skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "complex" math in this poster disguises the simplicity of these chords and transitions.. If you're really interested in music theory (and why those transitions sound the way they do), "The Songwriting Secrets of The Beatles" is one of the best sources available today.

https://www.amazon.com/Songwriting-Secrets-Beatles-Dominic-P...
Hehe, I haven't heard "Trinitron" for an age!

I remember saving for what seemed like an eternity, then buying a used (and only slightly defective) Trinitron from a friend's dad (who was a draughtsman) round about '97.

I don't recall what size it was, but the point was it was big for the day, like 24" - it was so heavy that me and my dad could barely lift it! When we got it home, it bowed my wooden desk in a very threatening way, but managed to sit there for a couple of months before it finally broke through the desk!
Gentle Introduction to Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors for Machine Learning
I find it interesting that he mentions gravitons as a definite piece of particle physics, on the same order as photons, etc.

I was under the impression that gravitons were simply one part of one possible conception of quantum gravity, and that we were definitely unsure about whether or not they exist.
SQLite has specific, well-understood pricing and scaling properties.
Self-Destruction of Dark Matter May Contribute to Cosmic Gamma-Ray Glow
You mean old enough to mis-remember the SARS breakout?

It began in Guangdong in late 2002.
Makes sense why Ergodan is attacking the court system.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/18/un-urged-to-ac...
He made SpaceX engineers ghostwrite a lengthy report on it: https://spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha.pdf
I've been working for 2 years on a successor for productchart!
Modern UI and KISS, check it out here : https://picked.cc
I totally get that. It's a paradox that to have super useful search results you step very close to the edge of what's acceptable for the search provider to know about you. The amount of shit Google knows about me is quite honestly frightening. Google has over 10 years of my emails. That alone is more than most people know about me. Then there is years of search history, and location history (yes, I have both enabled). And finally a Google home in almost every room in the house. Oh, and a Pixel phone. And Google drive, photos... You get the idea.

I think at this point it's too late to save my privacy. I am apathetic and resigned to hoping the future isn't as dystopian as it is often feared to be.
A million years ago Phil Wood's Tenacious Oil was the go-to for the all-weather bikers I knew. They are still in business.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0378/1413/files/SDS-PHIL_T...

(Is everyone publishing these now? Is that a California law?)
> I read that a can of green beans sold by WM will turn over 6 times before they have to pay the vendor for the first can.

I can't parse this but am curious what it means; can someone explain?
What happens when out of memory on Tinycore.^1,2

1. On NetBSD, I could make RAM-only, no swap distributions that might thrash but would gracefully recover once some RAM was freed.

2. On Ubuntu, when running from a tmpfs root, I have found that running out of memory causes unrepairable filesystem errors.
Me too. Why is this on Hacker News?
I don't know what is "ETL" meaning here, although SQLite does include a JSON extension to read/write JSON data too, so you can use SQL and JSON together if necessary.
For anyone else reading this, I found the Ludum Dare submission and wanted to link it here:

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid...
I suspect many of the buyers of Gortex clothing are quite environmentally aware. This could be bad for them if the news spreads. I was completely unaware of the link between Gortex and PFAS
David Rosenhan’s fraudulent Thud experiment set back psychiatry for decades
Can you tell me how you classify right wing and left wing?
No, an RDBMS is a piece of software for managing databases in the relational model, access to the databases (such as users and permissions) and provides services such as a server, connection pooling, and so on.

SQLite provides almost no RDBMS features.

This isn't just semantics.

A car is not an engine. A fork is not a kitchen. A SQLite file is not a DBMS.
> fixed income

These often don't even beat inflation. The provider can also go bust like any company.

> real estate

I am the poster boy for losing pots of money on "can't lose" real estate.

> your own business

The failure rate for your own business is 80-90% in the first 5 years.

