skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SQLite underpins large parts of both iOS and Android, so... all of them? Whether you can serialize "an entire database" just depends on the size of the database and whether it will fit in the local storage. SQLite scales up to a few TB at least, so that is unlikely to be the bottleneck.
You can definitely match to an interesting team if it has openings and your recruiter finds the opportunity for you. For example, when I joined I was working on Instant Apps, a new and technically interesting project I'd heard of that hadn't launched yet. The clearer you are about what interests you the better the recruiter can be.

The difficulty I saw was more that your actual slice of responsibility on such a project is likely to be somewhat small. Of course, your mileage may vary.
For sure, I would like to get a HN-type 'hot' algorithm with upvotes powering the list in the near future.
I was homeless for several years and I also have had a college class on Homelessness and Public Policy long before that. I still write about homelessness.

I got myself off the street by moving into a cheap, small rental in a walkable neighborhood where my life works without a car. The need to own a car in the US is part of the burden that helps push some people out into the street. If we had more walkable neighborhoods where more people could make their life work without a car, that would help prevent homelessness for people who are currently at risk.

In the US, we straight up just need more housing. We have underbuilt for a long time and that helps push costs up.

We also need more small-ish scale housing in walkable neighborhoods. We have largely zoned those out of existence.

One reason crazy homeless people gravitate to big cities is because that's where they can get services. If you generally help people make their lives work across the US, then you would likely see less of this pattern.
I love it. SQLite is light, easy, and useful in a variety of situations.
Not if the implementation is formally verified, like miTLS [0] and EverCrypt [1]. Parts of the latter were integrated into Firefox, which even provided a performance boost (10x in one case) [2].

I think what is needed is something like EverCrypt but for TLS. Or in other words, something like miTLS but which extracts to C and/or Assembly, to avoid garbage collection and for easy interoperation with different programming languages (preferably including an OpenSSL-compatible API for backwards compatibility).

[0]: https://mitls.org/
[1]: https://hacl-star.github.io/HaclValeEverCrypt.html
[2]: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/07/06/performance-imp...
Those of you who don’t understand why people were attached to Reader: Please keep in mind that it’s generally not the death of the tool that we lament after all these years. It is the destruction of our communities there that we’re still sad about.

Imagine your favorite coffee shop, bar, church or social club ceased to be. You’d still see some of the previous members at other places, but the community as it existed is gone.
Dunno why they don't advertise it, but this is what I pay:

> Description: $25 per year - Up to 500 feeds
You forgot screaming "whataboutism" anytime you try to introduce a comparable example to a topic where they are clearly arguing in bad faith. That has been the single greatest weapon in destroying true discourse that I have seen.
This is one of those things that the soviet cities did well.

They called this microraion (microdistrict): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdistrict

An interesting side-effect is that house/appartment-hunting become much easier and less stressful because no matter which district you will choose there will be services (groceries, pharmacies, clinics, child-care, schools, parks, etc) withing walkable/very-short-ride distance, which allows population distribute and grow more-or-less evenly, without segregationist tendencies like in the West: "I need to buy there because of the school", or "I need to buy in that area to avoid the immigrants/ethnic/black/brown people from the other area", etc.
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

-- Steve Jobs
> Again, everyone ends up paying proportionally the exact same on what they personally benefit from: consumption.

this is only true under a very narrow definition of "benefit". I benefit from a lot of things that are hard to account for with a system of taxes on transactions (what I assume you mean by "consumption tax", correct me if I'm misunderstanding you). I benefit from roads when I drive on them, police when I don't get shot on my way to work, the military when my country isn't invaded by a foreign power, etc. you could certainly expand the definition of consumption to include these things, but it would become very difficult to account for.
Yes, it's pretty solid running Doom Emacs. There's a handy macOS build script/helper:

https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos

The author curates a list of "known good" commits to the feature/native-comp branch so you don't waste your time with bad builds:

https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos/issues/6
Speed should be on an automated train of some sort. Humans are not capable of controlling a vehicle going faster than they can run. We fake it all the time, but if you are honest you will realize they are mostly get lucky and are not safe.
Works for actors too, right?
>My computer just does what I tell it to do, and nothing changes unless I want it to.

