skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SQL? That's an interesting case. It sits at the nexus of a well-defined relational theory, Codd et al., and normalised table data, and you can only ask it things which make sense like selection, projection and various joins. To the question of intentionality, it is declarative and does hide a lot of the work of arriving at the requested result.

Perhaps when viewed in the context of a more tightly defined problem set and solution space, and allowing for the advances in algorithms, AI and computing power since the 1970's - DNNs, evolutionary algos, backpropagation, annealing etc. -intentional goal-seeking self-programming should at least be conceivable.
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I wrote the old codebase ~4 years ago when I was just learning NodeJS, and didn't touch it too much after that, so it was in dire need of being replaced, in particular since it wasn't really written to scale horizontally.

Didn't have any particular issues with NodeJS in terms of performance, just felt like using Go when I was rewriting it.
I'd like segregated kitchens. One with a lock, that only trustworthy people are permitted to use, and one for the filthy scumbags to use :)

I'm smiling, but I'm also serious. I could go for such a system.
Still red where I’m at. But we get actual tourists down here :P

In truth, I’m not opposed to the paper straws. They’re only really annoying when you’re at a bar. Alcohol seems to unwrap them faster than soda. I can let them sit in a non alcohol drink for a good 30 min before I notice an issue. Rum & coke... eh... 15? Just means I have to drink faster and drink more :)
> You don't need a copper jacket or iron rod to store a scroll in a sealed jar

This is not a strong argument, on the basis that there's apparently no limit to the desire of humans to be superstitious about shit they don't understand, and want to decorate stuff.

You may not think you need a copper jacket and iron rod to store a scroll in a sealed jar, but Uncle Nasim the Ctesiphonian may have had some trenchant beliefs on both the aesthetics of document storage, and how to keep the Djin away.
it's almost impossible to find Erland dev in my country :D

of course we can have someone learn and then teach to the rest of the team but why bother doing that when you can select another language where it's a lot easier to hire
Boeing waited to tell Southwest that safety alert was turned off on 737 Max
Please stop to think when you read such things on Twitter or wherever.

Here's what you should think: If a few map to all the cars in the world, then one really big vessel maps to the cars in Europe, perhaps? That fuel was chosen because it's cheap and a tankful can propel a giant loaded ship from Shanghai to Rotterdam, and that tank is small enough to leave most of the ship's space for payload. Is it plausible that something that fits in one tank can pollute as much as all the cars in Europe? Or is there something fishy about the computation or comparison?
Is it possible that it's doing it based on users string?
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Blacklisting only works if you’re a big company, and in these cases the game is stacked against the consumer... the only recourse would be class action.

Social media hell is only really effective if you are notable. Otherwise the most damage you really do is simply not being a net promoter.

Resolving in a friendly manner and designing the user experience around easy customer service should be the standard. Anything less and really the merchant is committing fraud.

The reasons why I hate credit cards both as a consumer and a merchant are:

1) legacy tech that improves at a snail’s pace. They literally profit off of fraud, because fraud liability generally falls on merchants but they make money off of increased transactions (due to less friction).

2) they stopped innovating and a clear sign of that is the heavy push towards loyalty points in order to retain users. Not to mention anticompetitive practices barring merchants on passing on credit card fees (for which they have a 6+ billion dollar class action over).

3) opaque processes over disputes and chargebacks and long 45+ day feedback times

4) they helped cause financial crisis by overextending credit
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Unsurprisingly, higher quality paper straws have blossomed in the market since the ban was passed in San Francisco. Actually, I find most paper straws in SF to be quite good now.
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Ive used lorem pixum for a long time, how is this different...?
The term islamophobia is of french origin and dates back to at least the begining of 20th century ().

This fact alone gives clear indication of how serious Brukner and consorts (Fourest, Finkelkraut,etc) who have an agenda of downplaying the rise of anti-muslim bigotery on Europe.

() Maurice Delafosse, « L’état actuel de l’Islam dans l’Afrique occidentale française », Revue du monde musulman, vol. XI, n°V, 1910, p. 57
I strongly support this perspective.

If you create a culturally relevant work then prohibit people from legally participating, you probably deserve disparagement and the forfeiture of your rights.
With reusable cups I have observed a psychological barrier with myself. I was unwilling to use it when it felt "awkward" (i.e. I'm likely the only person asking to use my own cup the whole day).

However lately it became more common (I live in Germany), more shops offer discounts if you bring your own cup, more likely that the person in front of you also has a reusable cup.
It does indeed.
DigitalOcean is kind enough to sponsor the infrastructure, and BelugaCDN provides us with CDN services.
Any other costs I cover out of pocket / via carbon ads.
I have similar feeling when I do my research and see my ideas all over Google search results.

My strategy now becomes how do I _disrupt_ the incumbent. I take inspiration from Apple entering mp3 market, Uber entering the taxi market or Google entering the search market. Have not yet achieve success but will continue to try.
My $0.02.

