skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Against Unnecessary Databases
If you write a negative book about a collection of topics and make it diverse enough not to have to go in detail you can tailor it such that wikipedia becomes the perfect promotion vehicle. It has to be negative since removing positive material is much easier than either writing it or removing negative material. (There is often some sub-human narcissist volunteer willing to preserve negativity.)

Sober neutral voices get nothing done. You have to be extreamly biased
Thats pretty cool! Both QuestDB and that you decided to open source it. Thanks for the response.
> I think its much more NIMBY then a license issue

How do you propose that ZFS be brought into Linux? When Sun released ZFS as open source, they made a deliberate decision to use a license that prevented it from being integrated into the Linux kernel. This was no accident. At the time, Sun was still pushing OpenSolaris which was losing ground to Linux. The ZFS on Linux project gets around this restriction by running ZFS in user space, but this is not optimal.

You can make a legitimate argument that Linux should have been released under a BSD style license (I think that would be wrong, but it's plausible). I don't see how you can argue that ZFS's license is somehow the fault of the Linux world.
I think there is a touch of catch 22 in "are there enough devs? are there enough companies?"

But from my end it looks to be improving. I've gotten going with doing it professionally and I hope to maintain that focus mostly.
I think I know why personal websites aren't popular anymore. It's the same reason retro video games aren't as fun as they were when they came out.

What's missing is the context of the time when they were popular. They were new and had a high-tech aura about them.

Nowadays making a website doesn't differentiate you in a good way unless you have a super creative way of coming up with the website and a lot of content to fill it with.

Nowadays you have to take it to the next level. What's a skill that's beyond the reach of most people? This could be why PCB business cards are so appealing. Because it's a thing most people can't do and if you can do it it shows your technical prowess. I think that's my personal web pages were popular back then and why they won't ever be popular again.
Using the Techniques of the Mad Men to Market a SaaS
I think docker/containers are the opposite of abstraction. It's a reduction of variables and creates true predictability across very disparate systems.
Clearly from your comment the software is so useful that despite hating it, the users deal with the slowness. Which to me only reinforces they parent's point: correctness and availability is more important than speed. If speed were the most important thing then they wouldn't just hate it, they wouldn't use it.
You can just... not run the application in docker, can't you? Check out the repo on your local machine and install all the dependencies yourself -- problem solved.
Depends on the age and maturity of the children.
> “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

> “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

> “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
Deathnote is pretty exceptional, so it's not surprising that you're having trouble finding other series of that caliber.

From your list, I'm guessing that you like anime that makes you think, and aren't turned off by story arcs that are overall dark and depressing.

The first thing that comes to mind is "Death Parade". It's currently available on Funimation, not sure where else.

A few more suggestions are "Elfen Lied" (although it can be a bit gory) and "Black Lagoon" (not super dark, but very entertaining imho).

Note: I only watch English dubs because I can't follow the action while also reading subtitles. If you're open to subtitled anime, I'm sure someone else could give you a much bigger list of suggestions.
Impact of AI on White Collar Jobs Set to Accelerate in 2020s
Google & FB threaten the political hold of the status quo.

I’m neither this way or that on them or whatever, someone always knows at this point and this crowd helps them find out for a living.

It’s interesting how when it was them buying and trading is without knowing, all was cool.

Now their algorithms may be pushing the other sides politics more than mine? Investigate!!!

Government has the power to kowtow the elites. If only the people would wield that for themselves.
Docker is the fatbinary that he is talking about. It supports all-the-languages and runs just about everywhere.

The article ignores the fact that companies do not have the time, money, expertise, and desire to re-write their apps in a language that will compile down into a binary. There is a reason so many successful companies use PHP and Ruby. They work and make those businesses money. Taking a golang binary and building it into a tiny scratch docker image would be fantastic too.

In a previous job we ran hundreds of bare metal machines that were built up using puppet. It was amazing in the sense that it was somewhat standardized and could scale well. I still wish every service was using docker. We had php, ruby and golang services and getting all of those dependencies running was a pain. Not only did you have specific machine images to support each language, you had to support each service type too. If they were in docker containers we could have had one machine time and moved the docker images around.
Correct; English is one of the standard examples given in support of the theory that languages learned by large numbers of adults become simpler to accommodate those adult learners.

(Other standard examples being Latin, Mandarin Chinese, and Swahili.)
I've programmed web stuff in rust and in rails. i can tell you that build times (and REPL on error, and a console with DB connectivity, and lots of pre-existing modules/libs/plugins) do matter.

