jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Cost is a really solid argument against MSSQL. Even at Azure, MSSQL costs ~6x as much as the open-source databases. For even relatively small workloads, it's not hard for the MSSQL license to cost as much as an FTE.

Aside from the raw cost, the licensing model and cost considerations can drive design decisions. In my experience, most shops that use MSSQL do so because nobody on staff has experience with other databases.
>It almost goes without saying, but in some cases, there's a fine line between sarcasm and strawmen.

Are you claiming that I set up and knocked down a strawman? Please do elucidate. This should be interesting.

Sure. I don't actually know a plumber who wants to perform coronary bypass surgery on me. In fact, I don't require such surgery, at least not at the moment.

My comment was more "reductio ad absurdum"[0] to make the point rather than a strawman.

And that point being that "expertise is not an illusion" in many cases.

While it's true that there are folks who claim to know some things better than other folks, there are many areas (like medicine and a variety of other fields) where credentialed expertise is not only valid, but essential.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
And lots of people still said 538 got it wrong. No, it didn't.

Or about how Omicron defies statistics. No, it doesn't.

People just don't fucking understand statistics.
Thanks ! I understand what you mean, this is perfectly relevant especially for small communities. I am not sure it could scale to larger communities though.
Did you not get this memo? https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-fe...
I doubt anyone really does care.

The only thing I'm really interested in is why sama decided the other bettor had to be a VC. That's a pretty silly requirement.

Anyway this isn't a ballsy bet at all, really. Guys on 2p2 (poker forums) routinely make huge proposition bets that are more fun, interesting, and risky than this--occasionally for charity, as well (though not that often).

Losing this bet will likely do no more to either bettor than losing a $5 bar wager would do to me. Pony up the cash, shake victor's hand, move on with my day and forget about it.
>...that we even have to explain to very smart people...

When something doesn't make sense, check your premises.
Exactly. I admire Sam's balls but the externalities here are immense. The greatest financial mind of our time built Berkshire Hathaway to $350B over 50 years. GE is worth $250B. Microsoft $340B.

To believe Sam's motley list of companies can either hold onto valuations approaching those "real" companies for five more years, let alone actually generate viable earnings and go public (even at goofy P/E multiples) in line with what GE, Microsoft, or Buffett's candy, ketchup and mac'n'cheese subsidiaries alone make seems ... optimistic at best.

If he loses, might I suggest the book title? "Oops! Brands Aren't Businesses!" by Samuel H. Altman.
Considering that this is an MVP, I am quite happy with the way the site managed the HN crowd.

And yes, it doesn't have actual validation for Facebook/Twitter. This was done mainly for ease of use and preventing user confusion seeing as it is aimed at non-tech end users. If actual paying customers require this, then I'll implement it.

As for the errors, it would be helpful if you could copy paste whatever is listed on the console.

While I have been hearing that the pricing is a bit on the higher side, I don't think I will ever be lowering it to levels you have suggested. I guess the companies who believe it's not worth paying the extra few dollars to have a dedicated service can always implement things in-house.

Finally, this is an MVP, and of-course it is not going to scale. I don't even know if there is demand to actually develop this into a real product.

As such no project is 100% bug free on the day it is launched. Projects with such requirements are still stuck in a room full of programmers despairing at the latest bug found.

Going so far as to call it a get rich quick scheme just because it does not meet your idealized notions of what a service is worth, or how it should be implemented is unwarranted.

The entire tone of your comment appears to be more into trashing me/the project. As such, it would have been more helpful if you had simply stuck to the constructive criticism.
That's exactly right. There are a handful of cases where it's a great fit and should be taken advantage of.
The general idea is that we're starting with "programmers and.." taking teeny tiny baby steps to obvious overlaps:

- programmer and sysadmin (Server Fault) / computer enthusiasts (Super User)

Now let's broaden it a bit with SE 2.0, and take more baby steps:

- programmer and (musician / car nut / gun enthusiast / videogamer)

That's the core audience for the new sites; it's driven by the anchor site which is an order of magnitude larger than the other sites in the trilogy (and two orders of magnitude larger than any Stack Exchange 1.0 website). But, if we keep taking a series of progressive baby steps...

- musician and (gardener / pilot / GIS expert / contractor)

Eventually, we'll take enough of these baby steps that entirely new non-programmery audiences will form. It's like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but with forum topics!
I fail to see how you were wronged here.
Fortunately most of the people who operate mail relays for ISPs are honest and responsible.
Is there a technical term to describe typos that form legitimate words and therefore don't get flagged by a spelling checker?
Just fyi, every person you listed above founded the financial company that made them rich. So they are founders and did do a startup - just not a technology startup.
Until you use the free cpu to do image analysis for some cheap hacks like aiming. This might be interesting (I doubt people will do it though).
95% of this is because you (apparently?) have javascript disabled, which triggers a slew of anti-spam mechanisms (particularly on the user profile edit). It's also why you weren't getting tag auto-dropdown suggestions.

