skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Disclaimer: I haven't tried Dolt.)

In your benchmark it's only 2.1–7.4 times slower than MySQL, average 4.4. And any database someone could fit on a disk 20 years ago (I forget, maybe 8 GB?) fits in RAM now, which makes it about 256 times faster, which is a lot bigger than 4.4. You can get a 20 TB disk now, which is enough space So anything that could be done with MySQL 20 years ago can be done faster and cheaper with Dolt now, which covers, I think the technical term is, a fucking shitload of applications. It probably includes literally every 20th-century application of relational databases.

Well, except for things that have over 5 billion transactions (20 TB ÷ 4 kB/txn) over their lifetime, I guess, so it might be important to find a way to compact that 4K. 5 billion transactions is 19 months at 100 TPS. If you could get that down to 256 bytes it would be almost 25 years of 100 TPS.

Also, as I understand it, and correct me if I'm wrong here, that 4.4× slowdown buys you a bulletproof and highly performant and scalable strategy for backups (with PITR), staging servers, data warehousing, readslaves, disk error detection and recovery, cryptographically secure audit logs, bug reproduction, and backtesting. Along with the legal security the Apache 2 license gives you, which you don't have with Datomic.

Sounds fantastic! It sounds like you're selling its performance a bit short. If someone is really concerned about such a small performance loss they probably aren't really in the market for a new RDBMS.
Yep, you got it. This is one key reason we're focused on a human editing / collaboration experience. It seems likely that the GPT-3 space will get commoditized fairly quickly and the type of support we provide isn't within striking distance of the machines... yet ;)
This was a great read, with an important point: there's always a tradeoff to be made, and we can make it (e.g. never freeing memory to obtain temporal memory safety without static lifetime checking).

One thought:

> Never calling free (practical for many embedded programs, some command-line utilities, compilers etc)

This works well for compilers and embedded systems, but please don't do it command-line tools that are meant to be scripted against! It would be very frustrating (and a violation of the pipeline spirit) to have a tool that works well for `N` independent lines of input but not `N + 1` lines.
If you're going to put another AV on there, get rid of McAfee. Multiple AVs don't play well together.

"Getting rid of McAfee" at least used to be rather hard. IIRC, it took more than just uninstall. I don't remember the details, though I had to do it a few times on different machines.

I've done OK with the free version of Avast. Others say Windows Defender alone is enough; I won't claim that Avast is necessary, only that it seems to be sufficient.
Come and see the violence inherent to the system! Or lack thereof!
The title says "can" help, implying a contingent claim with limitations.

As for the rest - I think everything you note here falls in the class of omitting details, which is not in itself misleading. Classifying any headline that omits any details as misleading sets an impossible standard. It basically makes it impossible to provide a responsible headline of any kind.

Even the title of the original scientific article itself fails to disclose several of the limitations you list here. Is a popular media article required to have a title that discloses limitations more comprehensively than the scientific article it reports on?
There are no regulations in Libertarianville. If you are unfamiliar with their philosophy, they have this concept called the NAP(non-aggression principle).

The generally(this might be too strong a word to use with Libertarians) accepted interpretation of the NAP is that as long as I do not initiate violence against someone, my behavior is acceptable, and that violence is only acceptable against someone if they break the NAP first.

This breaks down in Libertarian communities as they cannot agree on common deductions of things like what counts as “someone”, what counts as “violence”, whether you have rights to the land if you’re not using it(Georgists/homesteaders), or if indirect damages like pollution are a violation of the NAP.

The idea that a libertarian community would let someone dump toxins into their neighborhood and leave without cleaning it up or compensating the hurt is completely plausible. Half of the community would not believe he directly caused the cancer unless he injected it into you, and you should have been more careful about what water you drink, and the other half’s only recourse would be to fight the first half.
Memory Safety for the World’s Largest Software Project
I don't see how the way the software was built is particularly relevant.

It's just a tool used by the developer; the onus is on the developer to ensure they don't infringe the licenses of the source code they incorporate in their software. Since Copilot makes it impossible to know where it's barfing code up from and what license that code is under, a developer who cares about not getting sued probably needs to avoid using Copilot.
Your original comment stated:

> They won't work for in situ tumors, almost by definition.

Which isn't true. The studies from multiple companies' tests demonstrate that they _can_ detect in situ tumors. Not always super duper well, and not always for every single cancer type, but still.

Whether this is a good idea / cost-effective is another question, and certainly a big deal as you point out.
Actually the legal system is evidence based. Microsoft has evidence that the code they are producing is licensed under MIT as far as they can reasonably know. There's no definitive way to know that who actually owns the original copyright. I could grant permission to use my repo, but maybe I got that code from someone else, who then got it from someone else and so on and so forth. It's a similar situation with stolen goods, if you unknowingly purchase stolen goods you usually cannot be charged for theft as long as there aren't obvious signs that it's stolen such as the goods being priced far below market value.
sort of kind of, I think you arbitrarily mix renting with owning and that changes a lot

I've lived in all of the expensive cities in the US, never interested in saving for a downpayment so its a much larger budget that worked okay with whatever job I was doing
What is the cause of all those notorious C bugs then?
Do you believe there should be any limit to who can own or carry a gun?

