skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people shut down discussion without having to engage in the topics of settler colonialism or apartheid

The apartheid bit can and should be engaged and eventually solved with a Palestinian state beside Israel. The settelr colonialist bit is mostly said to try and ruin the Zionist state by dismantling Zionism. No one calls the U.S a settler colonialist country. No one demands California to be returned to Mexico (it's rightful owner btw) or that the Indians get the right to their lands back (so what if not many of them are left? if we wanna dismantle colonialism let's start with it's founders).
These are requirements specific to Israel. The hard left knows very well the chances of "one democratic state" surviving are close to zero, and that the endgame is immigration of most Jews out of Palestine, to become hated refugees everywhere they go yet again. But that's the hard left's plan, and not everyone like to engage with that.
I think this was the point of WG. OpenVPN/IPSec/etc are beasts since they include all of the above. OpenVPN is TLS based! That makes adding it into the kernel difficult, and you need kernel access or exotic stuff like VPP/DPDK for speed.

I do agree with your overall sentiment, though. The next step is to make a higher level protocol on top.
Yeah, I was throttled (too many comments in a short time and HN slows you down for a while).
I remember working on a Sybase 11.5 database that basically required forcing of indexes for many tables because the query planner would always go off the rails. We had to run a script in production that would print out the query plan of the currently active queries that were taking forever. Without being able to force indexes, I have no idea how we'd of fixed the problem.
Nitpick: "bio" = "life"
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I feel like the optimal living-documenting ratio was right before the advent of digital cameras: photography was accessible enough, but there was enough disconnect between the event and the record to be present. Now it's much easier to live through the phone's what-you-see-is-what-you-get viewfinder [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27697921
It's of no profit to google.
Yeah WSL 2 is amazing. You can even connect to your Nvidia gpu from there Linux subsystem if you want to some local ML training on it. Goodbye dual boot!
Are we in the age of Reductio ad Misinformationum?
Unless I'm misreading they didn't add another index. They actually just reduced the original index by removing an indexed expression and excluding rows that didn't match that expression instead.
Post 4.X Android is almost a wholly different OS. It was the biggest API break, and a shift to much more over-engineered APIs.

Companies doing things like POS terminals, eKiosks, signage, set-top boxes, Android TVs, etc are not interested in that, and this is a big part of why 4.X is so prolific.
Sweden daily Covid deaths hit zero, with human liberty still intact
Pritunl has wireguard support and works well for this
>SoC would be some licensed spec based on Exynos

I am most interested in their choice of GPU. Would it be AMD?
If Steam Deck reaches even a moderate level of success, it will be a huge incentive for developers to make games target Linux (or, more likely, the Proton compatibility layer).
Another one is std::span, that contrary to Microsoft's gsl::span, WG21 decided it was a good idea not to do bounds checking.
What was the problem statement you gave to the candidate?

What were you trying to tease out from the problem statement?
> thanks to widespread vaccination of the elderly, however fast this disease spreads it will ultimately inflict a much, much smaller death toll than earlier waves, because vaccination has probably eliminated 90 percent or more of the country’s total COVID-19 mortality risk.

This claim does not appear to be grounded in any factual basis: A double-blind randomized trial for an mRNA vaccine with 44k participants showed nearly identical all-cause mortality in vaccinated vs. placebo groups after six months [1]. The delta wave will almost certainly be less fatal, but there is no evidence to indicate that widespread vaccination is the primary causal factor, or even a contributing factor, for the reduced mortality.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v...
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You watched real tv on your computer or real tv/cable tv? If on your computer... maybe jeaopardy viewers are more likely to gamble? I don't recall seeing any gambling commercials while watching the olympics on hulu live tv (am on the live tv and no ads bundle which for some reason includes lots of ads).
If I were a journalist I'd almost feel insulted if I or at least my organization hadn't been targeted.
The cost of the input affects the cost of the output, which makes all the difference in the world.

Let's start with the most obvious: "sell things for money" hasn't worked out that well in music. Streaming services (with DRM) are 83% of revenue in the music industry now: https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/vinyl-record-sal...

The price of music is dramatically lower. Its consumption model is entirely different - a song may be played dozens of times on a radio station or a streaming platform, each performance for pennies. Video, on the other hand, is predominately a single-shot mechanism. There's enough new content that almost no customers will watch the same piece of video multiple times. You have to make back all of your revenue in that initial purchase. Combined with higher production costs, you need higher prices. You also need a guarantee people will have to pay those prices to justify the investment and even begin the process. DRM is such a guarantee.
Indeed earth evolutionary processes require earth like conditions. But here I mentioned swim in water which is a pretty strict constraint on temp vs pressure.

