skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(author) Yes, it's a tradeoff. ws4sqlite was meant to give an unstructured way to access sqlite, that cannot be accessed on the net; while I see PostgREST (a wonderful product that I also use) as a way to implement persistence for a model you already have in your application. They're not "direct competitors", as I see it, and PostgREST is much more ambitious (and complex, arguably).
> No one is dumb enough to try to make a central (and traditional) database/system for digital money.

Uhm, isn't that what literally every bank in the world is nowadays?...
Misleading title and article. Facebook and Instagram are allowing people in countries neighboring Russia to call for violence against Russian who are not civilians.

"We still won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians,” Meta said in a statement."

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/11/facebook-...

This article from Reuters is at best clickbait, and at worse Russian pro-war propeganda. People are eating this stuff up because they have a hate-boner for progressives, wokeism, and Facebook. If this confirms your biases too well, it might be a good idea to cross-examine.

Edit: When Meta actually allows calls for violence against Russian civilisans, I will be the first to complain. After all, I am Russian by blood.
Luckily, in 2022 Bahn Mi is trending and available in many neighborhoods in Tokyo.
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On November 1st 1956 the Hungarian people declared the country neutrality
following the austrian model, hoping on UN help that never materialized,
the Security Council met in NY on November 2nd without deciding anything.
On November 3rd 1956 the Soviet Red Army occupied Hungary, destroying the
peaceful aspiration of Hungary, to simply be a neutral country and live
its own life.
Maybe this is the answer...
Maybe in Ukraine they remember Hungary...
Maybe we forgot...or not
Tried that in China. Didn't work. It's OK when we're in the west but in any country that blocks the internet or censors it you're in trouble. Shadowsocks used to be my go to in China when the AWS trick got killed.
This. I drive and love my GOLF in Netherlands. It’s simply a no nonsense reliable car. I wish VW sees the value of what they are liked for and retain that usefulness in their EVs for when I get in the market for one after my GOLF gives out.
What is the role of AI here?
Those trends could make social justice warriors quite schizophrenic. One year against hate, another fully approve, because...

It's like that stupid joke... "I hate racism and Russians (or whatever)."
Windscribe have unlimited devices. I think a lot of VPNs know that it's a bullshit tactic to sell more accounts but can't turn that revenue down. They know first hand that people will share accounts rather than just purchase a new one but limiting devices takes that option away.
sandwiches are the mainstay work lunch in the UK - loads of people nip out to grab a tesco meal deal or something like that. Our sandwiches are pretty decent (depending on the store - M&S do great sandwiches but they're one of our more middle-class shops so are more expensive) and you can often get them on whole wheat or seeded bread nowadays.
Substack links go to the bottom of the reading pile for exactly this reason. It’s a dumpster fire of extremist ranting, and I don’t have the time or energy to sift it. I can’t imagine ever wanting to share a platform with their authors.
Sorry mate. Missed this. My ability to get distracted with physical things have a limit. I'll tidy up, do some chores, then once I've expended that I'll get on with whatever I need to focus on.
Personal observation on 2 projects. See above for details on another reply.
This one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605252

Something very interesting is happening with SQLite. Has always been widely adopted (in the background?), but lately there's a lot of usecase development. Litestream for no-hassle replication (and live-read replicas coming), querying static DB with VFS, torrent fetching, and now no-setup DB to API.
American food all round is weirdly sweet to European palates. PB&J as a sandwich is pretty out there from a UK perspective. The sweetest sandwich ingredient we typically use is honey bacon, and that's the exception to the rule.
Well, to mention just one example, "The Abbey of Misrule" (https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com) pushes antivaxx rhetoric. I don't know if that represents "50% of the population" (let's hope not) but it's abhorrent in any case.
Ehhh, US gas stations like Wawa and Sheetz are amazing.
> the all-Russian phone would be in a suitcase form-factor

You don't know that.

If China didn't make phones, wouldn't you have said "all Chinese phones would be shaped like a pyramid"?
> To claim that regardless of this, the police can compel you to lie, is tantamount to saying that the rule of law has failed.

Your life quality will take a sharp negative dive if you don't conform to the spirit of what they ask you. Whether or not such things are legal really is immaterial: You will be in trouble anyway. As such, I dislike advice that leans on what the law says.
Domain frammish.com is free. Let's see for how long after posting this comment.
Packaged sandwiches and ones from the deli counter are two separate things, and I don't think it's fair to compare them.

You can buy a bland, packaged sandwich in the USA, and you can go to the deli counter (or more typically, a sandwich shop/café) in Britain.
>Hotels don’t make money if you stay in the room, it actually costs them money in terms of electricity.

