skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smoking laws are restrictions. You can't smoke within 30ft of an eating establishment or in a car with a child. You want to go home and chain smoke yourself to cancer? Have fun. Likewise, you couldn't restrict smoking at home typically.

Seatbelt and helmet laws are a condition of using property that isn't yours (the road). Likewise for drivers licenses and minimum road hours.

A good case here is the Texas anti-sodomy law (Lawrence v Texas) that was struck down in 2006(!) after being used to go after gay men. Here Texas made claims it was acting for the public good, SC ruled the state had no presence on a private matter outside the public eye.
https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters is similar and actively maintained.
Which service is it?
It’s a well debunked meme, see this thread https://twitter.com/danalarsen/status/1167941723969900544
I see the largest problem as that you're basically competing with the social networking giants, and without a profit model or some other significant source of funds, how can you expect to take enough of their users to garner your own network effects?

I'm reminded of that one xkcd about competing standards (https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png), where every platform wants to maximize their long-term user retention, so ends up being proprietary, and now we have thousands of different systems, apps, and websites, just for something as basic as chat. Not only is this inefficient and wasteful, I think it really hampers the Internet and developer creativity as a whole. It would be great if when you make a new app, you could just drag and drop 'chat' into it, and it would be the same chat protocols and systems that all the other apps use.

If we can have donation-funded services as good as Wikipedia or the Internet Archive, maybe there is some way to do this eventually? One can only hope. Services like Mastodon and many others do at least seem impressive technically, even if they're lacking the userbase of their centralized alternatives.
> I'll be in the pub by the end of the year.

You maybe, but how many others will? 10-20% less people in pubs, fewer tourists visiting west end shows, banks and other companies using work from home, could have a huge knock on effect on other businesses, property and taxes.
So that's what the problem was! I had a g73 10 years ago and it burned through a graphics card and then ram while on warranty. It did get a bit better once I flashed a modded low power vbios i found on some sketchy online site.

Eventually it just stopped booting and I switched to a MBP.
> so only an eigenvector operation is needed

That doesn't sound very O(1) ...
You are being downvoted because you fundamentally misunderstand and mischaracterise the situation you are referring to.
My personal wet dream is that I can download any shady Photoshop torrent and Apple will block the ones that have trojans baked in. Given that Apple won't even open up their infrastructure to US law enforcement, I can't see them teaming up with IP lawyers anytime soon.
Interesting read. I've never worked for a company that tried to do a reasonably serious post mortem on a disaster. Or perhaps I was simply never one of the cool kids that were invited.

It's pleasant to think that that's actually happening somewhere. Usually it's probably more like Google+ (gosh, we did everything right, but somehow it just didn't work out--oh well, it wasn't that much money after all, and hey, we can keep using it internally).
State of the game: The key players in the emerging eVTOL air taxi market
Hi Gitlab! I'm available for hire if you need a replacement.
Politicians were wrong–predictions on coronavirus deaths were wild exaggerations
Any third-party antivirus or other corporate compliance-ware? Google FS and AV don't work so well together.
> They are generally in the 2000-4000mW class, enough for even a slight reflection to instantly create a colour-specific blindspot.

And many of them are IR, so you wouldn't see the leaky beam at all until it zapped your eye.
Are you liable for killing someone if you go to work when you may have the (regular, seasonal) flu?
I don't know if it's "necessary," but you can really see the speed difference between NetNewsWire and, say, Reeder on the same hardware. It's not that Reeder is slow, it's that NNW is just really fast.

> I can't imagine it would be worth optimizing this aspect of the code base.