I just tested with JS disabled and I got the expected "Area 51 works best with JavaScript enabled" <div> in bright red at the top of the page..
I thought the comment was already too long, and was trying to give an outline and not dive into too many details. I've already omitted some of the methods to assist with the factoring of small quadratic residues, for example, and this was another part where I thought I'd give the naive idea rather than too many explicit details.

But you're absolutely right, and thank you for providing some of said details. It's nice to know that things I write are going to be checked by people who actually know more than I do.
That is somewhat missing the point of MongoDB. We start with easy to use document storage, querying, indexing, and dynamic schema. We end with horizontal scalability.
I'm tired of people with poor reading comprehension and poor adherence to the intent of the writing.

You equate this: "Having a photo or drawing does not hurt anyone" to "child pornography does not hurt anyone".

Do you really think those two sentences mean the same thing? Really? This is the reason the following saying is a thing.

>Give me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough in them to hang him.

Stop being so aggressively bad in finding faults. I mean, just being realistic, Stallman has most likely been stopped and searched multiple times crossing borders. You'd think if he was a pedo he would've been caught by now. Instead he's speaking his mind about censorship and freedom yet people that will never have an iota of the drive this guy had at least once in his life are trying to tear him down.

Do you take some sort of pride in attacking him or something? Regardless of his flaws, what have you done?
Yeah but that’s exactly what you’d say if you worked for (insert conspiracist bogeyman here)
For most applications this is correct. Especially those that a homogeneous like a CRUD productivity app, etc.

But when you are building systems it becomes slightly more complicated. Especially those that require that the data science team write their code in Python / PyTorch and the application team write their code in Typescript.
That sounds like an unrealistic claim. Do you think that once RMS is dead it's only a matter of time until the end of free software?
I think the only solution for corruption is transparency. And that might mean making all financial information public. Similar to how dashcams are necessary in places with insurance fraud.
Chrome can sync your bookmarks and extensions between browsers in different OS. So Google already has the technology albeit at smaller amounts of data.
Can also be done, in runtime including, more cleanly and without parenthesis with coffeescript: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1786002
My wife went to high school with a big, nice guy who got in a fight in his senior year. He connected to the other guy's jaw. The other guy fell, hit his head, and later died. A manslaughter charge was the least of his problems; the guilt was worse.

Turn the other cheek. Avoid sustained eye contact with drunk men in bars. Drive courteously.
Sibilant (http://sibilantjs.info/) and lisp.js (http://lisp-js.posterous.com/lispjs-a-lisp-for-nodejs-0) are two related projects.
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/android
Yes, but the documentation is wrong in its assumption. There are many reasons time may skew >128ms beyond "network congestion."

I've dealt with datacenters getting a bad ntp config push, for example, or a bad firewall ruleset which blocks NTP. Fixing the config may inadvertantly step time.

There's a whole host of systems issues, sometimes involving VMs and sometimes bare metal which can cause this type of problem. The most simple of which is ntpd not running properly for a while, but this can also happen when systems get overloaded - extreme swapping and the like.

ntpd's behavior of non-monotonic time adjustments was brought to my attention after a developer uncovered database corruption, caused by a database which (correctly) assumed that time should be monotonically adjusted while the database server was running. I believe it mis-ordered a transaction log or something along those lines.

There are other, better ntpd implementations like chrony which can be configured to never step time. If time needs to be stepped, applications should be stopped and the machine should be removed from service first.
do they recognize Taiwan?

I doubt that...
yeah ok, there are ICE that are extreme levels of sophistication too. Even some mainstream class cars have fancy engines. But it's not as extreme as the average hdd any user had in his computer without realizing the level of physical depth involved.
This is a really interesting experiment. It kind of seems more like an Employee Resource Group than a union, except that the members have to pay dues. ERG's are usually run by volunteers, and often get a nominal budget from the company itself to pay various costs (much less than 1% of each member's salary). Why couldn't this use that structure instead? And why do the dues need to be so high?

Is the idea to have more teeth, i.e. everyone in the union will strike or leave unless Google stops working with the military, or blocks rightwing Youtube videos, or whatever the current cause may be? Although again, I'm not sure that really requires a union, doesn't that already happen with the big walkouts and collective letters to management that go around?

