skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In lots of ways. AresDB has ingestion. Users take their data and say here make a table from this, persist that data the way I want you to great now I can query it and go along my merry business. I see lots of nice fancy optimizations in there. The kinds of things a small company like Blazing can only marvel at!

I also see a completely different use case. We don't want to ingest data into Blazing. That is NOT our cup of tea. We will make tools to help you persist data quickly. Working on it. But we want to read data the way YOU store it without asking you to duplicate it into our system and requiring significant effort from the user.

You have files. Great we can read them, query them, do all kinds of acrobatics on them and don't need you to store redundant copies of what you already had.

The files are stored in S3 or HDFS and other file systems. Great, we have built connections to interface with those file systems and you can query directly from them.

A user should be able to get blazing's docker container. Register a filesystem with the engine, and start querying their files within minutes of having launched the container. When we don't do this we fail. It does not seem to me that AresDB is trying to do this but I could be completely wrong and if you think so please tell me why!

BlazingDB is meant to be connected to other tools in the rapids eco system. You interact with it through python. You can 0 copy IPC the data to any other tool in the rapids eco system. Want to a power a dashboard, sure, but this isn't the use case that we are optimizing for. We don't have a JDBC connection. We don't connect to tableau.

Blazing Focuses on Interpreting rather than JITing. Instead of focusing on trying to make the most performant compiled code possible by JITing exactly what we want we pay a process cost that reduces I/O. We convert Logical Plans into physical execution plans that are suitable for a SIMD architecture whose optimization centers around minimizing materializations and global memory accesses. We tried JIT but couldn't find a way to compile plans in less than a few hundred nano seconds at which point the overhead of compiling superseded that of interpreting operations in a kernel.
“About 40 percent of the components that Honda uses at the Swindon factory come from the European Union”
On the contrary, they are feature rich with capabilities that Go still hasn't found a proper way to support, like something comparable to Swing.

Naturally turning into name calling is easier when running out of arguments.
http://archive.is/c8Zxt
I have been hard-pressed to find Threadripper 2990wx dedicated servers with 1080ti/2080ti GPUs in them for rental, much less at a reasonable cost. Colo/on-prem was our only option for our mega transcoding server.
I don't have chronic pain personally, but anecdotally (from friends, not just myself), there tend to be general correlations between anxiety, depression, food intolerances, allergies, chronic pain, migraines, chronic tiredness, eczema, etc., which of course makes intuitive sense. It's not surprising that mental health has an effect on these other things; it's more surprising that the opposite could be true. It really just seems like everything is much more connected than we'd like to think
Everyone here would like some numbers, after all you must have a solid source to make such statement.
I use the ppa, but doing that opens you up to security concerns. I've tried to build from source, but there are too many dependencies and I couldn't build it due to conflicting libraries.
Cartilage has no blood vessels. It gets all its nutrients from osmosis. Wastes are removed the same way.

Osmosis is a less efficient means than direct blood supply, so joints probably tend to accumulate wastes firsts if they aren't all being removed from the body for some reason. Anecdotally, cartilage and nervous system tissues are the last things to heal. Everything else has to improve first.

Also, some infections, like strep, are known to settle in the joints. The shoulder is one of the larger joints and has a fair amount of cartilage and similar tissues.

So, you injure a major joint and old infection hiding out in the joint gets released into the blood stream. This impacts the entire body.

But the gut is where you find 70 to 80 percent of immune cells in the body. My hypothesis is that it is because food is the single largest threat we deal with on a daily basis.

So you have what amounts to an internal toxic spill and it stresses the gut because that's the largest concentration of cleanup crews. Dealing with this crisis taxes the entire immune system, but you are most aware of impact on the gut because that's where the vast majority of your immune function is found.
> If you can take advantage of that flexibility to build reactive capacity then you can save money

Almost everyone thinks they can; very few small businesses have the sysadmin/devops to pull it off.
There's a lot to unpack there, but people in the autism spectrum who can't look at you in the eyes are not necessarily bad at workplace communication (they may fail to realize workplace flirting, but that's a plus, not a minus).

Then there's the whole "benefits of diversity stuff". My team currently has too many generalists/big picture/would-do-well-as-ethnologists-if-not-math-oriented thinkers. Narrower, more focused cognitive styles would do us some good.

But how do you even detect if big picture thinkers and hyperfocused specialists are getting fair chances? The whole interviewing process is stacked against people who can't demonstrate a "wide personality", even for non-leadership roles.
The decay chain to radon is slow, but the ore itself already has plenty of the intermediate products, including significant amounts of the immediate precursor radium, as its been sitting around for billions of years. AFAIU most of the measurable radiation from uranium ore comes from radium decay, so, yes, I assume what he was detecting was the decay chain starting from radium to radon.

