac have their fragile points as well.

For starters, Windows is Ubuntu bug #1. (I kid).

The nice thing about Linux is it can evolve without being pulled into advertising-and-data-monetization as a business plan. In other words, society is better off with it.
This is all well and good but even if the EU claims jurisdiction over people who aren’t in the EU publishing information about the EU (not clear from this article that this is the case; it just says that it applies to you if you are in the EU even if you’re not an EU citizen), how would they enforce that?
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My last (Arch btw) Linux Evening was my laptop suddenly not booting after an update. I thought it must've been me, so I booted into the install media and reinstalled and reconfigured grub in a way that I knew would fix it...except it didn't.

I then learned that GRUB had a bug introduced in an update that completely borked it for my system. So rather than deal with it I finally used it as the excuse I needed to ditch GRUB for systemd-boot, which if anything is actually simpler.
Check TimeTrack, it was made for freelancers 10 years ago, they had great success on app store (more then 1.000.000 downloads), then they created enterprise solution and they offer on-premise with individual SALs as well:
https://www.timetrackapp.com/en/on-premise/
I'm not any kind of expert, but at the end of the JFK movie (1991) it says the House Select Committee on Assassinations files are locked until 2029. I think that is the result of the Warren commission...
Imagine a Beuwolf cluster of all your devices then you can get lots of processing power esily! Running a process on multiple computers is something that has almost become extinct, we did a lot of optimizing to get that to work in the early 2000. Lone computers just got so fast and interconnect speed is too slow.

RDP/VNC/HTML on a second screen it is, I use my sever witha
connected screen.
Ask HN: What is the successor to HTML Applications (.hta)?
Back in the day (late 90s), Microsoft had a format called "HTML Application."

It was just an HTML page with a ".hta" file extension. Opening such a file would open it in a chrome-less browser, and give the scripting in the page access to the file system.

I used to love these things. I wrote a bunch of little apps in them.

Some examples:

https://medium.com/@anht_59851/html-application-hta-a-gui-for-your-scripting-on-windows-bfaacf2c3bdd

These still exist, but there are problems with them:

1. Coding is a bear. They run in the mshta.exe process, and that spawns an instance of... IE9, I think? There's no "inspect" panel, for instance, and errors just pop a modal with no debugging information.

2. Near as I can tell, they use an older version of ECMAScript. "let" doesn't seem to work, not does "addEventListener," etc. I kept getting weird "Syntax Errors" for things that appeared to be valid, contemporary JavaScript.

3. I'm quite sure some security software (like on my laptop, issued by employer), blocks these from executing.

What's the current-day equivalent of these? I want to write an HTML page complete with CSS and JS, double-click on it from my desktop, have it open in a browser instance of its own, and have access to the file system.

I essentially want a way to create little GUI apps, without having to use WinForms.

What am I looking for? Is it Electron?

(Note: I'm on Windows)
Anything running on electron, such as vscode, do not adhere to platform conventions either.
I admire what people built with stone tools, but at the end of the day, a modern skyscraper is a marvel of complex engineering with no rival in that world.

I'm not saying that NASA or CERN people were dumb or anything, they were probably smarter than the average dev today. But even a genius can only go so far with limited tools.

An elite slinger from the Roman times will probably lose at least 8/10 against a Russian mobilized soldier with 2 weeks of training, armed with an AK-47.

That's how progress works, we both learn ourselves, and more than that, we make powerful and accessible tools.
Sure (in certain jurisdictions). But is that good policy?

