skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I wasn't able to understand is if this follow the main SQLite develop efforts or of it is just a frozen branch.

Is there any reason why it is not incorporated into the main branch and activated by compile time flags? Just complexity?
Sounds like a good time to start a NZ real estate company that takes investments from foreign buyers, buys the houses they tell me to buy, and then rents it out to them when they visit at very low prices.
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Yeah this is YC as you're saying ... They're not gonna be left behind. Hurting their brand might be a risk that they can mitigate but not investing in China is not going to bring it democracy.
The web server had a deficiency where it modified data on HTTP GET requests. We could probably agree that navigation should be links and other actions should be buttons. Visual appearance of such should probably be left alone, but is technically a decision that can be made independently.
The discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17231349 has many more links and descriptions of how to use window functions in practice. (Including my comment at the top about how in practice I find that you usually want to combine window functions with nested queries.)
Yeah I only labeled it as bs because "irrational fact" makes no sense.
way less than poeple living there. Unless there is some sort of a unique land value tax
xlib is effectively as low-level a library as a WM might possibly use. This is like writing a calculator using the raw Win32 API, not some calculator library.
I think part of the challenge is fostering a culture in which people are discouraged from taking credit for other people's work; e.g., doing so is seen by most as being tacky and tasteless. That is a different culture from one that prevails in many American companies, where the rewards go the other way. But I think it's one worth striving for.
Ember does this out of the box.
The tenant covers all the taxes and costs through his rent.
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Good move. More cities need to adopt this. There is a flood of foreign capital into major western cities that is hurting those economies. And a lot of denial that this is happening.
With that viewpoint you are going to have some very difficult quandaries in life to deal with. While I appreciate your intent it's just not how the world works, has ever worked or will work. No one is hiding this information, it costs $31.50 USD, or email the authors (they will likely provide it for free).
Any particular reason for the 100 character title limit?
Some xp drivers work on 7, most don't. Also unlike user space, you cannot run 32 bit drivers on 64 bit windows, so unless you were running 32 bit win7 you needed 64 bit xp drivers, which were rare. Are you sure you explicitly installed xp drivers and didn't just happen to have hardware where windows shipped matching drivers or could download them from the windows driver database? (Or downloaded an installer bundle from the manufacturer's website that just contained drivers for all supported platforms..)
South African founded cryptocurrencies exchange reaches significant milestone
If this requires turning off pragma synchronous, doesn't that disqualify it for anything but read only tasks? Power loss etc would corrupt the database...
> what would otherwise be IPOs or other public financing rounds

The NYSE and Nasdaq do a lot of hype about how much money they raise for companies in IPOs and secondary offerings. But if you look at the numbers since World War II (and even before), very little of the money corporate America raises comes from the stock market. US corporations raise money via bonds, term loans, credit lines and so on. The stock markets facilitate stocks moving from one shareholder to another, but have (relatively) little involvement in raising cash.

As you note, companies are staying private much longer nowadays. Facebook didn't go public until it was worth $100 billion.
I can't say that vaccines are the surest thing we have in medical science.

Vaccines are a gamble. They're hard to make, and when they do, they fail in unexpected ways.

But that's mainly because the immune system is hard to understand, not because adjuvants cause autism.
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What sort of volume is this handling? Is the dataset in memory, or if not, what size and type of I/O is backing this? It seems like a ton of CPU, whereas in my experience typically I/O is the primary bottleneck for database loads.
My point is that arguing that "society has the right to change the rules" is not an argument that any particular rule change is a good idea. Many rule changes have been both brutal and catastrophic.
> Having a duplicate of the U2F key is a bigger problem for security than those outlined here.

So, what security problems come to your mind if we consider a duplicate token buried at 1 meter somewhere in the forest (and nobody really knows where it might be) ?
And extensions like Vimium/pentadactyl/VimFX that let you do all your browsing from the keyboard without a mouse, and which therefore have to be able to detect and send a signal to follow links.

And probably accessibility tools for the blind.
At that you would just buy a cheap rv and park it in south boston
Sounds like pulling up the ladder after all the people who bought the houses already climbed it.

What about all the people who have already purchased and are just holding onto an empty house for speculative reasons?
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Isn't GNU/Linux (so, no Android) alone most popular OS too, thanks to servers and cloud? Any data on this?
That seems to be entirely missing the point that it's a metaphor.

It's like taking issue with another of the profound statements: "Your teacher can open the door, but you have to step in."

"Well, no," you point out, "you could be carried in by the teacher. Or maybe you're in a wheelchair and you need to wheel in."

