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> Postgres drivers are available in tons of languages

So are SQLite drivers (and MySQL and all the other top-10/top-20 databases).

Why add un-necessary abstraction ?

Why add an un-necessary layer with bugs and edge-cases that you will subsequently waste hours of your life debugging ?

Plus, if we are talking about drivers, then surely if you're going to be using SQLite, you should be using SQLite drivers because they will be inherently simpler and smaller than the Postgres ones because of the much reduced feature-set of SQLite.

> What SQLite3 driver out there allows you to talk over a network connection to a remote database?

(Replied here because I can't reply to your point below)

Maybe that's because, as per the SQLite website[1], SQLite was never intended to be used as a client/server database !!!

I would argue that by attempting to "square peg round hole" SQLite into being a network database, you are only opening yourself up for unknown troubles down the road.

There are many excellent client/server databases out there (including the postgres referred to here). If you need that functionality you should be using the right tool for the job, there's no need to shoehorn SQLite into it.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
The helpdesk explicitly doesn't support API questions, only for the Excel functions. I phrase my API questions to match in Excel BDP terms, that usually works. Data questions can indeed be difficult to get answered.
My back pain is significantly better now, but it comes back any time I take psychedelics. Have often wondered the same.
I'll be back on here tomorrow, this shit is going to give me a stroke.
Woops yes. If you sum them together you do get a normal dist. Come to think of it a cumulative normal distribution is a sigmoid.
I like this vs the US designs.
The dedicated RNG scares the paranoid the most because it is an obvious target for corruption.
In the 80s/90s, travel-agents had a terminal that would allow them to search for and book travel much as one would do with Google Flights/Expedia/Travelocity today. Access to those networks cost real money, so travel agents became middlemen.

Many agents did curate trips (or sell packages), too. In the best case, if your trip went sideways, they could also assist in rebooking/other options.
> A thermonuclear engine could be more attainable than a thermonuclear electrical plant

Very true. Nobody cares about breakeven for that use case.
Not in the east either, they would get frozen very quick.
Most places are smart enough to not falsify water test reports so they can skimp on pH balancing treatment so the water isn't acidic to save literal pennies. The water coming in was acidic enough for the local hospitals to complain about their stainless steel sinks rusting from it. Even if there was no lead in any of the pipes they would have had to replace the entire water system because it ate right through their steel pipes which otherwise had been coated in mineral deposits to protect it.
It's on their backlog: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog/issu...

Would definitely be nice to have
This blog post is enjoyable to read. It's a clear and friendly without trying the sell the idea too hard. It respects the reader's capability to understand and evaluate the thing by themselves and makes a good effort build up the required knowledge. Also I like the design. Kudos!
US gained a lot of world power after WW2 when other western countries were rebuilding. Do we know for certain it because of capitalism and not that US had lots of virgin resources to exploit in relative isolation while the other powers rebuilt.
The amount of X-rays needed to detect trace amounts of lead with a handheld device are probably more dangerous than the lead itself if such an device is used on a daily basis. There is a reason why your dentist goes to stand behind a wall when you she takes an X-ray of your teeth. If you would have a sample with 10% lead, the amount of X-ray used during for taking an X-ray of your teeth might be enough to measure its concentration within a few 1% accuracy, but if you are talking about 1ppm (and that is far above the 15ppb that is considered safe) you need a lot more X-ray to get a good enough reading.

Measuring exact contents with XRF is difficult if you do not have homogeneous samples due to all kinds of complicated effects where the XRF from one element interacts with the XRF of another element. To get within 1% accuracy you often need a controlled (vacum) environment and callibrate your instrument with a set of standards at regular interfalls. At least that is how it was 20 years ago when I developed software for a company that produced high-end industrial XRF measurement devices.
correct me if I'm wrong but people using bitcoin in oppressed countries will basically be rendered penniless by simply cutting off network access. source: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/the-technological-case-ag...
It's a pre-internet meme used to convey size.

I for one, can't wait until they report that "It's huge, like the xbox."
How long until someone actually makes this version?
I've been building prototypes with this. It is everything good web design should be– UI with good contrast, legible type and accessibility patterns.

My only gripe is perhaps if their teams made example pages from their own use cases– sub-nav from the components page, charts/references from their Covid dashboards.

Great work overall!
Most kettles in the UK are 3kW, which is right at the limit of how much you can draw from a regular socket with a 13A fuse.
> At least with other companies like Facebook/Meta they stick another Engineer with you when doing their technical assessment. Felt like they had skin in the game when conducting interviews at least.

There’s a small number of engineering hours available for interviews. GitHub must pass on a huge % of applicants. How should they select candidates for those slots? Automated resume scans, automated coding tests, prefer name brand schools/companies. GitHub’s approach seems fairer.
Yes. I don't see the harm in the PostgreSQL wire protocol becoming a defacto standard for sending SQL statements over a network connection and getting results back.

