skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, quite a bit faster, in ways that are relevant to my interests. Stands to reason designing a thing like this together onto a bespoke board allows for some optimizations: it's hilarious that it's apparently faster than any other Mac anywhere ever, for single-core things that suit it. Including Mac Pros and iMac Pros… I just think that's amusing.

I'm now wondering if VCV Rack is sufficiently multicore that it will perform better on more expensive Mac boxes, or whether this little thing has now set the bar for ability to run demanding modular synth software live. That would be really convenient.

Building a PC mothership is certainly cool as hell and I'm not knocking it, but there's something to be said for 'this is my live performance rig, it's stable as a rock and it fits in my pocket. And it's cheap enough that if I'm headlining Coachella with my modular jams, I'll buy a second one and clone it so I have a backup, there onstage ready to be plugged in if there's a problem'.

I'm with Marco on this one. Looks nice. I know what I'm getting with a Mac of this type, and this definitely looks nice to me.
You answered your own question. They were ahead for a long time so they got complacent.
First, I completely agree that ID cards should be free and easy to get. But it's not quite true that the victims here are in charge of their states. Voting rights rules almost always target minority populations, which by definition are not in charge of the state. The USA should protect people not in the majority as well.
Autoscaling groups on AWS are very real, very old, and very widely used.

The Amazon Retail site scales its machines up and down. Netflix built a tool called "scryer" to guess when to spin up and down instances more accurately [0].

Jenkins has a series of plugins for provisioning workers on-demand, and multiple companies I've worked at have used that plugin (or a variant of it) to spin up CI workers when needed (during the work day usually) and shut them down when not needed.

Clearly this is something that real companies do. If you wish to spend some time googling on how people use Autoscaling groups, you'll find many other examples.

[0]: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/scryer-netflixs-predicti...
That didn't turn out well. Once the Wintel standard got established, other CPU architectures were relegated to roles outside the desktop. Desktop and all but the highest end and specialized niches of servers is x86-land.

And Intel implemented the AMD64 instruction set for its own CPUs.
I can't directly answer your migration question, but, regarding comparison, our team was looking heavily into Cassandra when someone proposed Scylla. We immediately dove into it and was impressed that their claim of being a drop in for Cassandra, as far as our uses go, is totally true.

We're using it now as we approach Alpha, and love it. Extra bonus - no Zookeeper!
This was spread out over three days: one phone screen and two separate days of in-person interviews. It wasn't even for a really amazing job (we're not talking FAANG here). You know - because we're in such high demand?
Will it work with the existing autocomplete mechanism in vscode python extension?
I am not an engineer. I have great respect for engineers. Engineers, however, generally have views of other professions being easily disrupted wholly by AI. But god forbid, someone suggests that engineers can be taken over by AI, and we all lose our shit. :thinking: lol.
Yes. It's much faster, requires very little maintenance and no tuning. Run repairs every and that's it. It was missing some Cassandra features but looks like 3.0 finally is at parity, according to this press release, so we look forward to upgrading.

EDIT: looks like LWTs are still unavailable https://github.com/scylladb/scylla/issues/1359
I suspect one could find data that would say if you can receive an education, health care, and have supportive work, then at some point you don't need to be "rich" to be content with life. Thus social mobility is moot. Compare to the US, where the base quality of life difference is considerable between median income earners and the top ten %, to say nothing of the top 1%.
So this is a hard thing to answer without knowing the value of the plans and a bunch of other parameters, like customer lifetime value etc. I have done these plans for my own companies and prior clients though so have some direct experience. For my old company as an example, our standard monthly/annual plans were not super expensive so honestly no commission on any of the low end plans was enough to incentivize sales staff (internal or external) to sell. Counter to that, our enterprise sales plans (mostly done in house) were large enough that we couldn't use the same incentive as the small plans.

Essentially what we came up with (for that product) was for the lower value plans we paid the equivalent of 6 months of revenue to the salesperson, for enterprise plans they were paid a percentage of the annual value (enterprise were all annual contracts with varied rates). Outside sales were not given any residuals for either sale as we had internal customer support and management. Internal sales people (as we grew) were eligible for enterprise residuals where/when they managed the client.