It's also interesting how big of a difference the framing makes here... "Google allows employees to unionize" paints it in a positive light, as opposed to "Google refuses to support a social causes ERG for employees".

Overall I can't say I really get it, and wouldn't expect it to catch on so widely namely because I don't think most people want to pay 1% of their salary and not personally get anything tangible in return. But I'm interested to see how it evolves.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1906536/

Having said that: there is the issue of cellular immunity. This is created in mucous membranes like nose, throat, lungs. Nasal passages.

These T- cells do kill the virus; thus, they prevent infection and blocks transmission as well. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978032339...

[..] The mucosal surfaces represent the major site of entry of many pathogens, and major challenges in vaccine development include safety and stability in a suitable dosage form. Micro- and nanocarrier-based delivery systems as nasal vaccines induce humoral, cellular, and mucosal immunity. The nasal route of vaccination could also offer immunity at several distant mucosal sites (oral, rectal, vaginal, and pulmonary), which is considered a simplified and cost-effective mode of vaccination with enhanced patient compliance. Most of the nasal vaccine delivery systems in the form of microparticulates, nanoparticulates, and liposomes are currently under development and prove to offer immunity in animal models. [..]

Vaccines injected into the arm bypass this mechanism. Nasal vaccine given by a liquid injected into the nose — duplicating the route that the virus itself takes. The problem is cellular immunity is harder and more expensive to measure. This could be the reason companies do not consider this method.
I hope someone asks all those questions from the other HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686179.
> think some companies, like Facebook specifically

Meta comment, Facebook seems to be the main go to comic villain. Things that were described in the comment like driving engagement is also done by platforms like Twitter. But twitter seems to be in peoples good graces for some reason.
PhD or MS? The admissions processes are quite a bit different. MS admissions are mainly run by the admissions office; PhD admissions at many schools are run by professors.

For PhD, the single biggest way to get a leg-up is to be familiar with one or two faculty members' specific areas of research, have an idea of what projects their labs are working on, and briefly explain some ideas for projects you might work on (that fit into that research agenda). Bonus points if you've met or corresponded with a prof before (but don't send generic saying-hello emails, since most get way too much email to begin with).
Great read if you are in the business of making money. Since we launched SyncPad, pricing (for enterprises) has been the most difficult thing to decide.

One thing not mentioned is that, even before pricing, is important to define what are you charging for. While in some cases it's easy (Photoshop charge per seat), in other it isn't because there are several variables in the application usage. In our case there are several thing we can charge for: users, concurrent users, concurrent rooms, and length of the meeting. Focusing your pricing on one thing instead of the other could radically change the amount of revenues as well as the perception users have about the price.
What a way to kill bit.ly and others....
More details:

http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=8935

http://nsmjunkie.blogspot.com/2010/06/anatomy-of-latest-mass...

According to the articles, more than 100k sites hacked.
I very much agree. And for some reason doctors always deliver it like: "I have great news! We got your lab results back, and we can't find anything wrong with you! Wait, why aren't you smiling?" When you've been sick for a long time, and with no diagnosis, you'd actually be happy to hear that you have some horrible disease, if it means you can at least do something about it.
This has to be one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Unions breed laziness and rob its members of motivation to work because the union will always protect them to the most dizzying degree.

Simply look at this flowchart to see the steps required to fire a New York City teacher. It is outrageous.
http://commongood.org/assets/attachments/firing_chart.pdf

Unions have so much leverage over a company that they negotiate themselves out of a job. There is a reason GM went bankrupt, there is a reason the public school system is failing. Why the hell would I want to join a programmer's union?
Probably the majority of the renditions in the Old Japanese papers were voyeuristic. It sells papers. Too bad supporting democracy throughh an informed public isn't as directly connected with profit.
Sunlight is also the fuel for weeds.
What wag decided on that acronym that exactly overlaps a far more prurient one?
Probably some 24 year old McKinsey got staffed to do the merger integration on no sleep for days on end...this is what happens.
> The one person who almost got into an area where they really didn't want people was shot dead.

Wait, what is the context on this? I saw the footage once before I knew she died. It honestly looked like law enforcement with guns coming up the stairs, and it looked like a crowd of people, not a woman acting alone. What area of the building was that that was extra-sensitive?

