skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the question about what Breonna Taylor "deserved" is a political one- a matter of opinions

I don't know anything about her karma or what she deserves, but the allegations that she was a criminal are not based on any information known to the police involved and was mostly invented by people who wanted to defend the police before gathering any facts.
Self reporting symptoms like this is highly unreliable and subject to a variety of human faults.
While it's possible to exceeding 100% efficiency with an SOEC, you will need an external source of heat to drive the process.
> Oltp databases typically cannot process more than 5 x cpu cores without having to time-slice among cpus

I think this is entirely wrong in reality. In most read-mostly OLTP workloads, due to client<->server latency and application processing times, my experience as well as measurements show that at that connection count the machine will not be utilized sufficiently.

5x may be around the peak throughput when a benchmark client runs on the same system and connects via unix socket or localhost tcp. But even just benchmarking over a fast local (10GBe, <10m cables, one switch) connection moves peak throughput quite a bit higher than that.

Few real world scenarios have clients sending queries back-to-back without any gaps in between. They have to process the results e.g. go through some template engine, shuffle the data to the web server.

I think for OLTP - and many other workloads - any guidance based on CPU cores is going to be so off for 90% of workloads to be more misleading than useful. The request patterns and thus bottlenecks vary far too much.

For write heavy OLTP workloads on medium-high latency storage (cheaper SSDs, all network block stores, spinning disks) a larger number of connections also can actually be good from a cost perspective - due to group commit fewer iops will be needed than when the same workload were split over two instances.
Not that I consider the overall sentiment of the linked article wrong, but this...

> Dereferencing a nullptr gives a segfault (which is not a security issue, except in older kernels). Dereferencing a nullopt however, gives you an uninitialized value as a pointer, which can be a serious security issue.

...betrays a complete lack of understanding what Undefined Behavior is/implies. That's not something you want to see in an article discussing memory safety.
I’m glad it wasn’t just me thinking that
Super Smash COLORS: 2D Fighting game where each color is a fighter
Try it. If you do not use any "optional" dependency it becomes pretty limited, almost useless for anything serious (eg. zlib, ssl)
Step one towards rebranding Sendgrid as a marketing platform and getting them away from the cesspit that is transactional email.
I agree with some of the comments about composabilty of SQL. I've been doing SQL since more than 14 years. Most of it was spent working on ETL projects for Finance and Utilities industries. Even today 80% of the code I write in pySpark is just plain SQL. It's been my bread and butter. However, I spend a lot of time trying to think about a solution in SQL. It's not an easy language to use when it comes to implementing complex transformations. I could write the same logic in Python in a lot less time. I use SQL mostly because it's easily portable across systems and most analysts and to some extent tech managers understand it. I work primarily on proof of concept data products and it does the job for that. Then a real developer takes over and implements it in .Net.
I don’t think it’s a crime to find a woman’s body sexually arousing.

I just think we to chill the fuck out if we see a boob.

It’s titillating... so what? Is that such a bad thing?

A great example was when I watched a YouTube video on Robocop a while ago. Robocop is a great movie, but it’s insanely violent. Yet YouTube was fine with all the violence and gore. But show a nipple? Bam... instant demonetisation.
That's the problem with writing on a "first-class" publication. They won't allow you to cover the "dirty stuff" (what? posting on a stupid classifieds website? Let's talk about the beauty of SEO/AdWords/beautiful viral growth graphs...)
Venmo fraud is even worse. My sister got scammed out of thousands of dollars recently and her bank just said "pay up"

I wrote about the story here:

https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/how-banks-help-scammers-with-t...
CAES?
Pumped hydro?
I suspect even well insulated thermal stores end up more efficient.
Once again another small independent publisher is driven off of a Google platform because Google's complete inability to provide even the smallest amount of customer service.

I'm sad this app has been removed because A. I use it semi-frequently, and B. The play store is FULL of malicious software/spamware.
Why would you need so much?
> “The purpose of exercise is to avoid thinking about the fact that you spend your life working for money.” I Googled that phrase and did not find it on the internet. It's not just pasting in lines it read, it's generating new ones.

How legit is this? Does GPT have access to a lot of text that Google search doesn't have or show?

Or is GPT good at taking generic passages and swapping out some nouns and adjectives and verbs to make things that sound familiar but aren't literally copied?
I like this. Thanks for the note.

> Impassioned thoughts either stimulate the soul’s desiring power or disturb its incensive power, or darken its intelligence (396).

https://thoughtsintrusive.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/what-logi...
And hard to get people to show up when you run your own forum.
Yes, it's political but in the grand scheme of searches, it's almost irrelevant.

