skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dockless bikes and scooters are not actually the problem.

> For decades now, cars have gotten the royal treatment. Users were able to pick up their cars and drop them off anywhere in the city. It was simply expected that anywhere one goes in a city, one could be guaranteed a free, giant space to park one’s private 4000 pound box, no questions asked. Sure, in some dense areas, payment is now required. Yet private vehicle parking is basically considered a right. We know this because when we can’t find parking for more than two minutes, we get upset. 5 minutes? We get very upset.

Isn't this a false comparison? You're not allowed to park your car in any random place you like, you're required to park in specially marked and designated areas. For instance, I can't park my car in the middle of a street or in a park without getting it ticketed and towed. Isn't the big nuisance of dockless bikes that they are literally littered on sidewalks and other public spaces?

I don't recall there being any uproar about docked bike rentals, which are much more comparable to the current situation with cars.
Site's down, so alternative (Google Cached) link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:paAIFbe...
This is why you shouldn’t put your business in California. There’s a legion of highly-paid bureaucrats who have nothing, I mean nothing, better to do than screw with you.
I don't think it's so cut and dry. Reddit could be described as the same charter and I think we all have to agree that place got pretty toxic.
The Manhattan project was distributed all around the country. From the pile under bleachers in Chicago, to the Hanford site in WA, the testing in the New Mexico desert, and Oak Ridge in Tennessee.
Having legal "nukes" can also be a good thing, even for David when they're going against Goliath. I was recently involved with a legal dispute with a large corporate landlord. I was able to line up enough potential illegal civil and criminal acts that I'm pretty sure their lawyers just decided it would cheaper to settle with me.
> "Elites are studiously silent about the familial basis of their relative success. Marital stability is now a form of competitive advantage for the upper tier ... amplified by the insistence that family formation is ... an obstacle to autonomy." - Patrick Deneen

Divorce destroys wealth. Wealthy people understand that marrying partnering is a partnership which a sprinkle of romantic interest. Middle class and below is fixated on "finding the one" who will complete them and with whom he or she can be happy together in a crappy studio apartment without realizing that the crappy studio apartment they are going to be stuck in because "love conquers all" is going to seriously negatively affect their relationship.
No, most of the time they are rather unremarkable and don't cause problems for anybody. You hear about the outliers, not the thousands and thousands of NDAs that are never disputed.
That's 1 robocall for every married couple in the U.S...

It's a shame Mr. Abramovich did not learn respect at yeshiva, if he was raised in my orthodox community he would not be acting like this..
Also FYI, CEO of Bolt here. Ask me anything!
> We got great results for shareholders, we got great results for advertisers and our users and our employees

As a spectator who remembers waves of Yahoo! layoffs, I find it difficult to agree with Ms Mayer saying they got great results for employees.
Very cool how the search for a material for use in computing led to a better blue pigment. Reminds me of all the technologies developed during the space race or for the military that wound up being use in every day applications.
How do you deal with custom extensions (for example plv8)?

I started off with heroku and they don't support the same subset:

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/extensions

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-extens...
Yeah, have to agree here. From personal observations, as well as other people I know who work there, MSFT work/life balance is hard to beat. Ofc it varies by team, so I can only talk about what I have personally encountered
What do you call Python, JavaScript, Java, or C#?
Cyberwarfare isn't going to achieve air superiority. There's still a place for a plane to keep other planes away
Wealth in 2nd world or 3rd world countries has a lot of its own dangers as well. According to Twitter, he's in Egypt... if I were on the run from angry money people I probably wouldn't want to hide out in some place with so much violence.
Denying worker's comp for injury is so obviously illegal and such a brazen civil liability that it would be shocking that a company of Tesla's size would be able to simply refuse to deal with it. This person should be able to sue the pants off of Tesla. If they haven't gotten any compensation for their injuries maybe they haven't even filed a worker's comp claim, or they don't know that's a thing, or something.
Compression and checksumming have nothing to do with each other.

I can't think of even one compression algorithm that implements checksums. That's why archive formats (like ZIP, 7z, etc.) need to implement checksums separately — inflate and deflate algorithms ZIP uses don't have any kind of built in checksums.
Long ago I had an Apple Newton. The funnest thing for the Newton, by far, was a program that would evaluate statements or code snippets of NewtonScript on the device. It let you try little programs while you were waiting for something.
Or the fact that they don't seem to be aware of the Case-Shiller index which measures the same thing, is the industry standard, and is widely reported in the financial media.
The company could just improve the situation enough that the workers don't want to unionize. Losing your agility isn't a good enough argument to convince people to not negotiate a better situation for themselves when you are literally destroying their bodies.

