skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your links to further reading, and I'm trying to read the Aurora paper right now but after reading the abstract and the intro (I'm in progress right now), I can't find a case that is uniquely fit/perfect for data historians... I know this is already asking a lot, but would you mind giving me one go-to- use case that really made you think "this is what purpose-built data historian-style databases are good for?".

Every issue mentioned in the abstract/intro (which are meant to motivate the paper) seems like it can be solved as an add-on to existing application databases (albeit with their most recent developments/capabilities in mind). The very description of HADP vs DAHP systems seems silly, because it's just a question of write load, and that's fundamentally only solved with batching and efficient IO, or if you give up durability, it doesn't seem inherent to the data model. There's also assertions like:

> Moreover, performance is typically poor because middleware must poll for data values that triggers and alerters depend on

But like, postgres though, you're free to define a better/more efficient LISTEN/SUBSCRIBE based trigger mechanism, for example, you can highly optimized code right in the DB... Thinking of some of the cases called out in the paper here's what I think in my head:

- Change tracking vs only-current-value -> just record changes/events, as far as tables getting super big, partitioning helps this (timescaledb does this)

- Backfilling @ request time -> an postgres extension could do this

- Alerting -> postgres does have customizable functions/procedures as well as LISTEN/SUBSCRIBE. The paper is right (?) about TRIGGERs not scaling then this might be the most reasonable point.

- Approximate query answering is possible with postgres with stuff like HyperLogLog, but the paper is certainly right in that it is not implemented by default.

Maybe I'm mistaking the extensibility of postgres for the redundancy of the paradigm, akin to thinking something like "lisp is multi-paradigm so why would I use Haskell for it's enhanced inference/safety".

I'm still reading the paper so maybe by the end of it it will dawn on me.
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That would be biological sex, not necessarily gender.
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I have tried to maintain a generalist role[1]. It's worked very well for me so far - and there's some peace of mind in knowing that if needed, you can switch areas reasonably easy. And I harbor the hope that at some point (when kids go to university) I may start my own business, since I've looked for enhancing those skills. It's not without downsides though - you get the occasional impostor syndrome (since you'll never be able have the depth you wish/ know you could achieve, in any area). It's hard to balance being at least "good enough" at the current task with broadening your knowledge, and it can be straining at times. And also, though in theory you can get hired anywhere - in practice, relatively few companies will appreciate you enough to pay you well, since most companies' ideal candidates are really specialists in very narrow fields (also those ideal candidates tend to be unicorns, so companies settle for generalists, but that's a different discussion). The end result of this is that, unless you're willing to take a significant pay cut, the opportunities to switch companies might get increasingly rare (but opportunities to switch roles within company will be present).

[1] I've developed (professionally/ for money) compilers, VMs, image processing, web apps (mostly middleware), desktop apps, "big data"(spark, kafka streams, etc.); Have done product management, data science, and even worked on the architecture of a DSP processor at a time. Worked in most of the "mainstream" languages (Java, Scala, C. C++, Javascript, Python, C#, Vb.net; and of course various kinds of assembly language).
Note which party has more voters who work, and which party have more voters who do not. The motivation would be opposite to what you suggest.
The Emacs of the 21st century is undoubtedly Emacs.

Emacs has modes for every cutting edge advanced research programming language imaginable.

I wanted to use some languages from the High Productivity Computing Systems project and found that Emacs was the only editor with support for Fortress https://github.com/stokito/fortress-langhttps://en.wikipedia... and Chapel (Cascade High Productivity Language) https://chapel-lang.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_(programming_language)

Sadly, Visual Studio Code appears to be the Visual Basic of editors for the 21st century.ie: popular and easy to use, but used by a certain kind of developer...
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What does Apple use for their servers? Do they just have a bunch of Mac Minis in racks? Or do they have Mac servers they're not willing to sell? Or do they not use Macs as servers?
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This assumes that the pension system there will be able to sustain itself in a few decades hence despite low birth rates and limited immigration.

Also, most people in developing countries, i.e. most people in the world, do not have that option.
They are working on such a tech. It’s called TruePlay and already exists for UWP games.

As much as a recall it’s not as much Anti Cheat but anti tamper that could be used to detect cheating and then be used to disable access to online gaming or just shutdown the game right there and then.

