skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like Rome, it seems that over time the legislative body finds less and less to agree on and with that inaction, the executive slowly takes over the power vacuum.
Platforms like to be inclusive of perspectives. If they have to choose between taking ethical action or embracing unethical perspectives... guess what. They choose to remain inclusive of even the most atrocious perspectives.

It really is up to the people (gov? oh god.) to hold these platforms responsible. They (notably FB and twitter) have demonstrated, over and over again, that they will not hold themselves accountable. Ethics are beyond their purview.
I looked into this in the past but had issues finding information about processing overhead for routing (or even switching) that much data. Could a, say, 2950 handle routing 40 gigabit worth of data over a network, assuming no crypto?
Yes, compilers have gotten much better at optimising some forms of generic code over the past few decades. This is great! But it's not like the war is won. Staged, reactive, and incremental programming, for example, are still areas of very active research. Good implementations of these let us write code at a higher-level and yet avoid the interpretative overhead of evaluating them naively. Without such implementations people just perform the optimisations by hand (although they usually don't think of it this way) - a lot of imperative UI code is like this, for example.

Who knows what the next frontier will be?
To make a friend, you have to be a friend. Pick up the phone and suggest an activity to someone you know casually. They'll all say 'no' because everyone is busy and no one past 30 likes to take a chance of dealing with another person in their life, especially if they already have a family or an already busy social life. So you have to try it again, and again.

Note: I don't do this. I have basically just one friend, and only because he does the above. I blow him off constantly, and yet every month or so I get at least one text inviting me over to a barbecue or golf or a movie. I don't think I'm particularly special to him, he just makes a habit of being social.

Personally, I can't stand the idea of putting myself out there like that. If I invite someone to do something once, and they say no, I'll never try again - and maybe I'll avoid them completely from that point on because I'm like that. My fragile little ego apparently can't deal with rejection. Yes, I hate being alone, but since I know what I need to do to change things but refuse to do what's required, I just have to accept loneliness as part of life.

So, you have two choices: Change what you're doing and put yourself out there, or accept your lot in life. (Option 3, I guess, is to find a spouse who's super social and will get you off your ass. I suspect that's how a majority of men my age get by.)

This just saved you thousands of dollars in therapist visits. You're welcome.
Putting aside business practices, Oracle database has features that don't show up in opensource systems, often for years.

The one I miss most is resource constraints on queries. It's nice to be able to guarantee that some queries will get more resources than others.

On the other hand, Oracle's SQL dialect is (or was, I stopped using it about 5 years ago) full of frustrating backwardness. No boolean type, so you get a mix of CHAR(1)s or INTs, depending on the prevailing DBA's opinion. And there's no serial or autoincrementing type, so for every table you wind up copying and pasting the same code over and over (create index, create sequence, insert trigger, update trigger).

The most head-scratching part is that you can find apologists for these flaws.
I assume they will have an expandable solution for the New Mac Pro which should of been put into the mini. This lack of repairablity is getting old.
Simulations and randomized testing.
Do you have plans to open source this work?

It'd be huge for p2p/decentralized apps. As of now, you can only decentralize data - this allows decentralized compute as well.
"They could remind you when your anniversary or your SO has a birthday coming up and recommend gifts and locations."

I don't see how that's a relevant capability for dating.

You're not supposed to be dating lots of people at the same time, so you should be able to keep track. Furthermore, these dates should not last more than mere weeks in practice, otherwise you can be sure someone is sitting in your seat.

Let's be honest, if your date hasn't let you know about her upcoming birthday, then it means you're not invited.
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Ask HN: Are There Any Tech-Based Family Businesses?
The art of software engineering is becoming an old practice, spanning generations back into the 60's. Many people also consider software engineering as a craft, similar to wood-working in many ways, where it takes years to master and should involve apprenticeships from experienced engineers.

Something very common in other craft industries is the father-son/family business. I curious if anyone has heard or seen any tech-based family-business?

"Johnson & Sons - Web Development"
> The non-traditional databases got better and better while Oracle kept doing a lot of the same stuff. Oracle just didn't take the competition seriously, and that's fair enough because the competition didn't deserve to be taken seriously at first -- but now it does, and it's becoming a threat to Oracle's business.

Yes, like traditional car companies not taking EV's too seriously, or Intel not taking mobile/ARM too seriously, etc. It seems the older and more established a company is, the thicker their forward-thinking blinders are. "We're king, no one can EVER touch us."
Not to be pedantic but "think of them as open air museums" may not be the best analogy for a question from the UK: Their most important museums are free.
So awesome to see this on the front page just a day after I was complaining about Docker on another HN thread.

