skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Took a night train in central Europe once. It was a lot of money, and to reserve a whole compartment was even more. And if you don't get the whole compartment the other travelers may talk at all hours of the night on the phone...

Then there are border crossings where they check passports. Such checks make it impossible to get uninterrupted sleep.
I have no idea, and that is a fascinating question.
Same thing in places that flood.
[EDIT: do the people downvoting this care to explain why they disagree with it? Just because one person was involved is not evidence other people weren't scared off because of harassment. Nor is it evidence that there was no harassment. If you disagree, why?]

His role and behavior is independent of whether there was harassment of academics from people. He may have had that role and either one of these three options could possibly have happened: 1) no harassment of academics from people 2) some harassment 3) a lot of harassment.

To claim that Blanchard’s involvement is evidence that there was no harassment, you’d have to demonstrate that somehow that involvement is incompatible with 2) or 3).
Sometimes you want data under version-control. You want to track changes and maybe you want to be able to reverse them. An example is human-supervised data-imports.

Example: we operate a pipline that pulls datasets from multiple government agencies and merges them. The sources are updated periodically and updates frequently introduce new inconsistences. To reconciliate, we use auxiliary datasets that record tweaks to each source, such as entries to add, mutate or delete.

In our implementation of the pipeline the source datasets, the tweak tables, and the resulting merged dataset are kept in Sqlite for ease of processing. The pipeline writes out dumps of each table during processing, even for intermediate stages. When running the pipeline, I can scan the diff and decide whether the changes are reasonable or tweaks must be introduced or removed. Once I'm satisifed with the result, the dumps are then committed to record the current known-good state.

When somebody wants to know why one record in the result is the way it is, I can determine how it changed in the source data, how it was tweaked, and what the result was before and after. It's really easy to produce diffs between revisions. Code-reviews are conducted over changes in pipeline code, validation logic, source and result all in one step.
Just to underscore the reason I felt the need to clarify, I don’t think it’s accurate to claim there are any cattle fed grain for “all” of their life. Like the previous statement about “exclusively grain fed diets”, it’s either needlessly hyperbolic or misleading.
I was thinking something after the fact would have the most information, since the trials should air everything out.
Out for Blood already exists and covers 95% of the story (I think HBO has a TV show in the pipeline too).
No, lubricants such as Krytox and the various spray and wet machine lubes used for bikes and such contain only polymerized fluoropolymers such as PTFE (trade name Teflon). PTFE has a long established safety record, and is completely different from the unpolymerized PFCs that are showing up in ground water and in people's blood.

Green Oil is fear mongering. Their website calls PTFE "carcinogenic". This is a lie. The manufacture of PTFE is nasty business, no doubt, but the finished product is safe. Safe enough that it has been widely used in medical implants for the past 50 years.
Let this be a lesson of why it's a bad to let growth get ahead of science.
I just drew the spectrum. It exists now.

SQLite is a file format. You can read/write SQLite databases without the SQLite library. You can write your own custom reader/writer/creator. You don't have to use SQL. You don't have to be ACID compliant. I can make for you right now a SQLite database that did not touch any SQLite software, put data into it and you can open it with another piece of software that implements the SQLite file format specification.

Likewise, you can use the SQLite library software to create a SQLite database file, put data into it, and I can read it/update it using any other software that implements the SQLite file format specification.

The SQLite library offers some very very basic features, such as ACID compliance, and so on, but those are not part of or guarantees of the file format or the database files. The software that you write that implements the SQLite file format specification does not have to do any of these things to work with or produce a valid SQLite file.

An RDBMS is a kind of DBMS for managing relational databases and providing access to the databases (for example users and permissions). Modern RDBMSs offer extensive features (look at an Oracle or MSSQL Server spec sheet) that are not even hinted at with the SQLite library software.

This is because SQLite is not an RDBMS, it's a file format.
> Exactly, and you can't solve a problem by making it more complex.

Sure you can. A resource scheduler is more complex than not having one, but it solves the single-point-of-failure problem and the bin-packing CPU+memory problem.

A more complex infrastructure means you can have dumber apps.

And there are lots of areas where this is true: TCP is a complex protocol which makes it easier to build reliable communication, CPUs have complex caches which make simple code faster, RAID makes multiple disks behave like a single disk to improve reliability or performance, compression is very complex (esp for audio/video) but dramatically reduces the size...

The implementation of kubernetes may be flawed, but the idea of kubernetes makes a lot of sense. It solves real problems.
Many companies don't want to open source their code because then they have to accept liability for the provenance of the code. It's not that they are aware of improprieties in the provenance, it's just that they don't have proof there are none.

And since open sourcing it does not result in revenue, they cannot justify the cost of vetting the provenance.