As an analogy, felons have free-speech and every other constitutional right, but they can't own certain guns. Do you think the Constitution confers unfettered gun ownership rights, in a similar manner as other rights?

Do you think every Supreme Court, since the founding (gun regulation is that old), was wrong about gun regulation and the Constitution, and this particular Supreme Court was right?
Dr Con Man: the rise and fall of a celebrity scientist who fooled everyone
> That doesn't make it true but "it sounds a bit like something else that was nonsense" isn't a very strong refutation.

It's improbable for the same reasons it was improbable the last time it wasn't true. Secret mass cremations just aren't practical from a logistical standpoint.
I use Nextcloud's bookmark features via the YunoHost instance I self host. A simple roll your own solution of sorts. https://yunohost.org/ is a really cool project. I love what they're doing.
The survey question is included under the chart, and implies that users were only given a checkbox as input. "Loved" and "Dreaded" seem to mean, of people who currently use the language, which percentage would like to continue doing so and which would not.

A "no strong opinion" option may have provided some interesting nuance.
If this is "the real danger" then is the potency issue irrelevant? Are we already experiencing peak danger?
>Looks like we managed to replace 40% of fossil fuels in two decades, without much inflation (almost in line with countries who did not deploy renewables):

Just to get our terms in-line, renewables typically include hydro-electric. Hydro-electric is a great power-source if you have the geography for it. My province of Ontario, between Nuclear and Hydro, pretty much only derives 5% of power from fossil fuels. The problem is, there aren't any more places to dam to generate hydro. So that's done.

And yeah, there is a ceiling on how much wind/solar you can handle as a percentage of your power-mix because you need to rely on base-load to bridge the intermittency of wind and solar. I don't know what that percentage is ... maybe it's 40%, maybe it's 60% - but it's going to be somewhere in that range.

>We'll see how UK continues its transition, but I see renewables becoming cheaper while nuclear keeps rising.

It doesn't matter if they are free! You're not replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar because you still need to run your economy when the sun isn't shinning or the wind isn't blowing. You'll need base-load from somewhere else. Nuclear is actually terrible for that because it can't spin up and spin-down on-demand. Hydro and Natural gas are perfect for that, but like I said, if you don't have the geography for hydro, you're stuck with natural gas.
I use http://dynalist.io you can clip anything into your inbox, either the url (default when nothing is selected), or selected text on the page (with url of where it came from), and it works on all platforms. Once you have your data in a list you can do whatever you want with it and curate it the way you want, search it, and tag it.

Also, you can export the data out pretty easily also, which may not be the case with other bookmarking services.
Do you have any documentation for that about how to use this for non admin site ? That will actually make it a no-code platform.
I did! In my case it was for exploiting a bug that allowed access to 'Green Acres' which is what the playerbase called the zero elevation empty grassland that occupied approximately 15% or so of the world map. This area of the map was later used as the land area for the 'Second Age' expansion pack, but at the time it was just empty. I had grand plans of dropping a bunch of castles and establishing a real estate empire but the game masters must have had some kind of automated alert that a player had accessed an out of bounds area because I was almost immediately remotely teleported by a game master into jail and asked how I had accessed the area!

They also had some extremely high level custom monsters patrolling the area too, which I thought was kind of fun.
Unarchiver has been one of those “install right away” utilities on my Macs for many years. Like you say, great UX and it’s extremely rare for it to not handle archives properly, even those in old or esoteric formats.
I think it is fully supported now: https://docs.kernel.org/kbuild/llvm.html
I’ve heard this many times on the internet but I cannot find one source that verifies that folks were smoking 5% THC cannabis in 1980 in the United States. It’s simply not true…and trying to measure it now in a 30 year old sample will show that most of it has oxidized into other cannabinoids.
What the hell did you smoke?
There are certainly consequences to cannabis use, but let's not get carried away.

At least for the vast majority of casual users, this isn't anything remotely close to a $100/day habit. Common sense should inform us of that, even if we aren't intimately familiar with how much pot actually costs.

$5-10 a day is closer to the reality for most users.
Counterpoint: not necessarily?
Not returning to the office does that too. One isn't strictly better in all cases, you just need to decide what tradeoffs you're okay with as a company.
I can't speak for other people, but for me, it's not recreational. Not anymore. I need cannabis to simply feel normal. I feel high only when I'm sober, because sobriety is the atypical state. I can't sleep without it. I can't leave the house in the morning without it. After about 24 hours abstinence, I get debilitating headaches and start to vomit, presumably from the withdrawal. It's not fun. There's not much fun left in it at all, really. It's just an addiction.

