skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. SQLite is awesome.

I did something similar recently, a block store for a rust implementation of ipfs, which models a directed acyclic graph of content-addressed nodes.

https://github.com/actyx/ipfs-sqlite-block-store

I found that performance is pretty decent if you do almost everything inside SQLite using WITH RECURSIVE.

The documentation has some really great examples for WITH RECURSIVE. https://sqlite.org/lang_with.html
This has nothing to do with why they don't want game streaming apps on the store. Running a Gecko shell instead of webkit on iOS wouldn't change their 'moderation' (preventing other app stores from being in the Apple App Store) stance.
I just bought a projector. It solves so many issues - first of all it's dumb as fuck (zero "smart" features), two I can only use it once it's dark out and three I always unplug all the cables so if I want to relax I have to go through the effort of plugging it in and focusing it on my wall. On top of all of these benefits, I don't have to look at a stupid piece of plastic and glass mounted to my wall.
Curious where you live that people don't speed. Here in Ohio you're expected to go 5 over at all times, people will tailgate and honk if you don't. 10% is lower than that at all but highway speeds
Sceptre also makes a 75" 4K TV

Part of the listing says it is a smart TV, the other part says it is a dumb TV.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-75-Class-4K-UHD-LED-TV-HD...
It can still serve as base for future adjustments if someone needs such :)
Yes, "Around the Corner", one of many Jam Handy films made for Chevrolet. They're all on the Internet Archive, where they can be seen without ads.[1]

There's a whole series. "Spinning Levers" (transmissions), "Down the Gasoline Trail" (fuel), "Just a Spark" (ignition), "Tough Friends" (steel), "No Ghosts" (frames), and more.

[1] https://archive.org/details/0141_Around_the_Corner_M00267_08...
Always loved to watch the opening sequence (motorcycles).
To me it looks like it's aimed at consumers, from the part at the end. It's as if the movie is intended to overcome worries "but is all this complexity really safe?" by showing how you can load the differential with running people without issue.
The Internet Archive BookReader
Cat was constantly sneaking out. Cat is much loved throughout neighborhood. Got really good at hunting. To the point a neighbor started shooting at it.

We finally got good at keeping the cat inside.
Cat became super depressed.

Got a second cat. second cat peed in every laundry basket and bed in the house in a couple of days. Oh and first cat hated second cat.

Things have calmed down, and cats are happy, and we now have a gate to bedrooms.
Has anybody compared Domino's pizzas across countries? I tried it a few times in Europe. The crust indeed tastes like cardboard and overall bland. I was wondering if the recipe differed between countries.
Google Web Accelerator [0] did this. Requests were pricked via Google. A side effect of this was that you could access internal Google tools that had been restricted to Google's IP address range – oops!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Accelerator
The picture quality of many inexpensive, off-brand TV's is amazing nowadays.
Speaking of unplanned obsolescence: My Samsung TV came with a remote that has a fairly prominent "EXTRA" button that I never used. Until I pressed it one day and it told me that the "EXTRA" service (whatever it was), was terminated a couple of years ago. Well, no big regret there, but I find it ridiculous that buttons on your remote become "obsolete" and perform no function apart from telling you that some service or other (which you never even knew about) is no longer available.
The good news is that we have the solutions already, we can regenerate ecosystems if we put our mind to it.

For example, regenerate forests using Miyawaki's method:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Miyawaki#Method_and_cond...

> The Miyawaki method of reconstitution of "indigenous forests by indigenous trees" produces a rich, dense and efficient protective pioneer forest in 20 to 30 years ... this method, if properly applied, quickly produces a multi-layered forest and according to him, a soil with a microbial and acari composition quickly approaching that of a normal primary forest.

