skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to describe the Event Source paradigm rather than a database :)
Oh man, Literature Map looks really great for finding recs.

That said, I do think book-level might be much more valuable. My first thought for this was Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny. I haven't read anything else by him yet because my brother informs me his other stuff is entirely different. Looking at Goodreads, I think that qualifies as far from his biggest hit. Is it "more profound?"? Doubtful, but seems likely that you shouldn't group it with his others. I want recommendations based on the book I like, not the author I mostly might-not.

A better example might be how Stephenie Meyer wrote the extremely popular Twilight books, and also The Host which is much less well-known, and better in many respects. Probably qualifies as more profound, too—it's told from the perspective of a parasitic alien. Picture the Yeerks from Animorphs if you read those.)
I'm really sorry to be rude but, who the hell are you, and who the hell cares what you recognise, or don't recognise, or what you're sympathetic to? Where do you find the knowledge to say what has cultural significance to modern Greeks, whom you clearly know next to nothing about? Where do you get the authority to say that our culture -I'm Greek- has "next to nothing in common with ancient Greek culture"?? According to what, and to whom?

Get off your high horse! Your opinions have no basis in anything else than the stubborn arrogance of internet randos. You know nothing of the things you're talking about.
> It might only be a matter of years before a genetic test for tendency towards “transgender” will be created.

Do you recognize that you're about five years behind in "the message"? Trans is purely self-id, to declare yourself trans in the "progressive" countries like NZ and Canada you don't need to even suggest that there's anything physical involved. Specifically you're even allowed to keep changing your identity, something that couldn't happen if trans had a physical nature. Also, you're allowed to claim non-binary but use the women's washroom without even explaining why this would be appropriate.

In Canada you'd be called a trans-medicalist, which theoretically is advocating conversion therapy - to talk people out of their felt experience of gender or gender identity. It's borderline 'hate speech'.

> The science is still new, but has solid foundations.

What is the contention? Not the evidence, just the premise?

Do you suggest that males, like William (Lia) Thomas and Boyd (Fallon Fox) Burton are no stronger than women the moment they transition or that they rapidly become female-like by taking estrogen and losing testosterone as a consequence of their genital surgeries?

In these studies, is Caster Semenya treated as female despite fathering a baby?

> That’s the scary part - the facts are readily available, but so few take the time to understan the current state of it.

What facts? Be specific. Because many studies in the subject area would have failed a second-year student recently in any other specialty. Specifically the small sample size and self-selected nature of the trans athletes who have a motive to sandbag and return worse times in order to "prove" that they belong in women's sports, etc.

If that isn't what you meant, then please list these good studies because the space is crowded with academically blessed nonsense.
Regulatory capture has distorted the market, making it harder for competitors to join. How much of the existing issue preventing sharing of information, tools, and technology to repair the current equipment is supported by government laws, be they IP, DRM, or anti-hacking, or other?
I thought the reason was the explicit patent language and lack of license virality.

The Apache license 2 is pretty clear that binary only distribution is allowed, but I think it’s also clear that the assumption is that source is available in some form. Otherwise, why would you care about derivative works?

As is, it would be possible to decompile the JVM code into something resembling source code and then distribute that with or without modification. Which just seems odd to me.
The risks of using steel cable for power are going to be corrosion/rust. The primary way this will cause problems is around connections, but long term it is also an issue away from connections. At connections, corrosion can cause the wire to become loose, something like ox-gard can be used to delay this significantly. It isn't designed for steel but some kind of protection must be done at connections or arcing will be a major risk. Longer term the wire itself will rust, and at some point the conductive cross section of the wire will be compromised to the point it overheats and melts. This might be a year and it might be 100 years depending on factors which are hard to predict and control.

TLDR: connections must be protected by some kind of anti oxidation coating, if you have nothing else use grease but something designed for electrical connections is better. If you have nothing else, melt some lead and dip the exposed part of the wire in that to coat it. Lead should be readily available in a war zone? Long term the wire WILL melt at some random point along the wire so it is much better if this wire is kept away from anything flammable.
port hopping support would be awesome, like hysteria do
This is pretty much what Dune did.
I don't think this is quite true. Most NP-hard problems are usually solvable in polynomial time, so your algorithm looking like it runs in polynomial time doesn't tell you much.
You mean the one selling hats and other memorabilia made in china?
I might actually use this. Always looking for vocab helpers.
>at least one of them was all but literally bred in a vat

How do I flag an HN comment?
Lyft to cut 1,072 employees, or 26% of its workforce
I take it this was a while ago then?
I prefer seafile because it actually scans immediately and has a functioning android client.
I was advised by a hygienist that the optimal is to alternate between the two. In US, sodium fluoride is available in rinses e.g. Act; stannous fluoride is available in toothpaste e.g. Perodontax.
There's a group of people for whom that may be true, but it's certainly not a driver for the majority of people in the military.
> The company’s senior leaders haven’t shown much stomach for the kinds of headline-grabbing gaffes ChatGPT and similar services have stumbled into over the last several months.

