skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> or they closed a particular stock at their whim

This happens all the time, a ticker will get halted for a time and no one can trade them even though the market is open.

http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=TradeHalts
Columnstores don't use indexes, and many don't even support them (like BigQuery). You may be taking about clustering, which you can use to improve compression and scan speed by sorting data by commonly queried columns but it's unnecessary, and even table scans are fast in modern columnstores that can prune partitions and use sophisticated metadata to calculate your answers.

Also it's SQL, what is preventing anyone from searching on any field they need? You don't need indexes for that. BigQuery only supports partitioning by a time-based column but that's more for cost control than speed, especially in your case where the dataset is small enough to be handled by postgres in the first place. Generally a mainstream RDBMS is the best choice for all things if the data fits, just because of the performance and usability available today.
Exactly. We need something roughly on-par with CUDA, though it could be a bit below CUDA on Nvidia cards if it allows near-CUDA performance on non-Nvidia cards. Making all this easier to install/use/deploy could go a long way to winning user over, too; I'll gladly let a model run longer if I spent a lot less time getting things setup properly. The integration part is no small amount of work; it needs to be so smooth that I don't have to care what kind of card I have, and can run TF/Pytorch/etc. models in the same way regardless.
That said, there's a difference between understanding what privilege you are granting and understanding the implications of that grant.

For instance, Google help pages [0] just talk about "Full account access" and "View your basic profile information." What about apps that can view your calendar? That's in between. What information do those apps actually see? What can somebody do with the information that I might not like? These are hard questions to answer with the information Google gives you.

[0] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3466521?hl=en
that link shows what one might call intuitive origami, apple's "smart cover" falls in a category all its own. a good 60% of time you fold it incorrectly when opening or closing it and it can take up to a minute of finagling before you figure out how to fold it so it stays shut/open.
For FIFTY YEARS, the corpses of those who predicted the demise of Moore's Law and were wrong have littered the graveyard of semiconductor companies.

Intel survived because they bet on Moore's Law--while DEC and IBM could get 30-40% more performance out of good design, Intel could just wait 6 months. That eventually crushed the companies that could do excellent VLSI design.

Suddenly, now that Moore's Law finally broke, everybody needs VLSI designers back. However, those designers are all gone--dead, retired, or so screwed over by management that they are never coming back.

I know a lot of people in their late 40's to early 60's from that industry and they all have similar sentiment: "I will run a hot dog stand before working in a semiconductor company ever again."
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> I think the issue is that we need to know that google.com can be shown to clearly be owned by Google, LLC, and not GoogleCo in a small African nation.

Google, LLC? Why not Google, Inc.? Wait, is it Alphabet, Inc.? Why do I trust companies from Palo Alto (or Delaware?) more than I trust companies from small African nations?

I don't trust google.com because they're run by some Delaware corporation named "Alphabet." I trust them because I have come to trust G O O G L E dot C O M, generally by being told by other people that G O O G L E dot C O M is a good site (or perhaps in the case of Google, because it's baked into my web browser, which I've figured out how to bootstrap trust for). I trust - and want to enter credentials into - gmail.com because they're the owners of the website gmail.com, and when I give out my email address to people, I say "gmail.com", not "an email service run by a subsidiary of an American corporation named Alphabet."

Anyone can call themselves anything - that is and has long been part of the web's values. The other one is that, once you get a name, you get to keep that name as long as you want. Dropbox didn't originally have dropbox.com, but they still have getdropbox.com, the name I saw on marketing and on referrals from friends about 10 years ago. I don't care if getdropbox.com was started by some of my college classmates or by people from a small African nation, as long as I can type the letters "getdropbox.com" into my browser, I've successfully bootstrapped trust.

If you personally trust companies because they're from the United States and not from small African nations, you do you, but I see no reason that the web should design itself around your politics, when the web already has a perfectly good system for bootstrapping trust - typeable domain names.
"This is an unexpected phenomenon, contrary to what we thought we knew about nanopore transport. It took three years to work out what it was the simulations were showing us. After exploring many potential solutions, the breakthrough came when we realized that we should not assume water is incompressible. Now that we understand what's happening in the computer simulations, we are able to reproduce this phenomenon in theoretical calculations."

Pretty interesting that the rules of the simulation were such that it took three years to explain an emergent phenomenon. I probably would have written it off as floating point shenanigans.
Nadia Eghbal – The problem with voting
What if that evidence reduces your bottom line considerably or reduces your risk, as opposed to other evidence?
> Most folks overestimate their need for availability and lack a willingness to accept risk.