Stocks are far safer.
I sense a business opportunity... selling decoy packages, including delivery.
Liquorix – The Better Distro Kernel
honest question: is it a first / new or was it already the case before ?
Show HN: CEO, Decision Making as a Service
another point is that by having to use more time for long distance travel, the relation between the substantial energy cost and the travel time becomes more reasonable from a "what if everyone uses the possibility to travel long distances for cheap" perspective
I think they just failed to maintain what they accomplished (I remember when they really did have sub-one-second boot). Google's culture has been dying slowly and painfully over the decade; the less people care, the sadder the products will get.
> Women Visit Libraries Nearly Twice as Frequently as Men

Doesn't surprise me. It is pretty hard to "cat call" someone at a library with the whole silence thing.
You are now remotely controlled
So many horrors and injustices committed against the Jewish nation. That's why I support unconditionally the State of Israel as the last guarantor of the Jewish identity and culture.
(I am brown if that matters)
I love these kind of websites, it's much better than a 20-page guide on CNET or Wirecutter.

I've been working for two years on a similar website for Phones/VR/Cameras/Drones, check it out here : https://picked.cc
Not convinced that much, I'm sure they have encyclopedia or even local copies of wikipedia. Most of the valuable data is not from 2010s (some maybe) so an out of date pedia is already a lot
Agreed. Holy cow did I have fun in my remote sensing classes. I'll still remember learning about false color composites from landsat ETM+ data. The first time vegetation just popped out and I was hooked.

My guess is on Erdas Imagine too.

That or some more programmatic stuff like an OGR/GDAL pipeline.
There is a very similar device used to straighten threads in wool. I wonder if it was invented earlier or if it was inspired by the cotton gin.
The abstract here is helpful: http://cidrdb.org/cidr2020/papers/p29-neumann-cidr20.pdf
Their usage of serverless predates all of these cloud application offerings. Just because a lot of people in this particular echo chamber like to think of serverless as meaning one thing, there are plenty of others who have been using the same word to mean something different for quite a bit longer.

Moreover, the cloud as a service definition isn’t even accurate. There still is a server — it’s just not one the developer has to worry about.
Nope. That was reference to automatic transmissions not up shifting immediately every time you decrease throttle.
Already the case I'm sure... I'm displaying my ignorance a bit!
Well there hasn't been much of a choice historically and a zoophobic approach would carry way too many other side effects.
Logr: Simple Logging Library for iOS in Swift
Sounds to me as if the best solution would be a well run .bank tld.
I feel like the resistance is people think pointers are C's secret sauce. Reality is the only advantage is it makes it easy to write bran damaged unopimized compilers for C. Which no one does. I remember back in the 90's my boss gave me shit for using array indexes instead of pointers. Being a brat I looked at the assembly and there was no difference.

Ditto the cultural proscription on passing/returning small stucts by value. In practice it's no worse than passing the arguments separately. And likely easier for the compiler to optimize around.
No but close. A SQlite file is a single format. The journal file and the WAL file are different formats used for bookkeeping by the library to attempt to be ACID compliant. The library implements some complex logic to ensure this, but reading/writing a SQLite file does not require any of this.

You could write your own code tomorrow that reads/writes SQLite files but does not produce, read, or write WAL or Journal files. So long as the resultant SQLite file follows the specification, it can be read by any other piece of software that implements the specification, such as the SQLite library or SQLJet (https://sqljet.com/).
First of all, you still haven't answered the question: What is it that an RDBMS has that SQLite doesn't have?

> It's no more an RDBMS than a .docx file is.

Thanks for the idea. Your argument is like saying this:

Microsoft Word is not a word processor -- it's a file format.

I mean, yes, Word has a file format; but it's far more than just a format specification.

> Sure they do. If you write the logic to do so,

Right, but you don't have to write the logic if you're using SQLite. That's the point. SQLite is a library, which provides a way to do SQL operations on data. Like Word, SQLite has a file format, but it is far more.