Weed may be unique in allowing such a constant level of intoxication with relatively mild side-effects. I think that's how it gets people. Such addiction is not that uncommon and I've watched legalization in Canada with a mix of appreciation (I still do believe it should be legally available) and apprehension (I think we're about to see a small but significant % of an entire generation end up in the same place I've been for the last ~10 years.)
They're not using Cargo.
you don’t know whether i contribute or not.

introducing another language will create additional barriers for new driver developers. the kernel itself is already complicated enough and the focus should be on better documentation for new developers and a more welcoming attitude in general to improving (read simplifying) APIs like ALSA-SoC, for example. and please don’t tell me that the docs in the kernel tree are good enough.

as a device creator, i look at this from a completely different and more practical perspective than those who are obsessed about programming languages. in the end the kernel serves the hardware community and is not some kind of programming utopia to prove how smart you are.
Isn't this the nature of trying to capture more profit? Of course, once proven, they would like to vertically integrate; I take this as true in all circumstances
Anecdata: Everyone I work with does.
They built their cycle infrastructure through the 60s and 70s tho so that would make sense
They want more data but they don't want to pay for it. People want lots of things, doesn't mean they get it or deserve it.

I can't recall which it was but one of the timeseries databases was bragging on the fact that there are certain situations where scanning a block of data is as cheap as trying to add finer grained indexes to it, especially with ad hoc queries. They did a bunch of benchmarks that said block scanning with compression and parallelism was workable.

And while compression typically leads to write amplification (or very poor compression ratios), in a timeseries database, or a regular database architected in a timeseries-like fashion, modifying the old data is deeply frowned upon (and in fact I've heard people argue for quasi-timeseries behavior because modifying old records is so punishing, especially as the application scales), so as long as you can decide not to compress some pages - new pages - this is not a problem.
In that recording, prior to any auto completion the coder types:

// fast inverse square root

float Q_

I can get access to the same code if I search “// fast inverse square root” in google:

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22%2F%2F+fast+inverse+sq...

The float Q_ is a partial code match so obviously that requires a more specialised search engine such as copilot.

But all this example demonstrates is that copilot is a great code search engine allowing me to easily find code that is published publicly on the internet
Linux has PeaZip, as well as 7zip. FWIW PeaZip is available for Windows, MacOs and Linux
> at runtime
on the fly is different to a cached index, just keep a hash table or b-tree in memory, with just offset values to the text. with range queries a tree would make sense, with lookups a hash table. the perl variant uses a hash.

in some of my bigger text engines I prefer a serialized hash table (berkeley db) over real databases because it's 10x faster under 20.000 records. constant database overhead is huge
Parabola Linux Nonsystemd
That’s an unacceptable violation of the NAP. Obviously my initial actions were non violent because I wanted to do them. If you attempt to stop me, that’s the real violence
If I want to open the README in a multi-gigabyte archive, why would I expect to extract all of it, even as a setting?

This seems the expected and reasonable behavior to me, as a second data point.
>"nonsystemd is a repository that aims to provide software built and patched to correctly work without systemd."
Target has 250k SKUs total - why is their inventory system so complicated? Why the hybrid on-prem store + data center cloud model - isn’t it easier if there is one source of truth? Seems like it would reduce the need for even dealing with all this eventually consistence cache sycning and whatnot

I ofc don’t know what I dont know, but super curious if anyone has insight into why such a complex system is required

Also, if this microservice is used for brick and mortgage mortar, can’t imagine more than a couple hundred per second? ( 2000 stores, 5 registers a store - and humans manually scanning items ) - why did that overload the micro service (guessing it wasn’t an endless exponential backoff)
> Adding bindings for a second language after 25 years is not what I'd call "diversity".

Actually, a third language. The Linux kernel already has two: C and assembly.
Buried under another thread was this post: https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/avoiding-fallback-in... which is the exact same issue - a cache miss was backed up by a direct query and it took down all of Amazon trying to display shipping times.

grok say complexity bad

Fallback is not always necessary (sometimes it is, you can't just say "whelp the engines on this plane went out, time to die") but when you have a fallback system you should think about why you have it and how bad it is to fail, and if it could be worse to succeed.
Training Copilot is fair use, using Copilot is ???.
My incredibly unsophisticated, but surprisingly effective approach, is to share by email with myself (e.g. mail to myname+bookmark@mydomain.com).

Mail rules can then file them, I can add any relevant notes or hashtags to the mail body at the time I share the link, and the chronological ordering is helpful. Imap search is usually 'good enough' to turn up a half-remembered link or article.

