skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ummm... nice turning of my point on its head.

Nobody said that they have to make that versioning public and shout it from the rooftops.

Users do use the informal versioning that I mentioned, because otherwise they wouldn't be able to differentiate the products. I've heard "MacBook Pro 2015" a million times.

And a date <<is>> a version number. It also nicely auto-increments to prove to your customers that the latest thing is better than the old one.

Doodad Pro, 2021 edition. It's not that hard, as I was saying.

The alternative is the garbage that everyone is doing. WH-1000XM3, really?!?
Had to happen someday
This assumed truism is actually arguable.

I can see that some furniture is better than others, but I actually am rarely all that uncomfortable regardless of the furniture. I will sit on a hard stool or a cheap chair with compressed dead cushion or a sumptuous stuffed chair almost equally fine all day long doing something engaging. As a kid I spent all day every day on rock hard absolutely non customizable chairs, and was fine. Because I was a kid.

The argument that you are the major ingredient in the equation of your comfort, not the chair, holds up.
> god doesn’t give us tests that we couldn’t possibly pass

I get that you’re framing this in a context that OPs friend might take solace in, but when you put it like that it just sounds like a cruel joke to me.
Thank you. Said blog post loads very, very fast!
I would say the space between "> >=" is a typo, and should be ">>=", which would mean shift right.
That's ... brilliant. I genuinely had never thought of that
Archive.today cached version: https://archive.ph/wi3Hp
Antivirus has always been the wrong solution to this problem. Mobile computing showed us the way: sandboxed applications with the operating system asking the user for consent before exposing any new APIs to the application.

The fact that any arbitrary program executed on Windows can still wipe out your entire user folder without any sort of warning or request for permission is astounding to me. There's probably a million different (unsecured) ways to bork the install too, so that your computer won't boot the next time it restarts. And let's not forget our best friend, ransomware, whose singular reason for existing is the lack of filesystem controls.
Probably something to do with html5 audio api
Very true. Pricing these things was done a bit in a vacuum, after which the registrar can mark them up. The results make for a very varied bunch of names. I think it's early days for all this stuff and lots of it will get ironed out over time. Did you buy a .w33d domain?
Scroll down to the "thread overview". There you can see the thread summarized in a tree layout, which makes more sense since asynchronous discussion isn't typically linear.

The current message in the tree is highlighted with the indicator "[this message]"; you can see replies branch out below it and parent messages above it.
>especially since I see more and more of those trucks in Paris, France

Yep, this trend exploded almost everywhere in Europe and I think I found the answer to why. Lots of my male colleagues at work (devs in Europe) are married and have kids on the way and when discussions came at lunchtime about buying a new family car for taking the kids places it seemed like the choice is always a SUV. Whenever I ask them why a SUV, even though they usually prefer sleek sedans, the answer is always "my wife/girlfriend says she feels safer in a big, tall car", which mostly makes sense as throughout history, females' reproductive and nesting choices have had a major impact on shaping male behavior and various aspects of society like real-estate and now car choices.

It's sad that this kickstarted what is basically an arms race on the road since nobody feels safe anymore driving their kids in the traditional European compact car when everyone else is now in big heavy SUVs with poor visibility and easily distracted by their phones or infotainment touch-screens so this fear drives them to one-up their "competition" with bigger and heavier cars to make sure their kids have a perceived higher safety in case on an accident.
This seems to only really work in languages that allow null variables/timestamps. I wouldn't really want to have to do comparators to the default value of a timestamp.
Do you really think that they colluded though? The exact same result can be expected if they simply independently reacted to market conditions. It’d be very hard to prove illegal coordination.
The cost was given purely in terms of MWh.
I don’t see that going anywhere. I would expect both parties to argue that this is conscious parallelism, which Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion#Conscious_para...) states “is very hard to prosecute because it may occur without any collusion between the competitors”.

They’ll also argue that they don’t keep prices high in their stores and provide value that makes that 15/30% cut worthwhile.

Anti-trust, IMO, won’t work either. Currently, Apple will (rightfully, IMO) argue it has viable competition in Android, and Google will say the same about iOS and say they allow other stores to exist.

I think we need new law to handle this kind of stuff.
Pause or not pause. Anti-vaxx will never be convinced. In whatever way, they will come up with new excuses.

I care about whether the vaccine is safe. I would be seriously concern if officials take anti-vaxx into consideration.
Isn't the whole issue the definition of the market? That's going to be highly subjective. Are Samsung and Google phones running Android the same market? Most people would say yes. Are phones and tablets, or computing devices in general the same market? Most people would say no. iOS and Android? It gets murky, the cost of switching is high and fungibility is debatable.
Compare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_ID.4 vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_Q3

I think that if there is any real difference, it's really minute and not worth arguing about...
Immunization Agenda 2030: What is the value of strategy in a global crisis?
It's hard to imagine a situation in which a normal person would want to find a hitman where some law enforcement agency dedicated to posing as false customers wouldn't be able to find them first. And the opposite side of the equation seems like it would be easy to cover as well, with law enforcement posing as hitmen. Just ask Tim Lambesis how the process plays out.

