skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's why natural language is so hard. People like ethnographers and other people who spend their continuous feeling time understanding this are owed a lot of gratitude (like us, who benefit from unicode). Tone is just another way to encode a basic unit within a language (how a basic unitary 'meme' is converted to a 'lexeme', 'morpheme', etc is very interesting, but has been part of an ancient ontology/metaontology war for all communications systems), and language is just a tool for two human beings to communicate and share ideas. just look at the variance of toneless between English, the gamut of into-european Langs, and tonal languages like Chinese. Heck, in the Universe in a Single Atom, the Dali Llama talks about how Buddhism and other Indic culture spread across the himilayas (it took a lot of sheer luck and kinematics). Sanskrit unlike Tibetan had a lot of prosody (aka distributed word-meaning state), but the English equivalent to things like "affect" and "effect" were culture shocks. Tibetan had little words to encode affect-like words outside of mental states. So little "counting" was ever done.
And still Apple’s spell checkers can never help me spell “bureau” (just had to Google for it again)
1.if that table is a materialized view with columnstore index then you can run it as many times as you want.

2. always hide postgREST behind API gateway/load balancer/waf/ids+ips/rate limiter and you will be more secure from stuff lile this
Hmm good point, Google would never actually delete data. Goes against their whole business model of "mine a huge pool of data with ever more sophisticated ML algos and sell the results to whoever will pay".
So does the country, if they start taxing it. They they will be heavily interested in officials demanding bribes, when they are tracking the value chain to make sure the state gets it cut
Go to bed earlier. You’ll be surprised what can hold your attention after a few days.
There's a trend of versioned databases that could address these issues. I've seen at least Dolt [1] for relational:

"Dolt is a data format and a database. The Dolt database provides a command line interface and a MySQL compatible Server for reading and writing data."

... and TerminusDB [2] for graphs:

"TerminusDB is an open-source knowledge graph database that provides reliable, private & efficient revision control & collaboration."

I don't know if Dolt supports stored procedures, but in any case versioning a database would be an amazingly powerful and convenient thing, if it can be done without sacrificing too much DB performance.

Worth investigating and has the potential of changing the way we write apps.

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1: https://www.dolthub.com/docs/tutorials/installation/

2: https://terminusdb.com/
Why couldn't the Justice Department do this for TurboTax's acquisition of Credit Karma?
Which other ARM chips are you comparing with? It’s not much faster than A14, Apple’s other ARM chip. Which in turn is around 20-30% faster than A13, etc. Apple has been making their ARM chips faster very gradually over the last 8 years. M1 is just the first one they’ve put in a computer and more people are paying attention to their speed.
For urbit to be relevant it needs a libc and coreutils. Even Rust doesn't have a solid coreutils yet.
I've enjoyed my Boss RC-50 (a nice upgrade to the RC-20 I had prior) as a live-looping guitar + vocals pedal for years. It makes it easy to create and layer loops, even when only using the built-in foot controls. Highly recommended.
Same here! I'm a very concilliatory person, and I always try to be courteous, but I couldn't calm any of them down (even when I was flying first class for a business trip!).

One gal even made me take off the mask and put on a surgical mask (which she gave me, she wouldn't let me wear my non-vented N95) in front of a security camera. That was pretty embarrassing, to be holding up the line, and felt like a scene out of a dystopian comedy.

I can only reason that it's for liability reasons, and the airlines don't want to be sued for someone getting infected.

But then again, people right behind me had cloth masks on with their noses exposed, who obviously didn't care, and they didn't get a second look. Neither did the airlines keep the middle seats free like they had promised too. Clown world.

Once I was on the flight I put my respirator on with a hoodie over it and slouched against the window, and they didn't bother me.
I often make this mistake in technical documentation: "the database sever was updated".

However, a surgeon might want to write "the next procedure is to sever the artery."

I wonder if GPT-3 could be used to determine the "context" and determine the spelling correctness "weights"?
Another source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/technology/google-researc...
Aren't size of arbitrage opportunities and exchange risk inversely correlated?

