skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I know it's longer, but that's the reasoning for the statement, not the statement itself.

Breaking the argument down:

Statement:
The first thing to understand about US politics is that almost 40% of the population is evangelical. There can be no constructive political discourse with that type of demographic skew.

So there can be no constructive political discourse because 40% of the population is evangelical. Why?

Reasoning:
1. In addition to the generally irrational beliefs held by evangelicals (e.g. the earth being 6000 years old), they
2. tend to vote as a unified block, and
3. The remaining 60% of the population generally has disparate interests and doesn't have a strongly unified vote.

As I said, throw out #1, because it isn't unique to their religion and you have two things: 1. an organized voting block with the sole unifier being religion and 2. a disparate remainder of the population with varied interests and religions.

The first part of the remainder is also bunk, because only 56% of evangelicals lean republican. 28% lean democrat, the remainder are unaffiliated, according to Pew. So even if you took the 40% total which isn't accurate, you'd have a voting block of only about 21%, with 10% going the other side.

But even if it were accurate, it again applies to any organized religion, unless you think that evangelicals are for some reason unique in their being aligned solely on the basis of religious belief. That would be a really weird argument given the wars fought over religion prior to the formation of protestant religions.

the second part, sure, the population has varied interests. No disagreement there.
I think there's an incentive system at work that I'm not sure I've seen articulated before. If the people controlling a rating system want the best ratings to be rare, they will often have to resort to a combination of opacity, arbitrariness, and fine distinctions that are largely meaningless to the consumers of the ratings. Because True Quality can't be reliably recognized by some ratings committee... and yet, they must rate.
There are enough stories like the 10,000 BTC pizza and lost hard drives it's entirely plausible he doesn't have that early coin any more.
I don't think "serves on the board of" counts as a degree of separation.
The point isn’t that depression has no biological cause. The point is that there are probably numerous biological causes. To strain the analogy, there are probably dozens of different depression gremlins. Maybe even a depression goblin, and a depression troll.

Saying that you have “depression” doesn’t give you an understanding of what’s causing it.

We have a baby with colic. What does that mean? It means the baby cries 3 hours per day for 3 days a week for at least 3 weeks with no other explanation. That’s it. It’s not something you can point to and say oh that explains it. That’s the cause. It literally just means there is no explanation.
Making hydrogen work for intercontinental air travel is an absolutely massive engineering challenge with (as of now) horrible economics. Pure hydrogen is hard to store as it corrodes metal, bringing enough of it on a plane to be able to cross the Pacific in a reliable and cost effective manner stretches the limits of physics. Making the unit economics work with green hydrogen is again several times more difficult. We should not be handwavy about replacing global-scale, cheap and reliable systems like long-distance air travel. This is a multi-decade undertaking if we are pushing hard and get lucky.
Nice try Satoshi
Is there a term for this, where a person discovers something extremely interesting, but doesn’t know the proper channels to make the knowledge public?

In this case, releasing the info on a random spammy looking WP blog.
There is also Satisfactory which is more 3D but I haven't played either so can't compare.
Russian research actually found polonium to be a net benefit!

Namely, the short half-life and the fact that it undergoes alpha decay into lead meant that a) it was very easy to detect leaks b) cleanup was also easier. Also, the rate of polonium production turned out to be pretty low.

The bigger issue is that Bismuth production would be utterly, completely drained by mass production of SVBR-style reactors.
Maybe parents should just have no say in what books are available at a school library? They don't like what their kids are being taught, they're free to put them in another school
In Oracle, I can do this:

RECOVER DATABASE UNTIL TIME '2021-10-01 02:00:00' USING BACKUP CONTROLFILE;

SQLite does not implement such a feature.
While energy storage is a huge problem wrt renewable energy, I'd really like to see us get better at teasing out the difference between what's needed for a solar panel, wind farm, hydroelectric dam, etc. as distinct from the myriad of ways to store that energy.

