skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We look right on track for my prediction of 2050
But excavators are fun!
> it is currently somewhat slower than the fastest (Polars).

That's really promising, considering how fast Polars is. Both are written in Rust and use Apache Arrow, so they can even co-exist in the same context.
But since it provides no advantage over normal currency, except lack of regulation, regulating crypto removes the incentive to onboard on it anyway.

It's slower, it expensive to run, fees are very flexible, value depends only on speculation and electricity spending - it would be a success if crypto trends towards 0 and we can finally try to USE them, but again, it would most likely be suboptimal compared to a banknote.
Good-Bye AdoptOpenJDK. Hello Adoptium
It says the biologics license application is approved. It also talks about the extension of the EUA but the drug was approved.
Notes on Why Buddhism Is True
You are countering my primary source with a secondary source.

Did you read the letter?

Please at least skim the letter and then form your own conclusion about CNN.
What is the point of respecting a system literally designed to oppress you?
I am just as confused as to how literally multiple people have figured out how to use and navigate Twitter. I have probably failed at many other things in my life too though. Maybe it's me.
Especially since crypto relies on two state monopolies: internet licensed providers and electricity providers.

I can cut a tree and trade it around in piece more easily than I can use the internet state-monitored access to ask someone to use the state-monitored energy grid to print me a bitcoin.
Of course, cassandra/mongodb/etc can perform their own batching when writing to the commit log, and can also benefit from write combining by not flushing out the dirty data immediately. That's besides the point.

Your use case allows you to perform batching for writes at the *application layer*, while discord's use case doesn't.
Would the World Be a Better Place If More People Baked Bread?
iOS 15 takes things up a level. Your phone will remain trackable on the find my network even while the phone is turned off and it will remain trackable for weeks after the battery is "flat".

Sure there are still methods you could use but it makes theft another level harder. The serial numbers and authentication on each part could also be used to brick each part of the phone if it is marked as stolen making them useless for resale as parts.
Yes if you are an enthusiast and you have experience working with a given yeast, then you can skip the proofing step based on your own judgement.

But if any home cook simply reads "you don't need to proof yeast" and interprets it as another one of those cooking myths like 'sealing' a steak, they are likely to make a catastrophic mistake one day.
there are no dumb TVs available because Joe and Jane consumer want a Smart TV, because why the hell wouldn't they? The price of a dumb TV and anything to plug into it to give the same functionality is more than the cost of the equivalent Smart TV alone, AND THEY GET THE SAME STREAMING SERVICES. That was the case when Smart TVs were introduced, anyway. it is an easy choice when you don't know the minutia.

Television manufacturers are always looking for a new thing that will prematurely render existing sets obsolete, triggering a new television purchase. Smarts embedded into the TV are one of those things that is very inexpensive to add at scale, but convinces many consumers that their existing devices are no longer "good", which starts that itching that can only be scratched by purchasing a larger TV with the hot new feature du jour.

it was only after Smart TVs gained wide adoption that the abuse of network connectivity was capitalized upon by manufacturers, and dumb TVs were virtually made extinct.
Ikea Lack Rack for rack mounting on the cheap! https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/lack-rack-ikeas-cheapest-t...
Why is Apple so far behind the competitors regarding hardware? They still have huge notch on the top, but competitors have invisible cameras behind display (Xiaomi Mi Mix 4). No fingerprint behind the screen like competitors. No foldable body frame. The only thing Apple do better than competitors is CPUs / SoCs.
How to Interpret and Calculate “X Times More Likely” Statistics
We may study this document to help us understand what it was about Lisp and its user community that made Lisp untenable as a production language. Javascript suffers from all of Lisp's technical awkwardnesses, and many more, but became a mainstream language anyway.
> If the total deaths are not reported how can we compare?

So if I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying we don't have to data to even determine whether or not there's a problem.

