skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SQLite3 is not a high-write-concurrency database, but not a high-throughput DB is less clear, and it's not at all clear that it can't be hacked on to go faster.

If you take a sharding approach to concurrency, you might just be happy with no write concurrency: one process/thread per-CPU / storage slice, and fix everything else upstairs. It's not a crazy approach, and it might be the approach many would take if they could start from scratch. In fact, it's the approach Spanner takes, for example.
You cancel ads by not going online. The subscription one is another matter all together if you forget.
Reddit has been "slowly killing" their product for a long time now, and it's bigger than ever. Problem is this stuff actually does work if you want to mass market.
Announcing Dart 2.15 - Fast concurrency, constructor tear-offs, improved enums
I am not sure of the current state of affairs, but in the past (5-10 years ago or longer) w3schools was known for having outdated or sometimes flat out wrong information. They often rank or ranked higher than MDN which is usually the best and most comprehensive source on the subject. So a front end dev would typically want to always see MDN over w3schools.
I don’t know. To me, to assert that there is no meaningful difference between a thing and what we know to be an artificial imitation of that thing is to assert that there’s no meaningful difference between truth and lies, so long as the lies are convincing enough.
Wait, it already works there.

Amazing!
I believe if you resubmit with "How" re-added, it keeps it.
No friend. It means that policies and standards may be closer to enforcing safety in a retail store for patrons vs a workplace. Will actually be an interesting test to see where the line falls. Regardless of your thoughts on the gig economy this will be interesting to watch. Having lived in tornado alley for most of life and having family who survived the hospital hit in Joplin Missouri a couple years ago I can you, depending on the strength - a tornado is like the finger of God. It can remove structures down to the slab then leave others intact. It's not like a hurricane, the onset is rapid and the destruction severe. A good thought exercise is to think about what YOU would do of you were in a commerical warehouse building like a Lowes or Home Depot in the US and you saw a tornado approaching. You are surrounded by high rack shelving and the only thing between you and some heavy as hell roof top air con units is a layer of thin steel with some asphalt on it.
I think the honest answer is that we just don't have nearly as much surety around these numbers as you might expect.

I went looking for data on actual bird populations, and I get wildly different estimates.

The 3 billion number comes from the following source (as far as I can tell):

"
Critical data were contributed by citizen-science participants in the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, North American Breeding Bird Survey, and other bird-monitoring initiatives. The Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database was a critical source for the data.
" - https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/bring-birds-back/

Nat Geo quotes

"
New research estimates there are between 50 billion and 430 billion birds on Earth.
" - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-many-...

A lot of articles seem to quote the "at least 50 billion" line, probably based on the above numbers.

Basically - I'd say we have no idea how many birds there really are. Take ALL numbers involved as wild guesses.
https://danluu.com/look-stupid/

- The styling and content on this website: I regularly get design folks and typographers telling me how stupid the design is, frequently in ways that become condescending very quickly if I engage with them

- - But, when I tested out switching to the current design from the generally highly lauded Octopress design, this one got much better engagement when a user landed on the site and also appeared to get passed around a lot more as well

- - When I've compared my traffic numbers to major coprorate blogs, my blog completely dominates most < $100B companies (e.g., it gets an order of magnitude more traffic than my employer's blog and my employer is a $50B company)

- - When I started my blog (and this is still true today), writing advice for programming blogs was to keep it short, maybe 500 to 1000 words. Most of my blog posts are 5000 to 10000 words.