I imagine that the only way that it works in practicality is through existing networks among extremely high net worth or government entities. I don't imagine it's easily possible to enter the network inorganically.
It went too far. And although your attitude may be excusable and perhaps even rational, it is for sure not helping to get your country into a better state. Maybe it now seems impossible but the road to a nicer country starts by forgiving and then understanding. And then civil discourse, perhaps over dinner ;)
As a cyclist, who sees people who apparently think the same way about their Walmart bikes with their knees up to their chins... I say that ignorance of proper setup does not mean there is no such thing as proper setup, or no reason for it.
I don't think the malls "got rid" of either one. Music stores and bookstores just couldn't deal with the business realities of the post-amazon world. I'm certain the malls would have been happy to take their rent money.
Wut? In what way is Musk not manipulative?
OneDev 4.3: CI/CD configuration reuse made easy
Is biological death the same as clinical one? Should someone be resurrected?
To quote the author: "it depends"

If when something happens needs to fold into your business logic then by all means go for it.

If you're moreso doing it as an audit then logging out the event with it's context is going to be more useful.
I would have supported a law like this, back in Italy, although they don’t really need it (it’s already in the top-3 European countries for number of transplants). I am not very keen on it here in UK. That’s because the medical profession here stinks of massive classism, and there have been instances of abuses like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-50... . The chances of doctors “hurrying up” families from working-class and minority backgrounds to pull the plug, for the purposes of organ harvesting, in my opinion are substantial. Already we have situations where minorities get substandard attention (likely one of the causes, for instance, of early-natal mortality in Birmingham being more than twice the national average); this risks exacerbating the problems.

Also, there are issues with forensics. Organ harvesting, from what I hear, is more likely to be followed by cremation than embalming, which makes it impossible to re-examine remains at a later date. Again, given the “tradition” of cover-ups that most nation-states carry, it seems like a dangerous slope.
Also, most people look more attractive wearing a mask. Leaves more room for fantasy. I kinda enjoy seeing masked people. But that’s just me.
Too me, pumping water seems like a pretty good solutiuon. If you are located on the coast, and can move let's say a million tons something like 100-200m up, that's not trivial and doesn't seem that impractical.
I am not sure why it's relevant to point this out. Actually I think it's rather heartless. Don't you have some ideals to strive for?

Coming from Berlin (which has sizable population of homeless) it was shocking to see many people sleeping on the street in Belfast. There's a lot of homeless in Berlin but I guess they can go to shelter at night. Not so in Belfast.
VisualMIPS – Open-Source MIPS Visualization
I vaguely feel like 5% of people now make so much money they don't shop at the mall, they shop at boutique stores with higher prices and more personalized service. 95% people have so little money they can't afford shopping anymore.
It's a very neat idea that I'll consider in the future however I have some concerns about it.

One thing is about the database design. I remember lecturer proclaiming that models with many nullable relations is:

- bad design

- performance risk

- might mess with indexing

I haven't verified this knowledge in many years, to I'm not sure if that point still stands, also in wake of not optimizing pre-mature this might not be an issue.

The other thing is introducing of (needless) complexity to the system. It allows to make unwise decisions which otherwise would not be possible if the flag would remain simple boolean and as such stands against KISS system design principles.
It's not nearly that simple. That's also not a ban on a downstream activity, like a ban on prostitution is.
Neat. Makes me wonder why we can't do complex favicon design using html/css. Imagine being able to enter text and style it using layouts, fonts, colors, etc.
This must be how some of the outfits in the last two Deus Ex games are made possible.
You may have accidentally responded to the wrong comment. The comment to which your response has been attached already takes into account the limited cycle life of batteries.
> To quote the author: "it depends"

Where do you see this? To quote the article I'm reading: "it doesn’t really depend"
There are a lot more crazy people on US streets. Crazy as in stereotypical ranting at strangers.
President Biden planning to recognize Armenian genocide
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. "

- Pablo Picasso
At startup grade, it‘s fine to stick and grow with IaaS provider like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or whatever you like.

However, you‘ll get to a point, where it‘s crucial to become profitable. And storing that much data does cost a lot of money using one of the mentioned providers.

So, when you think it‘s the right time to become “mature”, then get your own servers up and running using colocation.

What options do you have here (just a quick brainstorm):
1. Set up some servers, put in a lot of hard drives, format them using zfs and make it available using nfs on your network
2. Get some storage servers
3. Set up a Ceph cluster

I used to work as a CTO at a hosting company and evaluated all of these options and more. Every of these options comes with pros and cons.