I have seen lots of other methods, but generally it boils down to what you can afford as a cost of acquisition and the lifetime value of the customer. Typically I'd base the incentive plans on the lifetime value of the customer, knowing that there is a law of averages, e.g. the company will win on some, lose on others, same for the sales person. There are a lot of factors to consider though so you need to build a basic financial model to understand it all. You can find a number of decent SaaS financial model templates which can help with this kind of planning online.
I think the HDL guys were running around with their hair on fire for Spectre bugs, hence why it was a straight transistor shrink with next to no logic changes. It's previously unheard of to not take advantage of a process shrink with logic changes; so much of your logic decisions are ultimately rooted in the process node.
The muons are produced in the upper atmosphere (from cosmic rays interacting with the atmosphere). You can't do this in space. Not too mention the size of a neutrino detector, although you can use the e.g. regolith of the moon as a neutrino detector (via the Askaryan effect). In fact there are experiments pointing radio telescopes at the moon to look for ultra-high-energy neutrino interactions. My not-so-polite term for them is lunatics :).
Galaxy-scale fountain seen in full glory
This can work with camel casing. So you type UnsiLI, then enter.
What does political spectrum/agenda even have to do with it?

The theoretical candidate was everyone's second preference. That sounds like quite a good compromise.
Google Workers Reject Silicon Valley Individualism in Walkout
Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Dostoyevsky, Ursula Le Guin, David Foster Wallace (I could truly go on forever, but I think these authors are phenomenal, with themes and meta-themes different from one another).

I think if you watch an interview with DFW you will realize just how much he has thought of just about every facet of modern, entertainment-centric western society - all coming together in Infinite Jest which is the most depressing book I've ever read (he later committed suicide, so it might have been the most depressing contemporary book ever written either). Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness models an entire planetary civilization with no fixed sex (written in 1969, mind you), which I found very eye-opening. Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (as well as Crime and Punishment) are extraordinarily psychological and philosophical - ethics, free will, and God are centric. Both Steinbeck and Vonnegut have multiple books I'd recommend, but East of Eden by Steinbeck is an all-time favorite tackling good and evil (honestly Nietzsche in novel); Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut (just a notch above Heller's Catch-22) is the embodiment of darkness and absurdity. Take an anti-war sentiment and an author willing to tiptoe to the border of sanity and insanity and the result is SH5. It is truly brilliant, and as someone who is fortunate enough to not have ever been impacted greatly by wartime, it is equally eye-opening.

Honorable mention (a book I have read more recently) goes to Tom Wolfe with The Bonfire of the Vanities. This book combines the legal system (police and prosecutors), personal greed and ambition (Wall Street bond salesman), racism (Media biases), and class structures and privilege in a hard hitting social critique on 80s New York City. Everything between its covers is key to understanding how the world actually works.

This turned out to be a lot longer than I anticipated. Hopefully it is helpful!
> An interviewer should push you to your limits and the more you know, the more they should push.

Granted, this is HN, but this viewpoint is very tech-engineer focused. Most jobs aren't like this at all. Chicken-parts processor interviews aren't like this, para-legal interviews aren't like this, firefighter interviews aren't like this, teacher interviews aren't like this, etc. For the vast majority of jobs out there, your certifications, references, and resume are more than enough (especially in right-to-work states in the US).

> If you're rejected from the role, most likely you didn't reach the bar they needed you to be at, or you failed at the behavioral parts. Or, the interviewers you had weren't properly calibrated, which isn't to say anything about you other than bad luck.

Hanlon's Razor states that the mostly likely explanation is not conspiracy, but stupidity. Most of the time, your interviewers are just dumb/inexperienced/busy/assholes.
True, but that is a complete different matter than having the Government requiring Intel to sponsor clones.
I suppose you are running into the index size limitation that is mentioned here: https://tabnine.com/buy
Thanks, this is awesome, you put into words what I’ve been thinking about many times before but not so clearly!
[Director of Product Management for MemSQL]

MemSQL has two storage modes Rowstore and Columnstore. The Rowstore is "in-memory" and the columnstore is "on-disk" but those are oversimplifications. The rowstore data is stored in memory but we keep a snapshot of the data on disk. We also keep the transaction log (a record of all changes since the snapshot was taken) also on disk. So queries can be satisfied fully from memory (because that is where the current data lives) but writes go to memory and to the transaction log on disk. If the machine reboots then the snapshot is loaded from disk back into memory and the transaction log is replayed. When that is complete you are back to where you were when the machine rebooted with no loss of committed data. Columnstore data is always stored on disk although we use a row store in front of the column store that is hidden from the user but acts as a buffer of sorts so that writes in the column store can be pretty fast. More details on how the columnstore works can be found here: https://docs.memsql.com/concepts/v6.7/columnstore/#how-the-m...
That's just the free edition RAM limit...

But yes, actual HFT is not an accurate use-case, for any database product.
A lot of these tech companies don't recognize laws unless they see enforcement. An important part of a civil society to remember is that laws don't exist if they only exist on paper. Zoning doesn't matter if it isn't enforced.

