skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're measuring the transaction time, and I agree that can be very fast. I've also experienced it myself. But if you measure from the time when the property goes on the market to when the seller has cash in hand, that can take a long time, anywhere. What I mean is, you can put a "for sale" sign up on the door, that doesn't mean buyers are going to show up.
Portal: Zero-config peer-to-peer encrypted live folder syncing
Saving Salyut-7 is vaguely similar to booting up Skylab, which had problems when entering the orbit.

Overall, Soviet manned (and unmanned) space program had its share of dramatic events. Risky first flights, like Voskhod-2... Problems with dockings with first stations, which e.g. cemented Rukavishnikov's name in folklore... Dogged pursuit of Americans in the Moon race with failing N-1, successful LK and bold Zond flights to the Moon with tortoises onboard... How well they are known, depends on the reader.
Eh, unless you spend much time walking in parts of the UK anywhere near a train line, it's not too hard to be totally unaware of such bridges (or even just footpath level crossings).
> Only to the extent that psychics are often frauds.

Again, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Mental illness and the ability to see thoughts are orthogonal.

> If "psychic" powers go away on medication, but come back if it is reduced, is that evidence to you that they are a type of symptom?

I'm not a psychopharmacologist nor a psychiatrist so I can't really comment in any depth. I would assume that some drugs would mute the ability to see thoughts, while others (such as LSD) make it easier. But this is a vast and complex subject about which I know very little.

> If not, then what is the evidence that convinces you?

Convince me of what specifically?
He was kissing and grabbing her bum. :)
'do' notation is a good example of where the monad abstraction comes in handy.
Oops.. RPCS3 emulator users who bought Intel specifically for TSX must be feeling something right now.
> the U.S.’s excess mortality in 2017 was greater than its excess mortality in 2020.

Correct me if I'm missing something, but this comment is completely wrong.

The cited paper compares 2017 excess deaths in the US vs. similar aged populations in Europe. The "excess death rates" for 2020, as cited in the linked paper, is estimated COVID-19 death counts for the US (which isn't even what "excess deaths" is).
I mean, New York was also an extreme compared to South Dakota, and more comparable in terms of latitude, and it had a 20% higher per-capita death rate. But I don't think either it or CA make for a very good comparison as opposed to ND, whose per-capita Covid death rate was about 10% lower than SD's. This is the upper bound on lives saved by the lockdown policy, from which you have to start subtracting out deaths from the knock-on effects of lockdowns (isolation, delayed medical screenings and treatments, economic impacts, etc).
You do realize anyone can edit Wikipedia, and its basically controlled by a bunch of Google executives?

They’re not an accurate source of information for anything, let alone anything even remotely political.

The sun dictates the weather, and always has.

$cientists don’t understand how plasma physics work, and don’t include climate forcing in their predictive models. The underlying theories for how climate change works are not based in reality, they’re cherry picking data and using models that purposely exclude factors like the sun.

This is basically like trying to explain to someone the earth is round 5,000 years ago when the “scientific consensus” at the time was the earth was flat.

People who believe carbon controls the weather are basically equivalent to flat earthers parroting political propaganda. It’s like malware that was installed in their brain in childhood that gets activated any time anyone suggests looking into the actual science.

Go research climate forcing. It’s how the weather actually works.
I would argue the vaccine for Covid is essentially a cure. And the economics aren't that good. People got it once. They may or may not take a booster every couple years. And that is for a disease that everyone was impacted from.

Meanwhile, a drug like viagra can be consumed several times a week for decades.

I don't think its pharma execs are sitting their blocking cures, but it is true that they will looks at risk/reward when deciding. If most drugs only have a very small chance of being approved (lets say 2%) and costs billions of dollars to move through the process - of course those that are needed over and over are going to be funded through research more.
Extractive industries and the Hukou system are a huge issue, but they can be fixed.

The Demographic collapse is wildly overstated. China has a workforce surplus and will have one for a long time, so there is no medium-term demographic issue. Instead, underproductive rural farmers will be proletarianized and turned into workers engaged in the economy.

This is a transition that was planned a really, really long time ago. The reason for the One Child policy being continued past the food insecurity times is moreso because there were too many farmers. And even today China has many more farmers than needed.
This experiment was real in the earlier era of the Internet. And the answer is: When censorship isn't universal, and there are lots of more or less free spaces to speak in, extreme views don't get concentrated and exist everywhere but at a much lower level of intensity. The mainstreamers are less ignorant too because they actually have some exposure to arguments and counterarguments against these views as opposed to just vilifying and banning the others.

