skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a whole host of reasons. When the US does something, it goes all out. For example, under NEPA and equivalent state laws, every US infrastructure project spends years embroiled in study and subsequent litigation over environmental impacts. In Spain, they don’t even do environmental review for rail projects. In France, once the legislature decides to build a project, it passes a law that preempts every other law (to keep people from using those laws to sue to stop the project). If you posited the theory that Nixon signed NEPA to secretly destroy the ability of liberals to build transit, that wouldn’t be a crazy theory.

Then there is public unions. Public unions in the US are unusually strong, I think in part because they’re the last bastion of unionism in the US. When the folks who built Paris’s new line went to go check out the Second Avenue subway construction, they remarked that our TBMs are staffed by twice as many people making twice as much money.

Then there is the political buy-in. Transit seems really important to folks on HN, who mostly live in the city. But 5% of Americans take public transit to work (and it’s about 2% for trains). In Paris, 70% of commuters take public transit, and in France overall it’s 30%. In DC, it’s under 40% (mostly bus). Many large cities, like LA, Houston, and Dallas are 5-10%. There is no political will to fix problems in a system that the vast majority of people don’t use. Not only that, but they’ll never be able to use transit.

That brings us to the fourth reason, which is density. The weighted population density of Paris (the population density weighted by where people actually live) is five times as high as for DC (the US city with the second or third highest transit ridership).
The cost includes making development impossible without internet access, given that devs are not going to be carrying a cluster of servers around with them.
Another similar story here. Got all the way to end of post-doc until I realized I was doing it all for external reasons (immigrant from culture that pushes academics very hard). I definitely won't be pushing my kid the same way. Sometimes I wonder if it is possible to swing the pendulum too much the other way? But I hope to strike a happy medium.
But saying "mine asteroids" is like walking up to a stone age man and saying "why are you walking, just build a Bugatti Veyron and drive there dummy".

Even if we do develop technology to mine asteroids (note that several of the companies that were attempting this in recent years have gone out of business or been acquired extremely cheaply) it's still a relatively short term solution. The asteroid belt only contains material equal to (roughly) 4% of the mass of the Moon.

That 4% mass of the Moon is spread out over mind boggling distances that doesn't even start untill roughly beyond the orbit of Mars. At those distances, PV power is going to be worthless, even at Mars the maximum solar irradiance is only about 59% of that on Earth so you're going to need to either build massive solar arrays and use wireless transmission to get the power down to the mining craft/drones (which will have to have considerable batteries in the event they get out of line of sight) or power them with some sort of nuclear solution.

Now, you'll be pulling a good deal of material off that you use purely for reaction mass. You'll also be pulling off a lot of stuff that won't really be worth sending back to Earth in any appreciable quantity like nickel and iron (although could be useful for construction in space and possibly worth sending to Mars) so when you do actually get to rare earths/precious metals you'll likely be able to mine more in a decade (if not a year) than earth has ever of say gold or platinum metal groups, but by even assuming you develop all the technology you need to do this, by the time you safely land it back on Earth it'll still be fantastically expensive to get to point of first delivery and a very very time consuming process purely due to the distances and practical limit on reaction mass for accelerating and decelerating.

Then you're still only talking 4% the mass of the Moon, if you were making a decent effort at mining the asteroids you might pull worthwhile material out for a century or two before you've exhausted the bulk of it and then it is "well, I hope we've developed FTL travel or generation ships!"
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6% of children are enrolled in gifted programs. https://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/resources/freque...
>Pilosa is a standalone index for big data. Its goal is to help big data storage solutions support real time, complex queries without resorting to pre-computation or approximation. Pilosa achieves this goal by implementing a distributed bitmap index which provides a compact representation not of the data itself, but of the relationships present in the data.

https://www.pilosa.com/pdf/PILOSA%20-%20Technical%20White%20...
On the flip side, you have to challenge them and give them the opportunity to work hard. I think schools get lazy with gifted kids. Gifted kids deserve to be challenged and put to the limits of their abilities the same as non-gifted children, but schools just don't do that. Tracking children by ability in the US has been labeled elitist. Funding often isn't there for enrichment programs. Parents are expected to provide enrichment for these kids outside of school, but it's not always possible either financially or time-wise.
I've heard of a startup spending many days of contractor time to optimise their database so they didn't have to go from the 4GB Heroku database to the 8GB one.

I've heard of a company refusing to purchase an external drive for an employee so they could process a handful of ~50GB datasets on their MacBook Air – instead forcing them to use "the cloud" or constantly download and backup datasets.

I've heard of companies doing extensive work to set up Hadoop to process a few GB.

