skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.texfaq.org/FAQ-TeXfuture

> Knuth has declared that he will do no further development of TeX; he will continue to fix any bugs that are reported to him (though bugs are rare). This decision was made soon after TeX version 3.0 was released; at each bug-fix release the version number acquires one more digit, so that it tends to the limit π (at the time of writing, Knuth’s latest release is version 3.1415926).

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Personally I prefer separated major.minor.patch format, and I like when a project knows how many of each kind of release they tend to do for a given generation so they use an appropriate number of leading zeroes. As in I'd much rather see 2.099 followed by 2.100 rather than 2.99 followed by 2.100.

That said as long as it provides a logical distinction that is obvious when looking at past release numbers I don't care all that much what a given project chooses.
I am sorry what? You predicate your statement by saying Switzerland is rich... I am sorry but those who are not “rich” should also be allowed to own firearms. Predicating ownership by wealth is just classist.
I agree that 'daylight saving' time is misleading. DST status quo enjoyers say that of course they love the extra time in summer... when its obvious that you get that extra light in summer vs winter regardless of any clock changes. Long days in summer is what you get for free. The question is what we do with winter.

Do we intervene to increase the chance of an hour of light at the start or the end? I think there's a general agreement that starting and ending your day in the dark is rough. We can shift it either way.

It would be great to see some data about when people are more active (from fitbit and others). I suspect that many more people are active outside in the afternoon, including all kids sports, than would be using the morning light outdoors. A permanent DST would give people more chances to get out and exercise if nothing else and should be the norm.
You say that in the 1980s "most countries moved to fractional reserve banking rather than full reserve". This is at best confusing: in most developed countries fractional reserve banking, regulated by central banks, goes back to the 1600s. The bank runs that have occurred throughout US history were only possible because essentially all our banks used fractional reserve banking.

Also, the 2008 crisis was not due to or amplified by fractional reserve banking. The debt overhang was due to mortgage brokers and investment bankers (often without a retail bank license) selling securities -- effectively bonds secured by mortgages. As with any security, these had the explicit risk of becoming valueless, but this risk was hand-waved away by corrupt bond rating and other tricks.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that no bank customers lost any deposits due to the 2008 crisis. Fractional reserve regulation worked exactly as intended.
Adjacent topic: My Octopus Teacher [1] was a fascinating view into a single kelp forest and occupant that folks here might enjoy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Octopus_Teacher
My apologies for coming off harsh, your prior comment struck a chord. I'll try to explain:

If you take even a cursory glance at C-PTSD, you'll see a lot of it has to do with the stress of being trapped in extreme circumstance, with highly deleterious or even catastrophic mental health effects resulting from that prolonged stress.

You wouldn't tell a POW or concentration camp survivor that their trauma was less than that of a combat veteran or shooting victim, would you? Of course not.

Consider failed startups can sometimes lead to homelessness, which is both very trapping and extremely stressful. Sometimes deadly.

Point being: if the trauma ultimately enlists the same physiological and emotional mechanisms in ripping apart the human mind, then attempting to become an arbiter of trauma severity is really besides the point, if not poor taste.

Personally, I've experienced events that satisfy Criterion A of the DSM-V PTSD diagnostic criteria. Think dealing with an enraged, manic family member with a loaded rifle. Being on the receiving end of domestic violence. Threats of sexual violence against loved ones. That level of bad.

While the effects of those events easily satisfied the remainder of diagnostic criteria at the time and lasted quite a while, they pale in comparison to the chronic effects of choosing to pursue a startup and what that did to my mental health.
This extension is also available for Sublime Text:

https://github.com/civAnimal/autofill-arrays
In Australia it is state based. In South Australia some fixed cameras will automatically issue tickets (still in pain from a $600 fine I got once).

Not sure about the mobile police ones.
Depends who you ask. Traditionally speaking:

# Data lake

Data is stored en masse with no schema applied, either unstructed or structured data can be dumped straight into the lake or can be transformed and then dumped in. Turns into a data swamp when it becomes unusable due to staleness or complexity.

Data lakes are basically an AWS S3 bucket business users can access and (attempt) to do reporting on.

# Data warehouse

Heavily structured schema applied to data used in reporting, usually defines the single point of truth for business purposes. Uses a star schema model (if you follow Kimball [0] methodology) to create dimension tables used to filter and aggregate raw measurements from the central fact tables (which contain your actual measures like £ made on 1 sale).

Kimball and Inmon [1] philosophies come with their own benefits and trade offs. See bottom of [2].

Edit: got methodolgies the wrong way round with initial costs, linked article has a useful table that I didn't see.

Data warehouses have a very concrete definition and are usually implemented via Kimball's or Inmon's method. When I've worked with them they've become the bastion of business reporting (excel users love a pivot table).

