skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. I'm guessing most of the responders on this thread didn't use a Mac in the early aughts - Flash ran like dogshit on Macs (when it wasn't crashing) and Macromedia/Adobe had no interest in fixing it because "no one used a Mac" back in those days.

I suspect that if Adobe had played lip service to trying to address those issue, Flash on iPhone may have had a shot. But they were also dealing with Adobe threatening to not update Photoshop on Mac, MS threatening to not update Office on Mac, etc. Given all of that, what incentive did Apple have in letting Flash on iPhone?
if you stick to a rulebook you can be covered for indemnity and if you divert from a rulebook you are on your own

I think a solution to this "flaw" could be for government/officials to have a version of the business judgement rule[1] to shield them from liability, especially when operating under emergency situations.

1 - https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/business_judgment_rule
What does leetcode style interview performance have to do with whether someone is going to be conscientious or not?
Okay explain for us the realistic mechanism by which CO2 conversion technology allows oil companies to not only sell more fossil fuels than they do now, but most importantly does so with a greater ROI than the open bribery that our institutions not only allow for but actually require to function.

Because it sounds to me, speaking of "punchy but not particularly realistic" that you have some idea in your head of how our politics and economics work, that is contrary to even a cursory examination of material reality, and is laughably naive. And I earnestly want to hear it, because I could use a laugh today.
That's revisionism at best.

Flash was a massive security hole. It was a resource hog. It was based on proprietary Adobe technology. It was woefully unstable and during some periods caused crashes frequently even on powerful desktop systems.

To say that maintaining iron-clad control of the platform was the only real reason Jobs chose to block Flash is almost insultingly reductive.
It's great to read about Rosenzweig's achievements with the graphic driver for the M series. How did they hack the proprietary compiler to output their instruction? What compiler are they referring to?

The OpenGL compliance gives hope that a simple recompile will make some graphics applications available at high performance under Linux on Apple Silicon, this is good news. It's a niche of a niche though. Devs would be porting their apps to MacOS as a priority to Linux on the M1/2/3 if at all.
If you are parsing a big thing of text, there is no opportunity for your thread to pause the CPU and say "ok other threads, I have to wait on some external data" and then hand over the CPU resources.

But if you are trying to make a network request, disk or memory access, or any HID stuff, you might have to wait on that thing to do it's job and get back to you. At this point you can tell your thread to raise it's hand and say "hey, I don't know how long, but I know I need to wait for this thing to finish, so while I wait someone else can use the CPU, but when I am done waiting, I will need the CPU back." This is the core idea of "cooperative threads" or green threads or co-routines or any sort of thread that is at the language runtime level and not at the OS level.

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

So consider if the task you are doing is asking for data from "somewhere external to my thread" then you might be able to make that call non-blocking to enable more throughput.

Hope that helps explain it!
"How To Solve It" does not account for actual ability. It was recommended in high school to those of us interested in math contests. My big lesson was that if you need this book, you're going to be roadkill in math contests. If you have the chops to be a successful mathlete, you don't need this book. And so it came to pass.

There are some people who have the ability to see a problem well enough to analyze it and make progress. Some people can do this in math, some in other technical disciplines, others in the arts, and so forth. Umpteen years later, I have not seen anyone including Polya successfully /teach/ this ability. If you want to be good at math, piano, chess, sculpture, or whatever you need the talent and then it can be nurtured.

In college I took organic chemistry[0]. The exam problems would often have redundant and/or contradictory information. The student had to figure out what to NOT believe to get anywhere.

As others have mentioned, none of Polya matters for selecting and attacking research problems.

[0] It was taught well and none of the cliches of "It's all memorization" applied. I struggled but look back fondly on it because I had to think along many axes at the same time.
Some dumb shit like the murder of an Archduke.

It won’t be an organized revolution but single unknowable moment which triggers a bunch of people say “fuck this shit”.

Because you’re right; traditional political groups are fading away as people realize everybody is being boned.

The people in charge today have things locked up. Generational churn is an active process. New leadership may be intentionally worse or unintentionally inept.

It’s like trying to predict the next pandemic, not so much a market crash. Markets are social systems and can be sorted socially. Moments that trigger sudden social unrest are more like pandemics; less frequent, trying to predict them involves many more variables.
That's like the devil telling you he won't buy your soul because there's too much light in it.
Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37213020
You know who else has favorite kinds of dirt?

Farmers.

Gardeners.

Potters.

Kids who have ever been in the wrong sandbox.

Sorry, I think your interpretation is incorrect.
"Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner" was the full context.

