skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree but it's been my experience human beings (as a whole) never do anything about abstract problems until they feel the pinch themselves.
While Carl hasn't blogged for a while there are plenty of gems to look back at on his blog: http://www.rebol.com/cgi-bin/blog.r
Not everyone operates at that scale, and not every data science workload is DNN based

I agree with your general point, however, but the role I'd hope for with Rust is not optimizing the top level, but replacing the mountains of C++ with something safer and equally performant.
This is a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist.

For all practical purposes a properly implemented software random number generator provided by the OS is fine. The few corner cases where this isn't the case (mosly early boot entropy problems) appear in situations where you don't yet have Internet connectivity.
D. Richard Hipp has always been pretty up front about his business model. He provides sqlite for free, public domain, and does not typically entertain third party contributions to keep the licensing clean. Additionally his business sells proprietary extensions and support for sqlite. Having that test suite uniquely positions them to do so, and due to this business model they expect to have the funding to continue providing a public domain sqlite to the world for decades to come.
ignoring the price issue which many have discussed, I love the MVP aspect of this. only one thing to cook and then throw in the protein add-on. I love that you're obviously driving this around yourself.

If you can make the pricing more competitive with local delivery (which would also have more options) and figure out how to ship like Blue Apron I think I'd happily sign up. Even more so if there were additional meals added, but for an MVP to test the idea this is great.
A lot of these are tied to lack of healthcare. We need a universal healthcare system in America, I'm tired of arguing with people who claim that we can't do what almost every (if not every) other western country has already done.
I don't trust either. Just saying that Mozilla doesn't have a "proven record".
It should be a compiler because that's the best way to write efficient, non-bloat software with your computer.

All the other methods encourage bloat.
> Merkle tree would is great for full history - [...] but it's way over-expensive for email.

Does JMAP then not support syncing full history efficiently as a key design priority?

> That would be a pretty massive change to the entire data model of IMAP. It's never going to happen[tm].

Sure, and that's why I had hoped JMAP would, especially in a distributed master setting, since this was something IMAP overlooked.

I guess it's because JMAP still needs to be backwards-compatible with the strict consistency master-slave restriction of IMAP?

> What we use for IMAP replication in Cyrus is much dumber than all this - it uses a per-message CRC and XORs them together for the whole mailbox to create the sync_crc value. If those don't match, it does a resync. Fixes up split brain just fine while being cheap and dumb for the common case.

You're implementing the first layer of an incremental Merkle tree right there. How many bits are those CRCs just out of interest?
The problem with slack, texting, calling and sometime email is that certain people are unable or unwilling to work autonomously.

They rely on others to help them. It’s a different question if you cannot proceed because you are absolutely dependent on others. In that case an email should be fine and you should continue working on something else.

If that’s a problem, you either have a bad plan and/or worklist.
Swipe left to hire - now there is an enterprise HR app with viral potential
We already devote really significant amounts of land to energy in the form of corn for ethanol, ~10% of total US cropland. Corn only captures 1% of incoming light vs ~20% for PV solar, so it would be a huge gain in land efficiency to replace corn ethanol with an energy equivalent amount of PV.
People aren’t interested in compelling the allegedly mentally ill by force, unless they pose a threat to themselves or others, because it is unconstitutional and contrary to the values of a free society.

A given citizen disregarding the norms of society does not give society permission to use force against that citizen, or to subject them to forced medical treatments.

Again, if the person poses an active threat that is a different scenario. But there’s a good reason most Americans don’t want to start rounding up the seemingly mentally ill.
Have you personally audited every line of every piece of code in your Debian install? The usual retort is “many eyes”. How “many eyes” were on the OpenSSL vulnerability that was in many open source distributions for a year and a half.
If you use a Samsung SATA SSD, just enable RAPID mode in the Samsung Magician program. The different with and without is huge.

(Enabling RAPID mode basically creates an invisible RAM disk and uses it under the hood.)
> we have nothing like the street issues that west coast cities have

Maybe not as bad west coast cities, but since January 1, 2014 things have gotten significantly, noticeably worse. In subway stations and cars, in the streets, in the parks, in Penn Station -- all over. And as you point out we have enough shelter beds for everyone.

NYC 2019 is not what good looks like.
Scheme could be something like;

FileId, VersionId, Name, Data, UploadedTimestamp, UploadedBy, ...

If you’re on AWS, pushing and pulling from an S3 bucket is probably a great solution, and then of course there’s nothing to worry about in terms of backups.

Do you still need to keep an index of the files / metadata in a DB, or can you tag everything you need directly on the S3 objects and just pull the whole bucket?
It should be onboard so there is zero effort in making apps for your own computer.
I don’t get it - the media companies didn’t create these bad situations - they’re reporting people trying to do the best they can with the hands they’re dealt. What should they do? Criticise people trying to help because it could be better elsewhere?

