skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never had a positive experience with Node.js and SQL databases in general to be honest. I don't really see the point in using it outside of familiarity with JavaScript. Nest + TypeORM might be as good as it gets in the Node world right now, but pretty much every other major platform has better ORMs and better frameworks. Node might have better performance and concurrency options than some of the others, but it's not the best at those either. It's not really clear to me that it's actually the best at anything. My preference is honestly just to avoid it. In my experience there is always a better tool.
The page is blank in Firefox until you've scrolled down.
The emission (or absorption) spectrum is characteristic of electron state transitions within an element -- the specific quantuum state changes that occur as (valance) electrons shift between orbital levels.

That's contrasted with black-body radiation, which is characteristic of any material, and dependent only on the temperature. The relationship isn't perfect -- there's "ideal black-body" and actual -- but it's quite good, and has applications from cooking, pottery, and metallurgy to astronomy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
“Acknowledgements

I acknowledges pearl oyster mushrooms P. ostreatus for their cooperation in the studies.”
What I really want is a JavaScript API--doesn't need to be a "VM": just a wrapper for an existing one--that makes it trivial to manipulate JavaScript engine spaces but where instead of them merely being separate memory allocators (as would be the case if you allocated two JavaScriptCore runtimes or engines or whatever they were called) the code is run in a separate process that doesn't contain any others memory or information and all communication with it is done via some kind of IPC (which you would then minimize using).
I finally got through it. Had to read Mason & Dixon first, which was perhaps even harder to start off because of the Old English spellings. But after getting past that and realizing it was mostly just a funny story, the rest was pretty easy and enjoyable. Then coming back to GR was much easier.

Whether it was worth the time invested is another question entirely. ("No", I'm afraid, is the answer. There are better books along the same lines that are also challenging but less so. I recommend 100 Years of Solitude, Midnight's Children, or Tin Drum).

Avoid Ulysses. There's such bad, lame "philosophy of math" in there it really turned me off, made it seem like the whole book is just Joyce showing off how smart he thinks he is.
Saying 'oh but that would be absurd' while also immediately walkibg it back by suggesting that not doing so won't lead to anything better ("While I don’t think any class of people should be disenfranchised, I have little hope that voting will make things better. ") and not offering any other solutions is a typical early stage fascist argument tactic to increase the acceptance of fascist ideas over time.

What other actionable items do you take from his essay?
Do any states fund that any more? Parts of LA look like scenes from the walking dead as well and taxes are higher. Not much is spent effectively on solving the problem however.
Yes, it's called 'HTML'.
Did you read the entire article you cite, or did you just get stuck on one paragraph?

> "In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms — from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called “social democracy.”"

The piece is arguing that ANY government system of politics: democracy, theocracy, communism, or whatever is not compatible in the long term with true 'freedom' as he envisions it, and he is looking towards technology to remedy this problem.

You may not agree with him that a world without a government is a good idea, but make that argument instead of trying to twist what he wrote into some sexist fascist diatribe.
For ideologies attempting to be totally internally consistent, it is.
its like when SDKs started calling themselves OSes, that was pretty confusing
Thanks you for the recommendation, Nextflow looks exactly like what I was looking for! Thanks for the bash examples as well.
I'd estimate that 90% of developers are working on CRUD apps, if you work on algorithms in your day job you are definitely in the minority.
You could argue photosynthesis is a crude form of vision.
Use spaced repetition to review regularly. This will move what you have learned and understand from short term memory to long term memory
That’s not strong typing, that’s automated (and not necessarily up to date) documentation :(
That's fascinating, got a link to the demo video somewhere? I can't seem to muster the fu ..
Honestly, here. I want content instantly
I read that iOS 13.3 supports using a hardware token with WebAuthN. It doesn’t say you can just use TouchID to login without a separate WebAuth token....

> Currently, the WebAuthn second-factor use case (the FIDO U2F user experience) is the only log in flow that is supported. Security key-based biometrics or PIN (without the use of username and password) are not supported yet.

https://www.yubico.com/2019/12/native-support-for-webauthn-a...
Is the goal to stop being watched or not having your info being sold as a product to others? The title seems to imply the second while talking about the first?!
>human pattern recognition is ,,, a system that evolved over millions of years. We should expect more from something we ourselves designed.

