skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone has regular currency wallet, the super majority of people don't have a crypto wallet. Until there is an incentive for the super majority to learn what crypto is and start using it, it's doomed to being a niche.
Once coyotes establish themselves, you can never get rid of them. If you try to exterminate them, they just start having larger litters until their population recovers. They are adaptable and cunning. I hope that South America’s animals are ready for them, because they can permanently change an ecosystem.
For some people, getting their money's worth (literally: the food they eat cost the restaurant almost as much, or more than, the amount the customer paid to eat it) is the enjoyment.

Several of my family members are this way.
If you want to render untrusted content, cross-origin IFrames are a great way to do it. A data: url gives you an cross origin context without a network round trip and with fewer issues than using the sandbox attribute.
Is that 180GW of capacity or of generation? With renewables these values are often different by ~4x due to intermittency.
"pretty long", yes. Tens or hundreds of millions of year? No.
"Remove the flute of shame."

"Woohoo!"

"Attach the flute of triumph!"

"D'oh"
All studies I've seen of artificial sweeteners have only shown that they are measurably worse for you than water. Sugar is worse than non-nutritive sweeteners

Similarly with MSG, studies show it is less toxic than salt. It is only 'toxic' in ridiculously large quantities.
Lawyer Turned Entrepreneur Just Sold His Cannabis Business for Almost $900M
“Former Chief of Staff of FBI’s Cyber Division” => Outlook Calendar Expert
Yeah, Access' Jet Engine and many of its issues are very well known.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Jet_Database_Engine]
> Access is really meant for single-user scenarios

In a lot of cases, I've found it to be the best tool for a temporary or one-off (preferably smaller scale) data mining/massaging project. The query-building interface was the way I originally learned the basics of relational databases, and it also helped me get a better grasp of SQL-- the ability to flip back & forth from the GUI query builder to the SQL it generates is nice.

On the multiuser side, however, I have found a couple workarounds in the past. If you have everyone operate locally and space out their central database connections to intermittent, automated burst queries, you can get more concurrent users than you might expect. It helps to have fewer users per table, as well, and of course it really helps if they don't need to see the most recent adds/changes in real time.
I've updated the README to point to a DEPENDENCIES.md file that details installation instructions of 3rd party libraries needed for each of the platforms. It needs some love for Linux, though, if anyone is up to the task.
Buffets are great but there’s something off with the food at the all you can eat buffets with fixed price. Probably the food is of lesser quality..
If I'm not mistaken, margin is not just high, it's more like most of the price is margin. So I doubt anyone will go bankrupt because of your habit.

Oh and I quit, so you can be sure there's hope for you.
I wonder if you can make the same demo with real images using seam carving.

See the example images in wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving

Or online demo: https://alexander.soto.io/seam-carving
I also thought that, as I do have a 32" 4K DisplayPort monitor with plenty of scaling options presented in macOS (and even more options if you hold Alt/Option while clicking the "Scaled" radio button).

On other monitors with macOS I have sometimes not been given scaling options. I'm not entirely sure what the rules are about when or when macOS doesn't show scaling, so maybe there is something with the laptop model/Thunderbolt -> HDMI adapter/monitor that is catching him out.

Aside from that I definitely agree that 32" is not for everyone and I'm not sure if I would buy it again.
Ding! correct answer. In addition, the backups can run in the background, simultaneous to active use in other threads. When the backup is initiated, it is a transaction, so it maintains knowledge of what portion of the database is new since the backup began and does not include that data. Which is what you want for backup integrity.
This article has some good charts and visualizations. Just to add one for context, this is from the IPCC SR15 report 2 years ago:

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/SPM3...

The yellow sections are BECCS, which is basically burning biosmass for energy and then using CCS to capture the co2 from it. That is to say, CCS has already been factored into the models as a necessary assumption for a long time now.