I disagree. More specifically, I think, instead, many [1] folks just don't make that assessment/estimate in the first place.

They just follow what they perceive to be industry best practices. In many ways, this is more about social proof than a cargo cult, even though the results can resemble the latter, such as elsewhere in this thread with a comment complaining they had a "resilient" setup in a single cloud that was shut down by the provider.

> There are distinct benefits that come with avoiding "HA" setups. Namely simplicity and speed.

Indeed, and, perhaps more importantly, being possible at all, given time ("speed") and money ("if you can afford it").

The same could be said of "scalability" setups, which can overlap in functionality (though I would argue that in cases of overlap the dual functionality makes the cost more likely to be worth it).

None of this is to say, though that "HA" is synonymous with "business continuity". It's much like the conceptual difference between RAID and backups, and even that's not always well understood.

[1] I won't go so far as to say "most" because that would be a made up statistic on my part
There was some youtube where some doc connects the alzheimers of the babyboomers to heart or sugar medication, can't remember <_< too much information out there
Somebody on HN recommended "Why do we sleep" by Matthew Walker a few weeks ago. There are references in this book strongly linking lack of sleep to Alzheimer's (diabetes too btw). Maybe somebody else can dig them up I don't have the book at hand, but I echo that previous commenter sentiment: if you are only going to read one book this year - make it this one.
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Um, they spent a gigabuck and drove DEC and HP out of the market.

I'd say that kicked butt.
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Two options for passing the paywall:

1. Facebook trick: https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/techs-dirty-secret-the-app-...

2. Decluttered via Outline: http://outline.com/gZTuBC
Filing fake tax returns online and thinking an AirCard keeps him anonymous and un-locatable hardly makes him a 'hacker' now does it.
Pulp Faction: How Paperbacks Won Over WWII Soldiers
People who know how the news is made resist conspiratorial thinking (2017)
How do you get access to other people transactions
How We Discovered a Virus Infecting Tens of Thousands of Fortnite Players
I don't understand the negativity in this thread. The whole point of email based service is to read users' email. Should we be categorically rejecting a class of application?

How much value is privacy vs. value of those services?
I'm a little surprised at this sentiment because they are also very often vilified here. For pretty much everything they do you can find a few comments about how what they are doing is evil.
It's very easy to assume the worst about someone if they're not seated across from you and you don't have those other cues.

In fact, if we don't share that person's viewpoint, I'll wager it's our default to assume the worst.
Loading and running Hunt the Wumpus on Univac 1219B military mainframe
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Complaining about article titles sucks even more.
>Sure, but is that appropriate? Is that what we actually _want_ from _our_ government?

No, and sorry if it came off that I thought that's a good thing.

>The government is not forced to investigate or attempt to stop _every single_ crime.

No, but in a connected society it's harder to ignore crimes. The government doesn't like to "lose face" so they end up doing silly things like raiding marijuana dispensaries instead of using that manpower to target the heads of opiate dealing gangs - because the former is more visible it gets disproportionate attention.
One issue I have with ad hoc naming convention is that while they may make the first month of learning nice and easy they usually don't have the nice synthesizing effect where all of your notations come together beautifully.

Math is terse and there is an initial hurdle to get over. However, once that initial hurdle is cleared there are a lot of things that become obvious as a direct consequence of the notational bootstrapping that we did.

With that said, every time I start looking at Haskell I end up playing with category theory instead which may be indicative of something.
Found via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus.
Insulin improves AD, if applied intranasal.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3709085/
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If you give the i5 it's full voltage and crank up the clock speed it'll totally beat an Apple chip. But in order to fit in a Macbook Air's power envelope you need to really throttle things back and a chip that's designed to operate in that regime has a big advantage over a chip that isn't.
I had read a blog post that I only vaguely remember, that I had thought was written by Yegge, but when I looked for it I was unable to find it. If anyone can recall the title, who wrote it, or where it was written, I'd like to know.

As I recall it was a story form analogy to a software project going from poor planning, to rapid growth, to a deathmarch. It was in the form of some builders talking over a pint, describing a building as it had happened in the past. It was built in a swamp, but they had decided to make it on floating platforms to compensate, as they had heard that was possible. As it grew it became more unstable, so they continued to add more platforms. And magically giant marshmallows started to appear. And the only way to get rid of them was to eat them. As time went on, more and more marshmallows were appearing, and the builders where turning on each other and accusing the others of not eating their fair share. I don't recall how it ended...
Good luck for your project. Note that there is also Mycroft the Open Source Virtual assistant : https://mycroft.ai/
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As much as I hate the ESPN sports complex, everything I've seen from the ESPN documentaries has been fantastic.
This is called ETL, to a data warehouse.

