skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your right that the cold start times are not ideal. But you get a huge free request load per month. Put an uptime pinger on it and keep it warm. Or do what I do and write your functions in golang. My average cold start time is around 4 seconds.

For the DB connection you put the lambda in the same vpc that the RDS exists in. Then you open the connection pool and reuse it if its active. Not that a new connection is a big overhead over leveraging an established socket.

Wonder where all this misinformation is coming from on lambda DB access issues.
I haven't seen a B30 in person, but it looks pretty comparable. Seems like it's a slightly thinner & lighter update to the B100 (though "thin and light" is relative, it's a rugged candybar).

It would probably be as good. I prefer the look of the B100, but I bet the B30 is nice, too.
I noticed the same sometime during the 2016 American election; but I'm wondering if there's any hard proof of who runs it, now.
You need to read what Synapse AI is doing. They're suggesting building this in their networks.
Stephanie Hurlburt cofounded Binomial, which builds Basis, an image compression system that's licensed to Netflix because of its quality. She's very much an expert in her field, and she indeed writes a lot of code.
In the hypothetical example, yes the assumption is that they have equivalent skills. My issue is that in real life you can never assume that two candidates have equal skills (in fact, the odds that they do are negligible); instead you have to make assumptions about the probability of increased skill given various priors. Given standard priors based on my own experience, I'd be more likely to hire the woman in that example.

If I actually did know that they were exactly identical skill-wise, it'd be a different story.
Not much. Clock wall, power wall, and latency wall are here.

The only thing improving is memory size, bandwidth, and number of cores.

Now, we are still very far off from every worload being at its theoretically maximum throughput (that would be achieved with an ASIC).

Over the next years, the interesting things won't come from Intel or AMD. The generic processor killing all competition has reached an end. Intel could just wait till the next technology node to thwart off any attempt of adapting to a corner of the market. This is no longer the case; with so much money at stake, expect a Cambrian explosion.

It will come from specialized workloads getting an accelerator (think integrated TPUs, NICs with FPGAs, etc); it will come from tighter chip packaging/integration (think close-access DRAM a few μm from the CPU with silicon vias, early filtering with predicate pushdown directly into the SSD controller, etc.).

Now, the code will have to adapt; and I posit that the languages better suited for this should have:

* An easy way to control the memory layout

* An easy way to insert special-purpose instructions

* A compiler infrastructure flexible enough to be able to coerce code into the accelerators

* An easy way to serialize (possibly half-executed-)code that should be transported closer to the data
Block comments interleaved with code are rare in most codebases I've worked on, because it's almost always easier to put them on their own lines, above the statement:

/* This function call is really cool and stuff */
someLongFunctionNameThatWillBeRefactored(
longVariableName1,
longVariableName2);

So I sort of dismissed that use-case as a toy example. But yes, if you did that elastic tabstops would be useful... except the contents of the block comment doesn't get reflowed when the tabstop width changes. Which I'm sure we could do, but then we're getting into interesting territory w.r.t edge cases/usability for sure.
Where in the OFAC regulations or any IEEPA type executive order is a requirement that a U.S. bank obtain proof of U.S. citizenship from an accountholder?
Lots of downvotes. To clarify my point: The elite schools only want to admit so many future doctor/lawyer/engineers. Today, the way they limit those numbers hits asian applicants disproportionately hard. 80 years ago, jewish applicants were hit disproportionately hard. There was racism mixed in then as there is now, but having read a bit about those policies and experienced the current ones, I think the main thrust was the same: managing the large number of applicants looking for a ticket to the upper middle class.
Or do you believe that WeWork cares about the environment so much that they are banning meat and that Starbucks cares so much they are getting rid of straws?

I know nothing about how WeWork or Starbucks operate because I have never been involved with the management of those companies.

I have been involved with the management of other companies which are truly altruistic. Just because you haven't doesn't mean they don't exist.
Which seems like classic BoA. They could have sent additional warnings or called the customer.

I hope they move their account somewhere else.
waze is an overrated spammy piece of modern spyware. there's nothing wrong with google maps, which does learn new routes based on driving patterns.
Sounds like he's never heard of "activist shareholders."
I, for one, have been helped much by some project providing screenshots or even animated gifs of input and possible output by a tool...
And? Cyclists also can't use many of the most expensive infrastructure projects (e.g., highways) either. They also don't cause anywhere near as much damage to the roads as motor vehicles.

Plus, in the US at least, roads are usually paid for through general taxation. The value of the gas tax is small and has only been decreasing.

