skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ActorDB is a neat project. Simplified, it's a distributed SQLite where consistency is guaranteed by the Raft protocol.

However, it has a unique and initially confusing data model where the database is divided into "actors", which are self-contained shards. For example, a database modeled on Hacker News would probably have an actor per user and an actor per story, and probably an actor per thread.

Every actor acts like a self-contained database, with its own set of tables. When you want to query or update data, you first tell it which actor(s) to operate on; but unlike systems like Cassandra, the sharding is explicit, in that the shards have identifiers, and there's no automatic sharding function. Indeed, you can have actors that act like a basic database, e.g. a global, shared list of lookup values could be a single actor.

You have ACID transactions within actors, and you can also do transactions across actors, and queries can also span multiple actors. You can't do joins across actors, as far as I recall. Schema migrations also become interesting, since each actor has its own, entirely separate schema.
How can you build applications on the web that use Bluetooth or USB devices without these APIs? Here there is a lot of hate for web based applications but I think this is because the web unlike native apps has a huge amount of transparency that means we can have solid debate about the approaches and solutions taken. In your closed source native app who knows what you chose for security, tracking and anything else about your app is not transparent. I always prefer web based applications over native. Native means I have far less trust in the application. Is it even using tls for network requests? So many things we can’t see in a native app.
> Busniess idea: mock phone/video interviews as a service

https://interviewing.io/ exists
> Japan, religion is only very important for 10% of adults

Yet Japanese spend routinely 20 000 to 30 000 USD to have a religious (Buddhist) ceremony for their dead family members. Very generic statistics about vague opinions don't explain everything.
Don’t gloss over all the atrocities committed by the Soviets and Chinese in the name of aetheism.

Evil people will harness whatever philosophy is convenient to justify their actions.
Just to ad My router is a wrt3200acm running latest OpenWRT. I have the option of installing any packages that you can get on OpenWRT. I can all so make subnets and do all sorts of tricks with the firewall. I have more routers running as dumb APs.
I have never been religious, but anecdotally death has actually disenfranchised many of my previously religious friends and done nothing to persuade the nonbelievers... There are no miracles in modern healthcare, only science and humans.

Secular meditation does have wide appeal, and seems like a much healthier alternative free of dogmatic tradition.
ccache does not speed up full build. zapcc does.
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I expect that requires a customer service call of unpredictable length, which includes an unsavory argument. This is a disgraceful way to live in my opinion.
But the study specifically says that the data may indicate that people become more religious as they age.
> religion has engendered a great deal of evil throughout history

It's more accurate to say religion was misused by many leaders hungry for power, fame, or treasure.
Do it, there’s really very little to lose, and a lot to gain.
They didn’t commit them in the name of atheism, they committed them in the name of economic and social revolutions of which atheism played a relatively small part compared to communist ideology. By comparison with “in the name of god” there is no honest comparison.

@Jumpcrisscross: One can make similar arguments for the Crusades.

Then why not make that argument? Remember to put “Deus Vult” in that context.

Of course they did since the pretty much first they did was to imprison in concentration camps the clergy, and destroy all religious buildings as well.

“Pretty much” is doing yeoman’s work there, bravo. I like how it also glosses over the fact that most of what happened was anti-money, anti-status, and anti-intellectual.
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Heh, I used to drive Lambo Murcielago and it once almost caught fire - the rear plastic parts ended up completely melted. It was giving me signals when I couldn't suddenly go faster than 120kph, some people were also overtaking me with weird looks (I guess they saw fire or something). It seemed to extinguish itself though and later I could go over 300kmh. When I went refueling, I saw the damage and that was it.
Religion is a representation of man’s yearning to answer “why?”. Some questions don’t have answers and that’s okay. Having faith in the process of learning we realize that answers can be derived through logic and fact. God is a concept variable to represent the answer to that question for those who haven’t realized the purpose of such a concept. As such, time passes, more mysteries are unfolded, and there is less need for mystical thought.
My guess is a combination of the following:

1. Building 3D data is too large or inconvenient to store on the device.

2. Continuously downloading/caching small localized chunks of that data would result in unacceptable use of bandwidth for customers with limited data plans.

3. Their implementation of the algorithm may be CPU inefficient and contribute to excessive battery drain.

4. (cynical) This gives them yet another excuse to be sucking up and storing 1Hz precise user location data, potentially to use for other reasons...
A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer – How to Survive as a Programmer 101
How to use Vue and Django together?
I agree, late WotLK and Cata took a game that felt like a living breathing world and downgraded it to feeing like a game. The one click cross server dungeon queues and the Disneyland style on rails no detours questing are likely the primary culprits.
Your point about developing economies is true, but this:

>What's interesting is that the same basic dynamic likely applies to even highly developed economics.

is not
I spent two years at a Catholic high school. The most important lesson from that experience was the maxim that "you have to believe something" -- that class (senior religion) encouraged us to examine our beliefs. Many people adopt their parents' explanation for the world we live in. Others prefer the scientific explanation du jour ("of the day").

