skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure the trend will hold. This is all anecdotal, but new non-denominational churches in my area seem to start more frequently and then die more frequently than mainline establishments, it seems that since many of them rent instead of own their churches, and leadership isn't necessarily restricted to those with training and education in running a ministry, they're more likely to flounder long-term. Considering that the numbers are for total number congregations, I don't think that the discrepancy between worshippers is actually as harsh as its made out to be, and if it is, I think we'll actually see a trend back towards more community-oriented mainline or even catholicism as worshippers get disillusioned by the drama / lack of structure that a larger portion of non-denoms undeniably struggle with.

But this is based on just infrequent personal experiences with like 4 different non-denoms in the suburban South, ranging from "conference room at 2 star airport hotel" to "megachurch stadium so full we watched the service in an overflow room in the same venue". In all cases the people who invited me did not stay very long as attendees. I may be dramatically underestimating their popularity/longevity in more rural spots though.
You have to find a peer and make BGP (or something similar) work all by yourself!
> Amazon Aurora Global Database is a feature that allows a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS regions. It replicates your data with no impact on database performance, enables fast local reads in each region with typical latency of less than a second, and provides disaster recovery from region-wide outages. In the unlikely event of a regional degradation or outage, a secondary region can be promoted to full read/write capabilities in less than 1 minute.

AWS continues to innovate consistently on Aurora. This is much more approachable and affordable than something like Spanner. Your app definitely needs to be modified to use it, and you need to seriously consider the 1-5s latency impact, but they really do take care of the most difficult parts for you.

My biggest beef is that all the new Aurora features (Serverless, Parallel Query, Global) are only available or MySQL 5.6, not 5.7. God knows how long it will be before they support 8.0
It is true that governments can be complicit or implicated in formation of monopolies, but I personally think the more fundamental problem with the idea of free market is the assumption that consumers afford meaningful consideration and choice.

I believe that people, generally: don't vote with their money for greater good but rather personal utility, by choice or lack of economical standing (A form of The Tragedy of Commons), poorly understand the long term impact of their choices, people’s choice is swayed by deceitful and psychological trickery of targeted advertisement. I am not sure how free market can address this without outside (generally legal or consumer advocacy) intervention.
Wow, that's shocking. How could you expect it to be that way in America? Have you looked around at actual Americans and what they watch??
San Francisco prepares to be the first major city to nix parking requirements
Not a fair comparison. Speeds and afforded space are different. Cars aren't driving on the same roads as airplanes.

Time spent is a better approximation, taking into account additional safety provided by seatbelts and an enclosure.
well summarized !
Cheetah Mobile Accused for Committing Ad Fraud Using Click Injection Technique
There’s a tragedy of commons problem in engineering. The engineering orgs collective ability to handle complexity is the community resource. Without safeguards in place this resource is squandered by engineers because the easy solution to a problem often paradoxically leads to higher complexity in the code base. Why? Because it’s easier to make ad-hoc new connections between things than to abide by a larger plan. And connections are the complexity.

One thing I’ve noticed that sometimes leads to this idea is using a “survival of the fittest” approach to percolating ideas.

Interesting parallel to this article perhaps.
California software companies are still subject to the same taxes and standard of state employment laws.

California's high speed rail has been subject to the same scrutiny and legal threats. Was Boring/Musk completely ignorant of well-known past precedent and hurdles when they claimed they could build a transportation project for much cheaper? As recently as 1 month ago, Musk still thought and publicly claimed that the tunnel "opens Dec 10": https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1054164838430064640
Good to see the progress, I was looking at the roadmap page: https://github.com/pingcap/docs/blob/master/ROADMAP.md

Views and CTEs are probably the biggest missing pieces now.
Soccer just needs to remove players as time increases. It'll create odd exciting scrappy scenarios, but goal scoring will certainly be more likely.
Why does the author refer to this as "fake capitalism"? Isn't this what capitalism is?

It reminds me of the arguments that communism must be a good idea because we haven't seen true communism yet. We've seen true capitalism for much longer and much more clearly than we've ever seen any form of communism, and it's exactly what the US has. You can't just hope that maybe with a little more regulation, or a little less regulation, or something, capitalism will magically work. Capitalism sets up incentives for people to figure out regulatory capture and lobbying in whatever regime you come up with. Capitalism sets up incentives for companies to influence the public to believe that certain forms of government intervention are perfectly natural (take copyright, for instance - if you convince everyone to get rid of copyright, you'll just set up incentives for companies to convince everyone to bring it back). If you think this isn't working right, please work with the folks who want to figure out an alternative.
It'd be interesting to investigate how this relates to tech companies' hiring of politicians, and the 'revolving door' effect between industry and government.

