skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes sense. Traditional RDBMSs are basically a buffer cache and a query optimization engine.

If the data is sitting in memory, and you've tuned extracting the data from memory as fast as possible, job done.
Darn it as I been chasing them recently in Iceland and this past Tuesday I got a flight to Fairbanks, AK(im in Baltimore). That flight got canceled but I could have rescheduled it. Though I caught Covid two days after.

My Aurora app says the lights should be visible in Fairbanks next Sunday and Monday, of course cloud cover kills your chances of seeing it but as of now looks partly sunny those days.
Yeah I am also glad the WW2 happened so we can sent a man to the moon.
We are told that they visited the market. But in reality it doesn’t make much sense why a busy wet market produced only a couple of covid patients.
Did you read the interview?
Note the recently discovered Winchcombe meteorite had equal amounts of L- and R- amino acids,

Everyone in the know, knows that rock is a chunk from trading station Alpha 7, which what was blown to bits by Algothrian terrorists.

And of course, any trading station will have a mish-mash of life forms, and therefore, dna.

Prove it is not so!
If you're pirating IDA Pro, you're probably the type of person who can figure out which cracks are real and which aren't pretty quick.
I thought the tweet thread was quite good: Asahi laying down the state of the art without (to my read) making any self-aggrandizing claims, even though they are the distro putting in the work.
This just willfully tone deaf as to what was going on and being implied then. The other component of it was this kind of "blame China" attitude he was trying to engender to deflect blame, and that's another reason why the theory never caught on.

(Also to be clear, it's not even that the China stuff made him racist; he clearly established himself as a racist, and then he said that stuff, which I agree wasn't necessarily racist. But of course, he wasn't speaking in a vacuum, he was speaking in the context of himself and his whole presidency, which led everyone to naturally assume the worst of it.)
Communication is a two way street. Speaking and listening. I'm not sure if free speech is currently restricted so much as listening is restricted. Censorship could be said to place limitations on both.

Free speech absolutism - are you going to force people to listen? Who has the right to decide what content is available, and where? Are media platforms then compelled to not de-platform? I am literally censoring the TV when I turn it off. You think that's wrong?

Don't understand what you mean by free speech absolutism, concept doesn't make too much sense to me.
Isn't it incredible that now in 2023 web is still this bad? One of the biggest online outdoor retailer websites breaks catastrophically in fully updated Safari on Mac.. been going on for month. By catastrophically I mean you get a blank white screen with ui flashing in out. And this is normal, I find something like that regularly, stopped bothering sending bug reports years ago.

It blows my mind.. really it does, how did we not fix this shitshow? We have automated test on top of automated test on top of automated tests but web is so messed up we still can't have shit working reliably.
My goal is “most reliable and concise for experts,” because we should spend most of our careers as experts, and “easy to learn” requires bad tradeoffs too often. Learning common names and reusing tested implementations pays off over rolling my own on the spot and forcing everyone else to re-read it.
There are, but they don't have constraints of being small, mobile and staying on the floor.

Here is one remotely similar stuff, but it's too bulky and more complex (I need static ring basically and gadget that can fit the backpack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXl3F5AoeQU
This is exactly the root of the “atheists can’t be moral” argument. Not that any individual atheist can’t be moral for the time being, but that a godless society inevitably falls into relativism where the only good is the consensus and the only morality is what you can argue.

This is one of those cases. I think we’d all be better off with an absolute basis for rights than a relativistic one.
Could you defend why? A law that punishes or throws you in jail for speech is a restriction on free speech, regardless of how long ago some congress voted on it.
It was not introduced with any political intent. It was introduced by people noticing that, wait a minute, that wet market you say the virus came from is right next to a huge virus lab, and you expect me to believe that it's a coincidence? The idea that this was a political statement is itself a piece of political propaganda.
Yeah, it's been considered for a long time, I think first suggested by the stoics, but that's still western culture.
“Not free of consequences” is a cop out.

What are consequences?

Being ignored? Sure.

Being physically beaten? That’s a consequence too.
I and many other 30 somethings I know decided to take our health more seriously after the pandemic, since obviously no one else is going to go to bat for us and we are now influential in the workforce enough to tell off the previous gen folks who would like us to just grit our teeth and make do.
In a context where "not banned" speech can be illegal, what does banning speech even mean?
That you think it's a coincidence that a novel coronavirus pops up in the only place in china working on coronaviruses blows my mind. Any sane, rational human thought it likely a lab leak from the moment this thing started.
Of course those things restrict speech for that person -- and they cause a chilling effect for anyone else who might want to say the same things.

You might as well also say that jailing people for their speech doesn't infringe on freedom of speech, because that is a consequence of speech they already made. But that's a very narrow (and ahistorical) view of what freedom of speech really means.