In its current form it much ask you for permission to monitor your game and is only available for UWP titles and I have yet to be pestered about such premission though the only recent UWP game I currently play is the latest Forza Horizon.
Gladwell is an entertainment writer who picks facts and writes interesting stories.

None of them should be taken as factual; he cherry picks and often writers stories well after the source material has been disproven.

For example, Gottman's marriage research in blink that could predict divorce with extreme success was an overfit model without a validation set that didn't generalize well.
The piracy issue is very similar to the recent Internet censorship we've seen. A very similar thing happened to the PirateBay (and it still happens to this day), who were persecuted off the internet initially by corporations leveraging politicians to push a website offline that was legal in their home country.

Now I'm not saying it's completely the same, but often it seems like the piracy takedowns set up the playbook to censoring things that often affect lots of peoples' lives.

I'm very vary of corporate censorship since it's an easy next step for politics and the government to start wielding it against the people. And that could be disastrous.
I don’t think the turning long-term consequences into short-term ones is what’s vilified about spanking. There are other ways of doing this that don’t resort to violence.
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I'll argue that such things happen regardless of the presence of the oversight. American financial markets are surely quite bureaucratised, but the fact that such things still happens in countries that beat US to pulp when it comes to bureaucratisation of financial industry puts weight to this argument.

I'd say that the biggest aggravating factor to this is that financial industry is not competitive, not only in US, but pretty much all around the globe. Huge regulatory pressure surely hampers competition.
https://purecss.io/

http://getskeleton.com/

https://tachyons.io/

https://bulma.io/

https://picnicss.com/

https://www.muicss.com/

[EDIT] - BTW, I mean this with less snark and more did-you-know-all-these-existed? I knew of purecss & skeleton (and I've forgotten a few, because it used to be very common to see these), and I've seen bulma before but some others were new to me (and I favorited them to give a try on some random project)
The PI data archive (it's the database part of the pi system) actually has a lot of these features, including the future data stuff (probably the biggest feature in the past few years). It's made by OSIsoft which is a big player in time series databases for industrial settings. (fyi I work on this product)
You can't simply judge a new language by looking at it's surface, as there are not only different languages, there are different coding styles. And then there's probably frame-works on top. So it's very unlikely that the examples will be in the style you would prefer. I think the only way to judge a language is to use it full time for at least one year, but even then you will probably just have scratched the surface. Unless you care for things that can be measured, like speed and performance. Which in case you could probably bend and twist most languages using transpilers or meta - to suit your preferred style.
They did this in New Zealand, and I hauled a tape deck out to the garage to record it as Mum wouldn't have that loud screeching in the house.

I never got a single recording to work on my computer. Never would even find the program let alone load it.
The more web development I’ve done the more I’ve swung back to just writing CSS myself rather than depending on CSS frameworks; I’ve ended up seeing these less as ways to accelerate development for a team that is skilled at frontend, but instead as a way for people who don’t like styling or have little experience in frontend development/low design sense to style things reasonably.

But I keep seeing frontend frameworks on HN - am I/teams like mine that include at least one person fluent enough in CSS to write reasonable style sheets/styled components, just not the target audience? Or do other experienced frontend devs swear by UI frameworks like these for reasons I haven’t grasped yet? If so, why?
What would be other ways to do it (with similar level of efficacy)?
They are not asking for my email address. They want me to log in using a Facebook, Twitter, or Google account. That means that they potentially get access to my contacts and other personal data.

Yes, I know that I can review the permission. But I don't know what bug, exploits, permission changes, or mistakes will be made. I don't want to worry about that.

If they want an email address, I'll happily provide one. But I will not "log in" to their services.
> Is this really happening? I mean: "marshaled to assert one class’s moral superiority" is this really going on?

Yeah, I've seen it, in some pockets of the US.
I believe the obligation to play along with rights holders comes from the DMCA's safe harbor provision, (which limits an ISP's liability for copyright infringement that occurs over their network provided they cooperate with takedown notices), not from the property of being common carriers. Especially since FCC has ruled cable internet providers are no longer Title II services.
> What this means is that we all pay higher interest rates on our loans

Manipulation is manipulation. Lots of circa 2008 rates manipulation pushed rates down, not up. Ripping off investors versus borrowers isn’t an excuse.
> I'm not sure what better, "frictionless" way to get verified email address?