Mechanical storage - i.e. pushing loaded freight cars up a hill while the sun is shining and letting their weight pull a chain which turns a crank (like a cuckoo clock) when it's dark out - is not all that common right now, but not completely unheard of. It could grow in popularity as we develop more clever techniques that are more space efficient. Either way, it's only meant to highlight the differences in mechanisms for energy capture (e.g. solar panel, wind turbine) vs energy storage (e.g. batteries).

This article seems to be primarily around materials for energy storage.
That or they nuked the private key
Indeed - Safari version is paid and pretty expensive but worth it
Fighting against idiomatic Emacs keybindings is an uphill battle, but the hill is not very steep. The recipe that works for me:

1. Bind the behavior you want in the global map. (global-set-key (kbd "<key-here>") #'the-action-you-want)

2. Any time you encounter a mode which overrides this key, press C-h k <key-here>. It will tell you the name of the map in which the key is bound (usually foo-mode-map). Then, add: (define-key foo-mode-map (kbd "<key-here>") nil). This will unmap the key from the mode's map, revealing the binding in the global map.
I may be wrong but aren’t their a significant amount held from day 1 that haven’t been moved?
> You don’t see logs from iBoot.

IIRC there's a serial console according to Asahi Linux people. Not sure if iBoot logs anything to it.
It's fun to see this hit the front page.

For a while now I've toyed with the idea of trying to build a Racket-like ecosystem on top of Pre-Scheme. I like the "language playground" experience of Racket, but one thing that holds me back from playing with it more is that it's tied to a fairly heavyweight run-time. That makes it a bit more difficult to take it some of the places I'd like to go with it.
ROFLMAO! Okay, that's just epic.
Shout out to litestream[0] for backups

[0] https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream
I believe SQLite is about to explode in usage into areas it’s not been used before.

SQL.js[0] and the incredible “Absurd SQL”[1] are making it possible to build PWAs and hybrid mobile apps with a local SQL db. Absurd SQL uses IndexedDB as a block store fs for SQLite so you don’t have to load the whole db into memory and get atomic writes.

Also I recently discovered the Session Extension[2] which would potentially enable offline distributed updates with eventual consistency!

I can imagine building a SAAS app where each customer has a “workspace” each as a single SQLite db, and a hybrid/PWA app which either uses a local copy of the SQLite db synced with the session extension or uses a serveless backend (like CloudFlare workers) where a lightweight function performs the db operations. I haven’t yet found a nice way to run SQLite on CloudFlare workers, it need some sort of block storage, but it can’t be far off.

0: https://sql.js.org/

1: https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql

2: https://www.sqlite.org/sessionintro.html
The state of the art is that you click a few buttons in the UI of the cloud provider of your choice. That takes a few seconds.

What you are proposing may be trivial but in comparison it might just as well be rocket science. Doing more work to use a simpler database that is harder to setup and has less features is not exactly compelling.
Email is already flooded. We don’t need your metaphor.
I wish more data was available for this phenomenon, I estimate the number of deaths would be surprisingly high.
What company do you work for (if you don’t mind being asked)? I’m curious about audit remediation, it sounds like a field I might be interested in. I’m currently in an SRE role.
> modulo write ahead journal and whatnot

That's like saying immortality is trivial modulo death and whatnot. If you don't integrate with sqlite's locking system, you can easily "backup" a file mid-write, corrupted and unusable.

That's why sqlite has a built-in backup command.
What about "if you shoplift $950 it is OK and you will not be charged"? maybe they can pay some taxes? :)
Sounds like your in a good place, contentment is better than chasing a never ending comparison to others.
But why do they call these numbers “dimensionless”? I think “unitless” would be a better name. These numbers are ratios so units cancel.
I feel like Hal Finney and Nick Szabo were the two people who seem plausible and the fact that Hal and Satoshi were on different IP addresses that day seems to me like it's not Hal.

So for me it feels pretty much settled that Satoshi is Szabo.
An incentive, not an obligation. No one is indebted to you if you dig up a pot of gold in your backyard.
KH-11 ("Keyhole-class") spy satellites. It's generally believed that Hubble's optical technology came directly from that.