I just don't get where you're coming from. Do you not know that the SQLite libray can actually do complex SQL queries on data? Or do you think that people shouldn't do that for some reason? Or do you just value SQL queries so little that you don't see any difference between being able to do complex queries and doing `file.Write(json.Marshal(data))`? What is it you're trying to accomplish with this line of argument?
What model monitor is this?
And for others the word “serverless” literally means without a server. As in... a library. It’s been a well used definition for many years.
“DNS queries to all servers are blocked if you try to get a blocked site's IP”

Wait, so if I was in Turkey, a request for wikipedia.org to my ISP DNS server would not only have failed, but caused all my other queries to fail as well? For how long?
Of all these there are probably half a dozen devices that are free of defects. This site does nothing to help me filter out the rest. For me, the way I approach this is I just find an Anker-made thing that most closely matches what I need and buy it. It might cost a few bucks more, but it works.
Kobe Bryant had startup work ethic
Dang good call. Gonna order up a kit and throw some random homeless persons spit/hair in it
This is a amazing, I think you may have just solved and headed-off a huge number odd problems for me.

Could you talk more about what Pragmas you’ve been using and why?
>Umm, no, that's not how it works in a free market and free society.

I believe she is advocating moving away from (though to what degree I am unsure) a free market and free society.
> The Soviet Union was responsible for ~80% of german casualties.

None of which would have been possible without the extraordinary industrial might of the US that kept the USSR supplied. They had no capacity to fight minus being supplied.

Do you know how much territory the European allies had reclaimed in the years of fighting prior to the US invasion of Europe? None. There is no scenario where Nazi Germany gets defeated without the US supplies and invasion and the USSR leadership openly admitted exactly that privately.

Here's a map at the time of Normandy in 1944 (WW2 of course began in 1939):

https://omniatlas.com/assets/img/articles/complete/europe/eu...

Notice anything interesting? The Germans hadn't lost any territory in nearly five years of war.

The US was a liberator of Europe. It didn't keep half of Western Europe for itself. Do you know what the Soviets were by comparison? It was the 1,900,000 US soldiers, backed with US supplies and nukes (to stand off the Soviet conquerors in the East), that enabled Western Europe to become free after the war.

The USSR would not have even been able to keep its trains functioning without the US supplies. The US gave them nearly 2,000 locomotives.

It included 12,000+ airplanes. 1,911 steam locomotives, 66 diesel locomotives, 9,920 flat cars, 1,000 dump cars, 120 tank cars, and 35 heavy machinery cars. 400,000 jeeps and cargo trucks. 8,000 tractors. 12,000 armored vehicles, including 7,000 tanks. 35,000 motorcycles. 1.5 million blankets. 15 million pairs of boots. Four million tons of food supplies. And a vast amount of energy supplies.

Between Dec 1941 and August 1945, the allies consumed seven billion barrels of oil. The US supplied six billion of those barrels.

So the US kept the USSR in the war with its industry, while fighting two massive war fronts simultaneously in Europe and the Pacific.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease
> we should keep things in perspective about how dangerous we're talking about. If they were ten times more deadly than coyotes, they'd still be a orders of magnitude less dangerous than sharks, bees, and lightning.

Sharks are an illustrative example. They're pretty dangerous if you encounter them. But doing that is fully optional; no one's ever run into a shark by accident. If you live near wolves, you can run into them even though you didn't want to.

Realistically, your risk from sharks is exactly zero unless you're going out of your way to inflate it. It's not honest to claim that sharks are more dangerous than coywolves -- and once you've realized that, you realize that you need to adjust risk estimates based on what you're exposed to.
> Moving an automobile a couple miles in a dense urban environment at very slow speeds shouldn't require much energy, at least from a pure physics standpoint.

If the terrain is flat, I agree. In hilly cities, not so much.
> I need to store large amounts of data

What kind of data and amounts do you frequently encounter that is a good fit for relational storage but difficult to fit in a single server? Honestly curious.
I've written many, many shell scripts, back as a sysadmin, and because I wanted it to not be a cute little hack. I know all the tricks described on the blogpost and many more. I have an intimate understanding how the quoting works and how we can work around its limitations.