The door, and stepping, in this case, are to be understood metaphorically. So is the river and the rock.
A bike with a small electric motor is no problem in a bike path, and allows people who have mobility issues, just don't like sweating up a hill on the way to work, etc. to still cycle instead of drive.

A low powered moped doesn't belong in the road in most places.
Excellent article. Many points struck a nerve:

- EFF et al not supporting Mactaggart's ballot proposal because it wasn't perfect - a classic case of "perfect being enemy of good", which we have seen so many times across so many issues. Why can't people lock in incremental progress and then work towards improving things further?

- It took a rich man with a few million at his disposal to fight this battle. What can an ordinary citizen do?

- Facebook trying to alter Illinois law stealthily - the legislator who tried to sell out should be tarred and feathered and should probably never be elected to office again.

- Incredible power and influence wielded by Google, Facebook and other tech co's - one thing which could really help here would be a "woke" employee base in these companies, who can influence change from inside these companies. Let's see if Silicon Valley folks really want to make the world a better place or were they just empty words!
The piece states 40% of directors and gives some voices to the workers. There will still be many other technical voices leading the company and the elected people may still be technical. This adds some people that at least have to consider worker issues and adds some other incentives. The trade-off seems reasonable to me. This is a small change and anyone saying it's a big issue is overstating it's effect. It's a small step in the right direction.

It's not like all the management will be elected and if a large company can't handle some voices in it's upper management structure that arn't entirely focused on shareholder profit then something else is wrong with that organization.
There is a belief, with a number of associated caveats, that "Today's luxury apartment's are tomorrow's affordable housing" [1]. They are one piece of the puzzle, and I don't think it's helpful to block their construction. That said, they aren't the only thing that's necessary for affordable and equitable housing, but I've become less hostile towards the luxury condo/shopping complex projects near me, even if I can neither afford them nor have much interest in living in one.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/todays-luxury...
Me neither but I didn't decide on the site architecture. If I did, it would work.
As someone who is struggling with issues with InfluxDB in production environments, this just moved my `Investigate replacing Influx with Timescale` issue higher up my priority list. Many of the problems with InfluxDB pointed out in the article are indeed real-world pain points for us.
Like property tax?
This is completely ignorant, given the massive advantages that Google has. To be fair, on the backend ranking algorithm side of things Bing and MSR did a lot of very innovative work. Google just has a massive, insurmountable data advantage that any newcomer cannot overcome.
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I disagree. Office space is relatively cheap compared to employee salaries. For a 25 person startup in SF, office space pencils out to the cost of 1-2 employees depending on the quality of the office. We have capacity to cram in up to 35.
It's not a myth. Real time doesn't mean fast, it just means deterministic.

And I'll throw out there that many times the the term microkernel in a lot of embedded OSs has been contorted by marketing speak into something unrecognizable. Basically if you have multiple threads in the kernel, structure the kernel code into modules (but perhaps don't even allow dynamic loading of modules), and can communicate through async queues, then it's called a microkernel. For instance VXWorks until recently didn't have memory protection between tasks, but still called itself a microkernel.
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U.S. Investor Sues AT&T for $224M Over SIM swap and Loss of Cryptocurrency
Are you suggesting the government steal their property?
You can't ignore the fact that taxes are higher in Europe. So everyone is paying for college, constantly, in addition to that numbers you quoted.
Foreign investments only go to the biggest city. It's meaningless to look at anything besides that.
Don't forget the camera to track your eye movement to see how effective the advertisement is!
>They would stand in the way of every layoff and changes they don't like, that's their mandate, unions are just another entity fighting for the status quo and another hoop a company needs to jump through.

Good, the workers make literally all of the profit and without them the company would cease to exist or make any money. It's a hoop they should have to jump through. The system we have now is maintaining the status quo, so I think you have that backwards.
On Chrome Android, all I get is the source code on the page itself; unparsed. Is there the server serving html file as text?
Now that you say it like this I couldn't be more against this bill. Property taxes are awful and illogical
Hope the Canadian government learns from this. We desperately need it. (ya, I know I know there will be trickle down impact of so much foreign money pulling out, but average home price of $1.36MM is unbelievable for the local salaries)
denmark pays their students the equivalent of 700usd per month while they're in school
Web developers start writing browser sniffers and ad-block complainer scripts so that your default browser becomes useless.

If they can't force you to watch their ads they just want you to go away.

I mean, just look at the backlash against AMP.
The Trajectory of Great Ideas
In 20+ years at 7 companies with 10 managers, I’ve only been “coached” by one and that was 20 years into my career as the software architect.