99.99% of searches are just searches, and that's it.
Lets say that they start playing nice and fully support the rpi project. How would you as a consumer show your increased support for broadcom? Go out and buy a bunch of products that contain specifically broadcom chips? A bulk order of modems off Digikey?
I believe they stopped doing that. The verbiage in the dropdown indicating that they'll switch back has disappeared, and my feed has been locked into the latest view for months now.
> As you say storing hydrogen is problematic.

It's not. Per kWh of embodied energy (when burned in turbines, say), storing hydrogen underground is really cheap. This is a big advantage of hydrogen, that the storage capacity can be expanded radically at affordable cost.
It would be, but that's not the signal.

Men conflate women's sexuality with child rearing to control women > men insist women cover voluptuous body parts > men exploit women's sexuality with modesty constraint for additional power and control > men decide women's nipples are hidden = modesty, and sexualize women's nipples > nipples somehow mean something different if they're attached to a woman
It's kinda nuts. They have some videos on startup school. They basically just threw spaghetti for months building random products for markets they barely understood until they landed on analytics and it just snowballed. This isn't even a brilliant idea. They entered a crowded market with a solution that was just a bit better than everyone else and now have a $3B exit.
> I mean, it seems clear to me that you are a user of Facebook, and you seem to agree with me that misinformation is running rampant?

No, I don't use Facebook. I haven't for a long time. While I agree that there is propagation of misinformation happening on the platform, that's not my main concern. My main concern is that Facebook, and other platforms, will use their framework for 'removing misinformation' as a tool for censorship in the pursuit of their political agendas. My chief contention is that this poses a larger risk to society than the propagation of misinformation in the first place.
I feel like we're speaking different languages here.
For anyone else confused: CVS seems to be a chemist/pharmacy shop in the USA; this is unrelated to CVS (Concurrent Versions System) the software.
The universities produce knowledge, but also produce and preserve culture, and attract students from overseas, and dish out scholarships to students otherwise unable to afford tuition. Plus, you get beautiful campuses.
I LOVED Ambrosia games! I used ResEdit for modifying EV games to my will. Then I had the pleasure of interning there. Greatest thing I ever did. That crew is nothing but amazing people!
People forget that SV companies being pro gay rights pre-dated the Obergefell decision.
Wikipedia requires sources for its information, especially anything contentious. If Twitter somehow obtained the manpower and speed to do that, then it might be OK but there's no hope of that ever being possible. The rate of content generation is too high, the demand for immediate publication is too high, and the effect of removing something a few days after it's posted is too little too late because it will have already had its effect. Nobody would use such a slow and boring service where almost every post gets automatically put on hold until someone can find a source. Users obviously won't do their own research - that's like schoolwork!

Wish somebody a happy birthday. Wait till tomorrow for Twitter's employees or crowdsourcing to verify it. And it only gets verified if that information is actually available to them.
I can't be the only human on Hacker News who knows enough about machine learning (not all that much), in combination with enough about the human body (not all that much) to completely empathise with the machine's misunderstanding in this instance?
> If the motivation and energy ever return I could consider moving to normal F-Droid, which will require stripping out GDrive, Dropbox and a few other proprietary features.

Switch to F-Droid!

- Remove GDrive/Dropbox and other proprietary features;

- Add Nextcloud/ownCloud/Syncthing and similar open-source features;

- Fully move to F-Droid;

- Remove page from Google Play Store.
How frequently?
I appreciate your guarantees, but I think we're getting really riled up over one parent's anecdotal report about a teacher in an unusual and stressful situation. After generating this much attention I'm certain the thoroughly embarrassed teacher will be more careful.
The children will be fine.
I think they were just making a joke.
Collision Detection (2015)
The Most Viral Beatmaker On TikTok: ‘I know that sounds super scientific’
“ How is that any different than a software developer receiving a higher salary because they are more efficient due to computers being more powerful?”

There’s a much higher barrier to entry as a software engineer than a shelf stacker. The breakdown of returns to labor vs capital will always favour capital (absent regulatory intervention or shortage of unskilled labor) for commodity-type work.
> . USA is probably less corrupt than USSR, or at least their bosses don't steal more than half of worker's salary.

The US is working hard to close that gap.
... and their terms of service. They changed the TOS to account for America electing an internet troll.
Daily. Started at 5000, then 10, then 15, which is where blood work was okay.
> The ability of social media platforms to spread malicious propaganda intended to incite division is incredibly dangerous.

No it’s not, this is propaganda. If Facebook/Twitter wanted to tomorrow they could limit stuff in your feed to people you know IRL. This would take less than 1 sprint for top tier engineers with the right access to implement and ship.

They’re only dangerous because the real problem is social media’s hypergrowth strategies are incompatible with policies that are good for society.

