skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine most likely at this point things that are flat out lethal are less likely, but there will be a lot more things that while not lethal might be quite inconvenient - or even just a nuisance, without being truly obvious.
I know some local artists and a gas station that tack on an extra fee if customer pays with a CC. They're just trying to cover the costs imposed by Amex, Visa etc. Does this decision make that illegal?
The paper itself doesn't focus on Machine Learning / AI or anything too specific for that matter (it reads like a review / praise of LISPs), but I am currently researching Symbolic Artificial Intelligence as well as let's say the history of "Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence" and the role LISP took in all of that.

Any books / papers / articles that one should definitely read on these topics?
This is exactly how TiDB works like a charm. Internally, thanks to the Raft consensus algorithm (http://raft.github.io/), we could schedule and process the workloads separately: OLTP workloads to the leader replicas, OLAP to the follower replicas for the random or heavy analytics.

The past solution of the separate operational database and data warehouse poses great challenges for real-time analytics because it needs either data pipeline or the ETL process which could be the bottleneck of being "real-time", not to mention the waste of time, efforts and human resources maintaining multiple data warehouses. It was impossible for real-time analysis because, in the past, you would need a data pipeline, or message queue with the equivalent throughputs with your OLTP database, which I believe does not exist.

However, whether to adopt this hybrid solution depends on your specific usage scenario. For cases where users want to do real-time analysis in their data warehouse upon the same data table as in their OLTP database, TiDB is your choice.
If you read the dissent on the travel ban decision, you can understand why it is bad and also deeply ironic. The Supreme Court sided with the government in the original Korematsu case saying that the government did indeed have the constitutional right to throw people of Japanese descent into camps.

They overturned Korematsu in this decision, only to uphold something similar with similar racist sentiment behind it. Whenever you think of the Supreme Court affirming that the executive has the power to do something, you should always keep in mind that they had originally considered the executive had the power to toss people in camps for 'security' purposes.

And on a similar note, the punting they did on the Baker case was almost entirely made up by the court based on a completely irrelevant line by someone tangentially related to the case. I highly recommend listening to episode 180 of the Opening Arguments podcast to understand how utterly ridiculous their decision was.
No. The article does a pretty good job explaining how this applies.

Amex has long forbid retailers from discouraging the use of their cards by customers even though the fees have usually been higher for merchants.
Technological advancement,a blessing or curse
> it's not clear why preventing moderate inflation should even be desirable. If you get a 10% raise

Raises aren't automatic, they often have to be fought for. Especially in the public sector. What tends to happen in tones of inflation is labour unrest; people find their food prices have gone up by 10% so they need a >10% raise urgently, taking to the streets if necessary.
Lightning appears to be a set of hacks on top of a broken fundamental system.

It's been touted as the saviour of the BTC ecosystem for some time now, but would require massive sums to be locked in its channels to be near functional, and last time I saw figures it was effectively incapable of routing as little as $60 and required participants to be online 24/7 or was vulnerable to counterparty attacks if not.

It's really a bit of a joke.
The Amiga wasn't nearly as influential in NA as it was in EU.
Orm for golang Toyorm v0.4-alpha release
Not surprised the only sane and accurate comment is grayed out at the bottom of the thread. HN is filled to the brink with anti-tesla shill bots. The astroturfing is so obvious it's comical. That's why I don't ever trust HN comments..
Yeah, that's how progress happens.
They'll find someone else to develop the tech for more $.
I find that on my commute most of the time when one lane is moving slow it’s because the vehicle at the front of a long line of cars, usually the left two lanes, in traveling 5-10 mph slower than other traffic. Speed differential and the use of brakes seems to cause traffic jams, so having vehicles all traveling the same speed or at least moving out of the way if they’d prefer not to go with the flow would seem to solve these issues.
Bill Beatty's comprehensive explanation from 20 years ago is still the best: http://trafficwaves.org/
Sencha Development
This is an aside from the conversation, but did Zoho acquire your Site 24x7 product or build it from the ground up?

I enjoy the product a lot but when our IT people first sent us the documentation and accounts I thought I had clicked on the wrong link since the design of Site 24x7's dashboard and the Zoho site seem so different
One of the classics, now available on Github:
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programminghttps://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp
In the US console market? There was the Sega Master System, which I loved, but it didn’t make much of a dent here. What else was there? Atari XE and 7800?

Computer games never stopped - in fact they kept picking up steam during the crash. I know you said “video games” and not consoles but consoles had a huge impact on gaming.
WebXR in C++?
Your argument - that increased population causes the support infrastructure to buckle - is 100% false.

