skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you're saying. This is their local workflow. Makes a little more sense looking at it this way. But...

In my opinion, the point about formats remains and the purpose of Arrow is lost.

I don't know enough about Arrow, but surely there is a better storage format than Parquet, all though storage isn't primary consideration for Arrow. The purpose of Arrow is not to have to convert from one format to another. Data can be efficiently transferred from RAM across the wire to RAM again without any significant transformation.

Surely there is a storage representation for Arrow to deliver similar characteristics as its intended use? Eg:

disk (arrow format?) -> RAM (arrow)

instead of

disk (parquet) -> RAM (parquet) -> CPU (transform) -> RAM (arrow)

There is a penalty (time and memory) dealing with parquet (or any intermediary format) and then transforming it to Arrow. What's the point of using Arrow if this is what you're going to do? Just use a parquet library instead of arrow (it's unclear to me what is actually performing the query in the Arrow step? Is it the R dataframe query, or did it push the query down to the Arrow data engine?).

After all, isn't this exactly how SQLite is being tested in this case? The original data file is loaded into SQLite and stored in SQLite's native file format providing all of the des-ser advantages SQLite provides out of the box. Not to mention the indexing that's defined as part of this preparation.
I'm nearly blind when it's about fonts, I nearly don't notice any difference between all of them and mostly I don't care. Am I the only one in that situation?
>>>There are indeed very definitive ways SARS-CoV2 (or any virus, for that matter) can interact with the body.

>>>the virus is an inert particle.

Couldn't the same thing be said about the thinking about Thalidomide though?
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How about learning a language model on ~~the SciHub texts~~ some large private repository of articles, that can auto-complete a paper from the title ...
> They aren't "fighting the man", they are trying to convince others to jump onto the bandwagon which they are heavily invested in to make a profit.

I would also add that the Winklevoss Capital article actually reads like a self-serving plea to get third parties to validate their own investment, instead of a selfless heads-up.

The Winklevoss twins already have a few billion dollars worth of BTC, and in their opinion piece they are very clear in the way they argud that as BTC supply is restricted by design then any increase in demand ensures an increase in price. Consequently, the only thing they need to do to ensure that they get richer from BTC is to pump it up and sit on their early mover's ass.
A rich business man founding his own city to show the state how this is done right... sounds like Night City from Cyberpunk.
I believe law enforcement and spying agencies might be falsely complaining about cryptography. Doing this will make targets rely more on cryptography instead of also using alternative security measures. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
I basically loathe code generators in general. :)

JSON Schema gives you the equivalent of WSDL. There are various libraries that will take a schema and create the strongly typed objects in the language of your choice.

Theoretically, if you have "Code on Demand", your client can ask the server for the code to handle a media type :)
How exactly do you evaluate snippets in some environment even with REPL? I mean most code in a large system is part of a context that is required at the very least to generate the inputs for your functions. Can't imagine how you could evaluate the these snippets outside of this program environment except in the most trivial cases when dealing with some simple pure functions with only few simple parameters.
You can apply some level of pure function in whatever langues, and it not that hard and make thing easy to test and think about it

Monad is like highly effective and complicate patch to handle thing who couldn't be pure function.
i don't like Haskell because of that is not natural force that much the langues for me(opinion), but is like try to tech Rust as first langues you don't have the grasp in the limitations to understand why ownership matters, and why all the langues need to be kind a weird, is still weird but you understand the advantage and grasp at least the syntax and basic patters make it more pleasure to learn it.
The Onyx Boox series come in different sizes and are just Android with a custom launcher, and they're cheaper and with more choice (most notably regarding screen size).

Caution however, the company violates the GPL, which might be a deal-breaker for some.
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Yes it is! That should go on your profile. I wonder how much money that simple change is going to save!
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So with USD, you trust that people care about long term consequences over short-term profit? With bitcoin, you trust math.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZLFnbhNPPo
Ironically, regulation would probably make the rise of any competitor unlikely. Forcing Facebook to sell or break up its entities would have an immediate net benefit, since the company couldn't share all the data across the entities without breaking some GDPR rules.
>The UK in 1930 was much more polluted than the USSR and China at that time.

And how industrialized were the USSR and China in 1930?

When a larger part of your economy is agrarian you're going to be incapable of polluting the shit out of everything to the same extent as more industrialized nations.
My message was more about how you don't necessarily need to
exclude the date information as opposed to exact variable
names. But thanks for the info.
Awesome concept, I heavily factored in the different widths and glyph variations (like O, 0). I was surprised to get Overpass Mono, I would've never considered it otherwise. A couple of suggestions:

- Allow editing and preserve the user's content or at least the ability to select a language. CSS doesn't display a lot of the nuances present in other languages, and some people simply use monospaced for other kinds of writing. Though I appreciate this may add a requirement for a syntax formatting library.