And regenerative ecologically-harmonious agriculture, e.g.: "Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gabe Brown Part 1, The 5 Tenets of Soil Health" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A

Reversing desertification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_greening
It was rather the result of the genital measuring contest over the fishing rights between France and the UK.
It's really amazing. A few years ago I had to drive a Mercedes S-Class every so often. Ironically, it was easily the least pleasant driving experience I've ever had short of a U-Haul. This was entirely because they decided to get creative with the controls, and did a bad job of it. The first time I drove it, I ended up having to pull off the road in order to safely figure out how to change the radio station. Operating the cruise control wasn't worth the effort. And I never did figure out advanced tasks like turning off the air conditioning.
It's standard for most cars to detect the tire diameters. Not in the last place because most "sports car" brands also allow you to choose a different width rear tire. And that typically also has a slightly different diameter.
People believed that everyone would be using a netbook by now.
Best non-smart TV = Hospitality/Healthcare TVs.

Majority are not smart. Expensive compare to regular TVs. Tons of configuration option. You can even change the channel numbers like mapping 56.1 to 5.

I think cheapest LG 4k 49in is like $400. High end is like $600.

Since its not a smart TV, you don't need to connect to the internet or update firmware.
I’m an a American living in Europe, and I don’t think it’s very different here.
This reminds me of a fun story about another unusual failure mode involving some supposedly valid (but highly specific) input content: Where listening to a certain podcast in your Mazda will reliably crash the car's stereo system.

"The Roman Mars Mazda Virus"
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/brh8jm
I use this software on a 5” LCD. The intended use is to make a mirror

https://magicmirror.builders/
This is also a problem for e.g. excavation equipment that might sit unused for weeks at a time.
>ARM on Microsoft land has failed not for lack of effort

Microsoft failed to have an emulator for legacy software ready to go on day one.

They also failed to produce ARM versions of their own software in a timely manner.

Heck, Microsoft sold Surface RT as a tablet without producing a version of Office that had a touch based UI.

If you can't be bothered to produce software that supports the features of your own OS, why should anyone else?
Simple explanation: small and large triangles pieces don't have the same angles, so the assembled triangles are not pure triangles
IIRC the version history only shows snapshots hours apart. Not the sensitive info some of the millions of users have accidentally pasted in and deleted within seconds — which now everyone they share edit access with years later can see, as well as Alphabet and the various alphabet-soup agencies of the government they share a revolving door with.
Exactly! It's so upsetting that the narrative has been so distorted that most folk don't even understand that it's not the manufacturer that intentionally makes the device unusable, but instead the website operators, and those who support and misleadingly advise such operators. The biggest problem is that folks like Mozilla tell everyone to disable TLSv1.0, whilst themselves still supporting it; which shows the biggest case of hypocrisy there could ever be.

Are you aware of any groups working against such planned device obsolescence? My latest gripe on this matter is Wikipedia -- it's beyond absurd that anonymous users can make changes to the contents of pretty much any of the millions of pages, yet getting said pages over pristine networks is conditional on TLSv1.2 support, limiting older devices from even read-only access to Wikipedia for absolutely no good reason.
> 1:2:3:4:5:6:77.77.88.88 means 1:2:3:4:5:6:7777:8888

Wait, what? 77.77.88.88 is in dotted decimal. It doesn't correspond to 7777:8888 in hex.

edit: Somebody else already noticed on Twitter:

> And as @alanjmcf noticed, I messed up one of the representations above.

> 1:2:3:4:5:6:77.77.88.88 means 1:2:3:4:5:6:4d4d:5858, not 1:2:3:4:5:6:7777:8888. I missed out a decimal-to-hex conversion in there.
Oh, but I was IT staff at the time. I wasn't in charge of desktop support, but I knew the guys. They didn't care for it either, it was policy from a high level in a company that, as a whole, did look down on IT. One of my coworkers actually went through the whole process of talking and negotiating to try to get a Win2K laptop instead of having W95 forced on it. No luck.