Lots of other benefits to this model - names that people don't get trapped in extremist bubbles as much when they're not literally banned from everywhere else.
You're confusing case fatality rate with infection fatality rate. Due to limited testing actual infection numbers are far higher than case numbers. The current best estimate of worldwide IFR is about 0.15%, with a wide variance between countries.

https://doi.org/10.1111/eci.13554
If your an alien, your going to be smart enough to disguise your transport as a earth plane, even if your not so smart
I can tell you that my company (which is not Google) has a pretty good benefit package which I value is probably a 15-20% of what my salary is…so it it’s not peanuts.
This is not a good comparison. Youtube without censorship wouldn't look any different to you, unless you are interested in the kind of stuff that now gets censored. Remember that youtube had barely any censorship for a long time. Did your recommendations look like 4chan then? The reason 4chan looks the way it does is the bumping algorithm, which promotes controversial posts, not just the lack of censorship. A platform where the frontpage is based on a recommendation algorithm wouldn't look like that, and in fact didn't look like that before it started censoring at this scale.
Luck >>>> hard work.

But hard work helps you get a bigger dividend out of luck.
Can still be kicked off if you question Bidens win?
What's not to like about a book that can frame anybody you dislike as an abuser beyond rehabilitation and yourself as a hapless victim? It's a book for the times!

I prefer Machiavelli's work because at least that framed the reader as being no better than anybody else. This is Machiavelli with a victim complex. My issue with the book isn't misunderstanding it's disgust at the black and white ethics.
No, it means more emigration. It's counterintuitive but that's how the data is stated.
Peloton Axes Free 'Just Run' Feature from Treadmill
Most things are simple in theory and not so simple in practice. Also just because people write programs with bugs doesn't mean the language or platform is at fault. Sorry but it sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about.
Does the Martian atmosphere filter out certain frequencies of light? And how does it compare against the frequencies that their rover solar panel is sensitive to? Or is their atmosphere thin enough such that UV light gets through? Can they make use of that?

Lots of questions just about their solar panels and what would be the most effective chemicals to make their solar panels out of to maximize their output.

They have no probes previously on the surface of Mars. How would they know how to make their solar panels to be the most efficient without data? Did they just guess? Did NASA share that information? Or is that secret information that NASA kept quiet and Chinese spies stole that information?

All three possibilities could have occurred but I really doubt that China would just guess and then spend billions of dollars to send a probe without knowing if it would work.
Embarking on these would bring us a disaster far beyond anything we are facing now.
Banning conspiracy theories is such a slippery slope. Where is the line for something like the lab leak hypothesis? What had to change to allow it to exist? Weren't Woodward and Bernstein or Daniel ellsberg conspiracy theorists? Should they have been silenced?
Yes, I would like to do that--combine it with the rating prediction, so e.g. if two newsletters both have a predicted rating of 4 stars, prefer the one with content that's most dissimilar to the users' positively rated newsletters so far.
> But there's no way to guarantee the skeleton STAYS as a skeleton for the future.

It seems like there needs to be some guarantees made about this. You can't have background jobs asynchronously changing players into spaceships and vice versa while there's other jobs running systems against those.

I would guess that most games made with ECS systems that are threaded would deal with this by having a queue of requests to change entity components that would get processed once at the start of an update cycle and then a consistent state would be shown to all the systems in that update.

That's really a state change in a finite state machine and I would imagine there's some work out there on systems of FSMs and concurrent updates and keeping things sane.

Deletion could similarly be scheduled until the next tick and since systems should be stateless they shouldn't be saving those handles (or if you allow them to save the handle for some reason, you require them to check if the handle has been marked as deleted every tick).
Because foreign proteins are immunogenic.

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/biologics-resea...
Could you tell me what traditional avenues were available to constituents that are not available anymore?
This concept of "public state" makes no sense to me. If the behavior of A, i.e. the implementation of A, depends on B, then changing the state of B will also change the behavior of A as a side effect. Otherwise, if B were "public state", then B would be nothing more than a glorified global variable and you would have exactly the free for all access that OOP is supposed to prevent.

So the only way to prevent this is that each object must have only one parent in the object tree, which coordinates all modifications to that object.

Regarding escape hatches: Yes, it's great to have them, but it's not so great when they are used all the time, either by accident because it's so easy to break OO rules, or on purpose because the object tree gets in the way when new requirements need to be implemented. Let's be honest here: The more mature an OO-designed project becomes, the more shortcuts there will be and the cross-connections aka "escape hatches" will turn the object tree into an object spaghetti.
TOP500: Fugaku Holds Top Spot, Exascale Remains Elusive
Sorry, half of humanity has an account on Facebook or one of its satraps, numerically speaking. It is the singular only social network one can always find nearly everyone on. There is nothing even remotely close to comparable. Tiktok has some people lip syncing in the mirror to pop songs, I don’t know about local community centers tiktok profiles, sorry. Facebook is inevitable for doing literally anything in this world. It’s like linked-in but for realz. Facebook? (Inter) nationalize it! (How would that work. Interesting concept, turning something over to the world as community property)
It may be the way I was brought up, but, you know, the guy is dead. He can't defend himself. Especially from nameless attackers. Just leave him alone.
I've been in 3 or 4 (very large) datacenters over the years where they used 3-wheeled bicycles to get around. Bonus of this was there's a pretty roomy basket between the back wheels to hauls stuff around. But yeah...OSHA (in the USA) applies to datacenters too and I can't imagine allowing roller skates.
I was on the fence about putting the "dance" part in because I think a lot of people would try too hard and get it wrong.

