skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does have a cli calibredb BUT it really isn't designed for interactive use and comes with a few caveats.

You need to pass --for-machine to get json output.

It keeps all its data in a sqlite database. Its built in cli refuses to interact with the database even for read only operations when calibre is running. You CAN pass a flag to interact with the running instance but THAT will fail if it isn't running so you basically have to see if its running to see how you ought to talk to it.

Talking to the running instance over localhost is subject to the same limitations as talking to a remote instance. In particular it returns $format in place of /path/to/book.$format a limitation the author says is for security.

Since the naming structure is consistent you can replace format with /path/to/library///.format when talking to the running instance.

Realistically worrying about 400MB for an app when 1TB ssds are cheap seems a contextually odd choice. Calibre does a LOT and actually does it pretty well. Replicating even just the most important functions would appear to be a fair bit of work.
Well this is interesting, but of course lots of smokers never quit and you only need one cell to turn into a cancer and kill you.

On a related note, I think the demonstration that lung cells and lung cancers bear the stigmata of tobacco related mutagenesis has some significance to the legal liability of Big Tobacco. With this data one can show that a particular cancer in a particular person began from a single cell which was mutated by tobacco exposure. This is one level up from saying tobacco merely increases the risk of cancer on average, which is always open to the counter-argument that some other factor could have caused the particular cancer in the particular person. Whole genome sequencing of tumour and germline DNA can be had for about $5k these days plus analysis costs, so a class action suit or even individual suits are very feasible. There will be no shortage of oncologists and genomics people happy to help out with this.
Might be able to search for the title... It's on CBS evening news youtube if that helps.
Australian here, its not that we don't care about the climate (same for our politicians), its that we realise that we contribute to under 1% of the problem. However to reduce that 1% we would effectively have to kill off industries in which around half our workforce is employed. Thats a big re-skilling project.

But then you look at China who is the main problem (also 1 billion people to our 26 million), and they are doing nothing.
Ads are the past.

The future is getting paid to make the app that actual is useful

Hmmm... What are these "ads"?
Says the uBlock kid....
I have no idea why we don't have ADCs at each instrument (if required, otherwise just send the digital output) and DACs at the speakers/amps only with a fully digital mixing and distribution chain/network... it seems silly to be stuck on analogue audio distribution and mixing networks where these things are still problems.
Oh My Zsh: an open source community-driven framework for managing Zsh configs
In some ways it kind of makes it worse that we knew a bit about who he was come election time.

Truth be told, Scomo was barely a figure anyone would have recognized until he was suddenly PM. He was there in the shadows but few would have picked him to be our next PM.

The re-election however I get the feeling that was a bit down to people starting to feel the pressure from a slowing economy. With that many were voting to ensure a system they knew even if not ideal. Better the devil you know than to try their hand on an nearly unknown candidate.

I don't really know, there is so much noise in the political space nowadays that it is difficult to get much signal out of it.
I'm so happy, that Godot is open source and it's one of the main reasons for me to switch from Unity. Closed source is such a mess, if there are bugs, which never get fixed or features, which are half baked. And there are quite a few in Unity.

They mentioned in the article, that they closed 2000 issues for 3.2 and that's quite an achievement. I simpy hope, that the main maintainers can handle the load. Triage new issues and managing open ones is draining and not a fun task.

I mean to look into the list, maybe find some low hanging fruit, but it costs so much time if you ain't familiar with the engine. Time which could be used to write games... :)
No-one yet mentioned expect [0][1], which is the most amazing, general-purpose automation tool I've ever used.

IMHO it's creator Don Libes [2] is an original-thinker/innovator in the same league as Ousterhout.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect?

[1] https://www.tcl.tk/man/expect5.31/expect.1.html?

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Libes
User Agent Disclaimer?
Could a sufficiently well-crafted disclaimer in a browser user agent avoid undesirable TOS?
You got it backwards.

It's you who want to enforce much narrower areas of work as characteristic of real work.

"Real work" in the casual sense (what most people consider work, or work most people's work is like) is what agrees with the statistically wider kinds of work people do.

This also has nothing to do with gatekeeping. People still get to be stunt drivers and rock stars and vloggers paid to eat their lunch live on YouTube, whether we consider what they do representative of "real work" or not.
Well, you do realise that if you don't get paid for it it's not really your work. It's just an effort you might or might not turn into a work.
It's weird I wrote some sun materials in the past, for a game, and I ended up roughly with that. What I based myself on was a sci-fi movie (can't remember), and they had it right. Can't really figure out why it looks that way though, anyone care to explain why it rises and drops like that? Is there anything like currents, or it's a straight up and down? Does the sun rotate at all or it's 'static' from our perspective? (I imagine it's rotating with the stars within our galaxy)
Jeff Bezos could retire tomorrow and it would barely change the stock. Is it expensive? Sure, but it’s expensive because it has a wide variety of charismatic businesses, not Jeff Bezos.
heat pumps don't work in subfreezing conditions.

