skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We don't currently block apps when subs are cancelled (except in cases of abuse) but we will likely do something in the future if a customer has cancelled their subscription but are still actively advertising their app on their site for example.

Wow, it'd take a witness stand to get me to admit something like this.

Actively seeking a method to stop your former customers from offering their finished product because they no longer see a need to pay for your service is a good reason to never use your service.
HTML isn't really meant to be a UI platform. It's a mature hypertext platform, but for UI it isn't ideal:

• Very few core widgets. Everyone has to supply their own.

• Poor/non-existent support for menus.

• Poor support for keyboard accelerators.

• Rich text editing is ropey, and you have to supply your own UI.

• No table views, tree views, or virtualized list views.

• Multiple incompatible DSLs all of which get wrapped in practice.

• Only accessible from one programming language.

• Only recently got any built-in notion of components.

Electron is convenient because lots of people know HTML and because it lets you incrementally upgrade a pre-existing web app. But if you know you'll be on the desktop anyway there are toolkits that solve the above problems, some of which meet your requirement of being lighter whilst still using stuff like CSS or SVG. Qt fits the bill and if you're not a C++/Qt person, JavaFX also uses a dialect of CSS (which can be compiled to binary even) whilst still offering a fairly complete widget set out of the box. It can be compiled down to a fully native binary these days, and even streamed over the web (see https://www.jfx-central.com/ for a demo).

So once you leave the browser you have a far greater array of UI options available to you. Power users in particular tend to appreciate the productivity of standard desktop UI paradigms.

And they're all equally easy to distribute these days. Conveyor will ship anything, it just has some sensible defaults for Electron/JVM/Flutter apps. Fully native apps work too, though.
I think you are referring to “bikeshedding” which isn’t quite what I had in mind.

I think what I’m describing is more closely related to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy

See also “Complete Information” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_information

The idea that all agents in a system should be aware of the consequences of all actions is itself fallacious in this thinking.

As such, the “glitch” can legitimately arise from the interaction of agents who do not have complete information.
The US consumes about 322 billion gallons of water per day. There are about 66.5 cubic centimeters of salt in a gallon of water. If we bury the salt in 200-foot deep landfills, that's a total of roughly 32k acres per year, less than 2% of the total landfill capacity in the US (which is roughly 1.8M acres, less than 0.1% of the total land area, so there's plenty of room for more landfills if necessary).

And of course that's assuming we use desalination for 100% of water use in the entire US.
No. They knew about CC. in the 50's - their own engineers pointed out the problem and the dire repercussions it would have. Admittedly, those engineers had only just realized what physicists had known since the late 19th century.

No matter how you slice it, as you point out, they've known about the problem, they've lied about the problem, they've spent millions of dollars in a public deception campaign - and they've been doing it for decades.

Heck, we're still getting to the bottom of all the damage brought on by their adding tetraethyl lead to their gasoline. It's going to take even longer sorting out through all this mess. They'd just like us to forget about it and move along. That's not gonna happen.
I'm sorry, but have you actually read the article? Or even opened the page? The graphic right at the start shows problems throughout the country. The very first line is "Overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide", the very first concrete example cited is Kansas, which is hardly the South-West, and the second example is New York state, which is even less in the South-West. It goes on with many examples, stories, and anecdotes from outside the South-West.
Why do you think necessarily that this is junk food? Fair that there is no chorus, but what is the problem using mice in an experiment? I mean, it’s done for a reason, right?
I actually googled that just to make sure before making the pun.
Those battles all take place under .25 or lower time dilation so that the servers can handle the load. Star Citizen plans on having a massive player count per shard under full normal time.
All the water California and the southwest uses is for producing crops and other food products the rest of the US uses.
Speaking as a UK customer of Netflix... there's just not that much content to make it worth me keeping a full time subscription up with this. When it was shared it was fine? But now, Disney+ or AppleTV are better propositions.

I don't know what it's like in the States but there is significantly less high quality stuff on there today than there was 5 years ago - most BBC and Channel 4 stuff has been pulled in the UK for e.g. and is free anyway via BBC iPlayer and All4. There are occasional diamonds among the sea of Netflix produced stuff but much of it is awful.
> The REAL value of this pattern is when the keys are going to change on runtime

Which is demonstrated in the article, see second example (third and fourth code blocks).
>Getting out what we put in is kind of par for the course in education, yes?