Roughly I'd suggest that "fits on my laptop" is <1TB, "fits in memory" is < 1TB, "fits on one computer" is < 10TB, "fits on a small cluster" is <100TB, and "might be worth Hadoop" is >100TB. I could be too low on these though.
Hulk Hogan is credited as being born in Augusta, GA; but his family moved to Florida when he was one and a half. Also, I'm not sure why Viggo Mortensen is listed way up in north Idaho, he only lived there three years?
My heart bleeds for “barely 1% working stiff”.
You probably don't have the world's spammers trying to get in like Google. There is money to be made creating Google accounts.
Yes- this is better. I think those two things will be well-aligned though.
The way I know I made the right call to quit WoW was when I would come home in the days after, and was like 'Oh phew I don't have to play today'.
Eh, properly done reinforced concrete should last hundreds of years.

Of course it's possible to use the wrong concrete formula for the job (the concrete for your driveway is not the same as the concrete for a boat ramp) but if done right it should last.
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People can work really hard at doing a crap job. Doing the job right makes more sense to determine positive outcomes. Having some academic shreds to back up the common sense is good too.

Thanks for the share on conscientiousness!
There are various ways of joining large amounts of wood together. CLT uses glue. Brettstapel uses wooden dowels (using two kinds of wood with a different hardness, so the dowels stay in place). I'm sure there are other variants as well.
Thanks for sharing, but why do you refer to your sibling as "they"?
As a counterexample, I attribute much of my success to being a compulsive World of Warcraft player in my 20s.

True, founding and being the Guild Master of a hardcore raiding guild wasn't great for my ability to focus on my real job. Main Tanking and leading 40 players through endgame content 3-4 nights a week didn't do any favors for my social life.

But the skills I developed ended up transferring pretty well over to founding and running a remote web dev agency. In fact it turned out that managing paid employees over the Internet is easier than managing volunteers in many regards. When you screw up, your employees tend to go easy on you, because they like their paychecks and changing jobs is a lot harder than changing Warcraft guilds.

I was young and kind of a loser at the time and there was little chance anyone was going to give me anything important to manage. WoW gave me an opportunity to develop a valuable skill set at an early age.
You guys ever look out an airplane window or do some people watching in a crowded place? There are a fuck ton of people, all competing for the same resources, and with (if you made one of those FIFA-style player attributes charts, about the same overall ability). Im pretty darn good at running, recently did a big race and placed prob in the top 0.5%, the guy who won beat me by 3 mins (over 10% my time). I try and be good at music, really hard, probably not gifted at this, but my shit is way worse than any number of unknown artists. Everyone back home thinks I'm the smart one. All that's done is gotten me some jobs and into programs where I meet much smarter people. There are literally 10s of millions of "gifted" people. We're as common as a pretty girl on instagram. ESPECIALLY in "superstar" cities.
https://medium.com/@stephane.maarek/an-honest-review-of-aws-..., though this is mainly written pre-GA so I'm not sure how accurate it is now.

I've recently gotten quotes from Confluent Cloud after doing some pricing on AWS for our setup, and they are far more expensive than MSK, but you do get more bells and whistles. It's more cost-effective for us to run our own, which also gives us more flexibility when it comes to monitoring and alerting around the environment.
Whether Postgres (or similar) can handle the data depends not only on the data size but also on what you want to do with the data.

I.e., if you are generating reports, running aggregations over a large amount of data you definitely need some parallelism and Postgres isn't designed to handle these loads (certainly not petabytes). Even aggregating 100's of GB probably requires (or at least is more cost effective using) multiple machines.

Now Hadoop may not be a particularly efficient solution unless you need 100's of machines. But there is a limit to what a non-parallel single machine database can do. There are other solutions in-between.

And you really don't have to be twitter or google to handle significant amount of data these days. People are recording much more data in the hope of generating new insights and do need tools to process that data.
US zipcode boundary API on RapidAPI. Check it out
How do you teach a car that a snowman won’t walk across the road?
Yes it is possible to push it too far the other way. The immigrant culture that pushes academics very hard simply needs to be amended to add on the part of life that is fun. I pushed my kids hard, encouraged them to have fun and enjoy life, and now they do that on their own. They make their own goals, set out plans to achieve them, getting parental help along the way, but also encouraged them to have fun.

For example, my daughter recently asked if she should stay home to study for exams that are about 3 weeks away instead of going on a school trip to a different city. I told her to study her ass off precisely so that she could go without any guilt.

She did, and she feels much more rounded and fulfilled.

Don't think that what your parents did was so wrong it needs to be corrected. Think of what was missing and what you can do about it.
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You're formulating the problem wrong in your mind.

