skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone know if you could put something like this over DuckDB?

I’m prototyping a distributed DuckDB in the same vain as LiteStream for SQLite and I wonder if it would be a good fit for something like this.
Gatekeeper

https://mspoweruser.com/macos-big-sur-has-its-own-telemetry-...
No, the easiest way to lie is “just trust me bro”
It took some time for me to sink in why no explanation was needed. Is there a general term for such a thing, self-reflection or something the like?
It... depends.

Personally, I have everything automated. Including one incredibly dumb thing: I have to pay my homeowners' association dues (I live in a small condo building, so we have shared expenses) by check, so I have my bank mail a check to their bank. It's incredibly dumb that I can't easily set up an automated electronic bank transfer, but at least I can automate mailing a paper check.

US government agencies can also be annoying about this. For example, the city/county of San Francisco does not offer a way to automatically pay property taxes, which are billed twice a year. (My mortgage lender pays mine for me via an escrow account that gets funded along with my automatic monthly mortgage payment.)

But a lot of people in the US are un- or under-banked, and don't always have access to automation, if the people/orgs they have to pay support any kind of automation at all. Many landlords (especially those who cater to lower-income folks) will only accept cash or check. Many people who have to pay them don't have an online bill-pay system. And even many who could automate things, don't, because their finances are precarious enough that they will sometimes choose to skip a credit card payment, or pay their rent late, etc., and they'll make these decisions month-to-month.

If many people in the US were in jail for two months, after the first month (of not working, thus not getting paid) they wouldn't have enough money in their bank account to cover all their monthly bills. An unfortunate amount of people here live paycheck-to-paycheck.

Also consider that there's a lot of overlap between people who have unstable finances and people who are more likely to get caught up in the justice system, regardless of their innocence or guilt.
My last employer required us to sign an affidavit confirming that we don't use tobacco, or we would have to pay a penalty on the company-provided insurance
I only drive carsharing and rental vehicles occasionally, so I probably have more limited exposure than most, but most German gas stations that I can think of have quite a lot of free space. There's usually room to park a couple of cars for a short while even while they are not taking gas (to go to the store, to use a coin operated vacuum, ...). Maybe it's regulations?
Oh you spoiled little children with your integrated development environment and in place editing. Real programmers used GW-Basic with consecutive line numbers.
1% of the purchase value is taxed, regardless of usage (company car could be used only for private purposes). That way the same cost for the employer leads to a bigger car (than if bought with taxed income) for the employee and less money for the government.

And a happy car industry, of course, being able to sell bigger cars.
SIMs did have issues like this too, usually more about the phone than the SIM itself. Buy used phone, pop in new SIM, find it's locked to the old SIM on AT&T's side. Try to switch carriers, find it's carrier-locked. But eSIMs add extra layers of stuff that can go wrong.
the page actually does give these. for α := [a-z]{2,4} the page gives |α| = 475228.

however, as others have pointed out any non-trivial use of the kleene star means the result will be ∞. in this case the page will list numbers that roughly correspond to "number of strings with N applications of kleene star" in addition to infinity.
That’s the point. To use this wrapper correctly, you need to know how Objective-C works and you need to be able to read Obj-C code to understand the documentation.

In fact you need to know quite a bit more about Obj-C details than the average iOS programmer because you’re doing manual memory management rather than compiler-assisted ARC (automatic reference counting).

So I don’t really see who this is for. The person who has to learn Obj-C but must pretend not to know it to please the boss who insisted on plain C?
There is no fundamental tech advance that caa make the birthday paradox irrelevant or obsolete, and there never will be.
True of infinitely many forms of protest.

If the teamsters strike hospitals miss drug shipments and people die. Farming protests can lead to food supply chain disruptions. Transport strikes cause economic disruption which could theoretically lead to deaths.

That’s not what terrorism is.

Terrorism requires terrorising people through violence and intimidation. Not standing on a highway.
According to this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37355083

Sodium isn't the problem
The law is garbage and needs to go. I'm not defending it in the slightest.

Tangentially, saying "everyone warned this would happen" as a criticism of something is almost always hindsight bias or survivorship bias. There are plenty of things that "everyone" says will happen that never happen and for the ones that do happen, "everyone" tends to overstate how certain they were about it being the only possible outcome.
If you're doing your job properly and you can't be expected to know something coming in, you shouldn't just make extreme changes wholesale on a whim without any sort of check that it won't break things.
Yeah, I'm surprised how simple it is to find these.

The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: 1c0510f.