Perhaps Friedman's theory remains completely true, while in reality the separation between the two players has blurred over time. Cui bono?
> You sound like a "get off my lawn type of person"

I appreciate your standing up for the OP, but please don't be mean even if someone else was mean. That only makes this place worse.

Your comment would be much better without that swipe.
The risk is lower on a scooter than on a motorcycle. We don't have to over-correct though, and treat scooters like they're _that much_ safer than a motorcycle.

The most dangerous thing we can do is let ourselves mentally relax when we're on one, as if we're not on a big sharp chunk of (relatively) fast metal and inertia.

A helmet wearing person slamming headfirst into the nape of somebody's neck at 15 or 50 miles per hour is probably going to kill them.
So, somewhat offtopic. I'd like to buy some tablets as presents and the Lenovo ones seemed well rated for the price. Are there others that are made by a, umm, nicer company? I'm looking for cheap and reliable rather than performant.
Is it useful to calibrate the software scale in a way that concludes the majority of codebases are "awful" ?

What are we usefully communicating with the word, if 90% of codebases qualify?

Maybe software development is hard, sometimes unpleasant enough, to justify the crazy salaries, and the endless complaining about every codebase more than 2 years old is not quite justified..

As a collective group, software devs are really prone to self-flagellating while they go about delivering billions of dollars in value.
Where's the stated need for replication?
What does fair even mean in this context?

Are you saying cars get demerits for having safety equipment?
St. Louis is the market I’m most familiar with, but I’m sure it’s the same everywhere: it’s not just taxes and liens; it’s that most of the properties are worth less than the cost of making them habitable. Every municipality has occupancy requirements and building codes. Any house you can buy for $100 in Detroit is going to cost roughly the same (or more) as new construction to meet these codes. In St. Louis, for example, you’re required to present construction plans and hard timelines as a condition for purchasing abandoned property. They aren’t going to accept your optimistic DIY dreams. They have to be real plans at market rates. And if you don’t meet the agreed-to dates, you lose the property.

A lot of these properties literally have a negative value; it would cost more to renovate them and complete environmental mitigations on them than is profitable. When you see a property for $100, you almost certainly wouldn’t want it unless you were paid to take it.

Use common sense; there’s a reason these properties were completely abandoned by their previous owners.
I'm saying that its true that some are monopolies, but none really stay that way for long, and so its completely overrated to worry about. It's a similar talking point to how we are in an "AI bubble", good for clicks on an article.

Look at FB stock, it just dropped from 220 -> ~130, they saw almost half of their market cap wiped away in a few weeks. The monopoly idea is a narrative invented to stoke fear, outrage, and page clicks. It's a talking point for psuedo educated people.
Yeah I'm not quite sure why scooters were chosen. ebikes seem better in every way. You can even set them up with throttles so they are no effort. Bike geometry is very stable. I have never fallen off a bike on a road.
I believe overreaching IP protection laws, specifically in regards to patents and copyright are in large to blame for creation of these monopolies. In tech, one of the largest hurdles is patent wars, where the player with the biggest pockets and arsenal screws over little players just about all the time. So the assertion that the lack of state intervention is to blame for formation of these monopolies is perhaps true, but in a different light.
it's a lot simpler to control a bike.
> Look at the irrelevance of IBM, CISCO, HP, Intel, Oracle, etc.

I'm real curious how you think those companies are irrelevant.
Voting on the Tangerine Edition of R7RS-Large Scheme Begins
So what's your price range? Ipads were down to 249 which I'd consider pretty darn cheap.
> In the case of a tie the winner gets 150k, the loser gets 50k.

this literally makes no sense. In a tie, there is no winner and no loser. There was a winner and loser in this case, so there was no tie. I don't know why you keep insisting there was.
next version of Hololens will solve the view field issue. I think MS will delivery next-gen hololens to Army
I ride my bike in sf and oakland where these scooters are common, and I do not like the idea of sharing an enclosed lane with them. so many people riding them are completely inexperienced and bad at passing and turning or otherwise uninterested in the general flow of traffic. they are a nuisance and I do not want to share a lane with them that I can't swerve out of. I honestly don't want them in bike lanes at all.
Indeed, and that's certainly reassuring; the option may still gain traction over time though, even for the most forthright of businesses.
Your post suggests that people with the same skin color share the same challenges and hardships, which just doesn't seem correct to me.