Not with the refrigerants used in retail AC units, which are sub-optimal even for that use when compared with some of the older HCFC's and CFC's. A lot of the current designs also likely ice up, so you need much larger evaporator coils/fields. Then there ends up being the question of what the efficiency looks like.

Anyway, I'm just trying to say, that there is still heat in the air/etc below the freezing point of water, the science says it can work, and if you do a bit of googling you can even find vendors advertising fairly cold weather devices (-27C).

https://daikinatlantic.ca/2019/11/03/what-are-the-best-heat-...

So, making better ones is an engineering problem.
It doesn't necessarily have to mean that. If performance is generally good enough, then the ability to do things like add critical features, patch bugs, and refine the app much faster is much higher value for the user and Shopify.
Very good post, covering pretty much everything regarding best practices / libraries to use. I would add to the list MobX State Tree for state management, and parcel bundler for getting started instead of create-react-app.
The best way to get into the system is by submitting your resume on the careers page. I'll give a heads-up to the recruiting team to look out for any submissions mentioning hacker news.
Everybody always knew that lies are more profitable than truth, and that lies push truth out of public discourse. That was why the FCC enforced fairness rules.

Until it was further determined that profits are even better than truth. Probably most people reading here don't remember the FCC enforcing the fairness doctrine.
Ultra-late to the party, however, you may want to look into this project: https://github.com/the-paperless-project/paperless

Tbh, i don't use it yet, but will once i get my homelab up and running (should be any moment cough)
You can still play songs locally on Spotify, but what it lacks compared to GPM is the ability to upload songs and listen to them on another device.
Not lung cancer per se; the paper focuses only on reversal of tumor mutation burden of the cells that line the lungs and airways. Alas the popular press summary implies concomittant reversal the carcinogenic damage of smoking -- which 60+ years of clinical experience refutes, and the research paper itself also refines:

"
The higher risk of lung cancer in ex-smokers compared with non-smokers is reflected in their high mutation burden and the signature of smoking-associated mutations in most of their lung cells (similar to the cellular profile of current smokers). Although ex-smokers have a high risk of developing lung cancer, their risk is reduced compared with that of current smokers, and this lowering depends on the length of time of smoking cessation1. Why this is the case has been hard to explain. However, perhaps the most surprising result of Yoshida and colleagues’ work might offer a clue: in 5 out of 6 ex-smokers, 20–50% of the cells had a low mutation burden that was similar to the profile of non-smokers of the same age range.
"
It was also embedded in browsers[0]. It “could have been javascript”.

Sort of a bitter-sweet scenario - I think some were excited that Tcl could have been out there more, in people’s face, but others think Tcl dodged a bullet, as mass adoption would have laid a tough burden of backward compatibility and a bit of ossification that the core team is happy to not have mandated on them.

[0] https://books.google.ca/books?id=GQIMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4...
I know these encounters can be detrimental. I was careful with my wording. Notice I said sometimes.
I smoked for 24 years from 14 and up an average of half a pack a day. I switched to e-cigarettes so I haven't touched a cigarette in more than 2 years and probably never will. Aside from tooth stains that seem to go away I never had any of the problems you had. I am a bit over 40 years old.

I don't stink like an ashtray and the smell of other smokers turns my stomach upside down and yet I am still under the spell of nicotine via ... e-cigs. Should I force myself to quit? Again, I haven't experienced any of the symptoms you describe above and smoked for a nearly the same period albeit just half a pack a day...
Julia doesn't feel production ready at all. Its fine to mess around in notebooks but I would never recommend it for production use. Not even at a gunpoint.

Debugger support is almost non-existent. Using Atom/Juno IDE is a D-grade experience. Julia offers little help to debug problems - errors are almost always without failure - completely tangent to what the real issue is.

Julia takes forever to start, syntax was wonderful pre 0.4 days, now the syntax just looks absolutely jarring to my eyes. Julia's speedups can be offset by using many many far better technologies - Numba, Numpy, Cython, PyPy etc.

Julia's ecosystem of libraries is a deserted land - that's expected for a new language. I hope it improves, but the core Julia experience needs to improve first.

On the other hand, I've been following Rust development and the developers made absolutely sure from the get-go to focus on debugging/errors that show what the actual problem is, provide a stack trace and figure out where the problem started. Julia absolutely sucks at this.
Access to drinking water is falling all over the world, largely bc of drought
Hey, if y'all are going to downvote instead of countering, go back to reddit.
CalTech wins $1.1B jury verdict in patent case against Apple, Broadcom
Here's somebody going to prison in 2014: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/investigations/...
7 bits can encode 0 == "off", plus a 127 dB amplitude range in 1 dB increments.

