skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that was a terrible idea in hindsight.

For coinbase to ever grow into it's valuation crypto would have to become an integral part of society at large.

After 12 years, it's still largely useless and offers no advantages over centralized financial solutions. The only advantage it had is it is decentralized. But in practice this turned out to be false. So what concrete use case could it have that can't be done better with a traditional database?

My bet is this is a bubble, and it will pop sooner or later. Having some short exposure to that is desirable. Especially if it's not in bitcoin which could rise a lot, but an overvalued company that would take a long time to grow into its valuation.
> Pelosi in Dec 22 was against more stimulus.

This is not true. It’s very odd to see the kind of right-wing conspiracies based on outright fabrications spread on HN as literal truths. Here is an article from December 22 were Pelosi is calling for more stimulus:

www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/12/22/trump-calls-covid-relief-bill-unsuitable-and-demands-congress-add-higher-stimulus-payments.html

Here is her direct tweet dated 12/22:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/134155753573...?

Edit: There are outright lies in the source article. Sad day for HN that the lies are getting so much traction and fact checking with 1st hand sources is getting downvoted.
can you provide your thoughts on this?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1685334 perhaps?
Do you think that early hunter-gatherers shared their food with people who did not participate in acquiring food?

Without capitalism, we could regress to the most primitive version of civilization and still require contribution to the tribe. The alternative is to go off on your own (and at that point, there are no "people around you" to help). Less primitive alternatives, as different political-economic systems, usually still require you to contribute through taxation.
Wouldn't this particular example be better served through C++2a concepts? That is we can specify constraints about template type parameters.
Three ways Machine Learning Changes Incident Management Lifecycle
there is reporting lag, so by the time you know about an opportunity it is usually gone
I bet a lot of what the paramedic friend types is repetitive and industry specific. Could speed things up with some macros/text expander type of functionality.

The multi presses reminds me a lot text messaging back before smartphones. Most kids could type quickly without really looking and using just a thumb.
It's not like there's one lube and tyre company in the country, or that they don't compete with each other.
This article is not a good explainer of type erasure because it uses inheritance to do it.

I’m waiting for the day that someone figures out and does a blog post showing that every std data structure can be rewritten with type erasure.

Here’s how it works:

Let’s use vector because it’s simple. This vector impl works with just plain void* memory with no type information.

The vector type wrapper (matching std::vector) is a template but instead of recreating the entire data structure with a different type, it will instead create the void* implementing vector in a unique_ptr and pass boiler plate functions so that the vector know how to:
1. the size of T
2. in place constructor of T at the void*
3. in place destructor of T at the void*
4. A copy constructor of T at void* src, dst.

The wrapper vector<T> that owns the vector impl then does the necessary casts back to T. For example vector::at could be implemented as such:

<template typename T>
class vector { // type wrapper.
T& at(size_t i) {
void* p = vector_impl_->get(i);
T* t = static_cast<T*>(p);
return *t;
}
...
}

In this example, vector<T> wrapper would still be inlined everywhere, however VectorImpl could be defined exactly once in a cpp file. The template bloat problem is reduced from the entire data structure to just the wrapper casting back and forth from void* <—> T&.

This can be extrapolated to complex algorithms like std::map. And as a bonus the polymorphic wrapper can do all the boiler plate generation so that the interface could be made to match the std::map.

Testing the bloat size reduction could be performed on a code base with significant usage of std map across multiple types, and see if the optimizing compiler will reduce the final binary size with the type erased map swapped in.
Obviously a tiny embedded library that reads off a file on disk won't replace a "Couchbase cluster of 6 nodes etc. etc."

But SQLite has no hard limits on number of readers. There are no sockets, or Unix pipes. It reads off file cache in RAM, or if your data is bigger, it reads of disk. Like you would from a file. How'd you answer how many reads you can do from RAM? Kind of... depends on everything else, doesn't it?

I'd say it can have comparable performance to a single MySQL instance for simple read queries. If that helps.
I'm pretty sure they can't be charged with insider trading for some loophole reason. It's 100% insider trading though. US politicians and their families shouldn't be allowed to buy/sell any stocks as a condition of public office. And they shouldn't be able to accept revolving door money after leaving office as well.
They do turn stuff over, I have no idea of what % is though...

They should be transparent about it, IMO - as we really need a growing outcry on child safety rights.

We constantly talk about the rights and protections for all these various groups, yet, in really really dire situations like this, sex trafficking etc, by comparison is way more important than kvetching over identity pronouns and such.

