skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
given that postgres is free as in beer, i think in practice this just means the definition of less flexible and more polished tiers, up to and including db-as-a-service.

this seems like a nice model - more useful than the tens or hundreds of functionally equivalent linux distributions. you can start out with generic turnkey postgres-lite and unwrap as much as you like.

that said, despite quite a bit of progress in the last few years, postgres-lite could be easier to install and maintain.
I signed up in 2004 and never stopped. I bumped up to Blu-Ray too (and get pretty annoyed when a DVD shows up instead of a Blu-Ray...)

I love streaming TV shows, but for movies I just don't like it. I don't even know why.
To expand on this: I'm a relatively recent US -> Canada immigrant, and I've already learned to be skeptical of a source that talks about "Canada" as some monolithic country.

There's a world of difference between Toronto and Thunder Bay, even though they're in the same province. When Brooks uses stats that says poverty has declined, is that truly across the board, or is that just in the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal corridor? Because the urban-rural divide here is just as stark as in the States, and just saying "Canada" doesn't capture the spectrum of lifestyles here.
How a Russian S-400 Could Shoot Down an F-35 (Thanks to Turkey)
There's a lot of interesting stuff going on in there. First, for the curves itself, it does a kind of naive approximation optimisation and builds a curve out of line and arc segments that tries to follow the control points as closely as possible. Then it does an intersection step between all roads and procedurally generates correct connections between all incoming and outgoing lanes of each intersection, including (somewhat) reasonable traffic light timings for each "turn group"
We'll soon see, there's one coming up. Usually, irish politics has a lot of subtly. It's a competitive scene rhetoric-wise. I disagree with the OP though. Leprechaun economics isn't something people brag about, but it was and is quite popular, quietly. People think we're getting one over.
Agree. The Redbox line at Walgreens still remains long on a Friday night.
Show HN: Compliance and Payroll for International Remote Workers
In UK that's downpayment for a shed.
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to buy $5 lattes unless they have already socked away 15% of their income into a retirement account, have at least 6 months of salary in a savings safety fund, and generally live about 10% below their means or can manage to articulately justify it to internet strangers as somehow having gotten a lot out of it while homeless.”

― Anatole France's great, great, great grandchild

I've seen pieces that indicate that poor people spend on average like $90 per month on lottery tickets and other forms of gambling. If they invested that instead, they would have a meaningful nest egg. I think that's a brilliant thing to point out.

So, certainly, it can be reasonable to suggest that sometimes poor people can make better choices than they are currently making and it can, in fact, meaningfully improve their lives. But most such arguments really boil down to "The beatings shall continue until morale improves." because we simply don't approve of poor people having any bright spots in their dreadful, miserable lives.

It's generally disingenuous to act like if poor people just give up a few small luxuries, they, too, can invest their way to being millionaires. This is generally not true.

I see it as malicious behavior to act like poor people can save and invest their way to wealth with a little self discipline, like giving up their coffee. Doing so is the rare exception. It is not how most rich people got rich by any stretch of the imagination.
I've had to lay off a decent number of people over the course of my career. The way I have always justified it is that I'm keeping the company healthy, and allowing far more people to keep their jobs in doing so. I'm sure there are cases where restructuring was done to the detriment of the business. I don't believe I've personally participated in any of those.

That is part of the reason I took those jobs. Someone was going to do it, and I felt that I could do it in a way that kept the business healthy and was as respectful and careful about the humans impacted as possible (ensuring severance, having 1-1 conversations with every impacted person on my team, etc).

For context I was an executive brought in to restructure software companies after they were purchased or tucked in by the LBO side of a PE firm.
> I even briefly thought about changing my career to become a transport planner

I would think you would be highly disappointed with what you can actually accomplish considering bureaucracy/politics/budget and all that. In Cities you get to be dictator.
Don't use PIOPS, it's a scam.

