skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it a problem? Or is it awesome that they were able to raise the bar for newly constructed residences?

I've lived in newer homes over the last couple of decades. It's awesome to have smoke detectors in every room, grounded outlets, GFCI outlets, well-insulated windows and exterior walls, firewalls, plenum-rated cables, safe and easy-to-maintain plumbing.

The market would've only demanded a subset of these improvements. And the least expensive builders would've just built residences without them.
I don't think this is true for the reasons listed, though. It isn't like they are illegal because they have old pipes or something. The interactive shows they are illegal because they are duplexes or apartments where now they only allow you to build single family homes.

I suppose you could go to smaller cities/towns and say that it would also be illegal to build apartments there - but the types of houses in suburban towns built 50 years are still very legal today.
No, you don't need 10TB. But you do need a crazy machine with 128GB+ of RAM.[0]

[0] https://docs.filecoin.io/mine/mining-architectures/#protocol...
i can see why, lmao
Absolutely. Mail.app on Windows instead is pretty lightweight /s
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Well, the two editions were only 10 years apart.
Oh, you are correct, thanks.
... so, you think fish will need unicycles more than they do bicycles?
Whether math is discovered or invented is always open to debate.
It's not that we can't, we choose not to.

Like the only reason that children get shamed for not having money for school lunch is because some people like it that way. There's no lack of resources.

This is more than embarrassing.
Yeah this is a common misconception. Trino and Presto were aimed to replace and speed up the Hive engine.

As you say gwittel, adding Trino to an RDBMS itself won't speed things up. However, if you have operational data sitting in that RDBMS and data sitting in a data lake somewhere on like S3, then you can quickly join those datasets together.

Trino does its best to take advantage of any existing indexes that the RDBMS has by doing a pushdown but won't return that data any faster than the underlying database could. But it's the joining with other data sources data sets that makes the RDBMS connector worthwhile.

If you have a 1GB customer dataset in mysql and a 100TB dataset in s3 of all your orders, then Trino will first run a quick query against your mysql database, get a list of customer ids that meet the query, and then will use that list to filter the order id.

SELECT * FROM mysql.db_name.customer AS c JOIN s3.db_name.orders AS o ON c.id = o.customer_id WHERE c.credit_card_num = 123456789;
I switched to it with the first release of OS X and have been pretty happy with it.

Amazingly I have a handful of messages from the late 70s (a couple of jokes and a couple of personal messages from friends who passed away young) that have survived the file format transitions since then but I couldn't imagine could appear in something like google or yahoo mail. TBH I haven't made that many transitions: EMACS (BABYL) on ITS, then TOPS-20; Interlisp and Smalltalk clients to Grapevine back end; Lispm to TOPS-20 back end; GNU Emacs (rmail?) to IMAP; and then Apple Mail (macOS and iOS) -> IMAP. Emacs is the most powerful but these days still hard to put in your pocket.

In general a web browser seems like the worst interface to most services and activities as the UI can't be dedicated to the task at hand; instead you have system UI, Browser UI and only then the application UI. And a lot of mouse activity is expected.
You're downvoted, but it has been postulated that no democracy has ever waged war against another democracy, and that this is a consequence of democratic governance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory

As far as I can tell, the observation is historically true. The few possible exceptions are pre-modern, very minor, or are debatable whether the societies involved were in fact democratic -- the first war in the Balkans, 19th century border skirmishes in South America, the Western Allies against Finland in WW II, and Iceland's conflict with the UK over fishing, are some of the stronger counter-examples.

The effect seems real enough, but I'm not sure if it actually means anything deeper, given the cultural similarity and degree of trade among most democracies.
lots of hypocrisy when it comes to housing
Most trains are much smaller than the longest trains too.

And they were used/build for a very specific purpose ( mining). These cargo ships were build for the same purpose.
Can someone enlighten me on the logic of this sort of thinking?
Ok. But I still don't agree that the property of antisymmetry implies or requires that restriction.
> KiCad has a scripting engine for automating boring repetitive tasks - it's Python.

This is actually a giant sore point for me as a programmer. Let me ask the HN collective for advice:

How do you set up an interface for a scripting language in a larger application?

