skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes of course. That's why I said I'm sure we could get it to work. But then it has to be converted to kg for actual usage. Either directly in the queries or views.

Having a fixed-point decimal type allows us to not think about once the table is created.

Same issue with money. Most of the time we need to store monetary values with two decimal places (cents).
The voting data consists of four tables:

candidates,
counties,
precincts,
vote_tallies

Without a set of open tables for voters and votes there is no chain of custody. Without a chain of custody this data is academic at best. There is no reliable way to verify it.

Those two tables remove privacy from the voter, and open up the risk of voter intimidation, but that doesn’t change the fact that this data, and any findings associated with it, are, at best, interesting.

The Bounty concept, on the other hand, is commendable.
That's like saying, "Every variable in every language is mutable if I just take this electron gun and aim it at my RAM chip very carefully."

You're messing around with the internals of the system that was never intended to be touched.
Nice project. For server side mixing, how hard would be to integrate Jam with Mumble? There is a Github repository that does it: https://github.com/Johni0702/mumble-web
Surely it's a race out of the bottom (low value assembly) towards the top (high value design, prototyping, software and services). What's the value of racing back down to the bottom again?

I don't know the current BOM, but for most of it's history more of the value in the components in an iPhone was actually manufactured in the US than in China. Gorilla Glass in New York state, flash memory in Kentucky, the CPUs used to be made by Samsung in Texas. Final assembly is only a few bucks.

A friend of mine here in the UK said the same ting to me a few years ago, his 6 year old boy was playing nearby so I asked him. Which would you prefer for your son, a job in design or software, or a job on an assembly line?
Considering the data available, 1% used in 2 months, that is 6% in a year, or roughly 16 years to 100%. SSDs have wearout indicators for a reason, but how long do you honestly expect it to last ? Had it been spinning rust you'd be lucky to get 5 years out of it.

Most users will be able to get a decade worth of usage out of it.

Nothing to see here, move along.
Zuckerberg was apart of the AOL underground
To be fair, I found another earlier ML preview to be more balanced (please ignore the title): https://towardsdatascience.com/apples-new-m1-chip-is-a-machi...

As evident from the benchmarks, the result is very dependant on your network. Some getting huge acceleration boost from the neural processor, while others can't be accelerated. I would suggest try and see approach.
because bulk kinda implies that you want all-or-nothing :)
Well, just out of curiosity, visit some local hospitals or make some appointments with doctors in state owned hospitals or clinics.

For better options, I'd say most of other Eastern European countries in the EU are probably better (except for Bulgaria), and also probably Portugal or Spain.

Just check out where the big Romanian diasporas are :-D
It's worth noting that 80% of Samsung smartphones are manufactured in Vietnam these days. Something people often forget even in today's geopolitical environment.

I wish Samsung used that fact in their marketing, I think it would really play well.
Is there some truth to the “reverse” though —- that is, is the emerging patterns similar for similarish problems? What comes to mind is the similar first-layers in the human vision and google’s vision AI, with vertical/horizontal lines being “matched”.
From a user point of view, and seeing how free wifi is so prevalent, a more immediate solution could be to use something like freepbx[0] to forward gsm calls over voip.

[0] https://www.asterisk.org/downloads/
It's not limited to phone users. I've been using computers since the 1980s (C64), and I appreciate not needing to habitually keep pressing "save" every few seconds in Google Docs or macOS Notes.
I’m not sure why free will is considered such a mystery. In a completely deterministic universe my actions are determined unambiguously by a) the current state of my brain and b) the inputs I receive from my senses. Asking if I could do something other that what I actually chose to do makes no sense.

On the other hand, if I later find myself in a near identical situation I may choose a different action as a result of my brain now having a different state (that’s what learning is)

The opposite of determinism isn’t “free will” it’s random behaviour and who wants their decisions to be random?
TIL zsh is more than 20 years old

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_shell
> Are you sure?

No, and anyone who says yes is lying. (Lockless NFS exists and is no fun.)

> Well, fundamentally it’s very hard to get it exactly right, and I imagine that’s why the implementation is a little involved

SQLite has set itself the horrible task of updating files in-place. I know of two reliable, simpler alternatives:

1. Appending to files through O_APPEND

2. Rewriting files through rename()

If SQLite has different magic syscalls then I would very much like to learn.
That's a blast from the past! I was also a regular at the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club in those days (and club secretary for a while). I remember being impressed by some of the demos of "The Game With No Name". I was a bit older than these guys though, and more interested in "serious" computing, but the connections I made through that club also helped kick off my computing career (academic/telecoms/finance).
1. To be clear, I'm not thinking of a 51% attack, I'm thinking of cyberattacks on the miners and exchanges, mining equipment seizures, international warrants etc.