What I’ve done with all of his posts is used reader mode in Safari.
A question to clarify: if you can’t see yourself using the information/theorems you are studying and you aren’t motivated on a particular topic, why are you investing the time? Secondly, many textbooks are tedious and not particularly useful for self study. HN has numerous threads discussing the best textbooks in a variety of subjects. I have found these threads quite useful in selecting textbooks to review. Not to sound critical but perhaps your self study program needs a more orderly curriculum. Again, numerous threads here and elsewhere address paths to acquire the requisite knowledge.
right, their value proposition to you, as a user of their search engine, is that if you type in a few terms they'll present a carefully curated list of locations on the internet that are not only relevant to your search terms but also are useful to you, specifically, at that moment.

supporting user controlled blocklists would implicitly acknowledge that their system can miss the mark. i suspect they focus on not missing the mark rather than providing supplies for their users to paper over problems with their system.

i'd be really surprised if there are "certain results they don't want you to filter." separation of editorial and business in publishing has been around for a very long time and it would be pretty hard for them to defend if it came out that they were using their own ad revenue as an input to how they rank and filter results.

edit: i would also suggest that if they were boosting results that drove ad revenue for them, they'd have been caught by now. there are a lot of people out there who make a living experimenting with how to boost a google ranking. if it was as simple as "use google as an advertising partner on your site" i'm sure we'd be hearing about it.
I would venture to guess that whatever the implementation, it will need to support the revenue stream needed from advertising, whether that is through text, graphics, or other audio/visual presentation.
twitter can be good or bad depending on who you follow + engage with
It does not matter if it’s Facebook’s fault or not, Facebook is the causal agent. More than any other social network or media company, they have cultivated the most controversy and continue to do so.

Arguing over who’s to blame is like arguing over who’s to blame in drug problems —- human nature or drugs? Facebook adopts the same stance as every other morally bankrupt individual or institution in creating a convenient framework where they can justify the real and measured harm they are doing and weigh that against the demand and profitability of their product.

Only time will tell what becomes of Facebook, but in general terrible things have a way of destroying themselves and those that surround themselves with them.
True but if we go around telling everyone "RSS is defunct" without being more nuanced someone is going to forget about those backend dependencies and bad things will happen
Suppose that even if it needs this for some kind of log transformation pipeline, there's still absolutely no reason for the jvm process in which this code is running to be able to reach out to some random internet location. Do people just not put strict segmentation in place? If so, for the love of god, why? It's not that hard and it is a very useful baseline.
Serious question: So why are all the people who are trapped/kidnapped in the cars in the movies not able to come out and have to yell to have someone come and rescue them?

That implies that there is no way to open the latch from inside and people, including me, may take that as the truth and not even try to find the latch. I for sure didn't know that there was a way.
It's still denylisted for me, maybe because I'm using PRIME?
https://www.w3fools.com/ explains most of it but as explained it apparently mostly resolved the past issues
You should do it on the network _anyway_. You want multiple layers because you often find that any given layer was not as robust as you assumed.
> and I know that genre has some problems, with, uhh... fan service

NGE is quite Freudian and psycho-sexual. If you're worried about fan service moments, I'd say stay away. NGE isn't quite the worst when it comes to fan service, but its pretty up there IMO. This ain't a "waifu-simulator" or a harem but... its like 80% of the way there.

I mean, full on themes of Oedipus complex, teenagers discovering their sexuality, and other such sexual issues. Its certainly a mature theme and if you're worried about it... maybe its a better idea if you do stay away.

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There's a reason why I push "Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood" in my other post. There's almost no fan-service in that show. (Like, "Lust", the character representing the deadly sin has a low-cut dress but that's about it in Full Metal Alchemist, and its kind of acceptable for her character to do that cause she's Lust after all. Despite the name, she has almost no themes of sexuality and mostly serves as an incredibly powerful villain for the heroes to take down).

