skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it common to write apps that target multiple databases with SQL as the abstraction point? SQL behaves so differently across vendors (with respect to performance, extensions, etc) that I would be more inclined to write distinct queries for each vendor rather than try to find strings optimal for every vendor.
Friend of mine, single, 30, in DC bought a condo. He seems to be happy with it since he is planning on being there for a while.
Penis-and-scrotum transplant patient reports near-normal erections and orgasms
I've been trying to deal with migrating data in a Firebase database, and it's come down to exporting the data to JSON and searching through it with ripgrep and jq. Not ideal! And I've had to deal with entries missing "required" props, and entires that have keys with typos, etc. Luckily our dataset is still small enough that this is practical, but none of this work would be required if our product had been built on a SQL database in the first place (I wasn't around when that choice was originally made).
What about: https://earthlymission.com/world-ocean-floor-map/
Unless it's for reference purposes, i think reading is a waste of time. I stopped reading after college after it was no longer mandatory. same for movies and tv. Don't have the time for it but also the information can be stale. This is specially so for making money online. Bill gates' wealth and success and his love of reading are independent events but are often mistakenly assumed to be causal. Reading is just another form of entertainment. it is not going to unlock any magic or hidden doors to success as much as pundits like to extol the virtues of it .
For someone who is carrying the label "ex felon" around, simply lying can help at least make ends meet for a while.
My dad worked in nuclear plants for over 20 years, and I use to tout the pro-nuclear line. Our reactors were safer than Chernobyl was even at the time it was built (Chernobyl was an uncontained reactor. US reactors are encased in a shell of concrete).

Safety is still a concern, and don't let anyone tell you it isn't. Simply look at Brownsferry Nuclear Plant. One of their three reactors was shut down for decades due to a fire, another reactor had a turbine blade break off and hit the reactor wall in the 2000s, and the reactors themselves are an old Boiling Water design where the radioactive water runs the turbine (newer Pressurized Water Reactors use transfer pipes for heat so the steam generator isn't radioactive). Newer reactors like Bellefonte were almost complete, but never went online after Three Mile Island brought the industry to a standstill. TVA also has bought up more land around Wattsbar nuclear to hide the fact that they couldn't find where a tritium leak was occurring.

The biggest problem with nuclear reactors is the waste. Most of it is still stored at nuclear sites. I use to think the protesters at Yucca Mountain were being overzealous and non-nonsensical, until I stayed a week with a friend of mine who was a newspaper editor out in Vegas. They had published several stories about existing facilities leaking radiation into the environment.

There are a lot of reasons to avoid nuclear. Honestly if we want to be serious about pollution in general, we have to consume less power. Each renewable takes metal, dirt, oil and various hydrocarbons to make. We can't consume out way out of, not only CO2, but all the other massive amounts of pollution that go into all our construction effort. We can't buy ourselves out of environmental disaster. We have to consume less; and that takes much bigger changes in the way we live our lives and look at the world.
I'm sure it does, but even in a coma it burns something like 1200 calories a day. There's seems to be a pretty narrow window between the baseline and maximum.
> Just like the people in the article, basing your entire personality around abstinence makes a person a 1-dimensional asshole.

I'd say it can sometimes make you an asshole along many dimensions.
I wish SQL had syntax more similar to dplyr[1] for complicated queries. I dislike having to do a nested sub-query every time I re-group the data - the query ends up being a deeply indented mess that needs to be read from the inside-out. Using "WITH" clauses helps a lot, but it's still not as easy to read as the more imperative dplyr style.

[1] https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/
Without knowing, my guess would be that's when we started measuring & recording those things?
Zinc is very important in the diet and its deficiency is very common. Our food is already becoming scarce in zinc, potentially needing supplements from mined minerals. But these are not projected to last very long either [1]. This doesn't make me very excited for using it for batteries at all.

[1] https://www.iatp.org/documents/scarcity-of-micronutrients-in...
my CS201 class 19 years ago taught me this. education just isn't as good these days..
> I think the term "Typed Hungarian Notation" is really weird.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. "Typed Hungarian notation" reminded me of "horseless carriage". :)
I remember Microsoft around 2001 fixing a security issue in Windows Media Player. This security issue was combined with a feature which added DRM support to Windows Media Player. I'm still puzzled by decisions like these, and why they are even legal to begin with.
This is true, IMO, but I think the author did the very thing he is warning against in this article.

> Barack Obama, still the smartest politician in the land

This statement has a bit of the pretentious, arrogant tone that Trump voters often hate from these sorts of Democrats.

> For the record, I’m agnostic on the Democratic field. I would vote for a tree stump if it could beat Trump.

