skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does SQLite compare to say BerkeleyDB or LevelDB, which I think compete in this same arena no?

I’ve used SQLite and like it a lot but I’ve recently started using these two for some pet projects and found them easier to work with and in theory they should scale easier if I understand their strengths
Presumably bots, like this other submission of op:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20361463
It sounds like that furniture business is trying to gain prestige through a "If you have to ask you can't afford it" model, which can be a viable strategy for very high end goods (though I wouldn't exactly say a ~$5000 sectional fits in that category). The big purchases in such a model make any extra time investment worthwhile versus normal retail
this channel is truly excellent, strongly recommended if old electronics are even kind of interesting to you, and still worth a shot if they aren't. in particular i'd recommend this video about the sony trinitron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aFhzGEBQlk
Hahaha! Wei Lei in that video posring was so fucking fake. Sad, really. "Govenment Sponsored Tai Chi". Hahahahaha!!
They are both tools that can be used for good or evil.
How are you buying cheques in a shop? Here in the UK I've only ever seen cheques handed out by banks preprinted with your account details on them.
Why would anybody accept a cheque with a handwritten source account?
The Commodification Problem: Writing, Markets, & Individuation
Might make sense to invoke Chesterton’s fence a little here. The reason those rules came into effect was that there was a boom and crash tendency, so there would be way way too many taxis, nobody would make a living as a result, then they’d all go out of business and there would be too few.
I didn't check exhaustively but I looked at all the cities in South Carolina (the state that I am from) in that list and if you click through you'll see that the areas they are talking about actually pretty much cover the whole state.

If that's getting done for SC (a relatively un-dense state) I think they're covering pretty much everywhere in the US.

TBH I think the page you linked to is more about SEO than about Uber's actual coverage.

Can you tell me a specific place that has good coverage from cabs where Uber doesn't operate?
>Ah yes, governements like to think they can create a startup eco system by throwing money at it.

They have to start somewhere. And if they don't, other governments will, as in the case of Malaysia, which lost a home-grown startup to neighbouring Singapore.

>But in the end many other factors are also (maybe even more) important.

That is also true, and is why many people are skeptical when it comes to Malaysia.
> If they can't make a living they need to charge more and if they can't charge more they need to find a real job/business.

That’s exactly what they’re doing: charging more.
Beware that only recent versions of Python have a sqlite3 recent enough to support window functions. This bit me recently; I had to scrap a prototype, pull all the data out, and use numpy instead. Still, in general, SQLite3 is amazing and it's my automatic first choice when working with 100GiB or less.
I almost didn't click on the link because I didn't care to read another depressing prediction of imminent doom —- so I was pleasantly surprised to see the report was about an optimistic disruption.
The article could leave the impression that the birds are watching the flashes of light, like watching TV. For a layman article, they failed to mention that brain of the bird has been cut open or probed and that the flashes of light are shone directly on the neurons.{1} I guess they thought it was too icky to make that clear.

Optogenetics seems like a real breakthrough. Great quote from Wikipedia: "The far-fetched possibility of using light for selectively controlling precise neural activity was thought of by Francis Crick in 1999."

{1} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics
It's awesome how this toaster works, but for practical purposes, I would prefer a toaster that does not auto-start.

One of the challenges of cooking is juggling multiple things so the food is all ready at the same time. Being able to do steps in advance helps with that. This actually kind of matters for toast because freshly toasted bread is a lot better than cold toast.

So it's helpful to be able to take bread out of the package, stick it in the toaster, and put loaf of bread back where it belongs when convenient, then come back later and start the final step (actually toasting) at the exact right time.

(On a side note, in actual fact, I have never had a toaster. A toaster oven does everything a toaster does and more. You can make a hot sandwich with melted cheese, for example.)
Naturally you have to start with developer friendly marketing as a new comer, there is no direct to enterprise marketing workable for aws (which will be too expensive and an uphill battle)
I for one either mentally multiply by 1.1 for an upper bound or don’t bother at all, mostly the latter, because (a) different items can be taxed differently; (b) different states (sometimes even different cities) have different tax rates.

For the record I hate it because I only care about the out-of-pocket costs. Same goes for tips.
There are many traits that become available only when some other trait gets to a high enough value.

For instance gossip requires speech or some other method of communication so only very few species get a chance to it (maybe dolphins? but not likely).

There are traits that are definitely unique, like building rockets, but they are usually complex things.
In the early days of nuclear power we got things done a lot faster. Now in the U.S. the government makes things unnecessarily difficult; the NRC requires a couple hundred million dollars worth of design work before they'll even take a look at a new reactor. Then they give a flat yes or no, and if it's no then you're out of business. You're pretty much forced to do a big design up front; you can't do a series of experiments and adjust as you go.