Let me tell you: shell is sort of a local optimum for one-off throwaway stuff, because it makes commonly needed thing accessible with so few keystrokes. But also, shell is a cute little hack. It's literally impossible to write robust programs in it.
If you don't mind sharing, what browser extension was that?
It's an acronym for munging some data

ETL = extract, transform, load
> I remember when they really did have sub-one-second boot

Wow, as someone who never owned a Chromebook, >1s boot times seem enviable, even if booting into Chrome is rather restrictive. What are boot times like nowadays?
> that's true of ordinary soil and all kinds of things.

Sure. If I remember right, someone who lives in Denver gets about double the average radiation dose because a) there are a lot of radionuclides in the Rocky Mountains (relative to other places) and b) Denver's altitude means that more cosmic rays reach ground level because there's less atmosphere to form a shield.

If you told most people that (insert some activity) was going to double their radiation dose, they would freak, yet no one panics over the idea of living in Denver.
People get arrested for filming cops on a regular basis, why do you find it inconceivable that someone would be arrested for filming a military operation?
>...dependent on a combination of Swift, Ruby, YAML, and Kotlin to build. It’s complicated to set up...

Can you elaborate on this? It just sounds like you have unnecessary complexity.
Really? In a company with 300K+ employees you estimate that there are only a few dozen people who can vet a security consultancy by checking if it previously did any successful iOS forensic work?
Not just Apple. Microsoft had quite a rally itself over the past decade. So did tesla, netflix, facebook, AMD, Amazon, nvidia, etc. The tech sector did very well during the loose monetary period since the financial crisis.

It's insane looking at Apple and Microsoft. They are valued at about 1.39T and 1.25T respectively. The trillion mark by itself is amazing, but if you just look at the fraction alone, Apple's fraction is nearly 2X Disney and Microsoft's fraction is 2.5X Tesla. And microsoft pays you a dividend every quarter.

Rising tides lift all boats, but some more than others.
Nobody used it before. Even the about page says: "SQLite is an embedded SQL database engine."

"serverless" is a marketing term, then and now. Not sure why there's such a big defense of it. If you have to argue this much over the provenance of a term that clearly isn't used the same way today then it's a good sign that it's not very useful.
"The crab-eating fox and the coyote may soon swap territories, initiating the first American cross-continental exchange in more than three million years"

If you don't count humans
There used to be an all you can eat sushi place here when I was a kid, it didn't last too long, only a few months, but they had all you can eat 'craft your own' sushi, you could choose they type and filling and they'd make it for you, they had a BBQ grill at each table you could get pieces of meat for, they had a noodle bar with a bunch of different noodles and broths, a rice bar with a bunch of different kinds of rice, meat and vegetables for the noodles and rice, and a grill you could get freshly fried up meats and vegetables, all you can eat for everything with no limits for $20 Canadian circa late 90's/early 2000's.

My dad took us there a few times, he still talks about it and how sad he was when it closed down. He figures it just wasn't economically feasible. You got ridiculous amounts of really good, fresh food for fairly cheap. Far cheaper than ordering individually. We usually ended up eating until we all felt sick.
I forgot the "us" switch. Now it will work fine.
Worst article I've ever read. It makes a click bait claim and backs it up with literally zero evidence, analysis, and numbers. The one time it mentions a number of any kind is "Tesla’s scheme to have its customers — who have paid upward of $90,000 for their cars — rent them out as self-driving taxis during the day while they are at work is pretty implausible." Again, why is it implausible? No reason given.
I've seen the shitshow that speculative domain squatting .com had been about twenty years ago and I sure don't want to relive that experience on the root namespace. Particularly since ICANN has repeatedly shown that they would be terrible custodians of an "everyone" namespace.
> I think bandits/highwaymen would be those who steal by physical force. Burglars steal surreptitiously.