In contrast, NGE takes sexuality front and center in many episodes. In most cases, I think it does advance the story and is therefore acceptable, but plenty of blush-worthy scenes that are largely explained by "fanservice".
I cannot really use a Linux desktop or else I just spend all my time tweaking it, never getting fully satisfied.
My Daughter and I Were Diagnosed with Autism on the Same Day
Coz is very cool although it was an absolute bitch to get it work on my fairly standard Ubuntu box maybe 2 months ago.
The cynics are reading & commenting, the optimists are busy building? ;)
There aren't many examples either.

https://github.com/coinbase/kryptology/tree/master/examples
Windshield even more so.
And more of these displays are getting these kinds of smart features added, anyway. It's going to become increasingly difficult to get a dumb panel at all.
Honestly, take the money you'd spend to upgrade and instead overhaul the car. Need new front seat upholstery? Some new plastic end pieces? Maybe an engine rebuild? It probably won't cost more than a new(ish) car, maybe even cheaper.
it has it, says so right on the page
You should never be logging user input non-escaped anyway. At the very least, that creates a hazard where someone might be fooled as to the correct behavior/false-internal-systems-corroboration by logging something misleading that masquerades as a legitimate log message. It is a _huge_ hazard.
Counting population based on deaths alone isn't accurate

If the ecosystem is healthy, a dozen birds dying will make way for a dozen more to replace them
The Future of Audio-as-a-Service: AI in Film, Gaming, Social Media, Advertising
This is just an article to make average intelligence people feel okay about themselves, instead of embracing and accepting the crushing underlying reality that intelligence is real, that some people have more of it and some have less of it, that's it a genetic lottery, that it's distribution isn't fair, and that there isn't really anything you can do to improve it in any meaningful way (you will never have a 120 IQ if you have a 100 IQ).

Yeah... sucks. That's life. The Universe isn't fair and Nature doesn't play favorites.
> Then we get to the game portion of the demo, and... it's a half-step above a quicktime event. [...] The sameyness of AAA games is forced by this graphics focus because trying to do provide anything but the simplest game mechanics with this level of graphics is impossible.

Yeah, was my impression of the gameplay we saw, and my worry about whether it will encourage that kind of design.
Nike Acquires Fashion and Sneaker NFT Site Rtfkt
Well this and the 2022 dropping the v8 for an unproven v6 twin turbo.
Proving properties of constant-time crypto code in SPARKNaCl (Ada) (2020)
Perhaps not but I’m in awe of anyone that can take a scalpel to another’s brain and keep a steady hand
That happens here in Florida. Older person drives into a canal and the window motors short out they are trapped.
I like my text wide too. I think the usual advice of 80–100 characters per line is much too conservative. But as one wide text lover to another: this is clearly beyond the bounds of good taste.

Regarding your second question, I don't feel I should be responsible for fixing the formatting mistakes of other people's websites.
I'd love to hear some university perspectives, on how hard it was for them to get their departments able to make chips. My feeling is that the strategy of availability is the key, vast, & dominating factor in all of this. Getting more and more people being creative about chipmaking, by giving them access to chipmaking, is the thing. That patently seems less and less accessible, less possible. The strategy of making your nation a place of great makers, seems, to me, the only thing worth considering, but your definition/restrictions seem- to me- to oppose thinking of how a nation can improve itself, can beget a good & powerful & creative people.

If the world were well served by chip-making, then I think your disregard would be due. But we seem to be well well well into a period of mass consolidation, of less & less accessibility to chip-making. America & many other places that have been hotbeds of intellectual knowledge & creativity will surely languish & die unless the environment can be improved, unless access to the means of production can be secured & made available to the people, to the students, to the upstarts. Ignore that "stragedy" at your nation's mortal peril, imo.

I think it's a bit telling that the Google/SkyWater collaboration is still on 130nm. It's great that some patron is out there trying to encourage novel chip making, trying to reboot a general knowledge in a dying decaying sector. And there's some reasons why perhaps like 40nm or so might be un-strategic a choice. But generally I think access to even vaguely-quasi-modern chipmaking is falling away, is collapsing. The strategy of keeping this industry accessible is, to me, a defining battle.

(That said, OLED making is not where I think accessible, competitive silicon foundries are needed. But this thread, this story is a telling indicator to me.)
Thanks for the tip.