In a musical mix, -20 dB down, plus "off", is all you need; anything turned down more than about 20 dB relative to everything else disappears.

+/- 20 dB of cut and boost spread into 127 bits is ridiculously good resolution.
Getting one anycast IP really means getting a /24, which is pretty expensive. I would definitely go with a DNS solution instead, even though some users are going to be stuck behind brain dead caches that don't follow the TTL at all. Like others, I have seen traffic continue for weeks after a DNS change.
I do plenty of "real work" on the iPad. It has replaced my laptop for most of the writing and designing I do away from my desktop.
Well, React Native always gets a bit advertised as you don't need to know any native programming knowledge but that's not true. That's what I tried to say.
Sorry this is worth more commenting - I am just imagining this network above us. Every centimeter to an inch "visually" a grid pattern crossing over us for a period of 2 hours a night.

No, a website that tells you when it's coming, ooooh... No this is every single night, and morning, a grid from HELL.

I'm a fairly regular poster, a software engineer, decently intelligent guy - and this future absolutely disgusts me. I hope things change and it ends up not happening. I would rather telephone pole the world.
When everyone's talking about how something improved, I feel like my brain degraded on the other hand, lol. I don't have a sharp memory or energy anymore. I get lost often in thoughts and can't think more clearly if something needs an immediate black-white response. I have gotten worse at communication.

I would trade being asexual for increased brain efficiency, too.
Mark Burgess Treatise on Systems
ZBrush is Y-up, Z is front-back. It's freaking annoying.
The fact that doing a drug once compelled you to move countries and become a distributor for drugs does not convince me that it is a good idea.
Good point. Right now it's not much, but I think the valuation is based on the speculation that it could soon be a lot.

Right now revenue from energy storage resembles Tesla's auto business in 2013[1].. so if it grows at the same rate...

[1] https://twitter.com/kerooke/status/1222637828741439488
How is that ever a serious concern? Prosecute it if it happens and note that in any non coercive case it just leaves the employee with a bonus.
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200129235635/https://www.nytim...
Here is a rabbit hole regarding tobacco which I still don’t fully
comprehend:

> Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Tobacco Industry’s Response to the Polonium-210 Issue
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2509609/

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=japan+lung+cancer+paradox!g

What is actually going on here?
> because they know the patient won't schedule an appointment

Such a patient isn't going to correctly take their medication either, 30 days or not.

> the other part you keep glossing over that is the insurer dropping doctors from their networks

Yah, because that's not actually true.

Insurance companies do a lot of bad stuff, but you seem to have invented a whole new class of things that they just don't do.

There is no bonus for 30 day to 90 conversion. There is only a lower co-pay for the member.
No, it's not "just copy it" because Bitcoin Cash has some OP codes that Bitcoin doesn't have. See OP_CHECKDATASIG for example.
Your link explicitly puts NZ in the multi-party bucket - our current government is made up by 3 parties, its opposition by 2.

We haven't had a government made up by a single party since we ditched FPP and brought in proportional representation
I had an ER Lite, and hardware offload was re-validating packets. Things would come in as error, and come out the other side still invalid, but validated. And at the time my ISP was sending me a lot of uncorrectable errors. So a lot of services would refuse to run with hardware offload on, because the errors weren't being handled. (with it off, the errors were identified as errors and handled. slow, but accurate).

Then the pole outside my house got hit by lightning and fried the thing, and I replaced it with something from mikrotik.
Interesting idea. I have a very confident and talkative kid who is not shy about approaching adults. I bet he could collect lots of contact information.
It could always be worse — it could kick out the other drive!
Given enough writes, any SSD will eventually fail.

As a related anecdote, I did some stress-testing on a ZFS filesystem with two Kingston NVMe SSD-s in mirrored configuration and at one point I got two random read errors on one drive, which subsequently got corrected by ZFS.

Silent failures might not be the best phrase to use for these situations, but ZFS does let you know that corruption has taken place and you have to acknowledge that message for it to disappear.
This is a real gem: https://www.darworms.com/
I know next to nothing about the sun but I think the article implies that it’s because of convection currents—closer to the center, plasma heats up and expands, rises, cools off, and falls back in. The picture looks vaguely like a Voronoi diagram too, which sort of fits as the plasma has to spread out of its own hot plume before sinking.
Just questioning the overly simplistic world view.

A carbon tax/cap and trade is in everyone's interest. The "cost" would be passed on to consumers, just like if the price of oil went up, or any other cost really. As such, they're actually regressive policies as seen purely from an income perspective (people with money can better afford the increase in price). Neither policy would be a "threat" to "status quo power".
A European Commission proposal to create a single market in data
>the fact that they look like normal cars

This was my first thought during the Cybertruck unveil. It no longer looks like a normal truck. Rivian was far out originally, but this blew it out the park.

So the question is really, would people want an electric pickup truck that looks like nothing before it?

