skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this potentially turns into a wildfire debate about future meeting dates across timezones, but for us we still have not had any problems storing all datetimes as 64 bit unix timestamp values.

There is only 1 situation where we actually care about the timezone of something, and it is stored on the basis of the user profile, not any specific timestamps. Time is just time. The TZ info is usually part of something entirely separate. Any timestamp can be interpreted in any tz, as long as you have a consistent UTC basis to operate from and knowledge of the desired tz.

If the concern is the final formatting, then maybe consider writing some UDFs in your app to quickly format fields. Comparison and sorting of 64 bit integers is trivial, so none of this should be a problem at all...
Congrats on launching - this looks very promising!

I immediately understood what this was. That is not a brag at all, but I just happen to be a paying user of Calendly, so "Open source Calendly" was perfect for me.

I an curios to see how complicated it is to wire it up with Coogle Calendar and Office365 connections.

I will take it for a spin. :)
What about on the other end? Why not have each hex digit be a directory along a path? Then you have very, very few files per directory at the cost of deeper hierarchy. What's the practical downside?
>and plastic enclosure

The OP-1 is machined aluminum, not plastic.
AFAIK in Germany they can ask you to submit your banking history for tax purposes (for example they have doubts about your declaration), if you fail to submit it or refuse, they can go to the bank, but you are notified way before they go through the bank and if you comply with the request, they don't go to the bank at all.

Also the request must be authorized by the state tax office, it's not like every government employee can request and obtain the list of all of your transactions.
The difference between AGI and AI
From the little I've watched ABC on youtube they are pretty biased. Very pro UK and anti EU.
§ 291 StGB Wucher
This is exactly my perception too.
In Helsinki I'm wondering if building expensive buildings will make sure the 'bubble' won't break.
Banks will just give people larger loans. Move to a situation like Sweden where you don't even intend to fully pay it back anymore. You're just renting from the bank instead of a landlord.
I think you wouldn't enjoy your BBQ in a place like this, which is I think the OP refers to: https://www.alamy.com/berlin-germany-new-buildings-and-indus...
As an individual person with a heart, it's hard to wrap one's head around. But the problem is landowners are usually very rich and soulless, when not actual corporations who have nothing human at all. To them, an empty apartment is just a line in a spreadsheet that will bring them money sooner or later. Renting the apartments would be more trouble for them, despite bringing in a little more money.
Please don't replace something that works with something that doesn't.

I understand developer thoughts on this are skewed (job security, promotions, fun, etc.), but please. Don't.
There was a seal that spoke with a Boston accent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_(seal)
Cool unfortunately I was too young and inexperienced at that time. Coinbase is a great service.
Rent control prevents from increasing by more than a set amount every year. Theoretically you can wait for decades raising the rent every year
There are varying degrees of selling ads though. DDG and Google both sit at opposing ends of this spectrum.
Only #1, #5 and #6 would actually improve the situation and not be a zero-sum game, the rest is socialism, just rehashed.
Those undergraduates do so with development tools that had hundreds of thousands of man-hours invested into them. We can't pretend like this doesn't make their job any easier.
Actually i did quite a few times! I would not recommend to live in a place like this due to high industrial pollution, but a brownfield is quite nice to have a neighborhood BBQ with some music... COVID/police concerns aside, of course.
Nigeria, Angola struggling to find buyers for crude oil May delivery ~traders
No it didn't. Jews were often discriminated against in various ways, but weren't generally forces to convert under pain of torture. The Spanish Jews fled to other countries.
That's not how database backup works: either you use a tool like RMAN, which knows about internal Oracle database structures, or you must shut a database down in order to do a cold backup. As there is no such thing as database shutdown in SQLite's case, if you want a clean backup before doing a ZFS snapshot (and shipping it off, else it's not a backup), you must shut down the application which is writing to the SQLite database.
Wonder if he had any posts on reddit that have stayed there?
History is a bitch in the hands of the current political arrangement. There are indisputable historical facts about things in the past that have happened - wars, civil conflicts, inventions, works of art. Then there are endless possible interpretations and viable (but not provable) causal relations between the facts. Heck, we can't even identify the proper causal relationship for events happening around us right now. Then how about going N centuries back and trying to reason about the involved parties and their intents? We don't know what conversations took place between them, what their internal agenda was, etc.
That's not how it turned out in the UK. As this graph illustrates, when the local government authorities were prohibited from building more housing, from the 1980s onwards, the private sector didn't pick up any of the slack: https://i.stack.imgur.com/MmJ5N.png

The capitalists instead decided to optimize for steadily increasing the price of housing by restricting supply, so these are now primarily seen as an investment with nearly-guaranteed returns, rather than places for people to live.
There are multiple kinds of rent caps. One is the maximum annual raise for existing tenants.