Some examples: http://paaponomilolii.org/about/cultural-advisors
My last name is soundex-encoded as the first 4 of my Illinois license, issued 18 months ago, but I don't recognize anything deterministic about the last 8
To elaborate further my comment also stems from articles referring to things like this being a $50 billion dollar industry. A lot of services or goods are described as such like we are all just dollar signs.

I also play airsoft, walk twice a week with a friend and spend time with my children. Those are all great things and I like your optimism...

However I disagree that our capitalist society is a good thing, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Nobody gets to be a billionaire without exploiting the working class.
Because it formed part of the legal defence of a decision to release water, and incur flooding, in consequence of which people went to law. I would imagine, perhaps wrongly, that in the case of Lahaina people who have suffered catastrophic loss will be considering if there was a state, or town, or other official who had a duty of care, and who may be taken to law, or their body taken to law for failure to act.

What do you think?
It isn't. It's a basic wiki-style web UI. That's the whole point of things like sphinx and javadoc. All the documentation in your code is easily accessible.
Ever read ringworld? Society without access to minerals and fuel resources. Untold technology that the natives have zero capacity to understand or harness. That thought was very engaging for me. Until all the rishing. Then it spiraled.
Use code interpreter to upload your files and prompt it to ask you a serires of questions to know what to do next
I wouldn't be so sure. Yes, 25% is higher than I expected, but there are a huge number of sites that haven't been updated since 2009. A lot of the Internet runs on a LAMP stack installed on some Ubuntu 15 years ago and never upgraded or patched since.

But very few of us are starting new projects based on Apache. Even when I have to deploy PHP for clients I usually go for stuff like Caddy which is built for the 2020s and and entire Wordpress config, boilerplate included, is less than 30 lines.

That 25% figure is basically inertia.
And people give religion a hard time.
`[level]w` supports both key/value pairs and individual `zap.Type(key, value)` values combined fwiw, so for that part the API is essentially the same too
I appreciate design that stretches boundaries. But, assembled all together, most of these felt the same. I got numb. A big sans-serif claim, gradient-colored text, sometimes a big 3-D toy to fumble about with since there is no other content on the page. The really edgy designs disrupted their own typography with scrolling elements. Cool, but... what's the point?

Robert Bringhurst once said "Design exists to honor content." That may be too conservative, as there is a place for design for its own sake. But few of these sites had anything to say other than "look at me!"
Hello! Yes, we're working on this. Note that our UI, cryptography, and editor libraries are MIT licensed.
Collapse of civilisation sounds very hyperbolic to me.
Sorry I meant that the oldish UI on PorkBun is a positive feature.
This reminds me of people pillorying the emergency director for not sounding the alarm sirens...yet when you look at it, he did exactly the right thing.

The water situation is not obvious and I imagine hard to decide about in the middle of a crisis.
I mean are these people anything more than influencers in the AI world?
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> > So, the emergency sirens weren't used

> They weren't used because the website [1] specifically says that in the event of a siren you should "if you in a low laying area near the coastline; evacuate to high grounds, inland".

+1 to this. Everyone on the island knows those sirens. I was there in 2011 when the sirens went off to warn about the incoming tsunami from the Tohoku earthquake[0]. We packed sandwiches and water, and headed for high ground along with everyone else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...
A new DB, with a new query language that's like "SQL done right"? This immediately reminded me of EdgeDB: https://edgedb.com/

Is there anyone here who knows enough about these two products to do a compare/contrast?
You'd might want to do a Show HN of this. Haven't checked it out yet, but it seems cool so far. I was doing something like this, but it's Discord + Reddit.
Part of my point is, if the software doesn't have a concept of "breaking change" semantic versioning makes no sense, so you might as well just use numbers that change with every release so you can easily refer to when bugs got fixed or, maybe, features got added.
Seconded. I'm working through the month-long Introductory Course currently. Waking Up strikes me as much more technical than apps like Headspace, which really resonates with me.
The system comes with a CX40+ Joystick which has been lovingly recreated to the same specifications as the original, and a 10-in-1 game cartridge featuring some of Atari’s most famous games: Adventure®, Combat®, Dodge 'Em™, Haunted House®, Maze Craze™, Missile Command®, RealSports® Volleyball, Surround™, Video Pinball™, Yars' Revenge®.

What... no E.T.? Off to my local New Mexico landfill I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
I'd love to see some big project jump to version 666

I estimate at the current rate, we'll see Chrome 666 before this century is out
Yep. Similarly, the way I asked my first girlfriend to go steady was some variation of "will you be my 'in a relationship with' on facebook?" A lot can change about your perception of things in 15 years.
It was never more than marketing for "identity theft protection". When you put it like that, it starts to sound an awful lot like paying a protection racket doesn't it?
Unfortunately, labor laws are harder to change than your perception of pain.
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Modern Macbooks are very strategic about when and how much they charge. You can override it if you know you need a full charge Right Now, but otherwise they will decide how much to charge based on your usage patterns, which keeps the battery alive much longer than on many other brands of laptop.
I tell them how much money it would cost to get me to leave my current job as my salary. Then they beat that by 5-15% on their own recognizance and everyone is happy.
Most folks I know and have read about didn't go to the loan shark or local mafia for 'money' even though that is even more readily accessible and with zero paperwork.

