skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "solve this problem by not being relational"

That has nothing to do with this. All databases are fundamentally the same regardless of data model. The standard process is to start a new version, replicate the existing database, then cutover once the replica is caught up. Advanced systems can seamlessly switch the primary so it'll redirect new queries to the new primary upon that cutoff.

This has been done for decades through external tooling across many systems, including Postgres. However it would be easier if the database included this functionality internally.
Interesting that this movie bears no relation at all to the Stephen King short story of the same title on which it claimed to be based.

(In the short story, the titular lawnmower man is a faun-likely creature, working for the god Pan, who literally eats the lawn's grass with his own mouth)
Is neem realistic for large scale farms?

We use it in our personal garden, but you need to continually re-apply every 4-5 days with really good coverage for a period of time for it to be effective. It has been hit or miss for us. If neem doesn't work then its oh well, plant something else, but we aren't selling a crop.
Proper triaging and optimal utilization of resources doesn't imply you should be seen quickly. You should be treated at a pace that data shows is "good enough" given the severity and nature of symptoms.
The molecules are not infectious, but specific assemblies of them are. But more importantly, here's a great example: the molecules which form an assembly do so spontaneously. It's like putting all the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle in a bag, shaking it, and every time, the puzzle comes out completely solved, even if the chances of that happening randomly are unbelievably small. We only observe the statistical average of enormous numbers of these things, which are all happening simultaneously, with complex effects.

Many biological papers don't work with mechanisms at all- they just deal with statistical associations between entities- and treat them as complex black boxes.

Here's another exmaple. Why do people grow to the heights they do? Well, originally people thought there were maybe 1-2 genes, with a few specific mutations, and the results all sort of added up linearly. Nope! Instead, we've learned that about 50% of total height variation is explained by genetics, and even then, there are hundreds of different genes that contribute to height, with all sorts of different variations in and between genes causing nonlinear effects (typically ignored in genetics, but considered strongly in evo-devo) that are extremely hard to explain in a detailed causal way.

In short: biology is highly nonlinear with huge numbers of variables, along with active feedback mechanisms and other complex systems that work to maintain homeostasis against entropy and protection against constantly evolving infectious agents. The basic concepts of causality, like "entity A causes event B which leads to outcome C" really do apply, but they're fully probabilistic and massively tensorial.
Reminds me of how different DARPA was in the early years, compared to now.

If you're interested in how the modern Agency functions, I'd suggest reading The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies.

It describes some of the typical trends in our time: contracts too often go to entrenched players and primes, rather than startups as primes due to technical merit rather than past performance and relationships. DARPA personnel reaching out from anonymous mailboxes post-RFI submission, asking if your team has TS/Sci clearance. (No answer if it's not a complete 100% yes.) And landlordism: extracting value from an existing system rather than seeding many new technologies.

However, there is still nothing like DARPA, despite its many problems. DIU is more for near-term innovation, and had its budget cut 20% just now. AFRL, AFWERX, Army SBIR/STTR, and so on, are all critical but not built to prevent technological surprise. Thank your lucky stars we have DARPA still up and running after so many decades.
Ouch, I didn't know that...

Yeah I really think they shot themself in the foot with making the happy path too narrow. Almost everyone will hit some minor usability thing like that and that has contributed to the negative impression.

And there are just not enough power user options in the settings, even with Gnome Tweak tools.
The complete list seems paid though (75 to $10,000).

[0] https://store.eiu.com/product/global-liveability-survey/
That’s interesting. It’s essentially a push right?

Do not wildly profitable to mine; but you can untraceably convert USD to crypto via mining.

Curious what it looks like to do this with large sums of cash.
Even Bill Gates knows you let people pirate the product first, then squeeze them for license fees.
Use an existing framework, focus on the basics. And don't use blockchain.
Good old crypto
Northern North America doesn't look too great... Dark and cold... Not some very lovely place to live. The south is horribly hot on other hand. Also horrible.
Copilot, I’m looking to build an email client....

“How about Outlook366?”
So just insinuations and “do your own research?” I’m intrigued as to who the nefarious entity is with their shadowy plan to protect pollinators that the media is conspiring to hide.
> they won't be able to categorize some people as being merely a bundle of cells.

Or, they'd criminalize and take freedoms away from living humans, for a bundle of cells, just because it doesn't match their moral perspective.
I agree with most of the points in this article and try to practice them, but I wish the author would have waited before offering his take. There are too many bloggers who read a self-help book or two, get really energized, and then, before testing the long-term results, suggest their readers to follow suit. Often, a few entries later, the blogger will then modify their take, which gives them more content for the blog, but seems like a waste of the reader’s time.
> Only amend commits that only exist in your local copy or you're gonna have a bad time.

