skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What evidence would you require for proof that it's working well? We have the evidence we need already: a working solution well within its hardware constraints and performing excellently. There aren't many operations that scale worse than linearly in the number of tables (primarily schema queries), and not many operations are affected at all. The biggest thing to remember is to turn off the background schema queries your database client might try and do.

(We are, however, using MySQL, not Postgres, primarily because of the lack of a decent replication solution at the time the app was built.)
Please don't go from one comment to "the HN community has degraded".
Forgive me if this is wrong, but are you really arguing for the over-the-counter sale of chemically addicting drugs, premised on the actions of junkies? Won't that just create more junkies?

Alcohol is chemically addictive, sold over the counter, and is currently the fourth leading cause of preventable death in the U.S.
As long as there's no possibility of a remote exploit, this actually seems pretty cool. You're telling me I can plug a computer into my jeep and automate things?

Maybe I want to have the car roll the windows down for a while if the interior temperature gets too high. Maybe I can get my own version of climate control by controlling the AC via the CAN bus. Or maybe I can use my dashcam and some CV software to automatically switch my high beams on and off for oncoming traffic. It's actually pretty exciting.
> I've written more about these subjects here:

To be read as: Please click these links so I can get some money so I can continue getting rich from writing blog posts and not have to work an actual job.
>I think the title's a bit clickbait

In this case, the article's content is far more interesting than the title suggests, contrary to the usual pattern.
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It just depends on the details. If you have a dataset in which 50% of values changes every day, and it doesn't compress well, then yeah, your Noms archive of that entire dataset is going to grow quickly.

In such situations, you could either (eventually, when it is implemented) prune old data, or aggregate the changes into bigger blocks.
> "OK, we can do that. But we have a policy of always making the lowest possible offer to candidates who won't share their compensation information. I just want the best for you."

This makes absolutely no sense to me. "Oh, we can't use previous compensation to effectively lowball this candidate we like, so we'll ineffectively lowball them instead."
"Phuctor Finds Seven Keys Produced With Null RNG, And Other Curiosities" is the actual title. Why did you change it to point out one specific key, asciilifeform?

This raises an interesting question. The submitter, asciilifeform, also appears to be the author of the submitted article. Does the rule that submitters should use the title from the article still apply when the submitter is the author?
It's really interesting how much the writing process differs among people. I could never see this working for me. 95% of my writing is getting to know my characters and accurately recording what they do, 5% is actually having a plan on what I want to happen to drive the plot. Getting to know a character is like getting to know a person, except instead of interacting with them and hearing their words IRL I'm "watching" them go through experiences in their life and "hearing" their thoughts instead of just their spoken words. Me writing the story feels more like me just channeling these imaginary people and recording what's happening to them, sometimes recording it in their own words. It's almost like running a tabletop campaign, where I'm setting up the environment and the major problem but then leaving it up to my players to drive the action and give me hooks to use.

This leads to a lot of pacing problems that I have to solve when editing, and a really inconsistent rate of progress on the initial draft (lots of days spent just trying to "hear" what happens next) so I've tried a lot of plans like this to make myself a better writer. But every time I've tried I've come up with nothing. I don't know the characters, so how can I possibly plan out what they're going to do? I can't fill out a spreadsheet about them either, because I don't know anything about them yet, how do I know what the right answers are to put down? The only exception I've found is when I write a bunch of short stories and/or scenes outside of the longer novel from their POV and get to know them that way, then I can fill in the character worksheets and figure out what they would do and write down the scenes in one sentence or less summaries a long time ahead of time. I get that writing scenes involving them is logically making stuff up just as much as picking personality traits to fill in the blank in a worksheet is, but it doesn't feel that way. It feels like I'm an observer.

Disclaimer: never had anything past a short story published by anyone other than myself, so I'm not exactly an authority. It's definitely not an efficient style, but it's how it works for me.
Please don't be uncivil here.

Re the above: I don't know how you define "real thing" but tinnitus is certainly real enough. I've had it for ages.
I seem to only notice this when I read recent books. I suspect only reading old books gives you a filter that gets rid of that kind of thing.

The worst habit is when writers just start listing examples of stuff, beyond what is required to make their overall point, as if by adding lots of unnecessary evidence will make their point stronger.
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> How many people you know downloads the apk on their android phone to get the app running?

