skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[..] This story about the Vara is also super interesting and similar to the Ark story, though not with a big flood but a long winter and "foul frost". The numbers make more sense, because they gather over a thousand "seeds of men and women" instead of only a single family.[..]

Thank you. The links are very helpful.

The flood myth in Vedic Hindu mythology is called Pralaya..the Great Dissolution. [..] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pralaya

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga_Cycle [..] A Yuga Cycle (a.k.a. chatur yuga, maha yuga, etc.) is a cyclic age (epoch) in Hindu cosmology. Each cycle lasts for 4,320,000 years (12,000 divine years[a]) and repeats four yugas (world ages): Krita (Satya) Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga.

As a Yuga Cycle progresses through the four yugas, each yuga's length and humanity's general moral and physical state within each yuga decrease by one-fourth. Kali Yuga, which lasts for 432,000 years, is believed to have started in 3102 BCE. Near the end of Kali Yuga, when virtues are at their worst, a cataclysm and a re-establishment of dharma occur to usher in the next cycle's Satya Yuga, prophesied to occur by Kalki.

There are 71 Yuga Cycles in a manvantara (age of Manu) and 1,000 Yuga Cycles in a kalpa (day of Brahma).[..]

At the end of the 4 ages, Seven Sages will save the Vedas to pass it on to the next edition of the universe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saptarishi : [..] At the end of every four ages there is a disappearance of the Vedas and it is the province of the seven Rishis to come down upon earth from heaven to give them currency.[..]

All other life and the universe is Maya or illusion. Even the Gods are gone. They too were part of the illusion.

Only Brahman remains. This formless attributeless universal consciousness will restart creation after every great dissolution. Everything is part of Brahman and Brahman is part of everything. This cycle of creation and dissolution is endless.
> Evolution hasn't had a chance to account for birth control yet. It's only been around for 60 years or so.

I'm no anthropologist, but I'm pretty sure various forms of birth control have existed for at least several hundred, if not several thousands of years. Granted, the invention of the birth control pill was a pretty big milestone, but it's not like nobody had ever thought of ways to fuck without getting pregnant before then.
I don't think in this case it'll be messenger IDs (and if it is definitely not chinese) as GCHQ is the UK's equivalent of the NSA.

They're a pretty secretive bunch, when they present in person they don't use real names, and if you go to their headquarters you have to leave all electronics at the door (did a talk there once and had to buy myself an analog watch for the day!)
sorry for not being clear. Yes I referred to the joy of discovering them for the first time.
RSV has no vaccine unlike Covid 19. If people do not want to get vaccinated, then that is their problem.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination
Reminds me of the mysterious drones spotted over us navy destroyers 10 months ago. I wonder if they are related?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26563090
How do you plan on knowing you have COVID if you're hoarding (and this not using) the tests? The majority of cases are asymptomatic...
Calling code on the left, function-being-called (or rather, its stack frame) on the right. Unless it's asynchronous message-passing stuff in which case the parts are in disconnected spaces.

At my previous job there was a lot of code that abused a pub-sub system to effectively do buggy temporally-coupled RPC. This didn't fit any paradigm I knew how to visualize (it went straight into the "fucking mess, don't try to understand it unless you're going to fix it" section of my mental library) and therefore I had a very hard time understanding what was going on, or getting much done at all, for that matter. I opened some tickets with suggestions for ways we could make it make sense but management deemed that type of work lower priority than chair-warming (this was last fall during the 'employees should be in the office X hours per week' period; meanwhile I was living 300 miles away) so I gtfo.
Activision-Blizzard was the worst performing gaming companies during COVID so it stands to reason that this would be the best gaming developer considering how well Bungie did as an acquisition for Halo and the acquisition of mojang.

There is so much IP that is tied up with Activision-Blizzard that it seems like a good deal.
Thank you thank you thank you.

Business Insider is a cancer of a business.
As someone who learned about GPS and was impressed by its structure, I used to tell my friends around me, whenever I had the opportunity, how great GPS was.

Now I saw this article and I got goosebumps, well done, thank you very much! It's really fantastic. From today it will be enough for me to just share this article with my friends, or I will tell along with this article.
The crazy thing is that those other viruses are more serious for kids than covid.
It takes a huge, lengthy effort to make a browser that is close enough to standards compliance and performant enough that people would be happy using it.

Even if you do all those things, there's little guarantee that your efforts would be noticed by many people, since you would need to do a LOT of marketing (especially to get your browser installed by default in MS/macOS worlds).

The costs are just not worth the risk-adjusted rewards.
> It's that artists get a different source of income (which may require stopping being an artist).

What a peculiar thought: Is an artist still an artist if they stop being an artist?

> Come on, the alternative to taxpayers subsidising artists isn't that artists face a choice between death or revolt.