I'm leaning towards yes, but we have to wait for the market to make its choice to find out for sure.
Good grief, don't look at the UE4 release notes for each release then. It's a C++ game engine, and the release notes go on for pages detailing the new features. You'll have a conniption.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Support/Builds/ReleaseNo...

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Support/Builds/ReleaseNo...

Game engines this size often add many new features with every release, and the target audience (programmers and artists) want to know about all of them.
Also: I solved this problem before by copying the binary to a different location, then launching in the alternate location it to copy itself over top the original. Then the newly launched one in the old location deleted the temporary copy. [Man, this sounds clumsy to describe. But it worked!]
Are you saying there's a blog named Unenumerated that has stuff like this? I can't find it.
Nix also can build efficient docker images and computes layers in a way to make them reusable among multiple projects.
You might be interested in this article which does mention valid points for choosing mirrored data instead of any RAIDZ levels in ZFS: https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/06/zfs-you-should-use-mirror-vdevs...

It certainly made me reconsider my ZFS practices.
Haven't we got the languages swapped in this comparison? I'd argue SML gives you less footguns, since the typechecker is much more restrictive about what kind of code it will allow, whereas Go will allow you to write code that has a nil error, for example.
> The observations could help resolve longstanding mysteries of the sun, including the counterintuitive feature that the corona – the sun’s atmosphere – is heated to millions of degrees when its surface is only 6,000C.

Is that really a "mystery"?

I mean, you can easily create plasma in a microwave oven, and the magnetron doesn't get very hot.
You might check out writeups for CTF challenges in the web category.

Also check out the Youtube channel LiveOverflow. A lot of the stuff is binary exploitation, but some is web.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w
> Now days we shove gigabits a second over cheap twisted pair wire.

Yes, and when you listen to your PC's "line out", you can hear the unwanted effects of all that sort of thing.
Are they really appearing as such bright objects? Didn't SpaceX decide to make them non reflective?
IMO the main contribution of RStudio is not RStudio itself (the IDE) but their general support of the R language. I think that this dynamic scene where R is still an evolving language is the true value.

I don't actually use RStudio itself (hurray for vim). Tidyverse is the obvious example of their contributions, but I don't mean just tidyverse (actually, there are some things that I don't like that much, like tibbles) [1]. I think a language like R really needs this kind of support due to its mantra: for statisticians, by statisticians. By that I mean that you should be able to get insights by sometimes only writing a handful of lines of code.

The ease of use of R, good libraries, nice graphs, and so forth is why I happily code in both R and Python.

[1] It seems like here is another thread about some objections to tidyverse: https://github.com/matloff/TidyverseSkeptic.
Obviously related to the Facebook comment jacking post from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22176180
hey man, it really sucks to be in the situation you are. I don't know anyone who is hiring in LA, but I can venmo you some money if it helps so you can last longer. Let me know and good luck. Have you tried reaching out to universities for IT jobs?
Better than budgeting, change your lifestyle. Ride a bicycle and get rid of your car, rent a smaller/cheaper apartment or get roommates, get a job with free office food, work more so that you naturally have less time to spend money, get a better paying job. Lifestyle changes are higher impact than budgeting, which IMO is a waste of time unless you're retired/pensioned.
> Meanwhile CSS & DOM performance continues to be poor

The DOM is not slow, that is brain washing from React developpers to justify your VDOM.

Most Reactive app performance issue nowadays comes from library bloat loading, network saturation or data dependencies.

The main problem with the DOM is not the performance but the API. The DOM API is not appropriate anymore for a reactive usage with transactional reflows. And this triggers a lot of quirks damaging performance.
Last year FB’s profit was 22 billion so that’s less than 3%
One could argue as a counterpoint that the Rust community (and all the other language communities) have millions of person-hours (and lines of of C/C++ open source code) to reference as they RIIR, a luxury the C/C++ community didn't really have, much of what they've built since Linux appeared was developed from scratch. Outside of 386BSD, there wasn't a lot of unencumbered UNIX source code available to them.

Perhaps as the Rust community grows in size and momentum this will happen more. Right now it seems like a bit of a manpower problem.
>a sci-fi movie (can't remember)

Sunshine, perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_(2007_film)

Brilliant, brilliant film. The premise is shonky as they come but it's obvious that the film itself has little to do with the premise. Awesome acting, literally-awesome SFX (their ability to give the sun so much weight is amazing, you really get a sense of an immortal unstoppable force), and a message that's neither shallow nor deep but prompts some self-reflection in ways you don't expect.
Your brain is rewiring in order to expand the domain of analysis. It is rewiring for dealing with higher levels of complexity.

Take a look at the bellow video for a short explanation of the evolution of the processes involved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW4LTqRJDW8
> The cost has to be classified into one of these buckets

Either PR was not consulted or they don’t understand how this comes off.