skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper is called: Spanner: Becoming a SQL System

ACM link: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3056103&CFID=915581248&CFT...

Discussion from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14337817
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Isn't a certain 3 character agency already doing that for us
I agree, what's up with all these Electron apps. Based on memory usage currently, Skype is using 245MB, Slack is using 312MB and Spotify at 233MB. While Telegram is only using 78MB. And I have more active chats on Telegram too.
From what I see, you're looking at the current set of constraints/opportunities and then just inserting a self driving car, the reality is that autonomy and the way people live is going to change things in many hard to predict ways. You're heuristic is probably applicable for the first ~5 years, but after then all bets are off.

A few things that I think you are assuming that will not change are:

1) High availability of free/cheap parking at all of your destinations including your home.

2) high availability of autonomous cars actually for sale to end users. Due to the odd liability of an autonomous car (is the owner responsible for a crash? how do you insure against that) I anticipate most/all L5 autonomy to be subscription based, not available for purchase.

3) Prohibitively expensive congestion/registration/etc charges for owner occupied cars in order to reduce the number of cars on the road

4) car ownership remaining legal (unlikely to change, I admit)

There is a lot that can happen. You will probably own a car for the rest of your life, your children probably will never own a car.
Disable it if you don't like it.
GitHub EE is not in consideration.
As with almost all optimization problems, applying twice the resources (in this case, work hours) won't bring you back twice the (net) bacon, due to diminishing returns.

However, I think on net it is still more economically productive, at least in a large portion of cases.

It's unlikely that housework and childcare would optimally take up a full 50% of our entire reservoir of workable-hours, especially in the age of household appliances and childcare centres.
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Red Delicious apples are also $1/lb at the grocery store, while other varieties are $1.67/lb to $3/lb.
With current VR content, these robots will be damn fine archers.
This has come up before [0], quite recently, though not this particular article.

Some of the points that stood out to me, in opposition of the article's "this way is better":

* Exceptions are usually free if not thrown... If they are thrown... You're in an error path. You don't usually care about speed.

There's a long list of problems here [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14316539

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14321083
#36 - believing that slavishly adhering to simplistic lists can help you write solid code.
Definitely not 10x better. But being open source and freely self-hostable give GitLab an edge over GitHub in two respects that are very important to some users.
I like the idea, the biggest benefit is of course the "all in one" deal - seems a waste to have to tether your phone to your laptop, or get a laptop with a SIM slot (and all the costs that go with it)

I'd like to see:
1. The source code
2. Support for newer devices (might go hand in hand with 1)
3. Support for wireless HDMI adapters, having to carry no cables at all would be very neat, although I guess this needs a power supply to last for any useful amount of time
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I suffered through the slowness from the start, and it paid off. This is the first beta I've used in a very long time, and the difference between this and the current release version (1.6.x?) is noticeable.
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Anyone who wants to test this assertion - that "fine healthcare" equal to what a wealthy retiree gets is available to all - should go to a nursing home that offers care for normal and purely medicare-supported patients.

You don't have to study the situation really closely to get what I'm driving at. The patients will generally stay in separate areas. Just walk around and use your sense of smell.
Yes. Knowing that risk, it is completely rational to oversave.
That is also objectively false.

Often, dogs will try to be part of the family and try to assert dominance over family members, especially younger, more timid children. They're aspiring to be a higher place in the pack than they should be, and they need to be trained in the fact that they're objectively and necessarily not equal to any human being.

When a dog ever thinks it is the equal of humans, bad things happen, such as bites and euthanasia of the dog, and maulings. That's why you need to train it early as a puppy, that it should never bite/be aggressive to humans, as it'd be harmful to the dog.

The same reasoning can be applied to humans, but cannot be applied to wrenches. Equating wrenches to dogs is another logical dead end - either dogs have feelings and emotions and hopes, otherwise the beating your dog is equivalent to leaving a wrench out in the rain without oil, as both are just tools to you.
Pro: The government recognizes the value of a well-built encryption app and is using it.

Con: The government does this while still insisting that encryption should have a backdoor in it, thus creating the impression that Government officials deserve bulletproof encryption, but private citizens don't.

It would be interesting to see what happens to Signal if encryption legislation is ever enacted, and/or if it would continue to be used.
>The LTS release date remains in October, unaffected by this delay.
Can somebody change the title? It sounds so much like clickbait garbage that pollutes other parts of the Internet.
Part of the problem is that computing the downtime at a higher resolution, in a way that scales from low-traffic users (the quoted minimum of 60 requests per minute is also not a coincidence) to very large ones, is not trivial.