We can get all that stuff in Rust (C/C++/Zig) too, but it is simply not there yet.

Only Go is both run time efficient AND compile time efficient.

My point: all is possible at unlimited resources, but that's unrealistic.
Both of those pre-suppose that the software already exists and is already doing things correctly.

Non-functioning software would cost Amazon all of it's sales per year.
I opted for the paid version for exactly the same reason, but I was sorely disappointed to learn that they don't allow the app to be installed in my home country when I went there for a visit and was hoping to introduce my young nephews to the joys of learning a foreign language. It happens that third world countries don't generate enough ad money to be part of the free language learning for all mantra. Needless to say, I didn't renew my subscription. I must admit though that the app contributed toward my goal of attaining reasonable proficiency in Portuguese in one year, though I got much more out of obstinately listening to podcasts and regular radio even though I understood little at the beginning, and also making native speaker friends online. I used https://www.hellotalk.com/, an app to meet language learning partners to chat with, and where Brazilians happen to be extremely active and eager to exchange with people willing to help them with their English or French.
ELI5:

Lots of cyptocurrencies use the same mining algorithm, i.e. they require the same type of puzzle to be solved to make money creating blocks. In recent years, lots of online services have sprung up to offer cloud mining, which people usually use to mine blocks on the bigger cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin Core or Bitcoin Cash.

However, since the smaller cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin Gold, have less users/miners, they also require easier "puzzles" to be solved, which opens an opportunity for any random person to pay some $$$ to hire a bunch of these cloud servers for a limited time and point them at these easier puzzles, which can cause such a smaller blockchain to get confused about account balances. The attacker can then re-spend the same currency multiple times to make a profit.

AFAIK there aren't really any good solutions to prevent this problem- For complex game-theoretic reasons, simply changing the mining algorithm to something different doesn't really offer much protection. (Some folks believe if these smaller currencies were to move to "proof of stake" it could help solve this problem, but this is an extremely contentious topic.)
You're not the only one. I always check the article source. I never click on Medium or WP, although I can read NYT using my wife's subscription.
There's others too, sites are getting more aggressive about demanding money. As far as I'm concerned, there are very few sites I'm willng to subscribe to.
If you’re injecting into the browser you don’t need to worry about SSL- that’s handled for you.
Mural raises $23M Series A after history of capital-efficient growth
Hmm. Sad about needing to log in to download anything. Seems like prioritising marketing KPIs over developer experience.

Anyway, not to be nitpicky or anything, but there is a typo on "feedback we can get _form_ the community" - otherwise I think it's actually positive to offer point releases on a periodic basis.
But the Terry Jones one wasn’t doing anything like that. The title and article was simply about his death.
That's the standard these days unfortunately. Why turn these options off when most users won't even notice and you get more money in the end?

I wish that my various "premium" subscriptions to services like Spotify or various other apps meant that my privacy will be respected but I have absolutely no illusions about it. That's why I'll never ever consent to turning off u-block, I want the freemium/ad-driven model to die, it's the original evil that makes all these practices worthwhile.
> there's really no general rule about english grammar that would indicate "ren" being the pluralizing qualifier here.

Old English weak noun declension. Hence brethren, oxen, children. Which are the only three examples in common use, so it's easier to learn as an exception.

The change in vowels found in several "irregular" inflections are also holdovers from Germanic vowel changes. For example mouse/mice or goose/geese (for nouns), or sing/sang/sung (for vowels). But again, these are usually taught as lists of exceptions rather than trying to educate people as to the etymology to figure out how to inflect it correctly.

We've done a great disservice to the language by adopting foreign words and then insisting on inflecting them according to the foreign inflection patterns... and sometimes mangling even that (cf. 'octopus', where people sometimes insist that the proper Latin plural is 'octopi' when it is in fact 'octopodes').
Show HN: Yakutils: Yet another collection of Python 3 helper functions
I designed in a WG7831-DELFA WiFi/Bluetooth module, based on TI Wilink8, connected via SDIO.
Oh? When did they add that? Sneaky. I'm not current with what's happening with Qt >=5.

With all the threats and restrictions and enterprise pricing for commercial licenses, it looks like Qt is heading towards Delphi levels of irrellevance.
I'll second the Elixir guide and maybe go on to the Phoenix guide for web dev.
I just read enough to get going and then start building, then go back, read more, fix what I built.