It was certainly true in SV as it grew. For example, my high school had to go on double session as it had to handle more than double the number of students it was designed for. In wintertime, upperclassmen went to school in pitch dark, and freshmen walked home in pitch dark.
FWIW we've spent a lot of time trying to re-engineer the control-flow translation to be heuristic-friendly in c2rust. We've extended and tweaked the Relooper algorithm in hopes of preserving more of the initial control flow. It still isn't great, but it is getting better.

Offhand, here are some sizeable additions:

* Keep track of some extra information from the C source about what basic blocks were in loops or branch points, then use than information to try to extract back out similar looking Rust

* Support translating `switch` to `match`, complete with collapsing some patterns together

* Properly handle initialization

That said, c2rust can be invoked _without_ relooper enabled if you so wish. In that case, it will simply refuse to translate code with goto's.
The only thing I like about self checkout is that I don't have to interact with a human if I'm buying something that might provoke comment.
GM already entered Tesla's market with the Bolt. How's that working out for GM?
Robo-carers might work, but they threaten our most basic human principles
I come from a country where the central bank can issue money (not print it, that's someone else's job).

It's great. They can use their powers to keep inflation at a small positive level, help smooth out economic bumps, and help the money supply keep pace with the economy.

A fixed amount, ever, would constrain economic growth, reward hoarders rather than investors, disincentivise spending and generally be a poor substitute.

As evidence I present ... the entirety of the Western world and it's multiple decades of unparalleled prosperity.
Red Hot Law Technology Accelerator in Atlanta, GA.

I've known of many others too. I'm sure Red Hot wasn't the first.
Phones have enabled a shift toward high quantity, low quality social interaction.
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Thank you. I am mystified by the apparently widespread mental framework that roads don't actually do anything other than attract masses of people in cars, inexplicably like insects toward bright light.
I imagine the 70% is an enormous embellishment to begin with, by those who are polled who claim to actively practice but really don't.

My parents were aghast when a cousin said they wouldn't baptize their new child.

Yet they hadn't gone to church in nearly twenty years.
Sorry but the idea that most people will become “economic drains” in the next 20-30 years is ludicrous. Are you saying that there’ll be nothing worth doing, at all, that people can meaningfully contribute to after 2050?
Do you have a source for Tesla assembly line workers being paid the same wage as McDonalds workers?
The Amiga CD32 was going to dominate the industry but had an IP suit against it.

When the Amiga 500 dropped below $300 in the USA it entered video console territory.
Makes sense. I suspected that might be the case, which is why I mentioned the possibility of something more specific intended. (In case other readers are struck by the same thought, it might be worth a footnote).
But we let the belt out all that way, and the belt still touches their waist!
Without wishing to put words in their mouth, I think parent poster's point might be that PostgreSQL will do at least a decent job at most things you'll want to throw at it.

This is not the case for most of the NoSQL databases where you'll pay for lack of certain features either by a) having to write a lot of code, or b) bad-to-crippling performance for use cases it wasn't meant to solve.

So, unless you're already very clear on what your exact use case is going why the spend time analysing before even getting your project off the ground?
"Finding" what in the input data as a part of sorting?
Actually they do. Worrying about if your comment is "serious" and good enough is what is blocking discussion.

I'd rather not comment at all when comments on here seem to mostly displease other people.
Sure.

But it would have kept the industry going in the US as well.

Electronic Arts targeted the Amiga quite a bit.

As did Spectrum Holobyte.
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please don't post uncivil or unsubstantive or flamebaity comments here.

Edit: it looks like you've done this a lot, as well as using HN for political battle generally. Could you please not do those things? We're trying for thoughtful discussion here.

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I suspect it's not possible for most interesting programs, even with whole program analysis. As soon as you start storing pointers behind other pointers, it's (very) hard to keep track of where they came from.

There's more discussion in the replies to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17382464 that you may've missed.
I think the comment in the essay was a gratuitous and needless dismissal of academic research. All modern improvements to sorting, including TimSort, have been influenced by academic research.

I think the most commonly used sorting algorithm were made in the first days of computing, before CS was even established as a field, making the point irrelevant. People don't care to even know what algorithm they are using. How many know when they are using introsort, even when that was developed by an academic.

I think your objection points out the needless specificity of the original claim. "Created in an academic laboratory" requires that the person be in an academic lab, thus excluding (say) academics who are on sabbatical at (say) a national lab.

Since there were few academic laboratories in the first few decades of computers, it's rather pointless.

