skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is people get used to repeated stimulus. Trench warfare is about as stressful as things get, yet eventually soldiers would nap and play card games while being shelled.

For science fiction you need enough familiarity for people to care without becoming stale. Which generally means copying from other science fiction to the point where people just accept things like planets with uniform weather and ecosystems.
For sure. I managed to snag a "second hand" University NeXT Computer (the 1st gen Cube) for a few bucks on eBay a number of years ago with the Frog Design monitor, and a 68040 upgrade board. Going for almost $3000 now on eBay based on completed listings. The upgrade board alone is $600.

I also managed to snag a 2nd gen 128kb Macintosh for $5 at a second hand computer shop.
I'm the defacto maintainer of the Meteor MySQL integration and the Node.js package mysql-live-select.

These implement pub/sub and reactive queries using the MySQL binary log as the event source:

https://github.com/vlasky/meteor-mysql

https://github.com/vlasky/mysql-live-select
For Postgres: a simpler, scalable connection model.
I would guess that the signal to noise ratio is pretty poor on community submitted patches. You'd rather just submit a bug to an employee and then get a more consistently correct solution than sift through potentially poor PRs.
Kind of limited since it's only evaluating websites, but https://tosdr.org/ attempts to implement this as a plugin.

Edit: And amusingly it only gives protonmail.com a B.
There are two reasons this would be controversial, and neither of them are practical.

1) Other industries that are highly dependent on copyright (film, television, music) would viewers this as an existential threat. If Congress is willing to adjust copyright like this, we are also threatened.

2) Currently all politics is highly partisan. Support of an idea from one side invites counter from the other. I think it’s also worth noting that there is seemingly a strong element within one party that pushes hard against institutional science, making it even more difficult to distribute essential research.
I love these sorts of projects. This is a really slick integration.

Another similar project:
https://www.stavros.io/posts/irotary-saga/
There are many projects where just doing that would be the equivalent of a full time position. Even saying no requires a skilled review.
Byzantine Fault Tolerance in distributed systems :)
> " I am aware my opinions are absolutely related to my skin color and that's precisely why you all need to pay special attention to them. Not because of some sort of silly inherent genetic thing, but because I have experiences that many of you don't."

We used to think of this as racist stereotyping, but in the pendulum of history we have swung back to where in order to not be racist (or, better yet, anti-racist) we have to be actively racist.

The zeitgeist is to view everything through the lens of race / skin color ostensibly in an effort to combat racism, but in reality all it does is create more racism.

The fact that we have multiple black people commenting here with opinions diverging as widely as they do should be proof positive that race or skin color has almost nothing to do with your opinions.

Two people can go through the exact same experience and come out entirely different persons or very similar. Two people can have the same skin color and go through totally different experiences. Two people can have different skin color and go through very similar experiences. Thus when dealing with individuals we should not ascribe to them stereotypes unless we have to make an informed guess, because statistical patterns apply only to groups not individuals.

Guessing my race based on my opinion will be left as an exercise for the unconvinced reader ;)
The Android-based Onyx BOOX ebook reader supports an bluetooth keyboard. The company will sell you a reasonably decent one (it lacks function and escape keys, though Fn-` maps to esc within Termux ... sometimes) for $35.

The Termux Linux terminal and environment (https://termux.com/) is installable via F-Droid. Among the terminal schemes is an e-ink mode of dark-on-light. Font size is scalable.

Through Termux you have your choice of terminal-mode editors, including vim, emacs, nano, pico, and numerous others.

The handwriten notes feature is also quite good. Text-recognition is a bit iffy but does work.

My main reservation with this setup is that Android's memory management is fatally flawed and processes can be terminated at any time without warning. Terminal sessions really ought to be exemptable from that, but AFAIK they are not. (Please correct me if I'm wrong on this.)

Still, it's a quite good environment with nearly 1,500 packages available using the APT package tool.

Smaller current BOOX devices start at about US$250, used could likely be less than this.

Any Android or LineageOS -capable device should be able to function likewise. There are a few Linux-based devices also on the market (and yes, Kobo is one), including the reMarkable tablet (my major gripe: 16 GB storage is simply stupidly small, this supports a cabled keyboard but not AFAIU Bluetooth), and devices from Pine (in process) and possibly Purism.

A longer review of the Onyx BOOX here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27521248
Yuck. Not sure who you imagine Monica Gandhi is, other than a (non-tenured?) medicine prof at UCSF and a minor Twitter influencer. Without more context, the video could as well be the inauguration of the corner icecream shop.