It's not even like they are acting the same as the rest of the industry. Directly in the article it says that they have much higher injury rates than the rest of the industry. Either make the environment safer or at least give the workers enough equity that they benefit from pushing the company through as well. It's pretty disenguous for a rich guy like Elon to say that this is losing money now, so everyone has to sacrifice, when he's going to reap the benefits of that sacrifice
The Israelis proved that the best way to destroy another airforce is on the ground
If there's nothing wrong, but the NDA scares people into staying silent instead of saying there's nothing wrong, that's still a problem.
By volume even 15% is still a shit ton of gold.
It's not new (if we're allowed to say that anything in system created less than 3 years ago can be "not new") but the core functionality (delegatecall opcode) was added to support linked libraries. Delegatecall's abuse to use it for "upgradable contracts" is relatively new, the opcode was not designed to handle this "pattern", it's somehow undesired consequence of introducing it that it can be abused in this way. Noting more than that. Really, I don't think most people realize what it actually means and what can and cannot be altered in "upgradable contract".
That’s probably true, but I do think that the addition of wasm complicated things. Imagine a js bridge that calls window objects by strings built in the wasm blob, or does anytning using eval. Now the wasm code can call anything js can through this bridge.
> I look around me and every single object I use and makes my life better was made by a corporation.

Markets work well for most commodities.

On the other hand, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid ensure that people don't die so they can hopefully go on to enjoy a better life.

> I don't fear Facebook knowing everything about me and selling that info to third parties

A KGB, but for advertising, still collects and centralizes private info that can be abused by any party, governmental or private. A recent example of that exact dataset being abused by a private entity: the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Also, insurers and repo-men love accurate location tracking etc. Your insurers most likely aren't using that information to give you better rates.
Yes, but that isn't what I'm talking about.. for example, Tesla produces seats in house.. they're low margin and labor intensive. And Tesla runs an assembly line in their factory that makes them cost even more. Other auto companies outsource this part. There's no special IP here.. Not everything that Tesla touches is special. A seat is a seat.
I've never ridden a motorcycle, you are right.

>Does that make sense?

No, but English is not first language, I'm lacking some technical vocabulary.
Days after Russian clampdown, Iran signals that a ban of Telegram is imminent
When say revenue do you mean Gross Merchandise Volume?

Because that would really be a small market if you stuck to SF. I've used infousa.com to get an idea of number of businesses in an SIC code. To help me get an idea of the size of a market.
The updates take the entire instance down for 2-5 minutes each month. While you can't avoid them, they can be scheduled for particularly low traffic times. If you're trying to avoid downtime, its a giant PIA. Even with HA enabled, you still lose master, slave and read replicas. Not entirely sure what they define HA as, but a mandatory monthly downtime doesn't usually fit into mine.

[Update]
That said, from what I understand, they have a road map to maintaining read replicas and queued writes. Not sure what the date on it is though.
While my job title isn't made-up, I've noticed the same. I've also noticed that very few people actually like LinkedIn -- my colleagues and I only use it because someone convinced us all that we need to be on it. I'm starting to feel more stupid as I realize what I just wrote...
Seems like the opposite? The F35 is a highly stealthy missile delivery system. If someone brings down the US Power Grid, then the F35 can shoot down air-defenses and prepare a large-scale bombing run.

Aside from ICBMs / Nukes, it seems like superiority weapons are the best weapons of war.

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Cyber is incredibly important in today's world of spycraft and intelligence. But if war actually starts, then the little cyber toys don't really hold a candle to straight-up killing a bunch of enemies.

Now, one might be worried about the philosophy or ethics about building incredibly powerful and expensive weapons of war. But with regards to efficacy? A stealth fighter that is nearly undetectable by enemy radar that is equipped with multiple long-range missiles that can be delivered beyond the horizon is going to be a useful tool.
This action directly violates GDPR, the consent is not freely given and as such not valid. Trackwall is not acceptible, that's why "freely given" is written in Article 7.4.

Bottom line, even if you give them consent in such forced manner, they will pay the fine if they use the data. Not only that, I bet that in this moment there is a lawyer preparing class action against FB for forcing the consent (And they will win! After 25th of May, FB is breaking the EU law). Max Schrems gave FB hard time before and I bet he is just waiting for new chance, this is his site https://noyb.eu/ , check it and check how many donations he got. I am stockpiling myself with popcorns as this is going to be fun to watch. I really thought that FB is going to be smarter, probably Zuck got another of his tantrums and did another really stupid business mistake, that will cost him a lot.

But, as FB user, please consider something else: Facebook is trying to downplay your rights, which directly proves that don't care about you. Do you really want to continue using such service? Do you really value yourself so low that you are prepared to bend over?
Is the missing stable red pigment the reason why red clothes give off their color in the laundry much easier than the other colors?
Even in that situation, if you’re a paycheck-to-paycheck worker, how much boat-rocking can you endure? On some theoretical future date according to the law you can get back at your employer, great: in the meantime, maybe you got fired and now you can’t feed yourself?

