skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How fast is data import? Loading into RAM? (for example booting up a cluster for an existing imported database on AWS)

Working with some datasets with 100s of billions of short rows, curious to give it a try.
Show HN: Trianglify.io – Pattern generator based on Delaunay triangulations
Right, the comment I replied to was saying that the issuer keeping a database and not doing any blockchain stuff had the risk that the database could disappear.

The Hexel model doesn't seem to fix that. The issuer could still disappear, leaving the end user with a bunch of Hexel-tokens that can't be used anywhere.
It's especially common to throw these together as "early access" games, pretending that they're still in development and will get deeper content at a later date.
So, for anyone who thought the headline was a little bit excessive, it looks like this article is using short-scale trillion and billion.
Murdoch has been saying similar things about Google for years. I'm not sure there's much to it.
I've had the opposite experience with DDG. While DDG itself resolves about 85% of my searches just fine, getting the hang of the !bang syntax has really elevated my search game without compromising a whole lot. I've been 6-months free of Google as my primary search engine, and see no reason to go back.

Insofar as other steps, I shut down my Twitter account (with a dictionary word username) last year as an experiment to see if I'd care enough to resurrect it before the account was deleted--a 30-day span. I didn't come back to check again for ~40-45 days, and I don't especially miss it. That was enough for me to realize how little value it provided me.

(Never really bothered with Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, and the like.)

This year I'm looking into non-Google alternatives for my family's email and common functions (calendaring, etc). It's a slow slog in between a ton of other priorities, but the importance of decentralizing again is growing non-trivially.

Also, I plan to resurrect my blog/personal site for the first time in, spitballing here, about 8 years now. Putting my content back on my terms and reversing the tide in my own way.
Looks like a great product. How did you come up with the pricing models? It seems on the cheap side. Have you thought about having something between small and unlimited (at the $50 mark or more) and then the unlimited plan for quite a bit more (or even contact us for pricing)?
Thank you! I'm a big fan of Markdown and tools like dillinger. And thanks for the feedback on the tagline. It's a bit of a mouthful, but I'm heartened that you like it.
I Have Seen the Future of Urbanism and It's a Scooter
Being tilted more toward the 3D shooter style, also competing against Overwatch. Different gameplay objectives, but "class based team shooter" could describe either of them.
Been there, done that. I think "cool" and "hip" do not work well here. Switzerland figures as one of the most innovative countries worldwide and when I realised that it didn't really feel like that, I did some research. It looks like most patents are filed by large international corporations (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/intellectual-property_...). Swiss love come together to talk about "cool" and "hip" stuff, but actually changing how things are done seems to be very difficult.
> implies that something is trivial to implement

I don't think it does. It shows something implemented quickly, suggesting that it's a tutorial you can sit down and follow in one go.
Yeah, that was poorly phrased, sorry.

One of the awesome aspects of being transparent by default: taking an internal conversation between three coworkers and making the recording and transcript public. I love being able to share our strategy publicly and talk about it openly.

While I can't change what I said, we can make the blog post more accurately reflect our beliefs as reflected on our Stewardship page[0]. There's no limit on what "deserves" to be open source. And, imho, GitLab has open sourced a ton of advanced functionality already.

But "GitLab Inc. is a for profit company that balances the need to improve GitLab Community Edition (CE) with the need to add features to GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) exclusively in order to generate income."

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/stewardship/
RDS supports some random PL stuff, specifically PL/Perl and PL/v8 it seems.
One question before I cement Epic Games as a game company (or just tech company in general) that does things differently in an an interesting way: How easy is it to import/export models/ UnrealEngine assets to other platforms? If I want to use an asset from UnrealEngine in like godot, how easy would it be?

This is pretty massive if it's really a no-strings-attached release of assets to the community but the skeptic in me says there's no way it's just that
> There is a question of aptitude... the ability to affect even a small percentage of the population can have a huge impact on the direction of the country.

At risk of poking a hornet's nest, isn't this basically just an argument against democracy itself?

Sure, you can go around shutting down Twitter bots, but if the fundamental problem is "elections are swung by people who believe literally anything they read, and we can't change that" then we've basically lost already.

First, because it'll move to a new source, and playing media whack-a-mole to maintain a functioning government doesn't seem reliable. Second, because deciding what's a valid source suddenly becomes the defining feature of elections. Deciding which voices to promote and which to undermine obvious matters, but if Twitter bots are a vital issue in a national election then one starts to wonder if anything else matters.