Home Depot employees can’t change national attitudes to healthcare but they can build someone a walker, so they’re bad people?
Interesting theory, do you have any citations? It does sound plausible and seems to coincide with my experience in San Francisco (the problem did seem to get somewhat worse after the ban), but maybe that's coincidence or just my anecdotal experience.
Why Alibaba Will Be Bigger Than Amazon
Absolutely, Flash inspired a form of artistic communication. But it wasn’t as egalitarian as you imply—and to the extent that it was egalitarian, I suspect that was on the back of rampant software piracy.

Meanwhile, plenty of treasure has been found in the smoldering ashes of a dumpster fire. Rick Astley inspired an entirely new genre of comedy. That doesn’t speak to the inherent merit of his music.
Sorry, I should be clearer.

First, where I live, in sunny suburban Houston.

There are definitely no places around here that sell fresh meat, nuts, grains, beans, etc without plastic for less than a national brand in plastic at WalMart - forget the Cambodian virgins...

The food may certainly be fresher and better and healthier - but it's not cheaper.

And in the aggregate if I substituted cheap plastic bagged cereal, prepackaged frozen meals, and juice jugs for a farmers market / bulk store meal plan, my food budget would skyrocket.

If it really, truly cost less to go without plastic, poor people would do it, they do any and everything to save a dollar on food.
Share Save schemes are very tax advantaged and zero risk share options in the UK

I have made tens of thousands and made e made over 100,000 effectively tax free.

I think you missed out there
Python 3.7 made async a reserved word, which broke the widely used celery package up until their most recent release.

Raising a StopIterationErorr in a generator in 3.7 now raises instead of ending the iteration, which broke several functions at my workplace.

3.8 has several further backwards incompatible changes incoming: https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html#changes-in-pyt...
there are toilets in the BART stations, but they’ve been closed for “security reasons” for the last 18 years
After a few decades I've seen the return of a milkman on my block. Glass bottles that are picked up at the time of delivery.
Not sure about the overall environmental impact though as the milk is driven to your door.
In the 80s I recall them being delivered in electric vans. Actually called a milk float.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
The connection is this: Google has a large amount of influence in the Chromium code base. Using Chromium, a codebase Google Controls, gives them addition leverage in controlling how the web is viewed and built.
8-bit Turing complete computer made in Factorio
Shitting on the street and being homeless are two issues here.
Hangul isn't completely phonetic, and when learning Korean you need to learn all the transformation rules to pronounce it correctly. For example Wangshimni, a subway station in Seoul, is pronounced waŋʃimni but is spelt 왕십리, i.e. ŋoaŋ sib ri. Also, Korean has long and short vowels and that distinction isn't represented in the script.
... also I just read this (on the front page now !) -

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2019/08/smart-plas...

- Nonetheless, the risk of harmful substances reaching the air may not be completely eliminated by engineers. In some countries, newer incinerators would apply air pollution control technologies, including fabric filters, electrostatic precipitators and scrubbers, the CIEL authors argue. However, these filters may not prevent all hazardous emissions, such as ultra-fine particles - unregulated and particularly harmful to health - from escaping into the air.

This was my uninformed understanding of incineration - that there's at least some toxic leftovers no matter how hot you burn it.

Is there really a way to burn it down to just CO2 and water ?
It's a reasonable perspective to treat it as a security issue because it is a security issue.
I don’t see how a container solves the backing store / source of truth problem?

How are changes getting put into the container? Are you versioning the container each time a file is changed or added? When files change are all instances of the containers being restarted to get the new/changed files?
We didn't used to build shelters. There was an entire riot in the 80s when the cops removed a homeless encampment that had entirely taken over Tomkins Sq Park in the East Village.

I don't know when we started building them (I'm a transplant, circa 2008) but I know there was a qualitative difference from when I'd been to the city in the early 00s versus when I moved so I assume Bloomberg was responsible for building more.
Are there any negative consequences to simply putting garbage in the email field rather than a dummy email address, whether on github or for git in general?
It's the classic apocalyptic mindset, of which we seem to have plenty of in 2019: "things are worse than ever" even though that's not borne out by the evidence[1]

[1]https://singularityhub.com/2016/06/27/why-the-world-is-bette...
Sounds like you’re arguing with insurance salesmen.
Sorry, I had the wrong podcast. A youtube search for Dr Drew plague has several interviews with him, but I was thinking about his appearance on Scott Adam's podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72x2LfvSfE4
Well if you read the article, they say that the media should take these stories as opportunities to discuss pressing social issues instead of skating around them. Reporting is about bringing cohesive context to information, and these stories do the opposite.
God, I miss Bloomberg.
The technical steering committee for AMP has members from multiple companies, with only a minority employed by Google.
> should we not care for those homeless? NO, should we always put them first? NO. it's a balance of arts, going in any direction a little too far will break it.

