skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The continued existence of humanity is only a good to the degree that it brings good. The continued existence of a species of psychic vampires that draw sustenance from causing pain to other conscious beings would very much not be a good in itself, and with habit and environment destruction and worker subjugation/disenfranchisement our species causes in the name of unfettered capitalism we're not so far off from that.

Big goals take sacrifice and hard work. Any cosmic human diaspora would require sacrificing earthly abundance and leisure, and the colonists wouldn't be having a good time either, so the main beneficiaries would be the billionaires and politicians that could wave their dicks around about how they're responsible for sending man to the stars.
Jay Bhattacharya: The legal case against Anthony Fauci [video]
Evidence that social media companies were instructed to quell scientific views which opposed government lockdown measures.
According to the legal case, the conspiracy extends to the highest levels of power in Washington, and primarily at fault is the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, Anthony Fauci.
Building advanced SQL search from a user text input
It depends. I've written a few half baked object mappers and never needed to parse SQL, since I've always used metadata from the result set (column names, data types, etc.)
That's fine... but when has their material proven false in practice any more than what WP deem reliable sources?
Spending 2.3m on a house is a bit extravagant, the median house price in nearby San Jose is currently only 1.2m. That means half are even lower! Of course if you want some newly-built 3000 sq ft house in a top 10% school district it's going to cost even more, so it really depends on what you consider reasonable.

I guess this just supports your argument that 450k sounds like a lot but in practice it only buys an 'upper middle class' lifestyle. Still, many things don't cost more in HCOL areas (travel, goods you can buy online), or only have a slight premium (food). It's easy to overfocus on expensive housing and services. Actual 'middle class' people don't go on frequent airplane travel or dine out multiple times/week, whereas that's very typical among HCOL tech workers.
You can create an entry for each project in Rovas[1]. There is one for OpenStreetMap[2] already. If a project depends on another, you can define the dependencies in the app. There are several benefits to do it this way, one of them being that anybody can reward a Rovas projects with own work, or normal money. The income benefits anybody who reports work in the app. Workers receive also a reputation-like reward, if somebody rewards the project they work on.

[1] https://rovas.app/
[2] https://rovas.app/openstreetmap
From a business perspective, IE mode and onedrive userstate sync for o365 customers

From a personal perspective, goog and microsoft are basically equivalent and I don't want either of their browsers.
While I don't agree with the content of the bill or its general approach, the underlying problem is real. The music industry, the pornography industry, etc. don't need help, because music and pornography are still being produced, in abundance. Journalism, especially local journalism and investigative journalism, not so much.

It's also quite reasonable to ask, though, if this bill would actually benefit local papers, and not just the NYT and WaPo.
Yep. Local corruption was already fairly bad but is gonna get a ton worse now that local papers are all but completely dead, and that shit's corrosive to democracy. [edit] and a huge drag on economic productivity, for that matter.

In 20 years of thinking about this stuff I've gone from being a huge Internet optimist to wondering if the open Internet is even compatible with a healthy, free society, at all. I'm starting to lean toward "no". McLuhan nailed it, and the message of the medium of the Internet may not include liberal democracy.

What happens when instead of killing bookstores, the market "decides" to kill something absolutely necessary for democracy's health?
The shuttles had a mounting platform type of thing that would be installed in the back of the payload bay to hold hubble in place while it was being worked on. This also freed up the robot arm for other uses.

This mount is probably sitting around in a warehouse in Florida somewhere doing nothing. They should dust it off and make it available for these proposed future missions.
Does this really help? Sometimes being able to treat integers as bitvectors and vice versa is something desirable. I think one needs appropriate functions, which treat integers or bitvectors as such, but not necessarily a split in types, possibly requiring any kind of type conversion.
deduplication is probably the biggest "we don't do that here" in the ZFS world lol, at this point I think even the authors of that feature have disowned it.

it does what it says on the tin, but this comes at a much higher price than almost any other ZFS feature: you have to store the dedup tables in memory, permanently, to get any performance out of the system, so the rule of thumb you need at least 20GB of RAM per TB stored. In practice you only want to do it if your data is HIGHLY duplicated, and that's often a smell that building a layered image from a common ancestor using the snapshot functionality is going to be a better option.

