skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been loosely following this:

https://github.com/spacejam/sled

Since I'm writing in rust it might be a good fit. It's non-SQL but does have some nice features. I would need to figure out how to adapt all the syncer features to that model though. Right now I should just focus on finishing the merging code to be able to release a 1.0 some time soon.
It's a form of mandate, so yeah, probably. But no idea why they didn't try that in the first place. Probably didn't had enough to make it worthwhile. You can negotiate a payment plan and I'm sure there are gov support programs, but I'm not familiar with those and that stuff is for sure quite complicated, just like every other system that tries to be fair.
I am curious about the black swan events potentially changing this calculus; i.e. food replicators or tricorder-like medical help, or breakthroughs in life extension biotect, etc.

Hans Rosling knows far more than I do about all this, but I'm curious how it will all play out. Maybe there will be no such black swan events affecting population growth.
> Most people first decide whether or not they want to use pypi packages, and then start evaluating which ones are appropriate.

I don't think it's as binary as this. There should be, at least intuitively, a mild negative bias to adding a marginal dependency, even once you're dependent on pypi. We're lucky enough to not be dealing with a dumpster fire ecosystem like nodejs, but it's still a good habit.

For me, writing your interface with click doesn't seem too much better than writing it with argparse, certainly not enough to get over the (small) activation energy of a non-stdlib dependency
I think the argument is that local politicians have too much skin in the game, namely their re-election. Their local laws affect surrounding communities as well. For example, to get re-elected Governor Bob declares all pollution levels dismissed. Manufacturing in the state booms, thousands of jobs are created and Bob handily wins re-election.

Coal ash and chemical run-off is dumped into all the rivers and lakes. Farmers pour on the phosphorus and algal blooms choke the bay killing the fishing for 3 neighboring states. Cancer rates soar not only in Bob's state but also adjoining ones.

The coal industry starts contributing to several PACs supporting Bob.

But jobs, jobs, jobs. Bob is pretty sure he is going to run for senator after he term limits out of Governor.
Totally false. And using fear in politics is nothing new. The US now has tariffs on Canada because of the "risk" Canada poses to national security.

The idea that the UK crumbles (the document has things like cancer patients dying, folks with diabetes dying - its just an incredible list) seems far fetched. The UK operated prior to the EU without all these disasters.
Ever read "The Shock Doctrine"? It lays out how the rich cause and exploit catastrophe to consolidate and strengthen their holdings.

https://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitali...
I posted this because I couldn't find any follow-up online. Does anybody have more recent news about this phenomenon?
I’d actually prefer a cheaper package that uses the same ingredient but is frozen and shipped in bulk (e.g. 10+ servings). Any thoughts on something like that?
Hey look, there's plenty of negative things that could be said about the EU … it's not inconceivable that Brexit could even have been a good thing. An economy the size of the UK could have been an effective counter-balance to some of the more hegonmistic aspects, if it were still a "friend". If the whole thing hadn't been hijacked by the regressive factions, and they weren't slowly going round in circles giving 2 fingers to everybody … but that's not what has happened. The Brexit that is unfolding is an unmitigated mess for everybody in the UK bar the elite financial hawks who stand to benefit from it, and it will be a mess for Ireland, and it will especially be a disaster for Northern Ireland. You know who it won't be a disaster for? The rest of Europe …
Really subjective as well. It's just as easy to argue that calories dense meat/fat is more efficient that calories starved greens or fattening processed carbs.
I've generally found argparse to be worth it the minute that you need anything other than two args, whose usage implies an intuitive ordering (eg with mv)
Intraday, batteries would make more sense. Higher efficiency, quicker to react, 365 cycles a year to recoup costs.

You are probably never going to get to a point where you're charging a battery now for use sometime in January. That's where some kind of bio gas would come in, because it is feasible to store it long term.
I'm not actually sure how I feel about direct democracy in general. To provide another example, anyway, even countries like Switzerland that are relatively renowned for their direct democracy don't always make decisions that people approve of in the long term. They were extremely regressive (by Western standards) on the right of women to vote, for instance, and the government is currently dealing with ways to limit freedom of movement with the EU in compliance with a referendum in which the Swiss voted to do so.
Even if the US hadn't changed its environmental laws, your industry would have moved production to places with lower wages.
And also, 'Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad'.
Engineer / engineering manager here.

Nicely articulated article. There is one observation that I respectfully disagree with - the one that says interviews are monotonous and boring.

I have done hundreds of interviews in my career and never found them to be boring. Perhaps one the reasons is I don't do scripted interviews. It is always an exploration for me. I will start with simple questions and if I get good answers I will go deeper and deeper into the subject matter or into the adjacent area. If I don't get good answers I will retract and probe another direction. This is sort of a depth-first traversal of candidate's skills with a heuristic to stop traversing a particular branch if I see it is not a promising direction.

