skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aren’t you glad that you had the chance to exist and enjoy your own life?

Not particularly no, but that’s a very unpopular opinion to hold. I remain unconvinced that this is preferable to non-existence.
If there is no opt out I have a slightly used Roku for sale.
Very sad to see the Firefox with less than 5% of global usage in the last four weeks. [1]

[1]: https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage?range=28d
> Most scientific estimates are in the range of half a million to a million, with the one outlier being the study conducted by the Iraqi Health Ministry itself.

I'm not sure what studies were not scientific and which were, but I don't get that at all from the wiki section on total Iraqi causalities.[1] Ignoring lower US military estimates accused of undercounting, about half of estimates are below 200K and about half above 250K. And again, all of the studies are disputed with those in the higher range taking the most criticism towards methods and bias, such as IBC and the Lancet studies. The lower estimates, which seem to be missing deaths that were not immediate, are by Swiss Developmental Studies, Iraqiyun, Iraqi Heath Minister, IFHS, and the higher estimates with a large range variance between 250K-1M+ are by IBC, Lancet, ORB, and PLOS Medicine, which seem to be including homicides, suicides and car accidents. I don't really understand why any group would intentionally underestimate or intentionally inflate casualty estimates, but some, most or all obviously did. Some studies, like D3, seem to suggest fully half the Iraqi population was injured or killed. This all seems bizarre, that estimates are so widely varied and criticized, considering at the time it was the most covered war by journalists in history. The surreal feeling at the time was that it was all televised. It seems unlikely most if any were infiltrated by US covert intelligence white washers, but I can't fathom any overarching reason for such wide variance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Tot...
> There's nothing wrong with storing json in your database if the tradeoffs are clear and it's used in a sensible way.

Of course. If there was, postgres wouldn't even support it.

The GP's rant is usually thrown against people that default into json instead of thinking about it and maybe coming up with an adequate structure. There are way too many of those people.
You're going to have a bad time if your business model depends on Google services or APIs.
I've always called it "squiggle." Time to learn "looped square."
Wish the standard wasn't such a massive clusterfuck. IIRC someone tried to implement it on plain microcontroller (back then there were no chips dedicated to do the whole PD stuff) and it used 30k+ of memory which made using it for smaller devices... dubious.

Of course now we have chips that blackbox that complexity but the standard seemed to be way over-engineered from the start... for just essentially negotiating few values and a direction
It's a hassle to change shape in a db possibly, but have you lived through changing the shape of data in a json store where historical data is important ?

You either dont care abt the past and cant read it anymore, version your writer and reader each time you realize an address in a new country has yet another frigging field, or parse each json value to add the new shape in place in your store.

Json doesnt solve the problem of shape evolution, but it tempt you very strongly to think you can ignore it.
The world's largest military is prepared to neutralize all nuclear threats as soon as the first bomb goes off. It's not hyperbole to suggest that much of the western Russian military infrastructure (Army, Navy and AF) would be eliminated within days. Remember, NATO is only giving UA the small weapons and Russia can't even defend against those.
Or that VP of Apple quoting from a movie called “Arthur” at an auto show resulting in him being fired.

It has begun right here in the United States and we just are oblivious to these new dastardly form of social credits.
> It's nonsensical most of the time

As usual, it comes down to being sensible about how to use a given tool. You can start with a json column and later when access patterns become clear you split out specific keys that are often accessed / queried on into specific columns.

Another good use case for data that you want to have but don't have to query on often: https://supabase.com/blog/audit

> Yeah searching in random unstructured blob is slow, surprise.

If your use case it to search / query on it often then jsonb column is the wrong choice. You can have an index on a json key, which works reasonably well but I'd probably not put it in the hot path: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-json.html#J...
Why even assume the "5 months of work" part is not a lie? Unless you spent the majority of time during these 5 months waiting for feedback from Google, I can hardly believe it. Entire AAA game engines have been ported to different graphics APIs in less time...

My bet is that there was not even an intention to do it, and just made this post for the clickbait. Wouldn't be the first time.
These ports are not really "hard wired". They're modules that fit into the mains plug well/niche, just like any other thing that fits in there. They can be changed for anything else once they become outdated, you just shut off your mains, unscrew three wires and put the new thing in. But they probably won't become outdated, because:

1. the USB C plug is here to stay for a longer while

2. with 240W we've already reached power delivery levels that exceed most small appliances you'd want to hook up like that; most larger appliances will take mains. 240W is a practical limit because if you go much above that, the consideration isn't really how much power can your device suck out of the wall, the consideration becomes: if you hold this thing in your hand, will it burn you? You can't escape the physics: 240W power dissipated means 240W power coming out of your device as heat.