and once you've committed to deduplication, you're committed... dedup metadata builds up over time and the only time it gets purged is if you remove ALL references to ANY dedup'd blocks on that pool. So practically speaking this is a commitment to running multiple pools and migrating them at some point. That's not a huge problem for enterprise, but, most people usually want to run "one big pool" for their home stuff. But all in all, even for enterprise, you have to really know that you want it and it's going to produce big gains for your specific use-case.

in contrast LZ4 compression is basically free (actually it's usually faster due to reduced IOPS) and still performs very well on things like column-oriented stores, or even just unstructured json blobs, and imposes no particular limitations on the pool, it's just compressed blocks.
Actually there is a long history of this in the USA, so much so that there is a term of art for it and a Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_attorney_general
VPNs don't anonymize, they just route you through an anonymizing service. Lol.
With a vehicle, probably not. Moving form one satellite's orbit to another is extremely fuel-intensive (you'd typically need ~thousands of km/h of velocity change to do it), so it's not really practical to have a single vehicle up there moving from satellite to satellite.

But maybe there'd be some other way to do it? There have been proposals for de-orbiting little pieces of debris from the ground with lasers, and I suppose it's possible that those approaches would scale to bigger objects (or maybe you could do it with lasers from other satellites whose orbits were fixed, or something).
I learned out of necessity. At the time in the late 90s and early 00s, Sourceforge was big (It was Github of the time). There were multiple projects that I used and wanted to make modifications to, so I learned the languages that they were implemented in to do that. Over the years, those changes became less minor.

Eventually I started hosting a spinoff of Livejournal (LJ was/is? open source), and my users were asking for private messaging, so I added it by learning Perl. It was a great experience.

I mostly made sure that I was having fun and scratched my own itch.
I've never done this personally, but I believe Apple's Disk Utility has a function to zero out drives. In theory, if you boot into Recovery Mode (Which, IIRC, was Command+R or holding the power button on ARM machines), you can access the utility and shred the drive with Disk Utility and then reinstall from there.
If you follow the text deep enough in Wikipedia, you see that the symbol may find its origination in the architecture of Sweden's Borgholm Castle, which from above is shaped just like ⌘ . You can see this here[0] in Google Maps satellite view.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Borgholm+Castle/@56.870441...
This reminds me of manifold.js from a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9487941
Thanks for the reference! I've just installed StreetComplete, and expect it should provide a good excuse to take some walks around the neighborhood.
Yes, I meant switching languages is not possible. Of course you can pre-generate your raster in many languages...
The Chicago Cubs put together a drone tour of Wrigley Field
A trail of DNS names is more than enough to know what somebody is up to.
I think you're reading into something that isn't there. GP never said anything about declarative being better than imperative, merely that they are different approaches and SQL is declarative.

But even if they had, your argument that the CPU ends up running imperative code makes it better seems silly. The CPU ends up "running" machine code and a compiler has to turn the vast majority of imperative code into a different form. Does that make machine code better than assembly? better than C?

I don't think so. They are simply different levels of abstraction, each with their own pros and cons. Neither are "better" than the other. Each are "better" at some tasks and worse at others.

GP said there was a "benefit" with SQL being declarative, because when you want to abstractly request some arbitrarily structured data, it's beneficial in most cases to not have to know exactly how to find and retrieve that data. It's certainly not "better" if you need to ensure some specific bit format on the hard drive. But it's "better" if you want to succinctly express a query that is broadly reusable and understandable even to people who have no idea how the database works on the inside.
It might be cheaper but still not free. Cost of electricity + time to maintain + Raspberry Pi itself. Not to mention that you don't get the variety of servers (for geo-location or more diverse networks not tracked to you by websites themselves).
To get the money back you have to sell your property, and then where are you going to live? Sure it's great if you want to then move to a cheap area, but what if you want to stay near your friends & family?

(Yes, there are some alternatives like HELOC or reverse mortgage, but I don't think they are generally that great except for very specific situations)
We’re a web analytics product. We don’t show any user generated content.
All pages (except login/signup/etc..) are behind an authwall.
I can only assume it will go higher. We need to push FEMA to have a 2 and done rule. After that the property must be returned back to dunes/parks/public spaces.
SQL expresses relational algebra [0] which is the language defining data relationships and manipulation. It hasn't changed in 50 years for the same reason why B-Trees and sorting algorithms haven't: it's foundational to computer science.

Database-specific "SQL extensions" are in my experience just administration commands, e.g. `VACUUM` or `CREATE EXTENSION` in Postgres. They help operate the DB, but have little to do with the actual data manipulation.

