skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditional yes, and not even necessarily better.

Amazon had a big outage in recent times that their own post-mortem linked to trying to move off Oracle to Aurora.

Interestingly it was posted here to HN and repeatedly and immediately flagged off the page - it appears that some HN readers are very keen on suppressing anything that paints Oracle in a good light. It makes you wonder what other stories might be going missing that would alter people's impressions of this company.
Ask HN: New or lesser-known job titles in the tech industry
Tell us about any new or lesser known job titles in the tech industry.

For e.g.

* Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) - https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilkane/2014/09/09/what-is-an-entrepreneur-in-residence

* Customer Reliability Engineer (CRE) - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-a-new-era-of-customer-support-google-customer-reliability-engineering

* Solution Architect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_architecture
The Jesuits brought more than education, they brought the standards with which they're being currently evaluated. I imagine that, at the time, people actively self-selected and self-deselected based on how interested they were in advancing in and trading with white culture, moving toward it and moving away from it. By the time that the Jesuits left, the area was filled with people whose ambitions were connected with white people. Those values have been passed down to some tiny extent long after the Jesuits have gone, bringing the locals slightly out of baseline.

In 1767, people who were educated by the Jesuits would be considered to have infinitely higher education levels by this study (as opposed to a baseline of zero), and people who participated in commerce with the Jesuits and the Spanish would be considered to have infinitely higher incomes than the people who didn't (who would be considered to have an income of zero.) I bet you might find out that they are slightly more Catholic, and slightly more into Spanish TV and films.
for scale:

http://triplicit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_7846-2.j...

thank you google
People who speak in absolute terms are always wrong.

I always have cash on me and it's extremely common here, 60 kilometres outside Stockholm, for people to not only carry cash but to actively use it.

A non-trivial amount of transactions in Sweden are still cash-based.
I don't have a strong opinion on what the market share of various browsers should be, but I don't think "we're a competing implementation that exists to keep Google/Apple/Microsoft honest" is really enough of a reason for most people to care about it. If Firefox wants to see their usage grow, they need to be providing a real value proposition to users, because there are real costs for users of using software with low adoption numbers, e.g. in compatibility & support.
Couldn't it just be the higher IQ being passed down by Jesuits sleeping with the indigenous population?
just wondering, what are some well known Go projects? I know docker is one.
Smoking is already really expensive, no? At least in the US, it's anywhere between $5 and $12 a pack.
As mentioned in my top comment, we have run benchmarks again. SyncWrites on or off, Badger outperforms BoltDB. There's a nice ASCIIrema link that you can see, which is a recording of me running Ethereum 2.0 store benchmarks.
> why do all of those adverts on the back of the legendary Nick Park stuff?

You've gotta pay the bills and keeps the lights on while you're painstakingly crafting the next masterpiece.

IIRC ads are typically one of the places in the animation industry where you can get the highest budget per second. You can turn out acceptable-but-not-amazing work and save the big fee you got to extend your runway to work on the huge projects - or you can experiment with some crazy ideas you've been kicking around, on someone else's dime, without committing to an untried new technique for the length of an entire short or feature.

This doesn't always work out well - see Richard Williams'The Thief And The Cobbler for instance, with years of amazing animation by some of the early masters of the craft left on the cutting room floor, both before and after Williams got investment money that came with a deadline he couldn't finish that glorious mess of a film before - but it's a common pattern for animators.

There are of course many pitfalls. Once you staff up, you've got a crew that you may be loathe to break up - they work together well, they're used to your workflows. Do you lay them off, wish them luck finding the next gig, and hope you can get a bunch of them back the next time you need help on a project? Or do you come up with more stuff for them to do? There's lots of successes and failures along both of these paths.
No. It isn't worth it. Life isn't better, but privacy non-existent and society is ridiculously fragile from outtakes (this isn't even factoring in that the systems could be actively attacked).

Yes it is the future, but we will be much worse for it.

/ Another swede.
>Apple says this is OK

No, Apple clearly said this is not OK by rejecting the app.

This is not a courtroom where you get to debate how the letter of the law should be interpreted.

If I invite you to my garden party, but don’t like your behaviour then I can throw you out.
Kubernetes

Edit: Tons of others, really
https://exercism.io/

Mentors give feedback on exercises in most mainstream languages. You can also mentor one track while being mentored in another.
Even harder to quickly swap the wheel while driving.
So if your phone dies or is lost or stolen, how do you pay for food with no phone?