Obviously not.
Part of that is playing the game; Oracle knows to come in high on the quote so the CTO can negotiate them down from batshit insane to simply eye wateringly painful. Looks great on the year end report!
If they start spoofing the UA one can also look at $server_protocol and if != HTTP/2.0 then do something different. I don't know what Twitter supports but most search engine and chat platform crawler bots can only speak HTTP/1.1. All the mainstream browsers support 2.0. This is assuming http/2.0 is enabled in the web server.
IBM at least used to be the second biggest Oracle reseller/consulting/support shop, after Oracle itself. IBM just wants your money and will give you anything you ask for.
A survey essentially asking people "do you have long covid?" isn't extraordinary evidence. Could be a simple case of psychogenesis[0] like has been common during any mass illness event historically. The demographic info in your link seems to indicate that is a possibility. With 25 percent of the population apparently having this disease it's not a hard one to study experimentally.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness
> With today's tech there is no reason that trades can't be immediate,

Liquidity is a good, non-technological reason that we may not want trades to be immediate.

Consider how the price is found at market-open: buy and sell orders are batched into the opening auction, then the exchange finds the single price that results in the most matching orders. All execute at that price.

Contrast that with the binary, point-in-time matching that happens during the day. Here, the order book sits there waiting for someone to match an offer. It leads to perversities like "iceberg" orders (that disguise the true size of the order by posting only a small amount) and market-making firms that will really buy a little bit above the bid and sell a little bit below the ask but hide that for strategic reasons.

Trade settlement times might be silly, but that's a back-end implementation detail relevant mostly to day traders; it has little to do with the price discovery part of the market.
Even before unicode internationalisation was a thing. They couldn't have used unicode itself but they could've come up with some kind of mechanism to deal with non-English encodings.
I'm right there with you on PostgreSQL's impressiveness... I love it and use it everywhere.

However, having done a decent amount of database performance analysis, there is a very good reason I've seen to use Oracle instead of anything else:

Oracle scales more consistently linearly on the biggest variety of workloads compared to any other RDBMS. Give it more cores and it is the RDBMS most likely to give you more performance no matter what you're doing.
Makes you wonder: for what reason did they actually care about banning fascists, if not for philosophical free speech reasons?
This is kind of the reason I have switched to Mac. I used Ubuntu throughout my CSE degree and a year after. But system bricking at random upgrade, needing a fix was a no go for me at work. I understand some people do not face this issue.

But whenever I wanted to try out something new or install anything, some random stuff would go wrong and would need hours of searching and fixing. Happens much less often with MacOs.
Perhaps my standards are just too low, but some of these are actually quite brilliant. I laughed at this one:

> Realising that his symptoms indicated a virtually undetectable, fast acting neurotoxin, CIA coroner Quinn Abner frantically wrote up the details, lay on the floor and, as a professional courtesy, did his best to draw a chalk outline of himself.
I studied German in high school and it still gives me nightmares haha I think adding a language to learn on top would be too much for my sanity but I'll look into the rest, thanks.
Even if PFOF (pay for order flow) were provably optimal, I don't like from an investor perspective because the fees are hidden. Gensler makes a similar argument.
Is there one? I know that unplugging a Thunderbolt peer will crash my MacBook Pro (bridgeOS, not macOS, panics). Disappearing buses is an edge case that is little-tested on most operating systems.
I used TimeSnapper for a long time. It screenshots your desktop at an interval that you define, allows you to markup with notes on the screenshots, builds your screenshots into a gif of your day, tracks active window, allows you to delete irrelevant screenshots, log database and screenshots can be password-protected, etc.

The developer was quick to reply to questions about the software and how to take advantage of all the options.

I don't know whether it was still supported but I found it incredibly useful after trying several others (2010). It is installed locally and you control it but the best thing about it (is/was) that you buy it once and use it forever. No subscription. Fuck SaaS.

I just checked and...

Check it out, it seems to be an ongoing business:

https://timesnapper.com/

Best of all, it is only $29.99. When I bought my version back in the day, the Pro version was $79.99. That was a bargain then considering all the useful features and value delivered to me as I ran my consulting work.

I used the screenshots and activity tracker to bill my clients to the minute. LOL. Near zero uncompensated time. Since I did so much remote work my billing started at the login prompt and ended at the logout prompt.

