skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No SQL database is the one thing I disagree with.

I'm not saying this approach is a good idea in every case. There are many situations where I would use a proper database. It really depends on what kind of app you're building, what kind of queries you want to run, how big is your dataset, your failover and availability requirements, your programming language, etc.

In my case it was a great decision. The code is simple, and the data is convenient to access since it is already packed in native data structures. And it's really, really fast since all of the "queries" are basically LLVM-optimized machine code.

> What if you want to write a SQL query/report?

I just write a few lines of normal Rust code to do that. Sure, it's not as convenient. But I don't need to do that as often, so I don't care.

> Do you have transactions?

The concept of 'transaction' doesn't really make sense in this approach, since I'm directly modifying the data in memory, every change I make is atomic and can't fail, and I flush the data to the disk atomically as well.
> Apple has never had a dedicated Siri button.

Sure it does. Right side button, hold it and it triggers siri. Single click locks unlocks the phone. This is identical to how the unlock/Bixby button works on Samsung.
> I would love to read a sci-fi story about organisms that evolved in the early plasma universe and how they used technology to create arks to carry them through the rapidly cooling universe. And then one day an ark filled with primordial plasma passes by Earth and says hi.

Stephen Baxter's Xeelee series actually touches on quite a bit of that, but his writing is such that I'd honestly prefer to read it in outline form with the conceptual bits pasted in.

IIRC, the short story "The Quagma Datum" from Vacuum Diagrams deals with that most directly, and is similar the story your asking for, complete with an ark. Also the titular Xeelee are also survivors from the very early universe.
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LG G6 is my favorite phone ever. I like it physically, it’s waterproof, it has a headphone jack, it has a fingerprint reader, it has NFC, it does NOT have a notched camera, and Spigen made an awesome inexpensive case for it.

And I bought mine for $360 CAD (about $240 USD) at the end of its cycle. That’s hard to beat. Samsung makes crappier, more expensive phones IMO.

It’s a sad day for the phone ecosystem :-(
Actually iOS is an evolution of PalmOS/WebOS user interface paradigm. iOS would have a much harder time to win usability awards if Palm was still around.
Pair X-Plane with PilotEdge, and you've got something that can help you with your radio skills so that you can effectively communicate with ATC. So many pilots go without flight following (asking ATC to watch your path and notify you of things you should be aware of) simply because they are afraid of the radio.

Completely agree about stick/rudder skills though...
> In one of the photos it looks like on the other party's side there is a projector near the ceiling in the back but then in subsequent photos that projector's light is gone and there's a different, stronger light that seems much closer to their camera/screen. Is this correct?

In those cases those are just normal overhead lights, nothing from a projector. The camera is actually in the screen!

> Also, have you considered/tried using an actual LCD screen? At our company we're currently dabbling with digital signage devices (for entirely different purposes) and the big ones are quite impressive.

Yeah we definitely want to move to panel displays when it becomes more feasible to do so. We haven't yet made a prototype with an LCD screen but I look forward to the day when we can, because projectors are a lot fussier to deal with.
My primary goal was to get this up and running for my website. I really enjoyed the end effect so decided to open-source it as is.
Might be incorrect. I mean which Paris riots are you referring to, there are often riots, were the extraordinary? (at least here in a neighboring country there was no big news).
So perception of things happening outside US might have been skewed (to whatever reason). Inside US, I don't know. Beginning from 2020 there was also the start of a strong bipartisan election campaign.
Camera bumps are all cancelled out by cases anyways. What you are describing sounds uncomfortable to carry around in the pocket.
Proud owner of 3 LG V20s.

What are my LG v20 alternatives now ?
Aaron Maté, who made the actual tweet about "Russiagate" that Greenwald merely made a passing reply to, is about as solid in his traditional left-wing bonafides as anyone can be, following in the footsteps of his father Gabor, a medical practitioner, researcher and author with a decades-long public profile espousing traditional left-wing values.

Aaron Maté's skepticism of the Russia narrative is not out of any support for Trump whatsoever - he's been highly critical of Trump - but is part of a track record of earnest investigative reporting about Russia that few other western journalists can match. One should never forget that as recently as 2012, to consider Russia any kind of threat to the US, which the Romney Republican campaign did back then, attracted mockery and derision from Democrats, and it was only in early 2017, just 4 years ago, that it suddenly flipped such that expressing skepticism about the influence of Russia in US politics suddenly became part of "right-leaning talking points".

All Maté is doing is remaining consistent with what has been the accepted Democrat/left-wing position for many years, right up until Clinton lost the unlosable election.

When Maté and Greenwald spend their time "criticizing liberals", their criticisms are always focused on the modern-day Democrats' track record of becoming too entangled with the big-corporate and military/intelligence establishment, and in doing so, abandoning their supposed left-wing ideals.

