jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I became fascinated with what Stonebraker was saying back when I got into the biotech industry. We were dealing with huge amounts of data and the more I read from him the more it made sense to me, particularly when he talks about the lack of ACID in NoSQL stuff being a bad thing. I have a couple of projects involving VoltDB and SciDB on the backburner, and any future projects I plan on using VoltDB in if possible and applicable, and so far I am pretty convinced that they are much more useful than people understand.

If you haven't read up on either VoltDB or SciDB or Stonebraker himself, I highly suggest you do, as it might make you think twice about some of your current setups. Here's a few quotes for the fun of it:

"I think the biggest NoSQL proponent of non-ACID has been historically a guy named Jeff Dean at Google, who’s responsible for, essentially, most to all of their database offerings. And he recently … wrote a system called Spanner,” Stonebraker explained. “Spanner is a pure ACID system. So Google is moving to ACID and I think the NoSQL market will move away from eventual consistency and toward ACID.”

“My prediction is that NoSQL will come to mean not yet SQL,”

"You saw that they went for Cassandra for inbox search and HBase for messaging. The reason they're not doing that on MySQL is that sharding MySQL is a lot of effort and you have to apply that effort to each new project."

That should be enough to get your curiosity piqued.
Hey Guys,

Jeff Morris Jr. here (founder of Slack Chats).

I've spoken with the Slack Team and they are big fans of this product. In fact, I've had several team members email me to thank me for building this product.

I included the note as the top post to clearly state that this isn't an official Slack product.

The site drives traffic to Slack and I do not make a single dollar off of it (despite many offers from advertisers).

Hope this helps!

Jeff
This looks like it could be really nice for duplicating backups into a separate bucket with more severely locked-down access, to alleviate concerns about things like a disgruntled employee blowing away a backups bucket.
Flagged. Registration wall. :(

EDIT:

Unflagged, was looking at wrong tab, like an idiot.
Oh, you lost the science fair. How did your code perform in battle?
It's not that they're not profitable.

It's that their revenues are negligible compare to their expenses. Their "revenue-generating service" is a PR stunt.
Justice Thomas clarifies why this case has wide-reaching impact in his dissent.

"Congress rejected categorical distinctions between declaring and implementing code. But the majority creates just such a distinction. The result of this distorting analysis is an opinion that makes it difficult to imagine any circumstance in which declaring code will remain protected by copyright."

I concur with Thomas (not in the connotation - he thinks this is a bad thing, I do not - but in the denotation). This ruling is such strong precedent that almost any API cannot be bound by copyright that no company is going to be willing to spend the money to raise the question.
To be honest even my vscode config is fairly large. I think the write comparison would be with PyCharm/Goland/etc - ‘proper’ IDEs with everything built in.
Are they going to tie this to their social credit score? If so that is incredibly terrifying. Now they can keep you from engaging in any commercial activity if you don't agree with them or tow the party line.
Hiding a important part of anyhting is not ok. It even comes while copy paste. This is also not a either or case, both can be shown same time.
How is this determined?

Is there an index of which blocks were mined in which Bitcoin nodes, and also georeferencing of the Bitcoin nodes?
Generally people tend to buy cheaper phones. But iPhones are kind of exception, some people are so obsessed with iPhones that they're trying to get loan to buy iPhone. It's not really logical decision, they just want to look more wealthy than they are, it's kind of luxury item.
I believe the parent commenter was highlighting the particular wording of the opinion, rather than the actual decision itself.

One could imagine an opinion supporting the same decision with less clear or precise language. As I understand the process, the opinion was frequently reviewed and advised by Breyer, but actually written by one of the clerks.
You could potentially create a different world and use Cesium OSS to do 3d tile managing
Thomas doesn't understand basic computer programming, so I wouldn't put much weight on that nuanced view.

"Indirect" here just means calling a function or jumping to some address, rather than directly inlining some statements.

For the purpose of copyright, the term "computer code" does not include the signature of that function, or the address you jump to, only the actual code statements at that destination.
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I'm open to project based (full or part time), contract, and full time direct positions.

Let me know if you can guess what the header of my LinkedIn profile is.
Hint: it represents a certain aspect of Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions on December 11th, 2016.
It's true that some brands have bad distance options. I use the one that's ridiculously far. So far back that I'm never in the stink zone or afraid the automatic brake isn't going to work in time. I'm frustrated when I drive a car without that option.
I think we should take it at good faith that Griddy was trying to provide a good service at what might have been a reasonable price that didn't factor in the entire Texas grid going down and the unexpected costs that would get passed on to consumers...

