skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a medium-data database storing events (timestamps + some metadata, ~200gb). It currently lives on an Aurora postgres cluster. If this were rock-solid, my application would be the perfect fit, I think. I have two major concerns:

1. I'd originally started on a managed solution (https://getconnect.io/). They promised scalability and reliability, but we were forced to move away when the queries would take upwards of thirty seconds, inserts would start failing, and we'd receive 503s. I estimate that my database (which, at the time, was almost two orders of magnitude smaller) was among their largest. Why should I trust Rockset with my data?

2. I can't find anything about performance, benchmarks, or any other information about how the service will behave in production. InfluxDB is an example of something that does a great job of this: their docs outline what Influx is good at, what it's not good at, what will make your queries slow, etc. Instead, Rockset has a how-to guide for building a FB messenger chat bot with CSVs. From their docs:

> Rockset has a cloud-scale architecture. It can scale both compute and storage independent of one another. One one hand, you can have a small data set served by zillions of compute in parallel to make queries faster. On the other hand, you can have petabyte size data sets served by a small number of compute nodes. And, of course, you can have the entire spectrum in-between these two scenarios.

What does that even _mean_?

Sorry, Rockset, I'm going to need more than zillions of compute to convince me to move my business to you.
To be fair, HTML imports is deprecated and won't be standardised. The recommended way to package web components now is with ES modules, and they can be bundled (with eg. Rollup or Webpack.)
> bikers who will ignore traffic rules

Bikes ignoring traffic rules is a 1000x better than cars ignoring traffic rules. Since cars actually kill people. 40,000 a year in the US. Every year. But hey, you don't give a shit about that, right?
> no VC will fund their rapid growth (small offerings will still find a niche, assuming they don't get gobbled up

And yet Grab and Didi drove Uber out of South East Asia and China, Ola is giving Uber a run for its money in India and now GoJek in turn is challenging Grab. In my recent trip to Tokyo we were mostly advised to take regular cabs Vs Uber in contrast to a year ago. That's literally half the world where they're getting out competed.

When reasoning doesn't line up with facts, there are usually flaws in the logic. One possible flaw it turns out is that well off globe trotters or even people who frequently travel across cities in a country and would love to use the same app everywhere likely form a small % of total cab trips. Majority of trips are just local trips by an area's residents. So locally, majority just goes with whoever offers better service and relevance. Cutting Price can trump over these but by going public, bottom line became a lot more important to Uber and Lyft - so this isn't likely a viable strategy. Another possible flaw is that the compute required to support this is likely commoditized and there's not likely as much competitive advantage in data.

So it's going to be interesting...
0. That's the number of oil contracts US companies received in Iraq post invasion.

The US acts recklessly and causes much misery and death through its actions. It don't invade places with the intention of occupying and steal land/resources.
Meanwhile I (a foreigner who has to report every change of address I make) continue to be selected for jury duty and then reply again with “dude I’m a foreigner”
> For pricing, talk with them.

You’re joking, right? Every other day there’s a top 10 article on HN about Google locking out a whole business customer with no humans to speak with.
Startups won't win this. Manufacturers will. They have brand, cars, and soon can license the self driving tech. How hard is it for a billion dollar company to roll out a ride hailing app? Think about where that leaves Uber. They have to buy the cars from said manufacturers. This already gives them a significantly larger cost base and let's face it, while they also have a brand it is no more powerful a draw than Mercedes or Toyota.
The project has been around for 10 years and has almost 2500 stars on Github. The creator is Chinese but working in English as a courtesy and has used this body of code to create a number of fascinating projects, including an x86 emulator.

What have you given to the programming world lately?

EDIT: it was pointed out that this last comment was abusive. Sorry about that.
Now that there is evidence that this sort of thing can happen, it should be a responsibility of the justice system to have regular audits in place to ensure that it stops happening.
Amazon burned less than $100m... it was funded off of positive cashflow... inventory was shipped and paid for by customers, before Amazon had to pay the vendor. It was/is a marvellously capital efficient business.
Most people I know hate taxis. Uber can nearly raise prices to parity with cabs.
I'm glad it crashed too!
Wow, excuses? Ok. Yes, car driving is easier, it always will be. But how about you drivers start actually paying for what you use, the pollution you create, the roads that are paid for by taxes?
For the sake of not confusing things here, forget about the data they leaked, they already had access to it. They were trying to crack the password of DoD accounts to cover up where they got the data and possibly access more data.

But that's not important, from a legal perspective. Cracking those passwords with the intent to use them for unauthorized access seems like conspiracy, and that's what WikiLeaks was offering Manning in the Jabber records (to crack the passwords for her).

I don't know the details about how they know Assange was involved but it was compelling enough for a grand jury indictment. It's up to the UK now to decide whether a request for extradition is valid, so the US needs to make a case for this indictment. We'll see where that goes and what evidence is presented.