The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: 4, 5, b, a, a, 5 and f.
No art has been destroyed, it all sits behind glass so it's just a matter of cleaning/replacing the frame for the painting. And much as I love art, I think throwing food or paint at it is a good reminder that while you can make more art you can't bring back lost species or ecosystems.
The default is client components. You need to opt-in to server components by running a server that serves up your root component as a server component.
"I should have beat the customer until they gave me full specifications of what they needed before writing code"

Is unfortunately what happens a lot.
But having 32 real cores in a cpu is so much cheaper than having mumtiple gpus. RAM is also much cheaper as VRAM.
If no EV has the range you require you are a tiny minority of car users.

All supposition, much as your assertions about reliability. Reliability doesn't come from the amount of moving parts alone.

You're just theorizing, which is fine in of itself, but not when you present it as fact.
at the risk of nitpicking: "a flight plan in its processing queue was faulty" isn't true, the flight plan was fine. It couldn't process it.

I mention this only because the Daily Mail headline pissed me off with it's usual bullshit foreigner fear mongering crap.
I feel like it might be possible with dataflow analysis. Stepping through the regex maintaining a liveness set or something like that. Sort of like computing exemplar inputs, but with repetition as permitted exemplars. Honestly probably end up re-encoding the regex in some other format, perhaps with 'optimizations applied.'
> Getting set up with an e-sim can be as easy as: download app/scan qr code, and provide payment info.

But it's not. For something whose main purpose is ease of use, they didn't make it easy before trying to roll it out.
This is a useless distinction when the distances dictate pretty much this only mode of transportation: nobody's going to march 40km on foot unless their lives depend on it.

The counterstatement here would be "the state has the right to forcefully remove anybody who slightly inconveniences me"; it should be obvious why this would be a gross violation of civil liberties.

There is a whole slew of laws and regulations dealing with people who inconvenience others on purpose.
Redis Labs, Confluent. Pretty sure I'm forgetting some of the smaller Commons Clause adopters.
I guess you never heard about Free pascal/Lazarus then.
The one feature I care about - github outages - has bitten me too many times this year to care about any UI/UX changes. These kinds of changes are infuriating b/c adding a feature (almost) never improve availability. These kinds of UI/UX changes are in the best case a misallocation of engineering resources IMO.
You must think you're deboonking by linking random Bible verses and obscure theory most people have never heard of?

I'm agnostic but I was raised Christian in different communities and on different continents and I have never been taught that Jesus's return is anything but a peaceful end-time where the just go to heaven (and yes, the wicked to hell). Zero mentions of Jesus waging war, if anything it's taught as the end of war and strife.

Not a single person I know associates Jesus with doing violence. I'm sure someone must believe this, but calling it "mainstream" is bad faith. What sort of "mainstream" theology is it if neither me nor anyone I know has been taught this?
From my perspective, Microsoft killed it. It did not die on its own. The upgrade path from VB6 to VB.NET was basically unusable. You either stayed on VB6 or you rewrote the application.
But this was not in reference to the 774AD event surely! Do you have a citation for the above quote?

Edit: you probably meant the Carrington event, I am starting my next coffee now.
after reading through a bunch of what isaacson's written I thikn Musk probably gets hangry and doesn't eat but tries to power through it and ends up in demon mode.
How frequent do you actually think chargers will be used? I understand that there are a lot of market dynamics but I would imagine that if we swapped to EV -- home charging/office charging would be the big ones with few people going to gas stations/convenience stores.

EV is partially sold as not having to go to convenience stores/gas stations to recharge.
Why is X covering code as “sensitive material”?
> The length of the detention was apparently extended by the district court, but the statement does not give a reason for it.

I don't think that that's what happened. The newspiece states quite clearly that the suspects were kept in jail as a preventative measure, in complete accordance with Germany's regional law.

The controversial part was that arguably the length of the preventive jail stay contrasts with the jail terms that the suspects are facing, and other regional courts determined shorter preventive jail terms.

I think that this is an issue where the court had to draw a line in the sand within the boundaries specified by the law. The court had a group of people known for conducting criminal acts and determined that the likelihood that they would continue their criminal activity if they would be released was almost certain. The court had to make a call, and had to choose between being responsible for allowing criminals to repeat their crimes, or ensure they wouldn't by keeping them in preventive jail.
I'm surprised the authors didn't go for parsing the headers that Apple ships with their SDKs instead of extracting method and class names from the runtime.

That would solve many of their issues, including missing argument names, type information for arguments and return values and access to iOS frameworks on Mac.

I'm not sure how difficult that would be to accomplish, though, considering how macro-heavy C often is.
>With hindsight I wonder why Afghanistan just didn’t get talked about in the same seriousness as the invasion of Iraq.

If you weren't for war you were violently shouted down as unamerican and undemocratic and unpatriotic. It's a simple as that. This applied to US senators just as much as it applied to average americans. "Our country is under attack and we are at war" was the hammer used to suppress any argument, especially the one talking about how Bush clearly wanted a war even before the attack.
You're talking about a hypothetical scenario that doesn't even match the conversation described.