It's obviously not just about 'money'.
Are they able to convert research papers to HTML yet?
Seems crazy that it survived in the internet era. Anyone can publish hundreds of pdf files for a fraction of a penny.
Not entirely true. Most of the volunteers were pretty annoyed with how they were treated when it was under Sun.
Just walk along streets rather than avenues and the blocks become quite long.
I thought of this. When 2100 comes around, they can just add the third digit (100). They won't have any regrets until the year 3000.
Some of the new MacBooks require a charging port capable of greater than the current USB-C specification limit of 100W, that's likely one reason why they decided against coopting USB-C exclusively for charging.
Something about the comparison is halting to me.

Rooting for OpenOffice feels like rooting for Linux 2.6 to make a comeback.
Occasional spreadsheet user. Was using a well-known proprietary software until now but LibreOffice's interface is much easier to use for me. I don't have to keep looking again for the place each option is. Especially, in Writer, all text formatting options are in a single place so I never have to spend much time looking to find a given feature.

Bonus point: pressing Ctrl-S actually opens the file save dialog.
> it would speed up a lot of io operations

It doesn't speed up the I/O operation, but allows the CPU to continue executing other code rather than blocking and waiting (and the program becoming unresponsive).

If your app is querying a database ten times per user request and averaging 5-10ms per query, your CPU is spending 50-100ms doing nothing but waiting on the network to finish so it can resume executing the code that comes next. That's time other code that has CPU instructions that can execute now would benefit from.
A cooky individual that describes themselves as a "native".
Similar to aircraft and ship captains. They operate under a litany of rules, but in an emergency they are recognized as the person in control and they may deviate from rules as necessary based on their experienced and professional judgement.
I'm only commenting on this passage:
>> the emergency sirens weren't used because "they aren't for this function" and now we have ...

I think the sirens were a good call and a bad example of what you want to state.

Becuase it is established that people (would) associate the sirens with a tusnami warning. Their anticipated action would under this assumption to seek higher ground. Where the fire was.
(See for yourself: https://old.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/15vfw26/...)

I'm from germany and here sirens here have been assigned with the "turn the fucking radio on NOW" behaviour. In my city there is a siren drill every other month to get you aware, my city only skipped it out of sensibility one time for the ukranian refugees directly after the war to give them some peace.

For more emergent situations we have Emergency Apps like "Nina" and "KatWarn" + Mobile Push Systems to alert you precisely about the kind of emergency/danger you are facing. My city for example has a WW2 Bomb found every other week, meaning thousands of people get evacuated for a time and need get informed.
THANK YOU. I was feeling dumber after reading it, not smarter.
Funny. The default system prompt on replicate for the model was:

You are a helpful, respectful and honest assistant. Always answer as helpfully as possible, while being safe. Your answers should not include any harmful, unethical, racist, sexist, toxic, dangerous, or illegal content. Please ensure that your responses are socially unbiased and positive in nature.

If a question does not make any sense, or is not factually coherent, explain why instead of answering something not correct. If you don't know the answer to a question, please don't share false information.
And it also depends on whether they're given a timeslot for that and/or incentivized for it. Automated tests need times to maintain, especially if they're some changes on flow / specs, tests need to follow.

I scrap all incentivized metrics when working on something urgent (important and soon), which is often the case. If the metrics somehow incentivized, we'll start gaming it.

Now if a dev has part on production support and automated tests are purposed to reduce the workload for support then it has time slots for that, I bet everyone will start doing it.
"perpetuity" is a weird word, a company can go out of business or discontinue a product entirely. Re-licensing is strictly better than those options.
If your current stack is working for you, that's great. The main advantages of Fauna vs say MySQL are going to be:

- Fauna is distributed and multi-region and therefore more resilient to hardware or regional outages (for example we barely noticed the last AWS us-east outage, except for the fact that it affected customer traffic to Fauna).

- You gain a lot of flexibility in terms of where and how you deploy your compute layer. Fauna works very well in concert with serverless platforms or edge-based compute like Cloudflare Workers. It's also possible to connect directly from your client/front-end, using Fauna to enforce end-user permissions.