Bay Area is currently doing very little except complain about homeless folks.

NYC has more homelessness per capita, but they've both built shelters and had a strong policy of sheltering homeless folks. As a result, ~95% of NYC homeless people (>63000 people) sleep in shelters, versus ~33% in Bay Area and ~25% in LA. And it's no surprise given Bay Area has lost shelter beds in the last decade. Which is compounded by the overall lack of housing.

The west coast is singularly bad at it: Chicago is at 74% sheltering, Denver is at 84, DC is at 95.
Give it less spin and using the opportunity to denounce current status of healthcare in the biggest economy of the world? The social function of the press (“the 4th power”) is to coordinate attention of the people. Spinning those stories as uplifting porn is disfunctional; at least, missed opportunities; at worst, opium that numbs social change.
> Under that understanding, no one had a right to camp out indefinitely on public property, much less to defecate on it. Public property belonged to the public—to everyone—and couldn’t be privatized for the benefit of one or more vagrants, however poor or sick. Though that principle would need to be applied to modern circumstances, it is the indispensable starting point for thinking about the shocking problems of the Golden State.

Anyone else find this to be a rather entirely perverse way of thinking about public spaces? Public space is meant to be used by the public and a homeless person has just as much right to use it as anyone else, for as long as they want to. I might be annoyed that they have taken over my favorite park bench but thats part and parcel for living in a society and I don't have a right (morally, if not legally) to use ordinances to stop them

Obviously, it's a whole different issue if we're talking about public health but the solution is to build more public bathrooms and shelters, not criminalize existence.

And to nitpick: considering how much of the west coast is wilderness owned by the Federal government and managed by BLM, you sure as hell do have a right to defecate on public property. It's literally in our nature.
>Reporting is about bringing cohesive context to information

Policy discussion is about bringing cohesive context to information. Reporting is about reporting information.
>Not responding to a message quickly is considered a major failing. Not responding to a message directed at you in a group channel immediately is considered to be a grave sin.

I've noticed this as well, but it's mainly been at places with a lot of location flexibility (WFH for example), but micro-managing managers. When you're remote, the game that gets played is you have to give the illusion of being immediately accessible because even though you're not present, you're still working. It's a silly game but inexperienced micro-managers can be very paranoid.
This is a tragedy of the commons problem. A few people living or even defecating on the streets isn't a serious public health problem. But there is a legitimate and reasonable concern that the situation in California right now is going to result in the return of the plague.
Even worse is the first example is definitely an ad for home depot. It’s radical consumerism masquerading as hope.
I have just reached out to the maintainers to let them know.
People seem to love human interest stories. The nightly news on the majors usually ends with one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-interest_story
Build more period. I will rejoice the day the state just revokes planning from local communities. I hate to say that because it feels horrible, but local communities in California run zoning in the most incompetent and self serving way.
I once tried out some RSS aggregator/reader that required me to install and set up postgres for no good reason other than it's what the developer was accustomed to. Huge pain in the ass, particularly since simply using sqlite would have been perfectly adaquate (does a RSS reader really need concurrent writes? Really?)

For any software meant to be used on a non-technie's desktop, anything other than an embedded 'zero config' arrangement is a nonstarter.
That's partly true. I've always felt that language is the soil in which culture grows. But different English speaking countries have very different cultures. And culture is more fundamental than language. Language is more of a barrier that leads to isolation, and it's in that isolation that distinct cultures develop.

But my point remains. Your people living today may lament losing their native language, but your children and their children will not, at least not as much. In the long run linguistic unity far outweighs the current generation's unhappiness.
The media can change national attitudes by the way a story is presented. Presenting tragedies like this as a situation where you just need to be strong, work hard and pray for miracles, rather than bothering to broach the root issues causing the tragedy to begin with very much helps to ensure they keep happening.
One important caveat is that the non-random strategy would need to be invertible. For e.g. a ml model doing binary classification this is easy (switch the classification), for most other things it's not clear what invert means.
I can’t even. How could you ever get 2500 msec on transit? That’s like circling the globe ten times.
That framing is likely based on the assumption that people would rather use a toilet than defecate on the streets, so if there are adequate facilities for them to do so, no further action is needed to encourage that behavior.
Serious question. Where are people supposed to go to the restroom when the is no public restroom around?
i wonder if incentivizing the homeless to use bathrooms would work... free meal, joint, w/e
First Principles Thinking
I think the article briefly mentioned it: that the news stories could use these heroic struggles to highlight the inadequate system that caused them to be on that struggle.