A way to fix this would be to shorten patent and copyright terms.
Would you care tasting my website for me? Thank you
Considering the permanence and longevity of comments and submissions, I propose that direct canonical URLs are preferable to something Google will eventually sunset. Apologies if this slightly degrades the near term browsing experience.
PFCs don't offgas. There are practically non-volatile at normal temperatures. They steadily rub off on everything that touches them.
It was never 80% of food though. It's not even really 80% today.

If VC funding were to dry up I'd imagine either the higher delivery fees or the higher order minimums of the past would come back, and then consumers would respond to prices and reduce ordering out.
> Only the USA has the fixed-rate mortgage because it’s bad business for banks.

The US is not the only country with fixed rate loans

You can get a variable rate loan if you are “rich enough” to buy a house

>no one likes paying taxes!

Agreed
The point that resonates most with me is the smoothness and how pervasive this is in all the top ios apps.

As a developer, I know where this is built-in (many gestures and navigation components) and where other developers have spent extra time and attention on the details.

Jumping back and forth between xcode and android studio - it is SO SO SO much more enjoyable to develop iOS apps than Android apps. I cannot stand the emulators and the whole android development experience. If anyone out there disagrees and can point to resources to improve Android studio and emulator setup I would love a link.
Very good, and also hilarious in parts. I gained a lot of respect for the WSJ's editorial department; Carreyrou was investigating fraud at the same time the WSJ was writing glowing pieces about Elizabeth Holmes as a founder.
ClickHouse is open source it's def not trash for olap and ts
I watched it and it was meh... a lot of information is lacking.
It was not a great documentary in my book. I'm waiting for a more thorough investigation work.
>We don't need PG to point out the existence of wealth creation

But we do, because so much of the popular discourse around inequality assumes a zero-sum economy.

I will be happy to disqualify PG's opinion here if you will also disqualify all the economically illiterate populist takes on the other side.
Have you considered disaggregating your storage from your compute and using something like NVMe-oF or a traditional iscsi or fiber channel SAN to mount storage to your database server? With a block level storage fabric you can fail over instantly, run read only replicas and even support distributed writes in some cases.
It's the term he used for the subjects he claimed to have recruited (or for himself, in one case) who pretended to have symptoms to get admitted.

It's to make the point that he didn't recruit actual patients for the study, but (in his telling) perfectly sane people to pretend to be ill.
My mistake, I thought that notation implied negative numbers. Thank you.
My God, I had no idea it was in so many places.
This is definitely an issue with reforestation initiatives right now and (IMO) another form of green washing.

You can see a lot of examples where the planting is managed forestry that will be re-harvested. As long as it wasn’t recently a forested area, then it’s still a valid long-term carbon store for as long as the re-planting never stops or the final harvest is not taken. That’s a pretty big ‘if’ though, and the commercial interest that sits atop the arrangement is not aligned with a positive outcome. You’d also have to account for the output production of the felled wood to be sure of the benefit/cost to carbon capture. If a significant portion of the logged timber survives in some manufactured form for a long time that nudges the dial in a positive direction.

Also monoculture forests, characteristic of commercial interest, are a problem in terms of the multi-faceted nature of the climate change we’re attempting to halt/reverse. One of the big impacts of climate change is loss of biodiversity, but monoculture forestry does little to support nature and in many ways is akin to concreting over the area. Diverse native plantings that support wildlife and promote humus buildup is far more desirable to reclaim carbon AND provide much-needed refuge to threatened species.
Right, well there you go...
Counterargument: Tesla's P/S ratio is 4.

One can argue that's inappropriate or high, but one cannot argue that "no rational system" would ever consider a Tesla P/S ratio of 4 to be irrational.
Is that an interesting difference, though? At least on my machine, boot time is dominated by... grub loading the kernel and initramfs. Which is actually ridiculous when you consider it's a few dozen megabytes on a NVMe. I have't inveatigated what's up yet.
I was referring to that, my mistake, and thank you very much!
> I don't have money neither the connections to get it.

I'm pretty sure you can get money from the bank. You just have to put together a business plan and convince some people that your idea is viable.

For more information Google,"How to start a business".

Happy winning!
These people are not normal

Imagine you defraud someone of 10 million. Then you think 'no, I want more'. I cannot put myself in their shoes, but I would like their shoes to go to jail for a long time.

Financial fraud should be treated like robbery.
Also, the U.S. military deliberately dumps tons of this shit right on the ground every year. They use it in firefighting foam, and spray it freely in regular fire fighting exercises at dozens of military bases around the country.

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/10/firefighting-foam-afff-p...
> "I had more trouble with the assertion that the embedded DB would be maintenance-free. I started a top level comment asking for someone to explain how that would work."