Get normal disks of a larger size, it comes with 3 IOPS per GB.
> given that postgres is free as in beer

Postgres is free-as-in-speech.

Free-as-in-beer refers to free-of-charge, proprietary licensed software (e.g., SQL Server Express), not software under a permissive free software license.
Where are you buying your music from? The iTunes store gives you DRM free files so you do truly own them.
1.88 I believe was the best version. It existed about 20 years ago, and it was a DOS program. You just had to add a 11-12kb stub memory wise in either config.sys or autoexec.bat. Or both, but it worked. Any 1.44 disk could hold 1.88 without compression.
Totally legit response. Thanks!
I have not worked in C in a long while. Would you mark the assembly section as volatile to avoid the compiler & assembler doing anything to it? Is there any guarantee that the assembler will not aggressively re-optimize assembly-within-C?
Grover Norquist's influence is overwhelmingly mainstream [1] among Republican politicians, not extremist.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist#Taxpayer_Prote...
It's not just older people - I'm late 20s and I don't want a a high end ANYTHING that relies on a third party to work. Sometimes unavoidable, but I feel like there are quite a few cases (yours included) where it's just unnecessary. I see discounts all the time for smart TVs - I just want a 60 inch monitor without someone else proprietary BS stuffed in it. Seriously concerned about the possibility of smart/app everything with no dumb/consumer customizable options. Apparently something similar is happening with car audio too, because of the increasing integration of the head unit into the guts of the car.

We should be making things easier for people to do themselves, not finding more ways to extract money by doing it for them.
>Basically, if it is available on disk, Netflix can mail it to you.

Unfortunately, they're really letting their back catalog rot. An awful lot of things I saved in my DVD queue at some point are no longer available. In many cases, they're still available to buy but Netflix doesn't have them.
Avi Wigderson Wins the Knuth Prize
I agree that the "whole IT industry would be far better off if people took time to look into and understand the original ideas behind OOP". I also agree that OOP can be great at modelling system-level state. And about the compatibility between OO and FP, coming from a pure-FP background, I became very impressed by the advantages of combining FP with OO when I started to learn an ancestor of OCaml in the late 90s.

But... dynamic dispatch is a source of errors when it is very often possible to get the benefits via type classes, giving strong compile-time guarantees.

It's possible to understand "OOP is a higher-level paradigm than FP" in more than one way. I see no fundamental reason why you can't model the top-level interactions of a system using FP. And if state has been wrapped in a monad, you can chase the state through the codebase looking at the typeclasses inferred.
> "Motel 6's actions tore families apart and violated the privacy rights of tens of thousands of Washingtonians,"

What? I'm pretty sure ICE's actions were what tore those families apart. Why aren't they being punished for illegally requesting the data without a warrant? Maybe the Motel 6 employees who wrongfully gave the data felt pressured, given that ICE is a government agency just like the DOJ?
Instructure Is Hiring Engineers in Salt Lake City, Chicago, Seattle, Budapest
Good, hopefully this deters others
Toyota opens up 24,000 hybrid car patents to other automakers
I’ve spent a heck of a lot of time listening to Music for Programming.

Recently, I stumbled upon the following as well and like them maybe a bit more:

- A strange, isolated place (ASIP)

- Headphone Commute

This is pretty much all I listen to nowadays while programming or commuting.
Thanks for writing this! I've been interested in computer graphics for a while and too many tutorial dive straight into the details without explaining key concepts. I'm eager to get started reading.
Of the three landlords I've had in SF none have used such a system.
Given the Inverse-square law, your phone and wifi network will probably give you more radiation..

I had some bones scans (plus a couple of CTs the same day, just a bit more ionising radiation) last year. They inject you with Technician 99m and YOU become the gamma/ x-ray source. It's a little concerning when you see the detail and spread of the radiation. If it wasn't a pure Gamma source (and 6hour half-life) it would be lethal!