Several paragraphs to say that in first world countries these people wouldn't be needing to do whatever they painstakingly did would shape a public opinion of "hey, government, you're sort of failing us..?".

But maybe that would be propaganda, or activism? I suppose one function of the fourth estate is to challenge the government, and when the sort of mentioned shit is happening in the richest country in the world...
I think there are two related issues. First, the tenor of these articles betrays a general middle-to-upper-class bias in the media. For people who are poor, these stories are more traumatic than inspiring, which means that these are stories by rich people for rich people about poor people which don't take into account the actual lived experiences of poor people.

More importantly, though, these stories rarely criticize the systems that cause these horrors — America's broken healthcare system which revisits injuries upon the poor and sick, zoning and development practices that breed homelessness, cruel school lunch programs that punish poor kids for having poor parents.
That would be helpful if there was more than 3 opinion comments.
> Well if you read the article

It’s against site guidelines here to accuse people of not reading the article - please don’t do this.
The TH3 test suite is proprietary:

>"The TH3 test harness is a set of proprietary tests, written in C that provide 100% branch test coverage (and 100% MC/DC test coverage) to the core SQLite library. The TH3 tests are designed to run on embedded and specialized platforms that would not easily support TCL or other workstation services. TH3 tests use only the published SQLite interfaces. TH3 consists of about 69.4 MB or 948.1 KSLOC of C code implementing 44753 distinct test cases. TH3 tests are heavily parameterized, though, so a full-coverage test runs about 1.7 million different test instances. The cases that provide 100% branch test coverage constitute a subset of the total TH3 test suite. A soak test prior to release does hundreds of millions of tests. Additional information on TH3 is available separately."

https://sqlite.org/testing.html
I'm an engineer and my contract is very explicit which parts of my work I'm allowed to speak about. The answer to all your questions will be "I can't speak about it." That's precisely why Google interviewers always ask abstract puzzle questions and avoid like fire any possibility of being exposed to protected IP.
If you look at the map of countries with universal healthcare the whole definition of western needs revising as it seems to be a Northern thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_univers...

Indeed, it's like a wide band across the middle of the globe that do not have such standards.
OP is wrong. I thought that way too before I started.

If you blindly shift to whatever the store is promoting, you'll pay more.

I joined CSAs (if you're around NYC, I recommend mine http://joshuaspodek.com/where-to-buy-the-best-food-around-ne...). Dried beans and lentils are a couple dollars a pound, pre-soaked and pre-cooked.

I learned to buy in season, which means the ripest things are in greatest quantity at low prices, plus they vary. I'm swimming in tomatoes now, for example, and they taste incredible. A couple months ago it was lettuce.

I also get to know the vendors at the farmers market, and they give me a lot of free produce as a regular.

Buying with plastic is a privilege -- externalizing the costs of cleaning your pollution to poorer communities and future generations.

I hope that we'll end subsidies that force me to pay for meat, other standard American diet ingredients I don't eat, and fossil fuels transporting foods across the country and around the world which would make prices reflect their costs.
I'd recommend the following book:

How Economics Shapes Science
https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Shapes-Science-Paula-Stepha...

It looks into key challenges of the scientific labor market.
I programmed Feud, my first Amiga game. I always wondered if anyone would find Ste Pickfords' message (hidden behind a bridge IIRC). It's nice to see that 30 years later, yes someone has.
Write news about the issues causing the situation and do representative sample of these stories.

These feel good stories are entertainment. They leave out those success stories that would make people sick in their stomach.

Like a woman getting cancer and her mother working as a prostitute every day to get money for the treatments. I would like that story told with chirp voices and beautiful guitar tune in the background with the daughter and the mother smiling.

"And we finish with a beautiful inspiring story of love. It's about a churchgoing mother in a small Arkansas town who prostituted herself for three years to save her daughter."
Yes, for the most part dog owners are pretty conscientious. My neighborhood is full of dog-walkers but I rarely see feces, even in the park next to my house. The only doggy-poo beef in my neighborhood, based on NextDoor threads, is some of them put the dog feces in people's personal trash cans right after the trash has been picked up, which can be kind of annoying if you keep your trash bin inside your house (I always take it to the public trash bin when I see it). But even that is a minority of dog owners, after that thread I haven't seen that happen even once (it used to happen regularly).
The proposal in the linked opinion piece is literally to lock up all homeless because some of them shit on the street.

You can't treat them as two issues while insisting on a remedy that doesn't.
This could be done tastefully, but the examples they are showing seem rather extreme and not tasteful at all. I'd probably not even read a resume that had a "By The Numbers" section. It's such a useless metric to try to highlight.
I’ve never heard this either, but I guess it’s related to “Are you trying to get a rise of me?”