They could ask for my email address. That is not a problem. But I won't "log in" with my Google account and potentially leak, now or in the future, my contacts and other private information.
Interesting.. I've been trying/playing with a home-made modelling language to describe concurrent program flow and job conditions. Mostly in the context of queue-based-workers. The idea that a job can be split up in different parts and be run concurrently. Haven't cracked it yet :/
Yes. They are a very big bet for Apple, Google, Samsung, and Amazon. Nearly half of Americans use them, mostly on their phones [0].

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...
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Have you tried out Zulip? You may find the user experience pretty compelling. It's an entire alternative interface to the slack or IRC-style of chatrooms, and it's OSS and documents how to make it containerized.
To me, iMessage on the Mac is almost a sad indictment of just how little progress has been made in computing in the last 2 decades.

It's a feature that was obvious back when we were all using Nokia 3310s. Connect phone and computer as one thing. Call and message from either. Heck, calling from your computer was an obvious feature-to-be back in the monochrome screen days!

It's ridiculous that a) Apple is the only company that has this right now, and b) it took them so long to get there in the first place.

What the hell is everyone doing!?
>I always found it boring and a pain to write some mathematical formulaes in latex. Mainly those with a lot of \frac{x}{Y} stuff.

:)

This is what keybinds were invented for. I feel really silly for saying this but I made a huge list of custom keybinds only then finding out that the default keybinds in Vim-LaTeX-Suite are super good.

For example

>`/

backtick slash, expands to

>\frac{<++>}{<++>}<++>

where <++> are so called bullets that you can jump to with <C-j>. Another example

>`a

expands to

>\alpha

and all the other letters work as well (`b to \beta, `g to \gamma, etc.). Look into it, it makes typing LaTeX a breeze!
I'm pretty sure that a cubic kilometer of ice in orbit would have more value in other purposes than as a neutrino detector!
At The Farmer's Dog we built a subscription based pet food management backend on Google Spreadsheets. Customers would sign up for a phone consultation on a Squarespace website, we'd then call them back and figure out their subscription details. These would be manually entered into a spreadsheet

The main sheet contained information about each customer and their subscription, e.g. pets, chosen recipes and subscription frequencies.

One sheet would dynamically populate what and how much we needed to cook for a given week by looking at active customers and their subscriptions. This was broken down per ingredient basis. We'd then place POs, cook and pack the food.

Another sheet would generate orders for the given week based on similar logic. We then used Google Spreadsheets scripting support to generate packing slips, customised feeding guides and food labels. Each asset type had its own Google Docs template. The script filled in the blanks and created a new folder. The resulting files were then exported as PDFs and passed to our fulfillment.

Oh, and we did our own deliveries in NYC too in the early days.

We've since built out our own ecommerce platform from the ground up and we continue to automate fulfillment, customisation and operational processes. Sounds exciting? We're hiring.
Agreed, that article could not be more vague.

I don't argue with the main point, which is "broaden your skills."

But the rest is debatable and not such good advice. Some of the items given in the "skill list" used as an example are absolutely unusable as it. "writing"? writing what, there's a huge difference between being able to write novels and writing technical documentation for instance. I also have a grip on "productivity", that's not a skill, that's the ability to apply a skill. A better pragmatic definition of a marketable skill, I think, would be the ability to write it on your résumé, and only a subset of the ones discussed in the article fit this definition.
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I am not close to the matter but my understanding is that they were not accused of pushing prices throughout the day, just around the time of a key fixing that would be used as reference for the payoff of derivatives.
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> which is easy to do on accident

One of the first things I did when I took over a trading team was turn off chat. Trading involves stressful, adversarial interactions with counterparties and clients. Every person and deal eventually earns a nickname. It helps nobody when those nicknames appear in writing.
Tailwind is absolutely fantastic. I can code CSS 2-3 times faster and I no longer hate doing it.
One of the sad realities of the web was proliferation of bootstrap everywhere. IIRC it was intended as a prototyping framework at first.

But even sadder is grid frameworks based on the CSS grid popping up :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDRfFEcj3-Q
Does anyone here know the actual mechanics of what's being alleged? In what sense were these individuals 'manipulating' these markets? The only method I know of to do that is to spoof orders...but they would have to be making astronomically sized spoofs to move the FX markets.
Except that the manipulations that banks were accused of resulted in lower libor fixing, i.e. you paying less on your loan than you should have. Investors are the one who can complain that they were underpaid.
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This is something I've noticed recently -- more and more researchers are starting to write reference implementation code for networking and distributed systems in Golang. In my own head, it makes sense -- golang is simple to read if not verbose, doesn't require crazy formatting, has excellent standard library support, and has relatively painless concurrency, and can be run as a scripting language. No it's not as easy to get started with as Python, Ruby or Perl, but only one of those has easy-to-spawn native threads, nevermind lightweight coroutines (and the one with native threads encourages illegible code).