Props to the developers and maintainers of this excellent software!
True, releasing the documents could also open the US up to items we did in say.. Finland or Russia
A slightly more updated (2018) revival of the same project is available here: https://github.com/nopsys/CogNOS
> But this solution clearly doesn't require infinite lookahead.

It clearly does? There can be an infinite number of tokens before you see the semicolon and know what you're parsing. The page contains examples of this, or you can dig into those bug threads.

> In fact lookahead isn't needed at all, except in (exceptionally) rare cases.

“You don't need to support lookahead, except sometimes” really means “you need to support lookahead”. And that changes how your parser and tokenizer has to work (in particular, you need to be capable of saving a potentially infinite amount of tokens in case you need to rewind). You don't get around that by saying it's rare.
Why would you expect the forces acting on the glass to be ill-distributed if the enclosure were tilted slightly? Water pressure acts hydrostatically. The enclosure appears to have a circular cross section. As long as the tilt is not severe there is no reason to believe anything other than tensile hoop stresses due to equal circumferential loading will develop.
Another speculation:

https://twitter.com/scottwww/status/1490553502640140288?s=46...
I’m trying to understand the threat vector here.

Elonjet is in the air transmitting ADSB. From what I remember it’s a Gulfstream that flies higher and faster than anything commercial. A would-be attacker using this data wouldn’t be able to get anywhere elonjet is destined for before elonjet.

Elon almost certainly has armored vehicles that can protect against any small arms fire and entire teams of security at each source and destination that almost certainly secret service-esque secure the area in advance. He also likely has security that secures the plane at rest.

So he arrives at the source/destination and likely goes directly to a secured hangar for the movement between armored road vehicles and the plane.

What are we worried about here, someone with an RPG, Stinger, or maybe a .50 cal in some advantaged position? Someone planting an IED on the route, runway, etc? Any sophisticated and determined actor who would be able to deploy such means could definitely get the location data with or without a Twitter bot.

Meanwhile he’s regularly at Twitter HQ, Tesla, his favorite restaurants, his kids go to schools, etc. People walk around in the open…

Elonjet is almost certainly the strongest and most secure aspect of his and his family’s life. If some murderous wacko (or group) wanted to go after him or his family there are much “easier” ways to harm, kidnap, etc.

This almost certainly has to be about wealth and power exceptionalism that essentially says “I didn’t buy a Gulfstream AND Twitter so people can track MY jet on MY platform".
As a quick bias note, I am a Gitea maintainer, but a majority of frequent maintainers appear to be staying with Gitea so far.

That being said, Forgejo is a soft fork, so they will still benefit from those contributions.
My prediction: these documents may narrow some unknowns while providing zero evidence that rebuts the conventional story. Conspiracy theorists are emotionally invested in their wacko ideas, so they will continue peddling their warez.

Conspiracy theorists allow their emotions to overwhelm their rationality. It’s a self-imposed mental feebleness. Most of us, by contrast, find balance between the two.

Much of the worst we see in modern US politics are when bad actors knowingly take advantage of this emotionally driven mental feebleness. That’s how you empower extremists.
Well, not for me. Google Plus worked great for its users, but Google clearly wanted something else from it and kept messing with it. Changing or removing features, first requiring real names, then importing all Youtube users (that's when it really went down hill), and ultimately they decided to pull the plug despite millions of happy users. It was a fantastic success, just not as big as Facebook, nor apparently something Google knew what to do with.
GPT is biased towards the most popular theories in its training data multiplied by repeated exposure to those theories, not the most correct theories. There's no such thing as an unbiased LMM.
If you're managing a small business I'd suggest looking at a more comprehensive set of tools. I have had success with Fresh Books[0]. It is simple, cheap, and has an easy to use mobile application. As far as I know, it doesn't have a desktop widget for tracking time, but there is a Chrome extension.

[0]: https://www.freshbooks.com/
What languages do you consider "non-trivial"?
"I have vouched to avoid USB and its undecipherable specs."

