skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John runs a white supremacist podcast - NoAgenda - with noted Islamaphobe and Sandy Hook crisis actor believer, Adam Curry. John was kicked off of Leo Laportes network after years of misogynistic antics to women at the TWiT studios and stealing from the host. I’m surprised that Marco still promotes that crap on Overcast.
I’m no expert on this topic and have used both PG and MySQL.

My preference is MySQL purely because the syntax is easier, or at least consistent with what I learned at uni in the late ‘90s.

I also like MySQL workbench, although I’m sure there is an equivalent for PG I haven’t needed to look for one in recent years.

If PG allowed me to use the same syntax as MySQL I’d probably switch, purely because experts and those with more experience than I generally prefer PG for a whole lot of reasons.

EDIT: I should have googled first before replying. Looks like the syntax is near enough to identical for my simple needs and pgadmin will do what I need. I’m not sure why I had to learn some other weird syntax in 2012 for postgres, perhaps it was just shortcuts. Either way I’m going to seriously consider migrating now. :)
Right. I looked at his tweets before I spoke. He may not be a Trump supporter but he clearly is unhappy with the effort made to remove him.
It doesn't work half the time.
Check this classic from Doug Hofstadter out: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.htm...

It's hard to hear these things from the other side; that person paper can help with that, I think. It opened my eyes a little.
The point is that they grew their business mostly out of revenue. Yes you can get into a technical discussion of what a self-funded company is, but it generally misses the point. Setting yourself up so that you can be sustainable out of revenue at times requires a different approach and mindset which is at the core of self-funded companies.
Doug Hofstadter: A Person Paper on Purity in Language (1985)
> Why?

Notice that parallel to MySQL's rise a particular loosely-typed, never-except, often-wrong
programming language also became popular. To this day I feed my family with that language.

The typical coder (not that I do not say "developer") who codes in PHP does not care about correctness. He does not understand why monetary values cannot be stored in floats, he does not know what bitwise manipulation is, he does not know the difference between character encodings. What does he care what MySQL does, he knows that he can put strings in if he calls them VARCHAR, and he can pull the right one out with a WHERE. He cares not enough to check that user bios fit in his VARCHAR, and when he learns to JOIN he does not understand which constraints to put in the ON clause.

I do have nicer words for the L and A in the stack.
Yes, a banking license. They are hard to get [1]

[1]https://www.dfs.ny.gov/banking/iasc.htm
Don't think that some paper equity gives your employer more loyalty to you
One of my fondest personal memories is "printers and photocopiers use fundamentally different print technologies and will therefore never be integrated in one machine".

Does not in any way whatsoever justify the asshat fashion of the firing.
If you don't hire juniors, you don't deserve seniors
I have wondered about this in the context of future secrets, I have enjoyed that someone else has thought about the present case and come to not dissimilar conclusions as myself. I do wonder about research into future secrets, and coordinating disclosure of a future event.
What does Python do these days? I seem to remember it would catch common cases, but rather than quit, scold you and tell you how you should be doing it the other way, which seemed like the most Western European approach imaginable.
The Complexity of Songs (1977) [pdf]
I was a speaker at a conference they were doing live annotation for. (http://waic2018.com/index-en.html)
See slide deck here for proof: https://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc/world-artificial-intel...

Beyond that, commenting on the translation a bit.
They did live translation the first day of WAIC for the headline speakers. There were 2 screens, 1 was baidu and the other was iflytek.
Neither were that good on the english side (it was ok..but could barely keep up with the speakers)

They claim they are still working on english. The grammar output wasn't coherent. IFlytek itself has some neat hardware they sell that is pretty good.

Beyond that, it seems like they are mainly collecting data right now. I would not be surprised they were doing this just for marketing visibility. It is easy to fake.