Why? Human intelligence evolved over millions of years. And we're struggling to keep our changes to the world from killing us.
I had actually abandoned the Glass Bead game, but enjoyed Demian and others. I read half and didn't see it going anywhere interesting.
> Regarding psychology, it may be a darker journey than you expect.

You may have a point there. Quoting our previous compliance officer: I am not cynical enough. (My posting history probably already puts me in a pretty grim bracket in HN, so there's a thought.)
> There is no “long term” in technology.

C.
He doesn't. It's entirely advertising to get his name in the news.
I once started inventing such a thing called FORMCARD, which supports paper forms as well as computer, and also includes transport protocol to submit the forms, as well as the file format to describe the form, but not much has been done with that since then.
Yeah, I admit I was stuck on what to name it too! Uncanny evokes a nature of mystery, which I'm not sure is totally approproate here.

Haha! I literally just Google'd "something that is attempted but misses the mark", after writing the above paragraph, and I found this article on Wikipedia [1]. It means "tragic flaw" or "to miss the mark". Feels quite apt! Perhaps "Hamartian Design" could work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia
Quality between fish varies significantly, especially between a relatively small fish and a large fish.
I thought she talked this step through others on the team.
In that vein I reduced the amount of CO2 my car produced per year by one simple trick. I moved closer to work. I was commuting 8000 miles a year. Now I'm commuting 4000 miles. And it's 10 minutes to work instead of 30.
one of the things i was seeing with "robots" is the lack of an ankle beyond rudimentary function.

I couldnt help thinking this [article] is close to the task required to keep balance. the other problem is designing a foot that conforms to the terrain and takes a grip while the ankle balances the machine between steps.
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Reposting what I said elsewhere:

> Saying 'oh but that would be absurd' while also immediately walkibg it back by suggesting that not doing so won't lead to anything better ("While I don’t think any class of people should be disenfranchised, I have little hope that voting will make things better. ") and not offering any other solutions is a typical early stage fascist argument tactic to increase the acceptance of fascist ideas over time.

> What other actionable items do you take from his essay?
Maybe [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharo ?
Especially in combination with [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_(analysis) .
I'm confused. The link you shared shows that there are fewer American citizens in ICE custody than during the Obama administration and there are fewer citizenship claims in court in 2017 than during the Obama administration.

Of the examples of Americans wrong detained in the story, two people were arrested during the Bush administration, two were arrested during the Obama administration, and one was arrested during the Trump administration.

Challenges with immigration did not start with the Trump administration.
Germany has the most expensive electricity in the world (excluding Diesel powered islands). Electricity in neighboring France is a third or so of the price. Is that because France gets so much more sunlight?
From a job market perspective yes, but please don't actually choose to use this bloated crap for anything if you don't have to. It takes a fast underlying platform and turns it into something that's so much slower and is doing so much metaprogramming that you're negating most of the safety guarantees of static typing and not even getting a substantial performance advantage for using a static language. There's simply no reason to use it unless you're stuck with a bunch of devs that only know Java or you're in a corporate environment where that's the only language you're allowed to use.
Fitness is a great use case for VR
Pretty sure you would have to cut more than Google to stop both?
Redshirt: Experimental OS where binaries are WASM, run in ring 0
There's an episode of the excellent late-70s documentary Connections series 1 that talks about this as well
Before coal, there was charcoal; the process works perfectly well with it. We switched because the energy-ROI and logistics are much easier than the manual charcoal production process was.
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I have a (fairly stupid) question after reading this...

Is the human brain hard-coded for vision through eyes or is it possible to a (at least similar) form of vision without eyes, or like a much less exaggerated form of sonar like Daredevil, is the human brain REALLY that adaptable?

In an attempt to restore vision to those that lost it, is their a way to mentally rehab someone to "see" in a different way?
This is how user-control enabling features get removed, with barely a whimper. And it appears to be done by people that are looking for easy-hanging fruit to promote their brand from the look of it.
Just because an agency has lost credibility doesn't mean it has lost power.

Many people say Trump has lost credibility, but he still has power.
I recommend watching Markus Winand on youtube. Eye-opening for me
What year is it? :P
Doesn't look like it, but I could be missing it.
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In other words, I can't use it in production (yet), because I'd need to ask users to change browser settings for it to work. That's disappointing :(
All the major browsers are doing it.
If truth means relatively strongly held contrarian opinion I'll give you the science and tech ones. These vary in terms of how contrarian they are.

