skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in middle school (1998 - 2002), we learned about geology through this oil exploration game. It was pretty fun even though we had to play it on a 5" floppy using a computer from the 80's that somehow still worked. I wonder if anybody else played this game, and if so, do you remember what it was called?
A big problem is parents with young children (who cannot get vaccinated). Even if the risk to kids is relatively low, it is still non-zero and increased by the ignorant behavior of a few adults.
> Threads / async may not be faster always

This is actually a little bit mind blowing for me. I'm gonna go and play with this. But what a cool read!
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Yeah, about that prediction... Progress continues, but Fall 2021 is more likely for an online edition and then printed copies in the first half of 2022. (I suppose we should update the website.)
Abbott FreeStyle Libre first generation, which is the only one available in my country. I know that there are newer generations of the sensor, but I do not want to go through the hassle and extra expense of importing them from the UK or so.
You are talking about a different function.

The function I am talking about doesn't take any arguments.

[1] pry(main)> Time.now(1)
ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 0)
I agree. While the title reflects the eventual goal of the effort, the goal has yet to be achieved (and may or may not be achievable at all). I think it’s a bit irresponsible to use a title like that for a post that neglects to have achieved what was described in the title.
StackOverflow ran on significantly less for many years, they only had x2 for failover.
This is complete nonsense in so many ways. Multi-unit housing is mostly illegal to build, and even projects that do meet zoning requirements can get blocked by endless red tape. Fix that and housing becomes cheaper to build and it won’t all be “luxury”.

Also, “luxury” is just a nimby boogeyman and doesn’t mean anything. Older housing is still very expensive, because there is simply not enough housing. Even if new housing does come with a small premium over older, people move out of older housing into the newer housing freeing up space in the slightly less expensive older units for lower income residents, and the market as a whole gets less expensive as you build enough housing to meet demand.
Anecdotal, but they are data points.

1. Co-worker, apparently healthy cauc make age 43, received Pfizer vaccine, contracted covid approx 33 days after 2d dose. Was in hospital for 3 weeks and has had various problems for several months.

2. Neighbor's kid, very fit (volleyball, track) hispanic female age 16, received Pfizer vaccine, has had joint problems, headaches, dizziness, and other symptoms since being vaccinated.

3. Myself, cranky geezer of dubious health and doubtful usefulness male age 64, received Janssen vaccine and approx 19-20 days later had mild symptoms that were originally believed to be a cold but later tested as covid positive, and still feel normal and cranky.

So from my little world, the only observed efficacy is the national and global statistics on covid spread and prevention per vaccinations. Your mileage may vary.
Interesting. Thank you, I'll check it out.
Thanks! I will test this out later.
Most aren't able to get foreign bank accounts in which to store their money. If it was easier to do that your friend would've done it.

And I'm under no delusions that much of the crypto market isn't more than a glorified ponzi scheme, my post acknowledges that.
Why would component's state sit outside the component anyway? Why isn't it a field on the extended class?
Obese people cannot infect others.
> Linux on the desktop is now around 1-2% by some estimates. I don't think it will ever reach the market share of windows

20 years ago, Linux was an attractive way to be able to work in a Unix environment on the desktop. With the release of MacOS X 20 years ago, and the release of package managers like brew, people can get a lot of that from MacOS. For personal use, I still primarily use Linux on desktop and laptop - I use System76 Ubuntu, because I usually just want a working environment, and not to futz with it too much.

Tablets and especially phones have been a popular form factor in recent years, and Linux is ubiquitous on both.
You can call a class action lawyer who will work on contingency and get part of the settlement and extra paymentnfor your effort as a class representative.
Humans evolved to allow hunger to override the rational thinking part of the brain. The older parts of the brain can basically shut off the newer (logical thinking) parts. So even if you know you have to eat less to lose weight, often if food is available you won't be able to resist it if you are really hungry. Your statement is wrong, it is more complicated than that because we are hardwired to not starve if food is available.
I kinda doubt many Deck owners are planning to do creative work on it, though then again it does have the power of a mid-level laptop …
"The NASEM report proposes a design by 2028 and a fusion pilot plant in the 2035-2040 timeline."
ruh roh, too late, according to the prediction
What is it not ? Legal amphetamine or horrible ?
> I'd be happy to pay the author (note, not donate*) for this corpus online.

Lucky for you, we have a Patreon. Looking forward to your support!
In my professional opinion, Docker is great for testing, verifying workflows, and simplifying developer environments.

At the end of the day, it’s just another layer of complexity that could be a liability.

Do you need to use it? No. Like with everything else, it is a tool that requires time to master.
If you want to be strict, maybe the book title should be "physics-based". If we are a bit more liberal, we can accept "physically based". "Physically-based" might be the most wrong of the three.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/165416/is-physic...
Convenience will be the death of us. Anything marginally worse than what we currently have cannot be an option. And so we die.
People who question these things don't care about space pictures though. They care about return on investment. What does this do for actual working class Americans?