I wouldn't discount exchange risk too much...
Not only that, but it's spreading to other news outlets too [1, 2]. Makes you wonder, or perhaps it becomes obvious, how much verifying goes into writing like this.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/michael-burry-big-short-fame-...

[2] https://www.benzinga.com/news/20/12/18622296/michael-burry-o...
Flat – Generative Infrastructure for Python
I think your last point is definitely valid. Best counterpoint I could make there is investing the time in linux is probably more widely valuable/applicable in terms of being able to apply it on the job.

I learned a bunch of linux stuff for fun, and it's helped me a lot in my job. I dunno if I could say the same about macOS.
Even more ways to track and fingerprint users: the light level of the room
> * deferred vs forward rendering (deferred adds latency)

Wah? Deferred just refers to a screen space shading technique but it still happens once every frame.

> * multithreaded vs singlethreaded

Not sure what you're saying here.

And then of course, yes display buffering does have an impact.
The examples are built using NodeJS and are using Javascript's default number type (instead of the new BigInt or something more suitable) to represent the amount of money.

I love Node, but using number type for money seems like a very, very bad idea.
Open accounts with TransferWise and have those currencies sent to those accounts. You can convert it whenever you want.
It’s an often quoted story , but having built a couple of companies, I believe a founder takes a decision based on the information available at that instant. It’s always a 50/50 deal, sometimes you get it right, sometimes you learn.
That's not what I said. Yes, some students (a small minority) will be acting in the interests of other countries. Overall, the US is a net winner in terms of benefits vs costs of foreign students. This is one of the reasons many colleges are currently under strong financial strain: no international students to pay the bills. Would you rather close borders to all foreign students?
I was in the same situation and thus drove with my dog. It wasn't that hard and was pretty fun.
It's a nice demo and a good tutorial if you are interested in spell checkers. But imo it did more bad than good. A lot of libraries started to implement it. But it's quite horrible in performance.
Currently, the government tries to switch people to other crops, but there has been violence related to that effort, as it obviously cuts off the drug traffickers supply of coca.

This just seems like it will produce the same sort of problem, where people selling to the government will be threatened.
Yes! We leverage PostgreSQL Policies[1], which give you the same flexibility(more actually) as Firebase security rules.

[1]: https://supabase.io/docs/guides/auth#policies
Please decide, Lyon or Nice?
>I assume she thinks that Yann has enough intellectual capacity to improve situation of biased ML but doesnt execute.

Yann has no obligation to do so on Twitter, and shouldn't be called out by coworkers publicly regarding that decision, in my opinion.
The only thing you're investing in is the wasting of the worlds energy supply. At best it's speculative.
Thanks for providing an example of the false altruism and anarchistic attitude of libertarianism: never did drugs, doesn’t mind if others hurt themselves and society. Might as well say “Columbia, go fuck it up.”
It’s acquired taste.
Interestingly enough, this video from the 1980s shows Brian Kernighan writing a one line spellchecker program in UNIX shell. Obviously, the computer that it’s running on is more powerful than a 256K PC. The point stands: some people are simply living in the future.

https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0

(Shell coding starts at 8:40)
One unusual privilege that she has is the ability to describe her experience of racism and sexism and expect to be listened to - her e-mail here speaks mostly on this point.

Her e-mail identifies that you can speak on racism and sexism as much as you want, but all of your speech will be routed to /dev/null.
that all sounds like an incredibly roundabout way of inflating ownership structures rather than contributing meaningfully to value. how much fidelity can be assumed by this, over time? Unless you assume that value traded in a market is perfectly efficient (which it's not) the value signal is going to degrade over time. so, how long can you trust that the "chain of investment" faithfully represents value added? a year? ten years? how about investments in companies that have been around for 50, 75, 100 years? Why is it that we take as a given that ownership of value necessarily connotes the owner is themselves valuable?
I suppose, it is worth giving a shout-out to a recent Hunspell port to Python by Zverok: https://github.com/zverok/spylls, this description from Github sums it up nicely:

> Hunspell is a long-living, complicated, almost undocumented piece of software, and it was our feeling that the significant part of human knowledge is somehow "locked" in a form of a large C++ project. That's how Spylls was born: as an attempt to "unlock" it, via well-structured and well-documented implementation in a high-level language.