(All of this ignores the massive parking subsidies cyclists have to pay for but can't use too.)
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The fact that something is a 20 line AHK script that takes you two hours should never keep you (or anyone doing this) from monetizing the result.
Here’s a short pdf breakdown of the shading tricks used in this game:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ltkinwnmmzurjw/GuilltyGearXrd_sha...
So was Zod.
> We've come to accept that money and legacy power provides access and opportunity regardless of merit.

Nah, because such an admissions policy impacts reputation. All else being equal, you probably wouldn't hire a civil engineer with a BS from Harvard over one from MIT.
interesting. theanine makes me very frustrated when i take it. ive dialed down the dose a few times, but stil get irritated. your explanation if helpful.
But they may be nicer about it. Like follow up when you don’t reply to the letter with a call before they freeze the account to try to sort it out.
How  to Protect and Secure Connected Cars
I'd actually like to see a coherent explanation, e.g. paper reference, of how the Minimax [1] algorithm relates to Girard's linear logic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax
Did we just become best friends with our “I am the Walrus” references?

The DB scrape uses a template from Data Pipeline that under the hood uses the Dynamo DB Scan API. Not really surprising, but that API uses JSON. I wanted to use as much off the shelf software as I could to get data into Athena.

In this architecture Lambda is only used to listen to the SNS topic that fires when the Data Pipeline job succeeds or fails so we’re not pushing the limits of Lambda at all. You’d probably hit an EC2 limit Witt Data Pipeline before hitting your Lambda limit on the account.
Just remember that the heads of admissions are the ones coming up with these policies (in tandem with other university leaders) and personally reviewing all the applicants in the end to make sure they're carried out.
Why do you talk about 'the real base ISA' solidifies? The 'real base ISA' is solidified and its designed to let you run a lot of software at minimal complexity.

The problem is that there is NEVER one optimal ISA for all applications. It makes absolutely no sense to have V, T, J extensions in the new 'real base' because there are tons of systems that don't ever need it and it would be a waste.

That's why the RISC-V foundation defines profiles for certain application domains. RV64GC is the logic one for Linux for the moment.

Also you ignore that very often an ISA is not used as a mass market product, but rather in a smaller more specialized space. The costume extensions are very important for people like that. In other cases, the potential AI extensions for vector for example, will probably never gone show up in standard profile for Linux.

I think what we are like gone see is that RV64GC will remain the base level for the Linux profile and eventually more advanced profile with V and potentially others will emerge.

The whole point is that no long build everything around ISAs that is never optimal but rather around profiles.
> I think therefore that SQL database technologies have to adapt to the serverless paradigm rather than dismissing serverless

Empty statement that means nothing. SQL/RDBMS is backed by computer science and robust engineering examples that make the world spin. Alternatives are usually full of fanfare and false promises.

> I think AWS has already started that with Amazon Aurora.

Just in time when we were talking about fanfare. Spend 10-20 minutes searching on the Internets to see what actual experiences people have with it.

Its 3X write increase? Bollocks. Usually the performance is worse than when you administer your own DB(Postgresql/MySQL). You might(or not) see some read-performance increase, which... well everyone can scale on reads so I don't see the point.

I suspect it has other goodies pertaining to administration/provisioning, but performance/scaling is not one of them.
This is the correct answer - but that still implies a question on citizenship, though maybe it's implicit that if you have a SSN and a Drivers License then most banks assume you are a US citizen.
Or When you turn the wrong way and ways shows that you save time.You're suppose to save time by following Wave, no?
I first wrote about this ten days ago, in connection with some other possibly related events:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2018/07/three-ominous-development...

It remains an unanswered question (AFAICT) why it is ONLY BofA that is asking about dual citizenship. It can't be a regulatory requirement, or all banks would be doing it.
We are very far away from the inherent limitations of measurement in this case though. Eventually we will hit those limits and have to throw up our hands and say “we’ve done our best”, but there are lots of big, well-documented effects of individual biases, which end up aggregated into systems and institutions in various ways, the effects of which are readily measurable.

> Isn't it better to treat people as individuals?

This is an equally impossible goal. The system is already unfair. You want to preserve the current unfairness. I think we should instead calibrate the unfairness to optimize for undoing the weirdness caused by humanity’s awful history of subjugating, robbing, and denying the rights of various kinds of people over many centuries. People born today experience various benefits and drawbacks related to conditions completely beyond their control.