Most applications like KiCad or Blender have their own Python baked very deeply into the software architecture. It works ... mostly ... but it seems to me like its suboptimal

1) you have to jump through an enormous amount of hoops to try to connect your "normal" development environment to the "captive" scripting engine.

2) controlling UI elements from the scripting language is a real PITA

3) you don't have a choice of scripting language

It seems like there ought to be a better way to do this, but I always wind up sort of landing on "open a socket and talk RPC" which has it's own failure modes (for example: how do you expose everything (including the UI) and how do you handle concurrent access).

What is the solution to this?
here's a different one for you. This one is definitely a metaphor:

Python helps you to think more like the computer does. Perl helps the computer think more like you do.
Honestly, no idea if this is an April Fool's Day prank or not. Seems reasonable, but inconsistent naming makes me suspicious.
My connection to Comcast is only 400mbit or so. But I need a NAS, and most have 2.5gbe ports (Qnap, Asustor, etc). Just got a ryzen b550 motherboard, with 2.5gbe ports by default. I needed a new cable modem, which came with 2.5gbe ports by default.

I do often move 20-40GB files around, so the bandwidth would actually be useful. Apparently ubuntu-20.04 has the right drives, but thanks for the info, seems like I might need to upgrade to a semi-current kernel to get the interfaces working.
Where? In the US? Is this overview lying? https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/coronavirus-reopening-...

It seems to indicate the vast majority of places are loosening restrictions. Only one state out of 50 is currently imposing more stringent lockdowns.
They don't have to block the login completely but they may treat it as less trusted and require additional authorization for, say, an outgoing wire transfer. Of course, this assumes banks are doing actual risk modeling not just security theater.
Tabs are evil => https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TabsAreEvil
> Anyway, nice in-depth article. The results will surprise you. Especially point 6.

I wonder how this line would fare in their headline analysis.
Oh sorry, you are correct.
Oh yes. Did you ever have a statement where you chain more than two method calls and don't know which returns null? I tend to split calls like this on separate lines just to be able to tell which call returns null from the line number in the stack trace.

obj.call1().call2().call3();

becomes

obj.call1()
.call2()
.call3();

And if I now get an NPE at line three, I know that call2() returned null.
Article from 2014 about closing above 2000: https://www.wsj.com/articles/s-p-500-closes-above-2000-for-f...
For security plain text is best. US Federal Government Recommendation is to disable html:

“Organizations should ensure that they have disabled HTML from being used in emails, as well as disabling links. Everything should be forced to plain text. This will reduce the likelihood of potentially dangerous scripts or links being sent in the body of the email, and also will reduce the likelihood of a user just clicking something without thinking about it. With plain text, the user would have to go through the process of either typing in the link or copying and pasting. This additional step will allow the user an extra opportunity for thought and analysis before clicking on the link.”

https://theconversation.com/the-only-safe-email-is-text-only...

That said theres another post on the front page about an Apple mail zero click exploit involving attachments so even plain text can’t dodge everything.
Moving to 1200sqft minimum lot size seems reasonable but 500sqft lot is tight, with little if any outdoor space. Plus 500sqft would not be friendly to older people or people with bad knees because of stairs.
So what happens when someone puts password leaks or other security breaches onto FIL or another decentralized storage system? Compromising photos of individuals (revenge porn)? Underage pornography? Stolen credit card data? Critical state secrets or other sensitive information?

I generally dislike the "DAE crytpo is bad because illegal activity" argument, but in the case of distributed file storage the harm profile is very different than "but it allows you to spend money on illegal things" with payment-only cryptos. Anything seedy you can do with bitcoin, you can also do with cash. The same is not true for centralized vs. decentralized cloud storage.
> The interesting question about Bitcoin is whether it could ever be robust enough that they couldn't successfully regulate or control it,

Oh, I doubt that. I mean, if it were banned by most world states, then you wouldn't have reputable exchanges operating legally and openly. So established investment firms and investors would probably stay away from it. And of course, no person or business could officially accept BitCoin, and it would be risky to accept it even unofficially, since it would be admitting to a crime.
Apple is experiencing supply chain issues, and there is a shortage of laptop devices right now if you try to make bulk orders (>1000 units). I have no context on their phones.
Also, because land is scarce and people need a place to live, houses will sell, regardless of their regulatory condition.