> KH-11s are believed to resemble the Hubble Space Telescope in size and shape, as the satellites were shipped in similar containers. Their length is believed to be 19.5 meters, with a diameter of up to 3 meters (120 in). A NASA history of the Hubble, in discussing the reasons for switching from a 3-meter main mirror to a 2.4-meter (94 in) design, states: "In addition, changing to a 2.4-meter mirror would lessen fabrication costs by using manufacturing technologies developed for military spy satellites".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN
We've got conservatives pursuing and implementing rules against anything that conflicts with the myth of American creation, or pays homage to anything LGBT. So I'm not sure we can dismiss this as a conservative "stunt" and then accuse liberals of driving the issue by being concerned about books being banned.
There are many, many more than just 10,000. Ethereum as a platform can host cryptocurrencies inside of it, and just that has spawned countless of cryptocurrencies. Many others like Ethereum exists as well, putting the count probably closer to 100,000 than 10,000.
I think somebody smart enough to invent Bitcoin seems likely to have been smart enough to mine coins on a separate account, knowing he would never be able to touch the genesis wallet. I think Satoshi is alive and well and enjoying his riches. Good for them
Ah, I see. Well, I disagree with your implication that by being a republic of fifty states, that one state does not affect the other. See, critically, the Senate.

You don't see the GOP mobilizing voters to flip states red so much, because the GOP is already over-represented in the Senate.

It's unlikely that liberals will move to Wyoming in numbers sufficient to flip it. But the demographics and economy and geography of Texas do seem to suggest that becoming a swing state is a possibility in the near future.

So to reiterate my answer to your question "Why move to other states instead of being happy to change your own?" - Because we are one country, and because until the Senate as an institution is dissolved or reformed beyond recognition, the political affiliations of each state matter to the others.

Extra credit commentary: We aren't functionally a republic of fifty semi-independent states. In many critical issues that require federal answers (climate change, welfare, healthcare, and military) we are one nation afflicted with a potentially lethal vestige of our Constitution: The Senate.

The miscommunication between you and me(and the other person) is that you don't see (or at least, acknowledge) how different states' politics affect each other's, whereas I and the other person took it as a given that they do.
Mmmh interesting, I always assumed the term smartphone was basically a term coined with the iPhone. I should have probably called it something like "the modern smartphone". I didn't want to write iPhone because that's not a category.
Of course we all want children to be as equipped as possible "to listen critically to strangers, and ... to differentiate good ideas from dangerous ones"

THAT IN NO WAY LETS MANUFACTURERS AND SELLERS OF PRODUCTS OFF THE HOOK !!

If you want to make money selling or providing products to consumers, and especially to children, IT IS YOUR JOB #1 TO MAKE THEM INHERENTLY SAFE.

If you cannot make it inherently safe, it is not ready to sell. Period

Stop attempting to insert some defenses you think children should have against bad advice and dangerous products -- it is utterly irrelevant.

The fact that the mom was there and turned it into a learning event was PURE DUMB LUCK. They got lucky this time. They'd better damn well fix it solidly or pull the product.

The fact that this is even a question in a modern society is mind-boggling.
Assuming a person already has use-package or projectile installed is part of a larger problem tbh.
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3448/was-hubble-re...
In WAL mode, a write can mean writing some data in memory on the local machine. With Postgres/MySQL/etc, it has to go over the network.

I can't parse [0] right now about the overhead of TCP and round trips with the database server, but it's basically a question of whether one SQLite write is 10x, 100x, 1000x, or more faster than a database server write. That should make a lot of difference.

[0] https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832
> The Edge push

This is one area I give MS a pass. Google engaged in aggressive Chrome pushing for years, people seem to forget now that it’s so ubiquitous they don’t really need to anymore. It’s good someone is fighting back. Especially since, while I much prefer Firefox, Edge is actually decent.
I don't see how one can not find it funny.