I forget if it was 70,000 milli or microsieverts (think it was milli? 0.5% increased risk of cancer in my lifetime). Oh, and my bladder looked like a lightbulb.
I'm almost surprised that this isn't higher.

I can't really say from experience since I live in Europe but I've seen people from the US complain about data caps on regular internet for a while and I guess netflix will eat up that quite fast especially if you watch 4k movies.

How large is the average cap on US ISPs?
There was an illustrative article on this topic a few years ago [1]:

"It’s not like the sacrifice will result in improved circumstances; the thing holding me back isn’t that I blow five bucks at Wendy’s. It’s that now that I have proven that I am a Poor Person that is all that I am or ever will be. It is not worth it to me to live a bleak life devoid of small pleasures so that one day I can make a single large purchase. I will never have large pleasures to hold on to."

(I really recommend reading the whole thing, for those that have never lived that situation long-term.)

There's additionally a more recent study on the cognitive effects of long-term poverty [2], which essentially finds that poverty skews prioritization in financial decision-making and produces long-term decision-making stress which amounts to a massive ongoing cognitive load.

Attitudes like ~ineedasername's are just fucking infuriating, especially when posted in response to an article in which the entire point was that saving money on coffee is not a habit which in isolation will make a huge difference in anyone's financial future.

It's only about one step removed from victim blaming. Impoverished people aren't poor because they occasionally buy coffee. They're poor because there's an economic system currently in place which is slurping as much wealth away from as many people as possible to feed it to just a few.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/your-br...

[2]: http://review.chicagobooth.edu/behavioral-science/2018/artic...
I agree. Without fiat currency, the US would have crumbled into a pile of blood soaked rubble.
CloudFlare Workers look like a really interesting target for ClojureScript applications. I'm not sure if that's doable for now within their limitations, but would enable a whole new way of writing web apps.
First Bitcoin Mortgage Taken Out by Former Mighty Ducks Star, Brock Pierce
Stanford has agreements with Santa Clara County on the land use, otherwise I am sure they would expand both to increase enrollement.
Glad to hear I'm not the only one. I appreciate the helm design and I don't dispute people have a fine time using it. I just need something simple to render yaml from a template without regard to cluster state, so we use good old fashioned sed.

What's annoying about helm is many cases would be fine as plain yaml template macro without any cluster state but many public projects are packaged as helm charts so to use them off the shelf you need to go full helm. Thankfully it's not too difficult to use helm template.
Tapping into 100-year supply of natural gas
It actually worked out way better than I expected. With a bit of memoization using references to immutable objects and some "hotness" grouping mechanisms for renderables that change frequently, but not every frame, you get a purely-functional-looking rendering pipeline. And it's super convenient to render related 2D and 3D UI from the same logical component.
"Could we agree that it would still be insignificant even if Amazon fought to drop that vote?"

No I don't think we could agree here, because if it was significant to the company, then the stock holders would demand the hair change. And if it wasnt, then shareholders wouldn't, See, it's a catch-22. ;P
Introduction to Anomaly Detection in Python
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Believe in it? Trusting FDIC is tantamount to trusting the full faith and credit of the US Government. If you don’t trust it what are you doing here?
Yay! Let's fix the world! But wait, most here can't even fix themselves!
Ironically you drew your own false conclusion about me while telling me not to draw false conclusions: I have tons of experience with the car. I put many thousands of miles on the model S I used to own. I have literally thousands of hours of experience driving a Tesla. And at no point did my “muscle memory” kick in, because muscle memory only works with tactile feedback.

AC absolutely can not be reached and adjusted on a Tesla from muscle memory, even when you have thousands of hours of experience driving the Tesla. Muscle memory simply doesn’t work without tactile feedback and placing a button close to the edge of a screen is not enough feedback for anyone.

I challenge even the most experienced Tesla owner to turn their AC on and off from the screen while driving without looking at the screen, ten times in a row. $100 says their failure rate will be greater than 1/10. And then they’ll have to look at the screen while driving and become — by default — A DISTRACTED DRIVER.

