skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel like the author is making a huge omission by not talking about the properties of multi-raft sharded DBs coupled with the TrueTime-like APIs from cloud providers in 2018.

I mean this is all fine and dandy if it works (plus, how do know that it actually works in all the edge cases?), but that's a HUGE amount of complexity. IMO you really need to have a very good reason to even consider anything this complex.
> Originally published by BGR.

Well, there's your problem right there. Certainly explains why they would use a word like "tracking" when it doesn't apply.
If time is an emergent property shouldn't space be as well?
This is definitely wrong :)

Besides Richard, who is the code owner of the clang frontend , chandler is the #5 contributor to LLVM (see here https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/graphs/contributors), and a quick trip to llvm-dev will tell you how much time he spends working on optimizations :)

FWIW: The GCC folks i pinged were similarly unenamored with the idea of trying to elide allocation all the time.

Personally, i've seen a bunch of these "required optimizations" over the years, and they rarely pan out without significant help.
(IE required tail call optimization usually requires special marking/calling convention change, etc).

Full disclosure: Chandler, Geoff, and Richard are in my org, and i am theoretically their boss's boss. I say theoretically because it's pretty meaningless - i'm not going to tell Richard how to do C++.
Dam breach at North Carolina Duke plant; coal ash could spill
I'd guessed there's a reason the links being posted here on this are from low-trust sources: Sun, NYPost, etc.
I look to this diet from a very different perspective, because I'm no trying to lose weight, but since I started with a low-carb approach (first Whole30 and then keto) I feel that my long term allergies, my defective intestine problems, my stuff nose and somehow my ADHD just disappeared.

I cannot argue on the downside of this diet, but I definitely can talk about the benefits, and I'm sold.
How is that a euphemism?
I would highly recommend playing 9x9 Go! It is a lot shorter and generally played at a faster pace (lower time controls). It still retains a good balance of strategy and tactics.
Interestingly it looks like the Michigan bottle bill was enacted in 1978 when $.10 was more like $.40 today
Yes, and even the most conservative of auto drivers won't even blink at a dropping a billion dollars on one additional lane in an interchange, doing nothing to alleve congestion. But if you even speak of spending that on transit, everyone starts screaming.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/10/12/heres-what-a-billion-...
My biggest wish is that new research implementations in the field of ML come out in 1 framework, in 1 language.

But for engineering purposes, it's nice that there is an ocaml framework now.
Most consumers treat smartphones as disposable products that get replaced at least every couple of years or, so if the company goes away, it isn’t a big hassle. Unlike PCs or wifi routers, smartphones are not viewed as something people want to hang on to and use for years and years. (Plus, in Xiaomi's case, the build quality is so poor your phone might not last long anyway.)
Ripple Passes Ethereum to Claim Number Two Ranking on CoinMarketCap
On Ecstasy, Octopuses Reached Out for a Hug
shapes, rock formations, mineral content, magnetic striping. There are lots of clues.
Or alternatively, release tickets on a randomized basis leading up to the event, coinciding in probability with the frequency of event advertisement.
Losing a majority due to various faults is not equivalent to a network partition. In practice for the systems you are working with it may have a similar effect (or a much worse one!), but in theory it is possible to recover from these faults in a short amount of time as long as there are no network disruptions.
I loved it when I went a couple years ago, but this was a problem for me too. I'd like to take my kids, but they're small (6 and 3) and I worry that the stream of people will be a problem for them too, so I keep thinking of trying to go on a weekday. But I haven't yet.
I honestly can't believe I'm reading this.

It takes Chrome + Ghostery + ABP + Privacy Badger 700MB and 17x processes just to start on Windows. Open a couple tabs and it instantly consumes 2+ GB of memory. Firefox is 300MB and 5 processes. You are delusional.

You have to tell it specifically NOT to stay running in the background FOR EVERY user on a machine.