But, if I received a link to this page from my utility company, I would instantly feel a strong aversion towards them for the following reasons:

1. It's using a flat design image of a hand pushing a button, which might be the most generic, tech corporate aesthetic. This is a bizarre way of encapsulating the message of "We cannot feasibly perform as a reasonable service to our consumers so we're being shut down".

2. There is a reference to the word "Family". I love my family, but my relationship with them is entirely different than what I might expect from a utility company.

3. The message ends with "You will always be a Griddster.

A heartfelt thank you,
The Griddy Family"

This is the most confusing message of all.

If my electric company was shutting down after charging an exorbitant bill with this message, I would be furious. This is peak corporate speak.

I think this message is probably not what a customer would want to read and I hope people in Texas can find a service that not only works but doesn't provide such corporate-speak to a situation that really amounts to them not accounting for a major catastrophe.

I think it would be reasonable for them to own up to what happened and really speak to that instead of the message they put out. The people that used this service deserve better than this
>I believe there is an exception to price gouging laws if the cost of producing the direct item/product/service is impacted.

nope.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/don-t-mess-texas-price-...

>Unlike many state price gouging statutes, [Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act] does not contain an exception for increased costs.
This is because the sense of smell bypasses the thalamus (router for all other senses) and is located deep in the lymbic system, very close to the hippocampus and amygdala which process memories.
Nope. There’s a reason they put the sub on private to purge it when things got out of control.

A simple search on pushshift is enough to show that their auto mod wasn’t quick enough at all.
The application of brilliant mathematical and legal minds to gaming the system will be a great intellectual opportunity if rather perverse at the same time.
Did you make it executable with chmod +x ?
There will be an accounting scramble to establish being above the line, then games and political lobbying to keep or move the bar in a favorable direction.
In practice all serious suggestion systems have blacklists and additional component for “sensitivity detection” and main prediction engine is turned off if threshold is exceeded. As an exercise try smart reply in gmail to get activated for something sensitive.
FYI Edward VIII was pretty much forced to step down in the 1930s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII_abdication_crisis

Maybe not the best of reasons (his choice of partner), but it does demonstrate that they aren't immovable.
And none of them are web based. They've also forgotten Dia.
Sorry, but that's just nonsense. In the last three years, Nokia has:

* Acquired Trolltech, makers of the Qt toolkit (basis of KDE), changed Qt's licensing to the more flexible LGPL, and opened up the Qt development model to open source contributions.

* Acquired Symbian, the world's most widely distributed smartphone OS, then open-sourced the whole thing and turned it over to a non-profit foundation.

* Released several versions of their Maemo mobile Linux distribution on devices like N810 and N900.

* Fused Maemo with Intel's Moblin effort to create MeeGo, a unified mobile Linux for netbooks, smartphones and other mobile applications.

Where's the ambivalence?
$9.95/month for 50GB seems a bit steep to me.

Uninformed question...I assume dropbox syncs machines via their server (ie: all data is synched up to their server first, then back down?) Or does it do peer to peer? (and if so, $9.95/50GB seems really expensive.) While less reliable, this would save them tons of bandwidth, and while it wouldn't work for some people, for me it would be perfect as I always have at least one machine that is on the net that would suffice for my master.
I think that there is nothing else besides the New York Times behind the "national campaign to get President Obama to emote." It is hard for me to believe that the government is taking the problem seriously without meetings between the president and the BP's leadership (as what happened during the financial crisis).
I'm not expert here, but I believe the answer is: depends on how many extensions Apple decides to make.

I imagine that there will continue to be a significant feature deficit for quite some time, particularly with regard to lower-level stuff like the camera and accelerometer/gyroscope.

Here's a great article on the native code vs web app question: http://bit.ly/bwPn6J
Linus rules! That's right, C ain't for everything
Didn't the United States more or less have to choose between France and Vietnam as allies?
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Based on my experiences: They shield junior developers from themselves and from upper management. They know how to translate requirements from management into feasible projects. They perform code reviews and lead the collaborative process of designing a system.

It's more about taking ownership of the process than about the code itself.

I haven't had any developers report to me but might be interested at some point in my career. Over time you realize that having strongly defined processes (while avoiding micromanagement) is at least as important as technical skills, and it requires strong leadership.
>Another way of describing this is that the non TDD teams weren't actually done when they shipped.