SQL itself is only a vague standard these days, as almost every single database has its own dialect. The only ones that are the same are MariaDB and MySQL... and that doesn't count. [1] And I don't see this situation changing in the medium term, or ever, really.

[1] ... because the first is the fork of the second.
Well, if you don't like our government's design system you might as well leave the country! /s

What do you like about this more? The visuals, the documentation, the guidelines, the code?
May I ask how much the already available filters cost? I thought these things would be cheap
If the VPN requires an account to connect to then it seema fair to use it as a kind of single-sign-on.
All the major powers are capatilistic now. There is a spectrum but it is capitalism. In some governments will push their weight around to get what they want but it's still capitalism
Thank you for your comment. It made me realize that I missed one alternative answer: companies shouldn't do it because is never authentic. I will add it now.
The answer, as always, is IT DEPENDS.
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Ask HN: Best Programming Podcasts?
I like to run while listening to podcasts. I like listening to tech talks that don't require watching slides.

I'd like the content to be like the technical posts on HN.

Or even an HN front-page summary podcast each day. Does this exist?

Where can I find this content? What are you favorite pods?
Creating a Hyper Key (i.e., remapping capslock to become an additional modifier key) is a game changer! I use Capslock [1] with Karabiner Elements on macOS.

[1] https://github.com/Vonng/Capslock
Can you elaborate? What other techniques do you find useful or better for either feature extraction or dimensionality reduction?
> Plus, if we are talking about drivers, then surely if you're going to be using SQLite, you should be using SQLite drivers because they will be inherently simpler and smaller than the Postgres ones because of the much reduced feature-set of SQLite.

What SQLite3 driver out there allows you to talk over a network connection to a remote database? Not any one that I've ever used.
I'm skeptical of the idea that anything having to do with NATO is the true motive for Putin in this. It makes little sense to me given his actual statements about NATO with regard to the Russian invasion, and strategically makes little sense in terms of potential costs to their current endeavors. Why would you make 3/4 of your conventional military critically vulnerable to an adversary that you have publicly stated is unquestionably superior, by provoking that adversary, to increase security against said adversary?

I've always suspected this is about securing access to Crimea and natural resource rights in eastern Ukraine: water access was cut to Crimea following 2014, and natural resource deposits have been discovered in the east. I suspect NATO is just a rhetorical excuse, to justify it to the world and domestic audiences.

It also explains why the western campaign has been so ineffectual, and the Eastern one so relatively brutal. Yes, the east is easier to access by sea and less central to Ukraine, but I suspect a land bridge to Crimea, and securing natural resource rights, was the primary objective all along. Russia might have been accurate all along when they insisted they didn't want to occupy Ukraine per se or change the government, in the sense they just wanted to annex the east, and the west is just a diversionary tactic and/or secondary goal in service of the primary.

It's also why I suspect Russia will consider this a win if they extract a land bridge as a "compromise" to obtain peace.

All of this I'm saying as someone who'd rather see Russia out of everywhere that was undisputed Ukrainian territory in, say, 2000.

All this discussion of NATO expansion is just falling into Russia's rhetorical trap they set.
Russia Demands Wikipedia Take Down Information About Ukraine War
For as long as I've been in finance (measured in decades now, scarily enough) somebody's been trying to displace Bloomberg. They haven't succeeded.
Have you looked into the digimend project (digimend.github.io)? They have drivers for a bunch of non-wacom tablets (including Huion) and provide tools and to make it easier to write new ones.
Not quite dating, but they used to have GRAY, which directed you to a Sugar Daddy service.
I agree with this. One of the best things I've done last year was signing up to a powerlifting gym and working through all the basic movements (from a long warmup to compound movements) with a professional trainer. It did wonders for my lower back.
You can actually ride that ore train, it was a bit of a fad on YouTube a few years ago, punch in “Mauritania train” and you can find many videos of people riding it.
This. I’ll take the pg protocol over OCI and especially ODBC any day.
You might not even need feature selection, just a dimensionality reduction in some cases
Is there any device and app that can give a comparable experience to the one delivered by OneNote on a Microsoft Surface Pro?
I would think technology did far more work pulling people out of poverty than capitalism. And capitalism is only like 250 years old. You could have made your same argument 500-1000 years ago about feudalism pulling people out of poverty, and yet I doubt anybody would be all that happy to switch to a feudalist system and would heavily criticize any claims that feudalism was the main driving factor behind improvements in technology and living standards.
I belive this is for historical and research purposes, but I may be wrong.
This may be a terminological disagreement rather than something fundamental. You said

> ... AGI might be philosophically impossible given that we do not seem to have a proven, accepted definition of GI.

