skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, JSON is by far the most popular data interchange format ever invented. This is for a good reason; it's the most compatible format possible; it works with any language and any system regardless of what kind of typing is used.

As compatible as it is, there is definitely a lot of friction/awkwardness around type-casting JSON objects to typed objects within a statically typed programming language; there is an impedance mismatch. It's not as awkward as trying to type cast objects designed under one type system to a different type system (e.g. SOAP APIs) but it's still really awkward.

The impedance mismatch goes away completely if you use a dynamically typed language like JavaScript. For example, JSON produced by a python program can be parsed by a JavaScript/Node.js program without any issues.

The root reason why types are bad is because they're opinionated. There is no absolute right way to type something; and because of this, it's not correct to force other projects which interface with your project to adhere to your type definitions.
This isn't the case.

Facebook takes a hands on approach to vendor management: many of these policies are agreed with vendors at contract negotiation stage, but even beyond that, many are set and enforced day-to-day by Facebook employees working as vendor managers.

The other thing to note (and this is true of most outsourcing arrangements) is that, while engineers may respect these people and wish to provide good tooling, they're kept at arms length by management in terms of communication channels. Outsourced workers don't have access to internal ticketing tools, aren't party to any internal meetings on tooling (even those at management level in the contracted company). Engineers can mean well but that means little if they don't have any means to understand the needs of these indirect employees.
I've been using them since launching an LLC last summer. Before that I use Capital One Spark business accounts, (which is no longer signing up new accounts)
so Azlo has been "fine". Good app.
I wonder if other sounds besides music would work. Like coffee pouring background noise or panther sounds or something.
Any idea what the visualization package is here that is creating those charts?
There will come a time in history when Microsoft will be looked back on as an evil company who gave up all it's users personal data to big GOV. Bill doesn't want this to be his legacy. He wants to be remembered as a philanthropist, not as historys biggest sellout.
IFTTT and LinkedIn no longer work together
IFTTT just sent out the following email:

On March 1st, 2019, the LinkedIn service and all of its Applets will be removed from IFTTT due to updates LinkedIn is making to their API and authentication process.

Unlike most services available on IFTTT, LinkedIn was built several years ago and maintained in-house by our team. As the IFTTT Platform has evolved, we’ve shifted focus to building robust and accessible tools for any brand, company, or developer to integrate with.

We support LinkedIn’s updates to their Developer Program and we look forward to working with the LinkedIn team should they rebuild an even better service on IFTTT in the future.

Thanks for your understanding.

The IFTTT Team
512 GPUs on 56 Gbps network? I'd rather see researchers exploring potentially more efficient alternatives to traditional neural nets, like XOR Nets, or different architectures like ngForests or probabilistic and logistic circuits, or maybe listen to Vapnik and invest into general statistical learning efficiency.
I experienced this working in retail during the holiday season back when I was in college. The little bell intro to Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is You", will forever haunt my dreams. I rarely listen to Christmas music anymore because of that experience.

Nowadays, I get irritated when I've burned through a 2 hour playlist twice at work and need to find something else to listen to, but I totally take the ability to change my music for granted.
I had to look that up. Looks great, but screen is a little smaller than I hoped. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=9SIA5WM5R10...
I call this the "massive heterogeneous catalog" problem.

Generally e-commerce retailers have grown from a fairly narrow set of product categories (e.g. books for Amazon) to adding more and more diverse categories. This has a dramatic impact on site search quality.

If you consider a simple example, shoes. You only need a couple of facets to filter products to a reasonable set to browse through: gender and size. Now start adding accessories, athletic clothing, and so on, and the results end up getting harder to navigate with generic search terms like "shoe" giving less relevant results (not having the context of the user's intent hurts here).

I tried "shoe" on Amazon, got over 400,000 results with the first item being a shoehorn. It takes a bunch of clicks to deal with that.