Phones are "done." There will be more innovation around the edges but little major innovation. Sales will continue to plateau and fall as there is no need to upgrade. Desktop will experience a minor renaissance as people realize mobile OSes and platforms aren't fully displacing it, though they will continue to displace it at the low end.

Biology harnesses quantum information systems (not necessarily anything like the QC we might build) at the cellular level up. True GAI will require QC. Present AI remains nothing more than glorified curve fitting with big models.

Quantum computing will have non-cryptographic applications first in areas like optimization, molecular simulation, etc. It will take longer for QC to seriously threaten ECC and RSA with larger key sizes due to how many qubits are needed and unexpected performance bottlenecks scaling e.g. Shor's algorithm. (I would still recommend PQ crypto if your adversary is a nation state or someone else with huge pockets.)

Cryptocurrency will disappoint in the short term but will be huge in the long term. But... this does not mean present day coins will retain their value any more than we still search with Altavista and Lycos.

Solar power will continue to grow but its contribution will plateau no higher than 50% max of the global energy mix. We will not phase out carbon heavy power without nuclear. Grid scale storage beyond load leveling will remain economically non-competitive with fossil fuels unless there are major chemistry or manufacturing.
maybe he just bought an ad, running on a gazillion newspapers, TV stations and websites?
American Gods was the least favorite of the Gaiman books I've (tried to) read. I love Neverwhere, which might be my favorite book, and Stardust is up there too, but I just couldn't get into American Gods, and have avoided Anasazi Boys because of this.
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Rust is lower-level than Go, but it's also higher-level (!) insofar as Go is among the least "expressive" languages out there — has to be its #1 criticism / value depending on where you stand.

Go is very niche in scope, which is how it manages to be so essential.
This is my primary issue with just about every sizable library in the JS ecosystem. All I need to do is concatenate some files and convert ES6 and now I have 700+ packages in my node_modules folder.

I wish core JS had more functionality built in to alleviate the need for all these tiny packages.
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Very interesting.

They have open positions on their career page:
https://www.onio.com/career.html

Seems like a great time to join this company and help make this product come alive after years of work. I would guess they are an efficient and driven team where everyone knows everyone else.

I am not affiliated with them, but working at companies when they start to gain traction and to feel how proud everyone is at getting a product out with a relatively small team is great fun!
Yes, I thought, instead the browser should be made, increase the functionality/control availability to the user, make less things available to the document author.
Can't you set those parameters during compression to something fixed? Should be doable.
I laughed when I saw this list -- I've abandoned both American Gods and Catch-22 at some point. Technically I also abandoned The Glass Bead Game, but I don't think that counts since I was like 14 or something. (Someone had given it to my mother. I'm pretty sure she started and then abandoned it though.)
We build cell towers everywhere. It’s not a stretch that we could build telemetry towers everywhere. The main problem is an economic chicken-and-egg problem: need to invest in towers before cars will be built. The one advantage is that one can be assured of success in developing a self-driving road system.

Now if we could reuse cell tower signals, the telemetry system is already in place. Cell phone operators keep the location of their cell towers secret, but with some persuasion ($$$) would reveal their coordinates.
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Can you say online communities (e.g. Reddit) are like marketplaces?
If you're going for a typical interview, you're asking to be a cog in a machine. So if you're someone with original ideas and conviction or an interviewer asking this question you're making a category error.
This completely misses the political angle. Someone with 1 billion in liquid assets can affect the political landscape more than 1,000 people with 1,000,000$ in assets. Similarly to how someone making 50 million per year has more than 1000x the disposable income of someone making 50k/year.

That’s what’s corrosive about wealth inequality. It’s why the marginal tax rate declines at very high incomes. It’s not about doctors vs landscapers because doctors don’t have political power relating to wealth.
Is there another way to provide strong types for a JSON file?

I believe vscode uses schemas from http://schemastore.org/ for many config files already.
Agreed. Either we ditch the term, or reach a scientific agreement on how many "blazing fasts" there are to a "regular fast".
I want to give this comment some kind of award! Staggeringly impressive. Did you have to have a cool-off break before writing that, or are you such a zen/ninja master by now that you could write that immediately?! Thanks again for the very inspiring modding.
> Copyright seems almost essential to having media creators get paid.

