skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, as Prometheus's local storage is meant more as a transient / non-durable metrics store, the only current way to migrate while simultaneously accessing old and new data is to run both the old and new servers and have the new one read old data from the other one via the remote-read integration.

Someone could write a tool to do a full migration of the old storage format to the new one, but the formats are completely different and at least in the naive version of such tooling, that would have to happen offline and take a very long time to run for large storages.

EDIT: If you would like to fund development of such a tool, let us know :)
Markdown is it's own formatting environment! All it needs is a constant-width font, a concept not particularly new to the world of computers.

If there were no downsides to this, and email was build from the first day on to work with HTML, then this would all be fine, but sadly (or not so sadly) this isn't the case.
I no longer believe that it's possible for a single government to fix this. There is too much money in the game, the tax codes of multiple countries interact in too many complex ways, and I've already lived through multiple such tax loophole games being shut down by governments (most recently the double irish) only for new ones to crop up. I believe we will _never_ see change on this issue unless at least 1 large multinational steps up to the plate to help in spotting/closing loopholes. We need to, as citizens (or maybe as employees if applicable), try to pressure the ever fewer and ever larger corporations to assist in this.
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the timinig is interesting. the stock price was down >15% after yesterdays earnings call, now it's in the green again.
You may not like it, but still. If you can’t understand the code w/o syntax highlighting, you are using a wrong language.
Apple could certainly do that. Prostitution is legal in many jurisdication. They can go for any market they want. But in the Peter Drucker-line of the argument, that is a false flag.

This is a nice example of philosophy of law. Usually morality and legality overlap pretty much and follow each other over time. In this case (tax) morality and legality seem to grow apart over time without anyone fixing this. Since governments make the rules, I propose let governments fix the rules.

The aspect of acting responsibly asks firms for something else. Act responsibly within what you (as a firm) normally do. I for one cannot understand the minds of people within the cigarette-industry. The firm I work for invests many billions for customers (insurance) and has a firm line: no guns, no tobacco. I guess no oil is just too hard at the moment, although I have a feeling in a few years things could (should imho!) be different.
This sounds similar to what Amazon are doing with their latest HQ: making states compete each other over what advantages Amazon would get if it opened its HQ there [1]. I'm terrified by the power big companies have over our government.

[1] https://youtu.be/8bl19RoR7lc?t=2m52s
> The best high schools encourage their top students to really dive deep into their subject of interest, rather than focus on improving the performance of laggards or generally concentrating on improving average performance.

This is certainly not my experience of the US public school system, either as a student or a parent. The typical US school has always cared more about getting 20th-percentile students to meet a minimum standard. And if the student makes an effort to work with the school, the school is very good at it. Public schools are evaluated based on how many students meet that minimum standard ("No Child Left Behind"), and they respond to that incentive.

The 80th to 90th percentile students, well, they're kind of an afterthought. I mean, they're going to ace all the standardized exams anyway. Now, some public schools will make an effort to help high-performing students, because teachers do care, but it's not incentivized.

Private schools, on the other hand, are evaluated on a very different metric—how many students get into Harvard/Yale/Stanford/etc.? They game this metric by offering generous scholarships to top-notch students, and by charging stiff tuition to rich parents.
Demos: https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy-ent/

The English neural network named entity model is a huge improvement over the v1 model. However, the training data is still all from 2010, so it makes some notable errors. We're working on improved training data, using our annotation tool Prodigy (https://prodi.gy).

The NER for the other languages is trained on "silver standard" data from Wikipedia, so the quality is much less consistent, especially if you're working with social media text or "chat bot"-type inputs.
In the UK, for example, you have to register any tax avoidance scheme that you're using (as an individual at least).

If the HMRC then look into that tax scheme and deem it against the rules, you pay the tax, but without penalty.

As I understand it, if you don't register the scheme and you are found to be using the previously grey-area avoidance scheme, then you get done for tax evasion.

That's how it's supposed to work at least, but companies seem to get sweetheart deals in these circumstances.
That really hurt to read.
What I get from this article is:
"I use apple products every day and now I feel bad for using them. But I won't stop anyways because who cares really. Please do anything to make your company less profitable so I can feel better again."
https://zorinos.com/about/ That page doesn't mention anything about added security layers, and it's statement about Linux security is just plain wrong, and dangerous, as it might even delude people into a false sense of security...