OK.
I have self-hosted https://www.invoiceninja.org/ (PHP backend) for years. It is overkill if all you want is time tracking. But it is a good self-hosted solution for project-based time tracking and invoicing.
If you faff around with macros for a bit, it can generate invoices too :)
dark trades are on the consolidated tape

and have to be reported within 10s of being fully filled
Unfortunately some of it won't be released, particularly the note Oswald passed to Special Agent Hosty a few days before the assassination. Allegedly it was a threat to stop hassling his family but we'll never know. Hosty was ordered by his superiors to destroy it, and promptly flushed it down the toilet.
>> So showing that there are cases where people do confuse the two doesn’t negate the broader point that they’re not exactly the same thing in the brain, does it?

Sure, they are different things but the author felt the need to state that they don't get confused - which is a false statement given the existence of PTSD. Since I'm bringing up psychology, I'd say ANY model of how the brain works should also account for the phenomena of transference and projection.

The author is talking about abstract (and physiological) models of how the brain works. To quote someone whom I forget "all models are wrong, but some models are useful". The EMDR model IS useful and has been used to treat millions of people. The authors model is just speculation based on some brain scans - i.e. has not been used for anything useful yet and as such I don't think we can let a falsehood like "people don't get these confused" slide.
I use Barrier all the time, but it has a tendency to lock up on OSX and I have to use a physical kb/mouse switch to go fix it occasionally. (Or I could remote in with a program, I guess.)
I wouldn't write it off just yet, at least if you want to be a good programmer! While there might be some correlation, there's plenty of fantastic programmers who don't want the hassle and want to focus on a specific problem and just use Windows/macOS and an easy to setup/low configuration editor. One particularly great TA I had in college comes to mind...
I imagine that some of the choices to lean into the RDBMS specifics also come from application architectures and data complexities.

If you have a few large monolithic applications that share multiple schemas (so no single-owner), and you then need to do classic OLAP, OLTP and cubing, you're essentially stuck with database solutions from the same era. Same goes for record-oriented software and mainframes or low level rtos software that requires real mode. The requirements never stand on their own (which is pretty much what you wrote anyway ;-)

If a BI solution can do gRPC to a few specific services that contain the datasources for the dimensions you need, then nearly all OLAP-native features are irrelevant. It also means that the dynamic resource usage means that your overall cost in terms of energy and money are significantly lower.

The big 'if' in all of those is going to be 'does the organisation have the skills and the willpower', and often the answer is no. Because hiring some MSP to do your BI, data management and have some single vendor do your ERP, EHRM, ESB on top of some RDBMS "sounds" good and means it's their responsibility, and when a user then sends them a support ticket about how crappy their UX is and how much the workflow sucks, they will get ignored and somewhere in some expensive place, old grey men shake hands on yet another successful quarter ;-)
I was hoping this article was about mathematical methods. I was disappointed to see it was actually about a Javascript library.
Now 2022. ;)
Parsec is <2ms
Couple points:

* I really like all of the. As just "photographs", they seem all very pretty, detailed, some even awe-inspiring, to me.

* Is it just me (I'm not in any way a photography guy), or are so many of these photos extremely over-edited with extra color to make them more appealing? EDIT: The visible-light photos

* Veritasium did an amazing video on how the black hole image was made. It honestly made radio astronomy "click" for me, finally after many years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1bSDnuIPbo

* Scrolling through that gave off a strong ex-Apple web developer smell. Why add such complex scrolling behavior where it isn't necessary?

* I appreciate the message and everything, and it's a fantastic and indeed hypnotic image, but what does the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine have anything, in particular, to do with science? Yes some Ukrainian scientists have been displaced. Some scientific institutions and faculties too, but the image isn't even about that. Feels a bit like they could have done their "send our best regards" bit in a better way, IMHO. Am I being a bit overly pedantic/negative here? I don't know...
I think it's cool to see the real life 60s era top-secret paperwork.
> This sleight of hand is not going to work.