At the same time, you're willing to shutter the vast majority of the world's consumer computer hardware businesses over it?
My wife and kids were on this flight and I had the surreal experience of watching the evacuation from the side of the freeway as I waited for the text to come pick them up at baggage claim.
I upvoted your comment because you make great points, but...

> Before uber, taxi medallions could fetch $1.5M in New York City

I'm not defending the medallion system and it was corrupt af, but there were ordinary decent people who were destroyed by the subversion of this (completely corrupt and anti-competitive) system.

As for the software, eh, the Google Streetview vs. Waymo requirements were one of the weaker points of this article. We don't actually know what data Google collects with their cars (we do know they collect WiFi data[1]), and it isn't inconceivable that they were collecting precise data. It is true that this data ages faster than Google can refresh it, though.

I really believe that the software can scale but it is the real world/physical issues that will prevent this from ever becoming a real business.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/
He completely transformed modern life and changed the human trajectory for everyone on the planet, multiple times.

So he was an ass to work with... That doesn't void anything else that was done, nor should it be a highlight. Worth mentioning, sure.

Visionaries are usually hard to deal with (perhaps because they are fighting against the grain). Most visionaries are wrong, but that diversity is what pushes us forward.
Thank you, I saw the pictures that the trackball mouse and I wonder whether they are quite large in order to accommodate the trackball as I have a small palm(dwarfism).

The dimensions[1][2] when compared to standard mouse(e.g. M275)[3] seems to be about an inch higher(height, width), Also the GP comment says Ploopy was a bit large to use; Are the thumb trackball mouse inherently larger?

[1] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/mx-ergo-wireles...

[2] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/m575-ergo-wirel...

[3] https://support.logi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360023307234-Logi...
The Verge reported it was a Samsung A21.
Microsoft tool leaked 38M user records online
reporting odds, or odds ratios of occurance can make things look worse than they are:

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-interpret-and-calculat...

percentages are easier to interpret.
I'm afraid someone pipped you by a few months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793
I read the article but I could find nothing in the article that gives credit to Piotr Indyk, the inventor of Locality Sensitive Hashing and the math behind it. Give credit where it is due!
There's a lot to this article beyond his personal taste in pizzerias. I think if you look past that part, you'll find a lot that's interesting about it.
I've seen comments report that it gets ethernet over HDMI if they plug in their internet-connected gaming console.
It's not a lab until you lower the Bridgeport milling machine into the basement. Also, you may need three phase, but you will definitely need 240V for the multi-process welder.

https://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/threads/getting-the...
Rtmp: Native twitch and peertube streaming from plan 9
Here's Adam Curtis' brief history of Google's relationship to "the customer" (false label: advertisers are the customers, not search engine users)

1998 Idealism. "I think I want to make the world a better place."

https://youtu.be/55jSx4pRZqI?t=1789s

2000 Disaster and desperation. VCs tell SB what Google must do.

https://youtu.be/55jSx4pRZqI?t=2249s
Now if we can just figure out how to get more of them out of there.

Edited: clarity
The pan method works really well in a cast-iron pan. Start with the pan on the stove top, then put it in the oven. We're using a fajita pan and you get a really nice crust with it.
and don't forget missing USB-C connector! I can charge all my 15 devices in a travel via a single cable, but Apple users have to carry another charger (or adapter) just for smartphone...
I think there are about 500K Homeless in America, would it make sense to first offer about 20K of them some free housing?
I used to referee rugby union, at a quite high level, and we had whole classes where we were taught the "language" of our whistle :)
Trouble with this way of deciding is that it's biased by the number of individual products a brand has. Samsung has a lot so they're exposed to more risk of some bad ones even if they're safer on average than their competitors.