If we have privilege this is the god damn least we can do.
LVM Snapshots for Temporal Databases
Given the rate at which these space-themed motels must have gone up in the years through the space race, someone must have been saying that these are a fad. However, despite seeming like they were a fad, they still bring an unexplained sense of nostalgia. I am left to wonder what the modern-day equivalent is to these motels and 50s/60s styling in general.
Learning Dexterity
I agree. I was on another site where we were uploading samples of various owners 808s/808 clones and the results were pretty conclusive that once you match for level and settings you would never know if it was an 808 or a clone. The Yocto is supposed to be as close as possible in design, but does substitute some unavailable parts for modern equivalents. Ive heard a few different Yoctos, and they ranged from dead ringer to way out of adjustment, to unreliable and difficult to build correctly. The fact that it is a kit makes it very difficult to create repeatable results. There are a few other clones out there that I was less impressed with- ACIDLAB MIAMI is in the ballpark but examples Ive heard are not as close as I would hope.

For me, Im most interested in the clap, ch, oh, and cy sounds. Those are the most unique sounding to me among analog drum sounds. The hi hat and cymbal sounds are remarkably complex and everything else Ive heard sounds too much like a metallic pulse followed by white/pink noise. The 808 is not necessarily realistic sounding but it is very cool sounding to my ears. The bass drum, which is mainly what made the 808 so popular in the first place, is now pretty easily duplicated or sampled with other synthesis types, but the 808 kick is unique in that it is more a (near)self oscillating filter controlled by an envelope than a pulse followed by sine wave that other analog kicks use. This definitely contributes to its less static, more bouncy kick drum sound, especially at longer decay settings. Its pretty cool that you can program a pattern and on the first pass, subsequent kicks will add to each other, and then the next time around, they cancel each other. This combined with accent can create some very live feeling patterns, and this is a very underrated feature of the 808.
and those brackets weren't "used" anymore than you or I just did.

Well... now you've done it! You've made hackernews and all of us altright extremists! According to some of the "logic" here.
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It is worth noting that prolonged activities mostly burn fats, whereas short (90 minutes or less) high intensity mostly burn carbs. If you only burn carbs, it is hard to get rid of excess fat.
> ... Latin salsus meaning "salted". Salad and sauce also come from this root

... so if you remove the salt, it's not a salad or a sauce? Hmm.
> Everything a computer can do trivially should not be done by humans.

Agreed, to a point. In many contexts, it is important for humans to do things themselves occasionally in order to learn how, even if a computer is generally used to do those things far more quickly.
Hey man, race is the topic of this conversation. No disrespect but if there is a place to have this slightly sensitive discussion politely on HN, it's in threads like this.
I absolutely brushed shoulders with more coworkers when I worked at a company that had a cafeteria (this wasn't even free to us). My current teammates eat together sometimes, but unless it's an 'event' it's just 2-3 people, and always someone who wont go due to diet or financial reasons.
The jitteryness is an artistic choice (no tech limitation).
This happened after 9/11. The U.S. eventually lobbied all banks throughout the world to require citizenship information especially from U.S. Citizens. And then report that information back to the U.S. This way they can track foreign accounts of U.S. taxpayers.
> Please feel free to correct my thought process on this

Okay.

- It's not a new trend. People at all levels of experience have been sharing good & bad advice for as long as talking has existed.

- Are you certain the author is inexperienced? She appears to own a functioning software company, which alone is more than most developers can say.

- So what if someone has less experience than you? This is an ad hominem argument. How much coding experience should one need before they're allowed to talk? Because the field of software development is growing, the majority of developers are newer. That will remain true until the day software development starts shrinking. What about her experience disqualifies her from sharing useful advice?

- She's right, many OSS devs complain about lack of exposure while at the same time not making it easy to understand or explain what they're doing. Programmers as a group have this problem, even very experienced programmers. She's right, the way to get attention is to spend some time making your project easy to find and easy to understand.

- She's right in a broader sense too. Good marketing is valuable, and it takes time and effort that is not programming. This applies to communication within a team, and it applies to starting businesses. This is something that took me personally a long time to learn. My decades of programming experience, surprise, didn't make me an expert in communicating the value of my software to other people.
I can imagine a hybrid where a super capacitor is used as a booster at takeoff, when power consumption is 5-10 times higher than in horizontal flight. It does not need to keep the charge for a long time, and can be charged right before the flight. It will eliminate many thermal issues with lithium cells at high currents.
So now a core part of the service needs to be continually vetted by the customer?
I'm from one of those regions, you are right on point 1 and 3, but you are totally wrong on point 2.

In Sardinia not finishing you plate is offensive, and you should always finish, not accepting a beer offered by a stranger is offensive and you have to accept and drink it. And we cook a LOT, a big difference I notice when coming to live in London, is that British eats a 1 course meal, while in Sardinia Lunch and Dinner are both 3 courses meal.
And during festivals, holidays and weddings we step up our game, an usual wedding has something like 50 courses, where you eat from 1pm until 11pm. When we go to the beach we don't bring a sandwich, we bring meatballs, lasagna, cold pasta, cold rice a couple of watermelons, and enough food for eat an entire week.