When is the last time a certed-up DBA had to do any maintenance on your Firefox install's places.sqlite database? That's what's meant by maintenance free; you can reasonably employ sqlite databases on users' computers, without users having the foggiest idea of what a database even is.
Does Apple store the processing output as part of the image meta data so each device doesn’t have to redo previously performed ML work? Or a shared index only accessible to client devices?
> Inflation has another problem, though. As the value of a dollar, as a percent of the total economy, keeps going down, people need more and more of them to get the same things. We'd have to be frequently changing prices, changing pay, and changing everything else that is denoted in dollars.

don’t we already have inflation and deal with these problems anyway?
There are a few issues here, and people are overly harsh on Sonos. They have just about the best update support in tech. Some of these devices have been around since 2005. They have been providing longer-term support than Apple has for their iPhones, for instance, which in turn is much better than you get from Android.

Updates cost money, and Niley Patel speculates that Sonos is losing money on older devices with all of the updates they have been providing. But the devices still work, which is a testament to their build quality. Sonos needs to figure out a solution.

There are some solutions:

1) I don't know how separated and abstracted their development process is, but, ideally, they would be able to continue to provide security updates, even if older devices don't get anything beyond that. But how many years should they do? 10? 20?

2) Sonos could sell extended support for devices that people have owned after X amount of years. Even charging $19.99 a year for a household would probably put this back in the black. If people are going to use Sonos products for 10-20 years and often have expensive and complicated setups, they should figure out some long-term support.

3) Sonos could start to become a SaaS company and largely lease their speakers. Microsoft is starting to do this with the Xbox, and it is a way around this issue. As hardware gets too old, Sonos would replace it with newer hardware. There is a reason that more and more software is subscription-based.

3) Sonos could come up with a premium subscription offering that bundles in long-term support. Eero has Eero+, which I find to be a good product, and it's how they get into the black on hardware sales.

I'm working on a longer write up about this for Medium, but this isn't as easy of an issue to solve as many make it out to be. Providing infinite support for networked-based devices will eventually put you out of business. Sonos is the one dealing with this because they have been selling these speakers the longest, and they have people who are able to use their devices for a long time.

One issue I think they are running into is that they used to update products pretty infrequently. They didn't even do small step updates to keep the CPU and networking equipment updated. This is particularly an issue with the 1st gen Play 5 that they sold for about a decade.

People who bought a Play 5 15 years ago should not continue to expect support. People who bought one five years ago should. They have the same exact internals.

That was a mistake, and they should make sure they are upgrading the internals in every device every three years or so. Had Sonos been doing this, they would be talking about far fewer products.

Sonos has devices that range from 32 GBs of ram to 1024 GBs. The delta in their older stuff and their newer stuff in terms of tech is huge. This strategy is on their old CEO, and their new CEO believes Sonos has to update their stuff more often. It's probably going to take a few years for the update cadence to sort itself out, but in the meantime, they are kind of in a quagmire.
That you need a singleton pattern to ease the gps refresh problem. Totally rewrite the program before submit to Apple store.
Kobe Bryant, daughter, and 7 others die in helicopter crash
Nobel laureates are 22 times more likely to have hobbies compared to their peers
A life where you’ve never been able to experience what it’s like to be authentic and honest and loved for who you are.

I personally can’t imagine the past to be a comfort for a present where you are so deeply disconnected from your self.

Of course, if you’ve never known it, you might not miss it.
This seems like a similar setting to the lighthouse in the 2019 documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_(2019_film)
I remember using it a bit in my Delphi days ... (nostalgic face) It just worked (for smallish projects) and was quite nice, though nothing ground-breaking.

> How is it that it's so little known among developers?

Both Interbase and, by extension, Firebird were part of the Borland's and, later, Embarcadero's product ecosystem (especially, Delphi and C++ Builder) and, thus, closely tied to relevant developer community, as chadcmulligan mentioned. As the overall ecosystem declined, so did the popularity and use of Interbase and Firebird.
If you are really upset, contact their CEO. I find that he responds and is much more thoughtful than your typical customer service rep.
I've been experimenting recently with YAML for this kind of thing, and it's working out really well for me so far.

I have a tool called yaml-to-sqlite ( https://github.com/simonw/yaml-to-sqlite ) which converts a YAML file into a SQLite database, which I can then use with Datasette ( https://github.com/simonw/datasette )

My biggest project with it so far has been my site https://www.niche-museums.com/ - a guide to small and niche museums. The museums themselves live in a single ~100KB YAML file in GitHub: https://github.com/simonw/museums/blob/master/museums.yaml

I have a CI script which builds that YAML file into a SQLite database and deploys it + Datasette + custom templates to https://www.niche-museums.com/

I've been running the site like this for a few months now and I really like it. I love having my content in source control, I find editing the YAML to be reasonably pleasant (I even edit it on my iPhone sometimes using the Working Copy app) and any YAML errors are caught by CI before they are deployed.
Only tires.