Just one last advice: Evaluate your options and get some external help on this. Any of these options have pitfalls and you need experienced consultants to set up and run such an infrastructure.

All in all, it’s an invest, that will save you a lot of money and will give you freedom and flexibility to grow further.

P.S. we ended up setting up a Ceph cluster. We found a partner, who’s specialized on hosting custom infrastructures. That partner is responsible for all the maintenance, so we could focus on the product itself.
The author is talking about databases, not programming languages.

I do see a different issue, though: The article indeed seems to make no distinction between an absent value and a default timestamp of 0. That limits your database to more or less "now". You cannot really store things about the past. Someone might take such a pattern and fixate it into some kind of library. If then someone else tries to store data from 1970, things can get ... interesting.
Having no experience in this area, I think it might have to do with text en/decoding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake

I'd recommend using another tool for this while I investigate, sorry.
I have an interesting uplink that drops packets of size about 1430-1470, but has no issue with smaller or bigger packets, even 1500.

ICMP is rate-limited, and 1500 byte packets work, so PMTUD doesn't kick. Hence, the connections hang if you hit the magic size.

Had to decrease MTU. Unfortunately, that doesn't solve remote-side UDP.
Japan's QAnon
More flushed wipes are clogging pipes, sending sewage into homes
It is something that could be dealt with, if a country chose to do so. In Switzerland I don’t think I ever saw someone living in the street.

AIUI this is because every citizen has the right to housing - and because the state is compassionate/efficient/wealthy enough this is what happens.
Yes, 0:00-29:23. The point of the talk is not laid out during a single moment; it's more like a story that unfolds over time, allowing the reader to understand its implications bit by bit.
This is right. I'm a big fan of this sort of embedded audit metadata wherever it makes sense.

I do wonder when doing stuff like this though, if this really shouldn't be something that the database gives you for free.

I read a few years ago about 'fact based' event stream style databases which store your data as a stream of time ordered ops that can later serve as an audit log, but can be used for even more powerful things such as backups at any point in time, debugging at any point in time, etc.

For practical reasons (i.e. just picking a standard postgres setup to get stuff done) I've never dug into any of these systems or played around with them. Anyone know what the latest and greatest is here? Is there anything I can install on top of postgres to give me this functionality today?
The other disturbing thing is that it can be read two ways and the reverse is implicating that because they think they can do live experimentation on animals, they think doing the same experimentation on humans would be fine. Maybe their experimentation on monkeyman will lead to atrocities on people. That seems more likely than having people accept experimentation on monkeypeople and then deciding to stop abusing animals.

I think animals have enormous intrinsic worth, emotions, and value; I think humans have even more. Maybe we should stop doing this type of testing on either one.
Fuck your 90 day exercise window (2016)
Especially the Texas folks after 3 days without electricity. A lesson learned for sure.
If it helps: Chrome Version 89.0.4389.114

On Windows.
You will be woken up when the OS runs out of file handles or memory.
Reading: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv... it seems the drives are included.

That 10.3k includes drives but you have to assemble the pod yourself.

For 12.8k you get drives and assembled pod from 3rd party manufacturer.

Backblaze pays about 8.7k at a scale for the whole enchilada

Those numbers do not make sense if we exclude drives. The server itself is not that expensive(2-3k tops) without the drives.
They make look like nothing happened in optimal strstr algorithms in the last decades.
In the libc's not, indeed. They are still in the stoneage of string search.

But the fastest is currently EPSM, by S. Faro and O. M. Kulekci. See https://smart-tool.github.io/smart/

"Exact Packed String Matching" optimized for SIMD SSE4.2/AVX (x86_64 and aarch64). It performs stable and best on all sizes.

The site I linked to compares 199 fast string search algorithms, with the usual ones (BM, KMP, BMH) being pretty slow. EPSM outperforms all the others being mentioned here on these platforms. It's also the latest.
Haven't seen convincing evidence the death rates would be higher without the measures employed, much the opposite (35 studies so far): https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-co...

It is heartening to see many here agreeing we could do better.
The city won’t allow professional homebuilders to construct enough real housing units that meet the building code, why would they let amateurs build pseudo housing?
> This is GNU SmallTalk — one of the most influential early OOP languages. It does have slightly unconventional syntax, but it has nothing in common with assembly programming at all. If anything, it is as far from low-level platform-dependent programming as it could be.

That's not-quite-correct, since the Smalltalk-80 implementation manual sitting on my shelf explicitly details the bytecode that compiles to. It's not "as far from low-level programming" as can be, it compiles directly to a bytecode!
Not op but in the first paragraph he links to another post of his that is all about saying "it depends" often

>https://changelog.com/posts/good-reason-experienced-devs-say...