We’ve seen plenty of companies that shrug off large fines and such. Whatever the rules, it has to reach the point of being seriously unprofitable to disobey (i.e. investors knocking to demand compliance).
> What are you skeptical about? That this person's friend is actually injured? That it happened because of tesla?

What I (not the original poster of the comment you are questioning) is that they were injured in the workplace at Tesla as en employee and unable to get anything from Tesla to deal with that, since workers compensation is a bright-line legal requirement for all employers and covers all employees.

Now, bureaucratic difficulties dealing with Tesla’s WC insurer resulting in annoying runarounds, poor doctors in inconvenient locations, and disappointing care quality would be credible. Crickets, though, stretches belief.
What version of Captain America has underpants on the outside? I'm not familiar with that version of the character's outfit...

On a more serious note, the point of the comment is that if the context allows you to be taken relatively seriously in a superhero outfit, it might not be a bad idea to attract people to a booth... Yes, those contexts might not be extremely common.
Followed by the escrow service founder taking all the money and fleeing the country.
So why are people still afraid to talk, then? It's obvious that either the law isn't as crystal clear, the law does not prevent companies from writing FUD into employment contracts or that people are not educated well enough about their rights. Or: that they have economic pressure (e.g. no 3 months of savings, like way too many people have!) to stay in their job and thus cannot afford to lose it by ratting out illegal or immoral practices.

Now, if every company in the world had the legal requirement to add a paragraph like "in the event that you witness illegal behavior at the company, the law explicitly allows you to report such behavior to media, unions, NGOs and public offices, and we are required to pay you for the duration of the investigation", that would be a different story. Everyone who reads his/her contract would know it.
You're right, I had the volume mixed up, thank you for the correction.

But:

> the only people rolling glass are small-scale stained glass manufacturers.

What about:

- the glass used for solar panels

- the glass used for wire bonded glass

- patterned glass

AFAIK those are all made using rollers.
If You Take Venture Capital, You’re Forcing Your Company to Exit
Login-with-Facebook data hijacked by JavaScript trackers
The office has been cleared out.
As a naval aviator myself, no I don't think this is a much of a problem as you're trying to make it out to be.
BigQuery charges you for the storage so it's not just the queries. It also charges for the streaming inserts which is also not that cheap for large volumes of data.

I might be biased since I'm running an analytics company and this is my core business but here's our alternative:

The query and storage layer should be separated because often the expensive one the is the query layer. We have API servers which ingest the data from SDKs, enrich/sanitize and send it to a commit log such as Kinesis and Kafka. One API server is capable of handling 10k r/q.

We have the Kinesis/Kafka consumers that consume the data in micro-batches, convert them to ORC files, store it on S3 and index the metadata in a single Mysql server. The throughput is around 15k r/q.

S3 or Cloud Storage is cheap, reliable and can be used for many other use-cases as well but you need high-memory nodes for the query layer if you're dealing large volumes of data.

We have a Presto cluster which spins up when you need to run ad-hoc queries, allows you to pre-materialize the data so that you can power your dashboards. If you're running expensive queries on raw data, you can spin up 10 Presto worker, execute the queries and then just shut down them when you don't need.

That way, we're able to access all the historical data, no extra cost for the data ingestion and storage and it's even better than serverless since it will be much cheaper. The system can be automatic based on the hour of the day (during your analysts working hours) the CPU and memory load so unfortunately "BigQuery's on-demand model" is not a killing feature anymore.
To be clear, we're talking about Logical Clocks [0], not what humans usually think of as a clock or its purpose.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_clock
This is such an inspiring story!
We need something along those lines to changes two things Americans continue doing in isolation and against the rest of the world: tipping and circumcision :)
14,000lb per sq inch, good god engineers are cool.
...tcl/tk is always being worked on, too. If only the ttk widgets were easier to style and more consistent between the platforms.
I love the bit about "working directly with union supporters" too. Am I supposed to recoil in horror upon reading that? "Oh no, not the dreaded union supporters!! And being worked with directly no less!"

...is what I would say if I were Montgomery Burns. Tesla's PR people must be thinking it's better to win over the tiny Burns demographic and not the millions of Homer Simpsons out there.
Did anyone learn anything about financial regulation in any history (or other) class in any USA public school? I certainly didn't. If we're relying on high school to keep the public solvent, the public's insolvency is no surprise.
No, of course not, it's just that I've gone through the process of having "wake up" in other parts of my life, where I thought something was one way and it was another. And now, I wonder what people in other countries really see is real.