2. I was wrong in my explanation, you're right that fiat is a (social/financial) technology and in principle crypto could be an alternative. What I was thinking of initially is that the problems of the finance system are social, not technological: the incentives in the current system (the rich keeping their richness at the expense of everyone else) are a social problem, which can't be fixed with technology. As long as the rich stay rich and powerful, they will control crypto just as well as they controlled gold and fiat before it.

3. ETH can do, what, 24 TPS? Right now there is no coin that can realistically compete with the global banking system, especially on the last mile. And I don't think PoW or PoSpace will ever get there. And PoStake doesn't seem like it has any real advantages over a trusted distributed DB, to be honest.

4. Those are quite noble goals. Probably a major difference of belief between us is that I don't believe any change towards decentralization can come from (computer) technology, I believe it must be a social movement with democratic power that moves things first and foremost - any kind of purely technological solution will easily be co-opted by the rich and powerful. In this way, crypto should look at what happened with the Internet itself, as Google and Facebook and others slowly absorbed it.
You can watch this small twitter demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI. It's what sold me on the technology.
Does it make sense for an automaton to say "I will search for truth. I am searching for truth. I have found truth." when that automaton has been preprogrammed to say that and had no choice in the matter?

Here's a version of this argument: https://youtu.be/BsAEj6UsrI0?t=297
But the mRNA vaccine isn't what the immune system is responding to directly, but the spike protein produced by the cells, which got infused with the mRNA. Anything that makes the immune system attack the vaccine, prevents the delivery of the mRNA. Sorry, I don't think your reasoning is sound and very based.
The OO model is very clean. Pretty much Smalltalk's model. Wanna see weird OO, look at JS or even Python (both were not OO in first version).

IDE's will never be really good for Ruby (or any dynamically typed language), as it can only infer so much from the code. Type hints in the new Ruby version will maybe change this, but it is an addon so it may take a while to materialize.

Ruby is --to me-- a dynamically typed language with very clean OO, expressive syntax, and as much FP goodness as possible without sacrificing it's OO essence.

There is a language that has --in my view-- similar fundamentals, except that it is strict/strongly typed. This language is Kotlin: very clean OO, expressive syntax, and as much FP goodness as possible without sacrificing it's OO essence. IntelliJ is a great IDE for Kotlin and IDEs for Kotlin can actually deliver (due to the static typing). And yes, Kotlin is null-safe (no reason to carry this mistake around in static typed langs any further).

Oh and the syntactic sugar in Ruby is called cocaine. :)
Thank you a lot for the answer, that's unfortunately more along the lines of what I was expecting.

Good luck for your project, I have yet to dig into e-ink devices, but that's something on my radar. It's a shame the firmware of these devices is not open, I bet the community could improve it a whole lot.

Also thank you again for your work on the Pinephone ;)
email wouldn't be invented by private institutions today because nobody in their right mind would willingly get rid of their moat... it'd take government regulation to get there and you know how efficient that would be. technical problems are easy in comparison.
333M SSDs Shipped in 2020 Corresponding to 207EB
> I like VLC because IT IS a file opener. I don't want a "media environment" to immerse in.

And for us oldtimers, we know from history that all neat useful single-purpose projects that try to grow into something huge (winamp & Azureus trying to become a full media station, the Netscape site & Altavista becoming a "portal for all needs") fail and fall into oblivion.

For a scary number of previous instances the expensive super-expansion of a project is to me, the early indicator of it going to disappear when the huge profits mysteriously did not materialize.

Perhaps this is different and they don't mess up, otherwise someone probably will whip up a simple file selector wrapper over ffmpeg/mplayer or something and we will have a decent media player back. There is a need for something that ONLY plays your files without being a kitchen-sink utility.
Yes, that is "secure by default". It's a very reasonable claim to make.

This was a contrast to a fresh install of Windows which would get infected within minutes of being connected to the network (I'm assuming this is no longer true, but have never used windows).
Swapping left control and caps lock disturbs AltGr, which appears to be a synthesis of left control and right alt.
Its even cheaper to just send it to known problem detectors, and outsource the work of flaw detection to the customer.
There are two issues not mentioned which I think are most important.

First, accuracy was bad. 60% or less. Barely better than a flipped coin, quite possibly just a null result or simply bad statistics (cherry picking data, retrospective search for a positive result).

Second, there is what you say you are testing with a study and the test you actually do. You have three things, the subject deciding to move, the subject having a brain activity pattern, and the subject interpreting the time on a clock.

For the same data collected you could write a different paper on the accuracy of a person’s visual preception of time when compared to their making a conscious choice to move. No connection at all with the free will business, just how well a person can report two separate mental phenomena in time.
It's as much "the next big thing" as "Cloud" has been since 2006 or so: as basic a valid option to organize for substantial scale operations as for the past 15 years.