Not when it's 120 years long. How exactly are creators benefiting from it? Those who benefit from such long term are various publishers who just sit and profit on what was created long in the past by the actual creators. At that point it's already completely parasitic.
Assembly and C will still be around in 20 or 50 years. Rust is way too early to say.
I've stopped using every Google product but Google search, and unfortunately Google Captcha, which I absolutely abhor. I downloaded Google Photos a few days ago to try and export some old photos and it refuses to let you view your old photos until you have give access to your current photos. That really typifies my experience with Google.
I just love the name of the journal they're publishing in: "International Journal of Unconventional Computing". That's new to me!!
Applied Evolutionary Design
I hadn’t actually considered that. I’ve read 3 of the books on the top 5, and think they’re great books. But all of them have been made into TV shows now, which could explain it. Catch 22 is probably my favourite book of all time, but it’s long and kinda disorienting to read (every chapter is out of order, except for the last one). I guess it makes sense people would pick it up after watching the TV show, and then give up on it.
Firefox mobile works for me on https://webauthn.io

Which half doesn't work?
I have some limited experience with Lindberg, which lead me to the tentative conclusion that he was more interested in the legal aspects of open source licenses than the social contract issues of open source and free software.

I also got the feeling he was using rhetorical techniques to change the topic or blunt a inquiry, rather than as methods to resolve disagreements.

Consider the paragraph 'I don't think that's an appropriate characterization .. You'll see a lot of people jumping onto any pretext they can find in order to oppose it.' It starts off implying there are multiple sides to the issue, which puts you off-guard, then characterizes the opposition in stark black-and-white terms.

That sets up a sort of false dichotomy by leaving out those people who oppose it for non-pretextual reasons.
Um sorry but I really liked Dhalgren and Gravity’s Rainbow and Infinite Jest. I may actually use this list to find some new books to read.
Database Systems Concepts
https://www.db-book.com/db7/index.html

Great book, that's the one that is also used in the reputable CMU Database Systems course, which you can also find on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_...
If you’re on iOS how would the app download a photo without write access to photos?
People who cannot see often turn to echolocation: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/echolocation-blind-p...
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So, how do you keep someone else from sitting down at your computer and clicking Log In? Am I right in guessing that fundamentally you're back to passwords, in the sense that when you are away you lock your computer screen and have to enter a password to unlock it (or some other implementation that still relies on passwords, like if your browser requires a master password to use its password manager, etc.)
Hey! Myself as well - however, we are an incredible minority. (Actually a Simpsons junkie, go to trivia nights etc, also attend Anime North, etc - we are very edge-case folks.)
There's no excuses, the behavior of the scheduler is documented and straightforward. Up thread a twitter user [0] noted that you can somewhat replicate the behavior of windows by replacing sched_yield() with sleep(0). The original benchmark skips this detail and just assumes the C++ wrapper will exhibit the same behavior on all OSes with all schedulers, which is clearly wrong.

[0]: https://nitter.net/dotstdy/status/1213582199615901696#m
Iraqi Parliament Votes in Favor of Expelling U.S. Troops
Almost a year later, how is V doing?
Russian: https://rvb.ru/tolstoy/01text/vol_10/01text/0259.htm
I have tried to investigate a similar (if much smaller in scale) problem at one job. Our logins were just taking entirely too long. Granted, we had a notoriously "it's on your end" unhelpful parent IT department to work with, but I found just trying to understand the list of steps that go in on the background for a single login to finish on Windows to be something of an occult science. Finding the tools to just measure the different times each step takes was almost impossible; I had hints for a few steps there, a suggestion for one step over here, and so on, but nothing complete.

Even an empty profile on a relatively new computer, recently wiped computer was painful.
To be clear, the first requirement after opening the app is access to your Photos. I didn't even get far enough to view the old photos, let alone an attempt at an export.
Nothing about the OP's provided context suggests they have 'depression problems', are getting negative feedback, or are about to wash out from Google.

They are simply asking for what they should be learning in order to be competitive in the job market.
Also there is no easy way to export all your photos. I learned this the hard way when I decided to move my photos to iCloud. There used to be an option in Drive to link your Google Photos albums and download them, but they removed it. You can request your data from Google and then download a large ZIP, but I had numerous issues with it and it broke the Live photos from iPhone. In the end I had to manually select ~100-200 photos in the iOS Google Photos app and click Download and then do this for all photos (it will not let you select all at once, there is a limit). And then I enabled iCloud to back up the downloaded photos.
Spent half my life on antidepressants. I’m off the meds now and feel all right