skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument about Germany and Nigeria is to say that absolute standard of living doesn't matter much, and the rest of the post argues that relative position does.

What part of the characterization "preferring a third-world standard of living as long as no one else has it better" is unfair?

To be charitable, I'm sure the parent would appreciate a high uniform standard of living even better. But he seems to find the situation I describe preferable to the current state of things, which is pretty wild.
> guys it was lifted

After 2.5 years... Let's not pretend like this is some major success. It's a failure by all accounts that luckily ended up OK.
Crab legs and beef with broccoli come to mind.
> Take me to zero and beyond. Only affirms what a trolling echo chamber any forum can become when a thought is proposed that seems to challenge members of the community (even if only slightly). The number of downvotes is more than the number of actual responses to my post which is what I'm basing this off of. I get it, the down vote is easier and intellectually lazier by comparison.

In case it's of interest, my take is that half your comments in this thread are complaints about how the other half of your comments are being treated.

It's not clear what kind of response you would expect on HN from a comment 'Keep em coming' -- it's not conducive to constructive discussion, and consequently it's unsurprising you're downvoted without comment.

Comments complaining about voting are also typically downvoted (refer the HN guidelines), so again you shouldn't be surprised that those have a high (down)vote to comment ratio.
Sure, text files are awesome, I get it and generally I agree. But sqlite is in every nook and cranny of our computer and mobile systems, it is in Android, it is in the browsers. I find it hard to imagine a postapocalyptic world where one would be able to read a file somehow, yet not be able to get access to some sqlite processing software.

I like the rectools for educational purposes, but beyond this for any however small purpose project I'd rather switch to sqlite pretty soon.
> Surely you've seen the light

No? I don't think I've ever had or see a flat tyre. Seems like the kind of thing that only happens in movies. Doesn't seem like a problem in practice.
Is there more information about this posted anywhere?
I grew up near the factory, without knowing what was made there. The Ordnance Survey maps at the time showed the area as it was before the factory existed, and weren't updated until after it closed. Later I learned that they made cordite (propellant for bullets) there.

Ben Cooper is held in very high regard among urban explorers. His original report is at https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/military-sites/10983-r...

Although trespass in Great Britain isn't usually a crime (in England and Wales it's a tort, and in Scotland in most cases it's a right under the Scottish Outdoor Access Code), there are certain exceptions, one of which might have applied to the ROF at the time Ben visited it: places used to store explosives. Ben was charged, but the Procurator Fiscal dropped all charges.
Sounds more somewhat convenient than damn useful. For me adding a handful more companies to the pool of tracking my every move doesn't seem like a great trade-off for the experience of not having to turn off the lights.
Also what happens when you come home and sketchy IoT startup X has gone bankrupt/their DB crashed and your deadbolt servers are down.
Say the min wage is 10$. In a population of 100 people, if 51 made 10$, than the median would be 10$. Obviously that is ridiculous...
Most western people are really that ignorant to think our security forces choose who to kill by ethnicity, right? I'm starting to believe this.
I’ve never had one and then got three within 6 months (two of which within one week).

Also you better replace them ASAP unless 30mins of tedious work is not worth $200 or so.
For context, afl can take weeks to find crashes in nontrivial binaries.
This could have been largely mitigated if Sonos speakers just had an AUX port like any other speaker. Instead, hubris took over and led to a shitstorm.
I was shockingly accurate: takedowns came exactly a week after my comment: https://twitter.com/samhenrigold/status/1220903242856640512

Sadly, completely expected :\ Hope he still has all the original files on hand.
Used to love dbm files. 1980s serverless NoSQL. They're still totally usable although we have LevelDB nowadays too.
That's why I left it separate under an asterisk. Not an expert, but I think what happened is that Emperor Justinian's code remained the base for the Christian law within the Empire until the modernisation, which was pretty much a merge of that tradition with updates pulled from French third republic with the exception of civil law, which was merged in from Switzerland instead.

Up until 1851 the largest minority in the Empire were Muslims at 45% of the population, followed by Christians at 35%. You could argue that it's an unbroken lineage because 35% of the population still followed Roman law which was still valid and in full force, or you could argue that the most populous minority didn't, therefore a broken lineage.

In either case, the reality is more shades of grey, of course: all jurisdictions of accepted law evolved side by side with some crosstalk over time. Ultimately though, Turkey terminated the application of muslim law, removed it entirely from its code and completely switched to a western code after World War I, roughly coincident with the collapse of the Empire and the foundation of the current, modern Republic.

It's subject to both European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights as the ultimate courts of appeal, both of which, I believe, have some presiding Turkish judges.

