skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not know a good one.

A former colleague of mine is now working on a memory-mapped log-structured merge tree implementation and it can be a good alternative. LSM provides elasticity, one can store as much data as one needs, it is static, thus it can be compressed as well as Parquet-stored data, memory mapping and implicit indexing of data do not require additional data structures.

Something like LevelDB and/or RocksDB can provide most of that, especially when used in covering index [1] mode.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/queryplanner.html#_covering_indexes
I haven't heard the term happy horseshit in a long time. Thank you for reminding me about it!
> Gas cars need a jump all the time.

All the time? That's some strong exaggeration there. Last time I needed a jump start was in 2016 and before that.. can't put an exact year to it but it was back in the 80s.

> If this is really an anxiety of someone’s, they can carry a capacitor in the back sufficient to be charged somewhere and take the vehicle to a charger.

Please describe in some detail how you expect this to work? Can you link to this "capacitor" that people should buy that can do that?
It’s not something I think I’d use, so I’ll pass on the full review[1]. Still, I felt you might appreciate the first impressions. That’s what HN is for, after all. Best of luck with it, and congratulations on the launch.

[1]: Though I would have tried the interactive demos, had there been any.
Tracing Bird Flu's Ground Zero on Texas Dairy Farms
I imagine there's loads more to do on the JavaScript player that selects which video segments to download and play. They feed you a crap list of segments, then have the JavaScript skip past if it decides you're watching like they want.
Enjoy Lufthansa flights with a mid flight corporate purge! Enjoy murdering your fellow passenger-whistleblowers in Lufthansa's unique VR chill-scape, "Where Do You Think You're Boeing?!?" When you fly Lufthansa, only The Winner makes it out alive!
Or lua itself
With regard to (1), I would have to agree, though I think this is only the case in the US?

For (2), absolutely. Tax advantages play their part (adding to investment demand relative to other investment options). Is it not also the case that interest payments on a residential mortgage are tax deductible in the US?
> The fix is public policy producing housing in order to force a situation of excess supply.

So... we should have paid builders to build more houses during the pandemic?
> In my view this is symptomatic of a more fundamental issue - global asset price inflation driven by a broken financial system (i.e. a system being artificially pumped up with cheap credit).

Spot on. You're not alone. For a more thorough and clinical review of how we're f'ed and why see Lyn Alden's "Broken Money".

To your point, ppl are fond to talk about the economy. That's a distraction. It's a false god. Fact: the economic system and the sociopolitical system both side on a foundation. That foundation is the financial system. Full stop.

https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/
Rent controlled public housing. These could be mass produced and stacked like legos so that rents would be less than 1/3 of UBI. With the addition of municipal broadband there would be plentiful jobs for teleworkers in virtual call centers to provide a back end for no-checkout stores and providing teaching assistance to students using MOOCs.
Just to conceptualize this, it's like every 5 bedroom house having 1 unused bedroom, perhaps being used as an office. Of course, most houses don't have 5 bedrooms, so in reality this is an extra bedroom for every 2 houses. Again, possibly being well used for another purpose. That doesn't seem like a lot of underutilization to me.
Well I'm glad that you acknowledge that it sucks.

I see the people who can't accept that it is plausible as being the mirror image of people who object to calling it a fudge factor that makes our numbers work out.

It really isn't currently an explanation. It is a statement about what the explanation will look like. But the actual explanation at this point requires new physics.
Do these exist?

A quick Google turns up this kind of thing [0] which, based on the price point and form factor, is aimed at tow truck operators rather than individual drivers. Costs $10k+ and will take up most of the back of your car.

[0] https://jtmpower.ie/collections/electric-vehicle-charging
Nearly everywhere in the US is below $0.40/kWh. The average nationwide is $0.17/kWh. Only a handful of cities in California and Hawaii are over $0.40 (those places have the highest gas prices too). Most people will pay less than half as much to charge at home.

ref: https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...
Exactly, move out of the city where conditions are better. With remote work or a couple of commutes a week should be feasible for many.
Thing is, rental buyers really only make out well because they can rent places for more than their purchase/mortgage equivalent. If supply were large enough, I'd think rental rates below the average monthly mortgage payment would be more widespread and tend to make rental property ownership less appealing.
Flying a drone over a major concert is liable to get you charged with terrorism somehow even if you're just trying to do a prank.
e: if you don't agree with my idea, please comment why instead of down voting.

