skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how do I store state in the application

I can’t speak for all of the challenges you might be dealing with, but this one in particular seems like something specific to native development. You have a wealth of options, and at the same time because of that fact there is are fewer defaults compared to web dev and you have to do more work to make the decision. Personally I default to two options unless performance requires otherwise: SQLite or JSON stored in files.
or to hide the unpleasant stuff that is there.
> Like other design-by committee projects C# has considerable sprawl.

Despite having gained some weight over the years, I still wouldn't call Anders Hejlsberg a committee.
It depends on your ideology and stance. I think a good portion of most societies could use the culling that'll go along with it. Because no matter how you cut the pie, people are still people and just because you believe people are intrinsically good doesn't make it so. I think we should all be under surveillance 24/7/365, but then again I've been raped, beaten, tortured, home invaded and worse so I actually care about the important things like victims being able to put pieces of shit in prison.
I never knew about continued fractions.

Impressive the very simple representations of sqrt of 2, sqrt of 3 and sqrt of 5.
mRNAs against viruses were still in research until the past few years. Researchers were trying to use it against flu until COVID broke out.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/how-mrna-t...
You mean Minecraft?
The key challenge with this system is merchant adoption. Since merchants are forced to charge the same prices in the less valuable currency, they'll drop out if its exchange rate falls by more than their profit margin (and perhaps before then).
Burying biomass produces methane as it anaerobically decomposes. I'd imagine that capturing that is fairly challenging compared to (essentially) burning the biomass and separating out the carbon.

Biomass can be pyrolized to produce flammable gas, charcoal/biochar, "wood vinegar", and a few other byproducts in a process that produces surplus energy. As long as you have biomass feedstock coming in, you can produce highly concentrated solid or liquid carbon on the far side and get energy out as power.
That's a good point. I want to learn more about it before I pass judgment
What happens to the value of gold once astroid mining begins?
This is what turned me against Tile as a consumer. For the longest time they refused to provide any way for the end user to replace a battery, choosing instead to charge for something like a “recycling fee” which essentially matched the new normally discounted purchase price.

Yes the batteries are replaceable now, for some models, but I even declined to interview there a couple times based on the obtuseness of this product decision. And partnering with HP... not my idea of cool.
So that MSNBC could’ve been forced to air pro-Trump defenses?
Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Lierre Keith and Michele Wallace.

These are a few names of Radical Feminist thinkers who ascribe to the view that gender is a "fashionable concept" or the concept of femininity is "ritualized submission."

http://meetinggroundonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/GE...
Nice. The first sample looks kind of like a spider chart, but easier to read. The grid layout also kind of reminds me of a flamegraph. Items (servers, site pages, assets, PCR machines, factory equipment) could be rendered with the 6 corners of hexagons representing machine status, making it easy to read the health of a whole system at a glance.

Are there any public examples of those hexagons being used in practice? I spent a minute or two clicking around the SpeciesFileGroup/taxonworks site but didn't run into any hexagons.
I’ve worked a ton of low value jobs. I’ve worked in factories, as a receptionist, as a secretary, in a bank, etc. I never felt that I deserved to make more money just because it was compassionate to give me more. I understood exactly where I stood and why I was being paid.

That’s what motivated me to study my ass off and work hard at my job and elevate myself. Some people are okay with not working harder and making what they do. Half my close friends are like that. That’s great and I don’t look down on them. But I don’t think they need to make more money “just because.” It’s whatever the market bears.
FLoC, much like AMP, was an honest and earnest try to extend the same benefits of Apple's closed ecosystem to actors outside it. Google is trapped between either not getting rid of 3p cookies and pissing us off, or trying something like FLoC, which I'm still a little surprised backfired. The only option they're left is to copy Apple's business model, exactly
Absent the cell already being cancerous, wouldn't it eventually die off or become targeted by the immune system (I'm not sure if the synthesized spike proteins are free-floating or if the cell becomes some kind of sacrifice for the immune system to kill and dissect)?
I'd argue that the killer app is more of a killer feature: internet connectivity.
Yes if you're on two servers with someone and you right click their name it will show that it's the same person on the other server. It's not really private information if user IDs are public, I just prefer to keep things a bit more private if I can.
> Many discussions of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency—I am going to use “Bitcoin” and “cryptocurrency” interchangeably for convenience, even though Bitcoin is just a specific cryptocurrency

Ok, umm, next please!
Yes now they do. For years they had only non-user-replaceable ones but they were happy to charge a large fee for a swap.
The best description of dating apps I've heard is that they are: "Entertainment for women and serious business for men."

I've asked women friends of mine if this was there position, and the general consensus was yes, they agreed - with few caveats.
reCAPTCHA v3 just gives you a score, and you have to decide what to do with it. This means that you should never under any circumstances use reCAPTCHA v3 as a gate with no alternative—otherwise you will certainly be preventing real users from using the system with no recourse, which will regularly have at least theoretically dire legal consequences.