My goal is to discover the area where the candidate is the strongest (obviously within the areas I am interested in for the particular role I am hiring for). It is very fun and almost never boring. The experience is always different because people are never the same. Yes, some candidates are just not good, but even bad ones are bad in different ways.

I know common wisdom for using scripts is to have repeatable and comparable evaluations so that you can choose the best candidate. I understand the desire but I prefer to find the best in each candidate and if it means I have to use a lot of gut feeling and intuition to make the final decision then so be it, I believe it still results in better overall results. The idea to choose the person I want to hire based on how many answers to my standard questionnaire they got right was never appealing to me.

I can totally see how if you do scripted interviews it can become boring, so don't. Interviews can be fun and it can be a creative process.

Another way interviews can be fun is if you find someone who has stronger skills than you do in a particular area. I love it when a candidate teaches me something new. Find where their strength is and let them shine.
You can accuse a leak to be partial, non-representative, timed to harm a party, etc.: that’s what people criticised when Russian secret services leaked emails from the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. “True” isn’t enough of a criterion for political coverage: “representative”, “clear”, “informing the voting public” at better objectives.

In this case, it’s an internal document that is proving that the government is not candid about a threat that they are waving.

If (like people who support Boris Johnson) you think that a credible threat of leaving without a Deal helps negotiate against the European Union, that leak can seem political.

If (like people who oppose Boris Johnson) you think that a leaving without a Deal is irresponsible, having official confirmation of that fact is validating.
One of the key proponents of Brexit, Jacob Rees-Mogg, his father literally wrote the book on disaster capitalism [0] … funny that!

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Streets-Investment-Profits-Worl...
I don’t see why, could you elaborate?

To me it could just as well point towards avoiding leaving such unions. Or towards not doing it without a greater majority / more planning / more time / etc.
> the "south east" is the area most typically associated with the Conservatives and their voters

No it's not. Look at a political map of England by geography - everywhere is Conservative, apart from areas associated with major cities, their surrounding areas, and a few small patches.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_...
I don't think the idea of a vote on a deep constitutional matter is wrong.

But I think it only really works when you have a government saying "we propose to do X, but we'll only do it if the people consent in a referendum".

What doesn't work at all is having a referendum offering a major change that the government proposing the referendum thinks is a bad idea.
Which, by the way, only applies to Julia programs under JIT. The AoT compiler will handle nearly 100% of vast the JIT or REPL will and vice versa, with a goal of 100%.
Possibly, but if the public were really to be trusted to make decisions on national sovereignty they should not have been asked to decide between the status quo and some abstract, undefined future outside the EU. One of the biggest problems with Brexit was that it meant so many different things to that 52%.
Gonna need some Google Allo for that sick burn
To be fair: are we going to hit 15B? With the rate population growth is declining, I don’t think that is a guarantee anymore.

I’m not saying I disagree FWIW. Just saying I think the problem is nearly intractable; humanity as a whole may literally rather see the end of itself than make lifestyle concessions.
I guess this way:

<lunch
env="outside"
food="sandwiches"
drink="cola">
<label xml:lang="fr">Dehors</label>
<label xml:lang="de">Draußen</label>
<label xml:lang="en">Outside</label>
</lunch>

says[0]the w3.

[0]https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-lang-tag
Questions such as "should we stay in the EU" can't be answered by experts.

Economists could perhaps answer some small parts of it - like "will this be net plus for the economy over next 5 years", but even then I'd imagine there would be little consensus.

Questions this huge are really the sort of thing that should be put to the unwashed masses. They know as much as anyone else - not much.
That's a bad analogy because the climate is not a single variable, number one. Two, your percentages are off by orders of magnitude with regards to Methane. Methane, as I said above, is 0.00017% of the earth's atmosphere. Even if it is 20 times more effective at retaining heat than Water Vapor (4% of earth's atmosphere), it's the equivalent of increasing your fixed expenses by .004%, or 4 cents by your $1000 example. 4 cents is negligible. No accountant would even bother listing it.
I think it's a bit dubious to look at it that way.

Claiming the law is dead implies that increasing performance at the rate we used to is now impossible.

I agree that we are not able to just keep increasing density to maintain this pattern, but we are able to do so with other methods.

So while "Moore's law is dead" in a semantic sense, it's not dead in the sense that we can still maintain performance gains if you use other methods than increasing density alone.

I think this distinction is important. Intel declared the law dead and used it as an excuse to avoid innovating when they had no competition.

