skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SQLite uses a memory page mechanism. You can define the page size. With a static page size you can divide the chunks and with that you have an offset for each page chunk, or if you have the start and the end offset of the bytes, you can also solve the page offset with that info.

If you only implement the filesystem shims, you will receive everything already figure it out, and the btree engine(storage) will ask you for the given chunk of data where you can resolve to the right torrent chunk, download it and just care about delivering the bytes that were asked.

I deliver sqlite dbs over torrent and the torrent chunks are optimized for the sqlite page sizes which are 64K.

In my case i dont stream the database, but through filesystem VFS it can be done if i had a need for it.

The beauty here lies in the SQLite architecture and the abstraction over pages.
I disagree, I think it probably would for humans.. but what about other advanced organisms? Maybe they have very long lives. Maybe their biology is more conducive to 'suspended animation' or some other form of hibernation. Maybe they've digitized their minds and can suspend execution of their thought processes for tens of thousands of years. Maybe their social traits (ant like hives perhaps?) make generation ships feasible while they would collapse into strive for humans.
Also, it occurs with roads in some cases. It isn't a universal law there either.

More than that, the places where it happens with roads tend to be the places with constraints on housing construction. (Because then people have to live farther away and clog up the roads.)
Barmouth! Circa 1979. When we realised we were swimming in turds and shit tickets we decamped to Harlech.

That said, most of my holidays were in Wales back then and the Barmouth turd regatta is my only grim memory.
This unboxing/first experience video[1] about the Librem 5 provides an overview of what you get when you buy this device. The phone seems very limited in its current state, lacking basic features like working cameras or hardware-accelerated UI components (the choppy scrolling is being compared to Android Froyo, released in 2010). The launcher locks up the screen with no feedback until the app is loaded, you need to tap on some apps to bring them into focus as if you were clicking on a window in a desktop app, things like that. Full GTK desktop apps like Audacity look cramped on the tiny screen, even if it's remarkable that they run at all.

I get that this isn't meant to be a fancy flagship, what it means to only use Free Software and a traceable supply chain, all of that. They must be proud to work on such a project. Realistically, the market for it seems incredibly small, and the prices being quoted mean that only truly dedicated Free Software advocates would buy this phone. One thing the video mentions is the availability of 2 different models based on the origin of the hardware components: one fully built in the U.S. (with American-made components?) costing $2,000 – not a typo – and the other version costing $800 (presumably sourced from China).

It's great that they are trying to do this but… this user experience, for this price, considering the competition? What they are trying to achieve comes with a ton of major challenges and it won't be easy to ship a product that enough customers find valuable enough to buy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8DRyKUZDg
How’s this working out for you?
I advocate organic learning for Vim and often other tools like it. Learn to do the bare minimum first, which for Vim is modes and how to exit. Then, after you find yourself doing something slowly a few times over, search how to speed it up (e.g. yank & paste, different buffers, macros). This is also a good counter argument for "the learning curve is too steep".
> Englishers

Haven't heard that word used in a very long time.
A "campaign donation" was probably made at Mar-a-Lago.
<50,000 dead from corona under age 55. cdc stats. a whole country shut down results in political instability at every level. it will lead to war eventually. hundreds of millions will die.

you will obey.
Part of the issue is that both can be true. Because of the lack of housing, you have to pay very high construction wages, and construction costs are astronomical.
You're generalizing from a single measurement. These studies measure the impact of the change of a single building in a neighborhood. The new building effectively becomes the "shiniest" and rises to the top of the desirability heap for the local area. Everything that existed previously is less shiny and lowers rents to compete.

Your example of mass-redevelopment would likely have the opposite effect - it would be an inducement of demand - raising the value of the entire location to outside interests and raising rents.
Sifting through all of the articles, we have about a 50% increase in homicides in US Cities in 2020, but only about a 15% increase in gun-related deaths, according to numbers from the anti-gun non-profit Gun Violence Archive...

If the correlation were strong, you would expect to see them increase similarly...

Keep in mind that GVA does not discount suicides from their report.
It's pretty tame compared to goatse. Looks like a testicle in an egg cup.
Oh hey, the author is also the guy who developed the amazing open source AlphaGo reimplementation Leela Zero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leela_Zero
There is a massive difference between a company that manages trademarks and a for-profit business that depends entirely on gatekeeping behind a subscription and support contract. Before someone brings up Fedora, RHEL exercises ultimate control over that too. Think about that, RHEL owns the trademark to Fedora. Feel free to browse their board too.