And I mean, I know one argument is that this has always been the case, that the only new thing is the ability for unfiltered manipulation to come straight into people's homes. I suppose it's true that in ~1800 most people couldn't possibly get enough information to make informed voting decisions, so we were largely getting our decisions made by political officials and party machines.

But it's a bit scarier to think that the problem is people, not access - if that's true then expanding information access is actually harmful to democracy.
As a more mediocre developer than the author, I would add that instead of copy-pasting code, you actually type it out. This makes it stick better for me.
I think we're in the early stages of the development of what I've termed the propaganda doomsday machine. Think of it as the PR equivalent of the hydrogen bomb.

What I'm concerned about is the combination of AI and big data to generate autonomous personalized intelligent agents that can actually converse with you, or at least can tailor propaganda to your specific cognitive profile with an incredible degree of insight and accuracy. Think of it as the ability to dispatch an army of billions of con artists with each tasked to work on an individual target person and with the benefit of "fleet-wide learning." I've heard this called "AI-assisted demagoguery."

Keep in mind that it doesn't need to work on everyone. A system like that with a ~10% success rate at changing peoples' minds could allow its wielders to quite literally conquer any democratic nation. That would be enough to sway nearly every election. Non-democratic nations wouldn't be immune either as such technologies could be used to foment revolutions, though I suspect that the smarter autocrats would invest as much as it took to make sure they were the wielders and not others. You can see this in China right now where its autocrats are deploying a system very much like this against their population.

5-10% success rates could just be the beginning. As we say in information security: "attacks only get better." Iterative development and the ensuing arms race could eventually yield systems that exploit tremendous insight about the structure and function of the human mind down to the neurological level. Unfortunately unlike software we cannot patch our brains to fix vulnerabilities. Eventually it may not be possible to engage in honest public discourse at all, since any person in the public square would have a high chance of not being a person at all but an AI-powered con artist attempting to sell you something or change your mind.

I"ve also thought that this -- not Terminators shooting people with lasers -- is what an AI takeover would look like. The ultimate intelligences behind it might be AIs but are more likely to be super-wealthy and politically powerful humans wielding AI as a tool to cognitively enslave the rest of humanity to themselves.

Also what's this "the political class" stuff? If you're talking about Trump vs. Clinton, both of them are incredibly wealthy and highly connected insiders. Trump has somehow managed to pose as an outsider but 10 minutes of reading about his background and connections will disabuse you of that. He's as much an insider as Clinton, albeit in a different clique of the global superclass. The people who funded Cambridge Analytica were also members of the global superclass. What we're seeing here is not insiders assaulting the elite but different camps of elites waging propaganda wars against each other. It's the haves vs. the haves, not the haves vs. the have-nots.
I'm curious, what are you primarily using LinkedIn for, that you find it difficult to have already gotten rid of it (in the process of stripping out the other social products)?

I've stalked LinkedIn for years looking for a way to undercut them with a superior competing product. I've never really found what I consider to be a very high value angle of attack that looked like it could cause a big enough wound to bring down the beast.
A naive question - if you are selling a lake home worth $5m then you are considering that amount as your sale? Let's say you are charging 1% as your fees then $50k is your revenue? Thx
The comment I replied to noted "they are popular because they are pretty much the only ones in that pretty specific space" while referring to Pinterest. Pinboard is a competitor, is it not? Not at the same scale, of course, but it is an alternative, a paid on at that, and is successful.
Because by doing a standard deduction you're keeping certain mathematical properties that VATs provide, like the ability to sell a good multiple times without paying layered taxes. Standard deductions stop this warping while still providing the warping that is desired.

And saying a VAT is paid by the consumer is silly. All taxes are paid by the consumer ultimately. What matters is capturing the taxation in a locality where the infrastructure used is roughly paid for by entities utilizing it. If CocaCola sells $10B of Coke in the EU, a VAT captures that and it should. If a financial services firm sends someone out to consult the Saudi Government the transaction is (and should be) outside the EU. When the income is repatriated is when corporate taxes kick in to cover the infrastructure that is engaged with production.

Too high of a VAT and firms shift manufacturing jurisdiction since VATs naturally discourage exports. Too high of a corporate tax and firms keep corporate income offshore and lobby for reduced taxation rates.
> I don't see why benevolent needs to be in quotes in your comment

> most companies don't do.

Because most companies are for-profit entities. Most companies don't do this because they aren't in this specific situation. Most gaming companies have really delicate economics (high up front capital costs, with less than guaranteed returns).