Just because some right-wingers criticise the Democrats/liberals for the same reason, does not make Maté and Greenwald right-leaning; they are simply staying true to the left-wing values they've held for decades.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26688917.
"Full self driving cars" that require a seperate set of infrastructure to operate are not "Full self driving cars"

This is a fundamental thing. Robot cars that can't interact with humans without killing them at a greater rate than humans do are not self driving.
I don't understand why so many people think "pdf" automatically means "A4" or "letter size" document. PDF's are size agnostic. Storage is cheap and so is processing power. A phone-sized pdf will be 20 mb instead of 1 mb, but so what? It's a small price to pay for quality typesetting. Similarly, pdf's can be sized for the now typical 16:9 laptop screen.
I still dont understand how why waymo is still in the FSD discussion. Its a science project on wheels, Which will never make it to market.
> All Tesla vehicles can use Superchargers.

The chargers should be open to all makes and models of EV. Single brand plugs and chargers is wasteful infrastructure.

Tesla switched to CCS in Europe. They should switch to CCS in the US as well. The next step is to open the chargers to all EVs like the other charging networks do.

You can fuel an ICE car at any fuel station so you should be able to charge an EV at any charging station. Not being able to do so makes EVs less practical than internal combustion vehicles.
I love the points you made. There so many services solves reCaptcha. Saw 2captcha yesterday on reddit, it's indeed unethical. reCaptcha is privacy nightmare.

For contact forms and comment systems there are other alternatives other than captcha like OOPSpam API which is privacy-friendly and accessible as submission are simple analyzed in the backend without interacting with the user. Just wanted to mention.
The Ugly Little Boy – Issac Asimov – Short Story Film – 1977
I was looking for something similar recently and I ended up using jsPDF for my ResumeToPDF site and it worked pretty well. Only thing I sort of had pain with was that I had to include SVG icons in-line in the html/javascript and had to convert them to base64 to be included in the PDF. And same thing for the custom fonts - I had to include base64 of the font TTFs to be embedded in the PDF:

https://resumetopdf.com

https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF
i wrote an html generator called jibber [0] that works over IRC. the input syntax is similar to markdown; it was written in mircscript and i've been using it for about 5 years for my own websites.

[0] http://jollo.org/LNT/doc/jibber
The first edition literally changed the way I type and gave me additional paranoid behavior other than kerning awareness, which I already obtained. I kept it as a reference for years until most habits became ingrained.

Attention to non English writers: always ensure what your language’s typography rules requires for every topic. You may find subtle and huge differences!
The answer you linked talks about _increasing_ the TTL on your machine.
It was like a warzone in Paris. June 2, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7xGEdA5RYo
Because using stock Android is like the phone version of year of Linux Desktop.

It is so ugly from UI/UX perspective, that almost everyone ends up installing a theme anyway.

Then Google only does the minimum in features, and their software is crap.

For many years, if you wanted proper music software, Samsung phones with their custom real time audio SDK were the only option on Android ecosystem.

Same applies to the quality of Vulkan drivers.
LG G2 was my favorite phone of all time.
Samsung mobile phone manufacturing left China long time ago. Most Samsung mobile phones are manufactured in Vietnam these days.
Disabled uBO, still no luck. It says "Computing sizes of all cells, 50 remaining ..." and spins forever.
Somewhat relatedly, the article reads like a plea for funding. It's not just an "interesting story", it's an attempt to justify why the story should be further researched:

> Our actions will be a source of pride for our descendants if they sustain a civilization intelligent enough to endure for trillions of years. Here’s hoping that we will act wisely enough to be remembered favorably in their “big history” books.
Anything with paged.js makes me an auto fan :)

This could be very interesting for those with Python workflows, thanks for sharing
I can believe that they do not keep logs of the database access. As brain dead as it sounds.

I have been in the position of implementing a client on a API I do not control. The owners of the servers (colleagues but in a different country) do not seem to know what logs are.

We get random failures from the server. I can pin down to the second when they occur (not closer because of network lag). I suspect that the server is failing under load, but the way I would find out is to... Read the logs.

My foreign colleagues do not respond to me, ghost me entirely, when I ask them to inspect the logs.

Perhaps it is a Windows/Azure thing?
Ordering Requests to Accelerate Disk I/O
Samsung has a decent mid range A/M series and you can replace Xiaomi with 'Chinese companies' but comment otherwise stands true.
They Made Great phone , im still using a LG G7.Sad that they are shutting down. very few companies focused on Audiophile needs / DACs.
I never developed for it, but I had to support it. My recollection is that mailboxes wouldn't really delete stuff, which would cause servers to run out of space. Those mailboxes would then need to be compacted which would cause a multi hour outage for all of the users on the same server.