This search problem gets worse as catalog sizes grow even bigger. Personalized results help a lot and Amazon seem to fail me with this, they don't do a good job bubbling up the products I buy to the top.

It's a hard problem to solve but it's not going to kill Amazon.
It's great that they're putting so much care and attention something that's usually overlooked - motherboards/laptops are released and often shortly abandoned by manufacturers if they're not flagship models, leading to security holes, missing features, or poor performance.

Is there any way to tell, prior to purchase, if a system is going to have good support? I have a Dell Latitude from 2012 (Ivy Bridge CPU) and it's still getting BIOS updates, which is great. Seems like similar-year Thinkpads have been abandoned for 4 or 5 years now.

(edit: this is incorrect, thanks ac29. Bad comparison. The complaint still stands; many devices are released that see two or less updates, but they tend to be consumer-facing, not business-oriented, like Dell's Latitude line or Lenovo's Thinkpad line.)
Exponential back off based on number of retries helps a lot.

I don't know why that sort of thing isn't included in client libraries, at least as an option.
The answer to all such questions is - something related to energy levels of electrons in that material. If there's a resonance somewhere, photons at that energy get absorbed.
> The Bolt's battery pack has an 8 year/100,000 mile warranty, with a maximum capacity loss of 40% during that period.

If one were to attempt to market an ICE vehicle that lost "up to 40% engine performance" over 8 years/100k miles, one would struggle.

> EVs may prove to be surprisingly durable

There are many cheap, modern ICE vehicles that are already surprisingly durable - I have the service receipts for the 9 year old VW Polo (bought new, and which we traded in in 2015) as a data point.

Again, I wish EVs were already competitive, but aren't they still stuck as a lifestyle choice for those with "spare money"?
LOL, your humor is much appreciated. :-)

https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/No-Bull-Bill-Gate...
I'm curious what kind of answer you would consider "not PR drivel." Specifically, if sounds like there is nothing Bill Gates could write that you would consider genuine.
WPEngine, by default, has a setting on their platform called "redirect bots". Some of the other settings they have turned on by default. This is one that should generally be turned off.
That's only true for RAW files... the signal processors behaviour made huge steps forward in the recent 10 years in many conditions <- this is what you pay for in new DSLRs beside megapixels.

I would better recommend a good second/third generation Nikon APS-C (which is not that old) and save also money on good/cheaper APS-C lenses this way.
Hi OP, I'm Paul. I'm solving climate change and I'd like for you to join me.

I've set up a public benefit corporation, CarbonSpace.org. Just a landing page at the moment, but I've signed up friends and family while in private beta and the run rate with this group alone is already above 4m pounds of CO2 annually (more than just carbon neutral). We're doing it by lowering our carbon footprint as efficiently as possible while at the same time funding methane gas projects that reduce emissions on an industrial scale. The first milestone for the network is 10m lbs, which we'll hit in a few months.

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Relevant comedy skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnkrL42R7gk
How does one boot windows from a running linux kernel ?
Bill Gates writing billion dollar checks is not exactly micro.” He could lead by example and encourage other billionaires to write checks as well. He could start the change he wants to see. When these kinds of billionaires start actually writing checks, then maybe I’ll take their platitudes seriously. It’s like Al Gore flying in a private jet while telling everyone else that flying commercial is killing the planet. If things were so dire, they would be leading by example. Al Gore taking public transportation and living in a 1000sf apartment would do more to convince people than preaching from the pulpit. Al Gore is no different than a televangelist: he speaks to people about the dangers of excess while living a life of excess. The private jets and limos at the various climate conferences is another example. Practice what you preach and then maybe I’ll listen. Fat people telling everyone else to lose weight is simply hypocritical.
Just an expression of speech :). On Linux and macOS, I use the native stuff, on iOS I use the app the Wireguard team produced. I believe they've produced an Android app too.
When I was 16, I spent 3 months working at a Hollister store in the nearby mall.