You can argue that Ubuntu provides a counter model to RHEL where only services and select products require a subscription but the OS is otherwise free.
You can add an app like quassel / quasseldroid on top for some mod cons like unlimited scrollback.
So, was it irresponsible for youtube/facebook/netflix to push for vp9/av1 at a time when most hardware couldn't decode it efficiently?
I made website where you can put bernie in places using Google maps street view
I don't think it's worth going from Java to Kotlin unless you have a real pressing reason. JVM languages have come and gone. None of them present enough of an improvement to leave the metric crapload of legacy Java code behind.

IMHO, for static typed lanaguages the most practical are Go or Typescript (if you wanna count that).
Colorado was able to remove Columbus Day as a state holiday by creating a new holiday honoring another Italian-American, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), effective in 2020.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/us/colorado-columbus-day-cabr...
His point was more about the progression of protestant thought from predestination to free will which then formed the shared thinking necessary for Adam Smiths ideas.

For clarity, the idea was that the catholic church didn't control your afterlife through their priests and rituals etc so you didn't need the pope and the catholic church for salvation. Your salvation was independent of that. Which was initially thought of as predestination ( names written in the book of life stuff )
Approaching Developer Relations in an Open Source Foundation
It could also be the other way around, that religion adapted to nascent capitalism and developments in other fields including science and technology.
Be very careful about comparative gun death statistics. Suicide by gun often gets wrapped into "gun violence" figures than make the US stats look worse than they actually are.
You're mostly wrong; MST does not increase bandwidth, it splits the bandwidth of a single DisplayPort link. To increase raw bandwidth for 5k/6k they combine multiple HBR2/HBR3 links (over Thunderbolt or with multiple cables), which is the opposite of MST.

MST is supported specifically for early 4k displays that had scalers that couldn't handle 4k60, but could handle half the resolution, so they sent two streams. But that wasn't a bandwidth limitation; old MST 4k displays and modern SST 4k displays both used a single HBR2 link.
Rewind is not an intuitive way to start the simulation! (Also that was NOT a dumb question)
Don't let the virtue signaling of one random who has access to blog on Mozilla's website put you off. Keep believing in whatever that is, we'll eventually get out of this echo chamber.
A Tale of Two Jacks. Ma and Dorsey
> But there are people who truly believe that building housing raises rents! It’s crazy and widespread. The article is describing that.

It depends on the development. A lot of the times you're not simply talking about the same neighborhood with more housing, but rather efforts to transform the neighborhood completely and increase the desirability. In areas that have seen a lot of development and gentrification, it's not uncommon to see demand increases exceed that of the increased supply and see the rents go up accordingly.
I know the bar is low for companies, but that there was exec-level consequences impresses me and make me more likely to want to work at Github.
I am not sure why this is pitched as "email replacement". one of the primary functions of email is a global identifier - you can post your email on websites, embed in software, write on business card, share via web form.

Mnm has no global identity and no federation - so what this protocol really replaces is either non-federated chats like IRC or Slack; or internal message systems like the ones found on bigger forums.
Most "audiophile" is placebo. We did tests with higher end speakers, $2000-5000 stuff, nothing crazy from Maggies to Marlos, to B&Os to compared effects of amps, preamps, cables. We did a regular test and most of us felt the higher end stuff sounded better. Than i decided to do a blind test. The cheapest stuff usually win.
The film with Tom Hanks just scratches the surface of everything that went on. Worth watching, with good performances by him, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472062/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Ah I see that you responded to a different thread in this one! That requires someone to read an entire tree of comments instead of the family stack. This branching problem is also the curse of slack btw... I'm not sure anyone has solved the context dependency problem especially well except maybe with hyperlinks.. :)

Anyway... I see a similar outcome in both the fediverse and the conglomerate with respect to consensus. In one aspect you have downvotes and in the other you have downvotes. The ties that bind are friends maintaining connections and then, well interests.

I'm not sure how antifragility fits in here or if it is relevant and what it actually means in this context. Do you mean "the body politic"? It's an interesting hypothesis but I don't see an evidence for it.

The bigger question is the "tyranny of the majority", "the tyranny of the minority" and "the loudest voice and the squeaky wheel of appeasing". To jump to a sibling thread, the fediverse does solve the authoritarian problem which seems to be a good thing which was analogous to the decentralized internet.

In the fediverse Trump tweets would still exist.. but would they have the same impact?

Anyway, lots of PhDs will be written on this subject. If you are so inspired cite this comment one day and all of my HN posts will have been worth it!
I understand they get a vote.

