skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, it seems the author is worried the current middle school kids don’t have enough good books to read, so, they have to read this book?

Should a middle school kid read books proved overtime? I believe they still have enough time in their life to build the immune systems for such controversial topics.
Ada/SPARK is pretty close to unheard of in the US.

I'm confused, I knew a woman in the early 2000s that worked out of Fort Dix in New Jersey, doing ADA development for
U.S. Army tanks. She told me that ADA was the standard language for military hardware. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
> If the value gets low enough the network won't even work and you can't transfer them

If the value goes to zero ($0.000), then yes, the network would probably not work (but just probably, it worked before when it was worth zero, maybe could work again in the future if that happens), but how you reach the conclusion that if it's >0 but very low, it wouldn't work?

As long as there are at least one miner online, there will be transfers happening. And even if you earn zero, some will probably run a miner. BitTorrent kind of proves you can still build useful systems even if the incentive is zero.
The bizarre Monowheel seen through vintage photographs
You can remap it in global map, or prog-mode map, so it would keep the customized behaviour in other modes.
Can't you run your queries in a copy of the data (eg.: a backup)? I think that'd be advisable even if you were running postgresql.
If money didn’t move, that may be because the owner didn’t want it to move, or because they couldn’t move it bascule they lost the access key.

From an outsider’s perspective, both look 100% identical.
I'm fine with PGP, thanks.
The problem is that fact checkers doesn't have the same standards for every side. If this was about some right wing group that had a member with such a background in a leadership position they would absolutely have marked it as "true, this person is definitely a terrorist, just look at all this evidence!".
Deus Ex Blended Genres to Change Shooters Forever
Yea but my point is those companies are everywhere. If you go to work at a legacy company doing tech then you’re not working at the kind of company I’m talking about. Thankfully, tech companies that “get it” are far more numerous in the Midwest than even five years ago
I evaluated sqlite for a web extension but ultimately decided it wasn't worth it. There is no easy way to save the data directly to the file system. And saving the data in other ways meant I was probably better off with IndexDB instead. Still it is a tempting option and one that seems to work well for separate tenancy.
https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/ has the option to use it, but it only uses it as a key value store.

CGO isnt too big a problem and if it is a real dealbreaker something like https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/sqlite will work as it transpiled the c into go and passes the sqlite test suite. I think there is performance degradation with writes but reads are still pretty quick.
Parents should have no say in what books are available at school libraries. They don't like it, they're free to move their kids to another school.

From an outside point of view, the extremes that the US goes to, to shield kids from adult themes is awful. Damaging even.

No, they should not be showing porn in school, but explicit movies were absolutely part of my health class when discussing sex at age 12.
That's a really interesting perspective to me, as I feel the opposite (I'm not a US citizen or resident though).

Can you clarify what a US conservative party would look like?
So what would the centrist viewpoint be in this scenario?
Nope. In the default rollback-journal mode, SQLite supports either multiple readers or a single writer at a time. WAL mode improves this to multiple readers and at most one writer.

But transactions in SQLite are often fast enough that this could still be acceptable for a lot of purposes, especially on an SSD.
Great, but in this case it is testimony against yourself.
It really has to be an obligation. That's why you can't guarantee a minimum level of access to resources to all without messing up the value of capital.
Anyone have an 2009 vintage geo-IP table? (the current mapping doesnt mean a lot)
There are a lot...many will be better once you add their filters or join the right sections/communities.

Steemit

Lemmy

Raddle

Reddit

Tildes

Metafilter

Lancebase

Folkd

Pythonic news

Echo js

Littr.me

20-things

Lobste.rs

Hackaday

Southgate amateur radio news

Soylent news

Kottke.org

Federated thingies like Mastodon

(Drum roll please...)

Facebook groups

Twitter lists

Email lists
Half of it would probably go to income tax anyway.
There was one tv opinion commentators who, upon seeing video from inside welfare recipients' home, remarked something along the lines off "They have a refrigerator! If they can afford that, how badly can they have it?"

