skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DuckDB has SQLite semantics but is natively built around columnar formats (parquet, in-memory Arrow) and strong types (including dates). It also supports very complex SQL.

SQLite is a row store built around row based transactional workloads. DuckDB is built around analytics workloads (lots of filtering, aggregations and transformations) and for these workloads DuckDB is just way way faster. Source: personal experience.
Groceries I don't buy with BTC, because it is not possible. But basically all household items, thanks to several big online retailers accepting BTC in my country. Also all travel related stuff, hotels, flights, etc.

I very rarely use BTC in brick-n-mortar setups, in the last year once in a restaurant where I had a bigger bill and they had recently started accepting it - went actually very fluently.

It is not really that much different lifestyle to any normal life, I just pay with BTC where it works. And these days it works very fluently in online setups in my experience.
KK> I am trying to think of examples of successful future proofing. Where someone figured out what was coming and built something ready for it. Do you know any examples?

Commercial construction.

Don't try to predict the future. Reduce the structural essentials to their minimum requirements (columns, beams, trusses, pans), and make it easy to adapt the finish layer to changing preferences or use cases.

Drop ceilings, non-load bearing walls, conduits for power and signal, locate services (plumbing, HVAC, power, etc) in a centrally-located stack to minimize the horizontal runs to arbitrary locations.

I wish these ideas were more common in residential construction. Most are easy to apply, although there would be a slight bump in cost (10%?).
Oh this is true here too. SMS usage was huge pre-WhatsApp.

What happened was that the networks were capitalising on that. SMS was historically quite expensive so it became a big cash cow. SMS bits must have been made of gold because they were hundreds of times more expensive than other bits.

WhatsApp completely killed SMS usage here however. Leading to some carriers wanting to charge extra for WhatsApp usage to recuperate some of the 'lost' revenue. This sparked a big discussion about net neutrality which was then enshrined in EU law, so the discussion was finished. By this time, SMS became practically free but it was too late.
Which games did you play? TIS-100 and Schenzen IO and Exapunks definitely felt more like programming games than puzzle games to me.
Indeed it is :)

Dropping an example in TryOcaml[0]:

let f : int -> int = fun _ -> 1 ;;
val f : int -> int = <fun>
let ex : int list = [f] ;;
Line 1, characters 21-22:
Error: This expression has type int -> int but an expression was expected of type
int

[0]: https://try.ocamlpro.com/
You aren’t compelled to allow someone to stay in your home just because you previously invited them in.

Ideally, people would successfully use other means of contraception and they VAST majority of the time they do. But there are myriad reasons someone may come to the decision that they cannot carry a child to term. I firmly believe that being compelled to do so violates security in one’s person. There’s a long tradition in English common law preceding the US constitution that holds basic the same concept to be true. Historically common law allowed abortion up to the “quickening”, which today we might call viability even though it differs a bit.

Fundamentally I don’t think the state should be able to tell you what to do with your own body. Many important rights flow naturally from this basic premise. I think this is a principled approach rather than working backwards from an outcome.
Get a pair of welding gloves that go up to the elbow. :-)
> It is the same argument used to justify any opinion without proof

You offered an opinion without proof, which is that Apple wouldn't exist. This is why these "debates" are so unproductive. Both sides have unfalsifiable positions.
> Did Moderna invent birds too?

Maybe they did...

https://birdsarentreal.com/
The user chooses the second 6 numbers. For dumb users this won't add any security, but for smart users this ring alarm bells.

I like it, at least, for now. It's better than the current situation.
Unlike saying no to being drafted, abortion is a medical procedure. Women can't simply choose to abort, they must have medical assistance. Even with that it's never a simple choice.

Not to mention that when a war threatens the country you being drafted is taking the lion's share of the risk, because someone not doing it is also risky and to everyone.

