skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.cc.com/video/acaxis/key-peele-the-heist
Egglog: A Prolog Syntax for the Egg Egraph Library (2021)
Nice – looks like the ~same approach recommended here of adding a generated `tsvector` column with a GIN index and querying it with `col @@ @@ to_tsquery('english', query)`.
Niiiice, thc.
Yeah, this reads like a very long subtweet, but of what?
Many issues are pie in the sky enhancement / feature requests that may or may not be implemented some day. There is no intention to drive the number of open issues to 0 just for the sake of it.

As long as Element and Matrix continues to grow, I expect the number of open issues will grow indefinitely, and that is a sign of success.
Textbook Kinetic Energy Equation (E = 1/2 mv²) is Wrong
These are some very nice visualizations!
Flush with innovation: 10 years of reinventing the toilet
San Francisco says urban toll booths needed make transportation racially fair
Appreciate the context. I like your concept, but I think the analogy with farming is a bit off. In any case, you're maintaining a blog and I'm just typing comments in hackernews, so keep doing what you're doing.
Any other cities doing this?
How to create an AWS EC2 cost estimation (+ saving tips)
If the hole exists and is not going to be closed, why refuse to add other useful features that use the same hole?

It's like taking a room, and refusing to add a back door for "security" when the front door already exists.
Just look up Robert L. Bernstein.
HRW founder, left and was critical of the organization's take on Israel until his last days.

regarding my stance in relation to the conflict:
- I think (and know) that Israel does more to save palestinian lives than the palestinian government. The evidence is endless. I can link to other new sources if Jpost is unnaceptable.
- I saw a lot of people completely demonizing one side of the conflict. Hell, I'd like to see everyone holding Hamas to the same standards.
- I've seen very strong words (apartheid, colonial, genocidal...) with... no evidence to support it.
I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.
NYC and DC are some of the most expensive places in the world to live.

Moving to an apartment with an extra room to accommodate another family member is a big investment especially in NYC. In rural areas, housing prices are quite affordable.
The memory size does not matter. For any finite size, you will get a closer approximation of the rationals from floating point than by a ratio of integers.

The difference ratio only gets bigger when you add more memory.
Not sure to be honest, probably later this year (depending on how beta testing goes).
In China, retail investor are called '韭菜' (Chives). Obviously, nobody care.
I have a truck without a full suze bed and use it for (personal) work at least once a week throughout the year, daily during logging and snow plowing season.

I might consider an electric truck, except that even new gas trucks are way outside my budget. It'll be at least a decade or two before even used electric trucks are reasonably priced.
> It’s actually and Apple vs. APIs and technologies that allow fingerprinting on the web thing.

A sibling comment says:

> The article mentions explicitely: WebRTC, VP9, WebP, notifications, home screen icon shortcut, Local data storage, camera, microphone, USB port, and some more.

Some of these things enable (more) fingerprinting, but VP9 and WebP? Nah.

I have all kinds of Apple stuff--phones, laptops, accessories--but a lot of what they do is strategic in service of enlarging their profit margins (look at right to repair, for example). I don't necessarily blame them; capitalism is a race to the bottom here. But let's not cast Apple in this light of noble privacy defenders. They're doing that to make money too.
To be fair, some early pr and articles talked about satellite to satellite hops across oceans, even.though this is not a current capability.
Jay Parikh joins Lacework as co-CEO
> comically dysfunctional

intentionally dysfunctional.. there has been a multi-decade effort to prep the NHS essentially for complete privatization
Electric motors are also superior to combustion engines in pretty much every way.

The biggest issue is mobile energy storage in sufficient quantities. With a train-sized diesel generator the problem goes away :)
Use common sense.

Not creepy: "Nice watch!"

Creepy: "Nice waist belt!"

Very creepy: "Nice eyes!"
Weren't there few in a polar orbit?
"Analysing the agent’s internal representations, we can say that by taking this approach to reinforcement learning in a vast task space, our agents are aware of the basics of their bodies and the passage of time and that they understand the high-level structure of the games they encounter."

Wow, really amazing if true.

P.S.: After looking into their paper, it's not that impressive. They use agent's internal states (LSTM cells, attention outputs, etc.) to predict whether it is
early in the episode, or whether the agent is holding an object.
I really liked the idea of Better Place. But I saw them on the cover of Wired, and knew that it wouldn't succeed.

My rule of thumb is that if you're on the cover of Wired, either you've already succeeded, or you never will. They pick people who are already famous, or who want to be famous -- rather than people with the idea and ability to succeed. If you're on the cover and haven't already proven it, you're almost certainly better at selling yourself than your product.