Regardless of the choice of primary database, this is nothing new and just shows how a lot of startup technical talent seems to be discovering the same things all the time, usually with needlessly convoluted approaches, and writing blog posts about it.
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I've been holding btc in paper wallets since 2011. They're easy, free and no one has access to my btc but me.
This is an amazing insight, thank you for sharing.
> The lack of a medium for affective information is a primary reason why text-only discussions go off the rails so quickly.

I don't agree with that. As someone who has communicated primarily online since childhood, I feel as though I am much more attenuated to some group of people's emotional state through text, whereas in person, I feel like my emotions are obvious to everyone besides me, which makes them feel like they are much more able to be subject to manipulation. I as well feel as though my own 'truthful understanding' is concrete in real life, but online, it is easily manipulated in the attempt to see eye to eye.

Style develops - humor, sensitivity, all this is information depending on who you associate with and whether you are reflective of another intuitively, or whether it requires gradual understanding and a developed awareness / sensitivity, coupled together with time and observation.

I find that text discussions go off the rails because people aren't trying to see eye to eye. They either latch onto a specific point (irony) or a key phrase that doesn't jive appropriately with their perspective, and that constructs the direction of the discussion. People can have whole conversations without actually understanding another, and you can actually examine these arguments and decompose them into parts that once again, become mostly linear.

Part of that I think is because, a conversation sequence can actually be composed of many people, which can make it seem like a dialogue, but a dialogue it is often not. This can also happen to individuals, I can see in myself, I consistently contradict myself in a most convoluted way, through the attempt to balance multiple perspectives of awareness - perhaps in the attempt to coalesce those perspectives into some understanding that resonates as true to myself. But I find that to be a problem with no solution, because as soon as resonance seems to be found, the understanding escapes me through repetition - a sort of semantic satiation of concepts. So care must be taken.

The problems(?) of life.
I feel like this should be pretty obvious. I'm pretty sure there are students in a bootcamp somewhere learning "joins make it easy to construct complex queries; denormalization eliminates expensive joins but sacrifices flexibility and adds potential data inconsistency".

Real world example: Consider an Order table and a Visit table; conversion rates aggregate orders over visits. In Mongo you can denormalize some of the Visit data into Order, but what happens when you change the logic for computing conversion ratios? Or you want conversion ratios broken down by web browser, source tag, or any of the other data elements that live in Visit but you didn't denormalize ahead of time?
To any young person worrying about the importance of their grades for eventually getting a good job, don't. Most everyone starts out with an entry level job and then other factors are immediately more important. Hiring considerations are more like: relevant job experience > total experience > references > whether they went to school > whether they finished school > what they went to school for > where they went to school > ... > GPA.
You can do that stuff on Windows too, it is just that nobody bothers to. Although stuff like disallowing users to use the network seem to only be available in Windows Pro, for some reason (although it might just be that only the GUI is lacking from the Home edition and you need to use the console or some 3rd party program, but i'm not sure).

But i disagree with the part about how Linux users behave: from my experience Linux users, at least home/desktop Linux users, behave pretty much the same way as Windows users.
Is strict a commonly used word for the opposite of lazy? I've always seen it as "eager", but maybe that's in the context of other programming languages.
see https://steveblank.com/2018/04/11/why-entrepreneurs-start-co...
NASA will publicly test quiet supersonic technology in November
Is the Amazon picking challenge really the place where the leading edge in the field show, given the low prizes?

And second, there's some decent progress i think:

Picking chocolates without harming them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcuT0RWRpow

The same company also does an example of unstructured bin picking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZAQ351yViM

Altough it's hard to tell if it can do sorting(or object understanding" from that video.
I would love to run gnome exactly like it looked before they switched to unity. I know they switched back to gnome but the default shell still looks like belongs on a tablet (which is a great device and all, but my Linux machine is a workstation, not an internet/communication device), with most (if not everything) hidden instead of being showed in menus.

I tried I3WM at one point, but even with the ability to have tabs I just didn't end up with enough pixel space.
Enjoyed your buttonless UX.

The NLP engine worked well too.

Your premise about improving meme search is inline with some of the comments I was reading about Line this morning (though their users mentioned problems with sticker suggestion).

The only problem I encountered was that my phone became a space heater while the App was in the foreground--it's not often that I see an App exceed the incineration capabilities of Waze.
At such projects, everybody is constantly mumbling about what all could go wrong, its just legally relevant background noise- not actually "sticking" out warnings pointing at a particular point of failure.