It still has no idea what an FQDN is. And Google devs still don't care. They'd much rather search Google for a FQDN with a backslash than actually attempt to resolve the name. And that's a feature, NOT a bug.

I recently switched away from Chrome at work and Chromium at home BECAUSE it's not getting any better.
Support for dependent reads is a subject that the Calvin paper only touches on briefly, describing one strategy of using "reconnaissance reads" to determine the key set.

In FaunaDB, this is formalized as an optimistic concurrency control mechanism that combines snapshot reads at the coordinator and read-write conflict detection within the transaction engine. By the time a transaction is ready to commit the entire key set is known. I wrote a blog post that goes into more detail here: https://fauna.com/blog/acid-transactions-in-a-globally-distr...

Better analytics support, including ad-hoc queries is on our roadmap. That being said, requiring indexes was a design choice: First and foremost, we want FaunaDB to be the best operational database. It is a lot easier to write fast, predictable queries if they cannot fall back to a table scan!

While FaunaDB requires you to create indexes to support the views your workload requires, the reward is a clearer understanding of how queries perform. We've built indexes to be pretty low commitment, however. You can add or drop them on the fly based on how your workload evolves over time.
Its common to think if your research results are not novel it isnt worth publishing. That's one reason why there is a replication crisis.
Not sure of your point? I agree it's nothing like suburban Britain, which is hardly a wonder in most places itself.

There's more than one type of ugly around. Brutalist buildings in the UK are some of the worst, bleakest and profoundly unfriendly places.
Maybe, but I'm not that excited about it. I already skip nytimes articles and now I can safely skip bbc articles. If websites enable cookies or trackers on the domains they own, I'm okay with that, but I'm avoiding tracking from other domains for now. If you want to have brightcove gatekeep your content, go ahead.
Please correct the title. s/Stenography/Steganography/
That seems about right, and similar to what I do. Maybe it's a hardware issue? I also don't use the default music app for streaming music over bluetooth, so it could be an issue with that..
I didn't see the content in the source when I looked.
The open veins of Bolivia's lithium powering the world
VA Will Try Again to Make Its Health Records Compatible with Pentagon's
Plain TeX is different to TeX:

..."virgin" TeX...knows just primitive commands, no macros. Plain TeX is the set of macros (developed by Knuth) which makes TeX usable in everyday life of a typist. ... The available commands can be classified into primitive commands and macros. ... The "virgin" TeX knows only the primitive commands. ... Formats (plain TeX, LaTeX, etc.) extend TeX's vocabulary by defining macros. ...For example, plain TeX defines macros \item, \rm, \newdimen, \loop, etc. Plain TeX defines about 600 macros.

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/97520/what-is-plain-...
Exactly. Just being hired once brings you a step ahead of other fresh grads.

I second the recommendation against remote work at this career stage. My first tech job was (and it still kinda is) remote with a very hands off boss and I managed to burn myself out with very little work and acquire one hell of a procrastination/anxiety problem. Got moved to part-time maintenance with the expected pay cut and I'm slowly getting better now.

Of course, my story is a worst case scenario, but it's good to know how sideways things can go.
Here's a great description of compiling from a largish subset of Scheme all the way to x86 assembly language: http://schemeworkshop.org/2006/11-ghuloum.pdf
This mixer is claimed to achieve 66% sugar content at ambient temperature by essentially grinding the sugar particles to smaller size while mixing them with water: http://www.silverson.com/images/uploads/documents/F_Soft_Dri...
It has nothing to do with the technology -- it's all about the land. Dunno how long you've been here, but my brother-in-law grew up in Eastlake when the I-5 corridor and ship canal bridge were under construction. There was a several block wide zone stretching miles right through the middle of the city most of which had been eminent-domained by the government for the project. Give that a try in 2018.
You're assuming the economy in NM gets better, but luckily we've been remarkably upturn-resistant, at least throughout my life.
It seems you have other problems (crap infrastructure and no change control) to deal with before the issues in this article become your biggest concern, but are not the cases you list themselves partition problems?
You'd need general if you wanted to divert asteroids and crash them with pinpoint accuracy on your enemy's cities.
A solid approach :P