The old religions have become stale, but the hunger for spirituality persists.

Science has "true believers" too. These prostelytizers proclaim that that there is no need for spiritual hocus-pocus anymore, that Science has explanations for everything now, or at least they'll have it all figured out soon. This has been the Physicalist's sermon for ... maybe 170 years.

Spiritualism maintains that the life force is separate from the physical world we inhabit: the life force is what "animates" the bodies we take on for a while.

YODA: Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
You must feel the Force around you. Here, between you,
me, the tree, the rock, everywhere. Yes, even between
this land and that ship.

People have experiences that cannot be explained by 'physicalism' all the time: out of body experiences, 'intuition', memory, telepathy, imagination, etc... My comment on this subject from 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17238552
Out of curiosity, how many of those would you say were cars less than a few years old? That more than anything is what catches my attention about this story — anecdotally, I’ve seen car fires on the highway, but always older cars, and a Tesla seems like it shouldn’t have had time to accrue that degree of wear and tear and deferred maintenance. But I’m curious what someone with more data points makes of it.
Knowing more about the natural world doesn't eliminate God. It makes the unexplainable parts more amazing.

It's similar to how holders of doctorates say that their achievement makes more clear what they don't know.
It’s literally a 10 second series of clicks on the “orders” section of your account, no call required.
This is why category theory interests developers. Composing programs like lego bricks.

It is more nuanced that, distros involve a lot of snowflake programs using several build systems using several languages many of which do not compose well together.

The ecosystem is gravitating back into a homogeneous LLVM back end reminiscent of COBOL/C/FORTRAN all playing well together.

Build systems are still a mess. Cmake and Bazel for now are on top. The next winner will allow for massively distributed builds on AWS Lambda and S3. I'm personally working on a distro for AWS Lambda.
Likely has a lot more to do with the fact that the intersection between the population that can create such projects and the population that can write clear effective documentation is exceedingly small.
Yeah, a time machine -- or reading any of the publications the Rocky Mountain Institute has been putting out since the 1970s (e.g. Brittle Power) that show, when accounting for externalities, renewables and energy efficiency have been cheaper than fossil fuels and nuclear since the 1970s. Renewables and energy efficiency should have won in the marketplace for decades. Why didn't they? it is because of an tilted playing field where people don't pay the full cost (including risk) for fossil fuels and nuclear at the gasoline pump or on their electric bill -- but instead they pay it in higher health care costs, taxes for the military, or government-absorbed risk like for nuclear meltdowns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Institute
"The Lovinses described the "hard energy path" as involving inefficient liquid-fuel automotive transport, as well as giant centralized electricity-generating facilities, often burning fossil fuels such as coal or petroleum, or harnessing a fission reaction, greatly complicated by electricity wastage and loss. The "soft energy path" which they wholly preferred involves efficient use of energy, diversity of energy production methods (and matched in scale and quality to end uses), and special reliance on "soft technologies" (alternative technology) such as solar, wind, biofuels, and geothermal. According to the Institute, large-scale electricity production facilities had an important place, but it was a place that they were already filling in the middle 1970s; in general, more would not be needed. In a 1989 speech, Amory Lovins introduced the related concept of Negawatt power, in which the creation of a market for trading increased efficiency could supply additional electrical energy to consumers without increasing generation capacity—such as building more power plants."
when you are playing an offensive position you get to choose how you want to play the game. if your advantage is bursty movements but you don't have as good endurance then it is much better to conserve your energy and not get in a duel where you don't have an advantage.
> It seems like almost every major atrocity has been religiously motivated in some way.

You seem to forget that what Stalin and Mao did in their respective countries, leading to the direct death of probably in the area of 50 to 100 millions people if not more, was completely anti-religious and can be pretty much considered as the greatest atrocity in History EVER. So, no, religion is probably not the root of all evil.
Not sure I buy that.

UK passed >50% atheism some years back and is steadily becoming more so going on census. Ethnic minorities seem far more likely to retain some religion and keep the figures up. In my generation most were still given some Christian instruction, sent to Sunday school etc. The majority had grown out of it by adulthood. Church wedding might be chosen for pretty setting. Church school picked for children as it does well in local ratings.

Now I'm middle aged. Over the years quite a few formerly religious friends have become atheist or agnostic - often because life got serious. Of the few people I know who are still religious they are mostly old folks. Surely some of those life events would have triggered a few former atheists to find religion by now?

I just find it hard to believe I occupy wildly unrepresentative atheistic circles.