So, part of the problem is where people choose to draw the line on "royalty". If refrigerator ownership meet your criteria then sure, you're going to see royalty everywhere.
One point that I seem rarely mentioned especially in the life sciences is learning when to tell your mentor that you have enough to leave. In my experience a lot of labs will try to keep their senior PhD students around as long as they can because they don't have a suitable replacement and they are cheap labour. I know people who stick around for 6 to 10 years to chase after a high impact paper (that doesn't often manifest) or they can't let their work go and pass it off to someone else, or in the very malicious cases the PI won't let them go until they publish another paper etc. The department I was in was determined to get the average PhD down to less than six years but still hasn't reached that point.

The trainees supervisory committee is usually there to push them out but in many cases they also have a close relationship with the PI and aren't going to force a productive student to graduate. Those extra years are rarely useful for their overall career prospects.

I think students need to be aware of when they should draw the line and move on. Spending three more years in their PhD probably won't pay off nearly as much as three years of accumulated experience in industry job or in a post doctoral fellowship in a new lab.
How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
I think this is exactly what I've been looking for. I like going for walks and listening to audiobooks and podcasts, and I've been using Google's recorder as a way to "highlight" my findings, but it doesn't let me add to existing recordings so I can't collate sessions together.

I'll be trying this on as a replacement.
3D A&V multiplayer is the final medium/media.

Game engines are the final craft.

Programming is a higher art than painting or music.
>it's not easy to inspect or fix data in production the way we would with postgres.

I assume because you're using a remote socket connection from the client?

I haven't tried it in a serious setting yet, but I did play around with dqlite and was impressed. Canonical uses it as the backing data store for lxd. Basically sqlite with raft clustering and the ability for clients to connect remotely via a wire protocol. https://dqlite.io/
VLISP: A Verified Implementation of Scheme (1993) [pdf]
> Think for example if the Bitcoin creator would get 10 cent every time someone mentioned Bitcoin

Eh, how would that work exactly?

> Or the easiest business model of them all, sell ads on your org site

That's great, but I can ensure you: none of us in the cryptocurrency ecosystem wants anything to do with ads. Also, can't really build a big business by having ads on your website.
Am I the only one who thinks SQLite is still too complicated for many programs? Maybe it's just the particular type of software I normally work on, which tends towards small, self-hosted networking services[0] that would often have a single user, or maybe federated with <100 users. These programs need a small amount of state for things like tokens, users accounts, and maybe a bit of domain-specific things. This can all live in memory, but needs to be persisted to disk on writes. I've reached for SQLite several times, and always come back to just keeping a struct of hashmaps[1] in memory and dumping JSON to disk. It's worked great for my needs.

Now obviously if I wanted to scale up, at some point you would have too many users to fit in memory. But do programs at that scale actually need to exist? Why can't everyone be on a federated server with state that fits in memory/JSON? I guess that's more of a philosophical question about big tech. But I think it's interesting that most of our tech stack choices are driven by projects designed to work at a scale most of us will never need, and maybe nobody needs.

As an aside, is there something like SQLite but closer to my use cases? So I guess like the nosql version of SQLite.

[0]: https://boringproxy.io/

[1]: https://github.com/boringproxy/boringproxy/blob/master/datab...
1. I'm not sure my original comment was "encouraging mass migration"

2. People are free to move anywhere they like for any reason

3. If people from Connecticut can move here and change our politics, I see no problem with others moving here to change it back.

