skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally named my dog Piet after this. The tradition is crazy to see live. Blackfaces, protestors, anti-protestors, police.... and Sinterklaas trying to pretend everything is fine.
It's like that now, but Google Docs will eventually start moving in on Word's more sophisticated feature set.
In Eastern Europe I feel like Viber/Telegram have won, with Instagram/Facebook messenger second, and Whatsapp a distant also-ran.
What you're describing sounds an awful lot like public transit.
Why varchar over char? The length is always the same.
I don't think recursive decent parsers is what people think of when it's about "parsing theory". In my mind the theory is more about classifying arbitrary languages that were not necessarily designed to be easily parsed by machines, and about models to parse them nevertheless.

If you write a recursive descent parser, you're probably parsing a language that was explicitly designed to be parsed with straightforward code, and that can mean the language is compromising on brevity and expressivity sometimes.
100% this. I've set up several new Macs lately. It's essential to skip any step that asks you to provide an AppleID unless you want a world of hurt.

If you want iCloud or Apple Music you can set those up with your AppleID later (I cannot imagine wanting iCloud but that's just me).
...they still allow/use LEADED fuel in aircraft everywhere in 2022 despite everything horrifying we know about that now. It's not just a lack of care for health of a population, there has to be some serious profit/politics in that decision.

This specific complaint is kind of silly, since there is no "population" at risk in the aviation context. The use of tetraethyl lead for a single day by automobiles in urban areas where children live was worse for human health than its use for decades at aviation elevations over wilderness where most aircraft spend most of their operating time.

There could be concentrations around airports I guess, but those would be better dealt with by local regulations than by a blanket ban. It is good for humanity that aircraft built in the 1940s are still in use today. Obsoleting all those engines would be harmful.
That is a bit late. You don't make backups after you lost your data.
That made me smile. A little persistence paid off 3x!
And Google just paid.
This is so depressing, and I am left with just over 60%.I can't imagine how someone would feel with just 10% or even less..
The same families that were wealthy three hundred years ago are still wealthy in the UK, roughly speaking.
Length isn't the primary issue. Locality is.

UUIDs are generally generated randomly. This results in terrible insert performance into B+tree-based indexes, and terrible (= no) lookup locality with basically any database. In a large table, successive entries ends up in separate disk pages.

Even with time-based UUIDs, the time fields are ordered backward, which produces the same issue.

One way to fix this (beside the methods outlined in the article) is to create time-based UUIDs with fields sorted the other way around. Or reverse the time fields during indexing (slower, but still not as slow as an unnecessary disk read!).
Why is it nonsense? The wealthy and connected can already give their progeny undue access to opportunities via their social networks, and can afford the best education that money can buy. That's already way more of an advantage than the average citizen gets.

Besides, the whole point is to maximize equality of opportunity.
That's only part of it, the major problem with classic UUIDs are that writes occur randomly across the entire keyspace. Whether it's represented as a string or in binary, ordering does not change, and so the underlying indexing method must cope with these random orderings at insertion time.

At least btrees perform much worse with random insertions. I don't know how much impact it has on LSM
The virus is not going away and will be able to mutate forever, yet sooner or later we'll have to go back to normality (though I hope that some degree of masking and remote working will remain).

Vaccination is the only way to get there as fast as possible, but even if you make it mandatory you would have to check it somewhere for people to actually get the vaccine. Even if you add a 100 euro/month fine, there are plenty of people that have been spending more than that in tests to go to work.
> You're far more likely to get knocked into the bottom 10%, and especially the bottom 50%, than get into the top 10%.

The odds don't say that at all necessarily. That entirely depends on you, your competency, your circumstances, the random events in your life.

Depending on who and what you are, your odds can be dramatically better that you will end up in the top 10% than that you will end up in the bottom 50%.

All people are not created equal and are obviously not born into equal circumstances. It invalidates the premise of applying detached likelihoods (detached from the person they're supposed to apply to) to such a concept entirely.

A simple example is Bill Gates. The odds were radically better that he'd end up in the top 10% than in the bottom 50%, based on his traits and circumstances growing up. The same goes for Paul Allen, even though he came from a different economic background than Gates; his attributes, circumstances growing up and chosen professional field heavily tilted the odds toward top 10% rather than bottom 50%. You have to know enough about the person you're talking about, if you want to have some glimmer of insight at the odds in question.
Good to hear about another successful transition from Confluence!
In terms of space usage and its impact on the buffer pool, storing as 128-bit integers (if your DBMS supports it, which MySQL does not) is essentially equivalent to the bin16 case in the first "UUID insertion rates" graph. Performance still falls off a cliff, just a little bit later. As the author says, "The use of a smaller representation for the UUID values just allows more rows to fit in the buffer pool but in the long run, it doesn't really help the performance, as the random insertion order dominates."