While Hoare did go on to become a professor, if Tim Peters were to get a professorship, would that make a difference?
For those seeking tl;dr: The answer is not to use MongoDB.
Angular Elements: how does this magic work under the hood?
That is a Huuuge number of IP's, at a very high request rate, required for every new connection. It is orders of magnitude greater than DNS, and would be expected to have much lower latency.

Throw onto that the trust issue - such IP certificate repositories are very quickly able to determine who is communicating with each other, and at what time. Whilst this is currently possible anyway, current methods are less centralised, more expensive, and more visible.

You'd have to go full onion
Also: induced demand is a good thing. Even if travel time were the same with three lanes instead of two, that's 50% more people moving down that road. That's a quantifiable social benefit.
I was half joking. This often tends to be a problem of the customers more than the credit card companies.

Adult content and gambling face charge-backs at a far, far higher rate than for other things. I'm sure cryptocurrency is now in this basket as well, as anything people have "regrets" about tend to get charged back way more than others.

If credit cards were more secure, if you couldn't just claim "Wasn't me, gimme my money back" on just about anything, this would be far less of a problem.

Credit cards should, at the absolute least, have embedded one-time password generators as a necessary component for online purchases.

The American financial system is so ridiculously baroque, though, that I bet this will happen forty years from now when the chip+PIN phase in is finally complete.
Toxic referred to not upvoting any comments or being positive in other ways. My "best" comment where lots of people agreed has 9 likes...

Usually I end up with -1 or -2, even on normal serious comments.

Meh...
What is this? Fightclub? "Rule #1 of fightclub: You never talk about fight club" :D

Seems like a recipe for breeding unfairness. "Don't talk about the system", :sigh:
About two years. I agree it should continue to increase over the next several years as homes and businesses are located with the wider highway in mind. However, if latent demand takes too long to manifest, the lane expansion has saved driving time for a significant fraction of its life and shouldn’t be thought of as ineffective.
It's ridiculous how this sub is filled with photos of pizza, why would I care about somebody's else pizza?
A more complete answer is to dump your data into a columnar format into S3 and then use one of plethora analytics tools that can work with this format (AWS Athena and Drill are mentioned, other tools like Presto, Spark, Redshift Spectrum or BigQuery can help).
Wile E. Coyote's Json Parser for .Net
Cooking for Geeks is really good too:

https://www.cookingforgeeks.com/
Just a detail: That's bluewater shipping, which is unbelievably cheap these days if you have the right kind of load. Some of the modern ships carry a thousand containers per crew member. The cost of the crew, fuel and ship itself is spread over many containers, and if your load has the right weight/volume ratio, you can negotiate extra low rates.
Do other browsers not have site search in the address bar? In Safari, after visiting "fangraphs.com" once, I can just type "fang Some Name", press the down arrow to select the first suggestion, hit enter, and it searches that site.
> They're just trying to cover the costs imposed by Amex, Visa etc.

LOL, no. Those extra fees are _way_ higher than what CC companies charge for the transaction. They are not trying to make up for the charges and break even, they are trying to steer the customer to using cash, because they can evade taxes that way. When a small shop insists on cash, they are evading taxes, 100% of the time.
But I don't want to be just snarky. We faced the very same dilemma and solved it in a similar way - we use Apache Spark, which can connect to MongoDB directly. It loads fairly quickly and we can save it to Parquet on S3 directly, the whole thing is about 5 lines of code.

If you have a Spark platform in place, it's a decent solution for this.
In the US it saved the industry. Outside of the US computer games and mini computers were selling fine, and gaming was going through its own golden age (especially in the UK). Hell, even Japan offered more competition for the Famicom than the US did for the NES.

America is not the only place in the world, and the video game crash was not a worldwide phenomena.
Cookiecutter for RFC projects
It would just remove PDF from the dominant position. DjVu would still be mostly ignored by most.
The community is obviously divided about this. That's not the same thing as "astroturfing". The guidelines ask you not to insinuate that without evidence, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is absolutely a valuable feature to be able to update your data warehouse one-row-at-a-time, but this feature has to be weighed alongside all the other features. Also, the best commercial data warehouses are quite good at keeping up with small batches, so you can potentially run a "batch" data pipeline every minute or so, and get a "nearly-real-time" data warehouse in a conventional columnar design.
That's interesting. I was of the understanding that everything at Google office tries to de-stress you/undistract you. I thought that would result in people being calmer/ more empathetic.
> they're still in my history

Funny, Google has some perverse incentives here: it might be nice to have a good "history search" built into a browser, but as a search engine provider they won't build it into Chrome.

