skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The grandparent's analogy is perfectly apt. There are two reasons to get liability insurance for your car: To protect yourself and to protect society.

Suppose liability insurance was entirely voluntary and not required by law. Would you get it? I'll bet you that most people with good income or significant assets would still buy it, just like people buy home or fire insurance even when not mandatory.
The sad state of Switch and its liquid-cooled LED bulb (2014)
because they're having their aws reinvent[1] conference where they announce all kinds of new development.

[1]: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
muson: a human-readable, ultra-fast, ultra-compact JSON encoding scheme
The first Lisp from the early 60s did already dump images.
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I will be the first one to admit it.
Even if these people are scholarly and educated in their rhetoric, they should be systematically suppressed.

It is no longer a war of fact and reason, we have entered a war of survival. If our sisters and allies in silicon valley do not step up and throw these people off their platforms we will be stuck with Donald trump figures forever.

Free speech can only be allowed if the people know what is good for them. The silent majority has awoken from its seventy year old slumber and progressives must be ready to beat them back to their racist, sexist and homophobic trailer parks where they can enjoy the company of their own kind.
I think that makes sense to me. I thought it had something to do with the amount of flashbacks or concurrent story lines or something.
If you manage so many hosts you had better use Ansible, or Satellite or whatever so that updating 1 or 50 or 500 hosts is the same effort.
Where do you get invite only from?

I don't have an account, but from looking at the home page, it looks like you just give them your email address and you're added to the 'waiting list'.

[nobody@example.com]
> Done! You're #1324763 in the waiting list.
posted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13069969
> install a toolchain, use said (shitty) toolchain ...

Did I miss some details? Don't you still need those shitty toolchains to do design/simulation before you'd deploy it?
Er, pardon my confusion, but I have no idea what that has to do with my comment.
I agree that you can't blame the software but disagree with who should be liable. The entity using the software needs to be liable (in this case either the State or the courts). They are responsible for implementing and using the the software thus ought to be liable for any mistakes it makes, whether user error or software bug. If they then want to take that up with the creator of the software, that's between them.
I will be the first one to admit it.
Even if these people are scholarly and educated in their rhetoric, they should be systematically suppressed.

It is no longer a war of fact, we have entered a war of survival. If our sisters and allies in silicon valley do not step up and throw these people off their platforms we will be stuck with Donald trump figures forever.

Free speech can only be allowed if the people know what is good for them. The silent majority has awoken from its seventy year old slumber and progressives must be ready to beat them back to their racist, sexist and homophobic trailer parks where they can enjoy the company of their own kind.
AWS re:Invent is currently happening, they're announcing all of these products right now (and they are summarily posted to HN)
The performance of DO is far superior compared to Lightsail. Disk speed is a joke, network seems to be limited to 50MB/s (which is not that bad) and who knows how much they throttle the CPU.
Comfortable to have lots of warning lights?
Ouya, oculus and others instantly come to mind.
Now that we do have the hindsight of experience, and it is time to make that decision again, why are the maintainers going with the clearly smellier approach?
$5M https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual...
"Amazon Athena uses Apache Hive DDL to define tables."
It's called guile emacs.

https://lwn.net/Articles/615220/

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs
I've got some low-end no-name from about 2008. It's got 3 layers of paper taped over the blue power light to make it reasonable. There's also the Antec Sonata case from about 2004...it's got 2 super-bright blue LEDs with reflectors. Here's a wonderful idea: design a case to look understatedly elegant, then give it two bright blue headlights. I disconnected them after the first night.
The added latency of a PCIe switch and some cables is 1 us or less; it should be negligible for almost any workload.
Years and years ago I went out searching for UMD devices vulnerable to CSRF.

They universally were, but the only vendor that responded to my email was CheckPoint, who admitted it and said they were working on a fix. (They had the fix released soon, too.) Everyone else was 100% silent treatment.
Note the 10MB minimum "charge" per Query. For small datasets under 10MB, you'd only get up to 200 Queries for the minimum billable $0.01. That would be a fairly small number of queries, so probably not that useful. Plus you'd have all kinds of issues regarding consistency if your data was dynamic (s3 is a blob store, not a database, normal s3 consistency guarantees still apply).

I'm confused though. The monthly fees for dynamodb only apply after you exceed the free tier, and for someone who is unable to commit to a monthly fee because they envision low usage, shouldn't the free tier be sufficient? (Honest question, I'm looking at using dynamodb, but comments like this make me think I'm missing something)
TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy. (u/spez)
If they wanted to be sarcastic, they really should've called it an 'unsafe space'.
Why aren't we sending quadcopters to Mars?
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History, it's been in continuous development for over three decades now. And, being open source, a port of the C portions to a new language would require developer effort that doesn't always appear on demand.

