skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I instead query by id or a few other columns and construct objects from json documents stored in text columns.

> Columns in databases only have two purposes: indexed columns for querying (ids, dates, names, categories, etc.) with or without some constraints, and raw data (json or for simple structures some primitive values.

You are basically describing a sort of ad-hoc document store with potentially limited ability to query. You've lost many of the benefits provided by a relational DB. Your ability to do run large update queries or reports will be limited (unless your DB provides native json support, which as you said, is fiddly).

If you are going to do this, why not use a NoSQL document store with support for transactions? Then you will get a tool that is designed to work with your use case.

Edit: If you use an ORM, a hybrid approach is possible. Where you store some properties as separate columns and then store the less frequently accessed (or more dynamically structure) data in a json field (which you can deserialize on hydration or on request). The main downside of this hybrid approach is that moving a propery out of the json field into a normal column would require using that fiddly native json support or a fairly slow migration that would need to go through and serialize each json field.

> A good table structure often makes for a poor domain model and vice versa.

Can you clarify what you mean? This has not at all been my experience so I am curious and would love to see some examples.
Try searching for EUV and ASML, that's the largest manufacturer of these machines.

Marketing video that has a bunch of nonsense and a few interesting shots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL3TYXr52BY
TIL npm is a company..
Why do we need this? Just plant some trees!
How does a user distinguish between that being due to software versus hardware?
Any article I have seen are showing the same 3D renderings, so I would tend to agree. If you have a working prototype, show it.

The whole company Hypergiant looks like a joke too.

From A.I. to Space faring, they cover everything..
Your description denies that Snowden is an asset.
Interesting, how much CO2 is released producing this?
And there is no mention of what electricity supply should be?
How both of these factors are comparing to just planting an acre of trees?
"the ID.3 will come in three variants that offer between roughly 205 and 340 miles of range"

The 2020 Bolt appears to have 259 miles of range, up from 238 for the 2019 model.
TFaaS: Trusted Sandboxed Execution of Serverless Functions
So far the state of the computer industry is pretty simple, if you're using american products, you're under american surveillance. Governments will always seize the monopoly of security, that's how civilization works.

And even if you're using open source, I'm sure the NSA has written tools that can scan source code to find vulnerabilities, and maybe generate exploit if they sprinkled some ML on it.

To be honest I'd rather have a government body have the monopoly of security than witness a cybersecurity chaos, which would quickly destroy the internet. The problem is that only the US does it well.
check out vipassana and brain thickness increases during mentation and selective neural pathway elimination.

Too.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3541490/
Scientists to Drift with Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change
“script” – making it easy to write shell-like scripts in Go
Here atomic means that objects can be denoted with a finite set of predicates all of whose objects exist (ie you have proximal relationship with) [0]. This is as opposed to objects that subsist (eg everything that is abstract) [1]

Symbols (words) can point to different objects depending on context (what you call words having multiple meanings), this has nothing to do with logical atomism. The point of logical atomism (and as it turns out this is not a complete picture) was that a particular meaning of the word can be described unambiguously (in the sense of using entirely existing objects).

This discussion is largely language agnostic (in a sense that I think every natural human language supports it).

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-atomism/

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/possible-objects/
""Forest" to the Normans meant an enclosed area where the monarch (or sometimes another aristocrat) had exclusive rights to animals of the chase and the greenery ("vert") on which they fed. It did not consist only of trees, but included large areas of heathland, grassland and wetlands, productive of food, grazing and other resources."

I adore this definition. Forest is so important for modern living as well, although we do not use it necessarily directly for grazing or resources, but as a weekend safe haven from the hectic city life.

Sure, I am "grazing" my local forest with my MTB on the weekends, but in a much more eco-friendly way. It fills up my batteries for the coming working week. :)
You can put this in the Sahara or on the space station, but yeah trees are probably easier 99% of the time.
A slightly shorter term solution: going underground.

Earth is huge, we have barely scratched the surface. There is a lot of space and resources underground. And we don't have to go anywhere, we are already here.
Inside Airbnb, Employees Eager for Big Payouts Pushed It to Go Public
Joannastern Makes the Case for Sign in with Apple
The author talks about picking up a book as an alternative to your phone or watching TV as a post dinner activity. If anything, modern life has consolidated activities from specialised ‘things’ like radios, phones, books, TV to computing devices. I’ve been reading on my iPad and phone for years now.
This makes me wonder what the impact is to kids - since they learn so much by watching you.

If you pick up a book, you arouse their curiosity to do the same. If you pick up a phone and launch an epub reader - not so much.
Eidophor
India’s Chandrayaan-2 Is the Latest in 60 Years of Moon Crashes
Well electron already allow you to use arbitrary language and acesss almost any native OS api.
So electron is the salvation for hybrid_native desktop development.
Your question would better be:
Is there a salvation for native and cross platform GUI frameworks other than chromium ?
The answer is probably no as chromium beat everything both feature wise, library wise and (yes) performance wise.

