skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having everyone on the team competent in SQL is not something that is an unreasonable objective. Even project managers and executives could benefit from knowing how to write their own queries against various data sources.

As wizened developers, we can assist our more business-like coworkers by developing views and reporting databases that help to present a more consistent and higher-order perspective of the world. Just having a document that lists out examples of SQL they can use is 99% of what most people need to get bootstrapped.

Getting your problem domains modeled in SQL and using the appropriate form of normalization is foundational for managing non-trivial levels of complexity in larger projects. For me, non-trivial complexity means any domain model with more than 10 related types or more than 100 total properties to deal with.

Relational modeling is one of the most powerful abstractions we have available for working with anything that goes beyond the 3 spatial dimensions that we can see with our eyeballs. I have dealt with queries in factory automation that join over 40 tables to produce some important projection.

You could make a bunch of assumptions about how the domain model should be shaped in some complex object graph monstrosity and then stick it into MongoDB, or you can leave it neatly organized and indexed such that any reasonable query can be made of the data to produce virtually any shape of output you need.

With all of that in mind, Excel is still one of the most powerful tools on your computer for documenting virtually anything. Any problem domain can be represented as tables of things and relations between them. Anyone can figure out the most important parts of this tool with just a few minutes of screwing around with it. It is trivial to take a model from someone's xlsx and turn it into proper SQL tables and then slap a front-end and business logic around it. When someone wants me to write a new piece of software for a new problem area, we always start with types, properties, and relationships between these things. Excel is a perfect fit for the first phase of any software project.
My ideal solution would be that we can add accessibility apis to canvas. That means we can write GUI toolkits in any language compiling to wasm using canvas apis. Those toolkits gain accessibility support through canvas.

edit: some toolkits already have wasm/canvas support (like Flutter and Gtk I think). The missing link is the ability to integrate accessibility.
Which airport was that? Tempelhof?
That's just a politicisation of the message to create further division among people who are not racist. Same thing as calling people nazi (so you can feel entitled to punch them).

I think that philosophically most people agree that all lives matter and behave accordingly. Who doesn't is definitely a problem, albeit they're a minority.
As I say in the post, I saw it quoted in an academic paper and I wanted to see who actually said it.

That's then a good way to understand why they said it and what they actually meant.

So, for me, the value is understanding the provenance and assumptions of the quote.
I don't care about Twitter so much that I've come here to say it.

;-)
Thanks for checking it out! Will look into the LaTeX rendering issue.

Yeah maybe we went a little too easy on the earlier problems but there will be plenty of harder problems coming up hopefully!

I actually think Project Euler gets hard pretty quickly but I'm no number theory wizard haha.
I get the sentiment. But it seems Google is "all in" on Dart and Flutter. https://insights.dice.com/2019/03/27/fall-rise-dart-google-j...
The mechanism may be via the gut, stress increases intestinal permeability.
Paint peeling could also be a humidity issue. I had paint peeling on my ceiling due to water problem in the basement.
70M visitors is a lot of traffic, no matter how you host it. Assuming we are talking about 1MB per visit then that is roughly 70TB. At least my VPS in germany does have a traffic limit. Also he did statically host it on vercel if i remember correctly.
And how to get that?
Something to remember is that these sorts of things happen in many organizations.

You should always verify the data you get, be careful with complex supply chains, and avoid binaries you didn't build yourself. Don't skip these things just because "that's the way it's always been done." 10 years ago very little internet traffic was encrypted, security still means progress not the status quo.
Show HN: UpNote, a clean and distraction-free notes app for all platforms
Friend in one of the big data vendors: "we mostly work with medium data"
The issue here is that it is meaningless when viewed locally. GitHub made the mistake of turning "README", a file you'd usually read when you download some code into a website format. A README is broken if lines aren't broken, it is full of badges or nonsense like a table of contents (as OP says, a README is not a manual).
The video at the top is a later episode, from about 1996 (they are talking about the N64 being on display in stores)

If you scroll down, there is a another video which chroma keys in a camera pointing at a CRT.
Ontario gives police new powers to enforce stay-home order
It's seed oil.

They are talking about using it in inhalers, I don't know that I would be eager to try inhaling oil from some improvised setup.

Adding some grapeseed oil or whatever to your diet wouldn't have any side effects.
Sure we could "get by" without gold jewelry, but it is a _real_ tangible thing.

The problem with Bitcoin is that it is "international" in nature.

Yet, China holds the largest share of Bitcoins and thus ownership is unbalanced.

https://www.investopedia.com/news/bitcoin-wont-win-worldwide...

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2021/03/bitcoins-gr...

I think there is more value in Blockchain at the municipal or federal level of a country to improve transparency and such. Or somehow even the issuance of currency. Given geopolitical unrest and contention, or differing political views (USA vs. China), I can't see how this decentralized coin will continue over a 20 year period.
Sure, you only want to turn your head so far, and two 16:9 screens side-by-side or a single ultrawide monitor seems to be the practical limit, also in regards to desk space.

