skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really such a dumb idea actually. It just depends on what you favour. There are plenty of nice things about SQL databases. I suppose it's the regular back and forth between one extreme and another. Both driven by "we need something new to work on" and changing technology landscape.

Relational databases really weren't all that practical back in the day with the hardware that was available. Putting thought into defining how you are going to query your data was available though. Relational algebra wasn't a thing from the start either.

If someone comes along and tells you that you don't have to know all this up-front and you can come up with a query you want to ask about the data you have, you will be able to, isn't that awesome? Ad-hoc, just like that. No need to carefully transform the data you have, ensure you keep it all up-to-date in multiple places etc. Of course data volumes grow and even the newer hardware you have can soon no longer handle what you got in a timeframe that you like. Indexing will be a thing. Of course even indexes grow way too huge to really perform, but hardware to the rescue, where at least all the indexes you need frequently will fit in RAM. Lots of caching going on too for your regular workloads.

Guess where the story is going? Well of course there's the old analytical vs. transactional load thing, i.e. your "Data Warehouse" is a separate database that is optimized for the pre-defined queries again, actually de-normalizing lots of things, being on different hardware, so as not to disturb warm caches for the transactional load etc. And yes, finally NoSQL again, i.e. back to the roots. Put more thought into how you're going to query this as your globe spanning SaaS load won't fit onto the hardware you have available. Of course this brings problems because we're just so good at predicting what kind of query we want to ask about our data. Databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, AWS DocumentDB etc. grow indexes supporting querying arbitrarily ... There's a hole in my bucket dear Liza, dear Liza ... :)

[I'm sure this nice story line is not globally completely correct/adhering to exact timelines but illustrates the point]
The topic certainly deserves a book-length treatment (it's only some 300 pages). He explores the idea with great rigour. I've read it 7 years ago, and just went through some of my Kindle notes. There's ample guidance. But the reader must put in some work to extract the value. If you're in a hurry, you won't get much out of it (or any book).
Refugees from the Ukrainian war can be used as a good case study to understand this. I live in Lithuania, which has taken over 50,000 people since the start of the war, which equates to around 2% of the total population. Most of the refugees are women and children, as the men usually stay to fight, so they are less productive in the labour market.

They are given a lot of benefits that regular working class do not have, which has led to the media and working class creating a lot of disdain towards Ukrainians. A friend told me that over the weekend he saw a worker in a supermarket start shouting at a Ukrainian woman who simply asked him where something is. It sounds exactly the same as the rheotric from rightwing media in the UK before Brexit, 'all these immigrants stealing our jobs'.

In the capital there is a shortage of housing, and the advertised rental prices have gone up 30-50% based on what they would have been asking for last year. This isn't just because of Ukraine though. Over the last decade a lot of people have relocated to larger cities, and I feel that a lot of this is life returning to normal post COVID (people want to live in the city centre again), as well as new construction projects being delayed (there are two large residential developments in my street that planned to complete early 2022, but still aren't anywhere near ready).

Prices for food have gone up, but I see this more as an effect of energy prices going up than because of refugees. I have not noticed any shortages of anything, outside of what products sanctions have stopped.
This is misleading if not outright wrong [1][2]. The United States absolutely has foreign reserves, and nearly all countries hold foreign reserves that aren’t solely “basically all in US denominated instruments”. Nor can one just wish away the fact that the USD isn’t the only strong currency in the world, nor the only asset foreign countries hold; diversification doesn’t only apply to individuals.

1. https://www.federalreserve.gov/data/intlsumm/current.htm

2. https://home.treasury.gov/data/us-international-reserve-posi...
BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in South Korea
You should be more clear about what it is that you're denying. All the article says is in the UN report is that unless we take environmental issues more seriously, we'll soon be unable to sustain human civilization.
It's a peek at required training, mildly interesting to me from that angle.
> only eating one food for money and practical reasons

"One food" is a little silly, but "one meal" is something I've always been trying to achieve on a low carb / keto diet.

My latest thing: chicken wings. They're something I can buy in small quantities for fairly cheap, and they taste great completely unseasoned, which makes limiting my sodium intake far easier.
> My reason was to get a first order approximation of "vulnerability surface" based on the assumption that more packages would probably imply more things to have vulnerabilities.

Hmm, I'd think the opposite - DEs with a large number of dependencies are probably well factored and following good development practices, DEs that are a giant blob of undifferentiated C would seem much more likely to have vulnerabilities.
I don’t know how management allowed them to kill the metaphor of the straw tapping an orange. It’s a good metaphor for the product's “fresh” marketing message (putting aside the “flavor packets” thing.