(My knowledge in this field is very superficial — if someone knows better, please feel free to correct!)
why don't Boeing leave wingtips vertical like on A350 or 737? A feet of vertical winglet replaces 3 feet of horizonal wingtip. So with 3 feet high winglets Boeing cold have just avoided the need for folding.
Probably just retro collecting craze driving prices up.

e.g. 10 years ago people were dumping CRT monitors, now a decent Sony Trinitron starts at 150-200 €
Did it survive past that incident? Those old crts are something else.
I used to think verbatim what you just said, until a tyre burst on a rental car while I was doing 80mph on a motorway. Was not a fun day.
The big takeaway here is that you should never perform brightness arithmetic on sRGB. You need to remove gamma to make brightness linear, do your math, then re-apply gamma.

The full correct formula is:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/13558570

Interestingly gamma correction also includes a linear component. For more info on why:

https://poynton.ca/notes/colour_and_gamma/GammaFAQ.html#gamm...
You should look at the latest recipe's for tedlium, librispeech, swbd etc you'll get significantly better results with those models.
I think it would work for any situation that people would normally use MS Access? Though arguably Sqlite solves the same problem.
It's like markdown, but for data.

Just like markdown provides a quick way in that to renderize something pretty, but is still readable in plain text, recfiles do the same for data, it has data types, keys, integrity, and is easily queryable with its tools, and also easily read in plain text.

Sure, you could use some type CSV, but that is not pretty to read as recfiles. The point is the same as markdown, usable as just text, but with good tooling around it.

with markdown files in a dirs, you would have to provide you own tooling.
Right because things that haven't happened to you don't exist.
It's literally impossible to write robust programs in it.

Right, that's the whole point of Oil! You can make those programs robust without rewriting them entirely. Run them with Oil, and then flip a few switches to enable stricter behavior.

Here are a few examples:

Oil's Stricter Semantics Solve Real Problems

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/08/16.html

But there are a dozen more. The key point is that bash's codebase has kind of "topped out" in the sense that it's hard to add anything without breaking something else. On the other hand, the Oil interpreter is reasonable, small, and you can add features to it, and fix things.

Anyone who knows about programming languages might be able to read the type definitions in osh/runtime.asdl (and frontend/syntax.asdl) and learn a lot about how shell works.
That sauce is loaded with sugar and corn starch.
Those are not plain-text, not easily "hand-searchable" or editable by hand.

The idea is to take full advantage of plain text, just like, markdown! You could even use git for versioning.
The DSM is controversial because it's only scientific until political groups take interest. The trans community lobbied and bothered academics over the DSM's definition for Trans people until the academics threw up their hands and decided their funding wasn't good enough to justify having a spine and so the definition in the DSM was changed with a minimum of real science to justify it. That's psychology as a field in a nutshell.
I purchased a

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hyperjuice-world-s-first-...

Waiting for it to arrive.
Thanks Jedd, this is all super enlightening!
Article without paywall https://pastebin.com/gDBDdTB6
There’s no need to be sarcastic. The article talks like everyone's experienced it - I don't think I have.
You're making some basic assumptions that do not make sense.

The database can be physically stored in any arbitrary format. One can build an RDBMS that stores all its data in tar or JSON files. No matter how inefficient as long as software exists that manages the database.

>Are .tar files RDBMSs?

This question doesn't make sense because you are asking if databases can be management systems which is obviously false by definition.

If the 5 steps you have described are implemented in software then that software would be considered an RDBMS and the .tar file clearly would be a database. There is no confusion.

>However, you need to build a server, user access controls, connection pooling, import/export tools, partitioning, clustering, etc. before you start to arrive at an RDBMS that uses this engine.

Those features are not necessary for a piece of software to be called RDBMS but most industry standard RDBMS do indeed support these features and SQLite clearly is an RDBMS that pursues a certain niche that only makes sense in certain situations.
thats not true. A billion dollar stock purchase can push the market cap of an asset much more than a billion dollars. Even if you retired the shares you bought after.
Not sure about the current Turkish system but the precursor to Turkey; the Ottoman Empire was a Islamic caliphate so they probably didn't adopt the same laws as Western system but it'd be still pretty accurate to say that the Byzantine empire formed some basis of Western laws (at least as a lineage of the Roman empire). Also as you probably know, Istanbul used to be called Constantinople.
That's because Turkey, like Russia, is a hybrid regime, it is not a pure autocracy.
I want to like dracut, I really do. It's amazingly flexible and dynamic. Mostly, though, I find it a complete pain in the neck any time I go remotely outside the default behaviour.

It gets even worse when you enable debug. It's a series of really nested bash scripts, and enabling debug does "set -x" for everything. That spews out so much information over serial console / screen that actually tracking down the bug is almost impossible. The sheer complexity of the embedding and sequence of events means that even innocuous changes can have a way bigger impact than expected. RedHat changed something between RHEL7.6 and RHEL7.7 and suddenly we were having all sorts of issues with CentOS7 instances booting off iSCSI.

