skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are planning to migrate from postgrsql 9.6 to 12.3 (or 13 once it's stable).

So far everything works well except the one query which is 2x slower in 12.3 (not sure if something is wrong with my docker image).

Query is generation visits data using a laltteral join over a date range. I was hoping it would speed up the query when jumping to 12.3, but that's not the case sofar.
Let me go to your house, steal your stuff and keep it forever and call it crosspollination.
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It's not fair to execute anyone. Many countries have banned the death penalty and prominent US politicians oppose it (including Biden). It seems like you're noticing:

"We execute people who murder 20 hitchhikers, but not billionaires responsible for the death of thousands."

And proposing that instead of rectifying that inequality by banning the death penalty, we rectify it by doing the death penalty way more to avoid dishonoring victims? Let me know if I'm misreading you.
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This seems to me to be about trust.
Staying in Seattle with my giant ass mortgage. But we are already far from downtowns.

Might consider renting a room out again though.
I don't think this is a good idea because the issue is the business practice of mindlessly collecting data and not engineering.
This is probably related to black mothers receiving systemically worse maternity care.

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2019/02/20/why-are-black-women...
Since when has the UK become the arbiter and police of the World's Art. Is it also rescuing currently "at danger" heirlooms ? Who are they to decide that they get to show it? For e.g. the Kohinoor diamond from India. Blatant theft. But sure done by a white colony so it must be fine. Saviors and all that.
The services themselves. Google could simply decide to not do business with unprofitable Australia.

It's a veiled threat of course.

They don't want to specify exactly what's in jeopardy - the services themselves, the free status of the services, the quality of search results, or simply google's profitability.
Mutt does not support virtual folders, so there is nothing fancy really about how I use Notmuch as I only use it for search (not tagging). I have a macro to call `mutt-notmuch.py` (there is a Perl version as well) to: search, create a temporary read-only maildir based on the current TTY, and lastly populate in with symlinks to the search results – Mutt then switches into that maildir.

I would love to use Notmuch more, but syncing between devices becomes a pain when everything is no longer a file. There is muchsync [1], but I really do not want to go down the rabbit hole of resolving potential conflicts, etc.

[1]: http://www.muchsync.org/
Running for two epochs on the IMDB dataset (133MB corpus) it only got to a loss of 1.1. Likely the regularization is too high (I didn't tweak the hyperparameters at all, and assume regularization was quite high for the limited tinyshakespeare corpus). Either way, it at least started to learn more grammar:

Prompt: This is my review of Lord of the Rings.

> I can't tell why the movie is a story with a lot of potential
the main reason I want to see a movie that is Compared to the Baseball movie 10 Both and I can say it was not just a bad movie.
I was first on Vercel free tier, yet one of my projects was a bit too resource hungry so they were kindly asking me to go for a paid tier. Before signing up for a paid plan I tried out Netlify.

According to Netlify my functions were even more resource hungry, and they were deployed to USEAST AWS region, with no way of changing that (unless you're an enterprise) — yet my API endpoint is in Europe, so they took longer to execute (~1200ms each).

Thus I finally went for the Vercel paid tier. They allow you to choose where your functions are deployed, so I've got ~300ms now. And they work better with Next.js apps, as on Netlify you have to jiggle around a bit more to get that working.
> Medical data is the most valuable and it is bought and sold daily on the Dark Web. The infosec company Trustwave published a report that valued medical records at $250 per record on the black market, while credit cards sold for $5.40 per record.

Why can medical records be sold for so much? What value do they provide to the buyers?
Let me break into your house and steal your stuff. "You gonna return that too?" - NO finders keepers.
>increases suicidal ideation.

Like suicide prevention ideation does not mean all people in solitary confinement want to commit suicide. I venture to argue that most people won't.
And the “harder” (potent) ones are easier to smuggle because... they’re potent.

A lot of the push is on the supply side rather than the demand side.

Opium is much harder to smuggle.
You’re misreading me. I’m saying that the technological distinction does not justify the policy distinction. I don’t at all believe they’re the same thing.

The comments you’re replying to suggest that executables are being streamed or something, and they’re not.
I disagree that making your device easily serviceable necessarily makes it less attractive to that portion of the population. I think that making your device brittle, fragile and easy to tamper with makes it less attractive to that portion of the population - having open documentation about the ways to approach repair and then letting the electronics repair shops all be able to repair your device makes it really attractive to pretty much all of the population.

If your ease of repair comes at the cost of quality people will complain about the lack of quality - but nobody specifically wants something that can only be repaired by one market entrant that has full control over the price of repairs.