We need a global anti-pedo-abuse force.
I was going to say SEO would be an easy way to get a foot in the door and doesn't really require any technical skills to do. After awhile you can make well beyond average income doing it.
Maybe it's legal, but it should absolutely not be. There's too much risk that a legislator's personal interest will run counter to the interests of the public, and the system should have safeguards against this.
Someone who travels even more often (and I know several that do, due to business/a semi-nomadic lifestyle) would consider hotels and hostels to be pretty good for them, and yet I'd hope they'd still be able to understand that

- the hotel model is a poor one for general, large-scale provision of shelter, and
- the arrangement is heavily biased in favour of the hotel owner.

I always ask people who rent to take some time - whether now, or in the next ten or twenty years - to calculate how much they have spent on rent so far and how much they are still projected to spend for the rest of their lives. And then consider that they get no tangible asset for the often mind-boggling amounts the total comes to; that, in fact, they may have actually paid for other people's houses several times over with nothing to show for it. The situation is somewhat tenable when the landlords actually own their properties outright, but in the modern real estate world they are more often just middlemen that shuffle money between the renter and the bank.

I wish more people would question why the provision of shelter has become such a runaway profit-making machine, but I'm not holding my breath.
One thing that comes to mind is that maybe stock market is to nervous reacting to news. Microsoft isn't worth suddenly 5% more or less depending what some politician says on a given day.

I mean insider trading should be illegal especially for real insiders. That I am not arguing. The market just seems to easy too spook and not that efficient to me.
That it is. Your point is?
Thanks dang, that's a good point.
People like me, who don't consider it being altruistic or not as orthogonal to the success of the second part.

>Are you using 'orthogonal' to mean "unrelated to", or do you mean "in opposition to"?

I'm using it to mean "unrelated to" (canonical CS meaning of "orthogonal" as well).

But, here's the catch, note that I used a double negative in my phrasing. so, I'm not saying they are othogonal, I'm saying they're not orthogonal. That is, I don't consider "being altruistic or not as orthogonal to the success of the second part" (the second part being the "helping" we were discussing).

So, it's not that "personal benefit in any form invalidates altruism", it's that lack of altruism works against effectivly helping people.
The Apple Watch health stuff kind of sucks (the health app itself that can take in/track other data is okay). It sounds like Apple is just blocking Peloton from their fitness competitor bootcamp stuff, but Peloton can still integrate data in Health.

I have a Peloton and Apple Watch, I've historically had a FitBit.

The FitBit would recognize when you were on a run and auto record everything - the Apple Watch can't do this, about 20% of the time it'll ask if you're on a run and makes you confirm that you are (which is easy to miss).

The Fitness app has a bug that suggests nobody even looks at it. If your speed is increasing (you're running faster) and so your mileage time is going down (takes you fewer minutes to run a mile) and that's trending down as a result the App says "oh no you're trending downward" - but obviously in that case getting faster and getting your mileage time down is a good thing.

The Peloton stuff is solid and you can still share it to the health app - real time tracking via the watch doesn't matter that much. Anyone who does actual cycling will have a garmin computer or something anyway.

The Apple Watch fitness stuff is maybe okay for people that don't exercise and just want some walking tracking motivation - it's pretty bad for everything else.
By that definition, AWS democratizes computing as well. Just enter your payment info to get access to democratized computing!
Sony just signed a massive content licensing deal with Netflix. Funny thing is, if you asked me which companies should have their own streaming service, Sony would be towards the top of the list. They have the content and very relevant tech expertise for it. Yet they ran the numbers and realised that there probably isn't room in the market for yet another ground-up service. Paramount, NBC, Showtime, Shudder, Epix, Discovery, CBS, Starz, AMC all apparently didn't.

Amazon has the best compromise for this IMO. Users have a single account and payment method, and can subscribe to different "channels" from the Prime Video app itself. Content owners don't need to license stuff to Amazon, just pay them a cut of the add-on fee.
Shocking to absolutely no one. When you are the only game in town and everyone wants the latest greatest (high demand), shortages are going to last into the foreseeable future[1].

[1] - Foreseeable future = multiple years on end
This is a joke right? Based on what measurement do most Western countries have little government?
Yes, but that's just ASCII. What is your idea of a 80 byte globally illegal ASCII message that isn't just a URL elsewhere?
Wow. I recently discovered Botswana during a deep dive on Wikipedia. Botswana is the size of Metropolitan France, which has a population of ~60 million, but Botswana only has a population of 2.2 million! Resources? They have the most productive diamond mine in the world that consistently produces the highest quality large diamonds in the world.

GDP per capita? 18,500+ USD. They are solidly middle class by global standards.

Also, as I understand, the country lies just outside of the tsetse fly belt, which is very important for human development. Interestingly (and sadly), they also have one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world, but seem to be managing it very well. (Wiki says: <<As of 2014, Botswana has the third-highest prevalence rate for HIV/AIDS, with roughly 20% of the population infected.>>)
No because I cannot reproduce it. It just happened randomly in the past.

