skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I commend your attempts to do CI and PRs at the same time, but most places have too high PR friction to make that work.

So it becomes a fight between the two.
People might say "it clearly doesn't meet the needs of the railway. it isn't reliable enough".

Those people might be right. But I'd like to point to the old solution, the radios in the trains, which are in the middle of a decade long outage right now. It's more reliable than that.

And this stuff isn't safety critical - in-cab radios are mostly used for logistics. Everything from scheduling shifts to getting trains to wait a few extra minutes to even out gaps in the service. Without it, the service wouldn't run so smoothly. But it could still run.
Okay, but the experience of the average American is what actually matters when tallying inflation. It's not about what people "should" be spending money on, it's about what people actually spend money on.

Surely putting together an inflation index consciously designed not to replicate an average American diet would be a much, much worse measure of food inflation than one that does actually try to model the average American's situation? "Everyone should be going paleo so the index shouldn't have bread in it" is a self-evidently bad idea, that's not a statistician's job. A single inflation number is hardly ever going to be a correct measurement of any single person's experience of inflation, but that's inevitable.

There are real criticisms to make, such as the average basket of goods not characterizing the inflation felt by the poorest, because they spend money on different things than people with a bit more money.
I don't particularly like Adam Sandler but I might laugh more than once at the same "joke" however I don't recall laughing at anything in Schindler's List.
One of the fundamental problems is the mythology that paying the bloated tuition of some college is the most important duty of a parent. People are literally afraid to have children out of the fear that they won't be able to purchase multiple college educations 20 years from now.

As a society, we need to recognize that college can be helpful in certain career fields but it is generally a huge waste of money compared to the actual education and ROI.
The UK had multiple incompatible measures with the same name. The 'imperial' measures were the result of a standardisation of these measures.

The US gallon is the same as the now-defunct English 'wine gallon'. The US mile was similarly the same as the UK statute mile, until it was indirectly redefined in terms of the metric metre in 1893. So at least the two examples given are not homegrown.
It’s still insightful today. Look at all the great applications out there that can’t simply be “done” and go into maintenance mode. Instead, there’s a need to continue to grow so features are added and it seems that it’s almost inevitable that original fans leave and the software gets fatter and slower and less fun to use.

Evernote is the classic example and I think Obsidian is headed down that same path starting with the addition of canvases. There are exceptions though. Photoshop is still pretty relevant and it’s been growing for decades now.
In some places, it's WeChat. In others, it's Telegram.
Got to the zoo. Buch of the birds are gone/not on exhibit.
That's the worst project naming ever. Will my vacuum get on steroids and coke and then take me down and proceed to headbutt me until my corner throws the towel? Because that's what Vale Tudo as a project name makes me imagine. Or perhaps "anything goes" means that the robot can do anything it wants, like taking pictures and uploading it to facebook :)
As long as you don't actually lose the money while doing those things, though, no one really notices and no one outside of prosecutors office even cares.

Pragmatically (but not legally) the complaint is he lost the money. His world crashing around him revolves around that. So he has the wrong, but understandable viewpoint that the legal complaint is that he lost the money.
No, a RasPi is a GNU/Linux platform and can run general-purpose apps. You misunderstood my comparison; RasPi is a computer.

I'm saying nobody considers an Arduino a "computer" in the same category as a Raspberry Pi is a computer (and similarly, nobody should consider Kristall a web browser, though it is something else, which is cool).
The longer I do this job, the less I value extremely high intelligence. In the end whatever you work on has to be able to be picked up by someone else, so unless you're working in very specific fields, there's not a lot to be gained by being extra clever. Consistency is a lot more valuable. As you said, being able to reason about a system is incredibly important. That can be accomplished in a lot of ways, but the _best_ ways I have found over the years are:

- Document everything, and have a system for keeping documentation up-to-date (stale documentation is often worse than no documentation at all). Often it's possible to include a README.md in the same folder as the code it is talking about. You can link to it from a parent directory to keep things discoverable.

- Have a test suite for anything you need to be able to reason about. Also, design your test suite so that it defines your application's behavior with positive assertions (i.e. when <condition> then <result>)

- Focus on solving a "class" of problem and document over-arching solutions. E.g. littering your codebase with a bunch of one-off optimizations may improve your application's performance, but the goal should be to have a consistent way of building the application so that these improvements are essentially a free by-product. For instance, in a data-heavy environment you may want to write some abstractions around bulk insertion and paging that can be applied universally. This way of problem-solving leads to good consistency and less cognitive load, because rather than a giant block that I look at and think, "What is this thing? oh, that's a paging implementation, gross!" I can instead recognize almost immediately what this thing is ("Oh, this is paged using PagedQuery, cool!") and also have other examples of its use around the codebase I can pull from to do whatever it is I'm actually trying to get done.
Python 3.12.0 alpha 4 released
Mastodon is just open software that anyone can run. By default, this software produces a website with a feed that is public even to users who aren't logged in. Of course, anyone could modify the software to remove this feature on their own instance.
This is my second response (read the other one first...)