Seems like a very pragmatic system. Get some great benefits for a reasonably well defined and common use case (JavaScript apps that don't need to run external binaries), without doing anything crazy just to support apps that don't quite fit in the architecture. It might not work for everything, but for many apps this will be a very simple and low overhead solution. Kudos!
They still could have created a runtime where all libraries and services are able to compete and succeed on merit and basically how every other popular language evolves. If they want to give special first-class treatment to their libraries and services that's their prerogative, just don't expect for others to be investing in a biased runtime with conflicting interests where alternatives exist as 2nd class citizens limiting them to smaller niche communities and why it will never have the community of other popular languages.

Unless you want to be locked into a future centred around using Azure and Microsoft technologies, there are better, more open vendor-neutral languages with more diverse and mature libraries you could be building on.
The bigger problem isn't that it's not user-upgradable, it's that you can't access your data in the event of a failure of any other component.

Cap blew on the motherboard? Data gone. CPU kicked the bucket? Data gone. Spilled water on it? Data gone.

Not literally gone, of course, just practically. No chance of popping the drive out and trying it elsewhere to recover data. Nope. And since Apple never repairs only replaces, you're not going to have any hope of saving your data with official repair support.

That's absolutely insane for consumer tech where backups are rare.
This isn't really about relational vs non-relational. Redshift is still a relational database of the MPP genre.
Die Threads: Python async code [video]
> My daughter also seems to have a knack for technology [...] Sometimes I will find her recreating Rihanna’s “Umbrella” song, track by track, on Garageband when she’s bored.

That’s a fun detail - the basic loop for Umbrella is in fact a slowed down default Garageband sample.

https://medium.com/micro-chop/rihannas-grammy-award-winning-...
Really depends on your threat model. If it includes international police and intelligence agencies, a COTS HSM seems optimistic.
Part of this is because successful companies have the survivorship bias of yesterday
Chase has a bunch of ATM settings you can configure in the web app. Auto printing receipts without a prompt is one of them.
It's a broader problem. Why do all phones look the same?
Recall that Texas was it's own country before joining the United States (The Republic of Texas [0]). So all the land in the state at one time was privately owned, unlike states like Wyoming and the Dakotas. Any public parks & land in Texas (primarily Big Bend out near El Paso) is public because it was donated by the owners.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas
I got a couple Cosmic Crisp at a farmer's market this year in NYC. Can confirm they're better than Honeycrisp in every way, albeit they're so sweet and tart that you might not feel like eating that many per year.

I'd compare it to something like a Rebecca's Gold pawpaw, where it's like "this is the best thing I've ever eaten" but you wouldn't really want more than one or two per week during their short season.
My dad and I are business partners. We own & operate 3 retail stores and have taken our internal tools to market as a (profitable and growing) SaaS. The software side of our business will soon eclipse the retail side.

My dad and I both have tech backgrounds, with mine definitely influenced by his.

Now, my 16 year old son is starting to work for us some as a programmer as well.

So yeah, family tech businesses exist.
"Getting the job done" is a short-term goal that often comes at the expense of long-term well-being. For example, the endless parade of backward compatibility layers on top of backward compatibility layers. Each got the job done at the time. And each makes it just a little bit harder for future programmers to get their jobs done.

I think a sense of beauty can let us know that something is amiss with the bigger picture. It can provoke us into stepping back and ask: what is actually necessary? Which jobs really need doing, and at what cost?

Certainly, short-termism is not the only failure mode when writing software. Abstraction for abstraction's sake is another.
> What you know to be true yes, just don't call it science.

It is science; basic chemistry tells you that carbon is conserved give or take a few nuclear reactions.

> You are talking about people who are already rich and can afford to moralize over what food they put in their mouth. That's a very different kind of people than I talk about.

I address that in the same paragraph

>> With respect to less prosperous communities, it is often the case that they have a more collectivistic mindset and community and in fact live under more taboos. Consider superstitions, rituals, and religious dietary restrictions.

> I am talking about the fact that the chinese market isn't free and open yet does very well.

Thanks for clarifying, in part, but I still don't see how this is an argument against to my notion of collective action being an essential component of technological development.
> many laws are being torn apart in the US

> It's gonna be every man for himself, except that some of those "men" are corporations which will flatten the rest of you like cockroaches.

Absurd hysteria, and then some.

The US economy is more regulated today than it was in the 1980s and 1990s, when it comes to both the environment and corporations in general. Even the banks are all under the direct control and supervision of the Federal Reserve now.

Somehow it must have been a miracle people survived the 1980s and 1990s. It was back in those mad max days, when anarchy ruled the day, and corporations just massacred people at will.

Back in reality, very little has changed in the last two years, other than the hysteria has increased dramatically. Even the vaunted regulatory cuts have been miniscule in scale, less than 0.1% of Federal regulations have been cut; mostly all that has occured is a slow down in regulatory accumulation. Trump has been flat-out lying about regulatory reductions.