"Linux is an extraordinary computer operating system. It powers everything from the U.S. Department of Defense, to the International Space Station, to most of the world's Internet servers and supercomputers. The reasons for this aren't difficult to find: it's fast, reliable, versatile and super secure, so it doesn't get viruses."

couldn't be more wrong. i beleive a lot of DoD systems run on BSD also...

https://www.qubes-os.org/ This is an OS which is actually trying to add proper security layers. According to them, it's 'reasonably secure', and they are honest about it's flaws and short commings, and provide information and tricks to work around these if you need to.
If someone has mixed feelings from what FRex said here, but is not aware of what Lua world consists of, let me explain. Js will be mentioned, so reader can have a base level of understanding what happens and how good/bad it is. It is not js criticism.

First of all, original 5.1 was a complete language with few technical problems unsolved. These problems were hard and didn’t exist, say, in javascript, because it has no such primitives at all, not because 5.1 was bad. To name a few fundamental: yield across pcall, C-call, for-iteraror; specific metamethods for regular tables.

LuaJIT derived from 5.1 and then development went in parallel, never being stopped or unmaintained. Original Lua experimented with features in 5.2 and while it fixed and added few nice things, it used completely different env resolution (which also doesn’t exist in javascript). 5.2 was also improved in execution speed. LuaJIT specified that it will stick with original env scheme, and personally I find it more powerful than new one. All others features were backported from 5.2, so effectively LuaJIT is 5.2 with setfenv() still working, not some obsolete chunk that you may try to guess from semantic versioning, which doesn’t take place in Lua. Versions of Lua are NOT “semantic”.

5.3 introduced things that personally I find mad, and it diverged from 5.1/5.2, which were pretty compatible if written with care (not more incompatible than javascript is in different browsers; an order of magnitude less so). So, the future of 5.3 is somewhat unclear to me. It is still good language, thought, planned, experimenting, technical, non-crowd non-legacy driven. It will show what’s wrong and what’s right, as all Lua versions perfectly did.

To sum it up. If you’re going production, you can take any version of Lua, and it will be still more compatible and feature-rich than different versions of javascript. If you want all 5.1 design holes covered and incomparable execution speed, then you take LuaJIT in place of 5.1. If you want new environments (read what they are before you want), take 5.2. If you want to test new experiences and language design, take 5.3. But there is no superiority in any version, unless you’re taking one of these perks to extreme. These are different but similar languages with different strengths.

I know it’s all harder than just “5.1 < LJ < 5.2 < 5.3”, but what can you do?
Do you happen to remember the query so I can debug? (Check your search history if you have it turned on.)
While I do agree with the point that "govs should fix taxes, not corporations"... Still.

It's a fact that (at least in the EU where I live) the majority of tax burden ends up on small companies - mom & pop shops, little bakeries etc. Who simply can't afford these global tax avoidance tricks (or can't use them because they're "local")

Not that this is wrong or right, just a fact you can't argue with. I run a small software shop in the EU (4 ppl) I know what I'm talking about.
You can specify Markdown variant in Content-Type.

Source:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7763

https://www.iana.org/assignments/markdown-variants/markdown-...
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That's a big question. Probably a bit of both---Trump has been playing the celebrity game for long enough to notice that any publicity is good publicity.

But I'm by no means an expert, I'm not even American. And people who know more have been speculating about the exact extents of the two factors for a while.
You can always call public methods from other contracts regardless what construct you use. The library construct is a Solidity implementation detail but you can also use normal contracts, like they did in this case.

So far, it really looks like almost a criminal sloppy refactoring of the official multi sig contract from the EF that has been extensively audited.
I feel the same way but I feel a little guilty for feeling that way. It feels like saying climate change will get way worse if poor people can afford to eat beef (because cowd fart and stuff).
Wow. And then they use the returns here? This sounds like money laundering (even if it technically isn't).
I'm (intermittently) trying to read the Iliad using the Loeb side-by-side text, i.e. try to figure out the Greek and use the English on the facing page as a (frequent) crib. It's very hard work, even though the English is a fairly literal translation, but at the same time very rewarding: it's true that you can only really appreciate poetry in the original.
Some problems of URLs
What's to be done about it?

We're the ants.

That depressing truth has a way of manifesting. I'm not quite sure what to feel about it. Our attempts here are futile. We're not going to get any legislation passed.

The fact is, companies can opt out of the social contract. They are big, and they're going to play by different rules. But I don't think that's strange -- that's just life.

It happens in China and Russia. Why should the US, Canada, or Europe be any different?
Yes, you can do it in C++. But it's not a good medium for teaching those concepts. (The excellent article you linked to explains them in Haskell first, and then shows how to do them in C++ only afterwards.)
My point is that this isn't about morality. Taxes are not a moral problem. Tax evasion is a moral problem because breaking the law is a moral problem.

I don't think forcing people to pay any amount of money (taxes) is moral. Is it good for society? Yes. Is it moral? Who knows? How are you so easily making moral judgements when morality is so subjective?