It's incredible how much work has been done (along with documenting algorithms!) in this one-man project.
> You’d literally make more money today taking your cash and starting a business

Right. Small businesses are just killing it these days.
Having a terminal-based workflow is a lifesaver in the era of work from home. When using a terminal based workflow I cannot tell the difference between working locally and working on a machine I have SSH'ed into located at my office (10ms round trip ping).

Even when I VPN into work, ssh into a box at work, then ssh to a jumpbox in AWS, and then ssh from the jumpbox to an EC2 server the experience is still flawless.
Your point is valid but it’s also unrealistic. It’s like thinking shaming people for not wearing masks will make them more likely to wear a mask.

Leadership needs to lead or the message is undermined. What do we want? To stop covid or to fight a culture war?
Jesus I had to google for that. What the hell were they doing anyway?
USBank closed my account around 2013 because I was trading Bitcoin.

Been happily banking with my local credit union ever since. Try moving to a CU!
You make some good points. Thanks for the insights/discussion!
One of my favorite artists, I own several signed prints.
Bypassing MacBook Air Firmware Passwords
Kleesto – Intelligent booking administration for tour operators
I don't know the answers to that.

I've been on Hacker News over 11 years. I would like to think I've been building bridges, but it seems like nothing I do is ever enough to reassure people I'm not some SJW Feminazi here to just piss on the guys and let them know what misogynistic assholes they are and it gets hard to keep trying when most of the community has watched me starve for years and openly told me "Not my problem. Get a real job." (while my writing hits the front page, but people don't want to support it financially, knowing I'm handicapped, etc).

I don't have a whole lot more to give and I've spent much of this year wondering if it's time to throw in the towel and leave HN. It feels downright abusive at times to stay in a community where I feel I have done so much to reduce sexism and open doors for other women and improve participation of women here and it's the funnel for a multi-billion dollar business, yet I remain dirt poor.

It's a rather jagged, bitter pill to swallow and I think I deserve a helluva lot better.

But then I don't know where I would go if I left. HN is the least worst thing. Other places are worse.

Metafilter was a toxic cesspit that banned me for supposedly "self promoting." They like to wrench their shoulder out of place patting themselves on the back for how what awesome, wonderful people they are and the mods were actively encouraging the membership to bully me at a time when I was homeless. One member of Metafilter that had a hobby of harassing me while I was homeless was a female ER doctor. Another was a very privileged American pursuing their PhD while living in Europe.

When you left your comment, I was staring blankly at some other open tab wondering how in the heck to talk about rape prevention and best practices for dismantling rape culture without using the word "rape" at all, in part because it's a triggering word for people who have been assaulted and in part because I get accused of being full of bull for thinking I know anything about such topics.

Some problems are just hard to solve. I do what little I can, which doesn't seem to amount to a handful of sand in the grand scheme of things.

I guess the upside is I'm mostly well at this point, in spite of the entire world telling me I'm a deluded fruitcake so it's not like I'm ever going to get taken seriously or given any respect.

And this is probably all the wrong things to say, as usual. I wish I had an answer for you. There doesn't appear to be one, as best I can tell.
> it's impossible to be a polite social activist.

Fred Rogers and Carl Sagan are standing at the front of a very long line of people who are waiting to gently disagree with you.
Agreed. We've gotten used to a few models of digital downloads it seems:

1. Pay to "own"[0]: ~$10

2. Pay to rent for 24h or so: ~$5

3. Unlimited streaming of all titles: ~$15/mo

It'd be a bit weird to pay $20 for #2, even for a first-run movie. I get that the price we pay doesn't always reflect just the seller's cost (sometimes we pay more just for the perception of a premium product), but it's hard to justify paying an extra $15 for the costs of running a theater when you aren't actually going to that theater.