As an aside we often think the significant part that religion still seems to play in the US rather strange from this side of the Atlantic.
There's a UK company https://what3words.com/ that's been working on this for a while
And how many non Tesla cars are on the road vs Teslas?
If you need to map a uniform b-bit integer x into the [0, n) range, using ((x * n) >> b) will work just as well as the modulo in terms of (quasi-)even distribution, and it avoids integer division.

The idea is just to imagine x as a b-bit fixed-point uniformly random number in [0, 1), and rescaling it by multiplication.

This works great for hash tables whose size is not a power of 2, provided that you start from a good hash function.
Sure, go play with it and report when you are done. It's always a matter of time for something claiming to be the last one to become irrelevant and forgotten.
Yep. That’s definitely when I stopped being interested in playing as much. I wasn’t even that social a player (I was never in a guild), but I loved the feeling that I was in a virtual world full of people.

That crowd in the city, coupled with the worse trace options- back when mounts were for higher level players and were very expensive - made the actual quests feel a lot more remote.

Special mention to the griffins/hippogirffs. One of the greatest moments of joy I felt when I got on one the first time and could still look around as it flew.
yeah but still if Costco can do Im pretty sure Amazon could do it too
The ceremony might be a matter of culture, and less about religious belief.
Any competent phone manufacturer is already using Wi-Fi (and other input signals) to assist GPS, and providing the improved output to apps. So, if Uber is collecting Wi-Fi data, I doubt it's for the purpose of improving location.
Lithium-ion batteries have been slowly improving over the last 30 years. Every year they get a little cheaper, a little higher capacity, a little more reliable, a little higher discharge, over a few more charge cycles.

> In 1994, the cost to manufacture Li-ion in the 18650 cylindrical cell was over US$10 and the capacity was 1,100mAh. In 2001, the price dropped to below $3 while the capacity rose to 1,900mAh. Today, high energy-dense 18650 cells deliver over 3,000mAh and the costs are dropping.

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/lithium_based_bat...

It's not the revolution we may want, but it is the successful application of battery research.
for laymen like me: what is this, and what are the perfect use-cases for this?

"..log-based transactional graph (nodes/edges/properties).. ..primary use case is to support streaming seed set expansion." -- I'm totally lost.

I know these kind of software is targeted at developers, but it won't hurt to give analogy like "Uber for XXX" like in startup pitches. e.g. "It's like <put popular product name here e.g. MySQL> but <differentiating factors>".
If you're going to travel a lot, I would recommend using a lightweight laptop and use a remote server with GPU.

You can either access GPUs on demand or rent a server by the month. Hetzner[0] offers a GeForce 1080, 64 GB ram and Quad-Core i7 for ~$115 / month (+ setup fee).

[0] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu
Ever heard of RNGesus? And how often have you seen the "worship the guru" gesture seen used half-jokingly around tech or gamedev luminaries? How often do you hear "technology" referred to as if it's some actual resource or active entity, not to mention savior? Ever heard of followers of YouTube/whatever personalities [sic] going on crusades against the heathen followers of someone else?

That said, of course it's not "the young people" who came up with consumerism. But that doesn't mean it can't go on or get worse. I know externally derived identification when I see it, and at most "these days" the consumption became more virtual. No precious metals or fine clothes thank you very much, certainly no space to live, and no nature to enjoy -- just feuding rap artists, game and movie fans of "brands" and "franchises". Come to think of it... 30 years ago nobody would have said "I like the Star Wars franchise", it would have been "the Star Wars movies". No religious cults you say, but explain the ocean of Kool-Aid. "Hunting achievements", collecting virtual trinkets, and likes for photos.

Sure, you can say it's totally different. But to me that's like Evangelical Christians talking about how they don't have a religion, but a relationship to Jesus Christ etc. Call it however you want.
> They didn’t commit them in the name of atheism,

Of course they did since the pretty much first they did was to imprison in concentration camps the clergy, and destroy all religious buildings as well. This comment is so incredibly naive.
What do you mean by "full build"?
Intel Used a productivity app to learn about users’ needs
Not at all, Delhi's population has consistently grown by 1 million a year for the last decade and shows no signs of letting up. The trend towards urbanisation is strong.

The prospect of clamping down on agriculture burnoffs that plague the city during winter is limited too.

Meanwhile China has cleaned up it's award winning polluted cities quite quickly and continues to do so.
> The irony is that there’s nothing more offensive to an observing Christian than when politicians try to quote the Bible

The electoral record of Bible-quoting politicians amongst religious voters would appear to contradict your point.
this is interesting, however i'd like to mention that the example given in the video, the concept of creating spacing on the opposite side of the field isnt a foreign one at all in soccer. generally, the ball creates gravity around it sucking in defenders and players, and there will always be a very open player on the opposite side of the field to pass to if an attacker with the ball is in good position to do so or if it makes sense.

messi definitely is one of those players who plays in a smart way where he doesn't need to run too much to tire himself out. however i also believe that there is a lot of value in a fast paced ball movement. the sort of play gets everybody involved in a high energy mental sort of way, whereas messi's relatively low energy, whilst clearly effective, is only effective because messi is such a fantastic/smart dribbler
It's not hard to argue that Communism was a religion as it held all the trappings of such.
What percentage of those cars were less than three years old, or a supercar?
The Dell Precision 5530 is XPS-15 like and has a dGPU option.