You have to consider the rate at which the raw data is collected from the replicas ---and the jitter across all of them!-- then the rate at which that data is aggregated, and so on. (The above assumes that Cloud Spanner uses Borgmon for monitoring.) Any hiccups in the collection itself will result in less noise if you look at 5m vs e.g. 1m. You could increase the sampling rate, but then you're making your DB replicas spend more precious cycles on work that is not serving queries or replicating data.
As a younger person having watched/lived through at least 3 members of my immediate family die with dementia/mental health problems, I lose more sleep at night over the prospect that euthanasia won't be legal and managed properly where I live by the time I get old.

I'm actually hoping that our shared generational suffering with respect to our baby boomer parents makes us get our generations' butt in gear and do something about it.

Got to use all that unnecessary suffering for something positive :/
Considering DB2 is bundled as part of the OS license for IBM i, 10K/core is still cheaper than SQL Server (though then you get to pay for drivers...because we're fucking IBM).
Famous venture capitalist predicts big banks will fall first to AI
They're doing it, but certainly not for us.
They are often based on lower density DDR3 chips that consume more power per bit. That being said you can do 1TB on a normal dual socket server with 64GB DDR4 LR-DIMMs for a while now, though they do come at a cost per bit premium.
"What do they want me to do? Eat grass and drink water?"

Is drinking water really that absurd?
Really? Which one?

Keep in mind that "capitalism with higher taxes" is still capitalism so I'm curious of what of the few really socialist countries you're from.
Strange that this was down voted. Do people honestly not think armed insurrection is not a possibility in the US? It won't be grand, but it could certainly happen in pockets of desperation.
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I'm sorry, I should've been more specific. It's $10/day for me because I'm building muscle and eating 3,600 calories a day.

If necessary, like when you're in a maintenance phase, you could get it to $5/day.

I hear you and agree. I think the means testing for food stamps should be looser too. It's funny, I know a couple people on food stamps and I know a few vegans. What you say is true.
I think that guy's just exaggerating, or using a buggy plugin. I'm running Atom 1.16 in Windows right now, 2 panes with ~6 tabs open and it's sitting at around 25 MB of memory. This is with vim-mode and a python autocomplete plugin running.
It also might be referring to their platform security processer
> rust is meant to be a systems language

It's meant to useful as a systems language, so was designed with certain constraints in mind. It is whatever people want to make of it. There have been plenty of instances I've seen on HN alone of people mentioning use that isn't specifically tailored for a systems language.

> it shouldn't have an equivalent of cpan and, pip or gem because it needs to work with the system, not be yet another platform.

Those are entirely orthogonal issues. Cargo works with the system just as well as tar and make. They're just binaries. You could just as easily say that traditional source tarballs shouldn't be provided because people might download the source and use their compiler to build instead of using the distro package. This is a non-issue. The only people that will even have the choice are those that chose to install the compiler (whether it be a C compiler or Rust), and even then the vast majority that actually do so will probably end up having a good reason for doing so.

Cargo is part of the build tool chain. Just because it can be used to distribute a package, and even while it probably will be used to distribute a package, that doesn't mean it's purpose is to do so, or that it's inappropriate that it exists. Any feature can be abused. You should not judge it by the abuse, but by its intended and common use.
I enjoy reading historical documents like these from earlier eras of computing. The foresight some brilliant people had is amazing to see in retrospect, and makes me rethink the fundamental assumptions of how we design and use computers (and software) today.
When I first look at it, I thought it was a demo video on the main page because of the button. Maybe it is just me.
Not sure if "never", but from the new Spanner paper[1]:

> While we have seen comparatively little demand for this feature internally, supporting such semantics improves compatibility with other SQL systems and their ecosystems and is on our long-term radar.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/authorize?N37621
Slavery-lite strikes me as a very unfortunate neologism.

I think you are putting too much emphasis on the formal status of wives a century ago, and not enough on actual social mores, but regardless of whether that is so, it is not much of an argument for what is right.

I am so confident that a robust case against slavery, that is also applicable to this situation, has already been made, that I will take my chances that someone calls "citation needed" on me.
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He resigned shortly after his employment was restored. This is totally expected given the amount of ostracization he would have faced, but I think it's still a better outcome for him in the long term than if he had just gotten a large settlement.

He's close to retirement age anyway, so by resigning voluntarily instead of being terminated for cause, he gets to keep his pension and other benefits. (South Korea has a public pension system, but large corporations often add a lot on top of that.) Hyundai also agreed to drop all other complaints against him in exchange for his resignation, which would not have happened had the court just ordered them to pay him a bunch of money. This man deserves a peaceful retirement.