Would you consider linking more information or adding an explanation of "a bad time"? I think it's really confusing for newcomers to understand the implications of "public commits", or even what "public" means.
If you have any public library in your vicinity, then that could be a place to hang out.
> i'm not sure i follow this. what is an entity? how are they disrupting the network?

It's answered in the article:

> They argue this reduces the threshold for a so-called 51 percent attack. "If a node operator's self-interest is to be dishonest, then there is no explicit penalty for doing so. Moreover, the number of entities necessary to execute a 51 percent attack on Bitcoin was reduced from 51 percent of the entire network (which we estimate at approximately 59,000 nodes) to only the four most popular mining pool nodes (less than 0.004 percent of the network)," the study found.
One layer deeper, it was also illustrative of how the supposedly smarter people (the researchers and teacher) also reacted to his journey, and of who's "allowed" to be smart without being perceived as threatening. It's not as straightforward as just "jocks vs nerds", but how the scientists work with each other, how the teacher treats him vs the researchers, how the lab mouse is alternately thought of either disposable or a beloved pet, the many different degrees and directions of otherization between all the characters, etc.

It's social commentary, sure, but a relatively nuanced one at that :) By my reading/IMHO, the isolation, loneliness, and insecurity/otherization of all the characters in the story were heavier than any overt comparison of athleticism vs intellectualism.

American culture isn't just athletic, it's also quite shallow: everyone projects success and happiness but suffer deeper down and are afraid to introspect, share vulnerabilities, or form meaningful communities. The invisible individualism causes suffering both for the characters in the book and real people in our society. It's an interesting thing to think about, no? Hollywood these days doesn't celebrate raw martial athleticism as much anymore, but the rugged individualist hero (who's both smart and physically somewhat capable, like Marvel or DC heroes) is typically also socially dysfunctional and emotionally underdeveloped. The indie and foreign films are a lot better at capturing nuance... our blockbusters are mostly still just broken-men-blowing-things-up kinda deals.
If you preach to a voting base who will vote against you at every turn, good influence has no value. You can only go where you are welcome to share, where ideas can be safely and intelligently discussed, and reasonable people can come to some sort of compromise or a solution all can agree on.

US politics have become too polarized, where constituents don't want solutions (evidenced by them voting for representatives who don't vote in the public interest, or who publicly gloat about hurting the other side through policy), and no one person has the power to move the needle (not to mention Citizen's United where the wealthy can pour unfathomable amounts of fiat into races to back their candidates and their politics). Know when to hold them, and know when to fold them.

EDIT: And it's not just the elected. A SCOTUS Justice motivated purely by hate.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clarence-thomas-told-clerks-...

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/27/us/2-years-after-his-brui...

> Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told his law clerks in the '90s that he wanted to serve for 43 years to make liberals' lives 'miserable'

(us citizen leaving for western europe)
>The claim you're questioning is "There are horseshoe bats near Wuhan".

That again is a strawman argument. I didn't say anything about bats. I was talking about the natural siblings of COVID-19, ie. the coronaviruses using ACE2 (like for example WIV1). Those viruses were found in Yunnan (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12711), a 1000km from the Wuhan, and weren't found in Wuhan. Given that Yunnan people there have incomparably higher chances to get exposed to those viruses, there are no chances that one of such viruses was brought on a bat/civet from Yunnan to the market in Wuhan and jumped on human for the first time there without such a virus independently infecting significant number of people in Yunnan. On top of that that supposed natural COVID-19 virus supposedly did such a first jump on human in Wuhan market at exactly the same time when the Wuhan lab produced in BSL2 environment (hardly can be called "biosafety" at all, especially for an airborne virus) a chimeric virus by all accounts indistinguishable from COVID-19. It isn't a conspiracy theory. It is probability theory.

If we imagine that an event of such vanishingly small probability did happen, then it would be a crown achievement of human science worth 10 Nobels - just think about it - creating the same virus at the same place at the same time as the supposedly "natural" beginning of the pandemic. EcoHealth and WIV would be doing non-stops victory laps, and we would be putting bronze statues of Daszak on every corner of every public street. Instead all the participants - the WIV, EcoHealth, NIH and China government went total denial and "5th amendment" and started that huge PR campaign to spread that nonsense that thinking that an airborne virus can escape BSL2 makes you a racists conspiracy theorist.
I've heard good things about ASUS. I wonder if it also makes sense to buy from Costco considering their return policy.
I have it in writing three times over. The lie is indeed a 100 on the insultingly obvious bullshit scale. Not an exaggeration.