As I don't like getting bug reports that boil down to "doesn't work", I don't create them myself.
That was my response when I heard about it “ok... how?” Not gonna ban VPN and everyone’s see about a million ads for them on YouTube now
For those not familiar, check out Postgraphile.
Using a 10-year old computer now is like driving a 20-year-old car
I'd want her to not speculate on the event, it looks bad. The system doesn't just depend on people not cheating, it depends on confidence in the system, judged by people who aren't experts in either trading or politics.
Yeah, it gets harder to believe there's "smart money" when your friend Alice made bank following some meme stock and Bob down the road became crypto-rich off Dogecoin.
Oddly, they don't seem to support or want the providers to be running VMs. That moves it out of "idle hardware" into "dedicated hardware" territory right there. I can dedicate a VM as I can restrict that VMs resource limits, network access, and it's separate from my processes. But even if I had bare metal servers that weren't running VMware, Solaris, FreeBSD I'm certainly not going to let their provider service run on my hardware next to whatever else is on there that's mine.

My idle compute resources all run VMWare.
I run most every week day. I am proud to have worked myself up to a regular 5K and my running app always asks me if Inwant to share this, tell my friends etc.

I cannot find a single reason I would want to share my run times, or that I have run. Any sharing just seems like a very unhumble brag or worse some attempt to shame or cajole others.

The problem with social fitness is (I at least) cannot see it being very sociable - its competitive.

Edit: actually - I am wrong. Find me people at my level, and help us connect for tips and support, then I get it.
Yes, one of the benefits of controlling your audience is that there's little to no social pressure with posting.

Only on the app store at the moment, because I wanted to get the app out there to get feedback ASAP. An Android version is in the works. :-)
> It used to be that you could not IPO unless you were profitable

Citation please. Lots of companies IPO while losing money.

If this was a thing, it's ancient history and not relevant to IPO vs DPO discussion.
Imagining that the Ingenuity team is grinning right now:
"You need wind to blow off the dust? We got this."
But if politics were less of a dumpster fire, there would be even more resources to enable great things.

And to me, the politics looks very much like the decadent heights of empires, not just that it's a dysfunctional dumpster fire, but the way it's dysfunctional. It's dysfunctional because it's insane amounts of infighting, as if the country's health and dominance was forever, and so we're free to fight over who gets the wealth, and nobody needs to keep an eye on making sure that the wealth keeps coming. That pattern has historically worked out very badly for empires...
C++20, the standard has already been ratified.
in this case you should definitely read Vaclav Smil book Growth.

It covers how similar growth patterns can be identified, from cities, vegetation, motors and human life.

It is a long book, but recommended by none other than gates [1]

[1] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Growth
It reminds me of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BGGOn-H7s3Q
I think this presupposes the lie that the government is by, of, or for the (majority of the) people.

This is a closed system, and most are not allowed anywhere near the control room.

It, including these trades, is working as intended.
What does orthogonal mean in this context? Just wondering
This is a bad idea for so many reasons.

The front-end and back-end data models are vastly different for any non-trivial application.
MS-DOS' drive-letter allocation process is more complex than you might think
In some states the people can literally make the law via public initiatives. If you don't have that process at home push for THAT. Looking at this map there are a lot of states that need to work on step 1.

https://ballotpedia.org/Initiative_and_referendum
that would seem to follow from a historical materialist perspective (which makes sense to me, if you consider cultures to optimise their ideals to fit their environment). Human history is a function with material conditions as an input.
This is definitely abuse. The policy is there does not mean customer can use it in whatever way you like. The company honor the policy also does not mean the consumer is not abusing the policy.

Remember Costco permanently blocked some consumers due to abusing the return policy? Costco honors the policy, but those consumers were still considered as abusing the policy.
As they say, the winners write the history books (and also the blockchains)
I strongly believe this is going to allow Intel to make a dramatic comeback. It will buy them enough time to catch up while everyone is stuck buying Intel still as a result of supply constraint.
Your hypothesis assumes that all elected officials must engage in some form of bribery or pay for play. In an ideal world we’d find leaders who put the interests of the country ahead of their finances.
It’s a fine browser and it is really important to make sure the landscape is not dominated by one engine.
Are you kidding? Piracy has never been easier lol, gb internet and torrents for every popular show and movie on public trackers. The pirate bay is still around and going strong. I just don’t want my Goverment to waste money trying to stop the internet stoppable
> You've just turned your database schema into the API