>whenever I do have to boot into Windows to run some specific application, it's like I've invited a corporate representative from Microsoft into my home. Things are changed for me on updates

Yeah, it is really nice to have a consistent interface. But there is a flip side. Sometimes, people have to change in light of new security problems, and these sometimes need to be done quickly. The most obnoxious of these updates are interface changes (both UI and API). I think Windows does this too much and maybe for non-security related issues. The only real example I can think of is how OpenSSL uses envelope functions because ppl would abuse the primitives [Source: Alexandra Boldyreva, Christopher Patton, Thomas Shrimpton:
Hedging Public-Key Encryption in the Real World].
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This is great feedback, we'll take this into consideration. You can always reach out to talk about specifics about your use case and how we can better meet it (there is a Contact Us button near the bottom of the page).
It is the most widely deployed DB in the world. That fact, alone, shows that it is not a toy DB.
There's Obsidian for those that want their notes to stay local, or at the very least decide if you want your information flying around the Internet: http://obsidian.md/
My team has really enjoyed trying out CoScreen for our team meetings (so, so much easier than Zoom for collaboration). Plus, I don't feel like I'm staring at a laggy-mirror for 4+ hours every day.
> Wish something be done about proper threading support, but I understand it's a herculean task at this point.

I would agree about adding concurrency and parallelism; but threading is very much a WorseIsBetter approach, which I certainly wouldn't like to use directly.

Co-routines or futures would seem a better fit for Lispy semantics. Actors seem too different and heavyweight, but I'd still prefer them to threading!
Random Idea: If we think about it, computers today have a limited number of RAM expansion slots, even on server motherboards, the number of RAM slots might be limited to say, 32.

So, I'm wondering (and maybe something like this already exists) what if RAM could be placed at the end of a high-speed serial cable of some sort. Like Firewire, Ethernet, Fast USB, or some kind of LVDS high-speed data serial cable...

Now, this RAM (because it would allow for long cable sizes, because we'd like to connect more of it to a PC, and thus the serial cable speed would be a bit reduced due to length) would not be intended as System RAM -- but more like a faster-than-SSD hard drive -- although perhaps it could be used as System RAM, just as slightly slower System RAM...

Note To Future Self: Look into the various ways that RAM can be connected via high-speed serial links (also, in the future, such links might include optical fiber...). So, high speed serial links AND optical fiber...
Honestly Vulkan was just a lazy example, but it's hard to give a good one when I don't use Apple products in the first place.

A better example might be places where it's hard to switch away from Apple's systems, or perhaps how they only support hardware that doesn't last very long and are notoriously hostile to attempts to repair your device.
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I think the way that Rust releases keep hitting the front page of HN helps create an illusion that the language is changing faster than it really is. There's a sense in which a front-page worthy release is expected to be a big one, and if that happens all the time, there must be a lot of big changes, right? That said, I'd have to say it's worth it in the case of stabilizing const genetics.
You guys are doing great. Julia is really taking shape. Can't wait to jump ship from Python.

It's also nice to see that you (personally) are sponsoring zig development. There is so much more room for improvement in the arena of programming languages. Infrastructure like this is a huge multiplier.
There's a certain city in central NC that I generally avoid because of this aspect. Every time I've visited friends there, I was asked for money in a confrontational manner. Every time I've left my car, it seemed reasonable to expect vandalism or a break-in upon returning. (I'm not a flashy person. I drive a 12 year old Civic. I keep nothing valuable in the cabin. I keep to myself.)

After a few of these negative interactions, I decided to generally avoid visiting ever again. It's not that I have a problem dealing with it: It's very easy to say no, or to run if needed. It's that I simply shouldn't have to deal with this BS in the first place! Please, just leave me alone! I'm leaving you alone.

In places like this, I lock the doors upon entering the car. Depending on location, I also keep the engine running, in case the car must be used in an evasive or defensive manner. (People have tried my door handles while stopped at lights, so the car is set to lock when driving too.) Be aware of your surroundings, and casually pay attention to how people are watching you.

I am very glad to live in a different nearby city, in a more sprawling area, that has much less of this activity. Due to the sprawl, it is not nearly as economically motivating for trolls to congregate.
I'm usually not one to talk in absolutes, but I'm near certain that procedural or functional programming beat OOP every time. The idea of hidden/encapsulated state just hurts flexibility - where OOP shines is when you have an army of junior developers and you want to encapsulate state and provide rigid interfaces so that mistakes are harder to make.
I use Feedly for sync, Reeder for iOS and NetNewsWire for Mac
Isn't this exactly what Reddit is?

I wasn't a Google Reader user, but I'd be interesting in understanding what I was missing.
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You just said it again...

> If, for example, you are running Arch Nightly and constantly pulling in the latest and greatest features, you're likely to see some stability issues. If you're using something like Ubuntu LTS, you'll miss out on a few new bells and whistles, but you'll get a very stable OS.