Edit:

And I'm pretty sure the charge of conspiring to hack defense systems is also a crime in the UK so the grounds for extradition aren't so shaky.

It's also really important to note that they can't just extradite for this hacking charge and then do a trial for the leaks or whatever the 1st Amendment concerns are. The extradition will have to be specific to whatever charge the US is bringing (which so far is only the conspiracy to hack). Also, if found guilty he can't be charged again for leaking or anything without ANOTHER extradition claim and that would be very unlikely. So whatever they decide to extradite him for in the next 60 days will be the kind of charges he faces.
Good catch, guess we'll see when they update.
No, for conspiracy to break into DoD computers.

This actually seems like great news for journalists. The fact that this is the only charge implies that prosecutors have decided that wikileaks’ core activity of publishing classified information obtained by others was actually legal.

The fact that assisting someone to break into a DoD computer turns out to be illegal probably shouldn’t surprise anyone. If someone asked for your help breaking into a DoD computer would you say “oh sure, that sounds like a perfectly legal thing that can’t possibly get me into trouble”?
What do you think gasoline powered drones are? Agreed that hydrogen is perceived as being much more dangerous than it is because of the Hindenburg disaster.

But (and I have no reason to think that this is true) if it turned out to be commercially viable, I'm sure that perception could be changed.
I was more thinking about self driving
Why bother even putting up the buildings.
I'm sure the intentions were good, but this is outside what the community considers polite behavior. The FAQ mentions this about voting: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

If users aren't posting qua community members then the expectation is to provide a disclaimer.
What on earth is OP going to do with a “voting ring“ for Apache-copyrighted software?

EDIT: I am being a complete jerk tonight. Sorry again.
Supposedly adversarial AI networks are solving for the data problem... AI generates the data to train the AI.
So now you want to convince me that in 1969 they could man land on the moon and then come back to earth and in 2019 they still trying to nail down the tech ?
> reuniting with a piece of your own territory stolen during the dissolution of the USSR.

LOL. The Soviet Union was an empire forged through invasion, occupation, and brutal repression. The Russians have as much right to Czechoslovakia as Nazi Germany did.

Your unapologetic defense one one of the greatest evils of the 20th century would be funny, if it wasn't disgusting.
No one can compete with Lyft and Uber because the latter are heavily subsidized - effectively providing $2 of service for $1 of revenue. Once they run out of runway - and the self-driving pipe dream hasn’t yet materialized - we’ll see a real competitive market emerge in the ridesharing industry.
I would rather think that past trials would be the ones affected, and then be eligible for retrial.
>>"You could enforce precisely the goal of only one vote per registered voter."

> Without ID? How?

At the schema level, by only allowing one vote per voter ID. In theory, that voter could have been impersonated, but that's a different problem than ensuring only one vote per registered voter. Perhaps, like in most things, we could have a procedure for handling conflicts when a voter determined her voter number had been used twice during an election, instead of clumsily pushing a pre-resolution onto every potential voter.

(The legal cases seem to turn on the fact that the pro-ID folks haven't been able to show any substantial evidence that voter impersonation happens at any scale where it warrants a legislative response. So preventing dupes should be sufficient.)

> What state makes it difficult to get an ID?

I don't know about all of them, but when I have lived in (GA, MA, TX, NY) you had to physically present yourself during business hours for an unspecified and unpredictable amount of time to get the type of ID that satisfies a voter ID law.

As a relatively well-off, generally healthy person who tends to live in the parts of states where they put these offices, the burden on me usually boils down to losing a few hundred/thousand dollars of my time going to an office during business (work) hours to "prove" I'm me.

None of this would be easy if I were less healthy. Or didn't have a car. Or control of my schedule. Or lived in a rural area. Or absolutely needed the money I would earn during the part of the work day when the offices are open. Or could only afford to lose the earnings from making one trip to the office, but it was too full that day so I couldn't make a second. Or a combination of these. Basically: this is our government, why is it trying to tell us when we can and can't get a say?

Designing a system so that it works for people like me doesn't mean it works.
My VGT holdings have been doing well. https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/VGT
Delivered as Windows batch files. Which is fine, but the title doesn't hint at that.
Duplicate of the post from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19624226
ok. but the article makes no mention of the boom of online subscription goods (i.e. MeUndies, Blue Apron, etc.)
That is fascinanting. Can you provide a source for this story about a fortune teller?
It healthier that the market reflects reality. Boom and bust is a stress inducing net negative pattern for society.
My favorite is when they're freaks about safety and try to be altruistic (ex: "where's your helmet?")...

...by slowing down, driving on your shoulder, and screaming at you.