Really why native development isn't totally dead yet is because of inertia to learn new technologies and because of shared misconceptions about chromium performance and GUIs framework performance.

This growing gap could have been deduced so many years ago because of a simple fact:
The number of full time employees working at improving chromium vs the number of full time employees working at improving QT, or GTK, etc.
They are order of magnitudes more. And it has deeply increased since microsoft has joined chromium (they have moved a number of employee to chromium probably comparable as if all Gtk + QT devs moved to working on chromium.
Btw, as they both know they can't keep up, they progressively webify (QTwebengine, both use CSS for styling, etc)
Expensive Shoebox (2014)
In what picture are stains?
I'm always intrigued by the way Americans build the foundation. I've seen it before, seems to be rather standard. Concrete pillars, OK, but then it's raised on wood and the whole house is placed on it? I can see some benefits but it doesn't seem good for the long term.

Around here we pour the whole thing on the ground, with rocks and concrete, the whole ground is covered, then the house is built on that.
The quality of the GPU usually has no impact on video encoding.

At best, you can use a hardware encoder that happens to come with the GPU but usually you won't want that because it comes with a compression hit compared to software.
America has two economies, and they’re diverging fast
anything on this channel - https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA - CMU DATABASE GROUP.
all thanks to - https://mobile.twitter.com/andy_pavlo - Andy Pavlo - has a quote, something like "I only love two things, my wife and the databases".
Follow his lectures and read his suggested papers.
400 trees is not that much. And they require no electricity
Tartaglia, Cardano and Ferrari – 16th Century Mathematics
Sorry for the missed date. Obviously this was the 2100 projection, not the 2050 one.
reference: JPFP The Japan Parliamentarians Federation for Population NEWS LETTERNo.60 August 2017 “World Population Prospects: Have their continuous upward revisions ended?"

http://www.apda.jp/pdf/e_newsletter/enews_no60_en.pdf

"Furthermore although Africa’s total fertility rate (TFR) is falling if only moderately, it is still high, at around 5.0. This means that alongside promoting economic development in Africa, it will be prudent to strengthen support for expanding RH services there, including family planning. A source of concern for Africa’s fertility rates from now on, however, is that the reactivation by the Trump Administration ofthe Mexico City Policyis an obstacle to any such strengthening. This decision taken by the U.S. will have a major impact on Africa’s population issues, and policies will be needed to counter that."
Electricity supply will be as much as acre of solar cell.
There are a lot of fake news about Libra and TON
It is a very large ritual that requires unique artifacts for the sole purpose of engraving small crystals which are then socketed into larger edifices and imbued with the spells of many wizards before they are distributed by territorial guilds to common man, in exchange for a recurring obol. Entire fiefdoms have been erected by merchants of these artifacts of power. But as we come to depend on their miracles more and more there are concerns that The Enemy could dispel or corrupt them... well... let's leave it at that, entire schools of warding, counter-warding, arithmancy etc. etc. are dedicated to these topics, more than we could cover here.

Oh, and beware of charlatans who want to sell you so-called artificial soulstones, they are awfully common in these halls. The gems are tools made by man to imitate the divine spark, but they can never rival or become the genuine article.
Fragments of Untold Lives II
I don't think Texas Instruments deserves to be counted out. Their revenue last year was greater than Nvidia. Given that the margins on microcontrollers and DSPs are not nearly as large as on GPUs, they're shipping a lot of chips.

Granted I have no idea what their process node is, which they don't advertise anywhere presumably because people buying microcontrollers and DSPs do not really care about an arbitrary silicon feature size number. It's probably not cutting edge, but they're a big foundry regardless.

GlobalFoundaries is definitely not dead either. They even do 14nm which is hardly very outdated (and is probably the last practical node anyway).
> The problem is that only the US does it well.

The main difference with other countries is that we all know about NSA thanks to what happened to people like Snowden, otherwise it would not be any different from other countries -> pure speculation. And why would the US do it better than countries like China, Russia or France?
Write That Blog Post
Why George Orwell's 1984 still matters, 70 years since publication
Why use SQL at all? It sounds like you needed a key value store?
Thats so awesome. I love it! I need it! I hate renting.
> It would be slower and that's all that matter. Ram is dynamically allocated and chrome has arguably better caching

I don't want to use chrome, so it's never going to be an option. The best option in a ideal world is the browser the user is using since there's not that much resource needed to open one more tab. Some APIs around that would be ideal.
Uganda is using cyber laws to block activists on social media
>Place a protective covering over the catalytic converter

sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, given that a catalytic converter is (necessarily) one of the hottest components on a car.
There is a sodium anode, that is consumed by the process. You have to build another "clean" process to produce it : https://www.intechopen.com/books/recent-improvements-of-powe...
This is the second reason why indexing outperforms actively managed funds over the long term (The first reason is the fees).