The half-life of radon is very short (a few days), but that's part of what makes it so dangerous, along with being a gas and the fact that radon decay is itself highly energetic regardless of the half-life.

You can see the decay chain here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-238#Radium_series_(or_... The whole radon decay chain (radon->polonium->lead) happens quickly and is the most energetic part of the uranium decay chain. And because you can easily inhale radon, it can all occur inside your lungs where even alpha particles (especially alpha particles, actually) can damage cells. Basically, a lot of energy released in a very short amount of time within unprotected tissue. So while uranium ore may emit only a tiny amount of radon, radon itself is nasty enough that you can inadvertently go from harmless to potentially harmful by storing more than a handful of uranium ore in a confined space.

I'm not doing the actual science justice and perhaps mincing terminology (not my field), but that decay table should speak for itself.
"All European market production is being consolidated to Japan, where the company is based"

Japan just signed a major trade deal with the EU which would abnegate them from the need to actually make any cars in Europe anymore, since they can be imported into Europe sans tariffs.

Ergo - this is a story about how an EU/Japan trade deal is causing the closure of plants across Europe.

Clearly Brexit might be part of the calculus but there's no evidence to suggest how they are related.

You've offered no evidence or logic, and neither has the article. I don't think there's any clear reasoning on how Brexit factors into this.
Non-paywall https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-unveils-plan-tie-hong-1...
Looks like a very nice ebook reader. Could probably replace Calibre for 90% of users. It's already on the Arch platform so here are my thoughts on using it for 5 minutes.
Rendering is via poppler which is fine most of the time but definitely not as fast as mupdf + zathura when testing a epub textbook. Definitely has some bugs (clicking on links to different parts of the book don't work for me) but it's still in early development so that's expected. Reading regular books is pretty good but there should be a preset to center text with large margins on the sides (like an article) so it's more readable fullscreen.
Definitely has potential but will be sticking to zathura for now.
>Apple is the richest company in the world, and instead of paying their engineers top wages...

If that sentence caught anyone else's eye, know that it caught mine too and I did a quick sanity check. [0] It does seem that Apple is falling a bit short of other top companies, especially for the upper levels.

[0] https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Google/Facebook/Apple
It really just seems like everything is much more connected than we'd like to think

I think you're right. So much so that my doctor actually suggested prescribing SSRIs for the IBS, even in a patient (such as myself) having no signs of clinical depression. I didn't take the prescription, so I couldn't say if it would have helped in my case, but I went home and read a study that SSRIs have been shown to alleviate IBS. Pretty interesting.
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Personally I'm not a fan of Apple either (for non-privacy related reasons.) I'm planning to move my device (Pixel 2) to CopperheadOS to eliminate my concerns with Google services.
If you read the article,

"Location services may collect and share data with companies like Google and Apple, who in turn may share it with law enforcement agencies. "
Recently replaced my 2015 MBP for a "better" model and I miss it so much. Better keyboard, didn't have play "guess the dongle" when plugging into a projector at work, didn't have weird wake/sleep issues, etc. I haven't really noticed a difference in CPU, and for the same priced MBP I actually have less storage space than my 2015 model.

But I can share the charger with my phone, so I guess that's nice
I do not disagree with you. We are going to be publishing much larger benchmarks soon. Before we could start building BlazingSQL we had to work on CUDF in the rapids eco system. There was alot of work that went into building all of the primitives that were needed for both our sql engine and all of the other wonderful tools that are now leveraging CUDF.

We have to start somewhere and if you think we should compare against something else please tell us what you think we should compare ourselves to! We are already looking into some of the other tools that have been mentioned here in the comments.
One improvement to my life is assuming positive intent. If there is a way I can interpret someone's comment in a positive light, I do so. I'd rather occasionally seem like a fool who didn't realize he was being insulted than hurt somebody by falsely accusing them of being mean.

As a bonus, I am insulted a lot less ;)
Given two dimensions:

Destroy any cell with only a left neighbour. Create any cell with only a bottom neighbour.

Start with a single cell: in the forward direction a vertical tower appears. In the reverse direction a horizontal row appears.
Can anyone that has been in the industry for a significant period of time comment on this feeling?

I'm 5 years deep professionally, 15 years as a hobby, and no longer enjoying software, at least in it's form consumed by a customer.

Similar to a sibling poster, I'm envious of the landscaper, school teacher, or electrician.

Has anyone left software and felt better off for it, or regretted it?

Interested to hear any anecdotes or insight.
Because Java also runs bare metal and in those scenarios, it is indeed a systems language.