Teslas are death and vomit machines. And this is coming from someone who used to be a True Believer in the Church of Musk like you appear to be.
> If everyone put money into an index fund that guarantees returns, what is the difference between that and a Ponzi scheme?

No index fund guarantees returns, so the question is a non-sequitur.

With regard to the question of how does the fund keep value -- the fund holds the equities that are in the index. The equity prices rise and fall with the market, which is hopefully based on the fundamental discounted future value of all cash flows from the company.
Sure! alokgovil hot mail :-)

Also, feel free to connect on LinkedIn: /in/alokgovil.
> I've seen people from the US complain about data caps on regular internet for a while

This isn't a thing in the US. You've seen Canadians complain.
incredible.. just incredible. Its like the last days of the Soviet Union here.
Confessions of a Tooth Grinder
War is messy, imprecise, and inevitably involves unintended (or possibly intended) civilian casualties. It’s a great argument for avoiding wars that aren’t absolutely necessary.
Data caps on broadband are rare though becoming more popular. I hear they tend to be in the area if 1TB these days. (Sample size of 1 FWIW.)
Sure, I do that as well. I guess it depends on your method of learning and/or current level. The downside to staring at subtitles in my mind is that you:
a) miss the acting (just keeping your left hemisphere glued to the text and trying to decipher it)
b) miss actually _hearing_ the language, which even if you don't even understand a word is useful since it will introduce you to the overall "sound" of it as well as a lot of repeating phrases

If you're learning how to read/write the language subtitles in that language seems like a great option. If you're starting out, it helps a lot to hear the language.
5G and the Health Effects of Cell Phones
A Kickstarter Platform for Training AI Models?
I read the comments here before reading the article...and I was pleasantly surprised by the article. It wasn't a "haha, look at how unsophisticated some people are", it was a pretty on-target list of reasons why online subscriptions services aren't currently meeting all needs. I'm actually surprised it's "only" 2.7M Americans - the DVD service didn't match the convenience of online services, but was still a great experience.

I myself am lucky enough to have great broadband, but I've been getting annoyed with how series will move on/off the service (I see monthly "What's leaving Netflix this month" articles in some places), I'm annoyed with how Netflix has made their system "pushier" (such as constantly looping ads), how they gave me an ability to build a personal want-to-watch list and then hide that away making it hard to benefit from, and in particular, how I now have to balance multiple subscription services if I want to see the shows I want to see.

Side Note: As annoyed as I am with Netflix from time to time, they beat the pants off of Hulu when it comes to interface, and remain nicer than Amazon.
There are still a decent number of x8 AIC SSDs on the market but enterprises don't want them because they're not hot swap.

Networking over PCIe exists but no one seems to care about it. https://semiaccurate.com/2014/09/23/look-avagos-expressfabri... Part of the problem may be that 96x8G PCIe switches look pretty small compared to 256x50G Ethernet switches and thus you'd need a lot more of them.
Why not just generate random strings and then see how many of them are valid Perl programs. Pretty sure it will land around the same number. The image ->OCR->Perl is making a boring statement fancy for no reason.
This is so true. The principal investigator model creates huge research groups that are terribly inefficient. Instead of having a small set of agile researchers, it promotes research groups with tons of middle managers and charlatans. Pure rent seekers. I say this after being a researcher in a few of the best universities in the world. It's pretty hopeless.
FWIW, I think “edge compute but centralized db” is often not just “not gaining the full benefit of edge compute”, it’s actually “way slower than everything centralized.” I’ve worked on plenty of systems where a single web facing endpoint results in 10+ db queries. With “everything centralized”, this means 1 big round trip to the data centre, then lots of tiny/fast within-datacentre round trips. But move compute away from the db, and suddenly you’re triggering tonnes of really slow db calls on every client request, and the whole system slows down tremendously.
When reading this, I just wish HN had a superupvote button. As a blind person, it echoes back my thoughts exactly.
I don't know any of you but the poop stories intrigue me. I can contribute some vomit ones in exchange.
>ORCA fare enforcement app shenanigans with Sound Transit

Can you please provide a source for the details?
It actually is. See edit. Lazards latest has it charging for a nearly-free 3.3 cents/kWh (assumption is that it's charged when the sun is out and there's a glut of solar, which makes sense).
> I'm surprised its not higher.

