skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that it's particularly interesting, but I also took a photo of a rectangular iceberg:

https://imgur.com/a/XNWz0IO

I bet with some cropping or from a different angle it could be made to look as rectangular as the one in the photo.

This was taken off the east coast of Greenland in a helicopter. It's kind of hard to get an idea of scale, but it's rather enormous. 20x bigger than the typical "big ice"
If you save a non-trivial amount of your income - you will be set at 60.
Intel has been fudging TDP for years at this point, especially in mobile, but apparently on desktop now, too. If you dissipate the spec sheet TDP, you get spec sheet performance with short turbo boosts, if you can source enough power and dissipate the heat, turbo will stay on. I'm sort of surprised that it peaks at just over twice the spec sheet, though.
I'd go further than just remove "fundamentally" from that statement. I'd say the entire statement is false.

Getting rid of meritocracy is "Everyone gets an A+". Teams will quickly get in trouble if everyone got A+ for "works well with the team" but some should've gotten a D- or an F.

Meritocracies don't have to excuse bad behaviour if they simply penalise it. Perhaps those stuck in bad situations and complaining about meritocracies are really just suffering from the ill-effects of cronyism, favouritism or some other "ism".
Yeah, I'm looking forward to syntactic sugar for JSX strings and async/await.
I never claimed it was a "majority". My point is that the history of the Church is complicated, and Protestantism (representing roughly of a quarter of the catholic Church in terms of both time and people). Anything that encompasses 25-35% of a whole is significant enough to not be written off as "exclusively" anything.
Except the situation isn’t binary. It’s not either slow your phone down or let it not working. The problem is Apple makes the other option, battery replacement, extremely difficult. If you do it with Apple, then you have to pay a ludicrously high amount (and I’m not sure if they give you a new or a refurbished battery). Further, Apple does not provide third party repairers, or customers, access to genuine parts. Even worse, as Louis Rossman has publicized, they work with US customs to prevent 3rd party repairers from even acquiring genuine batteries.
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It might be because if it's a tokio-core based one OP might be blocking the event loop too much.
Alembic. It's made by zzzeek (Mike Bayer), who created SQLA and it's hackable to do custom migrations.

We use it by changing the models in code and then having Alembic automatically create a suitable migration for us. Then we change the migration as required (adding steps for data migrations etc). It's really simple:

alembic revision --autogenerate -m 'changing something...'

That generates a python file with an upgrade and downgrade function. You can then customise fully as you require.

Then on the db server you can run:

alembic upgrade head # or downgrade etc
It wouldn't be the first subterranean military base.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Ujx_pND9wg
If it's your company why are you not getting paid? And why are you not in control? Maybe I'm reading this wrong but it sounds like there's either a lot more to this that you've not mentioned or you've some underlying problem, if you don't address that problem you're just going to be taking it with you and the same thing will happen to you at the new startup.
There are such organizations, and yet the counterfeit problem persists (and the world's largest retailer does little to stop it).

On-device protection is way more effective anyway.
Terra-deformation.
To the contrary, Game of Thrones was too short. The books were just so long and detailed that even 8 seasons did it no justice. I think the mistake was making the show before the books were finished being written and spending so much time on the first couple books so that the later seasons were just skimming through the major plot points from the books.
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Your wife is correct. Imperial measurements are absolutely ludicrous.
A key thing with manga is that many series originally run in serial format in magazines that will drop the series and the author like a hot potato if popularity with readers wavers, so (a) it's impossible for the authors to actually plan for an ending and (b) authors are incentivized to insert whatever it takes to keep readers coming back based on this specific week in the real world instead of having a plot outline.
I'm pretty sure everybody is going to come out of this exercise disappointed.
Which years were those? Mini-USB didn't die out quite quickly enough to make room for Micro-USB before USB-C came onto the scene, so I've had to have at least 2 of those 3 for most of the past decade. My entertainment center currently has to deal with all three, and I have to deal with Micro and C just about everywhere else (most things are Micro except my phone which is C). I think this is a bit of a rose colored look back on things.
Even though the DOM story hasn't been figured out, firefox has recently done work to make WASM <-> JS calls performant. So now things like Yew will probably be usable from a performance standpoint[0]. But apart from the DOM, it's good for CPU intensive things[1].

[0] Yew: https://github.com/DenisKolodin/yew
[1] Refactoring a CPU intensive JS thing: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/oxidizing-source-maps-with...
Compare this Jepsen analysis with that of MongoDB 2.4.3 from 2013[1] and you'll see that MongoDB has come a long, long way in the last few years. Note that the linked report on 3.6.4 was actually funded by MongoDB. I think a lot of the hate in the past was caused by their marketing writing checks that the technology couldn't cash. I think that has changed somewhat, but I'm not sure whether popular opinion has come around.