Keep in mind this is completely distinct from using CCS for continued burning of coal/gas/oil, and absolutely not about using it for enhanced oil recovery. Using CCS in those scenarios is like losing money on every unit sold and trying to make it up in volume, its simply bad math.
I went to the library a couple times in the last few weeks, different locations, and both had quite a few people in them. I haven't been to a movie theater in quite some time.

I think part of what is going on here, is that the real movie junkies are watching movies at home, whereas the real book junkies still go to the library. So, both figures may be influenced by the most-frequent users, but in different directions.
Send in an underling then.
I made an earlier comment about the related concept: "adjacent possible": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20444151
Oh wow, I didn't know you were on here! I'm a huge fan of D so I just wanted to say thanks for all the work you've done. D is an absolute pleasure to work with.
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/052515/what-average...

This article claims that banks make 24%, and they are hardly a monopoly. It also claims the overall average is 8.5%.
Please help – stuck with recursive speculative display list algorithm
Maybe dead malls should be turned into libraries. Really Big libraries.
By the standards and attitudes of Medieval Europe with respect to torture and violence, this "flute of shame" looks pretty tame, actually.

It's hard to fathom from a present perspective, but Medieval Europe was insanely more violent and willing to torture than today's Western societies. Consider: Homicide rates were one to two orders of magnitude (~10 to ~100 times) greater back then.[a] There was a proliferation of devices designed to inflict pain and suffering that would make even Dr. Evil blush.[b] Just search for "medieval torture" online to see what I mean.

Steven Pinker has a good summary of the violent nature of Medial Europe in his book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature."[c]

--

[a] https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/life-violence-m...

[b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_methods_of_torture#Med...

[c] https://www.amazon.com/Better-Angels-Our-Nature-Violence/dp/...
> If people could hire maid services for $1 per hour, there'd be a lot of maid service jobs and nearly everyone would have clean homes.

Why do you assume there are enough maids to clean everyone's house at such a low rate?
> https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?RID=2PUA1EJK114&CMD...

This link is no longer working ("Error: Results for RID 2PUA1EJK114 not found", at least for me), mirror: http://archive.md/zyYYY
The ever-powerful pause button is what keeps me from going to move theaters; for many years now. (Also the ridiculous pricing of theaters nowadays, even though i support paying artists for their craft and work.)

Stepping back a bit...A few years ago - after we cut the cord on our (stupidly/unnecessarily expensive) cable tv subscription, but before there were several, decent streaming service offerings - my family and i would borrow DVDs from our local library (including an odd book here or there). It was wonderful! Sure, sometimes a desired movie would be out/booked by someone else for weeks...But there were always other options, plenty of films to see from classics to more recent stuff. Also, it felt nice to support our local library. After a few years of this of course - when more streaming services beyond only netflix became more prevalent - we stopped leveraging our local library. The content of these streaming services became compelling enough, and - provided that you don't over do it with too many services at once - their pricing has been decent enough. So, for me whether it is borrowing media from our library or subscribing to some decent streaming service, it is the fact that i can enjoy all this content from the comfort of my own home AND pause it (for me to take a food break, bathroom break, etc.) however/whenever i wish is what keeps me away from move theaters. (Also, the cost has a little impact...but by far and away, it is the pause button that drives my behavior.)

In this day and age, I'm wondering if i should cancel 1 or 2 streaming services, and go back to supporting our local library...even if only to help prop up a decent institution for our society?
SmarterEveryDay has glowing accolades for farmers [1]. Similarly, the highly-constrained Cubans are notorious matter hackers [2]. My grandfather, and Italian peasant, had the same MacGuyverish attitude towards making stuff keep running long past the point most Americans would have chucked it.

I think all software devs should spend some time on a farm. Great for inspiring simple yet clever "shipped is better than perfect" style solutions. Manual labor is also great for Sitatdeskitis.

1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=ywBV6M7VOFU

2] https://oncubanews.com/en/culture/visual-arts/when-in-the-fa...
That’s exactly the situation the South American countries what to fight against.
I find 40-43” @ 4k optimal. With a deep desk of course.
I integrated my database with the app server, but I still open a socket internally to access it.