Likewise. There are many titles available through Netflix DVD that are not available through Netflix streaming. Just off the top of my head you have Game of Thrones (seasons 1-7), The Wire, True Detective, Fargo and The Expanse.
Exactly. A victim can't get out of whatever situation they are in. Each employee probably signed an "at-will" employment agreement, so they can leave at any time, for any reason.
Share buybacks have probably been the single largest component of 2019's market rise.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=2019+st...

in particular:

"This Stock Market Rally Has Everything, Except Investors" from the NYT.
Check eclipse che out, it’s so much better.
Companies just really suck at managing hardware or resources. The bigger and the more consultants they get, the more terrible they get, that's what you come after.

Chances are you will find tens of instances without any naming or tagging, of the more expensive types, created by previous dudes who long left. Thanks to AWS tooling it's easy to identify them, see if they use any resource and either delete or scale down dramatically.
According to https://www.etymonline.com/word/faith#etymonline_v_1088, it is hardly a Christian or religious conspiracy:

> From early 14c. as "assent of the mind to the truth of a statement for which there is incomplete evidence," especially "belief in religious matters" (matched with hope and charity). Since mid-14c. in reference to the Christian church or religion; from late 14c. in reference to any religious persuasion.
You must have your privacy settings to "World" change it to friends or maybe Friends and Friends of Friends and you will be better off. Sometimes when I want to say something on a subject I will go to Facebook and do a search on that subject and post on World readable posts with the opposite opinion of my own.
That's literally the point of the article -- the prices on the things we want are going down, while the prices of the things we need keep climbing. That $5 coffee will still be $5 in 10 years, but housing, healthcare, insurance, etc will all have gone up dramatically.

All of these latte and avocado toast articles are a failure to acknowledge this fact and blame the economic victims.
I find that the author seems to speak far too much from his own entrepreneurial perspective.

If you have that bent of mind, as so many of the people here do, you always think of money as an investment. You can rationalize a $5 latte purchase if it means you are more productive at work.

But the average guy working a regular job on a fixed income doesn't and shouldn't see money the same way, especially if there is no corporate ladder to climb anymore. What's a $5 cup of coffee do for a line cook at McDonald's except give him a momentary dopamine kick?
Been a customer of this for years now. It's great for getting old things not available from streaming, or more commonly way over priced on streaming.
Really appreciated, thank you!
Education in C:SL is actually more realistic then sc4. In sc4 the difference between different levels of schools is just that they boost the education level of sims of different ages. So a elementary school increases the education level of 20 and 30 year olds, but not sims in their 60s [1]. While in c:sl people need to actually go through the schooling system, and you can see the education level of each of them...

Also, is air pollution a huge problem in sc4? My experience is that you just put dirty industry in a faraway place, like you would do in c:sl. You can say that the air pollution generated by traffic in sc4 is simulated in c:sl as noise as well.

[1] https://www.wiki.sc4devotion.com/index.php?title=Elementary_...
Code-server, which OP is building on, should support any language.

I've only used it briefly for some node.js work but as the whole thing is just sitting in a normal linux docker container, you should be able to do anything docker/linux can do.

https://github.com/codercom/code-server
:)

we are getting closer.

Now... lets say a company was allowed to buy shares in the govt and be able to act as a govt agency while remaining a private company.

So they contract themselves to do some work, pay themselves for setting up the contract, switch hats then do the work. Bonus if they don't do the job right they simply aren't liable.