Another one is vague and based on the "Mietspiegel", which lists appropriate rents according to quality and location.

If the rent exceeds this by too much, you can sue for "Mietwucher" (rent usury).
Yes, as we can see from the very great examples of where this approach worked perfectly. Now every one is perfectly housed in decent conditions and for cheap in United States or South Korea. We all know the dozens of thousands of homeless folks in San Francisco and around really want to live in slums or on the streets, and their situation has nothing to do with speculation, gentrification and AirBNB. /s
Equally, why not build more housing until there is a 4% vacancy rate? This seems to have worked wonders in SF.
having been on this line of thinking for the last two decades and not seeing it happen, i'm not optimistic it ever will.

one could easily have ~10TB of storage connected to the router for about the yearly cost of the connection itself, but only a small minority does.
Is there some kind of regex for premium rate vs standard numbers?
*And yeah, things have changed since then* and who enabled those changes ?
Progress is not function of time, if left to themselves, ULA , Arian et al, would have never let these launch costs go down. Even now Falcon 9 and Falcon heavy is capable of launching a very high orbits with quite good payload. Which will be further boosted by Star-ship.
In Berlin, rent control isn't a fringe topic. Half of Berlin was formerly communist (the east) with the non-conformists being sent out to the sticks. And the other half has a higher proportion of (partly radical) leftists due to the federal draft not applying in Berlin (so young, mostly left-leaning, males moved to west Berlin to avoid serving in the military). So the general population in Berlin is rather more friendly to ideas such as communal property, rent control and generally sticking it to the evil capitalist man.
Genghis Khan, Alexander of Macedonia
§556d, 1 of the German civil code.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__556d.html

It's illegal here to demand a rent more than 10% higher than the "ortsübliche Vergleichsmiete", which is approximately the local rent averaged over the last 6 years (exactly defined in §558)

More generally, you cannot simply ask for astronomical prices for anything in Germany just because you know that people are in a position where they have to pay them, that's "Wucher" (racketeering) and against public decency, which is generally illegal according to §138.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__138.html
> I would like to see a platform for discussion from BOTH parties

I can't imagine it would ever happen, it would make no any sense from the business point of view unless you build your image as a privacy-focused company (Facebook doesn't even try). For example Tim Kendall's testimony [0] paints a very bleak picture of the motivations behind strategic decisions made at Facebook. There is simply no reason to reveal your real motivation and it makes more sense to hide behind corporate PRspeak, except a few very specific issues where you could make a case a privacy violation was caused by a bug etc.

[0] https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycomme...
In many places, a landlord can't just decide to raise the rent. When I signed the contract for my current apartment, the landlord needed me to sign an official form they had to send to the city. The form informed me of the rent the previous occupant paid and stated the applicable laws that regulated by how much the rent could be raised (based on inflation, changes in interest rates etc.). What I don't know, but assume, is that it's easy to fight for the rent to be lowered to the legal limits even after accepting signing a contract with rent above the legal limits.
And the lingua franca for programming is English so what
I would like to add one personal example where this isn't very true and is kind of painful: for a while I was running a windows system with quite a lot of RAM but not much disk space, enough that having swap space equal to my RAM significantly reduced the space available on an already nearly full disk. In linux this didn't represent a problem, because if memory was allocated and not used, it didn't count at all. However windows does not over-allocate: if you request memory there must be somewhere (swap or RAM) to put it. Without swap space this meant getting memory allocation errors with less than half of physical memory used, which was extremely annoying. I either needed to give up a huge chunk of my disk space (in practice I often needed 2x my RAM in swap to avoid memory exhaustion), or not be able to use all my actual RAM.
Great idea, and particularly interesting in these times of corona. Is there a way when wandering in this virtual museum to make the pieces of art appear bigger?
Very nice! (Synthwave too, please?)
I can only speculate since I know next to nothing about that but AFAIK those thromboses are not in leg veins but in different parts of the body - in the brain (Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis), lungs (embolism) etc.

Also the mechanism which causes this seems to be better understood now - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104840

"Vaccination with ChAdOx1 nCov-19 can result in the rare development of immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia mediated by platelet-activating antibodies against PF4, which clinically mimics autoimmune heparin-induced thrombocytopenia."
Another piece of data, from the Netherlands, where office space vacancy has significantly increased since making squatting illegal back in 2010: https://en.squat.net/2016/05/27/netherlands-housing-crisis/
You are generalizing too ambitiously. It is true that (for the most part) reputable companies do not need SPACs. However, that is not the same as saying there is a close-to-zero chance for a SPAC to land a high quality company.