I have been meaning to add an imap script to complement this with something like a simplepage archive, but have never got round to it.
Counter point: I am 37 years old. I quit marijuana three or four months ago, but before that I was vaping marijuana nearly every day for four years. During that time I’ve achieved more success in my career than any other time. I think it was good for me to quit. I feel more alert and more productive now. More level and less tired. Maybe I would have been more successful without it, so perhaps you are right. But then, life shouldn’t be just about success. And then, I still got where I am today, with the best career I’ve ever had. So it doesn’t feel like it held me back at all.

Crucially, I used relatively small amounts of pure sativa. I wasn’t stuck on the couch while I used it. Still, this to me suggests self control is more important than abstinence.
https://www.instapaper.com
I use Raindrop.io and have it hooked up to NewsBlur and ArchiveBox as secondary backups [1].

This way whenever something is bookmarked it's saved in Newsblur and published to Dropbox, which ArchiveBox picks up every hour and saves a local copy and to archive.org.

1. https://www.ecliptik.com/bookmarking-with-raindrop/
I still use Instapaper, though their mobile apps are not terribly useful, and very slow. Mostly I just use it to bookmark things--I read so voraciously that searching through 25 new bookmarks a day is way easier than searching through 250+ history entries a day, not to mention Chrome isn't indexing every page I've visited.
Noone was going after researchers running proper studies with informed consent on e.g. ivermectin impact on Covid. However, doctors randomly prescribing stuff because they believe in it is quite different from a medical study - we have good historical reasons why we regulate medical experiments on humans, why we don't allow the medical and pharmaceutical industry to "just try it" unless certain conditions are met.
ArchiveBox documents how to automatically archive links from your browser history:

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Usage#Import-l...
You've got, essentially, a proscenium. You can have things surprisingly come on-scene that wouldn't have the same element of surprise in a room, because the thing would be obviously already in the room.

It's going to take a lot of creativity to figure out what to do with that, though...
PLEASE DO NOT PUT LINDANE ON YOUR FACE TO GET RID OF PENIS MITES.
Did they say alcohol and sugar aren't health risks? Are you calling them liars for pointing out the struggles of teenagers who are taking huge amounts of mind-altering substances? Did they say Cannabis doesn't have health benefits for people who take it for prescribed reasons? Did the article itself advocate or give voice to advocates of "re-prohibition" outright?
> In Libertopia, the only regulations are contract enforcements.

That's disingenuous. There is plenty of libertarian literature on negative externalities. Milton Friedman, notably, was happy to use taxes and regulations to protect the environment.

The reasoning is simple: by polluting my land / poisoning me with PFAS, you have violated the NAP. This kind of pollution is illegal in "Libertopia".
This seems like a no-brainer to me.

I've attempted to set up my own email server for personal use multiple times. Even with fulfilling the tablestakes of SPF, DKIM, and DMARC etc, I always run into at least one major email provider blocking all emails from me specifically because of who I host my VPS with. Outlook in particular seems to aggressively block all SMTP communication with both DigitalOcean and Linode. As an individual, there's nothing I can do about this.

I've just resigned myself to either not being able to not communicate with email addresses on Outlook, or use an alternative email address for those rare occasions.
I thought the way that South Park put it (in the voice of Randy Marsh) many years ago was just about perfect:

“Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn't gonna make you kill people, and ...it most likely isn't gonna fund terrorists, but... Well son, pot makes you feel fine with being bored and... It's when you're bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or... being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren't good at anything.” [0]

To be clear, I don’t wholly agree, I know too many talented and hard-working stoners, but it does sum up the passive danger of cannabis rather nicely I think.

[0] https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/My_Future_Self_n%27_Me/Scr...
You'd think that would work, but it doesn't and I don't know why. Maybe because you still get the same % in the hit but it just doesn't last as long? For people that use vaporizers like mine, you also need to have a certain amount for the vaporizer to be effective otherwise you get nothing out of it which leads to inserting even more weed and suddenly you have more in your system than you meant to. The higher percentage stuff is an instant panic attack for me whereas the low percentage allows me to actually enjoy it. I have an extreme sensitivity to cannabis though, so this doesn't apply to everyone, but I'm also far from alone on this. I personally don't care if they sell high % concentrations as long as they make the lower concentrations available too for people like me. Unfortunately finding the low-dose stuff seems to be very difficult. I ended up growing my own low-dose strain though and it's been excellent so far.
> why not just claim copilot was used whenever accused of copyright infringement hence forth?

Without speaking to the particulars of copilot, this situation where laws seem toothless because of the ease of plausible deniability is actually fairly common. And in many such cases, the law is not as toothless as it seems, because

1. Getting multiple people to stick to a script under oath is difficult and dangerous.

2. Criminals frequently send each other messages like

A: "lol I just crimed, hope nobody figures it out."

B: "lol just say you used copilot".

A: "lolol yeah fuck the law"

Obviously this only gets the worst criminals, but there seems to be lots and lots of them.