You used to see this with car brands back when everybody worried about reliability. Somebody would hear a bad story and go round saying "Don't buy BMWs because their fuel injectors fail". Fortunately, most people have goldfish memory, so people still buy Ford cars despite the Ford Pinto's fuel tank fires and they still buy Toyota despite the Prius's uncontrolled acceleration or whatever.
It appears the /e/ phones are indeed available in Canada and the US, https://esolutions.shop/shop/e-os-teracube-2e/ Just make sure to select your language and country at the top. No support for Verizon however.
There's also the bias (accurate or not) of "most people are bad drivers, but I'm better". Beating the average only beats the average. It improves things across the board (and that's awesome), but people who are particularly careful or skilled will balk until it's perceived as better than they are.

Pick something you pay extra attention to. Now imagine being informed you can't do that any more, you have to take what [this robot] does for you. Also remember all the terrible UI changes in software that have been done for a majority instead of your use-case.

Reluctance until it's substantially better seems reasonable to me. Somewhat unfortunate on a species level, but not for many individuals.
No, you got it completely backwards.

I'm trying to say that people are not ashamed of failure in Europe and that the only kind of failure that is a shame is using illegal/unethical tactics.

In several European countries what Uber and Airbnb did to local markets is considered shameful.

Also the term disruption is considered a bad thing.

To put it in more simple terms for you: people are more important than profit.

That's why, generally speaking, quality of life is better than US average, despite lower average salaries.

Also Europe is not a monolith, so whoever talks about Europe as a single entity is probably wrong.

Barcelona, for example, has a very active startup scene and it's 10 times better than any city in the US.

There is also a tendency is the US to consider a success becoming a monopolist or a unicorn, that's not what many startups here aim for.

There is also a huge language barrier, Americans usually show no or little interest foe anything that is not in English.

It's highly probable you don't have frequent contacts with people speaking (only or mainly) French, Spanish, Danish, Hungarian, Italian , German, Dutch etc. etc. but most Europeans do or know someone that can work as a trait d'union.

there are many startups working in the green economy here that are doing great things, by working together instead of fighting each other.

Fintech is also better in Europe than in US.
Does this settle the argument of whether or not Airbnb displaces local residents and drives up rents?

Isn't that an ongoing humanitarian crisis caused by Airbnb?
Bingo. They need this for user-level measurement and targeting. Wouldn't be surprised if this also supports part of their audience extension work with twitter audience platform as well.
Oh hey, thanks for the info!

I spent some time evaluating Arc for my team's ETL purposes and I was really impressed. I hesitated somewhat to move forward with it because it seemed really tied into the Spark ecosystem (for great reasons). We just weren't at all familiar with deploying and operating Spark, so ended up rolling our own scripts on top of (an existing) Airflow cluster for now.

Besides performance reasons, are there any other advantages to porting Arc to run on top of datafusion? If the porting effort was shared somewhere I'd love to dig in and see what the proof-of-concept looks like.
It's an interesting question. Some kinds of crime do seem necessary since many things we consider essential human rights or at least harmless were once criminal. But I can't imagine this applies much to theft. I can't ever imagine a society where we are worse off because people couldn't steal TVs. And anything where it might make sense, a protest against the government in general would be more appropriate.
> Let’s try to distinguish these databases by strict vs. loose schema validation, instead of SQL vs. NoSQL, and things might become less confusing for the next generation of developers.

That along with denormalization is how I’ve always thought about it. I learned SQL first and I’ve always seen the queries as just different ways of expressing “give me all of the documents where x is true”.

To me, Mongo is just the one where you can accidentally have different schemas in the same table (collection), you can have lists and embedded documents in a document, and the data is already JSON. Make your data as relational or nonrelational (or both) as you want.
Oddly enough, I don't think the owners would volunteer properties for that.
Would this support pydantic dynamic models? https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/usage/models/#dynamic-mo...

Or rather can I pass an existing pydantic class to SQLModel somehow?
Homeless people are never in vogue, and therefore less marketable.
That's horrifying. I was not aware. The horror is hundreds of IBM employees were directly involved in extermination activities; literally maintaining tabulation machines on prem, as it were, in the camps.