Any suggestion otherwise is like oil companies encouraging end users to recycle.
A walking pedestrian produces 5 watts per step [1]. A dancer would almost certainly exert more energy, so let's optimistically double that to 10 watts per step. Let's also assume the dancer steps an average of two times a second, for a total of 20 watts of power. Finally, let's assume you're able to harvest all energy from the step.

Adafruit recommends 20mA as rule-of-thumb for estimating NeoPixel energy usage at 5V [2], so let's say a NeoPixel requires a little under 1W.

You could probably run 20 LEDs during a dance routine in this. While the wireless part is more exotic, it is likely doable.

Of course, the form of dance will determine how many LEDs you can include. Perhaps your dancer outfit is best suited for Riverdance...

[1] https://pavegen.com/

[2] https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-neopixel-uberguide/power...
Every media outlet seems so tainted with one political agenda or another, I have no faith in anything reported on this topic.
As a reminder, despite having the word "authority" in its name, FINRA is a completely private organisation and does not directly answer to any legislative, judicial, or executive authority.

https://nclalegal.org/2019/07/finra-is-a-double-delegation-d...
That last sentence doesn't apply very often in the real world. We're not talking about philosophically pure truth in most cases, we're talking about things like headlines, in which the same factual event can be spun in innumerable ways, all of which are superficially true.

Bullshit isn't always, or even mostly, an outright lie. I'd go so far as to say that making shit up whole cloth is the rarest kind of deception.
Makes sense, as long as (as they do claim) they take into account that willing disclosure and reporting artifacts can't be penalised.
If you keep forcing it back to Latest eventually it gets the hint and permanently leaves it there.
Shades of Osama bin Laden there.
In America you're allowed to think I'm wrong.

But you need a permit to protest.

Riotous action is not permissible. Enter the FBI.
Does the fact that it’s false information change anything for you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24734026
Your suggestion would force rich people to find some other way to buttress the careers of their progeny, and it would probably be worse.
The walls will have more than ears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=175LB2OiMHs
Already pwned by ayys.
There’s a reason “Twitter twat” is a rapidly growing part of the political vernacular.
Maybe not that .99c-a-slice garbage but there are some damn good pies to be had here in NYC for sure! Lucali, Totonno's, Joe's... some of the best you will ever have.
Probably because it’s false.

Apple didn’t ask for the channels to be closed. Just the doxing posts. That seems a lot more reasonable.
Another anecdote: The point in my life where I felt like I thought the most clearly and quickly about programming was when I used pen/pencil and paper.

I learned a lot of my development skills on paper, not on computers. Lots of exams, programs, etc. All written out by hand.

Now what's nice about paper as a medium is you're not restricted to just text you can mix in drawings and pretty much anything else to attack your thinking from different angles. You could do this on a computer, but it's just so much slower to draw out diagrams and doesn't have the same feeling.
I wonder how this chart would look if it factored in living expenses.
Any remedy for "Follow Topic" spam from Twitter? It is so frustrating to have a company ruin a product you were previously so happy with.
Launched my biggest FOSS project so far:

https://github.com/jolmg/parsby
I am tolerant of all cultures, religions, etc., but I do not find the belief in a caste system, or any form of discrimination against women to be compatible with modern western work culture and equal employment laws.
A bit of both. Basic propaganda tactic is to emphasize differences and make them appear unbridgeable.
Very cool that it’s based off of RDF triples. I’m really curious about your product. What does performance look like? The TerminusDB website says it’s in memory? Can you have a database larger than your RAM?
I don’t think he has anything resembling a good point, and I’m also put off by his tone.
That's another really interesting point.

Blowing flour out of the palm of my hand into a lit BBQ cost me half my eyebrows as a child.

The ability of airborne flour to burn is kind of incredible if you haven't seen it in person.
Solution seems obvious, volume discounts in one shape or another.

SaaS companies pricing is often geared towards startups that "can't afford" to control costs, i.e. developer time spent on minimizing cost has a higher monetary and opportunity cost than ignoring those costs in the short term, even if they're piling up at $50/mo for every auxiliary service.

But that strategy does not account for those same startups after they grow enough to take a breath and start optimizing costs.
Should has nothing to do with it. It’s a legal issue.

Telegram doesn’t have to follow the laws of Belarus, whereas Apple who has a presence there, does.
Propaganda and censorship are attributes of the same underlying aspect: monopoly. Centralised control.

Both problems have the same effective solution: break up the monopolies.

Propaganda is a function of amplification, attention, audience, selective promotion, discovery, stealing the air supply or acquiring of any competion, and coöption of the platform. Propaganda is an inherent property of centralised control.

Gatekeeping and censorship are functions of excludability, audience gating, distraction, negative selection (obfuscation), stealing the air supply or acquiring of any competion, and, again, coöption of the platform. Censorship is an inherent property of centralised control.