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> Housing can't both be an investment and a basic need.

Housing as investment is a beautiful solution to how many people fail to properly save for retirement. For many people entering retirement, their home is a huge part of the investment portfolio, because they always made sure to make that payment.

If properties didn't appreciate, old people would not have the assets to retire on, then what?
> 1. People have mortgages with very low interest rates. If they sell the home, they give up that cheap mortgage for a much higher mortgage interest rate with the next home. So, they stay.

This may be true only in the US. In Canada, for example, the maximum term a mortgage rate is fixed for is 5 years, after which you have to "renew" your mortgage and renegotiate the rate. So a lot of people are already being forced into higher interest mortgages here.
I am indeed excited about VictoriaLogs.
It seems quite contrary to the current tattoo vibe if you had to get it by a doctor.
> misleading and mostly irrelevant

This entire discussion is as it's ignoring mortgages, where the entire security argument for homeownership breaks down beyond being an emotional comfort object.

Homeownership is statistically more secure because home owners are richer. The home doesn't make a homeowner more secure, their wealth does. Remove the wealth effect and homeowners are about as precariously perched as renters. In the past decades, home-price appreciation contributed significantly to that wealth. Someone making the smae purchase today is less likely to similarly benefit. Particularly if they're conceding they're making a bad financial decision for emotional reasons.
I'm reading Stephen Webb's book (If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY), and he describes how a partial Dyson sphere can turn a star into a spaceship which blew my mind (just cover all but one side, the released energy will push it the other direction). Imagine doing that at the Galactic scale.
Interesting! The tryclojure.org website says it's Clojure, not ClojureScript.

If it's inconsistent between variants then I'm absolutely not going to code in it...
Would like to hear more about it. Are you saying this (using .at vs "manual error handling") is premature optimization that might not have any effect on modern hardware?
Beijing, Tokyo and Singapore are not that expensive to live in. Especially if you're renting.

Hong Kong has all sorts of crazy building restrictions and is a different story
Starting to sound like a broken record but land value tax + up zoning was the fix for this 100 years ago, and it still is today...
Pumping water up requires massives amounts of water, rarely available for regular homes
Sydney has the capacity to build a highrise crown casino at the city centre then why can't they hire the same builders to continue building residential 3BDR-4BDR homes in the suburbs which will also allow locals to have children. I believe the pricing of various things involved is insane and not where it should be to allow this to materialise. The rents, insurance, wage bills and capital cost seems to be the major bottlenecks.
I am not sure that a tiny country that's smaller than 40 US states is a useful model for what kinds of homeownership can work.
Overall energy usage, from the perspective that energy usage is the primary immediate harm of AI. This is a thesis, not an opinion.
>just cover all but one side, the released energy will push it the other direction

What is to stop the star from just crashing into the sphere?
It transmits a code, so you’d have to clone the signal but I’m pretty sure it’s not cryptographic or anything.
From what I can find this depends on the definition, as there is a difference between a Signed Distance Function [0], and a Signed Distance Field, where the latter does get defined as a grid of values:

> A signed distance field is represented as a grid sampling of the closest distance to the surface of an object represented as a polygonal model. [1]

and

> Signed Distance Fields (SDF) are 3D textures where each texel stores the distance from the surface of an object. By convention, this distance is negative inside the object and positive outside. [2]

But that grid of values gets generated from either mathematical formulas, e.g. spheres, or from another representation of geometry such as a mesh or a vector shape.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_distance_function

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-v-physics...

[2] https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.visualeffectgrap...
A lot of houses are empty simply because they are for sale. It's not unusual to take 6 months to sell.

Nobody is going to want homeless people living in it in the meantime.

Houses are also "empty" while they are undergoing renovation.
> But allow your users to create more than one, and make rotation and revocation easy

It's shocking how often this advice isn't followed. We often see it with non-tech companies who nonetheless deliver services over the internet.
For me it was telling youtube to not remember my watch history. No watch history -> no homepage suggestions -> much less compulsion.

And subscriptions still work well enough to be usable. Turns out, not knowing whether I've watched a given video isn't a problem.
Taxing land vacancy or lack of density seems like an easy enough solution.
Yes, exactly.

