skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels like https://ballerina.io/ but for non-programmers, and with SaaS integrations built-in. I've spent so much time moving CSV between systems at an ecommerce company.

Congrats on the launch, this looks awesome! Would love to learn more about how it was built.
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And how hard are you going to be dropping EU users' data?
I wondered if there was a way to do something similar based on pawn shops and/or car lots. I give item to pawnshop or car lot. They usually have licenses with the state, so they have a reason to be reasonably honest. I borrow crypto-currency and/or keep crypto-currency. Item is for sale for price of cryptocurrency + commission to pawnshop or car lot after so many days if I used as collateral.
Well written and detailed comparison of snapshot and serializable isolation levels.

From the article:

A more concrete reason than “nothing else makes sense” is a question of local vs. global reasoning. If a set of transactions must maintain some kind of invariant within the database (for instance, the sum of some set of fields is always greater than zero). In a database that guarantees serializability, it’s sufficient to verify that every individual transaction maintains this invariant on its own. With anything less than serializability, including Snapshot, one must consider the interactions between every transaction to ensure said invariants are upheld. This is a significant increase in the amount of work that must be done (though in reality, I think the situation is that people simply don’t do it), a point made by Alan Fekete in this talk[1] on isolation.

This bears repeating. In any non-trivial transactional application, the combination of concurrency and non-serializable transaction isolation levels is a serious bug farm. Most app/service backends fall for this trap.

Unfortunately, most OLTP database systems have incredibly poor implementations of the serializable isolation level. Postgres is a notable exception, and it's nice to see some newer database systems--like CockroachDB--making progress in this area.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP-S_RHlsEQ (Thanks for the link; I hadn't seen this talk before.)
Doesn't mean we've picked up any useful correlation.

There are US sub-populations that have lagged. Genetics does not explain this, as overseas populations with the same genetics have not lagged.
And yet it still serves as a common talking point for inspiration. People did go into the sciences in the past and day dream of all sorts of things because of the Apollo missions. The political realities of the Cold War helped fund the project...sort of like how the fight against terrorism helps fund projects to this day.
In my opinion, it is very, very hard to fully sandbox a clever AI. It can find side channels, or it can turn innocuous stuff into computing device...

e.g: "Accidentally Turing complete" shows how things that were not intended to be computing devices are actually Turing complete. Including: Magic the gathering, the card game.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet...
So how would you signal that you're willing to go the distance? I would tell him "I'm coming for that $17k even if it costs me more that $17k. I'm coming for your clients and your business. I'm start speaking to other contracts and we are going to bring a class action against you.

We're going to see if your clients have been impacted by your business practise and see if they want to join the lawsuit. Our lawyers will be in with your clients and employees...blablabla"

Tell what you are going to do next then do it. Hold a little back at every stage i.e. don't tell him just yet that you've spoken to other contracts. Keep that up your sleeve for later.
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Well, I could see how the government might not like people printing their own money without going through the central bank.
> investors don’t hesitate to hold a few USDT now and then

But it is not "now and then". It is 2.8 billion all the time! Maybe they are hold by different people at different times. Yet, they have to be held somewhere by someone all the time, who think that it is a good idea to have USDT instead of USD or BTC.
> Fortunately, they can’t actually enforce this, so I’ll be ignoring it, just like I would for Saudi Arabian anti-blasphemy laws.

Yes! That is exactly the right position to take as a US company!

Anyone claiming differently is most probably peddling snake-oil in the form of "GDPR compliance".
https://www.wcrf.org/int/blog/articles/2018/05/blueprint-bea... is the announcement.
>Sounds to me like the issue is government deciding who gets to be a monopoly.

That sounds great except in practical terms there's little that can be done.

Who cares if it's government to blame or the corporations, the problem remains the same.
Thanks! That's exactly my point.
That's an interesting way to think about it - similar to β and α in the portfolio analysis sense.

I don't know how well that model holds up in practice though. To use HBO Now as an example: when Game of Thrones was the only show I was interested in, I would sub for 3 months to watch a new season live and then cancel. Once I caught the Westworld bug I was that much less likely to cancel my subscription during the down time.
A list of alumni so I can see where people go afterwards or how long they stay
It is interesting. But, how long before Alexa knows that is how people refer to her alternatively?
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I don't agree, but at least I understand where you're coming from. Here is the stasis of our dispute:

> I would argue most of these things make the world a better place not a worse place. And that people should be able to choose how they want to pay for those services.

I'm not convinced any of the apps we pay for in data really improve our lives. The price we pay in control over our identity and our information usually outweighs the benefits. And in some cases, like in many distracting social apps or pay-to-win games, there is no benefit. The app is just designed to addict us, keep us occupied, and make our lives worse.