Audiences, a public, divided across independent networks, with access to different editorial selection, with access to different input message streams, are far less subject to either propaganda or censorship.

Or of surveillance, whether of the state, capitalist, or non-state-actor varieties, which is also an inherent property of centralised control.

It's importance to realise that the key is not nominal control but actual control, which may be nonobvious or unapparent to many participants. A system with appearances of decentralisation may well be centralised under the surface.
Yes, these laws were enacted after WW2 specifically because of the Holocaust, i.e. the horror that widespread hateful propaganda can cause
They used to be much cheaper too.
He started lower, but 15K is where blood levels were normal, and they've remained steady since. Soon we'll see if 6 months of staying inside has affected things. :)
I follow(ed) Segment’s GitHub branches and always felt they adopted the latest and best front end tooling. I usually let them being the testing ground at a real company in between the stuff they developed themselves.

This goes from using Metalsmith early for their single page web sites, some coding practices (mono vs micro), some CSS frameworks and design patterns and other library choices when there always seemed like a barrage of new choices (like css in JS ) and React.

Anyway I much appreciate their efforts in this area as inspiration and real world examples published on OSS sites. Even if it was simple stuff like their marketing websites.

They clearly had respectable and internally influential talent working in this area.

It’s been a while since I’ve explored their GitHub repos for fun but the I still respect the stuff I learned.
Neil Gaiman: 'Narnia made me want to write, to do that magic trick'
I recently applied this article and more to current debates in open source: https://nathanschneider.info/Tyranny
> in application programming languages tend to be much richer than SQL.

Hence why i say why there is a data model mismatch.

E.g. i wouldn't say that assembly and haskell have a compatible data model just because assembly is a sequence of bytes, and haskell is a superset of that.

Not that a data model is solely about the types involved.

> See orms for reference. ORMS have their own set of problems but data mismatches are not part of those problems.

ORMs are notorious for being a leaky abstraction. Largely because the object and relational data model dont entirely match.

> In general the classic model for web development is to place as much logic as possible into the SQL query and as little logic as possible into your heavy Python web app.

When was the last time you wrote a 500 line sql query? A thousand line? My point is that sql queries are short enough, that further abstraction is not really missed. That doesn't mean you should put 0 logic in your query.

> Case in point do you put your where clause in the application program than download the entire table? Or do you throw as much logic as possible into the query so the database outputs a result as close as possible to what you need? The later statement is the right answer.

This is a strawman.

> The bigger issue is SQL optimization. Because Databases form the backbone of computation for a standard web app SQL provides a layer of indirection that makes optimization harder

I disagree. At scale you have data that has mixed cardinality. The indirection allows the db to chose the best algorithm given the size of underlying data at runtime. Sometimes that doesn't work properly, but the vast majority of time it is a significant benefit. Its sort of like how sometimes compilers dont work properly and you need to hand optimize, but in practise that is rare and you wouldn't throw out the compiler because the other 95% of time its better and lower effort than if you had to always do it by hand.
CAES? Obviously you have not bothered to do the arithmetic. The energy storage for CAES per unit of underground storage volume is two orders of magnitude lower than hydrogen. It's good for diurnal storage, not seasonal.

As for pumped hydro. Let's suppose we want to store 10% of the annual US power demand in a pumped hydro reservoir with a 200m head. The volume required is about 2000 cubic kilometers, about four years of the total flow of the Mississippi River. I don't think this is terribly practical.

Thermal storage may be competitive for efficiency, but the capital cost is likely to be higher, as you need more heat exchangers and cooling systems. Combustion turbines are cheap, especially simple cycle.
Charlie Munger’s “How to Start Coca Cola in 1884” Thought Experiment
USDC (coinbase stable USD) added $1bn in the last month
Twitter does.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that I truly beleve if Twitter shut down for a few weeks, the world would be a better place. Twitter's influence on world events has been a net negative because of their refusal to apply rules evenly across their users and willingness to turn a blind eye to blatant manipulation by government entities and others filling their site with propaganda.
Making Is Show Business Now
Wow. I used to do this with drawing (I would just re-draw mangas like Dragon Ball and Battle Angel Alita) and I did this with French writing as well! Copying long paragraphs from Albert Cohen and Flaubert because it was so damn good I just wanted to absorb their writing as much as I could. That process was pretty slow though, I would read a sentence multiple time and try to write it. I just tried this app with Gatsby and the first chapter and I felt like I was absorbing less as I was typing too fast (~80WPM)
SpaceX Starlink aids Native American tribe: “It catapulted us into 21st century”
Your theory fails to explain why women have breasts.

(Compare monkeys, which don't.)
> skin tones

There's another ML problem right there. Humans vary.