skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's based on the (false) belief that 2 section of the code base accessing/updating the same data will be performing the same function so it should be in one place. This one place is the data access layer and as more exceptions to this belief more and more "business logic" seeps into the data access layer. Then your business layer is anemic because most of the "logic" is moved to the data access layer and it's just an unnecessary pass though from the application layer.

Some places will be very strict about this design pattern and require the application layer make multiple calls to the BLL and DLL, typically resulting in a problem known as n+1, where the application layer is making 10's - 1000's of separate calls to the database per request instead of just doing it in an inner join.

Advanced implementations will have these layers physically separated on different machines in the mistaken belief that more CPU will fix this performance problem, modern implementations will call them microservices. Of course nobody measures the impact. By this point any hope of transactionality is lost.

So instead of "messy" inline sql or ORM calls you end up with 7 layers doing nothing between you and the database and showing 10 items in a list on a web page takes 54 seconds.

And that ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is why I didn't brake when I saw the software architect crossing the road.
I feel like people - us, here, on this forum - sometimes think too big. Like, we have to invent the new Facebook or it’s not worth it. I think that can cripple our thinking.

(Obviously I’m massively generalising. I’m not having a dig at anyone here.)

I’ve realised recently that there’s good money to be made solving little problems. Not Zuckerberg money, but who wants that lifestyle. Ramen money.

Example: my partner is a medical copywriter. Some jobs, she spends hours reformatting journal citations. All she’s doing is making part of it italic, making sure the dashes are all en-dashes, whatever.

How many medical copywriters are there? How many people have this problem? Now, it’s not a life-changing thing, but it’s what computers are for! So we’re building a little tool that will make this easier for us.

What’s our goal? I don’t know. To make enough to pay our rent? That’d be lovely for starters and what is that, a thousand people giving us $5/month each? That’s nothing.

It also helps, of course, that she’s in this industry. She knows where to go to find other people with the same problem. Solve something in your domain, and everything’s going to be easier. (It’s also why I’m not afraid of telling everyone here what the idea is. Chances of someone else being passionate and knowledgeable about this, enough to steal the idea, are near nil.)

That’s where my head’s at, and it makes thinking about this stuff much easier for me, at least.
> <class A> who prioritizes their career do better, in their career, than <class B> who prioritizes something other than their career>.

Is that not how things are supposed to work?
What about places with no mountains?

What about mobile users?
You’re not allowed to store PII in Google Analytics already as per the terms of service:

You will not and will not assist or permit any third party to, pass information to Google that Google could use or recognise as personally identifiable information.

https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html , section 7.
Seen one Einstein ring, seen them all...
Is he wondering what would happen if he ad never gotten onboard of any of those services? With such extreme cuts they take it sound like a shop with his unique selling point (neapolitan pizza, home made cheese) may be able to survive fine with less business but more profit per order.
Also, we haven't looked everywhere yet.
It will be interesting to see how it works out, as you say better tools and knowledge, I am looking forward to use it
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US back to TPP?
It isn’t the job of usps (or ups, fedex, dhl, ...) to do customs checks (in fact as an arm of the government usps is much more constrained than any private company would be in this regard), the job of prevent drugs/counterfeits in is customs and border control.

I suspect that if there is any reason for usps being favored it’s that the us government signed a treaty that means usps has no choice but to accept mail at below cost.
I'm founding Uber for Biotech. No biosafety regulation is going to stop us from CRISPRing our way into better future!

Seriously though, I get that archaic rules need to be fought in order to be changed. But there are proper ways to do that, and Uber did it in about the most antisocial way possible aside from murdering people. Please, don't be like Uber. Innovations need a stable society to flourish.
I think tempest hardening is probably just entry level protection for man-portable devices and vehicles.

This sort of program probably crosses over into PERFECT CITIZEN territory. [0,1]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704545004575352...

[1] https://twitter.com/treekisser/status/286555593307742208 (paywall/seo referrer hack)
I think that's exactly what any real system would do. This sort of widespread event encryption and forgetting is crazy. It is a very bad idea to delete events from the immutable event log. There is no telling how downstream consumers will react but it probably won't be good. It's much simpler to only hold references to a user (UserID) and then if you need to forget that a user you simply burn whatever is behind that UserID.