The one thing I think the new design had right was the lighter green for the type. That’s about it.
Such "tables" would more typically be constructed as views (materialised if performance requires it) over underlying data. In this case the underlying data would have a row for each sale, with a normal nullable column for agent_id. The query that constructs the view would use GROUP BY, and since NULLs group together in GROUP BY it would work as you expect (grouping "no agent" sales together into a single record in the view). The database system thus handles ensuring data consistency, merely by using its features as they are designed to be used.
Your comment feels like it’s well intentioned, but questioning if ADHD exists (it does) perpetuates a myth that has harmful impacts on people.

ADHD in my opinion is one of the worst named disorders. It’s name and the previous lack of accessible information about it, contributed to me not getting diagnosed for a decade after I first seriously though I may have it.

You’re right that for a lot of the symptoms everyone could at some stage of their life fall along a spectrum. The key diagnostic criteria is that it’s been present since childhood and causes significant disruption to you life.

If you can get by without medication that’s great. It’s also not a universal experience.

I agree having a more defined pathology would be incredible, but there’s millions of us who report a similar enough set of symptoms which are greatly improved with medication that you can refute the existence of something there.

> Furthermore, in more "natural" environments, "ADHD" doesn't really show up. I wasn't that noticeably different on the soccer field or working in the community garden over the summer, but with 7 classes worth of work piled on me over a semester it showed up in blazing letters.

You may be surprised by how many people with ADHD find meaningful careers working outside.

Two of the best non medical supports for an ADHD brain is exercise and sleep.

Its generally accepted that in an ADHD brain some neurotransmitters like dopamine are retaken by the brain before it’s done with them, resulting in significantly lower levels of dopamine and other neurotransmitters in the brain.

Exercise releases a lot of dopamine, and has a noticeable effect. Combine that with something interesting like a soccer game, and I’d be surprised if someone with ADHD wasn’t giving it everything.

The first time people take medication some people experience a dramatic improvement, others it’s much more subtle initially. For me, within 40 minutes it was like my brain had put on glasses. My perpetual brain fog disappeared, so fast I was lost for words for a few hours as I came to grips with what most people felt as “normal”. How do I know that was normal, while before wasn’t? It’s a bit hard to explain, but imagine sitting in a stuffy room for 30 years and then getting fresh air.
To be fair, the OP with that high cost was using a 'Platinum' PPO plan as the comparison, i.e. zero out-of-pocket (besides modest copays). Almost nobody offers these plans anymore, because they're ludicrously overpriced. Most plans are premium PPOs with a deductible of $500-1000 or HDHPs.

Besides bragging rights, I can't see why anyone would want the Platinum PPO. My 'HDHP' PPO costs me ~$200/month for a family and has a family OOP max of $6K. Even not including the HSA tax breaks and the $2K contribution to that HSA from the employer, that extra $1800/month for the 'no cost' PPO would easily be hit by the OOP max in only a few months. That's assuming you actually hit the OOP every year.
This is an interesting line of questioning.

I value writing for similar reasons offered by the article, and I am very much invested in note taking methodology.

I never thought of commenting as a way of note-taking. However, it makes a lot of sense to use one’s comment history as a way of looking back. It’s actually very contextualized.

I was never someone to comment much, because I thought there was no value for other people in what I have to say. Alas, looking at it as a note-taking endeavor should definitely have insightful returns.
Facts sans context are utterly meaningless
Check out “Art of the Marbler”, a 1970 film showing how marbled paper is made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyga8VMWXKg
> propelling you to a flood of potentials

I've been looking for this for a long time, the exquisite, electric pleasure of bathing in a flood of potentials...
I thought maybe it was something JetBrains made, as that strikes me as something they'd do, but no:

> Powered by Linen (https://www.linen.dev)

> Linen syncs all your threads in your public channels and threads to linen.dev/s/your_slack_workspace_name. This makes your Slack/Discord contents available for your community members without requiring a login.

It looks like it's opt-in (which I guess is to be expected) since this is 404:
https://www.linen.dev/s/kubernetes
Are you saying the title was a clear cut violation?
LOL. I think a lot of people look at something like this and think "I could do this" because, very plainly, they know that they could. I don't think there are a lot of people who read A Confederacy of Dunces or The Cask of Amontillado or The Lottery or The Trial and feel like they could do it, because, very plainly, they realize that they cannot.
^^ Underrated comment of the year.
I think overturning "life without parole" as a punishment is a better angle. The US punitive justice system really is awful.
Assuming that a reasonable fraction of the planets have life, and then some non-vanishingly small number have intelligent life, this photo contains millions or even billions of planets with intelligence.

The Star Trek vision of the future is a handful of contacted races, all very distinct.

This.. this is nearly a continuum of possibility. Political systems? This image has them all, and every intermediate, outlier, and axis explored. Warfaring? There are more than likely a million battles being fought in this image, right "now". A trillion-trillion soldiers and weapons systems of every kind, and every kind in between. Flying tanks. Hover artillery. Underwater helicopters. Nanobots. Microbots. In-between bots. Every kind of bot.