Fine, add burglary to the list. The how matters less than the why. Addressing the why makes us consider how the structure of society incentivizes the crime. Camera systems are also going up in public spaces to deter robberies.
Lots of people doubting the stats here. And while I generally approve the inquisitive nature of HN we maybe should take this time to be optimistic.

Good for Americans for breaking stereotypes. Congrats!
I’m having flashbacks of people comparing their gentoo boot times based off of various config settings.
Only 58% of tech companies that IPO’ed between 1980 and 2016 received VC funding, so I’m not so sure I’d be quite so dead certain of that.
The Public Domain Is the Rule, Copyright Is the Exception
Pandemic game Plague Inc climbs charts after coronavirus outbreak
Try FoundationDB it's a distributed ACID key value store, can have databases scale up to 100TB, scales horizontally, and can handle an enormous amount of concurrent writes and reads while maintaining relatively low latency per read/write.

You can even use the Foundation Document Layer which is API compatible with Mongo.

It definitely takes some getting used to, but I think it's pretty fucking great, once you do.
When you steal something it means the owner doesn't have it anymore. How is this theft?
Patents Do Not a Product Make
What is going on with extension reviews?
I submitted a fairly simple browser extension to every major browser web store (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera).

- Firefox approve it almost immediately.

- Edge approved it after about a week.

- Chrome approved it after 2 weeks.

- Opera still hasn't approved it. (I'm not too concerned about Opera either, I was just curious how their process differed)

I selected "Unlisted" when submitting the Chrome extension because I thought I'd have some time to test installing it from the web store. After it was approved I went back to change it to "public" and it's now pending moderation again and has for about 2 days after that simple change. I made no other code or content changes.

This does not seem sustainable to me, I've worked on Chrome extension for years and this intense manual moderation is fairly recent. Does anyone know what's going on?
While Windows updates are nowhere near 10s, nowadays they are also nowhere near 30m.

Years ago, rarely, you'd get a Windows update that took up to 30m to to complete. These days it's more like a few minutes - certainly noticeable, but let's not exaggerate.
"By 2030, the National Restaurant Association projects that 80% of all restaurant items will be eaten at home..."

I doubt it. I'm not convinced that any of the delivery app companies are really making money; by 2030 they may not exist any more.
Considering recent events I'm wouldn't be to interested in flying in it
I recall a type of XML-representation that looked like this, i.e. was line based. And there was a Python (?) tool to convert XML to and from the line based format. Would be nice to compare with recutils but I can't find it now
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22136693
I'm thinking on using this for me, but being able to interact with non-programmers used to Excel and similar GUIs. But I enjoy working only with the text formats :)
```The only problem with this move was that any attempt to port Lighthouse's OpenStep applications written in Objective-C to Java would be almost impossible. Additionally, Sun was worried that releasing their own suite would make third party developers less interested in the platform (see Claris) as they would have to compete with Sun directly in the office application space. Some attempts were made: LightPlan was ported to Java and released as JavaPlan (and also switched from OMT to UML). Sun eventually gave up on the idea, if it ever entertained it seriously in the first place, abandoning the office application market for many years.'''

Sic transit gloria mundi.
Try not to let it get to you- No use worrying over something that already happened which you can't change.

Also, it's in our drinking water currently anyways, so if you want to stress out about PFAS might as well do it over something we can change going forward:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-water-foreverchemical...
Thank you for saying this. I'm bookmarking it for the next time I hear "no one is saying we should make everyone poor." When I talk about the anti-inequality people preferring a third-world standard of living as long as no one else has it better, they typically call it a strawman. I appreciate the admission that this is actually your belief.
> Many wolves also have coyote DNA.

Indeed... in some cases enough that it complicates conservation efforts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA-QINoEEwQ
Sorry in case anyone got paywalled, here's the repo containing the same information:

https://github.com/teamzerolabs/node-csv-example
You must not be doing a lot of OLAP or very highly concurrent workloads.

Netezza, Informix, KDB and others will all well outperform open source dbs.

All open source dbs are absolute trash for time series an other olap type queries.