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Just to confuse matters, there's also the data vault: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_vault_modeling

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Kimball

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Inmon

2: https://www.zentut.com/data-warehouse/kimball-and-inmon-data...
Oh, there is unquestionably at least a tinge of Hindu nationalism with Modi and company. As another commenter said, I don’t think they’d even deny it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210315011620/https://parl.ca/D...
> Unless you’re flush with cash, you rename the app.

Or if you're willing to take the gamble. My default response to C&Ds (and other similar notices) that have no actual legal justifiability behind them is a nice succinct "fuck off", and I've yet to receive any follow-up from about a dozen such interactions.

Now at least some of those "legal notices" were clearly from people who had never interacted with a lawyer in their lives (my personal favourite was someone who insisted that having their username on a ban list for cheating in a video game was a violation of the GDPR), but there's a lot of entities who have a track record of spamming anyone they can find with vague threats in the hope that some people will cave in to their bullying, fully aware that they can do absolutely nothing to those who don't.

I'm no expert on Japanese trademark law, but I suspect it's very unlikely that Clubhouse has any case here.
I can't even see the SVG file. It's blank.
Proposed bills rarely go anywhere, and so are mostly off topic on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

IIRC, it's rare in Canada for private members' bills to ever get enacted or even taken seriously, so that would be even more true in this case—no?
I think most cities and highways are designed for larger cars.

I've wondered what it would be like if there were cities with tight, maybe even exclusionary urban areas. "you must be less than this big to enter downtown"

There are some cities in Florida where retired people can drive golf carts, and it has become very popular.

https://www.wired.com/2009/09/ff-ecars/
Ah, my snarky comment turns into a legit technical question.

Well, throwing a dart wouldn't be too bad though....
Same here, and I've also thought about writing the same app.

I've always wondered why our system of time is built around the point of "midnight", when what we really care about is "sunrise". DST is an ugly hack that we use on top of our midnight-based time system to roughly approximate a constant sunrise time.

Imagine if 00:00 was defined as the time that the sun rises. You could set your alarm to 00:00 and start work around 01:30 or 02:00 every day.

There'd be no need to worry about kids going to school in the dark, and the shift between summer and winter time would be continuous instead of an abrupt shift (so no more DST-induced heart attacks or traffic accidents). We now have computers that could do timezone conversions quickly and easily, and places like Iceland that go for months without seeing the sun could use an arbitrary point in time to represent sunrise.

Ancient societies have used systems of time that are based around the time of sunrise, e.g. the ancient Jews: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_hour. For whatever reason, we ended up with our midnight-based time system instead.
Missing from the list, and one of the best SF animes I've seen: Top wo Nerae! Gunbuster, or just Gunbuster. Mecha play a big role, but not the only role: there are alien invaders, spaceships approaching lightspeed, giant space battles, etc. etc. but all draped in hard SF:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/949/Top_wo_Nerae_Gunbuster

PS: Pay no attention to its sequel Gunbuster 2
You don’t need to mine much land to get very large amounts of uranium - they tend to be underground mines, and produce a truly staggering amount of energy by mass mined. Tailings can be problematic - but even the largest uranium mines have had tiny tailings piles compared to even small wind farm footprints.
https://www.wired.com/2009/09/ff-ecars/
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Netgear ProSAFE Plus JGS516PE / GS116Ev2 Switches
Blocking, muting, or ignoring a handful of people may work. But when you have hundreds or thousands or more people harassing you, blocking them all isn't practical or sufficient. Get enough people mad at you and you'll end up being SWATted or doxxed (or turned in to deepfake porn). At some point the trolls start feeding each other. Next thing you know we end up with another gamergate (which started because some dude was mad at his ex).
US Army halts gender neutral fitness test as women struggle
I have two kids 10 and 12 who are absolutely hooked on scratch right now to the point where they spend hours a day. They are learning a lot. I think it is a great language for learning. It is limited in a lot of ways, but not having to type of deal with syntax errors is a big draw I think. Also the fact that it is has the integrated sprite editor and lots off basic built in which make them feel productive quickly.
I didn't think of the word "master" being offensive in the context of Git branches until the issue came up a few months ago.

Once I became aware that some people are offended by the word "master" in this context, I immediately realized that I was blinded by my privilege, and I will henceforth name my branches with a new social consciousness.

That is, I was blinded by intellectual privilege: I had assumed that anyone smart enough to use Git would be smart enough not to care about this.

I will continue to name my own branches "master," and I have successfully convinced the organization I work for to do the same.

Before, I called branches "master" without any political intention at all. Now, I do so with an express political intention to demonstrate my explicit defiance of the censorious sort of people who insist that I must change my words because you might be offended by them.