Killing SQL is like trying to kill computer science: you better come up with something better than a synonym.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_algebra
I'd expect the fuel required is generally the same, but this changes the altitude range for the question "do I need propulsion at all?" Satellites that would decay naturally in 6-10 years due to atmospheric drag would have satisfied the old rule. Now they need to install a propulsion system.

The actual impact is probably small - there aren't that many satellites launching to those altitudes, and most of them probably have a propulsion system anyway. But for a university satellite this could be a big obstacle.
MySQL has something in that direction, where some operations can be expressed as expression trees by using Protobuf where a client can put some arbitrary query language on top: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/x-protocol-messages-m... it is still a bit limited, though (like no join ...)
ISPs generally don't claim to protect your privacy at all [0]. So it would be foolish to trust them to do something they never claimed they would do. VPNs generally do claim they will protect your privacy so at least trusting them makes some amount of sense.

Going from "trusting" an entity that explicitly requires you to consent to spying when you sign up to trusting one which explicitly promises to protect your privacy when you sign up does seem like it would "help privacy" in most cases.

[0] https://www.privacypolicies.com/blog/isp-tracking-you/
> No, gas is only green if it used to as a stepping stone for wind or solar.

Is coal green if it used to as a stepping stone for wind or solar?
What's the point of using either of those when you could use an ungoogled chromium build?

(I use Firefox, but if I were to use a chromium browser it wouldn't be Edge or Chrome...)
I am currently in a 3 day Facebook ban because I posted an NIH (National Institute of Health, peak legitimacy right here) link which was meant to help someone understand something.

Unfortunately, the medical procedure it covered thumbnailed down (in the generated preview) to a fairly graphic photo of a woman's private parts being operated on... and that resulted in an uncontestable instaban. No humans can be reached about it, of course.

I hate automated flagging. Not only can I now not help that person on the platform in question, but I am now discouraged from even using that product further (probably not a bad thing in FB's case!)
The metaphor obviously doesn’t resonate with you. It does resonate for myself and for 13 other people. I wish you well and hope you find something more to your liking.
I sort of wish they would do this in Oakland for people riding those stupid electric scooters or bikes at full speed down the sidewalk. Sometimes it feels safer to walk in the street than the sidewalk.
1. Most people are using tools

2. CSV parsers are easy to write

I know I know, someone once said it was hard, everyone else wanted to be smart and started reporting it.

What CSV is, is ambiguous. But if you're ingesting CSV generated by the export function of a tool, that's not ambiguous.
How can this be true? ACA guarantees coverage with a maximum annual out-of-pocket cost of ~$9k individual/$18k family.
>13k/month (with taxes and insurance) or $156k/year.

Keep in mind that most of that is going to be tax deductible. So depending on marginal brackets and other write-offs someone can make, the $150k per year might be more like $100k
I think Pixel phones (or maybe it's all Google Fi phones) also do this.
Based on what source exactly? Microsoft is about equivalent to privacy protections as Apple, if not more so.
Would it be possible to hire a lawyer to send them a letter notifying them you intend to sue for defamation of character?
VM execution requires computing power and disk space. Those are both naturally scarce, especially in the world's most redundant VM. The same VM instruction is run on more physical CPUs and its result is stored on more SSDs than any other VM setup in history. The overhead required for this kind of redundancy is insane, and it's why the Ethereum VM has such extremely limited throughput.

If the VM's cap were lifted and it allowed anybody to use it for free, the demand for VM resources would quickly exceed the clients' ability to host the VM. The Ethereum VM would pin even the beefiest host's CPU at 100% and require each network participant to maintain petabytes of disk space.

The way Ethereum works, every client needs to execute every calculation that every other client wants to run on the VM. Every request to run code on the VM is basically an amplification attack against the network, which is why execution is strictly metered and charged for. It's a ballooning On^2 resource problem that is very much limited by the natural scarcity and limitations of the silicon it runs on.
You could use DoH, which you should do anyway. No reason to leak DNS lookups to anyone.
Most of the stocks are down this year. Except apple. I would rather have all cash up front right now if I could, personally speaking.
Vagrant still allows people to have deviating personal environments, which destroys productivity when people have to constantly diagnose what changes they have in their local env don't match other things. Vagrant+Docker is a decent compromise. Best is cloud-native development. If everyone [on a single team] SSH's into one box in the cloud with one set of dependencies, everyone gets the same environment every time, and updates go out to everyone immediately without fail. K8s has similar projects to let you develop in a pod on the actual cluster, eliminating difference between dev<->prod.
Fukushima: Online JJY time signal emulator
I briefly thought about joining Meta this year and even went through a couple rounds of interviews for a management position, but I got a bit disheartened by the coldness of the whole interview process where I got to talk to people in random teams that had no idea what my role would be.