If you look at the fastest approach the author tried in the second "UUID insertion rate" graph, it actually stores a modified UUID in a 36-character string. There is a missed optimization to store the modified UUID as 16 bytes, rather than 36, but imposing some order on the keys is the dominant improvement.
You need to use slack or google for the selfhost setup. Which is non starter for many people.
> Not funny when you lose your music and software worth several hundred euros.

Indeed. I never spent much money on Apple media or applications, but in the last few years I've spent nothing.
Apparently they are able to build a DC line 4k km between Australia and Singapore?

If people/countries would have prioritized this kind of stuff, there would be a few more DC cables around the globe.

It is an easy fix to have renewable energy across the globe.

At least in Germany most new build building have solar panels on the roof.
If it's a shadow ban, then everything would look normal for you when logged in, wouldn't it? I'd be more concerned about a regular ban where you may lose access to your content altogether.
My car failed the emissions MOT a few times inthe UK and it was less than 10 years old at the time.
I just ran into this problem with Notion earlier this week. It was really disappointing how bad the experience was with even just two people trying to work on the same document. I quickly gave up.
This would be a huge blow to the middle class.
The figures (70% for second generation, 90% for third generation) has been reported by media article after media article over the last decade (at least). I see them all the time.

Some articles attribute the source to the Williams Group Wealth Consultancy. Of course, they are selling their wealth management services so they have an incentive to "juice" the numbers by leading questions and nonrandom samples.

I've never seen the actual "study" so their methodology can't be subject to scrutiny. I suspect it's an informal survey of a specific population.

Financial articles in general tend to be extremely low effort and low quality. I wouldn't attribute anything more than shitty writing, which is basically 90% of financial articles.
LSMs and fractal trees handle random inserts much better. But you still lose locality of lookups: items generated near each other time-wise are not correlated on disk.
Thanks for the pointer. It is an interesting point of view indeed.

However, I think bartering has always existed for a reason, and when it did not or trading was forbidden, what you end up is with poorer or more violent societies.

This is the same reason why we specialize our labour and we do not do all things: shoes, food, blankets, bridges, roads, trains, planes, computers. Because if we had to self-supply fully, our lives would be much more miserable. From there it follows that trading is a natural choice: I can give something valuable and someone else can give me something valuable in exchange. Of course that gets mixed with debt and other stuff (I did not read your reference yet so I cannot assess how true it is in my very limited opinion) but the alternative to bartering, trading, etc. is violence. Every time.

There is an analysis from a well-known spanish philosopher that died short ago, his name is Antonio Escohotado, well-known for having written a book about the history of drugs that was translated to many languages.

He wrote a 3-volumes book that is called "Los enemigos del comercio" (The enemies of trade).

He researched the topic with unusual passion, since when he was young he used to be a communist. He wanted to explain to himself why he was so communist at some point. He spend around 15 years writing that. One of his main conclusion is that the alternative to trading is trading people (slaves) and the conquer of the other (violence). I really think it is true. He establishes some relationships between the amount of trading and the violence in societies (military vs trade societies). I think it is a nice read, but I am not sure it is translated to other languages as of now. The one for the drugs it is.

Greetings.
Love it, i always wanted to buy a watch that did this and not time :)
That's another fallacy of frequentist reasoning, that we have to draw definitive conclusions from evidence. That something is definitely false until we have "statistical significance" where it all of a sudden becomes definitely true.

In real life, to borrow your description, we can hold varying levels of belief in statements depending on how strong the evidence is, and the magnitude of the payoff in the various cases.

Maybe the probability of the result in the study in question is 51 %. That's still more than 50 %. Whether that difference is meaningful to you is not something someone else can decide.
> NFTs are only 3 years old

No they're not.

I co-founded Fabrica.land in 2017, and in mid 2018 we used an NFT to perform a real estate transaction. That's already 3.5 years, and NFTs were already around.
The first transaction was a bit "rough", but perfectly valid. Lot of progress since then.

From [0]: The ERC-20 (Ethereum Request for Comments 20), proposed by Fabian Vogelsteller in November 2015, is a Token Standard that implements an API for tokens within Smart Contracts.

Note: yes, ERC-20 has a few flaws [1], and subsequent ERC have improved on it.

[0]: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/standards/tokens/erc...

[1]: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/20
Speaking for myself, I've dreamed of simple labor when work gets frustrating, but I quickly tire and get bored of it when I do have it. In a state of "flow" however, there's no want for farm fantasies. The ideal for myself is a hobbyist means to work with my hands and turn my mind off - such as cooking, gardening.