Frankly, I have little interest in quibbling with those that have made 'cumulative deaths with covid per million' the ultimate measure of human worth and achievement. Have a great day.
There's nothing noble about lying.
Researchers studying Facebook misinformation say they were deplatformed
They support Bitcoin as a payment method. If you take precautions (ie use a Monero -> Bitcoin payment service over tor) I don't see it as compromising your identity.
The consulting thing? Someone asked a question on a forum, I answered it (telling him how to do whatever), he asked a followup question that I answered, then he asked if I was willing to write the code for him on a consulting basis and I did. I guess my answers convinced him I was sufficiently clueful about the specialized thing he wanted.
I feel triggered by your disagreement. People who believe they are God is clearly a minority. And therefore deserve special treatment. I might be a God but I have feelings too you know.
> 2) "But EU budget wise the claims you are making are not only false, but exactly the opposite. "

> This makes no sense at all.

Let me rephrase: You are saying Spain is paying for investments in Germany. Not only is Spain not paying for investments in Germany, Spain is receiving money from the EU. It gets paid more out of the EU budget than it is putting into it.

Germany on the other hand pays way more money into the EU budget than it receives.

So you are not only slightly wrong, but the absolute opposite of what you are writing is true: Germany effectively invests into Spain through the EU. It can be easily googled so I do not know why you would even write something like this.

I just added the fact that Germany is of course still profitting from the EU, which is way it pays more into programs described in the article than it receives from them. Mabye I phrased that a bit convoluted.

> 1) There are many countries which are 'net investors' in the EU which will have less of an opportunity to leverage this money than Germany and thus, end up funding Germany.

You might have a point here. The statistic I posted is from 2018, so we will see how this will play out. It could be that Germany's net payments will be smaller. We will just have to wait to see the actual numbers. The net payment surplus of Germany is way bigger than the program though, so it will not turn negative. Germany will still pay for investments into other countries and not receive money from other EU members.

A quick googling showed, that Finland (net payer), Belgium (net receiver), Poland (giant net receiver), Italy (net payer), France (net payer) and Sweden (net payer) are also receiving money out of the program.

> But that's moot: the program is paid for by EU members and yet will benefit Germany first, which is not ideal.

Again: Germany pays more into the EU budget than all other members. Since it is the biggest net-payer it receive less than it pays. What you are writing is just wrong. Just look at the numbers.

If this was some evil German plan to get money out of the EU, the most effective way for Germany would be to just pay less into the EU budget in the first place and just pay the grants out nationally instead.
I wonder if the study controlled for the fact that psychiatrists almost exclusively office in the biggest cities in a nation?

I guaranty you, that if you are suffering mental illness in Wyoming, you will have to leave Wyoming to find a psychiatrist -- and likely would not be counted in such a study. Ergo, Wyoming is free of mental illness.
I don't get why this is downvoted. There is a huge difference between, say, a court order or other force-backed request and a requirement in a bidding process.

It doesn't absolve the NSA of any guilt here either, but this is not a helpless Juniper giving in due to full weight and power of the government.
It would be nice if they had a tor presence so there would be no need to traverse an exit node. A lot of other privacy-forward sites do exactly this.
Yeah, old games hardware pricing seems to follow a U shape, with the ps2 and original Xbox currently occupying the bottom of it. Anything older/rarer is climbing back up the other side
For a one word docs grammar patch, it could be true (and not always, there).

For anything more than a one character code patch, there's so much more complexity that goes into a good review than most people appreciate.

Not to mention the weighing of potential maintenance costs, changelog messaging, etc., even if it may just be a tiny tweak or small parameter change.
I suspect you're right, but I've also wondered at the fact that while Homo sapiens has been around and intelligent for at least 45k years, within perhaps 3000 years at least three and possibly six civilizations independently invented writing: the Babylonians and Egyptians and Minoans + Mycenaeans (probably three independent inventions), China, and the Maya.
easily add a new node in one line command and autorebalance i guess..
Old Thinkpads are the best! My x201 is plugging away hosting a media server, NAS, and a couple other home-lab goodies. At under $100 to max it out, it was definitely a steal.
This guy is a genius!
What's Larry up to now? Instead of using his brilliance to build some new venture he's hiding out off-grid on a private island in Fiji[1] and getting New Zealand residency[2]. Pretty weird stuff to be up to IMHO. Is he smarter than all of us and bugged out for the apocalypse now or something?

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9816787/Google-foun...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58128475.amp
I booted mine up a couple years ago, it felt like a mac classic. It felt small and fast.
Luck has a large impact on the flow of life.
Doesn't iMessage need to know about new phone numbers?
NSW didn't come up when I `Cmd+F`ed before, cheers!
a bit of context - the network of Navalny's organizations "The fund to fight corruption" has been officially designated as an extremist organization, and any association with it after such a designation is a crime, and Navalny is facing additional charges for creating an extremist organization. (The organization supposedly acted against foundations of Russian state, and there is no joke lost that corruption is the foundation of the modern Russian state).