This sort of blind hate for Trump is more of the same tone. Trump is so bad that a tree stump would be better isn't a great thing to say to connect with Trump voters.

I get this article's audience isn't Trump voters, but still, there's no reason to do the very thing you're warning against.
Nice to see adoption.

Another good option is the (still) free hurricane electric tunnelbroker service ( https://tunnelbroker.net/ ) which will get you an IPv6 tunnel with geographically diverse global tunnel servers, your own /48, and if you have an ASN you can announce your route directly.

Also has some cool dashboard stats for ya.
Then, IMO, it should be two independent indicator lights, not 1.
It looks like it. Funnily those links are blocked for me (I'm in the U.S.) whereas the YT link is not.
This really is the case for people like myself who have typically been center left. I would never vote for Trump but additionally I can never see myself vote for Sanders, Warren, etc. On the left end of the political spectrum there is no longer any space for people who aren't progressive enough.

The progressive left seem to be in the mindset that if they steamroll the population with ideas and rhetoric, rather than practical solutions then they will eventually follow. The paradoxical popularity of Trump is the result.
Do you mean - Don't buy a house, live in a van?
I'm sorry but ROFL. ORMs trade programmer ease for too much query performance imo. In all my experience it makes a lot more sense to get closer to the data with SQL than to use something like an ORM in the same way that C is faster than Python, SQL is closer to the metal like C is, and an ORM is more like Python -- quicker to prototype in but not fast for this use-case.
The Mauna Loa daily CO2 measurements started in 1958. Before that, there weren't any continuous measurements happening.
This is very cool, and I like what they are doing. Though I don't understand why one would use this over free public 6rd providers like tunnelbroker.net or using TEREDO in general, both of which will likely give much better performance and reliability.

I used tunnelbroker.net for years before I had native IPv6. It works quite well.
this is how science works. it is the best model and projection using current data. if you can improve it, please go ahead
Amazed until you realize the database must be able to accept SQL statements from many many different languages using many types of network drivers. Rather than implementing this (correctly) everywhere, centralizing the "smarts" in the database so that the languages and drivers just pass a string becomes a much less amazing design decision.
Chinese tech giant Tencent gets Hong Kong license for blockchain bank
I just go on a jog
Most popular banned handle from RW is probably TrueIndology, and undoubtedly the selective reporting has its own agenda as well
> How should you know this if you aren’t a native app builder?

My impression has been that to use RN well you need to mostly think like and have the knowledge of someone who is a native app developer. You just get some benefit of sharing UI across platforms, but still need to do many things you would for native.

I haven't used RN, just saw my friend who uses give a talk on it. So I certainly may not understand exactly how much native code you can or can't write while also using RN.
One of your sources is literally a power company.
They probably can scale, but haven't scaled yet. The only proven solution today is pumped storage, which is not available everywhere. Pumped storage accounts for >95% of world's installed energy storage capacity.
They'll probably be a while still as they're quite a complex feature. But they'll be useful for all sorts.
Data structures still matters and very much so! If you run in the cloud data structures has to be very efficient! Data should be normalized. MySQL has built hash table support adaptive hash indexes.

I think one should also not over complicate the data layer.

Boring tech, I like the safety C D of SQLs ACID.
http://boringtechnology.club/
You might want to recheck your math. It should be ~$800k total with current rates. If you're including taxes, insurance, HOA fees, utilities, maintenance, etc, you'll easily be over a million, but I can't see any calculation coming out to $2M.
China Says Its Mars Landing Technology Is Ready for 2020 Rover Mission
I think the key thing is how the MCAS added new failure modes that the pilots where not briefed about.

There should be way more strict user interface requirements. Including how humans are supposed to react to failures and whether that makes sense from human psychology point of view

If the MCAS had informed pilots of a potential sensor failure, then there would have been a very good chance that the pilots would have been able to land the planes safely.
"Dual-dual" is a thing in this space. There are safety-intent microprocessors which have a couple of cores running a couple of cycles out of sync with a delay and comparison on registers. If they disagree after that delay, the processor concludes it's insane and you can take action based on that hardware-level signal.

It's not my favorite solution for every application, but it's a good tool for a handful of situations. And it's a good way to avoid having to think about picking who to trust with only two sockets. There are other approaches, of course. For example, if your system can afford more than a couple clock cycles of latency (e.g., if you don't believe you can crash a plane with a couple milliseconds of control error) you can do the same thing with well-designed software and a bit of extra hardware. It gives you more freedom since there's more hardware to buy, at the expense of engineering and test effort to prove that your solution does what you want.