Being upset about the name "master branch" is a completely ridiculous politicization of technology.

I'm thinking of downloading/buying and hoarding every mathematics and computer science textbook and paper I can find that uses the word "binary," since I'm sure they'll be banned soon due to being offensive to trans people, and someone ought to be preserving knowledge for when our society stops this insane witch-hunt and regains its sanity.

For posting this comment, I'm sure I'll be accused of being a racist, and stand a real risk of losing some karma.

I'm not a racist. The way I interact with people of all races is ethical, and gives me no trouble sleeping at night. I'm glad slavery ended long ago.

I'm simply taking a stand, in my own little way, against political correctness run amok.
It seems difficult to make the argument that replicating data to a warehouse is "simpler" than leaving the data in its original place (which could actually be a warehouse) and querying it through an FDW. In your scenario you need to maintain and monitor an ETL pipeline, pay storage costs for the warehouse, and likely pay bandwidth costs for moving your data into it. In the blog post scenario, the only cost is a Postgres instance and bandwidth for the data your queries return.

There are many cases where replication to a warehouse makes sense, but there are also plenty where it doesn't. Our philosophy at Splitgraph, where we're building something just like this blog post, is that querying should be cheap and easy in the experimentation phase. Analysts shouldn't need to ask engineers to setup a data pipeline just so they can query some data they might not even want. So why not start with a "data lake" (or "data mesh")? You can query any data connected to the mesh without any setup or waiting time. If you eventually decide that you don't want the tradeoffs of federation, then you can selectively warehouse only the data you need to optimize certain queries.

(I might go even further and suggest that the data industry has the idea of the "modern data stack" completely wrong. Replicating data to a warehouse is the ultimate act of centralization. Every other aspect of software is trending toward decentralization; it's the only real way to deal with increasing complexity and sprawl. It's only a matter of time before this paradigm shift hits the data stack too.)
"Newark Penn Station" comes one stop before "New York Penn Station" on the train from Newark Airport, a common port for visitors.
Yes I've taken some home from the beach and they're just fine. The eggs turn into ooze pretty quick so I don't know how viable they'd be commercially.
Wait until the word 'native' gets added to the list of non-inclusive terms.
> but society as a whole can design urban systems which support low-energy living in even difficult conditions.

What's the forcing function? It's already been proven that a global climate crisis is not enough to move society. It's not profitable enough to convince corporations to do it. The 0.1% have no cause to do it; even the humanitarians among that group have much better investments they can make.

EDIT: Also, in the past, living in the north without electricity was managed by burning wood and coal. Given the significant increase in population the impact to the environment of burning all that would be irrecoverable on its own.
HN is a site that for the most part is the comment section of an article.
Conversely, if you are providing a web based service on the public Internet and can't be assed to drop a five line text file in your home directory, you probably should not be running a server on the public Internet.
“You have to order all at once”
Comments have always been toxic and anonymous. Bad UX, the medium is the message.
China has a word for laughing at western society about all this. Baizuo.
There is a difference between a communist autocracy where the parties with political and military power get to define what the right opinion is and a free market of ideas where people are allowed to express all sorts of ideas including hateful ones but where others are free to disassociate themselves from you and not to promote your ideas.

The difference between phone and internet systems is that they represent a limited number of points of contact between yourself and the entire rest of the world its important that they remain impartial in the same way that we don't want your local and only power company deciding whether your shop can exist.

The broader internet is inherently diverse enough to allow virtually everyone who isn't actually directly violating the same laws as they exist within to exist. We don't need facebook as a common carrier to achieve this.

Lets contextualize this shall we. Conservatives of the former average bent talking about fiscal responsibility, importance of gun rights, support of actual family values have zero problem operating in the prior and evolving social media context.

New school conservatives that flirt with hate and violence about as openly as David Duke or who promote actively harmful and hateful content are seeing their ability to do so curtailed after sharing their hate resulted in a number of people being murdered/harmed.

The thing is that this conservative demographic much as it has become more visible and more energetic because it is shrinking not because it is growing. In 20 years it will be limping. In 40 it will be virtually extinct.
The decision to disable comments is not one that requires an explanation to anyone who has used the internet in the last decade. I’m still amazed that this site hasn’t yet turned into a garbage fire.
Why hello, fellow reader of https://transitcosts.com

> You will discover that fighting to make trains a better option than cars is harder as a democrat where everyone agrees but wants to put their finger in the pie, than as a republican where everyone isn't interested in trains but might let you get by with a small amount just to keep you quiet (this won't be enough to build a useful system, but it might be enough to prove it can be cost effective)

And where is train hush money being handed out in the last four years? Pretty sure that's out of the frying pan into the fire.
There absolutely is not. Most people agree that extra sunlight in the afternoon is more useful than in the morning.
> even documents (and by extension, spreadsheets and presentations) are compressed these days (because they're... zips! It's zips all the way down)

And how do you read those archives (or, for that matter, create them) using a ZIP library that doesn't know how to deal with compressed data?