I've found that being deliberate about any of the aspects tends to lead to an improvement, and oftentimes you're deliberate about all/a lot of it. A huge shift in both health & wealth comes from switching to home-cooked meals, and then paying attention to what you put in those will help you save money and eat well.
Anyone who's played starcraft competitively knows how much infinite potential there is to micro control, much more compared to Dota2, and that even the best players can't reach that level either by a very large margin.

Dota2 is not the same way - some of the best players perform micro-control on par with AI. This makes AI in DoTA much more impressive
Yes, still its a way to set a value. And don't be so sure you can't make an entry in a KVO subscription system in asm - of course at bottom that's exactly what's happening.

I'm disappointed at the zero-attempt-to-understand-the-point digs made on hacker news (like the one I'm responding to). The point is, how is multi-layered abstraction an unalloyed good? Its heavy, slow, complicated to author and explain, and not doing all that much of value.
Ask HN: How can I get sub freelance work?
Where can I get some subcontract dev work? I have like 20 hrs a week free and I like to put it to more useful work.

I don't want to deal with marketing, networking and dealing with non-tech clients to get my own clients.

My idle situation would be doing work for a busy freelancer or consultant and earn a couple of bucks.

I always read that for successful freelancing you have to spend around %50 of your time networking and marketing. I don't like that. I don't mind getting paid less if I just do what I love, code!

Where can I find such an arrangement?
Buying more meats/cheeses over pastas and sauces. Buying Almond flour over AP flour. Buying Avocado or coconut oil over corn oil. This list goes on and on. Yes, you can spend a low amount on this diet but you really might be limiting your meal variety.
I've had the same luck with allergies...pretty awesome!
People are going to notice a 300m deviation due to landmarks and their eyes.
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Tyler Cowen: Jeff Bezos Is What Democracy Needs Right Now
It's a double-edged sword. I get why some apps say, "I want to handle everything myself", because then you don't have to debug which versions of a framework you're compatible with, and you don't have deal with these massive layers of abstractions. I hate working with frameworks, if I was building a Linux app I would be very tempted to just directly call into X or Wayland.

On the other hand, the last time I launched Braid on Linux, I had to manually change my resolution back afterwards and it removed my desktop background.

And I just felt like, "I'm sure there was a really good, sensible reason for whatever hack this game relied on when it originally launched on Linux. But... come on, if you had used some common framework, for all of the terrible problems that might have brought, when I launched it years later it would have at least full-screened properly."

So I dunno. The number of really big Linux apps that end up using their own custom display code is surprising to me. Even Emacs isn't fully using GTK. I assume developers of those apps are smart, so I assume there must be a good reason for it.
yours: a bit of your paranoia, a bit of your misunderstanding about others, and a bit of what you actually got right.

just work on minimizing the first two
I would understand if the complaint was that Spanner is too slow without expensively accurate clocks and synchronization. But the complaint is that Spanner fails to guarantee consistency, which doesn't make sense to me. The requirements clearly include giving a valid clock bound, so if you give an invalid clock bound, it's clearly your fault for getting incorrect results, not Spanner's!
> and you probably won't dissolve dozens of sugar cubes in a glass of water to make a drink)

You'd be surprised what some recipes for 'home cooked food' calls for. My SO and I have been on a global culinary 'adventure' in our kitchen for the past few months and we are constantly having to ignore when recipes call for cups (with an 's') of sugar for things like stews, breads (not cakes..), etc. While food cooked at home can be healthy, it's important to understand that not all food cooked at home is healthy.