I worked in defense and had a coworker who thinks that NASA should be abolished and the US should cease all spending on space. Thinks it's all a waste of money.
What would be your choice?
Solo founder here. Not sure how to build a proper distributed backend without docker compose. My stack is python, celery, postgresql, redis. I have one remote vm (each for staging and prod) and a simple deployment script that ssh into the remote vm and does a ‘docker compose up’. But yeah kubernetes is a big time sink with no value and I chose to avoid it.
yes, I plan to try this next and measure the performance. Others also suggested similar idea to try.

> I am also interested in writing the SQLite or PostgreSQL file format straight to disk as a faster way to do ETL.

what exactly you are trying to do here?
You'd either run multiple instances of your app with an http load balancer in front, or make use of nodejs clustering: https://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html
Great job!

Funnily enough, I’ve been thinking about building something exactly like this for months… But naturally, with ADHD, I kept putting it off :-)

Repeating checklists are so useful, and I’m surprised other task managers haven’t really seemed to implement them as fully as you have. Well done!
I mean... I have to eat. Is seafood any worse than land animal production?
A mesh network requires short hops or line of sight and willing participants. You might come up short on all accounts.

A traditional WISP model might be more practical, if you can secure tower sites.
> Just dont step accidentally into kubernetes black hole. Unless you want to suffer.

There is definitely space for simple container orchestration tools that aren't kubernetes. Docker swarm hits the sweetspot for simple deployments that don't require full on k8s setup.
What does it mean to compare a function to itself without evaluating it?
Astrazeneca was offered in pharmacies, and that part of the rollout was a total mess, I would certainly agree. It was also only a small fraction of the total doses offered, however, and was primarily aimed at individuals who wanted to get a shot earlier than was possible through the provincially administered system (which offered Pfizer, and once Moderna’s logistical issues were sorted out, Moderna)

My experiences with the provincial registration system in Ontario, were the complete opposite of yours. They were very good. Once my demographic became eligible, it was a single form to book an appointment. The actual vaccine clinics were quite efficient, and the followup (if you opted-in) was quick and easy.

The hardest part was waiting. Vaccines supply was the issue, but given Canada’s bargaining position (essentially none?) I’m shocked we got them as quickly as we did.
> from people who pushed WhatsApp

So Facebook?
Yikes... it sounds like a lot of people answering this post haven't ever scaled any application beyond their garages...
"I think the consistent prod/dev env is overhyped." ... legitimately lol'd on this..

Docker specifically allows you to simplify and control the process of matching a dev environment, to a staging env, to a production environment - while leveraging simple scripting the cicd build / deploy processes that is repeatable.
Repeatable code, repeatable deployments, being the consistency that a developer is supposed to want of their code and application.

Yes, if you have a VM with 48 dedicated cores and 192GB of ram you can just go back to building a monolith like its a retro 90's throwback party - but it would be far more efficient to aim for a zero downtime blue/green deployment, so you can roll out your code without having to shut any service down -- which you can achieve very easily, incorporating Docker and even minikube into your VM.

So, if you don't want a consistent build/deploy process that is repeatable, don't use docker
If you don't want to take advantage of lessons learned and best practices by developers and sysadmins who have been doing this for 30+ years, don't use docker.

Spend a few hours to learn docker -- there is a zillion simple copy/pasta docs and medium articles on how to get up and going with Docker and minikube.

20 years ago, the similar question would have been "Why would I use a VM instead of a physical machine?" with these same sort of answers like: "I already have a huge sever", "load balancers are stupid", etc, etc Today, VM's are the default go-to for people.. Containers are the next step in properly abstracting the development->Deployment process.

There are massive advantages to be able to create VM Images and handle delta differences between them to track changes overtime and deploy and scale at a level that you cannot achieve with even a few physical servers. If you have never scaled an application multi-region, or deployed an application for 100,000+ people - you might not be aware of the need to make this process of patching, code deployments a consistent rolling-update process. I highly suggest you learn this now, since if your business is successfully, and you hit a trend spike and your single VM / one-service crashes, you can loose a lot more than spending a few hours to learn Docker and build a container that could be uploaded to AWS ECR and scaled up to 11 anytime you need...

