skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's racist is protecting one racial group at the expense of humanity. People need places to live - don't defend some group just because they showed up first.
Fwiw there was https://www.wired.com/2017/04/detroit-stomping-silicon-valle...

But who knows what to make of that
It truly depends on who you follow (and who they follow, lately).
Conceptually, there's no real benefit to using a TSDB if all you need is a list of values (or pairs), and storage/performance is not a concern. Are you using the time-seriesness of the data, or is it just happens that your data come in a time-series shape and you don't do anything special about it?

Many TSDBs offer specialized advantages:

* need fast append-only changes? influxdb covers that

* need performance for short-term time-series data? go for Prometheus

* most TSDBs offer compression to the data stored. In TSDBs, especially the timestamps, can be highly efficiently compressed. Some TSDBs (Chronix[0], for example) even offers an option to completely drop the timestamps in exchange for space savings. E.g., in Chronix's home page, they listed: The dataset contains about 3.7 billion pairs and takes 108 GB serialized as CSV. Chronix needs only 8.7 GB to store the dataset.

* high-level analytics that only makes sense for time-series data. Chronix[0], again for example, offers a list of high-level functions[1], such as derivatives, integrals, frequency, scaling, or even SAX. Note that you could implement in SQL Server, but would be a huge pain. It's really great that you could push these to the database layer.

(I'm not affiliated with Chrnoix in any way, I just happen to be a very happy user in my recent project. You can see a review of Chronix by Adrian Colyer in [3])

[0]: https://github.com/ChronixDB/chronix.server

[1]: https://github.com/ChronixDB/chronix.server#function-query

[3]: https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/03/10/chronix-long-term-storag...
> Why is this being questioned on vote bank politics

IMO, because the other side cannot just stand up and say "well done, that is a good move". It's the new normal.
I like that a lot!

Unfortunately I don't see a release date and I don't see how I can easily check if my device is compatible (it's USB C - OnePlus 5, but "Smartphone with DisplayPort over USB C technology"? I don't know).

If this were available NOW and .. ship/sell to me, then I'd give this a try in a heartbeat.
You can take defense spending out but you can't take out the distribution of Canada's population. According to [1] and [2], the top 30 municipalities of Canada make up 16 million people (across ~20,000 sq km) out of Canada's total population of 36 million while the top 30 cities in the US have a population of only about 40 million (out of 310+ million in the country) on roughly ~22,000 sq km. The scale and density of the United States is completely different to Canada, where a much larger percent of the population is within the same area as ~14% of the US population as measured by the biggest cities (the smallest autonomous entity that is still practical to analyze wrt spending relative to Canadian municipalities). We're talking 2-5x cost increases on infrastructure, services, and logistics for at least half the population compared to urban areas

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_100_largest_munici...
A less biased source for the same story, all quotes are the same https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa39vv/eric-schmi...
It's rumored North Korea already kidnapped an Elder.
> I think Wikipedia keeps a record of all the changes?

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be the case, specifically with talk pages where the history of the discussion with the editor who deemed it a “hoax” was, but you can see some remnants of it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Random_Hacks_of_K...

I wasn’t the one who made the edits to the page itself, but I was involved in collecting the links to prove it wasn’t a “hoax” and helping make the case to the editor who refused to believe it was true.
I hope Let's Encrypt does S/MIME certificates someday. Almost all major email clients support it.
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My app Ripen is similar. We just began accepting beta testers. Ripen is a crowd sourced produce stand discovery app. Users add produce and produce stands. They add reviews for specific produce as well as an overall grade for the stand for service reviews. If anyone is interested in being part of beta let me know.
Kickstarter for the 1%.
Yep, sorry forgot to mention its roughly $3 in gas / oil and maybe $3 in depreciation of the vehicle?
Everyone is quick to bring up President Trump. If you don’t think about the media landscape (big scary picture) and are quick to say this is lawsuit is a political move you are naive and uninformed. If this isn’t blocked overtime you will see companies like Google and FB attempting to gain more power and control in the same way. The DOJ had no other choice. They had to sue to protect the interest of consumers. They see where things are heading and its not good.

These deals are never good for consumers. When a few companies have too much power and control their only goal is to get more at the expense of the consumer. This is dangerous and should not be taken lightly.
It's telling that Docker still defaults to running containers as root (without user namespaces to remap UIDs)!
From C++ to COM (1995)
I don't usually like to be political, but it has become quite evident that the US government is a true oligarchy. Even if the entirety of the US population were to petition against this, Mr. Pai would do the bidding of those he serves, which is, hint, not the general US population.
If you'd like a mind blowing read find a copy of this:
https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Disaster-Urals-Zhores-Medvede...