I was asking why do they get a veto?
Thanks for the candid response! Sounds like a possible psychological disorder.
Ok, now retroactive censorship of Rachel Maddow for purveying falsehoods?
A wart is the standard logging module, which uses %-style strings. For example:

log.debug("Unexpected, got %r", (got,))

By doing it this way, it can defer rendering the string until it is actually needed, which is (assumed to be) a win when the logging module is normally just going to toss the low level messages away rather than emit them anywhere.

I think you lose this optimization if you use f-strings. I don't think rendering of the string can be lazy, deferred until actually needed.
Installing Debian on Modern Hardware
Maybe you should quit your current career arc and help companies change their attitude and thus unearth extra billions in profits?

And I don’t mean that cynically - since if it’s as easy and guaranteed profitable as you say, why wouldn’t you be able to convince numerous CEOs to unearth all of those extra billions?
How the Fed Stifles Lending
Rechargeable Li-ion batteries through MicroUSB port.
Check the demo video in my other comment for more info!
> It is fair to say that Western thinking has been shaped by the church a lot, given that for almost 1000 years, the only education you could get was provided by the church.

There was a heavy emphasis on Aristotle in earlier parts of the curriculum AFAICT:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_university#Course_of_...

Theology (law, medicine, etc) were further down the road.

> Secular schools either did not exist at all, or were very small.

Not accurate. Bologna was one of the very first universities created, as a type of 'union' / guild of students, and it focused on the study of law:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bologna

Also Oxford. See The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession by Brundage, which while focusing on law, covers a lot on universities because this was a big component of its development from 1000-1200AD. There were quite a few secularly-incorporated institutions:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_universities

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in...

Paris was more theologically focused.
Patreon is considering an IPO this year
Nice work! Hope you can clean up the UI (not use rewind). Otherwise I really like it so far.
> "NIMBY" itself has become an insult

NIMBY has always been a pejorative.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, because the article itself goes into the various things that NIMBYs stand for and the things they care about.
See also "A New Theory of Western Civilization":

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25227902
They are literally sterilizing a minority population. I think Twitter should be able to call balls and strikes on their own platform especially when it comes to government sponsored propaganda before its too late (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide).

https://apnews.com/article/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c
Interesting! It would be great though if you could sign up without a Google account. One of the reasons I want something like this is the data collection of all these separate apps. I'm trying to get away from Google :)
Depends on your definition of "successful" and "side business", but yes, a few. The most successful one I had that was a true side business was a nice aggregation and stats website that was probably doing around $2-3k/mo until I had to shut it down for reasons outside of my control.

> If you have, how did you do it?

I do side projects for 2 major reasons: to build something I'd like to use myself, and to learn/practice tech skills that I can't at my day job. Its just about consistently making a little time every week to move things forward.
I hate when these types of stories only report the percentage change of the incidents involved. Going from 1 murder to 2 murders is the same percentage change as 100 to 200, and in general they're dealing with so few events that it's hard to distinguish some meaningful change from expected variance.

Also, it's not as easy to track but it'd be interesting to see if attempted murders saw the same spike. This increase could merely be a result of overtaxed hospitals saving fewer people.
Not giving the PING the authority to veto privacy proposals is saying that an API that contravenes privacy is allowed to be in web standards.

One of the W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles[0] is that "Security and privacy are essential". This suggests that Google disagrees.

[0]: https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/ethical-web-principles/#priv...
Thank you, however I am not asking for your sympathy. I'm challenging your assertion that critics of Trump's supporters and OP are just "brainwashed by the TV", and your framing of this dynamic as just "both sides" seeing "themselves as the victim and the others as the attacker".

My experience was not some one off event, or story that applies to just my family, it reflects a culture of racism common in this country, particularly the South. We are talking about well documented multi-generational harm perpetuated by communities, businesses, and government.

"There are shitty people of all walks of life," is not sufficient to explain away the harms of institutionalized racism in the United States.

So, you do not need to call people "brainwashed" for recognizing the attitudes espoused by many Trump supporters. They have earned their reputation for good reason, though "some, I assume, are good people."

As for "the key question no one is asking is why did people vote for him in the first place and why did so many vote for him again?" In fact, many people have asked that question, have studied it extensively, and have found that racism and anti-immigrant attitudes were the strongest indicators of support for Trump (e.g. [1]). Yes, you're right that "because they're all racist" is a cop-out, there are other factors at play, but to say that "racial attitudes" is not a significant factor is to ignore the evidence.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2018/09/18/2016-election-race-class...
Your continued use of their products - thats why Google remains as much of a theoretical concern as Apple, who will happily tell you they keep track of all of the articles you read, tap in their search results, and purchased in all of their virtual stores, among many many other things, for targeting.