I hope he moves to another town and runs an auto shop or something :)
I haven't seen anywhere but wccftech give the 1.4 GHz number, though.
It really is up to society if they want to subsidize child rearing. On one hand, we really don't have a dire need for population - reproductive rates right now are sustainable, and we should be trying to disincentivize those from having kids who cannot afford it. They are very expensive and time consuming.

On the other hand, people have kids anyway, and then the children suffer when the parents cannot afford them (in either money or time with them, as is the case of most two income households). It isn't a black and white moral situation though, because you don't want to put people in the state of mind that having children can be profitable.
Yeah; for some reason it's still common to think of Millennials as being teenagers despite some of the older ones having teenagers.
Medicare is hospital and medical coverage.

When you get old, if you need skilled nursing care at home or in a nursing home, that's your dime.

Typically, you get admitted to a nursing home, spend all of your money, and when you run out go to Medicaid. Your county DSS will liquidate your home and remaining assets and you'll be paid for by that until you die.

If you have a surviving spouse, they get to keep some allowance.
Hyundai found out about this pretty quickly, and de-tuned engine output in later iterations to increase reliability.

Coincidentally, I was recently reading about early American cars and their heavily overbuilt construction is a huge contrast to this "value engineering" of modern engines; whereas those old engines could be tuned to make far more than stock power with little effect on reliability, it seems today the aim is to make the margin as narrow as possible --- just enough to get past the warranty period, with the associated effect that, due to how the statistics work, quite a few of them will fail before too. Samsung's "exploding" washing machines are a recent, non-automotive, example of this.

Today's cars may be more efficient and less polluting, but if they last a fraction of the time as the old ones and have to be replaced many times more often, are they really that much better environmentally overall?
Suppose an American company spends $2 billion developing a new drug (or microchip, etc) and an Indian (Chinese, Brazilian...) company starts selling unauthorized copies at a 95% discount. (And then, the news media and politicians cite that price differential as evidence for how extremely evil your company is).
Too much work, a more practical approach is to write the code twice.
same here...and the only thing bad is the battery life :-/
For my money the best (somewhat) widely available apple for eating out of hand is the Ambrosia. Sweet, crisp, attractive in shape and appearance.

As production has increased I have noticed an uptick in mealy Ambrosias, but they can usually be identified by a slight softness.

https://www.orangepippin.com/apples/ambrosia
> You understand that you are now complicit in her abuse, yes? You understand that you are an accomplice to this crime?

FFS, you literally know next to nothing about the situation. Why do you feel like you're in a position to self righteously adjudicate him as being a criminal? None of us, not even lordnacho himself, know enough about his friend's housekeeper to legitimately make claims like that (or casually throw around terms like slave).

Seriously, the housekeeper's situation may not be too far off from the archetypal startup employee working 18 hour days and sleeping under his desk. None of us know, and none of us should claim to know.
Here in the Philippines you can hire a young female "housekeeper" who doesn't actually do any housework, if you know what I mean. The job title is for the neighbours and the tsismosas (town gossips).
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> 16 cores and 32 threads

I have met software engineers who could not believe me when I pointed out that multi-threading was invented, made sense, and, in fact, was thriving - on single-core computers (with no hyper-threading)!
But the question is: what if you consistently write poor code even when rewriting? Doing something again and again with no change is called insanity :)
Interesting correction, thanks.

It appears that Jones worked on Dent's farm with Grant, so maybe he freed him when the farm failed?
I only can speak for malaysia and yes this issue doesn't get brought up much, it's quite sickening to be honest. What is even more interesting is that most of the housekeepers are hired by the middle class, the same middle class that is wants racial equality in malaysia..
The ProPublica report is more informative:

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-cloudflare-helps-serv...

Even if Cloudflare wants to use the extreme libertarian justification of enabling all speech no matter what it says (which I strongly disagree with, but that's another discussion), AFAICT they don't address why they are giving people's personal contact information to the hate groups. It wouldn't make sense anyway, and at least some of these groups openly threaten and practice harassment. What does that have to do with supporting freedom of speech?
Which is curious, because you'd think there'd be conceptual understanding with regard to "ornamentation," "amusement/diversion/boredom" and "craftsmanship/showmanship."

The amount of time spent fixating on ornamentation should be obvious, just by spending time in a flea market, looking at the trays upon trays of common jewelry people toss tens of dollars at.

Amusement, and diversions should be obvious from watching people engage in repetitive tasks like crossword puzzles, card games and knitting. Fidget spinners fit into this category. Boondoggles have a utility in letting the mind wander. Polishing stone by hand was probably rewarding, when there were no consequences tied to failure.

