skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought one almost two years ago and sold it about a year later. I wanted to use it for doing math but the inability to see more than one page at a time while I was working made it painful. Ability to copy across pages would have also solved the problem, but that still doesn't appear to be possible. There is simply no way to keep developing an expression, line by line, beyond the bottom of the page.
How I made an MVP in excel and validated the use case
It's not rising 6 feet permanently, but it does during storm surges. Hence the stilts. (which only partially solve the problem), your road network, water distribution network, electrical network etc still suffers)
Marketing Classic Arcade Games in the 80s
1. Both are great, they're both absolutely fantastic products!

PostgreSQL does have slightly more popularity nowadays, especially since they came out with JSONB support first and have more advanced features built-in.
> "Free market, because first, rail leads itself to monopolies."

There's no reason why train operators should also own the fixed infrastructure. Truck companies don't own the interstate highway system, and airlines don't own all the airports.

Why not have private train operators (passenger & freight) bid for routes / slots / capacity on a publicly-owned rail network? Lucrative routes between major cities will return significant profits, while regional routes will require support/subsidy. But in either case, competition between operators promotes cost efficiency, innovation, and a focus on service quality.
No disrespect to you but passion in people can come from deep knowledge of a subject but IME much more commonly comes from lack of experience with alternatives.

I've noticed the younger people are the more likely they are to be passionate, which I put down mainly to not knowing any better. Once one has more of the experience that places you higher up where you can see further, suddenly one's own plot of land doesn't seem so special.
How does that help solving this fraud? More than one person lives in the same GPS location. If they don't track flat numbers, they still have the same problem.
> but there are existing solutions and frameworks out there, from the terrible (6 Sigma or EDS' BCL Framework) to the excellent (MSF 3, parts of the UML).

That's a fair point, and I'm occasionally asked why I'm "reinventing" UML too. Again, that's a totally valid question. If teams are using one of the existing approaches/notations, and it's working for them, I recommend that they stick with it.

But the majority of the teams I work with either (1) have no diagrams/documentation at all or (2) use collections of ad hoc "boxes and lines" diagrams ... usually "because we're agile". In many cases UML, ArchiMate, SysML, MSF, etc are not even on their radar. In others the teams are simply not interested in using these existing approaches, for a number of reasons.
I've had one of these since 12/18 and like it quite a bit. I use it as a sketchbook and to take notes. When I first got it the stylus felt a bit too slippery however after some use it feels more like a normal writing instrument. My only suggestion is that they should sort templates so that recently used ones appear first.
And people can train themselves to pass lie detectors? ML isn't a solution here unless the data on each individual is substantial. Collecting and activing on that amount of data seems unlikely.
> It's very hard to believe a nuclear test would be carried out without concern for the safety of the overwintering team or without anybody noticing.

Atomic tests have routinely been carried out with scientific observers nearby, I mean, it's sorta the point of doing one. And as for people noticing, I would imagine apartheid South Africa had their own equivalent of an Official Secrets Act.
Graduate Students, After Gains in Union Efforts, Face a Setback
Ireland’s largest bank locks users out during botched PSD2 update
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> AIB have positioned themselves above scrutiny. Twitter is not a substitute for public discourse or regulatory oversight. In our brave new world, it is possible for a company to completely disrupt the lives of thousands of its customers in a fully automated way, yet we humans, (consumers) find ourselves holding the bag at the end, with no ability to communicate problems upstream. The disruption to our lives in this process is merely a technical support issue.
By that logic, you can’t program interrupts with C because “int” is a reserved word.
The alleged issue highlighted in this piece of PR for a commercial company (shame on The Guardian for playing along) has nothing to do with postcodes. If there is an issue it is with the way Royal Mail handles tracked mail and proofs of postage.

UK postcodes are more precise that in any other country I'm familiar with and are a terrific system [1]: Postcodes are precise to about the street level vs. a whole town or district in most countries. This allows websites that need your address to work it out fully just by asking postcode and house number in most cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdo...
"Disengage the mind"

That is the opposite of what I was taught; I was asked to maintain the maximum possible awareness of what was going on in my mind and around me.

"Spacey"

That is congruent with my experience.

Allow time after a meditation session to have a cup of tea, experience the weather, or whatever. Spaceyness wears off after about ten minutes, and you'll be ready to get back to computer programming, arguing with colleagues, disciplining small children, or whatever it is that the spaceyness was getting in the way of.
Brain activity isn't a cipher.
> boondoggle

Care to elaborate?
On the first point, default to using Postgres unless you have a particular reason not to. In general, it offers more and better-executed features. There are some scenarios where MySQL offers a benefit and this advice doesn’t apply, but it’s unlikely you will need to worry about that if you’re in a “what database do I use” position.