4. If corrupt politicians can rig the game in their favor, getting more legitimate voters might be the only ethical way to counteract such brazen attacks on our republic

5. This isn't the "gotcha" you think it is
To be clearer: that people would give away 10k of them to buy a pizza indicates back then they were seen as essentially worthless, meaning you'd probably not take much care to preserve the ones you mined for a while while playing with the software you wrote.
The golang equivalent of native SQL can be found here - https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/sqlite

Very useful for pure go applications!
There are data center jobs, yes, but there are many engineering/research oriented big tech offices, especially in college towns
How would we deal with conflicts (e.g. syncing back several conflicting offline clients for the same user) with something based on the Session Extension?
Databases on remote filesystems should be limited to SQLITE3_OPEN_READONLY access, agreed.
Example: Warren Buffett's personal security budget

> Keeping the boss safe has cost [Berkshire] an average of US$339,000 a year since 2008, or US$4.4 million in total.

https://amp.scmp.com/magazines/style/luxury/article/3126736/...
I've always thought it interesting that there was a time when large(ish) websites were hosted using servers that would struggle to outperform a modern smart toaster or wristwatch, and yet modern web applications tend to demand a dramatic distributed architecture. I like the examples in this article showing what a single modern server can do when you're not scaling to Google's level.

As an aside, what about distributed derivatives of sqlite, like rqlite, as a response to the criticism that sqlite requires your database server to also be your web server. Could something like rqlite also provide a way for an sqlite database to grow into a distributed cluster at a later point?

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite
> I believe you mean that you can't easily do a "psql ..." or connect using DataGrid and similars, right?

Yeah.

> Does this mean that devs need to copy the production database file locally to then inspect it? Or are there tools to connect/bridge to a remote sqlite file?

We use "kubectl copy" currently when we want to inspect it, and we haven't actually had to write back to a production file yet. We've explored the "remote" option, but since it's just a file, everything seems to boil back down to "copy locally" then "copy back to remote prod".

It's only a small part of our stack at the moment, so we haven't invested in tooling very much - but I'd be curious if others have solved similar problems.
A lost key would explain it. Maybe that was your point.
This is really thinking it backwards. You don't build the storage before you have the renewables to store. And almost no country is at a point where they need storage in large amounts (as long as that's an option it's cheaper to add flexibility by exchanging with neighboring countries).

E.g. hydrogen electrolyseurs + gas plants that can use H2 exist and aren't particularly challenging. The reason you don't see that yet is that we don't have the huge amounts of renewables that would need this infrastructure yet.
> There is no general federal law against murder.

Oh. I thought there was.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1111
>If you reward something, you get more of it. This creates a black market of arranging kidnappings for the tax break.

you already have a tax break for the kid, it's a dependent, all that was being said if your kid gets kidnapped you can still claim it as a dependent for half a year and the commenter thought it would be reasonable to allow longer.
The planning application was submitted in 2015, with several years preparation before then.
Germany: Data retention to be abolished once and for all
Yes. Although big prime telephoto lenses (think 400 f2.8 and 600 f4) have yet to be released for the RF mount. I think a couple do for Sony. Adapting DSLR lenses to mirrorless cameras works well at least for EF -> RF adapters.
None of those matter to me, but I'm being forced to switch from SQLite simply because of its lack of uint64 support.
> Keep a little 1-inch goldfish in a bowl, it’ll stay that size.

In much the same way that keeping a puppy in a tiny kennel full of it's own filth will stunt it's growth.

https://www.tfhmagazine.com/articles/freshwater/goldfish-myt...
Maybe for some types of wealth, like land, water, etc., eg. serfdom. But, clearly not for NFTs, stocks, gold, etc.
What should one read after ISLR?

Could probably go through it again but I’d also like more of a theoretical background.

Isn’t OLS a specific case of MLE, for example ?

Anyway, I’d like to understand machine learning and statistical inference more deeply.

I’d be happy to get the answers by reading a handful of books.
I say this only partially in jest: not just harassed, but harassed by crypto nerds
Equally importantly, HW / silicon jobs pay less well. People on the HWE side of the house frequently ponder switching to SW for the $$$
Socrates is a mortal and hamsters are mortal, but Socrates is not a hamster. All major are part of all, but being part of all does not mean that you are all major, hence all are not all major. :)
So to be clear, you would be fine with removing these books if it were done in spite of the desires of the parents but not in response to the parents. After all someone gets to pick what’s in the library.