But for some reason, we tack on "technology" to something, and we think it's something different, when it's not.
Oh, I agree that Seiko is doing great watches, I've had mine for years and I truly appreciate wearing it.
I shudder to think how much more I could have accomplished if I'd worked for a CEO who had my back like that! I've had jobs where half my time was coding and the other half was in meetings. When all I wanted to do was code. Guess that might be why I was attracted to startups in the first place!
Saying that you want to use "best practices" is a great way to sidestep the question of why an app like this needs any private information at all.
...and we're already pretty far down the rabbit hole of how zoning gets so complex.

There are always exceptions. There are always circumstances. There are always NIMBYs. AFAICT, you cannot regulate how land is used — which isn't necessarily a bad thing — without bumping into those things, which seems invariably to compromise, or at least complicate, the effort.

I would still very much prefer zoning over someone who can afford to do so deciding, simply on that basis, that he's going to build, say, a tannery up-wind of my home.

Imposing your externalities upon others is, IMO, a bright-line breach of the NAP. (Since it's so often Libertarian-leaning folk who are all, "But zoning!")

EDIT: phrasing
Specialist engineer doing failure analysis doesn't sound like one of the more injury prone jobs. I mean, I don't know what happened, I just don't associate that job description with debilitating injuries, so it does sound a little crazy.
yeah well, for a youtuber it aint that bad. I suspect he's a decent guy.
Every nation has spies in the US, especially in our schools and government institutions. That people think such facts are “conspiracy theories” should be the real news story.
>>The article has full details on how to create a contract changeable by one party, then hand waving about "writing a contract that uses tokens and voting mechanism to allow the community to decide whether to update or not." No details on how that's supposed to work. Who's "the community", anyway?

The possibilities are endless. You could have pre-chosen adjucators that can upgrade a contract on majority vote. You could use a decentralized prediction market like Augur to trigger a contract upgrade if it deems that certain events occurred, etc.

Upgradability is just one component of many that will be needed to create a durable/secure smart contracting system. It's not a silver bullet.

>>The Etherium promoters want this because they botched the design.

Do you misspell Ethereum deliberately? I only ask because I've seen you comment multiple times about Ethereum with this misspelling, which comes across as very petty.

>>The DAO debacle, and this latest demand for a "state change" because someone botched a big contract, indicate that.

The latest state change request is overwhelmingly rejected by the community and will not happen.

The request is only possible at all because of the temporary state of Ethereum having several hard forks planned that a state change can be snuck into.

Once this phase of its life cycle is over, even requests for a state change will not happen.

>>Smart contracts should have been in some declarative form like decision logic tables

The point of using byte coded programs and a Turing Complete execution environment is to make features like the smart contract programming language totally configurable, rather tied to a single base implementation.
And private citizens don’t like it when judges order their money to be taken without warning or consent. I was just saying that crypto gives people options that might enable them to maintain more control over the situation than they would have if their money is just sitting in a bank.
For background, our customers use Redshift, and we are also a heavy Redshift user for our own back-end. The ones that have done a bake-off with BigQuery (and Snowflake too, btw) come all back with the conclusion "too expensive". And if you're the BigQuery PM, I'd love to talk to you because we're planning to build for BigQuery what we've built for Amazon Redshift. lars at intermix dot io

I think the difference here is in the use case, and I think it boils down to "ETL" vs. "ELT". If you do ETL, and your analyst team runs a few ad-hoc queries, then the pay-per-query approach makes a lot of sense. It would agree that it's "ultra-efficient".

If you do "ELT", where you ingest fairly raw data on a continuous basis, and then run complex transformations within your data warehouse, then the "buy a cluster" pricing will win. The data loads (we've seen load frequency up to every 2 minutes) require resources, and then so do the transformations.

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side note:

When it comes to utilization, I always have to think of this great research paper by Andrew Odlyzko:

http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/network.utilization.pdf

"Data networks are lightly utilized, and will stay that way"

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Agreed that most warehouses sit at 30% utilization. The customers we work with have more utilization than 30% though. That's because they're continuously ingesting data, transforming it within Redshift, and then lots of ad-hoc queries by analyst teams and data services that feed other applications. If you have a business that runs on a two or more continents, then you don't even have downtime during US nighttime, as Europe, Asia, etc. are running. And so in those cases, we've seen that customers don't want any surprises and would rather pay for the cluster. Predictability becomes more important than paying the lowest amount possible per query.

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I'm a co-founder at https://www.intermix.io - we provide monitoring for data infrastructure
>not even sure what hot-desking claims to achieve

It's mostly for environments in which the company's short on space and a lot of employees don't routinely come into the office. Hot desking eliminates permanently provisioning office space that may be only used for one day in five or ten.

If that's not the problem being solved, I'm not sure what is. Now no one knows where anyone is sitting and teams are at least theoretically all scattered around.
My cofounder is sleeping with an employee and lying to me about it