Doing this over large physical distances also adds some challenges. There are debates around dedicated signal wires direct between control centers vs data networks. Every situation is a little different, so there aren't really easy answers that you can swoop in and prescribe as best-practices. In general I find that people are more-skeptical of packet-switched solutions (e.g., Ethernet) than I would be. But most folks are also better at reasoning about the failure modes there than they are at thinking about the lower-level issues that Ethernet solves for you. And of course there are tons of different signaling systems - not just Ethernet - to consider.

Consider just a few different possible applications and the constraints that they impose. A car has less severe failure modes (many crashes are nonfatal) but less freedom in time. Your trajectory is simply more cluttered. A passenger plane has dramatically more energy, so failures are typically more severe, but you have a lot more time to deal with them because your trajectory is empty (much of the time, anyway). And if you're sane, you've designed it to be passively aerodynamically stable because twitchy maneuverability isn't critical when you're not a fighter jet. A rocket is a different animal altogether. Those are often rigged with self-destruct explosives, and you don't really get much time to change your mind if you erroneously choose to trigger them. Plus they're typically less stable (performance is more dear, gravity isn't helping you, and purely aerodynamic solutions don't take you outside the atmosphere) and are thus more dependent on their control systems.
The poster should not ask such silly questions, just trust the science!
It uses standard (or about to be standard) Swift language features, mainly the ability to write DSLs.

Maybe other developers who really really love Swift and SwiftUI might port it to their preferred platforms. :)
It's an opinion piece in the opinion section. You are, of course, always free not to read it and presumably their advertisers and subscribers will react by giving them less money if many people share your view. What I don't get is why you or the “libertarian” who posted the comment I replied to think it's important to get access to someone else's work while depriving them of the expected payment — it's like complaining when a hotel asks you not to sit in their lobby.
You did not object to the fact that democracy does not give each individual equal share of power as one would expect. Since you don't object to the perversion of democracy you should not object to the perversion of the taxing system... mainly due to failings of humans as a barely evolved species to create scaleable [taxing systems].
Reactors primarily use uranium, but plutonium is routinely used in the form of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel (about thirty reactors in Europe, at least). One reason is to spend the plutonium from decommissioned nuclear weapons.

Using MOX in conjunction with thorium is also being tested to improve the void coefficient, making reactor operation more stable and safe.
U.S. Needs to Cure the Health-Care Cost Disease
This answer is more flippant than you can imagine.

#3 Is the worst - if we have learnt anything in the past century, it is that our attempts at behavioural changes rarely work[i], and even when they do they often result in the opposite effect[ii].

[i] - My favourite book that points this out is Behavioural Adaptation and Road Safety. Well worth a read. Examples are many, such as in the case of criminalising texting while driving, which results in "crotching" (texting from a phone on your lap) and has resulted in increased accidents.

[ii] - Plenty of examples of this already on the environmental scene:

- let's use plastic bags to save trees! oh no plastic bags are worse!

- let's use diesel rather than petrol! Here, have subsidies! Oh no, it's making everything worse

- let's improve energy efficiency! oh no, now more energy is used! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
There's nothing "settled" about question #2. The extent to which humans are responsible for climate change, comparative to external factors (such as the sun heading towards the end of its hydrogen-burning life), is very much debatable.

You can use adverbs like "absolutely" and "unreservedly" but that doesn't make your statement greater than an opinion.
the Icon A5 is also a certified death trap. but i guess it allows the consumer to chose risk with their wallet...
FAA, right. Trump's pick for FAA head was confirmed only because the majority in the senate (you guess which party) decided to look the other way about allegations that while at Delta, he mistreated a whistleblower who raised safety concerns to him. Oh, and he's a lawyer. I wouldn't trust the current administration's FAA on this. Yes, politics does come into it whether we like it or not.
It is shocking how many people come out of a high school education in the US without understanding amortizations. I cringe every time I hear “front loaded” interest. As if the borrower didn’t “front load” the debt?

https://www.bretwhissel.net/amortization/amortize2col.pdf
Why? Cuz turf is more important than passengers.
Similar situation. If I bought a home, I would likely need to get more house than I rent (since it needs to be a place I can live for 5+ years). Additionally, in my market housing appreciation is not keeping up with the stock market. So it is both more expensive and less convenient to own a home for me.
> The only way someone can be Protestant is to be ignorant of history
Or being born into it. Kinda like the vast majority of Roman Catholics in fact.

> and they were saints because they lived those teachings

They were saints because they passed the Roman Catholic saint tests. The Church is very specific about that.