- Even if you know SQL, it's worth checking out FQL. Simple queries in SQL are also easy in FQL, but more importantly, FQL gives you much greater control over the shape your query result, meaning you don't need an ORM to reconstruct your object graph. If you have ever used GraphQL, the experience is similar. Or you can see a few examples and comparisons with SQL on our FQL product page: https://fauna.com/fql
They go together usually.
I remember when Steve Jobs came out and said "Flash is shit" (I paraphrase)

I thought that's fine...

Then the day after, the CEO of Adobe went on CNN and said "we agree, flash is shit, standards are the future." I could not believe my eyes. RIP Flash, and 12 years of pain.
Do you have any actual evidence for this assertion?
> OpenOffice still clings to life, if barely

It's probably pining for the fjords.
Ear protection is hugely important here and at races. You need to get it and bring it and wear it.
I have to disagree with the following paragraph:

“SQL is particularly inflexible in terms of control over response: A query result is always a set of tuples. A query is incapable of returning a rich structure that is aligned with how the application needs to consume the result. ORMs solve this partially at best at the cost of hiding the capabilities of the underlying database. They also obscure the structure of generated queries, making it difficult to understand the resulting performance implications.”

The ORMs or later mentioned GraphQL are not the only approaches to solving object-relational impedance mismatch.

SQL is perfectly capable of serializing sets of tuples to XML (part of the SQL standard), and most SQL RDBMS implementations now support working with JSON data.

Serializing using SQL to XML and in the past couple of years to JSON, and deserializing the said XML/JSON to an object model in the programming language of choice is something I’ve seen used fairly often in my career.

Heck, I’ve even seen entire business logic for a very complex system implemented via thousands of stored procedures that always returned XML. Prior to 2010, this was not the blasphemy it is made to be today…

So to reiterate my point, SQL is not inherently as inflexible as it was made to be here, thus neither ORM nor GraphQL are a necessity for dealing with SQL output inflexibility (and both can be very useful tools, as always, completely depending on the context).
If mechanical things interest you at all, go see a Monster Truck show. Go see these things move. Go pay for a full seat “that you’ll only need the edge” of.

It’s pure mechanical spectacle, and, like most other mechanical things, recordings don’t do it justice. It’s just not the same. Hear them, see them, feel them, watch them move and fly.

Will you go back? Become a lifelong fan? Unlikely, but your inner child will thank when you start giggling.
I buy the need for something like FQL.

But I don’t buy that this should be connected to a proprietary service. Or that the alternative query language should be a proprietary language. For something long-term or critical, it seems like a pretty large business risk. We don’t have to use any imagination to see how this plays out — look at Oracle. Though it could be worse — imagine you build a successful business on it and they go belly up in ten years.

I think I’d like to see one of the various “XQL”s out there emerge as the modern query language and start getting adopted as a native alternative in existing engines.
Right. But elsewhere in comments, the parent is talking about how you just "obtain a passport, it doesn't need an SSN or home address".

I'm curious how one obtains a US passport without a birth certificate or SSN.

(But yes, issuance of a passport is "optional").
depends on where you live - 16y ago, my pretax $60k/y was just over $3k/mo take home ... between state & fed, I was paying >35% in income and payroll taxes :\
Your comment seems woefully out of touch given what happened in Hawaii. Water was not denied because "saving lives was more important than saving houses". ~1000 people burned to death and the fire department requested more water to help fight the fire and they were put off for 5 hours, by which time the pipes that could transport the water were ruined.
No it is not. It is the revealing of personal information in such a way as to allow someone to be targeted in real life.
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> If apps followed SemVer properly they should be bumping the major version for most UI changes (let alone overhauls), as they all break user workflows.

This is just reiterating my entire point. People follow the rule/strict interpretation of the law and SemVer breaks, you should be following the spirit of the law.
I read it as sympathetic and supportive.
Mounting your iPhone on your motorcycle can damage its camera (2022)
Houses are tightly coupled to lives. Even if you escape the house, you might not survive the smoke inhalation from the surrounding trees.
Daemontools is smug, Systemd declares itself triumphantly the Emperor and Lord Protector of our light cone!
well, my friends there are not lying to me

and you say you are not being lied to

which means ... you apparently know people who are OK with being taken advantage of as employees (or, they are making beaucoup overtime / comp time :))
> as does the sense of smug superiority.

Ouch I never made this connection but now that you bring it up, I can't unsee it.
you're right it is confusing. we're updating it now.
There are many, many modules that make up LibreOffice. At what point do you think they should update the major version?

It doesn't work for an app like LibreOffice. For a library with well defined interfaces, it does make sense as you can easily find breaking changes. LibreOffice shouldn't be making these sort of breaking changes. The libraries that under LO are using proper semversioning.