And more to your comment: you've obviously never had homemade southern (US) sweet tea, which is basically a bucket of sugar with a bit of tea added for flavor.
They may collect it but Tetrapak is inherently barely recyclable - it contains plastic, paper and metal which can't be separated.
The Gateway Games of Legend (Preceded by the Legend of Gateway)
I do not. While looking for it on archive.org I found a lecture series by him. Quoting from the description:

> During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life's work. These thinking out loud lectures span 42 hours and examine in depth all of Fuller's major inventions and discoveries from the 1927 Dymaxion house, car and bathroom, through the Wichita House, geodesic domes, and tensegrity structures, as well as the contents of Synergetics.

https://archive.org/details/buckminsterfuller
Summary (since this is an audio link):
Mandated by congress that the VA and Pentagon have compatible electronic medical records system, so that VA patients have access to their records from their service.

1 billion spent, and completely failed.

Now VA has a contract for 10 billion over 10 years to use the same software as the Pentagon.
Tak is relatively new but is pretty fun to play for an abstract game.
is this a meme? http://qr.ae/TUGRIY
MyRocks isn't 5.6 only. It is in Percona 5.7 and MariaDB 10.3

I agree that tuning is too complex and we should do much better there. This explains where to ask for advice - http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2018/05/where-to-ask-question...
Blue Apron Has Been Using Caged Pigs for Its Pork
Image macros are just called memes now. I don't like it either, but language evolves in ways we don't necessarily like and there's not a lot to be done about it.
Nested array of object support for Kibana dashboard using KNQL Plugin
Any comments on how FoundationDB might be the same / different?
> Mac OS is the only mainstream OS I know of that disallows debugging by non-root user accounts entirely.

This isn't true; Xcode works just fine on non-root accounts. You will need to get permission to debug anything from an admin user, or add yourself to the developers group. And if you want to debug a system binary you'll need to disable SIP.
It's a very classic way to say "he's queer" before it was at all socially acceptable to talk about it.
There is a bit of irony that for all the "maths for maths' sake" argument of this apology, one of Hardy's most lasting achievements was a basic principle of genetics -- the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%E2%80%93Weinberg_princip...
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You need a quite elaborate system of a grid of synchronized, stationary clocks and rods to correctly define a reference frame, which is worse than what's required to come up with a "good enough on earth to some time resolution" true time.
where is the deck?
Take away at least $5 per day per scooter, paid to the chargers, to take it off the street every night.
Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (1999) [pdf]
> These scooters do in fact substitute for cars.

Do they? Is there good evidence of that? I'm pretty skeptical, and from a google search I don't see that - and others seem to be similarly skeptical (outside of companies that own scooter companies...). It actually seems likely that the same people that would bike or take public transit would ride scooters - and that seems like the wrong direction to go.
My buddy Tom says "Lots of people are writing code now. Most of them shouldn't" He's old-school write-it-from-the-bottom-up. His solutions are elegant, bulletproof marvels that fit in tiny devices and run like lightning.
I was big into the Tiny House movement for a time and you're right.

The problem is Land. Western countries need Land Reform v2.0 because despite only moderate or even negative population growth - the median person cannot afford to buy Land and the Property Rights to construct a home.

Only 40% of a house price is materials and labour.

It is simple and shocking: our governments have made it illegal to build in every way except literal law.

One, just one, minor factor is the quantity of land owned by the government - it is extraordinary. It would be possible to create a construction boom overnight by selling off many of the properties owned by councils, transportation authorities.

I live in a small town of no importance surrounded by a dozen small villages. I estimate minimum of 0.20 of the properties are vacant or underutilized by an assortment of public bodies. At one point every hotel in the town was owned by the government. Just yesterday I went to work on a small public building in a tiny village of about 50 people. I'd passed it hundreds of times and never realized our hospital system owned it - has not been used in two decades. I have no idea why they own it and I don't think they do either because there are buildings of similar size in every one of those villages which have not been used. Meanwhile there is a housing crisis where poor people can't get public housing. It's right there!