I have no idea if that's why your post was downvoted but anecdotally, asking why you were downvoted only ever elicits more downvotes. Quoting site rules is definitely not going to help your case. They're just imaginary points. Best to just forget about it and move on.
I'm in uni and everything is Microsoft, Oracle and Cisco.
I totally agree with this, but my wife and her mother insisted on registering for gifts, because "some people prefer to give gifts". We hardly use the stuff we got and half of it is still in the box at her mother's house, because we don't have room for it.
People are always confusing capitalism with competitive markets.
Maybe nationalization should be an option when a company, say PG&E for example, has poorly maintained equipment that starts forest fires. It seems reasonable that an option like that should be on that table as a deterrent reserved for the worst actors.
I don't think that anything like that should have happened here, but the fine of ~$10 a laptop does seem a bit low for MitM.
>The core of Amazon's timeseries db likely doesn't fit into a CPU's L1 cache. It does with KDB :)

Does it?

https://kx.com/discover/in-memory-computing/ seems to indicate that it takes up ~600 Kb (I'm not sure if this is bits or bytes, but even if it's bits, that turns into 75KB)

L1 cache is per core. Skylake Xeons have a 64KB cache per core, 32KB for data and 32KB for instructions. Even with an even split there, you're not fitting 75KB (or 600KB) into the L1 cache.

Bits would be a weird measurement to use when talking about memory utilization, so I'm pretty sure that it's 600 kilobytes. You're not anywhere close to fitting that into the L1 cache. L2 cache, sure. But you get the relatively spacious 1 megabyte for L2.

I'm also not sure that the "core" fitting into the CPU cache is particularly meaningful for performance anyway. it doesn't say anything about how much outside of the core gets used, how big the working set size is for your workload, how much meaningful work is done on that working set of data, etc. If you're frequently using parts of the software that don't fit in the cache, or getting evicted from it for other code, or your working set of data doesn't fit in the cache and you're constantly going to main memory for the data you're working on, the "core" fitting in L1 cache (or L2 cache, which looks more realistic) is going to be basically meaningless.
IMO yes -- IP rights are literally government-granted monopolies.
I took this back in 2011 and don’t remember there being much on “building a database”. Is there more advanced content now?
If a US company does not support US army, US army turns to China or Russian companies?
Redaction ineptitude reveals 2012 Facebook plan to sell API access to user data
> I don't get this obsession with ethics (in terms of correct motives) from companies. Why does the thought process behind the behavior matter when it comes to a public company, over and above the behavior itself?

Because people want to evaluate the company's trustworthiness (or more precisely, the trustworthiness of its leaders and culture).

In this case, if they refrained from selling data due to ethical principles, you can put more trust in them, at least for a little while. If they only refrained because they didn't think they could get away with it now, they'll probably sell your data the first chance they get, so you can't trust them as much.

However, Facebook's already clearly demonstrated its' true colors many, many times, so it's kinda a waste of effort to reevaluate it.
We're talking about two deaths total here? How many people were killed in automobile crashes since this article was published?

Even in the example the article uses, automobiles are the problem. What does the author suppose the busy intersection is busy with? The intersection is only dangerous because of the automobiles using it.

"Scooter accidents happen for a lot of reasons ... sometimes, the scooter is the problem. As she sped down that hill in San Diego, her husband yelled to Brogan to crash into him in order to break her fall. But she didn't want to send him flying. So moments before careening into the busy intersection, she held her arms up against her chest and slid the scooter out sideways."
Tech would be an example. Instagram was only a dozen or so people when FB bought them. Unfortunately FB was able to do so and kill competition that way.
Doing pen and paper arithmetic is not part of the “system” of Roman numerals.

If people simply said “paper is good, we should use paper instead of counting boards” that would be fine. But instead they always make up nonsense about how pen and paper long division is stupidly cumbersome if your only tool is pen and paper and you write your numbers as Roman numerals, or whatever.
Your suggestion may not be that simple. Consider Florida statute s. 316.2065 (11) "No person upon roller skates, or riding in or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle, or similar device, may go upon any roadway except while crossing a street on a crosswalk;"

Laws generally exist for a reason, and some reason forbids scooters from the bike lanes. Bike lanes are for bikes only.
When you look at care for the poor, a great many Christians give to charities. The driving force behind many of the social programs was Christians. There are two issues, at least, today. First, there are many people who call themselves Christians that aren't. This isn't surprising. Jesus called it when he said, "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." They probably won't actually due the will of the Father. Second, for many actual Christians, Caesar is a poor provider for the poor.
If a church is only used 1 day a week, someone is doing something wrong. The mid-sized church I attended growing up had

- AA meetings hosted daily
- choir & music groups meeting on weekdays
- after school youth groups
- book clubs
- A small library for free use
- counseling
- volunteer events
- would bus homeless people in once a week and feed and shelter them

The community charity aspect is honestly the only reason to even let churches exist tax free. Those megachurches renting theaters and collecting mad cash really shouldn't meet the criteria to be tax exempt.
They were once the big bad "monopolies". Now they're just mediocre companies. Weird how manipulated people can be by narratives. Show me any company who has dominated for 50 years, thats something to worry about. Both FB and Google could lose 50% of their value in a month. See the recent FB stock drop. Its a complete fallacy, a trendy thought narrative, its propaganda.
This is really a cool tools. Really handy for a simple scrapping job. For example, to extract submission links on the front page, you can use:

xidel https://news.ycombinator.com -e '//a[@class="storylink"]'
That's not really saying anything, especially coming from a free-market crusader and with no reasoning/arguments attached.