Happy to answer questions about the experience there if people would find it useful.
In the (not at all unusual) event of incompetent counsel, jurors asking clarifying questions might draw out important information.
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Pre-launch landing page for the project. Would love feedback for the page and idea!
Homebrew/home-assembly computing nostalgic sigh

All those trips up and down the Valley, like was a spread out Guangzhou JDR Microdevices, NCA Peripherals, WierdStuff, Central Computers, MicroCenter, Halted, Egghead, mom&pop shareware and even the "evil" Fry's and CompUSA.

IIRC I spend somewhere on the order of $5k on basically a homebuilt workstation... Adaptec U2W, IBM Ultrastar whopping 9 GB drive, Plextor CD burner, PC Power & Coolng PSU, GUS and a Courier modem. IIRC i got tired of hearing the 7000 RPM fan droning like a 1U server and made a fanless water-cooling setup with an RV heater core and CPU cooling block. Oh and UPSes since 1986.. south San Jose had frequent power outages.

IIRc we had back issues of PC Magazines for at least the previous year. I had C++ PJ and DDJ.
In the meantime, Apple builds walled-garden devices with limited functionality so that users are forced to buy several devices.

It's unfortunate that every large vendor today has short-term incentives to screw users.
Floren seems to be posting from 2028. The continuum is all over the place.
Is he related to some keyboard keymap?
Great! I can stop feeling bad about never having been into OOP at all. Sure seems like longer than 20 years..
Good for them, with just a 500K investment I would guess the following

1. The founders should own at least 75% of not more which gives them a neat 30M in this deal.

2. As others pointed out, why such a poor multiple on revenue? The possibility is that they had a service heavy business (ie bulk of revenue came from service to customers).

3. From point 2, they mostly had negligible or no IP. If they had significant IP and sold for this multiple then it is a poorly made deal.

4. They raised only 500K, ie equity capital. There is no mention about their debt & other liabilities. This could be another reason for the low multiple.

5. Deal type is key, if it was cash it is good but if it was equity/options, then not so good.

We closed our acquisition beginning of this year as follows:

Value: 9.5M USD
Type: Cash
Revenue: ~1M USD
Valuation: 10X
Investment: 300k USD
Debt/Liability: nil
Status: Profitable
Investor returns: 5X
Location: India
No, that's August Dvorak - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dvorak
Subscribers? It's all clickbait-driven traffic to squeeze out fractions of cents worth of ad revenue nowadays.
I like the realistic view of noSql vs CAP and the different tradeoffs. We do need to talk more about the disadvantages of noSql systems and all the new database alternatives.

Which brings me to my point - what the author fails to talk about is why spanner has taken the design decision they have made. He does claim scalability, but that is a very general word.

I believe the spanner decision is to avoid making a global voting, as in global across the entire world, from North America, to Asia, Europe and even as far as Australia. Such a global voting will take a lot of time - impose seconds of later on any write.

I think the author, when he talks about having a single global vote with a small window, thinks in terms of a single database, maybe two regions on the Continental USA, as apposed to spanner trying to be Geo distributed.
> G# and Ab (same frequency, different name)

This is only true for equal temperament.
Look, you can believe whatever you want about why he was fired, but "no-platforming" is an actual deliberate thing and this was by definition not it.

I read over his tweets for the past couple weeks and while he comes off as your typical conservative blowhard, there's nothing worthy of public outcry and therefore worthy of a de-platforming event.

Look. I almost feel bad about myself for engaging with you on this level. But this is important. Progressives actually don't oppose the right of people to believe differently. The idea behind no-platforming is that it's not acceptable to amplify someone spewing hate. You may not agree with that, but if you can't understand that that's the motivation, then you're tilting at windmills here.
Prior comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625714
On the other hand, 5-Meo-DMT (5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyltryptamine), comes in the form of an organic lab-produced extract, or the Bufo Alvarius venom, takes it to a completely different level of non-duality and complete and utter shattering of your ego (temporarily of course, for about 20 minutes). Someone named Albert Most discovered this bizarre compound a few decades back by smoking the venom from the glands of a Sonoran Desert toad somewhere in New Mexico if I recall correctly. I haven't tried it myself but going down a rabbit hole of reports and practitioners on YouTube is in and of itself a profound trip: https://youtu.be/PQctOMSmBuk . EDIT: Here is the piece Vice did on Albert Most: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00jbzI4bcUw
I have found from the opposite way that the English alphabet is not so dissimilar to the Cyrillic. Once you get past that a bectop is a vector, and everything is nearly the same. I find there is a vitality in the region that I cannot find anywhere else, but it feels like living when I am there. I have been to many countries in the region and they all feel close to home.
This is why comparmentalization- or object orientation was invented. To keep the problems one needs hold in ones head small.
http://paulgraham.com/head.html