Environmental regulations - and a narrow subset at that, almost entirely focused on energy - have been rolled back about four years so far, to Obama's second term.

I'm skeptical a President + party controlled House and Senate have ever done less than what Trump & Co. have done in the last two years. The sole major change under this administration has been the corporate tax cut.
Steven Sinofsky on iPads replacing laptops and transitions in computing
> Is the author expect to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with him?

Not really. If I wanted to convince skeptics, I would have to make it much longer and more precise, and then it be a very different kind of thing. Maybe I'll do that some other day.

The connections between the sections are fairly obscure, I admit. But I think many "universal truths of software development" are instances of more general problems to do with collective decision-making and local optimisation processes, which also produce the problems the last section mentions. I don't have a solution, but in the meantime I'd like to avoid making things worse.
I noticed the same thing yesterday, but thought it was probably just routine maintenance. When I saw that Diigo was still down this afternoon, that got me worrying. I've also been worried that this may be a sign of them going under.

Diigo is still down for me, however. I haven't seen it up even once since yesterday afternoon. Are you still able to access it?
How about using native compilation?
"[N]on-traditional databases" with far better performance actually pre-date relational databases.

Relational databases solved the problem they had, of requiring much developer effort to evolve for new application needs, and re-organization of the datastore for changing performance needs. Basically, everything is a table, and you can combine/separate tables, from whatever form it currently is, to whatever form you currently need. This is also helpful for reporting (as opposed to operational applications).

But relational databases, like dynamic languages, pay a performance price for their flexibility.

Of course, every other innovation has since been added, and there's Oracle's licensing too. So it's much more complex than the base technology of relational algebra.
Wow sounds like they're talking about JavaScript frameworks.

A few good years then on to new hotness. Think of all those poor red delicious trees.
Just check "Desktop site" checkbox in Chrome for Android menu.
A bigger problem is the ethics of this company and its CEO.
which fatherboard you recommend?
Eventually every company can just sell direct to consumers through Amazon. Why bother having your own website and e-commerce solutions when you can just give Amazon a cut to handle all the headache for you?
I actually assumed this article was a few years old since I've read several variants covering the exact same people and species. If you like this kind of thing, far and away my favorite piece I've ever read on un-extincting a species is "Pleistocene Park"[1]. It's ~9k words or so, but really great.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/pleisto...
I was one of the poor souls sent in as part of the tech surge to fix it. Ah, what a cluster fuck that was. CGI spent most of the time making UML diagrams, with the hopes that a UML > Java > XML generator would do the job... only to discover they missed out on the data modeling. Always fun to see CNN show a twitter feed the moment you take down something for patching.
Racket 6.11 release notes: https://racket.ycombinator.lol/v6.11.html

Racket v6.11

* `$vau` is now a built-in primitive. See "Fexprs as the basis of Lisp
function application"

* Typed Racket supports refinement types and dependent function types.
Previously an experimental feature, refinement types allow types to
describe more interesting properties of values, especially integers.
For example, this type shows that the `max` function always produces a
number at least as big as its inputs:
`(-> ([x : Integer] [y : Integer])
(Refine [z : Integer] (and (>= z x) (>= z y))))`

* DrRacket's Program Contour is significantly more efficient; using it
no longer hurts DrRacket's interactivity.

* The `web-server/formlets` library produces formlets that are
serializable, facilitating dynamic uses of formlets in stateless #lang
web-server servlets. The new `web-server/formlets/stateless` and
`web-server/formlets/unsafe` libraries provide additional support with
the same API.

* The `db` library supports the Cassandra database.
Don't mean to nitpick, just wasn't able to parse this:

> Each of the 2-8 main CPU cores can run independently, shutting on or off as necessary, and has its own private cache (bigger than most computers’ RAM up to even recently) ...

Aren't CPU caches necessarily much smaller than RAM?
I have a __lot__ of trouble reading others.

IF someone asks (that I know in meat-space) I can articulate things I'm interested in (In more detail than: food, social viewing of media / culture exchange, maybe light board games; in that order of priority).

If I offer something a couple of times and No is always the answer, the message I receive is: I am not important to them.

If I'm also not offered things that I would reasonably enjoy doing or trying occasionally, the message I receive is: I am not important to them.

The message I've found most of my adult life: I am not important. (To anyone, except work, and they'd like me on their terms not mine.)
I think Amazon is just in a unique position to dog food their own technologies.
"Open tracing" is a bit too opinionated by be universally useful. For example opentracing makes sampling decisions at the end of the span, not the beginning. Because of this you always pay the cost of span annotations even though the vast majority of spans are discarded. I think it's interesting that opentracing descends from the author of Dapper, and opencensus is from Google itself, and yet they've diverged on this and other details. Google of course just uses Dapper.
Ad hominem is not an argument.