Yes, you put in a person + knowledge and get out an educated person. Is it reasonable to expect to put in GPU + text and get somehow a competent actor, however narrowly we define competence (maybe if we define actor narrowly enough)?
South-east Asia? I'm not sure moving there is an option ;)
It’s not trustworthy until dozens of independent labs across several countries can validate it.
The videos of what appear to be live lines on the ground writhing and sparking may tend to complicate this defense.

I wonder how many hacked up "home power" systems might've been backfeeding into power lines? Could the electric company have actually shut of their feeders and still failed to de-energize big portions of the grid? Do people with local power there manage their own transfer switches or is that power company property marked "don't touch"?
Soon people will be talking about Swedish exceptionalism.

The fact is, COViD is a problem for those at high risk, and those risk factors were well known in the early days. One response could have been to make just that subset take precautions.

But for some reason the vast majority of liberal societies went all totalitarian on their people. Why that was is as interesting as how Sweden did.
It's not a spoiler. If Sean Bean is in a movie or TV show, he will die.
Of all the python packaging solutions, my favorite is pip-tools because it works with a standard venv setup. Poetry has some great features, but the additional overhead of requiring devs to install and learn a new tool are just not worth it. Also now you need to install poetry in your Docker images and/or production environments.
I was in the metabolic syndrome and obese group, and I have some thyroid problems (likely due to growing up near a uranium enrichment facility). I could diet and exercise and still gain weight that was largely visceral fat, and especially fat in my liver. I was in the beginning stages of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Under my doctor's supervision, I went on the keto diet. I eat high fat foods and meats, and I lost about 50 lbs in 2 months. My weight stabilized over the following months within a healthy range. Additionally, chronic pain, concentration, and energy levels all improved. Most of this is due to the weight loss, but not all of it. Sugar can cause inflammation in high quantities, and it can also cause an increase in blood pressure. Sugars are also metabolized by cancer cells while ketones are not, which would explain the rise in cancer rates as sugar consumption has increased across the planet. My liver function improved, cholesterol levels improved, blood sugar stabilized, and insulin resistance went down.

I personally believe that there is some kind of difference among humans in how we digest things that goes beyond the microbiome. Some people can eat high amounts of carbohydrates and sugars without negative consequences beyond tooth decay. Other people cannot eat any sugar without incurring weight gain and cognitive problems.
> pasture requires more water than many crops

I see this argument often in the discussion around meat (beef, mostly) consumption. I also see the counter that most of that water goes straight back into the ground and most of the rest goes back in after it goes through the cow.

The counter seems logical to me, but I am probably missing something?
For synthetic fibres : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4426466/

For tyre particulate : https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/101707/9/Tyr...
I've had the same experience, it's terrible.

Having said that, the default system is also ignorant to the current weigh of the elevator so it is still subject to stopping on floors without there being any space left.
Have you built anything comparable? It's in alpha, making performance/presentation comments seems really out of place. If you were well-informed on the project, you would know that they intentionally put performance optimizations on the backburner, because optimizing tech they intended to replace is not a good use of time.

Besides, in the last 6 months performance has drastically improved, as anyone that actually plays will tell you. I play regularly, do a variety of delivery/bounty/mining/recovery missions, explore planets/stations, have funny interactions surrounding all of that with other players, etc. Rome wasn't built in a day.
Could just be an about:config flag, that would be better than having to apply userChrome.css on every profile where you need it.
A new creator’s guild aims to protect online content creators
Only while you are typing and for a random time period after you stop. 50 packets per second, while I'm typing, doesn't seem like too many packets.
> Handling requests over separate threads, like 99% of languages do, still isn't enough if all the business logic runs on the same thread.

When would this EVER be the case? I'm struggling to imagine a scenario where logic doesn't/can't run in the worker thread.
Eevdf Scheduler Merged for Linux 6.6
I mostly agree. Parsing is as complex as the theory-heavy books make it out to be (and more as you keep going down the rabbit hole). But the necessity of that complexity is isolated to some pretty niche areas. If you've been brushing up against the limitations of straight forward parsing for a number of years and are still finding them wanting, then you might be one of the few people who need to delve deeper.