We can lean on the Wikipedia definition here: "Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction."
I struggle to see what benefits you gain using the specifically music focused apps when an app like Plex/Jellyfin will handle music perfectly already (and have an ecosystem of music player apps already existing i.e. Plexamp, Finamp, Symfonium)
Darn, wish I was there.
That's what China wants yes.

But while this helps the CCP party save face, it doesn't help to move on with the investigation. It's not even about the blame. We investigate air crashes in such detail so we can prevent them from happening again. Of course with an even bigger event like this we should do the same.

The pandemic has happened and no kind of blame or money can revert it. But we can try to learn everything about it that we can to stop the next one. I'm sure it was an accident but we need to know what happened.

For this reason I really think China should cooperate with the investigators.
Bring Back Idiomatic Design
Thanks! Can you provide an example of what you mean by pocket projectors? Author of the video I posted in comment actually built the table top projector with this curved mirrors. The closest thing I found at the moment.
> Estimates of the storm strength (Dst) range from −0.80 to −1.75 µT.

So.. less than Earth's ambient magnetic field?

While low power, long distance lines (like telegraph or POTS) would be in trouble, and maaaybe some network cards would burn our due to long Ethernet wires, storage devices and many computers would be fine. If you are super worried, seal some hard drives in food tins - the frequency is pretty low so it doesn't even have to be fully airtight.
That is pretty neat. How is coding at 80? I’m in late 40s and I’m hoping coding is something that can stick with you, I’ve read it definitely can.
Seems like they probably went out of their way to make the "bully" case. Plenty of people in the US use android (I happen not to be one of them, but I know many of my friends are).

This feels like the "repression" being claimed by certain political and religious groups, only less consequential.
Yep, there was a lot to like about my CompactFlash MP3 player back in the day - solid state, ran on one AA battery (lithium for snowboarding in winter), backlit white on blue LCD, physical momentary switch for navigation on the side (no touch screen). Scarcely bigger than a zippo lighter. I was honestly more excited about that thing than I ever was about a walkman or discman, maybe because I was old enough to have actually used a walkman and discman. The iPod was awesome, but at same time first gen was a mechanical drive and the whole iTunes thing seemed a step backwards to someone using MediaMonkey to manage a large MP3 library.
This is fascinating. Given the lifespan of redfish, my naive thought is that it makes sense to keep the fishery closed for at least that long—to develop multiple generations. But the success of the current generation is putting so much pressure on the ecosystem that culling it through fishing might be the best option. And yet, having an expected bycatch of 9% could put undue pressure on other species and threaten one with extinction.

Meanwhile, the cod haven’t come back.
Is it? I heard that was pop science.
Fwiw, a Patagonia shirt praised in another comment, on its page mentions "All of the virgin wool Patagonia sources is certified to the Responsible Wool Standard (RWS) from farm to fiber to help ensure protection both for the animals that supply it and the land they graze."
I’m far from an expert here, but I’ve noticed quite a few prominent scientists including Dr. Andrew Huberman recommending against frequent use of it, particularly in children. Part of the issue is label accuracy on supplements for it can be off by several orders of magnitude.

https://hubermanlab.com/sleep-toolkit-tools-for-optimizing-s...
"I don't care what you say, but I will defend to the death my right to comment on what I think you might have said."
They're not even crappy theories, they just don't have enough evidence to improve confidence or be solved. A crappy theory would be that an alien dropped it as part of an attack on Earth.
I like how you (correctly imo) separate California from the US.
The Arabs invented our number system. If it’s invented far enough back it spreads globally.
This will make for flights with only able bodied people eventually. Immediately though it would make the disabled into victims of riducule. Terrible idea. 0/10 on the empathy scale.
What differentiates "rights" from the pure freedom to do anything we are physically/mentally/emotionally capable of? That seems like government (of any size, e.g. a tribal council) introducing law into chaos. I'm not sure how one differentiates a government preventing murder and inhibiting speech with that definition.
Well for reference: "The current lit capacity of the Southern Cross Cable network is upwards of 5.4 Tb/s, while the Hawaiki cable between NZ and Hawaii is 10 Tb/s. Together with upgrades planned soon, this comes awfully close to Starlink’s worldwide system capacity, quoted to be 23.7 Tb/s worldwide or somewhere between 15 and 20 Gb/s per satellite. Except that Australia and New Zealand between them have a population of just over 30 million — and a lot of CDNs with a local presence. But there are billions of unconnected and under-connected users out there waiting for service." https://blog.apnic.net/2021/06/11/leo-satellites-part-4-why-...
If the mother doesn't drink/smoke, has normal sleep, and the baby is healthy, it's not considered dangerous and was practiced by all of humankind for most of its past. Separate rooms and separate beds are a very, very recent invention. For most of humankind's history mothers slept with their babies.
I've been using a similar site called icones.js.org that also lets you search the Iconify library, but Iconhunt is better in one critical way: It lets you search by keyword on its homepage, instead of having to click a search icon first.
I really doubt this. The pandemic was bad for the whole world, not just China. I'm sure it was an accident.
Ah nice memories, one of my first open source projects was to take a Google Sheet and convert it into a lightweight "database", basically parse the data and parse it into a big array of JSON data that could be used in any website:

const data = await driveDb('sheet-id');
console.log(data);
// [{ name: 'John', age: 31 }, { name: 'Sarah', age: 27 }, ...]