In a ideal case, you do not need read into the layers above and below, because reliable interfaces limit the scope of a problem.
You have the right to say (almost) anything you want. I have the right to tell you that you can't use my microphone. Someone else has the right to build a microphone tailored for you.
Quoting blihp: Note that the screenshot of the email notifying him indicated they were going to 'put all outside columns on hiatus.' That sounds like pure cost cutting to me.

It sounds like the magazine is dead or dying.
"Perhaps this piece shocks you. It is meant to. The entire point of it is to use something that we find shocking as leverage to illustrate the fact that something that we usually close our eyes to is also very shocking. The most effective way I know to do so is to develop an extended analogy with something known as shocking and reprehensible. Racism is that thing, in this case. I am happy with this piece, despite-but also because of-its shock value. I think it makes its point better than any factual article could. As a friend of mine said, "It makes you so uncomfortable that you can't ignore it." I admit that rereading it makes even me, the author, uncomfortable!"
The only bad thing about Apple supporting APFS on Fusion Drives is that it gives them an incentive to continue selling future iMacs and Mac minis with Fusion Drives.

Having had to replace failed HDDs in Fusion Drive iMacs at work, it's certainly no fun. For all new Mac purchases I ensure they are SSD only now.
Would it be worth trying to think of words with different meanings as entirely new words? So, "white" in one sentence may be a different word than "white" in another?
> I would hardly consider the Great Depression to be out of "living memory"

If you were 5 in 1938, you'd be 85 today. And your memories of the Depression probably wouldn't be that good.

The older you were in the Depression, the more dead you are now.
The flipside of this story is that companies often only hire junior developers for the lower cost.

Some companies 10-15 year old companies are composed 80-90% of junior developers, and that's a problem too.
I think you are right and it's probably the most plausible answer. But in the spirit of interpreting the parent comment with good faith, help me walk through a thought experiment:

Try getting a job or a promotion with any VC backed SV company while having a Twitter bio that indicates you voted for or support Trump. Not quite willing to do that? A bridge too far? No prob. Instead, just put that you support the 2nd Amendment. Or the military. Or law enforcement. Or smaller government.

I dare you...
Then maybe the increase of the gas tax should go hand in hand with denser zoning and public transport. Internalizing the cost of parking spaces would be a good first step.
It's not reasonable to expect your coworkers to treat you like a monk who needs to spend long hours in uninterrupted deep thought and reflection.

Avoiding the cognitive penalty of interruptions is a skill that every programmer should develop. It's a big win in terms of productivity, and it only becomes more important when you become more senior and need to collaborate more frequently with other teams or provide support to other developers. Collaboration is where true productivity comes from anyway, rather than raw coding skill (above a certain baseline of competence, of course.)

In my experience, productive programmers often avoid the problem by just writing stuff down. If the guy in the comic strip had a pen and paper he could have quickly drawn those flowcharts he had in his head. Or he could have typed his ideas in comments or in a text file. But if he tries to hold such a complicated structure in his head, to the extent that he can't have a conversation with another person, he's just needlessly setting himself up for failure. I doubt he would make it through a lunch break or even a bathroom break if he can so easily lose track of what he is doing.
More dead?
Some examples of what he got right then ?
This was possible in Germany. At one point this service was closed. I think I still have an account there with the Fed (with 50 Euros or something in it).
Uh huh... that poem had more than one line, and if it started with your version the response would broadly be, “get back to me in a few lines and I’ll start fighting.” Even the fallacy you’re invoking is a slope and not a cliff. The republic isn’t going to implode because Alex Jones can’t use PayPal. Now if the government were throwing him in jail for what he said, I’d grudgingly support his right to be a bloviating psychopath, with rights under the 1st amendment.