Docker -- or any type of container -- is the current best-in-class tech that we have for repeatable software development->Deployment. Don't shun it because of the popularity of it. Read about why it is advantageous to use it instead of finding an answer to validate why you shouldn't.
Not yet. WebView2 is not available on Mac+Linux yet (but that’s coming).
If it's one-missile per satellite, that could be true. Even at that rate, without the need to orbit, I believe a plane mounted missile could reach up to a Starlink satellite. However, there are a lot more effective ways. A cloud of debris it could take out whole orbits. An EMP could take out giant swaths of satellites within a certain radius. A software based attack could knock out the whole constellation.
Ask HN: How do we ban cryptocurrencies completely?
Hi HN,

Since Binance being the worlds biggest exchange for cryptocurrencies is now under investigation from almost every regulator worldwide it got me thinking about all 'crypto' industry as a whole.

I've also seen many crypto detractors call for them to be banned, shut down, due to scams, ransomware, fraud, pump & dump schemes, etc.

Is it possible to completely ban or destroy cryptocurrencies completely?

I'm not talking about the theoretical case. I mean practically, is this in any way possible at all?
That demo isn't novel, I've seen that exact same skeuomorphic design in ereaders over the past couple decades. It's pretty, but it's not terribly useful to flip one page at a time in anything but a novel you intend to read linearly, and where you often only need to flip back one or two pages when confusion sets in (wait, which city are they in now? who's speaking in this part of the dialog?). It's hardly a useful interface for reference or technical material, only a pretty one.

Edit: To be more constructive:

Physical reference books are often accessed in a non-linear fashion, and often not alone. But let's forget that second part and focus on non-linear.

How do people take a physical reference book and provide themselves with good non-linear access? Bookmarks, tabs, dog eared pages, margin notes producing cross-references if absent from the text proper. And they may even sometimes pull out all the bookmarks and tabs and start over to create an entirely different (for their use-case) reference text (by "hiding" irrelevant information). That's what needs to be recreated in an e-reader, not page flipping, to be useful for reference texts.

As a point of frustration I recently experienced, I was running a TTRPG game and had a PDF with bookmarks to various classes (the ones players were using) and spells (ones I was using) and combat mechanics (what I was running). I later used the same PDF as a player, and found that I had too many bookmarks that made it hard for me to find exactly what I wanted. If I just added more bookmarks relevant to me as a player (playing a class not in the game I was running) it would add extra info to the DM version of the reference, and all the DM bookmarks were largely useless to me as a player.

What I needed was a way to get two views of the same underlying text, with different sections emphasized or elided for my differing situations. Provide that in an ereader without having to make a copy of the PDF and manually mangle it (which I've done too) but rather just an overlay on the existing text and it'll provide a much better experience and start competing, realistically competing, with dead tree reference and technical books.

Of course, the inability to (without a large display or large number of displays) view multiple texts side-by-side is another problem. I don't want 10 e-readers (a guess at the largest number of texts I needed to view in parallel). I have my iPad, laptop, and a Kindle that I already sometimes use simultaneously rather than printing material off or buying physical books. It's painful to use things that way and a much harder to solve problem without insisting that people buy more and more hardware. Which becomes obsolete quickly, probably faster than most reference and technical books become obsolete.
A summary of the research on the subject as of June 2021 can be found here[1], but I would caution you about the way you're approaching this. It seems like you're letting your hypothesis drive what you want to observe, rather than letting observations drive your hypothesis. That is to say, it seems like you're looking for a connection between stress and back pain, rather than looking at the evidence and letting that tell you what's connected.

There's a pretty clear correlation between specific genes and EDS, and there's a pretty clear connection between EDS and chronic lower back pain ("cLBP" in the study). There's a connection between EDS and "psychological distress" noted, but the authors seem to indicate that EDS is causal in both the psychological distress and the cLBP, not the other way around. There's no noted correlation between psychological distress and cLBP. On the contrary, it seems like psychological distress and cLBP are actually correlated with different variants of EDS.

"Is back pain in an EDS patient caused by stress?" is a valid scientific question, but it's not one that's likely to yield any interesting results if you test it, because so far I see no evidence, even anecdotal, that the two might have a causal relationship. There are higher-priority questions to investigate that are more likely to yield interesting/productive results.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8176821/
I meant more that I wouldn't use VB/ASP and SQL Server. I still believe the stored procedure route has merit. It's harder since most available libraries are built around the idea that the frontend has full access to the database. A frontend in (insert favorite frontend lang/framework here) and a backend in Postres using stored procedures could work quite well.
I'm quite bullish on system76. But they have a big challenge ahead of them. They effectively have to compete with Apple for hardware and software quality to win the developer market.

But.. Apple has been shooting themselves in the foot on the software side by breaking basic toolchains for software development. And System76 has the ability to progressively grow a small user base without an all or nothing strategy.
1 billion rows, 8GB RAM. I think there will be some limitation from available RAM as well.
> The appropriate comparison for evaluating the value of using a virtual DOM should not be about that, but only about the part you describe as "blitting the object to the screen". You have the data, no matter how, where, or even -to some extent- how often, and you want to put it on the screen.