Then again, I've never particularly desired to work for that line of "customer".
I don't think they are saying the destroy it...but postpone access to it until people are mature enough to read it in context.

Careful what you say about killing fascists...using violence to squash an ideology you don't agree with is basically fascism. People calling themselves anti-fascist but attacking people who are exercising their right to protest something is extremely stupid and hypocritical.
> I would never do this on my professional job due to the stigma, but for this side project, it has been incredible

Using the right tool for the job does indeed carry a lot of stigma in many professional environments. Instead you use the tool that some VP has been sold by some salesman.
So the people on the right have learned from the people on the left (I guess it eventually happens) and are now doing what they did.

Progressives have forty years of work to dominate school boards, starting with University administration, on down through K-12 administration, to the point where some elementary schools are teaching "white" children they should feel guilty for being born "white." No, this isn't happening everywhere, but it is happening in some schools.

Progressives have blown past Martin Luther King's "content of their character" and haired off into Animal Farm territory. This is why MLK is now being claimed to be "problematic." His way led to reconciliation, rather than a new dominance hierarchy. Progressives in general seem to be playing to "win" not to solve, as MLK was.

When one force pushes that hard, it's likely to cause a reaction. I think we're seeing it.
Or 2 Kings 2:23-25
Precisely. First feed the public a bunch of baloney for the last 50 years, then turn around and say that you need to satisfy public opinion and that just so happens to align with your plans. Who would have expected that?
That is useful for current salaries, but new hires are likely to start much higher than the median because labor supply is constrained.
There is no concurrent writing with WAL mode
Fascinating. Could you write more about this, or do you have suggestions for what to read to learn more?
Not a "big project/service" but a Go project that uses Sqlite is one of my own, Timeliner[1] and its successor, Timelinize[2] (still in development). Yeah the cgo dependency kinda sucks but you don't feel it in code, just compilation. And it easily manages Timeline databases of a million and more entries just fine.

[1]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner

[2]: https://twitter.com/timelinize
Van Nuys, Los Angeles, CA was where the IP was located.

> IP Address: 68.164.57.219

> IP Block: 68.164.57.128 – 68.164.57.255

> Reverse DNS: h-68-164-57-219.lsan.ca.dynamic.megapath.net

> Host: Covad Communications. Van Nuys, CA, USA

> Location: Van Nuys, CA, USA

Could have even been something like Satoshi wasn't on his normal setup at the time and it slipped through. Maybe on vacation or a wireless connection that connected near there. Or the IP lookup was even slightly off and they were in Sherman Oaks or anything really. Sometimes even wireless connections can appear to come from an entirely different state based on the network. The IP could have also been spoofed or temporary.

Covad Communications was the 16th biggest ISP at the time and then "Covad was acquired a by private equity firm, Platinum Equity, in April 2008. In 2010, it was sold to U.S. Venture Partners, which merged Covad, and Speakeasy into MegaPath." [1]

It appears when this IP connected (Jan 2009) it was owned by the private equity firm Platinum Equity [2].

The IP was definitely logged in Los Angeles, beyond that it could be anything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covad

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_Equity
> Going through monetary history, we show how a true numeraire must be one of minimum variance with respect to an arbitrary basket of goods and services

This isn't true. In the 14th century, for example, someone would find a silver mine, get the blessing of the king and start making money. Money wasn't connected in any way to "an arbitrary basket of goods and services." If Taleb rejects silver coins as a 'true' numeraire then he's just arguing a definition.
I think I gave some pretty specific example areas, but to get even more granular: I wonder if they will stock McWhorter’s “Woke Racism” or Abigail Shrier’s “Irreversable Damage.”

As to the question “what about books I think are really bad?” I don’t see how that’s much different than what these parents are asking.

And personally, I would expect high school libraries to have Lenin’s “What is to be done?” and Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” I wonder how many do?
I believe you mean that you can't easily do a "psql ..." or connect using DataGrid and similars, right?

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?
I think that might be a great reason why! To make windows a unified advertising identifier.