No, them renting the room to you - when you'll usually be out of it most of the day - is absolutely how they make money. Maybe in Las Vegas the room rate is a loss leader but your average business hotel is 100% making their profit on the room.
The Russian people (unlike most other people in history who were targets of ethnic hatred) have the full control to stop this, though.

I don’t think any Russians who have declared their opposition to their current government are explicitly targeted. And it’s doubtful that most western people could easily tell a Russian and an Ukrainian apart. So I fail to see the ethnic/racial component here and I think it’s perfectly legitimate to discriminate people based on their political views in certain cases (supporting an unprovoked war of aggression by a less democratic country against a more democratic one (however flawed) is definitely one of them).

If you equate the Russian people and the Russian government with all of it’s supporters (explicit and implicit ones) that’s on you..
Right now on revolut GBP:EUR £10000 buys $11912.07. This service is promisng €12,000.71
I think I'd add one more, personally: alpine butterfly. It's really nice to be able to quickly throw a strong loop in the middle of some captive rope. I find that I use it quite a lot around the house.
there are many much more unequal societies than the US where this just isn't a problem. russia or china, for example. their rates of violent crimes like this are far below that of the US.

it's a pretty idiotic trend in recent years to reduce every societal problem to a income, wealth or other types of inequalities. there are societal problems that are completely and utterly caused by different issues, and this is one of them.
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It's possible that what you're saying is true, but that doesn't change the basic facts from my original comment. Members of the Seattle City Council espouse the "Defund the police" idea and they are acting on it - to wit, they have decreased the SPD budget at least three years in a row. They have caused the dissolution of the Navigation team and caused a recent police chief to resign by cutting her salary.

I suspect a contributing reason to SPD losing and not being able to recruit people is the openly hostile attitude of city leadership towards law enforcement. Ineffective criminal justice in the city likely contributes as well.
To me, is a society and ego issue.

When you're 20-30 something and a nobody in your field, but a privileged mind, you keep your eyes open to all posibilities. You are hardworking and then results come.

Then you gain a name and have all eyes on you and your mental processes change. Suddenly with your opinions, you've got a reputation to defend. You're aware of those supporting you and those who are not. You're reasoning gets blurred by your ego and personality. Once you publicly speak an opinion on a topic for enough time, you cannot simply go back without looking like a moron.

There are several instances of the most brilliant minds following this pattern. Geniuses giving their backs to the scientific method, to all evidence, and looking like amateurs.

Comes to mind Einstein, spending his last years trying to debunk quantum physics against all evidence, Linus Pauling and his C-Vitamin craze or Nikola Tesla and his every time crazier projects with no practical viability. I guess there might be more.
> One reason Kubernetes (written mostly by ex-Googlers) is so fast is because internally it's all compiled code and gRPC. Compared to, say, Azure itself it is ludicrously faster.

Are you saying Azure, as a single entity, is not mostly "compiled code and (binary wire format)"? And that's why "Azure" is hundreds of times slower than "Kubernetes"? How does this make any sense?

Also gzipped json is pretty compact.
The twinkling children's TV style background music in that video is not making it any less creepy.
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No details at all though.
In Australia you can buy pasteurised egg whites in the refrigerated section at the supermarket, could possibly be useful as an alternative :-)

(Not sure if it would be available where you are or not)
we could just pass regulations to make products repairable.
vim, and I have a pretty minimal .vimrc https://github.com/dorianmariefr/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc
I had no idea that clicking on the "sparkle" thingy allowed you to switch from algorithmic to reverse chronological order.
Once upon a time i wrote some code to display metadata for gif files that were uploaded to wikipedia.

My favorite part of gif is the hack to embed XMP metadata into gif files. XMP is supposed to be valid xml (it is adobe's rdf based image metadata standard), and should be readable even by format unaware readers. However gif metadata is supposed to be split into (up to) 255 byte blocks where you do 1 byte length, followed by that many bytes of data, another length byte + data, until you terminate with a null byte for a zero length data segment.

This of course is incompatible with making valid xml. However nulls are invalid in xml, so what the spec makers did instead was to ignore these length bytes, just put the xml in without changing it, but end the section with <FF>, <FE>, .... <01>, <00> as a sort of NOP slide-esque thing, in order to make sure everything is well formed acording to the gif standard. If your parsing the file like a normal gif eventually you will jump into the end segment, and everything will be well formed. Its just such an interesting hack to meet all requirements.

Of course, i'm not sure anyone actually creates gif files with metadata so may be a bit moot in practice.
Even more general, consumer electronic products.