Your other questions are a bit too vague to be answerable. It’s possible to build anything you want, including custom file formats or schema converters, if you want to invest the time. You might have more useful responses if you explain the use case instead of the solution you already have in mind.
The extremely practical use for the authors is that they're teaching with it - 6.828 (MIT's OS class) this semester is entirely in xv6 on RISC-V in qemu. In years past, lessons were taught from a completed xv6 for x86 and assignments / projects were on top of an incomplete JOS exokernel, also for x86.

xv6 has always been a teaching OS, not even a hybrid teaching/production OS like MINIX. (Are you asking about v6 UNIX in general? The practical descendant of that is the BSDs.)
Forward to the Moon: NASA's Strategic Plan for Human Exploration [pdf]
Anatomy of a Production Kubernetes Outage
Yes but I think the parent meant its 'just' an #include and ghc_init() away.
It was announced a few months ago and NASA recently added Details: https://www.nasa.gov/moontomars/
But with everything else going on with it did not really make the news cycle.
"One specific goal"

That's one specific type of meditation. More broadly, meditation can be used to further a wide variety of goals.

For example, Aleister Crowley taught a type of insight meditation that was intended to increase one's personal power over others. His technique was very similar to the one I was taught, which was supposed to be for developing insight into the emptiness of all phenomena.
Rewording what you wrote. Maybe a dictator can make anyone disappear instantly with no questions asked from within the country. Scrutiny from the outside will only happen if someone is fast enough to leave and open their mouth despite the threat of retaliation/persecution/execution of loved ones (a la North Korea)
No problems here after 20 years.

I'm glad you've found something that works for you.
I read it as they are "in the Union" by virtue of nationality; that is they are "[legally] in the Union" [https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/]; but it seems you're right, eg. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
It's NOT "a bad idea that causes more problems than it solves", but still may be a bad idea for the (games, real-time, etc) industry.

GC means not only that memory management is simpler, it means that it goes away for most of the programs out there.

Most programmers I know aren't writing code that run Twitter-like servers or avionics, nor are they programming the next Doom game. These people are writing apps and doing back end coding for some big company where real-time isn't an issue and the focus is on getting code out fast, with good average quality and "cheap" labor.

In this case, having a high level language/runtime that doesn't requirs a programmer that can reason about allocations is key.

I can't even begin to tell the kind of codebase that I have seen. Two years ago I was working on a C/C++ legacy system that was thousands of lines of codes and almost every file had memory leaks (that cppcheck could find itself, mind you). Some of them where caused by delivery deadlines, most of them where caused by unskilled employees.

(oh, in case you're wondering: all those leaks where solved by having ten times the hardware and a scheduled restart of the servers)
thank you for making this public, even though it may not be perfect.
I was in RSA in the early 80s. There were a lot of RSA ships doing research in the area at the time. As was the custom the issued commemorating envelopes with special postmarks at the time https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/323741168155_/Antarc... they were all postmarked "Neutron Research". At the time the rumour was that they were developing "a neutron bomb". This and the red mercury incidentshttps://mg.co.za/article/1995-01-20-sadf-linked-to-red-mercu... left no doubt in my mind that the tests took place.
"their own crypto" sounds worse than it is — they interface with existing TLS libraries, which are all based on well-tested NSS or OpenSSL primitives.

Given Rust's focus on performance and security, QUIC may be the new Hello World for Rust ;)
It is also double the price
That's the only absolute thing that makes perfect sense. Soccer is like religion in many countries. Religion is the opium of the people. Soccer is too. It's better to make people argue over who's the best team in kicking a ball than having them keeping the governments accountable of all the crap they do.

Divide, confuse and conquer!!
What does your app/framework support as a default store (what do the devs use and test against).

What features do you expect from the db? What versions of each database can you run?

Have you got an environment where one option is better supported than the other? (For example AWS aurora cluster and MySQL?)

Do you have an ops team with existing experience with either db?
> you will absolutely never strike hard enough to remove the nuclear capacity of somebody like the USA (that's why nuclear submarines exist).

That's certain, but being hit by a second strike is already much better than a first strike, or, even better, not being hit at all. See, Saddam almost had it with his bluff.

> No nation's military can afford to use nuclear weapons first because it will absolutely result in country-ending retaliatory strikes. There wouldn't have been an Iraq left for Saddam to rule.

See, such naive assumption are exactly what make it more than likely. People are infirm, and all kinds of regime leaders are much better "poker players" than any Western politician out there.

Imagine, you a president of a nation state, or whomever took his place in chain of command. You got news that you biggest city took a hit, possibly hundreds of thousands are dead, than another. You tell you forces to continue to advance, then you hear a loud bang while you sit in your bunker, and there you get a call on your direct line with an offer... to let you live...