How do you even buy a replacement phone if you have no phone to pay with?
I've been thinking of writing a paper about Badger in general and in particular, our experiments with perfecting the value log GC while keeping the 3-dimensional access provided by Badger (RocksDB doesn't provide direct iteration over versions).
That's how services work though, you can't really be self sufficient unless you're a hunter gatherer. And even then you still need to be strong enough to kill the other tribes who are contesting with you for land. Imagine going to Mars and the very air you breathe is owned by your government. For me that's not an argument against going to mars, that's an argument for working harder to build a stronger, more trustworthy society.
The person I quoted was the author of the “innovator’s Dilemma”.

The symptoms of it is new entrants coming in from below with “good enough” products that are cheaper. Forcing the market leader to lower prices. Apple has been headed in the opposite direction for years.

He also predicted that “modularity beats integration” as a market segment matures because you have more companies specializing in parts of the product and putting R&D behind it.

But look at what’s happening in the phone market. Apple is consistently bringing out better processors than the rest of the industry. The operating systems are definitely not behind the competitors. By being tightly integrated for instance, they were able to tell developers to submit watch apps using bitcode (?) because they knew four years later they were going to introduce a 64 bit chip got the watch.

Another advantage you are seeing in the market because of integration vs. modularity is that Apple can push OS updates for all of its devices that have been introduced since 2013 in one day. The “modular” Android ecosystem, not so much.
System Analyst/software Developer for JHU Applied Physics Laboratory
An event that is encouraging to the model that Professor Richard D. Wolff speaks well of.
Out of interest, why do you say that Go is awful for systems programming in this context?
The ‘nudge unit’: the experts that became a prime UK export
You can keep both the value log and LSM tree in memory, exposed by badger.Options. That'd still give you persistence and crash-resilience while allowing your reads to benefit from direct memory access. If persistence is a non-goal, yeah, tmpfs would work.

If you use it as an in-memory DB, then I'd recommend using the LSM options, instead of Default options.
I realize this would probably be a last resort, but I’ve heard success stories of companies rallying their user bases to personally email the App Store on behalf of the company (“hey, I love x app. It makes my experience with Apple products so much better...”).

This could be a call to action included in the Rescuetime newsletter.

Despite their occasional authoritarian moments, Apple generally listens to enough frustrated customers.
I agree, but unfortunately I don't believe a society being run by humans would ever implement that. The leaders will not tolerate that kind of loss of control.
This is where the triads and tetrads that the article dismissed come in. But a good rule of thumb is to pay attention to saturation and brightness more than hue; they have a larger role in the harmoniousness of a pair of colors.
I noticed this: my heartrate spiked several days before a bad fever. I'd been traveling and not sleeping well for a few days, and my Fitbit HR monitor went up 10-15 points. But it also could have been reporting that I was sleeping badly. Since bad sleep gives increased risk of catching a virus, it's important to know, but I'm not sure if it was detecting the virus or the sleep deprivation.
Did something particular prompt this?
The whole industry has been moving towards smaller, lighter, machines for a while. You don't get smaller and lighter without sacrificing repairability. Screws add weight and size, whereas glue is just as good at holding components in place and adds no extra thickness.

I'm sure there is an inflection point in terms of thickness where you have to switch from screws to glue. And I'm sure there are some laptops that straddle that line and are quite repairable. But it's not correct to say that Apple moving counter to the rest of the industry with respect to repairability.

More consumers have decided to value light and thin over repairable and upgradable.
> i don't think it's a matter of simply deciding to be somehow self-contained

Neither I nor Gruen said anything like that. I read the comment I responded to as claiming it's all from the outside, all from society, and I simply ask what IS society, when they all just get it from the outside. And I say there's not just the outside -- and the only way that can get heard is as me claiming "there's only the inside"? That's frustrating. It may may be "politics" to others, but to me it's simply a question of awareness, and Socrates-style question that are intended to be answered, not to make a point first and foremost..

You said making your own decisions "comes later", which as I pointed out doesn't fit the comment I replied to, since that was also talking about getting your meaning from others as an adult, e.g. falling in love. Also, Gruen and others mention the individuality of infants being suppressed -- so is there something to suppress, or does that "come later"?

What's the youngest age a human can approach or retract from a stimulus? I'd say then at the latest it becomes a two-way street, but it's probably one from the first cell division. If anything, that's what I'm arguing.

> so long as society doesn't recognize your meaning and see you as you see yourself, that meaning has no meaning outside yourself.

"Society" cannot do that anyway, since it's not an individual human being. We can use society as a shorthand for actually existing humans, but "society" as such is an abstraction, it doesn't really act or think or feel or understand or mean anything, like any group.

And yes, the meaning we have in life is for us only, but how is that a problem? What's the alternative? A "common" delusion, or people saying the same words as if that makes them the same inside?

> there's also another problem with denouncing the other, which is that you close them off to the possibility of realizing themselves through you, and so they can never be a part of whatever society you decide to create for yourself.