No of course not, yet artists committing suicide for being unable to create their art isn't exactly unheard of. And what I said is exactly true if you maybe think about things a little differently.
I can buy a photography book and view it with super cool vintage Rayban Kalichrome sunglasses thereby altering the colors of the photographs.
Have you tried unnesting the subquery? From the images posted in your blog it's not clear to me how often the subquery is run. Maybe unnesting it somehow like this should work well:

SELECT COUNT(*) as "count",
COALESCE(MAX(EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM age(now(), runs.created_at)))::bigint, 0) AS "max_age"
FROM runs
JOIN stacks ON runs.stack_id = stacks.id
JOIN worker_pools ON worker_pools.id = stacks.worker_pool_id
JOIN accounts ON stacks.account_id = accounts.id
/*unnesting*/
join (SELECT accounts_other.id, COUNT(*) as cnt
FROM accounts accounts_other
JOIN stacks stacks_other ON accounts_other.id = stacks_other.account_id
JOIN runs runs_other ON stacks_other.id = runs_other.stack_id
WHERE accounts_other.id
AND (stacks_other.worker_pool_id IS NULL OR
stacks_other.worker_pool_id = worker_pools.id)
AND runs_other.worker_id IS NOT NULL
group by accounts_other.id) as acc_cnt
on acc_cnt.id = accounts.id and accounts.max_public_parallelism / 2 > acc_cnt.cnt
/*end*/
WHERE worker_pools.is_public = true
AND runs.type IN (1, 4)
AND runs.state = 1
AND runs.worker_id IS NULL
/* maybe also copy these filter predicates inside the unnested query above */

Edit: format and typo
Gitless – a simple version control system built on top of Git
Sure, but Time Warner shareholders accepted AOL equity at an over-valued price. THAT's the fleece - Time Warner kept being a company despite AOL's failure, but the ownership shifted dramatically toward former owners of AOL.

Also worth noting on the AOL/Time Warner comparisons everyone is making: Everyone knew dial-up was on the way out in 2000, they just assumed AOL would 'figure it out' because they were the current market leader. Not clear to me (other than maybe metaverse, controversially) what MSFT's looming problem they need to 'figure out' is.
To me that's like saying there's not a housing shortage, just a shortage of people willing to pay what home sellers are asking.

Right now, the US population is higher than it's ever been, but there are several million fewer workers than in 2019. That's the definition of a shortage.
For how bizarre that moment was, he was 100% correct. Developers are the lifeblood of a hardware platform like this.
It's hard to really test business logic without hitting the database or other components, no matter the language and the framework. You really have to trust your mocks and sometimes you discover only in production that one of them didn't do what it should do. It happened to me.

The teams I work with tend to write unit tests to demonstrate that a class or module or whatever work, then integration tests to demonstrate that that part of the application works from the frontend code down to the database.
It looks to me like his reply is based on the assumption of using it as a daily driver and yours is more focused on it as a dev device.

For me, it's not beating everything else by virtue of 99% of phones working as daily drivers out of the box. From all I've heard elsewhere, and even in comments in this thread from owners it clearly does not pass that bar.
You could do that, just like you could write a web app in assembly.

stuff like https://sonic-pi.net/#examples does exists, but what you start to realize is that, is even the "code first" approaches to making music, you are really just generating configuration on the fly that's being processed buy some other engine underneath, in this case it's Super collider.
The difference between free will and Russell’s teapot IMO is that free will to many is an internal, subjective, untestable experience whereas Russell’s teapot is an external object that is theoretically existent or non-existent for everyone regardless of their internal experience.

If someone says they experienced free will today when they chose to stand up, it’s on you to disprove that it couldn’t possibly happen to anyone ever, or come up with a definition of free will that means they couldn’t possibly experience what they claim to be experiencing. To them their experience is real. You’re claiming it’s not, so I don’t think Russell’s teapot applies here. I think you have set forth a bold claim that someone is not experiencing what they report they are experiencing.

> I'd argue that "free will" would require an entity to be able to do something which cannot be explained by the combination of determinism and randomness

What is your benchmark for determinism? No technology we have can predict or determine a human action. While it’s reasonable to assume that humans are deterministic, it’s still just a theory at this point. If I put the onus on you to prove determinisms in humans, you’d certainly win the Nobel as well.

That’s kind of my point is that both sides of the free will debate are a far cry from having enough evidence or the ability to conduct an experiment to settle the issue. Yet many believe they experience free will everyday and many don’t, because it’s a subjective experience.
There's a significant and well-documented gap between voter preferences and our laws. Last I checked it's even larger in the US than in most democracies (our electoral system is designed to be that way, and also has failed in ways not originally expected, magnifying the effect)
https://iamanovice.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/tcid50/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_insulated_panel Looks like the thing. So, yeah, very good vacuum. It's apparently decades for the lifespan, but much of it boils down to the materials being used.
My original point was that abstractions are not evil, hell, without them we would only have calculators, not computers.