I don't see the psychology of warfare being any much different in a nuclear exchange, than in a firefight. You only have one life, and one set of limbs, and with each inch of enemy territory taken you will be asking yourself more and more "isn't that enough?" and you will feel your will almost physically crumbling. Fear of death is a really powerful thing.

When I lived in Canada, I encountered a number of Afghan war veterans. All an every of them who ever been deployed in the field can tell of stories of "unwritten" ceasefire agreements, and exchanges on the radio with Talibans with offers of peaceful withdrawals that never got written into any official report. And this is happening even when Afghan war is a complete turkeyshoot for Nato armies.
The max3 is probably the better bet at this point. Just saw one yesterday, and it was just gorgeous.
And it can be, see /tmp/.X11-unix/.
This is a great idea, thanks Doreen.

In the UK we have fairly good access to contraception, abortion, etc, to my understanding.

I sent a donation today to International Planned Parenthood Foundation https://www.ippf.org/ who do global work on expanding access to womens health services generally.
Not Amercian but I'm wondering if it would be an insane idea to split America up in to a whole bunch of countries joined by something like how it works in the EU. That way Texas and California aren't trying to battle for a one size fits all government.
>> If QUIC features prove effective, those features could migrate into a later version of TCP and TLS (which have a notably longer deployment cycle).

When I searched for it, this text is not present in the Wikipedia article about QUIC though it presumably was present in some version as many _other_ sites on the Internet quote this sentence. Can you say where you actually saw it?

The reality is probably closer to, a successful QUIC will replace TCP (and TLS) in future protocols or, such protocols will give up and move to HTTP so as to take advantage of QUIC anyway.

One reason is as so often, middleboxes. The usual corporate cycle (new technology is embraced on a small scale because it avoids the overhead of management oversight, grows to become important to the business, importance means oversight imposed, major benefit of technology destroyed, rinse and repeat) injures the Internet in the form of middleboxes, so of course a technology is deployed with the purpose of undermining the middleboxes and that technology is QUIC.
It does seem a bit crap: "Science, too, seems to suggest that there exist many “nothings” that have a positive existence: the vacuum, the number zero"

Pretty sure that's confusing the positive existence of a label eg. the word 'vacuum' with the thing itself.

He sort of addresses that: "But according to quantum mechanics, a vacuum contains quantum fluctuations and has non-zero energy."

But this sounds crap too - prior to discovering quantum fluctuations (QF), was space empty or not? No it wasn't in reality because QF must have existed already, but did we consider it empty? Yes because we didn't know about QF.

he goes on

"And in any case, if a vacuum is a region of space, it contains space"

And WTF is space? How can it contain it? It is space.

more

"And just like an empty plastic shopping bag is not nothing, an abstract empty shopping bag is not nothing, either."

Actually it may or may not be depending on what you want. It is a concept, purely a concept, so it can represent utter void if you wish.

This seems a sloppy, un-rigorous use of anything. I'm not impressed.

and he winds up with this

"All of this still leaves us with our original question: Are absences fundamental in perception?"

Always questions. Some 'philosophers' seem to be just engines to turn questions into more questions. I'd prefer answers if you don't mind, and if you can't provide them then at least frame the questions such that some testable hypotheses can be made.
Without dedicated passenger rail tracks and doesn't own much of the tracks Amtrak runs, this will always be a problem. But investing on a passenger-only track network in US must be hideous expensive, and I wonder we can see any progress on this from federal government.
The following isn’t the top reason I recommend Postgres, but is the reason I think least likely to be echoed in a dozen other comments:

Postgres has some of the best documentation of any software product I’ve ever used. If someone wants to learn about SQL or databases, I always have to restrain myself from recommending that they just read the Postgres manual front to back. It’s comprehensive, it’s well written, it’s easy to navigate, and almost every explanation comes with several clear examples. It’s hard to overstate how valuable a property that is for a product as central to your architecture as your primary transactional database.
Yes, this is externalized in capitalism to the developing countries which it plunders (and which well into the 60s, most major capitalist forces used to have directly as colonies)...
The sum is not small at the time, but it's his baby daughter poisoned along with thousands of others. After their initial settlement of around 60k, the story never ended as other cases came into public attention, so the company wanted to end it as it was at the crucial stage of going public, they can be heard at the beginning of the recording saying "Must get him", but nonetheless, the court in the city where the massive company located ruled him guilty.
Not "get them installed". And if the above remains true that's a button they're not going to press, period.
When considering between PostgreSQL and MySQL bear in mind that client-side drivers are licensed differently. I believe the MySQL connector is still GPL licensed; it used to be LGPL and then the license was changed with little fanfare. Commentators called this "weaponising the GPL". The goal is to get you to buy the enterprise version of MySQL.