Swivel/tilt/pivot and multi-monitor brackets make for great flexibility, though. I've seen setups with a 4K monitor flanked by two smaller vertically oriented screens. Or you could stack monitors on top of each other, or a combination.

The biggest setup I've seen at a desk was six 4K monitors, arranged three wide and two tall. When you've got a lot of monitoring to show at once...
Education is relegated to the states though, per the tenth amendment.
Thanks for checking it out!

I don't use Go so might take a while unless someone decides to swoop in and add support for it!

Supporting new languages takes some effort since we need to be able to run arbitrary Go code and communicate with Python. Definitely possible but requires some familiarity with both.

So far we've just been adding languages we know and use. Hoping to learn Rust soon so that might be the next language!
Think about what you wrote more and then come back later.
I do something similar: my README contains the output of --help, and I have a CI step that ensures that all the lines of the actual help output are present in the README. Caught me a couple times forgetting to update new flags and version changes.
Let's Remember Netbooks
sell it as an nft.

nft is 2020/21's monorail.
It's not a publicly facing service that's on offer, but some smaller telcos and sketchy VoIP providers with legacy access often re-sell it.

There's some good CCC talks on the subject if it's of interest.
It looks way too "Google" to me :( All the material design and flatness, the iconset, it's basically Android in terms of design language.

I wouldn't want my Linux distro looking like something from Google tbh :)
> you are forced to use infinite scroll which is not always the best solution.

You're not forced to. You could instead Show "8964 Results Total: Previous 100 | Next 100 ... Last 100" which in practice is the same as pagination.

Sure the user can't click in the MIDDLE of the page set, but what kind of a use case is that, anyway.

Anyway, cursor offsets are fundamentally O(1), and offsets are fundamentally O(N) where N is the offset. As a younger programmer, I used to wonder what is this algorithmic magic the database uses, so it knows how to compute offset 10000 without sorting and looking at the first 10000 values I sort by. Well? No magic, it just hustles through it and delivers. But slowly.
I agree completely. There is probably no shortage of tech savvy parents out there who don’t care to apply their understanding to furthering their parenting. All of that takes real work and consideration, which is fundamentally just good parenting. That doesn’t come as part of the tech package - tech prowess is just a convenient asset to apply to problems.
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en

Simple domain name trademark dispute
This was a facet of many post war movements. Architects imagined they could design buildings that solved social problems as if people are that easily manipulated. Semi officially the end of their line of reasoning came with the demolition of the Pruitt Igoe complexes in st Louis in the 70s although it was clear these architectural social Interventions were utter failures well before then.

Edit:typos due to posting while phone is in a waterproof bag
There have been buyers of gold for thousands of years though
> for 90% of my chats, all I need is "good enough" security which both iMessage and Telegram

True for iMessage, but not for Telegram. Telegram has great UX, but does not use end-to-end encryption.

(Telegram's "secret chats" do not count - they're not the default, nobody ever uses them, they only work on mobile, and use a questionable DIY encryption schema)
I wonder if further research on this has been done.

For example, what if some ML tagging mechanism is used to find the silhouette of interesting objects in the image (people, animals, traffics signs, etc), and then "freezing" them to prevent the energy function from operating on those areas, thus preserving those objects intact, while resizing the rest of the image.
I wouldn't recommend it:

https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.e8707

(Also worth nothing Americans are already eating very high (and increasing) amounts of linoleic acid, and we have been hit pretty hard by the coronavirus.)

(Should also note that linoleic acid is in tons of food; eating some is totally natural and healthy. "The dose makes the poison," as the old saying goes.)
I‘m quite sure there are a lot of attacks like that. Most of them just never get noticed.

The best backdoors are those, which are never found.
Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series will cost at least $465M for first season
Inferno used Tk, not really what I would like to see on modern computers.

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/screenshots.html
Important to call out here, but thanks to GraphQL’s unfortunate habit of using words which already have established meanings, when a lot of people talk about “cursor-based pagination”, they actually mean keyset pagination and not something that requires a server to maintain a stateful cursor.

I’m guessing this is the meaning the OP was referring to.
The Quest for Curvilinear Photomasks
Pycharm is fucking slow and it is really annoying to use different IDEs for different languages. vscode is better in every way, and free. I just don't understand why people use jetbrains anymore.
I don't see any reason why it couldn't.
The article says it's gloomy compared to the previous spy agency reports.
I'm begging you to stop commenting this on every single success story
It's nearly impossible for telecom to deploy/configure/maintain their networks by themselves due to the scale. For example, I just googled, AT&T seems to have 67000 towers/macro cell sites. Let's say they want to update all of them to install modern 5G equipment. In many cases this equipment may come from different vendors and to deploy it might be multi-day job. Of the top of my head, about 20% of site visits fail due to various reasons (with good percent of them failing even before starting due to scheduling issues, sickness, not delivered at time equipment, etc) .