Almost everyone should just hand code a recursive descent parser and then move on with their lives. I've been a part of a few book clubs at work that tried to dig into compiler books and the same thing kept happening. People get bogged down by the parser theory and give up. One of the people even eventually left to work on cryptograph for a company doing government contracts. These people could understand complex topics, but apparently parsing theory is a bridge to far for nearly everyone.
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Isn't the modern consensus that Sean Bean being cast to play a character carries that information implicitly?
Over the past two years I've played maybe 10-20 hours of SC. I paid $45 for the starter ship and then made some money moving boxes and doing bounties to upgrade my ship and then have enough to buy a bigger one. The game is pretty fun if you're used to MMO style grinding. The only problem is that during the past two years there have been many server state wipes so you lose everything except for the starter ship you purchased. On top of that there have been intermittent stability issues which would cause you to disconnect in the middle of doing something. It seems that it's become much more stable. So yeah, you're at minimum paying $45 for a game that's alpha, which is questionable value. My justification for this was that there isn't really any other game on the market that gives you the same experience. Starfield is releasing soon, but that's all single player, and I don't think it has space flight sim combat like SC does. Despite this, it's still a fun game with a lot of things to do, however it will not be everyone's cup of tea. Check out https://www.youtube.com/@CaptainBerks and https://www.youtube.com/@Morphologis for a better idea.

I really hope server meshing pans out, but I'm skeptical that RSI has the chops to pull it off. The number of objects in SC is huge and the world is seamless. This not something that's entirely new though. EVE Online has meshed servers for persistence of tens of thousands of concurrent players in a single universe successfully for decades now.
This was an all-too-familiar problem ~135 years ago - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_antit...

Perhaps our Malevolent Corporate Overlords are partly behind the recent trend of slashing or eliminating History Departments at the university level, and applying heavy "PC" filtering to what history is taught in primary and secondary schools?
Why does David Chapman hate backpropagation so much
In the article I’ve linked he talks about how modern neural networks are not very biologically accurate. I follow the logic and while don’t agree with everything he says I do agree with the general sentiment. However, I cannot for the life of me figure out why he hates backpropagation. From what he’s written, it seems he takes issue with the optimization techniques for modern neural networks (reasonable), but then if anything he should have issue with gradient descent? Gradient descent is the optimization algorithm, backpropagation is just the calculus used to calculate the gradients. Yet he specifically singles out backpropagation as the problem. It just feels incredibly bizarre
If you just don't quit eventually there is still a dismissal + severance right? What if I just keep working from home?
I think web tech (even as resource hungry as it tends to be) is the right abstraction until your product & team is big enough to properly staff and develop for each platform. Looking at you, Slack. It's time to step up to native.

I look at it this way: Any app deploying to four platforms (web, Mac, Linux, Windows) is going to involve some level of non-native abstraction. (Whatever Adobe seems doing for their UI kit is equally terrible if not worse.)

Also: Websites are indeed software in 2023. I realized the other day that my favorite design app is Figma, and I NEVER thought I'd say that about a non-native app.

I think the optimization here is to have browsers themselves make the "desktop mode" experience much better, removing the need for Electron style projects. You shouldn't have to re-bundle the entire browser to get to it. You shouldn't have to pay $250/mo to have a reasonable installer. There should just be an install for desktop button on the web app. I believe Safari is headed this direction in the upcoming Mac OS release.
> Is ToDesktop For Me?

> If you want to make a desktop app of a website for your personal use, ToDesktop is overkill.

I just want to point out that a lot of us "pros" learn how to use tools like this by semi-personal use.

Therefore, you might want to consider a free personal version that's crippled in a mildly annoying way: For example, no installer, don't sign the app, and have an easily-ignorable nag. (Therefore creating a situation where if I tried to distribute one of these applications for a commercial product it looks unprofessional.)

It creates a great way to "try before you buy," and it has another effect: Free consumer use of ToDesktop can make it a "household name" when developers need to use a tool like this.

I should point out that I've been doing this for at least a decade: I used to use https://fluidapp.com/ for years until I switched to the techniques built into Chrome / Edge / Brave.
Well, Conveyor can already self sign and produce a download page with instructions telling the users what to do. It's fine for internal demos and dev teams indeed. But browsers/operating systems will generate security warnings, and so that might be offputting to end users. You'd be unsure if your app was struggling due to that, or due to some product flaw.

Then there's the question of how long a trial would last. It could take months until someone decides whether their app is going to fly or not.
Or any form of authentication for that matter, e.g. AWS.
You can note how little effort is put into many manga noses.