AMDs zen 3 launch proves that we can still achieve architectural leaps in line with Moore's law, but withou relying solely on the process size.
Ten Principles for Growth as a Software Engineer
This is incorrect. The genesis block, which is the first block ever mined, contains 50 bitcoins and these cannot be moved. All other coins that were supposedly mined by satoshi, should have no issue being moved as long as the associated password is known.

More technical details on why they cannot be spent can be found here:

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10009/why-can-t-...
Mate you've got that backwards. If indeed as you say they're dependent on stuff coming over the channel then it is they that will be worst affected, come a no deal scenario. If there's no deal, all trade is effectively "smuggling". Sure they can do a dance around it, but trade in that direction will be severely impacted.
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Still not quite right. The document was prepared by the civil service while Teresa May was Prime Minister. Teresa May is in the same party as Boris, not the opposition as you claim. Boris' team are claiming, not that this document is wrong, but that it is an out of date analysis, and that Boris has turned things around since he took office on 24th July. Perhaps he really is that good that he has done in 3 weeks what May couldn't do in 3 years (some of which time he was a senior cabinet member himself).

Paint it on the side of a bus, with 350 million other lies.
There isn't a good answer to this dilemma.

On the one hand, you're right, the people are sovereign and should not have their rights trampled by an unelected hegemony.

On the other hand, people are stupid, and often too stupid to be trusted to make decisions related to complex matters on which the general person is not an expert.

Worse, bad actors have figured out how to exploit freedom of speech to weaponize this stupidity. So we're now in a position where a fundamental human right is also the direct cause of significant human misery.
For some vaccines, it's not an individual choice. People who choose not to use them for themselves put the rest of the population at risk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
Not to be a complete cynic but IMO you should just use any of the pretty well-done NoSQL K/V stores if you don't mind ditching SQL.

There's plenty that are very well done, BoltDB successors and FoundationDB included.

BTW I've heard very good things about the widely used sqlite Rust libraries (sorry, don't remember the names).
This is probably my biggest fear ever since getting a strike on my account. It led me to stop making android apps for personal use altogether and move away as far as possible from Google. I can't risk my email, photos and everything else being shut down for no reason at all. Google is way too shady about all this. And its a damn shame, I love making android apps.
Seriously, irrespective of which ever side of the debate you stand, you must see that the EU has a strong, strong incentive to make this as difficult for the UK as possible?
Because real estate agents are marketing / sales people. And sales people (unlike other non-sales professions) have figured out that a photo on a business card is a smart thing to do?

I also do this as an EE (Europe area). It just seems very intuitive[0] to me that people would be more likely to remember a face than just a name on a card after whatever brief meeting (especially in a market where this is not a common thing to do). I sure do. I'm horrible with names anyway.

[0]to be totally fair: I have read quite a few business, marketing and sales books. My favorite is probably the classic "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert B. Cialdini. Second would be "Predictably irrational" by Dan Ariely.

Main take away: influencing / selling and getting hired have surprisingly little to do with knowledge, education and IQ. It is more (all?) about human social dynamics and "predictably irrational" human psychology. Case in point: Trump. Think about it.
Augmented Reality Presentations Are Coming
5 US cents per day per citizen. A monthly subscription of $1.50.

Well, you know, that Spotify subscription doesn't look quite so cheap any more.
The good side, flat-eathers would not exist. The bad side, regular business missions would require travelling to moon.
Hard argument to make from either the United States, or the United Kingdom.
A chat app which only runs if you are running
According to the report itself this is not the worst case scenario, it is the realistic one.
How big are the resulting binaries these days? It’s been some time since I tried this, but I decided that the size of the compiled code didn’t fit my use case (a serverless function IIRC)
> but it is still up to individuals to choose to use them for themselves

It should not be.

If they represented the Brexit correctly, and instead asked the real question “Would you like your life to get worse in pretty much every possible way?”, then how many people would have voted yes?
Not that the drugs are distributed through the island with horse carts..
I'm not taking the side of GP, but I just want to point out that the resolution to the financial crisis 10 years was very much in Germany's favour.
It's not. Factor in the need for backup energy and remove subsidies and it will loose.
Not even freaking original Angry Birds doesn't exist anymore. The current "classic" version is nothing like the original one.
> Barely anyone in the public was qualified to give their judgement on the merits of continuing inside the EU versus the concept of being out of it.

Sure, but this is true of all issues. It doesn't distinguish brexit in any way.