So my system is also "serverless" in that meaning.

Acronyms used to be confusing, this is just ridiculous.

http://root.rupy.se
Pretty sure that philosophy (sufficiently widespread) is what leads to the decline of societies.
There are many fossils we have of life from tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of years ago.

Humanity has covered effectively the entire planet with items, human bones, and structures that will fossilize and make it pretty clear that an intelligent species was present.

The SURFACE of the Earth might not show it, but the fossil of the human femur with a knee replacement, or the plastic GI JOE that fossilized in mud, or the fossilized remains of any number of concrete structures around the world would clearly be visible with a little digging.

Many continents will undergo subduction, others will be flooded, or covered in glaciers, but there will be some areas that endure without much disruption.
I use Ubuntu, have a 39" 4k, and 2 22" 1080 screens. I feel almost claustrophobic when I'm stuck with 'just' my laptop's internal screen.
Yes, MS Access supports both SQL and non-SQL API, and not mentioning it isn't very professional from the author.
Presuming every country has the same ability to pay. Once you get outside the G20, or top 40, you may well be asking the impossible.
You definitely want to scale UI to readable. Also need to consider how to take advantage of the extra screen real estate, e.g. code editor in right half of screen, browser for research on the left, console in bottom left for random command line stuff, etc...
Antibiotic resistance genes are present in dust microbial communities
Why is that? Because they both are among the only choices targeting enough platforms to be considered suitable for full-stack development?
Can confirm SQlite is used in AAA game engines as well as VFX production pipelines. I know because I put it there.
The same argument can be made for rich surface deposits of Iron, Aluminum, Tin, etc... If there were civilizations in the past - even a hundred million years ago - they likely would have mined those.
CCS can be a way to keep using fossil fuels for dispatchable supply, in a way that meshes nicely with renewables.

In particular: make hydrogen from the fossil fuel 24/7, store the hydrogen, sequester the CO2, and when needed burn the hydrogen in power plants (or other uses).
Transactions, durability and acceptable performance with concurrent access.
There's a lot of logic and complexity on decoding, fusing, etc.
Odd that, although they mention it's an update to a 2001 survey, they don't link to that 2001 survey to compare. Were libraries going up since 2001, or were movie theaters going down, or both? Google is not wanting to show it to me, either.
Ask HN: Should I keep building side projects only for me?
Or should I focus again on finding more markets where many have the same problem?
Centralise your writes to be only done through a single thread/process and then you can read from as many threads/processes you like with no noticeable difference in performance (at least for the several hobby dataset importing projects I tried).
Isn't ROIC the more important variable? Let's say I want $100k of profit per year. With 5% margins, I need to do $2M of business. But that doesn't mean I need to pay for all the inventory I'm going to transact up front. I don't have to have $2M capital invested in the business.

I might even be post-paying for the inventory (net 30 terms, for example). I post-pay the labor as well. In this case, it's kind of meaningless how much the inventory that I'm turning over costs, given a fixed margin. What matters is how much capital I have invested in the business. It also matters how quickly I can adjust to changing market conditions. If I can respond to changing conditions instantly, it's impossible for me to lose money. In practice this is not possible because of leases and delivery schedules, though. That's where the risk comes from.

Of course, variability of demand is also an important factor. That's where the risk comes in, because there are fixed costs that don't vary with business.
I do, too; that's what motivated me to offer a reality check to try and counterbalance what a lot of people are going to (reasonably) interpret as a mean-spirited joke.
This story has frustrated me from the very first Bezos blog post [1] as a fairly obvious counterintelligence operation.

Now a year later the story has resurfaced and it’s all the same conspiracy theories based on nothing.