I hope every HN reader has the awareness and moral strength to resist, where the corporations are unable, the next time such à job comes.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/52879
Only 5,000 are actually Americans the rest are just collaborators of the fake installed Western government.
Steve Albini, apparently
And the PACE trial
There's an idea:

If you want to convert a dwelling to short stay accommodation you have to also make it available for x days per year for crisis accommodation.
This can be disabled in the setup/settings
4GL Programming Languages
Yea really, has Brian even been outside the AirBnB offices in San Francisco?

I work near their office and remember a couple years ago they were offering their employees self-defense classes after several employees got attacked.
Interesting, trying it out on Discord the default max msg size is 2000 chars and with Discord Nitro the max is raised to 4000 chars.

Testing with Postgres, a 2000 char random sequence doesn't result in TOASTing, but a 4000 random sequence does get TOASTed

And for kicks, 4000 chars that aren't random compress well enough that they don't end up in TOAST.
I don't think they're pulling back. "CDC Says" doing most of the work there. Also there's a single sentence paragraph.

"The CDC does not require its employees to be vaccinated."
My peers don't have time to "recognize". We're too busy getting stuff done.
True I limited my comment to LineageOS as I've personally tried /e/OS only for a small period. Having it pre-burned on a device does alleviate a major problem, but is there any other reason to choose /e/ over LineageOS?
>The errant mobe was also stuffed in a bag to curb its compact conflagration.

Seems like the author had fun writing this one.
> Securely access your computer whenever you're away, using your phone, tablet, or another computer

Would that mean my PC would have to be running in an unlocked state in my home whilst I travel, because that could be non-secure if your threat model is sufficiently paranoid.
NeXTStep was built around BSD, and so BSD followed through to MacOS, which is really frankly just re-skinned NeXTStep. I'm pretty sure it would have been a real PITA to rework it around Linux at that point. Lots of existing applications and tools would have had to have been reworked.

And at that time (late 90s) the Linux kernel was certainly awesome but not clearly that much more awesome than BSD. The amount of driver and architecture support in the kernel wasn't as expansive as now.
I'm honestly not a fan of this, despite how well intentioned it may seem (road to hell?)

AirBnB is honestly trying too hard with this PR move, it boggles my mind that shareholders don't reign in corporate stunts like this.
I’m always amused that people think they can just “hire great talent” by instinct and sheer force of will.

Sure there is skill to hiring, but a lot of what you can hire is determined by how desirable you are as an employer. If you’re a hot company, hot employees want to talk to you. Sound familiar?

IMO focus on a great employee pitch and make yourself known/visible to social circles populated by quality engineers. The match making process doesn’t need to be a coked out box checking session…
"Orwellian" seems like a good fit for memory-holing people's communications.
Wouldn't it be easier to make Afghanistan a 51st state?

And let 'em keep their culture and religion locally instead of repossessing them?
Almost every US corporation with a competent legal department has such a policy, and at a lot of them the period is way shorter than 18 months. I've suffered through 30 day policies before, and it's dumb and not fun at all, but Google is hardly being creative on this point.
Engineers think cooking is engineering, with only one correct method of doing it.

Cooks think cooking is music, with endless variations and interpretations.

There are very few cooks or musicians in this forum.
Remotely disabling stolen internet-connected devices is good common practice. We used this once at my company for some items which inexplicably went missing from the manufacturing line. A few years later I got a support ticket escalation about a customer who got a device from “some weird turn of events” (something like that) and couldn’t figure out how to activate it, it kept saying to contact support.
If enough of their quality engineers quit, they’d probably reconsider that policy.
Biden receives inconclusive intelligence report on coronavirus origins
Happened to me too. An easy workaround: just refresh the browser when shown the login page.
> but it looks like it does nothing to do with FastAPI

A SQLModel is also a Pydantic model. FastAPI uses Pydantic.
Monopolies aren't necesarily bad in-and-of-themselves. The trouble starts when a monopoly in one market is used to gain an advantage in another.