How much time and people it will take to AT&T to do all the work on it sown ?
It is impossible because on web you do not get access to low level UI primitives like input controls as you would on mobile. They cannot e.g. read clipboad, access native context sentive menus and such.

Flutter on web can do Flash applications of 2020, but for most web use cases it is not possible to ”get it right”.
And yet my world just carried on as normal, even the high-tech, computer-centric parts. Almost as if twitter plays no meaningful role in any aspect of my being...
The author would find Pivotal Commware[0] interesting. Not only stateside but offering advances in hardware efficiency and durability.

Full disclosure: employee, soon investor

[edit: also, they are hiring]

[0] https://pivotalcommware.com/
Thanks for the link, I've added QL(41) to my system now, and it's a cute little tool.
Giantess Breakup with the Shrinking Man
Not sure how this would be implemented. Lipid pneumonia is a thing. So is vaping-associated pulmonary injury (VAPI), the lung disease allegedly caused by vaping back in 2019 which was traced to Vitamin E acetate.
I think you’re being a tad unfair here. I’ve been a web dev of sorts for 15 years and to be honest even on my current provider I’d have no idea how much this “could” cost me if it got popular, I’d have exactly the same concerns regardless of the tech involved. Given it was a personal joke site there’s a chance £200 is “a lot of money” for him.
One of the big reasons Project Euler is so brilliant is that every problem is formulated so that you can do it in any language. (I've introduced myself to about six languages this way, none of which you support yet.) What drove the decision to have an allowlist of languages? If you're concerned about people publishing the one true number that is the answer to problem 11, you could always generate random test cases and ask the user to supply the answers to those test cases.
> Nobody disagree with the message: of course, all lives matter.

People do, in fact, disagree with the message, both on the level of the slogan, and on the level of the substance (which is not merely “Black lives matter at all”, but “Black lives matter much more than thet are treated as mattering by status-quo systems, necessitating urgent and immediate reform.”) Both the “All Lives Matter” as a dismissive generic, and the “Blue Lives Matter” inversion of the argument on who is undervalued, at least in the police vs. Black context which is the most common focal event of BLM protests, reflect.

I mean, some Republicans in Congress just founded a fairly overtly White nationalist caucus, which they wouldn’t do if they weren’t secure in the idea that White nationalism was a winning position with their base and donors. White racism is deeply ingrained in American society and institutions, and plenty of peple see that as a feature not a bug, and plenty more see it as a non-urgent concern that doesn’t touch their interest even though it is abstractly suboptimal.
That's definately not true, also what's up with the hostile tone?

"Clean" is pretty well understood as what's left after you finish an elimination diet.

As i just described it can be different for different people but in general, super high fat, super high carbohydrate, meals that are too large or too frequent, too much alcohol, lots of additives, lots of candy or cake, too many heavy metals from fish, too much fried food, too much low quality processed foods including cheap oils that has gone semi rancid, corn syrup, various carcinogens are all agreed upon across various a large spectrum of diets from Vegan to Paleo including nutrition research.

It probably also depends on ones own gut flora.

Pausing eating or just eating a pretty bland diet without above "luxuries" and you definitely get less of these things, that's partly why fasting works for a lot of people.
Making Chip Packaging More Reliable
There are a few famous instances where mathematicians ran seminars for close to a decade and developed extensive theories on that way. Von Neumann appears to have been one, Grothendieck is a famous other example. The lectures are basically then meant to be taken by people that dedicate almost all their time to understand them.

In other words they are lecturing as they are developing the new theory. Clearly such things probably happen much less often now a days, because the overall research landscape is such, that this is not really rewarded. On a smaller scale research seminars in mathematics still are like that though, the results discussed there are often only circulated among the participants, which then make them available to the public piece by piece. Peter Scholzes breakthroughs were widely discussed in Bonn long before they were accessible to the overall public and even then most of what was taught in the initial seminars in Bonn wasn't circulated.
the last line of the page "Updated 2 April 2013".

Even it might exist for more than 8 years, I never see it used in the wild
It's mentioned on the product page.
I don't think that taking tech is a mistake or a disaster.

Ultimately it works like this - all rising powers have the choice to stay fully shackled by IP and remain subordinate and poor forever, or they can take that IP and provide a better life for their people. Unless there is some alternative there, I just can't fault a country for doing it. Especially when the current top dog is only there because they did it too.

The concept of IP is already morally questionable to begin with, now we want to use it to keep half of the world poorer and dependent in perpetuity?
Tegel.

Tempelhof has a subway station right in front of it.