Things are different in Canada, and that's why reactor startups like Terrestrial Energy are making good progress there. But the U.S. DOE has a lot of infrastructure that could really help.
Thinking back to the 70's, some of my early programming was on the 6502, which famously had a bug in its memory indirect jump instruction if the memory address given was at the very end of a 256-byte page (0x??FF).

It had other peculiarities, too, as described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502#Bugs_and_q....
> it makes them feel good,

In more ways than one would naively assume, I'm sure. Every time a government starts such initiatives to spend a lot of money, some officials will be making plans on how to benefit from it.

The sane, clean way to help startup funding is to incentivise it with tax benefits for investors.
This distributor’s page gives more color on Hibar’s business: http://www.unicontrols-asia.com/category/hibar-pumps/

In particular: "The pumps are used by battery manufacturers from all over the world for filling batteries with electrolytes, and have set the global standard in the battery industry."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S051A8doXP0 (mind control)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m6dldvNECI (heart attack gun)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVF8YGFcJWU (electronic weapons)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT9-Z_p84b0 (active denial system)

it's not hard to find out since it's all public domain. the discovery is a trivial search away, and there are a lot of threads you can start pulling on which eventually leads to to books written by pseudo-credible people with some alphabet intelligence agency background.

here's the catch, verification is nearly impossible. what is a prototype, what is in production, what is just a rough sketch idea of something that was never implemented, what is wild fantasy. in the game of secrecy and asymmetric information, it pays to be deceptive and ambiguous. to the point most of the people publicly discussing these topics are they themselves compromised and largely act as misdirection.

you are not need to know.
Andrew Taggart's Substack Book on Work Is Going to Blow Open a Hole in Work
How “Made in Rwanda” is breathing life into Kigali’s fashion scene
That's actually very incorrect and misleading. Olive oil, expecially extra virgin olive oil, can withstand higher temperatures than sunflower, peanut and the like. IIRC the smoke point for EVO is around 210C.
You could literally fry in olive oil, it's just too expensive to do so.
Both 10.4 and 10.5 could run on x86 platforms.

10.5 supported x86 out of the gate.
And just in time compilation probably allows for software hot fixes to cpu bugs
Here are some that I would say cater to power users and are flexible and high quality

* OmniFocus and anything from Omni Group

* Alfred

* Keyboard Maestro

* Drafts

* iStat Menus

* Soulver

* BBEdit

* Hazel

* Marked

* MindNode

and tons more that I have not personally used or found useful.
The government isn't stupid, they are perfectly able to divert the money into their own pockets.
Comcast may add a modem rental fee to your bill automagically even if you have your own modem (even if you have always had your own). This happened to me and the phone support told me they do this intentionally and they expect people to call and resolve it if it is not an appropriate fee.
FTR, there is sK1[0] — vector editor for DTP, FLOSS alternative to COREL Draw.

[0] https://sk1project.net/
So, even if he published a replicable study that was convincing, you'd toss it merely because of his affiliations?

That seems like... a poor way to do science.

Personally (I'm a PhD scientist in biology) I think a lot of the claims about sugar aren't actually supported by the evidence and are in fact just driven by super-egotist scientists who want peoeple to believe what they believe (lookin' at you, Lustig).
Yeesh, looks like an antique fire hazard to me. Also, unless the video is mistaken, if that complex linkage fails or the inner heating element fails then the thermostat on it is going to be blocked by that bit on the bottom of the bread carriage that's meant to block it while the carriage is lowered. That seems like a good way to get it stuck in the on position so if someone just looked at the toaster, they might not even realize that it's still on because the bread isn't lowered. What happens if something flammable like a letter slides off of something unnoticed and falls into the toaster? Even if someone is home and awake the thing moves slowly and is downright silent when it turns on and lowers the toast. The first sign of something going wrong might very well be flames.

This thing is a burn hazard, shock hazard, and fire hazard all in one.
I don't think he's right that you could implement a bagel mode on that toaster by just running the center heating element. Both heating elements are necessary for the toaster to function (which he mentions!). You need to run the center element to drive the bread lifter, but you also need to run the outer element to heat the side of the bread facing the bimetallic strip. You can't put the bimetallic strip on the center side of the bread, since it needs direct exposure to the heat radiating off the bread, and the coiled center heating element would get in the way.
Decoupling Techniques [pdf]
Those comments are cringey. I never thought bots were really on HN...
Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
It’s regressive because rich people pay a smaller total percentage of their income in VAT, compared to poor people. That’s the definition of a regressive tax. Progressive taxes flip that trend. A land value tax is progressive because rich people tend to own more land and thus end up paying more tax, percentage-wise, than poor people.
I used to write a lot of apps for Mac. Including free and open source software. Now I have to pay $$$ and jump through hoops just to keep on doing it. It is amazingly arrogant for them to expect me to pay for doing them a free service. You can have as much autoschadenfreude as you want.
Uber wasn’t really what transformed the world, it was just an emergent property.