EDIT: I see now, other angles are easy to find. Trying to climb through a blockaded entry point as guns were already pointed at her...
They've done a bunch of updates to the importing in the last year so it might work better with your institution now. They support Oauth for the bank creds too for those that support it, which is great.
Does it export in all formats likes he’s claiming it doesn’t? Can you point to documentation? Usually, and not always, when someone makes a shadiness it’s directionally hinting at someone.
Apple deprecates support for old Macs in new macOS releases after 6 to 7 years. In some cases it's even sooner, like with the Macs that were left behind in the jump from 32-bit to 64-bit Intel processors.
I've been very happy with Mercury, possibly the most basic of offerings here compared to all the others but I haven't had any issues and they're constantly improving.
It's not hard when you're delivering fuel to one location 1000km in desolate wilderness with no road access. Your only option is basically ship borne helicopter, and then you have to make this trip semi-regularly.

Plus. nuclear material are only expensive because there are not enough usage - hence the economy of scale is small. They're arguably cheaper in the Soviet Union (even if they followed market terms).
> Everybody in college pretends to be not working hard as they like to admit

My experience was the exact opposite. People liked to compete to see who had the most coursework to do. People would complain about having to pull all nighters, but still spend hours on youtube or facebook beforehand. Some people were genuinely overwhelmed with work, but it was never downplayed as far as I could tell.
The NSA behaves very hostile against everyone not from the US. As an EU resident I think it is very important to have an idea on the lines the NSA is crossing to protect US citizens that might put me at risk.
I have looked over some of the common core material given to both early grade school and middle schoolers and its very clearly attempting to teach abstract reasoning. There is alot of word problems that ask how to decouple a concept from the concrete values calculated in a previous step. Most people from older generations are not going to see the value in this... parents (and teachers) need to know there is much more to math than arithmetic
Down votes for opinion is not right in my own personal opinion but for incorrect or aggressive post. (I was a sound engineer and owned my own studio 15 years ago)

For me surround sound is only amazing when used in video games or virtual reality in Head Phones only and not speakers.

Same with 5.1 sound for music also falls flat on my ears. The 5.1 mixes are impossible to do well since the engineer is mixing to his 5.1 and your 5.1 will certainly be different especially with sound reflections. On a head phone with surround sound it works out much better. I find the 2.0 head phone mixes are usually much better.
https://www.att.com/shop/wireless.html
Yes, but unlike a gasoline powered car the typical "penalty" for forgetting to "refill" it is higher.
If you forget to plug the car in on the wrong day, you might be stuck for upwards of 30 min waiting for it to charge. That's compounded with the fact that there are comparatively few charging stations available outside of home.
Contrast this with a car where if I forget to fill it up the night before I lose 5-10 min and can find a gas station at least every few miles.
> The idea being that you have the project run a build then check that into a "build" branch in git & deploy from there.

This doesn't at all solve the OP's problem, you shouldn't be putting your build under source control in lieu of your source code.
It's 520 (baby tigers - dead tigers).
Except I wasn't. SpaceX has done well for cargo launches. The cargo work appears to be good enough with great economy and any losses can be modeled by the mature insurance industry.
I don’t think that either. But someone HN made a very spirited argument a few years ago that he could build and run Twitter in no more than 4 servers.
> Surely, not all reviews are useless?

What am I going to do with the review? If I need a new Apple charger then I need a new Apple charger. I’m not going to read a review and decide not to buy it am I? It’s useless noise.
Google doesn't kill all their products, but Google killing a.lot of their products is. There's a website dedicated aptly named GCemetary to track them.

It's conveniently indexed by year.

https://gcemetery.co/
It's the same simplistic interpretation of financial frugality, or just plain old sound money management. People like to present is as hair-shirts and gruel, and depriving yourself for no reason other than the accumulation of wealth for its own sake. But the whole point of good money management is so that you have the money to spend on the stuff you really care about, rather than wasting it on that which you don't.
Too many subscriptions services... back to sailing the seas of piracy
Piketty's Capital in the 21st century would be an example of something in between. His main hypothesis is that unless there is some intervention wealth accumulates until almost all of it is concentrated among just a few. He uses lots and lots of statistics to support his theory. He tells us that it happens but is unable to tell us exactly why.
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, you’re correct!
The narrative seems to be both that p0 doesn't do research into Google's stuff, and that p0 doesn't post bulletins about vulns in Google's stuff. Both are untrue, but if you point out one, people flip to the other.
What does the "RPF;ht" at the bottom stand for? (I vaguely recall this being an old convention of something?)
I was a little unclear. Knight 'n' Grail is a game done in the style of a 1985 arcade adventure platformer - like the BBC's Citadel. I used to love playing games like that. My point is that apart from Ultima Online - which I got bored of - I haven't liked any PC or console game, even platformers.

So is it that modern games suck, or that I'm too used to the game of the 80s? I don't know, but I know it'll be a while till I find another game as good as Knight 'n' Grail.