The "Smart voting" has a lot of connections to "The fund to fight corruption", so the Russian state can go here pretty far. A comment from a political pundit in the top Russian commercial media:

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4868616

"There is a technical capacity to block. The government understands the disadvantages of it, and initially will try to make Google to cooperate and to block by their own means. If such "goodwill" approach wouldn't work, the government will force it the hard way."
I mean, this can be any highly expressive language. Common Lisp macros can get crazy, Haskell has sugar on sugar, Perl all looks like code golf to me, etc...
ZFS is mysteriously eating my CPU
Roogle: Search Rust API functions by type signatures
Yeah, those DEC machines are pretty expensive right now. I was mildly surprised at how much it would cost me to get a DEC AlphaServer (not HP or Compaq), let alone with freight shipping as they’re always on the opposite end of the country as me. Unfortunately all the retro stuff I have in my wishlist now are rare enough to be in the thousands at least.

I remember reading stories of kids finding S/360s on Government auction sites for dirt cheap. Sadly government auction sites never have anything cool whenever I look.

> This reminds me that it's time to look after our Tektronix 40xx, TI Explorers and Xerox Stars...

I’m still waiting to see if I’ll ever find one of the Tektronix 44xx Smalltalk workstations. Even some of the more rare machines in my wishlist I’ve seen for sale, even if they were far out of my price range, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen on of those period.
>nobody important will buy cheapest of the cheap dumb phones

As a burner phone maybe?
The cows and chicken you eat are pumped full of growth hormones, anti-biopics etc. Nobody knows what the long term effects will be.
Looking at what CloudFormation can and can't do it seems like completely different teams work on a service and its CloudFormation support.
I guess Amazon use the AWS API internally?
- Blurring (safely!) the line between database and the app using it: transparently switch between bringing data to compute, or compute to data.

- Comprehensive auto tuning: automatic index creation, automatic schema tuning, dynamically switching between column/row-oriented, etc. User specifies SLOs, database does the rest.

- Deeply related to the previous two points: perfect horizontal scalability

- Configurable per-query ACID properties (e.g. delayed indexing)

- All of the above while maintaining complex SQL features like arbitrary joins, large transactions, triggers, etc.

Sure, some of these are in some form in some existing databases. But none offer all of them.
I like to think what youre saying is true, but my gut tells me -- both end up losing it all anyway. The problem with saving $3,000 or something like that a year, especially with a family, is that there are numerous things that you really need that arent covered, so the $3,000 means the difference between really poor and destitute.

Some examples that come to mind, from my own former life -- medical co-pays, medical co-pays, medical-copays, medical co-pays, emergency dental work, dental co-pays (esp for urgent issues), schools stiffing you on aid you are owed but dont get due to "system says otherwise", bank fees (sometimes unjustified but try fighting it), fines for stupid stuff that you're not connected enough to fight.

The most devious of these are medical-copays and pharma co-pays. Even stupid things like here is a real example: doctor gives you a prescription (at the front desk, not in their office.) You get the prescription and "use generic isnt checked" -- but now the doctor is gone. Front desk wont let you speak to the doctor again. You try and fill the Rx, and the Pharmacist says $300 copay because a generic is available, but Rx doesnt say you can use the generic. Now you need the meds, so you're down $300. Or you go see the doctor again to clarify and you're down $40 on the copay. Welcome to being poor. You get screwed around every corner.

Note, this doesnt happen to me anymore because I have a pretty decent doctor reachable via email and msg, but not one I could afford when I was poor.
Can't it send that over wifi? Surely my phone already knows what its number is.

I'm only guessing at the SMS' contents. I can't see the message my own damn phone sent.
yup PostgreSQL's JSONB can do this
IIRC (it's been a long time), first generation stars were very low in "metals" (which term astronomers use to mean any element heaver than helium), and what they did have was mostly (maybe entirely) lithium. They may not have had any planets, or if they did, the planets were pure gas (hydrogen and helium). Thus no life, much less intelligent life.
The US has built similar systems in other places and they can't keep up with the rain.

https://slate.com/business/2019/01/chicagos-deep-tunnel-is-i...
Don’t worry though, I’m sure Congress is on the case and will put things back on track! /s
Monkeys, like humans, choke under pressure
a hype XD
https://github.com/kokizzu/list-of-tech-migrations
I don't see why 2 or 3 is true, and why octopuses can't become spacefaring.
Something can be both technically accurate and a pejorative. That is how most slurs come to exist, for example.