This is actually how the GDPR is designed: it's not about user data it's about personal data, that is data that can be associated or related back to an "identifiable person." The problem is not that you need to delete all the user's data across all your systems, the problem is that you need to break any associations that would allow you to identify a natural person who has asked to be "forgotten." The funny thing is that while some people make lots of noises about GDPR being some huge "burden," the reality is that any architect worth her salt should've been designing systems like this from the very start rather than letting personal data be replicated en mass from one system to another. It is a basic normalization of data. All the GDPR is doing, like most regulations, is requiring businesses follow best practices and not cut corners that might harm end users. The great thing about this in the long run is that this fixes a huge problem with the internet. Today users are reluctant to sign up to a service precisely because they don't want to surrender their data because once it's gone it's gone forever. I suspect users will be more open to trying new services if they can be assured that it's possible to "un-sign up", that is be "forgotten" by a service.
We are OK until all the phones start ringing.
So the EU Parliament (bunch of nobodies every ignores) have recommended to the EU Commission (EU civil service, bunch of generally experienced civil servants who get to pass rules from their in-country colleagues that their in-country civil servants and politicians find too unpalatable to do at home) asked the commission to (eventually) pass laws giving robots legal person-like status because you know, Asimov is cool.

And actual experts have written saying that's a bad idea.

But i had to read it twice to find that out - guys take a tip from newpapers "Who the hell reads the second paragraph?" Next time put the story in the first paragraph

Anyway, yeah. like nothing bad will come of making robots legal persons.

We can wait till Robin Williams asks
I work a a major advertiser in a domain that gives me fairly in-depth understanding of ad-tech.

In general most big advertisers don't really really care about your name, address, email, phone, IP etc and generally take pains to see such data doesn't enter analytics datasets.

They do care about demographics and interests in an anonymized manner because face it, showing a sanitary napkin ad to a guy is typically neither going to be liked by the guy, nor is it a good use of the advertisers money which belongs to its shareholders.

In general outside the walled gardens tech stacks are setup in a way that you cannot ever be personally identified.
To me Duolingo is a fun side activity while learning a language, good to reinforce vocabulary, but I wish the exercises had just a bit of context. So much of language is with full expressions. When we learn words, we don't learn them individually but rather how they are used in a context or phrase.
> Errr how is usps a monopoly?

Because it has an actual, written in law, government-enforced monopoly on first class mail, standard mail, and mailbox access.
But they didn’t even need the damned bill to nail the Backpage owners. So what’s the point of the SESTA power grab?
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You're drawing a false dilemma here. The question isn't "Was it possible for pimps to go on Backpage?" but "How easy was it to work without a pimp on Backpage versus on the street?"

That's the argument people were making — not that nothing bad ever happened where Backpage was involved, but that sex workers feel more required to put themselves in bad situations in the absence of something like Backpage.
> FedEx and UPS happily deliver to my front door, 25 miles and down a long dirt road from the nearest town.

What's the shipping cost, though? It's great that it's a real option either way.
Cryptochromes? Will there be an ICO?
Makes sense. Thank you for your thoughtful response.
Technology will always find a way.
But in the path of travel??!
i didn't mean to imply your faith was unjustified. more that it's indicative of a problem
> Then communicate the result via powerlines.

Why? Just put a WiFi dongle on your machine; you control the hardware anyways. Or, put a cellular modem on it, and talk to it from anywhere in the world.
I mentioned systemd as humour
If you want to scale it, It would be more expensive not to choose the already integrated route (NGINX+) rather than building your own (API GW, LoadBalancer) wouldn't it?
Here’s how Seattle-area tech companies are chipping away at bias against women
False. NUMEROUS other sex worker sites have been taken down including reddit removing its sex worker sub.

So are we targeting human trafficking or are we targeting prostitution?

To use my grocery store analogy its like if one box of cheerios was bad closing down every single grocery store in the country to prevent people from eating bad cheerios then passing a law saying the govt can shut down any grocery it wants in the future on suspicion of bad cheerios....

Heavy handed...
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A reasonable effort is to have an architecture in place that allows you to comply with the removal process. If that isn't the case, rebuild until it is.
I think every website should comply with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Sec...
What’s funny about this whole thing is that nobody really cares that their own data may have been accessed by CA, they are just angry that other people, meaning gullible Trump supporters, may have been affected.
It was involved in 73 percent of all child trafficking cases reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

The proportion of that site's activities that are related to illegal activities is completely irrelevant. It may be that 0.001% of the classifieds on Backpage were human trafficking related but if that made up even 10% of human trafficking cases this is a slam dunk success in terms of stopping human trafficking.

In related news we've been spending 7.6 billion a year on the TSA after 9.11 to prevent terrorism....

True and that's a terrible waste of money but completely unrelated to this.

