skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put your business logic in a database and use SQL (not an ORM) to extract and manipulate your business data. Use a supporting programming language to transform the data into a presentation suitable for users e.g. a web page.

To make this work well, you must put serious effort into creating a database schema (design) that meets the criteria for normalisation - up to third normal form. Do this even if you later decide to de-normalise.

Some developers are against the idea of placing business logic in a database. But I'd argue that business logic in your database minimises the code in the supporting programming codebase.

Of course, business logic can't always be clearly separated by database and code, but favour the database over the programming code for business logic when possible.
I have a little bit of a different take here.

Paper products represent carbon sequestration. Single use paper products are great in that they are capturing and locking atmospheric carbon.

Trees are renewable resources that can be farmed. I never understood the "save the trees" argument. From what? Most modern lumber harvesting not only cuts down trees, but plants new trees for later harvest. Same way we plant other consumables. Where's the "save the potato!" movement?
This anecdote proves little. Even if taken as representative, there are valid reasons for a differing level of investment, like:

- importance of quality to the product domain

- differences in talent levels and supply of talent

- differences in company stage and expected future revenue growth
>I never heard of anyone doing this, is there an example of this?

ahem...

https://www.wolframscience.com/
Advertisers can't put you in jail indefinitely without trial because you published something they didn't like.

The USA IC can and will.
I don't understand the argument against plastics.

- Extract oil from underground

- Buy oil off the market, prevent it from being burned

- Turn it into affordable and useful goods

- Properly dispose of it by burying it underground again

Obviously a bit simplistic, but it seems like plastics are a rudimentary carbon sequestration technology!
I don't know that the lack of this particular feature is contrived to make matches more entertaining for the fans.
Let's be friends
I'm a solo founder, and it gets pretty lonely doing something as hard as a startup. Maybe I'm not the only one, so let's talk. About whatever. How's your life going? What are you struggling with? What games do you play?

I made a Discord server here https://discord.gg/BautyaH5xE, come chat!
> with unemployment benefits that are ending in a few months?

I don't think so. Zeta variant is coming.
I publish all of my original work into the public domain (using Creative Commons Zero), and have for years.

The reason, for me, is almost entirely pragmatic. Copyright and licensing are protections, but in today's world, receiving the benefit of that protection requires a budget, a lawyer, and a willingness to undertake legal proceedings which could take years to resolve.

If I am willing to invest in (1) registering my copyrights, which in the US is the only way to receive damages, (2) ongoing and perpetual searches to make sure no-one has violated my copyrights or licensing, (3) the costs to have one or more lawyers write letters, sue, and defend the suit in court against a likely large corporation who will spend millions to delay the case and bankrupt me, then I absolutely should put a license on my work and actively engage with my copyright.

If I'm not, regardless of whether I cannot afford to or do not desire to make a lawsuit my life's work, then I should opt out of the entire system. That is usually my choice.

( As a further note, Yale Law professor Stephen Carter argues that there's a fourth condition there: (4) if I'm willing to kill someone to enforce a legal verdict in my favor. See the quote in https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/enforci... )
Remember FF has been bundled in installers and OEMs have preinstalled it. Out of 200,000,000 users there are probably more users that simply aren't tech-savvy enough to have changed to a different browser than are still on it because they are tech-savvy.
> Most important is that most Italian words have emphasis on the second-to-last syllable.

Same thing in Spanish: The emphasis also tends to be on the second-to-last syllable[0]. Unfortunately, many language teachers never tell you that. (In fact, I once had to tell a Spanish teacher and she was surprised the rule checked out.)

[0]: More precisely, the rules are (I had to look them up as they have become so ingrained in me that I no longer remember them):

> If a word ends with a vowel, or the letters ‘s’ or ‘n’, the penultimate syllable is stressed.

> If a word ends with a consonant other than ‘s’ or ‘n’, the final syllable is stressed.

Source: https://blog.lingoda.com/en/all-about-spanish-accent-marks-a...
Americans have far more disposable incomes than Europeans. It's not even close. Average household consumption in the US is 65% higher than Germany.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_household...
Looks like Murray was in contempt of court for doxxing female witnesses in a sexual assault trial, in defiance of a judge’s order.
> Technology calls our bluff. Improvements in technology show us that technology wasn’t the obstacle that we thought it was.

It would make sense that, as technology improves but humans don't, the bottleneck would eventually become the humans.

To get around this would require improving the humans (via genetic engineering, for example) or going human-less (via artificial general intelligence, for example).
The "blogger from 1990" huh?
This is awesome -- excited to see the bridge between online and in person communities develop with locally-focused DAOs.
I've been experiencing delays too but only on the first request. This was due to uBlock Origin initializing. On mobile, this load time adds up really fast as it takes around 5 to 10 seconds for uBlock to load. In the mean time, requests are configured to be delayed. The aggressive Android memory cleaner doesn't help as anytime you close your browser, it reloads again.