- Add Iosevka and Cascadia Code fonts, among probably many others that will be suggested here. Better yet, add the ability for a user to set a custom font source URL and change it to a blind test!

- Themes, pretty self explanatory.
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GraphQL is a query language that is being bent out of shape to support modifying things at the server end.
Thanks, wasn't sure if it was just me. Trying it again on Firefox.

Edit: Win 10, Chrome 95 maximized on 1600x900

Edit 2: Surprisingly, the font that won when I ran it on Chrome was #2 when I tried it again on Firefox (I tried not to look at the names as much as possible to avoid this).
Slightly relevant classic: https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-research...
I don't know if it is that way for the rest of the world, but here in Scandinavia those are extremely iconic of what living rooms looked like by decade.
Seen from another culture: here in divorce assets are split, but not pensions, and there's no alimony. Stay-at-home divorced spouse could easily face financial hardships later in life.

Stay-at-home is not really a concept here beyond maybe a couple of years with a small child, otherwise it's just unemployment.
This is what it looks like to me: https://i.imgur.com/qd0Y6R0.png

Notice how some letters are taller than others, in particular r, u, s and w. What the hell is going on here I wonder?
Just a nitpick, but it doesn't matter what you value if you can't find it. Else the data would look quite different, e.g. all incels would be married. So what matters is what women find, not what they value.
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Proper does not mean an endless list of exceptions to deal with the endless number of ways to exclude effectively random, non-functionally relevant information in the binaries.

Because that where reproducible builds started.

Projects not interested in reproducibility can/should content themselves to live in the non-reproducible set instead of expecting someone else to monkey patch for them!
I pay for my VPS, VPN, and Netflix subscriptions with BTC. I bought my camera, and various other gadgets with BTC at BicCamera in Japan. I sold my VR kit for BTC. I save and spend my RAI anywhere that accepts Visa with an Eidoo debit card.
Something must be done, and this will be something, or not.
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It's hard to statically determine what parts of an executable affect the running of it. Many executable have timestamps in them that do affect how they run, so you can't just ignore all timestamps if you want reproducible builds. See https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/timestamps/
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JSON schema describes the format, more like XSD. WSDL is a lot more with definitions of operations, bindings etc.
Yes, Arrival was terrible and bloodless. The central conceit was what I called the sundered triforce but this tropes page calls the Dismantled Macguffin [1]. It was Villeneuve's first real stepping out into becoming whatever Hollywood needed him to be and it shows every step of the way.

> This is the easy way out. Revering the old is easy. In 40 years people will be saying how new films don’t compare to Dune (2021) or Blade Runner 2049.

Startlingly rare within our generation means what I say. I would expect there to be a strong corpus this round given film history but it defied my own expectations. That doesn't mean I don't think good examples exist just that they're, well, startlingly rare.

Upstream Color was courageous I'll give you that. But I think it took real moxy from Carruth to make it happen: he did the music, shot the film, wrote it, directed it, and starred in it and for basically no money just like Primer. And I think directors like Ana Lily Amirpour who did A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night are the courage we need to see. The problem doesn't appear to be a lack of directing talent so much that the media machine takes that talent and corrupts it absolutely.

Look what happened to Ridley Scott or Taika Waititi. They became owned and operated by the industries behind them which must ensure a broad appeal for the highest ROI. It's market forces at their most efficient at a global scale we've never seen before.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DismantledMacGuf...
Just curious, any specific reason you didn't include JavaScript? More user-space apps than ever has been / is being ported to the browser, e.g. Photoshop. I'd say for maximizing employability learning JS is a pretty solid bet.
It might be something else, like temperature or wind making them move. Or maybe it's there food sources drying up. I can't say. I should ask knowledgeable people.
IMHO search, hyper-centralization of content creation, and dopamine addiction to bite-sized content happened. You can no longer see new things you don't know about. You no longer want to explore, since search is faster and more rewarding.