Upon deeper thought as to why a factorial might fail -- aren't these tables sort of like derivatives?

If so -- then we might want to consider thinking about the derivative of a factorial:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/300526/derivative-o...

Hey, the smart people StackExchange tell me that you can't take the derivative of a factorial (well, not in usual Calculus -- at least not without using the Gamma function, as you previously aluded to!)

>"I am not a mathematician. Neither are you."

Well then, one fellow, ahem, "Non-Mathematician" to another(!) -- let me lay out a mathematical speculation/conjecture for you...

I'll bet that somehow Mathologer's tables -- which are based on subtraction -- and fail to work with recursive functions that use multiplication -- could indeed work with even those functions(!) -- if they could somehow be constructed instead -- out of Gamma functions!

Why?

Well simply because you can take the derivative of a Gamma function -- whereas you can't for a factorial!

Now, if such a table as alluded to above could in fact be constructed -- that might be an interesting area of mathematical research!

I don't currently have the time or resources to prove or disprove that it could or couldn't...

But that it could is my bet, my speculation, my conjecture!

One "non-Mathematician" -- to another! <g> :-)

And we'll see if time proves it to be correct or incorrect!
Then there's all the people who point out how birth rates are higher amongst poorer people as if its a valid counter argument.
It's very much like the advice that mirror RAID is not a backup solution. That seems to be almost literally what went wrong here.
Ah, that is not what I meant. Such a powerful CPU is a "waste" in a computer meant for gaming because it can never be utilized. It will never be the bottleneck of such a system and you can run your games just as well on a less powerful CPU.

The energy used for such activities is another question.
Tim Bray had a good look at this recently

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/30/Mastodon-...
In a closed room heat isn't down to fan, that heat may not be in the case but it's not getting pumped out of my room quickly. I'm basically running a 900 watt heater whenever I'm doing hangouts or gaming
SQLite fits one generic model, and is a row level data store. DuckDB is a column store, and other DBs are designed to operate for specific use cases. This is open to all options.

The point is that SQLite is a brilliant genetic option, but should not be the only option. WASM and OPFS is the right route forward to enable application developers to use the best data store architecture for their use case.

Even within SQLite there are extension that would never have been an available to WebSQL that with this design are.
My wife has a cottage baking business and would buy 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. Already high, a few months back in cost about $45 for the box. Just last week it was $110. She doesn't recall but it fairly certain the box was between $20-30 before inflation hit.

However she said they had chicken legs that were .49/lb which is a great price but hard to reconcile with the narrative that avian flu is the cause for the price increases. Why are broiler chicken cheap but eggs from layer hens not?
I too would like to go down this rabbit hole. I am going to poke around using the terms “distributed learning” and “federated learning” (They’re different areas, but somewhat related as far as I understand).
If you are truly interested and not just negative, I don't know how it was in the USSR apart from anecdotes, but I was born in the GDR in 1972 and lived there until the wall came down, and for that Eastern country I can speak.

Some countries like Rumania had rulers that were the typical tyrants, enriching themselves in the process. But that was not so in all Eastern countries. YES, the party members and governing people did have it better - but the gap between them and the rest was waayyyyy lower than that in Western countries.

Here are two pictures of Erich Honeckers house, the leader of the GDR, in the protected area where several of the leaders lived, front and back:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Ha...

https://www.staedte-fotos.de/1200/das-ehemalige-wohnhaus-eri...

Here is the statement of a famous GDR reporter who was the first to report from "Wandlitz", name of the special territory:

https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/honeckers-elitesiedlung-a-...

He explicitly states in that text that every well working and connected GDR craftsman, movie actor or pub owner would have laughed about the size and everything in there, and that after being the first journalist to tour the place his sense of justice was not triggered at all while seeing it all from the PoV of a regular GDR citizen. Which is exactly the same impression I myself had too when I saw the pictures on TV.

The had a pool! I'm sure every American is very impressed knowing that. They had a better food selection, like the famous bananas that GDR people were always longing for, but it's not like the rest of the country was starving. I remember 40% bad food at school and later in the factory (especially pasta, it was really bad), but at home it was always really good. Only more exotic imports were hard to get, like said bananas, or oranges (other than the terrible Cuban ones).

Honecker did have some privileges, like a hunting ground, but that really is not much, hunters in Germany all have theirs too.

I heard that in Russia it was somewhat similar: While the nomenklatura were better off, e.g. they had Volga cars, but in the end all their advantages pale to anything some middle class person in the west has, never mind the truly rich. The "Getting rich and become a billionaire" thing only started with the economic chaos of the 1990s.