And do you feel this way about other government services “these people can receive government benefits too if they agree to sending their children to 3 hours of conservative political indoctrination per week. If they have a problem with that, I guess they shouldn’t be poor.”

Should citizens have influence over the police? I mean if they don’t like the service they can always just move to a rich neighborhood.

ETA: I should not have jumped to conclusions. Maybe you think poor and middle class parents should be able to influence their kids education too. Maybe you’re pro vouchers or something.
Taleb being an academic is fun to read. He's an options trader. He made his money with a fund that bought way-out-of-the-money options. That strategy loses money most years, but was a big win in 2008, when the crash made those cheap options valuable. Any 5-year period in the past 30 years that didn't include 2008 would probably have been a lose. So he may have been lucky, rather than smart. Although, arguably, you could see in the runup to 2008 that something had to give.

Taleb's big argument here is that Bitcoin will someday be obsolete and will have a value of 0. Since Bitcoin doesn't generate income or pay dividends, its present value is thus 0. That's a strange position for an options trader to take. Options, by their nature, expire, and have a value of 0 at some future time. Yet they are traded during their life as having value.

An option is a bet, not an investment. It's zero-sum; losers + winners is zero, minus some trading costs. This is also true of Bitcoin. Taleb, interestingly, does not analyze Bitcoin as an option. Possibly out of frustration. Options are analyzed based on what the underlying commodity is expected to do. Bitcoin has no underlying commodity. So option analysis techniques won't work.

Nobody has a convincing model for the future value of cryptocurrencies. It's mostly velocity investing - it goes up because it's been seen to go up. Until it doesn't. Taleb looks at financial history, sees that this isn't the first thing which behaves that way, and notes that pure speculative instruments always collapse in the end. But when?
> Are you saying senior engineers who don’t use HN have different values from those that do?

Absolutely yes.

HN posters are by far the noisy minority.

Even on HN the vast majority of readers don’t post. HN posters are a sliver of a sliver.
On this topic, I'd like to mention my own "alternative" to use-package, setup.el: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SetupEl. I write "alternative" in quotes, because it is not really the same thing, just a different way to tackle the issue of using a generic macro to simplify a personal configuration. While use-package has a flat, declaraive structure (for some package, these are my hook, this is the code to run before, this is the code to run after, ...), setup provides a few context sensitive macros that get expanded to regular code. That means you can mix in regular logic a lot easier, and the implementation is far simpler.

Also it is avalaible on GNU ELPA, so you don't need to configure MELPA before downloading it.
Or just use litestream, it‘s perfect for this and the closest you can get to managed by replicating to S3 or Cloud Storage or the likes.
I use Linux Mint. I don't think there's much if anything that makes Linux mint harder for a non-tech user. I think it's already the better option.

But for non-tech users, I think buying a device with one OS and then wiping it to install a different OS is scary. Or doing anything that sounds risky to their daily laptop. So, where is the non-scary option for them to start with Linux? The laptops with Linux pre-installed, they aren't well known (or cheap).

Does a Chromebook count as desktop linux?
They are paying a shitload more, maybe not the metric shitload for your price but it is for plenty of people I know. Annecdotally I have seen offers of TC > 550k for L5 engineers in my network.
You can use pure Golang SQLite (without requiring CGO) -

https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/sqlite

It works well, but the performance is worse than C version. Not a big deal for what I used it for, though. It was approx. 6x worse at inserts.
There is a diff tool [0], and an online backup tool [1]. That kinda thing should be pretty easy to cobble together. You'll just need ~3x disk space to store 2 backups at an interval, diff them and discard the older backup, then apply backward diffs on your most recent backup to achieve a specific backup time.