More abstractly, it is a an insult based on an implicit teleological argument, and those are typically (always?) fallacious
I somewhat agree with this, save for in the fine details.

Emulation is good until a point; often button response latency is off, audio is mixed incorrectly, and CRT rendering artifacts are not properly accounted for.

For instance, I keep a grey brick Gameboy around for noodling with LSDJ about once or twice a year. The bass response is just lovely.

There's a whole community that harvests and covets SID chips because emulation just doesn't nail it.

There's a retro gaming convention in Vancouver every year, or was before Covid, and there's a few crews of musicians with classic hardware. I recommend checking it out just to hear the difference analog hardware makes.
I watched some Mind Field and thought it was ok, but thought it was not as engaging as vsauce regular content.

I figured that vsauce is good at making videos he makes. They gave him a cable format & crew and it didn't really translate his appeal.

Someone like Veritasium or Wendover might be able to get very proficient in a documentary format, it sounds like they might have good ideas.
>But the PLA and the GRU can't physically confine you to an 8x8 steel cage on trumped-up charges predicated on the data they exfil from your network.

Actually they can, and with less legal recourse for you than in the US. It just depends on where in the world you happen to be when they decide they want you.
While not everyone from such a disadvantaged background is likely to succeed, those who will succeed will do so through doing the things you assert are hard, perhaps moving out to other areas, perhaps getting good education, perhaps getting marketable skills outside of formal schooling; and for those who will fail at this, no amount of financial literacy will be sufficient to lift them out of poverty if they can't get a job providing decent income.
I’m firmly in Poe’s Law land on this one as well.
According to the Late Great Alexander Shulgin the recommended dose is 1-10mg orally.

TiHKAL #35 Melatonin with an exceptionally long Extensions and Commentary section: https://isomerdesign.com/PiHKAL/read.php?domain=tk&id=35
So, it sounds like there is this undefined concept called "constructive journalism" that is on the verge of getting big and has all possible positive qualities?

How is this anything but meaningless marketing BS?

Just give me the good old journalism that's about finding facts and prying underneath the propaganda of the powerful.
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Republicans Incorrectly Address Marissa Mayer as Yahoo CEO
You're right. I thought Protonmail Bridge was IMAP support, but it isn't.
This report doesn't indicate any fault or blame at all on the pilots: they reacted with reasonable actions to the circumstances as they arose. The only possible nit one might pick is the PF's delay in asking for the PM's assistance in braking.

But, yeah, the report does fault (kinda) the runway conditions and insufficient margins in the flight path/plan to account for an extreme such as this. The fact that a terrible tragedy did not have to occur to make those identifications seems to indicate a very well functioning system to me.
That has nothing to do with your original “I have a right to survive”. You have no such right. You either survive or you don’t. That’s it. “Rights” are a human construct that only exists if you have the power to enforce it.
East<->West is a homomorphism (there is no "up" in space), so
you need at least 2 planets before you can meaningfully say that one of them doesn't rotate East to West.
So Switzerland is evidently not a democracy anymore. Sad to hear.
It seems to me that a LVT eventually leads to 100% of the land being owned by the super wealthy in dense areas. It's a state sponsored transfer of wealth. It still results in a middle-man that leeches money from renters, and the taxes would most likely be passed onto them.

In this case, why not just be direct and have the land owned by the state, and have density requirements for use of that land based on population of the area?
if we had to prove technological safety in the modern day world we would all go live in caves.

unfortunately, thats a strawman position.
The kind most ones focus? (multi-node, cloud-scalable) are fairly niche.

I live in the enterprise sector where you can get many rdbms living alonside (+ cloud) and I know for a fact "scalability" is close to zero in the list of actual needs.

I don't mean to say scalability is not importan, but is a NICHE: You only need when you truly start to get to certain ceilings.

My customers (a few big companies in my country) consider 10-30 GB rdbms "big". And "slow". Is far far more problems is terrible schema designs (like, actually do everything in their power to make rdbms look bad, and not be that successfully).

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So, my point is that exist far more quality of life to be done at the core/fundamentals before worry much about what to do when I have 100 TB databases across continents...
When in Rome behave like the Romans :)
According to CDC estimates, it's 20% of US population up to late July 2021. And that's before Delta, which everyone agrees is significantly more infectious than Wild/Alpha. It gives me no pleasure to say it, but as a parent with school kids I see no way to avoid covid in the medium term.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#national-lab
If you're not tied to the idea of owning the actual hardware then you get emulate these to tool around in the software side of things, maybe relive the glory days of DCL vs Bash flame wars.