If you feel like the problem exists, start building. But, if you think the problem is solved, then it makes no sense to proceed with it.

For a startup, people use your product because they have a problem to solve. It does not matter how bad your UI/UX is, how drastically bad your flows are, if you are offering a solution no one else is, you will have users. It just needs to work. The more pertinent the problem, more the users will be annoyed if it does not work. Ideally, your idea should be one of the solutions to the problem, and the entire initial phase is there to establish two things: 1/ Whether your solution works? Can you find a unique solution for the problem? 2/ Do a lot of people really have that problem?

For example: If you want to get into ridesharing and taxi market today, it will be difficult. But there is an open case where the wait times and variability annoys a lot of people. That is, if I am taking an Uber, I dont know how long will I need to wait. The app says 5 mins, but can be anywhere between 5-15 depending on the match. Sometimes, I have waited for >10 min and the driver cancelled and had to wait another 15. If some app can tell me exact time - or even let me schedule a ride - I would be happy to pay extra for that given it saves me the time and frustration. Not sure how many will have the problem, or it is good enough for others, but I will prefer a cab which allows me exactly this - even at a higher price point.
> There are countless of utilities for tinkering with you mac setup and the best and most tinker-y terminal for any platform is a mac-only app (iterm2). It's just that macOS starts out with a far high usability level without tinkering and comes with lots of basic stuff working that no amount of tinkering will ever give you with linux

I was with you right up until you made the cheap shot at Linux. That was as unnecessary as it was untrue.

> (like you can actually find files on your computer, good luck doing that with linux)

Linux is no harder to find files on than it is on OS X. They have the same CLI tools, they both has desktop environments that support file indexing and rapid searching (eg Spotlight). And on Linux that all gets installed by default with the desktop environment - just as it does on OS X too. So they really aren't all that different.

> lots of good software is mac only

I agree. But there is also lots of good software on Linux too. In all my years of running Linux and OS X the only Mac-only application I've missed on other platforms is Logic. But even there, we're talking 15 years ago and Linux has come a long, long way since in terms of the quality of DAWs available on it.
Hell yes. This is a cheaper looking latte panda... though the panda you can get 4GB RAM (~$149)... I’m really hoping to see more x86 based single board computers. The ARM manufacturers I think have gotten a bit lazy and could use some competition... plus running x86 chips does make life a lot easier for more complex applications.
Even better is to have the kitchen cabinets accept dishwasher racks. Then clearing out the dishwasher is simple. You need 3 racks (and one dishwasher):

Rack 1: in the dishwasher being washed

Rack 2: in the cabinet of clean dishes

Rack 3: set out to be filled with dirty dishes

Cheaper than an extra dishwasher!
There is no catch, if you define a catch is something you learn after you've paid for the product.

But at first I was so skeptical that I went down to the local stationery supplier to price a bottle of ink for the Epson EcoTank before purchasing the printer. It really was $14 for bottle rated at 6K pages. The print nozzles were guaranteed not to dry out if unused for 2 years - and the printer came with a 3 year warranty so I guess that's real.

I owned a Brother Colour laser before this. It was a lovely printer. It cost the same as the EcoTank and was a bit faster, but a set of genuine toner cartridges cost almost as much as the printer. And the inkjet is lighter, smaller and uses far less power.

The only down side is Epson's Linux drivers truly suck. They looked to provide source but it turns out that's just the front end - the rendering engine is shipped as pre-built libraries that get linked in at the end. And of course those libraries get SIGSEGV's, yielding only a bank page. Looking for the reason is how I found out there was no source for them. The scanner software their download centre offers didn't work at all. When I chased that down I found it was open source, provided presumably for free by kind person from Norway and Seiko rebranded it and made it available in their download section for my printer. That kind person did list the hardware it worked with, and my printer wasn't in the list so I don't know why Seiko put it there. Finally the PWG/Raster protocol, aka cups internal raster format, aka "cups driverless", aka cloud print didn't work at all. Way to go, Epson.

What did work is CUP's native escpr drivers. So I can print, and even with these old drivers the colour quality is better than the laser. So I'm happy. But brickbats to Seiko/Epson for their godawful software nonetheless.
these kind of jobs are cut first when troubles come to the company... and so everybody literally feels we're in trouble
What's with ppl and kittens!? :)
The "hero" phrase refers to the devs doing 80% of the commits.

Have you found projects where work is spread thinly across many developers successful?
And then, in the 70s, smooth mellow yacht-rock with perfect feathered hair and perfect multi-tracked vocal harmonies gave way to the intentionally flawed and hyper-naive sound of punk. Punk was a breath of fresh air for anybody fed up with the suffocating blandness and sterility of over-produced perfectionism. Authenticity became the thing.