1: https://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb
> Addressing an element T[h][w][c] in a linearized 3D tensor with 0-based indexing:

But why would you ever use linearized addressing when you have proper multidimensional access? Aside from doing the low-level implementation of multidimensional access, you shouldn't ever need to do that.

> Or let's say you want to take a string "abc" and repeat it until the length is 10, getting "abcabcabca". With 0-based indexing

Your example assumes not only the stated indexing model but also a range function that returns the integer members of a half-open range, which is a little crazy of a way to do loops, but the least unintuitive way with 0-based indexing, so programmers are used to it from C (where you do it without an actual function call) and newer zero-based languages.

With 1-based languages, the sane way is the more intuitive closed range (for i in 1:5) which doesbt require an extra mental operation to convert to the set of values that will actually be used. There are good uses for half-open ranges, but the kind of explicit loop control they get used for in 0-based languages is an artifact of 0-based languages, so arguing that it is (even more) awkward in a 1-based language isn't an argument against 1-based languages.
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I remember last time I went to Bangkok, there was a condom themed restaurant that was pretty good. It was on the first floor of the ministry of health, which I thought was pretty interesting.

Still a really weird concept for a restaurant though.
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they have become the victims of their own success
The revival of ancient music, very hard to do since written records are so scarce, has made some progress lately. Some Oxford scholars were able to credibly recreate some ancient greek music [1]. There has been some interest in recent years over recreations of the Carnyx, the ancient Celtic war trumpet [2].

[1]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-have-reco...

[2]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azo7mSt8o9M
> By all customer accounts I've seen it was an expensive gadget that never worked reliably enough to be useful for anything, so hopefully they do better with glasses.

I've seen multiple very cool live performance from artists using Myo
It’s not just not disclosing it. Their geniuses would actively tell you that the phone was not any slower and that you were imagining it.
I suppose it's theoretically possible to perform some type of exercise until you die. It's also a lot more likely that exercise will strain your heart enough to cause a heart attack, or some other injury that leads to death. What the study is saying is that even accounting for all of those situations that actually happened, the odds are still in your favor to exercise more. So the odds are, you won't exercise until you die.
Well that's the question, where do you draw the line.

Income tax is actually quite low for even a significant amount of the 60% above that no-tax line.

It also ignores the fact that a significant amount of those in that 40% actually get paid credits back at tax time that they didn't pay in. That phenomenon is so well known that January-April sees a significant spike in Xbox and big screen TV sales from that money the government injects into the economy using EIC and other refundable credits.

Ultimately I'd rather see people who are investing in building businesses that hire people to get tax cuts, as those can meaningfully impact the economy. Our current tax scheme of high corporate tax and high personal capital gains tax directly disincentivizes investment and economic growth.
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If you have xdotool:

while true
do
xdotool mousemove_relative +1 +1
sleep 60
done

I use it to stop the screen from locking while I'm watching a film.

If you don't have it, you can probably compile it yourself and run it without needing yum.
This $29 official Apple battery replacement ends in December 2018, so if you want to take advantage of it, act soon. I expect the price will go back up to the former $69-$79 range in 2019 even for phones affected by this $29 campaign.
>> The US space agency said the object's sharp angles and flat surface suggested it had recently broken away from an ice shelf.

Cover-up. This is clearly the forth monolith warning us to abandon the Europa-clipper mission.
It's not advice: the sentence was carefully written to make you feel exactly what you felt.

That's why it says "it can look like" an investment in a better future. (Not "is" one.)
Glad you found the part only option. We sell both, but we find that 80%+ of folks prefer to get the kit that guarantees a complete solution.
I made a very rudimentary lottery machine in JS as some practice. It is astonishing how much money you can put in and get nothing out - even if you hit the upper brackets.
My home country has no social safety net. In my experience, people with kids just end up room sharing together with other families.

It is not common in the US because there are aid programs for people with children that suffice to let them get private housing, and at the very least pay for their childrens food.
> In some sense.

Oh, come on. I'm not talking about a home-brew slide rule or a virtual slide rule simulation. Obviously it is possible to make those. I'm talking about an actual manufactured slide rule sold as a product and used in a working environment to perform addition.
"There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who don't."

- Robert Benchley

EDIT: just to be clear I'm very skeptical there are only two kinds of technical debt...
We use the "forward only" approach, and use a combination of .sql and .py migration scripts and use mschematool[1] to tie the room together.

[1] https://github.com/aartur/mschematool
This is a totally valid point, but it does make me wonder: why don’t psychotherapists behave in a similar manner to lawyers with this type of disclaimer? Maybe because it’s not a therapy session unless you sit down for an hour in a private office?
Can a in kernel Webserver be understood as unikernel?