It blows my mind that someone thinks allowing terrible illegal activity in the name of some mysterious concept of internet freedom is a good thing. Certainly you don't seem particularly concerned with the freedom of those being trafficked in the physical world.
Those aren't the same thing, but that's not fake chicken either.

Chicken fed on chemical feed is not "fake" chicken either. I can understand it doesn't live up to your expectations though.
Your suggestions might be vulnerable to wormholes and other “shortcuts” across spacetime.
Bullshit. And repeating thrid degree five times won't change it. Yes it happens with coffe.

Coffee temperature was right. Lowered one is wrong.
I can easily see my heartbeat in my vision by staying still and concentrating. Everything shifts slightly with each pulse, you just don't notice because the overwhelming vibrations contributed by ordinary life interfere with the weak signal of the heartbeat. But how can you train yourself to see white blood cells? What do you look for?
RE the flat paragraph structure - did they just reimplement Emacs in the browser?

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Te...

(Also I think - from occasional messing with XML in .docx files - but can't be sure that Word flattens styling like that as well.)
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Because its extremely difficult to do something about it.

Its normal for people to change what they're working on, this is inevitable.
Having a pain point and validating it with a set of other users is a good vector for success. While that is true I have seen/heard/read many ideas that are brainstormed in a room and selected at random becoming widely successful.

Anyway, regarding food you could have thought about a machine/robot based solution, at least to begin with :)
Right, but my point is that if you have actively experienced discrimination, you're less likely to judge the research as unwarranted.

The research is warranted, but seems not to support the idea that discrimination is a major driver in the difference in career outcomes or lifetime earnings.

And of course we should continue to discuss all the other reasons women don't end up going into high paying jobs.

Why should we do that?
Not false. Backpage was taken down on April 6th [1][2] while SESTA wasn't signed until April 11th [3][4]. It's okay to oppose SESTA, but that's not what this is about.

[1] http://www.backpage.com/

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-backpage-justice/sex-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_...

[4] https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/11/trump-signs-fosta-sesta-...
I think "super high density" is probably hyperbolic. As density increases shared airwaves become more crowded and wired infrastructure becomes cheaper to operate. I can see wired internet being competitive for a long time. Even in places more like St. Louis than Manhattan.

I choose where to live because I can have two different fiber connections (for speed and a failsafe). How long will it be before satellite internet offers 2gbps symmetrical with low latency at reasonable prices?
Weak condensation trails that you didn't bother looking for sober? Aircraft often follow deterministic paths.
> ...but it's an invaluable service subsidized by taxpayer dollars ...

No, they are not subsidized by tax payer dollars. From[0] - "The Postal Service receives NO tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations."

[0]https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-facts/top-10-things...
I mean... you may not be able to distribute food, but as far as I know, it's certainly not illegal to create a social networking app where someone can say "I'm interested in a sandwich" and another person says "I'll make you a sandwich for $5". If Tinder is legal, I don't see how that could not be.
I strongly disagree that Cambridge Analytica has done more damage than advertising. The leading causes of death in the US are preventable. Companies are pumping out disinformation to get people to consume things that are killing them, as well, to spend money on non essential items they can't afford.
It appears to be more than one company, for starters. They frankly seem more like an investment or holding company in some ways: The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the American Chemical Society and its related entities, which consist of ACS International, Ltd., a wholly owned international marketing services subsidiary, and Hampden Data Services, Ltd., a wholly owned chemical information software company. The consolidated financial statements also include the accounts of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, an endowment fund established to advance scientific education and research in the petroleum field, and the American Chemical Society Insurance Trust, a grantor trust established to enable members of the Society to purchase insurance coverage through group insurance policies. All significant interorganizational transactions have been eliminated. The accounts of the Society’s chapters, referred to as local sections and divisions, are not included in the Society’s consolidated financial statements because the Society does not have a financial controlling interest in its chapters.
I agree, I'm not arguing for complete abstractions here, just showing that the fact that you can abstract away the differences means that the db is not a "defining" part of the system.
The point of the FOSTA power grabs is to make it easy to go after sites providing arms-length escort information with no or only incidental connection to trafficking and with none of the ancillary (money laundering, etc.) offenses in the Backpage or MyRedbook cases.

SESTA seems mostly to function as a smokescreen for FOSTA (since it drives all the media attention to it and it's knowing involvement in trafficking requirement).
Competing in forgotten markets (2012)
I use Safari on desktop because it syncs that stuff so well with iOS. (And it’s much better for battery life than Chrome)
You can see it with the naked eye, too, near the center of your vision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger%27s_brush
What is the meaning of the ICE acronym?
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Will that be bi-directional? I always thought satellite internet was only one way, then you had to use a phone or dsl for the uplink.. Does musk's system change that?
Using Outlook? You should probably do some patching
Sure seems like it to me. When everyone knows you better get in now because the market is only going up....
Some U.S. law enforcement agencies are using GrayKey to bypass iPhone encryption
s/Sauce/Source/ ;-)
In that video, it looks like the driver had about 1 second to react to the Tesla's mistake, to avoid hitting the barrier.