We're starting to see some enforcement but it almost always goes against a small guy. Airbnb isn't getting fined, the small family business is. Uber drivers with criminal records, driving drunk, assaulting passengers, and without commercial insurance don't get Uber in trouble either.
I wrote a really long winded response about some of my favorite authors and their corresponding favorite books. Each tackle different cross-sections of thought. All of them have had an everlasting impact in how they completely eliminate my ability to have binary ideologies.
It is always legal to provide help and transport, but it is often illegal to provide any treatment, and specifically avoid providing any kind of painkiller. Never. This is very important.
> Unfortunately there's an awful amount of hiss with USB on this DAC.

If you used optical before, it can be reasonable to use USB->optical. A lot of USB audio interfaces already have this. I'm not making use of it, but the USB interface I have on my Mini has an optical out.
Because when someone who doesn’t understand ML and AI makes that assertion, they’re just ignorantly speculating in a pointy-haired-boss sort of way. Whereas an engineer who actually works with AI will have much more realistic views on what can and can’t be automated in the near futur
Fwiw, if there are competing `unsigned long int` autocompletes, it looks like it will shorten the recommendation to `unsigned long `, which is really neat.

This is just based on the site, I've not tried it yet. YMMV
No voter's guide? Not even online? That's really, really bad.

Following declared party, endorsements are a good signal. Some friends created https://www.readysetvote.org that serves that purpose. Type in your address, see all the candidates and their endorsements.

Alas, thus far it's just for King County WA.
Good point, but it is wrong. That applies to sales taxes. Not to monopoly taxes.

In well functioning market with many competitors, the price of good would be determined as costs + margin. Over time given enough competition the price should converge to that sustainable minimum basically. If you introduce sales taxes into the equation, then obviously you hike up the cost, therefore you shift this minimum.

Monopoly goods prices are not determined by cost, because there is no competition which would make it go lower over time. Monopoly prices on the other hand have opposite tendency - ie. to maximize to the point where almost all disposable income of its customers gets eaten up.

That's why you get the phenomenon of rents being ever so higher. They just catch up to increases in wages and eat it all away. There is no sufficient competition to compete the price away, simply because there is not enough land to house the people, especially in cities.

House rents are the biggest of the monopolies, because everyone has to pay it and often it is significant portion of a paycheck.

Back to the point. Introducing monopoly taxes has the exact opposite effect - it lowers the prices for consumers.

Explained further here http://blog.lvrg.org.au/2011/08/why-land-tax-cant-be-shifted...
reserved pricing is ~$900 for 1 year contract or $600 for 3 years. So the 3 year term is basically 3:1. It is annoying that they don't abstract this better to make it less complicated to sign up for.
The absolute cheapest best thing you can do for your kids is take them to the library.

At-least the libraries in Washington are pretty cool.
IRV: Rank the candidates by your preference, 1st to N'th. Your vote is applied to each candidate in turn, until one wins majority (50% + 1).

There -- simple!
It's pretty common to make sweeping generalizations in casual conversation, which this is. I find it really annoying when someone says something like "everyone likes cats!" and then someone, inevitably, will hop in and reply with "ACTUALLY, I hate cats." This isn't a mathematics proof.
One of my favorites:

"If you know what’s in it, you don’t know when it will ship. If you know when it will ship, you don’t know what’s in it."
How Humans Get Hacked (When Tech Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself)
That sucks, it's similar to Hekaton though. I was hoping there was some kind of a fallback mode when the DB has to juggle memory buffers at a performance cost.
China unveils new 'Heavenly Palace' space station as ISS days numbered
Visualising MD RAID 5 array accesses in Linux
Any thoughts on how this performs vs deoplete? I've really enjoyed deoplete. It makes my coding quite a bit faster. However I've recently become pretty frustrated with all the gocode forks and go module interaction, so there's definitely room for improvement.
Quality is in the eye of the beholder.
Yes, named parameters or anonymous structs please.
I'll take human-brain parsing speed over compile speed any day.
The hardware isn't identical. Hetzner is known for having more drive failures than is typical as a result of replacing failing drives with "refurbished" ones.
I genuinely don't understand people who would get a phone call from somebody donating their free time to make sure people know how to participate in their democracy and respond by being angry. If not for people like me volunteering to get out the vote by making calls and knocking on doors, our democracy would fall apart.
This is an absolute gem.
Apparently I see two drop downs for auto completion, Since I installed TabNine :/.
Company cars are a benefit in kind and are taxed in the US
> But do you get that mostly, "better" has just meant that someone else pays the cost?