I.e. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server
that was all Cutler, not Gates
Indexing isn't counting. It represents shifts from the reference position, which is the natural reference when dealing with contiguous objects. Everyone knows that the first floor of a building is right above the ground floor.
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Mongo works well as a straight-up JSON store for store-and-retrieve use cases (with no analytics). It is horizontally scalable, avoids the overhead of relational databases, has indexing capabilities, and provides a strong consistency model. The big improvement came with WiredTiger, which addressed many of the issues that plagued earlier versions of Mongo.

I've seen high-speed machine data stored in Mongo for logging and visualization purposes. It's an improvement over writing csv files to disk.

However, if you ever need to perform non-trivial analytics, Mongo's weaknesses quickly become obvious. For machine learning, typically you would want to first ETL the data into a dataframe-like structure (which is a structure native to SQL databases).
I agree. Their marketing was way ahead of their technology and that caught up to them. That being said, they’ve been rapidly improving the tech and it’s looking like a really solid option now.
Which, to be clear, isn't a bad thing. You can't have randos coming in and ruining your documents. There must be an element of "are you seriously sure you can treat these things with care?" and 150k isn't a lot for a serious document digitizing entity.
Stanley McChrystal: Why I Threw Away My Prized Portrait of Robert E. Lee
It's a bit confusing. The author starts with the assumption the show got worse, and assumed a causal relation with an random piece of data. This is not proper Bayesian statistics.

The author claims there is no principled way, but there is. Confidence bounds are the way to measure what affect a variable had on an outcome.
"manufactured in the US"

I wouldn't be surprised if the quote is accurate.
I've brought two iPhones in for battery replacement and both times my phone left with additional issues. One issue required replacing the phone. The other was a minor annoyance with the screen.
At my company we also always talk about two kinds of tech debt but in a totally different way: (1) "bad" code debt is basically high interest where the longer you wait the refactor story grows and grows and gets scarier and scarier. (2) "good" is interest free or low interest debt which you should defer paying as long as possible so you can focus on more important immediate things. This is usually achievable when the thing you are ignoring can be neatly encapsulated and doesn't affect the rest of your code as the codebase grows and evolves.

Usually we talk about this distinction when deciding to defer work for hypothetical scaling. For example we had an app that required HIPAA compliance and had a chat feature, since we were initially deploying to a few hundred users for a pilot and our main short term goals were about learning/validating we just build it using polling since none of the other sockets based alternatives were easily HIPAA compliant. It worked great for the pilot and took like 2hrs to implement and because it was so simple we were able to evolve the chat experience really quickly with different features as we got feedback.
Thank you, very informative. I was sure they had accounted for such use. I am not sure what system they have chosen (or if they have chosen one yet) but I will most likely put Square on my list of suggestions if they ask. Thanks again.
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Reading about the usefulness of logs reminded me of another spatial math tool: The Triangle of Power!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sULa9Lc4pck
It tickled me that Westminster University has a policy of not allowing people to speak who are intolerant of free speech. Presumably no representative of the university can ever speak. That must be hard for them.
But if it’s pegged to the dollar, how do I speculate on it?!
Simple logistics. We're launching them first in the US, then bringing them to Europe. Stay tuned!
Maybe technically most, but with an estimated 25% of collet graduates being overqualified for their jobs, the situation is all too common, especially for those outside if STEM.

http://time.com/money/4658059/college-grads-workers-overqual...
Google went trough a lot of effort to make their products slow on any browser other than Chrome. So I guess it's their way or the high way.
Yes, and "commercial" is a pretty low bar here.
Shaming creates pariahs. Shaming gives others the incentive to ignore, blame, shun, harm and not help those who are shamed.

America has a long, ugly history of shaming single mothers, sexual abuse victims, adulterers and interracial and non-heterosexual relationships. I don't think that we should encourage more of it.

> Sadly, most of the people are irrational and emotional; if you want to steer them towards better life decisions, for their sake as well as society's, shame is a very good tool.

Would you use the word 'paternalistic' to describe your views on an ideal society?
Or South Park. "They're taking our jerbs!"
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I thought "Jepsen.io" was just Kyle Kingsbury. Interesting that there's new author for this analysis. (Also might explain the lack of memes, which I always liked.)
db.webhooks.find({
"events": {
$exists: true,
$ne: [],
$elemMatch: { "links.cancelInvoice": {$exists: true}}
}
})

What is this, I don't even. Mongo is a huge pain when it comes to searching nested arrays. And above is just an array in an object, not multiple levels of nesting. I have to re-learn the syntax every time I pick it up.

Other than that, it worked great for allowing users to build completely custom forms.
Maybe here is a more eloquent description of the problem.