https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db/

It was born very similarly to how the article describes it. For low-amount of data, a spreadsheet is IMHO a much better low-tech collaborative tool than a database.
> it seems obvious from the behavior of China's government that they know it is a lab leak.

I don't think anyone in China knows what happened.

It seems entirely likely that it was covered up at multiple levels until it couldn't be. And that each level won't know about the other cover ups.

I think it's entirely possible that the system in China doesn't have the capacity to know.

Similarly, they probably covered up the death toll by not counting. So it's entirely likely that the Chinese government doesn't know the true number.

> Yet the Chinese government claimed that their lockdowns did work.

Why would the be a correlation between what the "Chinese government says" and reality.
How does it infringe on their right to speak though? They’re speaking very loudly about the issue in fact. I hear them more than I ever have in the past. For being less than 1% of the population I think they’re one of the most overrepresented speech groups, from what I’ve seen anyway.
Isn't Pandas just a Python clone of R dataframes?
> why is this one special?

There was very clearly something exceptional about it, since we shut down much of the world for a year.

> Absent of other information, why is this the most probably explanation?

Again, the simple fact that the most severe viral outbreak in decades originated near a research facility for that same kind of virus, was reason enough to push lab-leak to the top of valid theories.
Better phones would be designed with upgradeable modems because the phone would be useful for longer than the modem is, but anything with WiFi can be connected to a hotspot.

I'm kind of surprised that isn't more popular in general, because the hotspot lets you connect all your devices with one plan for <$10/month if you don't use a lot of cellular data, e.g. because you mostly use it in your car and spend most of your time connected to some other WiFi.
Pretty sure we had that program on our home computer in the 80s (I was a young kid but I distinctly remember a biorhythms program). What impresses me reading it now is the "y2k" compliance. If the year entered is only two digits, it adds 1900, otherwise it takes the full year.
I thought that was from the Fast Show for a moment...

“With my reputation?”
Well depends, do you want to get the mob boss on ‘hate/prohibited’ speech or for ordering a Hit?

He could just go ‘i really don’t like this guy’ and that would be understood at ‘kill him’ without him saying. Would that be ok or you still would want to prosecute him?
The funny thing is, I mostly program in Fortran (thus the interest in this construct). It is nice for expressing “this iterative method must be run at least once.” Unfortunately at some point I absorbed the name that comes from the C-ism, haha.
Being able to just do anything you want was so incredible, though. For example, the Google Assistant DING is one of the most ear-splittingly obnoxious sounds I've ever heard and there's not a damn thing I can do about it besides stop using Google Assistant. When I had similar problems in the 90s I could just go find the audio file in question and quiet or replace it with whatever I wanted.
I get where you're coming from, but it's not an error. It's your civic duty to make that distinction.

By definition, half of people are worse (however you define worse) than average. The world is truly held up by the inertia of the achievements of our betters spanning generations. I praise myself lucky every day to live in a stable western country with a heritage of centuries of liberality and thousands of models of civic courage and leadership.

If the edifice we're standing on is stable, and let's hope so, it's despite the frothing masses of idiots and vengeful iconoclasts. Yes, always a good chance I myself am one of these idiots, but nonetheless, it doesn't make the overall assessment any less true.

The inability or unwillingness to point out right from wrong is either due to a lack of courage or an absence of hubris. Both sides of the same coin. That judgement, who to entrust with the levers of society, needs to happen.
It's a loaded question anyway because "it's OK to be white" has become a coded dogwhistle.
You can’t call spoliation “low confidence.”
The main issue behind denying the lab leak isn't political, but military strategic.

Before the COVID 2020's pandemic nobody would have accepted that this kind of biological weapon could even get fully developed to a deployable status. Not saying it could unleash a global pandemic in a matter of few months.

Now we know and probably there's someone somewhere already working on some new advanced virus, beyond COVID19 original scope of sophistication. Hopefully with better lab security.
This is just vocabulary. If you can't find evidence to support a theory confidently... I call it a crap theory.
I mean it can. Some Web sites are done well, some aren't. What else is new? People wrote terrible desktop applications too.
I really think rust is great, but after learning what memory management is.