Also that which stringent free-marketers and ancaps consider a 'free market' probably can't exist at all.
Can you point me to someone who is vocal and supportive of Palestinian rights that you don’t consider to be antisemitic?
That’s providing that the login page you enter your credentials in actually is Google/Facebook. The app can easily open a login page which looks identical, but actually submits your credentials somewhere nefarious.
Discovery explains how cells in the eye sense light and adjust circadian rhythms
They take way more space than scooters.
Thanks, that's a wonderful answer.
Sorry folks but Ford Prefect was a couple of decades early on this one.
Looks like the repo is gone, care to explain why? Concerns around security with apps like this are common. OSS doesn't fix that, but it makes things a bit easier to audit.
The Day Google Left China People Left Flowers at the Beijing Office
Universities are often... influenced by big companies, and do not necessarily use technologies that are representative of what you'll see in the real world. They could be, by random chance, but it’s not necessarily the case. Anecdotally, I usually hear from people that it wasn’t representative when they are comparing what they learned in college to what they use in the workforce.

It also really annoys me when universities teach their students expensive, proprietary software that they won't be able to use outside of class when there are competent and often superior free options. These students are paying good money to learn, and the universities are intentionally choosing to teach them something less than the most beneficial knowledge that those students could reasonably be learning about.
Glow: LLVM-based machine learning compiler – 2018 LLVM Developers’ Meeting
Chess is just not that popular outside of a few niches here. I used to be really into it when I was a kid, but it's a struggle to find anyone to play against; I don't think I've played more than a couple games in the past five years.
This, to me, seems like one of the central societal challenges today...how do we retain the community and social outreach programs that churches provide without the fairy tales, imaginary-friend-for-grownups and anti-science zealotry that churches bundle into their current offering?

I’ve often felt that life would’ve been easier if I’d been able to swallow the dogma without having to question. People who have that faith seem genuinely fulfilled by it, in an almost placebo-like way. And the decidedly local character of churches is a sort of armor against the internetification of the modern world that so often isolates us. But since I could never accept what I still see as a facile relic of a primitive culture, I feel like I missed out on the many ancillary benefits that members of that community so often enjoy.
The pedestrian won't hear the scooter coming.
> Maybe the problem here isn't the state at all.

I would say it can be, but more importantly, it doesn't have to be:

> Well okay, there's plenty to blame the government about, but the government is the one institution that people can change... the one institution that you can affect without institutional change. That's exactly why all the anger and fear has been directed at the government. The government has a defect - it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect - they're pure tyrannies. So therefore you want to keep corporations invisible, and focus all anger on the government.

-- Noam Chomsky

And even if consumers are to be able to "vote with their wallets", if workers are supposed to to have a choice of employer and certain protections, there needs to be some regulation that goes for everybody, and is enforced for everybody. It's not going to happen out of generosity, or consumers researching everything on their own. How would you even make sure the food you eat is not toxic? Not that regulations make it 100% safe, but they can be a lot more efficient and very helpful, just like they can be horrible and backwards.

I really think a major obstacle is that people see government as something that acts on them, instead of something through which they ideally would act together as equals and improve their lot in a way that transcends the scope and lifespan of the individual. Yes, there is a lot of corruption, but the thing is, that's something one can get to work at -- when it comes to (some) corporations, it's too often consumers talking about them amongst each other, "hoping" things will change as they often get worse.

> People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

-- Adam Smith

When drug dealers or street gangs carve up territory, you might call that a form of local monopoly, and it comes from people themselves, no state intervention required. Usurping parts of the government for that purpose is something bigger gangs or corporations may do (also see "War is a Racket"), but it's not technically required I would say.
Aws step functions? That's their solution for tracking long running state.
Those folks would be ideally suited for Digital Ocean, Vultr, etc. All of the function as a service providers have a cost model that only make sense for < (some really low qps). A $10 DO instance can handle how many $$ worth of FuncaaS?
Yes, also somewhat anecdotally if you look at the value being generated at these companies versus what they're paying out it's astronomical.

I know we're way past piece work economies but the ratio has to be off.