If you do have AAAA records, Let's Encrypt (not unlike other software and services!) will prefer the AAAA records when doing domain validation for your domain. So if you have a correct A record and an incorrect AAAA record, your domain validation process will fail. You can then "fix" this by deleting the AAAA record, but it isn't a fix in the larger scheme of things, but indeed it makes plenty of users happy right away.
How many of them survived more than a year?
A Computational Approach to the Nineteenth-Century Language of Technology (2023)
Higher rates don't do anything because incumbent owners simply pull houses off the market to wait it out.

You need to increase carrying costs. Land value tax is the best way but it's about as far as you can get from what's implemented anywhere
Not exactly in tech, but some other industries might work pretty well.

I've recently stumbled upon a Supply Chain online course at MIT that takes 1.5 years with really decent content. This is obviously less than getting a traditional bachelor's degree.
House ownership is higher among boomers, who are not going to have children anyway. Maybe for some people concern for future prices is a good reason, but certainly it is not for everyone. If there’s spare capacity enough for 20% more people and population growth forecast by 2050 is just one third of that, you cannot really talk about undersupply, when there’s enough accommodation to cover even future demand.
Two points:

Firstly I am legitimately surprised that Finland has HOAs. I had always assumed they were a largely American construct (I’m British).

Secondly I was absolutely talking about owning a house rather than an apartment. I feel an apartment is a slightly different situation by virtue of being an inherently shared space.

That said, I still it baffling that someone would try to exert control over what you do with the inside of your own home.
Was his title lead developer who typically helps out a team with any blockers, or was he a lone iOS dev outputting as much work as 5 people? I wonder what a dev with ADHD can do to stand out when they are just beginning a career in tech. I know that working on difficult tickets that nobody else wants to touch can help because you can keep shifting focus to something new, like you mentioned.
It is not russian propaganda:
https://www.un.org/dppa/decolonization/en/nsgt/new-caledonia

By the way your are contradicting yourself;

If as you say the issue are kanaks being racists against foreigners, that means the non kanak french people living there are indeed foreigners. You are only confirming they are colons.

I suggest you give a look at the "strip tease" TV program of 1998 (not so long ago) were you could see french colons treating their kanaks "employees" as slaves and insulting them just for being indigenous, then try repeating me again that the problem are kanaks being racists.
We need to retire the idea that evolution has a goal, or that evolutionary pressure explains everything. There are tons of things in the human body that are very suboptimal or are purely accidental, from the tons of "junk" DNA, our difficult birthing, the appendicitis, wisdom teeth, the way our knees fold, differences in earwax, etc, etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_vestigiality

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-humans-have-no...

"Evolution" is just a (fairly tautological when you think about it) observation that "traits that manage to get passed on, subsist". It weeds out very bad traits, but the rest? It's just a giant lottery, not a great design with a teleological goal of "improving".

(And the human species has been short-lived so far, and may wipe out themselves without the "help" of a meteorite. In the same vein, cockroaches could be argued to be the pinnacle of evolution.)
> Last time I needed a jump start was in 2016 and before that.. can't put an exact year to it but it was back in the 80s

As in it's frequent. I'd estimate about as frequent as someone running out of charge in an EV nowadays.

(If you're in a hot climate, e.g. Arizona, and park your car outdoors, it literally can be every year or two.)

> Can you link to this "capacitor" that people should buy that can do that?

Apparently they're still marketed to commercial users, pricing in the $5k+ range. EV to EV charging, emerging on newer vehicles, would be the analog.
A "pear" of projects plans to offer Mac OS on PCs (2004)
> Yes they do, to varying degrees. The Anglo land use regime is a disaster.

Population growth (which is mainly concentrated in relatively small number of areas) is not helping either.

e.g. in European countries which have comparable population growth to Ireland/UK like Norway, Sweden, Belgium real estate prices have been increasing at a similar pace.
That's not cataloguing, that's recording, and as far as I understand this is long ago done - cataloguing is those "all other details" which require expertise and time; all the things like figuring out that this coin is a roman coin from 1st century, and that other coin from the same find is from another location.
>doing the work of 5 different people (and was well compensated for it)

The compensation part is very rare
There is a difference between helping you and not actively stopping you. Please stop conflating the two.
Taxes on rental income are already more than capital gains tax rates.
Of course.

But nobody tells me that I can hit a hard limit and then I need a second Parquet file and should have some code for that.