Price weighed index fund rebalances regularly and never misses out those best-performing four percent. Actively managed fund manager might do a good job valuing companies and might catch some success stories, but it's unlikely that they catch them all consistently.
Trillion-dollar coin
I’d add that it’s essential so you can understand how to optimise and debug a query. You lose a lot of power if you can’t open up a console to describe or explain things.

The long-standing ORMs do a pretty decent job of writing efficient queries these days though. You can go pretty far without knowing much and that’s not a bad thing either.
The forest is more than trees. Forest stores much more carbon in the soil and the soil covering than in the wood.
Both TOGAF and ITIL certifications are a great way to land a job as an architect, but (especially true in the civil service) these documents often become the deliverable, project outcome be damned.

Just getting certified will alter your thinking in a good way though. It shows you in what kind of environment and how many large enterprises work, and there's use in that.

Yes I enjoyed it. You need to keep yourself honest though. Once async/await came along I doggedly stuck to message queues because it's what I knew. And then I wrote an app using async/await and felt like a fool. It can be humbling.

And I stay in development by writing a lot of code at home, sometimes at work to demonstrate a thing. An SA who doesn't maintain dev skills is not as effective as one that does.

I moved into EA about 5 years ago, and my next move would've been CTO, except that I resigend last year to write software I hope to make a living from. I'm lucky in that I managed to sell a solution I developed about 12 years ago for myself to an enterprise for enough money to not have to work for the next 10 years at least.

I like like architecture/design, and perpetually live in the persuit of perfect technical documention (what I wrote 10 years ago and thought of as good was... terrible), so of course I'd recommend it.
When I see C4 I still connect that moniker with the „Collective Code Construction Contract“ [1] by the late Pieter Hintjens.

I find it a bit unpleasant how this project thinks it’s OK to redefine that term without giving at least a nod to Pieter.

[1] https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:42/C4/
It's exactly because the majority of companies don't know how to implement those models that it wouldn't do any good. This is the "give me teh codez" of AI. Google's models are specific to their environment, and they would be more likely to generate waste (at least in time and money required to implement them) than to reduce it.
Advanced low cost molten salt thorium rectors will provide cheap electricity to power these.
I like to use tracer email addresses. I gave them aclu@mydomain.com and it’s easy to see when they sell my email address as I’ve only ever used that email address with them.

When I’m bored one day I’ll try to do a genealogy of how these addresses spread from sale to sale. But I don’t think I keep enough spam to get a cool picture.
I have the opposite view. I find ORMs annoying and obscure, and I think they introduce duplicated code.

If you need to run a certain query in multiple places, you need to repeat the same ORM expression or refractor it into a function. I find much better to have a module with all my SQL queries as strings. That way whenever I need to run a query I reference it from there. Of course it helps to use meaningful names.

This approach has a lot of advantages over ORMs:
* you know exactly what gets executed
* automatic DRY code
* the names of the SQL queries in the code are self-explanatory and the reader doesn't have to parse the ORM expression every time

Schema definitions are in standalone SQL files, as well as my migrations.

The only disadvantage is that it may be difficult to switch to a different database system, but that is not a problem for us.
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Conference Re: Infrastructures
Introverts are worse at recognizing faces than extroverts
It would be better to stay quiet instead of comparing things incorrectly.
>New classes of bugs will eventually emmerge, some partly unfixable by software solution.

Sure Rust, ADA and such don't remove all classes of bugs, but they can reduce the attack surface considerably, giving you more time to focus on the remaining security bugs.

And maybe people will invent software solutions that reduce the attack surface even more.

Assembly is a fast car with no security features. C is a sportscar with a seatbelt. Rust is a sportscar with a seatbelt, airbags, ABS, ESC and emergency breaking.

Of course you can still crash and die, it's just that you're less likely to do so.
I think that my primary issue with ORMs is that they often allow you to code as if the database doesn't exist, instead of explicitly structuring code to handle network and database failures at the points where you deal with external data.

It is a problem if potentially any part of your program can just fail, and that happens if you allow magic ORM-objects to leak onto code paths that aren't written to handle them.
Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze
..and attack surface - physical presence vs entire Internet is quite the difference.
For me, it’s difficult to determine what overhead is good (reasonable accountant) vs bad (paying their spouse’s consulting firm to do accounting).

So it’s easier for me to just filter by low absolute and relative overhead than try to figure out if they are paying too much for their paper or overpaying for motor pool and stuff like that.
I am not a pilot (of anything, let alone helicopters), but sometimes movement and inertia make things easier, not harder.

In an unstable system, the hardest thing to do is to maintain a constant position. Once you introduce some momentum, that adds some stability.