There's a poem I like, but I don't quite remember it, something about being "alone like a tree, and brotherly like a forest". I think true friendship, love, and/or a society of adult citizens, "achieves its full flower" with individuals who stand on firm inner ground, so to speak.

The closest two eggs can get is when their shells touch -- if you make omelette, they're no longer eggs in that sense, and to me that's not two eggs coming really close, but two eggs disappearing and being replaced by something that's less than each of them.
This is a false comparison. Physical cash, in your possession, cannot be frozen or revoked unless those entities stop accepting government fiat currency. It has nothing to do with being self-sufficient.
We don't pay the mental tax of always ensuring i have dollar bills on me to tip left, right, and center.

That has never been necessary in Sweden, or (AFAIK) most other places. I have never known anyone outside of the US who carries cash for the express purpose of tipping. To the extent that tipping even exists in Sweden, it's usually just done by rounding up whatever is owed.
https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd
Mmaping is optional. Badger doesn't require it, it gives you that option. Async IO in Go has been debated vigorously over the years, but there're little benefits in building that library. Because Goroutines do an equivalent job. Which is what we're doing, random reads (for value log access) spread over many goroutines.
Or do you just mean that this took absolutely forever?
Check the reply on their twitter posts for a more balanced perspective. These people hold almost no influence. Think of Prasoon Bajpai, Karan Thapar, Vinod Dua etc. thats the trajectory Sardesai, Dutt et al are on, and not on their path of becoming the next Arnab.

Of course they did name Sonia Gandhi. Do you remember the India Against corruption movement which gave rise to AAP? The movement had posed questions to MMS and Sonia Gandhi and media had championed the movement. There was no equivocation about it from any mainstream channel, neither about the multiple scams that preceded it. Media houses had done their duty in speaking truth to power especially in UPA2 days.

What I am trying to say is your opinion about Modi's hounding in media seems to be built on what gets printed in wire/print/caravan etc. Although these sources might be heavily represented in your FB timefeed their influence/readership is miniscule compared to a news channel and news papers which have extremely lenient to Modi. Just think how hard media was on UPA2. That same level of scrutiny is sorely missing.
How would this change if the women were set on being childfree?
Probably a result of https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/09/apple-amazon-new-produc...
Naivete is abundant... Guess what happens to your ability to do anything if whatever the ID that is used to identify you is marked as invalid or even better deceased?

https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/16/9340511/perstin-experian-...
There's more variation within the categories of men and women than there is between them. Matters are complicated because life is complicated.

The gender bins may exist because of biology but the contents of each bin do not. The fact that we paint baby boys' rooms light blue and baby girls' rooms pink is completely arbitrary, and in fact used to be the opposite.
This might be also because most governments and police absolutely lack the knowledge to catch any cybercriminals or to even understand the crimes. The punishment isn't surprising to me if I take their fear into account.
But it can be stolen. Much more so than money in your bank account
“the implications of owning such a device would refuse to own one, although I know I'm mistaken.”

You are mistaken. I use my Alexa everyday. I suppose if someone creates a better version that doesn’t phone home, I’ll switch. In the meantime, I really enjoy having this type of device.

By the way, last year I blogged about the need for HN users to constantly complain about Alexa’s privacy.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/groundhog-day-amazon...

If you could take that energy and build an open source replacement, that would be more worthwhile.
You should check out bombsheller, custom 3d printed leggings, very high quality. (I’m not affiliated but I know the people running it.) http://bombsheller.com
-plugging an external keyboard makes the computer not to be a laptop/portable

-you may not own a USB keyboard , you need to buy one and hopefully you have enough ports free or yo will need to buy an USB hub too

-having the device repaired will take a while if you are not into a big city, it won't be fun without your computer, so it is a big deal that the keyboards is shitty and sometimes the replacement one breaks too.

-I hope they will fix the keyboard if it breaks exactly when your warranty expired, otherwise because of on ekey you will have to buy for all the parts that are glued with the keyboard.
We have known how to do untraceable* transactions [0] since 1982. There has now been thirty years of cryptographic research building on these results. The reason it hasn't happened is not because we can't do it but because governments resist the additional privacy protections.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash

* - For some values of untracable. The privacy provided by ecash is in theory less than cash provides in practice, but certainly a massive privacy improvement over credit cards.
In theory cash provides less privacy than ecash since stores could record the serial numbers on cash. However in practice they don't and thus cash in practice provides quite a bit of privacy.
It also probably makes counterfeiting and fraud an enormous problem.
lol. its still funny.
>Also, tops are cut with darts for tits, which, no matter how it's done, always burns a large number of women unless they wear a padded prosthesis

I've only experienced this in poor clothing. T-Shirts don't have it, button down shirts don't have it, blouses don't have it, dresses will allow for some 'leeway', but can be worn with 'flat chests'. Padded bra's are really for making your boobs look better, not really any function.