As I said, they confirmed the date and insisted on it, twice in one day, before changing the story that same day - now the date had "always" been tenuous, and I "was informed" of this.

All of this is in writing, by email. I don't have the email from them to my current lawyer, but it was nothing except pushing him to push me to drop the issue. All handover was dealt with weeks ago.

Re the state bar - is it reasonable to expect fairness from them? I've seen enough wagon circling enough times. Is there anywhere I could find stats or record of their actions, to show that they actually make decisions against their own sometimes?

Thanks, btw.
> every node in bitcoin maintains an abuse/dishonesty score for every peer

Could you link to a source for this? I wasn't aware that is how it works and would be interesting to read.
I think that JUUL was the only real market player for some time.

In nyc it’s all I saw.
Hungary is about the only EU country that doesn't stop using Russian oil.
This would be a perfect place to try Hyperloop-like solution at scale.
This isn't very customer-friendly of FORD. I thought they'd changed for the better, what gives?
The points you are making are excellent. I don't have much to add, but I wanted to thank you.
The second one is particularly interesting and brings load of very interesting questions. Like, is it truly learning or just reciting ? From my limited knowledge about copilot, the latter might be more likely, so the copyright law might be triggered ?
If you ask it for a function that reverses a string in JS, I'm sure the solution will match public code. Doesn't this filter very heavily limit its usefulness?
I personally would rather not hear that. But you are free to be you.
Ask HN: What real innovation in CS can be attributed to Bitcoin?
Not an expert in the field, my question is:
Can some real ground breaking innovation in Computer Science be attributed to Bitcoin and its successors?

People claim it to be:
* Trustless, Proof of Work
* Immutable append only ledger (Blockchain)
* Smart Contracts

Are any of them new concepts?

While solving their problems, has the Crypto community invented any new general purpose Algorithms (or Data Structures) that could be used elsewhere?

I'm curious to understand those Algorithms.
I find this phrase "Automatic Currying" that people are using in this thread to be very strange.

It implies that `(add 3)` is being magically converted into `(\x -> (add 3 x))` by some fancy front-end feature.

But no, `add` is just a function that returns a function.

This pattern is core to the entire paradigm of functional programming, all the way down to the lambda calculus.

All functional programming languages are essentially just fancy syntax around lambda calculus. They have different implementation strategies (strict vs lazy), different type systems, and they have been extended with different primitives (floats, operations on floats, etc).

But at their core, they are all just lambda calculus.

In the lambda calculus, there is ONLY functions, and all functions take one argument. There are no tuples. So, multiple arguments are implemented with the pattern in question. For example:

mul = (λx. λy. λz. x(yz))
IMVHO Gnome designers are simply not free. They mostly came from RH before, IBM now corporate/management "environment" so they must follow a certain line, a really bad one.

They can do something good, but their are locked on many other aspects. As a result the formal Free project is not that free.

Beside that, yes Unity was a good desktop, something there when you want it, discrete otherwise. Gnome SHell in comparison suffer from secondary narcissism doing it best to be at the center of anything. But desktop concept is finished.

Modern desktops start with icons and than we realize how stupid is putting icons on screen that get continually covered by applications, modern desktops start with floating WM and then we realize how absurd is wasting time moving windows around instead of a simple flexible screen subdivision. Background prove their non-sense, menus prove their absurdity vs command-line/search&narrow tools, ... Essentially the desktop of the future is the classic document-centric desktop from Xerox workstations and LispM after them. We have timidly started such migration with web crapplications that are document-based even if the document is not ours nor easy to change by the end user. We have started calling Notebook UIs the most advanced desktop UIs etc. We have started with quicklaunchers and than "dash" concept, with "tagged" file management and so on. Probably 50-60-70 years after Xerox PARC pioneering works we will have rediscovered what they have implemented back then.

So far personally, the most modern desktop I know is Emacs/EXWM since I have a free tiling WM, I can manage my files with org-roam/org-mode/org-attach instead of a hierarchy of files and folder, I can link pretty anything and have anything integrated. Still not much GUI for the modern time, not like Pharo at least, but far more modern than anything else I've used so far... In a decade probably such modern desktop we will be kind-of mainstream...
They were clearly not adequately tested, given the number of problems and new findings that have come out after we finished our program of mandatory injection.

A year ago, they were perfectly safe, 95% effective at preventing infection, and 100% effective against severe illness.

Now, we know that they cause a host of serious long-term health problems, are effective only for a couple of months, produce no sterilizing immunity, barely reduce rates of infection, do virtually nothing to reduce spread, cause increasing damage to the immune system with repeated injection, but do actually produce lower rates of severe illness and death.