Well I don't really agree with that, what makes you think so? The economy is not zero sum. Progress is not zero sum. When polio was eradicated, it didn't mean somebody else pays the cost of anything. When doctors learned to wash hands before surgeries so that mothers wouldn't get infected in childbirth, who did that hurt? When Bourlag invented strains of wheat that fed twice as many people for the same land input, ushering in the green revolution, it was all upside.

Similarly, when Wikipedia came along to make a great database of most of the knowledge of the world, that was a great thing. When Apple created the iPhone and ushered in an age when almost everyone has access to all that info in their pockets, it was a great benefit.

Who are these people who are paying the cost? Worldwide poverty and health has also improved tremendously over the last 20 years.

> We are heating up the atmosphere and we don't have a solution

Well yep that's a major problem. Can't say we disagree there, but I don't think the solution is to strive for minimalism (this seems to be neither practical nor desirable).
>the touchbar model absolutely hates it

What kind of work do you / your teammates do? I walked into an Apple store last week prepared to hate the keyboards and touch bars, but was very pleasantly surprised. My ladyfriend wanted to see the Air, but was so taken with the Touch Bar for photo work that she will be buying an MBP instead. While it might not be everyones cup of tea, I think Apple may have figured is demographics correctly on this one.
This page [1] puts the 10nm Intel density as 100.8 million transistors per mm^2. Your number is 40.1 million/mm^2.

[1] https://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/119699-intel-10nm-density-27...
You're calling it private, but the whole debate is whether it should be private or public (currently it's public). You can't have a democracy if people don't know how to engage in it.
"I should have run off with that hippie girl and started a homestead in Alaska."

Me, every fucking time I look at code.
Thanks! Just curious, do you use the same tables for both OLTP and OLAP, or do you have some kind of pseudo-ETL process to transform between OLTP and OLAP schemas?
It seems great! I just wish the prices were slightly better.
Reminds me of the acquisition of Piston Cloud by Cisco, back when OpenStack was hot:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/piston-cloud-computi...

"On June 12, 2015 Cisco acquired Piston Cloud Computing, a privately held San Francisco based Openstack product company. Piston provides software that enables streamlined operational deployment of large scale distributed systems. Piston's enterprise grade software helps customers automate orchestration and deployment of underlying distributed systems for running applications on OpenStack."
Yeah, I'm not sure where the qualms about monotonicity are coming from. In an IRV the lower-ranked preferences do not count until the higher-ranked preferences have already been eliminated for not reaching majority
That's an excellent question!

It's not at all like IP. The basic message size is (IIRC) 64 or 96 bits, comprising a system control word, an application header word, and an optional payload word. The application header word describes what the identity of the sender of the message is (well, in theory it could describe the destination too, but then we'd not have enough space to address much at all) and is used in the routing of the messages. Each chip has a very fast masked CAM (the key IP of SpiNNaker) that is used to convert from the application header word to the destinations to deliver that packet to, which is one channel to each core on the chip and one channel to each direction in the logical triangular mesh in which the chips are connected. The router is very fast indeed, and very low power, so we can generally count on routing a packet right to the opposite side of the machine in a few milliseconds, and I'd have to look up the energy cost of a packet (we've published it, but I forget where). I believe our route planning software takes this delay into account. It also tries to put neurons that communicate with each other close together.

For greater delays than that, we also have a delay slot system (for up to 16 simulation timesteps, which is approximately 16ms) in our synapse model, and specialized pseudo-neurons that implement longer delays than that on cores that we set aside for the purpose (and which, because they only handle delays, are much easier to make scale).

We do source routing mainly because this was hardware designed from the beginning to do neural simulation; source routing is a natural way to implement (an abstraction of) axons, as each axon is capable of connecting to many different dendrites. This is very much an abstraction of what happens in reality, but it has worked well for us. Also yes, our routing algorithms most definitely do try to limit the amount of traffic going down each communication link. Since communication during execution is pretty predictable (at least statistically) this is far more practical than with IP, where the dominating factors relate far more to being able to manage the network without knowing its total state.
Seems like a good time to link to "The Chaos" by Gerard Nolst Trenite [1]... It serves to educate native English speakers on how absurd the language (written vs. spoken) is, while simultaneously striking fear into the hearts of ESL folks worldwide.

Best read out loud - try too appreciate how much context and rule-of-rhyme you have to apply to read it correctly.

[1] http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
See also http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/index.html. While you're browsing around there, you might also want to pick up a copy of "Ignition!", which I personally liked even better than the Gergel books.