Dumb question: if I have to constantly stay vigilant with 1-second reaction time because at any time my assisted-driving car might try to kill me (exactly how changes every time the software updates) -- isn't it less effort to just drive my car myself, so I mostly just have to worry about the drivers around me?
If you just need a WYSIWYG editor on a web page, and it's a single one, I've used tinyMCE.

On projects where I've had to load up multiple instances, I've had to move away form it as it kept reloading stylesheets and js files for each editor on the page.

Now I usually use quilljs, which works really well for some basic markup.
Well feel free to hang around on Earth while the rest of the species launches exciting scientific and engineering endeavors.

> It's kind of hilarious to think that people seriously propose terraforming mars as a strategy to avoid the dangers of global warming or nuclear war;

Is anyone actually saying this though? I honestly don't think I've ever seen this suggested.
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We're not dependent on a single company in principle, but it so happened in the last 10 years, that they were the only one who cared and had the means to do something about it. Now that they've rekindled the interest and shown the way to lower launch costs, competitors are showing up. Which is good, but I still fear it's early enough that if SpaceX folded now, other space companies would follow, and we'd be stuck again in the early post-Shuttle era.

NASA, with its limited budget and constant micromanagement by politicians, doesn't want to be - and can't be - in the business of trucking things to orbit. That's why they're trying to outsource it as much as possible.
I would suggest trying to think about what task your team has to do often that is better done by a software--a minor but recurring annoyance. Like, in my case,

- Backend and Frontend development are never in sync, so we have to resort to mocking the API by using dummy code. There are API mocking services, but I would prefer something that mocks locally. Charles Proxy is great for this but it can be limiting and isn't very intuitive.

- Every time our customers face an obscure issue with the product, there's plenty of to and fro to understand the root cause of the issue. If there was a product that could tell us the trail of actions that the customers followed, it'll make debugging vastly easier.

Of course, there's a world of difference in recognizing the problem and creating a sustainable product. But, every organization is inefficient in some sort of way. It's just a matter of observing carefully.
You aware of any graphsql layer for postgres implemented in pgsql or pl/python?

Something like using JSONB datatype in a entity key value store table. Mapping materialized views using pgsql json functions. To flatten out the data into sql tables for normal consumption?
Latency? No, the problem is price and data caps.

If SpaceX is going to make huge returns on starlink, they will have to be price competitive with at least the DSL providers that are in many rural communities. Many of your remote rural areas in the US have at least 6 to 10mbps for ~$60 a month, and that's plenty for most casual users. Even for video streaming.
BFR is arguably the biggest risk SpaceX has ever taken.
Likewise, the argument that people who support the takedown are making isn't "it was possible to use Backpage for prostitution", but "Backpage themselves were actively colluding with human traffickers".

Maybe sex workers are less safe now that Backpage is gone, and that sucks — but it doesn't mean we let people working with human traffickers slide.
SpaceX also has a real dependency on political agenda and budget votes (as do all of Musk's companies as the case is: Tesla and SolarCity were built heavily on tax incentives from green initiatives, SpaceX depends on funding from NASA, and the Boring Company looks like it's gearing up to cash in on all those "infrastructure" promises everyone in our government's been demanding). Congress can absolutely decide to fund SpaceX less, or charge SpaceX more for use of government facilities, just as easily as they can pull the funding out from under SLS if they choose to.

Elon Musk is very good at designing companies built on government handouts. ;) Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that.

We are past the "pioneer" stage of space launches: We've done it lots of times. The exciting part is now making space launches cheaper, regular, and more capable. SpaceX is not the only company working on doing those things.
Pointing out a lava tube would have been nice.
"The mining of rare-earth minerals was at one time dominated by the United States. The People's Republic of China has since come to dominate the market."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_mineral

Presumably because China doesn't mind the cost to its miners or the environment (for now).

If that should change then it might start to be viable to mine this deposit.
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I remember there being a bunch of articles over the past year about "sexless-Japan" and I mainly clicked to see if this was yet another one of those dumb articles.

It's mentioned in passing but I'm not sure why this article was written. "Young people feel good about life" is a welcome change from the usual "rah rah, be upset about [bad thing]".