EDIT: or maybe the Session Extension [2]

[0]: https://www.sqlite.org/sqldiff.html

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/backup.html

[2]: https://www.sqlite.org/sessionintro.html
As long as it's “transparent to transcendence,” that's fine. Absolutely everything is this world can be used in this manner. It's all a great mystery anyway.
Yes!! I can listen to podcasts and recall info effortlessly but not audiobooks!

I think my listening brain is wired for conversations not structured texts.
I think you are correct in implying that the current wave of censorship is mostly non-governmental, but that doesn't make it look any better in my eyes. This is a discussion about culture, not who has the legal right to do what. Banning "inappropriate" books from school is most likely legal in the US [1], but that doesn't automatically make puritanism and prudishness good.

I disagree, I think book restrictions are Orwellian, but that's another discussion.

[1]: https://www.findlaw.com/education/student-rights/banning-boo...
> There is no easy way to save the data directly to the file system.

That's what absurd SQL is for (link in the parent comment).
> To the folks saying that the "IRS doesn't care about the crime, they just want the money" I think you have it backwards. This whole system is set up as a trap for criminals.

Nonsense. The IRS is not a mandatory reporter by design. The IRS indeed does not care about any crime other than tax-related ones, not only is it not their job, it's their not-job, as in, applying any sort of moral or legal consideration outside of tax-related ones will get employees in trouble.
This doesn't sound like an informed breakdown of the issue
That's without overbuild. Look at the graphs at the back, the ones with 3x overbuild and 3 hours of storage. Small countries still have unmet demand, but Russia, US and Canada do not.
> Without an application what is the difference between a notification and a text message/iMessage?

SMS isn't secure and I can't send an iMessage from the command line. Push notification is the only way to get a message securely to my phone.

> I can see spammers creating schemes to obtain peoples notification URL/address and bombarding them with multimedia popup ads with no ability for the user to block them.

I addressed this in a sibling comment -- it would still go through Apple's servers and there is a lot they can do to mitigate that.

> Tying notifications to apps at least means that there is some audit trail and ability for users to stop receiving notifications and ultimately for the developer/sender to be removed entirely.

If apple ran the service, they would have all the same paper trails and mitigations.
Not sure how to exactly to build a "generator" either, but it seems that it would be a build rule that generates multiple outputs from multiple inputs right? If that's the case there's a `foreach` function for convenience, but it doesn't seem to have something for multiple commands. Though there's this Lua example on their website that leaves me wondering if what you want is possible, here's the code (since the documentation seems offline atm):

```

inputs = { 'file1.c', 'file2.c' }

outputs = { '%B.o' }

commandA = 'gcc %f -c -o %o'

commandB = 'gcc %f -o %o'

objects = tup.foreach_rule(inputs, commandA, outputs)
tup.rule(objects, commandB, {'app'})

```

Which apparently is a shortcut for saying:

```

tup.definerule{

inputs = {'file1.c'},
command = 'gcc file1.c -c -o file1.o',
outputs = {'file1.o'}

}

tup.definerule{

inputs = {'file2.c'},
command = 'gcc file2.c -c -o file2.o',
outputs = {'file2.o'}

}

tup.definerule{

inputs = {'file1.o', 'file2.o'},
command = 'gcc file1.o file2.o -c -o app',
outputs = {'app'}

}

```

Reference:
http://web.archive.org/web/20201026140926/http://gittup.org/...
I don’t see why urban areas, especially where there is a lot of pedestrians and cyclists aren’t putting in stronger regulations on vehicles.

Limit vehicles based on hood height, weight, and horsepower. Allow some exceptions for commercial vehicles.

My city has a bike/scooter share system. They are able to automate times when they can be used, force low speeds in certain areas (through parks), and even disable them dynamically in places.

Why can’t we do the same for vehicles? There is absolutely no reason to be driving 40mph down an urban street. Nor should cars be allowed such quick acceleration.
That's true, but the government is still further away from control; besides, web3 is bringing decentralized DNS (see Handshake Protocol) to fix that.