skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and in general, pudge much more comparable to:

- badger (embeddable db engine based on LSM Tree)

- leveldb /goleveldb (embeddable db engine based on LSM Tree)

- bolt/LMDB/pogreb (embeddable db engine with active use of MMAP)

- rocksdb and so on

redis is more about in-memory data-structures, then about key/value store.
Please keep in mind though that this is not strictly a US site. To me (as an experienced, but non-native speaker) "what are you smoking" does not sound tongue-in-cheek at all.
FWIW Elixir isn't necessarily lightweight. Memory will stay pretty flat (even during high workloads) but it's not lightweight.
There is however, a "smash-and-grab" phrase in the US which fits your imagery perfectly.
Yeah, but it's shit.
Depends on how much you know about SmallTalk. Here is a good one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxtyeFVn3w
Me too. Sibling comment says it might be due to malware. Should I be concerned?
Arguably, that process has already started. To anyone who was born after 9/11 (and that was almost 18 years ago, so there are people born after 9/11 who are almost old enough to vote!), that event is already kind of an abstraction, in much the same way that the attack on Pearl Harbor is to almost everyone reading this. The passing of an event out of living memory is the first stage of that kind of transition from experience into legend.

And also, if you're interested in this sort of thing, I recommend subscribing to the blog Ephemeral New York, which highlights all sorts of still-existing traces of New York Cities long gone: https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/
But it is not a flawed strategy. It works 50% of the time against the "insane" AI!
If people game Yelp and Google reviews, why not Glassdoor? I’ve seen companies go from 3 to 4.5 after a concerted push.

The truth comes out though. The pie in the sky reviews just aren’t believable.
Excel: FlashFill and FlashExtract (2017)
"Sorry, our editor is optimized for Chrome"

Please don't fall for the monopoly. Spend a little time and make it work everywhere, for the sake of the open web
This comment makes me think you have never played starcraft.
He actually brings up a good point later in the article, that this sounds like Microsoft's old mantra:

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
To me, the article reads like "We REALLY don't want to abandon Rails so we rewrite the hot paths to Go". I mean no offense; I just wasn't able to find good argumentation in it for sticking with Rails. To me, the article kind of makes the argument for Go.

"Developer productivity" is not a myth and it does exist. But Rails is very far from the only framework that gives you that.

IMO you should seriously evaluate making your web + API gateway in either Elixir or Go, outline a migration plan and get on with it.
I'm surprised compiler warnings haven't come up yet in this discussion. Checking if an unsigned number is smaller than zero typically triggers one, and code style tools can be set to treat any such check as a compilation error/not allow code with such a check to be checked in.
Yes that is also true. I accounted for about 20% of lean mass loss included and then had to hit the gym after the few month diet :)

Though it wasn't my biggest concern since I overshot my loss by about as much.
IME the work broke down into three groups:

1) QA - the tech industry bleats about its automation putting people out of work and then creates millions of jobs mindlessly clicking buttons. shrug

2) Lean startup - creating jobs that are designed to be automated but giving them to Indians to do manually first to test if the idea has legs and the job is even worth doing. This type of work isn't going anywhere even if the individual jobs get automated (as they were designed to be).

3) Semi-skilled work - reading contracts and picking out relevant terms. So far most attempts at solving this problem have been a riotous joke.
I've been exclusively buying AMD discrete graphics for the better part of a decade since they started developing their open driver.

Between a 4850, 7870, 290, and 580 I've been a satisfied customer. It was rough waters in 2012, but nowadays its flawless.

On the CPU side though... I do want to make a big upgrade this year. I've had a 4770k since release. 8 cores sounds pretty juicy. But AMD still has their proprietary PSP and unlike with the Intel ME I have no way to disable it. While it sucks giving Intel money when they have been no help disabling their government backdoor into my computer the fact the community has disabled it (assuming ME cleaner will work properly on whatever Intel CPUs come out this year) makes me lean towards buying another Intel chip. Not because I want to support them, but because AMD hasn't given me an alternative yet.
I can tell you that the salary can be ridiculously wrong. For a high-experience specialist position in a high-cost city, Glassdoor has a salary number that is well below what we would pay for a freshman college intern in our lowest cost-of-living location.

I hope you didn't decline to apply to us based on Glassdoor.
Exploiting Free Trials That Don’t Use Account Activation
I haven't had any trouble yet finding volunteers at utilities or ISOs to confirm ground truth when in question. For-profit, investor driven utilities are a bit of a pickle but I can still get around that with EIA data.
I believe you can connect gmail to your local email client using IMAP/POP3, but I don't think that uses the oauth flow to do that (you just type in the password). I've never used any other kind of 3rd party gmail apps though.
True. I mostly wrote my reply to help future readers.