Most of the PC gamers I know (maybe all) did this on the day Pokemon GO was available in NZ/Aus but not NA. Probably few of them had done it before.

I understand what you're saying, but PC gamers are a different crowd than the average Windows user. We'll do what we have to in order to get control of our own PCs back.

I guess on the one hand the lock down is a rational fear, because it's something MS would attempt. But I'm not actually scared that it would be achievable.
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"has never been less inviting" how so? I'd say the climate was unusually inviting from about 1965 to the early eighties. Then the AIDS panic started. Eddie Murphy (I think) even had a routine about how eventually there would be a disease where you just stick your dick in and it explodes. We were legitimately terrified.

I'm assuming it's for different reasons...
This is just for the .NET wrappers. Other code might still have issues. Doesn't seem like recompiling is needed; as you mention there's a config switch.

(You wouldn't have to recompile anyways; the targeting is just some metadata, so you could just change the already-compiled code unless they do their own binary verification.)
The latter at least would lead to App Store rejection.
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Please reconsider your approach in responding on HN. Both your sarcastic response and your incorrect assumption do not fit the culture here.
Here's a question I've wondered for a long time -- replies appreciated!:

Is there any legal risk in lying about your current/past salary? I'm not talking ethically. That's a different discussion.
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My apologies. It's a long term observation, I've been a lurker for the better part of 6-7 years or so.
Is the identifier unique? Does it have to be? Without switching to a different browser on a different IP addr and finding the same video again through a different search, would you even know?
The absolute first thing to do is to get lots of words down and see what happens. Then you'll know what kind of author you are, and where you need to plan and where you can make it up as you go along, what sort of things you like writing about, where your strengths and weaknesses lie, etc. It'll also give you a corpus to look at and learn from.

(The first rule of writing is: hold your fingers slightly above the keyboard and wiggle your fingers. Everything else is secondary. Unless words are coming out of your hands, you're not writing.)

I can strongly recommend signing up for Nanowrimo: http://nanowrimo.org/ Spend the month of November writing a 50,000 word novel. It doesn't need to be good, it just needs to be 50,000 words (more is acceptable). It gives you a structure to write within, with motivating deadlines and a support group (I usually end up in a coffee shop with other Nanowrimoers from my area), and most of all, a defined win condition: once the month is over you get to stop. The goal is quantity over quality, but if you have any talent whatsoever, you'll end up at the end of it with at least some prose you'll look at later and think, wow. This is good.

(And yes, you are allowed to write 'I am a fish' 12,500 times and call yourself a winner. But that's really boring. Wouldn't it be easier just to write prose at random and see what happens?)

I've done it several times; I started my first one with a vague idea and an image of a few set pieces and ended up with something semi-coherent at about 55,000 words with some nice characters and, well, it was good enough to put on my website. Subsequent attempts have been lots better. Some authors end up with saleable novels...
I'm talking with an ad blocker. I can only imagine how bad it is without one. Twitter is still sluggish as hell, especially how it's basically one big table of text+images.
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The thing about marijuana is it doesn't do serious organ damage over time like alcohol, opiates or cigarettes will. I'd always take medical marijuana for chronic pain vs prescription opiates.
As my dad would always say: "Can't, or won't?"
Is that really such a sorely missed feature? I tend to need just a quick glance at the offending line to isolate potential null references and in more severe cases just check the tool tips of expressions. Or are others writing code that's unusually dereference-heavy?
Well if I have a choice in book selection, I usually do a few quick skims trough some random parts to see which ones explain things best. So overly verbose books would get less preference here.
They are using Instagram as an easy publishing platform. It's assured the big ones find it very lucrative. The biggest issue with Instagram is all of the bullshit accounts with millions of users, that are just posting the work of other artists with a "credit" if they are lucky.
Apps can't say that. Doing so would get them kicked off the developer program - quite possibly permanently.
Not on the iPhone, and you know it.
Wow, I never bothered to look up why FaceTime worked so well for me at the beginning and suddenly became completely unusable for me later on.
Conversely, dealers that have customers who OD will go up in demand, because other addicts will seek them out for their "stronger" drugs.
Yes it was originally the same as the UNC path limit which was 260 chars.
Microsoft (a while ago) has updated WinAPI to support unicode and under extended-length paths has lifted the limit up to 32,767 chars it seems that now .NET matched this also.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).asp...
What is the risk? Honest question. Is there a legal risk in this?
CEOs and top executives are highly replaceable too (they sure change companies a lot), and yet they command massive salaries. What happened to the laws of supply and demand there? Why do CEOs have to die or retire before the board decides to replace them with someone more competent? How was Steve Ballmer able to stay in charge at Microsoft for so long?? I remember the day Ballmer announced his resignation, MSFT stock went up by like 10%! So the market definitely wanted him out!