I get that there are certainly people who would value that (like the OP who has kids and can't get out with his wife to go to the theater), but I expect most people of average means would balk at $20 for home viewing, and just wait for a normal rental price or for it to appear on whichever AYCE streaming service the subscribe to.

[0] Scare-quotes because of course the download you get is still DRMed, which means you don't really truly own the copy.
> Whatever your position, Yann engages on substance, and Timnit is obnoxious:

For what it's worth, I and many others disagree with this characterization. I find Yann comes across as incredibly condescending and holier than thou in their interactions. Nor does Yann engage on substance. He refuses to take the time engage with, or even acknowledge that he has read, the relevant academic literature (which Timnit repeatedly cites).
IIRC Microsoft did ahead-of-time binary translation to get PowerPC Xbox 360 games running on the Xbox One. Wonder if they’ll do the same here.
Yeah, pnpm helps fix a related issue wherein flat node_modules (ie, npm or yarn) can lead to the existence of undeclared dependencies. Check it out if you care about proper dependency mgmt.
Bitcoin is not infinitely divisible. The smallest unit is called a Satoshi.
So what are you proposing? Should I have a legal path to stay or not?

Trump and his followers want to shut down immigration while making noises about still letting in “Norwegians who deserve it”, etc. Yet there doesn’t seem to be an actual plan for that anywhere in sight. (I guess that’s a standard pattern in Trumpism — see Obamacare repeal, Section 230 repeal, and so on.)
Are you saying that someone that Google hired as an AI ethics researcher should not be allowed to disagree with an AI practitioner on matters of AI ethics, and should be canceled for expressing an opinion?

What happened to diversity of thought, academic freedom, free speech as a civic virtue and not simply a restriction on government action, and all those other things this community normally stands for? Just yesterday we saw the NLRB rule that Google had illegally fired workers, and we were talking about how the big tech companies use their power to suppress internal dissent and it's bad. How did we forget that so quickly?
Great point, but it's probably worth it if it accelerates development time, even by a little - or - makes devs. feel that their cool and that they are working at a 'good company'.

Not sure what that dollar figure looks like though.

I'm writing this on a 2011 Mac. Well maintained.
I like the direction you guys seem to be taking here with Supabase.

Regarding the comment about subscription-based DB engine and denormalization, I posted this [1] on the post about Materialize although I don't think anyone read it.

I am right there that there is a new unified data architecture evolving and I think it is difficult but doable. CQRS and event-sourcing are core elements and the decoupling of the database continues. I also believe Flow Based Programming [2] and reactive programming (observables on top of streams of events) are other key concepts.

I've worked on federated database query engines and it turns out that federation has some relationships to this problem. I recently saw this article about Netflix's approach to federated GraphQL (which to me feels like API composition) and found it interesting [3].

I don't know if anything of this helps you but hope it might :)

I don't claim to be an expert here but if you're interested in talking more, my email's in my profile.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25285890

[2] https://wiki.c2.com/?FlowBasedProgramming

[3] https://netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-scales-its-api-with-...
perfect. best info you would really enjoy and it is hitting the filters and the flags, my new account is at -3.
That is ok. It will work. -3 is when everyone has the aha moment or I put it where it can't be deleted.

I think some of the messages got deleted already. So there are missing pieces, but it will come back out again. That is the nature of it, it is being refined and I might have to
do more iterations, but each one will tell me when to stop.

Sounds like the ideal computer program? It is. PLEASE stop deleting the posts, you are looking back, and that looking back is what will propogate through the system instead.