It might actually be quite easy to version an SQL api, because you have the DDL migrations files and could actually make things backwards compatible to some degree. You would have a translation layer to modify the queries. Of course, your migrations would need to be more detailed tracking how things map to each other. But probably it would get too complex in the end. But not that much different to changes to a REST api really.
T9 suffers from slow input speeds. In the worst case you are required to click the same button four times for a single character.
I'm using the ORM to do a window function, without writing any SQL directly. In fact I've done queries with several window functions, aggregations, and joins in a single query all from the ORM without writing any SQL. It is much easier to read and maintain than raw SQL too imo.
We have the uranium. Do we have the nuclear plants? No? Not yet? Then today, we can't burn all that electricity mining Bitcoin without it requiring burning more coal.
Yeah I'm having understanding how this is a scam too. Are they rebuying the same phone a week later? If not, they are using the system as intended.
It seems like some of your sibling comments have similarly been down-voted. God knows why. I’ve upvoted yours and theirs because I consider personal anecdotes to be useful contributions to discussion. If discussions were to be based solely on peer-reviewed meta-analyses of empirical data, they would be poorer for missing the colour and detail – and far, far drier.
The Microwave Radio and Coaxial Cable Networks of the Bell System
I think it's easy to rephrase this as follows:

People should not be able to make bets on matters over which they secretly control the outcome.

That means any federal official should have their investments behind a blind trust of some sort, no exceptions.
> resources here on earth are limited

One, there is more in the universe than this earth. And two, the resource intensity of GDP growth is falling. (A new iPhone is more capable than its predecessors without requiring comparatively more resources. And a web comic can create millions in value with comparatively little burn.)
In the US, Aldi, and I think some other grocery stores do this.
I rather like it, since it is in many ways an accurate description of how representation of how the democratic process works in practice.

Voters pick winners, but get little representation, people who fund campaigns of the winners get a lot of representation.
Berlin has a lot of real-estate with unclear ownership, due to seizure of property during the nazi time and communism, sometimes multiple times. Add a few levels of inheritance and you get real estate that is unusable because it belongs to a lot of people at once, all in a decade long court battle with each other.
On academia, I work closely with a lot of professors at Oxford, MIT, Caltech and the like and they uniformly believe academia is in decline and with horrible institutional incentives accelerating that decay.

The decay of the US government is visible in the crumbling infrastructure, the homeless people on the streets and in tent cities, the trash, the shitty COVID response, the partisan bickering. It has no claim to leadership, it is not inspiring to anyone whether in the US or around the world. It is in crisis and it is a cultural crisis which is very hard to fix.
All the talks from LaunchDarkly's Galaxy (user conf)
> Competency, skills, leadership, those are qualities that result in change... having a good heart and believing in or trying to execute various altruistic ideologies is basically a loser's game.

We should expect elected officials to have both. It's not like it's impossible.
What they said was objectively true, regardless of your opinions for or against the situation.
Apologies, used the editorialized headline from another article as a replacement for the one on this post

Federal government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites

https://mobilesyrup.com/2021/04/14/federal-government-propos...
They already are aren't they? Most social networks launch on iOS only at the beginning.
Smoothing for Data Science Visualization – LOWESS and B-spline explanation
I know they've made great strides but "Behringer" is a bigger indicator of quality than XLR or USB in that sentence. Blue at least has been making good mics for their entire existence (I use a Snowball too, it's great for my day to day calls). They've managed to stay pretty good since the Logitech acquisition, and prices have come down with scale.
Can you dig up that study please?
But they have amazing, world-class nature. Tourism is, and will, be a large part of their economic growth. Mostly, they are focused on very high income travelers, not unlike Bhutan.
I'm currently working on a project to fully expose SQL to clients in some reasonable fashion. It's not going to be a great fit for every application, obviously, but just allowing users to filter any data any way they want by default is nice. For example, in many apps reports have to be baked into the API and/or running reports basically gives people admin-level database access, with SQL access they can just be HTML/JS scripts.

Combined with row-level permissions (which my library abstracts), I think it's a very powerful and usable approach to apps where storing structured data is the main goal.

Article for an older iteration: https://dvdkon.gitlab.io/mocasys-dascore/
With 3 days of use. Parkisons disease in 20 years old.

Simulatable in primates and mice by giving them this drug.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPTP

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000360.htm

Be careful out there, test your drugs.
Filling of the three gorges dam?
Nothing lol. That’s the problem they can’t stop it and it’ll be a waste of money and time
I'm a dissatisfied apple watch owner. The battery is basically gone after a year and a half, and while some of the first party apps are cool, third party apps underperform with only a specter of the feature sets they have on other devices - likely due to constraints with the hardware and software. Syncing music is a absolute travesty taking 4+ hours to sync even a modest catalogue. The official debugging forums are themselves an 8th circle of hell.

It does not feel like Apple cares enough about the watch relative to its other businesses. If they did they wouldn't have shipped a device that should probably be in beta.

If I was a partner firm I would not invest significantly in the watch platform. Maybe in a 4+ years, but I really doubt it.
The US is explicitly not about the majority. The Senate and Presidency are both anti-democratic institions where land controls votes.
i really like the sydney morning herald, surprised its not already suggested