I know MySQL way better but at a brief look I can see Postgres drivers are licensed more liberally.
Don't be so naive. Can't you see that those gaps in concrete are filled with quantum fluctuations which hold them open, adding more strength?

I mean, duh. Learn2Philosicate, n00B.
One more stop in the quest of USA to degrade its infrastructure everywhere, as other countries improve theirs...
Original parent commented that UNIX was dead, given that Wayland does not seem to have an accessible interface from the file system, and nor does SystemD, Pulseaudio, or any of the major new things on the desktop system, I am inclined to agree. Of course Xorg is accessible from the filesystem, but it's probably one of the last technologies to have such an interface.
Regarding 1): choosing a software stack (or any part thereof) without a clear use case is a recipe for failure. What's the use case?
I bought the tablet for two reasons:

- I write research papers. I suffer from writer's block when using a computer for a prolonged period of time. I thought that writing by hand would be different enough so that when I get a block on the computer, I could write by hand. This was true. And with the OCR engine built-in, I can easily convert my notes to a format ready to be pasted to Overleaf.

- SVG support lets me draw illustrations for my academic papers. This turned out not to work as well as I imagined, but still good enough to get the point across and recreate the SVGs by hand on a separate software.

I still read books on a Kindle, and I still read papers on the computer. This has more to do with how much easier it is to take and export notes on the devices.

The reMarkable is expensive, but if your job is writing or illustrating, I think it makes sense to invest in your capability to do it more.
Agreed, who would believe a single thing they come out with?
Wearable Brain-Machine Interface Could Control a Wheelchair, Vehicle or Computer
We have that in the UK, and unfortunately it doesn't work very well. Obviously the UK is different to the States in a number of ways, but you might want to watch Shaun's video on the subject: https://youtu.be/nP95Frc0v4k
This is hilariously naive. In order to prevent slavery we must retain the institution and allocate the status at the pleasure of the most psychopathic people the world has ever seen.

Good thing nobody attempted to actually follow your logic for that particular dead institution, and here's hoping we don't for this one, either.
Google Says It's Achieved Quantum Supremacy
If you're sending a message to some process for it to consume, like X11 or like standard input to your shell, sure, you could technically interoperate via disk, but

- UNIX itself has no inotify/kqueue/etc. feature, blocking reads are via pipes or sockets, not regular files (plain UNIX tail -f polls the file every fraction of a second)

- you're appending to the end of the file for a message that's going to get read once, and the file model of UNIX doesn't let you truncate a file from the beginning, so it will just grow indefinitely for no reason

- one benefit of the open socket/pipe approach is you get notified if the other side exits/crashes, you can't detect that from a disk file
Three-schema approach
Support of Linux != support of UNIX and the UNIX Philosophy.

Lennart Poettering, who is the mind behind Systemd, Pulseaudio, and a lot of major new technologies explicitly disavows the UNIX philosophy.
Well, for once we're not following them to the middle east, so that's a plus.

I'm not entirely sure what the point of sending humans to the moon is, though. It was cool to do it once, but now we can probably do something more useful and productive with robots.
> Low turnout happens exactly because there is no transparent, understandable and visible feedback between voters decision and government actions

That’s an interesting thesis, but it’s not at all substantiated. Switzerland may have a better voter turnout than LA city council elections, but it has some of the worst turnout in the OECD[0]. If I was going to take a complete guess at the reason (as you did), I’d say it’s a cultural thing more than anything else (outside the influence of compulsory voting laws).

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/21/u-s-voter-t...
The trick here I didn't know about is that a `<style>` element's default `display` is `none` and you can show its contents by changing that.
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The net effect will be to stifle Australian space innovation which competes with NASA goals. It may be net beneficial to space science here but it won't risk any competitive tension so little or no development outside of the current NASA roadmap. The radio telescopes will be safe, the DSN needs them. The hypersonic shockwave work would be fine. Digital comms work would be fine. Microsats would be fine. Launches from OZ will be a big no.

It might buy half a seat in a future capsule once bigger fish have been pacified. Best if the Australian astronauts are already training in the US and ideally have dual nationality.
Umm, but Wayland and PulseAudio do have accessible interfaces from the file system... Wayland even requires it, as opposed to X11 which could work over TCP socket as well. No idea about systemd though (I think it uses dbus?)
I've stopped using mine. It's gathering dust in a corner somewhere. The hardware is pretty decent, and the writing experience is good. The software, on the other hand, is not good. There have been a couple of updates since I bought it, but they've been few and far between. Everything about it is mediocre. The file manager, meh. The note taking app, meh. The sync, meh. Getting stuff on it automatically is all but impossible. And I haven't been able to read some DRM books on it.

It's too expensive to use as just a notepad, but it's not good enough to use for anything else.

Additionally: the writing experience on the ipad pro is at least as good, and with just a bit less lag.