Notes issues were a nightmare, exceeded only by the problems caused by oversized apple talk and netbios networks, and physical layer problems in networks that predate the "base T" paradigm.
I know TP-Link is no Ubiquiti, but I run two identical small networks (VR-2100 routers with RE-200v4 extenders running in mesh mode), and it's pretty solid so far.

You can access your network from Tether app via cloud if you wish, too. When you enable Mesh, everything is controlled via the router. You don't need to manage anything on the extenders.

RE200 can work as an AP if you can get them a CAT5, or can provide wireless to Ethernet capability. I don't need home-wide VLANs and other exotic stuff (for a home network), but you can adjust QoS on the router in three levels and it has an embedded OpenVPN server if you fancy.

While not network related, you can temporarily or permanently turn off all LEDs on the devices so they don't create any light pollution, something I love to have.

All in all it's a great package, for my home network, at least.
Whoa. Thank you SO MUCH!

I'd completely despaired of ever finding a modern smartphone with a full physical keyboard on it. It's been 8 years since I had one.

Now to do some research and find a US carrier that it'll work with.
I built GoodPlates [1] using Netlify [2] for rendering the HTML, JS, CSS. Instead of using vanilla CSS, I used TailwindCSS [3]. My backend consists of API Gateway [4], Lambda [5], and DynamoDB [6]. I also use CircleCI [7] for deploying my API Gateway / Lambda changes.

[1] https://findgoodplates.com/

[2] https://netlify.com/

[3] https://tailwindcss.com/

[4] https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/

[5] https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/

[6] https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/

[7] https://circleci.com/
OnePlus has decent value and while being Chinese it doesn't have a lot of quirks and is geared towards western markets.

Motorola also has some decent phones in the budget category. Pixel a series are also great value.

I got a Samsung last generation and gave Samsung ecosystem a go (smart watch, buds, TV). They do great hardware but they should just leave software alone - tizen os is a major PITA on TV and Watch (lacks apps, Bixby is retarded).

I had one plus before this and I'll probably go back if I stay on Android - software is just much better
My $170 new moto g7 power has a 5ah battery, a headphone jack, an sdcard slot, a 6 x 3 in screen, and no lock to any carrier.

I wouldn't love a Linux phone but app support is going to be in need of help unless it can run android apps
That's surprising. They make one of the best devices. What else is there, Sony? I have no interest in Samsung in the least. I don't find it "incredibly competitive" when the number of decent options is approaching zero.

I guess mass market junk approach pushes good options out.
The more money you have above your basic needs the easier it is for you take risks. The more success you have the more people are willing to take a risk on you.
> that doesn't exactly translate into higher efficiency when it comes to providing housing.

why doesn't it?

If a corporation can, with the same amount of capital as an individual, produce more units of housing, then isn't that a desirable result?

Also, regarding owning a house being cheaper - it really depends on the savings from taxes. If you own, you lose the opportunity cost of the locked-up capital in the asset, which might be high.

But of course, there are non-financial concerns with buying vs renting. The higher income earner is more likely to want to buy, as their taxes would be more efficient that way. And the guarantee that you cannot get kicked out, unlike renters, is a good plus.
And a high end GPU you can't buy.

(stuck with my RX 580, FS2020 is ok on my monitor, but the VR unplayable).
You broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. Please do not take HN further into flamewars, and please don't get involved in nasty tit-for-tat spats. Those are particularly tedious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You also broke the site guidelines in this thread. Please do not take HN further into flamewars, and please don't get involved in nasty tit-for-tat spats. Those are particularly tedious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Try the HTML / CSS / Paged.js workflow with headless chrome - I think it works really well (and open source / free with the exception of Chrome, where you are a bit at the mercy of Google, but they are unlikely to make any breaking changes in my opinion)
> It seems to envision a world that is zero-sum, or close to it, with rich countries hoovering up the riches that should be flowing to the Global South.

Hickel's research makes the argument that this hoovering is exactly what is happening, on a massive scale:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2021.18...

If Noah Smith wants to rebuke this argument, he can't just "as if" it away. He needs to do the research that proves otherwise.
Samsung absolutely decimated the other manufacturers in marketing - including Google.

I remember seeing GQ articles that were interviews with celebrities that was kind of a "30 questions" thing where each celebrity was asked the same set of questions.

One of them was: "iPhone or Samsung?"

It didn't matter that the answer to every single one (in that issue) was iPhone. It didn't surprise me that celebrities would be 100% iPhone users.

But as a discerning high-end android buyer gravitating between flagship Google Nexus devices, HTC, and LG, the implication that the alternative to iPhone was "Samsung" was BEWILDERING to me.
Replacing let with const – Even when it feels impossible
I've had the opposite experience in this specific case.
> why call a community your home if its owned by a corporation?

community is more than just where you live. Why can't your community be the group you do leisure activity with? Why can't you have a digital community? Why can't your community be spread out geographically, and meet up in public places for community activities?
"Enjoy the time we have left"

Please. What a joke.