The recounted conversation involved multiple individuals, many of whom have an adversarial relationship with the subject and would be inclined to sue. Misrepresentations of facts could have meaningful reputational damage.

If you're the author you do not risk going to publication without verification that the gist of the conversation is accurate. Your editor literally will not let you. The publisher's reputation is on the line too.
In Italy they threw paint at statues, damaging them because they thought "washable" paint would be easily cleaned with water. Whereas it's the kind that most thoroughly repels it. That's not the way to get random people's sympathy.
What you do on your own time should be none of your employers business. You do your job, that's it. They don't own your life.
For example, to draw rough surfaces, point-to-point lines are the most efficient way, with a ton of points.

I usually just draw a quick simple line and tell Illustrator to rough it up for me. There's a lot of ways to do this; "use a custom brush" is a common one, so's "apply the Roughen effect". These will dynamically generate a buttload of virtual points in the vicinity of the basic path when it gets rendered; the editing view is still just a handful of points. Much easier to edit, much faster to draw. If I need precise, human-defined jagginess to a path, then I whip it out with the Pencil, and push it around with stuff like the Puppet Warp tool, which lets me drop a few pins into a complex set of paths, and distort it based on how I move those around.

Illustrator's Pencil tool actually performs a certain amount of smoothing on the raw positional input from the drawing tablet. There's a slider for how much it does this. I have it right in the middle of the range and it makes for a pretty nice compromise between catching every deliberate motion of my fingers/hand/arm across the tablet, and throwing away the little irregularities that I would be working hard to eliminate if I was working in pen and ink.
What if the shock absorber piston shaft were actually an axle?
Only the ones that glorify the third reich.
Since this argument has somehow become personal, Mr/Ms Internet Stranger, I'd encourage you consider how frequently you give positive feedback to colleagues & peers that their manager could see (i.e. "on the record"). When was the last time you've done it? How frequently have you done so in the past 6 months? For me the answers to these questions are "this morning" and "at least a dozen times."

Given your extreme sensitivity to the possible damage of giving positive feedback, I am guessing you rarely engage in this "risky" behaviour. Am I wrong? If not, I don't plan to take advice on giving positive feedback from "the person who rarely gives positive feedback."

I sleep quite soundly knowing that when someone does me a good turn I give them positive feedback "on the record."
You may find Lacan's conceptualization of The Real, The Imaginary, and The Symbolic as helpful in navigating this space. There's some obvious connections between Baudrillard and Lacan but it's best summed up like so

> There is no clear evidence that Baudrillard deployed Lacan’s theory consistently, as Baudrillard himself did his best to erase the footprints of employed sources; yet, Baudrillard’s knowledge and use of Lacan is something taken for granted by most Baudrillardian scholars[1].

I'll point out that the study of the Real requires a certain suspension of disbelief or a willingness to sit with the tension of not understanding something for a very long time before it starts to make sense. It comes with the reward of understanding or at least feeling like having an understanding of where your subjectivity comes from. And this requires a vulnerability in admitting that a lot of us are quite a bit more subjective than we're willing to admit to ourselves.

1. https://baudrillardstudies.ubishops.ca/the-invention-of-hist...
Yep, most people forget this fact. Police is explicitly there to protect property.

Sometimes they do protect people, but that is typically an exception
Ethics really should be mandatory for anybody making/designing anything. Some unis do fortunately have mandatory ethics courses depending on your programme.
Have you tried https://anvil.works? (I'm a founder!)

It's quite explicitly VB-esque (only using Python), and having a single paradigm rather than stitching together several different programs speeds things up even for those who can write HTML/JS/CSS in their sleep. (And of course, you can drop out to JS/CSS/HTML if you want.) Overall I think the development speed is comparable to VB6.
It would be nifty IMO if dishwashers had two water feed lines, one for wash and one for rinse. Then plain water could be used for washing and expensive softened or other low-TDS water could be used for rising.

Or bonus points for a dishwasher that uses RO concentrate/brine for washing.
> But if you want to type them, you have to do that in english and then have excel translate them.

Huh? At least in the versions I've used I've always needed to type the commands in German.