Part of the problem was that I came into my first role as the only developer and I was responsible for building a fairly complex system from scratch. I then left and spent another 9 years at another company where I became an “expert beginner”. (https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...).

10 years and five jobs later, I have a manager who is technical sound, keeps up with the latest functionality of the cloud platform we are using, and can give good suggestions about what areas I should research to implement something, but I still have to do the nitty gritty details. I actually enjoy that from a manager.
Rarely? Try never.
Then its now your job to support the mess from now on. You can call me a recalcitrant developer if you want, but its like asking "Oh, well what bridge can you build in two weeks?"

Sometimes you should build a raft instead of trying to pretend you can build major infrastructure in no time flat.
Sure they do, they just don't get written about here or glorified. But they exist and they're happy.
This is your opinion. I prefer using hardware with stable drivers, working reliably.
16 pixel click targets on mobile...
It already does. There's a list of exactly that, supplied by Google, hyperlinked-to in the very article headlined here.
Are businesses required not engage in political contributions or campaigns? Why would unions be different?
I worded it that way specifically. Even if you have $10 in your pocket, you can take $1 and go invest it on Robinhood and see the same return as everyone else. That is actually pretty impressive.

Now, you have to have enough money to buy a full share of whatever company you want. So Amazon has a minimum buy-in of about $1,900. One good argument for stock splits is that it makes your stock more accessible.

I don’t know what you mean by “poor people economics” but it sounds like you think saving and investing is beyond their reach. I disagree and I think it betrays more about you than I.

There are certainly times when spending all (or even in excess of all) your annual income is a rational and smart decision. But no matter what your income level, it is always true that some years you must save money aside from paying down loans.

The market is irrelevant for a vanishingly small number of people. The market is ignored by a large percentage of people who could benefit greatly from it.

I’m well aware most people don’t have $500 in their bank account. I would argue that makes equitable market access more important.
I was previously using Cloudflare in conjunction with a Linode server. The disadvantage of this, however, is that you need to ensure that one server never goes down otherwise anyone hitting a cold cache would see the site down.

Also, why do you need a server at all? If you are doing nothing but serving static files then why incur the overhead of maintaining LetsEncrypt certificates and writing Nginx config files? AWS provides a simple interface in which you can view and manage your static files without having to ssh into a server.

On the point of price, I'm predicting my total cost of hosting for a site serving roughly 40-45k users per month will be roughly $7/month. All whilst minimizing the amount of administration time required and monitoring of a more traditional system.

Hope this clarifies this, would be keen to hear any counter thoughts!
Good leaders don't need labels, only false/deceptive ones do.

While I appreciate the absurdity of your counter argument I really doubt that corporate management is intending to be vague/confusing for the sake of instigating discussion or thoughtfulness in the title of mid-management.

Ever heard of a CEO being called a "servant leader"? If so, who gave him that title?

Again, my personal experience is abusive leaders using this to force underlings to view them as humble, or even lowly equals, to quell dissent while demanding fealty and strict obedience.

Have you ever seen even a single instance of a made up title making someone a better person?
That's somewhat the issue at hand, right?

It's everything to the factory worker, but it's a rounding error to anybody involved in making decisions that effect that factory worker's everything.

Using that definition of "skin in the game," I'm not sure what the point of the phrase is.
Honestly scary stuff. I can see a good number of middle-aged women be very receptive to the fake information being disseminated on Pinterest, so long as they think that such information just "organically" appeared in their home feeds.
Then you gotta love old kung fu films with their training montages!
Agree! The silly file input button looks like a button crammed next to an input field. What a silly design choice imposed on us by the browser makers!
I think it's just a matter of being deep in the weeds on whatever thing we're currently invested in.

When we choose a direction, we see all the difficulties that path provides and kind of forget about all of the things it gives us.

And when looking at the other option, we see all the things that would overcome our difficulties while assuming that we get to keep everything good from the current path.

Everything is a trade off.
I'm unsure about this class of problem. On the one hand, it most definitely is a problem (the quote about 'engines of personalisation' being engines of radicalisation was particularly resonant here).

But on the other hand, I don't know that it's a problem to be fixed in-platform. Society has dealt with unsourced or decontextualised information in the form of gossip for millennia, and it's done that by building up an immune system of sorts, in that people (mostly) grow up knowing to take stories they hear in the pub (or wherever) with a healthy pinch of salt.

What we haven't done is start giving people chatting in pubs "citation needed" tickets. Maybe that's a bad thing - I don't know - but it seems like the real solutions to these problems all involve instilling healthy scepticism in the populace at large, and a habit of treating online interactions just the same as offline, rather than altering the medium.
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> That would be a much better plan. See what I mean?