Risk aversion from immature tech is a part of Apple’s DNA. It should be no surprise that Apple declined to push Siri beyond its limited capabilities.

LLMs are quite new and Apple has plenty of cash to hire star devs to catch things up. Writing off Apple’s AI future is premature.
GP was most likely thinking not of large roundabouts that take the place of major intersections, but the smaller traffic-calming type where the center can be as minimal as a 3 foot wide concrete block. They can be fit into pretty much any intersection because their purpose is not to change the path so much as to, frankly, eat up whatever extra space is available, which forces cars to slow around them.
use hammerspoon[0] if you are so dead set on making this edgecase work. on the whole the system is quite flexible.

there's also applescript that can do a lot of other things too. I dislike the language but it's fairly powerful too.

[0] http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.application.html#getMenuI...
Why not just use pgvector for Postgres. It’s free and works great. You can even do cosine distance between embeddings.
Citi is doing a great thing and it's charging a fair price. There is a benefit for all of us when businesses charge a fee for the products and services they provide: We don't take those products or services for granted.

Just because some big bank can afford to pay for your bike ride, doesn't make you entitled to ask them to do it.
Hackers Leaked Minneapolis Students' Psychological Reports, Allegations of Abuse
Be careful, it'll become your defacto image search, and then you'll be really disappointed when you realize it hasn't been updated in ages
i liked forums alot better for specialized content, i have no interest in the cesspools of unoriginal content that is social media.
What's the average take on a settlement like this? Probably a percentage of proceeds?
unfortunately i have no direct experience with anything that i would consider a direct replacement for the generic utility of postgres(or any RDBMS). Mostly I have been involved in moving specific domains to storage technology that has opinions that work well with the problem at hand.

eg if it looks key-value ish, or key + timestamp (eg user transaction table), dynamodb is incredible. Scales forever, never have to think about operations. But not generally queryable like pg.

if it looks event-ish or log-ish, offload to a redshift/snowflake/bigtable. But append only & eventually consistent.

if you really need distributed global mutations, and are willing to pay with latency, spanner is great.

if you can cleanly tenent or shard your data and theres little-to-no cross-shard querying then vitess or some other RDBMS shard automation layer can work.

There are a few "postgres but distributed" dbs maturing now, like cockroach - i havent personally used them at a scale that i could tell you if it actually works or not though. AFAIU these systems still have tradeoffs around table layout and access patterns that you have to think about.
I have definitely tried to build something similar after all. People are so particular with these things.
> Is it Open Source?

> Datomic binaries are provided under the Apache 2 license which grants all the same rights to a work delivered in object form.

That doesn't answer the question at all. I assume the answer is no, because otherwise they would just say yes, and have a link to the source code somewhere. But that is such a weird, and possibly duplicitous way to answer.
Their properties can hardly be predicted from the sum of their parts.

That’s not true. We know when water boils, we know tension laws, we know a ton to predict and define the interactions.

We know how to add carbon to iron, we know how make glass withstand huge loads. We know material limits because we rely on those material limits to build our world.

We choose to ignore those limits, the outcomes, the effects, climate change, earth is round, smoking is bad for you, etc.

If we wanted to know that chemical reaction takes place in your body that makes you feel boredom, I am sure we could, we figured out cocaine and pain killers, there is just no profit in making a boredom pill.

The world is not as romantic as poets make it out to be. Sun goes up sun goes down never a miscommunication. Complex, sure.
Oh, man. Ungern-Sternberg was absolutely batshit. I mean, I'm sure the communists told stories about him, but even his fellow anti-communists regarded him as a bloodthirsty psychopath: Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski's Beasts, Gods & Men is a firsthand account of Ungern-Sternberg's lunacy, and it seems likely that Ossendowski would be more disposed to downplay what a whacko he was rather than make up stories. I've never actually seen or heard of anyone admiring the old basket case before, it's actually kind of impressive. While I was reading this I just kept hearing Dennis Hopper's voice in my head: "What will they say about him? That he was a kiiiind maaaan? That he was a wiiiise maaaan? That he had plaaaans, maaaan?" :-D
Then I'm curious how "sensitivity readers" relates to Netflix investing $2.5 billion in South Korean television programming. Could you perhaps explain how these two things relate to each other at all?
It had, as long as the phone was charging.