Also portability. GNU Emacs supports a fair number of platforms and, consequently, has a lot of things included in it for different platforms, different presentation layers (GUI, CLI). It's not a small task to support the variety of environments that it presently does with a novel implementation.

And then there's the bootstrap issue. Emacs lisp isn't compiled to a standard binary executable format, they use their own bytecode. So even if you did port more portions that are in C to elisp, you still need an environment to run that elisp in, and the problem that the dumper file solves is actually made worse, more elisp needs to be loaded and executed before you get into a functional editor.

There is work to port elisp to run on type of Guile, but it's not done yet. Lacking developer resources and other things. Like the issue of losing support for various environments, it also doesn't 100% support the existing base of elisp packages out there, which is a deal breaker for many people.
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There's nothing about Alexa's API that would prevent doing that, it already has the concept of a conversation and I think we'll see raid improvement in how people make use of that.
It's price differentiation. In some cases, low-end products ship with all the hardware but the features are disabled in software. Think of Tesla, which has shipped identical hardware at different prices, with the low-end model having less battery capacity due to software.

The way to break this is to make Open Source electronics replacement kits for all the popular models.
Emacs and Vim are great tools. Amazing pieces of software. But in some areas you really see the prospect of time and aging.
I used and learned both in some point in time, liked something from both, sticked to Vim, but I kinda felt the best text editor would
be hybrid of these two. (Now don't run and tell me to install EVIL in Emacs, I tried that, but modal editing is not the only thing that gives Vim edge over Emacs)

What got my attention recently is Xi (developed by Raph Levien). It is written in Rust, looks fairly interesting, can't wait for it to be in advanced state. I really wouldn't mind some nice, modern, terminal text editor. (I use NeoVim at the moment, and I think it is closest to that, but VimL :cringe:)
Athena (Presto) supports standard ANSI SQL - you can query data that's stored in S3.
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A recently arrested colonel of the Moscow anti-corruption police had $100M+ in cash in his apartment (i wonder - may be he just was working from home much?). Another $300M+ were in his bank accounts because I guess they just couldn't fit into the apartment - Russian city apartments are typically on the smaller side... I mean it is really hard to hide giving that $100M weight ~2000lb in $100 bills.
You are ill informed. Tor is as safe as it ever was. Just be smart even using it. Please visit /r/tor and learn about it yourself. Instead of spreading disconsent through your vague wording and accepting media outlets at face value
You can't really be conflating free speech as a freedom within the legal system with the ability to say anything without being subject to policy set by a nongovernmental organization like Twitter.

That's so basic a fallacy that I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're being obtuse and didn't really make that mistake.
Could it work as a not-for-profit organization something like Internet Archive or Wikipedia?
Because then I have to ask users to install ninja before they can build my program. In the projects I'm working on, I don't have any of the issues that ninja solves.
Do you have experience with prgmr? It's reliable enough for a small project?
And sometimes they'll have their super bright light on strobe. Bikers out there, if you want to make sure I can't tell your distance or heading, put your ultra bright light on strobe.
I think this could quickly change in the 6 month to 1 year horizon as Amazon (potentially) adds onto this product with other AWS services built into this product.

Imagine if you could easily spin up DB instances and create LBs within LightSail - they would offer more features than DigitalOcean (or any other "VPS Provider"), while being price and usability competitive.

I would definitely be nervous if I was DigitalOcean - there are still advantages (support, tutorials, etc), but this closed the gap significantly.
Exactly. Apple only has one set of hardware to support. Microsoft support the PC platform and you can usually do a fresh install on any machine and it will boot (driver support is a little different).

Android is garbage in this regard. Google binds everyones' feet with the OHA so they are required to use the Google Play Store and services (and they can also never manufacture Amazon devices) yet they don't standardize the system to ensure that AOSP can install anywhere. Part of this is the difficulty of ARM not really being an architecture, but even Microsoft was able to deal with this by requiring UEFI and some standardization on Windows devices (although they're more like Apple where there's limited hardware to support).

Google makes a ton of money from their licensing. It's in their advantage that people buy new phones all the time. If the hardware wasn't all over the place, we'd see more uptake for thinks like Plasma.

What are the alternatives right now for software devs that are willing to do their own roll-your-own work? Ubuntu Touch doesn't seem to have been updated for most of their ports in forever. Plasma supports two devices, neither of which have sdcard slots.
kafkaesq is biased. I am biased. It should be okay to be biased against white nationalist/supremacy viewpoints, especially those advocating violence against people because of their race.

It is censorship. It is also censorship to prevent me from claiming a jar of pickle juice is a cure for cancer in a television advertisement.