Razer has well known quality and support issues.Asus and MSI both have strong laptop lines, but again support and quality is hit and miss.
Gloss over? The parent poster buried it in concrete! The Soviets and Chinese killed more than everyone before them, combined.

And you are 100% spot on - evil will use and abuse anything in pursuit of its goals. But those people that we clearly identify as evil - they were utterly convinced of the righteousness of their actions, whether it was Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, or the terrorists of the 21st century.
would a laptop be optimal for such things? Wouldn't you be better loading data into a home server where you can have more powerful cpu and multiple gpu's?
Of course not. A religion is something you choose to believe in. Communism did you give you any choice. It events prevents its own citizens to leave.
I have no doubt they straight up lied to you.
The new reality is that the barriers are gone. Ops must dev, dev must ops.

Who can get away with a job that just requires them to open a Java IDE? Those jobs are just as extinct as a pure ops role.
Cars of all kinds definitely catch fire, but other than some Italian supercars, don’t they tend to be old cars in poor repair? This is a very new car. How many of the yearly fire stats apply to a luxury car in its first two years or life?
It would be fascinating to see a meta study that ignores the traditional definition of organized religion and instead looks at “religious” characteristics. What are the behaviors that make Buddhism and Islam both religions?

Beliefs that a person holds deeply, holds on faith without requiring proof, bases their life choices on, and evangelizes as the truth.

By that measure, aetheist San Francisco is the most religious place I’ve ever lived. The religions focus on the right way living or eating, and the evangelism is off the charts.

I would argue that the younger generation isn’t significantly less religious, but rather that they’re all inventing new religions or following scattered and informal tribes online. It’s like a new philosophical primordial soup from which I suspect we will see organized and “formal” religions emerge given sufficient time.
Thank you for being the only person willing to do research in these threads.
Debugging, with life and death on the balance
Someone replied with and then unfortunately deleted an extremely good suggestion.

Instead of each operation taking a variable number of numbers and then either returning a value or directly changing the state of the stack (which was also a bug in my previous gist, in pushing the result of C and AC): homogenize the types of the operations by making all of them take a stack and return a stack.

You could also wrap all of the basic arithmetic functions with a higher-level function so that, eg, `add` would still not actually have to be aware of the stack:

import math, operator

def stackFunction(arity, function):
return lambda stack: stack[:-arity] + [function(*stack[-arity:])]

class rpn_engine:
def __init__(self):
self.stack = []
self.catalog = {"+": stackFunction(2, operator.add),
"-": stackFunction(2, operator.sub),
"*": stackFunction(2, operator.mul),
"/": stackFunction(2, operator.truediv),
"^2": stackFunction(1, lambda x: x * x),
"SQRT": stackFunction(1, math.sqrt),
"C": lambda stack: stack[:-1],
"AC": lambda stack: []}

def compute(self, operation):
self.stack = self.catalog[operation](self.stack)

def push(self, number):
self.stack.append(number)
zapcc speeds up the build even if you changed a #define across the whole project or added a line to a header that you use everywhere leading to recompiling of all your .cpp files.
You can take a look at the P71 which has a serious set of hardware (if you're not going to be too far from a plug at any given time).

GPU: Quadro P5000
RAM: 64GB DDR4
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1535 or Intel Core i7-7820HQ

https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/Th...
Many religions have sponsored wars of conquest and forceful indoctrination. The choice of belief in Communism or [this space intentionally left blank] was still up to the individual, though youthful indoctrination has been shown to be generally effective throughout history.
There’s actually a huge difference in performing their job in a DC/NOC versus on Azure or other cloud providers.
Any update on those new super-accurate GPS chips? [1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15308771 Super-Accurate GPS Chips Coming to Smartphones in 2018 (ieee.org)
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I have redshift on and I got a 0. YMMV?
51 here. My mind hasn't changed. I think more before I speak. I listen more. My body hurts a bit sometimes and takes longer to heal, but basically everything is just better.
(I feel that a take like this can be shared frankly between non-believers, but that when speaking to a crowd which is a mix it's disrespectful and analogous to proselytizing. I mean, clearly a believer is going to take issue with your usage of "perspective" here. OK, with that out of the way...)

The quote I like about questions is from Dawkins (one of the most aggressive proselytizers, sigh): the only unanswerable question is, "Why is there something rather than nothing?"