That says x might be impossible to achieve if we don't know what x actually is. I disagree. Now if you'd said

> ... AGI might be philosophically impossible to recognise given that we do not seem to have a proven, accepted definition of GI.

Then yes, I'm with you - perhaps we can both agree that it could be created, and exist in reality, but we are unlikely to get consensus amongst everyone that it has been achieved, thus permanently leaving open the question of whether we've 'got there' or not.

Can we agree on that?
Sorry, I was thinking of IBM's PL/M, which clearly wasn't the one Intel was using. Thanks for the correction.
Funny point is that Russia trusts more NATO-Norway than Finland or Sweden.

There is somekind of agreement that allows Norwegians to visit without passports or visa areas near the border.

This does not apply to other Nordics. My Swedish friend was prosecuted and fined by Norway because he kayaked to the River Jacobselv and touched the border buoy.
IIRC this is something they’ve investigated for years, but the prototypes didn’t stand up to a simple day/month/year input group in usability testing. Date pickers are hard to do well!
I'm a little disappointed that gov.uk has custom date inputs specified.

I think it's time for web sites to stop doing custom date inputs. Even Safari finally has a native date input.

The worst are the sites that make you enter a day from a drop-down menu.

Second-worst are the ones that are asking for your birth date as input, but the default drop-down for the year is the current year. As if a six-month-old baby is signing up for a car loan.

Third-worst are the ones that make you pick a day from a drop-down. Bad programmers do this because they're bad at input validation. Well, with your drop-downs I can enter February 31. So now you've got two problems.

I once saw a government web site that had you pick each number from the date input as a separate drop-down. Who builds these things?
Whatever scholars and authors ate centuries ago.
I'm obese and of south asian ancestry, so there's no real question as to why my insulin sensitivity is shot, but I'll add zinc to the list next time I do bloodwork.
Why does a browser extension need a business model?
But it doesn't. It totally fails to meaningfully define "understanding".
I was surprised how good my Wacom Cintiq 16 works with Fedora 35. Unfortunately Adobe and linux are not compatible and I cannot find professional replace for Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign and Illustrator. It would be ok to replace Premiere, After Effects and Audition with DaVinci Resolve.

I want Adobe support for linux so much.
Perhaps it's because the people on a tech forum see the problems of a tech hammer banging on everything it perceives as a nail better than others?
AFAIK that's pretty much 100% against the license agreement. Data pulled from the terminal is only supposed to be shared with other BBG subscribers. They have more expensive offerings that allow non-subscriber use of data.

I have been through audits where we prove that no non-terminal user is receiving data that we pull.
They also very rarely have kitchens or washer or dryers for long term stays, or monthly discounts (advertised at least). If you’re just there for a few days stay over sure hotels are a fine choice, if you’re staying for a while they often won’t be particularly well suited, and finding one that is will take just as long as searching AirBnB.

Like the person you responded to I also spend a great deal of time searching for suitable long term stays. I think there is a large gap in the market for reliable brands/services with solid customer service (which AirBnB lacks) and amenities for modern longer term tech travelers (desks (ideally standup), fast wifi, kitchens, suitable space for 2 to work separately, washer/dryer, etc). If I could just look in a city and say “oh there’s a X there around an area I want to visit, I’ll just book that” it would be oh so nice.
Which aspects of this one do you prefer over USWDS?
> Blockchains sacrifice privacy, requiring even crazier and more expensive technology to get that privacy back.

The Mimblewimble protocol [0] bucks that trend, providing more privacy at the base layer while being less expensive in terms of the historical size of transactions [1].

> a focus on simplicity and deep mathematical purity: a 1 MB block size, a 21 million coin limit

A supply of 50/(2^{height/210000}) coins every 10 minutes is not particularly simple or pure.
One coin per second forever seems preferable, even if it takes a century to get inflation down to 1% [2].

> The protocol design must be easy to justify decades and centuries down the line; the technology and parameter choices must be a work of art.

This is where Ethereum fails miserably.

> The second ingredient is the culture of uncompromising, steadfast minimalism.

Even bitcoin is not that minimal if you consider the complexities of bitcoin script. Much of that functionality can be achieved with scriptless scripts [3].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20190312100102/https://www.circl...

[1] https://forum.grin.mw/t/scalability-vs-privacy-chart

[2] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...

[3] https://medium.com/scalar-capital/scriptless-scripts-25e18fd...
Web apps always had a chance to decide who to talk to.

This is trivial when they are clients of some other APIs, so about server side choices:

- domains, if reverse proxies / firewalls give them the IP of the client

- routes, by servicing the good URIs and 404 the bad ones (attacks more than honest mistakes)

- users, with many different authentication systems

- data, with validations.

The former points are traditionally more in the domain of the network infrastructure, the latter ones are for the application. I've seen all the possible combinations in the last 30 years.
Very good work.