This report demonstrates as clearly as you could hope that there was no real analysis and no real evidence of any of the absolutely extraordinary claims made by Besos and de Becker. [2]

From what I can tell, the only reasonable conclusion is that this whole thing was a retaliatory attack on MBS and on AMI. Yet a year later, the news headlines are all parroting that the report proves MBS personally orchestrated this exploit.

We are now at the point of theater of the absurd. This story has been a smoldering load of garbage from the very beginning. [3] I can’t believe it keeps coming around.

The closest I can find to an honest accounting is this WSJ op-ed [4], which many here won’t like because it ties the totally flawed reporting on this story back to similar flaws in the Russiagate reporting. That is, a story the media wants to be true just a bit too badly.

[1] - https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146...

[2] - https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-bezos-investigation-finds...

[3] -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19535965

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19539943

[4] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeff-bezos-tries-to-wag-the-dog...
I really don’t want governments blocking my internet to fight their petty disputes.
Cement releases CO2 when lime is made from limestone. The curing of cement absorbs CO2 (less than was released in making the lime).
Screen – a CSS for desktops, tablets, & phones
It seems like most of his grievances are with macOS and not his monitor.

For a long time I've been using tiling WMs (currently awesomeWM) and I could never go back. Yes there is a bit of a learning curve while you settle on a good configuration for you, but the productivity gains are worth it since you spend so much time interacting with your WM.

Obviously your options are more limited outside of Linux, but there is a WM tool in Microsoft's Powertoys repo which looks intriguing.

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/README.md
It might be easier to just alter the Earth's orbit than to alter the Sun's H/He supply.

...or just move to Mars.

...or just move to a swarm of space stations.

...or just transcend to and merge with the AI.
Usually, they refill all you ask for.
Undefined behavior is not strictly limited to runtime. For example, defining a function called toilet is undefined behavior in C, but function names are hardly a runtime construct (except as far as dynamic linking is concerned).
Sometimes you have to alt-click, or at least you used to have to a couple of releases back, to get to the nice scaled modes.

Not sure why.
Author of the article here. For instance, text in tabs in Chrome isn't not scalable, also many mac os apps (e.g., Textexpander) aren't scalable because they are not optimised for it. Should have made it more clear in the article.
You basically had to engineer around the corruption risks for anything actually in production. Data redundancy, old-school 'Save' buttons (your work isn't properly saved until you click it, because it sends copies of that work to multiple backends) and isolating users as much as possible to their own 'shards' was part of how I saw it kludged through in the real world.

There was still a lot of weird behavior, though, and while you could reduce data loss you couldn't eliminate it.
> it's not like there are any other modern GC languages that make multi-threading particularly easy (with the possible exception of Java).

Go is another exception, goroutines are a core part of the design.
If you’re running your own server you need to be babysitting it, extra babysitting for your https cert is negligible
I very much doubt nuclear is going to be necessary, or even viable. And this is particularly the case if CCS is viable, because that means we can keep pairing renewables, plus fossil (with CCS) to fill in the gaps.
That's fine for small counts. When you're taking a 20-50% efficiency hit for this, that's a good sized bill difference.
> Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells.

https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debat...

Two of the researchers are from Wuhan Biosafety Lab (Zhengli-Li Shi & Xing-Yi Ge).
Depends whether you are China or Vatican. Perhaps a per-capita calculation would be more appropriate:

1/day global = 1/day / 7000·1Mp = 1/20y per 1M people; 5/1y per 100M. USA should do a lot more, Africa can get a pass.
> the best way to persuade others you have solved a problem is to ignore them and use your solution to make further progress.

While I don't generaly recommend doing this with superiors at work, it got me a promotion once.

I was a middle level developer and was tasked with building the authentication layer of our monolithic application.

Our team lead insisted that I created a microservice for that for "futureproofness sake". I argued that keeping the code inside our monolith would have many benefits like shaving dev time and being simpler to mantain.

By chance the CTO was nearby, got interested in our discussion, and gave me the choice as long as I could deliver the promisses and demonstrate the benefits.