Also, newer homes are amazing in terms of heath retention and isolation. Having lived in buildings from before the war with either none of very little isolation.or even worse, i once lived in a home with a split in the wall thanks to a WW2 bmobin raid. The crack was not an issue in regards to the structural integrity, but it made isolation mood.
I see that behaviour starting to emerge, but you're right. I think this should just become the M.O.

Maybe also by waiting to start the meeting we're enabling it all too?

I find it all too much to keep track of, so perhaps simplifying it to "meeting starts at X, be there or be square" is all that's needed and behaviour will adjust accordingly?

Food for thought.

I've seen some comments that WFH and it's variations (full remote vs partial) are a skill like anything else and need to be developed. I'm not strictly speaking a fan of it all really, but that's just me, and I think the "more productive vs less productive" debate is actually a ruse and that the real argument we're all getting into is "this makes me feel better vs this makes me feel worse" which you simply can't logic your way out of, so I get that it truly does suit some people.

I think I just need to take the mindset that it's a skill I need to develop a little further and some of my gripes with it will ease or melt away.

Seems like, at least in my neck of the woods, 2 days WFH is becoming a standard benefit touted by companies to attract candidates now.
I don’t live there, but isn’t there a large portion of the student population that is returning to schools after a year? I doubt most parents in that case were setting up play dates, so in effect this has been almost a lockdown for those children.
Rent controls!
The reason is the SEC. Look into stokr.io.
"It's quite easy to jam satellite comes"

That would literally require a man in the middle attack; the jammer should be kept between the antenna and the satellite, or very close to that position. I mean, it should be in the air.

"as well as locate them"

Possible, but not easy. A satellite dish can be buried, hidden under a camouflaging roof etc It's not like earth antennas that need the space around them free for pointing them; all they need is to see their satellite which is in the sky. One can dig a hole in the ground, put the dish down there pointed to the satellite, then when not in use park their truck above it, and good luck to the government helicopter passing above to track it.
And btw, there are ways to build antennas that don't appear as such; they may offer worse performance but they do work, and satellite reflectors can be built that way too.
Nobody in this thread is proposing a solution. I would much rather discuss those.
It's hardly surprising, you can run into memory corruption bugs just using desktop mail.app the way it's intended (there's been a bug that corrupts the account list for probably a decade which just hasn't been fixed.)

Mutt may look old but at least it actually works.
The CDC estimates the flu vaccine prevents 6,500 deaths per year in the US. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm#effectiveness
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And what's worse, the mining process has some rather absurd system requirements: 128+ GB of RAM, 1 TB of SSD cache storage (separate from the data being stored!), and a high-end GPU is "recommended". The sense I get is that it's impossible to casually offer up some spare storage from a typical home system, or even from a NAS -- the system requirements effectively limit mining to people willing to spend a couple thousand dollars on hardware.

https://docs.filecoin.io/mine/hardware-requirements/
That's also true in any old enough city and is probably what the GP means.
How does this handle conflicting offline writes?
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>> blacks moving into a neighborhood would decrease property values.

I'm not from U.S but why would black people decrease property values? Isn't this really about poor people (that in the U.S are more likely to be black) decrease property values?
> The results will surprise you. Especially point 6.

I see what you did there.
Yeah, it will eventually get better, but I have family who are physicians who are swamped again and friends with relatives in ERs and ICUs.. Hard to be too optimistic at the moment. NYTimes' latest concurs;

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/us/michigan-covid-outbrea...

> Michigan has more recent cases per capita than any other state, and has seen them soar in recent weeks, to more than 5,600 cases a day from about 1,000 on Feb. 21. The nation’s top five metro areas in recent cases per capita are all in Michigan: Jackson, Detroit, Flint, Lansing and Monroe.

...

> Health officials partly attributed the rapid rise in cases to the B.1.1.7 variant that was originally identified in Britain and is widespread in Michigan. But they have also observed a broader return to prepandemic life seen in a relaxing of mask wearing, social distancing and other strategies meant to slow the spread of the virus — many weeks before a substantial portion of the population is vaccinated. On Thursday, Michigan officials announced that they had identified their first case of the P.1 variant, which has spread widely in Brazil and has now been found in more than 20 U.S. states.