Companies not wanting to do business with him? yawn
Right, which is why the current generation is limited to 12TiB for 8S systems, compared to 24TiB for the generation you quoted.

Even previous gen, if 12TiB main memory is your goal (NUMA concerns aside), it's probably worth going for the 8S system instead of the 4S one, since that's a savings of $144k, and 8 slower/fewer-core CPUs might even be cheaper than 4 that have twice the performance.
What syntax do you have in mind? Can you give sone example of what you see as easier in MySQL than Postgres? Genuinely curious, I don't have money in that game
Woah, hold up there. You're speaking for some progressives as if you're speaking for all. I generally like to think of myself as progressive.

I'm pretty sure that many progressives consider employing someone in your organization who posts hateful content online _is_ amplifying them. Look at the internal messages of Google employees in the John Damore lawsuit documents if you don't believe me.

Breitbart fired Milo over the same shit.
I used both of them, but migrated to Postgres permanently a decade ago.

Early on in my career, the biggest selling point for Mysql was the excellent web admin tool "phpMyAdmin" - it really helped get applications off the ground, since the core of most modern systems is the data model. Users could modify data, without your needing to create a UI for that use case.

It conveniently used the same stack as the rest of the software, but I remember spinning up a phpMyAdmin instance even after moving away from PHP as an application language.

Postgres still doesn't really have anything like that! The closest that comes to mind is Django's Admin tool.
Curious re ZFS - any stability issues? Are you leveraging snapshots for backups? Special configs or vanilla ZFS-on-Linux?
At what point did they scratch out the "don't" and just switched to "be evil"?
Mistakes that don’t (necessarily) kill startups
Well closing tabs still keeps some tabs (I think 10) in memory for the reopen recent tabs feature. You can always go to about:memory and click clear memory and that should help - though I have never had to do that.
If data is central to your business, in all likelihood it will be, and you care.
I recall having to type /d from the command prompt to show databases (or something like that). I prefer “show databases”.
They are, however, related:

"nephew of sociologist and creator of the Dvorak keyboard, August Dvorak"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak
No idea. Assuming those are all 'outside columns' (I don't know as I haven't read PC Mag in years), it seems like the veracity of the story Dvorak's been told will become clear very soon.
I don't think Sundar is going to have the same response as to Project Maven. It would be hypocritical because he was involved in this project from the beginning. Project Maven, on the other hand, he probably only learned about because of the controversy.

My prediction is that he is going to sick with his version that this was an experiment, the headcount was necessary to fully explore the idea, it became obvious that it wasn't possible to do ethically, Google isn't going to do it.

The real question to me is what this is going to do to Google's internal transparency.
Those are pretty stereotypical ad hominems, actually. Anytime you attack the author and not the content, it is pretty much an ad hominem. These get used heavily in the Chinese press as well, so I assume there isn’t the taboo against using ad hominems (and other red herrings) in Chinese culture as there is in western culture.

Wumao is basically someone who is paid by the Chinese government to subvert online public opinion. If you are just pro China and being called a womao, the term is being misapplied. Anyone who says anything critical of China is called biased against China, even if it’s just a thing or two. Few people are actually completely biased against China on everything, but in Chinese thought, there seems to be no room for nuance.
> CTRL+D works. You like it. Great use that. You don't think anybody needs an alternative? Or you don't think having an alternative will help at all? Fine. Think what you want. One thing's for (mostly) certain: it doesn't hurt. So there's really nothing to complain about.

Not complaining about its presence, as per my comment :

"While I think it's great to have both options present,..."