The numbers are just... unimaginable. You could chart every aspect of these civilizations with smooth graphs, much like the Stellar classification chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification
I see it is a feature – the mobile web experience is just bad enough to not get sucked in too much.
As soon as a large enough tranche of cash flows in, the system will reboot. Its not Somalia where there are no institutions and things have to be built from scratch. There is enough cash in the world to make that happen. The chimp troupe will produce a great sound and light show for a few more months to decide the terms of the deal.
Interesting, I'm using KDE Plasma as well, and with only a terminal open, my RAM usage is about 1.25GB, and < 3GB with Firefox opened (I don't open a lot of tabs though).
> Wealthy people care a lot more about taxes than vague notions of privacy protection.

Wealthy people are already willing to pay a premium for the sake of privacy. Look at Zuck buying his neighbours' houses.
Blockbuster carried the latest movies from all the studios. Everything newest and most desirable. They had a smattering of classics and art house and older genre films, but mostly it was about everything latest and greatest.

Netflix streaming seemed like that at first, but better! Now, they have a tiny slice of content. And as a content-producer, they seem willing to throw money at anything B-list.

Meanwhile, the studios became more risk averse as people started preferring to watch at home. Then theaters shut down and studios became more risk averse. And Netflix and Amazon arose and started playing studio games and studios became even more risk averse.

That trajectory of fear is mirrored in the content. The 1970s were known for directorial freedom and risk-taking. The 70s gave us Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, The Godfather, Star Wars, Animal House, Annie Hall, Rocky, Halloween, Smokey and the Bandit, Deliverance, MASH, and more - not all high art but all complete gems. Every decade since, we've seen a gradual progression toward samey-ness.
I'm guessing the guy who made this spent years working for an art degree, getting shackled with decades of debt in the process, only to find that it's nearly impossible to get work as an artist doing anything meaningful so he had to get a shitty 9-5 at a marketing firm and while his dreams of being a true artist have been crushed years ago he just wanted to do something with even just a little of what he learned while studying what he loved.
> In the documentary, Farah admits to being worried about his immigration status. However, the Home Office confirmed on Monday night that he would not face any repercussions. “No action whatsoever will be taken against Sir Mo and to suggest otherwise is wrong,” a spokesperson said.

Just imagine if it wasn't Sir Mohammed publicly admitting to using a fake Somali passport and assumed name to gain UK citizenship.
> Actual language used by the ML researchers: "Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology"

In my opinion, this is still anthropomorphizing the algorithms. The term deep-learning is a poor representation of what actually goes on. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but all ML does is statistical regressions (in essence). It doesn't "learn" like a person learns. Neural networks are not actually like brains (as far as we understand how the brain works).

I feel like the whole industry is inundated with aphorisms that are kind of true, but not wholly true. Evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, deep learning, deep mind, this stuff all reeks of anthropomorphizing fundamentally mathematical processes. I get it, it's a lot easier to get the gist of "the computer is learning/training" than "the computer is refining the weights and biases to try to optimize the output".
You gauge the level of the class by asking questions, get an idea of where they are, and vary the pace accordingly. You've also got to factor in the experience of the teacher in gauging the level of the class.

You don't need to know everyone's level, just a rough idea about what the worst student of the class might need.
>other than the bitcoin theft

what can be worse abuse of state power than that, or what other purpose for abusing state power other than money? It seems that everything else what they did kind of flows from the theft.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-silk-road-task-force-a... :

>Bridges’ plea agreement also established that he obstructed the Baltimore federal grand jury’s investigations of Silk Road and Ulbricht in a number of ways, including by impeding the ability of the investigation to fully utilize a cooperator’s access to Silk Road.

That grand jury indictment in Baltimore based on false info from those agents was the reason for denying bail to Ulbricht, and basically prejudiced the judge in the main case.

>According to his plea agreement, Bridges admitted that in January 2013 he used an administrator account on the Silk Road website

There seems to be enough indications to support for a variety of speculations like for example that the agents may have scapegoated Ulbricht, say may be he was an admin or a dev there and was made into the "kingpin", or something like this. Again it is impossible to say anything for sure as the trial wasn't just a fruit of poison tree, it were total poisoned deadlands.
#4 solve for X came out of left field
> Certainly it makes for more "educated" adults by some metrics, but more intelligent adults can presumably educate themselves much better, which seriously undercuts the alleged value of schooling.

Err, I meant to say that "certainly schooling makes for more educated adults..."
I don’t think most of the comparison images so far have really demonstrated the difference in quality and resolution, but this gif does: https://twitter.com/jason4short/status/1546633395643432961?s...
We now have FDA-approved GLP-1 receptor agonists like Semaglutide that produce sustained weight loss of a magnitude similar to the weight gain discussed in that article. So the idea that something similar could be messing with this or a similar pathway hardly seems shocking to me, even if lithium perhaps isn’t the culprit.