Companies feel the need to not just earn money when they sell their product, but earn to even more over its whole lifetime. This refocuses their goal into providing products that regularly need some attention, which only they can provide, instead of creating the best product they can before it is sold, and let the customer and third-parties maintain it if necessary.
Also, seeing the stats for the last 7 days and the last 24 hours (source, subscriptions, etc.) would allow writers to get a sense of what they recently did in terms of marketing that may be working best. 30 days is too long to be able to see if a particular action had any impact.
You can tell from the simplified Chinese that this is owned by Chinese i.s.o. Japanese, which is just another great example of the above mentioned idea of "unique" Japanese.
If you want to hear some modern examples of oud-based jazz:

Anouar Brahem - Bom dia Rio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noYCkiPrqS8

Dhafer Youssef - Les Ondes Orientales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9INsERNFUo
> What's the point of interviewing someone if it has nothing to do with the job

Sounds like there are about 2-300,000 points …
I don't think of this as "we really wanted the ability to synthesize faces, this was very important to us as a civilization."

Rather, I think of it as "if we create an AGI, it will have required the ability to imagine things. Also, we have huge datasets of faces that all sorta point the right way and have a good medium of feature complexity, and we're extremely specialized in spotting visual errors in faces."

Consider the similar if slightly smaller research in creating photos of living rooms. (Or OpenAI's famous "comfy chair in the shape of an avocado.") Same reasoning. It's not about faces, faces just have beneficial properties.
Will adding weapons to the region save lives or shorten the war?
It's also because there's power in being able to influence when people see something. It's harder to spot when that occurs when your timeline isn't chronological.
They made a public statement within a day from the invasion citing they strongly object it. Being a Russian and doing this publicly - so early - is pretty dangerous for the founders. So yea, they aren't supporting Putin, you can calm your mind and continue using RM because an alternative doesn't exist.
So you're not terminator-worried, just jurrasic park-worried then. (that was what my question was about)

>I'm concerned about what solving this is useful for

As for all research, it is pretty hard to predict what and what for something will be useful (despite researchers being pushed to say stuff like "my research is going to cure cancer" to get funding). But about neural networks for image processing, they certainly start to be useful for radiology.
This is really incredible. I can't wait to get my hands on the device and tinker around with it. It is giving me the same vibe as project Ara[0], and I'm here for it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara
Well, the gist of the op article is kind of "they can't prevent you from using their internal API", so most services shouldn't try. I think there's still a difference between making people scan your entire frontend code/traffic to find all the edge cases and making them reverse engineer your auth/headers/cookies (hours of work) vs handing them database access after 2 minutes of work. But I appreciate it, and it might be engineers that know this (that preventing access is futile) leaving it on intentionally. I certainly have done that.
You don’t need propaganda to realise that then west is unfathomably rich compared to the rest of the world, and to want to be unfathomably rich yourself. The reason it is so rich is that it has developed inclusive liberal democratic institutions that have enabled it to rather consistently make better choices than the rest of the world. People like you are unable to believe this, and choose to misguide yourselves that it’s “military imperialism” or “propaganda”. The Soviets had both of those things and what happened to them?
I am wondering when we are moving over to hydrogen powered vehicles already.
How is the banning encryption NOT a First Amendment issue like it used to be in the 90s?

I can't see a US court preventing free speech, so why prevent someone digital free speech?
I love spaced repetition apps (I’ve used Anki and Zorbi in the past). This looks pretty cool!

What’s the purpose of AI here?
I've been using an adblocker on Safari in combination with either NextDNS or PiHole. Works not too bad. Only reason I use Firefox/Chrome is because I'm a frontend dev.
TrueCaller exploited India’s weak data laws to build a caller ID empire
Racism hiding behind 'statistics'
Note: I'm speaking from a geopolitical level, not at man-on-the-street level. As you know, morality, justice, fairness, and equality have very different meanings at the high level, and are translated to the common people via propaganda where necessary.

Regarding nukes:

Nukes are never "used" used. They're only used as a threat (and not a very good one at that), and as insurance against invasion. People rarely take them seriously (example N. Korea). Putin is a special case because this time it was one of the big boys issuing the threats, and so it did rattle people. But since he let it drop, it's dead.

Regarding Europe:

Europe has spent the last few decades sleepwalking. This war is actually bad for American influence because Germany has now awoken, and France is chomping at the bit to adjust the world order. Europe will look long-term to integrate all of Europe (including Russia), and hopefully make a serious run against China for the next reserve currency. This will involve cooperation with NATO in the near term, and then distancing from it as America falls further into the twilight of her influence over the next two decades (basically like what happened in England, Holland, etc).

Regarding Ukraine:

They've been separated from Russia too long and are a separate people. You can't just re-assimilate them; their resistance is only natural and will continue even if their entire country is devastated in the process. This is just human nature, and has little to do with logic or pragmatism.