But people learn differently. I don't really get through books and I haven't needed courses aside from random examples of how to do some things.
> The whole reason people use Ubuntu and other free OS's is because they don't come with a bunch of commercial crap & telemetry

It can be. That isn't often the case. A lot of people just want control over their OS but aren't concerned about whether they're using proprietary software or if their software is phoning home.
For the actual numbers, go to this site [1] which the article cites. It has XLS files containing stats over time for all kinds of characteristics of American housing.

Eyeballing the "bathrooms" file, the "bedrooms" file, and the "bathrooms by bedrooms" file, it looks to me like most of the growth in bathrooms matches the growth in bedrooms, so maybe the question should be "why do American houses have so many bedrooms?".

One reason number of bathrooms per person may have gone up on average is because people have children later. Over the past 50 years average maternal age at first birth has risen from the low 20s to the high 20s.

So 50 years ago, a young couple would buy a house, and quickly start a family, lowering the bathrooms per person ratio. Now that couple might by a house, sized for the family they plan to start, but not start that family for almost 10 years. So for 10 years they are living with a higher bathroom per person ratio, helping bring up the average.

[1] https://www.census.gov/construction/chars/
How the North Korean hackers (WannaCry) got away with a stunning crypto-heist
I think that's it.

I have a very wealthy relative who lives in the USA, and I visited when my younger brother was just 6 years old. It took him several complete tries of running round the house to count all the bathrooms (and not lose count).

There was one per bedroom, then one on the ground floor, one by the garage and one which was easy to get to from the beach.

The neighbour's house's guest room's bathroom was also the general bathroom; it had two doors with appropriate locks. This seemed like an efficient design.
I wonder why this ended up in the front page of HackerNews? It's not news that altcoins are much much easier to attack than the top coin(s). Lesson to learn here: top coins are not only better due to the network effects (users and developers), they are also better in terms of security (it's much more expensive to carry out an attack in BTC or ETH, for example).
American houses have too many square feet, and about enough bathrooms. I don't see how a three-bedroom 1-bathroom house is compatible with two people getting to work on time, especially with kids around throwing things off-schedule.
Experience the Firefox Difference (2006)
If more people leave the lights on to show how and tell why personal sites matter I think the tide can be turned to reclaim the "old web".

And as rightly said by superkuh > "Personal sites are about putting something out there you care about."; someone somewhere will share it and someone somewhere will find it useful.
The tipping point between success and failure
Most B2C privacy/security based companies are either snake oil or outright scams.
It is easier because you can actually build that functionality locally with a docker container to test it out.

This is coming from someone that spent 10+ years maintaining a build system that was a mix of makefiles and shell scripts. It can be done but I don't know if it should.
I randomly came across this gem of a page while searching for something else. Although this page is copyrighted 2007, I found the page has been unchanged (aside from the copyright year), since 2006[1].

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20061105001549/https://tools.goog...
After being forced to switch from Jira to a much less capable system, I now wish nobody had complained about Jira. Grass is always greener.
Why tech has been slow to fight wildfires, extreme weather
I think it's a conspiracy/scam, so they can milk every dollar out of every company that wants to peer with them.

The only way to peer for free is if your traffic profile is 50% send and 50% receive. Cable companies offer these asymmetric pipes to their customers to make this balanced traffic profile impossible to achieve, so everyone ends up paying the cable companies big bucks for transit on their network.
Hit Esc before Scripts load asking you for a subscription :)
I did mean to write mixed integer convex optimization; on the other hand, conic programming includes convex programming as a special case (and vice versa in the case where cones are convex). Most convex problems we solve (e.g. When written in a high level DSL like CVXPY) are reduced to conic forms (such as SOCPs, but also SDPs, etc) before they are solved.
FWIW, if you want a ready-made solution, wiki.js might be worth looking in to.
But I can't really trust you I you don't even try to convince me you are not in fact one high-schooler from - say - Cagliari, Italy.
The core is LGPLv3, meaning that you can bundle precompiled versions and dynamically link against them at run-time provided that you provide means for your end-users to switch to their own version of the libraries.
So what's gonna happen to MLIR and TensorFlow Swift now? Dead?
I live in a 1 bathroom apartment with my wife. Even with no kids, it's still tough. The marginal benefit of adding 1 more bathroom is enormous, kind of like a dual core vs single core processor.
I assumed that stuff was makeup, like eyeliner.
Why concentrate on intended use? More interesting is what, er, unanticipated value-add might be there.

Could a malicious actor create a blackmail-bot? It wouldn't even need to be that great - just something a little more believable than the "I took over your computer and videoed you masturbating" spam.