IIRC, "always on" Siri came with the 4s
It's easier and cheaper to cut an episode of TV than to pay the back wages owed. Joke about our past? We can even reckon with it.
I subscribe to Piet Hein's insight: `Everything's either concave or -vex/So everything you dream will be something with sex'.
Robotic solar pile driver three times faster than humans
They're too busy downvoting your comment to discuss ways to cut back themselves.
Low-effort cookiecutter propaganda put up by lost-causers hoping to one day subjugate black people again probably doesn't need to be displayed prominently in front of courthouses, yes. And once removed, we probably don't need hundreds of unimpressive near-identical statues—a few would suffice, for any value they might hold.
I used to have Google Home and moved to Homepod Minis. I should have ran them side by side, but that would have gotten very confusing for other people in the family.

Siri is fine at controlling smart home devices, giving weather, timers, etc...but if you ask it questions more times that not it wants you to use your phone. Google Home handled that so much better.

We have Apple Music and have Homepods around the house so we use it for that.
* When RSS was a thing but in my country a lot of news/content websites hadn't adopted yet, I wrote a service to quickly define scrapers that turn those sites into RSS feeds.

* In one of my former workplaces I wrote (alongside another person) a gamified shared playlist app that allowed everyone to participate in being a DJ for our company hackathon (people getting more upvotes getting more playtime, songs getting many downvoted being skipped in the middle, etc). That was a lot of fun and surprisingly a very emotionally engaging experience for everyone.
Just having Ballmer out had a positive effect. He wasn't a visionary, and Microsoft stagnated during his lead. It was like keeping only the bad side of Bill Gates.
The Russians have an advanced, complex, and deep system of influence and espionage, but they're not the only players in this game. China, Israel, the Saudis, even allies like France, all push on US politics.

Some of them, like Israel and China, push pretty hard, albeit with different goals.

Also worth noting that in many cases they're just co-opting the system set up by US powerbrokers, e.g. Tucker Carlson of Fox News talking about how great Putin is.
>I believe that there's problems where it's difficult to even find a hard instance

Sure, but encoding the factorization of a large prime into 2-MAXSAT would necessarily imply constructing a hard instance of the latter. It follows that it isn't any more difficult to construct a hard instance of any NP-hard problem than it is to encode a more easily constructible problem into the same.

As for verifying the solution, that would be different, since it is not necessarily easy to verify the solution to a problem in OptP. I had not considered that part. But you probably don't have to go as far as importing integer factorization.
Evilflare: Circumventing Cloudflare’s Protection
There's a mini roundabout in my neighbourhood. It is about the same size as the intersection it replaced.

They just leave the middle flat so vehicles that don't fit (and people who can't be bothered to go around) can drive on it.
I'd have expected speech recognition software to be good enough that you could have direct speech -> gpt type services. It almost feels like traveling to the past when asking things of Siri when I otherwise get very useful responses from chatgpt.
Global Warming Trend 'Only 1/2 of the Climate Model Simulations' Says New Paper
“Thank you for coming. As you know, I am a busy man so let’s get started: iterating numbers 1 to 100, every third number print Fizz…”
Question to people having used Datomic:

Based on experience with Prolog, I always thought using Datalog in a database like Datomic would mean being able to model your data model using stored queries as a very expressive way of creating "classes". And that by modeling your data model using nested such queries, you alleviate the need for an ORM, and all the boilerplate and duplication of defining classes both in SQL and as objects in OO code ... since you already modelled your data model in the database.

Does Datomic live up to that vision?
SNES DOOM does have the Super FX chip, which draws textured polygons to an on-cart framebuffer for DMA transfer to main video memory. It runs at 21 MHz, much faster than the SNES console itself and actually not all that far off from the Playstation or a 486 PC.
> I sincerely hope the web as a whole doesn't move in this direction.

I'm not happy about it, but I think it will.

> The inspectibility of the DOM is one of the web's greatest strengths.

Not if you're pushing ads.
By building reputation. Nothing flag-worthy here though, from my perspective.
It's interesting that the hypeness of 5G varies greatly depending on the country.

In the US, where carriers have a say in what phones people use on their networks, the 5G hype seems to have been through the roof.

In UAE where I visit sometimes, both carriers did buy some billboards to advertise their 5G service, and that's it. I have no idea what it's like because I don't have a compatible phone.

In Russia though, where I live most of the time, 5G has never launched and none of the four carriers have any plans to launch it (especially now with all those sanctions). Everyone seems fine with LTE.
The first build of DemoTime was for myself. Obviously it no longer is.
He gets injured repeatedly, badly, in the 4th movie and it absolutely affects how he fights over the course of the movie.

It's one of the best parts about the series: the protagonist isn't invincible, he's just very good. But when he gets hurt, he actually gets hurt and needs to recover from those injuries (or take drugs to cover the pain).

Edit: it seems a lot of people commenting on the invincibility of John Wick did not actually watch the 4th movie. Spoiler alert: by the final showdown, he's barely conscious and keeps going despite his accumulated injuries solely due to sheer force of will, and ultimately dies of his injuries.
These statues were mass-produced and cheaply made in order to dot the South with bits of propaganda from a defeated ideology trying to save face. In fact, this happened twice - first after the Civil War and second after the civil rights movement.