Had someone do this at an exit to the freeway once. I had to stop and walk across.
A Spectre Retrospective – Part 2: Design
I guess they have to get into the people-making business now.
"why should a DS record for www.cloudflare.com matter?!" - that was my exact question when I looked at the output from the DNSSEC Debugger.

Now I'm curious as to why www has NS records...

(DS records are used to tie DNSKEYs to a child zone from the parent zone).
Good for him. I haven't known how to program very much for very long, and am a student, but so what? Am I not allowed to mention someone breaking rules? If you look above, I gave credit where credit was due, and only mentioned this near the bottom as a reply to a relevant comment. Quit white-knighting; I'm sure the author can defend himself.
Qutebrowser, a web browser written in Python
a tip: I couldn't find the license in the first page. It would be helpful to see it in first place.

If the license isn't useful, it doesn't matter too much how it is organized and which data it contains.

BTW, it is very useful in classes.
Great name !
In Hebrew, it means " In the beginning..."
> Unlike NASA in the past, they don't have unlimited money

That money ran out, thus also proving limited.
Yeah, it'd have to be some kind of weird setup with the fiber coming off an extension arm sticking out from the side of the barge, and then at an angle into the water. Dynamic positioning vessels generally don't take kindly to having rope shaped things hanging around in the water near their thrusters.

If you have a ship nearby with the VSAT uplink, another way to do it would be a really low cost IP data point to point link in the 900 MHz band, even if the fresnel zone is deep into the water, it'll be good enough for 15-20 Mbps of traffic. Way more than the bitrate of the video coming off that camera.

Something like two Cambium PMP450i radios, two dual polarity 3 ft long yagi antennas, set up as a layer 2 ethernet bridge. The spread of that type of link's RPE in the 900 band means that as long as the VSAT uplink ship had some ability to stationkeep relative to the barge, you wouldn't even need motorized tracking antennas on both barge + uplink ship.
> One other thing I've noticed is that here's also much less of a car culture.

I think a big factor is the lack of freeways in downtown Madison (not sure if this was intentional or a byproduct of the isthmus + Capitol Square). A lot of people attribute Vancouver's success with alternative transportation to a 1960's decision against urban freeways. Without the option of a freeway, incentives and cultural attitudes are more aligned toward biking, busing, etc.
From the abstract: "In Tea, users express their study design, any parametric assumptions, and their hypotheses. Tea compiles these high-level specifications into a constraint satisfaction problem that determines the set of valid statistical tests, and then executes them to test the hypothesis."

This is awesome. I currently use R to run simple stats, but I make a lot of mistakes and have to spend a lot of time verifying that I'm using appropriate tests.
I may not be following correctly, but if a Boolean field doesn’t support null, how would you handle a use case like: a survey question that hasn’t been answered, vs setting as false by default? Would you use an enum with 3 states vs a Boolean type?
Controlling the higher ground is always a military advantage.
I don't get purchasing recommendations from paid ads in my instagram feed.
Yeah I'm from Malaysia and we have McDelivery for as long as I can remember.

Imagine my surprise when I first went to Europe and found out that McDonald's is not 24/7 and doesn't do delivery.
It's inevitable that you will switch, you are just making it much more painful than it needs to be.

Did you notice that the SpaceX webcasts only use metric for the speed and altitude displays?
This is heartening news especially in the wake of the licensing that Unity and Unreal have rolled out in recent years. Sure, the terms aren't too onerous, but it's always great to have at least one truly open source foundation in your corner.

Interesting that Phaser was also a recent recipient of a Mozilla grant. Even though it targets a completely different developer audience, it's cool to see Mozilla take game making seriously.
Every case handled during the time should be reopened and closed as a mistrial.
Hacker’s News is so sexist they can’t just find the joy in this algorithm genius’ success. She solved one of those hard technical problems we always talk about, and the world is richer for it.
It says "About 15 percent of Americans are called for jury duty each year". Multiply that by 10x and get 150%. But I thought someone can only be called for jury once per year.

I guess you could increase the chance of being called only for those who haven't been called yet.
This is clearly the crux of the case.
Here's a thought experiment: how hard is it for a billion dollar company to roll out a simple crud app? Easy, right? Now name a single major bank with an app that is better than "barely usable". Which is easier? A crud app or a ride hailing app?
> Back when the First Amendment was proposed and ratified, anyone could obtain a printing press

No, they were rather expensive pieces of equipment. You're better off with a town-cryer example, as anyone could stand on a corner and yell out the news (or their opinions) The town-cryer approach is like today's internet where anyone can throw up a blog. But the modern equivalent of a small printing press from a hundred years is still beyond the reach of most.
I can see a reason for it to be the way it (ICE having possible access to a database of foreigners on US soil), but I agree that dealing with repeated problems like this one is exasperating. I think Selective Service does the same thing (occasionally asking foreigners to enlist for US military service by accident).
Likely why he was specifically charged with the narrow accusation of a hacking conspiracy. That's easier to separate from the 1st amendment.
Also Pizzagate.