Go not having too high abstraction power, while can be an advantage (as per the creator, not my words, you can throw as many bad developers at a project as you want), but it is a disadvantage as well, because then you will have the logic in distributed places, copied verbatim etc, hindering maintainability, understanding the original intent, new dev onboarding, everything.
Several serious candidates in the 2020 presidential election explicitly supported federal marijuana legalization (or at least decriminalization). They didn't get many votes in the primaries, so apparently voters don't consider that an important issue.
So wage fixing and overexpensive housing is the fault of the worker now? In Silicon Valley people in their thirties are living with roommates, that's not the individual's fault, it's deliberate policy.
Judging by https://github.com/mawww/golf kakoune is capable of completing the majority of the same editing tasks as vim in a very similar amount of keystrokes. The main advantage of multiple selections is that you can see which text you will operate on ahead of time, rather than having to first select which operation you want (delete/yank/change/etc) and then which text it will affect. I think pointing out that vim's selections aren't as capable as kakoune's is a fair response, and saying that you can accomplish similar things without selections is a bit of a deflection.
"Consider the device compromised" means more than just "they have your data"

Compromised means that they will have anything you put on that device after that point. Meaning it should go straight into the shredder and go buy a new one.

Doesn't matter if its factory reset or not, it needs to go in the trash
I assume the logic is that if one person is a household is positive, you should just assume that everyone else is as well.
The eID card was doomed from the start by terrible usability. No device can read those cards natively, you needed a dongle. It also didn't work with native web technologies, you needed browser extensions. And if you lose your card, you need a weeks long replacement process, and cannot use your eID in the meantime.

Same problem with proton. Payment terminals needed to ask the consumer if they wanted to pay with proton or debit, and that added a few seconds of delay for the processing of every customer, which actually cost a lot to big supermarket chains, more than they saved with proton, and thus they dumped proton, and everybody followed suit.

Their functional successors, Itsme and Payconic have on the other hand great usability and thus have achieved much bigger successes.
I'm a great fan of cyberchef, really easy for quick chaining of decoding techniques to look at various types of data.
> If you are sick, you have Covid

In the past 2 months, at least 3 non-covid illnesses have torn through my family (flu and cold, all verified as non-COVID with multiple tests, both antigen and PCR).

If we start treating every case of the sniffles like COVID, we're going to be in perpetual shutdowns...
> This is because RoR projects do not do unit testing, they do integration testing with a real DB.

This is not correct.

Rails projects use unit testing, integration testing, and functional testing, as appropriate for the case.
I got a cuehealth [1] molecular test kit from my employer. I've been using it for family and friends we interact with and has detected 1 positive so far, confirmed by PCR.

I'm told they are equivalent to PCR but I'm not sure if that holds true. It has been a relief being able to test myself and family anytime from home. But I doubt I'd pay for it if it wasn't employer sponsored. It's pretty pricy. But I can see this as something you can share with a small community.

There's also detect [2] that is much more reasonably priced, but seems to be sold out since I heard about them.

[1] https://www.cuehealth.com/products/how-cue-detects-covid-19/
[2] https://detect.com/products/starter-kit
I use google drive + Sync to an s3 bucket in cold storage.

The most important ones (e.g wedding pictures) are also stored on a local disk.
For Postgres 12+ you'll have to use to force the plan

> WITH tmp AS MATERIALIZED
The only logical explanation for testing I can fathom is to use as an excuse to get time off work and/or social approval among peers.
While it is right that errors are not represented evenly even on a logarithmic scale, it is still a useful approximation to make.

In fact the integer value of the binary representation of a float approximates crudely the logarithm of the float. This was used in Quake's famous inverse square root approximation
Progressives are beginning to sound like those "if you build it they will come" conservatives who think the Republican Party would win if they just refocus on "fundamentals," like mandating Christianity.

The "ratchet effect" arises from the fact that the United States is a moderate country. If you look at the House popular vote over the last 20 years, Republicans have won it as often as Democrats. The House popular vote is a good metric to look at because it isn't affected by gerrymandering, and Republicans have an incentive to contest every single House seat (unlike with the Presidential popular vote, where Republicans have zero incentive to schlep all over rural California, New York, Illinois, etc., scrounging up votes).

Even within the Democratic Party itself, Biden decisively won the nomination. It's wasn't because of "electability." It's because the party is entirely dependent on minorities to be a viable national party, and American racial politics means that minorities often vote Democrat even if they are moderate to conservative. My parents are the "brown people" who turned Virginia blue. They liked Biden and disliked Warren. Not because of "electability" but because they're economically moderate and socially conservative, but as immigrants from a Muslim country they don't like Trump's rhetoric. That's the Democratic coalition, and progressives need to come to terms with that.
It could, and then it'd be a blockchain in SQL, like MSSQL's BLOCKCHAIN table type. Those features are definitional to a blockchain.
Because you think they won't install some sort of firmware for siphoning data? Just get a new device or leave your device at home
Depends on what you mean by "definition". They say[0] they only accept ads that do not disrupt the reading flow, can be distinguished from the rest of the content, and has a reasonable size (all clearly defined). (They also have more criterias, but those are the main ones).