The one big positive about it (from my perspective at least) is that it _does_ make it pretty easy to inject additional functionality in to the initramfs. Just drop in a bash script with a number prefix relevant to where you want it to occur in the boot order.
Come visit Philly — eat a cheesesteak, see some art, pop a tire!

Probably any city in the northeast during or right after winter will have plenty of tire popping potholes.
Pricey? You could get them for $100 15 years ago.
Climate Assembly UK
The primary limitation on the printing press, as I understand it, was actually the development of durable type molds. This was the contribution that Johannes Gutenberg made to the development of printing, both the development of a new alloy for the type and the development of the matrix system for rapidly casting type.
Can't you restrict feature voting (or whatever kind of request prioritization) to paying users?

> "your goal is probably to get to ramen-profitability as soon as possible... You're not gonna get there fast enough by making free users happy"

But I already have! Making my free users happy has lead to a portion converting to premium and many more sharing my offerings :D
Crab legs is still pretty good. You're generally right though.
https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/
Since a few people have asked, I might write a FAQ about this, but the short answer is that I view PowerShell as one of the projects called "shell" that is least like a Unix shell.

Part of that is on purpose, because it's designed for Windows. And what works on Windows is very different than what works on Unix.

Windows is based around COM objects and binary formats like the registry, while Unix is based around text files. That makes the design of an appropriate shell extremely different.

I would say bash, zsh, and fish are pretty close (with the latter concentrating on interactivity), but PowerShell is way out there.

PowerShell also appears to be coupled to the .NET VM and is pretty inefficient. Some links and sharp comments here:

https://lobste.rs/s/16djrz/type_safeness_shell#c_gtmqcl

I think if you want a C# like programming language with shell-like syntax, that integrates with Windows, then PowerShell is for you. But most bash users don't want that! As mentioned, shell is used on tons of embedded systems now (usually busybox ash, which is growing towards bash.)
It absolutely happens.

For me it happened on a rental car as well. The likelihood of occurrence probably correlates with level of tire wear, so perhaps it is indeed rare if you stay ahead with your car maintenance.
The experiment sounds plausible, whether or not it happened or was done properly. But the claimed response of the hospitals also sounds perfectly reasonable to me. What do people expect?

A virtually infinite number of things can cause symptoms which have some overlap with schizophrenia, and that's why today (I'm not an expert, but I'm assuming what I know of is representative) on intake they classify someone as "schizophreniform" - apparently a fancy way to say "looks like/might be schizophrenia" without committing to anything.

For every person that has a chronic condition, there are going to be many that have one episode and it never recurs. Maybe it was a virus. Maybe they had some weird allergic reaction. Hospitals are never going to know for sure what's wrong with everyone, so the humane thing is not to insist they determine whether the remainder is "real" or not.

Being involuntarily admitted as a psych patient has permanent consequences, and it's uncomfortable to think about someone who doesn't "deserve" the stigma being caught up in it. I think an obsession with this scenario drives the people who crusade against psychiatry. But putting more pressure on medical professionals to always get it right is only liable to make things worse. You can't get better results by applying thumbscrews to people who genuinely try their best to deal with a fundamentally intractable problem.

This did jump out at me:

"then, as now, no scans, no blood tests, no laboratory findings allowed them to distinguish the mad from the sane"

In the 21st century, I believe hospitals in the US typically screen for likely drugs first, when someone appears to have psychotic symptoms. But they also (at least where I know about) do pretty comprehensive blood tests that show clear metabolic abnormalities and then just discard the results when they don't know what it means. So in a sense, sure, there's no blood test for mental symptoms, and yet if positive tests for various things are routinely met with a shrug and typical psychotropic drugs administered, then the statement is misleading.
ETI Nuclear Cost Drivers Study (2018)
The deer is a remarkably deadly animal. More people lose their lives in deer-involved car crashes than through dog attacks. Coyotes are the only thing that kill deer in the semi-urban Eastern US.
Thoughts:

The problem of false priors, deliberate misdirection, and motivated reasoning are insidious. Having to un-learn false models is difficult and expensive, personally, bit especially socially.

Even if Rosenhan's experiment was a fraud, the notion that psychiatric institutions or the field of psychology does not engage in the practice of arbitrary, thinly-supported, or entirely fictitious diagnosis, or failure to account for changes in condition, at least at times isn't disproved. And ... at least to my lay understanding ... this does seem to manifest elsewhere than in Rosenhan's accounts.

There are two competing sets of motivated reasoning to be considered here, which makes determination of ground truth that much more difficult.

On false priors, I've been familiar for a time with the notion of "Wittgenstein's Ladder", a/k/a "Lies told to children" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein%27s_ladder):

My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them—as steps—to climb beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.)