I went home and wrote the authentication layer in a sleepless night. It was finished next day, included some tests and the code was trivial to understand.

A month later my team lead was downgraded and transfered to another team (he left the company not long after) and I was promoted to team lead senior dev.

Be careful when pulling stuff like this because often your superior has more experience and does know better.

In my case the team lead was a bit too much hype driven and it resulted in his downfall.
they are not reading books in the library, they are working on computers or even streaming movies. I am in a library all the time, so this is what I observe.
Definitely just working by chance in this case. This comes up a lot, unfortunately. Small budgets, tight deadlines, games not validated for correctness under software emulation for detecting these types of edge cases prior to shipping.

Another example: there are several GBA games that dereference null pointers, but it works because there is no memory protection fault hardware in the GBA. Since the BIOS is mapped to address 0 and yet locked out from reading post-boot (in a failed anti-copying mechanism), you have to emulate the open bus behavior to run these games correctly as a result.

There are also several anti-emulator routines in the GBA library, such as lying about the type of save memory (flash, EEPROM, or SRAM) that a given game actually has (by including strings in the ROM from the Nintendo SDK used to access them.)
What if these countries pass laws to require ISPs to rewrite the SOA for the .amazon domain and point it to an alternate root controlled by the ACTO?

Morocco banned Google Maps after they displayed a border with Western Sahara. Now if one requests a Google map of Morocco from within .ma, they get a version without the border.
I have a workstation with a 32" display in landscape and a 22" display in portrait, and a notebook computer with a 13" display, where the keyboard and mouse (trackpoint, actually, I found a wireless Thinkpad keyboard which is a game changer) are shared using Synergy. I sit about 30" away from them. It's really helpful for software development sessions to have the editor, debugger, tests, and built product available at the same time. I use Ubuntu and don't have any problems with scaling. I use workspace switching so my distractions are in another space altogether, so I can focus when I'm in the zone, and my distraction-time is more, well, efficient.
This may be anecdotal, but it's said that coyotes drive foxes out, and foxes are better at keeping a neighborhood clear of varmints. The years when there are foxes in our 'hood, the rabbits are much less bothersome. I only hope coyotes can do as good a job. Last year was terrible.
The Lost Central Park Neighborhood of Seneca Village
Any hackers that speak Spanish?
Charles Fry, who started a grocery chain in the Bay Area, dies at 92
> The taxation should be revenue neutral, that is every cent gained is redistributed to the people,

It definitely should not, for almost every such cent is unavoidably re-used in buying something else (and thus keeps on feeding the crazy economic machine), which ends up in energy consumption and carbon emission in a way or another.
> At least on macOS, the size of apps & notifications is not adjustable. Toolbar symbols, Tab-bar in Chrome, native apps on MacOS are not scalable.

Um... yes... yes they are.
https://www.eizoglobal.com/support/compatibility/dpi_scaling...

> Moving your head and eyes IS unpleasant.

I mean yeah. Having a display that large on your desk is absurd. That has nothing to do with either the OS or the resolution.
Auschwitz and the so-called Soviet liberation of Poland
As part of a design refresh of my personal website, I released version 0.2.0 of Screen. I would love to get some feedback and, hopefully, more people using it. It is open source under a MIT License.
I am from the UK. But the last movie I watched in the Cinema was in 2014. It is expensive and unnecessary. I bought in the new year a 60inch 4k HDR TV for less than £400 from toshiba.

Why would you bother when you can get a similar experience at home without the hassle?
There's one Argentinian buffet in Madrid (in Plenilunio mall if someone is interested) with an unusual system: they bring the food around the tables and you pick what you want. Most of it is barbecued meat. I avoid going there because I can't help eating too much every time.
Show HN: In-Browser CTF – Database Exploitation
The exothermic reactions involved in mineral carbonation are silicates + CO2 => carbonates + SiO2. These reactions mimic those that naturally extract CO2 from the atmosphere over geologic time, but greatly accelerated.
Cringley – Not Dead Yet