Here women have to risk their lives and jail because a bunch of religious extremists and fascists have nothing better to do. There is no logical, philosophical, moral or even religious reason for it. It's tyranny for tyranny's sake. It's a demonstration of the power these people have over society.
I'm a huge fan of their hoodies, that's the first thing I ever bought! I probably would have mentioned it if it was hoodie-wearing season where I live but those have been tucked away for a few months already.
> If there was a lab leak and a coverup, this meant that the Chinese government likely knew earlier and had more information about the nature of the virus and how it spread. That could have saved millions of lives.

The lesson here is not “we need to prove it was a lab leak,” the lesson is “we need better visibility inside China.” Which is also true for viruses that arise naturally inside China.

Do you think that if you could prove with total certainty that it was a lab leak in 2019, that would change China’s approach to secrecy in the future?

> If this was a lab leak, it means that this kind of research is far more dangerous than we've been lead to believe and continuing without appropriate safeguards puts us at great risk.

Do you think we can stop secret viral research in China if they want to do it?

One of my frustrations with the “lab leak theory” is that it seems to cause fuzzy thinking about future preparedness.

We can’t control other nations and we can’t stop natural viral evolution. Future preparedness is the same as past preparedness: detect and respond. We just did a bad job of it with COVID-19. The lesson is: do a better job.
I've been using jmp.chat and have been pretty happy with them. But I haven't tried using them as 2fa provider, they may be blocked by places that block common voip providers.
I've been using Maccy for about a year now, after Quicksilver inexplicably decided to stop working on one of my comps. Even though subsequent updates have fixed Qucksilver, I still keep Maccy around for the clipboard features. So much more user-friendly than Quicksilver's were.

So thanks for creating Maccy and double thanks for making it free!
> The legitimate reason it is reversed _now_ is that it is _now_ when the matter is before them in court.

And it's in the court now because this is the first time in 50 years that we've had a court regressive enough to vote it down.

It hadn't been codified in law because there wasn't a need because the court's had settled the issue.

To follow your analogy it's like finally removing that deprecated code after 50 years and seeing side-effects across the code base that are hugely disruptive to a tiny percent of users and anger inducing to a majority, while also making a minority of users feel smug about it finally being removed.
> it is a distraction.
It doesn't help solve the crisis.

This is extremely naive. Do you really believe it won’t happen all over again?

The real crisis is not Covid. It’s how easy something even worse than Covid could be started today.
Because you have a laser printer. A lot of people try to be cheap and buy inkjets, and those things will fail if they sit without use for a month. And if the ink won't dry, the machine will claim it has, and force you to buy new ink -- which will cost more than the sale on the printer was originally.
> Companies like Netflix, Disney , Intuit (TurboTax) explicitly decided that it wasn’t “cheaper”.

Doesn't Netflix only run their metadata servers in the cloud? I'm not sure what those other two do.

> Google, Apple, Microsoft, SalesForce, Oracle, are not good at creating software?

Did I imply that?

Though we could debate Oracle...

> You also just think throwing money at a problem can automatically create software that is better than private corporations?

I never said better. But "good enough", in avoidance of horrible privacy violations, is a choice I'd approve of.

And open source software usually does quite well when given moderate funding.

> They don’t want any private company involved in government IT.

My interpretation is that if you get rid of the surveillance you solve the main problem, as far as outsourcing goes. If that's wrong then some of what I suggested isn't compatible.
I believe that’s my point. From what I understand, an incredibly broad interpretation of something like the interstate commerce clause or another enumerated power would seem necessary for such a federal ban to supersede state laws permitting abortions.
Very well put. One thing I’d add, is that this entire debate regarding the lab leak hypothesis is entirely politicized, and I feel few people actually have legitimate scientific interest in discovering the truth. Either theory is perfectly viable given the evidence we currently have.
Between "buy the perfect cable you would bury in the wall" and "buy [almost any] fiber" and thr weird things you sometimes need to do to route the cables in the house (I swear, people who design them aren't from this planet) sometimes it would be easier to just lay the fiber (and eat cost with media converters and such) than to gamble on Cat6, IF you really need more than 1Gbit reliably.
I use org-capture. The setup is a bookmark in firefox that triggers emacs, where I save all the pages I visit and that interest me. The links are saved in a plain text file, which I later edit and export to any format I wish. A good explanation here [1]

[1] https://mediaonfire.com/blog/2017_07_21_org_protocol_firefox...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki

"The city was founded on April 1, 1916."