All this to say, you might have an add-on delaying network requests to match them against a blacklist, save metadata or whatever the add-on is supposed to be doing.
Why do people expect geriatric bullies to make good laws?
Totally cool, just ordered. Thanks, Tomte.
You seem to be wondering why the act of conspiracy to commit a crime is itself a crime on top of the crime you conspired to commit.

The reason is the Mafia. They stuck around for such a long time in part because the bosses never committed any crimes themselves, and were often careful to never even directly order anyone else to commit crimes. Nonetheless, they were in charge, and it was quite well understood by the rest of the conspirators exactly what they wanted. But it was effectively impossible for law enforcement to stop them, and that meant there was no way to stop the actual crimes because the supply of lower-level people willing to commit them for sufficient compensation was effectively infinite.

We finally managed to bring them down in part by making conspiracy to commit crime itself be a crime. This was called the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act or RICO and was passed in the US in 1970. From that point forward, it has been a crime to influence others to commit crimes, and enhanced sentencing is available in cases where this is done as part of an ongoing criminal conspiracy.
One of the UK employers currently moaning about a lack of workers had a policy of only employing people for 16 hours a week since this was the optimum hours a person could work whilst still receiving tax credits and housing benefit.

Around 10 years ago I was in the labour market willing to do pretty much anything and these kinds of jobs accounted for most of what was available.

Since I wasn't 'on benefits' I was at the other end of the equation. What I really wanted was a chance to work my way out of financial trouble - these kind of jobs only offered the opposite of this.
Its the same reason as allays, some kind of subsidies. Created by politicians who are fooled/bribed by lobbyists.
Same reason the US replaces certain % of fuel with bio-fuel. It does make any sense. It pollutes more to create the bio-fuel than if you would use normal fuel. Its also not carbon neutral and it destroys incredible amount of land and the soil and even fossil water is used up sometimes.

Obligatory PENN & TELLER: BULLSHIT S02EP05 Recycling
https://www.bitchute.com/video/j0Hd6UfA4MKo/
Paying more is relatively easy to do when your company makes a few million per employee. The vast majority of companies aren’t blessed with pseudo-monopolies that allow them to do that.
Yet, you must first see to have been shown. Funny how that works.
Weird article, productivity has increased and is increasing. The real question is whether the result of that productivity is necessarily well harnessed, although that is subjective to a degree. Questions still remain, however, over why so much work is done and yet many of the individuals engaging in that work end up in in-work poverty. That huge amounts of the labour force cannot even afford their own housing.

But I digress, I suspect there is a lot of "hidden" productivity that only emerges at the collective level, which is enabled primarily by better communication and transportation, that is not obvious at the individual level.
Have you gone to a beach lately?

I don't live in the US but it's certainly not a developing country. Beaches are absolutely covered in plastic waste and it's noticeably worse each time I go. Forests are steadily becoming filled with plastic that either gets tossed there or blown there. Animals eat garbage and die. It's horrible. Assuming I live a very long life and die in 70 years, that plastic will still be there. New plastic will be there as well.

America and the EU "manage" their plastic waste by literally shipping it to other countries, then blaming them for mismanaging it. Most was sent to China, then it was banned by China.[1] Now the EU and US ship it to other countries, claim they manage their plastic, and blame new countries. The US and EU have yet to manage their plastic, though. They're just dumping it on their neighbor's property.

My worry about paper bags is that, corporations doing what they do and going for the lowest bidder, they'll be made with clear-cut rainforest wood from Indonesia and Malaysia instead of sustainable sources. I'm sure a lot are.

I just reuse bags and never use paper or anything unless it's forced upon me. I bought some durable bags 5 years ago. I keep a couple in my vehicle, a few at home, and others in other places so I almost always have a bag with me.
Disney and Walmart mandate vaccines for employees
That about sums up why I switched from Firefox to brave.
I agree that nothing is fully safe and any developer will alway introduce security vulnerabilities eventually, but history has proven than C is unsafe and generations of very competent developers wrote unsafe C despite documentation to write C safely.
I'm going to upvote this comment because not everyone in the world can afford $300 for 64GB+ of RAM. The solution to not dump everything into RAM is a great one.

Fortunately, I've had a fancy Silicon Valley job for 15+ years which now lets me afford many GBs of RAM if I wanted to but it was a different story in my 20s. I relied on free or almost free hardware to learn. And that free hardware usually lagged in specs.
> When the tool is working as intended the output will bear a resemblance to many different inputs within the same problem domain and will not be identifiable as a copy of any particular source.