Was ANY code, TDD or not, ever "done" when it shipped?
I am a strong believer of "With great power comes great responsibility" and many times have been pretty disappointed that celebrities, CEOs and the super rich have largely been silent.

Its great to see Tim Cook voicing his opinion on stuff that does not concern Apple.
(I realise that the question is actually about taking on someone/entity as an investor/partner)

Slightly different POV:

I had the opportunity to work for a company for either options, or accrue extra annual leave. I took the options. Smart people took annual leave (because it was still actually payable/real money)

At the end, as it turned out we all lost our jobs anyways, people who had taken annual leave got extra money. I got a huge bunch of options.

Now that's fine they may have been worth something, but I still had to exercise them. It was ok though, the CEO told us all verbally we would have 12 months to exercise them.

2 months later, I got an e-mail from the CFO asking what I was doing with my options as they would lapse in 30 days. I had to exercise them or let them die. I was already committed, so I thought what the hell, I'll exercise them because otherwise I walk away with nothing

So I forked over even more money.

I wish I hadn't exercised those options. They ended up being worth exactly $0.
A fantastic band called Tree Wave [1], from Austin, used a dot matrix printer as a synth [2] in a bunch of their music [3] around 10 years ago. It's pretty fantastic stuff. Paul Slocum whom lead the group did some amazing work hacking together instruments from Commodore 64s and Atari 2600, going as far as writing and building a custom synth cart for an Arari [4]

[1] http://www.treewave.com/
[2] http://www.qotile.net/dotmatrix.html
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKx8bZ5eq8
[4] http://www.qotile.net/synth.html
heavy artillery in southern oregon.
Personally, I'm pretty happy with AT&T's changes. When I'm not using the service, out of the country, etc., I pay less. The overage charges are reasonable. Get real.

Only the self proclaimed "data hogs" are complaining.

Now, if they would only let me unlock my damn phone as a paying customer of 5+ years....
Sometimes card is quicker. I know at my Tesco I'm quicker getting through using a card, but hate it when I'm stuck behind someone who goes through and counts their coins, or the cashier has to root around for change.

With the card it's just swipe and pin. Done.

Also the minimum is against Visa's merchant agreement. You can report them to visa to get that changed. I was at a pub once that said £10 minimum, but just before I was going to argue he said he would charge it up for £10 and give me the change. Fair enough I suppose.
What is the trade off between hosting icon/picture image files versus drawing them? Is there one? Is this method (drawing through js) better if client download speeds are really slow?
I just played a C64 game written in 2009, Knight 'n' Grail. The interesting thing is it's the first game I'd played to completion in 8 years. So I can't say it's me that's the problem (and not the modern games), it's that modern games suck.
The trade-off is between client-side CPU and bandwidth/connections. A vector graphic is going to be much smaller for icons and other non-photo images. The downside is that instead of just shoving some bits onto the page, the client has to run a script to tell it what the bits are supposed to be.
For the shop owner(s), making the economic case for having a card merchant account comes down to several factors:

- Size of typical transactions
- Volume of transactions per billing cycle
- % of charge-backs per billing cycle
- Charge-back volume compared to revenue
- Anticipated volume & revenue gains with the additional card buying channel
- Comfort level with dependency on 3rd-party accounting
- Comfort level with 3rd party data mining
- Comfort level with necessary technologies
- Additional management overhead due to accounting and card accouterments

Offhand, there are a variety of scenarios, esp. for boutique businesses in urban environments with ready access to ATMs, where a cash-only policy makes good business sense.
I also said "It's, actually, a small OS built to emulate the OS Lisp machines ran"

The way you interact with Emacs is through a text editor.
As much as I like this idea, there's an equally strong incentive, for those who can afford to do so, to engage in "tax optimization".
Yes it has: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCXxtOzAo and http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/samsung-galaxy-s3-face-unlock-flaw-...
Hmm... You're probably right, but this article proves that a four-digit PIN (assuming 10 incorrect attempts would lock the phone) would actually be more secure than a fingerprint.

A fingerprint can be cloned and verified (visually) without giving the device a chance to do "defend itself", whereas even the best-case PIN attack* wouldn't necessarily exhaust possibilities before 10 tries.

I personally like the swipe gesture, as it is even somewhat resistant to a shoulder-surfing attack (assuming you're turned off horrendous default of drawing the pattern as you drag over it) and is much faster than typing a PIN.