Unfortunately, though, we created a vaccine mandate and passport system long before figuring any of that out.
article: with Ukraine using 1,520 mm gauge, all cargo has to be transferred to different trains at the Ukraine-EU border

HN: why don't they just build a system to transfer the cargo to a different train? That would solve it
Distributed Systems Applied to Drug Discovery
Anyone know what the file format they used was?
CCIE is the only one I've seen respected.
To which old-world crops do you refer?
Same reason why Twitch chat is addictive because we are social creatures and it allows us to feel connected with other people.

But just like any addiction, there is diminishing returns to it and so it is likely best in small doses.

There is also the reward mechanism when finding a particular interesting tool or idea from the site such as recent launch of Github Co-pilot.
You don't a landline. As you mention yourself it's very hard to waste much time on a mobile phone with no internet access. OTOH, a laptop with internet can be as just much of a timesink as a smartphone.

The internet, it's a hell of a drug. Can't live with it, can't live without it.
This looks great, but is there a TUI or headless mode?

I don't really like GUIs in my Linux, setting up VNC is such a pain.
This is a weird article. It reads like they’re still bitter about the demise of RiscOS and are upset with any other OS that doesn’t live up to it in their view.

To declare all the GNOME devs incompetent because they’ve probably decided it’s not worth the overhead of supporting some highly niche workflows seems a bit much.
The slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m5AjP0GAcYmHyf4-8FhwiKJyycD...
It was mandated to:

* Travel away from your home

* Eat at a restaurant

* Work at a job

* Attend any gathering of people outside your house

* Obtain medical care

* Attend a school
That's what a fair number of Canadians judging by the parking lot of the hospital in Grand Forks, ND.
The lawyer didn't care... they just used their power to block the release. Since it wasn't something that mattered to them, they likely never gave it a second thought. This isn't terribly uncommon (it's not just an issue with lawyers, but with any corporate gatekeeper) in the business world.
Lots of solid advice already.

If you are up for it, you could try moonlighting as a writer for technical content marketing agencies. You get paid on the side, while also subjecting your writing to editorial criticism until it is ready for publication.

https://draft.dev/write

https://contentlab.io/writeforus/
The teachers at $99,000 must include a lot of loan repayment or something. That seems high from my view point. I pulled the whole career based on what the US government discloses.

Note this is a based on salary. I would assume delelopers have better total compensation, but there are loan repayment and other things that might affect a teacher.

Here is the US salary guideline :

Teacher salary: $61,820 per year based on an estimated 998,800 jobs reported on taxes.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/high-...

Software Developers : Salary $110,000 based on an estimated 1,847,900 jobs reported on taxes

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
I find it difficult to adapt. When I am abroad it always feels creepy how "servant" the service industry is. And stop trying to sell me shit.

People really underestimate how you are shaped by the society that you grow up in.
It's not just regular people vs big corporations, it's also an emerging technology with huge potential. You can't stop it, better to find ways to adapt.
>anti-capitalism is also a value

Say it with me: communism.
It will be interesting to see the next version of robots.txt that begins to appear in public repos to prevent this type of data scraping.
For a very similar but different up and down story arc that both makes one appreciate the value of one's own mental faculties, and stirs compassion for those with diminished abilities, I highly recommend the movie "Awakenings." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awakenings De Niro and Robin Williams, based on an Oliver Sacks book, which I haven't read but it probably great.
i gave up on linux UI decade ago already, mainly because of gnome

so i live in a terminal, and whenever i need some desktop UI, i boot my macOS VM (with GPU passthrough)

whenever i need gaming, i boot the windows VM

gnome and red hat want the death of linux desktop, they want everyone instead to become a tablet/smartphone user

they sabotage desktop and held for hostage the entire linux community

it's really a shame to see more and more desktop app with CSD and these giant headers that needs multiple clicks and scroll

a sad era for linux..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JTEsQufSx4
That's a really good analysis but I look at it from another angle that you might consider. With Roe, the Supreme Court granted "rights" that were not explicitly in the constitution, nor in any federal statute. You may have also noticed that a Miranda ruling came down that also clarified that a "Miranda warning" is not a right granted under the constitution, or in federal law.

I am pro-choice but I think what the court did was right because now it forces politicians to make tough decisions. I only hope that the people realize that because of the Roe decision, it's back to the policymakers to pass law, not for the court to create it.
This chat bot was trained on Hacker News only.
Both versions are useful. One makes me happier than the other. Yes, it's the other one.