The usual thought is that that's how things are supposed to be. If you withheld the franchise to people who were qualified to exercise it, almost nobody would be allowed to vote.
Absolutely stunning pictures.The difference today is that we don't see all this anymore,as it's often happily exported to countries that are willing to take all the dump. Howeve, probably the best thing was the removal of large, polluting factories from cities,which had a huge impact on the quality of air.
But If you have a rooted android phone then do you really have friends.. its a catch22 /kj
I know that Python setups are notoriously difficult, but Kite put that to the next level. I have never seen a utility that was so annoyingly breaking every one of my development tools. PyCharm couldn’t open, Atom was unusable, Sublime was mainly untouched because I found a way to deactivate it, but I had to confirm it every time I opened it.

The uninstaller was barely trying to help, I had to search my disk for any file containing the string “kite” to remove it effectively. I suspect I deleted a ton of unrelated content as I was going.
The problem with most configuration file formats is: you can't put functions in them realistically.

The best configuration file is simply source code that initializes whatever you want to run, and then runs it. That way, you can install hooks in the form of closures and make the program behave exactly like you want without the constraints that a simple "value-only" configuration file format has.
There can only be a single supreme economic power in Europe. It won't be UK.

This idea is at least 70 years old and takes adventage of democracy flaws.
How much could he have changed it in 3 weeks anyway?
Air pollution was already being increasingly dealt with by municipal smog laws before the EPA was created.
Go and talk to your elders about pre 1970 UK. I did. Regular 3 day power outages were common as a start.
> The UK operated prior to the EU without all these disasters.

This is true. But what’s discussed is how difficult it is to untangle 40 years of ever tighter integration. Decades ago things weren’t made in british factories using parts delivered just in time to be assembled, from multiple European supplier factories. No one is arguing that it’s impossible for Britain to function outside the EU. But “it worked before” isn’t an argument that leaving won’t be a disaster.

Taking the same argument ad absurdum: Britain used to operate without electricity and cars. Now there is a hundred years of electricity and cars integrated into every corner of British society so if cars and electricity was suddenly removed, it would take a long time for Britain to adapt to the new old system of candles and horses. It would work (it has operated that way before) but it would be a disaster for quite some time. An initial shortage of horses and candles wouldn’t be the only problem.
Can you provide some references to open source implementations of Succinct implicit trees ? How different are they from a simple unbalanced BST ?
Mathematical physics and engineering holds up to empirical scrutiny.
The War on Sugar Hits the Juice Box
You don't know. Traffic is encrypted and articially enlarged with some spooky Mesh Networking talk.

And one of the founders got caught.
I read the whole article expecting the question posed by the title to be answered. It never was, nor was there any appeal to science, data, or statistics on UV skin photography. Pretty disappointing.

Specifically, I wonder how good of an indicator of sun damage or cancer risk a photo like this really is, or if it's just an advertising gimmick.
> Since the vote was so close, why not do another referendum on doing another referendum?

You say that, (Even if it is a joke) but here in the UK, this is exactly the same as the 'People's Vote' that gives the final say to the people on how the Brexit process should progress, despite the UK already voting leave in 2016. Democracy doesn't care on how 'close' the result was, the people voted to leave and that should be respected.

This vote is an instruction from the electorate for parliament to deliver the referendum result and in anyway reversing it, undermines the democratic process. When the Scottish independence referendum of 2014 happened, they accepted the result to remain and that was that.

If another referendum goes through and it was leave again, how many times do you need to accept the result? 2? 6? or 19? You might as well roll an unfair dice if you want to hold another referendum.
> Thing is, we elect MPs exactly so they can express their views in parliament.

This is generally not true. We elect representative so they can express our views. We don't care what their views are, except to the extent that their views might impede them from expressing our views.
I would write a CLI in Clojure if it were a reasonable option. Something like Gambit or Chicken but for Clojure would be a dream. I guess there’s Ferret, so maybe I should give that a try.
I disagree. Applicant should have done more to understand the requirements for the task. That’s a massive part of software engineering, and you would be surprised how much time software engineers will spend solving the wrong problem. He didn’t understand that part of the problem included rolling a novel solution or restricted use of a database. Almost a daily problem for software engineers is extracting this information from customers or systems engineers.

> Good software engineering is about leveraging existing robust tools in a new way, not about re-inventing a wheel while making is square.

Use of external libraries or solutions is often very restrictive (if not banned) in my field. We can use existing internal or known verified solutions. Not everything is so black and white, and not all options are always on the table. They rarely ever are.

I don’t think really think “leveraging existing tools” is a defining part of software engineering... though it certainly is part of it. Software engineering is much more than just coming up with solutions.
> Sure... and it means that Swift and Clojure are just as useless as Julia for numerous use cases where start-up times matter, like piping CLI commands together, in Julia's case you're looking at pathetic 3 execs per second.

The REPL is a tad slow but compiled Swift binaries have virtually no startup time overhead.