My suggestion to refresh the feeling of wonder is to go to site directories instead of the search engine of choice, like: https://dmoz-odp.org
That's because a bunch of people who have houses in nice school districts, drive nice cars, have plenty of PTO, can afford a maid/babysitter, etc, etc, would rather redefine bourgeoisie than acknowledge that they're part of the bourgeoisie per the standard definition. Current social trends toward redefining words on a whim for rhetorical and ideological convenience certainly exacerbate the issue.
Will 2 binaries differing by timestamp hash the same? do you suggest that file hashing algorithms skip date bytes in a binary? The KISS solution is to not vary date in the binary.
> The top 10% of miners control 90% and just 0.1% (about 50 miners) control close to 50% of mining capacity

This is incorrect. Replace "miners" with "mining pools" and they're closer to the mark. What's happened is that the block construction (done by the pool operator) and the PoW (done by miners) are mostly decoupled. Some miners will run everything themselves, but they're not represented in those numbers. (There are some things that can change here in stratum2, the new protocol used for coordinating mining pool s, but whatever)

Sure, pool operators can abuse their power. But as the paper shows, hash power is liquid; miners do move between pools for various reasons.

While there is a bit of a systemic risk there, it's not necessarily as bad as it might seem.

IMO the biggest risk here is censorship; and we saw how responsive miners are to things like that earlier this year with the whole "OFAC-compliant" debacle.
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Dujiangyan Zhongshuge Bookstore is mediocre at best, it's two stories covered in book wallpaper and mirrors.

Great for your Insta I guess, look good pretending to like books?

It's so shit it's not even on tripadvisor, others in that chain are, it's not even the best one in the series.

Literally all the articles about it didn't even go there. I guess that's brilliant these days, looks good online, not IRL.

Video -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU6qEhxyGdk
> More gold or an increase in gold value is required to represent greater wealth.

Not true. A restriction in supply can raise the price, and the discovery of new sources can lower it. Plus wealth is entirely subjective. Would you rather have a warehouse full of food, water, and ammunition during a crisis, or a warehouse full of gold? (Hint: people may not want to trade food for a soft metal that can't be fashioned into anything but decoration.)

> The gold can be traded for or mined.

It can also be lost in a shipwreck[1] contributing to a banking panic[2].

> However, the gold standard ensures that the dollar you earn today maintains purchasing power for as long as you care to keep it. Your gold backed dollar can't be made worthless in a generation by the excess of politicians seeking money, power, and control.

Of course it can. Private banks failed all the time, despite claiming that you could trade their notes for gold/silver. Governments can simply abandon the gold standard (and they did).

It all comes down to the fact that gold backed currency does not solve the primary problem of credibility and corruption at the levels of institutions and governments. It only adds another variable. Your ability to trade your paper for gold is still dependent on the ability and willingness of that bank or government to make the exchange. If they say no, what are you going to do?

The next step you could take is to refuse currency and to use only gold/silver/clam shells/whatever to do your transactions, which simply puts you at a huge disadvantage in any modern economy. Literally no one is going to do business with you if they have to add the burden of authenticating your clam shells to buy your product or rent your time.

In the end, there is no functional difference between "We promise that we will give you a grain of gold for this dollar if you ask" and "We promise to not mismanage this currency into hyperinflation." During an existential crisis, both promises may be broken. Hell, they probably will be broken. But the promise on the paper you're holding isn't going to matter either way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Central_America#Sinking

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857
The EU loves wasting money on things like these. Obviously they never gain any traction (since this depends on millions of people moving to another platform that is worse), but since public money belongs to nobody...
That is because it is a little secret. It is a secret hidden in the open.

We program in C#, we program in swift, C and C++, but we continue using so much Lisp as I did 20 years ago or way more.

With Lisp you don't need to write only Lisp, you can write swift or any other language in Lisp, as we do.

When people ask what programming languages we use, even competitors, we just tell them. They don't listen.

They just can't really understand. They probably believe we use Lisp because we depend on obsolete technology because they are under the influence. The influence of snake oil salesman that want to sell them their new shiny language.

For them anything new is shiny and old means dusty because things degrade over time, but computer languages do not.

If competitors can't "get it", much better for us. They probably believe that we try to deceive them and that in reality we are using this new language-paradigm of the week that solves all the problems. Let them.

Lisp guys have nothing to sell you but probably the software they create. And if they have a powerful tool, they are not that interested on you knowing their secret.
If you'd like a decent read that has aspects of climate change as a central theme, check out The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.

It's pretty good.
You've revealed plainly that you haven't got a clue what you're talking about.

Miners can't change the protocol of the entire network.

The only malevolent thing they could do is perform a 51% attack if they all colluded together. And even that wouldn't achieve much, so there's not much incentive to do it. All they can do is a double spend. They would've been better off spending that energy on mining blocks to be rewarded with the Bitcoin subsidy.
I happy with command line interface. That's just my workflow.
Still shows valid in my covid19verify app (from Latvia) that was just auto-updated with the latest public keys.