So, having a monopoly in the search engine market isn't necessarily a problem (especially given the low switching costs you noted), but leveraging that monopoly to compete with non-search-engine companies by essentially choking off their search engine traffic is a BIG problem.

The exact means used that results in said choking-off may or may not matter (this is where the incoherence pops up), but the fact is that the conduct of any company with a monopoly (including entirely legitimate and legal ones) MUST face additional scrutiny for how it affects other markets.

When it was just starting out, Google was proud of how quickly users left Google search results by clicking a link. AFAICT, that didn't change until sometime well after AdWords was introduced (in fact, how quickly users left was an AdWords selling point and increased competition for the top ad slots), but at some point, Google started cannibalizing their SERP traffic in various ways. It was going to bite them in the ass sooner or later.
honestly lol
What? What bank lets you provide a list of serial numbers and will replace them? Am I being too literal?
Such contortions to require that the homeless be housed while banning sufficient construction of homes to house everyone.
Exactly, I think this thread is focusing on the utility of an environment from a mature SDec POV. Personally having a cheap R710 allowed me to practice my sysadmin, networking, security and a host of other skills that directly translated to my (then) current and future roles. I think the perception of a virtualized environment being the same is false and diminishes the sys/network/security admin's knowledge set. It's is akin to saying that writing JS is the same as Java, coding is coding. I'll also say the number of times I've been in rooms of IT pros who don't understand underlying systems, OS, or networking is disturbingly high.

Lastly, even if it is frivolous I see tinkering with hardware as part of the hacking spirit. It's fun, I like it and it gives me something to grumble about with the grey beards.
Is it not fun when companies big and small grab headlines by cynical offers like these. Presumably, once the PR stunt part dies, someone else is going to pay for them? Who I wonder will be that generous donor.
Totally. This whole thing is just wild to me.
What about some other projects beyond Android and Linux? Sailfish OS? Tizen? KaiOS?

Technically even WebOS was open-sourced and still around as LuneOS, but its last update was Halloween 2019, so it's likely defunct.
But my team is one of the good teams it’s the other teams that are bad! /s
Who cares? People are getting shelter, if even for a little bit. This is honestly the most boring kind of cynicism because you've offered no real critique and no consideration of the people who have been forcefully displaced and can now have a place to stay.
Why Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Others
Neither having a child out of wedlock or even with someone on staff, and, quoting Conan the Barbarian have anything to do with anything really.

Sergei Brin pushed the company to invest in his wife's company, had an affair with a subordinate, and probably quotes some other funny things along the way, it might say 'something' but I'm not sure if it speaks to 'competence'.

I'm not sure if this attack on the character of the companies, while maybe somewhat relevant, really speaks to the 'legal posture' of the companies.
Probably need to consider I/O too: whatever is doing the front-end processing of vision is probably not too far away from the end of the optic nerves, otherwise you'd have a routing nightmare.
Simple: branding. If you see the notch, you know it’s an iPhone. If every phone was a slab of glass, there’s no product differentiation.

On hardware: Apple’s flagship phones are parity or better on most aspects of hardware. The SOC, camera module, material construction, screen color accuracy, and speaker quality meet or exceed just about everyone. I didn’t realize this was still an open question for people.
It's all the things that had to go wrong all at once. P-curves, not Curve25519 (where curve point validation is less important). Static-ephemeral ECDH, so there's a key to target. Long-term durable keys. I'm not making an argument against ECIES (though I guess I'd push not to use the P-curves).
doesn't really make sense, this is a temporary spike of people that need some kind of transitional housing. Really the governments problem, but fine if AirBnB see some value in helping out.
You probably know the reason.

Javascript is the one thing that allows you to control the behavior of the browser, and the browser is the thing that makes you the money.
But you can use excess starter / discard to make damn fine waffles.

https://www.seriouseats.com/bread-baking-sourdough-waffles-r...