I was one of those in the rallies leading to the fall of the wall (I was 17), and I had always known the fortified GDR borders were keeping us in, and not the Westerners out. But I have to admit the leadership was NOT doing it for their economic benefit. It was truly political and ideological. And it was truly meant to be for the benefit of the "working class". They did care a lot about everyone especially worker and farmer children to get the same good education (well, always plus "political education", but they really believed what they taught, unlike Putin and his cronies today who I think know they are lying to their people and behave more like Mexican cartel bosses) - see my other comment.
I certainly would agree that SQLite is exemplary but consider how many different things are handled under the aegis of the W3C: if you allow one exception, then you will have other people saying their favorite thing should also have one.
You are evidently getting downvoted out of ignorance.

In 1975, congress passed the Metric conversion act, and created the US Metric Board for planning, coordination, and public education.

This was disbanded under Reagan, particularly due to White House Advisor Lyn Nofziger's efforts [0]. The killing came from the conservative side, straight up.

And yes I was in HS then, and was very enthusiastic about the conversion, and the opposition was generally driven by conservative xenophobic sentiments (and frankly, laziness to learn a new system). I literally heard people say they "didn't want no damn foreign system here", nevermind their ignorance that "standard" wasn't invented in the US either.

The fact is that the same xenophobia, laziness, and willful ignorance is being exploited today to drive RW voting blocks. Metric is now so far off their anti-scale as to be invisible, but if another push comes, I can guarantee that the RW media will be all over the same anti-foreign-stuff on metric.

What's worse, I use both systems nearly every day in my work, and metric is WAAAY easier.

Example: Quickly subtract 5/8" of an inch from from 1' 5 25/32" or subtract 16mm from 452mm - which is easier? Or add 3 tablespoons to 3/4 of a cup vs 44 ml added to 177 ml.. Hell, just the notation in the "standard" system is insane, nevermind the origins (3 barleycorns to the inch or the length of the current king's foot...).

Yes, I get that doing conversions is a pain, but once you get used to the switch (maybe just spend a couple weeks in any other country) it is way easier. Opposition is really either political or an unwillingness to think about it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat...
>Rather than giving a substantive response

Yes, I am aware of the history of literally. I am also aware that when you want to have a "substantive" response, then using hyperbole and claiming things have a definition that simply is not true is no way to have such responses.

If you read your link, including criticism, and realized that the phrase you hang your hat on is not at all where the field that coined it has evolved to over the past 100 years, you'd understand why arguing for antiquated ideas doesn't hold up well.

I find when someone clearly does not care to absorb new facts, and they jump to catch phrases and hyperbole, they don't care to learn, and often taunting them gets them mad enough to learn something, when simply presenting the ideas will not suffice.

You fall into that camp. If you want to present Weber's phrase as "literally the definition" of anything, spend some time reading criticisms and Weber's ideas and the evolution of mankind's thought on the topic.
It would take work and there's no pressing reason to do it.

I can imagine what it would be like if you told me you went on a 5 mile hike with your 6'6" friend on a 63 degree day. If that was 8km, 2m, and 17 degrees I have much less intuitive sense of what happened. And I don't see much advantage to switching - it doesn't matter which units you use so long as you're consistent within the domain of use.

What's the downside?
I'm a huge proponent of backyard chickens and had them for years, but they are, generally speaking, not a "more cost effective" way to get eggs, at least in north america if you are feeding them mostly store-bought feed. Then again, this change in egg prices may change that.

But they're great for redundancy (more & varied egg supply reduces the impact of supply chain shocks), to get the best quality eggs you can, and because it's just fun & rewarding.
There were two continuous quarters of negative growth... so the regulatory orgs changed the definition of 'recession'
Y’all need to be reminded of Go’s wisdom to share memory by communicating instead of communicating by sharing memory.
Learn German.
> There’s something seriously brainwashed about looking at what’s at offer today and still concluding that because the Sopranos exists we’re still producing good content.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

The Wire

You're the Worst

The Good Place

Too many decent-to-great sitcoms and sketch-comedy shows to list.

Ditto adult animated shows.

Justified

Evil

Several great limited series (e.g. The Haunting of Hill House)

I could keep going. The last couple decades have given us a lot of really good shows since The Sopranos. I watch a fair amount and still have a backlog of probably-great stuff I haven't gotten to yet (including, actually, The Sopranos!) and continue to stumble on shows I've never even heard of that turn out to be really good.
> PostgreSQL has more than 1.3M lines of code and it gets used by projects of all sizes, would you call it "heavyweight" too?

Yes. There’s not a definition of “lightweight” that could be applied to psql, at least without making the word useless.
It may be huge factors in the decisions of individuals, but on a population basis if this was a major factor you'd expect to see a big difference between countries based on daycare costs and the like.