Spread by Mr. Assange himself for political purposes.

https://our.wikileaks.org/Pizzagate

Leading to https://rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/john-pod...
a really good way to visualize this is to build some fat, awkward vessel in Kerbal Space Program that has a thrust-weight ratio of only 1.2 or thereabouts, and use mechjeb to watch the data during launch. It'll eventually get to orbit (enough struts and boosters will do that, in KSP) but you'll see how inefficient and slow it is, how much time it spends in the lower atmosphere, compared to a properly optimized rocket.
Please don't give travel advice (or legal advice I guess?) to anyone.
We celebrated Mohawk NASA dude just as much as she’s being celebrated. Maybe we just like unabashedly enthusiastic engineers.
Say you have 3 lanes of traffic. Each lane is occupied by 100% driverless cars.

Let's say, there is an object completely blocking the middle lane, and partially blocking the two outer lanes. What will the driverless cars decide to do?

My guess, is they wait there until the road is completely unblocked, there's no way for the cars to understand the proper course of action. It will be great fun to bring absolute gridlock with an empty cardboard box in downtown NYC once this all kicks off. Naturally, by then, card board will be illegal there.
haha. "war crimes"

why would I want to delete my awesome comment?

yes, I'm doing more than comparing, they're analogous. spying and publishing, mind.

if you're so huffy about war crimes, why do you pay your taxes? because doesn't that make you complicit?

oh no but you're morally righteous. let me get you a badge for that.

also, language.
People suffer in recessions.
Because all journalists encourage sources to leak, or all journalists extract a password from a hash value?
> if it isn't swiveling then it is probably broken

According to https://www.satcom.guru/2019/04/what-happened-on-et302.html it was swiveling freely because it was broken.
Are you mixing up “ratchets” with “lockup periods”? Ratchets are guarantees for investors that IPO prices hit a certain value other wise they get trued up by a certain amount. This happened to Square for their IPO.
Maybe "should not". "Can not" has been disproved many times.
IF said information contains evidence of illegal activity then it should be exempt from secrecy laws. Start at the root and work out.
Performance issues? Native Shadow DOM, especially with Constructible Stylesheets, is a perf boost. Limiting style resolution to smaller scopes and less rules is good.
And probably half or more that’s on the Internet is fake too especially if it revolves around making money.

I’ve told my older parent not to buy a product or use a svc based on Internet reviews.. go with personal recommendations only!
"Search and categories are complete garbage."

I'm consulting in the pet space, if you search for 'Mousr' which is the name of a very cool pet toy brand that they carry - you get PC mouses (ie 'Mouse'). Not the brand 'Mousr'.

So basically their 'spell correct' 'Mousr->Mouse' utterly and completely overrides the notion that the users wanted to in fact input 'Mousr' to get that product.

Instead, in order to find the product, you have to type the company name 'Petronics'.

FYI - if you've worked in NLP, you might recognize this problem: the edit distance from Mousr->Mouse is short, and the 'e' and 'r' keys are beside one another, and of course the word 'Mouse' is very common while the word 'Mousr' is very uncommon, leading the error correction algorithm to 'over correct'.

This is a problem in NLP where very uncommon things that are lexically adjacent to common things get suppressed.

Since 'Mousr' however, is 100% in the Amazon catalougue, you'd think they'd include it!

But no.

Consider the resulting 'lowest common denominator' approach: statistically speaking, it might be slightly more economically efficient to actually assume the error and show PC mice, besides, 'everyone' needs a PC mouse anyhow!

But the interesting, long-tail stuff gets suppressed.

This is to me the statistical epitome of not just Amazon, but of our new, globalized culture - the big brands have such power they just bulldoze through everything else - and the 'short run' economics are in their favour! They can point to 'the efficiency of the search' etc. to validate to everyone else in the equation (ie city councillors approving permits, banks giving loans, buyers - heck, even consumers) to validate their case on competitive, culturally secular grounds.

It takes quite some magic, a loyal following, a magic meme of attention, a super faithful investor, or deep rooted cultural behaviours (like Italians who could care less about the new 'Starbucks' because they already have good coffee).

Most big CEO founders have made some kind of 'big claims' or almost arbitrary statements about 'how it ought to be' and they stuck to their guns on those, I wish Bezos et. al. would think just one tiny bit about the 2cnd order effects of their businesses.
Then they should be held to account for abusing their powers to also cover up illegal activity.
I think you'll find that it's easier to do in Atom. However - Atom's API is also probably easier to shoot yourself in the foot with.

Maybe try getting started on both, and see which one is easier or more comfortable?