The main difference is that executives have leverage (and they have friends in high places) while average employees have almost no leverage.

It's the government's job to make sure that employees have some sort of leverage over their employers.
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I don't really need any evidence, other than knowing someone is managing 30,000 tables, or worse, 200,000. I'm glad it's working for you, it just sounds like a complete nightmare to manage.
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Legalization would avoid the shitty stuff part of junkies, for the most part. Or at least mitigate it to a huge extent, since costs would go down. Oxycodone, for instance, goes for about 30-100x on the street than at a grocery store.

If gas was 50x more expensive, we'd probably see some desperate behaviour for a while.
The biggest requirement is to have line of sight to the headend or some other already connected building.
I think startups, as they have been fashioned by the current venture capital pipeline, aren't a good place to do research. We need to redefine how people/community/customers participate in supporting the research/prototyping phase of building.

Creating a community of makers building together in an open and discoverable fashion is the first step. It first allows you to combine marketing with building, and attract community earlier, thus finding more knowledge-share, and hopefully building better products quicker.

Next, by sharing what you're building, we're able to tap into that community making along side and following your journey by using crowdfunding. Specifically continuous crowdfunding during the prototyping and research phase.

Now that you're building a company/product with your community , you can find support all along the way. Your audience is happy in sharing and support in the successes and challenges you will face.

Next when you're ready to launch a real product (after the prototyping/research phase) you should be able to sell pre-orders and crowdfund bringing these products to a mass market.

Beyond this you should be able to continue selling those items, then repeat this entire process with the community momentum, trust, and social proof you've now built up.

We're working to build that future for startups/companies/products at Baqqer. https://baqqer.com/
It was so open that your software which could write all over the memory space of other programs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_memory_management

Then OSX introduced virtual memory. Programs became a little bit safer.

Then in later versions, Application Sandboxing, code signing, etc.

Every step of the way programs can do less but are safer for the OS.
People have been saying that HN is getting worse for at least that long. It's a special case of things-are-always-getting-worse.
In Smalltalk-72 and -74 the assignment (left arrow character) was a message just like any other. This became a special case in Smalltalk-76 and later and became just a message again in Self, where you wrote

i: (j + 1)

meaning

self i: ( self j + 1 )

For tinySelf 1 I did implement each message using future objects. This is, as you say, slooooow to do for every piece of computation but there are implementation tricks that can optimize away all the cases where it is not really needed.

http://www.merlintec.com/lsi/tiny.html
You could run a business and pay everyone above market rate. If you are good could help 10 or even 100 people.
I had to stop using crashplan because there is no way to roll back revisions within a file. If a file gets corrupted it'll just back up the corrupted version on top of what was previously a good backup.
You too? I just logged in for the first time since 2013. It turns out that in 2014 I was really into children's gaming sites. Who knew?
This sounds like the perfect honeypot for cleaning up the app store.
Once you're experienced and writing better code, this isn't a crucial feature. It does help when you've got coworkers who write classes with 20,000 lines however (not an exaggeration, I've actually seen this).
Hopefully this is a pre-cursor to seeing HoloLens build support from UE4.
Early in the history of computing two camps formed: the 'AI' camp that proclaimed that computers would soon be able to figure everything out on their own and 'mind amplification' camp that held that computers would become an extension to the human mind. The whole personal computing movement and thus early Apple grew out of the second camp. Alan Kay is a great representative of the second camp.

Of course, Apple soon figured out that what sells is not mind amplification tools but 'appliances' and under second Steve they became really good at producing those.
If I have learnt one thing, it's that creation of wealth, no, rephrase that, the creation of a business that can extract profit from the creation of wealth, is the 80% of the total effort.