Are big noses flattering? No. Are they hard to draw? Yes. Get rid of them!
Speak you about that which you know not? You think I don't know your mosquito burden, yet you know mine? But it's you who doesn't know mine.

I've had plenty the places I've lived. I've been bit so many times now I no longer get bumps or itchiness. Continue felling your forests to create swamps, perhaps you should blame your industrial policy if you dislike your surrounds.

Thank you for the kind offer, tho! You keep them where you are, you need them. But if you really have enough to share, indeed safe keep them! :)
> Today we’re making Duet AI for Google Workspace generally available

The "generally available" bit doesn't sound accurate. To activate it, you need to submit a "Request a trial" form.

For every other Google Workspace feature in GA, billing, subscriptions, and feature settings is available self-serve in Google Workspace Admin.

This is the first "generally available" feature I've seen that's still hidden behind a "request access" form after being called "generally available".

I'm pretty surprised that Google is breaking their own use of the "GA" terminology. General Availability has a pretty specific meaning to anyone who manages Google Workspace for a company, and the way they're rolling out Duet is not how they typically roll out new features.

Which leaves me wondering if this is more of a fluff piece. Has anyone actually gotten access to Duet yet?
Is this more of an issue for evaporated brine than for regular landfills? I thought that modern landfills had pretty advanced systems for preventing groundwater contamination, but it does seem possible that the problem is harder for water soluble brine.
Don’t eat that rubbish. Buy whole foods that you can trust
I use Go and it gives me a good sweet spot between cost and perf.

I’m nowhere close to performance requirements of Pinterest. But my auth service runs on a single 1vcpu, 512mb ram, and 10gb ssd. I use leveldb and swap on the 10gb. I’ve benchmarked it to handle 8-9k rps while delivering 150ms max response time. Not bad for a few bucks a month.
Do you see an administration going after obesity the way they did tobacco? (negative ads, advertising bans, etc)

Unlike smoking, half the class is already fat. NGOs and media would frame it as a psychological harm to those children, fat-shaming, or who knows what else. It would be a political landmine.
In a few isolated cases. Very good, but not enough on its own.

Stop forcing me at gunpoint to give up a large portion of the value I create. And stop supporting your country forcing others at gunpoint to be like it.
Understanding Position Automata
It's a vendor post, written to sell you something. Accordingly, it lacks any nuance or perspective and makes claims it doesn't even attempt to back up.
Microsoft quietly ends unlimited cloud storage option on OneDrive
The problem with Elixir is that it is such a foreign language to most of the junior developers and a radical shift to dig into coming from object-oriented and other higher-level languages. This is worsened by the fact that there are not many jobs for Elixir in addition to Development Tooling, IDE Support.

To someone who starts their job on an Elixir codebase, it is just not a smooth onboarding at all. While the performance aspect is unparalleled compared to most of the popular scripting languages in the last decade, the price to pay to settle into Elixir seems huge to me.
I use a dedicated account for Fi because when Fi first came out I signed up with my main account they removed my access to Google Voice which I use heavily. They have since allowed both Fi and Voice on the same account but I am not bothering with switching my Fi account to my main at this point.
Whatsapp took over the world running on Erlang/BEAM, with barely any servers and a few engineers. I honestly don't know what could be a better success story than that, but Discord has also done pretty well. The BEAM + Rust combination is looking scarily effective right now.
Meigs Field, Chicago's third, downtown airport is my favorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field
Technical details 404, nothing about what distinguishes it from other chat platforms and hosts it's own community on discord. No.
I thought you could publish them on app stores. What makes the installation process poor?
I was pretty disappointed to learn that hexane is still commonly used for solvent extraction of vegetable oil. Residual levels are generally < 50 ppb, but hexane metabolites can covalently bond to biomolecules [1] and take years to be removed [2]. There are tons of safer solvents to choose from.

1: https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdire...

2: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jns.12261
That’s not a great comparison.

If it was comparable to lead in terms of identifying toxicity, we wouldn’t be having this debate.

So actually plastic is worse than lead in that it’s more insidious, some want to slowly kill things but it’s nearly impossible to tell which. If only it were like lead and upfront about it.

So no, they are not saying “metal is toxic”. That is extending the analogy to another topic: identification
And of course you can just go and buy a much faster JVM from Azul rather then rewrite everything.
Was goat, lamb and mutton ever big in the US? How little lamb is available was one of the things that stuck out to me when moving from Germany to the US many years ago