Z. Medvedev is a Soviet dissident and exile that naively mentioned the Kyshtym disaster in an interview not understanding that he would be roundly panned by Western authorities in the nuclear industry and fellow travelers in Western media. Being a legitimate and accomplished academic he valued his credibility so he wrote a book to convince the world, using research papers published by Soviet scientists and available in the open press, that the disaster actually happened. He showed that the work in the papers could only have been conducted given massive radioactive contamination over a wide area, despite deliberate effort to obscure these circumstances. The cited papers would have been blocked from publication had the Soviet censors understood what they were reading, but they didn't, so the evidence accumulated. If anyone in the West noticed prior to Medvedev sticking their noses in it they didn't bother to say anything.

Years later the Soviets fessed up and vindicated Medvedev.
After its thorough analysis, the court declared “(1) that the Australian Injunction is repugnant to the United States Constitution and the laws of California and the Unites States..

Wow, now that's a judicial smack down.
I would venture a guess to say that we can always make sand but it is easier to just dig it out of the ground instead of crushing it all up.
As someone that detests Congress, I don't really see why naming it after Indira Gandhi is that bad. Esp considering she is unlikely to stand in an election again... I also don't see why not being the first state to do it is bad; someone else here linked 5 other states that run similar programs.

I was happy that the tradition of naming everything after Rajiv Gandhi is stopping.
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Ooh, alright then. Thanks.
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Sheer numbers don't mean as much in the face of vastly superior weaponry. If the Soviets didn't keep pace with Western advances, they would be at a serious disadvantage.
"so I wonder why as a concept the phone-connected-to-desktop-peripherals thing hasn't gained more traction."

I think there's a slightly different model that makes even more sense ...

What we see with DeX (and Altrix, etc.) is the phone as the CPU that gets plugged into larger devices.

But what I think makes more sense is a smaller module, as the CPU, that gets plugged into larger devices including a phone.

So instead of plugging your phone into your "PC" you would move the core module from your phone, to your PC.

That way the core module can be much smaller and can power future phone upgrades, etc.

I think a PCMCIA[1] card (a "PC-CARD") would be a great form factor for the compute module...

[1] People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
Are there any similar articles that are more simply written? I'd like to pass this kind of information on to the people in my life that aren't technically minded. At the moment when I try, I just sound like a conspiracy nut.
Absolutely, although they may not be recognized as such until after their death.
Is optimizing for cost efficiency a cardinal sin on HN now?
> Your country needs to maintain the infrastructure to self-sustain it's people in a world war.

Food wise, logistics wise or technology wise? Because while the US could manage the first two assuming no major internal disruptions, we've pretty much abandoned the third in favor of cheap imports and profits.
I skimmed through the comments, looked at code examples - they hurt my eyes. Read arguments of Scala people. Read about C# vs Java. For the life of me I don't get it. Why people simply wouldn't use Clojure?
Amusing anecdote: I started college in 1982, and couldn't study continuously for more than 30 minutes. Still can't. I've gotten to where I am in my career -- for better or worse -- with virtually zero attention span. There are some exceptions: I can concentrate on math or programming for hours.
If any tourists are thinking of trying them out, please don't. The canteens serve a fixed number of meals a day. You might end up depriving someone of a subsidized meal.
Consolidation can be both good and bad for consumers. Consolidation can permit economies of scale which can drive down prices of sufficient competition remains in the market. Amazon, for example, just couldn’t offer the same services at the same price if it were say, 20 different competing companies. Same thing for Wal-Mart, or Google.
Ask HN: Examples of well done keyboard-driven interfaces?
There was a recent tweetstorm that went around the internet about how computers in the 80s were perceptually faster than modern computers[1]. I'm not interested in arguing for or against this claim, but the author made the claim that keyboard driven interfaces are more user friendly than mouse driven ones. I'm inclined to believe this for many application types, particularly data entry and retrieval, which is probably the majority of business software out there, but I'm not familiar with any good, relatively modern[2] applications done in this style. So does anyone on HN have examples they can share? Ideally something I could try out and use.

[1]: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/927593460642615296
[2]: Not modern in the sense of "modern javascript" or "modern c++", but just meaning still maintained or made within the past few years.
The process stuff would probably be off-topic. But for something to get started with quickly, this is good:

https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit

Redux-friendly, too.
It would be worth verifying that NODE_ENV=production is set during these benchmarks (I see no mention in either the article or the source repository.) Running in development mode has a significant performance impact.