ATT (and verizon tried too) got these ad platforms because they wanted to unite their 1st party user device data to an advertising graph.

They tried to enable targeting individuals (on harder to 1:1 target devices too). But they never seemed to actually merge the two 'pipes' together that well.

Because google & apple have blocked more targeted advertising for everyone but themselves, creating a competing platform that doesn't rely on 3p cookies or IDFA etc would be really valuable.

FB direct response ads are totally dead for us. Apple & google killed it. We use Xandr and they do have some broad demo 1p targeting segments, device expansion, but it's nothing like FB. Still have to use a 3rd party to load 1:1 lists, at least we do.

Google already has a huge login base on the web. In addition, AFAIK google includes a uuid in chrome that only google properties can read - I have never found info on if they use that for ad targeting, or correct my memory if i'm wrong on that?

Microsoft could create something like that. They would probably have to expand IE use or do something shady in between chrome and the web.

Maybe if they want to get into streaming too - blurg.

OR a better idea imho would be a microsoft smart tv, MSFT SSP + exclusive to xandr inventory included. There is some gaming advertising too that could be thought out and expanded. Maybe bundle xbox inside a tv, sell it at a loss to stream ads.
Are you saying senior engineers who don’t use HN have different values from those that do?
> e.g. the distinction between file.txt (lowercase L) and fiIe.txt (uppercase i)...

Just want to remind a little but extremely important thing: There's absolutely no guarantees that upper("i") is I. There's at least one language breaks that convention, and you won't believe how a big headache is that.
Even in the early days of computing, there were obvious benefits to networking computers. The work wasn't done for no reason, there was clear value in coming up with all of these protocols. The main reason it took so long for general adoption was the fact that computers were not in most family homes until the 1990s. The barrier to adopting the internet wasn't the inherent value of the protocols it was the cost of the machine to the average consumer.

I'm confident in saying this because we are further along in the computing adoption cycle and we haven't really come up with anything useful.

Your point about transferring something to someone else without a third party ignores transaction costs. Who cares if you need a third party if you are purchasing something legally and the cost to transact is low?
I don't consider a PhD to be in any way equivalent to a MBA. As far as training goes, a PhD is about how to do research. The result often in fact is a step down in salary. Plus it seems to be very difficult to find any recent data on salaries.

This, from 2013 (!), says PhD salaries are about 15% more and signing bonuses are less. (https://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/10/22/salary-ranges-for-s...)
Can happen. When I was about 4 I managed to get my finger on the contacts of the plug as I inserted it. This was an old USSR plug... I next remember being in the middle of the room. I thought one of my parents sneaked up on me an grabbed me.. but there was no-one around. I had no idea what happened and kinda just ignored it. I then got electrocuted in shop class in my teens and had the AHA moment as I understood what happened to me as a kid.
It feels like an ARG, like Daniel Mullins is going to release a game in a few years that uses something in this blog as the key for a cypher.
The sqlite3 utility can be used to create a transaction-consistent backup of a live database. This interface is the only way that a backup should be taken, either from the utility or the C API.

.backup ?DB? FILE Backup DB (default "main") to FILE

https://sqlite.org/cli.html
> There's no reward, you'd be getting the same tax break if the child was not kidnapped.

Except if the kid was not kidnapped, you have to pay for the kid's expenses and welfare.

I expect somebody who wants to keep the tax break without the kid is not too worried about the kid's intrinsic welfare.
- I don't think SeL4 is "defunct" even though CSIRO's decision on the Trustworthy Systems group was profoundly incompetent; here's a relatively recent post from Gernot Heiser: https://microkerneldude.org/2021/09/28/where-is-sel4-heading...

Also: https://sel4.systems/news/2021

Do you know more that would substantiate defunct-ness?

- Your comment also reinforces my point: if aerospace seeks to be more rigorous, then more in aerospace should be figuring out how to shore up development of SeL4. Instead, they continue with no vision as to what should one day replace things like VxWorks.