I didn't know what would be wrong with the product, but I knew there would be something before I even opened the magazine.
As one of the rare Safari desktop users: the most useful key-bind I made was command-shift-r to bring up reader mode. A lot of the "growth hacking" metrics have made the web near-unusable, but reader mode goes a long way towards making it tolerable.
Rust syntax really is crazy. It's designed to be utterly incomprehensible.
GPT-Neo for Natural Language Generation
CDC is fake commmie bullshit.
Are you sure you are in a high EV density area? Because I can't imagine how that can work out if more than a few % of cars in the area are EV.
Sure and so what?

The company selling me a car is responsible to validate the security of each piece they got from a third party, and a restaurant is responsible to take care for the quality of the food it buys from the local bazar.
I have been using Sumatra for years and don't know the story behind this great app.
Thank to dev for such a long journey.
Pandemic redux: No, your workers aren’t coming back to the office
Not an epidemiologist, but prior to Covid I have never seen a professional risk-benefit discussion around screening tests, which did not give serious weight to the various costs of false positives. Patient anxiety. Rounds of invasive biopsies not without risk. Financial costs of the same.
My supervisor at one of my first employers told me she should not be required to compliment anyone, because they will know if they are doing a good job if they still have a job. She never provided positive feedback and it was demoralizing to me.
It's easy if you have the $$$. Personally, I don't want to spend a few thousand to buy a charger and have an electrician run a 240v plug to my detached garage.

On my old house, there wasn't enough capacity to add another 240v breaker.
Looks neat, I'm all for more accessible programming resources! Be careful not to make it too powerful though, Apple has a mean-streak of shutting down IDEs on iPad.
Why expand the surface are of the hole?

Besides, it's quite possible that the hole in WebPush does not allow for some/many scenarios that a background sync would.
Correct, also a feature, not a bug.

Some of us prefer permissive licenses, or choose between permissive and copyleft depending on the nature of the application.

But here's something you can't do with my MIT licensed code: change the license to copyleft.

Point being, if one is contributing to a project with a permissive license, that should imply being a-ok with it getting rolled into some binary in a form you don't have access to.
Qvault Launches Python Fundamentals Course
Personally I'd look at sites like meetup.com to see if there's already groups in your area. In my region the level of event activity is still lower than normal, but it does seem to be coming back as in person activities are becoming more routine.

I feel like I get enough tech from my day job, but from what I've seen skimming through various group listings is the formula for tech meetups is some sort of set of presentations and discussion period afterwards scheduled regularly about once or twice a month. Providing information as to what's being presented entices people as they can decide "would this be interesting" prior to attending a group. Depending on how you treat such events it can be viewed as standard professional networking, but is that a bad thing? It sounds like you're interested in people working on side projects and exploring new ideas and those people are likely in or adjacent to your own profession any how.

If you're not interested in the in person aspect of things, there's loads of online communities out there for various niches, hobbies, projects, open source endeavors, etc. They're spread all over the place, from forums, to discord, to IRC, to in person makerspaces/hackerspaces, to all sorts of corners of the net. Either which way things will be hit or miss until you find an environment that meshes with your own goals.
> passive incompetence is probably more likely than active malice.

Well this is pretty much the norm at most levels of government around the world. There are no real performance indicators being used to judge accomplishments or effectiveness for most government jobs.
It’s not obvious to me: does this extend to supporting multiple concurrent validations? For example, can you perform a single validation of a structure and get back multiple validation results for each of multiple field?

From some thought experiments I’ve done, I feel like my ideal solution would be to define a graph based on my data structure with validations as the edges. Then traverse the graph as far as possible before reporting errors.

This would allow validations to build on each other, as well as validating arbitrary combinations of fields.

I’ve never sat down to actually implement it though…
> The typical layout of a European village

There is no such thing. It presents huge variations between countries and between regions.

If I take a few examples simply from France:

1. North-East would be as you say, a concentrated village, very few isolated small farms but a few isolated powerful farms with walled buildings.

2. South-West would be the exact opposite, almost no village, almost only isolated single-family farms.

3. But in the Pyrenees (part of South-West), you have a more complex setup: almost no isolated farm, villages exists but are small, but by way of compensation many hamlets of 10 to 50 houses.

4. and a few other models depending on regions.

I grew up in (2): in my municipality of 180-200 inhabitants, there was only like 10 houses in the village (including the school and the presbytery). In the neighbouring municipality of 150 inhabitants, the "village" was a church, the presbytery and 1 house. A few municipalities here and there had a real burg, but then they were... burgs: market towns with shops and stuff, farming was not the main activity of most inhabitants.

In that configuration, people absolutely worked from home and immediately around the home. They would only leave their farm to go the market in a burg once a week or once a month to sell their extra, and buy a few things. And to go to the village church once a week too.