Call me cynical all you want, but the idea that video gaming companies (of all industries) are somehow out to provide benevolently for it's software developing community is laughable at best (see EA, Ubisoft, Zynga etc). The video gaming market is rife with abusing long hours out of it's employees.
Hard to believe. Worldwide production of Californium is just a few milligrams per year.
> Mozilla has known for a very long time that the master password system isn't very effective. Even a decade ago, I remember them recommending not using it.

A feature that users would be better off not using is a feature that should be removed, IMHO.
Expandpass – expands passwords from simply defined syntax
Anecdotally, this year and last is the first I've noticed where a lot of my friends have stopped using it altogether, and the ones who do basically never post any updates whatsoever or otherwise interact with it.

One way or another it seems they have lost user engagement in a big way.
That's a choice that society has made, through laws and institutions which benefit the wealthy -- such as treating corporations as people. It doesn't have to be that way.
"Ok, so I think my password is something like ILoveBananas123, but I can't remember if it was like or love, or if the numbers came first or second, or where the capitalizations were... oh dang I'm screwed"-

Not anymore!

("123" <{"I""i"}("Love""Like"){"B""b"}"ananas">[-m1])
Perhaps talent in this case refers to ones talent at salary negotiation?
Libtards used social media and internet for their propaganda since the internet came to being, when conservatives also started using it for the same purpose, they lost their shit.

Cry harder faggots.
Software used to predict future criminals is biased against blacks
Why are companies racing to embrace HEIF,  when we're trying to move to AV1?
It would really be a change if we elected the president by popular vote because we don't now and haven't ever.
Protect AI, Robots, Cars (And Us) from Bias
I don't think anyone is saying they are irrelevant, nothing is black and white. For practical purposes however, hard work does lead to success.
Amazon FireOS[1] - The OS in its tablets, Phone, Kindle, TV, and Alexa - are all Android-based OS.

Given that, I would expect the folks at Amazon to "not do evil" in form of removing Google products from their virtual shelves.

This is common decency and basic fairness.

But heck, Amazon in 2017-2018 becoming aggressive as Microsoft used to be in the early years of this millennium.

(a joke about both being Seattle based is running in my mind, but I'll skip on it).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_OS
Backstory - a few years ago I wrote some code that mashed up the Colorbrewer choropleth map palettes with a Delaunay mesh, and released it as a javascript library[1].

Turns out, this tool is useful to a lot of non-programmers. A bunch of homebrew UIs popped up for it on the web, so I decided it would be a good side project to write an official GUI for it! Feedback and constructive criticism welcome!

[1] https://qrohlf.com/trianglify/
I suspect there's also a fragmentation effect going on -- users are moving to WhatsApp for messaging, and Instagram for the social validation part.

Fortunately for Facebook they own both.
Consider obfuscating the profile before deleting the account. Whatever delete means in facebook terms.
For anyone that wants a deeper look Charles C Mann's recent publication The Wizard and the Prophet covers the figures behind over population concerns & modern environmentalism as well as the figures behind the green revolution which played a large role in pushing famine and food insecurity down to the level that exists at today, even with a growing population.
The base model, where one day you double your wealth and the next you lose half - is that based on anything or just easy to implement?
Hide and Seek in Digital Marketing or the Million Dollar Game of Where's Waldo
I believe the premise of the book is to expose the reader to an element of style that bridges different programming environments. Thus, "style" here is meant more in the terms of a restrictive technique to allow an exposure of these techniques, not writing in idiomatic, or latest-and-greatest Python.

I'd suggest this book even to experienced engineers to focus on different types or a style of programming that he/she may not be familiar. And when you recognize some of the styles it'll be a re-enforcement technique that you were doing something that is seen over and over again (much like a pattern language). I recall going over styles that are seen more in systems programming (like C). The book will contribute to an understanding of code architecture styles across different languages.

For the new engineer, I'd also highly suggest this book as you may begin to see a variety of ways to solve a problem. And I would not concern myself with idiomatic Pythonic styles as that will come with time.
The CMU depot was presented at LISA '93:

http://static.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/li...

Stow apparently started development in 1996 and was initially named depot:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/stow.git/tree/doc/ChangeLog...

So probably?
I don't think it is just within the tech bubble... here in the UK for example it is now mainstream news on a weekly basis.

It's at the tipping point where grandparents are starting to talk about the "snooping" and data gathering of Facebook.
I was talked into creating a FB account by some friends a long time ago. I found that I was losing respect for my friends, as it brought out the parts of them I did not want to know about.

I also noticed a disturbing pattern straight away. FB was pushing these little games at me. The questions in each of the little games were nearly identical to the questions in psych and personality tests I was required to take in the military. To the best of my knowledge FB does not have the clearance for this data, so I deleted my FB account and blocked their domains.