But the most common newbie mistake is to, as a mentor put it, prostitute your product. They simply shove it into everyone's faces as loudly as possible. This works at a bazaar, but not in many places.

It's also a faux pas to wear a suit when approaching companies whose formal wear is a t-shirt. You don't have to find all the unwritten rules but just be aware of them.
Not sure if science or joke I don’t get :(
It seems the competition was for station foot crossing designs and this is a design for less urban area's in which you just need a foot crossing and no station. Which would explain why it can accommodate a longer ramp up and down and less rigid in design limitations as you would get in the urban or main stations.

So maybe cheaper, though if they was able to use this design in the more urban area's, would certainly have a larger footprint and that aspect may make it more expensive.
I was infact this stupid. I lost 2.2M
Unrelated to the main thread but what jobs pay junior's 250k? Asking for a friend...
> I will be deleting whatever I feel are tendentious comments meant to keep the coronavirus arguments going

I think it would be better if this post included some guidelines about what constitutes acceptable vs. unacceptable content. I don't doubt that he is dealing with a lot of trolls/non-scientific nonsense, and I understand that he is well within his rights to delete anything he wants, but "whatever I feel are tendentious comments meant to keep the coronavirus arguments going" comes across as a bit too subjective for my tastes and would undermine my confidence in a forum.

Note I don't participate in the comments on that site, so this doesn't impact me personally at all. I just feel like if you need to implement censorship, you should try to keep it as objective as possible.
> C will at least give you warning about types

For the same reason that, as the saying goes, there is no such thing as a "compiled language", no, "C" doesn't give you a warning about types. The compiler you're using gives you a warning. If you want a typechecking pass over JS, then use a tool that does typechecking. Eschewing with a typechecker and then complaining about the lack of type mismatch warnings, however, makes little sense.
They can, then they will be charged with an armed robbery afterwards
Lot of buzz words to say soft forks. Also this has nothing to do with upgradeable contracts.
not really sustainable though is it?
> I'd be interested in seeing it in more detail as whilst the design does seem to possibly be wheelchair accessible, it does seem to have some stepping upon the up and down slops.

It looks like it's steps on either side, not sure how they're gonna make that wheelchair accessible without dramatically reducing the angle of the slope.
the current administration has claimed the desire to do many things, but hasn’t followed up. I blame the mediocrity of the claim against facebook on the FTC being directed to bring a mediocre claim sure to fail, and life goes on, and everyone involved gets paid, eventually.
In the alternate history I'm imagining, with network-layer accounting and payments from the beginning, flooding and spam were never much of a problem -- they were at most a "nice problem to have". Endpoint security became a priority from the beginning, because failures that cost money (even if not much per computer) get treated that way. Participating in the network as a full peer, e.g. running the equivalent of a webserver on your home PC, was considerably more practical and normalized. (The bigger address space of course went into this too.) And this history made other peer-to-peer software easier to develop and more practical and economically sustainable, in a virtuous cycle.

This doesn't mean it'd kill advertising. It wouldn't even kill all of the forces encouraging me to put my 'content' on centralized services even though I'm nothing like a media corp. But I suspect the right changes could've helped a lot towards a healthier computational ecosystem now.

This early architectural decision that costs are out of band didn't fundamentally make anything impossible. But when you see a lower-level problem addressed by higher-level workarounds, and you're getting to redesign the system, isn't that exactly what constitutes an opportunity?
If you were able to get that much money, then you provided enough value to get that amount. When people say "work" what they mean is "provide value". No double standard.
Wow your statement and that website are incredibly deceptive.

You said “average of age minimum wage workers is 35” and your source says “average age of workers helped by an increase in minimum wage is 35”.

No wonder my bullshit detector was going off, and once again it was right.
I wonder though if it needs to be malice or simply lack of will / motivation. If you have pressure from both sides (and the politics that initiated this) it can really kill any motivation to really dig and and do your job. Combine this with all the turbulence in federal gov positions, it might just feel like a total shit show to work there and some people may just putting in their time for the pension or w/e.

A lot of maybes, but I do wonder if the wheels of government are still recovering and whether the consequences of this are sometimes indirect and not so obvious. Bad management can leave waves.