I find the idea of forcing my morality on anyone else repugnant, except in the case where all parties have agreed to the moral code (laws).
Places that only get a few days of snow are typically paralyzed by that snow (schools close etc), so the autonomous cars being paralyzed aren't really a problem in those areas.

But for a lot of northern and central europe, northern US, canada etc where people are used to changing tyres and driving for several months in snow, the autonomous cars will have a harder time.

On one hand like you say, they can see things we can't. But on the other hand, there are zero lane markers, and sensors are typically covered in snow.

For example: I have parking sensors and a rear camera on my car and those are completely covered a lot of the time in winter. I still use my car and just ignore that the parking sensors scream constantly and the rear camera shows the inside of a wad of snow. That situation would be worse for an autonomous car because those sensors aren't just nice-to-have, they are fundamental to to the operation of the car.
Do you have any plans for Korean support?
> The taxes paid would go towards infrastructure, education, health care and other items that benefit all people in our society, and by extension also to us shareholders.

This assumes, of course, that governments can spend the money as efficiently as Apple.
:terminal is now also part of the Vim 8 patches as an experimental feature. NeoVim seems to have a large influence on Vim, given that the previous "vimshell" patches never made it into upstream.
The problem is that there are now so few corporations, that you would actually have to opt out of having a smart phone entirely, since I believe Google probably does similar things (not sure of what the latest is).
> But we can agree that it's not the nature of a corporation to pay more taxes than necessary?

Think Different.
Addictive games are often fun, I didn't say necessarily fun.

But that wasn't my point. My point is that it's not terribly evil to make a game addictive. Addictive qualities are only bad to the extent that the addictive thing hurts you (e.g., smoking, drugs). These games are all pretty harmless.
To be clear, the taxes paid by employees are their taxes, that they'd be paying if they worked for another company or set up their own business.

Obviously there is some effect from Apple being an employer in increasing the overall employment rate, but there's a reason Apple needs local employees to hawk it's products. If they weren't employing and selling locally, some other company would be employing those people and taking Apple's market share.
> Even when it's about political stuff - I'm rather happy I don't get anti-vax information when I'm searching for health information.

The tradeoff being that it won't give the anti-vaxxers information that refutes their claims. Is that _really_ what you want?
>There might be a Dutch programming blog talking about this error message, but they'll never be able to be discovered because any English source will end up on top.

Add "lang:nl".

>Another example: you are traveling in a foreign country, and don't really know the local language. You Google for information about a restaurant, hoping to land on something Trip Advisor-y. You end up on the local website, that you're completely unfamiliar with.

Look up the restaurant on https://www.tripadvisor.com/. Why would you use a general purpose search engine if you already know where to find the right information? Or you could add "lang:en" to your query.

>You want to offer a blog for English-speaking expats in Paris. Your exposure in Google is really low because of the niche audience, and the fact that French sources about places you're talking about will be much more viewed.

Those expats could add "lang:en" to their queries about the places you have blogged about.

I am not denying that there is some value in Google filling in these blanks for you, but 99% of examples about the indispensability of personalized search are rendered moot with very simple additions to the search query.
Are there any statistics about how much of the value produced by professionals abroad actually flows back to the country of origin? Intuitively, I would say it is very little because why would you return once you live in much more privileged circumstances.
I'm not discussing who is benefiting from this but the odds of it happening. Also if this benefits Apple shareholders, I doubt this is Trump-clan only.
You get a free pass if you do dependent types.
Hey Rkwasny, We believe the usefulness of open source to the end user really depends on the maturity of the product. Open source is great once the product is mature. But if the product is relatively new then end users are exposed to all the issues inherent in immature software without the support intrinsic to proprietary software. To balance this, we have a free community edition that contains all the features of our fully supported enterprise edition.
And I'm afraid that it'll be a lot of violence ending tax evasion/optimization/avoidance too. The globalization game has winners and losers and it's starting to look like the losers outnumber the winners.