Also, if you really want to emphasize quality you can run a repair certification program that distributes high priced stickers to aide in people's confidence.
I hadn't thought about it that way before but I think you're right. American politics is very dramatic. High tensions, big consequences, subterfuge, conspiracy. It's got it all.
Free and stable (so possibly Linux) gate-locked system is obviously needed on market. See Android.
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If we want something objective, how about sampling HN commenters Android and iPhones for security exploits?

It would be interesting to see if these users views stack up in practice or these are just beliefs that are not practically demonstrable.
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And this particular case is not in scope of the decision of whether a criminal justice system should allow capital punishment.

If you do allow it, it applies to more cases than this one. If you don't, it doesn't apply to this one.
> and it’s still not even on the horizon.

What? It's basically all there. Apple just needs to remove the last workaround of popping up the preference pane and clicking allow for untrusted apps. I'm sure there's a flag for this somewhere.
But why do you need it? Being on top of HN with 10,000 visitors doesn't kill a simple static site. Likewise, a client-rendered web-app shouldn't be too much for a simple server.

It makes sense to use those services for all the additional stuff, like Netlify's offers:

>User identity, Serverless functions, Instant forms, Split testing & rollouts, Analytics, Large media

But for a basic web-app, where's the benefit?
All is not just about energy absorbed or burns. There are reports of the space between cells becoming larger (less inter-cellular adhesion) because of RF, and this led to the conclusion that the blood-brain barrier was weakened due to some kinds of RF. I've not dig too much in the subject, but I understand that a leaky BBB would increase inflammation in the brain and penetration of many molecules (including carcinogenic).

I don't know why all the rebuttals focus on energy absorption and absence of ionizing frequencies. Seems like the mechanism of toxicity, if any, has nothing to do with that.
For more serious/less casual games, they generally primarily target computers and consoles than mobile devices. I believe Unreal is more popular for these types of games (whereas Unity and others are more favoured for mobile games). If you are not targetting mobile, Apple has far less representation.
There should be no usual analytical activity in your mind during that time. Meditation is a lot like watching a still thought with your mind. Beginners pick simple objects like a black triangle on white background and try to keep their mind completely still, but with eyes open, with no other thoughts for 5 mins. People here that do software can easily achieve photographic quality meditation on simple shapes like that triangle. Then you increase complexity and start choosing proper objects like a little Buddha shape. The added complexity makes meditation difficult: the 3d image (which is a reflection of the object) gets blurry, dim or the attention is outright dragged away by other thoughts. It's like trying to balance on one leg with strong unpredictable winds. The goal is to develop strength to balance the mind and properly reflect complex static objects.

Then you switch from objects to ideas and that's a lot harder, but that's the actual goal. For example, you think a lot about the nature or idea of software. Once you think you've found this idea, you sit and spend 5 mins meditating on this idea. Ideas can't be drawn, they don't have shapes and our mind is not really suited for dealing with ideas.

Meditation is addictive. Even at the early stages you'll notice the flow of something thru your body during meditation and the weird, but pleasant feeling of physically stretching out your brains. This addiction is considered an obstacle, so the usual advise is to do a few short sessions that stop once you start noticing that feeling.

Your daily thinking will become sharper as you progress, and you'll get this feeling of physical balance. If it's not the case, you're doing something wrong and you'd have to seek an in person advice.

One particularly dangerous mistake is trying to clear mind of thoughts and make it blank. Tsong-kha-pa wrote a good deal about this mistake in his books to warn people.
Most Chechens speak Russian as a second language, and yet...
The 10% tax is at the federal layer in Australia and is the same across all states and territories.
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If you are suggested I have an Apple bias, you are dead wrong.

BSD bias, maybe. ;)

Show me a mobile device Google is selling that has no Play Store.

As I said, the differences between the companies are very small compared to the similarities.

But employees and fanboys on both sides love to try to make the differences seem profound. They're not.

Fortnite, nor any other software, should not even have to go through a company "store" approval to run on hardware the user bought. Even you have to admit that, since you are the one mentioning so-called "sideloading". Jumping through these hoops should not even be necessary and you know it.
Were these tapes designed to be read once(if so why), or were they degraded with time?
I heard it - with 12 doses or less you're addicted.
If you don't like the web, nobody is forcing you to use it.

But, your decision not to use it shouldn't come at the cost of someone else's freedom to distribute legitimate software or creative works to those users who seek it out.

Speaking for myself, most of the "apps" I use on my phone and desktop on a daily basis are PWAs, and they are generally indistinguishable from the native apps I use in terms of quality.
I built this a few years ago:

https://github.com/Hello1024/shared-tensor

It does updates to weights based on 1 bit precision updates each iteration.

It would be fairly trivial to go to less than 1 bit precision too - simply set some threshold (eg 3), and wherever the difference between the weight on the server and the client is greater than 3, transmit a binary "1", else send a binary "0". Then entropy code all the resulting binary.