That said even in any other fluid I doubt we’ll ever look at an organism and say “it swims like …<blank>“ because there wasn’t an earth organism that swims anything like it. Of course that means comparing to every method of swimming locomotion on earth which is a staggering diversity from the microscopic up to whales.

Unless other forces are involved (e.g electromagnetism isn’t used for locomotion on earth to my knowledge) and the fluid is incompressible like water, then I’m (armchair) guessing “to swim” doesn’t have that many evolvable solutions, regardless of pressure/temperature and the specific chemistry.
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I feel very lucky to have grown up with unrestricted access to the internet in the 90s-2000s. It was still broccoli and heroin, but neither seemed to be able to advertise over the other, and there was limited supplies of both.

Kind of forced me to try every plate.
Why don't hardware retail shops use the same method that banks and IT retail shops use - tracking device serial numbers? When I go to the parts shop next door and buy an SSD, I get an invoice with the serial number written on it. This small inconvenience for the checkout staff should well be worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen equipment...
Don't go hard, be consistent instead
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I’m sorry for my mistake. I live in Oregon and I was led to believe that OPB was developing the Kids apps since they reached out to me about 2ish years ago for working on the games.
I have the same experience with dollar generals, they tend to go in places where the only "competition" was driving further. And their prices tend to me pretty good, it's almost like a mini Walmart.

Putting "dollar" in the name makes everyone think of the dollar trees (everything $1), so I guess the author wants this to be a bit of a commentary on how this is catering to the poor possibly? But the other chains are essentially just well stocked stores. Who doesn't want to shop somewhere that's both convenient and cheap?
I like Postgres but this aspect is one of its shortcomings. In Postgres you usually have to rework your query in weird ways and hope that it's possible to get the optimizer to make the right choice. Even then, due to its usage of statistics, it could switch plans at any time as your data grows/changes.
The US CDC does this by re-using random anonymous blood samples drawn for other purposes, and by using test data from blood banks. The current data collected is for the presence of antibodies indicating people who've been infected. Not those vaccinated; they can distinguish that. This is cheap to measure, but runs about 6 weeks behind. Data here.[1] US average from late June is about 22% of the population. That's roughly how many people actually had the disease.

That data should show the Delta variant surge as the data comes in.

I still can't find a useful number for people with antibodies prevalent because either infected or vaccinated, although that is apparently tested.

[1] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#national-lab
It does tell the query planner it can use it though.
No wonder it's a disaster.
Most news articles I see focus solely on the number of vaccinated people when estimating how far away countries are from herd immunity, which seems odd to me. Left out in the discussion seem to be the unvaccinated but already infected. As far as I know, prior infection confers at least some degree of immunity.

It may also be the case that those inclined to be skeptical of vaccines were also the ones who exposed themselves to infection most during the pandemic, through disdain for social distancing, mask-wearing, etc. In other words those still unvaccinated in Western countries with easy access to vaccines have a pretty good chance of having been infected by now.

Adding those two populations together would seem to indicate that most Western populations are already at herd immunity by this point, which would mean that these surges can be reasonably expected to become smaller and smaller. Unless of course some totally new variant capable of evading all existing vaccines and immunity from prior infection emerges.
The fact that they're beholden to different stakeholders is precisely why it's important to have robust publicly funded journalism and/or donor funded journalism in addition to traditional for-profit advertiser funded journalism.

Just as traditional news outlets are reluctant to upset their advertisers. Donor-funded local newspapers are hesitant to upset big local donors. The BBC is awesome at covering non-clickbaity stories that would never get the time of day from a profit-oriented news outlet, but has always gone easy on whoever is currently in power in the U.K.

At the end of the day, quality investigative journalism costs money, that money has to come from somewhere, and it's best if that money comes from many places rather than one. Allocating more money toward publicly funded and donor-funded news in the U.S. would help to counter to the monstrous infotainment media empires that advertisers have built.

Also, have you read or listened to public news recently? It feels like reading a textbook or eating raw vegetables: refreshingly dull. We need more of it.
But, the usual: Is the creator a lifeform?
> …but that's the only problem with it.