That works well enough for me, and it saves having another browser extension to configure!
Some cars (including mine) have a seat that’s just one unified unit. No way to remove it.
> and it seemed then inevitable my generation would be Earth-bound our whole lives.

Yeah, by that time Falcon-9 already flew (first flight on June 4, 2010), and those tiny little green men on the other side of the pond(s) were routinely sending people - including Americans - to ISS.

Label that as a failed metaphor?
> By realizing that the world is always changing, and by stopping to complain, we opt out of seeing the world through cynical glasses ... When we realize that our life can change, we can change it.

Well said.
There was logic to it: you could have a completely passive cable with a type c connector that would interoperate.

Agree or disagree, it wasn’t completely absurd.
I don't think cynicism is just about stasis, but about spotting when optimistic messages are hiding a power-grabbing scheme of some kind. Or just being willing to 'follow the money', and look behind the curtain, etc.

Plenty of new things are important developments, even when there are selfish actors behind them. But also plenty of new things are just scams.
Where do you find a good therapist? I have gone through 3 and they all forgot my name on a weekly basis
No worries. Some people however are hoarding rare software - software that is very likely to cease to exist once their collections fail. But refuse to share or make backups.
My unpopular opinion, have healthy dose of cynicism, optimism and pessimism. You will need to use them in different set of situations. And then there is the question of default, cultural differences. Show in the picture below :)

https://imgur.com/gallery/GUcVw
The blog post mentions this project has been audited but it doesn't seem like there are any links to the audit(s). Did I miss it?
in 2007 it was modern
I believe the insider jargon is “dumb fucks”.
Giving cash is common in India, and I believe several other Asian countries.

Edit: In fact, in India it is common for folks to keep track of how much who gave, so that that a similar/slightly larger amount can be returned when the time comes.

Edit2: Another cultural tidbit, in India generally you give an odd number ending in 1. Common gifts are 11, 21, 51, 101, 501, 1001 ...
this model is very sensitive to certain inputs if smidged a little bit yield vastly different projections. Models are more convincing when they are robust to that sort of thing. For instance go here: http://bit-player.org/extras/limits/ltg.html and try increasing the "output consumed (fraction)" input a little bit.
Hidden? It’s directly below where the “oh shit” handle is on the door, you need to move your hand less than 6” to pull it. Calling it hidden is completely misrepresenting reality. If my 7 year old knows where it is and insists on using it to open the door, I hope your 11 year old can figure it out.
I'd say a thousand rather than ten, but yeah.
Nestaway's website is a real window into the dystopia. It's kind of refreshing to have a panopticonic nightmare conveyed by an aesthetic other than alegria for once.
I don't know what you're referring to.
You can not use the key fob to remote start 2018 or later Toyota vehicles without a Remote Connect membership: https://www.toyota.com/content/dam/toyota/brochures/pdf/conn...
U.S. Space Force holds war game to defend satellites
Just as a warning, its a relentlessly horny work. At least in the original series every single female character is sexualized, and two of them are 14 years old. There is at least one instance of "casual" sexual assault. The plot might be great, but it felt pretty gross to watch
w3schools is unusable without ublock, makes the browser/computer crawl
But sometimes the spaces are really weird, like "games-for-vegan-musicians-space" :D
Shouldn’t consumer AV be adopting USB C by now?
Every time I end up on the pinterest from google, I hit back. Google knows that, but it will still show me pinterest as the top result.
RBLX offline for days, still in good shape.
because their hands are tied.
Rtfkt - Right Fucked?

It doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.
Nah, we just need to get you to learn to adjust your browser window size and/or font size.
I have that problem as well. Don't press the notification. Go directly to the fdroid app when you get a notification and update within the app. It will work.
People who disagree automatically feel like they have new information to bring, while it's often hard to express agreement while still feeling like you're adding to the conversation.
We have a group like this, which feeds a couple dozen feral cats on "Kitty Cat Lane." Of course there is science behind the insanity -- toxoplasmosis infections from the cats they love.
I think the ultimate problem is people go where people are going - niche networks are great for people who just want to communicate with a few people (it's why IRC is still popular today), but it's never going to break through without some massive lure.
Electromagnetic Properties of the Great Pyramid of Giza Egypt
> A collapse of the entire glacier, which some researchers think is only centuries away, would raise global sea level by 65 centimeters. And because Thwaites occupies a deep basin into which neighboring glaciers would flow, its demise could eventually lead to the loss of the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which locks up 3.3 meters of global sea level rise. “That would be a global change,” says Robert DeConto, a glaciologist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “Our coastlines will look different from space.”

Fun ("fun") fact, the NOAA has a sea level rise map for the US, so you can see for yourself how this Florida-sized ice sheet impacts the real Florida's coastline.

Overview: https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/sea-level-rise-map...

Direct link: https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/

Select "Sea level rise" on the left and drag the slider up and down. Dark blue is the current sea level, light blue is area that would be inundated.
I realized my key fob battery was dying. I had no idea how to open the doors without it. I figured I'd better google it.
I think it’s progressive democrats. Make of that what you will.
Baby Dashboard: Parenting enhanced with time series
That's... not really true. Tesla is down ~15% this month.
> They want people to read their answers and think they're smart.

Not in my case. HN (and dang) have been pushing false Marxist narratives since 2020 and I just wanted to be on record for stating the facts before the eventual "nobody told me" mass excuses from HN.

Note that:

- the MSM has retracted or been found to falsify every major story since early 2020. The NYT was busy in 2020 deleting pro-CCP paid articles from the past several years, yet they claim to be the "US media of record."

- HN did try the "nobody told me" and "it was so obvious" defense about the lab leak theory earlier in 2021, despite the opposite in 2020.

- Hillary Clinton is very close to being indicted for funding the fake Steele dossier, which led to the first fake impeachment effort. That is the real US federal coup attempt.

There should also be an investigation of her corrupt requests for $2 billion from foreign governments in the Clinton Foundation. Likely there's a tie-in between the foundation and the Steele dossier.

- nobody doubts that the Biden family corruptly received $1 billion from our adversaries, despite a year-long coverup and evidence pre-2020 election. There's pictures of Hunter on Air Force 2 and partying in Beijing, ffs.
Parent doesn't know what he's talking about.

I've actually had a prospect tell me on the phone, "If you lose an email, I will sue you for $50,000 for each email that's undelivered."

Between that example and "testy" are a lot of undesirable prospects and customers.
Yea but, have you seen libsodium? It's actually good.
Free market of fraud is going on, there should be a cost to lying
I just wish the controls were more granular. There's people I follow for their actual posting who also just drag in a bunch of drama that they hit like on.
Owning a Bored Ape gets you access to the club. It's not just about owning a picture, though people with a hard on for hating them love to describe it as such.
One of the first suggestions I have is to use source control and store the Git hash of code used to generate data. A few times I've heard back "we don't have time for that" - pretty easy to see how the replication crisis flows from processes like that.
I've said it before and will say it again: There needs to be a good, cheap, easy, aesthetic way to fix cracked brittle plastics, kintsugi-style. My go-to example is my plastic laundry basket, whose structural integrity is severely compromised by one crack right in the top-middle of a long side.
If you trace stories from that article it only references feeders causing an issue from a disease since May 2020, not overall since the 70s.
How not? I think the desire to share expertise is inexhaustible in some people. God bless them for that!
Right now code nav on GitHub only works within a repository, and so every link you follow keeps you within the commit that you’re already viewing. As we move to cross-repo code nav, you’re right that it will be difficult to determine the right commit to take you to when following a cross-repo link.
The reactor vessel for an LWR is made with a huge forging press. These exist in some European countries as well as China, Japan and others but have been all shut down in the U.S.