By adjusting the threshold up and down, you trade off the size of the data to send Vs precision.
I also hate all those things, but I don't see why we should be funneling that money into Murdoch's coffers.

Why should the ABC/SBS be exempt from this moneygrab?
Coulomb barrier - how to overcome it with radiation like that?
Exactly, not at the energy levels a cell phone user is subjected to. Why isn't that the end of the story?
Listicle spam evolved aka tower content strategy.
Any popular VM inevitably becomes as complex as those. Look at V8, it's grown into a JVM sized beast.

It would save countless hours of human effort to just adapt what's out there. It will be a decade before WASM has the kind of support JVM and CLR do. By then it will have the same huge codebase that causes vulnerabilities
Thanks for the reference. Interesting twist.
If they'd contracted it out they wouldn't be in this mess. A cable laying company leaving drilling fluid out doesn't make headlines unless it's named Facebook.
This may be related to training. A dearth of information on what symptoms look like on skin that's not pink to start with. A black doctor will at least have their own skin as educator and reference.
If you're going to dismiss one of the most comprehensive bodies of work on the subject (or, I'd guess any UN initiatives), you can provide your own sources?
Sorry if this sounds condescending but just learn linear algebra and numpy. Linear algebra really is a minimum requirement if you want to get anywhere near ML. College freshmen can learn linear algebra and numpy and so can you. You'll only get even more lost and frustrated if you try to go into it thinking in terms of for loops.
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There are other (non web) development systems that don't have huge numbers of dependencies - Delphi and Xcode are two that come to mind. You can add other projects to them if you so desire but if you want to learn programming with something out of the box Delphi is the one to look at imho. Delphi community edition is available for free https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter.

(An unpopular opinion - The web is a hierarchy of hacks and patches because the web browser was never made to do what it's being asked to do.)

Edit: here's some YouTube courses that are very introductory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsGpj-FVjGs&list=PLZZqoiUyRB...
You can also use #begin and #end, of course.
In some senses Android is more open than Ubuntu w/ snap.
I don't know about Dell but I put several original and not original parts inside my HP laptop and they worked well. HP's next business day service came to my home twice to replace the screen and the keyboard. I replaced the keyboard myself after the 3 years service period expired. I never bought from HP, just googled the part number and picked one of the results. Anyway I think HP sells through partners here.

I increased RAM twice, one rightaafter unboxing the laptop because buying an 8 GB laptop plus 16 GB from a third party was some hundreds Euros cheaper than buying a 16 GB laptop from HP. I bought two SSDs in different years and replaced the spinning disk and the DVD. I can't see myself having to depend from a single company for such things, and some of them being outright impossible.
I don't use a lot of dependencies in my software (some uses none except the standard library, or for software that runs on a VM, the VM it runs on (although any implementation can be used)). (Probably the only program I do maintain that has too many dependencies is TeXnicard, because it depends on Ghostscript (which has a lot of dependencies). It also uses PCRE and SQLite3 (which are not so bad, since they don't have other dependencies).)

In terms of ImageMagick, I used to use it but now maintain my own set of programs for dealing with picture files (almost entirely written in C, although the ones for converting to/from fax format are in PostScript; I may later write a version in C as well, so that you can use it if you do not have a PostScript interpreter). Like most software I write, I try to not use many dependencies if I can avoid it. (It doesn't use libpng either; it is using LodePNG, which is better in many ways, in my opinion.) (These set of programs I wrote also have many effects that I have not seen in other programs, such as automatic rearranging in a horizontal or vertical strip, removing duplicates from a vertical strip, and making the tensor product of two pictures. There are also file formats ImageMagick does not support.)
Would it be crazy to suggest that everyone change the workday so that peek demand happens when solar is still operational?
That also means only few monopolistic behemoths can do state of the art AI. Good luck for an independent researcher to pull GPT-3.
Please keep in mind that switch statement is coming to python!
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Explained in this video.
https://youtu.be/xBvzzq3LF_w?t=61

> "You cannot see each other from the outside or inside"
Another useful thing to understand is the energy required to overcome the Coulomb barrier and contrast that with energies 10 cell phones in your pocket would emit.
> When the government declared it a national flag, they should have given him a few million dollars and bought the rights off him.

But they didn't, so the government can get stuffed.

I love the way you want the government to steal from an indigenous man here. Haven't they stolen enough yet?

Harold Thomas owns it. It's been recognised he owns it. He can do as he wishes with it.

If a bunch of people want to continue following something that's owned by someone else they can, but they follow the creators rules.