My point is simply that DEFLATE support should be considered mandatory for any ZIP implementation. Without it, most archives you encounter will be unreadable. Yes, it can still handle archives which contain only STOREd files -- but that's an edge case which most archives won't fall into.
>I can't do without a car

Never buy another car. Fix what you have when you need to.

Eat less meat. Live principled- not that you don't but doing these things is almost contagious. I notice friends and family following my lead. Consuming less, buying less.
>My understanding is this is extremely difficult short of killing myself.

That's not really how it works. The only way humanity is at 7 billion and counting is due to advances in engineering, farming, etc.

Look for example at two extremes, starting with the CHAZ farm. You remember, the cardboard boxes with potting soil thrown on top by kids who had no idea what they were doing? Imagine if the entire planet was full of these sort of primitive smooth brains. You'd be back to hunter gatherers and a global population of ~20,000 or so rather quickly. Now look at the opposite end of the spectrum, Hokkaido rice farmers.

https://www.hokkaido-kome.gr.jp/english/about/

Despite having a less favorable climate for rice growing, Hokkaido farmers of the frozen north produce some of the highest yields and highest quality rice in Japan. When you look outside of Japan, it's even more impressive as Hokkaido consistently has higher yields than SE Asian countries with warmer humid climates more suited for rice growing.

This is a small number of people in Hokkaido, with power to change their entire world around them. They do so through science and engineering. Access to irrigation, farm equipment, and fertilizer is far more important than climate.

People who want laws to restrict CO2 would choose to destroy Hokkaido farmers. Farm equipment after all releases CO2. So does fertilizer production and transportation. So does tillage. These people seek to make us all hunter gatherers again.

Solving problems is not about squeezing yourself into the limits of your current system, it is about changing the limits of the system with science and engineering. Said more eloquently,

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
Given that the median family income in the U.S. is almost 15% less than $80k[0], the majority of U.S. households don't have to worry about this problem.

You can try to make it out to sound really widespread if you want, but the facts don't support you.

And the fact that people with lower incomes stand to benefit more from crypto than people of higher means who already have access to reliable banking systems is part of the point.[1]

[0] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...
[1] Bitcoin's genesis block, which cites the bailout of banks at the expense of sound money.
There’s also Bricklink Studio, which I’ve found to be easy to use with a decent built-in renderer (https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/download.page). How does LeoCAD compare?
Hells no. If this going to be enforced it better be done programmitically on my behalf and if the enforcement tool breaks anything the enforcement team is doing the RCA.
Good point on that. Yes, you've described my thought in much better detail.
Systemd is such a wonderful example of "if I didn't develop it, it isn't good enough."
No we haven't. Twitter isn't the internet; it's overrepresented in the news because journalists use it, but it's not actually where normal people hang out. Most of the internet (including most social media) doesn't have these problems.
That's also an argument for why the government should support btc/blockchain technologies, instead of banning it. Transactions can be open for everyone to see, and therefore easier to audit/account for unaccounted cash and if they're being used or not.
City people could just get up an hour earlier in summer.
Calvin And Hobbes have some enduring greatness to them. Perhaps this is a result of Bill Waterson's background in political philosophy, but the comics express some deep truth of American culture. Seeing this reminded me of this essay from a few years back (the cartoons haven't changed much in the intervening years):
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/calvin-an...
Get your readers arguing with each other - makes pageviews go up, which makes ad revenue go up, all without spending more money on those pesky journalists.
The US won't even mandate ID for voting, requiring verification for internet comments is a stretch.
> There's a lot of "quality of life" there

I guess you'd have to ignore what Deidre McCloskey describes as the Great Enrichment of liberal democracies:

"[...] a rise in real wages 1800 to the present by a factor of 10 or 30 or
(allowing for improved quality of goods) 100, which is to say 900 or 2,900 or 9,900
percent" [1]

Meanwhile there's a certain propensity for incredible inhumanity, eugenics (in the case of the 1920s Progressive movement) and the outright abuse and "reeducation" of minority races in China.

[1]: http://www.deirdremccloskey.org/docs/pdf/IndiaPaperMcCloskey...
Sure, but being a Hindu nationalist does make you a conservative.
You could try the old Asian parents way (seems to work). Just make it very clear there are no jobs outside of medical or technology, and that you’ll throw them out of the house if they dare major in something ridiculous.
What are you talking about? Wind turbines use substantial sums of copper and that requires mining on a scale much larger than uranium mining.[1]

[1]: https://copperalliance.org.uk/knowledge-base/education/educa...
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