Well, this is the code path taken when the news reader is starting up or refreshing, right? It feels to me like that's the most important place to optimize an RSS reader, because it has a direct impact on the time between when the user clicks the "Refresh" button and everything is updated. Even if the user doesn't actually need to sit there and do nothing when it's updating, if updating takes 3 seconds instead of 10, it makes the whole experience feel much faster.
For sure. In general, if it isn't your fault, it will be covered. If it's your fault, almost any policy will fight to not pay. Insurance sucks.
That which is stated without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Yea, I actually offered to take over development of Kozmos, but wasn't taken up on the offer. I'm going to build my own solution one day, just because I am so interested in it, but until then I use Raindrop.
The fact that it's an arbitrary cutoff point still matters, though. If there's a cliff of infectiousness at the 2 meter line, you'd better send out people with rulers; if it's an arbitrary cutoff, you can give some wiggle room to restaurants where some tables are only 1.8 meters on a diagonal.
Whups, I meant 9.4, it's not possible that I could have tested 9.5 as the test was conducted in early 2015, both databases were the latest versions.

yes, I should run the test again, but it was 6 months of my life, and I don't see how much could have changed.
Is this for accounting purposes? They can’t recognize the revenue without it being used?
Productivity and working knowledge of a tool do not count as rational merits? It takes years to really learn a language; a new framework and language per week is a stupid fad.

If I run a Java shop I want a clique of Java devs, not Golang or Rust devs.
Thanks! To be clear: while the seizure actually happened, no spill has (yet) happened on their land, and I hope that part stays hypothetical. There has been reduced crop yields, lowered resale value, etc.
Think of SQLite as a file format which happens to have a query interface, and not a database.

MySQL did DML for years with full table rewrites behind the scenes. It's not particularly hard to emulate, though not entirely pleasant.

(Although I really raise an eyebrow when people talk about performance. Every time I write anything server-like in sqlite I end up regretting it, and get enormous speed boost, not to mention actual concurrency, switching to PostgreSQL.)
The Infinite Heartbreak of Loving Hong Kong
Illinois construction workers traveling to work on Pritzker's farm amid lockdown
Google is clearly guilty of neglect because they like to do everything in an automated way ...even if it can’t possibly be done well at this point.

But that is way different than Embrace, Extend, Extinguish from MS. I would not trade, say, Chrome for the world of IE. the tension between Google and Apple is far healthier for developers and consumers.
I've been on the receiving end of cryptic takedown in the past and there was absolutely no indication of why. Had to just start trying different things to see what stuck.
Freaking moron driving 60mph on ice. How did "Tesla" save you? Any Toyota would have been fine too, and $120K cheaper. Oh, right... Telsa captured the video to prove it...
I agree the lockdown(s) have a real, destructive impact that has to be acknowledged and weighed.

But you blew it with those crazy numbers..
This is why I try very hard not to rely on Google, with the exception of Gmail.

I don’t use Google extensions on Chrome, and increasingly I don’t use Chrome.
Take a peek at the ORY stack
Perhaps LVM snapshots are an option for Linux rollback?
This is the KLEE project mentioned in "The PhD Grind" book [0], which was also on HN recently. I recommend reading it for a behind-the-scenes look at the effort required to complete a PhD in CS.

[0] http://www.pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir.htm
If you're racing around in a car, you probably aren't the vulnerable.
>this particular developer is seen negatively by some is that he does kick up a lot of dust in these situations

Developers are often pushovers (no disrespect, I'm often one myself). Anyone who isn't gets passive aggressively labeled with terms that make them easy to conflate with actually bad people.

Give 'em hell, Azer.
Thank you so much for the feedback! I'll keep in mind as a priority to fix the back button issue. I'm glad you enjoyed the scenes.
Nope, should read an article before commenting on it.
London will be fine...

Source: The traffic jams outside my front door are back and the lockdown isn’t even lifted yet.
just because there is one doesn't mean it's quality. so then it's a worse scenario because you thought there was a solution, planned on it, but then once you use it you see it doesn't work the way you expect.
This comment is just straight ad-hominem.
I read once that developers should stop focusing heavily on making their own lives easier and think more about making the user's lives easier, and the businessman in me agrees, and I think Apple is in the same court.