Also, I get the impression that reCAPTCHA v3 is waaaaay less smart than people think. At a small scale, it’s near trivial to tweak your browser so it’ll give scores at opposite ends of the spectrum.
Yeah I use other tools for passwords, etc and turn off a lot (though not history! that's serious business)

I also use a pihole to block ads and trackers more completely, but I do like having an additional browser-level feature with "enhanced tracking protection"[1] – if it did nothing else, I like simply having the list of attempted-tracker on every site easily available at all times.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...
Do you have numbers on that? The last time I looked it up, over here at least, that wasn't really the case. It seemed that while people in cities use less energy on personal transportation and housing, they consume much more goods and services than people in rural areas.
> We didn't evolve for this.

No, we evolved to jump sharks. Just like that straying into purpose-driven evolution and just so stories did. Motivated reasoning.

He had me until then, though.
It’s the only attribute Feynman and I share ;)
Safari and Firefox block 3rd party cookies.
I think a simple carbon tax would tie crypto to decarbonization in a way that is as extreme and practical as it is necessary.
For sure, the world is much more complicated and the inability to read between the lines and not taking everything at face value certainly isn't limited to "educated people". But there is a lot of truth to this quote nonetheless. For what it's worth, all of those wacky theories about Q-anon or even flat earth don't beat the fact that people somehow managed to subvert and obscure the fundamental truth about nature that's shared between every living being, reproduction, and made educated people believe that biological sex is simply irrelevant or not even a valid concept. Covid's another thing, I get that there are wacky theories about that too, but there are many pretentious, insufferable people who are acting like they're better than everyone else, because they blindly believe any propaganda about it that's pushed by the "official sources".
No, it would be a lot more like a city creating a Best City in America award and then awarding it to themselves.
If you're really primarily worried about the sea of scams, I think the focus on crypto is misdirected. My opinion is this tsunami of money flowing into ponzis is way bigger than crypto, and looking at crypto in isolation is missing the forest for the trees.

The astronomical rise in ponzis and scams corresponds with the rise in quantitative easing in the world's central banks. Effectively creating a tax on not owning assets. There's been a large scale, mostly proportional, transfer of wealth from poor to rich going on, and people are now tripping over themselves trying to play catch up.

From reading about the history of periods of hyperinflation/asset bubbles, it's clear to me that people will find any way to get rid of their money when they think it's going to lose buying power, no blockchain is needed for that.

Stopping blockchains themselves would have very little effect on the number of scams. Hell, most of those scams don't even use blockchains and decentralized technology at all. They run on centralized copycats and are centralized themselves. Not much to do with crypto except hijacking the aura of innovation. Nobody can shut down Bitcoin, but they can certainly shut down Binance/BSC.

Now, wonder why aren't governments doing more to stop their people from investing in scams? You had the whole WSB GME saga. You have the Miami governor hyping Bitcoin after his rich neighbors convinced him to buy in. And now you have literal children buying Dogecoin. Whether people lose their savings on GME, million-dollar shacks, NFTs or tulips makes little difference. The alternative to people trying to out-trade their neighors is people blaming the ones responsible for the situation in the first place. So why would they try to stop it?
The one thing I totally don't understand about this architecture is the meager 40GB of RAM. I understand it's SRAM and the high memory bandwidth allows for reduced replication, but almost every workload I can imagine this addressing is still going to have a larger working set than that. I guess they still haven't figured out how to stack HBM on top of the wafer, and they're just carefully avoiding calling attention to this extreme (factor of 1000) weakness.
Article started out strong, but falls away from being persuasive pretty quickly.

> Many believe in it because they have swallowed libertarian dogmas that do not reflect how the world actually works.

Quite humble to assume they know how the world actually works.

There are too many straw man arguments used about what core crypto enthusiasts/developers actually believe and want with no respective for narrative evolution over time.

There is no steel manning of how crypto enthusiasts may respond to some of the criticisms leveled, and the author takes a cheap out- starting out with the assertion that they will use cryptocurrency and Bitcoin interchangeably, absolving them of any need to discuss other cryptocurrencies and their novel functions and goals.

There is no criticism of the current fiat monetary system and its shortcomings (though admittedly I started to skim).

Great article if you’re not interested in your viewpoint being challenged.
I think I understand why this is happening. This is not an issue that argument parsing in git goes wrong. But instead, the `--upload-pack=` instructs git to run certain command in the remote server. In my above example (`system "git", "ls-remote", "--upload-pack=$(whoami)", "HEAD"`), HEAD is interpreted as a local file based git server. As such, the command is executed in the same machine.
> Can the python packaging story get much worse?