In configuration (3), that's pretty much the same. You don't have all your fields immediately around, but the kernel of inhabitants is small enough that everyone has got a little something immediately there, used as garden and/or for poultry and stuff, and then the fields/meadows are spread around still on a walking distance.

Then there would be a lot to say on where the cattle is kept and how the houses are built accordingly. There are a lot of variations there. Even just between 2 French mountains or inside the same mountain. In the Alps, you would have 1 (or 2) huge buildings; in the Pyrenees, you have several small buildings. In the Pyrenees, the animals were kept more separated from the humans than in the Alps (where in some places they slept together in winter times to benefit of the warmth). In the Alps, the hay was brought back and kept in a single place; in the Pyrenees, the hay is kept in a number of small barns spread around in each pasture (a factor in the spreading & separation of animals). The organisation can be different if you go 20 km down the river, or 2 valleys aside.

In (2) where I grew up, the stable was not always but often part of the house (below the house), at some of my neighbours and school mates, we were going to "the toilets" in the stable between the cows still in the 80s; there are other places where it used to be more like that (like some of the Alps cases I just talked about), and other places were the animal were in different buildings.

Plenty of different models, not just one model per country and definitely not one European model.
Nope, it is a matter to apply the same liability process that are already in place for high integrity computing and enterprise project deliveries.
Great idea, I'll add a link to newsletter on the landing page — thank you!
todays day and age is low code/no code for modern webapps. This is nothing novel. Technical cofounders are still needed because at the end of the day, you still need someone to logic.
US population could shrink for first time on record
Wow, I have always been dubious of the claim that Tcl continues to be used in "behind the scenes" applications today. For a long time it was just (for me, anyways) That Thing You Have To Learn To Script Your Eggdrop Bot but it's a neat albeit quirky little language and evidently is used in at least this project!

Kudos!
Decrease in Asian Monsoon Rainfall, Abrupt Climate Change Over Past 6,700 Years
"Perfect Forward Secrecy", better termed "Forward Secrecy", allows old messages to remain secret even if the long-term secrets are leaked.

If current cryptographic primitives are fundamentally broken, all data can be decrypted if it is saved. This is why it is safest to destroy everything if you are worried about threats in the distant future.
My z/OS browser displays it fine.
Data Science in Go: How Much to Tip
The grid capacity is not infinite. Of course, we are going to improve the grid but it is not a trivial problem.
EmbedRank: Simple Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction Using Sentence Embeddings
Why support so many locales in a one man project?
I think by "unusual" the parent post meant "atypical".

I'm a parent with weekend trips and the EV's fine, but if I were in a remote location with concerns about charging availability I'd definitely feel more range anxiety.
Why did you choose a monthly subscription model? I’m genuinely curious because I’m a “one off” user. I don’t use it frequently enough to justify a recurring monthly cost.

Have you considered a bulk credits payment model (ex. $19.99 for 1,000 photo processing credits) for users like me?
That's not possible yet, see

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/neilalexander/...
This brand new, top of the line Mercedes will be super affordable /s
It didn't help that the WHO released the updated guidelines the day Biden was inaugurated.

For that reason alone it became another thought-terminating political topic -- you're either dismissed as a conspiracy theorist for correlating these events, or you're dismissing the value of the vaccine rollout/lockdowns/other measures, or you're a sheep following the dominant media narrative.
Most black Americans aren't immigrants. And even fewer were when the culture we're talking about started forming.
I know Postgres and SQLite have mostly different purposes but FWIW, SQLite also has a surprisingly capable full-text search extension built right in: https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html
Keep wondering if RUM Indexes [1] will ever get merged for faster and better ranking (TF/IDF). Really would make PG a much more complete text search engine.

https://github.com/postgrespro/rum
I sympathize with all you say, I've been through all that myself. But why would blogging anonymously be disingenuous? Plenty of writers have opted for anonymity. If the ideas spur thought or discussion, they're still valuable.
I think you should do it the other way, and give small simple compliments as soon as you notice them. When you do, it comes off as natural and unplanned, and therefore confident and enthusiastic. Holding onto a compliment can alter your delivery so that it is unnatural, and that is one element of "creepiness."

Other elements are lingering or prying. You don't need to force further engagement even if you're going to remain in the other person's proximity. Learn to give a compliment and then stand in it without reciprocation or followup. Might feel awkward at first but if you start with strangers you have nothing to lose. Be okay with them being okay with simply receiving a compliment. It might help if you can come to perceive small compliments as expressions of your own taste rather than simple flatteries. Every now and then, someone will say something more and then you'll have a conversation.
That's not possible yet, see this proposal

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/neilalexander/...
> I don't understand this part. Isn't the important number here the total number of people in the hospital (or ICU or other ward) relative to the total number that the hospital (or ICU or other ward) can accommodate? Or alternatively, the total excess relative to normal years.