Edit: This PR shows that is likely to be the case. Running in production mode along with some other minor changes shows React running at 88% the speed of Pug. https://github.com/janit/node-templating-benchmark/pull/1
An important threshold is crossed if the core, or part of it, becomes 'prompt critical'. Normally, a reactor's chain reaction is only sustained with the contribution of the delayed neutrons, which are occasionally emitted by fission products, in addition to the prompt neutrons, which are emitted during fission itself. If an assembly becomes so supercritical that the reaction can be sustained by the prompt neutrons alone, the doubling time of the exponential growth in the reaction rate suddenly becomes orders of magnitude shorter, leading to an explosive release of energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_neutron#Importance_in_n...
> The reality here is that the President is blocking this deal because of his issues with CNN ( (To those that think this is not being driven by the Whitehouse...I have this bridge I am trying to sell....).

Alright, give us your best pitch.

How do you see this happening, Trump calls DOJ and tells them to block AT&T merger because of CNN?
Can you imagine the panic they must have felt when they realized that there was security flaw in code that hadn't been compiled in 17 years, that they didn't even write, they couldn't find... and they were responsible for fixing?

I would love to read the post mortem.
You also realize when someone is trying to appeal to your insecurities to extract something from you. You start avoiding those situations and the kinds of stress that they embody.
I suspect they'll be patching this one, but I don't know if they have updated the ME firmware in the past.

However, Intel's own platform tools (MEInfo and MEManuf running in a UEFI shell) can't even communicate with the ME on my 2015 Macbook Pro, so I would be quite interested to know what exactly they have done differently with regard to configuring the platform.

People have been archiving every version of the ME firmware for each chipset, and it would appear there are some versions that may be specific to Apple hardware. I'm not sure what is different, if anything, but you can see (and download) the particular firmware versions here: https://www.win-raid.com/t596f39-Intel-Management-Engine-Dri...
Until the modern era, the global birth rate was fairly constant at about six per woman. The population growth we've experienced over the last century is mostly to do with child survival.

Before 1900, the child mortality rate in India was over 50%. If you need children to care for you in old age and expect most of your children to die, you're likely to have a lot of them. When child survival improved, attitudes changed. Parents no longer want three or four children to work on the family farm, they want one or two children to become doctors or engineers. Economic development and the availability of reliable contraception have made that aspiration practical.

If you're interested in the topic, I can highly recommend this lecture by the late Hans Rosling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E
You're rather judging a lot of people by the views expressed by a few.

If we went about Republicans the same way, well, we had several party representatives in Alabama say that they would vote for a child molester ("even if true ..."), just so their party would have an extra vote in Senate.
First we find out the "Arbitrary requirement" of this episode is: Google cloud tasks API.

Then:

Most DIY CNC arms are controlled by a Raspberry Pi,
but for a smart garden, we need something that has
easier interfaces to Internet connectivity and
sensors, so I'd like to add an Android Things Hub.

What?

This is an ad for Google
Except where I live, I do not have any other ISPs besides Comcast.
I can vouch for KDB as I've been using it extensively for financial time-series for 7+ years now. The free version is 32-bit and the 64-bit version will cost you. Other than that, the q language is a super-terse, functional language that lends itself to writing code quickly - that runs even faster...
Biggest chunk of the food prize increases a lot in the last mile (supermarkets, restaurants, etc).
In my region, where you used to see 50-60 of people doing fruit picking in one big field, now you see 2 people + 1 tractor + robotic arm.
Market prices are barely the same, I dont think labor cost is what really increases the final food price.
I'm not trying to persuade people to stay in Spacemacs. I'm asking to try it. It has some nice ideas that I would've definitely tried to re-implement in Vim myself, if I would've chosen not to stay.
It’s clear the management types who are pushing that agenda don’t really understand what they’re asking. I have a feeling it’s going to blow up in their faces when all of a sudden people don’t want to play their other mind games anymore.
Comcast... Verizon...
Increased profits come from somewhere. Nothing is ultimately good for consumers, they are just misled to believe it is.