The sad part is Apple's market share is so great that to not support iOS is detrimental at best. Therefore Apple has us in a stranglehold: we're pretty much forced to support their platform, and they have no reason to make our lives any easier because we have no choice anyway.

That being said, though, I will probably still refuse to deploy any app I built personally to the App Store.
Caught me as an odd choice to scale an IoT backend.
It's not standard law to require them to accept jurisdiction by anyone who wants to sue.

I'm arguing that people should be able to post to YouTube from anywhere, and be subject to liability wherever they normally have jurisdiction, plus be subject to liability if sued by YouTube as per the contract with YouTube.

>If they made false claims about their copyright to what they post, yes. But if their claim is correct, it's not perjury. How is that a problem?

It creates criminal liability for ambiguous fair use cases. And if you don't create additional liability, then your system is no different than the current one.

>In fact, the "it's not worth the bother to me" alternative basically replicates what we have now under the DMCA. But the difference is that the DMCA imposes the same process on all cases, instead of letting people figure out by the natural process of evolution what process works best for different types of cases.

DMCA doesn't impose it, it just offers it as an option to companies that want the safe harbor. A company is free to ignore a DMCA complaint if they don't think it's valid. They still keep the safe harbor for other cases, they just lose it for that specific notice.

>Ambiguous cases now go to court.

Some ambiguous cases get reinstated after a counternotice is submitted. In your system, a lawsuit would need to be filed. This would mean some things stay down.
Frequently, yes - profiling is important, of course, but feed readers disproportionately have power users who subscribe to many feeds, some of those can be very busy (e.g. monitoring or saved search services), and some people want a fair sized archive. When I first open a desktop reader app, I’m asking it to poll hundreds of feeds - it’s not a server running constantly - and easily many tens thousands of items before filtering. That means lots of repeated updates - and wanting that not to impact whatever is happening in the foreground.

Not critical but definitely noticeable - kind of like how the Atom editor had a bad reputation for input latency even if it was still usable, coloring your perception of the entire app.
Just liking a post in which I discribed a tool I created to help finding 'original posts' and therefore blog from HN publications

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23093990

I'm going through all post published on hn everyday to discover those contents, maybe I could publish my daily findings
I am referring to naming an npm module “Kik” that has nothing to do with the service of the same name. What do I misunderstand?
Imagine all the semantics you could extract from lists that people curated. The early web used to be human curated content and then Google came along and extracted all the associations they could out of those curated lists (links) and became the juggernaut it is today.

So your theory about Google wanting to run a bookmarking service I think is correct. Human curated links continue to be the only source of semantically relevant content. Everything else is algorithmic extraction of the relevant associations created by humans.
Fine article, but all the "on the other hand"-ness gets tiresome. One can't drift in the dark forever. Occam's razor, people. It works pretty well.
What, precisely, is the cost?
Yeah, it could be the case and then I was wrong about it being discontinued
The value of this model has to be apparent to the user, and I believe that can happen. When that happens, then there’s money to be made off of hosting these sites and for premium providers.

The lack of profit motive hasn’t stopped the development of the technology; that’s gone very well as open source and standards development. There is profit to be made in packaging this up and selling to people who realize ~$100/yr is well worth it for a coherent, permanent, flexible home on the web without all the manipulation of the big platforms.
The pitch is faster, and more space efficient since column stores are far better for analytics than row stores. Some benchmarks that found ~5-10x speedup: https://uwekorn.com/2019/10/19/taking-duckdb-for-a-spin.html

Consider someone who analyzes medium-sized volumes of (slowly-changing) data -- OLAP, not OLTP. People who need to do this primarily have 2 alternatives:

* columnar database (redshift, snowflake, bigquery)

* a data lake architecture (spark, presto, hive)

The latter can be slow and wasteful, because the data is stored in a form that allows very limited indexing. So imagine you want query speeds that require the former.