The account cancellations by Twitter were a direct response to incitement of harassment and promotion of hate speech. It's likely that some violent leftists are ignored by the Twitter ban hammer, but they aren't nearly as effective at stirring up harassment, death threats, swatting, threatening family members, etc. It may be unfair that only successful trolls are being picked on, but it's the way the world works.
Aren't there other software databases that are already more than 2x faster than Mongo and don't lose data?
One thing I wish more services like this offered is non-speech sounds. CereVoice, for example, lets you insert laughs, coughs, sighs, etc and it can really enhance the output in some cases. Google's WaveNet also manages to simulate the catching of one's breath during particularly long utterances, although I realize it uses a completely different technique (neural net vs. concatenative synthesis).

My biggest problem with CereVoice, though, has been its terrible web API. It doesn't support streaming output, so it renders the audio to an Amazon S3 bucket and then returns a URL, which is pretty inconvenient (and slow). You have to do the same for transcripts, too. So, if you want everything, you have to make 3 separate HTTP requests and parse 2 XML documents for one round of synthesis.

IBM Watson's TTS API gets it right, imo. Its streaming mode returns audio frames and transcripts over a WebSocket connection.
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Data doing stuff makes no sense in the world of programming. If classes and objects are data then isn't this patent akin trying to patent all of things we know about OOP? Can anyone find the patent filing?
I wonder, why even store those two pieces of information? I mean, they're not exactly essential.
I like it. Google (and FB) is very intrusive and must serve us better. I hope ad blocker is harming their perspectives enough for a change.
Researchers are aggregating data. There's all kinds of ways you as a layperson can mash up genomic data, and it's easier than ever. The data that's most accessible are well-defined genomic sequences, not cutting edge stuff. Much of what 23 and Me is doing is stems off of these publicly funded datasets.

In many cases scientists are required to submit data to journals when they publish. However, data is a funny term! Using genomics data, there are many levels of data that you'll encounter - everything from raw image files (many gene sequencers are actually automated digital cameras, taking pictures of florescent markers attached to the DNA strands) to intermediate sequence files to formatted pieces of selected data. Then, there's the whole toolchain used to go from sample to formatted final analysis? What's required to be submitted? How long should it be kept? Who checks all this to make sure it's not NES roms or Shakespeare instead of the right data?

Finally, there's the big questio: how can we be sure that the data captured in the intermediate or final steps of analysis actually originates from the raw data? Should scientists store the raw data (TBs and TB), intermediates (GBs and GBs), or final analysis (MBs). For how long?

To answer your question about meaningful long term research - I've personally seen grad students' careers effectively ruined due to shitty data storage hygiene.
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Education on the matter has come a long, long way.
Since the users who commented feel that the revenue numbers are a good thing as long as they're not misleading, we can bend the rules to allow them.
privilege is what makes them safe.
people who have no privilege need a space to carve out their identity.
White men have ruled the world for the last thousand years. They are born into a safe space.
Stop trying to co-opt the word
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I appreciate the clarification, but keep in mind that "keeping it vague" means you're adding nothing to the conversation.

Without specifics it's much harder to get a grasp of the issue and nearly impossible for someone who already isn't a part of that culture/workforce.

> these types of statements have cost people their jobs in the past

I'm able to appreciate that, but this is why we're on the internet, and anonymity should be theirs and your personal responsibility and no one elses.
Sorry. That was a typo. Do you think that your data shows a clear number of items were it makes sense to use multiple columns. It looks like to me that the multiple column layout is more effective, but I can't see a clear cut-off point.
In my experience this sort of ruthless antagonism only serves to entrench their behaviours.
Did it dump Lisp images, or the image of the entire process (including all the non-Lisp stuff)?

It appears that all the complexity and instability here comes from the latter part. Lisp itself was always designed around this image dumping concept. But C and its standard library were not.
Isn't Watson Health in exactly this space?
Most bike lights I've shopped don't have a cutoff. And you HAVE to aim them at the horizon because otherwise the hotspot will destroy your night vision and make it impossible to ride at more than a few mph.
> just churning out some crappy e-commerce website?

That can affect people's lives dramatically though. Off-by-1 error charges someone's debit card $2,000 instead of $200 and now they can't buy food. Ecomm is important.
Wow you get a +1 for effort in fearmongering rethoric.
If that much data is being collected it's time to start asking what we're looking for within it, and if the rate of collection, retention, and range if inputs is worth it.

Maybe it only makes sense to store sections which deviate in a significant way from a range of error (lossy compression).

Maybe some of those inputs just don't make sense for the questions being asked.