Just observing that claims of 'more intuitive' interfaces are very subjective, and that it was unlikely to be a deal breaker for a new user.
They're listed as Columnists (as opposed to Contributing Editor, which means you're an employee), have non-pcmag.com (unlike all of their other authors) email addresses in their Author Bios on PC Mag's site and with one exception (a twice-yearly contributor anyway) they all have published PC Mag articles within the last week. Moreover, they all have full-time jobs which are not at Ziff Davis.

Knowledge is power.
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Its one of those features of asymmetric warfare, that you can drag the enemy into the moral-mud-pits of combating opposition among the civilian population.
For the opposite side this has the benefit of getting new recruits among the relatives and survivors and obviously of leading a far superior enemy by the noose ring through the public arena -which raises Opposition in a democracy - and reduces combat effectiveness in the military in dictatorships and democracy's (sovjet afghanistan).

I would really love to have the CIAs Information on how much vietnamese population was in active opposition to the american "police" action. My estimate would be around 75 %.
start out with an overtly critical almost "ad hominem attack" position, include your own stance in the course of your argument and redirect sentiment-in this case trying to garner sympathy for yourself for being attacked as a wumao.

you're either actually a wumao or are too afraid to actually take a reasoned stance. i had never heard of the term before this thread but makes sense, i'm reading a lot more content like this nowadays wondering what exactly the author is arguing about
There is no indication that brains are better at solving NP hard problems than computers.
Monads is taking it too far. Mutation is a reality, the correct approach is disciplined mutation. Shoving mutation into convenient boxes and convincing yourself to never look inside it does not mean mutation does not exist. The best approach is taken by scheme, and more specifically clojure to have a disciplined and practical approach. Mathematical purity of programs is a myth propagated by Type theorists dont buy into it.
It is pretty nifty. They have a Chrome extension too, but that seems like massive overkill so I threw together a quick bookmarklet [1]. You need a decently new browser to use it.

fetch(
"https://outlineapi.com/parse_article?source_url=" +
encodeURIComponent(window.location)
)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(body => {
if (body.error) {
return alert(`Outline Bookmarklet Error: ${body.error}`);
}
window.location.href = `https://outline.com/${body.data.short_code}`
})
.catch(err => {
alert("Outline Bookmarklet Error. See console for details.");
console.error(err);
});

Or minified to be copied directly into bookmark:

javascript:fetch("https://outlineapi.com/parse_article?source_url="+encodeURIComponent(window.location)).then(o=>o.json()).then(o=>{if(o.error)return alert(`Outline Bookmarklet Error: ${o.error}`);window.location.href=`https://outline.com/${o.data.short_code}`}).catch(o=>{alert("Outline Bookmarklet Error. See console for details."),console.error(o)});

[1]: https://gist.github.com/giodamelio/c97f71a12eec5c142f21f757a...
Thanks for this, very interesting. My earlier intuition is more than confirmed; If you turn every atom in the universe into a supercomputer, get them all working together generating digits of pi, for a million universe life times, you only get 10^80 (atoms in universe approx) * 10^10 (10 billion digits per sec each say) * 10^11 (years in a universe life time roughly) * 10^8 (seconds in a year roughly) * 10^6 (a million universe lifetimes) = 10^115 (ish) digits. In fact that is an incomparably smaller number that 10^1000000 digits, only good for a single run of 115 zeroes in a row.

Basically there's an awful lot of room between zero and mathematical infinity, and normal large numbers that we experience or even try to reason about in everyday life don't and can't begin to stretch even a little way towards the ultimate mathematical limits.
Very frustrating for companies who actually do use machine learning to solve a problem!

Hard to rise above the background "AI noise" of well-funded marketing.

And people are already fed up with all the AI marketing bullshit; "ebbing tide sinks all boats".

One way is to offer real-time results via APIs or demos, which cannot be faked with humans due to sheer latency / volume. Another is to be active in the ML community (open source etc) to build a reputation. But there the audience is different (technical), and may not overlap with the business case much.
> This is why Google and (I assume) Amazon used MySQL internally.

Amazon actually uses a lot of Oracle with some scattering of MySQL.