Sorry, didn't mean to leave you with the impression that you misworded your comment! :)
Australia always tries these types of laws, they tried a Great Wall of China-like firewall a few years ago it didn't go anywhere. I suspect this will be the same.
In my experience, grid systems actually facilitate walkability, at least in contrast with curvy subdivision streets that are common in any US neighborhoods built in the last 60 years. US subdivisions tend to be anti-mixed-use. Grids encourage mixed use, for example by zoning one big commercial street for every three smaller residential streets.
Having worked with a company that does shady stuff like this I eventually changed how I worked to match it.

I had a boss who thought it would be useful to track line of code changes per developer, number of features implemented and bugs fixed weighted by original estimates and other non-useful metrics to grade employees during their reviews. I was asked to implement the tools to scrape that info.

So what did I do? I used the same metrics and automated my todo list to make sure that I was always in the top 1% of the results. Since I was a lone wolf on a massive multi-year project it wasn't hard to find stuff to do. But when I got to the end of the month and it was trending to show I wouldn't drop a spot my scripts informed me that I was done working. I would also prioritize the level of effort to time left in the month. So if there was only two days left I'd pick up more small tasks to pad my output rather than taking on a bigger task I wouldn't complete in that month.

I started doing this after having been there 10 years. 10 years of me doing other jobs that were not mine "for the good of the company." 10 years of me traveling when travel wasn't part of the job. During this time having great number not much happened with regards to compensation. I went from being a team player to doing just as much as I needed to.

When I finally left and had my exit interview one of my managers noticed my marks were always top 1%...even in months when the company's total output was shitty. Since I was on my own projects there was no reason why I would have had a dip when other divisions dropped. So I asked, "if I had output 30% more than any other group...would you have given me a 30% raise? a 3% raise?" He said, "no we probably wouldn't have done anything beyond the standard cost of living increase."
Indeed. It’s an interesting assumption that legacy means a selfish desire to be remember. It’s a very Facebook way to think.

The legacy of a teacher is presumably the great things their students do, and not their students sitting around saying “remember that maths teacher.”
The top 10% doesn't have 3 times the wealth of the bottom 10%, it's more like millions or more. If the tax is on gas, why should the group without money shoulder 30% of the cost? Just charge all the money to the top 10% and all can benefit, it's almost a rounding error for them.
The PDF one seemed like a pitch for using Chrome as your PDF viewer.
Apparently the easiest way to be remembered for a long time is killing a lot of people. :(
Ah sorry, my bad - I may have misread as well. Either way thanks for bringing it to my attention as I think this is a change that could make some other iterations "possible."
I remember some old adventure games (SCUMM engine maybe?) where you picked a verb (from a menu) and then an object. Open and Close were apparently synonyms for Turn On and Turn Off, so you could Close the Light or Turn Off the Door.
It depends on the project.

Java is the goto language in more conservative environments (e.g. insurance, banking, government) and I never had to justify using it there.

In small shops/startups it’s different. Hype is a real thing and running your backend on “25 year old tech” often does not attract the right kind of people you need to have in this space ;^).

That being said, I’ve been shipping stable and performant backends on the JVM for over 15 years and I could not be happier with the state of Java in 2019.

The ecosystem is amazing. Tooling, too. Talent and jobs are available everywhere.

Also, there is an active effort to modernise Javas syntax and I think it’s going into the right direction.
Yeah, baffled me for a bit but then I remembered that question is whether is phishing attack or not; not if you gonna click "Allow". Then again there is no URL address bar to look for so it _might_ be some sort of phishing attack.
because it was the "the thing" at that time, just admit it.
It’s also that motorists are often times hostile to pedestrians. Case in point - the elementary school my daughter goes to is a quarter mile away. So I’m trying to get the second grade kid to come back home on her own. She needs to cross streets in a subdivision. There is a crossing guard to help. But still - people honk at my 8 yr old when crossing. Ultimately I’ve decided to drop and pick her up myself.
nearly - 4th according to the american lung association annual study (via cbs): https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/air-pollution-worst-us-citi... (fairbanks is #1)

but it's the worst for ozone, where it's 80's reputation for smog comes from. to be fair, LA's air quality is far better than the 74 major cities in chinaa: https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-la-smog-stats...

which is where a significant portion of the air polution comes from (enough to go from good to bad): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution_in_the_United_St...
TIL - Seagate drives are still basically shit :)
> supporting Wine on MacOS after they drop 32 bit application support

Steam itself still looks be 32-bit on macOS:

lipo -info /Applications/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/steam_osx
Non-fat file: /Applications/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/steam_osx is architecture: i386
what is blitzkreig in chess?
> The nuclear option is probably to just stop selling their products in Australia.