A concrete reasoning for why the data should be kept needs to be presented, and THAT is what should call for the funding to back that need.
This works really well for us. To load up our web server takes a while due to having to load up caches etc.. so we tend to do all that once, dump the image and deploy it - cache already primed.

It had an even bigger advantage for me today. Due to some git shenanigans I somehow managed to wipe out a few days of work. No idea how... Almost resigning myself to having to recode the whole lot I just remembered that I had built an image to test just prior to attempting to check in. Clozure CL saves the source code of each function in the image. I was able to probe the image and pull out all the source code that I had just lost, saving myself a few days of tedious recoding!

Not a recommended use of images - but it sure saved my butt today!
Dediserve offer this
If the robots ever get better at writing their own software than us then we'll have other problems to worry about besides work :)

I wouldn't sleep on that. It's coming.
Oh wow. They must have expanded over the years then.
Are cores really comparable between DO and Lightsail. Are we sure that 1 core isn't really something not quite a real core but something that is already over allocated based on the assumption of less than 1 core of actual usage? Thus we need to know what the actual over allocation number is to realy figure out if they are comparable.
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Please don't preemptively complain about downvotes. It poisons the well.

To your point, Trump was sued in 1973 for racial discrimination in his housing business[1]. Most recently, he has advocated for banning Muslim people from entering the country based on their religion. The list goes on. The guy is racist to his bones in a way that has been normal but unspoken in America since the 1970s. He did not create the racism, but now the racists who want to be active have his tacit support.

[1] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/...
https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/tree/master/selfdrive/v...

Vision Daemon is just a binary release!
>But capital is dynamic and ever-changing. Also, a huge amount of it, quite possibly a majority in how you measure it, is in human skills and knowledge.

Again, this doesn't reflect the historicity of the ownership of capital. Today's equivalent to land monopoly would be intellectual property where individuals and firms have effectively monopolized lawful use of labor to produce a wide variety of products. This is especially disastrous when it comes to patents since there's no reasonable justification for such monopolization since it is by definition rent seeking. Therefore, I ask why do you feel it's logical to continue down the path of further monopolizations which inevitably harm the economy as a whole and individuals in their pursuit of material betterment?

>And the personal-property/capital distinction is flawed. Is a car personal property? Does it matter if I use it to commute to work, or to deliver pizzas? There's essentially no comprehensible criteria to distinguish personal property from capital property.

No it's not flawed because capital is the means of production itself. Your car isn't a means for production that can be naturally monopolized. But if you demanded a toll for a stretch of road that happens to be out front of your house that would be capital and it would be rent seeking since the act of ambulation isn't improved by the mere act of crossing your part of the road. The act of demanding a toll for the road crossing is what capitalism does as a whole. It says "I will use force to extract rents on things which clearly are a necessary component to life without adding value in said transaction nor pay for the socialization of the costs/risks of my ventures."

>And I really don't see how "placing all ownership of capital in a common trust" is not gigantism.

It's not gigantism because it's not done at a national level. I support radical localism.
Except it's not that simple in the Android world. Someone explained it really well a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13057605

The basics are that every phone out there uses a forked Linux kernel patched to hell to get it working. Since none of the drives are upstreamed it's unmaintainable.

The linux kernel does not have a stable driver interface so shipping updates to phones is a LOT of work.
my cats went APESHIT the first time the birds went off.
> Free speech can only be allowed if the people know what is good for them.

You are just as terrifying as any racist, sexist, homophobic trailer trash.
After AWS hit 20 products or so, there was a feeling that cutesy names were becoming difficult to learn and that new products should have descriptive names (e.g. AWS IoT, AWS ML, AWS IAM) rather than codenames. I guess that idea has lost favor?
> If I were to form a new place of discourse due to being banned, it would most likely become an echo chamber of other people that have been banned not a major place of discourse.

What's wrong with that? If you hold bad opinions that most people dislike, you're not guaranteed an audience. If you have white nationalist opinions, the rest of us don't have to be held hostage to your views.
It's funny how they didn't even try offer a bit more at the lowest tiers... just copy/paste
I started reading this thinking it was joke, I was very surprised when i realised its a real service. amazing. What kind of applications use so much data and are at the same time for them its cost effective to move them to the cloud?
At least in the terrible romcoms my wife makes me watch, people just marry someone they love. They don't ask "what's my exit strategy when this marriage inevitably fails?".
> the most pure form of capitalism.

purer than pure, so to speak
I wish Azure offered managed Postgres hosting.
ours works great though it's fairly non-intuitive; whenever the time gets messed up my wife asks me to fix it and it always takes me a few tries to figure out what does what again.

Seems to keep time fine, nothing turns on randomly, etc. Not cheap though.