And, if anyone has been wondering, yes, there was hardware in the brand-new laptop that W95 didn't support. It "worked" with a generic fallback driver but lost some of the functionality that made the laptop worth buying.
We made it almost a year before our rescue got outside. He was instantly hooked. Would hide for hours under something near door. Bolt the moment it was open.
A lot can happen in four years. :/
Plaid is a fintech unicorn, not just a library.
Thank you Kaibeezy,

Has anyone considered using the tremendous electric fields from between the lower and upper atmospheres by using a gyrotron tuned (60ghz) to excite oxygen? The excited oxygen if it can become hot enough will dissociate into atomic oxygen and conduct electricity. A gyrotron is a maser so it should be possible to tightly focus a 5mm wave. Gyrotrons have been reported to have output intensity up to 100 megawatts in a pulsed duration. Gyrotrons are fairly efficient compared to lasers and more selective to atmospheric oxygen.

A vessel in the stratosphere near the equator over the ocean could send a beam down to the ground at the same time it is being sent above. These are the artificial streamers we wish to create to connect the ground to the upper atmosphere. A massive flow of charge is directed into an expendable cartage containing a filament. Part of the strike energy goes into a solenoid that expels the filament plasma at near relativistic speeds. That is assuming 100 million joules could do that. The typical lightning strike is sometimes 5 gigajoules..

Going all the way to ground to the exosphere could draw a lot more than 100 megajoules even on a calm day.

Ok, the audacious thing here besides using lightning for propulsion is that this is a non chemical, non nuclear high payload fraction booster propulsion engine which can operate using carbon fiber filament cartridges and carrier planes.
The problem is that vehicle handling is dependent on equal grip from all 4 tires. When you introduce differential in traction front to rear, you can throw the "understeer or oversteer bias" directly out the window. Modern cars do a great job compensating for less than ideal conditions but there is a limit. If you still think the new tire on the rear rule of thumb is inaccurate, watch this:

https://youtu.be/gSz7cm6MwH0
Outside of the annoyance of having features that go unused, what is the argument against smart TVs if you don’t connect them to the internet? Every single one I have used works offline, still has the necessary inputs, is still a TV.
Today is Lá an Dreoilín in Ireland (and elsewhere) - the Day of the Wren.

People dress up in masks and straw outfits and parade through the town with a captured Wren (often a wooden one these days).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wren_Day

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/l%C3%A1-a...
How Radio became a cult in its early years in Germany
macOS didn't get native support for Xbox controller/DualShock until 10.13, so that may have been the reason it didn't work. Any Mac running Catalina or Big Sur should have the same level of gamepad support as iOS does.
Yes, this is the first time I’ve seen it explained starting with just two spokes. It motivates the eventual design of the differential and illustrates the mechanism far better than simply showing the full gears of the end product.
I like the idea it's someone testing if GPT-2 can phish.

There's a few GPT-2s running around.
I don't know if it does or does not actually cause issues, but the manual for my friends Subaru definitely says the tire wear needs to be even (possibly in pairs?). It came up when she got a nail through one tire about halfway through the lifetime.
> How do we know receiving UBI will not be stigmatized?

UBI is given to everyone, but I suppose it's true that those that live on UBI without also working might be made to feel marginalised.

> At least in one country I know unemployment is 60% of your previous salary. This could be enough to survive or to live a very comfortable life, depending on your income.

I'm in the UK, and have no experience of or knowledge of systems like this, but on the face of it, it sounds pretty good.
A good portion of the article (the beginning portion no less!) is explicitly meant to answer exactly this question. When the writer anticipates this question and preemptively responds to it, least we could do is discuss their answer rather than repeat the question.
It wouldn't help ruby, but I'd rather write common lisp ;)
Not necessarily a refund, but some sort of compensation could be in order. “A reboot has occurred. For this inconvenience, we have credited the CC associated with your AppleID $2, (or $5 Applebucks or a free coffee).” Design out the potential for gaming the system for infinite coffees.

If you impose a cost on a user, you compensate the user for that cost. I think that is the basic idea behind tort law. To keep lawyers and associated expense out of the system, do it voluntarily.

But if voluntary compensation of users is being ignored, a change in liability doctrine for software might be in order. Start with the biggest players who can afford the legal costs to resolve the doctrinal issues.
Looks like this needs registration to read.