I happily produce code that does a job. But doubling my skills with nested loops, debuggers etc will not produce double profits. This is because in most cases competent coding produces good enough code.

Increasing my skills with architectural design, improving my processes mgmt (releases, testing) will likely increase profits because those are often left unfixed in many companies.

Then improving my ability to understand what the ultimate paying user needs will have much much more impact because I will build the right thing

And finally improving my ability to co-ordinate with others (a market?) will magnify my efforts again.

I suspect that the creation of a business that allows and encourages all the above (call it marketing ?) is the key to extracting wealth.

Not sure where that goes but it meant something as I types
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I'd imagine that with the rise of the 'fluent' API style of foo.bar().baz().doThis().doThat(toThis).doAnother(toThat); the number of potential null-references per line has gone up from the days when we were all writing code with mutator methods that returned void.
Some people place an intrinsic value on honesty, and dislike being forced into situations where the advantage is given to brazen liars. I upvoted you since I think this is a topic worth discussing, and probably many others share your view, but I personally find your lack of compunction reprehensible.
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Thanks, we will take that as a compliment.

I feel weird speaking for them, but at a product level, I think it's fair to characterize Datomic as an application database -- competing with things like mongo, mysql, rethink, etc.

While Noms might be a good fit for certain kinds of application databases (cases where history, or sync, is really important) we're really more focused more on archival, version control, and moving data between systems than being an online transactional database.

Also, at a technical level, unless I'm wildly mistaken, I don't believe that Datomic is content-addressed, and I wouldn't call it "decentralized" (though that word is a bit squishy).
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Google already is a nationwide fiber network, and has been for a decade. The question is how much of that network they want to use to carry customer traffic on. Reality is: it costs them next to nothing to add the additional traffic, so as long as last-mile is profitable I'm willing to bet they'll be happy to do it all day long.

The limited deployments at the moment are BECAUSE they want it self-sustaining/profitable to continue to justify roll-outs.
Why are hookup apps making sex less stimulating? Because they cause people to have more sex. I can't see any other reason.

So what you're saying is, young people are having less sex, because they're having more sex?

(take this as tongue-in-cheek, I don't think you're really making that argument)
I read it as "Solid State Hybrid" -Disk.

Which when regarded under the conventional drives at the time it was announced being primarily HDD's it makes it more clear.

You have an HDD that is a hybrid with solid state components. Logically clean cut, imo.
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If you're going to reply to single comments saying "it's unfortunate how much the HN community has degraded", then I would urge you to reconsider your approach in responding on HN.

Your input is neither necessary nor desired.
Imagine your app uses 500 tables, and you use a separate schema per tenant on a single database. With 400 tenants, you now have 200,000 tables.
You can, and people do that today. It has limitations though:

* The data must be sorted in order for Git to provide good diffs
* It does not scale very well. On my machine, Git refuses to diff files over 1GB (maybe there is a setting for that)
* You must clone the entire repository onto your machine to work with it
* There is no programmatic API -- you must work with the data and changes as text and line diffs

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zeg9CY3BMes for a little bit more on this topic.
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And the former would probably lead to your bundle ID being banned from the app store if they catch you doing something shady like that.

Every time you submit an update to the app store for review you have to check a box that says that you acknowledge that you are using the advertising identifier in some capacity in your app, and another that says that you are faithfully abiding by the user's "limit tracking" iOS setting. If they catch you lying about these things they say they will remove and ban your app (no future updates either) from the store.
There is a note on "SMP Performance", is anyone here knows about whether and how the BSD's support the 72-core/64-core Intel Knights Landing chip? I couldn't find any relevant information via google.
U.S. broadband speed and cost lag other industrialized nations too. The only general lesson here is that the U.S. is big and infrastructure is expensive.
well, I recommend you ask https://twitter.com/nntaleb about it directly then. he is not a hermit withdrawn from the world, but he doesn't work in academia, or for a private corporation, or for a government agency. he does research (in mathematics mostly, as well as finance, risk modeling, and interestingly enough ancient Levantine languages) and participates in those communities even though he is not employed by an institution.