What changed taxi transportation was ubiquitous personal computers with detailed screens, network connectivity, and GPS in literally everyone’s pocket.

As soon as it was technically possible to press a button on a portable device you already have and see a little car coming towards you on a map, hundreds of startup founders were going to try to do it, and did.

Before that something like Uber was impossible, after that it was inevitable. Just like something like YouTube and something like Netflix were inevitable.

That’s not to discount the very impressive work it takes to be the winner in such a fast moving market. But it’s not reasonable to credit them with the world transforming innovation, it was just the next logical step in an ongoing progression.
Well, I can think of at least one good reason for a medallion system: it helps limit the number of cars on the road. (Let's ignore Uber and Lyft—they are taxis and should need medallions, but we're not enforcing the law properly.)

Of course, it would help a great deal if the medallion system were combined with limits on private vehicles...
Then it seems that would be a problem today, now that we also have Uber and Lyft.

But really, I don't see what's unique about the taxi market as opposed to any other market, where we don't put a limit on supply and things work out just fine.
Hinduism and ancient vedas is more of like a open source religion. So called guru's have created various meditation techniques using its knowledge and now selling it to the world.
Damn i wish someone can decode it using AI and create an AI meditation guru.
Regular security updates is worth it. Device feature support is a bonus.
The angle is more on the lackluster taste than any concerns composition, I believe.
For larger areas I am not seeing Charleston WV on their list of cities. Though this would be easier if they showed a single map across the US.

Think smaller, Charles town WV official population 5,957 has taxi service. Edit: that was under the Baltimore map even though DC was closer. https://www.uber.com/global/en/cities/baltimore/
...that's Najib's scandal, not Mahathir's, for him, it's the opposite (in fact, it won him the election).
reporting about yourself again, eh buzzfeed? :)
Reading his tweetstorm reminded me of Baz Luhrmann's "Wear sunscreen" speech and this remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZmi7InKU0I

I think almost all points he makes are true in general, most of them are extremely generic though and sound like phrases you might as well find on a wall calender.
You have to add all kinds of reference qualifiers (__strong, __weak, ...).
Loved this video. The mechanical design of this thing (the solely mechanical design) is a thing of beauty.
I believe Swift occasionally has problems with type inference. If you time your builds and functions then you'll see where you need to add an explicit type.

I've also noticed image and color Assets take a while for an initial build.

For example, this little app of mine takes 25 seconds for a full build, and less than 1 second for an incremental, probably due to the 100 pictures.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hundred-words/id1469449237
The burning letter would probably stain the chrome finish.
What medical data is sent via pages? All the times I've used them it is a simple code, and possibly a location.
Why would you have a letter near your toaster? Also why not unplug it when done?
Note that this is only for OpenGL ES!
I’ve had the impossible whopper. It was fine. I didn’t hate it. I didn’t love it. I also probably won’t buy it again because there isn’t really any reason to.
When I'm building firmware for an ATMega or a Cortex-M0 or Tensilica device, the idea of dedicating the required space in my firmware for an XML parser, burning the CPU overhead for doing the parsing, losing the network overhead for the verbose text encoding... all this is absolutely absurd. Just so I can use XMPP? Why? That's my battery life getting wasted, that's my features getting displaced.

There's no place for XML in iot, and definitely no place for XMPP. Even json is luxury you often can't afford, not if you want to make a reasonable cost target or battery life.
Let's be honest. The whole goddamn world has an ad problem.
> And I take easier manual work on hard problems over trivial automation any time.

However, most changes/refactorings I usually encounter are due to trivial problems that can be automated. And I'd love to have those tools for FP where a lot of changes are still just that: rename a function or a field in a data structure, extract a function, rename/move a module, update type signatures etc.

However, it looks like the stronger the static typing, the worse are the tools :) Not enough manpower to take care of them, perhaps?
It's a bit judgmental, though the original complaint is also a bit whiny.

The reality is that Turtle couldn't make the business case to port to Cocoa at any point for 18 years, probably because most of their customers were Windows.

That's not them being lazy, that's just them directing their resources according to market demand and engineering constraints.

And Apple is not being greedy or uncaring, they also have to direct resources according to market demand and engineering constraints.

If Turtle had more Mac customers, they'd have either ported their app, or they'd purchase a Carbon compatibility library. And if more developers were actively using Carbon, Apple would put more resources into it.

They aren't, and so the two are going to part ways.
There needs to be regulation here, and not just on cable. If you're going to charge it to me, you shouldn't be able to wait until checkout (or even worse, the first month's bill) to tell me what the price actually is.

Comparison is the mechanism by which competition drives a healthy economy. There's less value in competition the harder comparing them is. It's really hard to compare when you have to dig all the way to checkout to find what you'd pay.