"SRE" may be a Google-initiated label, the practices behind predate it (first sight I've seen was Flickr in 2008).
Not only that - Linux fanatics looking geeky, long hair, penguins. Now they look normal, where AWS t-shirts and get enough TC to retire at 30 having helped Bezos get more power.
Medical Device Manufacturing Advancements with Technology
I'd go with something that has static/strong types when picking a new tool. Not saying I dont love Ruby, but when the codebase/team becomes large i've always regretted not having strong type safety. Today I'd go with Kotlin.
> It's incredible how many people keep missing the man's point.

Is it though? Can you really blame readers if he isn't communicating clearly which, I would argue, if that's his point then he isn't.
I don't love it. When I am presenting it feels like I am talking to myself. I deal with it by just doing it - no other choice.
I’d love to see the little lemmings statues, but I haven’t been to Dundee in ages :-( They relocated to Edinburgh at some point before GTA3, I don’t think there’s any GTA sculptures there but theres plenty of Edinburgh references. The “leaf links” golf course (Leith Links, a park), Calton Heights (based on Calton Hill), Grove Street (street in Fountainbridge, where I lived when GTA:SA was released!) and plenty more besides
I've been following Ink for a while because I went to uni with one of the founders of Inkle. As someone who isn't a game developer, a possible use case for me is something like scripting chat bots or data capture wizards. I don't know if it's actually a good fit for the problem, but the idea intrigues me.
It was. "Italy" (Italia to the natives) is both the name of the modern country (which didn't exist back then) and the peninsula (which did).
Funny enough, I saw two different 5 star reviews of some boots with the same amateur type photo.
It's shopped, and badly. The foreground tractor isn't even the same perspective as the rest of the scene. Why would a painter do that?
Once again there is simply no physical grounding for the term "option". That word doesn't pick up a referent in the material world; its meaning is accrued from social and behavioural human intuition.

I actually am quite interested in this topic so I don't find it tiresome. I just find it important to note that defining terms very rigidly at the outset of inquiry can often mean that you are the one diverging from the general meaning of the word, which makes the result of that inquiry a lot less beneficial.

There are many theories of meaning, but there are obvious problems with the definability criterion for meaning. Does it suffice for one speaker to be able to define their terms, or must all utterers have to be able to define them? If the former, this says nothing about the use of the word free of the definition's restrictions; if the former, someone who is perhaps intelligent enough to speak but not to define their terms cannot speak with meaning (which is absurd).

My own view coincides with (later) Wittgenstein. Meaning is determined by use, and there are too many ways to use a phrase in too many contexts to provide an exhaustive definition, perhaps ever. I suspect W. would tell you to imagine a primitive language with no concept of definition at all. Do their utterances have meaning?
Did I get it right: to bake a margarita at home oven with a steel plate, you need 240g of dough, 90g of toppings, bake at 230 degrees Celcius for 170 s. But in the end you will get a bad unbalanced product. Correct?
Here's another good review of the pain you get if you want to get your data to disk safely.

(SQLite does this for you automatically, BTW.)

"Ensuring data reaches disk"

https://lwn.net/Articles/457667/
How big is big enough for you to think that Ruby is scalable:

Gitlab size? GitHub size? AirBnB size? Shopify size?

I think this is a kind of fallacy to take into consideration scalability as the main metric when choosing the programming language unless you are truly doing a project which has as main selling point scalability.

I would also say that that 90% (it is just a guess based) of projects started with any of these languages including Python, Java, Ruby, Go, Elixir, Javascript will not reach a level where scalability is truly a problem.

There are some things to think about when choosing a programming language like:

1. It is a language which has by default solutions to problems I would encounter. See for example choosing Python over Ruby as there are more AI libraries in Python than Ruby, or choosing Elixir over Ruby if serving multiple concurent connections will be at the core)

2. How quick do you want to iterate the product? How many libraries in your specific domain are available? ...

3. Availability of developers in your area or with a specific domain knowledge if needed

4. How much the infrastructure cost to serve some users per month

Also I agree with you - even if you presented it as a negative trait - that if I want to just spin up a quick prototype, I will almost always choose Rails. I have by default a lot of gems providing a lot of functionalities out of the box: user management, payments, activity feeds, image/video/audio upload and processing, .... Add there some TailwindUI/Bootstrap/Bulma screens and already I can have a good looking prototype to test an idea without too much work.
Our current models are only good until we find a better model that replaces them, one which can explain phenomena we observe , which the old model didn't.