They had the same 6 songs playing on repeat all damn day, every single day. It was tortuous.

That was the second worst thing about that place. The first being the hourly spray of chemical fumes everywhere for their signature smell.
Olivia Jack will be presenting a talk on Hydra and doing live coded visuals at https://aaassembly.org/ in San Francisco, March 22nd
I've read it and I strongly suspect it is a scam, not "discovered" but written by the inheritors of his estate wanting to make a quick buck (since the works of Verne would be in public domain now).
MVNOs are usually on tight margins, and they usually don't have much bargaining power against their parent network. So it's not unlikely for a network to price in some anti-messenger effects.

And from personal experience, there are hundreds of ways for an operator to screw you over technically without ever breaching a contract. 2 week delays between answering support emails? Standard. 1 month to add an IP to their firewall? It happens. Letting you know 3 days before a certificate expires? Why would they ever let you know before then?
He thought paying $10B in capital gains taxes was not enough and he should have paid more.

I'm always annoyed when rich people say things like this. I had one say almost this exact thing to me in an elevator once.

There's nothing stopping him from paying more. He just writes a check to "Department of the Treasury" and sends it off to D.C. Problem solved.

But then he doesn't get to passive-aggressively whine about all of his piles of money that the government won't take from him.
I always like these things. People have realized that absolute secrecy is very expensive, but doesn't buy you much. So they give up and just let the information out.
Wrote, not designed (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20131008-00/?p=...)

(But it isn’t true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Original...)
What I find is that, in practice, there are always multiple levels of schema.

You have a physical layer of schema that enforces data types, keys, relationships, things like that. This is where you typically enforce things like making sure that a price is always a number, not a string or a date or a BLOB, and also where you enforce that every product should have a price.

Then there's the logical schema. At minimum, your semantics end up existing here, but oftentimes there are also other written or unwritten rules that the DBMS itself isn't enforcing. It's possible to set up constraints to ensure that a one-to-many relationship is actually a one-to-at-least-one relationship, for example, but I don't see it happen often in practice - those rules are only enforced by the application. Or you'll often see structures where one field's value is interpreted differently depending on the value of another field - essentially, creating a union type in the database. This is typically done in the logical schema, not the physical schema, because most people find it annoying to write the constraints you need to ensure that the DBMS itself is enforcing those rules.

When you have multiple applications accessing the DB directly, it's common for all of them to implement a slightly different version of the logical schema. At which point you might have a plethora of different schemas co-existing within the same database. For better or for worse.
As I mentioned in another comment I was aware of this fact. I would have been able to tell you as such if someone had asked, but Vitimin D would never have crossed my mind as being an issue.
it’s not important at all. moderators ruin all social media.
More than likely D3.js, which is a popular library used in many web-based data visualizations.
This argument is not logical. There's a road near me with a posted speed limit of 50. I think that's too high, and dangerous for conditions and nearby residents. If I were to publicly advocate for a lower limit (say, 35), it sounds like you'd tell me that I'm free to drive slower if I want.

Great, but that does very little to solve the problem. Everyone needs to slow down, not just one car.
Drupal 7 Will Reach End-of-Life in November of 2021
I think that's called "censors"
This is great! Nice job balancing data with explanations. Health data is often oversimplified or not understandable by lay people.

For the cancer section, I'm pretty sure you're showing net survival rates. You should mention this to avoid people from thinking they're actual survival rates.

In the last two charts on the cancer page, what does the circle size show? Total GDP? Patient count?
The Hickel article in the Guardian is awful.

You give too much credit. Jason Hickel just wants attention for himself. Nothing else.

He does not care about the steps the world's poorest have made. Yes, it's small steps, but it's important and it's awful to spread misinformation like he does.