Traditional databases can be hugely wasteful for this usecase -- space overhead due to no compression, slow inserts due to transactions. The best analytics databases are closed-source and come with vendor lockin (there are very few good open-source column stores -- clickhouse is one, duckdb is another). Most solutions are multi-node, so they come with operational complexity. So DuckDB could fill a niche here -- data that's big enough to be unwieldy, but not big enough to need something like redshift. It's analogous to the niche SQLite fills in the transactional database world.
> You comparing tech from 2 different eras...

They were both the latest and greatest at the time

> redo the benchmark today and I’ll be surprised if you come to the same results.

I would, but it was not just a benchmark, it was a deep undertaking including but not limited to: optimisations made in the linux kernel, specialised hardware along with custom memory allocators and analysing/tracing/flamegraphing disk/memory access patterns to find hot paths/locks/contention. (and at different scales: varying the number of connections, transactions per connection, number of databases, size of data, etc)

It was 6 months of my life.

> PGsql even has a wiki page where they discuss implementing MySQL features and changing their architecture so they can scale.

Just because mysql has some good ideas doesn't mean it scales better. I know for a fact that it didn't in 2015. I doubt that they have fixed the things I found, I could be wrong. But it would have to be a large leap forward for MySQL and PostgreSQL has had large performance improvements since then too.

also, I read that page and it talks nothing about scaling, just that some storage drivers have desirable features (memory tables are very fast, and PGSQL doesn't support it; archive tables are useful for writing to slower media, you can do this with partitioning but it's not intuitive)
It's easy to forget them. Every country on the globe has an indigenous people. The countries that don't have them either killed them all in the middle ages or assimilated them completely. Apart from them there are swathes of illegal immigrant workers that are completely ignored and other socially excluded people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples
Reported vs actual are very different numbers.

In Toronto Canada:

- Number of tests available are limited still (and were severely so until recently)
- People who are showing symptoms but aren't high risk have been turned away after pre-screening
- People who are showing symptoms but aren't front line workers have been turned away after pre-screening
- People who have had severe exposure but aren't showing symptoms have been turned away after pre-screening

(Heck, understanding it's an anecdote, but my neighbour showed all the symptoms, after waiting hours and talking to all the pre-screeners, they told him, literally "Yup, you have it; we don't need to bother testing". )

Anecdata notwithstanding, it is crucial for people to understand that the number of tested positive cases is by definition, always, under all circumstances, always going to be some subset of people actually sick. And sometimes significantly so... sometimes by order(s) of magnitude.
I'd hazard to say that what you're describing (which I agree with) is true actually because in most spheres, there really ISN'T meaningful competition.

Building software is hard, generally, and takes time, generally. Just because you can throw up a set of microservices in a day doesn't mean you can build a properly competing product that quickly. And as time goes on, the standard of competition gets higher and the barrier to entry gets higher, because user expectations grow over time. So most software isn't competitive.
Don't worry too much about prioritization if your goal from reading is to learn. Set aside some time and then pick whatever article/book you most feel like reading and just get going. If it bores you, then stop and move on to the next one.

For interesting articles, take notes using a system that works for you. Progressive Summarization and Zettelkasten are good ideas.

Over time, you will realize that most articles and books are not worth the time investment to deeply read them and get quicker at skimming to get the gist.

Some useful links:

Better note-taking misses the point -https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z7kEFe6NfUSgtaDuUjST1oczKKzQ...

Gutting books - https://twitter.com/varsha_venkat_/status/110774091578163609...
The Herd Immunity Taboo – Tablet Magazine
Does he have to be? No.