Read the IPCC reports. They are projecting massive increases in the wealth and health of the whole world in all future emissions scenarios.

Some scenarios are just worse than others, but all are better than today.

The world has been improving for centuries. The idea that we need to "enjoy what time we have left" is absolutely insane. It's pseudo-science

Yes, human impacts on the environment cause problems. No, they aren't going to cause human extinction.

Read "Enlightenment Now" or "The Rational Optimist" for some perspective.
Termux is on their way out as they refuse to implement in Java the requirements of newer Android versions, not exposed as NDK APIs.
That COVID-19 is responsible for disorder is beyond question. What is questionable is what should be done about it. On one hand you have a increased need for law enforcement, on the other you have a social/political movement demanding the exact opposite.
> website operator can immediately search Facebook for the user name

I’m not seeing that. If Facebook recognizes the phone number, it offers to send an SMS to that number or to send an email to an obfuscated email address (like r***@***).

At most, you learn that the user’s email starts with an “r” as in example above. And possibly the numbers of letters in the username, but my experiments indicate that Facebook is not telling you the precise number of asterisks to deduce the length.

Maybe when you tried it, you were using a known device (eg., having an IP address from which you logged into Facebook on an earlier occasion), and therefore Facebook was offering you more detail, such as your username. Could you try a random phone number from the 533M leaked numbers and see if you still get the username?
PostgREST is excellent. I’m using it with Elm on the front end.
The conversion between Fahrenheit and Celsius is easy. You just take the numbers 9, 5, and 32 and put them in different combinations until you get the right formula, knowing that 0 = 32 and 100 = 212, and maybe that 37 = 98.6.
Wow that is a slick side project. I'd love to create something like that but I don't find I have the time.

I'd really love to have a side project so I can live off of it and pick my own hours. However I find that my lack of free time limits the time I could give to something like this.
Inkspace is vector based app as compared to UIUX design tools. It is lack or functionality to quick prototype or ui design work. I can port it in inkspace or more compatible file in near future
If you continue to post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN, we will have to ban you. You've been doing it a lot, and it's not what this site is for. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.

Actually your account appears to be using HN primarily for political/ideological battle. We ban that sort of account, so please don't.
OnePlus ships phones with unlockable bootloaders. They're great!

However, when you unlock your bootloader, you lose access to things that demand devices be trusted by Google. So Netflix no longer even shows up in the Play Store, you can no longer use NFC pay, etc. And ROMs are not what they used to be (though the update process being lighter and quicker is a nice change).

It's too bad, but I get why it is the way it is.
Tesla cars (for example) already interact with humans without killing them at a greater rate than human drivers.

That is not the bar to pass here, as robot drivers have already surpassed it. L5 is way beyond that.
The sad truth is that we don't have any good painkillers. Current painkillers are either weak or have strong side effects.
Source: I have incurable cancer (not yet in any pain) and did a lot of research on every aspect of it (including future pain management.)
>There's absolutely room for skepticism, but dismissing it out of hand by equating it to cell-tower crazies is ridiculous.

Dismissing her symptoms as completely fabricated is ridiculous but I think it's entirely reasonable to dismiss her explanation for them out of hand because it is entirely on-par with cell-tower crazies spouting off nonsense about things they don't understand.

She was on the third floor, no one else is having symptoms, lead and arsenic contamination beneath a foot of dirt and a big thick concrete foundation is never going to plausibly cause very high VOC levels only in one third floor apartment. She even dismisses expert opinions that disagree with her idea as "some expert wordsmithing and spin". She even claims that it's contaminated the tap water, as if it must just come from the groundwater.

I find the claim that there's a high VOC level in an apartment causing numerous health problems completely reasonable. It's the blatantly ridiculous leap of blaming remediated soil contamination that makes me dismayed. Quite frankly it makes people dismiss real environmental health problems by throwing in that nonsense along with it.

There's tons of valid explanations here, maybe when the flooring was replaced they went with a different supplier for that faux wood laminate and it's off gassing formaldehyde. Maybe the carpet in some part of the apartment had a similar issue. Maybe the drywall had to be replaced in that unit in the past and it's contaminated akin to the imported Chinese drywall back in the 00s. Maybe the paint stripper the apartment complex maintenance worker used was based on DCM and he accidently tipped over the can and they just said "screw it, we're putting new flooring over it anyways".

There's a thousand different valid explanations here, her explanation is nowhere on the map.
Yeah Oneplus is a good option, but their pricing is now ~flagship, while I stick with low-mid end. Right now I'll go with A52 if I have to replace my phone. I don't use Bixby/Google and have ungoogled my life by lot, maybe one of the reason
Samsungs S10+ and Google Pixel phones have a double tap to wake up too.

[1] https://www.samsung.com/sg/support/mobile-devices/how-to-qui...

[2] https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7443425