To say in small words, in Sardinia meals are extra large
What I learned from interviewing over 200 designers
It's because the language and approach with respect to Asians (and specifically Chinese, Korean, Japanese backgrounds) echoes the explicitly racist efforts of top universities, especially Harvard, in the early 20th Century against Jews. Holistic applications in the Ivy League were created solely to keep the Jewish population to a manageable level.

This for people who relatively recently experienced severe racist treatment by the government, currently experience racist treatment in pop culture (Lauryn Hill's racist treatment of Koreans in Doo Wop for example, or Spike Lee's movies), and see local governments creating intentionally racist policies (Philadelphia's attempt to ban security glass in liquor stores).
As far as I know, serverless isn't just FaaS. As you pointed out FaaS is to connect things, nothing more.

For me serverless is pay-as-you go pricing, no over- or under-provisioning and last but not least, no server-management.

Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, AppSync, Device Farm, Aurora, etc. are all serverless.
Exactly. My wife has a US green card and Iranian citenship. B of A has already done this to her twice in the past two years and eventually relents. Fully expect it to happen again now. No other bank seems to be doing it.
I recommend using a threshold of at least 2 stars. It's fairly common to star your own repo to improve visibility.
tell that to Zod's snapped neck
Not really, this is simply a case where the Shakti people were so early that the standard simply wasted defined yet, it was not even clear when how things would be standardized.
Libraries serve many different needs and for many, books are still important.

That said, some topics like "computing" need serious culling. "Learn Windows 95 in 24 hours" and the hundreds/thousands of utterly obsolete books really should not be wasting space.

That's ultimately what it comes down to... freeing shelf space so there's room for other stuff.
For 80s and 90s, I'd think a retro gaming/technology theme would be a good representation of the times.
Is aiming for a middle class lifestyle ambitionless? Modern America is showing that it takes concentrates effort to maintain a middle class or it dissolves away
>The MP01 is made in small production runs using top-grade components, and leaves that noughties retro-look behind.

...in favor of the 90s calculator retro-look behind

I'd need a big push to trust this phone, just based on its design aesthetic... its very close to "first thing I could think of, for modern dumbphone"

Its easy to imagine the rest of the engineering is similarly complex; I wouldn't be surprised if the higher cost was purely resulting from mistakes on their part
"It's actually very well defined" and "a formal treatment... doesn't really exist" seem to me to be contradictory statements.
If you are interested in a more detailed portrait of the shifts happening, this book is excellent. If the US loses its technological advantage and its reserve currency status, it is very difficult to know what will happen.

https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-American-Century-Decline-Disp...

China's biggest problem will be demographics, second only to their political system.

US will likely due to tax / deficit issues, not so different than the French aristocrats who refused to pay taxes in run-up to the revolution.
Seems wrong to assume that this dump hasn't been tampered with or has implicit biases...
While there's certainly a gap in the teaching of other cultures in most (all?) modern education, do note that (here from Wikipedia): "History (...) is the study of the past as it is described in written documents. Events occurring before written record are considered prehistory. It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events."

To the best of my knowledge, there's a limited written record from the North America prior to the invasion (" discovery") - apart from in Norse sagas chronicling the viking arrival around 1000 AD (and while the sagas are an important source, they're hardly known for their reliability, in part because of the often long gap between events and when the sagas were first written down).

Both south and north American indigenous civilizations were AFAIK largely without a written record.
Investment banking is a highly social business. Everyone lies and there is a lot of manipulation, but social skills help you navigate that world.
I just had to vouch for his other post in here as well.

Looks like some automated filter, for sure.
Same in the US. You have to buy Kraft premium American cheese (or another brand) to get real process American cheese, which is just cheddar plus an emulsifying salt.
what type of bank account can you have on a works visa?
Athena is just a front end for the data that a typical user can understand (SQL!). the real value is that the data is: in S3, in a more efficient format (parquet), and available in the Glue catalog.

The other replies got it right w.r.t. other BI tools. If you’re using Tableau I think it integrates with Redshift, right? In that case Redshift Spectrum is an option.

If you don’t have any existing BI tools then Quicksight is an option or alternatively you can spin up an Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) cluster with your fav open source BI tools
I mean, I'd happily charge 100$ an hour to write this for someone, but to set up a web page / stripe or whatever / splash webpage, bleh. Something in me wants the a solution I sell to take more effort to create than the checkout aisle.

I get what you're saying though. My attitude definitely stymies my earnings potential. Maybe someday I'll meet a partner to aggressively monetize things that I do that would normally be helpful freebies on the internet ;)