Crying emoji
Well done, bravo! how does it feel to know you’ve made the best and most well timed joke you’ll ever make?
I honestly don't have either the time or the will to look into this subject now, but having read some of Thomas Sowell's books (and listened to some conversations on YouTube), I remember reading statistics proving the opposite.

Namely that black poverty was already decreasing before the 1960s and that the progress was slowed down by the welfare policies. Those years also brought the destruction of family (increase of single parent household supported by welfare) which pushed a generation of unstable kids into poverty.
> His view of life was moral. He was loyal to mathematics, to order, to living the life he thought worth living.

Le Corbusier dreamed of "cleaning and purging cities of disorder" with "calm and powerful architecture." (his words) His plan for Paris was never realized, though his ideals are apparent internationally, unfortunately. He was addicted to a certain kind of untested, abstract knowledge.

I tried to articulate some of my distaste for the forces that propelled him and others, here: https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-the-gods
We have switched to using spot instances for our production traffic. If you diversify across instance types and AZs, there's always plenty of capacity.

The result is, as one engineer on our team says, you basically run chaos monkey but amazon pays you to do so.
Brain Damage Linked to Common Compound in Everyday Plastic Items
Pandas works fine for me. But it’s a moderately sized data, below 100k rows. Dask works as well, though I can’t judge the speed.
Ponzi schemes have a payout.
Sadly, my plan is to pick up the new MacBook with new M1X chips this year whenever it releases in Q3/4 to combat the slowness.

Wirth's law is making me sad
It's a gem !

Odds ratios of:
- clinical and demographic biomarkers
- inflammation-related NMR biomarker associations
- amino-acid concentration
- lipoprotein particle and lipoprotein particle content
- fatty acids and lipid-associated metabolites
associations with COVID-19 severity.
What about chain re-org attacks? Without miners the next blocks would be easy to attack and then you lose immutability along with creditability.
Pretty much

If you keep it between friends and known moderate accounts it's ok but there are dark areas of hyper-polarized accounts, major A-holes, and major garbage.
Doomscrolling: We Do It, and How We Can Stop
This is brilliant!

It’s one of those things that’s so easy to forget or not even think about but once you see it or think about it, it’s essential.
Could you add Fortran as a programming language? It is one of the main languages for "science and math flavored programming problems". Gfortran is a free compiler that is part of gcc.
Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines (2004)
The problem with educators in general is that they tend to design lectures as a transition from one set of information to another set of information.

In contrast, what students actually need is to transition from one state of mind to another state of mind.
> Hacker News is the fallback platform for discussio

But, for curious reason "Ask HN" thread on actual "Twitter Down" subj was dishonored and removed from frontpage, so many of us was left unnoticed in the next 12 hours.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26840441
Sure, people do have to buy food to live, but that isn't the point. Just replace "less valuable over time" with "not much more valuable over time" in my comment. The point isn't that gold went up or down by 1% between 1750-1850. The point is that people are buying bitcoin for opposite reasons. Is it a currency? If so like you said it shouldn't be going up quickly. Is it an investment? If so, where is the cashflow?
Both of those seem pretty binary, like "rosetta yes/no" or "works yes/no", and don't seem to have a way to say something like "works, other than split tunneling", etc. Or, as pointed out in another comment, "disrupting Sidecar".
Addendum: Just to be clear I don't think Cisco or Huwei or any similar company is doing espionage on their decision. But such companies consist of people and it would be strange if Chine/USA did not install some people their which do their bidding if needed, or in transit manipulate hardware or similar.

> Huawei’s says it never acted inappropriately by abusing its position in the Netherlands.

I believe Huawei (as company) never did so, and the IMHO most likely existing Huawei employed which might do so anyway also likely didn't do so because they had no reason to (as far as I know). The think about people you install somewhere is you don't us them until you necessary. Because then they likely won't get caught.
Is content-based targeting really so much less effective than user-based, or is this more of an arms race between ad providers where even a small difference gives them a large edge? Youtube doesn't need to know someone is a snowboarder in order to show them snowboarding-related ads. They can just show those ads on snowboarding videos and they don't need to invade the user's privacy to do that. The targeting is not as accurate, but it's how ads have basically always worked, how they worked on the internet before the ad networks and tracking, and how they still work in other media.
Twitter is where people say how offended they are.
A skip list would allow a user to skip to the Nth page, but I don't know of any database that offers one in the form of an index.
Apple didnt have to compromise here, but did - they've definitely sold customers on the "everything just works" approach, and so updating those details and then expecting all the customers who were literally sold on the concept of not having to check on all the details to check them... interesting approach.

My mother bought a new macbook m1 with me telling her about the monitor stuff and she cant even get her 1080p normal external to work with the dock that the apple store sold her.
I’m not aware of anyone (except those using VMs) who are complaining about the memory. I personally went from 16gb to 8 and don’t miss it. Do you actually own/use an m1 Mac?