I have numerous friends in IB who specialize in this, and I have been told that $PSTH has a high chance of landing a 'quality' target. The scale of $PSTH is huge ($4 billion guaranteed capital + $1 billion-committed capital from $PSH which can be extended for a further $2 billion). This is $5bn-$7bn guaranteed capital. In fact, this is one of the biggest IPOs on the NYSE (IPO for the vehicle Pershing Square Tontine Holdings). As Ackman has said numerous times in interviews, many companies that are planning to go public do not like uncertainity. This is a way to avoid that. Not to mention the fact that in late-2020 Ackman confirmed he is launching PSTH2 which appears to have the exact same structure; high amounts of guaranteed capital, low dilution & fees.

Of course, "high quality companies" is a subjective term, however, I have no doubt that any company obtaining $5 billion after the reverse-merger will be a company well-established in thier respective field and can be argued as being "high quality". For the record, I do believe there is a close to zero chance of $PSTH reverse merging with Stripe or Starlink. I think they were founded on pure speculation by various other social media communities.
I think I prefer the Swedish queues.
I've tested it on Chrome, Firefox and Safari and all three work. We've removed the animations regardless. Does it work now?
That's sometimes true but it depends a lot on the filesystem used, and sometimes on the options used when building it. ReiserFS, ext4 and FAT 32 won't have the same performance profile.

I think breaking down large collections in subdirectories is mainly done in order to ensure that it'll work even with FS that don't deal well with very large directories and also because it makes inspecting the files manually a little more convenient given that many file explorers (and especially the GUI ones) can have trouble with large directories.
Thanks for this, I was unaware!
> The focus on AI risk is because it seems to be the #1 long-term existential risk, so it has essentially an infinite payoff.

You can read "AI risk" as "not going to Hell" here; rationalism is just a new religion focused on worshipping what SF writers think computers are going to get up to in the future (Roko's basilisk). There's not much reason to believe an evil AI out to conquer the world is a self-consistent idea.
Though the official shorthand is “Fx”
My iPhone is suffering the same problem ... which is why I have found this web site. Incidentally the Notification on Monday was to say that the Lockdown Status had changed. Overnight last night, with no Apps active, my iPhone 6 dropped from 100% to 60% (normally drops about 3%). The Activity by App in Battery Settings says Exposure Notifications have accounted for 45% of the battery usage in the last 24 hours. I am going to try to report it to the NHS Covid App Support.
It's true that in theory it should be possible to elect another government that chooses not to delegate to the "Ethics Experts". I am not claiming we live in a totalitarian regime because the government decided to consult ethics experts.

It just seems that in this case, ethics are exactly what the people should be voting on - the value system of the society they want. So delegating to an ethics committee is at best propaganda and making excuses for not doing what the people want.
I could use some help if you're interested in implementing an ad-hoc data format codec in different languages.

https://concise-encoding.org is nearing release, but building the reference implementation (https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding) has taken so much of my spare time that I couldn't even think about other languages (especially since I'll need to focus on the schema format next, and the proto-RPC protocol after that).
Docker Compose CLI tech preview, no extra Docker-compose binary
That's what I mean: it is defacto 1.0 already, just no communicated.

And semver or not: pre-1.0 is pre-1.0.

I was glad to read this announcement that they are making strides to get to 1.0.
The main problem with FB IMO is the community, not the moderation tools. I highly doubt that adding downvotes to FB would vastly improve the average quality of the contributions, actually it may well make it worse.
Mozilla bears a lot more responsibility (including ongoing responsibility) for its self-inflicted wounds than this common, comfortable narrative says it does.
You hate us cause you ain't us. No worries we don't pass through the apartment applicant selection either. Now you need to be young attractive woman with a partner, Western sounding names and surnames, both employed with high salary. All documented.
Nim versions 1.4.6 and 1.2.12 released
Those are great if you can wait years
Works great for me, this is of course after you disabled the animations. Quick work! And a much needed idea and nice site :)
Another thing to mention regarding the web is that most people can easily install an ad blocker extension or install something like Brave browser to block ads on the web. Apps on the other hand are much harder to block ads in possibly using Pi-Hole or something more involved.

Regarding the “Hey, I released a new web app”, I have legit never used the word “web app”. Just call it a website instead and you will have a lot more interest without weird stares. “Web app” is a more techy term imo.
s/Yamaguchi/Yamauchi/
You have to install GitHub Theme parent package that then installs 5 different themes. Why on earth area each of the GitHub themes not available stand alone?! I just want one!
You need to be running the database on a correctly working operating system. Since the database relies on the system calls like fsync() working correctly, the filesystem must also work correctly, the stable storage must have write caching turned off and write requests must not return before they are complete. Also, the operating system must not overcommit memory.