Houses for a typical family in this area would typically cost 200k-300k. Retrofitting one of these 'lost' buildings would cost 50k.

Somebody needs to preform a independent survey of all properties owned by the government, then organize the poorer inhabitants and young people to make purchase requests. If a good explanation of why the property is owned cannot be provided it ought to be sold to the public or used as public housing stock.

This is not capitalism vs communism people - it's just something that makes sense.
Interesting idea, but sometimes I do that when I sleep, so I would need that exception list to be small.
It's unlikely to be popular in the UK again any time soon, it reeks of depressing grey misery and inhuman, unfriendly architecture. It also reeks of crap 1960s city centres.

I hope this 'revival' is strangled in infancy.

I also disagree that it is function in form - brutalist buildings often fail to perform their function well, usually due to ignoring human factors like requiring light and air, or encouraging criminality and vandalism by having dark, semi-accessible corners.

I look at brutalist structures like the Heyward Gallery and despair that anyone could have thought inflicting that on the world was doing it good, when looking across the river at what else London has to offer.
Yes, and we all pick the Earth’s gravity well as our reference frame. Differences due to elevation and latitude are too small to measure for purposes of transaction clocks.
I love this thinking, but it isn't clear how to incentivize the typical municipality. I live in a very typical 35,000 person city in middle(-ish) America. A $2.00/month charge was proposed to continue supporting weekly recycling. That didn't happen and recycling was cut to every-other-week because the cost was deemed too much of a burden on retirees (no joke, this was the argument). Then, as recycling shifted from being a revenue generator (because Chinese (?) recyclers were buying it) to a cost center, many other smaller towns in the area just caved in and stopped recycling altogether. Our city instead put in place a $3/month surcharge (oh the irony).

Likewise, we are in the heart of our state's wine country. Wine comes in glass bottles. Our city has never (?) had glass recycling because it was deemed not-cost-effective, as the nearest glass recycler is a four hour drive away.

Point is: it's the economic incentives/disincentives for municipalities, it's all they care about.
I love Buckminster Fuller, but doesn't a lot of this sound like pseudointellectual bullshit? I mean

"The entire regenerative hierarchy of major, intermediate, and minor constellations of component patterns-within-component-patterns of universe are continual processes of synchronous, yet independent and unique, transformative patternings. That is, all components of universe are in continually accommodative, associative-disassociative motion reciprocity, and all the moving components of universe continuously affect all the other moving components--in varying degrees, ranging between high and low tide reciprocities of critically intense to critically negligible. All of these inter-effects of all the motional components upon one another are precessional, and precession always produces transformative resultants in vectorial patterns which always articulate angular accelerations in directions other than the 'straight' lines of directions between the inter-effective components"

Really?
Sounds interesting. FWIW, A search for "Magazyn Enter" (the publisher is Lupus?) at archive.org turns up a handful of downloadable cover CDs from 1999. I didn't see any references to Mikroprofesor in the one ISO I checked. Just FYI, if it helps anyone sleuth.
> A woman came into my office--someone who didn't seem to want to give me the time of day--and the conversation got around to her telling me how depressed she was about her life and loves. After maybe 10 minutes, she thanked me for being such a good listener and said something about I was just so charismatic. I almost fell out of my chair.

I get this a lot too despite not being any great conversationalist. I think in some sense people who don't talk too much are blessed with being perceived as great listeners.
According to the FY 2019 budget [1], operating expenses of busses are much more heavily subsidized than rail (recovery ratio of 23% for the former if you look at page 35).

[1]: https://www.wmata.com/about/records/public_docs/upload/FY201...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_never_married

But I suppose the author meant that "he never married" in the literal sense.
As the article mentioned they aren’t a new company, they are the #1 ride hailing app in a lot of European cities.
This is probably enough so that the majority of users would not be able to find it. I probably wouldn't, unless the process ended up using excessive resources and I sampled it.