There's even an online German - English Excel dictionary...
Hey, can you please review the site guidelines and stick to them when posting here? We have to ban accounts that won't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Title should be "MGM Resorts Suffers Cybersecurity Attack, System Outage" (following HN norms), or at least include "Resorts." MGM Resorts was spun out of the movie studio in like the 70s.
Legally, this depends on jurisdiction. From the standpoint of what's better for society, I agree with you.
AFAICT and INAMD, but it's generally accepted that potassium is good for your heart. Sodium may or may not be bad for the heart by itself, but it also limits potassium absorption. So the differences in sodium sensitivity between individuals might be more about potassium than sodium.
Waiting for iRing
Honestly it's because Microsoft sucked at marketing. There were so many confusing name choices and unclear development guidelines that people simply stopped using it. Even now developing for windows is a pain and that's because there is like 5 different ways to build an app there.
Breaking the site guidelines like this will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

HN is no place for nationalistic flamewar, including when there's an actual war going on—in fact, especially not then:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I googled path-dependency https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/path-dependency.asp#:~:....

It happens all the time of course. But I wonder if it is a bit of a trivial concept. Of course what was done before will affect what is the optimal choice now.

But I agree it is good to keep it in mind -- when you are making the current decisions. If I decide this way now, what is the cost of my available options in the future? Pretty much the way chess-players evaluate their possible moves.
I think this is a good take - the legal theories mentioned in this thread (1st amendment, Section 230) seem mostly baseless, but this doesn't seem like appropriate legislation at the state-level either way. I don't know enough about the commerce clause restrictions on state regulations, but I do wonder if that comes into play given that moderation policies will almost always have interstate and international commerce implications.
Right -- Android does have a C API but it’s a pain to use and really incomplete: https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis If you want to do anything else you need JNI which is an even bigger pain.

I don’t really understand why the Android team haven’t made it easy to call any Java API from C, with auto-generated bindings or some such.

I think they just don’t believe in apps using native code, beyond the special case of games (note that pretty much all the native APIs are to do with low-level graphics and sound).
Yup, that was also my take. I used to write 'on box' and you communicated between components using Com+, and when you switched to http, there was no reason to stick with just VB6.
I thought I recognized the GitHub username, you contributed to my GNOME Shell extension years ago!
In a converse reply, Microsoft has done very well financially by holding on to backwards compatibility.

In the OSS world we tend to look at rewrites as "This is for me, who gives a shit about the customer", but most customer (paying) facing software there are the expectations of Do not break the application, and do not break the customers expectations.

This said, X was and is a mess.
The alternative being what? You can't use images produced by the model?

I don't see a middle ground here, and I fail to imagine see any real-world instance where it's logical that ai-generated images fall under copyright. It's either public domain or no public use (which, tbh, I think is fair too)
a partial cryptographic quine, perhaps?
> Western doctrine also leans more than ever on the people being the valuable part of the war machine.

It really depends who's people.
I mean, I make my salads to be both nutritious AND tasty, and yeah, salt's an important part of that. I'm not eating just raw veggies with a light sprinkle of balsamic
To be honest, I already am more in favour of pure subjectivity than of anything objectively real. For example, I am a physicist, but I don't think the laws of physics exist. I am just interested in what the others think
Bad records aren't supposed to be ignored. They are supposed to be looked at by a human who can determine what to do.

Failing the way NATS did means that all future flight plan data including for planes already in the sky are not longer being processed. The safer failure mode was definitely to flag this plan and surface to a human while continuing to process other plans.
Meta literally allowed their data to be used by Cambridge Analytica in a fashion that likely swayed the 2016 US election.

EDIT: Well, this was certainly wrong. I'm leaving this up as a testament to not double-checking my assumptions.
I did not say or believe that fracking causes no harm to the environment, just at the scale fracking is done at there would be more than minor incidents, there would be mass devastation wherever fracking was taking place. Most of these issues are fracking be done too close to underground water reservoirs.
The authors of the text the model was trained on certainly had intentions. Many of those are going to be preserved in the output.
I am not quite sure what you mean with "review" but if it involves actual testing/validation, then depending on the type of application, OWASP web/mobile application testing guides might be a good reference.

- https://owasp.org/www-project-web-security-testing-guide/ass...

- https://mas.owasp.org/MASTG/

Feel free to reach out via email in my bio if you need any specific insights. I will be glad to help out.
I think there's plenty of people who are surprised that some people take the climate situation as seriously enough that they would organize and do this, especially when others chime in with "you should expect more of this, the coming decades will see a lot of things destabilize". I've not encountered much anti-activism sentiment, at most a "they have a point, but it's the wrong way to do it".

I've not seen anyone leave their gasoline engine on idle on their behalf to spite them.
It still is a thing. VB.net is a CLR language just like C#. You can use a tool to translate from one to the other and back.
I expect that this law is going to either be restricted by german courts, or ECHR/CJEU.
CBD is not THC.
people spreading the absurd notion that face masks work the same outside hospitals as inside hospitals are causing panic and mask shortages. therefore they needed to be silenced. (that was the state of public discourse in april 2020, maybe you have repressed the memory)