But the solution to the problem which is

how to go from
inputs (which you don't have any control over)
to
"You have the data, no matter how, where, or even -to some extent- how often, and you want to put it on the screen"

will pretty much look like a vdom, no ?
Sorry, I realize now I wasn't clear. It's not horrible.
I still believe the stored procedure route has merit. It's harder since most available libraries are built around the idea that the frontend has full access to the database. A frontend in (insert favorite frontend lang/framework here) and a backend in Postres using stored procedures could work quite well.

Unfortunately, the 'meta' is all about frontends with full backend access, so that's what I'm learning alongside other stuff.
Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years
I get a 404 with that link, but this seems to work ...

https://slate.com/business/2021/07/masters-degrees-debt-loan...
That's not likely to change the housing situation that appears to be the fundamental problem in this case.
So is the argument that personalized ads are inherently bad?

Arguments against tracking/personalization I have heard in the past, which make sense to me, are that having all the data stored remotely gives a lot of power to an evil engineer or government to exploit your data. With a 100% local approach, based on data that is stored anyway, that aspect would go away.

I don't see how in that world personalized ads are worse than unpersonalized ads. Ads in general can be argued to have negative externalities (though I am not 100% convinced of that), but if we take their existence as a given, and the choice is between personalized and unpersonalized, I think I would prefer personalized.
Reading Superparenting for ADHD by Hallowell when trying to understand my son was the first clue that I also might have ADHD. Highly recommend this book or audiobook.
Also, at that time, look into how resources are being utilised and try optimising for your needs.
In California we have a notoriously evil company called Derrel's Mini Storage. They have some of the highest employee churn, such that they have permanent now hiring signs at all locations - which are explodingat the moment due to the many people moving out of California - almost all are completely full and we have I believe more than 10 just here.

They hire teams of two and force the men to do the manual labor and the women to do the deskwork.

They force the team to work and live on site. As in, to work there yoy must reside there. They make this sound like a bonus - it's not.

Now, when you inevitably decide to leave you must first find alternative living situation, and another job to pay for it while working extremely long hours at this place (sometimes 7 days a week open to close if they cant hire a relief team- and they only hire teams).

This is beyond evil.

When I was about 19 I worked on a rock quarry in Comstock, Texas. We had to live on-site at the 'wetback shack' (owner's words, and most of the employees were indeed illegals driven over from Acuna, Mexico). This was because he wanted to start work at 4am and this ensured everyone would show up- not his only reason however.

We made minimum wage busting and palletizing rock, even if we operated heavy machinery wage didnt change. They charged us $3 per soda or water at the swear to God it literally was Company Store. We also, we found out when we got our 1st check, were charged rent to stay in the shack. I think at what 3.30/hr (one water per hour!) damn near nothing was left. We, my friends and I who had family in Del Rio, Tx, could leave, and we did. The poor bastards who worked harder than anyone and were generally shit on (the illegals) they couldn't leave. The people who were from Comstock outskirts where there were no other jobs or places to rent? They stayed.

This was in 1999.

Tying living in any way with work is disgusting and not in any way shape or form altruistic.
It looks like I was wrong to assume that it was tied to the .edu domain name -- I thought notion was using that as a way to avoid pouring resources into verifying eligibility.

My wider point is that it's disingenuous to have a bold heading [0] "Free for individual students and educators", and then in the FAQ lower on the page state:

"You're not eligible if...you're a k-12 student or k-12 educator"[0]

[0]: https://www.notion.so/product/notion-for-education
For me personally, the fact that it's basically a portable gaming handheld raspberry pi is enough for me to consider buying it.
I didn’t claim to speak for NYC Mesh, I claimed to have advocating that De Blasio’s initiative utilize the NYC Mesh network.

This isn’t the first time the city has given an ISP to provide internet access for NYC and previous attempts by large ISPs were either a lie or unsuccessful. Yes I do think internet should be community operated and owned and if that means the city pays NYC Mesh some money to install and maintain it, then that’s good for the city. That’s tax money being invested into the quality of the neighborhoods. Where did you get this information that the contract excludes any sort of maintenance?

The current system for ANYONE who wants to be apart of the network but not install is tipped based. There is nothing that indicates the contract between the city and NYC Mesh would operate that way.

These networks are so easy to set up that almost little to no maintenance is required. And this is the first step to city wholly owned and maintained networks that is a good thing. That means the people in the city are better off and more self sufficient when it comes to internet access.

NYC Mesh has an excellent track record of providing and maintaining service (maybe at a cost or not). Large ISPs have continually failed in that regard. So yes this is a better and more visible use of money.

I invite you to get involved and be more than an arm chair critic.
“Since you know the tech intimately, you’ve probably got a solid deployment strategy that you can easily repeat and debug.”

That’s not necessarily the case though. Just as easily I can imagine the opposite might be true.