Keep up the balanced work in the way you do it. I think this one is very fair: https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-history-methods

(Also, he knows. For The Guardian he wrote the headline 'Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong' and then elsewhere Hickel himself is saying the opposite. He is contradicting himself: https://www.cgdev.org/blog/12-things-we-can-agree-about-glob...)
This is also how Tokyo does it. There's no main, well-defined downtown where people go to work. Spreading the commutes across the whole transport network is a tremendous optimization.
Remember this is the regular flow of hardware.

First we built awesome high power single core chips, then multi core chips and continued improving performance per dollar.

A single GPU in 10 years might be able to smoke these 512 GPUs.
> bright light can never hurt your eyes

Before y'all criticize that statement, keep in mind it's coming from one of the best scientists of the 20th century.

He was talking before lasers. For a purely thermal source to hurt the eyes, it would have to be:

1. insanely hot

2. quite close to the observer

First condition is met by the nuke, but the second one, obviously, is not, unless you're a victim of the explosion.
Yup, I had an official replacement about 5 years in, then a few years after that the replacement died and I paid for another replacement (long story).

Now I'm just waiting for this newest one to kick the bucket. There are already some stability issues. Once it goes, I'm going to try fixing the thermal paste myself (https://www.ifixit.com/Story/20939/MBP_2011_GPU_Nightmare). I have all the parts and tools in my desk drawer ready to go for when it's game time.

I don't really know what I'll do if that doesn't work. I've considered getting a refurbished 2015 MBP.
Aren't garbage men paid like $80k/year US with great benefits? I could be wrong but it seems like they have a much better situation overall than these people and the mental health issues seems like a much bigger problem than potentially getting dirty or hurt on the job but maybe I have it wrong.
Not really, because it's extremely nontrivial to formally verify the proofs of most theorems.
I moved from the UK to Canada 20 years ago this September. Back in High School and University, I worked retail for about 5 years or so. By the time I left, I haaaaaated Christmas music. Couldn't stand it.

Now after 20 years in Canada, I really miss it. Nothing here is the same as it is in the UK when it comes to Christmas traditions. There's no carolers, the smells aren't the same, the shops aren't the same. Everything that made Christmas Christmas to me is missing. For everything I love about living in Canada, that's been the hardest thing about living here instead of where I grew up.

I actually have a Christmas playlist made up entirely of Christmas songs from when I was a kid to try and kick start my Christmas mood when the season rolls around :D
The best way to currently search Amazon is through Google. But if we're being honest, how many sites can really say that ISN'T the case? Search is hard. It's a problem that a company with the resources of Amazon should have fixed but to say it's a potential killer is more than a bit overblown. All the subpar 3rd party sellers probably have a more significant impact on bottom line.
There is Proxy/Connector approaches - ProxySQL, pgPool etc solve this problem in a different way and often is best approach but I still think it is very interesting to see how much the database itself can handle.
Cloud Service Providers have an intrinsic, shared/common interest in maintaining the easy cross-border operations and transactions.

So were they to coordinate - just as some big providers did around SOPA/PIPA, then they would have some impact. Otherwise of course no one will risk such a move.

Apple, though not a CSP is pretty much interested in keeping their privacy game going. (Which might not mean much outside the US for customers.)
Lots of correlates, Let's untangle that a bit...

- Poverty can't be causal here, since it doesn't match either the timing nor the geography of the epidemics.

- Intergenerational epigenetics is a secondary factor, but it can't be causative in the first generation.

- While the adenovirus study is interesting I'd be surprised its spread mapped with the time/space patterns of the obesity epidemics worldwide.

I mention geographical spread because the epidemics seems to spread along with industrialization, e.g. urban China is affected, while rural China isn't (yet?). The spread of the epidemics seems to map well with the spread of Western junk food.
The following parameters could somehow make sense if Japanese folks weren't so lean

- delay in child rearing (where the effect size is minor)

- chronic sleep deprivation (and wow, 1/3 US adults sleeps less than 6 hours per night whereas 1/3 gets more than 8 hours).