You would have a great argument, and I would actually not be so mad at GitHub, if they had only trained Copilot on such boilerplate/non-copyrightable code. However, they trained it on all of the code in all of the public repositories. That's why we see:

> ...there have been certain notable exceptions where the training was over-fitted and a particularly unique prompt resulted in the ML system regurgitating an identifiable input text mostly unchanged...

The fact that this happens is a sign that GitHub did not train it only on boilerplate; they trained it on truly creative stuff. And they expect people to believe that the output is not under copyright. The gall blows my mind.

But even if it were to take the most repeated pieces of code and only synthesize stuff from that. Would that solve the problem?

Not really because some of the best (i.e., most creative) code is forked the most, meaning that Copilot saw some of the best code over and over.

Here's an experiment you can do (if you have access to Copilot): Start a new C source file, and in a comment at the top, say something like:

// A Robin Hood open addressed map.
map_item(

And see what it gives you. I would bet that it will suggest something close to [1], which is my code. (Ignore the license header; the code is actually under the Yzena Network License [2].) Notice that there is no "ymap_item()" function in my code, so this would not be triggering Copilot's overfitting.

The reason I think so is that Copilot doesn't just suggest one line at a time, which if it did, an argument could be made for boilerplate. Instead, it suggests whole sections of code. A good percentage of the time, even maybe a majority of the time, that is not boilerplate.

[1]: https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/src/branch/master/src/map/map...

[2]: https://yzena.com/yzena-network-license/
Why do you think that 10x increase in cancer researchers would not help find the cure faster? Do you think there is one supergenius destined to find the solution and he is already working on it?
10x researches can try out 10x approaches or concentrate of specific types of cancer.
From what I understand, most of actual research is done by hungry grad students and the higher your position get the more time you spend of trying to keep or expand the funding.
I know that keeping the grad students overworked and hungry keeps many grifters out of science, but at what cost?
It's so unfortunate! The 2020 Olympics was supposed to be the start of the new Reiwa Era, rebirth after the devastation of the 2011 quake, like the 1964 Olympics and 1970 expo were a sign of rebirth after the end of the war.

Already during our visits to Japan in 2017 and 2019 we could see a lot of infrastructure work going on all around, lots of optimistic Olympic advertising and countdowns. It really should have been an even presenting modern Japan to the whole world, with the expectation that many of the countless tourists who would go for the Olympics would like Japan and return.

But with covid this is all gone, a lot of expensive infrastructure that will take many years to pay back without all the tourists and possibly bad image of Japan on the international stage & dissatisfaction with the government and foreign organizations in the Japanese population.

Oh well, at least Akira did not happen. ;-)
Thanks. No, I didn't release it, although there are implementations on GitHub. Rust and Kotlin, at least.
The RON proof-of-concept wiki runs on the (unreleased) C++ implementation [1]. I benchmarked it at some point, everything was like "k nanoseconds" [2].

[1]: http://doc.replicated.cc/%5EWiki/ron.sm

[2]: https://github.com/dmonad/crdt-benchmarks/issues/3#issue-599...
> It is strange that the top known factors for this are not even mentioned in this or other similar news stories. First, closing of schools caused large numbers of women to leave the workforce in order to care for children.

I'm a bit skeptical of that explanation in the US because schools close for 3 months every summer, without an accompanying large number of women quitting their jobs.
Lead poisoning = lower IQ & educational attainment

poor education & lower IQ = locked out of the labor force and more likely to make bad decisions in life

not rocket science.
Opera is closed source which means it is not secure.
One anecdotal data point but Tesla does let you set a charge limit to enforce this buffer. As for a discharge limit it's just about being careful I suppose.
In addition to Matt Hancock, there was also the case of exemptions from quarantine for UEFA football VIPs. [1]

I think it's right the UK is returning to personal responsibility, especially as many of the rules haven't seemed to be science-based e.g. you must wear a mask entering a pub, but you are allowed to remove the mask while eating seated.

It's health-theatre, rather than virus prevention.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/18/vips-to-be-...
Antifragility depends on knowing how to respond so that next time you'll be less fragile for the "same" stimuli.

For that we need better public health measures, those depend on modeling, vaccine development, etc.

There's no escaping understanding human health. It underpins and informs our responses. (Which kind of viruses are likely to pose a real threat, monitoring those threats, evaluating them, models, predictions, data, etc.)

I'm not talking about one big Seldon-esque equation, but about the public/global health system we already have, the whole of medical research, and so on.