Imagine you're at the supermarket and different brands of milk were listed at one price, but each had different fees when you get to the cash register. No one but the cashier can tell you what each option actually costs. How many people are going to get out of the line and go back and try another brand of mystery milk when they find out they chose one with a $1 "cattle fee?" It makes competition weak and needs to be illegal.
I use office because that's their biggest money making client application suite. You would think it gets the most UI usability focus of any of their products, so it must mean something when they don't use any of the UI frameworks they push for everbody else.

Visual Studio is an interesting one, huge effort to get working on WPF, which needed improvements to WPF for them to use it. Surprise dog fooding your UI framework causes improvements pretty quick.

Imagine what WPF would be like if the Office team used it, might be cross platform.
It's not a fallacy; it's that using a purely probabilistic approach here is not warranted. It requires some Bayesian reasoning.

The main difference is in the SIDS case, you have a sample size of 2.

In the Postle case, we have hundreds of hands he is involved in; dozens of sessions. Multiple instances of where he makes incredibly good reads, contrary to optimal theoretical play. (the article also notably does not detail any incorrect reads).

We also have a good understanding of how playing lots (50 %) of hands should affect his variance, yet he seems to come out of almost every session a winner. He should be coming away a loser a lot more.

The idea in popular culture that great poker players can "read" other players like a book is overblown, and a bit obsolete. Modern live players have learned to conceal their intentions much better than in the past. Yes some players may still have slight tells, but unless his opponents' eyes are bulging out of their head like a cartoon wolf when they get a flush, that can only account for a slight edge.

So sure, if you take a purely probabilistic approach and say "well, somebody somewhere could go on that sort of run", then it looks like a fallacy. But if you take the other data: That he doesn't play in other cash games, that he cashes almost every time despite a high variance style, that he makes theoretically unsound plays at critical times and they always turn out to be correct, that other legendary players do not have these sorts of results...then it seems to me there is a very high likelihood that he is cheating.
> And that means that e.g. critical medical data about a lot of people can be trivially snooped from the airwaves.

Extending the model beyond "Call this extension" starts to go awry. There are ways of maintaining privacy: just don't connect the personal info with an identity. Yes, I know stuff like this can be deanonymized, but you need a lot of data to do so. "Consult requested for patient 432432434" or "Check results for 34334343" or "Consult required in 4W-34"
> But they won't. Spend it, I mean. At least not on things where VAT is relevant.

If we can agree that the VAT is levied because the government has added some value to each product sold (value added tax..) then I don't see why spending money on VAT-exempt items makes VAT a bad tax.

If you spend it on labor, housing, there are taxes associated with that other than VAT. Lobbying and charities might be tax-deductible or exempt, that is another discussion.

I think your point is that regressive taxes are bad, is that a fair analysis? I don't agree with that.
Roads are a public resources and have limits, otherwise you'll end up with a situation where the road is dominated exclusively by private business.
What I don't understand, is why someone would be willing to buy 15 medallions at an "inflated price." My point being, you should have some basis on the PV of cashflows you can generate with each medallion. It doesn't seem like an extremely complicated financial problem in my eyes. At some point, you're cutting into any investment return you receive through cash flow and you're now expecting your returns to be generated through the appreciation of the medallion. That's probably where I would stop and think, I don't need to buy 15 of these things.
We need more quiet spaces. Not everyone is an extrovert. And even us extroverts occasionally need some head's down time.

When I become king, companies will also have library inspired quiet rooms, like the graduate school library Even rustling sounds get stern looks. Eye contact and other social interaction is frowned upon.

When I become king, we'll also have cafes for students and other laptop campers. Food service and cashier towards the entrance. Library style big rooms with big tables in the back. No public music. No conversations during "dark" hours. No kids. No dogs.
Open-World Game Lets You Solve Mysteries as a Gang of Cats
>First, this kind of thing has been going on for decades.

Exactly. Silicon Valley itself has its roots in DoD funding. Then, there's a glut of highly-educated STEM people who can do research, and the VC funding. We now have all three in major cities around the world. Surprise, surprise, that's exactly where you would find startup ecosystems.
This clearly describes a number of methods that can be used by trolls and bad actors to disrupt a forum. But it surprises me how many people seem to assume an anonymous pastebin written like a post to /x/ is somehow authoritative, as if it were copied directly from a secret FBI handbook.

I mean, FFS it even says one of the signs of a "Disinformationalist" is not believing in conspiracy theories. If you don't believe the CIA killed JFK, you're probably a spook. Come on.
> nobody wants to screw around setting up direct deposit for one or two employees.

What's there to set up? You just ask for the account number and transfer it.
At least a 10x factor below.

A table you may be interested in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Table_of_energy...
I mean, I believe that regressive taxes are bad.

My point, however, is merely that VAT is a regressive tax.