So in order to avoid SQLite database corruption, you need:

- hardware RAID disabled or reconfigured in JBOD ("IT") mode;

- RAID controller write cache disabled;

- RAID battery back-up cache disabled;

- individual drives' write caches disabled;

- ZFS;

- if using GNU/Linux, OOM turned off.

Even with turning off OOM, GNU/Linux's fsync() will still lie about I/O having completed, when it is in fact in transit. Therefore, if you want a reliable database, you must switch to a real UNIX, like SmartOS.

Only when all of these are done exactly as I have specified will you have a system ready for a relational database management system, and only then will a database be able to actually provide transactions.
"A company like Microsoft" writes production code in literally every language.

The stakes are low and nobody cares if your little team writes code targeting a Brainfuck compiler. (Yes, this is a real thing; there's a Brainfuck compiler developed somewhere in the vast guts of Google. No, I don't have a link to share with you, sorry.)
Ackman is both. He is an activist in some of his plays, however, as can be seen through his publicly traded fund $PSH, most of his investments are long-term value investments which is also the sentiment echoed in his investor letters/presentations.

However, to the point of his SPAC vehicle - $PSTH, he has already stated in some interviews that he is not always looking for activist plays, and that $PSTH does not need to be one.
it is shockingly not very pro crypto, huh?
Maybe some mushrooms could help you with that
I'll bite. Probability comes into play. The vast majority of babies do not in future orchestrate a genocide, but instead live lives worth living, and in turn contribute in some way to shared human progress and wellbeing. So the expected value of the baby's life is positive, the baby should be saved.

The very low chance of a future genocide does not weigh highly in this decision.
Have they tried selling themselves back to Spain?
Yes. Also consider the implications of:

var myUdfInstance = new MyUdfInstance(connection);

connection.CreateFunction(
"Execute",
(string command)
=> myUdfInstance.ExecuteSql(command));

I can confirm this actually works. It stacks up nicely in the debugger too.
I mean it seems obvious but most/all? modern type systems are not portable and don't compose with other type systems

Splitting out the mistake checking and the data specification aspects of types would probably make pieces more portable across different languages
I really wonder tho what this does to isolated tribes. To look up at an unchanging night sky, and on a regular basis new movement, new pinpoints of light. What does this do to the conception of The World ?
And these are mutually exclusive why? Most developed countries e.g. Europe, Japan, Aus/NZ, are very safe and I don't get thrown in jail for dissent or caned for chewing gum or executed for smoking a joint.
Rust won't make legacy code and legacy coders go away. In fact, as time goes on the amount of crappy legacy Rust code and low-skilled legacy Rust coders will only grow.

So Rust is not a solution.
Isn't FloC exactly that? All the data stays on your device and it only gives an identifier of a pretty big group of people to the websites?
Thatcher has been out of office since decades. If this was important to the people they would vote for people who promise to bring it back.

Or politicians are corrupt and Thatcher is a good excuse. Take your pick.
yes they are dangerous sometimes
If you do this, you can add all the files to git and get historical views, changelogs... and if you distribute the "database", you even can know who made what changes!
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> At the risk of going off topic: doesn't Java tend to perform somewhere around 60% the speed of C/C++, while using considerably more memory?

It is hard to properly benchmark this generally, for small programs it is “at most” within 2-3X, but I believe for more complex applications it closes the gap quite well (many things can be “dynamically” inlined even between classes far from each other). Not sure how it fares with PGOs.

And yeah it does use more memory, both the runtime/JIT/GC and each object has considerable overhead, but I don’t think that comparing it to Electron is apt. Electron is slow because it adds additional steps to the picture, not because of the JS engine itself. V8 is similarly an engineering gem, and it can be stupidly fast from time to time.

As for the GC:
The GC itself is required for some program to work correctly. C/C++ codebases often create their own GC, and that will surely be slower than any of the multiple GCs found in the JVM. But for short-living programs the GC doesn’t even run (similarly to how some short lived C program leaves clean up to the OS), so rather the former is responsible for the bigger memory usage.

All in all, where ultimate control over memory/execution is not required (that is, you don’t need a low level language), Java is fast enough, especially combined with it being productive and easy (and safe) to refactor, as well as having top notch profiling tools (with so low overhead, that it can be run in production as well).
> the fraudsters can set up a forward from a normal number to a premium number

Doesn't this mean that your call from Twillo to the normal number would be charged at your usual rate, and the fraudster would pick up the cost for the forwarding?
This "trickle-up/down effect" is the exact excuse they've been using to justify it.

As far as I know, it's a widely discredited theory, never based on any actual studies.