* Excluding shoulder-surfing attacks. You know the digits (smudges have built up over them), but not the order.
Readers might also enjoy the audio recording and transcript of a famous debate between Bertrand Russell and Fr. Frederick Copleston:

The Famous 1948 BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God

http://www.biblicalcatholic.com/apologetics/p20.htm
I'm not sure it's quite that simple. A smaller company doing this may go out of business, but Amazon may decide to stop for any number of simpler reasons, including but not limited to:

- Deciding that this isn't a lucrative service

- Deciding that it's had the desired effect on competition and served it's purpose

- Releasing another service that they decide competes with this but is better
Nice introduction to backpropagation. The author understandably handles only a special case and avoids the case when an input comes in on many completely different paths to the output. When this article will be extended, it would be interesting to read about the case when it is not that way. (e.g. convnets with parameter sharing).
If you don't have little kids, remote is so nice.
Agreed, the evidence points to a diminishing returns effect on increasing volume leading to an asymptote. More is better (absent injury)... but the benefit of each additional set starts to really flatline somewhere beyond 20 sets.

I believe another publication is coming soon from Schoenfeld on this matter.

My point is just that to perform even 10 sets per muscle group, unless you want to live in the gym, 5 min rest periods are not really an option. Almost no one has the time to be optimal, so just cramming as much volume in as you can handle is the ideal for most.

I also follow Schoenfeld. He does excellent work.
The "witches" in Salem weren't actually witches. Racist and violent assholes on social media trying to drape themselves in the false flag of liberty are still racist, violent assholes.
Yahoo Japan is a separate company. They are definitely still relevant though.
People keep hoping for a technological solution to housing and transportation but the real answer is a big cultural and political shift toward apartments and walkable cities. On second thought that may be a heavier lift than self-driving cars.
So instead of contributing to the Monero project to improve the space for everyone, you decide to fragment the privacy coin space instead with a sketchy premined coin.
Thank you for your ideas! I think you're overestimating a bit what it is able to do. Or am I missing something? How can these ideas be accomplished using text-rewriting?
There were so many Signal threads yesterday that it was hard to sort out which were technically dupes vs not. When they all overlap into the same discussion, they're all morally dupes anyhow.

There's another active thread today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26725915
Disappointing graphic
I never quite understood the usecase of having tabs inside the terminal emulator. Isn't it nice to have i3 instead?
Anders, please, opensauce it!
Seems like vaporware calling itself 'open-source' while requiring e-mails for private beta access?
Muscle memory is real. I had a break of about 2 months because of having a baby. It took two weeks to get back to my old weights and that includes taking it easy after the DOMS :)

Sadly the extra kilos gained in that time will take longer to vanish.
For all you middle-aged keyboard jockeys ready to grab a bar and start lifting, make sure you take the time to learn about proper form and stick to it while lifting. Our bodies are generally shit by middle age, so you're probably already experiencing joint degeneration and bone spurs. You should still lift, but do it wisely.

I just had shoulder surgery on Friday. The problem was more than likely caused by other things, but weightlifting made the issue obvious and forced me to fix it.

Also, FWIW, don't neglect cardio. I know lifters will tell you that lifting gives your heart a workout, and it does, but from personal experience I felt a lot better as a whole when I was cardiovascularly in shape. Lifting, for me, helps with things like posture, back pain, self image and weight control. It does not, IME, increase average daytime energy level, help in the bedroom, or make climbing a few flights of stairs feel effortless. Look to cardio training for that.

Edit:

"For most, the plateau is a form of purgatory."

I can't agree less. Sure, there are lots of folks who go to the gym and pursue literally endless gains until some form of injury comes along and derails them. Personally I find having some realistic goals to be a much better approach. I hit a 400 pound deadlift and decided that's enough. Why the hell would I want to lift more? I'll never use it, and those gains will just require even more maintenance.
Autos, which were the first major industry to globalize, have shown undeniably significant and sustained improvements in quality, reliability and safety over time.

I don't really hard data for any other major sector, and would be interested in anyone that does.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2019/06/28/average...
Black text on white background may lead to myopia and white text on black background may be preventive.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28904-x
I saw that, great quote. I also love its corollary, "If you are digging yourself into a hole, first stop digging."
The only reasonable thing you said was that people generally aren't acutely aware of their energy usage. That has more to do with our society's attitude towards how we build things and how we get around than anything else. To condemn people to have to devote all their waking hours to monitoring their meters is an absurd solution to that problem.

Lack of regulation and poor politics have killed people, once again. Griddy was a stupid solution to the wrong problem.