> All forms of Protestants started off in the 1500s

Of the ones that called themselves Protestant, you may be correct. Of the groups that the Church labelled heretical and got quite pointy with, they've been around a lot longer.

> They started off on the logical fallacy...

Nah, most of the Protestants started off having problems with the idolatry and the excess of mammon.

> There is no credible basis for any of their teachings at all

The Bible is a bit picky about idolatry and excess of mammon. I guess it's each to their own as to what you consider a credible teaching.

> And she was healed of her gangrene and errors

Well, that's good to know. Hate to think there's any systemic issues with the modern Church.
Disney has lots of ways to monetize. A slight increase in the odds your family books a Disney Cruise is a significant real monetization channel that doesn't show up in subscription pricing. Matthew Ball has a good analysis of these models[0].

[0]https://redef.com/original/nine-reasons-why-disney-will-succ...
Right? Also rates didnt rise from x% to 3x%, they actually fell to incentivize home buying
Well, you can, and here is a guide for building a house with green wood:

https://www.motherearthnews.com/green-homes/green-wood-zmaz7...

While it's not wood, per se, you can do it even simpler with bamboo. A lot of poor people in SE Asia build houses with nothing more than a machete (could use a simple stone tool if you like) and access to bamboo and often use organic ties (e.g. waxy leaves) instead of nails to hold it all together. There's no real reason why you couldn't use a similar strategy with wood to allow for some shrinkage.
Be wary of WITH statements as they are optimization barriers as some engines can't optimize them -- that's changing but just FYI. I believe the latest Postgres release is handling them properly now -- I could be wrong.
Sure the waste is miniscule.

However I don't trust the corporations in running it. When profit motive rears its ugly head, bad semihidden shit happens.

I'd trust the military in running it. They do have operational nuclear knowledge.
This is the sort of thing Tim Faust talks about in the concept of health justice. If we move people into a single payer system that takes care of them long term, it will suddenly be obvious that we need to do more stuff like this as it's more expensive and stupid not to.
It All Started with a Toy Car
Big machines got cheaper.

Amazon will rent you a machine with a TB of RAM in it for an hour for the price of a fancy coffee.

Horizontal scaling has enormous complexity costs. It's worth it if you are genuinely web scale (Facebook, Twitter etc) but very few projects are.
I was planning to look more carefully at D if rust didn't work out.
And like that, millions of hours of productivity were lost.
Is American Democracy in Trouble?
That's not how it works, because it turns out that drivers are generally not suicidal.

The studies have been done, they've been replicated, and the statistics are very clear. Google the '85th percentile rule'.
How are long shutdown times factored into the costs of nuclear power? The nuclear power plant by me is shutting down early due to being too expensive compared to renewables. It's shutting down next year, but will be slowly cutting staff until 2025 and will require a maintenance contingent of about 50 people after that for the "indefinite future".

https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Cheaper-wind-gas-energy-le...
If you are unattached you should absolutely not buy a home in a suburban area, or anywhere really.

Planting a stake in the ground will make it harder to move to chase after better opportunities elsewhere, and that opportunity cost probably outweighs any asset appreciation you would see.

Buying a primary residence should be treated as an opportunity cost for the invested money, as well as a necessity for the shelter. If you are coupled it's harder to coordinate big moves so that makes owning more attractive, and if you have children you also want a stable environment for them to grow up in. But all told there are far better investments than a primary residence.

Seattle also has a high price-to-rent ratio: https://www.mashvisor.com/blog/best-real-estate-markets-pric... You may actually lose money on a cash flow basis if you buy.
Within orders of magnitude perhaps.

In 2008, computer models from Naval Postgraduate School, NASA, Institute of Oceanology, and Polish Academy of Science predicted ice-free Artic summers by 2013. [1] The study was prominently cited in Al Gore's acceptance of the Noble Prize, which was awarded for his dedicated advocacy of climate change science.

In 2013, the US Dept of Energy and US Navy predicted it would be gone before 2019. [2].

For more ice-free Artic science, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sea_ice_decline#Ice-fre...

Complicated systems are complicated. Science knows as much about climate change as it does about cholesterol.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7139797.stm

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/d...
Do these still work? I expect designs like this to age quickly. Try reverse-image-searching them :)
Ransomware and data breaches linked to uptick in fatal heart attacks
My plan? I’m not defining any plan. I’m suggesting that people who define plans should focus on removing loopholes that wealthy use today. Rather than giving them more chances to find loopholes. Income is something that we already use in taxes. If its definition has loopholes too, then “those people” should try to remove those loopholes in the definition.

p.s., There’s a difference in reducing loopholes and having absolutely zero loopholes (something that may be impossible)
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