>Brake pads on a Tesla literally never need to be replaced for lifetime of the car.

source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1078010341651492865
That's what the world's best military is for. Protect America's interests.
Makes me wonder what Orintocopter pilots are like.
> There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.

There is such a thing (very approximately but good enough for this discussion): autorotation. It allows a helicopter to be flown when the engine cuts out, but it does still require a great deal of manual control (from what little I understand of it).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation
Imposter Syndrome Workshop in SF
Every Sonos speaker is a networked device. They need continuous security updates at a minimum.
> Amazingly, I live in the middle of the city.

I live within a Boston postal code, and we have at least one coyote in our neighborhood. That was a surprise even coming from nearby Arlington where coyotes are not uncommon. Nobody expected we'd have one chillin among the concrete.
Make sense. And may be should start with this thinking when I started to avoid the first pain.
The zip utility.

[x] Data storage, retrieval and update

[x] User accessible catalog or data dictionary describing the metadata

[ ] Support for transactions and concurrency

[x] Facilities for recovering the database should it become damaged

[x] Support for authorization of access and update of data

[ ] Access support from remote locations

[x] Enforcing constraints to ensure data in the database abides by certain rules

Congratulations, apparently zip files are as much of an RDBMS as SQLite. If I bundle zip with ssh (Access support from remote locations) and Linux (Support for transactions and concurrency) did I just create a new RDBMS?

How many checkboxes do I have to have in order to call anything an RDBMS? Is SSH an RDBMS (Access support from remote locations). Can I just put a catalog in a .txt file and check that box? Is XML an RDBMS because it enforces constraints and supports storage retrieval and update? Are chmod and chown an RDBMS because they support authorization of access and update of data?

> SQLite manages are the database, not just merely a file format.

It turns out databases can be just files. Those files must follow a described file format. SQLite files are relational databases that are instantiations of the file format specification for SQLite files. The SQLite library implements that file format as well as some clever logic to support SQL and ACID compliance. Some SQLite libraries do not support these things.
How is what she did different from all the other silicon valley startups that fail? They get a buttload of money to develop something and then they cannot. From what I've read, most VCs today dont even expect to make their money off of an exit or an IPO, rather from their fees-but that's besides the point.
If the upgrade fails, that's a completely different issue, not a typical path. We need to separate those, otherwise we'll end up with "On <any> system, when the upgrade catastrophically fails, I have to reinstall the whole machine, so upgrades take hours."
I know you're joking but since we're nerding...

- planned obsolescence has no real economic meaning in a world (Star Trek's) where abundance is materially realized — symbolized by the synthetizer technology and omniscient computer (free info / education / content). Everything gets recycled and obsolescence is de facto moot because they can produce orders of magnitude more than they can ever consume (a holistic premise of the fictional universe that is broken numerous times in the short stories of the show, but hey, it's cool it's TV).

You could actually say that in Star Trek, obsolescence is more than planned, it's actually how you deal with anything generic or commodities: you recycle it, and would just rebuild it when needed (unless it's inconvenient and you'd spare some space to store the assembled object, but that's paying a high cost, space isn't infinite unlike synthetizers' production, mastery of matter and energy).

Yup, inventory and logistics truly are the heart of civilization. Note that 4D-space is cool in sci-fi but alas...

- subscription-based: weeeeell, there's no cost associated with living in Star Trek, is there? Everything is just provided by said abundance-tech, nobody pays to eat or clothe or have a roof. So subscriptions, well, there's no point; Netflix would just be free, people there would just do it for the sake of making this cool thing. As everything else is done in the Federation.

That's the core of the real utopia of Star Trek IMHO. Dilithium crystals look very real compared to all of the above, don't they? haha.
I dislike the way it discourages data portability.

e.g.

* I want to be able to have syncthing pull down my keepass database and have keepass2android open the current version in launch without having to navigate a file picker every time.

* I want to use my browser to download rpg rulebooks from drivethrurpg then open them in my PDF viewer without either of those two having to specifically integrate with each other. It would then be nice if that pdf reader could display a list of recent files on launch rather than reopen a picker.

They're mostly my gripes with Android 10's lockdown but iOS doesn't even want the filesystem exposed. I won't deny there's security advantages to this model, but it should have an out as it just encourages your app to own your data and only use it in ways they foresaw rather than giving control to users.
Disk Prices on Amazon
Filing for bankruptcy solely with the intent to stop litigation is grounds for the dismissal of the bankruptcy. She’d need to demonstrate that her distress is mostly defined by action other than the litigation—also, costs with respect to the criminal case probably can’t be used to justify bankruptcy.