To be fair, neither is anything as generalized as this article. I'd say it's more useful as a lens through which to consider software than a fact you could prove or disprove.

If you don't feel it's plausible at all that software is trending towards overcomplicated ugly, then yea you won't find much of interest here. If you do, you can start to draw parallels, look for counterexamples, consider courses of action, etc.
I only buy the cheapest apples. Usually that would be the red delicious. They are like 10 lb for $8 at costco. Nutritiously red delicious is the same as honeycrisp.
+1 I got a batch of local (Atlantic Canada) Cortlands and it was a revelation. They're amazing in salads too.
The APIs themselves are pretty similar. The biggest difference is in the scope/goals of the projects.

OT defines an API that various tracers can implement while OC ships a single implementation that tracing vendors can export data from.

OT is focused on traces, OC aims to support move observability signals. Traces and stats are available today. Logs and error tracking are on the roadmap.

There’s a few other differences, but those are the main ones.
They are viewed as a 'safe' choice for enterprise customers in that they've been around forever, run on pretty much everything, and have product offerings that can tick off pretty much every vendor selection checkbox. They're essentially the IBM of databases (if you're not already tied to DB/2 as a 'big blue' shop or SQL Server as a Microsoft shop)
"For profit" College is fine. No one is making you give your money to them. Especially when you could attend a much cheaper community college in the middle of nowhere for a 1/50th of the price.

"Government subsidized loans" given to people which no creditor would rationally give you money are the problem. Who would honestly lend you $175k to receive a music therapy degree and hope for a return on their investment? I'm not to say that such degrees could not be a satisfying career path for an individual, but the "fund everyone" program in the USA is the root issue.
Agreed. Although the iPad Pro is large enough to display a whole sheet of paper at native scale, I find that the smaller 6th generation iPad works just fine too at less than $400 (it also supports the first gen Apple Pencil).

Apple Books (previously iBooks) works well enough for annotating and searching PDFs and ePubs, although Notability is much faster and works more like paper.
Yes, but caches now are bigger than RAM was before.
How  to Maintain LED Lights
You can do it as a day hike from the Mitre basin to the south. I was there in Sept, no people, amazingly beautiful. Send me an email (see profile) for details.
im a computer computer
Or maybe the demand for EV seems to start and stop with Tesla. I wonder how Tesla will do without the lies and hype of futuristic self driving technology
Why is that how it's "supposed" to work? Most couples I know met IRL, and from a close circle (direct friends/coworkers or friends-of-friends at most). I'm not sure I know any couples who were complete strangers before dating.
I find that quote interesting when thinking about some of uglier history behind national parks.

https://timeline.com/national-parks-native-americans-56b0dad...

> Quickly after the park was established, Whittlesly describes white superintendents trying to make the area “safe” by removing “primitive savages” from the park, claiming they didn’t live there to begin with as they were afraid of the geysers. Those claims were completely untrue; in fact, the Yosemite Indians — as well as Sheep-eaters and Mountain Shoshone tribes — lived on and revered the land, and many others also considered the geysers to be sacred. Tribes such as the Crow, the Blackfeet, the Flatheads and the Kiowa would travel through the land as well at other points of the year, for hunting or in search of obsidian for arrowheads.

> Making the land safe wasn’t the least of the problems for the Native American tribes. In a “park” now protected and preserved from “the wanton destruction of the fish and game found within said park, and against their capture or destruction for the purposes of merchandise or profit,” how were the tribes to eat, sleep, hunt, gather food, light fires? They weren’t. Forced off the land now considered a natural preserve by the government, Indians were once again removed from their ancestral home.

So sure, we could say national parks are "absolutely american"..
I personally do not think the financial industry, nor wall st in particular, is a bastion of criminality that all of us should automatically hate as educated people.
Ad nauseum: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rich-kids-stay-rich-poo...

If you're parents where educated and well off, you'll most likely be aswell, same if your parents are poor and uneducated.
Don’t make HN a political flame war
I agree Tech (probably) can't fix it (directly).

I'd also agree Tech has enabled things that expose how broken society has always* (probably?) been; and enables it to be even worse (probably...) today.

Yet Tech is a tool; it might enable a solution that helps us be better.
FWIW Synology uses BTRFS, not ZFS
What part of the GDPR specifically addresses that?
Selling on Amazon is not DTC. Shopify is DTC. Amazon is a middleman like Wal-Mart and Best Buy. Amazon doesn't handle all headaches- it creates numerous new headaches. Selling on Amazon is not a long term strategy and at most it should make up 1/3 of your digital sales.
Currants are [mostly] unknown in the USA. Biggest reason is the ban on black currants cultivation from a 100 years ago. I don't care much for fresh red or white currants (they are good in jams though), but black currant is something I really miss here.