I think for people like myself, the back-to-nature pursuits are reactionary ideas to stress or bullshit jobs. The appeal is emotional. In truth I have no interest in subsistence lifestyle.
Distributed storage does not make any difference for lock-in with a centralized API. For example, imagine a system for storing photos on some distributed system and a popular, centralized web front-end for users. Now what I will do with the centralized front-end is to give users a "value-add" by encrypting their photos, thus protecting their privacy, and better still I will use my proprietary key management technology to relieve end users of the various problems with losing private keys. Lock-in achieved, and all you accomplished with distributed storage was to outsource the maintenance of the storage infrastructure.

We already see this with blockchain payments. The vast majority of merchants who accept cryptocurrency payment do so through a service that manages their wallet and typically offers some kind of value-added features to lock them in. There is no reason to believe the same will not happen with Web3, if it is not happening already.
How financial markets should be.
I can’t speak for other countries but I don’t think you understand just how much land America has. Drive across it sometime. The wind farms are on land that goes on forever.

> The global weighted-average cost of electricity of new onshore wind farms in 2019 was USD 0.053/kWh with country/region values of between USD 0.051 and USD 0.099/kWh depending on the region. Costs for the most competitive projects are now as low USD 0.030/kWh, without financial support.
> My fear is that, if this kind of reporting is just because SARS‑CoV‑2 infections are front of mind for the popular culture, these kinds of reports will be used to suggest there's more "special bad" with Covid when in fact there might not be. Bad policy tends to grasp onto any rationale it can find, and facts without context can be the worst for this.

> reports will be used to suggest there's more "special bad" with Covid

You are arguing in bad faith. Starting with asking innocent questions in appearance only to build your argument that there is no problem.

There are more and more reports that there is a "special bad" with Covid.

Denying it won't help.
I think the most charitable interpretation is a future where you don't have to "export your data" from facebook or google or fortnight, because your data is encrypted on the blockchain: your emails, your social graph, your avatar, your virtual real estate. fwiw I don't think you can provide enough bandwidth, disk space and computes to achieve this, but good luck.

"85 terabytes per year is totally fine" -vitalik
https://twitter.com/zndtoshi/status/1478387674335559681
I'm sure I take bigger penalty hits for less, sorry but UUID's "click" in my head and they prevent a whole slew of foot-guns. It would be one thing if auto-inc was the same as UUID but there are really annoying things with auto-inc (not knowing the id until after insert being top of mind) and also you can generate UUID's client-side/offline if needed. Yes, I know some people argue for auto-inc as primary and still use UUID for client-facing but I don't understand what that really gets you and it seems way more complicated.
I have NaN time remaining?
I recently read a book by Google’s head guy on API design that was specifically about designing APIs and it had a big section on what makes a good identifier and why people reach for UUIDs and why specifically it is a problem on multiple levels.

The thing that he ended up recommending however was super interesting in that I had never seen it mentioned before but it was basically to use this instead http://www.crockford.com/base32.html
I have the same dilemma. I think I'll start fresh while keeping a copy of my old disk around to copy stuff whenever I realize I need it.
Technically, we do. Pen Plotters. You can even re-use a large part of your 3d printer frame.
Spoken dialog is a killer. Studios have to contract voice actors and then it's very difficult to make tweaks later. Why not fancy text to speech with variables for intonation, smoker/nonsmoker, age, gender, accent, etc.

Going even further, things like GPT can generate text given an input. It's beyond me but couldn't something similar be used to describe environments on the fly to be generated, or generate NPC stories on the fly given inputs?

I think a lot of this tech is coming together and games are about to get a whole lot larger, more immersive, and cheaper to produce. Even just replacing voice actors would be a huge leap.
How secure is their fingerprint reader? More secure than the ones on mobile decides I hope?
Yes, thankfully 100% of kids have access to their own computer, sufficient internet access, an environment free of stress or distractions, and the focus and internal motivation to be an successful auto-didact in the absence of adult supervision… /s
Emerson and Thoreau’s Fanatical Freedom
I, for one, draw comfort from the fact that generational wealth seems to be relatively uncommon.

If this weren't the case, wouldn't the US economy be dominated by Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans, Rockefellers and Carnegies? While some families still maintain some wealth (eg Rockefellers), it's nothing like the relative wealth from whence it came.

Trusts expiring aren't the reason. Perpetual trusts won't lock in generational wealth forever. Human nature just gets in the way.

Trust administrators can be corrupt or just bad, determined trustees can dissolve the trust, wealth gets diluted across generations as the numbers grow and of course just being given a huge pile of money is no guarantee you have the mindset, skills and luck to maintain it.

All of this is good. The ultimate form of wealth redistribution is war and revolution. Wealth inequality seems to be ultimately self-correcting. I just don't believe that in 200 or even 100 years the world will be dominated by Bezos's descendants.