I’ll definitely be using this on a project we are starting soon instead of tailwind.

Sometimes to move fast one needs opinionated constraints. That’s why bootstrap was so popular and still is.
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> I would think there could still be some speed advantage if the GPU does not have to share storage with CPU

In enterprise advantage really big - because they typically use RAID disk arrays and enterprise systems usually have lot of disks, 5-10 disks normal, and exists machines with 64 disks or even more than 100.
And also important thing, server hardware usually use much lower bus frequencies than gaming PC, so they just don't have opportunity to see max speed of bus.

That's why amd first created such card for enterprise - speed is really pain for enterprise computing.

> a game would take up less space in the "ordinary" filesystem, i.e. storage of the main system - because part of the game data would be moved to GPU storage instead

I mean, because of need less gpu load for access fs, there should be used simplified filesystems, or huge optimized for speed of access, and sucj FSs will be much less size effective than ordinary.

For example, read Knuth about search and sorting - you will know, that search/sort by using index is much faster, many magnitudes faster, but index size may be magnitudes larger than data.
Isn't the article in fact saying that the new synthetic features are not good features for training?
I think iMovie required a G3 at the time. Not sure of that, but not surprised it doesn't work.
Richest country in the world, and yet life spans have been stagnant and recently been dropping, infrastructure has been crumbling, and American lives have become completely dependent on abusive labor practices and dirty industry of foreign countries to keep the bottom of their economy from collapsing.
That chronic pain can have a central, neuropsychiatric origin is likely to have been considered at least briefly by anyone who's learned that (or who has been prescribed them) antidepressants, of all things, are frequently prescribed for chronic pain that appears without a clear cause.

I'm sure that the medicine of neurodegenerative diseases will receive more attention than almost any other field of medicine in the coming decades. Alzheimers, ALS and similar grave diseases are already major research priorities, but if chronic lower back pain and other chronic pain is definitely shown to frequently be the result of brain atrophy then better understanding (and hopefully treatments) may matter for a large part of the working population as well.
This will not happen unfortunately. We are minority, it would not be profitable for them.
lottie is probably the best supported lightweight animation option with interactivity:

https://airbnb.io/lottie/

https://lottiefiles.com/interactivity
> I had really bad stays at places that got 100 reviews and an average of 4.7 stars.

One red flag I always look for is a stream of comments mentioning only "good location" and nothing else.
There are steps in between, no need to jump from extreme to extreme.

And there's a reason there is no company worth its salt, no matter the scale, that still works by sending patches by email.
It would be neat to have a library that has the same API as Sqlite3, but then acts as a network proxy for a remote PostgreSQL database.

You could then use that plus the above network proxy to move a Sqlite3 database off of the local system to a remote system, without having to change the existing codebase.

This would also give you multiple remote clients as well.
What exactly here is misleading? Libya or Syria weren't bombed? What are you even trying to say?
Now that we've all said "feature selection is not dimensionality reduction" to our hearts' content, could we return to the point of the article?

Regardless of whether you're doing feature selection or dimensionality reduction, the point remains that, if you're doing supervised learning, PCA is just compressing your X space, without any regard to your y. It could be that the last principal component of X, containing only 0.1% of the variance, contains 100% of the correlation between X and y.

Using PCA for dimensionality reduction in a supervised learning context means throwing out an unknown amount of signal, which could be up to 100% of the signal.

Now for unsupervised, exploratory analysis, PCA is definitely a candidate, but there are plenty of often-better alternatives there too.
Read the LWN article. The problem isn’t PCs at all - it’s virtual machines, and embedded machines, that hang at startup, waiting for any entropy at all. Of course you could say the bug is in the hypervisor, or the embedded board designer, but the Linux kernel developers can’t afford to break these use cases just for purity’s sake.
Even if you could find an arbitrary file inside pi, to even describe the offset into pi, you would probably need an even larger file to just store the offset number, in most cases?
If this is the April Fools meta thread, I'll share my participation in this awful day: I'm running a forum mafia, & using the start date of April first to defend a rather trollish setup: 8 cops, 2 cult leaders http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-games/elements-mafi...
Depends on what you are want to do exactly with tablet? Concept arts, texturing, modeling...?
> you can just go around again if you aren't sure which exit you need; you are forced into taking an exit, right or wrong

> ...doesn't make sense?

It's supposed to be "you can't just...", it also means your solution of slowing down and going around again doesn't work.
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lasso is probably the easiest way to do it relatively quickly.

Lasso is also known as L1 regularisation, and it tends to set the coefficients to a bunch of features to zero, hence performing feature selection.

Note that if two predictors are very correlated, lasso may pick one mostly at random. Obviously one should do CV and bootstrapping to ensure that the results are relatively stable.

In general though, there's no real substitute for domain expertise when it comes to selecting good features.

edit: lasso is L1, not L2