"You're doing it wrong, if you did it right it would work"
Searching for kangaroo ended me up on this pdf table [0] of the percent of lactose in non-domestic mammal milk. Sadly, the table is null on that exact measure, although they do have data on the amount of fat and protein in kangaroo milk.

https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/files/The%20gross%20compo...
I'd recommend "Blood Runs Coal" by Mark Bradley as a required reading when considering the pros/cons of unions.
"I know the privacy issue is very, very hot in the media these days" https://youtu.be/DbfejwP1d3c?t=613

Funny to be reminded of that fact by someone from 1981.
The excessiveness of it.
I once read an article about "problem based learning" where there was a problem presented first and then the solution was shown. The article implied that this was a better way of learning. I am trying to find this article for years now. Anyone knows what I am talking about and maybe has a link for me?
Higher foot traffic, some homeless services, maybe police action elsewhere?

Specifically am referring to the plateau mont royal neighbourhood. There, the homeless congregate on mont royal avenue. It is long, has a metro station, plentiful bus routes, a monastery that provides homeless services and food, a library across from the metro. Lots of stores and foot traffic all throughout the day.

I’m in Halifax now for a few months and the homeless people (who congregate on spring garden) seem more aggressive for whatever reason. In Montreal they were never a bother.

There were definitely long term homeless as I saw many of the same faces over the years. Could be a lower number, but I think part of the issue is shelter.

For instance SF has no more homeless per capita than NYC, but they have a massively higher number of unsheltered homeless, which causes a lot of problems both for the city and for the homeless.

But NYC also has many more “homeless amenable” areas than a place like SF, which has a fairly small walkable area. My central point is if you built like Montreal and NYC then the entire city is walkable and the problem is less concentrated and thus much less bothersome.

(There are homeless elsewhere in Montreal. But in my specific neighbourhood only one street has them)
They don't lack the density, they just shifted how these needs are met. In Europe, you can have a teensy town of 2000 people and a cafe and bar and all your shops in walking distance still. In the U.S., this used to be the case until the 1950s or so, when automobiles made it possible to develop larger, regional stores that service a number of towns for all their needs and could dominate over the competition (Walmart today is what used to be a dozen separate services in one hulking brick and mortar).
At some point a year or two ago I googled around for "best rss reader app" or "best rss news app" looking for android specifically, and I don't remember seeing newsblur talked about anywhere. All of the ones I did try (aggregator, feedly, inoreader, etc) were unsatisfactory in various ways.

I just downloaded and tried newsblur and it's pretty much perfect for my taste and needs. Going to try it for a few days then will likely become a paid user. This comment is coming from a place of relative ignorance, but have you considered investing in a bit of marketing, or a bit more if you have? For how good this app is among rss readers, it doesn't seem as discoverable as it deserves to be.
> A malicious app can already phish you by impersonating another app.

Yes but that requires a host of other things to go wrong first.

My point is basically "Don't enter your credentials into any app". There might be exceptions for 1st party apps but these are much less common and the OS already has protections in place (of varying levels of effectiveness).
oof, I got bit by this issue this morning. if you're using cloudflare, set your domain's apex (`@`) as a CNAME pointing to the default subdomain (sitename.netlify.app) and use CNAME Flattening. It's the A record pointing to the CDN IP address that's broken.
The problem is, how are you figuring out whether or not someone is breaking the license terms? It's at least possible with software you run on your own machines, but if it's running on a server you don't control, there's no way to tell.
The media is notorious for spreading “the science is settle”, and the reaction of the public to label anyone a denier if someone doesn’t think /exactly/ the same way, has ruined science for me.
Do you have a favorite? I have a Feedly account but I don’t use the site much, and the Reeder app added local subscriptions recently.
You can write everything in python if you like. Pinephone is just a Pi with a screen and USB attached modem and some other things that are accessible in more than one way. Don't like AT, use modemmanager. Don't like gtk, make some python canvas lib write to a framebuffer. You can probably make the whole phone UI just with `dialog` and shell scripts. If anything, there are too many options. ;)
Isn't the biggest problem with SSD latency generally that paralell reading / writing is not used within software that was optimized for hard disk?
That's cheating!

https://d.godbolt.org/z/Ed65xMdj1
not that I really disagree with you, but "fair" isn't an argument; it's an opinion. you're clearly arguing with someone who doesn't agree with using income/wealth as a criterion for fairness.
What is the use case for elfeed?
What would these compilers have as advantage over the existing compilers?

Back when there was just one D compiler the common complaint was that this was too few. Now that there are three you sometimes read that there are too many. This is the first time I see someone needing more :)
> It offers GraphQL and FQL (Fauna Query Language) interfaces instead of SQL.