3. we've just reached a new, more reliable and more power efficient semiconductor process (GaN) which only happens once every decade or two, so anything made in the next 20 years or so at the least will have roughly the same kind of performance, and anything in the next 50 years or so will probably not exceed it by unacceptable levels
Pokemon Go upon release encouraged people to contribute to OpenStreetMap in my area, as Pokemon weren't spawning in incorrectly tagged areas :)
> I have always seen a ruler as a discrete sequence of centimeters even if the physical object is continuous

I have trouble believing this. Does this mean you think of a ruler as a tool to assign lengths (continuous) to discrete intervals, rather than as a tool to (perhaps imprecisely) measure the (continuous) length.
In terms of features, CloudFlard Pages wiped the floor with the competition, nobody is even close.

Unless you care about centralization, then you might still use GitHub Pages or Vercel.
300dpi. Screen looks great.

There’s a new version which uses a color eink screen. I’m speaking of the greyscale one.
What's the full text of the ad?

Google hasn't been above self-promotion via those channels for approximately a half-decade. On my newtab and on google.com, I'm seeing an ad for Google's new search features.
I agree with you, the term does tend to imply that. However, I think it has less to do with that, and more to do with structural underemployment among people who are very educated which creates resentment.
What you wrote is true about the performance of the underlying businesses but not necessarily true about an investment.

Stock performance (and any investment) is driven by both cost of purchase and underlying performance. Cost is driven by human psychology as much or more than business fundamentals.

As a result, poor stock performance is in some way an indicator of future improved investment performance because it corresponds with lower purchase price but as you note, deterioration of economic performance is absolutely not an indicator of improved future economic performance.
Leviton is pretty trustworthy when it comes to outlets but I have doubts about a 6A power brick being stuck inside a wall without any cooling.

Edit: LOL these are going to be $90 a pop. Just get one of these instead: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0874GDG93/
Corporations are meant to improve our lives sustainably. If all these people can do is extract short term value for themselves instead of providing long term value to the world, then there's no reason to allow this corrupt system to continue. It's pretty screwed up that executives can go around chasing infinite short term growth and awarding themselves golden parachutes so they can jump ship when the problems inevitably start to surface. How much destruction can they cause before society stops them?
Using your own domain name for your emails is probably the most important thing you can do, and everyone should do it. I settled on iCloud+ because I already pay $.99 a month to get more storage. For this price I get support for custom domain names and wildcard fallbacks. It's also configurable natively in the iPhone settings.

At this price it's a pretty good deal + I know I can switch provider anytime.
I’ve found plenty of articles that seem to be run through these spinners, but hand made corrections are likely to be necessary (unless it can be automated with ML for example) as you can almost always tell that something is odd based on context lacking word choices
Why does your account read like every comment was written by an AI? They are all so gerneric, most of them seem to directly relate to the title but nothing else. You've also never gone into any discussion after leaving your initial comment.
Minimum. That's assuming the player started the day it was released on Stadia.

Wild.
Are these available to buy?
Really interesting that Dorsey unironically says "governments" instead of "government" and expects us to believe that Twitter has not been aiding and abetting foreign assets after that whistleblower testimony came to light in Congress
I’m not smart enough to understand kernels, or how memory works at an operating system level, but does this have anything to do with Apple‘s recent announcement that all unallocated memory will be zeroed out?

I’ve been wondering, albeit naïvely, if TikTok and Facebook have been scraping unallocated memory allocations to achieve “without achieving” listening in on our microphones and cameras.
Siri is always listening / camera sometimes pops up before accessing photos and the unallocated recordings / visuals could still be there? It could explain the uncanny awareness and specificity of their ads / algos.
This is a huge issue- it's rare that I find a stretch of two blocks in Manhattan or Brooklyn that doesn't have a car sitting in the bike lane. Double parking seems to be a way of life (remember the Seinfeld episode?). About half the time there's someone in the car which might make this complicated, but I love that someone is raising this.
Except for the gun show exclusion and family transfers, yes? There are enough holes in the system that you can;'t reliably ask someone holding a gun to show you the permit they received at sale. All cars must be registered, so failure to show registration is a clear infraction.
Surely just `int`?
you kinda described sociopathy
Or the legal team has advised them that the legality is unclear and management has decided the easiest way to resolve murky law is to see the other side in court.

There's a lot of law like that, and Google has the war chest to ask the question when merely that act alone could bankrupt smaller companies.
I dislike sites, like phys.org, that don't have a proper "opt out" from tracking.

I encourage people to not visit them.
GCs and JITs are absolutely not at blame here. You could in general write just as snappy programs with them than you could with assembly in the 90s. Hell, a hot loop in Java can be as fast as C code, and it has support for vector instructions as well if you want to write even faster (and platform-independent) code than you could with only C.