Could more subtle, targeted blackmail operation involve this data? There is a lot of this sort of thing in politics.

We know PIs, bail-bonders and other folks on the fuzzy LE/commercial coercion industry line were heavy users of realtime cellphone tracking. I imagine the more creative ones have considered the value of these data pits, too.
I've happily dipped into Erlang libs when I need to. I'm also increasingly capable of reading Erlang code though I only write Elixir. I would not recommend starting with all of Erlang before doing Elixir but it may work better for some folks.
What happens if you do the triangle distribution in sRGB space, derive the nonlinear system transfer function, then invert that (numerically)? The middle step is something like $t^{-1}(\sum_k p(c, k) t(k))$.
To me it always seemed like Gulen is the most internationally interviewed Turk for criticisms on Erdogan, whilst his own ideology doesn't seem so "modern" as well.

Would really appreciate If you could explain what Gulenism is about and particular where it differs from the Erdoganian Muslim Brotherhood ideology.
I don't want to alter my behavior or browser configuration. I want the policy at the HN submissions level.
Right here is when Tevye jumps in and starts singing "tradition!"

It's because ancestor and cousin scripts used the phonetic glyphs for numbers as well, and the ordering had to be fixed.

Once Indo-Arabic numerals made it in to the character set, the need for strict ordering went away. But now that characters have numeric values again (ASCII, Unicode), they're fixed forever.
mate - this is super cool.
Love how you structure your project (very similar to mine).
Comply with what?
Isn't this a solved issue, dead horse, decided discussion, etc.? This comes up on every paywalled article.

These sites sometimes have interesting content so we allow them to be posted. Some great pieces are written by very established news papers with skilled career journalists. Many members pay for these sites, others often post workarounds. Why automatically ignore all the paywalled sites that may in fact contain high quality content? If such articles are so truly unpopular then they won't make frontpage, can't that filter be sufficient enough?
anyone mind explaining the /# to me? like `Application.get_env/3`. been wanting to learn Elixir for awhile now, but didn't even know what do Google for that one.
Scientists Create Living Bricks
Qt is included in many GNU/Linux distros. On ubuntu you can just do sudo apt install qtcreator.
NixOS: For Developers
How often do you set up a new laptop? And you still need to keep the dependencies of the project itself updated and tested which is the bulk of the work.

Don't get me wrong I think docker adds a lot a value once a system / team goes beyond non-trivial scale. But what I often see are three things: 1. people in pre-mvp stage design and setup a system they think will be able to scale to millions of users when all they have is a landing page/email grab. The time is in my opinion better spent pushing the product forward. 2. people hide problems in containers instead of solving them. E.g. not wanting to deal with outdated versions. 3. people confuse something being easy to use with it being simple.
Yes, that's my understanding. A "distribution license" allows you to actually sell an instance of your product under the commercial licensing agreement.
I drive past this transmitter every day on my way to work, passing through Mason. Several times my son has asked what would happen if someone snapped on the support cables.
This might not be a popular answer, but I think the hope is that a rube would "fall for" something positive that happens to be correct and/or beneficial. eg, suppose somebody believes in modern physics, not because they understand it all, but because they know this is the "right" idea.

This is obviously less ideal than someone actually understanding an idea they profess to hold, but it's far better to have support around beneficial ideas. It's not hard to imagine a lot of important issues fitting into this: support for liberalism and demoracy, support for global warming, support for coherent ideas about vaccines, etc. These all require broad public support, and the truth of the matter is that many people generally don't spend much time evaluating why they believe what they do.

I understand this is not a perfect point of view: eg, who gets to decide what the "best" ideas are.
I use Bookmark OS which let's you share and collaborate on folders of bookmarks https://bookmarkos.com/
The honest truth? Laptops.

Businesses are buying laptops more often than desktops for the past 10 years and different manufacturers have been utilizing different approaches to minimize the number of cables needed per accessory.

The case of HDMI with ethernet net is the same. This way you can share your screen and internet connection from a mobile device with a single cable. It's only needed in specific circumstances, but as USB has become more advanced, more cables/ports are quietly just turning into differently shaped USB cables that limit which data channels are available.
Modern heraldry, innit? Just like the antique sort with shields and banners, talking about it seems to breed this odd language that's unrelated to the rest of the world, and yet not totally nonsensical.

I'm sure many of the principles translate directly.
> nowadays that it's reliability issues have been fixed

Is this also true for RAID5/6?
Definitely, it can be really hard for me as a native french to understand a canadian-french speaking if he has a strong accent.