They didn't seem to want to discuss salary either, which led me to think they pay way under market value in the UK.
Why do publishers not offer end-users the right to transfer games from one service to another? That would allow new platforms to compete.

I can understand that established services like Steam oppose the transfer of licenses. But why don't the less established services remove the fear of losing access by making the licenses transferable among themselves? This must be prevented by the publishers. What's their benefit?
Are you uninsured?
Anyone else notice the link in the article to inc.com https://www.inc.com/business-insider/best-google-benefits.ht... doesn't work because inc.com got breached and shut down their website temporarily?
Netflix is remote first. They made that decision during the height of the pandemic and stuck to it.
There’s nothing stopping you from writing a compiler or interpreter in a non-imperative language like prolog.

Also performing the equivalent of a table join in a non-declarative query language is going to be a burdensome task. It’s certainly beneficial to let a query planner figure out the details for you, instead of iterating over all the rows of your data.
Show HN: We built an IDE for data scientists
I'd need to see quite a bit of evidence to support the idea that high STEM salaries are at the expense of the blue collar workforce. Unless you mean the specific industries that are moving money from traditional sources and funneling it into tech companies, in which case it's intuitively true. But I worked blue collar for the first 20 or so years of my career, and salaries were under the floor long before tech really started taking off.
This. Also: magecart for TTPs.

OTOH it might not be. LinkedIn flagged a domain I own as malware and pointed fingers at Spamhaus. Spamhaus had it flagged, but removed the flag when I objected. Their management claimed sites which they flag did something to deserve it on LinkedIn, but never said what. (There is no malware. It's just cranky, especially to bots.) I doubt that Spamhaus' intent was that someone should publicly mark it as malware for other parties though.
it takes 1 click to port your game to linux/vulkan using unity, wich is what stadia is, linux + vulkan

the inability for people in this website to see through this PR scam is mind boggling

the website for VCs? yeah sure
Exactly. A very recent example are UK government bonds:
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/uk-bond-prices-collap...

It's a fundamental law of investing that return is positively correlated with risk. Unfortunately you can't have your cake and eat it too.
> He grew up on the internet

Elon Musk was born in 1971. He grew up on television.
I mean, if you have an attitude that anything an organization does must be for an ulterior motive, you're always going to get what you are looking for. Heck, people too for that matter. Maybe my dog just pretends to love me to get food.

But in this case, Microsoft is looking for any competitive advantage against Google. They won't win on targeting, and they still make more money selling software than ads. So this does seem like an easy win for them.
I've also had this recently, I had an address which was `amazon.co.uk@mydomain` and I've recently started getting spam to this address where I wasn't before.
I remember seeing advertised prices of around $1/month for 1MB, which depending on the application could be plenty of data (roughly 10,000 bits per hour).
These posts always devolve into the same US vs Europe flame wars. Truth be told the US is simply a much more fertile ground for entrepreneurship, and has been for many decades. US companies have performed very well in the market, and thus dominate any sectors when it comes to tech. When you're practically printing money, you can pay whatever it takes.

Some countries, like my own - Norway - have tax laws which are directly hostile towards startups and early founders. I feel that it's just in the past 10-15 years that the startup scene has really started to take off. Investors are much more modern in their mindsets, people are willing to dream a bit bigger than before.

Who knows what the markets will look like in 10-20-30 years?
This is incorrect. For one thing, you're going to need to overload all the operators that mutate the integer in place, e.g. operator++, operator +=, operator -=, operator *=, shifts, etc. And those checks can be quite expensive. For example, your code is probably littered with for loops that are implemented using operator++ or operator+=, and that means on every loop iteration you need to check for overflow, which is expensive if the loop body is simple. GCC and Clang already implement -ftrapv which does something similar (it adds compiler checks at all places where signed integers can overflow and trap if overflow occurs). I've used -ftrapv in debug builds but for most programs you don't want it in non-debug builds because the overhead is too high.
VPN also has my credit card number, real name, etc. VPN doesn't have that; their data is worth less than the data my ISP could sell.