Yet e.g. Norway's fertility rate has been under replacement, and currently around 1.7, despite measures like long fully paid parental leave, near full daycare coverage and low caps on daycare costs (at a fraction of e.g. what I paid for my son in the UK) as well as a monthly support payment per child (ca $105/month for kids over 6 and ~$168/month for kids under 6) until they turn 18, coupled with no college tuition (you pay living costs if not living with parents, and pay for books etc.) and stipends for students.

Looking at graphs of fertility rates in Norway, they cratered when Norway started getting wealthy, and none of the subsequent expansions of welfare and support for parents appears to have been able to counter it.
Until whatsapp dies. Subway systems run for decades. Can anyone really trust that any particular app will still be around in twenty years? Or two? For critical infrastructure you need something stable, something like a part of the RF spectrum dedicated to critical infrastructure. This is why cops/pilots/ships still have dedicated radios even though some combination of cell/satellite phones would certainly be much cheaper in the short term.
It is somewhat ironic that it (for now) has somewhat of an old school free software crunchy hippie feeling feel (which I'm personally always all for), because the value to big companies feels like an absolute no brainer.

"Hey, see the stupid thing that happened to Eli Lilly? You know how you can actually just have your own email instead of gmail in your company if you pay for it? Also your own website? This is that, for what Twitter does."

Seems positively stupid for companies to NOT go in this direction.
Why is the years of development or the number of commits relevant? It feels like there is an unstated incentive at play here? Are you trying to get hired?
I think that was specific to HEY, not the other properties.
Or even just supporting user stylesheets like the original browsers intended

Nowadays you have to install an extension just to get this promised feature
Given that customer expectations of TVs now include being normalized to TVs getting slower with updates that cannot be avoided without jumping through hoops, sometimes even bricked, and occasionally even showing ads because the company you bought it from decided they needed to extract more wealth from you, that is pretty spot on. But perhaps not how many people think it is.
First it’s about what’s easily controllable. Second it’s about threat impact of the release of any media taken from my house. I am very boring and so audio of me asking my wife what she wants for dinner for the 15,000th time wouldn’t cause any reputational damage compared to having naked photos of us shared on Facebook.
Helium is another case where the dense deposits were not found first.

Helium was first extracted as gas from rock. Wikipedia says it was first isolated from cleveite. Onnes's 1908 paper on liquefying helium says his helium came from monazite sand. https://web.archive.org/web/20180809111624/https://babel.hat...

Oh, and as a really edge case, argon gases is a renewable resource which is extracted from the air. It's cost has almost certainly gone down over time as we have improved methods for refrigeration.

(Oxygen is likely also in the same category.)
> If a wheel falls off, the driver doesn't have to apply the brakes... A quarter of the car is digging in and melding itself to the asphalt.

That's not necessarily true. I've been in a car where the rear wheel parted ways with the car and passed us. For a few seconds we wondered where that wheel came from until realizing it was from our car. The car was balanced just fine on three wheels, there was plenty time to lift off the gas and make way to the breakdown lane safely.

Even if it's a more heavily loaded wheel (e.g. front wheel on front engine front wheel drive car), it'll slide on the brake disc or the disk cover (whichever is lower, varies by car). A good amount of sparking but you'll have enough steerage to pull over.
I haven't looked at this yet, but I do have to say you have nailed the tagline. The simplicity of RPC with the power of GraphQL? Yes, please!
I have one with a camera but I never gave it my Wifi password, I never installed the app on my phone. I just press the "clean" button sometimes.

But it's barely used these days, as the real vacuum is 1000% more effective in my carpet.
At least a their business center it went from $45 for 15 dozen to $110 in a matter of a few months.
"After millions of sentient races and centuries of study, we've found most of them don't like the probing".
I don't know what area you're from but I cannot imagine the DMV advocates for a following distance where you know you wouldn't be able to stop in time. I'd love a citation for that.
Bunch of Node.js programmers lecturing the FAA on reliability is hilarious.

Your framework is out of date, go use whatever the latest js framework published today is.
The series, not the movie. The series is excellent. On paper, should have been bad. Is instead very, very good.
Along with the many other issues that would have for just straight-up not being a usable grammar, the word "CUSTOM" appearing in a nominal cross language standard is a non-starter.
How big are the slices near you? Im assuming large-ish like a NYC slice, where 6 slices will make the pie. If you are paying $5.00 for a slice of cheese pizza in Phoenix, that means a whole cheese pizza would cost $30 USD? That is insanity. Granted I think it would be cheaper if you bought a whole pie, but for dough, cheese and sauce that is still a very healthy profit.

I agree every region has its own good cheap food. Interesting stuff.