Increased jobs, in the case of walmart, come at the price of workers having to apply for foodstamps to live. Cheaper prices come at the cost of driving local stores out of business. Google and amazon are shitty companies too, no matter how much they pay for good PR.
The other issue with printf and every other templating mechanism is that the format string or template itself might be computed rather than being a static literal. Also, the types of the formatted arguments may not be decided statically.
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Of course, but in many cases (BMP, T-64, SA-2, AT-3, R-7) they were ahead of the west. They built a technically advanced and massive army. Quantity was something the U.S. didn't consider necessary after the Vietnam War. At that point, the Soviets could've done the same. Except that a third of their army was deployed along their border with communist China and later they had a small problem in Afghanistan.
Previously theorized by Charlie Stross in a significantly more fanciful, but riveting take: https://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/
That’s not “air gapped” if it’s connected to another government network.
> he goes to the toilet and takes a dump and so do you

I say the same exact thing to my friends who are mesmerized by rich and famous people. Both money and fame are man-made and didn't exist in pre-historic reptile era of the earth.
"Civilization" is not a _bad_ word so much as it's a badly _mis-used_ one (same as "culture"). My point was perhaps unclear; the issue is how it's been implemented politically that's the problem. I happen to think one _can_ use it in a scholarly context as a broad brushstroke reference, but only with care and discretion and an understanding of its historical use.

Labelling a community as "barbaric," however, has been a handy excuse for taking land and killing people for millenia. White settlers came to view Native Americans as barbaric, and that was reason enough for attempted genocide. A case could be made that trying to systemically eliminate an entire population might perhaps count as barbaric. "Barbarism," like "civilization," is in the eye of the beholder.

Being natives within a large-scale, organized, literate society, it's only natural to assume this is the best of all possible worlds, but one could make a counter-argument that this society leaves its members weak, alienated, and anomic. There's also the matter of poverty, large-scale warfare, oppression, and pollution that contemporary societies contribute. I must say, my digital watch is pretty neat, though.

As a scientist myself, I certainly place a great deal of value in science as a process of inquiry and understanding. However, science is just a tool, and like a hammer it can be used to cause harm as well as create. It all depends on the person wielding it.
If you spend 20K in developer time to optimize for few hundred/month savings you are not going to be saving much (and that is not counting the cost of maintaining that extra code over time)
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Its also a question of mobility, if you are staying far would you spend money and time to travel just to eat and get back, especially given you have to work the whole day as well.
"I would love this. I’m sick of lugging a heavy aluminum notebook around. I want to drop my phone into a cradle or have it wirelessly connect to a KVM setup so I can launch into a desktop session for running tmux and a browser."

I don't know if this really solves that, though ...

I would like to maintain the same compute environment from phone to laptop but I would still need to bring the laptop (or, rather, the laptop shaped dock) with me everywhere.

This is because you can't possibly plug untrusted/unknown devices into computers you own. There is no way I am plugging my "CPU" into a hotel/airport/Regus workstation.
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Interesting that the West still denied the Mayak incidents, even in the 1970s.

Experts in Britain, the United States, France, and many
other countries responded by denying my story and stating
that such a thing was technically impossible. The earliest
and most sharply worded rebuttal to my story came from the
chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Sir
John Hill. His interview with the Press Association
published in the London Times on November 8, 1976, was
reprinted in many European and American papers. He declared
in the most high-handed fashion that my story was "rubbish".

-- Zhores Medvedev, Nuclear Disaster in the Urals, p5
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The OP referred to farm subsidies, not food subsidies. The majority of these are in the form of price floors, intended to alleviate poverty among farmers and prevent shortages by encouraging excess supply during all but the leanest of times.

The reality is, the majority of these subsidies go to multi-million dollar farms, not the small family farms. As a result, we're effectively paying taxes to raise prices on food, which is very regressive in that it hurts the poor far more than the wealthy.

Of course, the flip side of the coin is that without the subsidies, prices would be so low that small farms wouldn't be able to compete anyway. Supply would, assuming the weather cooperates, roughly match demand, and a not insignificant chunk of taxes could go towards other programs (such as subsidizing school breakfasts and lunches). Then, we'd have some bizarre mix of natural disasters that creates a severe shortage of several key crops, causing significant chaos both in markets and in the daily lives of people who like to eat food, and we'd end up right back where we started- demanding the government guarantee that we don't run out of food in lean times, and paying the price for doing so.
> ...[the US] pretty much abandoned [technology] in favor of cheap imports and profits.

From a consumer perspective, sure. From a critical defense perspective, not entirely[1].

[1] https://www.dmea.osd.mil/otherdocs/AccreditedSuppliers.pdf
It's rather telling that you say "delete every app", but you really mean "delete every social media app" (for many people, these are, indeed, equivalent).
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