Maybe the update is not complete and takes longer time for some countries. Or the app does not check for revocation lists etc. I don't know the technical details.
"Well how about fixing the electrics in a childrens hospital?"

Do they not have their own engineers? In which case what are you doing about the shortage of engineers.

Again this is all fixed amount thinking. Are you sure you are supply limited in engineers? It's only then that you need to think about taxation. And then the taxation has to be targeted at those using engineers - to free them up for the public use.

Are you absolutely sure all engineers and equipment is engaged doing things that are required?

There isn't a fixed amount of stuff, and if there is any unemployment at all then there is capacity to expand.

"Or maybe they could spend the day working on their garden, or watching netflix."

Why should engineers work any less hours a week than anybody else? The person growing their food needs to work a full week, why not engineers?

Government deploys resources, not money. And whether those resources are used hooking up people to the grid, or fitting out another server room for Pornhub is a political choice, not a financial one.
It sounds like we agree with each other.

Science is imperfect and iterative.

Yet with that knowledge you have come to the conclusion that the mRNA vaccine is perfectly safe after being developed in 6 months and tested in humans for only a year-ish?

I follow your thesis but not your conclusion.
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I have many services using 2fa to login. Now the list in the authenticator app is too long.
Tracking the FDA advisory panel meeting on Covid-19 vaccines for kids
40 years ago was when teak went out of fashion (possibly out of concern for the rainforest?) and pine went in. But I think it has changed a lot still from that, 80s living rooms still look alien to me even though I'm old enough to remember them.

The IKEA 80s living rooms have some things in common with those I've seen in old films and sitcoms (e.g. Back to the Future), but it's still not quite the same. IKEA 80s catalog images are as it was in Norway though, totally.
no its not. build tools can use whatever names they want for environment variables. sharing tends to cause more issues then having namespaced ones due to unintended side effects.
Makes sense. I should have included this functionality in my description of the value Arrow brings:

> read ... into a typed Arrow buffer backed by shared memory, allowing code written in Java, Python, or C++ (and many more!) to read from it in a performant way (i.e. without copies).

Very powerful indeed.

You lost me here though:

> Next, why compare Arrow with SQLite and DuckDB? Because it's what it's being used for already!

What is already being used for what?

The example that follows that describes the advantages of PySpark (Python/Scala) using Arrow makes sense, but I'm having trouble understanding your assertion relating it to SQLite and DuckDB?
Wouldn't SQLite still be better at OLTP?
If they have the majority mining power they could equally well undermine the security of the original branch, rendering it worthless as well. Miners have interests, core developers have interests, bitcoin users have all kinds of interests, none of them on their own decides what will happen. Without miners there is no bitcoin, but neither is there without developers or without users.
Would you feel safe having your savings stored in the original bitcoin fork, knowing there is a mining cartel that holds 50% mining power? Some users will accept reasonable changes that weere lobbied for by the miners, if that means they get to enjoy the security provided by the miners.
It appears that private keys for generating EU Covid Certificates have leaked
You do need custom support to do this in Rust, but it's in the works - see https://github.com/google/evcxr for what seems to be the most current effort.
Yeah that'd be super cool, I also ended picking the one I already use.
This just proves to me that the weed and coke the ultra-wealthy have access to is not the same weed and coke lowly merely comfortable people like me have access to.
I like the idea, but CSS is not indicative of my main language use (C++/C#), so it's a bit hard to decide a winner in some cases. I'd like the option to either choose a language and/or the ability to paste my own code.

EDIT: I've been with Inconsolata for a few years, but maybe a new contender can appear :)
- The EU parliament should first call Sophie Zhang to explain to the world how facebook is the dream platform for totalitarians around europe to control their own people

- Vestager should have acted on this a decade ago. But like most eurocrats they think that fines are going to solve the problem; they won't

The US understandably does not want to ruin the unbelievable unfair advantage that big tech has vs the old media, their legal immunity. Big tech is the US's golden goose , and with it they can control entire governments so what's not to love. But EU has no excuse for having allowed itself to become an intenrnet pariah
The homepage looks really interesting. I'll give it a try. Thanks!
Agree. It's a little annoying, although quite understandable, that it's more of a museum and tourist hotspot than an actual bookshop though.

Still very much worth a visit, it's stunning!
They give you SSH root access to the device. There are many many apps people have developed for it, look for the reHackable GitHub repos.

(The SSH root password is in the help/about section where the open source licenses are listed.)