TBH if I worked in public services over the last few year I'd probably feel pretty under-appreciated and it would be hard to motivate myself.
North Carolina Attorney General Reaches Agreement with Juul for $40 Million
The 0.15% IFR estimate is a worldwide number. There is a significant variance between countries. Unfortunately Americans on average are older, sicker, and fatter so they tend to die more.
I should clarify that I’ve lived with T1D folks in the US for my entire life and I’ve seen them have to choose between food/rent/car insurance/etc and insulin more times than I can count.

The comment that I’m responding to strikes me as either alarmingly uninformed about the material conditions that many, many diabetics find themselves in, naïveté based around completely believing some marketing pamphlet, or genuinely making statements in bad faith. I chose to respond in a sarcastic way in my previous comment because the nature of that statement is so incredibly outlandish and broad that it genuinely seems like a comment in bad faith.

“All pharmaceuticals are free if you just go to the website” is genuinely such a dada-esque-ly untrue statements for the majority of Americans that I can only imagine a person making that statement as a joke or a lie.
I started doing cold showers a few weeks ago after I was forced to take a few at my girlfriend's house (broken water heater).

Now I take cold to frigid showers almost all the time, it is incredibly refreshing. Doubly so after a heavy workout. Definitely one of the best accidental discoveries of my life. The difference in how I feel physically and mentally compared to steaming hot showers is stark, I do wish this were more well known.

I'd encourage everyone to try it once, and just dive straight in. After the few initial seconds of shock, your body gets accustomed and it starts feeling quite nice, trust :)
I came to similar conclusion of transparency but with completely different reasoning. I see this as amazon trying to completely eliminate responsibility from supervisors and lower management. Does amazon really think they can discover new unknown faults in the business with automation alone?

Suppose I reverse engineer how the system works and find a way to steal, but have that loss attributed to different workers. How will that get discovered? how many honest workers will get fired with no recourse?

You can't replace trust with automation. You still need subjective critical thinking. If the algorithm can find the bad apples, it should be capable of producing metrics showing why they're underperforming to be reviewed by supervisor.
Every time I install windows, I spend easily half a day hunting down drivers. All of this is installed automatically with linux, and especially Ubuntu installs. The last time I installed windows, I got two black strips on either side of the display. No amount of GPU driver shenanigans would fix it. It worked first try on linux.
I haven't left the States in years.
Cool project. Have you known that PostgreSQL was initially written in Lisp?

> By a process of elimination, we decided to try writing POSTGRES in LISP. We expected that it
would be especially easy to write the optimizer and inference engine in LISP, since both are mostly tree processing modules. Moreover, we were seduced by AI claims of high programmer productivity for applications written in LISP.

> We soon realized that parts of the system were more easily coded in C, for example the buffer
manager which moves 8K pages back and forth to the disk and uses a modified LRU algorithm to control
what pages are resident. Hence, we adopted the policy that we would use both C and LISP and code
modules of POSTGRES in whichever language was most appropriate. By the time Version 1 was operational, it contained about 17000 lines of LISP and about 63000 lines of C.

src: https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M90-34.pdf

It also had time travel (from the same paper):

> Lastly, POSTGRES supports the notion of time travel. This feature allows a user to run historical
queries. For example to find the salary of Sam at time T one would query:

retrieve (EMP.salary)
using EMP [T]
where EMP.name = "Sam"

> POSTGRES will automatically find the version of Sam’s record valid at the correct time and get the
appropriate salary.

Regarding your project:

> Databases are implemented as directories containing one file per table.

PostgreSQL splits tables into 1 GB segments (1 segment is one file). This is done for filesystems that can't have large files. Isn't one file per DB too limiting in that regard?

Are you aiming to be ACID compliant? Can you expand on 'versioned'? PostgreSQL achieves that with copy-on-write, did you take the same approach? I quickly looked over the code, it's been a while since I read some lisp. The on-disk representation seems to be just key value records where each record can be a sexp(?). Where is the relational part and do you plan to implement a query language?
Even if they didn't, the rest of the world could probably peacefully agree to a hard fork in which those coins stop existing.

One of the disadvantages of crypto, I suppose, is that people could gang up and hard fork against any arbitrary billionaire even if they were alive.
This sort of thing is why I went with a Concept 2 row erg and bike erg. There is no software connection to anything but the monitoring of the user - if desired. But with their bluetooth and many apps available you can still gamify it if you like.
I wouldn't change anything. Centralized control will be abused. The people I see harassing others online a lot of times are US citizens, on US domains, in US jurisdictions. Sorry.
HN, despite the "N", isn't really a news site in the most commonly used sense: A site that is an originator of news. HN is... not something there is a specific word for. Something like "mostly community-driven news aggregation & discussion forum about technology or something else if enough people think it's interesting."

That's a bit long, maybe an acronym would work better: MCDNADFATSEEPTII.