So, yes, it's possible there is some physics "beyond" the one we know, and yes in order to go beyond what we know we have to consider the possibility that some of the stuff that lay at the foundation of the current physics is wrong (or, correct up to an approximation). And many working physicists are well aware of that fact and they do consider all the options on the table.

The problem is, you have to find something to replace it and it has to work.

Thinking about all crazy things is great. "Temporarily" throwing away some assumptions can be a productive thinking tool. The Heisenberg principle (like many other things) can be both something you want to keep and use as a foundation for other explorations, and it can be something you question. The field is made up of many people, not everybody should be working on the same thing on the same assumption; I think "putting ideas at rest at this point" should be relegated to old theories that have been fully superseded, and even then they can be still useful: even Newtonian mechanics can still be quite useful even if we know it falls short.
Then would ‘Most’ devices have this effect? Like a random hardware defect? Or all, like a software issue, only dependent on use?
Clubhouse has proven quite popular for traditionally underrepresented groups, and I believe it is in a large part due to being audio-only. For speakers, they can focus on what they are saying and hearing, rather than what they look like.

It also lowers the cost of entry. While smartphone cameras are quite good, the expectation for video quality has risen to the point where it is prohibitively expensive for a large portion of the population. When you factor in lighting, hardware and software for editing, bandwidth and time, it excludes a huge number of people and narrows down the diversity of content. Traditional podcasting is also suffering from a similar rise in total cost. Clubhouse eliminates most of those costs - all you need is a smartphone. Granted, it is iOS-only, but this will not be the case for much longer. We can expect Clubhouse to explode even more when it launches for Android.

For listeners, everyone is subject to unconscious bias. By being audio-only, it helps reduce a lot of the factors that would bias our opinion of someone.

It's a feature. Not a bug.
Just to add, pledge can be called repeatedly throughout the program to reduce the behaviors that are permitted unlike seccomp.
I found the only thing that really helps on long haul, economy flights are the sleep drugs.
Steve Blank compared Cook to Ballmer and analyzed the situation pretty well IMHO:

https://steveblank.com/2016/10/24/why-tim-cook-is-steve-ball...

TLDR: When the visionary CEO (Gates, Jobs) leaves, a guy from operations (Ballmer, Cook) gets promoted to CEO, and keeps doing what he does best, operate and keep profits climbing.

When the next CEO (Nadella, ?) comes, there can be focus on innovation again.
> Child protective services for one

CPS is not perfect, there are many horror stories of sexual abuse in foster homes and other serious issues.
All the more so in a place without socialized health care.
Magnets need to be very strong or changing very quickly to affect electronics. They were a big concern with floppy disks and messed with CRTs but beyond that no magnet you're likely to come across is going to cause any effect on a PC (there are even strong ones in a lot of laptops). Even hard drives (the one common remaining magnetic component in systems) are unlikely to be affected.
Anecdotal, but the only charger block I've ever had explode was from a MacBook. In its favour, it didn't fragment or catch fire. But as it shuffled off its mortal coil, the white plastic casing momentarily shone like the sun. Was pretty dramatic.
I've been thinking lately that, in the unlikely event that I'll ever write a big computer game, I'd like to use SQLite as the save file. Too many games take ages to save or load the state, whereas updating a database with every state change seems much more painless. I don't have any experience with SQLite, but this article makes it sound like my idea would work very well.
Funnily enough AWS' way of doing things is quite different to Google's and I think there are pros and cons to both.

Google's way is SRE as mentioned here, and I don't have experience to say more there. However, at least in my bubble of the world, AWS's way of "you build it, you run it" is quite popular (and quite effective IMO) for small companies up to any scale.
I'm genuinely curious what you mean by this. Of course SQLite imposes a file format... That format is a SQLite database
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> Are remote exploits in minimal server installs particularly common?

Extremely common, windows was infamous for this.

You couldn't do a fresh install of the OS and patch it because by the time you downloaded the patch it had already been rooted just by being on the network.
This post is honestly rocking my world.

I've always been telling people that having lots of icons on your desktop will maybe use a little bit more ram, but it won't slow your computer down because computers are super fast.

How many other assumptions of mine are false? Would I have faster browser experience if I deleted some bookmarks, or if I deleted my browsing history? Would my computer run more quickly if I have fewer folders on my disk? Would gmail be faster if I had hundreds of emails instead of tens of thousands of emails?
Posting a tweet asking "Should we keep doing X?" isn't "work." No AI researcher to my knowledge is being cancelled for what they're doing in the field.
Seems kinda like FB for work. We use it where I work and to be honest.. it's not great. Engagement is low among some areas so they try drive engagement to it by having competitions on it. I don't think it works.

I think it would work for small teams though. People are probably more likely to post if it is just to their immediate team.
Researchers explore using light to levitate discs in the mesosphere
How to verify school email addresses in Node.js