Teaching rust first would just be a weird memorization of rules that you might not appreciate.
I agree, it'll take a combination of of things. But sequestration looks like it will be a much smaller part of the equation than renewables.
Lispey stuff self-selects its fans quite nicely in this way.
I agree with your points about Java. I have direct experience with suppressed exceptions in Java 6 -- it was painful to debug ("where did my exception go???"). However, this works because Java forces everything thrown to be a sub-class of Throwable. (Please correct me if wrong.) C++ allows you to throw anything, including (bizarrely) null. I learned recently that C# allows the same -- you can throw null(!). How does C# handle suppressed exceptions?
No, but it works with any backend.

I did not implement tus in frontend.

If uploads get broken then I may need to build one.

I am not sure, so I left it. If there is enough interest I could build that.
I would call myself a 99-percenter. I still believe in the restriction of credible violent threats, fraud, and pornography featuring real children.
> There was a lot of evidence supporting the wet market theory at the time and supporting that it wasn't made in a lab

You do realise that when people say it was a lab leak, they don't necessarily mean it was made in a lab. They are merely saying that the origin of the pandemic was a virus escaping the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology via one of the workers/researchers there.
My grill can hit 700 if I want to make a pizza. Handwringing over this is ridiculous
Including something like "7 results from sources you blocked are hidden. Click to show" would solve this nicely.
The secret life of (complex dynamical) habits (2018)
yea but you can just apply the filter on a per user basis. a literal bootcamp grad could write this
Don't straw man. They didn't say perjury.
Imagine two jobs that in all aspects equal except the technology used. Would you rather use one that would serve you in many other jobs and is well-regarded? Or one that's poorly regarded, limited to a few employers, or outright custom? You'd be a fool to choose the latter. So any employer that wants to make their employees do a custom blend of MUMPS, PHP, COBOL, and an in-house programming language is going to have to pay a lot more, offer really compelling benefits, or something else to compete, or it will have to lower its standards to mop up people who couldn't get more desirable jobs.
This 2021 HN post is about the Atari Transputer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26488501
> had its credibility ruined

Avoid the passive voice.

News companies and social media content moderators, who dislike Trump and overwhelmingly donated to his opponent, decided that the lab leak was not credible.
That sound dubious. Can you back that claim up?
Far as I could tell coming in on the end of it people like Dijkstra were primary trying to write proofs about programs. That motivated them to ban constructs they didn't know how to analyze. Problem is that some of those things turned out to be trivially tractable but lots of people never got the memo.
Free speech is violated when someone interferes with a willing speaker talking to a willing listener because of the content of their communications.

Alice doesn't have to listen to Bob, but if Carol interferes with Alice listening to Bob, that's censorship.
As someone born in the 90s, it does seem like I was born in the "rubble" of a great societal shift from the family to the individual as the atomic unit of evaluating someone's societal stature. Although this shift has had benefits, it made the role of a housewife that of a worthless dependent. I'm not at all lamenting that this is a bad thing. Women should obviously be able to pursue careers the same way as men.

However, it does seem that there is a lag between this change and how society is organized. There are some facts that are hard to ignore:

1. Raising young children without help is a lot of work.

2. Somebody needs to cook. Ordering 3 meals a day from a restaurant is unaffordable for most. There is also a trust/perception issue that "outside food" is not as good as homemade food.

3. If you work a full-time job you can give very little time for anything else.

Some major societal change needs to occur that invalidates one of these three points.
Of course we could probably find someone fairly easy if we would hire anyone who walked in the door and said "yay Delphi!".

Having such a small team means each person has a huge impact. Hiring a poor fit can be a net negative on the team and thus we'd be better without.

We've had poor experience with remote workers, including ourselves during corona lockdown, so we want someone who can be at the office at least 2-3 days a week. And they'll need to be competent in Norwegian, as most of the gov't documentation and customer interactions will be in Norwegian. So that narrows the pool quite a lot.

We've tried not specifying the language in the job ads, and have almost everyone turn away when they ask and we tell. Clearly many are worried about taking on an unknown, and how that will reflect on their CV.

As for taking months to be productive, that's certainly my experience. Obviously getting productive in Delphi doesn't take much time, our two latest hires had zero Delphi background, mainly Java or Python, but after a couple of courses they were good enough to commit solid work.

However what we need, due to our size, is that our devs can get a task, then go design and develop the solution on their own. Maybe ask some clarifying questions to team leader or customer along the way, but no hand-holding. This requires both acquiring domain knowledge and learning our existing code base.

Personally that took about a year or so, and I didn't get really good at it until after two years. This matches well with those who got hired after me.
It probably was hard to hire in the mid 2000s. I applied for a job as fraud/engineer/technical investigator and didn't get it. The rejection phone call was we noticed you have "Pascal" on your resume, can you please come and help us out to document and extend a Delphi application for the same pay, we have created a job for you? I did.