For some reason people treat Apple as if offering grouped ad targeting is the same as being private, but when Google does the same, it's treated as a fundamental sin

The central error is only a first order analysis can lead to the conclusion that Google doesn't care about user privacy - it's probably it's most fundamental value
Thank you!
I hope so but it doesn’t matter because me and my dad REALLY need it (shy poopers) :P
That's a great question! David Shaw disagrees with me about whether this is going to work (I used to be in his camp). Their money goes to a number of things- high personnel costs, presumably high hardware costs, I don't know what else.
Isn't that a bit like a craft tasty beer designed to be drank once a week?
> it feels like this could be an easy problem to solve in the future

Welcome to the future. Github has received “a DMCA” from the RIAA’s film counterpart requesting they take down another repo for tool that does not contain proprietary copyrighted material (this time not even including a test suite that downloads it IIUC), and apparently instantaneously complied. As of the time I’m posting this, it’s been more than a day (an order of magnitude longer than “a couple of lawyer man hours”, times 1–2?) since it was posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25836503 and I’m still not aware of any other response from them so far.
They usually also mention that it's hard to tell if more crime leads to more gun ownership vs more gun ownership leads to more crime
100C isn't instant death, see sauna. Maybe you compare 0C air and 100C water so to be fair, 0C water is maybe death within dozen of minutes
Thanks! This is the only piece of information I needed before giving Beeper a chance. I could not find it on the Beeper home page as a callout or in the FAQs, and it would probably be good to add.

Ideally I would not want to run the whole stack if I understand how the E2E encryption is managed.
Your argument is not to worry as much about how bad the numbers are... because it’s just people choosing to shoot themselves?
Any plans for VoIP SMS support?

A few years ago, I moved my phone number to VoIP.ms to save about $50/month on my cellphone bill ($70 /month
for calls, texts and data vs $20/month for only data). VoIP.ms costs me roughly $2/month. With the pandemic, I cancelled my cellphone plan and make all phone calls on WiFi.

However, SMS are still a pain to deal with. About 2-3 people in my life still send them, and many apps still use them for authentication/verification.

Adding SMS support would make Beeper a lot more appealing, and might encourage people to move to VoIP (a service you might charge for when you inevitably work on audio/video bridges).
sudo apt -y autoremove nano

Sorry plebians
PageRank was the algorithm. These days, while PageRankmight still be in-play somewhere, I suspect the results are largely dominated by machine-learned suggestions.
These studies are just toxic to the community.

They are simply not true when you look at the data. Researchers are incentivized to look at the larger estimates along the way. They are almost always not as large as claimed.

Jobs and life is hard, working remotely takes an emotional toll in parts, putting this on top on people doesn't help their well being. There's no point saving CO2 emissions if it breaks you as a human or you have to go back to the office.

If universities really care, how about they start creating open codexes that allow more effect use of our resources rather than these studies. I get there are patent issues with things like H.266. How about universities theorise on how to fix the patent problem and how to speed up the process. We got a vaccine in a year, how do we do that in working groups?

Turning off the camera in meetings is often a good idea, see other articles on that.
So, the business leaders are the problem....
Why are you putting in 10 hours a day? Do you like giving free labor to your employer? To make up for this, cut your regular job back to 6 or 7 hours tops. This is real, real easy to do during the pandemic with everyone "working from home."
This conversation is jumping around all over the place isn't it? The fact remains people can and do trust produce; the extant food systems we have are working. The extant systems, regulations and all, provide the reliable, safe and cheap supply of food our civilization requires, and it do so pretty damn well.

As for waste, do you really think some shipping containers in the parking lot will provide an elastic supply? Even if you can install more containers on short notice, it would still take weeks at least for those units to start producing. The extant systems can and do respond to changes in demand in days, not weeks. If these were relied on for anything but luxury produce, you'd often have too much or too little. To provide a buffer, you have to start storing the produce, which negates the ultra-fresh appeal.
The same association with the availability of baseball bats and knives is also very well established. Something about having thumbs causes Murder.
I have similar feelings about the technology. As much as I'd love to see someone apply ultrasonic haptics to an interesting use case, I don't know if useful haptic feedback can occur within the limits of safe ultrasonic SPLs.

Even with relatively large arrays, the prototypes I've seen are so subtle that you almost have to be expecting the sensation to get anything out of it. It's not on the same level as the haptic feedback of an Apple trackpad.
Don’t forget banking.
Salesforce as a Data Source
WhatsApp is not that hard anymore. Only issue is that you have to run the Android client somewhere. But you can do that on your phone.