I doubt it. In your first post, you said you have a work losing crash once a year on your Mac. Sounds like a problem to me. (That’s never happened to me once on my Linux or Windows desktops.)

You also had to build another machine just so you can play games and try out Linux. That you can’t just play games under macOS sounds like a problem too.

I’m also sure that you’ve had problems just like everybody else has had with Macs, from updates that break software and services that you’ve installed. My Macs have been broken numerous times by this bullshit whereas my Linux and Windows machines just keep trucking along like they’re supposed to.
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I'm curious why this comment is being downvoted. Anyone wish to comment?
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I don't know how much the old bike generators weighed, but a modern dynamo hub weighs a pound or more. A cyclist will use around 100W of power to ride 12mph, so a 50% efficient 10W dynamo will cause 20% extra drag.

I'd rather have the solar panels, even though they only charge in daylight, they charge whether I'm moving or not, and I don't have to supply the energy from my legs.
What I do notice is that the Chinese "rulers" seem to be more concerned about long-term well-being of its people, rather than trolling and performative assholery on Twitter.

You might describe it as a dictatorship, but it's more data-driven than you might suspect. The Chinese keep the pulse on decisions they make, and if it's unpopular - it's gone. Of course there is a line - you can't go head-on against the Party and call them out directly. Compare this situation here, where we are trying to patch up our infrastructure and instead have to deal with a collection of spectacular douches in Congress, propagandizing against science to such an extent that our top epidemiologist has to get a security detail.

Who would you bet on in this movie?
My suggestion is to find someone who compliments what you are doing. It is nice to have another technical founder to discuss ideas etc but focus on your pain point which could be sales/marketing. You can always hire more devs/technical resources later on once you grow further. If you are technical enough, find the non technical partner which should almost always be sales/marketing in early days.
Generating fake chemical elements from SHA-256 hashes
Agreed - I spent so much time trouble shooting this exact issue because I honestly couldn't even imagine that I wasn't freeing the connection.

I ended just giving up and doing a close() after searching for every use. But even then didn't immediately understand what was going on.

With XXX
do Y

is totally standard - but here we open but do not close.
Spoilage if you don't eat it fast, which is part of the convenience factor you mention. Harder to protect fresh fruit & veggies from pests, than anything in a sealed package, which I think is a factor that doesn't get enough attention. And the smell of them will attract more pests. Once you're out of precious fridge space, assuming your fridge is well-functioning and its seals are intact enough to keep pests out, you'll need extra, reusable containers that seal to protect anything else... which can lead to even faster spoilage, with lots of fruits and veggies.

Meanwhile, the store-brand pop tarts can deliver 2,000 calories/day for like $3, and come with sealed-per-serving packaging. Sure, they'll give you diabetes and malnutrition, but....
we're running 'ANALYZE table' with default_statistics_target set in the connection to the max reasonable value for the dataset size every 4 hours to avoid just that. also, the default checklist item for sudden slowness of postgres is a manual ANALYZE with a bumped statistics target.
Goose flying upside down to show off
If you look at Twitch there are plenty of big streamers spending their times on websites like Stake which is literally just an unregulated BTC casino.
SQLite has a nice solution to this problem: you can pin queries to use specific plans. By strategically controlling when statistics are redone, you can optimize a database for a specific set of queries. This does have the downside that it doesn't react to changes dynamically, but that is a good tradeoff in many circumstances.
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I'll expand on that a bit. Candy coating acting and like a six year old is not the way to make science accessible. Richard Feynman did it right. He never talked down to his audience, yet was able to make advanced concepts easily understandable. Watch any of his videos giving a lecture.
To Catch a Priest
Programmable, aka A/B testable, video Ads is definitely a trend. But not sure whether statically generated videos are good for outreaching.
What would be the point of a competitive game if you could just cheat? Racing games like Trackmania live off verifying people don't cheat because it's a game where people compete for leaderboards. Should they not be allowed to prevent you from cheating yourself to the top of the leaderboard.
Could say the same about the flu, no? How do you think the flu got so deadly in 1918? Far more deadly than Covid by the way.
Smoking in bars still exists in many places in the US. Granted in Texas for example, in jurisdictions where it's still legal, seems like at least 90% choose not to allow it by choice of the business owner.
I've owned a smartphone since late high school (~2010) but didn't get a data plan until some five or six years later. I actually miss having to be more intentional about where and when and what I was doing; data feels like an invisible umbilical cable that I can't cut off.
I prefer posting shirtless old men on GETTR instead.