I agree with this point and the article doesn't seem to mention this, surely the important statistic is number of in-patients per week comparing week by week with 2019. If it's much higher then there is a big problem regardless of whether these patients have covid or not as we haven't built any significant hospital capacity or trained a lot more medical staff since then.
He was a Combatives instructor, the story was from a Krav studio he attended and it was another student there.
Fair point. Unfortunately it's a trend I've already seen over the last decade with battery-operated power tools, and they-re a simplified and scaled-down version of electric car drivetrains.

Pretty much all modern brushless power tools, while mechanically simpler than their brushed cousins, require a full motor and control module replacement when something as simple as the switch fails.

Don't get me wrong, I do believe that electric propulsion is the future for efficient transport and that gas isn't a long-term solution going forward. It just seems to me the marketing and hype have gotten ahead of the current offerings, and I worry the 'scrap it and get a new one' approach employed often by tech companies will end up being applied to cars as well.
Turned out to be a great get thanks to COVID.
I have not measured the latency but if both participants are on wifi there is usually no perceptible latency with my participants. (US -> UK calling daily)

If either of us is on mobile, sometimes latency can creep in, but this also happened on whatsapp too. That's the nature of mobile IMO.
Back in the late 80's / early 90's, my dad's business had a few PS/2 machines, in addition to several Dells and Compaqs. The PS/2s were low end models, like the 30 and 25, mainly used for printing up packing lists, but the build quality was very high. Even the keyboards were solid.
Show HN: Atomic Life – smart to-do list with automated reminders
Or to be more precise, it works for a few days, then abruptly locks you out until a friend with a China phone number and bank account vouches for you.
Perhaps it has to do with Firefox not being the only browser(/browser backend) available on an entire class of Mobile devices.
I'm a woman and I'd never complement a guy I wasn't interested in on his appearance. I think it's a minefield for both genders. Maybe it's a pity - I'm not really sure.

I'm married, a male friend of mine is married, and he's lost a lot of weight over the last few months. He looks great, honestly, but there's no way I would say that. It would be weird on both ends.
A teen punk led a movement for disabled people online
360 Assembler was the second (and last) assembly I learned (after 6502¹). Gotta love an architecture that requires you to maintain your own call stack for subroutines. Or that has CPU-level instructions to move integers to and from EBCDIC strings.

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1. Well, I guess second-and-a-half. I played a little with Z-80 on my Spectravideo computer, but mostly that was writing a disassembler in MSX basic to reverse-engineer how the system worked after it was abandoned by its manufacturer. The disassembler was never finished because I didn't properly manage the multibyte opcodes.
Hi, I started an Elasticsearch hosting company, since sold, and have built products on PG's search and SQLite FTS search.

There are in my mind two reasons to not use PG's search.

1. Elasticsearch allows you to build sophisticated linguistic and feature scoring pipelines to optimize your search quality. This is not a typical use case in PG.

2. Your primary database is usually your scaling bottleneck even without adding a relatively expensive search workload into the mix. A full-text search tends to be around as expensive as a 5% table scan of the related table. Most DBAs don't like large scan workloads.
The irony to me is this statement:

> How many startups could be built if hundreds of thousands or even millions more people could code and bring their entrepreneurial ideas to fruition? How many bureaucratic processes could be eliminated if developers were more latent in every business? The answer, of course, is on the order of “a lot,”

While tools are great, the problem still remains that we need more people with useful tech skills - specifically CS skills. I've been working on this problem for a year or so at my side-project Qvault.io

https://qvault.io/
I am weary of this newspaper's reporting - they wage a continual war on the NHS, and they seem to have some writers paid to continually put out negative news on the NHS.

Two points:

1. COVID-19 is the most thrombogenic infectious disease known to man. It likely has a serious impact on co-morbidities in a way that hasn't been clearly studied yet. This means it's likely to exacerbate current conditions.

2. Hospitals are full in the UK at the moment. It's not COVID numbers, but it's not clear what is causing this. Normally at this time in the year bed occupancy is low and elective surgical work can proceed, but at the moment elective lists are being cancelled due to full ITUs.
Probably depends on whether you've already got the mainframe or not, and whether you've got the dedicated Linux cluster or or not.
I was camping in Yosemite earlier this year and happened to look up and see a line of these directly overhead. It was a bit funny being the only person in my group who knew about Starlink and thus the only person not perplexed or even a little freaked out by the sight.
The article seems to posit that immigration is the only way for American population to continue to grow, but I am not convinced population growth is desirable. My family comes from a place where population growth has exceeded resources. Instead of encouraging population growth, might it be wiser to reinvest in population efficiency and productivity?