No, because there are cases where having large fonts makes sense (e.g. <h1> for article titles, etc) while preserving the ability to display smaller fonts than that (e.g. for article content).
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==So it's likely QE has led to a general devaluing of the dollar that would lead upward pressure on all prices.==

QE started 10 years ago, why is it only showing up in the "all prices" data now?

Inflation was historically low from 2009 to 2016, but is coming fast and hard now. This lends credence to the OP comment that it is flowing down to main street from higher economic levels. The higher economic levels are "assets" like homes, public and private stock, crypto, art, etc.

==The reason the three industries you mentioned have outpaced every other seems to be federal policies like subsidies and regulation juicing the demand side of the curve.==

Have the countries with more government subsidies and regulations in healthcare (almost all of them) seen the same inflation in helathcare costs?
Because it would be ticketed to extinction.
No that’s not the point of QE. The point of QE is to allow the government to continue deficit spending without running out of money. The treasury lowers the interest rate and then creates new money to buy cheap debt from the government when there would otherwise be no takers.

The interest rate affects everybody, which allowed troubled banks to lend cheaply to each other in the wake of the financial crisis (good) but also means that low-risk investments generate very little return (bad). It’s the later that has pushed investors into riskier assets - whether or not that’s beneficial depends upon how much systemic risk there now is... which is not obvious, after all mortgage-backed securities were supposed to be safe but we all know how that worked out.

The treasury would like to raise interest rates but this means that consumer debt will cost more each month and is painful for homeowners especially. So it’s a slow process. We may already have trapped ourselves in unstainably cheap consumer debt - much like those 2005-vintage mortgage “teaser rates”.
Sure the cost/benefit works out the same for you (which is why no one has done the work), but that's different from the full set of options available to you in both cases.
>I don’t know how compromised Pinterest is at this point. But everything I’ve seen indicates its structure makes it uniquely vulnerable to manipulation. I’d beg journalists to start including it in their beat, and researchers to throw more resources into its study.

If we've learned anything from recent doxxing culture, he's dogwhistling journalists to harass tech platforms into purging users he views as problematic, only this time, with a patriarchal flavor:

>So why don’t we talk about it? My guess is that its perceived as a woman’s platform, which means the legions of men in tech reporting ignore it. And the Silicon Valley philosopher-king class doesn’t bring it up either. It just sounds a bit girly, you know? Housewife-ish.

Indeed, Mike, it's time for the MEN to step in. /s
That their own fault though. It takes 5 minutes of effort to get invested
Most operating systems have accessibility options to help with that. Consider helping your mother to use those, they exist for a reason. Punishing everyone just because a few folks need help is not the answer.
The Jury Is In: Microkernel OS Design Is Flawed.

See I can make clickbait titled papers also.
It's not misleading because most Linux kernel drivers run in kernel space; hence compromising them indeed potentially compromises the whole system, which is exactly the article's point. The fact that they're often buggy and poorly supported, unlike the "real" kernel, makes things worse and doesn't invalidate anything.
The topology of impossible spaces
On Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty), be warned that there is a showstopper bug in the latest kernel update to 3.13.0-155 [1].

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1787127
I don't think an ideal capitalist world would be much better.

A few monopoly corporations run everything. no laws to protect the environment, workers, everything is a commodity to be brought and sold, including facts. what laws do exist are used to benefit the rich and powerful.
What power do the chiefs actually have? The article says that all domestic decisions are made by women, and there is no hierarchy. Sound like "politicians and chiefs" are western interpretation of what could possible simply be a figure head or a diplomatic position to do trading with other islands.
I've been running a macOS VM on my Threadripper 1950X for awhile now. Passing through 8 cores with a GTX 1060 attached and it runs great. In the latest Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, no need to compile qemu from source either, the version from apt get works just fine.
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> Interestingly, full-stack teams have been heads and shoulders above in quality in my experience.

The only caveat to this statement I'd make, based on my own experience, is that for the most successful full-stack teams I've known, having at least one of the team members dedicated as a front-end specialist is a major advantage. Someone who is honestly interested in the State of the Art and who is well-versed in the associated tooling and patterns.

They may decide, pragmatically, to work a step or two behind the bleeding edge with their production projects, but they understand what is out there and how that knowledge can be leveraged to help their team succeed. This role acts as a force multiplier and can empower the rest of the team's full-stack developers to build accessible, usable interfaces.
Negative curvature means a saddle, right?
a good developer would do a simple *ngIf and do a toggle on either using <a href=...> or <my-fancy-button (click)="navToPage()">. Call it "olde time mode".