In other words, they are not art, they are spam. They have more in common with hustlebros spamming T-shirt and poster sites with AI-generated images than they do with art.
Lots of things. But one I am coming back to is called Malten (https://malten.com). It was essentially a place for me to blackhole my thoughts anonymously rather than putting them on twitter. Recently as I've seen ChatGPT take off it's made me revisit the project and create an integration for it (not yet publicly hosted). Ideally I'd just be able to voice my thoughts to an AI now in a private manner. Let's see.

https://github.com/asim/malten for anyone who wants to run it themselves.
You mean, lower the bar?
My ISP is total crap and charges a fortune for a miserable service that at this point should be nationalized, and I'm not a radical communist either. Anyway, I need to monitor my usage and the interface they provide is a dumpster fire so I created the most spectacular Rube Goldberg abstraction to get access to all my past data using damn epoch timestamps and a data scrapper and now I can forecast my usage, set SMS alerts, get usage on a Telegram bot and access all my data via API. I think other people might want to use it but I've always been too busy to polish the product for an audience.
add in an equivalent to https://www.glean.com/ to enterprise dropbox and you have a new AI product that actually solves large org problems
This is a great read, I recently fell down the rabbithole reading about all the different versions of minecraft that have been cracked and playable in the browser so kids can play it on school laptops, that was a great thread to follow too.
This is a helpful comment given the confusion above.

The concept seems more related to Thermal Mass than geothermal energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_mass

I’m fascinated by Eathships which rely on this along with convection to regulate air temperature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship
Because P != NP, as far as we know.
I might use that on my kids...
The timer, sometimes, and occasionally I try to get Siri to play something in the car so I don't have to look at my phone. It normally fails -- it will play something random from apple music before it plays anything from my library.
I rarely use Siri, but my technophobe elderly parents have embraced it as a fairly intuitive way to navigate their phone settings, contacts list, etc.
And what about phonetics? Wouldn't it be easier for the system if it doesn't have to figure it out by itself?
> I have one of those AC units in my apartment that sits on the floor with an outlet tube terminating at a window to pipe out hot air

You might want to add an intake tube, to cool the compressor more efficiently: https://imgur.com/gallery/kA4Z0uV
Last time I installed Mosh (on Ubuntu) I just installed the package & did not need to do any configuration. It just worked.
I believe nowadays most of Dropbox's revenue comes from their Dropbox Business customers. Or at the very least they see growth in business customer revenue as much more promising. (from my glancing over their SEC filings)

So while as a personal user you might not see much potential for AI (though I do), I'm sure there's huge opportunities for their business customers to use AI tooling on the many corporate documents and files they already stored on Dropbox. Also if you look at DBX's current offerings you can see they've branched out from just storing files. Signatures (HelloSend), "DocSend", password vaults, etc. Focusing on the potential for AI to solve problems for their business customers makes sense to me.
> If you use Gmail, all your password resets will go to your Gmail which also isn't E2EE

But it sort of is since it's sent over https, no?
This is exactly why I switched to Google One.

I needed about 20 GB of storage. Why the hell should I have to pay for 100 times that?

Since I switched, I've slowly grown to 30 GB, but I still have plenty of room before I need to go to the next tier and pay another $1/month.
The most depressing part of it for me was all the people pushing the lies and getting a big bonus/promoted. There has been zero downside for them. We really need government to get involved and stop the blatant fraud in marketing.
Probably because the industry consolidated due to regulatory capture to one manufacturer per continent (economic zone).
Every profitable company is accurate enough with its assessment of costs-vs-value-generated to "know" which employees are worth keeping, and which aren't
>That would be it. I won capitalism.

Pet hypothesis: A lot of us say that, not being in the position to. But when you finally exit the working class and are no longer required to work, people tend to work on passion projects instead. Sitting on the beach gets boring after a while.
> You or your company must have revenues less than US$5,000.

seems a bit low
I don't use Siri all day, every day. It's certainly not perfect. But did you know you can say things like...

"Turn off the Apple TV."

"Turn off low power mode."

"Stop navigating."

"Open [name of app I don't want to spend time finding in my iOS folders]"

"What song is this?" (Listens and usually is able to discover the name/artist of the song in the background.)

So when people say things like, "Siri is mostly useless," I think – wow, that is a very hyperbolic statement.
Note the founders were already declining to capitalize Truths or Men :)
> perfectly good fleet of carbon-free nuclear reactors

The planning to decommission them started in 2011. It was a big hurdle to just extend that for the last few months. This also meant that long-term maintenance wasn't done. So perfectly good they are not, and keeping them online now would be extremely expensive.

Until there are off the shelf nuclear-plant solutions, (which don't take decades to get up and running) it just won't happen. I really hope a few of the current SMR startups become successful.