- Microbiota is interesting, but known to be influenced by diet. So a problematic microbiota could be a maladaptative change consecutive to a bad diet, that perpetuates the issue.

These factors also apply to Japan, which has resisted the junk food onslaught for cultural reasons. Japan has ~3% of obese folks, and that was the case before they started aggressively monitoring belly fat in middle aged folks. Japanese folks who migrate to the US and adopt the local diet grow fat, so the difference isn't genetic.

————

This leaves us with food composition and marketing as the main causal factors.
i think it's more accurate to say that bill gates amassed a fortune with very shady and illegal business practices and now uses those ill-begotten gains to do generally good works. unfortunately, it's him who is deciding what those good works are, not the people of the US, which is really unattractive to a lot of people, especially when issues like homelessness are really, really needing attention here at home.
I totally agree with this. As a high school kid I used to work at Toys R Us, we'd broadcast a mix tape that would be changed maybe once every two months? This meant hearing Margaritaville 3-4 times a day every day I worked. It could drive you mad.
My understanding of your model must be inaccurate somehow. Here's what I think I'm hearing:

- the distribution of productivity of devs in an organization of N * N devs can be approximated as: N devs who are "Nx", and the rest of the devs are "1x" (Price's Law, assuming a binary distribution for simplicity)

- the value of "x" is constant for all sizes of organization (if it were relative "some are 0.1x" would be a change of units, not an abandonment of reality)

This would yield the extremely surprising result that the total dev production of an organization scales quadratically with the number of devs, so what am I misunderstanding?
> Case in point: every time we touch something to improve it, we break things for one year or two. Pulse audio ? Took 4 years to be stable.

Honestly, it seems to me like what you're complaining about is the nature of FLOSS development i.e. we do it in the open and collect feedback from users rather than spending billions we don't have on focus groups.

Also, I remember early PA days and it certainly did not take 4 years to be usable, but it did took Ubuntu about that time to get it right. That's however a problem of holding Ubuntu as the Linux disto, which is honestly a whole separate rant I could get into.

As for systemd and 3 years, I am honestly not sure what you're talking about. I've been on it since 2012 and it has been mostly smooth sailing since the beginning.
I once sat in a Starbucks for a few hours and I noticed that the music shifted with the customer base. So oldies and jazz got played around the time senior citizens would come in and the vibe would change depending on the demographic at that time. I thought it was interesting.. Maybe coincidence.. maybe not.
Sorry its paywalled and german:
http://www.spiegel.de/plus/alkoholgeschaedigte-adoptivkinder...

Summary of the story: Government knowingly passed retarded children - who destroyed several marriages and familys- simply because that sort of damage is not fixable with love and understanding. You can only tolerate it and adapt your lifestyle to the new member of the family.
His ledger is still in the red.
I guess I as unclear — “centaur” by analogy with centaur chess, which is when you have an AI and human play together.

A company which faithfully executed an AI for me, eg looking at every pair of jeans and then using NLP or whatever on the reviews to rank them based on my shopping history and stated preferences, measurements, etc.

In many ways, sites are already stumbling in this direction: they do analyze purchases and so forth, but the level of granularity is poor and the control that the customer has over it is basically non-existent.

But whoever takes the (ironically Amazonian) approach of serving customers with AI (as opposed to using the same tech for marketing at them) is going to win, because they’ll have solved the discoverability problem — which plagues online shopping (and online things generally).
How does genetics affect obesity?
Unmutual friend: How Charles Dickens tried to place his wife in an asylum
This is one of those predictable things, that is conveniently ignored by certain layers of a business. The more entertaining situation (from my position anyway) is the drama that the rapid Azure adoption by otherwise very non-cloud companies will cause in a year or two, when the free credits Microsoft stuffed into their ELA's go away.

I love running stuff in the cloud, but without a conscious decision in an organization to prepare for, and avoid, the various pitfalls, its just a giant cost sink.