If you're not doing type theory work or very specific exploration in a specific field, I don't know another language that is so easy to get up and running with. On top of all this go's performance is pretty great/consistent as well, JS is the only other scripting language that comes close generally, but then you have to submit to the event loop.

I've always thought one of Go's true killer features is how hard it makes cleverness.

I'm starting to seriously think Go's popularity is going to continue shooting up. As I always note I think Go will supplant Java as the incumbent in the enterprise software in one or two decades max.

[EDIT] - Forgot to include the most recent example that made me think this: WPaxos(AKA WAN Paxos)[0] and the included github repo[1]. To be fair CASPaxos[2] included gryadka[3] which is in JS.

[0]: https://cse.buffalo.edu/tech-reports/2017-03.pdf

[1]: https://github.com/ailidani/paxi

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07000

[3]: https://github.com/gryadka/js
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"You could do worse than this" = "There are many of lesser quality than this" = this is of high quality
The first question to ask should not be "what framework should I use?" it should be "do I really need a framework?"
I don't know - have you looked at: https://www.redhat.com/en/store/linux-platforms
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It's so sad that examples like these are not part of every spec (in fact, the very first thing in any spec). I understand the dangers of programming by example rather than by spec, but a lack of canonical, verified examples has been a problem with every protocol I've had to implement.
Frameworks are handy for — you know — framing. They’re a helpful scaffold provided your project aligns with their model. This applies to UI framework, app frameworks, whatever.

Why do these not “accelerate your work”? Maybe because you’re taking work that’s differently shaped. Maybe original, custom styling is an important part of what you’re selling. That’s great.

But it’s not nearly true for everybody. And so a lot of people use frameworks like this to get the styling where it needs to be, so that they can focus on whatever other thing they’re really selling.
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What do you mean by kids? I have seen four year olds that know quite a lot and kids are good at emotional manipulation and pushing the limits of what's allowed.
We’ve ended up with our own, not so much a framework but a set of commonly used mixins and set of SASS files - some of which might even be empty placeholders - that stop us trying to work out the same issues over and over.

I treat it a bit like adding packages with NPM, just adding the small bits we need to achieve certain things.

When I’ve tried to use proper frameworks before they have always been too opinionated and I would find myself working around them.
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It is comparable at running geekbench 4, yes. And some web benchmarks seem pretty comparable.

But your workload doesn't seem to include those things, so hard to say. Critically A12X is unlikely to have hardware virtualization support, so your use case of VMware would be slow even if it wasn't doing any binary translation.

Also your MBP's fans spin because it's trying to achieve higher sustained performance. Typically mobile devices will just instead thermal throttle hard. Like, lose half their performance hard. How well can the iPad Pro sustain its performance? That's a real big question.

Re AWS racks: No, they can't. A12X in the server world would be a joke. It'd be competing against things like AMD's Rome which is 64 cores / 128 threads with, and this part is critical, up to 4TB of RAM with 128 PCI-E lanes. Even if the A12X could compete on raw CPU throughput it can't compete on I/O, virtualization, etc... The A12X is also going to be pulling a lot more power than you might expect. It's not that much more power efficient.
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>>Eat well. Sleep. Maintain relationships with people you care about. Work hard, pay attention to what you're doing and think critically. That's all there is to it.

That’s my takeaway.
TL;DR: Be a specialist at being a generalist.
If I may, where do you get the data?
As the article explains the real problem with that model is that selling software is scalable - but support is not. So a support business will never have the same margins as a software selling business - and will not be able to invest in the software the same money.
Why were you getting hit by your parents? I could see it being abuse if it happens for no reason or minor things.

In general I have the feeling that americans kiss their kids' ass too much.
> Moreover, in many cases the regulations are what make markets uncompetitive.

Regulation is necessary to prevent monopolies, and monopolies by definition make markets uncompetitive. Antitrust regulation protects capitalism from itself. Unfortunately the Antitrust division of the Justice Department has not been doing its job for several decades.