Furthermore, I don't think "allowing users to decide for themselves" is going to make a difference. That's like allowing poison in food, because everyone can scan the ingredients on the label for known poisons. It's unreasonable to expect the average person to do due diligence on every service they use online.
I like it. The thing that I'm asking myself now is why do I like it (and other "humanized" drawings) ? I've always preferred accuracy over ambiguity, clean minimization over unnecessary clutter, shouldn't I prefer clean straight lines over something a human can draw on a sheet of paper? I'd never want to read a book written in human handwriting, so why is this appealing to me? Is it perhaps because the lack of optimization of the diagram contrasts and brings out the simplicity of the idea being conveyed? I could bring up some theories but can't say for sure.
Have you read this thread? I personally stumbled hard on the definition for Firebase ("essentially equivalent to AWS" -- I might be paraphrasing slightly since it's been a day).
All lives are not of equal worth. If that were the case the president wouldn't have a phalanx of Secret Service protecting him at all times.
A zero-configuration button for adding applause to web pages and blog-posts
I’m still confused—why is the idea to extend crypt(3), rather than for PAM to just call something besides crypt(3), pulling in a better hashing library at the libpam level rather than at the libc level?
>>If a bank handles U.S. dollars, they are under U.S. jurisdiction.

I've always thought of Tether as the loose cryptocurrency equivalent of a eurodollar[1] facility. If the eurodollar was Bitfinex's original inspiration, then Bitfinex probably thought that keeping their USD deposits (which allegedly back Tethers 1:1) in custody of foreign banks (i.e. non-US domiciled banks) would place them outside of US jurisdiction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar
By all means let's also put every officer into 20cm thick rubberized suits, because you never know when you're pulling over a speeder if you'll be hit by another passing car.

Actually that's way more likely than the situation turning otherwise violent...

[/sarcasm]
you still have a duke and you still toil.
I've heard this line a lot, but even as a government loving liberal it doesn't sound very compelling to me. The law says, comply or face fines up to 4% of global revenue. It doesn't say, "make a best effort to comply, or face fines up to 4% of global revenue." I'm very reluctant to trust people who can fine me for that much money that they won't do so. This is especially the case because it appears to some of us foreigners that the EU particularly loves to fine foreign companies for large amounts despite what appears, from our perspective, to be a good faith attempt that to comply with the law.
The language used, strategy and even just context of TV Broadcast/Cable programming is this whole art/science/data mess that they are constantly tweaking to try and get an advantage.

Ratings "don't matter" to Netflix in the sense of "our single camera family based Thursday sitcom is 5 points higher than theirs but since they attracted more males age 20-35 they're pulling in more advertising".

Netflix is playing a different game entirely.
Completely agree with you. I've seen this over and over and over with people I know. They always want something badly enough that they'll find any excuse to dismiss any downsides to it.

"Amazon/Google/Apple/Facebook/X have very smart people who will not allow this to happen."

"I have nothing to hide."

"People who want to listen to our boring conversations are losers. Let them waste their time doing so."

And the list goes on. I'm not making any of this up.

And then when it (occasionally) happens to them, there is a whole lot of dramatic outrage and someone else must be blamed. (Although in this case, I agree someone else is to blame - but I've seen this play out when people explicitly agree in the contract to consequences, and are warned quite clearly by a human about the implications of the contract).
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Interestingly, this article on performing rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performing_rights seems to suggest "public" performance is any amount of people outside your close circle of family and friends.

Which would seem to suggest that any internal workplace transmission would constitute a "public" performance of a copyrighted work.
If the auto update happens to brick the device, it becomes expensive for the manufacturer.

Most of them have many models. Probably many are developed with copy-paste fashion, meaning separate updates and separate testing for each model.
I love your pods at T5! They're super fun.
In my case I was faxing over plain G711 through a SIP to analog phone jack converter. Not saying it’s a good idea or reliable, but it worked in my case.

So the parent post could’ve very well thought he had used his modem on a real copper line while in fact it was VoIP, just the compression was light enough that it still worked fine like in my case.
> And how much revenue does the Instapaper service generate for Pinterest?

Who cares? That's not a factor in whether or not you should comply with the law.

> Lower profile groups within big companies are probably most likely to shut off their services to European users because they have the cautious legal departments of the large company without the important profit center designation which would make compliance a priority.

Well, that may be their strategy but it won't work because it is the company that is violating the law, not the lower profile group.
ReasonReact doesn't have Context, the API is unstable so they aren't binding to it.
I would check out https://www.home-assistant.io/ for integrating multiple systems together. I use it on a RasPi to integrate a few disparate systems (Amazon, Nest, RadioRa2) and it works very well. There are modules for most existing systems and it's easy to write your own in python.
You clearly never have driven a busy four lane street in LA with bicycles and pedestrians mixed in. What you are saying makes sense in theory but nobody drives that way.
But that's exactly what the article says:

1. The police officer shot an unarmed civilian
2. The police officer did not get charged
Sure, but the fact that I have to be tethered to an expensive optional device my living room, subject to a particular walled garden to get not even the full range of this functionality is pretty backwards. Why can't I just see a random ad or review somewhere on a web browser or on my phone and have that? The fact that I'd need a DVR and that it would only work for one company's systems is backwards considering the wealth of infrastructure that already exists.
> If the framers could be brought forward to the year 2018 and made to understand the facets of the current gun debate, what do you think they would say?

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

> mass shooting deaths

Statistically insignificant relative to any other cause of death in the country.

> suicides

Not pertinent to this discussion: why should a suicidal person have any bearing on _my_ rights?

> law enforcement killings

Do you know how few of these actually happen?

> accidental discharges by children

Sad, but statistically very rare.

> road rage incidents

??

> and the power and behaviour of entities like the NRA

I honestly believe the framers would be sad to see that such an organization (albeit almost entirely member-funded - yay, democracy!) needs to exist in the first place.

You can see that mentality in the fact that the Bill of Rights didn't exist at the time the Constitution was written. The Framers believed rights existed "naturally" - far beyond those that were explicitly enumerated. They believed that documenting individual liberties would cause the Bill of Rights to be seen as an all-inclusive list.

I wouldn't go so far as to say our current situation is what the Framers "envisioned," but I can say they would probably accept the costs of freedom, whatever those may be.
It seems to me that once she knows _that_, it shouldn't be too hard for her to understand when she's not being referred to.
Turns out that it's actually the same domain, and it also shows up in your list. I just didn't notice it (same as you, apparently ;) )
So? Profit maximization of the developer is not the only thing that matters, users deserve to be protected as well.

Applications have become terrible in this respect. I use Little Snitch and see many paid applications report to Google Analytics. I don’t want the developer to know how often and how I use the application, let alone Google.

Technical users know how to use an application firewall, uBlock or uMatrix. But the average user was robbed of their privacy without them even knowing, let alone having any choice. The GDPR finally corrects this.
We have a very similar concept here in the Midwest called Eat Fit Go. Definitely a decent choice for food quality, although they too can be a bit on the expensive side.
While Pandas csv parser is quite slow anyway, the reason Pandas is particularly slow in this case is because it insists on applying type detection to every field of every row read. I have no clue how to disable it, but it's default behaviour.

Parsing isn't actually a tough problem – https://github.com/dw/csvmonkey is a project of mine, it manages almost 2GB/sec throughput _per thread_ on a decade old Xeon
Other choice is to simply shoot dead the thickos. Just bomb the poor areas or force the poor and less smart people to undergo contraceptive surgeries. Yes, those are the choices even though most might abhor it.

And to add to that bears shit in woods.

Note: The point in the sarcasm is that societies have made all those kinds of those choices and have failed miserably and better choices have survived. Markets work because they give maximum possible respect and freedom to individuals without being judgemental. Markets promote peace, brotherhood, co-operation, prosperity and stability. Most other systems meet violent end.
I'm actually pretty encouraged by reading that: just one idiot and several reasonable people. Feared I'd find a
50/50 debate going on there.
You're absolutely right. And the Big5 factor named "conscientiousness" is another word for grit. (AndI assume ardit33 was using the Big5 meaning.)

I'd further say that emotional intelligence and charisma correlate somewhat with intelligence. They may be developed later, but it's easier for an intelligent person to develop those things.

One college summer I was interning at a sales office, and the sales manager said something that stuck with me: "Often we're selling this product to people who don't really understand it, or don't really understand how it's going to help them. And it's easy to have a deal fall through because of that, and I've seen a lot of salespeople in that situation throw up their hands and say 'bah! The client is stupid, that's why I couldn't sell the thing to him.' But if you're so much smarter, and the client is dumber, then you ought to be able to figure out a way to help the client along and understand the value. Working with a dumb client is no excuse, it's a call to action."
It depends on when in his life this hypothetical is supposed to have happened. Given the era he did his important work it’d have to be rape that he was accused of to have had a major impact on his employment as a professor. Sexual harassment was rampant back then. Fortunately times have changed.

What is the purpose of the question? Is there some broader point you are trying to make? The only thing that I can guess is that you are trying to point out that people can make great contributions to human knowledge and also be crappy people in certain respects. I don’t think anyone denies this as being true.