Of course it can get much worse, see where Python packaging was ~5 years ago.
Wasn't the end goal of copyleft that all software becomes GPL 3 a few years ago? When will this stop? Why does 'freedom' in the Gnu sense require coercing all developers to use the same license?
I think I understand why this happens. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26885103
The average person will also put ads on their blog to generate revenues.
This may sound good to someone but it doesn't make good sense. Data structures aren't free, they take space. Therefore there is a trade-off between space and compute complexity. And ultimately data structures don't transform themselves, an algorithm has to do the transformation...

Once you modeled your problem into some data structures you now need to make the decision of whether or not the transformation between input and output is easily achievable with an algorithm, if not then you need to further break down the problem into more data structures or your design is flawed.
You mean the leadership that put Google cofounder Sergey Brin's sister-in-law in charge of Youtube?
Discovering a Value Innovation “Blue Ocean” Idea
That's fine. I wasn't taking a position. I was explaining why people were using Open Source as a comparison.

There were also no claims about whatever definition of restrictive you were using. It was just a short statement that the Timescale license was designed to be less restrictive than the AGPL. You can't really be that surprised when somebody comes along and starts judging it by Open Source standards after that, can you?
I shudder to think of the difficulty in maintaining phase coherence at optical wavelengths for the baselines they mention in this article.
I don't know what it was like back in the day

Other than I tried a time or two and had people shit on my ideas so I bailed

Soft I know

But I've been back for a few months and generally enjoying it and finding it almost semi-useful

Forums generally do seem dead-ish

I would prefer to pay $20/mo -- at least -- to have truly engaged people.

But not sure if charging a small fee would help or hurt.
Never use your real phone number with services like Facebook. They don't need to know your phone number.
I am not even sure what is going on now, as I thought the only reason people had ever cared about MongoDB in the first place was in an attempt to get performance they thought was impossible using a relational database (notably without realizing all of the tradeoffs... some inexcusable, such as simply coming with defaults that didn't call fsync, leading to a ton of memes about "database administrators running with scissors" and years of having to convince people that MongoDB was only a project you use if you don't care about data).

The irony, of course, was that it turned out that if you used PostgreSQL and simply stored json in it, you could get better performance without giving up on a relational database... and even more damning was that the translation from MongoDB's query syntax to PostgreSQL's query syntax was trivial, leading to people building adapter layers that were drop-in compatible (and yet still faster and safer than MongoDB). So I guess there was something fitting about seeing someone post a project that is trying to the SQLite of MongoDB, but with benchmarks right off the bar showing it slower than SQLite ;P.

I thereby continue to feel that if you want to use MongoDB, but want a library version of it, it would seem--based on this project's own benchmarks, unless you are doing a read-heavy workload of random documents by index--that what you probably want is a query translator to go from MongoDB's syntax to SQL (working with the SQLite json API), and then store your workload in SQLite... which is (critically) a battle-tested production-grade database engine used as a foundational storage layer for lots of projects.

That said, it isn't like SQLite was a drop-in replacement for other database engines: when I think of "X is to SQLite as MongoDB is to PostgreSQL" I picture something that is attempting to being benefits over SQLite -- in way of performance or scalability -- at the cost of losing the power of being a full relational database (and, because of Mongo's legacy, probably a lot of safety and stability guarantees ;P). (FWIW, I remembered there's being a project like this: UnQLite-- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18101689 --where people ironically seem to have wanted to get it benchmarked against SQLite with its json API ;P.)

It sounds like maybe this project is just trying to provide MongoDB's query layer? You simply don't use SQLite until you "migrate to the full PostgreSQL"... they are designed for different scenarios, and while SQLite is good enough you might be able to use it in a place where PostgreSQL "was called for", a migration might be brutal (as the syntax and type system are different). The project tagline is thereby leading to the wrong mental space--as seemingly multiple other people have since now mentioned on this thread--particularly given that it is written in Python.
Cool write up, but no short demo or repo? Or did I somehow miss that?
The perseverance of scientific obsession must not be underestimated.
The S-1 will reveal all, a tight integration with Xbox and not a lot of direct revenue may still ultimately result in a sustainable and viable product, once you go public indefinite quarterly losses don’t get saved by the next funding round at higher valuations.
I think some of what you're seeing is that any of this kind of stuff exists at all. That any level of monitoring and tracking behavior exists without clear and explicit permission from the human/agent; The attempts at making this behavior the status quo and "just how things are" when in fact it is not; The gaslighting with threats of the Internet itself going away if we don't cede to the advertisers; the scolding those opposed as freeloading, small-business haters, as if ads are the only source of remuneration left to exist.

It's that sort of stuff that fuels some of the more pronounced objections, I suspect. It's what fuels mine.