Do most Medium authors realise that their posts are walled behind registration barrier?
Just tested and it will be a huge productivity improvement for me. Is there any way to inspect what libraries have been added for temporary swings? Do you plan to add sharing functionality, so that I can send over URL for anyone to explore the playground?
“Rudderless” QAnon may reinvent itself after US election, warn experts
This is a famous tactic of Best Buy as well. Redirect you to their sight home page no clue how to find the product I was just looking at. I immediately leave their site and shop elsewhere.
Glad to find this in the responses.

Air transport is quite possibly the best use case for hydrogen fuel that I can think of, and likely the only way we'll get sustainable air travel in the near future.
Ah that would indeed be way too early for what I’m talking about; the earliest laws for mandatory operation or non-switchable daytime headlamps on a nationwide, full time basis I can find after a cursory search is Canada starting in 1989. Before that many countries had requirements that applied in certain areas or at certain times of the year (e.g. Finland on rural roads starting 1972) which would not account for such a design.
Does your wife have a working theory on who or why someone is behind it?
Nice gesture buts it won’t make a dent. The way US relies on charity to fix structural problems is fucked up.
Ah, yes, they are. I misread the dates somewhere. My bad.
One of my first jobs out of college was working at a medical school. Doctors in general think computers are magic and that compared to their actual medical expertise programming is easy. I neither expect nor, to be honest, want them worrying about computer stuff. I won't try to tell them how to cure sick people.
This is what i am typing about.

The error rate is in terms of the number of nucleotides addended to the polymerizing RNA during replication
the mutation rate is primarily a result of RNA replication, _not_ time. this means more replication events leads to more "errors", this also means longer sequence has a higher rate of error than a shorter sequence. at a length of ~29k bp the coronavirus sequence is very error prone, so error prone that this is approaching the upper limit of stability.

it seems you are mistaking DNA proofreading for an RNA proofreading mechanism, which happens to be negative selection upon nonfunctional mutant/variant. there is no recognized enzymatic [rdRNApol] error correction associated with the coronavirus.

"the RNA polymerases of RNA viruses are the kings of errors – these enzymes screw up as often as one time for every 1,000 – 100,000 nucleotides polymerized. This high rate of mutation comes from the lack of proofreading ability in RNA polymerases. These enzymes make mistakes, but they can’t correct them. Therefore the mutations remain in the newly synthesized RNA." [0]

none of these error prone generated mutations are surprising, they are to be expected espescially when the virus is given opportunity to replicate at a high cyle rate.
this is very much not a surprise, if you are aware of the properties of +ssRNA virus.

[0] https://www.virology.ws/2009/05/10/the-error-prone-ways-of-r...

you may find this interesting[1] however this is primarily post polymerization [RNA readout] modification mechanism not error correction.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/103/13/5108
This isn't an answer to your question, and I apologize for that. But I have a tangential question of my own: what is the motivation driving the creation of "no code" tools?

I don't mean simple graphical editors for workflows with a very defined scope. I refer more to things like Amazon Honeycomb.

As I see it, the sort of apps you could reasonably create with no code solutions can be purchased off the shelf and offer way more features. And you don't need to do your own bug squashing.

And if you really _do_ need custom functionality, a no code solution is painting you into a corner. At some point your app will grow beyond what can be accomplished with these basic tools. Now you need to scrap the whole thing and rebuild from zero in a real programming language.

That's how it roughly plays out in my mind, anyway. Anybody see one of these "no code" apps deployed in a sensible context before?
This is the cost of doing business with China. More and more African governments continue to look to the Big Red for development loans. These intertwined interests lead to compromised decisions like these. Favour the recommended Chinese corp for your tech at the behest of your nation's security. It also doesn't help that Huawei's tech is considerably cheaper than other market offerings.
I assumed by ”menus” he meant navigating those smart features. Not sure what other menus are frequently used? Settings? Inputs? If you even need to navigate a menu (fast or slow) for everyday use, it must have a terrible UX to begin with.

The smart features are indeed slow on most TVs. Boot times vary.
Can’t find it now, but saw some post about a laser projector? I’m guessing it’s not really laser but somehow using better tech. Anybody familiar with those?