Amagasaki1916
1Password with a free, lifetime account. It's the best password manager on the market, bar none.
> Imagine a society without personal property, like some small tribe. Wouldn't they see our property rights as artificial?

This is a common argument, but one that is ungrounded in reality. Ancient tribes were small and certainly had fewer (or no) written rules, but there is plenty of evidence that they had personal property. Grave goods are just one of the most obvious. Neolithic huts with fences built around them to keep the livestock safe are another. We have stories dating all the way back into prehistory of shepherds counting their sheep. Etc, etc.
Most of this article could apply to for-profit boards as well. Some of the key points here (e.g., lack of clear responsibilities) come from immature governance, rather than any particular difference in org. type. It's easier to join a nonprofit board than a for-profit board, so you get less-experienced people (and leadership!). And nonprofit boards often come with a) fundraising responsibility and b) networking opportunity, so it can be a different kind of gig.
I agree it's not binary -- and the SARS CoV2 debate, in particular, became a theater of the absurd -- but the categorical distinction is not entirely crazy: some viruses are much more sensitive to drying out or exposure to the environment and simply cannot transmit efficiently in tiny aerosols.

Tons of work has gone into weaponizing smallpox, for example. It's a non-trivial thing, even though smallpox is technically already a virus that transmits via aerosol. Many viruses will exist in saliva, and will happily transmit through direct contact, but won't transmit well via the air (mononucleosis comes to mind).
The two biggest reasons were severe burnout and private equity acquisition. I could see the company "tightening the belt", so I knew I had to leave before the cuts come. I kind of want to strike out on my own, and I'm not sure how to do that, but I guess I'll figure it out.
I think both types of children should be protected. Can't you read?
>> The act of carrying a concealed gun in public will still be a crime by default, even if you are allowed to have a gun.

I don’t know what you mean by that. A CCW permit is legal and not a crime. This ruling would compel Shall-Issue in places like California. California is a May-Issue state and an average law-abiding citizen has a better chance of winning the lottery than getting a CCW issued. Now you can sue.
Looks like there is a maintained fork here: https://github.com/timvisee/send
> yahoo and Microsoft

Those two stagnated (at best) in the aughts. Google was taking Yahoo's lunch, and Microsoft had no web vision and was tied up in antitrust headaches.
Genetic selection has a lot of trouble differentiating between correlation and causation. That is one of the ways in which intellect has allowed us to evolve so fast that our genes are sometimes becoming a problem.

Hibernation and torpor cycles are alternating between metabolic modes that are tied to the seasons, seasons are tied to weather, and exercise levels are tied to the weather directly, and to seasons indirectly - I'm gathering roots today because the sun is out, but I'm not walking to the next village because we usually have snow storms this time of year, so I could get halfway there and then die in a blizzard.
I didn't read the article, I'm just here to point out how weird and wonderful it is that it's 2022 and I'm looking at a URL with a tilde in it, like my first URL ever had.
I'm on the board of a very small non-profit--actually a student organization (that all of the board belonged to at some point in time, often quite a few years ago).

We actually pay quite a bit of attention to financials and discussing them takes up a decent chunk of a board meeting including whether fundraising letters are going out (and reviewing them), overall financial situation, lease renewals, larger purchases, etc.

As for responsibilities, I'd say it's a bit of a mix. There's an executive board--which I'm on--where specific responsibilities are pretty clear. The rest of the board probably much less so other than showing up for meetings.

>A true non-profit has to spend almost every dollar it takes in.