Edit: I'm still bad at HN formatting.
Part of this must be related to the name, which I find obnoxious for some reason
Biochar, the solid product of pyrolized biomass, is considered a beneficial soil amendment (it's basically elemental carbon -- like what you'd get in a charcoal filter). It's probably not a good idea to breathe it though.

I'm not sure about bio-oil specifically, as it contains much more of the tar-like compounds. It's likely it contains benzene and other compounds. I found this in a cursory google search: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy07osti/37779.pdf
Let's say you have a current property worth $1,000,000. 75% of the value is unimproved land, 25% is the capital improvements (house etc.) It's being rented out at $40,000 a year ($3,333 a month). 75% of the rent is economic rent of the unimproved value of the land, 25% is for the house.

So a 1% land value tax would be $10,000 a year. A 3% LVT would eat up the entirety of the economic rent.

However, the yield on that property would go down from 4% per annum to 1% per annum, so the value of the land would drop.

Any politically realistic implementation would involve progressively increasing the LVT and reducing other taxes over time, so the first year might be 1% LVT, but eventually the price of the property would drop such that a 100% LVT wouldn't be unreasonable (although an 85% LVT or thereabouts is often thought to work better).
It is necessary but not sufficient to be a legitimate 10x technical subject matter expert. Most organizations lack the expertise but they also lack effective leadership and organization to apply the expertise even if they have it. Part of the job of being a highly paid “10x engineer” is to fix the organization so that the organization can fix the technical problem. The former will consume 90% of your time.

Some 10x engineers have legitimately exceptional technical abilities that stand on their own, but the critical skill for many (most?) is being really good at smoothly fixing broken engineering processes and organizations from first principles. A handful are good at both.

The main benefit of hiring a consultant is that management can blame them for uncomfortable changes.
By the way, downvoting can be abused for censorship here. I think only upvoting has right to exist.
You're still ultimately stating an intent to limit other people's freedom of thought and leisure "for their own good" - it's baked right into this idea.

If people choose to spend more time in the virtual then the physical, then that's a pretty good sign you've setup your society wrong and need to work on fixing that.
The realization that git is more akin to ZFS snapshots and that the space saving is done separately was eye-opening.
Rotary Embeddings: A Relative Revolution
What? Xamarin apps currently compile to native code, so idk where you are getting this idea from.
If you’re already using JavaScript and you want an embeddable document database you could look at PouchDB.
That’s a 60cm range, which is non trivial. It’s about the length of a human arm. Many desks are 120cm wide, so half of that.
It's possibly merely a coincidence. That was over 20 years ago and the author has another project "mustard". Guy looks to be somewhere under 30 from the photos I can find.

What an odd name to hit twice in the browser world.

Then again, there's Viola, Cello, and Vivaldi though ... so who knows, maybe the population size is way larger than I pretend it is.
Can you talk about your instructional workflow a bit more and how you replaced your former tools?
There's a number of comedy stations on satellite/streaming radio like SiriusXM. I'm not sure what kind of value proposition it is but it might not be too crazy depending on your budgets versus your sleep quality.
> I was reading about pine farms being paid to halt harvesting.

This explains the price of lumber right now, holy cow. I hate this.
You can. Settings -> Accessibility -> Motion -> Reduce Motion
I don’t think very many people actually believe this in the real world. Even in my left-leaning bubble, just about everyone recognises that there are obvious flaws in much of the logic present by many internet feminists.
The difference is you can opt out of the crypto game, not so easy with natural resources like land.
Yeah, my parents refused to buy a second line so this is what we did.
I don't think it is essential that there be a clear boundary between an OS and programs.

For example, you can have a Smalltalk-based OS, written in Smalltalk. The OS components are simply Smalltalk classes and methods. Your programs/utilities/applications would also be Smalltalk classes and methods. There needn't be any clear boundary between the classes/methods that belong to the OS and those that belong to programs/applications/utilities.

If you look at library operating systems, the operating system is just a library which you link into your application. Such an operating system can only run one program, and you have to rebuild the operating system whenever you want to change the single program it runs. Still, I think library operating systems count as operating systems. This Tetris implementation isn't using a library operating system, but you could refactor the code into two parts – the Tetris game, and generic OS services, and the later would constitute a library operating system. If you look at its source files, only about seven of them (main.c, music.[ch], sound.[ch], speaker.[ch]) actually implement the game. The other 23 source files are generic OS services.
So I'd say that, even if this isn't an operating system as a whole, it contains an OS within itself.
Ask about the clause. Sometimes they're simply not lawyers and drafted it up late at night and add dumb things like that to sound "lawyerly". That's fine, let them drop it.

Sometimes they drop it but say something like, "Everyone else signs it!" That's a yellow flag.

If they just refuse to drop it, then you should probably walk away unless they have a good reason.