Bloat usually happens at the top 2 layers (actual program code and its dependencies), not from the runtime/OS/hardware.
Well, except none of the cables or connectors of them was designed for 48V
Only dumb peasants that weren't long on leveraged energy futures complain when energy prices double. Check-mate, poors.
“Bees don't waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than shit.”

I really should try and live this a bit more.
Because they weren't. This is a social-engineering attack to install modified versions of the tools that end up being trojans. The tools themselves were fine, and no malicious code ever made it upstream, at least that we know about (not that upstreaming was attempted in this case).
How would one dine with her? Is she a zombie now?
I find the examples given in the README to be quite tame for Victorian English. Compare it with the ending lines of A Tale of Two Cities:

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.",

or this from Pride and Prejudice:

"However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters."
KH-11 KENNEN
It's a multiplayer game
>It's a miracle that shows of this quality get produced at all.

Especially given what's known about production budgets and animator pay. Those people do amazing work for the conditions they work under.
I thought Pokemon used Google Maps like its predecessor, Ingress?
Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part IIb: Cracks in the House of Islam
It is called 社会信用体系 .

Try and keep up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
People tend not to react to parking violations by taking the law in their own hands with capricious, violent aggression because in general, Americans tend to be civil and respect the rule of law. Less so in NYC, but still broadly true.
>I don't believe other countries spy agencies treat their assets with such contempt

They absolutely do. Why do you think otherwise? It's not like anyone really has sympathy for spy agencies assets, they are usually active traitors after all. If they weren't betraying someone or something they wouldn't be useful assets, so again it's very hard to drum up sympathy not only in the agencies but from general public too.
Rockstar apparently removed cross-platform save migrations due to people cheating on PC and selling accounts for consoles.

> Seems like they'd want to run it locally on an Xbox/PS/PC simply for performance

Having played RDR2 extensively on Stadia, i assure you there were no performance issues and the visuals were good (not the same as a 4090 RTX gaming PC of course, but still good).
An important lesson I learned is that meaning and complexity are rarely linked. The most profitable code I wrote for a company took under a week and truthfully any mid-tier web developer could have done it. The code with the largest reach (millions upon millions of people) was an afternoon script. I’ve lately come up with a term for meaningful code: Friday Features. Little things you do on a Friday afternoon that have an outsized impact. Meanwhile a project I worked on for months didn’t move the needle at all.

How did I learn? Started coding in college, about as mundane a start as you’ll hear, but it does kinda prove my point that meaning and work can be very detached from eachother.
I guess that depends on exactly what it is that you value.

I would ask: are you happy? If you are, then you are doing it right. If you aren't, then do something different.
Seinfeld scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wH9bXy--lA
This made me deeply envious of how kids perceive the world with fresh eyes. I especially love how it's absurdly obvious once pointed out.
Could Bitcoin miners be built into solar roofs?

No matter how big of a battery you put under a solar roof, there will always be some times when the sun shines while the battery is already full.

Then a Bitcoin miner could use the free energy.
Take a look inside DJI's new Shenzhen headquarters
I'm about to blow your mind, then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine
And basically nothing supported that.
Often you can convert things yourself. Back in the day USB only provided 5V, so anything that needed 12V still used a barrel plug wall wart. But nowadays you should be able to have simple breakout boards that negotiate PD to deliver the correct voltage (or correct "enough" that the thing can still operate, eg 14V instead of 12V).

I've been converting some of my more problematic devices, for example here's a pretty clean conversion I did of my Wii U Gamepad back in the day. That was before USB C ports and cables were easily available, so I went with micro. USB C wasn't even a consideration back then.

https://imgur.com/gallery/cx2gzxQ
>Devs are all Users
>Not all Users are Devs.
>There is no intrinsic barrier standing between a User and becoming a Dev other than the patience to navigate the hell that is other people's code.

All users should understand files, in terms of how to locate them, what it means to open them, what it means to close them. They need to know how to navigate filesystems.

That's basic OS use. Kernel independent. OS independent. Hell, that's basic information retrieval system use.

Being "Task oriented" warranting blurring lines to the point you have "Sound Recorders" doing directory operations is a signal something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Yep. This is why 1Password’s recent change to this mode of operation makes me so angry and depressed.
Bigme InkNote Color Review
This is amazing. Can't believe I hadn't seen it before. Nice job
Facebook scrambles to escape stock’s death spiral as users flee, sales drop
> At what point does a hobby turn into an addition?

When you are doing something society thinks is uncool.