I'd like to see something done to the global economy system with peaceful means before someone resorts to violence.
No, but I'm guessing there were many meetings, committees, getting approval from the top, etc... involved. That is still bureaucracy.
Thomas Hardy's ashes were buried in Westminster Abbey, in Poets' Corner, and his heart was buried in Stinsford in Dorset, alongside the grave of his first wife (and Cecil Day-Lewis, curiously). Unfortunately there persists a rumour that, after being extracted but before being buried, his heart was accidentally eaten by a cat, which, honestly, I rather think Hardy would have found pretty funny. (A typical article on this for reference: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherhow...)
Have you used it? I've been looking at this for a couple months and am waiting for Amazon RDS support. Curious to hear about people's experiences with this.
That's an interesting take. In England, for O level (hence a few years younger than college age) we did both Plato and Homer as set books. I think the reasoning was that yes the language differences are challenging, but it's important to encompass both to really appreciate the language and culture.
This is great. I'm often asked to provide data, and have made some helper methods to return the data in markdown. I then typically have to find a converter before pasting the results into the email body, so having an extension to make this easier is great :D
At the risk of being a little draconic, any device that receives data from sources outside a whitelist of validated origins falls under this example. In particular, anything that can plug into arbitrary computers (and is therefore exposed to an arbitrary USB stack on the master side), or that receives network packets (especially from networks with relatively weak authentication/security and are therefore easy to join by malicious actors) falls under this description.

Off the top of my head: fitness bracelets and the like (which can contain health or even location data, or at least data that can be partially leveraged to determine location), hardware authentication keys, wireless medical implants/devices (even if there's no opportunity for data retrieval, stack smashing is a cheap way to deny service, and I have had tons of fun debugging stack smashes...)
So editing is now called "self-censoring"? What a time to be alive. /s
I use the 3rd best in the world and I dunno, sometimes at the end of the day or end of a long-haul flight you're really tired and you don't want to jostle for a comfortable place to stand on the tube. I'd understand why people prefer getting a cab in such a situation.
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For subscription cars to be even remotely usable by anyone with small children, you have to summon a car with the correct configuration of car seats.

Having to install one just won't fly. if you can't get one with the right car seats, it's a no go for a daily use family car. On the other hand it might easily work as a second car in such families. I'll probably need to own/lease my own car for the foreseeable future, but I'd be very happy to not have to own two like I do now. And my requirements for a second car are much simpler.
Fast and precise type checking for JavaScript
You're not thinking simply enough. Watch - I'm going to write a tax code:

If you are a business and sell a product or service in my country, you need to pay X% in taxes on that sale.

If you live in my country, you need to pay Y% in income tax.

You get the idea. The issue isn't that making a loophole free tax code is super difficult. The issue is that every country thinks they can capture more mindshare/businesses/what have you if they have loopholes. The hard part isn't writing a tax code. The hard part is convincing all necessary parties in a democracy that it's good for them.
A classical liberal, modernist approach to culture and art in a magazine would be both innovative and refreshing. I find current tastes mechanistic, repetitive, and quite frankly boring after a while. Thanks for your thoughts! I just bought my first magazine subscription in 20 years or more. (And I thought I'd never do that again)
Tax policy needs to be recognised as a social issue.

If politicians are using the complexity as a tool then it stands to reason that the only ones that can efficiently navigate the resulting convoluting mess is the wealthy.

It puts the less wealthy at a disadvantage and if the masses start calling for change then the only reasonable solution is to simplify legislation.
The situation is much closer to the Prisoner's Dilemma. You're asking sovereign states to collude on a bidding war. How to establish optimal collusion?
> The concept of everyone using a common, well-audited contract makes sense though.

Just Parity's contract was neither common nor well audited.

> Virtually all Bitcoin multisignature transactions use the same script construction and it has never been hacked, despite being much older.

The only multi-sig issue that I'm aware of in Bitcoin was the Bitfinex hack but I don't know in what relation BitGo's multi-sig implementation is to the standard multi-sig.

The EF multi-sig implementation has been audited and AFAIK there has also never been an issue with it.
What annoys me the most is that, as a small company, I can't evade from my country tax system. I pay the taxes. All of them, at full rate.

But there are these big companies which can afford to create offshore companies/holding just to evade some tax system, and lower their tax rate.

So, what? The tax rate of a country is now "artificial", because it will never be applied to all revenues from all companies, because the higher profiles will be able to evade a part of it.

If governments want to reclaim more, they could raise up the tax rate, considering that the biggest players will only pay a fragment of it. But the small companies, the one that can only follow the rules? They are screwed.

All companies should be considered equals regarding the tax system. It is simply not the case when such schemes are used.

Edit: exactly the same point of view as jitbit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15651457
Middle-school bullying is legal. Should we criminalize middle-school bullying?
I would consider it a condition of astronauts' employment that their medical condition will be made public where a link with astronautical activity is plausibly hypothesized (ie. with a very low standard of proof).

They are test subjects, after all, funded at least in part by the taxpayer. Medical investigation is part of the point of their jobs. Suppression of the results harms scientific progress and is not in the public interest.
no, they'd have another smear campaign about the governments interference and get the populus to vote to abolish any kind of taxes just for apple.
and they'd probably succeed as well, considering how delusional and outspoken apple zealots are.