Someone needs to. With EU laws, Australian laws, US laws, and more and more every day, the internet is rapidly becoming a tool of the least common denominator. In other words, whatever country has the toughest laws will govern the planetary internet system as all others will have to follow by extension. Apple, for example, can't make an iphone for every country to comply with that countries individual laws that differ from every other country, which also change with a regular basis.

Of course though, there will always be hackers skating on top relatively free. We're becoming a two-tiered internet. The relatively few who know how to get around the restrictions, and everybody else.

All Apple has to do is float the possibility they may not sell their products in Australia anymore, and point out why. The rest would take care of itself.
Maybe this is true for desktop PCs, but in my case I always had to be very careful when buying a new laptop/notebook (which basically always had the newest HW because it just came with it).
I've been seeing a lot of headlines over the past ten or so years on how this is happening to the Holocaust, which freaks me the hell out, because my grandmother's second husband was a survivor. To think nobody could meet anyone like him anymore is disturbing.
If you have a population that did stop growing, but in which class divisions exist, and the upper class keeps taking larger and larger share of overall wealth generated by the society, you're going to have a similar problem.
The AGC source code is up on Github these days https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/
The ML compiler tech is OCaml which is bootstrapped on C. (It wasn't always so, but has been since Caml Light.)
Yeah, I mean it doesn't say the context very well, so I assumed it I clicked on a link. Like if it said you signed up for a service and clicked on a link to do something very specific.

If I accidentally clicked on a link in my email and it brought that page up, could you call it phishing?

Also the email from the person with the PDF. Like, why is that phishing? What if I trusted the sender? People send pdfs all the time. are there no secure ways to read pdfs?
"one set to failure is all you need!" is one of those ideas that seems to come up every fifteen years or so, and gets really popular for a while before people discover that it doesn't really work all that well. Mike Mentzer was an advocate in the 80s, it was popular when I was just starting out in 2003 or so, and I guess it's coming around again.
Manually migrating has the issue of testability and hit by the bus.
I don't believe every migration needs a roll back, sometimes the better strategy is restore from a snapshot/backup.
>When you mention it, parts of Serbia that were under Austria-Hungary are noticeably more urbanized and developed than the parts that were under the Ottoman Empire, despite them being in the same state for exactly one century.

... The parts of Serbia that Austria-Hungary didn't conquer by force about a hundred years ago were more developed than the parts they did conquer by force? Clearly the Ottoman's fault.
Legacy? I thought "legacy" was when you aimed to be remembered by your family and community.
Depends on what you want to see; the city is incredibly diverse. The denser, more urban areas are the ones developed before the car was the dominant form of transportation. Downtown, Macarthur park, koreatown, hollywood, etc are very dense. Some parts of the westside are too. The trains generally go through the denser areas. Much of it is gritty, but the architecture is cool, there's lots of fantastic food everywhere, and it's generally interesting. Go explore :)
Open source maintainers burn out. It's a fact of life that's hardly specific to Elixir though, wouldn't you agree?

As for deployments, I've setup several of them in the last 2 months -- from scratch, and successfully. There's an initial learning curve that might be way too annoying for many. The deployment story is one of the weaker parts of Elixir -- I am not running away from that.

As for scaling, you might be mistaken. Erlang/Elixir can be scaled with almost zero effort up to 50 or so machines before you need to introduce special libraries or any extra tooling at all.

Of course, you can do the same with many other languages if you put Kubernetes or HAProxy in the picture. Point is, with Erlang/Elixir, it is 99% effortless up to a certain scale which most projects won't ever hit.