Can others judge him harshly for said decision? Yes.
> marijuana of the 1970's is basically legal everywhere

Is there any good data about what percent THC was common back then? I fond a few articles giving numbers between 1 and 4% without citations, and one Atlantic piece [0] calling it a myth. In any case it seems like it must have been higher than 0.3%, unless people really smoked ~40 times more in one sitting.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/was-m...
Replace your assumption I was referring to processor performance with actual work completed instead :)
A passive comment on hackernews is not really going to do jack, you need to keep on making noise, and try to get them to acknowledge your concerns. This is actually pretty time consuming and starts to cost you time/money. There are probably like 14 other channels talking about how great this piano is vs 1 channel showing valid criticisms, and probably few CASIO consumers who truly care about the plight of a hacker hacking an old calculator enough to do something more than likely forget about it in 24 hours. If you really don't like a company's practices, you basically have to become an activist to get an effect. Silently or tepidly "voting with your wallet" often does jack. This is more a critique of the concept that voting with your wallet is very effective, as the market often sucks at punishing crap companies and can often be manipulated with wads of marketing cash.
Ideally yes but in reality no. Governments are the ultimate "enterprise" IT environment. Highly ossified and completely dependant on outside suppliers. On top of that procurement processes take a while. So there's a whole ecosystem that's slow to change that has all been built with the assumption that it will be ran on Windows server. Any changeover process would take so long it's unlikely to survive every political change of guard during that time.

That's not even mentioning things like the extreme reliance on Microsoft AD.
You don't need arrays for the code I was describing: it's a nested for-loop on 4 ints.

But, yeah, that's a really common mistake.
I'm not really trying to re-litigate the whole PB thing. It's just not the case that they got dinged for nothing which is what the comment I replied to was suggesting.

And the other (I think more important) point was that we know even less about whatever happened to Kozmos.
Counterexample: pubs reopened this past weekend in NZ and every venue was at capacity. No tourists, but increased domestic consumption.

This will obviously be more pronounced in countries with a greater historic discrepancy between tourism expenditure and receipts.

e.g. Spain will no doubt be more effected than NZ, whereas the UK could actually benefit:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.XPND.CD?end=2018...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.RCPT.CD?end=2018...
Do you like good news? Then I have good news!

You're looking at the numbers for the case fatality rates (CFR). The CFR is not the same as the infection fatality rates (IFR) which represent "the fatality rate in all those with infection: the detected disease (cases) and those with an undetected disease (asymptomatic and not tested group)... The IFR will always be lower than the CFR..."[1]

Spanish government ran a seroprevalence study and got the following estimates of COVID-19's IFR[2]:

For the age group under 50, the estimated IFR is about 0.003%

For the age group 50 - 69 yo, it's 0.04%

And for those over 70, it's 4.1%

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_fatality_rate#Terminology

[2] https://www.mscbs.gob.es/profesionales/saludPublica/ccayes/a... Look for the table on page 15
Multiple mothers in my family use Linux. The volume and nature of tech support questions are often not OS-specific. Last issue I dealt with was a dusty DVD Drive that needed to be replaced.
The better title is take external or alien control of HongKong.

Whilst pathetic most laws and bills have a process local in Hong Kong. Like a right wing paradise you not just have free market but also has essentially no government (police dare not to walk the street say) and no bill pass for months now. Even pandemics the response of the Gov is continue to open the border so the mainland Chinese can fly in and out of china. The public just on their own finding ways to get mask, making them and wearing them. On their own.

Now the china would bypass the local legislature to enact the law the local has opposed since 2004 with the 1st time million comes out again the security law.

Guess they want to as that law give mainland rights to institute their own force and likely their own legal procedure which unlike common law the accuser has to prove themselves innocent.

Good luck and with that gone Hk is ended. In the past we at least may know. Now we may not. Just no idea if you are in mainland why Hk stock market drop 5% in friday, the largest drop in last 5 years.

When the law is enacted bypassing your constitution (see all us, uk+2, and even the Eu Announcement), you are done.

What to do if you are Jews under nazi. Unlike USA to Jews, there is nowhere to go as the law actually covered any HKER in the world. We know they will enforce it in spite of you are outside china. It is a bigger country than North Korea.

Fight. See you.
Storj bounty program is ramping up. PHP?