Certainly there are dozens of reasons why this is harder than "regular" flying, but I think physics may actually be in the pilot's side here.
It's not simple thing to explain non simple things in a way that it's comprehensible to a layman.

I think this video is a very good illustration of this fact

https://youtu.be/36GT2zI8lVA
Actually spintronics unlike others is ready to come to mainstream, through MRAM.
Some bird species too (Albatross, Penguins). I sometimes think that meditation could be a state of mind like this: parts of the brain awoke, parts of it asleep. With the caveat that meditation isn't really very restful, but demanding on its own.
You can choose to display one, which will then be public.
"Fairly"

So I spend as much time faffing about with how this particular tool does anchors as I would just doing the "a" tag outright in HTML.
This article only talks about the structure of writing in languages, which is a pretty different thing than "all human languages".

The definition of language is (according to Google), human communication.

For there to be communication, you need a recipient. Which means that mere written words have no meaning without someone reading and interpreting them.

You can analyze syntax and structure all you want, but meaning depends on people's interpretations, which are subjective and depend on multiple other factors.

For instance, if I'm angry, I'll read a text message or an email and interpret it in a completely different way than if I'm calm. The meaning I interpret will also depend on who sent me the message. Neither of these things are captured in the syntax of the messages.
> Advanced low cost molten salt thorium rectors will provide cheap electricity

...that still don't exist. Those that we know how to make have still so serious problems that they aren't being made for anything but the research:

"Basically, MSRs are underdeveloped and require a lot more research (especially in corrosion) before they can surely take off as the world’s fleet of power plants."

https://whatisnuclear.com/msr.html

Also:

"The problem with MSRs, then, is that the fuel is already completely cut open and melted. You’re halfway to a bomb already"

By the same state of availability, it can be said "the advanced fusion reactors will provide cheap electricity."

EDIT: in reply to the argument below (as I can't answer there, the moderators like it that way):

> Thorium is ... also closer than wind and solar.

How? Both wind and solar are already available and usable today to every individual who has the property to install them, everywhere in the world. Who can buy and install his own thorium reactor on his property, and where?
I may have missed but it seems nothing discussed for the amount o plants in the comments.

Is having that many plants around your bed safe? Can they release enough CO2 to effect your sleep quality or is it a myth I remember from my childhood?
Google reportedly attains 'quantum supremacy'
Google Says It's Achieved Quantum Supremacy, a World-First
>Russel is a great example of a very clear philosopher.

Here's a random page from Russell's most famous work: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Russell,_Whitehead_-_Pri...
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This comment kinda reeks of that "everything is amazing and nobody is happy" thing. I mean, "horrible" everything? Really? A device that lets you carry practically infinite books with you? Because the background color and all the available dimensions out there don't scratch your specific preference?
That's also a good idea which would allow you to get feedback.

I recommend you to read Taylor Pearson's article on how he approached writing and marketing his book:

https://taylorpearson.me/jesusmarketing/

A shorter version written by me can be found here:

https://www.writersincharge.com/taylor-pearson-sold-5000-cop...
Doe Awards Argonne $4.15M for Research in Quantum Computing and Networking
EUV is just one aspect of the process, and so far none of the lithographies are fully EUV anyhow (only using that on a few layers)... I'm not that well informed but I'd guess by 3nm it'd be fully EUV? Regardless; it's just one technique.

Just because a bike has a few carbon fiber spokes doesn't mean it's the same as another bike with a few carbon fiber spokes. The rest matters too, not least of which the other spokes ;-) and there are probably differences between carbon fiber spokes too!
This looks really useful, thanks for sharing!
The "why work on X before y is solved" approach has no legs.

Why work on climate change while poverty, cancer or illiteracy still exists?

By that logic, we should have never have had space exploration at all (and never should). I seriously doubt this would have improved our progress on the "bigger issues "
How Your Business Can Cut Costs by Reducing Waste

https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/how-your-business-can-cut-costs...

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Increase Profits?

https://business-ethics.com/2015/05/05/does-corporate-social...

Good business: Why placing ethics over profits pays off

https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/news/archive/blogs/innovat...

5 Simple Ways to Improve Your Profit Margins

https://www.inc.com/david-finkel/5-simple-ways-to-improve-yo...

Top 10 Energy Conservation Tips for Restaurants

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/article/141/energy-conserva...

Of all commercial buildings, restaurants use the highest amount of energy per square metre. In fact, UK Power and the Family Hospitality Group estimate that anywhere between 5 to 15% of a restaurant’s total expenditure can be taken up by energy alone!

Considering that the average profit margin of a full-service restaurant is usually less than 10% of gross revenue – energy consumption suddenly becomes a BIG financial concern.

https://www.dexma.com/energy-efficiency-in-restaurants-pubs/