Not coincidentally, these kids embracing this new style today are the children of Generation X who created punk, while millennials who favored the "Instagram style" are the children of yacht-rockin' boomers.

It's science.
Sometimes you can beat free! You can outlive the free / freeware competitors, because they're often not making money!

Remember Google often kills off their services. They bought Picasa & the Nik Photography Collection & made them both available for free... now Picasa is gone (even though there's a ton of customers who still want it), and Google sold the Nik Collection to DxO and it's back to costing $70 again. And Fastmail exists even though Gmail is free.

Google is not known for providing friendly personal customer service... so why not aim to get your customers saying "yeah XYZ costs more, but oh my god, they have the friendliest & most hilarious people answering their emails, and they actually fixed my problem!" You can only do that if you've got money coming in to pay for the support team (you want to pay your employees well too, right?) Derek Sivers has some great ideas on doing awesome customer service:

https://sivers.org/cs

(Anyway, just some food for thought. Sometimes pricing cheap is absolutely the right thing, sometimes Charge More is the right thing. Experiment with both!)
Great comment. What you say matches my experience, but not entirely. My take:

The 2% is a bit low as an avg. for ML work; I would say modeling/ML work ranges from 0 to 20% across the "data team". Most of the work is still data wrangling/engineering.

I agree that most companies need "full stack data guys". At my current company, there were 2-3 iterations of previous DS teams who had zero impact and left behind nothing in production. Then I came in, and being a full stack guy, I built up a DWH, ETL, dashboards [1] and eventually found opportunities to put ML into production [2].

I don't agree that the hype will end. The reason = companies/CEOs aren't rational and don't know what you said above. They'll just keep hiring DS people/teams and hope that eventually some magic gift pops out. I think this will keep on going for at least 5 years. I get pinged about 1-2 times per week by recruiters for Head of DS type positions in London/Dubai, everybody wants to build data science teams.

[1] http://bytepawn.com/fetchr-data-science-infra.html

[2] http://bytepawn.com/automating-a-call-center-with-machine-le...
Sure there is. Churches would love to have a monopoly on providing religious experiences. Any profound experience not associated with church practice is a direct threat to church hegemony.
That’s definitely an issue, but again can be easily mitigated with a simple firewall that doesn’t allow every port to be open to the world.
The Atomic Pi Amazon page spec list says antennas not included. That could well mean external antennas are not included (I can see there are connections for them) but there might be PCB antennas (copper tracks on the board itself that act as an antenna, like on a rpi or ESP8266).
As a C firmware developer always trying to learn something new I looked into Rust for embedded, but cases like this hold me back to delve deeper.

So, to set a value into a (volatile) boolean I have to call a function passing a pointer within an unsafe block? Why on earth it's clearer than or preferred over the C code? I know, you'll list several reasons, but please, it's not clearer and it's voodoo magic. In fact, it is the last thing I would (intuitively) think about doing, since it's known that you cannot operate from a pointer to a volatile variable because it may be UB in C++.

>> the author recommends using a higher-level primitive

Again, to read/write a boolean? Are we talking embedded here?

From https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/ptr/fn.write_volatile.html

>> Rust does not currently have a rigorously and formally defined memory model, so the precise semantics of what "volatile" means here is subject to change over time.

WHAT!?

I cannot bring Rust to any serious development yet...
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I've an informal method for estimating uncertainty by looking at how the forecast for a particular day changes over time - i n the UK the BBC provides 10 day forecasts so I watch particular days and if they are consistent over time then I usually have more confidence than if the forecast for a particular day changes every day.

Mind you - I had a six hour walk in rain and snow last Saturday when the forecast was for a fairly nice day and had been for over a week :-)
I've used this plain placeholder (https://placeholder.com/) and it worked nice, but this looks like next level :)
Thanks!
Congratulations on your HN success.

Having that built in DB is a killer feature to me.

Does the DB prevent hackers from overwriting keys?
yeah that's not for tomorrow either. Even if they managed to get a brain interface to get as accurate as Alexa's voice recognition (and that is a monstrously GIANT if), that is never going precise enough to work with. Same as people in the 90s thinking soon we'd all use voice recognition to type documents.
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At this point we’re supposed to carry the following non-disposable items with us, or pay at every step during the day:

- shopping bags
- coffee cup
- water bottle
- straws

Who wants to carry all this garbage? Nobody. Give us all a break.
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If you're willing to experiment, you'll find out that you can tune pretty much anything from a random spool of wire to an iron frame bed, and in this case custard. I've found that an inductively coupled sausage is a nice match on the VHF air band with a proper number of turns.

However, getting a nice 1:1 voltage standing wave ratio only means that the transmitter sees a proper 50 Ω load that does not reflect anything back. Most of the radiation probably happens in the feedline and the rest is absorbed as resistive losses. The whole setup only works because at lower "high" frequencies signal levels are relatively strong and receiver sensitivity is rarely a problem. Most HF transceivers actually have front panel knobs for attenuation and gain reduction.