Now that we live in the future I guess you need never "clear your cache" except maybe for privacy reasons. You could keep full page text for just about any site you visit (so long as the authors don't consider their site a "web app" I guess.)
Yes, I don’t think either party wants to be locked into a contract. Your personal example is interesting, though. I’d like to think we would entertain a contract if presented the idea, but that would require negotiation, as I mentioned, and I don’t see how training contracts with financial consequences to the candidate could scale effectively in a bureaucratic org —- but again, it’s a puzzle I keep trying to solve.

I respect but don’t generally share your dimmer view of the labor market, but I do agree that some companies have made it difficult for other companies to present themselves as stable places worth investing time into. I also think some employees have made it difficult for other employees. I try to improve the situations I can control.
You may be interested in a little-known older book Computational Semantics: An introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Comprehension: https://archive.org/details/computationalsem04char#mainconte...
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It wasn't "an obvious attack on immigrants", as anyone who's read many of rayiner's HN comments would know. Please follow the site guidelines.
Seconded. Teachers of teenagers dont dare to be alone with 1 child anymore. The smallest of hints might cause years of misery and job loss. This at an age where the children can be real assholes, and they know their powers.
So what "really works" boils down to? Would it include ranking or not, and if so based on what? How about fighting keyword spam?
>that can offer transactions per second that exceed any financial system today

>that make SWIFT innovations seem trivial by comparison

Listen, those two phrases alone are gigantic signs of your bias. Even if they were true, the way you phrase it just screams "I own a significant amount of Bitcoin"

Add to that a sentence about

>a whole host of breathtakingly innovative developments

and, oh boy, do I ever think you are biased.

There is actually a pretty clear value prop for Bitcoin: you can exchange something approximating money for services which are undesirable or risky to do so with your traditional money. But needing to build an entirely new layer which, if I'm understanding right, has some significant impact on the semantics of how your transactions end up on the blockchain, just in order to be able to do a completely unimpressive level of throughput, is hilariously far from "breathtaking innovation" that makes traditional financial "innovations seem trivial".
A squad leader of my Army platoon once had a crate of about 30 compasses that had radium markings. Anyway, he had the box in his truck, left the gate at Fort Benning then when he returned later, he set off the radiation detectors at the entry gate. Caused a full base lockdown and needless to say, he didn’t have a very pleasant time until they figured out that the compasses set off the detectors. This was in 2004 when we were on a high alert for dirty bombs.
never had a napoletana pizza with a crisp crust unless we have a different definition of crisp they are all pretty chewy which I love.
Yes, I agree, this is the point I wanted to make, that trying to fit a population to an ideology will cause the means to be violent and ruthless because in the eyes of the ruling class it is justified.

This brings us back to the parent comment where they mentioned this modern idea that mastery over human nature is possible. I think our understanding of human nature is still naive, especially in this relatively new environment with a global level of instant communication. We'll see more flawed aesthetics come into popularity based off a false sense of human nature.
What? How is that even possible?
That all may be true. But SWIFT clearly thinks they need to innovate in this space, which means by their own admission they have room for improvement, particularly along the dimensions that Ripple was challenging them.
The academic publication process is a mess, but you don’t have to go down that route: write documentation and blog about it. The scholarship is in how you compare and contrast with other similar solutions, and how you describe where you got ideas from.
If people are on unencrypted wifi at a coffee shop anybody can passively get your credentials or see what you post.

A MITM attack requires more work to pull off.
Because it's the internet. Please don't make the threads even worse by posting unsubstantive comments. Annoying as things may be, this is not the way to raise the quality of this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the effects would have been worse in the short term, but the long term effect is much worse -- signaling to an industry that wanton risk taking will essentially be rewarded and if you're large and connected enough the government will debase the currency to keep you in business, so you're free to fuck up again.

I think you're arguing on the side of "countries need monarchies because the people can't be trusted" and "printing presses allow seditious ideas to spread and must be outlawed or tightly controlled", but, again, I can't be certain.

How is it that we can have two totally different interpretations of the truth? Isn't economics a science? Why is it that there are such varying opinions? I think it's because economies are too complex for any one person to accurately model. What you need is markets to decide what works and what's valuable and what the prices should be. What you need is competition, and that's what cryptocurrencies provide.

Bitcoin is already competing with weak currencies of corrupt governments and winning. A lot of improvements need to be made before Bitcoin is anywhere close to making a run for the #1 currency in the world, but if you're watching the technology closely, there's still a lot happening in crypto and it might be sooner than you think.
you probably have this impression because of the time it took for nes to enter western market. I lived through that period as well and had a japaneese friend that had a famicom ( and pretty much everything that was released in japan, as soon as it was released). I was very much into computers and consoles , but i remember going to his appartment with a feeling of seeing something from the future.