Its true that if you have 182 people in the room all with unique birthdays and you add one more random person to the room there is a 50% chance of them sharing a birthday just like you described. But you're assuming you already managed to gather 182 people without any birthday collisions. That's a different problem then the one originally posed. In your case you collected 182 people with unique birthdays and checked the probability of a collision when adding one more. But the real question asks what is if you grabbed those 182 people at random what is the chance that any two of them already share a birthday?
> The free market destroyed nuclear, or rather recognized the failure of nuclear.

The industry was incredibly young and just starting. Nuclear was actually competing on the free market against coal. Many many more nuclear projects were planed, and nuclear had fastest transition from any energy form to another when it was cut off by regulatory change.

Claiming its early development was a failure is totally wrong.

> Nuclear power was NEVER going to be very cheap. Even in the 1950s, it was recognized that the cost of the common elements of coal and nuclear plants were going to restrict nuclear to being MAYBE 20% cheaper than coal, at best, and that only if everything broke the right way.

That's wrong even for PWR and nuclear was in its infancy still. We know that you can build nuclear reactors much smaller and better over time. PWR are 2% efficient and there is lots of room for improvement.

Yes but coal also has a fuel cost for operation that is much much higher then fuel cost for nuclear. A nuclear plant last longer, doesn't kill close to as many people and doesn't cause global warming. A coal plant would not even be allowed to operate if it was regulated like a nuclear plant, its ironically to radioactive.

> And now, nuclear has two feet in the tech grave. The tech base has decayed away, and continues to degrade. Hoped for cost reductions of Gen III/III+ reactors from experience would require impossible sustained subsidies. This is why hopes are being pinned on small Hail Mary Reactors. They're the only possibility of avoiding nuclear's extinction.

It was literally impossible in the US to license and type of new reactor. Its impossible to buy fuel for prototypes. The DoE requires huge financial and time commitment before they even look at your innovations.

In the 60s new reactor types and experiments were built many a year and now a slightly different fuel for a reactor takes 10 years to go threw regulation.

In 100 years people will look back at this time and laugh at us. The will live in a nuclear society, not in one based on solar, wind and battery power.
From what I understand, the case by now is about "Is what companies use to justify processing of data in the US as safe acceptable?". The ECJ might very well find that the current agreements are not sufficient, that data transfer to the US likely means access by US agencies that is not acceptable, so Facebook has an interest in there not being a decision by the highest court about it.
Anonymity most likely.
There's sooo many banks though. There's probably 3 right next to each other right now on Main St. North Bumble Fuck. Less ISPs sure, but if Comcast is throttling your Netflix, you could probably nab cellular internet, or satellite, or gasp dial up. Sure those options suck, but so does hosting your businesses social media presence on Myspace, or your neighbors kid's basement hosted phpBB forum.
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The same concepts are still there, it's just a nicer API now. Think Hadoop -> spark.

Map -> map, filter, flatmap, etc

Reduce -> reduce, joins, folds, group by, etc

Those other concepts were always expressible as map and reduce, of course, just with a bunch of annoying repetitive work
Efficient? Effective?

Watch what you say if the stakes are high:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#After_publicatio...
I’m not sure why anyone in their right minds thought bitcoin was going to be used by random civilians for their everyday transactions. Customers want the protections that banks and credit cards provide, and vendors don’t want to expose themselves to exchange rate risk when selling goods and services.

Oh, and 4 transactions a second is far too low a limit for any currency.
This depends highly on what you are storing. Letting a process reuse "old" state after a crash can easily cause a restart loop.
> I’ve yet to hear a single benefit attributed to Docker that isn’t also true of other VMs

Oh boy
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It might make more sense if OP had more than one sibling and forgot to pluralize, but since that was done more than once, OP could have a sibling that doesn't want to be defined as either male or female, hence "sibling" and not "brother" or "sister". (At least that's what I got from watching the TV series, Billions.)
I like what you said about enlightenment. On a similar note, I tend to say, there is no such thing as those enlightened and those veiled in ignorance, we all shimmer from the same inexplicable source. But otherwise, I read this yesterday (and even submitted it onto this site), you might find it interesting: http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/11/11-4Kronenberg.pdf

I like the last bit: What I am saying is this: the score is not what matters. Life does not have to be regarded as some game in which scores are kept and somebody wins. If you are too intent on winning, you will never enjoy playing. If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live. If you have learned only how to be a success, your life has probably been wasted.
I'm pretty sure they call it shadow banning. IMO it's a pretty elitist thing to do, but hey they run the place..
Seems like spammers wouldn't hire humans if they could fully automate it? That's about the best you could do as a defense.
It is unsurprising, given the spirit of capitalism, that companies behave in a cut-throat manner - it's a race to the bottom. Whoever doesn't 'go there' will be surpassed by whatever narcissistic corp is willing to go there. This is simply the way everything is wired up to work.