Also, FT8 is a relatively new digital modulation that works at low SNR and is not feasible for transmitting any information apart from the callsigns of the communicating parties.
From my very short experience in China (just under 2 months) the cities feel super safe (excluding terrible driving). But this is just an anecdote, naturally.

My Chinese friends generally also feel safer in China than in the Western EU. What I noticed in Chengdu and Shenzhen, literally everyone walks with their nose glued to a smartphone (very frequently iPhone). Apparently robberies are not a common thing.

OTOH I've heard pick-pocketing is quite common in Beijing and Shanghai.
They quote someone who else who did, and add a factor of 21% on top of the vehicle's own fuel use to account for production and transport of the fuel.

They didn't add anything to account for the engine, though. They compute the carbon footprint of producing an electric engine and silently assume that the carbon footprint of producing a petrol/diesel engine is zero.
They are redefining "forever" to mean "until the service closes".
Why isn't that a disc with a diameter equal to the distance between the two points that are farthest apart?

Edit: Ah. I get it now. If the points made an equilateral triangle you'd want to put the disc on the triangle center. That sounds like a fun problem..
There is no competition, only execution. Dropbox had been done before. I remember something called X drive like a decade prior but it was no Dropbox. And still no one does what they do. Google drive has yet to have a desktop client that does anything like it.
I’m with you all the way, so long as externalities are priced in.
Indonesia has a population of 264 million. That would be 1 worker per 37 voters.

Seems a bit much.
Yeah, we have also been forced to create a few "users" to push to our org account too on docker hub, luckily, we mainly use gitlab for private images (and some public), in which we got tokens and even temporary tokens to use directly in the CI scripts.

I have felt quite unsatisfied with the security of docker hub since I created my first account, but after this issue, I can say that I'm seriously scared for it.

From now on, I'll use my own Alpine base image from "scratch" instead of the one on hub ;P
You have issues...

You make your immune system weaker by avoid germs. This system need constant update and training on germs and new germs. I don't really think the immune system get weaker by aging.Also, your skin, provided that you didn't cut yourself, will protect you from almost anything.

Their is a lot more things you should worried about like sick people who still go to work. Door handle will never make you sick...
FWIW, @sheetjs took that $1M/yr to be revenue, so your profits are going to be smaller than that.
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Exactly. Those restaurants differentiate on physical location, not on the feature set.
I am pretty sure that you could tell the difference between a brand of water that is distilled + minerals added and a brand of water that was not distilled in a blind taste test, especially if you drink mostly water.

I think there are even pretty big differences, say, between the tap water in Santa Clara and the tap water in Milpitas, for example.

I mean, If your argument is that bottled water is wasteful, I'm not disagreeing, but I am saying that if you drink mostly water, even pretty small differences in the mineral content make detectible differences in taste.
It also depends on the sensitivity of the tissue. Take the tongue for example where 4V is enough to feel a bite.
There are few Rust based projects now for Full Text Search. So you can move away from JVM.

- https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

- https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi
Do you have a citation for the LIGO based derived Hubble constant? I didn't find it mentioned in the article (just CMB and Cepheid derived values).
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Southwest says "Boeing had indicated through its manual that the [AOA] disagree lights were functional on the 737 Max."
Our only serious options will be international efforts, e.g. United Nations Climate Change conferences, etc. but any significant impactful effort will be painful and climate change inequality will lead to quite a bit of resentment
Google brought to market a unique and powerful approach to getting the most relevant content to the top of the search results: PageRank. It was a good solution to a big problem with search engines at that time, and the difference in quality of results was obvious.
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Moscow to Vladivostok is a 9,000 km drive taking at least 100 hours.
It's easy to get latency this low with ALSA+JACK.

Edit: and it's possible to go much lower, for example look at the linux-based Bela: https://bela.io/about#why-latency-matters
I built it myself with Braintree for processing (PayPal, Cards)
How much does it cost to build a mobile app from scratch?
> Australian senate ballot papers

Oh gosh, I've just googled it[1], and I'm really glad we don't have such monsters.

French ballots are really straightforward [2], with just one name written on it.

To count them, the volunteers are grouped by tables of four: two people (alternatively) open an envelop containing one ballot, read the result aloud and put on a stack in the center of the table. Then the two remaining people independently note the score. In the end, the ballots and the envelops are re-countered and we check that it matches the sum of the candidate's scores. The ballots (and the envelops) are then stored in sealed bags.

The ballots aren't centrally checked unless a complaint is made by someone, suspecting fraud in their polling station.

In my city, we usually have around 30 people counting, and the process only take one or two hours.

[1]: https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3783/9557893855_135143ce49_b.j...
[2]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/France_%...