...

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> But she said the most significant increase in hospitalizations in the state is in people in their 50s, a group still at risk of becoming severely ill or dying from Covid-19. Younger people have driven the rapid increase in cases recently, she said, including high school students who participate in sports and have contracted the virus through those activities.
If you want to short a stock, you should at the very least do some due diligence and read the article before you comment.
Framing your personal ban as "harming free software development" seems like a stretch to me. I don't know you nor this issue at all but I am guessing the "Julia Stewards" would argue that your ban helped rather than harmed their initiative.

They also seemed to offer you a path to unblocking yourself. One you are apparently unwilling to walk.

Since they have placed the ball back in your court, it could be argued that you are the one standing in the way and you are the one harming free software development.
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Maybe that's the beauty of it. Maybe now's exactly the propitious time to play fast and lose with these things. The world today is more prepared than it has ever been - the overall impact may not even register as an independent event and be taken only as another wrinkle to current pandemic.

...but for the record, the above is not an advice. Here's the mandatory and responsible advice: kids, have fun (with science), but wear the things to keep it safe!
Hit the nail on the head. The pain of the 2008 crash was just kicked down the road by bailing out banks. We will have to reckon with the consequences of government economic meddling at some point. Shutting down the economy was just a shove towards the cliff.

I think that we are going to really see the crash kick off whenever the eviction moratorium is lifted. There is no way that all landlords are able to service their loans. Anybody that has been patient with savings will be cleaning house snatching up cheap properties and businesses.
Thank you, those seem to be quite versatile tools, I will look into them.
I'll go first

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It certainly does raise a forward thinking issue and that is networking across planets and TZ handling. TZ's are already a PITA what with leap seconds.

Then there is defining standards on Mars, 24hour days kinda not going to translate, so again, more forward thinking needed. As for Mars GPS, bit of a way off, but I'm sure the good old atomic clocks will work.

I guess the job title of "Systems Engineer of Time" may become a reality one day after all.
Maybe socialization shouldn't be the point of work, but it serves that purpose for a lot of people. Social capital has been declining since the 60's (see Robert Putnam's work) and work is one of the few places left where people can consistently see the same people everyday and form relationships in a low-pressure manner. The options you gave for socialization aren't great for everyone. Concerts are expensive and aren't a great way to meet people if you're alone and not every place has many meetups to chose from.

The current division we have between socialization/hobbies and work is a relatively recent phenomena, for most of history people lived with the same people that they worked with. People made friends by living in communal, coworking scenarios where there wasn't so much pressure to go to social events and "meet people" in the acute, high-pressure fashion that we have today. I think It'd be nice if we could get closer to that. Modern work probably won't fulfill that purpose for a number of reasons, but I think we need to acknowledge from looking at the statistics on loneliness and isolation that meetups/bars/concerts/other acute social events aren't cutting it for a large percentage of the (US) population.
Wow,i never realized you could do that, such a game changer! Thanks for the tip.
Knowing nothing about Filecoin, just reading the quotes ("Holy Crow"), I assumed it is.
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You can trivially run whatever code you wanted to if you seized the signing keys; I suspect that in such a "collect all the general-purpose computers for general-purpose computing things" that would be the first order of business.

Not that the government doesn't already have copies, of course.
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Reading *Golden Gates* by Conor Dougherty right now! If anyone is deciding on a book to read about the history of housing policies, then I recommend it to anyone in California over *The Color of Law* (which is also a great book).

Does a great job of painting how decades of decision making led to this point despite decades of warnings.
> it's one of the more environmentally friendly coins

I'm not convinced that's even true. It's still a proof-of-work coin; the only real difference is that the work is storage-intensive.
They sell Beats, no?

That should tell you everything you need to know about whether they care about audio quality.

Hint: They don't. Obviously Apple doesn't want to make audio complete garbage, but any audio quality you get from Apple is a secondary consideration to pretty much any other criteria--design, form factor, fashion, etc.