EDIT: If it happened at the beginning of his career then he possibly wouldn't have become a professor and thus not have made his discoveries. If it happened at the end of his career then the discoveries would have already been made and hence nothing lost.
I didn't say this was a good or reasonable idea, just that it was legally workable.
> Postgres is a notable exception

Did you have good experiences with postgres' serializable mode? When I tried to do some TPC-C benchmarking with postgres set explicitly in serializable mode, it would fall over almost instantly (read: not able to get beyond ~100 warehouses). I'd love to read anything you have to say about getting good performance out of Postgres in serializable mode, because I was unable to find this promised land myself.
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Maybe, but the second person plural possessive is way easier with the former. Y'all's vs, what, you guys'? When I lived in the midwest I frequently heard "your guys's", which doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
> Ok, so the AI is too panicky and will brake for no apparent reason so they have to disable that bit while they work on it. Fine.

Not fine on a public road with real people on it.
I'm react-native plugin developer, but still struggle to understand the value proposition of Expo. Or maybe proposition is OK, but real life experience is miles different. I think most projects very soon get to the point, where they need to be ejected from Expo, because of need of external react-native plugin.
>Rail stations, whether in Japan or elsewhere, are also great places to see “nudge theory” at work.

Gentle nudges, like ultrasonic deterrents to keep teenagers away with "a look of confusion or discomfort, and often a cry of urusai! (Loud!)"...?
Sha is a cryptograpic algo used for secure hashing hence the name SHA. The main goal of hashing is confirming the integrity of an object. This mean the object you read now is the same object as when it was stored. The goal was never to encrypt even if its possible to do so.

All hashing functions have the same weakness which is vulnerable to rainbow table attack. I agree with the OP that sha is dangerous if used in the wrong way.
Move fast and break, nay, kill people.

I hope this accident weighs on the people who made these decisions so that they will be more careful in the future. I would hope they would not see it simply as a bug in the system.
There is a whole business around clearinghouses for licensing content for public performance. DJs obviously already have all their ducks in line, generally.

As an example, if you're a church and you want to be able to play movies, you can go through CVLI: http://us.cvli.com/
No one said "no options" - he said way less options.
That’s the old argument of “they didn’t try socialism right” that many make when they want to give government more power over the lives of their fellow citizens.

I feel torn. Obviously no one with morals wants to see others left behind in a capitalistic society. On the other hand welfare states seem like pyramid schemes and the further left you go with giving more power to government the worse the lives of citizens get.

I found Penn Jillette’s talk on YouTube about why he found libertarianism eye opening.

https://youtu.be/OG3Kyk3Xc5A

Still, our entire economic system seems ready to collapse. Many of our best business leaders are starting to agree that we may need to tax corporations that use robots and provide a reverse income tax to give people money to live.
This just seems so unlikely. How was it sent? Was a MP3 file generated and attached to an email? Was it a voice call? I don't really understand a circumstance that this could have happened.
I think the answer to this depends on if you are wearing a badge or not.
This so much.

Particularly in Silicon Valley, people think you throw a bunch of intelligent people together and you'll get good results, but if those intelligent people are lacking social skills they're not going to produce more than an group of average intelligence that has social skills.
Hi HN!

I’m Alex from Parabola (https://parabola.io). Parabola is a visual programming tool for creating functional data flows that everyone can use. It’s entirely drag-and-drop, handles data sizes much larger than a traditional spreadsheet, calculates everything live, and can run your flows on a schedule of your choosing.

I used to work in strategy consulting, doing data analytics for SMBs and Fortune 500 companies. The amount of time wasted on menial tasks was astounding. Things like cleaning data, generating custom reports, creating human workflows to solve shortcomings in third party tools, etc.

Non-technical people have to rely on doing things manually or using fragile spreadsheets that solve only part of their use cases. We don't think everyone should have to learn to code in order to work productively (https://medium.com/parabola-labs/not-everyone-needs-to-learn...). That’s why we’re building the tools to help people stop wasting so much time on manual processes, and instead focus on their actual core competencies.

We’ve made some interesting decisions in the design of Parabola’s visual programming “language”. We’d love to hear what you think and are happy to discuss our thought process in the comments.
Fair point, it certainly could be worse.
That is a good question. One use case that comes to mind is sshd. The ssh daemon is not required to use pam.
Yes, and this is commonly documented and reported behavior from many first-person accounts of inner-city drug dealers.
My CEO said my company is a family.
> What a nightmarish reality to live in. You can’t trust your own parents, friends, neighbors, etc.

I think you missed my point. That's inaccurate and not what I intended to communicate.

My point was that Chinese can complain about their country among themselves, but there are social taboos against doing the same thing among foreigners. The implication is that when a foreigner asks a Chinese person what they really think about their country, they'll probably get a whitewashed version rather than their true feelings.