Regarding Russia:

Putin gravely misjudged the situation on so many counts that it's hard to believe it's the same Putin who headed the KGB. I honestly can't fathom what happened to him that he'd make such a rookie mistake on this. His entourage is going to have to quietly get him out of the way (probably with poison so that he can die in the hospital of a heart attack or something innocuous, followed by public mourning while the reins are transferred), but of course the problem is judging when to do it. After that, Russia is in for decades of pain, as well as American gloating. Europe (in particular Macron) will do its best to keep communication lines open and hope for some kind of rapprochement in a generation or so.
Thanks for this! Such a nice and simple tool!
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The importance of collecting race data is because of a history of systematic discrimination based on race. It's not for example Black or Hispanic groups that decided that those categories are important, it was the people creating Jim Crow Laws, Redlining, Bank discrimination, unequal resource distribution to schools, racial discrimination of public pools, racially based differences in policing strategies etc. The reason to ask these question is to make it possible to identify such discrimination.

Sweden is a great example of why this is important. There it is much harder to identify such kind of discrimination due to poor data. See for example the treatment of Romas or Afro Swedes.
> My pay increased by >90 percent in my current job.

I've increased my comp by 250% over 8 years vs your ~90% in 7 years. That's what you're missing out on.
I'm talking more about brand/'hype' in particular. 15 years ago when I was starting my PhD, everyone adored MIT and wanted to be them.

Now I'm faculty at a reasonably good university in Europe, and obviously MIT is a fantastic place and I'd probably give a finger to get a tenured job there. But I think Harvard/Oxford/Princeton/Stanford have slightly eclipsed MIT in pure brand power. Stanford especially gets more of a 'wow!' reaction these days.
Pop!_OS is presently based on gnome a broken mish mash of c and JavaScript and extensions which rather than being written to an actual extension API merely monkey patches the JavaScript.

When the underlying JavaScript to be patched created by gnome changes extensions can silently break.

Outside of gnome land this really isn't at all normal. One could for example have used i3wm without issue for the last 12 years, awesomewm for 14, compiz for 16, KDE for 25 years and if you really hate change there is a fork of KDE 3 so you could have pretended its still 2002 for the last 20 years if you like while still actually making use of current versions of everything from the kernel to your web browser.
> I'm a Swede who truly finds it fascinating how the United States emphasize people's "race" instead of their heritage

The US is founded on essentially shipping criminals and undesirables overseas so they can go murder some people that aren't in the public eye. If there was a focus on heritage, there would be basically no Americans. And that would be unacceptable, because the culture is deeply racist in a way that is so fundamental it is not possible to separate it today.
I’ve used “Seven” on the App Store in the past. I think it does gamification really well
Facebook to allow calls for violence against Putin
The alternatives may be cheaper if you can find one that does what you want. But in terms of the ability to quickly throw something together where existing stuff doesn't quite do what you want or is locked down, it looks amazing.

In terms of "serious use" I think that depends on what you mean by "serious". E.g. my hone automation setup is not static, because I keep finding new little things I want to tweak, and often the ready-made solution lack options I'd like to have unless I'm willing to spend time tracking down very specific modules. My time is valuable to me - I'd happily pay extra for a modular system where I know if something is lacking a button for something I want I can literally just plug one in instead of having to search all over for a different model of something.

Of course this will not replace mass market "close enough" solutions.

But I think there are still more than enough people who want to tinker but don't want to have to whip out a soldering iron.
Improving Criterion.rs
(The alt-right is also irrelevant in the current playing field.)
You are right, in fact EARN-IT is very good for criminals
At some point you have to filter out the spam. Otherwise you just get garbage.
TBH, Walmart is pretty fucking huge. Bigger than Amazon in retail revenue.
My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting
This is indeed not limited to EV's and cars.
Search e.g. on "John Deere right to repair", and you will see that farmers cannot repair their own tractor anymore, and need the factory dealer to repair it, and the owner have to wait and cannot do anything.
Prices of old school tractors are rising, because a lot of farmers like to repair a lot of things, so they can keep going, and dont have to wait for a mechanic that can repair it.

On your car, i also like old cars, because you can bring it to every mechanic, or do it yourself.
I like the basic car, and hope EV's will come that are also simple and build like Lego, so you can easy switch some (electronic) parts.

Who need large displays, self driven cars, and other gadgets.
A vehicle is just a useful thing to bring you from A to B on a save way, we dont need distraction from all the expensive gadgets, just safety and comfort.

Just keep cars simple please.
Man. You think you're doing alright and then something like this comes along and just screams your inadequacies at you.

What a wild achievement. Well done.
Oh yeah, AnimationPlayer/AnimationTree is definitely a killer feature for Godot, though the UX can be a bit clunky. The ability to call arbitrary functions on things in the scene tree on an animation track is just, chefs kiss