Also, consider that the writer already feels free speech is so under attack that they are not safe enough to even discuss that free speech is under attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LquIQisaZFU
It makes it more useful for money laundering probably.
Still slow on Chrome, though.
Well that’s, like, your opinion, man.

This stuff exists on a spectrum. The near end in my opinion are shows like GoT and Breaking Bad have long narratives to tell and imo they use the time well.

Further away are shows like Archer which were amazing when they came out but tend to drag on without having a significant story to tell.

The far far end is exemplified best by animes like Dragonball or Hunter x Hunter which go ON AND ON AND ON and somehow never seem to go anywhere.
Probably the first piece of the crypto ecosystem where being a trusted, regulated entity in a country with a real court system is an asset rather than a liability.
Please be serious, you know that's not what is meant by editing old answers in the context of "stack overflow is more like wikipedia than anything else". The implication is wholesale change of the entire content of the answer (or question). Which fundamentally breaks how stack overflow works, and is why it's not something that happens very often.
Excited to see a reputable company like Coinbase launch this. Hopefully with their reputation we can avoid another Tether situation.

The US government should launch their own stablecoin. A digital US dollar is a national need that shouldn’t be managed by a corporation in my opinion.
Ideally and honestly it would be based off of sheer technical quality instead of any partnership - although incentives are aligned against it I wonder if it would be possible to have proper hardware autovetting intergrated - that could work even better than mere trust potentially. Admittedly probably not economical to do so.
Salary and other things are not tax free. Eventually the funds will be spent and taxed multiple times.
Every year has a slew of animes which wrap up in 13 or 26 episodes. A sparse few go to 52. An even sparser few fit the mold you describe, but even many of those end eventually with a planned conclusion (Bleach and Dragon Ball <Suffix>).
Breaking Bad definitely went off the rails in the final seasons but I felt they were a quality show until the end; if anything the original tone was kinda goofy for how serious and dramatic it ended up being.

GoT however has gotten much worse the closer they got to running out of source material. The last season I watched had incredibly stilted dialogue and relationships (Jon going rambo all the way to the north with no plan and then falling instantly in lust with Danny) and the pacing was hyperspeed compared to the previous seasons. If anything it feels like they really want to end it but have run out of room so they are just rushing it.
There is one way to solve this problem. Apple knows which users are new and which are not because of iCloud. Just allow new users to schedule a class at a nearby Apple Store at the Welcome screen when users login to their iPhone for the very first time.
I can't judge how true this is in the US, but in Europe the sane choice in this situation would be to rent a smaller flat, and maybe get a flatmate (more unusual with a child, but not unheard of).
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Having been (relatively) poor, I've seen all these things, but not in a single month.
Forex futures.
Surprising level of disdain for Dyson here, which is consistent with HNs renewed fetish for robust older tech that lasts forever. To me, Dyson is a fascinating company, having totally changed the vacuum market by nixing the distinction between uprights and handheld “dustbusters”. The V# handheld line made vacuuming something quick (dare I say fun?), and easy to do a little bit of almost daily, as opposed to a dreaded weekly chore. They recently announced that they have suspended development of new plug-in vacuums due to the success of the handhelds.

They are revealing as little as possible on the automotive front (easier to do since they are privately held). This is contrasted with the Barnum and Bailey atmosphere created by Musk rolling out a concept vehicle or new product every 6 months with no developed plan to take to market (see also Tesla roof tiles, “full autonomy” by end of 2017, random tweets about pick up trucks, etc).

Dyson is bootstrapping automotive off of profits from their current electric engine product lines and rumors are that they are pouring R&D cash into solid state batteries, which would benefit their entire product line but totally revolutionize automotive.
I don’t work for Google and don’t claim to understand their reasoning, but the cost of living in Taipei is nowhere close to San Francisco or the valley. Realistically it’s half or two thirds less expensive. Ultimately if you want to earn US salaries, you’ll probably need to be in the US.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
> Because chances are people who are systematically impoverished are also not properly educated on how to exercise birth control in effective manners

This is not true at all. Everyone knows how not to have children, just like everyone knows smoking can cause cancer. People just take the risk anyway. It's basic human irrationality, no amount of education can fix it.

Societal pressure, on the other hand, does have some of the desired effect, even if it's not a "nice thing" like education.
Unikernels are older than microkernels, in terms of design philosophy, and owe more to VM (the IBM project from the 1960s) than later OS design.

Microkernels are about splitting a single OS into what are sometimes called 'servers', whereas unikernels are individual systems running on a hypervisor; ultimately, the biggest advantage is that, in a microkernel, if one 'server' goes down (the disk server, for example) the whole system is down, whereas a single unikernel can fail without impacting any other unikernel.

https://jdebp.eu/FGA/microkernel-conceptual-problems.html

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/HypervisorVsMi...