I hate that it's this way but it is: all software-aware companies I've worked for won't look at something they can't attach at least a clunky, slow as all hell SQL interface too. And any overhead to do that doesn't make business sense.
The problem with software patents is that they would grant protection against independent creation, which copyright does not.

If I don’t like the license on your copyrighted quicksort library, I’m free to write my own. If I don’t like the license on your patented quicksort, I can’t use quicksort [during the term of the patent]. That’s way worse, IMO, for me, the world, and probably the judicial system.

That’s one direction of bad. The other direction of bad is patenting work is inherently expensive in time and money. Copyright and adopting a license is vanishingly cheap in both of those things.
Redefining words to get's one way is now a staple of contemporary discourse. The problem with any policy of dismissing commentary that is disrespectful is that the definition of disrespectful will simply be changed until all contrary arguments have been banned for being disrespectful. How many times over the past year have common words suddenly had new definitions added to them for political expediency? Seems like quite a bit and we're told "no, that's always been part of the definition" even while print evidence and cached Internet Archive records show otherwise.
I think youtube had killed every RSS endpoint, I remember channels disappearing from my RSS app. So either youtube has done the right thing or that specific reader is scrapping the HTML of the channel pages.
Thanks for checking it out! The search by area idea makes a lot of sense. Finding artists on the site currently seems to be one of the biggest challenges for users who are testing RoadPony.

We do have plans for showcasing artists in the future!
It's because they don't have to compete with each other. There is only one Teamsters. Only one UAW. Only one ILWU. They are federally protected monopolies.
Musk stands out in that crowd for being an actual old-school innovator. Bezos, Jobs and Gates have made huge impacts, but those impacts are evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

That's the difference; the rate of actual invention, or as Thiel puts it, going from 0 to 1, has dropped off a cliff.
Too bad. I wish they could just stop breaking things.
> it worked. People liked it. And didn't need to be killed? They could have literally put zero dollars into it for the remaining amount of time left in the universe and life would have been better off.

The costs of storage and bandwidth of something as popular as Google Reader probably weren't negligible.
You've missed the real issues; they weren't the only one making a vaccine and their vaccine wasn't by any means guaranteed to be good much less the best.

Without that pre-order, they had no guarantee that they would get any money. What if their vaccine turned out to be 50% effective? 30%?
>The 0.01 percenters represent about 0.007 percent of the U.S. population

I don't get that part. Does half the population not pay taxes, or are there people outside the US paying US taxes? Both?
Memorialize life online? To what end? Seems rather self important.
> West: "I need to buy there because of the school", or "I need to buy in that area to avoid the immigrants/ethnic/black/brown people from the other area", etc.

How to microdistricts prevent class or racial clustering?
In German too, "frei" and "gratis/kostenlos". However, paradoxically "free beer" is actually "Freibier", not "Gratis-Bier"...
What's the upside for the employer?
Markets are not orthogonal in so far as that certain forms of bureaucracy exist solely for dealing with non-market scenarios ("wartime cost plus"). You want either one or the other, never both at once (a market stifled by redundant bureaucracy) or none at all (decisionmakers just wiring the money to family members for vague promises of maybe trying to deliver, perhaps)

Unfortunately it gets a bit murky in that there is another form of bureaucracy to tame markets while they are not circumvented and there's a severe lack of separation between those two forms of bureaucracies. Usually neither critics nor advocates seem to care about the distinction (which plays out much better for critics I suppose).
It's hard to say what people actually prefer when the laws often constrain what may be built. For example, the building I live in could not be rebuilt without zoning variances today. It has no off-street parking, but if it were a new building, it would require a parking space for each apartment. The building is quite close to the edges of the property, and if it were a new building, it would need larger setbacks that are likely impossible to achieve. This is the norm in my dense, highly-desirable neighbourhood, where tiny flats are expensive. If someone wanted a large, detached house and yard, there is plenty of that available not far outside of the city at more reasonable prices. People pay the premium to live here precisely because they care about being close to things more than they care about having space.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/11/4/the-myth-of-re...
Yeah, I noticed this too: I think Google Reader was heavily used by the right sort of people (devs, bloggers and media types) that, when Google killed it, it created a lot of bad will with the people who shape opinions.
Cloudflare pages is in beta and right now lacks many features that Netlify has, while also containing some showstopping issues (https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/known-issue...)
Apple increasing supply chain security to prevent leaks including biometric data
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Shout out to Feedbin! It was created shortly after (I think) Google announced the Reader deprecation. I signed up around the first day and have been a subscriber since then. It even has a well-documented and supported API. I hope Ben keeps running it for many years to come.
It was an app but with a network effect around it. All the replacements seem to have no community.