The HN community is too focused on OpenJDK/Oracle when talking about Java, when there are as several JDKs toolchains across the industry, some with very specialized deployment scenarios.
https://github.com/rapidsai is the source for the rapids tools. BlazingSQL itself is not open source though it is free to use.
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I like my USB-C/Thunderbolt dock (when it works... for some reason my 2 monitors get flipped about 20% of the time), but when it fell off my desk it took my MBP with it :(
Should My United Health Plan Have a Copay?
I’m confused with how my United Health Care plan works. I hope this is informational for those in my position one day. Basically, my wife and I are on United Healthcare and we we have a deductible and coinsurance, but no where on the plan is a copay. I’ve never seen this before in my life, so I’ve been surprised that my wife’s visits to the doctor have resulted in higher costs than the normal fixed price I typically have gotten.

Is this normal? I thought most insurances use copays?
From Loom talks it appears that fibers will also be able to consume Runnable and Completable.
Apple is the same. There are a lot of hidden regulations when you work on that scale.
For Windows try SumatraPdf. It's small, highly configurable and handles pdf, epub, mobi etc etc.
Kinda the BBC of Silicon Valley then.
Two elections, May gambled on the needless General Election and then had to go to bed with the radicals from the DUP.

As interesting as the "lesson" of a no-deal would be (and it would be shit because France or Ireland can't just keep the border wide open as it is without getting sued by the EU, the majority of the UK voters are coming to realize that it is a stupid idea and has to be prevented.
What has to change is this toxic english press that wrote so many lies about the EU for decades.
I think a no-deal is very likely at this point. It will be interesting to see how much everything was hyped by media and what are the real lessons for other countries ... Could it really be that a complex set of contracts is so poorly implemented that the exit conditions will push a state over the brink ?? If yes then I wonder how nobody thought about risk and contingency - after all contracts can always be reviewed, re-negotiated and revised. Preferably every couple of years. If EU membership is a one way road that can only be untangled with economic hardship (or even civil war) then other countries should start thinking for their own contingency. Even they don't intend to leave it's just good practice ... Similar like Russia planning to shut off their connection to the rest of the Internet. If you don't plan for such scenarios and practice resilience and recovery it'll eventually end in tears (whatever system/s you build).
Bentley is estimating their cost at > £1B.
I believe I’ve had this issue, manifesting as skips and glitches only a fraction of a second long, like a pop or click. Total conjecture apropos of nothing, this issue could be that the system clock update does something synchronous or blocking in the T2, introducing a very brief interruption to audio scheduling.
Yup. Both Apple and Google has to give user data to law enforcement when issued a search warrant.
As frustrated with Apple as the next person, but I have never experienced this using a bunch of interfaces and devices with their own clock source...
Here's an interactive map of the growing Pearl River Delta megalopolis: https://geoshen.com/posts/the-pearl-river-delta-megalopolis
The main market for Macs are people who want an expensive-looking, high perceived quality machine for emails, Facebook, and Slack.
So the Roman Empire collapsed. Big deal. All the land is still there. Italy is there and still gorgeous and largely functional. Rome is there and still a great place.

The British Empire basically collapsed. The Pound has retained its value the whole time. It's still a first world country.
Where are those companies who ask such questions, and not for a embedded software engineer role but for someone higher up stack. I wish I knew
There are a load of papers on the subject, I read a lot a couple of years ago. Some leading names: Fredkin, Margolus & Toffoli, Gerard Vichniac, Jarkko Kari, Tetsuya Hattori, Morita & Ueno, Shinji Takasue, mostly 70s and since.

I made movies that looked like sunlight reflecting on ripples in a river (I mean, looked exactly) using 2D CA based on a couple of Rudy Rucker papers, based on (I believe) the original (1D) CA paper, analyzing non-linear effects on waves, modelled as a row of particles, neighbours joined with springs, sliding up and down frictionless rods.

I used this super-simple formula to approximate the wave equation: a cell's height (each cell stores a number representing height of the water) = half the sum of the 4 neighbours from the previous generation, minus the cell's height in the gen before that. i.e. C_t=(Nsum_{t-1})/2-C_{t-2}. (Note that adding C_{t-2} to both sides produces a time-symmetric equation.)

Amazing that it produced totally realistic-looking water! (I added a feature to show sunlight reflection if the 3D angle of the plane between each adjacent 4 points was in a particular small angle range)

Different conserved quantities in CAs indeed correspond to different conserved quantities in the physics. (I don't remember the details enough now to say more.)
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I find myself much easier to be a principled individual with $800K in the bank account than without.

Isn't that exactly what 'superconformist said?
btw, this is the same story even if you use a feature phone. Mobile operators are also sharing data and they have to keep all your data and activities for at least 6 months. Telecommunications is full of these regulations.
An attempt to show AI can do HN posts?

It's far from to dangerous to release sorry. Good PR stunt though.
$600k, half of which probably disappeared into taxes, and his career is shot.

The subtitle mentions that he was a tenured professor, so he's not feigning simplicity either.
What’s FB2 in this context?
Without going into identifiable specifics, could you provide some information on what type of decisions the model makes?
Double tap the power button on Android and it'll be ready to snap pics in 3 seconds or less. No popups or other dialogs.