Lets just steal Linux off Linus and co because we feel like it shall we. Remove his stupid GPL v2 because we want to.
Somebody has to work for those who collect all the leaked data and use it for whatever is possible. You wouldn't earn fame but money for being a data pirate. Or you create a company and start with a fresh name. On the internet, nobody knows that you are a dog.
Is this the same as https://tldr.sh/ ?
Please provide statistics for your claims. Most notably, largely caused by "black market nature of getting the drug". Thanks!
> They are ghost towns

The ghost towns featured several years ago in US documentaries were sold and occupied, and more have been built, but the real problem isn't oversupply:

1) the units require the buyer to redo the electricity and plumbing before they're habitable, and they're faced with twine that is painted like bricks. Selling unrepaired units involves negotiating who will pay for the repairs, which causes a lot of friction.

Bribes are paid with units, so a local builder might title 100 units in a multi-building complex to the governor.

2) building codes aren't followed and the concept of HoA fees never developed, so the buildings only look good for about 6 months, then the pools are turned off, the elevators start free-falling, the lobby ceiling tiles fall on residents, balcony railings fall over when touched, etc.

Two balconies fall off residential building in NE China (no rebar) (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJJIlszVxI

3) There's a property bubble, probably the largest in history, creating most of the reported recent wealth in China. The inflation in large urban cores can be justified compared to other regional cities, but not in the ghost towns.
> who get all the news 15 minutes before you can even hear about it?

It does not really matter if you are in for long haul, and you should be. Stock market should not be played like a poker play where you need to keep an eye on every single move. If that's the way you are doing it then it's a gamble.
People's home GPU's are much much cheaper than using the cloud because of the way Nvidias licensing works to jack cloud gpu prices.
As a casual user of Nerves, it's the easiest way of getting Elixir code running on a clean RPi system. I don't want to install a stripped down Linux myself, then install Erlang and Elixir, then transfer the built code every time and restart the board, or write scripts to do that. That would be a waste of my time when I just want to develop my app.

With Nerves I could just write code and run `mix firmware && ./upload.sh` (the upload script was generated by Nerves).
And they will go wrong.

Hey can you put together this trillion piece jigsaw puzzle? Oh and we need you to sign off on it. You're sure it's not going to kill anyone right?

Works on my machine!
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I don't think it would demand that the software be infallible. If a "new type of earthquake" happens, the Civil engineers won't be responsible for their bridges failing. In the same way, if there is reasonable effort made to ensure the system is secure by standards of the time, I don't think these theoretical individuals would be blamed for particularly novel (zero day) or unpreventable (social engineering, to at least some extent) attacks.
The harmonization in Ontario is more like combining the 5% federal rate and the 8% provincial rate into a single combined rate of 13%, so there’s no change in this case.
Like the choice we all have in healthcare? No thanks
(Shrug) Being a white male landowner, I probably have it coming.
I like vercel/zeit, and dislike firebase
Nice, I'm jealous of the extra help you're getting haha (I'm trying to build something solo). It sounds like you're already making a lot of progress.

Good luck building out the rest of the product!
I didn't call for banning anything. I said the issue is with overprescription and negligent doctors. You are describing a desire for proper healthcare - that is also something I am interested in.

What I am not interested in is my friend getting 100 Vicodin for a bit of pain after some dental visit (maybe wisdom teeth removed? can't remember), that he later realized was way more than he needed and had him temporarily addicted.
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well, for one get rid of laws that allow platform manufacturers to control who makes stuff that runs on their platform. (even stronger would be to mandate providing an open api or equivalent, but just getting saying interop trumped the dmca would be a great start). that would fix the issues with xbox, nintendo, playstation and ios immediately. best buy, game stop and steam aren't as bad, they don't have as many reasons they can't be competed against if someone was minded to.
I would say GP's last sentence should be read :

> if black parents are less likely to (trust a white doctor and ask questions)

So if the doctor were white the parents would ask less questions than with a black doctor. Hence asking fewer questions would increase mortality.

On the face of it this seems to make sense. If people don't see a doctor for what are unknown (to them) and possibly dangerous conditions, the babies wouldn't get help.
Does Fortnite have malicious rules?
Considering we routinely give children fentanyl this is concerning.
Curious how thick the transparent material is and what an infrared camera would see when it's in opaque mode and occupied by people.
Spite's amazing. "I don't like Apple's walled garden, so I'm going to jump into Epic's (Tencent's) walled garden instead." At no point does using, or advocating for, a non-walled garden product come up as an alternative.
You're not missing anything and there's no nuance.

It's a blatant moneygrab for fossils from a government they have by the balls.

The classified ads have dried up and they're out of ideas.
People who experience empathy like a semi-normal human being complain on behalf of others. As does anyone who has had to manage other people.

If someone’s narrative is all about the individual, it really doesn’t say anything flattering about them.

I generally like her work, and I’m more referring to the class of writing that generally invites comments like this.
> Even if we were, net zero by 2070 (the optimistic outcome here!?) would be pointless, civilisation would be over long before then anyway.

The cause of fighting climate change is harmed by hyperbolic arguments like this.