I'm assuming op is referencing that

(I agree with you here though that in this case he makes a very good argument for "it doesn't really depend")
The website also vanished
I have had both falciparum and vivax (different years), confirmed by lab tests. The treatment was exactly the same in both cases. While one of them was quite debilitating, the other felt like an ordinary flu. I forgot which is which. In both cases, I was prescribed a month's worth of medication to get rid of the plasmodium from the liver.

I don't live in a malaria-prone locality anymore, but when I did, the people did not consider it a deadly disease. I think access to medical facilities and good nutrition are the key factors why some populations consider it a deadly disease, and other populations don't.
Storms create issues at depth? Even 45m under the sea?
Looks like a valid svg to me!

Maybe the server doesn't set the content-type correctly?
https://youtu.be/G_eYTctGZw8
TLDR don't use a boolean, leave the field empty (NULL) and set a timestamp when should be true.

To be honest a tldr isn't actually needed, the post is both very concise, straight to the point, and convincing.

As per the languages I use more often to query DBs (TS, JS, PHP, Python) I don't see any downside. Evaluating if a variable is empty or not, or it's type, is not "bad", compared to evaluating if a variable is true or false. Even in TypeScript in strict mode, evaluating if a variable with type number is empty or not will result in validly typed code, without any noticeable difference compared to evaluating a variable with type boolean.
The article is talking about Toronto. You're talking about London. Both of these cities have the distinction of making various lists with titles like "The 11 most expensive cities to live in around the world in 2020" [0].

So while I don't disagree that that far tail of people probably do need some welfare to get a house, I do want to state that if someone is going to get welfare so that they can live in a house, it should not be a house in London. It should be a house somewhere somewhat cheaper than London.

If someone honest to goodness can't keep a roof over their heads, they deserve help but really shouldn't be trying to make it work in one of the worlds most expensive cities.

[0] https://www.insider.com/most-expensive-cities-to-live-in-202...
Yes. So the point of my comment was to illustrate that either they haven't thought their position through very well, or they're being disingenuous in their claimed intent to follow "all the ethical, legal, and social guidelines in place". If they want to start rocking the ethical boat, it's at best a lie of omission.

Generally, I think bioethicists will look askance at attempts to skirt current guidelines around experimenting on human specimens by creating human/monkey hybrids that are human enough to be useful to science but not enough for the letter of the law to call them human. That's the context.
About 1) the situation is actually comparable with the way inheritance is handled.

Most people specify what to be done by issuing a will, but there is not unlimited freedom there. For example, in some countries it is difficult to completely disinherit someone. If there is no will, your property is split in some way among your relatives. The default option, if there are no heirs, is that the inheritance falls to the state.

After death your organs likely won't be able to benefit your relatives, unless they are currently in a life-threatening condition themselves. Dunno how long organs can be kept around, but I doubt that there is no expiry date after which they have to be tossed out. In that case, the organ would have gone to waste by sitting in a freezer.

Therefore, treating your dead body's organs similar to inheritance would make it moral to pursue the default option in most cases, which is donation to the health system. Still, there is the possibility to opt out, which is an extra effort similar to (but way less involved) than issuing a will.
I think Datomic[1] works like that

Here's the relevant quote: "Understand how and when changes were made. Datomic stores all history, and lets you query against any point in time. Learn More"

[1] https://www.datomic.com/
16% of candidates to Harvard were accepted in 1992, this year that has dropped to 4%. So even if there is a problem with the selection criteria it’s likely marginal compared to the real issue which is the refusal of the top schools to actually meet demand despite clearly having the funds to do so.
Does it run Firefox? I’d love to see a browser in a browser, just to experience mediocrity in all its awful glory.

Networking would be tricky, but you could encapsulate TCP over a custom websocket tunnel.
isn't wine? as in https://www.winehq.org
My anecdata, I got the J&J shot the Monday before it was cancelled. Went to sleep shivering that night. Felt better the next day, then terrible the day after that, then had an earth shattering headache like a bomb went off in my head the next day after that. Went to the ER at my wife’s insistence that they did a CT scan with the dye and all that. Said everything looks fine. I wasn’t having headaches before this but who knows maybe it’s just a coincidence. Sure seems like I’m getting a lot more headaches in the last couple weeks though.
> the parent comment asked "why couldn't he breathe in the back of the car"

Did George Floyd died in the back of the car? Or did he died after the police officer spent over 8 minutes kneeling on his neck until and after he lost conciousness?

Enough with this bullshit. It's absurd how these mental gymnasts try to inflate the relevance of trace amounts of a recreational drug as a smoking gun, which mind you was already thoroughly ruled out, but having a grown man kneeling on your neck for over 8 minutes after until the very moment the person dies is somehow worth no consideration?
Brecht’s videos show off improved rendering. I think the person you’re replying to is instead referring to viewport performance in general: scene complexity and size, undo performance, framerate, responsiveness, that sort of thing.