While there are clearly problems with inequality now, the simple fact is that there is no better time to be a human than now compared to the entire of human history for the average person by pretty much any objective measure you can reasonably choose.
"Lisp" covers several languages with significantly different goals.

For Common Lisp I like Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence: case studies in Common Lisp because it has short examples of how Common Lisp programs can be put together in practice.

And I think Common Lisp is worth learning because it is an underlying element when it comes to other Lisps like Racket and Clojure and eLisp...they either adopt what Common Lisp does or reject it, but they don't ignore it.
I really like the recent trend of megatank printers that just take a dumb bottle of ink to refill.
I recently come across a similar question on Reddit. While I can't offer the company perspective I can offer a maintainer perspective:

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/rwmiwn/recommen...?
I wonder how wealthy your great grandparent was. Cars aren't relevant purchases for the types of wealth I'd consider under examination for this type of article.

It's tough because a multi millionaire family certainly has wealth worth discussing. It's just such a different ballgame from a family worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
At least it doesn't have to load 20 MB of image macros. Not more obnoxious than hyperbole.

Here is his tl;dr from the bottom. (Admittedly, a violation of BLUF)

* There are significant design flaws in Go, both the language and the
standard library, that enable entire classes of bugs that have very real
consequences.

* These flaws are not immediately obvious to everyone - which is fine - so
we took a very long and detailed look at them, one by one.

* These flaws are not unavoidable - the situation is not desperate. *It
doesn't have to be like this.*

* There has been progress in enabling misuse-resistant design, and I strongly
encourage you to learn about it, even if it turns out you can't use those
novel languages, because some of the techniques can be applied to classical
languages as well.
Cambridge Digital Library – Newton Papers
2d printing sounds a bit less romantic than the 3d kind.
In France many books come in a default format which is a massive waste of space - big size, the paper is very thick, the font is pretty big, and there's a lot of whitespace on each page. And some books get a "pocket edition" which doesn't do any of those. If it were just the font it could be explained by targeting/adapting to people with poor vision, but the rest makes no sense besides to waste paper.
The hygrometers in my house swing between 30% and 70% depending on the season, but I apparently don't need to take that into account when buying printer ink. "Uh oh, it's raining! Honey, get the South America ink cartridge, quick! I have a form to print!"
Pro tip for the emissions test: make sure the catalytic converter has had a chance to get red hot (by taking the test after a high speed drive).
Seems broken? Tells me I have 60-some percent of my life remaining (I was born 1964, when I return to settings it seems stuck on 1992 - for which 60% would make sense).
What kind of stupidly is this?

Did Apple hire the guy in charge of Windows 10 user accounts?
> The reason why you need to look at what households pay is because the electricity companies are the ones who need to deal with the volatility and what they charge to customers is the price of reliable energy.

Nope. The price households pay is "capped" by government policy. Bread and circuses my friend. The result of electricity companies being unable to "deal with the volatility" is that they go bankrupt, if you'd followed that Ogem link it probably highlighted that it has information for UK consumers worried what happens when their supplier goes bankrupt, as huge numbers have (the answer is, in very short term future, nothing important since of course the retail electricity companies don't actually supply any electricity to anybody, they're just an artificial construct).

> I also disagree thoroughly with the idea that you can take 3 samples from statistical noise and deduce an average, as you have done.

I linked Ofgem's site which shows you all this data over an extended period, I just gave you three examples to save on reading, and you... averaged them and then complained this is statistical noise.

> I also think it's laughable that natural gas prices are controlled by Putin.

Laughable or not, Putin in practice controls the Russian company Gazprom which supplies most of Europe's natural gas. That company chose to supply only the bare minimum of what was contracted, even though its buyers would like to buy closer to the upper end of their contract range. Because politically this is in Putin's interest.

Now of course Britain, far from Russia and with its own oil fields and other sources, is not directly depending on Russia for gas, unlike several other important European countries, however, you correctly notice that supply and demand influences pricing. For Britain's neighbour's who can't get Russian gas the British gas is suddenly very attractive, raising its prices, and thus we're back to where we began, Putin is ultimately why you can see that big spike in the Ofgem charts that you are pretending is "just noise"...
I find it odd that the article does not even mention the most common factor that helps some people become insanely wealthy while similar people do not in the same time period... luck.
Times like July 4th are the worst to be at the beach. Super crowded, usually very very hot, rentals cost a fortune, etc.

Imo "beach life" is about how things are when it's not a holiday.
qq: is the author's style more or less obnoxious than announcing your opinion on someone's writing style when it wasn't solicited?
Still plenty of time. Live the life!
I have “ Application error: a client-side exception has occurred” time. Perhaps I’m actually a robot and this is it :(