Not bad.
That's a very interesting theory. I had assumed that the immune-system hadn't been implicated in my case (all the immune-system bloodwork came back normal), but now you have me wondering just a bit, so thanks for sharing.
Historically, the "pixels" are mostly round photomultiplier tubes.
So the natural way to place those is a hexagonal grid.

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The pixels are very sensitive, we can register single photons with a time resolution of half a nano second.

Quite recently, some telescopes started using silicon photo multipliers, which are mostly square by design.

But: The first telescope to use those also used light concentrators to increase the detector area and these have hexagonal entrance windows, so we also have hexagonal pixels.

Physicists like symmetries, and light concentrators are more effective when round than square, hexagonal is a good middle ground.
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Can't speak for performance but there are definitely security concerns with Electron.
People have a special affection to soldered-on memory that tops out at 16GB?
Google is certainly not looking for "employees who blindly do what they're told", at least not for engineering roles.
Ah, that sucks. It’s definitely pretty bad, especially for a 6-8k+ machine.
Good update on Brexit yesterday from Last Week Tonight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaBQfSAVt0s

This answered a lot of questions that I (an American) was wondering about the current state of things.

The most telling moment is when a man who imports flowers says that his entire business will probably be ruined by Brexit, but then goes on to say that he voted to leave. When pressed further about whether he considered his business when he voted, he says "I didn't really think about it."
Yes, fixed, but was it fixed only fro bbc.co.uk? because I see another something.ac.uk website. href url is correct, but the part after title is stripping based on some regex?

List of Valid TLDs:
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-string...

Some tlds can have single dot; like .com & some might have multiple; like firm.ind.in or co.uk or ac.in or such.

Check more discussion here at SO question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10306690/what-is-a-regul...

Thanks for looking at my photo website :)
I read a large chunk of it, and I didn't notice anything about asettlement -- this definitely puts a VERY different perspective on it.
Your body goes to enormous lengths to normalize your blood because you rapidly die if your blood leaves a fairly narrow pH range. So it will strip your bones of calcium, leaving you with osteoporosis, to keep your blood as close to normal as possible.

I am skeptical about the value of blood tests. It seems to me that by the time a blood test shows a problem, things have to be pretty bad. I think reliance on blood tests probably misses a lot.

/More speculative postulating
Your mobile provider will be just as helpful with law enforcement. They've been selling your location data for a long time.
> Make a small prototype and show it to your boss, they now think it's fully working (Prototype/WIP/etc... means nothing to some people) and they start to show it around aaaand before you know it ...

What is the best way to avoid this trap, short of making your prototypes purposefully buggy and incomplete?
> Can you connect those dots for me?

Living in a bad environment definitely does influence your success. Are there exceptions? Yes, plenty of them. But that doesn’t mean that there is no impact for majority of people.
You Americans might laugh at this, but then you voted Trump. Us Aussies have our own shitty politicians, so we are not laughing.
They perform comparatively slowly and use more resources and battery power.

For example hexchat an irc client seems to use about 50-60MB of ram.

Slack by contrast out of the box appears to use 1.2GB of memory. There are at present 12 applications open on my machine. If they all used over a GB each something would be starving given that I only have 8. Note please that most machines still have 8GB or less.

Do you really not understand why people are biased against electron or are you pretending to for effect?
yes, I feel this way from time to time, after 11 of years as a dev.

think about becoming a mechanic, electrician, until I realize to get to the level of my current pay would take me years
> what is the large market for Macs

There are legitimate reasons to buy macs, but I'd say most people want them because they look nice and they consider them a status symbol.
So would this work the other way around? Leave your phone at home to prove you didn't go somewhere?
> the exit conditions will push a state over the brink ?

It doesn't have to be a disaster; the separation of Czechoslovakia was comparatively easier!

It is a disaster of choice due to lack of coherent planning. The government position makes no sense - why are we trying to leave the customs union too?

The EU membership brought benefits. It should not be surprising that leaving it is disadvantageous.

Russia leaving the Internet would cost them a lot more if they had a tech industry and weren't a non free petrostate.
"I didn't really think about it."

Seems to sum up politics for 25% or more of the electorate across plenty of the globe right now. Summed up another way might be "they're all a bunch of useless, corrupt bastards".

Sigh, I'd have to switch my VPN endpoint to watch that clip.
I thought the same.
I am really glad of founding your comments for some reason.
Every time I read such misguided comments praising Apple's surveillance devices vs. the competitors I lose a little bit more of what's left of my faith in humanity. Even the supposedly tech literate among us have completely lost sight of the fundamentals.
Worse than 2012 MacBooks.
How Amazon Will Grow Without a New York HQ2
Switching to the camera app isn't the hard part. In iOS it's also very easy. I'm referring to the [taking the picture] part.
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