We certainly try to have a reasonable reserve. And, fortunately in recent years, we've been able to fulfill the basic mission while staying in the black.
They ended the service, but you can host your own server -- which is what the developer of this package has done
The article basically says that you have to read the Bible to understand why you think the way you do about anything because you live in a country with a history of having a majority-Christian population. I disagree. Most people's ethical frameworks are very simple and are usually just least-harm principles with a little window dressing. And insofar as they aren't, they are usually not particularly compatible with secular society. For my part I don't see the need to give special attention to a particular ethical text just because so many other people have for so long.
> The United States is substantively an oligarchic republic that has the superficial form of a rather distorted democratic republic

Yes, it is a _representative_ democracy, as are most democracies around the world. We could be talking about the means to achieve such representation, and the legitimacy of such means, but by definition, it is still a republic _and_ a democracy, flawed or not.
> When you say “we”, who do you mean exactly? How did they cook them?

The entire population of the western world. Every time COVID-19 infects a person and replicates it has the chance to mutate or introduce errors. If those errors in replication increase the fitness of the virus it will evolve to become a more powerful variant (i.e. gain of function). By continuing to allow hundreds of thousands of new cases and infections to occur daily we are increasing the chance of variants evolving. The _only_ way to stop variants is to stop transmission, period.

> Can you explain why you believe the pandemic is not over?

We are still averaging over 100k new cases a day in the US. And that's with almost all of the population using rapid tests that aren't counted in that measurement.
FTX and Binanace will win because they actually invested in infra and efficiency when building out their products during the good times. They'll reap outsized benefits during the downturn.
Just a reminder that the predecessor of COVID-19, SARS-CoV-1 leaked from the lab 4 (yes, four) times. The Wikipedia page lists 3 of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...

Biosecurity incidents are shockingly common.
Discussion of the "lab leak hypothesis" isn't helpful and has on the contrary done a lot of harm. The problem is that a "lab leak" is understood as something evil, intentional or reckless. The research into bat viruses however is vital. There is also no evidence that Sars-Cov-2 even originated in a bat, much less passed through a laboratory.
better than foreign propaganda flying under a false flag.
I don't have a better link/reference, but the following shows that threading is a desired feature within the Matrix network and ecosystem: https://matrix.org/blog/posts#a-thread-for-next-time

So, who knows, maybe you'll get the best of both worlds eventually. :-)
It helps that Jen Simmons, a renown css evangelist and expert, works on safari.
Agreed on bodily autonomy. It is my guess that the court would strike down laws that restrict abortion wholesale (when challenged), but who knows.

Of course, this is only applicable if the Congress fails to act; were they to pass a law that enshrines the right to bodily autonomy, there would be no issue.
As someone with multi-million dollar investments, your concerns about wealth taxes and your standards for evaluating financial sense are wildly different from most people on the planet, and even many here on HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31853131
Well...200k in 1975 $'s. And MOS was a startup, basically. So not a trivial amount. But yeah, a big part of the initial pitch was "you can use your same hardware design but replace the $300 CPU with our $25 CPU".
>They don’t need to build a fully automated one-size-fits-all product experience

It comes down to number of customers. At some point, even if they are paying, you need the scale and you will need to channel those fees towards putting in place the kind of automation that they are not planning to build.
This is not the actual Firefox Send but rather just Send: https://send.vis.ee/

> This application is not affiliated with Firefox or Mozilla in any way.

So the title is somewhat wrong.
Of course it is zoonotic in origin. Otherwise it wouldn't have been novel. Viruses don't appear from thin air.
It doesn't necessarily need to be a lab employee, it could be someone reponsible for disposing of dead animals choosing to make a quick buck
> The primary civic problem in this country is the neutering of our State and Federal legislatures. The Courts should not be legislating. The Executive should not be legislating. Force our Representatives to do their damn jobs.

This is just another symptom of the disease of the disproportional representation everywhere in our systems, most importantly the senate. The senate confirmed (or in the case of Garland, refused to confirm) these justices, and the senate refuses to pass laws the majority of Americans want.