If someone spent that amount of time training to say run a marathon, nobody would blink an eye. Probably they would get praise for being dedicated.
How does the official grpc framework integrate with micro? It looks if I use Go grpc, I’d have to codegen the server code that depends on the grpc framework.
> People have been doing this for decades.

The key point here is that it's AI-driven and at scale -- in other words, mass surveillance.

Personally, I see this as part of the US IC's mission, despite the potential domestic detriment.
I lived around the corner from Midtown North police precinct and the Midtown Community Court next to it. My whole block was no parking. There is no streetsweeping on the block. It's set up that way so that NYPD and court officials have somewhere to park their personal vehicles. This even though they have a whole gated garage that takes up 1/3 of the block.

Instead, for the last (at least) 40 years, the parking scheme has been a way for NYPD officers to get paid. They'd sell their placards to tenants in the buildings on my street, effectively providing guaranteed on-street parking to the wealthy residents of my street.

Something like 3-4 companies own all of the parking garages in NYC. New York should spend its time removing the grift from parking and parking enforcement. It should also adjust the zoning so that landlords don't cheat the system (all Sunnyside Queens buildings are under 8 floors so that they don't have to build in parking spaces, etc).
The last time I submitted a few months worth of my travels at once after doing a hundred or so of these challenges/questions and got a bunch of notifications lambasting me for not updating the moment I did instead of later. Honestly didn't realise you had to manually submit, thought it just happened automatically.

Was a really rude intro to the community and reminded me a lot of SO or Wikipedia with its gatekeeping.

I've never submitted a single thing since then. If that's how you treat newcomers then I want nothing to do with you.
Why would I get my climate opinions from an economist? I prefer getting my opinions from politicians.
Try and read.

Where exactly does it say it’s ever progressed beyond trials and announcements ie implemented at scale - oh it doesn’t
If you google Nord Stream pressure the first link is to PDF that lists 220 bar as one of the pressures levels in the Nord Stream.[1] I can’t find the pressure level at the time of the explosion.

[1] https://www.nord-stream.com/download/document/10/?language=e...
It's because standard have nightmarish level of complexity for something as simple as "pick a value from list one device provides and maybe change powering if that device signals you need to take less power"
>what else can be good when there is no story?

The, uh, animation part.
> I'm surprised the infrastructure between Stadia and regular PC was so different that Stadia was effectively its own console. I assumed it was just a somewhat thicker version of something like Nvidia's GeForce,

And Nvidia is being stifled by that. Their UX is bad and leaky (you see Windows components and errors, and you have to login into launchers, with MFA, every time when starting a new session), and they probably pay a fortune for Microsoft licenses. Meanwhile Google had full control of the stack and could do whatever they wanted with it, including optimise it to hell for latency.
Delicious irony, seeing as you are yelling your comment into the digital void. Maybe some AI will one day use it in a training set on the way to sentience and your words here will have some value? Otherwise I wouldn’t cast stones.
I like the rationale here, had not really even considered the era in which Go was created and the implications for that in comparison to languages and frameworks of the past. You're right though, it changes things. My experiences from ruby and java were just that frameworks ended up creating standardisation and Go being the language of the Cloud was probably going to need something similar. Adoption curves take time but I think you're right, it's more likely that an extension to the standard library for distributed systems concerns works better than say a framework.
All of the infographics on that site don't show bullets being fired, they show whole cartridges. It's also talking about bullet weights and speeds, and completely skips the concept of "energy" (i.e. Joules) which is what actually matters for this analysis. Additionally, they seem to assume that the trajectories are always perfectly ballistic, and that the projectile never begins to tumble or otherwise present any sort of wind resistance. It just screams that the people involved in the process have never actually been anywhere near any firearms.

This makes it extremely difficult for me to believe that any sort of intellectual rigor went into any of it. Not that I believe firing guns in the air is a good idea, mind you, but this is lazy.
Shield and sword of the bike lane
As always, don’t use google for anything you care about. News at 5.
While it may be "fully open source," watch out for its license:

https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/blob/main/license

> Renovate versions 12.0.0 (released 2018-04-09) and onwards are released
under the GNU Affero General Public License.

The dependabot-gitlab project mentioned above is MIT, for comparison
Just put one of those aliexpress usb-pd things so it actually delivers that 18-20V USB-C can
There's a great short on Disney+ based on this idea—it's about a woman who just turned 21 going out to a club with her sister, but really she's just the 1-year-old, 10-year-old, and 16-year-old versions of herself in a trench coat. It's very cute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Something_(2021_film)
Tools like this probably fool traditional stylometry, but what about de-anonymization tools that find similar ideas, not writing style? Perhaps most people have boring common ideas they got from others, but the sort of people the US Government is most interested in are likely quirkier than most.