Craftsmanship as a sign of status is probably the closest secular concept to the token "religion or magical thinking" and goes hand in hand with fashion and ornamentation. There are extremely slim reasons for the geek cred associated with odd piercings or those decorative spin tops based on the one from the movie Inception. Being able to show that you know about something, and or how to do something, displays skill sets without having to brag openly. The subculture of skin piercing and body modification displays a capacity for tolerating pain, awareness of anatomy, and a taming of wound infection in edge cases. Spin tops really represent membership within a nerd subculture that has money to burn, and fetishizes metallurgy trivia juxtaposed with movie trivia, but the craftsmanship of the pieces justifies their price, earning it's owner status, since there remains the authentic barrier to simply making a DIY inception top, contrasted against buying the collector's item.

Rare sneaker subculture probably encapsulates all three of these ideas without being religious at all. But observing sneaker collectors in the wild leaves me with the impression that maybe it really is a religion after all.

These are probably difficult concepts to communicate in academic papers that often must get translated into multiple languages, so the catch all religious, magical shrug will probably persist.
Kind of surprised the integration isn't going in the other direction. Embed the editor experience into Github and not the other way around.
I am older, have family and mortgage, time and financial pressures. But I still get excited about new developments in my trade as a primarily front-end dev, including package managers and frameworks. And the experience, capabilities and track record of success that I bring to the table act as a differentiator between me and my younger colleagues.

Not to discount your point, just to say there's more than one way to look at it. For some, they reach a point in their lives / careers where constant change is wearisome. Others continue to adapt and thrive. I have no idea what underlying factors would cause this.
They're always doing secretive stuff that's more likely to be used against them by wolves in and outside our government. The value we get by whatever they say in public pales in comparison to those people getting their private stuff. I don't usually need to know their secret communications to infer what they're doing with the lobbying and law-making being public on top of the positions they push. I'd rather the greatest tyrants here and there not have dirt on them, though. I'd reluctantly protect them if forced to make a choice on the issue.
What makes you think that modern cars have to be replaced many times more often? It seems like replacement intervals have actually been creeping up.
"Twitter might find a quarter someone dropped on the sidewalk"
Ethnically Chinese people are hated in Indonesia and the Philippines.[0] As in, during times of unrest and civil disturbance, there is a lot of murder and rape of Chinese people.

Partly for this reason. The addition of ethnic differences to economic inequality is a volatile mixture.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/World-Fire-Exporting-Democracy-Instab...
It's wonderful that they open-sourced the whole thing. I will enjoy studying it: https://github.com/desktop/desktop/

Great to see in the interview: "We’re having many good conversations about improving Electron."
* compatibility with msys2. It's one of the best environments on Windows for building cross-platform apps (where cross-platform is Windows, OSX, and Linux). Ideally, I'd like to run a Windows VM for the CI build and have artifact uploads, all through the msys2 shell. I see a single rumbling here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/issues/...
Some what relevant: http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die...
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I still have my atrix. I remember hacking it to run a full linux desktop via the dock instead of Motorola's official limited selection. Motorola was truly ahead of their time...it is unfortunate for them that the smartphones weren't quite fast enough then to run the firefox desktop browser, though.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I have a huge respect for the enduring legacy of Greek philosophy, and I too thought links in this article were extremely tenuous, and smacked of whatever the fallacy of appealing to ancient wisdom is called. Anyone who's read Plato's dialogues will find that one of their enduring hallmarks is how even the most intelligent and formidable interlocutors are eventually compelled at least to admit the weakness of their arguments within the course of a conversation, if not change their mind to the more persuasive character's (often Socrates') point of view on some profound subjects. It's actually a beautiful and instructive aspect of the literature, but it's an idealized progression of thought among well-educated men - not a realistic portrayal of the average person's psychological progression.
No, it ridiculous now in the bizarre fiscal policy environment that we were in.

You can look at historical bank interest rates from the onset of FDIC insurance. As recently as 2005 you could obtain meaningful returns on zero risk investments as a retail investor. I had a 10 year, 5% CD mature in 2015, for example.
Short of mandating life recorders, there is reason to strike a balance between publishing what they say and letting them work without obsessing over the future publication of what they say.
Inflation in the early 2000s wasn't 6%.
http://www.treklightgear.com/treklife/hammock-angle/ ... skip to where it talks about the angle.
There is a third option - take out a loan secured by the property. In the case of real estate, this is a mortgage or "reverse" mortgage.