The situation looks to me as if my "Favorite DB server" supports, say, only 1.9 billions records per table and if I hit that limit I need a second instance of my "Favorite DB server" just for that unfortunate table. And it is not documented anywhere.
In their own houses. That's what cooperatives are for. Also prices would drop once speculation on housing is no longer profitable.
In the book he discusses the shkadov thruster which reflects the energy so the shell would move, too.

Obviously if it's not reflective you could absorb the energy and use it as needed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_engine
GPS/distance going terribly wrong when swimmimg, action button sometimes just not doing anything, screen going blank (thinking I'm not wearing it) after workouts randomly, not to mention the original Alpine loop started to break completely in 6-7 months.

I had NONE of these problems with older watches despite doing the exact same things.
«shutup forever and just give me snippets from now on”
> Google has entered into a phase where short term profits outweigh long term growth.

I has entered this phase at least 10 years ago.
Yes, they do, and it's available as a service in Australia:

https://mobileevcharging.com.au/
San Bernardino would be your stop as I mentioned. I mentioned lucid as the car that can today make the trip without a charge. I further mentioned that even on the trip the fact people need to take rest breaks after hours of driving incentivizes businesses to provide fast charge points to attract paying customers.

My statement was that within 5 years almost all cars would be able to do the trip end to end. At that point no intermediate charging would be necessary, but having charge points at restaurants and other places for breaks would be sensible even so and a net positive for those businesses. This would break the value of a gas station since it’s a pretty low end experience as a customer, while say a Starbucks with EV charge points would be a higher margin business end to end and provide a generally superior customer experience. I think these economics are unassailable.

I would note regenerative braking in an EV doesn’t give you an advantage in any context. With a hybrid the gasoline expenditures of power can be recaptured as electrical charge. Highway driving for an EV is optimal because regenerative braking is not perfectly efficient and the act of slowing and accelerating at all will reduce your range. Your best profile in an EV is accelerating slowly and keeping a constant speed.
UK also has the Council Tax which is arguably a stupider tax policy than California's Prop 13
You realise that this idea of "embedding a smaller, old address space inside a newer bigger one" has existed in IPv6 for a pretty long time now?
Same everywhere. 100 years ago my great grandparents all lived on farms, now we're all in big cities. I always assumed I'd go somewhere quiet after retirement but that isn't looking possible anymore.
Maybe it's irrelevant but for JWT to be passed as a Bearer in the header Authentication header, it needs to be accessible from the browser?
Aren't httpOnly cookie safer in this regard? Or do we see set the JWT in the cookie too?
>But in reality looks like parsing CSV string works faster than bloated and overengineered parquet format with libs.

Anecdotally having worked with large CSVs and large on-disk Parquet datasets, my experience is the opposite of yours. My DuckDB queries operate directly on Parquet on disk and never load the entire dataset, and is always much faster than the equivalent operation on CSV files.

I think your experience might be due to -- what it sounds like -- parsing the entire CSV into memory first (CREATE TABLE) and then processing after. That is not an apples-to-apples comparison because we usually don't do this with Parquet -- there's no CREATE TABLE step. At most there's a CREATE VIEW, which is lazy.

I've seen your comments bashing Parquet in DuckDB multiple times, and I think you might be doing something wrong.
The vector types are straightforward and already implemented in clang - it's twisting llvm to represent two different triples in a single module and handling calls between them that I think will be extremely tedious to implement. Frama-c / libfirm / other-compiler-here means getting started quickly and then an uphill battle against the existing implementation.

Grammar plus symbol table should yield ast, C doesn't need that much sema checking after the parse, build ssa form cranelift-style then write out asm. Should be a cheap enough exercise to walk through but the unknown unknowns will mess up the schedule and there's a day job in the way. One for a week's vacation I think.
We've found the cybersecurity enthusiast that ruins everything.
~60 lines with help and commented bash code and 1 dependency: pandoc
Good for you. Go for open water swimming every day (which Ultra should be perfectly capable of) and see if GPS works reliably. See my reply to parent comment for more bugs.
With a stop in San Bernardino as I said. In 5 years most cars will be able to do it without, as I said. The lucid can make the trip today without stopping. But most humans can’t drive 5-6 hours without stopping once.
My overnight rate is $0.02/kwh

$0.40/kwh is an absurd embarrassment for the local government. Move or vote them out.