AFAIK, I have not really missed out on anything important by not being a member of that system.
Anything Google can do to help make the antitrust case against themselves is welcome.
I'm not sure the Y-generation would agree it worked for them.

The student loads have never been such a burden. The cost of housing skyrocketed. If they want to eat for the same price as their grand parents they need to eat junk food.

I mean: my grand parent could buy their own house while only one was working, and a job that didn't require any diploma.

But the flat screen prices are very cheap so they got that going for them.
It's the end of young-people-facebook. FB isn't cool and hasn't been for awhile now.

Old-people-facebook will cling to life because it is part of the media-ecosystem now. So I won't expect a steep dropoff, but rather a slow gradual decline in users as they literally die off.
Where would Facebook users migrate to?
Maybe it gets replaced by "micro-networks". Craigslist used to be the place to go all my classifieds needs. Now it's a cesspool of spam, garbage, and scams.
I started a blog on the side in 2015 as I was taking the 30x500 business class, built up an email list, and later wrote a book that teaches folks about the React JS library. I launched the book in 2016. I still have a job at this point, but the book continues to sell, and I have more products in the works.

It's not been fast. There are no hockey-stick graphs. But it's slow steady growth, and still seems to be growing. I am very glad I did not quit my job before I started this thing! I did a podcast interview about the process I went through and some of the earlier false starts here: https://stackingthebricks.com/podcast/ep27-you-can-ship-but-...
Article mentions seizure of red mercury (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury) which suggests that either the writer is incredibly misinformed or this is an intentional disinfo piece.
Free Cloud Load Test for Your Website or API
You've never known a hard-working person who wasn't successful?
Isn't it the striving, the need to move from one circumstance to the next, is what propels us forward?

People don't make progress in spite of their struggle, progress is made because of the struggle.
Two way radios can often connect to the telephone network through a bridge at the radio repeater
You see many people in the United States who are working hard and avoiding foolish decisions that cannot seem to provide for their needs and set money aside for the future?
Looks like the assets are licensed for only to be used in UE4 based products https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/paragon-dekker
The only thing still keeping me on FB is keeping updated and in touch with my cats' breeders. They like seeing photos of their kittens that we post, and I like keeping up to date with what they're doing. We're not close enough to send personal mails regularly, but are close enough to keep up with each other's public posts on FB. If I can ever bring myself to sever this one connection I'll take the step to delete my account. Until then I'll probably just try to delete as much non-cat-related personal information as I can.
Try ghostery
(2012) Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election
Have you seen how Trump supporters treat other politicians? Trump gets a pass on anything because he's on "their team", opponents are under a hyper-partisan microscope where even reasonable normal behavior is criticized.
'Will Amazon strike back and expand to general search?'

Based on their existing internal search quality, probably not a good idea?
If you've ever followed a Hello World game building tutorial for UE or Unity, somebody has taken the end result of that tutorial and placed it on a game marketplace somewhere.

It was/is a bit taboo, but the gaming phenomena PUBG also used UE marketplace assets, although they added value by making an enjoyable game around it.
This is why you should never be interviewed by a police officer unless you have council present. I know it's an Internet meme, but it's true.
Undermining any kind of trust in democratic institutions seems like a possible goal of these manipulations, especially if Russia is involved. It shores up the argument for “managed democracy” as Putin calls it, and gives autocrats something to point and laugh at when challenged on their autocracy. If rational people start to think in terms of historically failed and discredited notions of government, that’s a boon to any adversary of democratic nations.
I started a first company with some friend. I was in charge of the IT, he was in charge on Sales. However, things were catastrophic as I was selling more than him. A huge conflict occurred and I closed the company.
=> I lost some money in the process, but I learnt a lot.

Then, a friend from Engineering school just graduated. We had previously worked together on side-projects, and we had a common passion for cybersecurity. We decided to launch our company.

After three years of hard work, we are now profitable and really happy about this choice :).
The problem is that people don't usually switch opinion completely, just moderate them. If 10 years ago you wrote about the proletariat rising up and now you just want universal healthcare, your opponents will still call you a communist.
I'd argue benevolent belongs in quotes. Not to question the very clear upside to the game development community. But rather to acknowledge that Epic is likely anticipating the benefits to itself as a company will be higher than the costs.
The real problem is that Postgres will let you load C functions to run in the server context. That's inherently a bad idea.

Your databases should have multiple users configured with limited roles. Nothing web-facing should have a user with the ability to create a function. A SELECT-only user is a good start.