He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the world aright.

-- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 6.54

This leads to the challenge over time of finding oneself having climbed the ladder, but in discussions with others, constantly confronted with it, and having to explain around or over it. Wittgenstein's Ladder becomes, when erected horizontally across a passage of understanding rather than vertically to greater heights or across gulfs, Wittgenstein's Barricade.

It's this constant having-to-retread-fundamentals which seems to actively impede further development of knowledge and understanding, and which I've found increasingly intolerable in much popular media and discussion. Worse when it's not even the fundamentals which are being retread, but someone's self-serving current reformulation (often worse than the original). See Schopenhauer's "On Authorship".
Some things, such as freedom of speech, I believe are universal and a government should need a very good reason to restrict some aspects of it. Therefore, access to Wikipedia should have been allowed to continue while the case was being run through the courts, as a point to be on the side of assuming the best for freedom.
This is kind of misleading, it's counting every method of Console, CSS feature etc. If you remove Edge from this list, the difference isn't that much between the browser engines. Notably WebKit (Safari) has some catching up to do, which they are in the process of doing.

In no way does this point to Chrome shipping nearly a thousand more Web API's.

Also it doesn't seem to do a case-insensitve comparison! Epic fail.

(List of tracked API's: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/catalog?releases=%5B%2...)
Faculty members held jobs in China while working for UF, report says
My local library has a "phone room" - literally the size of a phone booth. I think there are some usage limits but I've never used it so I'm not sure what they are.
Perhaps more disturbing than getting a mental illness diagnosis (correct or not) is that there is no scientific way to prove that you are cured.
There is no such spectrum. SQLite is a piece of software that implements some but not all commonly expected RDBMS features. Software is not a file format but software may be written with the expectation that a given file follows the requirements of a certain file format and the software may be written in a way that it produces files that follow the file format specification. Since SQLite - the software - is an RDBMS the files it produces can be considered to be databases.
You may be interested in the twelve tone you tube channel, fwiw - particularly the earlier ones where he discusses the fundamentals.
I think you're referring to my book data? It's all from Goodreads export, not hand entered. I love my compose key and will get around to cleaning this up.
Learning lit-HTML part 3: Event listeners
Certainly the original paper failed even the most basic norms, and large parts of if were clearly fabricated, and the remaining ones cannot be verified now.

Ultimately he claimed to have eight pseudo-patients, but investigation has turned up three, and none match what was described in the paper. (Eg, Rosenhan said it was easy to be admitted, even after showing limited symptoms, but he was actually only admitted after showing extreme symptoms. He said life while admitted was dreadful, but one of the subjects was dropped because he found it peaceful and helpful.)

Occam's razor suggests that there were only 3-4, he lied about their results, and made up the rest. But maybe there were some others, and maybe some of them actually had experiences similar to the paper? But even so, at best, he lied, filtered data, and reported very mixed results as being anything but. More likely....yes, complete horseshit.

There's no real defence of his work possible; at this point it's just speculating over whether it was all lies, or just a misleading mixture of lies and truth, and trying to estimate the damage it did.
> no one's ever run into a shark by accident.

What do you mean by that? I'm pretty sure that the swimmers/surfers that have been bitten by a shark were not actually looking for a shark. Swimming at the surface of the water unaware of exactly what's lurking in the water below them is the same thing to me as a hiker walking through the woods suddenly coming upon any wild animal.
I mean delivery has always been a thing. Before the delivery-app-err it was maybe mostly pizza, but I don't see why delivery in general can't still be a major thing.

Also take out is always an option!
The maintainer it's active still with a bugs mailing list and chat in IRC. Your findings would surely be well received.
What air quality meter do you use, if you don’t mind my asking?
Here are my comments about PowerShell:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22155943

Oil is really aimed at bash users and not PowerShell users. There is some overlap between the set, but only a bit.
> The likelihood of occurrence probably correlates with level of tire wear

Or sometimes infrastructure degradation. I had a friend blow out an otherwise healthy, relatively new low profile tire on an unseen Los Angeles pothole.
A friend of mine, not a native speaker, calls them "eat all you can" buffets.
Actually all those hubs are almost all equal: they support usb 3.0 and differ very little. Just buy Anker (upgraded) and you will be fine. Different story for usb 3.1 gen 2. There’s only one hub currently and it’s Sony UHS-II. (And even this one can support 4K only in 30 FPS)
Backups are easier/faster? A machine with a 5TB table will take forever to dump with a single thread, but 5 servers with 1TB shards will dump it more quickly.
I have been using this to teach kids to code. I have compiled some of the material I created into a book: https://github.com/electronstudio/pygame-zero-book

I have also been working on a similiar but 3d library: https://github.com/electronstudio/richlib