It's not a sleight of hand. It's a fact.

> and literally hasn't gotten "someone to type up something that describes the Chromium implementation into the standard".

And literally exists as a spec that I even linked. Which gives Chrome and gullible devs the license to say things like "oh look at this beautiful reasonable standard that other browsers have not implemented"

> All of the Chrome-proprietary APIs that shipped once upon a time in Chrome but were later removed from Chrome

Of course they haven't. By default everything that Google ships and is not a standard is Chrome-only.

So let's look at your example, Page Lifecycle API.

- Is it a standard? No.

- Is it even on a standards track? No

- Is it shipped only in Chrome? Yes.

- Has Chrome dropped it? No.

- Does this make it a Chrome-only non-standard? Yes.

- Does Chrome drop this and hundreds of other such APIs? Of course not.

Thankfully, we can check that from two sources:

- Chrome's own Web APIs dashboard. https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence If you click "Browser Specific", you will see that Chrome ships over a thousand Chrome-specific APIs, and that number grows rapidly.

And this is, undoubtedly on top of APIs that they pretend are standard. This is where the second source comes in

- MDN Web APIs list https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API

This one lists both actual existing APIs and "experimental APIs". Those experimental APIs? Most of them are "not a standard, not on a standard track" but are shipped in Chrome. I checked the letter B on that page. There are 4 experimental APIs. All of them are "not a standard, not on a standard track". All of them are shipped in Chrome.

> The moment where you resort to putting words in someone else's mouth is the moment you forfeit.

Which I of course didn't. I did paraphrase it for dramatic effect, but "this is not really true" and "all chrome-only proprietary APIs were dropped" amount to the same thing.

> Goodbye

Adieu
What kind of android integration do you require, out of curiosity?

I use iPhone + Mac, but I don’t remember any hiccups when it was android + Mac. Most of my interaction between the devices is pretty indirect anyway (photos are shared through google cloud, etc).
Yes, and when was the last time a large room of new developers told you how amazed they were at how great Emacs was? How easy it was to setup vim plugins? How seemless the experience was between Mac and windows and Linux?

Literally never would be my answer.

People like vscode because of the time and effort that has been spent making it friendly and approachable, yet still powerful.

Those are not just things that magically happen.

They didn’t happen because it’s free.

Those are things you get from a paid product team that prioritises issues, ux, etc. and a company that pays to implement them.
The current plan, as far as I know it, is to continue on the OSS part predominantly.

The only parts that would not be, would be anything that comes from a contract and doesn't make sense to contribute back.
For example, if a company wants some bespoke functionality that doesn't make sense in the main repo.
I just use what is built into Django or an extension for DRF to use jwt

I found the 3rd party providers to be just one more hassle. The exception being larger systems that were already running on AWS/Azure and there I used the provider service - Cognito for AWS for example.
But this again is where a confabulation-based architecture just isn't appropriate. I need an AI summarizer that I know isn't filling in gaps from random internet scans, or confidently confabulating over some inconsistency or something. And I say that independent of any particular thing it may have been trained on on the Internet. I say that because the whole point of a summarizer is to not inject anything else into the summary. (If it wanted to point out certain gaps that could be useful, but I do not want them "filled in".)

Even if ChatGPT summarized these documents, you'd still have to go check the original documents, not for the usual reasons of "did the summary drop an important detail I care about" (intrinsic to the act of summarization, always debatable) but for the reason of "is this actually solely sourced from the summarized text or is this one juicy detail actually a confabulation?"
If core of your business is not IT you can not be fired for selecting Oracle.
Even before its current troubles, I'm pretty sure that Twitter never brought in the kind of ad revenue that Facebook enjoys. Twitter desperately needs its advertisers to survive, but those advertisers can easily survive without Twitter. That puts Twitter in a tight spot.

Beyond that, Twitter does need to keep news organizations engaged, but Musk is driving them away by banning a lot of the journalists who work at those organizations.