> But there's no way to view this as "a minority enforcing social views on the majority."

How can you interpret the Texas law as anything but? This decision and those laws are all the product of concerted and focused lobbying and maneuvering by conservative Christian groups that make up a minority of Americans.
I like the simplicity, thanks!

I created a test group with 3 users and 3 expenses with different payers and payees. After the first reimbursement, the remaining 2 balances were not equal: -0.70 vs. 0.69. After the second, the final balances are:
-0.01
0.00
0.00

Some nice to haves:
- When creating expenses, a select all functionality/default all for "paid for"
- Group status on the /groups page
Sure, but Occam’s is a logical shortcut, not a method of scientific conclusion. I personally suspect a lab leak origin, but I can’t say I have conclusive evidence. I just find it extremely likely based on a myriad of circumstantial evidence, and a lack of any conclusive evidence of natural origin.
Chromium _is_ written in C++, has some of the best coders and one of the best-tested codebases in the world. They're still finding zero-days based on exploits due to the language's failings.

There's a reason Mozilla has decided that all parser code should be moved to Rust ASAP.
> That comment doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Are services not valuable? Stripe and Twilio seem like really helpful services and that seems...OK to me?

Services are totally valuable! I think with Stripe and Twilio they both solve a problem a Business/PM/Owner has. The conversations go something like this in my head:

PM: I want to be able to send SMS messages to my customers.

Dev: Uh, I don't know anything about telecom...

Twilio: I do! I'm way cheaper than a dev working this problem. Just use me.

For NLU, I'm not sure I've been able to find PMs that are wanting to "understand the plain english of our users". But I know there is a decent amount of NLP usage. Do PM's just not know that they can ask for these NLP? Or do they just not need it? I'm not sure. I feel a little bit like I'm missing a piece of the puzzle.

> Personally I get excited when I hear about an ease-of-use wrapper around regex. But for a DB, in place of that regular messy query stuff with the prospect of things like multiple LEFT JOINS? That's a big deal.

A regex wrapper is an interesting idea. Maybe I'll try it out. I agree that a text to db wrapper could be a good idea, if it works really well.

> The average person's energy pool for trying different sentences, even considering some expected failure rate, is so much deeper than the resources available for trying and failing with different SQL statements.

Great point!

> It sounds really cool. Good luck, hope it works out for you.

Thank you, me too :)
That's one strategy, yes. How about joining the migration of blue going IN TO the state to actually change the backward laws?
Just imagine Russia did this to Ukraine...oh the media coverage
I doubt there'll be internment camps. But deportations, canceling visas and green cards is something I expect if republicans are in power again.
If shops actually stop selling birth control moderate Americans might be galvanized into voting :)

I think that would affect a lot of people.. they might be shy to speak out, but if suddenly it's not available they might vote.
This is has been brought up a few times, but is largely a non-sequitur. First, if WWIII broke out, I doubt women would be exempt from a draft (e.g. see Israel where service is mandatory for women). Second, this is comparing exceptional circumstances where there is, presumably, an existential threat to the state vs. a situation that can reasonably be expected to occur in a person's lifetime (pregnancy).

The draft is also a temporary measure. As with other wartime restrictions of civil liberties, like curfews or rationing, it would not be tolerated if continued outside the context of a war.
Symantec Q&A was released in 1985.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%26A_%28Symantec%29

For various definitions of query, the work goes back to the 1950s
https://developer.ibm.com/articles/a-beginners-guide-to-natu...
I've seen your comments in this thread questioning what the American public actually wants. You don't need to wonder - there have been countless polls over the past fifty years that will tell you in detail:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/393275/steady-americans-not-roe...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/13/about-six-i...

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1099844097/abortion-polling-r...

https://news.gallup.com/poll/393104/pro-choice-identificatio...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/upholding-roe-v-wade-is-support...