If you were talking about raw speed however, I can't argue that Erlang/Elixir are just a little faster than a very optimized JS (and still plenty faster than Python, Ruby or PHP). But nobody advocates Elixir for raw number crunching.
Migrate is awesome! My only issue: Since it uses bare SQL for the migrations, you have to do some lifting if you need to support multiple RDBMS with different DDLs. I have some regexes in my project to translate Postgres DDL into SQLite DDL for my test suite.
I have magnets implanted in my hands
withgoogle.com is more of a 'sandbox' for Google one-off programs, labs, events, etc. which don't need to have the same branding guidelines as on google.com domain.
Can be please stop seeing this propaganda here from Citylab whos aim is to promote UNs Agenda 2030?
Which, I'd like to point out, isn't a big loss: it's population 24 million, about the size of Taiwan. If you're making a physical product, shipping and taxes will make it criminally expensive to sell there, and if you're making a digital product, there's this and the considerations of slow internet and a different time zone.

I think it's actually quite reasonable and doable for companies to boycott Australia over this, and I hope we see some. It'd be free press for the company and cost relatively little - I'd imagine the press would pay for any missed Australian sales. And it'd put some pressure on the Australian government for this idiocy.
Yeah, that's the only reason I got a question 'wrong'. Sorry, but no third party app is getting access to my email for obvious security reasons. Doesn't matter how 'legit' the company is or what not.
I wonder if this will help Alexandria Of-Color with her presidential bid.
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GitLab is using a lot of memory for various reasons, all of the big ones (like adding multi-threading which I proposed 3 years ago https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3592 ) can be solved without a rewrite. I've failed to make this a priority within the company. We had people work on it for some time but the day to day of shipping features, keeping GitLab secure, and other tasks took over. I'll advocate for a dedicated performance team to solve this. Until that team is formed people like Stan are making steady progress https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18973499
Show HN: Letting the internet take care of OUR plants
I was astonished when I was in Berlin couple of years ago how many places wouldn't accept credit cards. I was used to the US where I could get around for months without carrying any cash, and there everybody was refusing to deal with CCs. And I arrived on week-end, means I couldn't just go to a bank to change cash (there were probably still places to do it, but I didn't know where they were...). Had to borrow cash from local friends to get by until the workweek started. No idea why Berlin is so reluctant to deal with credit cards.
You must make a lot of unsubstantiated assumptions.
Finally, somewhere I can go without being bound by the law of gravity.
It's all fun and games until the Loonies figure out they can use the payload delivery mechanism to start launching rocks at us.
They did redundant work to make it LASER (Language-Agnostic SEntence Representations). If they'd just gone with initials they'd have had LASR, which is a cooler-looking acronym anyway.
Sometimes they might make up an insignificant part of the whole. Which means you will inconvenience millions for small gains, when pressuring a single farmer to save x% of the water might produce the same net effect.
Numbers matter.
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that's not creepy at all. there's many sports today where a machine specially built for that task would dominate any human from ever winning.

a baseball "player" that can hit a homerun on every swing. or throw a 150mph fastball.

a basketball "player" that can make every single shot. you dont even need to defend that well when youre shooting 99%

a "golfer" that can get a hole on one in every hole

emulating human movement and agility will keep a few more sports safe, but not for long. im just sitting here waiting for the robot olympics
The news of my death has been greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain

The end of Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Bitcoin etc but for every startup that grows, they spend 40% of their revenues in ads on Ms/fb/Amazon
care to explain? at 56 your children should be already adults, so while it would be sad they could move on
> Every single group of humans since the beginning of time has a level of political interaction

You don't say.

"Political" was my word to sum up part of a lengthy Glassdoor post made by someone else which does not use the word at all. Feel free to substitute whatever word is least prone to cause you a mental hemorrhoid flare-up.
You are correct, but it's still not a valid comparison.
I think the reality is, no matter how awesome and impressive these tools are, they just don't seem to have a fit in the market.

Prefacing this with the fact I don't know all that much about the product, only a quick glance

For a big team of developers, building a big website with complicated interactions or requirements, a tool like this isn't going to meet all the requirements the developers have

If you're building something simpler, then you're probably better served by something like Webflow or Squarespace.
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If we're talking memory usage, I don't think Node is necessarily a significant improvement over Ruby.
I don’t think either language is fundamentally more secure than the other.

That being said, the Node.js ecosystem feels more immature than Python’s. The common practice of using microdependencies means that an average project has countless dependencies with varying levels of support — it’s all but impossible to make sure every one of those dependencies is properly maintained.

The framework/library churn rate seems to have decreased though, so that’s certainly good from a security standpoint as well.
As an Australian with Apple products, I really hope Apple pulls out of the market. Some large entity definitely needs to take a stand.
Please keep in mind that this site is operated by a US VC, on US hardware and software, for a US audience residing in a few tech-centric US cities.

US colloquialisms are perfectly appropriate on this site.