These toy classifiers trained on COVID scans are in the same class as Tesla's dangerous "autopilot", because the system is too limited, it doesn't understand context, it lacks a world model. (Tesla's lack epistemic convergence and stability for object detection, ie. it lacks the understanding that cars, roads, obstacles don't flicker in and out of existence, nor do they change from frame to frame. Similarly a "medical AI" needs to understand that medical imaging artifacts are unlikely to be good proxies for real diagnosis, so it needs to be able to abstract away from the image, process away the artifacts and recording environment differences, etc.)
Also we have to consider that porting software or trying to make it work with the same characteristics and UI is pretty difficult and expensive (in time and money) compared with a web app or an Electron application.
>Then when you look at plastic pollution and see that for the most part North America is quite good at properly disposing of plastic you wonder why we are so obsessed with this as a problem.

You have read FAR too much into propaganda my friend.

We ship our plastic waste to the third world you are saying mismanages it.

You are a degenerate like the rest of Americans.
A very mysterious story: both seem to have knowledge about the bubonic plague two centuries before the event.
Does Google browsers not also require a restart to update? So are you not just running an outdated version with security vulnerabilities until you restart it?
FreeNAS is solid.
> _The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer_ is my favorite of his novels. Superb pacing, fascinating vision of technology, and strong sociocultural relevance. Plus, _The Diamond Age_ knocks the stuffing out its ending!

That makes two of us! I always doubted there were others, so welcome to the club :)

I tried to get my wife into it but failed because the intro to the book is very much not like rest. All the talk of implanting guns in the head made it seem like it was going to be action sci-fi. The intro to Snow Crash is also not like the rest, but it is so hilarious that I don't mind. I always assumed that his editor(s) didn't know what to do with it, but knew there was so much awesomeness that they just left it as-is.
I've always wondered how a better filter could be for factory emissions, specifically, if you could pipe the emissions to come out of the bottom of a giant pond, filled with water that will capture a lot of the particulate as it aerates up through the water? and then treat the water the same way you would normally

Like if the bottom of the pond was filled with layers of activated charcoal, aerogel pellets (aerogel is known to collect heavy metals pretty efficiently... and then sand.

A reverse water filter basically.
I swear by The Checklist Manifesto[0]

However, it's worth noting that just because you didn't do that one thing on your list, it doesn't mean you're a failure in life. A checklist is just a rough guide. You can always delegate or delay the more trickier tasks too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Checklist_Manifesto
It does happen with Chrome. See the whole ublock origin debacle. I guess it doesn't impact end users as greatly or maybe Firefox users are more vocal about changes?

Also: yikes on that link. I would feel disillusioned if my feedback was responded to in that manner. Sometimes empathy can get you so much further.
It’s very well established that the current amount of carbon is the atmosphere is excessive.
Thanks for linking to the actual paper.
Raising prices doesn't only move toward equilibrium by increasing the quantity supplied -- it also decreases the quantity demanded.
Firefox 90.0 [1] can now update in the background on Windows.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/90.0/releasenotes/
Gosh, these sound just like Android, now that you're quoting it. My Android phone came with Chrome, gmail, Google Maps, uploads my photos to Google, and requires a Google account.

But I think that's beside the point. Microsoft did a lot of anti-competitive things in a lot of markets. Limiting scope to one particular litigation isn't really helpful here. The phrasing, "THE compliant," makes it sound like there wasn't a mountain of complaints. There was.
> everyone loves talking about recycling plastics

Who's everyone? I've read more about economists and environmental scientists outright calling out recycling, and then proposing a complete abandonment of plastic altogether.
Without trying to counteract your points about the pay/work/parttime/etc.... It's worth noting that a large number of restaurant owners make very little money. The margins/profits in that industry are razor thin. So the owner making less wouldn't be helpful, or even an option for many of them.
Could have been a PR campaign from Big Oil to sell more plastics only.
12th century person talking about Syphilis in a tavern? Very hard to picture that scene indeed...
I bet my method beats most others.

Answer basic questions for every step of a topic: what, why, how, who, when, where

Sleep in it

Review with spaced repetition
> Using the “people moved to the countryside” example: Did we have a surplus of empty houses in the countryside before the pandemic?

Actually yes. Before the pandemic, in the area I grew up in (Southern Appalachians) it was common for a house sale to take years, because there was indeed a surplus.

Remember ten years ago all the articles about urbanization and the young people leaving the country and suburbs to live in the city? That was real and the more remote places did in fact have a surplus of housing stock

I've personally seen one family move to the absolute boonies from a large metro and they just guessed that the breadwinner would be able to stay remote or find a new remote friendly employer if forced to move back. The latter happens

I'd probably have more anecdotes if I knew more than like five people
500 years in the past, metal would still be relatively scarce and precious, where in the notional postapocalyptic future that people enjoy fantasizing about, the ruins of today's world would offer a veritable cornucopia.
Which is precisely my point. Amazon is forcing competitors out of business. And once they have a monopoly, history teaches us they will have no incentives left to keep their prices down, and introduce the very shitty prices you speak off. Hence: we’re not there _yet_