(As an aside: we’ve also learned that proteins produced by certain gut bacteria have a similar effect on the same pathway, so it’s not crazy to imagine that gut dysbiosis could have an effect on weight gain. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-021-00880-5)
Question eight baffles me. Are there characters not used in license plates or something?
This Pepsi redesign is just particularly (spectacularly) bad. There are plenty of brand briefs which are intelligent, strategic and grounded in reality.
Why would you use Postgres for this which doesn't horizontally scale when you could easily index documents in ES and use that for full text search?
If Ross Ulbricht ever leaves prison he can expect to probably be killed off quickly by a hitman.

As long as he lives on this earth, he will never know freedom or peace. He has enemies everywhere, and with vast resources.
i'd like to have whatever the author of this document is having
Kind of reminds me of Strong Sad.
Good point, this is another way to slow the gameplay down a bit. The following come to mind, Command Ops 2, Armored Brigade, Graviteam Tactics. Non are multi-player.
I still remember the exact moment in 1981 when my friend Bill planted a seed, wearing a Wagner t-shirt at a party. I knew of Wagner, but as we talked, my interest grew. John Boorman's movie Excalibur came out about that time, too, and cribbed extensively from Wagner.

Later, when Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's...unconventional adaptation of Parsifal hit the local art house, with the set built around a giant copy of Wagner's death mask, I was hooked.

San Francisco Opera's production of Parsifal was my first live opera, followed by an amazing production of Strauss' Elektra, and, finally, The Ring itself.

Bill died of AIDS sometime later. I will always regret not thanking him for the difference he ultimately made in my life, by the simple act of wearing a t-shirt.

...

Please, if you can, search YouTube for "Parsifal prelude." I can't guarantee it'll change your life, but you won't be disappointed.
I was also underwhelmed until I zoomed alllllll the way in. Try it.
CICO may be scientifically valid but it's useless in practical terms. People who tend to be constipated absorb much more energy from their food and those with fast digestive tracts absorb much less. Everyone is somewhere on that spectrum, so, from person to person, you would never have a practical way to assess what the CI or the CO is in the CICO model.
What was your magazine about?

This models a good amount of reflection and humility. It's hard to take a rough critique. At least when it comes to code, there's an ultimate ~deterministic oracle (and style concerns can be respected or dismissed).

I vaguely thought I had a good bi-directional editor<->poet friendship during undergrad, but it fell apart over some personal issues. We've reconnected, but I ~lost my muse in the meantime.

I've also wondered a little if it'd be worth trying to form something on the spectrum from a little editor dyad to a tetrad for technical blogging.
Guessing it’s the one that has the most people agreeing what the particular characters are.
They also got US aid (economic and weapons). See https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/09/archives/milestone-pact-i....

I think there also was the (possibly implied) promise of military protection by the USA
The four answers are the four responses from the witnesses. Using best-out-of-4 logic for each character the answer is probably (D)
If this works well enough, we will no longer see the Nevada tunnels being empty, and finally be dedicated to what it was designed to do.

Oh all of the potential opportunities we lost
You if they get that right, you disqualify them…

https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
So the answer is D: 351JRZ?
Again the evasive language. I'm not talking about the technical specs, I'm talking this dang picture. This one. Are the finest details in this picture finer than the finest details in the Hubble ultra-deep field?
Agreed. Really dig the 1929 and 1962 logos. It seems to just keep going downhill from there.
XFCE does have modularity in many ways. The reality is it has a tenth of the complexity of Plasma.
took it for a spin at univision.. up and running in 5 min... good stuff!
Truthfulness and propaganda are orthogonal attributes. To anyone who things that they are exclusive, pull up a chair, I've got some bad news for you. This is going to be hard to hear.
Both big government conservatives and big government progressives are pushing for more censorship. The only difference is the topics that they want to be censored.

(Side note: the American Republican party is big government conservatives. Their rhetoric is irrelevant - look at what they do, not at what they say they want to do.)
I hope people promptly come up with ways to enable these features for free. This is nothing short of criminal. To charge for a feature that is physically in the car.

Yes you can do that with a SASS product but no you cannot for a physical product.
> The man was walking northbound on West Street when an Asian guy who was about 6’10”, wearing a black shirt, green hat, and blue jeans, came up to him and punched him in the mouth.

I am calling BS on that, right there.
I was thinking the same thing, and imagine there’s many standardizations for license plates that the public is probably unaware of.

Nyc taxi's always start with a T and end with a C, for example.
Emmanuel Macron ordered to resign over Uber files scandal in France