But the problem is, that is very poorly enforced in practice. Whenever I use ABP, I see ads breaking the standard everywhere. To the point where I can only assume the Acceptable Ads definition is just a deflection.

And of course, there's the whole "you need to pay to get on the list" which creates some very awful incentives.

[0]: https://acceptableads.com/standard/
I guess I weight datacenter workloads much higher for perf/watt because the higher margins there is what funds next gen's R&D. Cranking up power to get perf under load is a move that cuts off funding streams in one of the most capital intensive industries.
Recently moved to the UK from Denmark. E-government wise I would say the UK is at least 10 years behind. And now instead of just one authority that has my details. I've lost count of how many places I've had to send a copy of my passport. It just does not make any sense to not have some kind of national eID.
Linux might be rare enough that they only make Windows machines and then have someone pull one out of the box put Linux on it if requested.
Hopefully, that'd probably the best outcome in this whole thing.
Then Congress should step in. This seems like something that would get bipartisan support.
It's also worth noting the FTC (not just the Justice Department) can sue to block mergers on competitive grounds: see Visa <> Plaid from 2020.
They're defo not Chinese. GCHQ is part of UK Intelligence. They also have the $id@publicemail.provider to hide their emails too.
Would defaultdict be appropriate for these situations?
Sadly, these are emulated quite poorly.
The simple answer is, browsers are brutally hard. Browsers have to support an almost infinite amount of instructions, whether it's html, css, js and now wasm, not to mention the insane amounts of apis, protocols and so on. I mean just open the developer tools and think of the insane amount of work that would have to go into developing something like this. Even Microsoft with thousands of developers at their disposal and finances to double them with a snap of a finger, figured that it's not worth developing a browser engine in-house. That alone speaks volumes.
At the Local and State level - I don't understand why people don't get this - at the Federal level you have representation. The United States intent was to Unite the States on Federal/National issues - not local ones - the intent was to leave the states to rules at the state level, not make sure "everyone in the United States" is "doing the same thing".
I also behave and talk all day long as if we have free will, it's just a useful abstraction. But my world view will not shatter if someone puts me into an MRI machine and tells me what I will choose for dinner later that day.
I think your last statement captures something that not often emphasized, which is that startup time of workers and app are variable costs which scale with the amount of parallelization and so if you have a very large test suite there may be a limit where setup eats up so much time that parallelizing more is going to be pretty "wasteful" and I guess that's where the money comes in.

Secondly if you're actually trying to startup 100+ test workers per build and so on there's going to be some time distribution for how long it takes for each worker to startup and that adds a bit more time for all workers to complete. This distribution probably isn't _that_ wide timewise but if you really start to push your test suite runtime down it may pop up. If you're running things in docker sometimes a node doesn't have the image in it's docker cache...

Unsure if CI services like buildkite have really made this that much faster but it seems like they are using a single box with 64 cores.
Developing a modern feature-rich browser is a gargantuan task and you need many skilled (expensive) developers to work on it; easily millions of USD yearly in salaries alone. Some donations here and there won't cut it, you basically need FAANG money to do it. Additionally, at least the last time I checked, Mozilla has made it impossible to donate to Firefox development; donations go to their activism branch, not browser dev [1]. In 2020 they also fired 25% of their work force [2]. They'll probably sunset the product altogether within a few years and that leaves us with an ever-greater market share of Chrome and derivatives, and from here on out it's hard to conceive of a viable strategy to develop an independent browser. Maybe a government or EU could do it, but that comes with its own set of problems.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/a98gmi/donations_t...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/firef...
Follow the directions on the box. If it doesn’t say to swab your throat, maybe wait on that. Free styling on medical tests doesn’t always lead to repeatable results.
> This is because RoR projects do not do unit testing, they do integration testing with a real DB.

Lots of RoR projects do unit testing without the DB involved, I did it for ~10years and you can write small unit tests until your eyes bleed, but eventually you'll want to test the controllers.

> There are whole sets of testing "tools" for RoR projects that promote this mechanism of testing - if you're testing an API you need to use an external tool to properly hit that API.

You can just use the built in minitest tools and some fixtures to hit the API, and even back it with sqlite so it's fast and light. Most people don't because thing like Rspec, FaktoryBot, and Cuprite are convenient and nice to work with if a bit slow.

>If you're writing unit tests, write unit tests with mocked dependencies.

There were like 3 talks at Rails Conf about this, people do it all the time in Rails land.
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