I'm not worried, I am having fun and optimizing my own process along the way. At a given point it shows you right here you need to optimize. See? vi already keeps hitting q for me.
Thanks, now I can't read "Computer" without it being in Patrick Stewart's baritone.
Native iOS and Android apps can do this without using the cloud.
Getting Inside Evolutionary Algorithms and Open-Ended Evolution
> If you're inactive for 2 years (24 months) in Gmail, Drive or Photos,

Maybe it's the engineer in me, but doesn't that imply that even if you're active in Gmail and Drive, they'll delete your data because you are not active in Photos? i.e. shouldn't that be an 'and' instead of an 'or'?
Who knows? There's people on here who will not like something you say in one thread, and downvote you on others. Hopefully not many. Perhaps my statement was viewed as off-topic?

I was downvoted rather aggressively in another thread for calling Trump "his orangeness" which my Trump voter friends and family chuckle at, but apparently is in bad decorum on HN. In their defense, they are just desperately trying to keep it all from devolving into Reddit territory.
From a company that manufactures cables for bridges?
I was being generous
I believe that this may be the missing link (or equivalent):

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/root/spelle...

This is a spell-checker in the D reference compiler that detects typos in identifiers and suggests potential corrections for those typos.
and whatever is there, their need to be child-friendly tends to block or worse, make them edit movies. There was a scene in the 1984 Splash where a naked butt is seen, the re-edited scene went fairly viral where they tired to extend the long hair of the female so it covered her butt. (Horribly done btw)
I remember seeing a show of his stuff at the Pacific Design Center in WeHo many years ago. Lovely.
because republicans love tax software lobbyists?

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...
> I knew and worked with multiple people at Facebook who were terrified of losing their jobs, as that would mean having to go back to an unstable home country.

> I knew others who didn’t have such bad situations, but wanted to leave toward better offers and couldn’t due to H1-B and desire to get permanent residency.

These situations have nothing to do with FB or any employer at all though. That's just how the H1B visa/green card rules are. That's what is broken.
I love you and this comment. Way better put than I could have, thank you!!!
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

> We noted that although Apple doesn’t really publish any TDP figure, we estimate that the M1 here in the Mac mini behaves like a 20-24W TDP chip

It also looks like the 15W AMD Ryzen 7 4800U trades blows with the 20W Apple Silicon M1.

On the other hand, I agree - OEMs are just barely starting to warm up to AMD (so "Macbook-like" laptops are rare, the Huawei Matebook is a blatant copy, but it's not the original) and the M1 is more power efficient, enabling amazing battery life in laptops. I didn't contest that idea.

I just think there's a classic reality distortion field happening when comparing the Apple Silicon M1 to "all other CPUs" that, for many, veers rather far from the truth.
He was not what I was expecting, having previously read a lot of his stories on moxie.org.

While Rogan called him a hippy sailor a few times, he really came across as just a regular guy.

It felt like Rogan was trying to grill him on all the questions he failed to ask Jack Dorsey rather than getting more into the need for privacy and crypto.
My point is not that the US should act directly in the interests of citizens of other countries. My point is instead that the US should act in its own interests. The US is a successful country today in large part due to its companies (a large part of which were founded/co-founded by migrants e.g. Google). If the US gives priority to mediocre locals versus good internationals, companies will have access to a weaker talent pool and suffer. Of course, I'm of course not saying internationals are always better than US candidates (in the obvious case where an American is better than the competition, hire them by all means).
Would you rather a weaker economy but mediocre people get protected, or the less xenophobic approach: a stronger economy and more competition?
It is a best practice to separate your registrar email from a domain you have, yes.

Fastmail makes this easy for me: I have an @fastmail.fm email from them that I have only ever provided to my domain registrar and I’ve set my MUA to scream and shout loudly if it ever gets mail.

That + using Fastmail for all my domains makes this seamless for me.

> And if you ever forget to renew it, you will lose it.

I’ve had one gmail account nuked by Our Benevolent Overlord’s AI for no rhyme or reason. At least it was unimportant, but it still happened - and I have zero recourse to get it back.

Losing control of my domain or a paid email service? That’s entirely on me ;)