>often meant to be worn very tightly

Tight is totally dependent on your size and what you prefer. I can buy women's clothing that's too big for me and feel comfortable but still have the fit cut. If you're looking at yoga pants, sure. There's also a difference between "tight" and fitting close to your skin, which is very comfortable in my opinion. A lot of women's material's are stretchy where men's aren't.

>it's flimsy

I don't agree. I have $15 jeans from Old Navy that I bought in 2011 that are still going strong. I never buy anything that's super flimsy in the first place, which is terribly easy to do even for cheap. Material on women's clothes almost always feels better than comparable priced items in Men's clothes as well.
> Unfortunately the current government, the first in many years that is actually taking some decisions to get the ship in working order is gonna get caught in the quicksand created by its predecessors.

Citation (and additional information) required on this part, please.
Well, reality seems to disagree with your bleak hypothesis about possession of money becoming strongly correlated with heredity/nobility:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/opinion/sunday/from-rags-...

https://taxfoundation.org/income-mobility-and-persistence-mi...

Just a reminder - you are talking about access to a freaking park, and not to a gold mine.
http://www.twoleaps.com

It is centered towards university students but everyone is welcome.
I think the point is even with cash in your wallet it is already a society where you have to obtain permission from unknown people to "obtain food, water, shelter, or transportation" because all of these things are delivered to you after many rounds of market exchanges which require clearing houses, escrows, the Fed, SWIFT, etc. Society has been essentially cashless for ages.
You absolutely wouldn't make the case that sugar is being added to foods in order to add additional calories, or that salt is being added to foods in order to preserve them. The fact that you can come up with a spurious purpose for an additive doesn't make pointing out the additive's primary purpose nonsensical.
Shhh... politicians are likely to read stuff like that and think "what a great idea!"
But voice conveniently leaves out exposing to users the capabilities of the software. Have fun exploring all the features Google maps has by barking at the app where 99% of your commands are rejected.
i am still using pike :-)
sent you an email...
+1 Its been very helpful for me
And what happens if you wish to opt out of relying on a phone? The consequences of total and utter dependency on a technology you don't control and which is ripe for exploit are horrifying. If it ever comes to that, it's no different than having an embedded microchip under your scalp.
Thanks, but I'll bear the minor inconveniences of cash, where applicable, for the freedom such transactions still offer in this ever-digitized, tracking society.
I know some password managers (myki, lastpass and I think 1Password have an option to toggle it off).

It's on by default, which should be true for most apps with confidential data. But other apps (like photos and messaging apps, can at least have that as an option defaulted to false, for users who would like the extra privacy)
I've made one so maybe I can help (http://strapless.io/)

It's only really scientific insofar as it's based on a model. We basically make a big cube with R,G,B on its sides instead of X,Y,Z. Different approaches will then "smush" that cube to try to better match how humans perceive colors. Those different smushes will usually have some scientific thinking behind them (mine is based on... historical justifications, good post here btw). Then we move around the cube to find colors.

When I get a color, I try to match the luma too. Luma is itself a weird value, which tries to work through the relative perceptual brightness differences in colors.

The relative perceptual brightness difference is, as far as I can tell, the thing that really makes a color look "wrong" in a color scheme. I didn't solve that with problem with Strapless, but instead relied on whomever figured out luma. I think if you looked into how luma works you'd find the current best scientific model for whether two colors "fit" together.

I'd agree that color-generating isn't a science (definitely more of an art) but any good approach will have a bunch of underlying science and math.
Just to provide a counterpoint of data, I’ve been using the X since launch as has my wife, with no display or other issues. I’ve dropped my phone literally 100 times (I’m clumsy and use a case) and it’s still good to go.
>Isn't this a fairly common pattern?

Depends on the application. It is certainly not uncommon that queries fired at close times share a prefix.

>How would we go about quantifying the preferring locality-ness of a query distribution?

I know it when I see it?
No. Self sufficiency is a continuum, not a boolean. Cash decentralizes permission for economic transactions.
With the Time Capsule being discontinued, how does the average MacBook user make a backup? Remembering to plug into USB doesn't seem very reliable.
Longer than that. The random battery shutdowns started with the iPhone 7.
This comment is fascinating. Apple is a marketing company first and a technology company second. They market their products as truly premium and many of their users are so taken by Apple's propaganda they refuse to believe Apple could ever be at fault for anything. They make excuse after excuse for why their Macs, iPads, iPhones don't work and they never relate it back to Apple.﻿

Louis Rossmann, a highly-respected Apple repairman in Manhattan, NYC, explains the problems with the cult of Apple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hYHwkIuEMo
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