EDIT: found it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25503327 but still curious to learn more about the tech if anyone can share
Thanks I was not aware of this list!
Much worst panels than TVs. The best you can get is probably a nice VA panel. Anything better will be a TV.
Yes but we aren’t talking about a genre, that’s the point you’re missing.
oh totally and I agree that the long lashes are cute! I'm like 99% sure I have built up this correlation/intuition theory in my mind because I tend to only look closely at guy's eyes when I'm flirting/dating with them lol.

Though there was an ML study a while ago about 'gaydar' face recognition - I remember it was ripped apart on HN. From my limited knowledge I don't think there are one or even a few significant gene expressions for homosexuality that we know of so seems probably not true.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/07/artificia...
But the exit code can't change from 0 to 1. For any given input to the Unix program, if the output was 0 with one implementation, then it would always remain 0 with any other _equivalent_ implementation.

This is literally what is meant by "returns the same values for the same arguments". Any function that fits this description, by definition, cannot suffer from the problem you are describing.
There has been a lot of progress on creating standardized query languages for graphs. The two most notable ones are [2]:

- SQL/PGQ, a property graph query extension to SQL is planned to be released next year as part of SQL:2021.

- GQL, a standalone graph query language will follow later.

While it is a lot of work to design these languages, both graph database vendors (e.g. Neo4j, TigerGraph) and traditional RDBMS companies (e.g. Oracle [2], PostgreSQL/2ndQuadrant [3]) seem serious about them.
And with a well-defined query language, it should be possible to build a SQL/PGQ engine in (or on top of) SQLite as well.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sql-now-gql-alastair-green/

[2] http://wiki.ldbcouncil.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1062...

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/postgresql-oracle-graph-query...
what everyone wants hacker news to turn into : Chinese political spam.
I bet you money that 5 years from now this will be renamed to "attribute" or "authorship".
BC claims to be extremely environmental but they have a really poor track record with polluting waterway.

The Columbia river is one instance. The strait of Juan de Fuca is another [0]. The citizens of Victoria only stopped dumping raw untreated sewage in it earlier this year!

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-crd...
> What is more annoying is when one wheel is freely slipping (like on ice), the other will have nearly no force applied to it and the car is stuck.

i've learned about this the hard way about ten years ago: started my car, put it in first gear (manual), stepped outside and marveled at the freely spinning wheel on a patch of ice.

fortunately got a push from a stranger who happened to pass by.
Had the same thing with a roku remote and (I think) some music service that was one of the three non-reprogrammable "shortcut" buttons on it. That remote is pretty minimal (power, d-pad, ok button, and those three buttons) so it sticks out like a sore thumb.
VGA is a far more future-proof analog interface than these digital drm-friendly "successors".

For some time you required VGA to drive the highest resolutions because HDMI hadn't yet delivered the necessary bandwidth.
Can tailored messages to bad drivers prevent crashes? D.C. is about to find out
woo self-managed postgres on k8s

vendor-managed DBs limit plugins + versions, excited to see this space advance
That's more like the second option I described. I like that approach.
Do, please, look at The RISC-V Reader: An Open Architecture Atlas (book). There, ARM and x86 are directly compared with RISC-V. It would appear calling ARM 'well-designed' is an error. Calling it 'market success' is accurate.

I've been on the RV bandwagon for five years now, and yet...as is usual in the corners of any non-trivial subsystem (arch; compiler; web environment; you name it), sticky unpleasant (even ugly) details emerge. For example, in RISC-V, the bits are 'jumbled up' when encoding constants; the argument is it, ultimately, makes the processing faster (due to the way sign-extension works). And, yes, this sort of detail is swept away into a debugger or other tools, so practically, no big deal. And yet... classic archs like pdp-11 don't have this problem. (it has other performance problems).

And recently, RV supports big endian. Why? I don't know. What is happening is what happens when you get too many cooks: exploding complexity for minimal system gain.

I'm afraid that RISC-V's time has come and gone. It is a 20th century instruction set attempting to serve us well into the 21st century.

In my opinion, I think it's time for a do-over. RISC-VI anyone?