Corporations, and the people that run them, will test the limits of acceptability all the time just to get the edge on the competition - it's how they survive.
I’m on my phone while riding the public bus so can’t really easily look for a reference, but I remember the same Ronaldo saying that there was an even more talented footballer than him while he was an youngster at Sporting Lisbon but that that player didn’t play anywhere higher than the Portuguese Second League because he was lacking in work ethic. I very rarely heard Ronaldo say about someone else that he was better than him.
Large companies have fixed ad spend budgets. If they dont spend they lose. Doesn't matter if its lost to fraud.

Google, Facebook advertiser have more specific budgets, especially Facebook which has a large number of small advertisers.

Large adnetworks however get large advertisers with advertising budgets in tens of millions on average.

There is a larger pressure on Google and Facebook to be competitive then say smaller ad networks.

Also the techniques that I mention of are not in use in wild after the POC on millions of devices few months ago. They're a backup plan. Also not every adtech company has them. Maybe 2 or 3 at the most are at the cutting edge of tracking.

Google knows this very well. You really think Google couldn't counter fraud? Its a fake and manufactured outrage. No one wants to give away their "secret sauce" just yet.

Also right now many adtech companies are going bankrupt. Many larger one are waiting for smaller ones to be gone after which the landscape changes.
Autokilled comments would still show to users with showdead enabled - I don't see any dead comments from you.
"All this said -- I do think Docker will die"

Harsh. Docker is a nice way to specify how you want your container to work. Sure release Bocker (A better Docker). But Bocker will just basically be Docker: a simple set of instructions to get a machine running.

That is all we want. A few instructions to get a system up. Devs are sick of setting up machines. Demand is there.
Possibly a way to avoid revealing gender, for privacy.
It’s a valid concern. I worry about this a lot.

My wife had a much different upbringing than me, and as a consequence, is “blind” to certain realities.

When I tell her things about how most people find “x” hard, she just doesn’t “get it”. She just sees that there are so many people who find “x” easy, and she looks “up” and sees all the things she finds hard.

Not sure how to “teach” this to my kids, other than having them stay with family that weren’t as fortunate as me while growing up. Show them how hard it is when you don’t have all the advantages (we thus far) have been able to give them.

One thing that I know I can do is make sure they learn the value of “hard labor”, as I did helping my Dad doing construction over the years. It sucked at the time, but I know what it truly means to be physically exhausted at the end of the day for long stretches because you has been carrying 2x4s, cement bags, and digging holes all day.
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You're right but I can't shake the feeling that if they ever become really popular the temptation to change that model will be huge. Maybe the DDG of today is principled enough not to do that (and it's also probably in their best interest at the moment since their most obvious feature compared to other big search engines is its privacy) but what about 10 years from now? Or 20 years? What happens if their growth starts stalling and the shareholders ask for more? Will they take the side of their freeloading users over the paying advertisers and investors? Principles tend to be soluble in a high-enough concentration of dollar bills.

After all there was a time where most of us trusted Google and their "Do No Evil" motto. And then eventually in morphed into "Do More Profit" and we have the corporation that we know today.
I think the point is that intelligence is a tool. By itself it doesn't get you terribly far (assuming you want to get somewhere). You need to apply it to something diligently. In other words, intelligence is necessary but not sufficient.
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I’ve got some Mandelbrot resources at the bottom of this Github page:

https://github.com/melling/ComputerGraphics
That depends on the usecase. Sometimes you do want to start with clean state. If the process is in some invalid state which caused the crash in the first place, restarting the process is useless in this case
The parent poster's grammar is kind of bad but I think their idea is to expose only views, not actual tables, so there is some degree of dependency immunization. Views are a pretty good poor person's substitute for an API right & proper.
My siblings gender is Female.

Why does it matter? Did that change your perception of the story?
I'm somewhat confused by the author, more so because even as a 'gifted' student, the other 'gifted' students often took to things faster.

Not one gifted student was particularly alike.

Another example: all gifted students in our third grade were put to a chess tournament. Some students fell out fast, while others were more apt to understand the complexities of the various piece interactions. In the end the two top students would be considered 'unlikely to succeed' in the current and following academic years, one with behavioral problems, and the other an ADHD mess.

They're doing fine nowadays.
At my high school, you could either take Pre-Calc or Trig, and Pre-Calc was essentially a watered down calculus class. Pre-Calc was considered the class you were supposed to take if you were going to university, and it was the first class I ever failed.
While an elegant theory, that approach to economics is about as realistic and practical as spherical cows in a vacuum[0] are to biology. In real life markets are a lot more complicated and irrational (because they involve humans).

That Jevon's Paradox wikipedia article I linked to in the first comment is one example of such a complication.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow