skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Summary: This is a system which couples your application logic with your persistence layer (in the same OS process).

I don't think the paper is talking about the persistence layer. Rather it's focusing on the cache layer.

From the paper:

"Modern internet-scale services often rely on remote, in-memory, key-value (RInK) stores such as Redis and Memcached. These stores serve at least two purposes. First, they may provide a cache over a storage system to enable faster retrieval of persistent state. Second, they may store short-lived data, such as per-session state, that does not warrant persistence."

If you look at Fig.2 in the paper, the database (persistence) layer is always there. What the paper is advocating is to move from an out-of-process cache server like Redis to an in-process cache library like Java Caffeine
Google any recipe, and there are at least 5 paragraphs

I just Googled Peking duck to try something at random. Of the links on the front page, one was to wikipedia, one was to an article about Peking duck, and the rest where recipe sites (BBC Food, Allrecipes, Serious Eats etc.) or serious looking/sounding food blogs that had the recipe front and center. I don't know if it's a geographic thing (I'm in Europe) or if Google has learnt my preferences, but finding 5 reasonable sounding recipes for Peking duck with Google was trivial.

Edit: Played around some more and spotted an interesting pattern. If a look up typical US dishes, like Key lime pie or BBQ brisket, then I got results more like the ones you describe. But looking up more 'international' dishes like Peking duck or coq au vin then the results where almost all good quality recipes.
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Amazing how they just write a flat: "at least 30%" increase in productivity. Based on what exactly? How did they even measure that? I don't want to talk these slides down, especially since I think that a lot of use cases might benefit from something like clojure but sources would be nice to read up.
Yes, it does.

Shakespeare expert Ben Crystal once gave this presentation on 'proper' pronunciation of Shakespearian English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2QYGEwM1Sk

In terms of modern accents, West Country English probably is the one that comes closest to that.
Ask HN: Did sites like Twitter, FB, Reddit care about data at the start?
I always assumed making something like facebook, twitter, or Reddit was more of a fun project that blew up and became a hit. Did they have the foresight to see that data would be this valuable of a commodity? I always likened the enjoyment of a reddit or a twitter to the same enjoyment of a forum I'd frequent. And the moment, it stopped being enjoyable I just moved on to something different.

(I just recalled the Zuckerberg interview where he got grilled about Data)
I'm reminded of this

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
That makes sense. However, I've noticed that some free products are more tolerated than others, like Trello. I wonder why that is - one can suck out data from Trello cards just as well.
I ordered headphones from Amazon that had good reviews, over 1k. I was looking for a cheap pair to listen to music at work. What I got were really poorly made Chinese rip-offs of Sony. I went to process the return and all of the review except for a handful of 1 star reviews had been removed. Luckily the return went off with a hitch but it seems clear Amazon is at least trying to do something, even if their efforts are not sufficient.
> I know you can set up Pi-Hole on Ubuntu VMs.

I've been running Pi-hole on Ubuntu on bare metal for a few months. ("server" in my basement)
It's a failure, but it's absolutely not unique to challenger banks. Just remember the news availability heuristic - you're seeing this because it's tech news.

If you want to read more banking horror stories there's https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/jessica-investigates/ (paywall, also most of the rest of the Telegraph is bad) or the MoneySavingExpert forums. Business banking can be even worse customer service: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/rbs-investi...
Identity theft is a transnational industry. How will thoughts and prayers deter it?
How do you know the insurance wasn't activated? Why does the insurance activate based on location rather than date?
I don't care about other cases. I care about what the vendor's case suggests. That is that this chip either runs quite cool (so creating a worst case scenario with a fully closed case doesn't matter), or that they don't care about the cooling for some other reason.

I somehow doubt a chip with a heatspreadder is meant to run cool, though. It looks like they're sacrificing performance here.
Oh dear God that's tiny. How do you stand that? Genuinely curious; I feel like I'd end up claustrophobic.
The Futility of Generation Wars
If you look at the graph of subsidies, and adjust to percentage of generation, then you can see that renewables receive a higher level of subsidy.

A big chunk of the "subsidy to non-renewables" is support for heating for the poor. This allocation is by virtue of most generation being non-renewable. When we move to more-expensive renewables, this support will be bigger and will have moved to the renewable column. So, it's not really a subsidy to non-renewables.

This is just a couple of things I noticed - you need to be alert to creative accounting when it comes to renewables, because many people tend to be motivated by ideology rather than numbers.
"Run of the mill" is not about simplicity, but refers to something common, average, commotidized.
Proposing coordinated action is different from taking individual action. For instance, if the intent is to pay more taxes without reducing your wealth relative to your peers, this strategy works, but writing a check to the IRS does not.
Evolution of Cashback Systems: From Credit Card to Blockchain
On the topic of pruning logic more complex than put & ge in the application, to me that is kind of like want to add iterable functions to a language that only has for loops. That was enough for me to appreciate the paper. I was recently working on adding some query logic to an app that talks to Redis, and it definitely felt like more work than I cared for. At a minimum I would have liked to see that logic go into a more feature rich Redis client
More tax or not, I'm not sure the US government is capable of using the tax money effectively.
I Structure My Flask Apps
Donny is just an example name like Joe Shmoe

In Illinois, rich people live in Chicago ("upstate"), and tend to be more liberal, whereas rural folks downstate are conservative and less wealthy.
European Comet Interceptor Could Visit an Interstellar Object
There may be unintended consequences in the current scheme that we've just grown to accept too (like an always increasing wealth gap).
Deepfakes aren't a tech problem. They're a power problem
Thanks! I've heard about the authors. Just out of curiosity, how does Learn You a Haskell for Great Good stack up against other resources? (heard a great deal about it here and there.)
BMW is accelerating electrification plans
Meta: is it just me or is there an unusually high amount of pollution/plastic related articles on HN recently?
Most Insightful Apple Search Ads Report in 2019
Stolen card is a different type of thing. In that case they need to prove that the card is stolen (like from where the transaction is made and so on, there are procedures). And it often takes a while and several calls from the bank during the investigation. It was like that for me also 2 years ago when I got my card stolen. They called me several times to ask me questions.
How to Transfer a Simple Keras Model to PyTorch – The Hard Way
There's nothing wrong with offering a contractor a full-time position. I've worked with CTO's that started out as contractors, who turned down the extra money to work on a project and business they believed in.

If they say no, you've got nothing to worry about. Use them as a contractor, as you do already, but ensure that you're prepared for them to walk away if a better offer comes along. It's shocking how so many businesses are not prepared for the day when a contractor gives in their notice, and ultimately a contractor should be handing their work off to an available employee to take over.
600 tons of netting a year is just mind boggling, I can't imagine how many animals are getting tangled in that
I seem to recall PG telling a similar story about flickr at the very first "Startup School" meeting. The original idea was an online game targeted at teen girls, and there was some kind of photo sharing element that was part of the game. The game didn't turn out to be very compelling, but the photo sharing portion was getting a lot of interest, and the founders pivoted to developing flickr instead.
Until you launch an Electron based app, load Gmail, or go to an ad-laden webpage.

It might be a better idea to develop those apps on one of these, instead of using Macbooks + the cloud.
There's an easy and obvious solution: have extremely high estate tax rates for estates valued above some threshold like (just picking a random high number) $100 million. I have no problem with Bezos being worth over $100 billion - he earned every penny. What I despise is the idea of his great-great grandkids being multi-billionaires. So have an estate tax of 90% above $100 million, think of what this accomplishes:

* Bezos enjoys the money he rightfully earned.

* His heirs are still rich - just not mega billionaires.

* The US gets an effective wealth tax.

* Bezos is incentivized to spend the money, much of it I'm sure charitably.

It seems like the fairest way to do things. Yes, there are tradeoffs like everything else. It would force private family-owned companies to sell. But I hate this idea of massive capital accumulation that just sits there. It's reminiscent of land ownership in medieval times. While we're at it we should change the laws about charitable foundations that force them to spend more rapidly and not create these semi-permanent structures that basically exist as Sphinxes for rich people. I'll add in one more: we should have a windfall wealth tax for all these tech billionaires.
We do this for several key elements of a high throughput service. It keeps the critical path local only.

The flow is to dual write to our rdms and a local process. The process either stores in ETS or an process state map. It also broadcasts out the event to the cluster. When a node in the cluster gets a message, it executes on it. Process startup is restored from the DB which is still authority.

Generally this is really easy to do in Elixir. Maybe 50 lines of code for the system described (minus DB code), much of it definition lines.
The wind energy industry does have some pretty fun trucks too though: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...
(and uses some of the biggest mobile cranes in existence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvAZu81oooE )

Perhaps if these kinds of videos got more popular attention the industry would feel more "fun"...
> why would you rather have someone point a gun to your head before you give them a check?

In general, this is to solve a coordination problem.

Imagine in the Prisoners' Dilemma (you would rather defect than cooperate, but you would rather everyone cooperate than everyone defect), you're at an equilibrium where everyone defects. If you cooperate, it just makes yourself worse off. But if you pass a law forcing everyone to cooperate, then everyone is better off.

Overpaying the IRS is a lot like cooperating in the Prisoners' Dilemma – if you're the only one who does it, it hurts you more than it helps the rest of the world (even if you wanted to help the rest of the world, it would be more efficient just to donate it directly to charity, or even start a charity yourself – which is unsurprisingly what most wealthy people actually do in that situation).

If only you donate $10m to the IRS, you might cause $5m of good in the world (50% is an example and not intended as an actual estimate of government efficiency - the math works similarly with any percentage) - you'd rather just donate it to charity. But if you raise taxes by $10m for 1000 wealthy people, the $10m you spend could cause $5000m of good in the world, making it well worth it.
I prefer to write them by hand. Most APIs, to start, don't have a lot to them. They tend to grow in scope over time. So, it's pretty easy to just throw together your initial idea, and incrementally grow it from there.

I might think differently if confronted with a huge API surface area to build off the bat, but I haven't run into that yet.
IANAL, but I am not sure if they're legally selling counterfeits, or if they're even (legally speaking) involved with any crime at all. Maybe (to the law) they're victims as well? Common sense tells me: Yeah, what Amazon is doing should be considered criminal activity. But common sense and laws sometimes tend to disagree.

Anyhow, I think generally we agree: Amazon should be punished for this. If the legal framework does not allow for this, it needs to be adjusted accordingly.
I think it's a reference to RocksDB, and maybe also InnoDB
Forgive me, but isn't 20ms kind of a lot of latency? That's more than a frame at 60hz. I assume I'm missing some context here.
The BeamVM languages (Erlang, Elixir) seem to have this in the form of Mnesia, and libraries that are built on top of it, such as riak-core.
Where can I buy quality journalism from? I don't think the NYT qualifies, and I'm saying that because most articles lack substance, not because I'm bothered by its bias.
Also, I just came across https://www.climbing.com/gear/counterfeited-how-illegal-knoc... in the links to the UK article. Reading now.
And it runs Windows 10 (IOT Core) too!
If distributing the wealth is the goal, the government is likely to do it much more efficiently than the free market, since the free market will never do it.
Confining a person to China is a punishment by itself
I was thinking of Hertz, but the corporate history doesn’t align. The post said the company had about 100 years of history, but Hertz was founded in 1958.
I designed a motorized Lego chromosomal model to represent a genetic disease
It's the principle of checking separated from using which is wrong in almost all cases. Instead you should cause and/or handle errors!

(Also known in Python as duck typing when applied to types.)
I put money into tax advantaged accounts and do other things to minimise the tax I spend. That doesn't mean I'm not averse to taxes increasing.

I trying to minimise my supermarket spend, that doesn't mean I would be averse to higher welfare standards, and other things that would push that spend up.

Plus I don't think I should have the right to decide what tax I should voluntarily pay, that's a decision for society to make, so I think its reasonable for a rich person to feel the same.
I couldn't live without it! I don't program often in C or assembly, but when I learned about tui, learning C and assembly became much easier!

This and learning how to set breakpoints properly in GDB and perhaps analyzing a binary with IDA Pro plus searching via Google a lot is what really helped me.
Their crypto support is a joke. You can only buy and sell with them. You can't transfer in or out. So in effect, you don't have any crypto. You are just paying them to convert money into something you can't use.
I guess after they enforce 3DS and Revolut starts to support it this types of fraud will decrease.
New York oyster plan for cleaning Hong Kong's polluted waters
"Downstate" means south of Chicago (which is located in the NE region of Illinois).
YC-funded Health Startup UBiome Raided by FBI over Billing Practices
We do have another room, that's slightly larger but it's a bit bleak. And weirdly it's a more fussy room to furnish. The smaller size is better in the winter. The old brick terraces aren't that warm. In large houses people can gravitate to smaller rooms for that reason. Personally I'd like a large room that I could bring the furniture in from the sides. Lucky to even have a house to live in to be honest, so can't really grumble.
Even with current emissions CO2 levels are periodically FALLING 6ppm each summer =>
Without emissions we would be back to normal in 30 years:

https://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2013/05/mauna-loa...
>The volume of futures trading fell by 98% and the options trading market disappeared

You have to wonder what the second-order effects of the options trading market disappearing (or being severely reduced in volume) would be.

I know there are some pretty important businesses that depend on options to hedge against commodity prices. Airliners and oil come to mind.
I'm sure of that. I'm just comparing it with a few other governments, e.g. Denmark/the Netherlands.
All this article tells me is that good managers manage their staff well.

This is clearly more of the usual click-bait nonsense from Business Insider.
I don't think they got rid of the blob, so much as moved it from the SD card to an onboard SPI flash more like you'd find on a typical PC. It's still there and even more required to boot the board than on previous Pis, but people distributing images no longer have to worry about the licensing and other headaches that were caused by having to include it.
Then there should be no taxes at all and we all will live from the mercy of others.

Maybe people don't like to be take advantage of by egotistic community members, and we also (and seen this in monkeys) we want fairness, if everyone is dodging paying taxes using some loopholes I feel cheated and an idiotic if I do not use the same loopholes.

This argument is so obvious wrong for me that I am inclined to believe is trolling.
The card just happens to the same color as my 3d printer wallet :) https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3218830
What France Can Teach the World About Selling EVs
Rise of the Extinction Deniers
The reason the message "All taxes are bad" resonates so well is because there has been a near constant cadence accompanying it that "All government is bad". Many people think there is no inherent value in government because that has been sold to them for the past 50+ years.

It is similar to the message that "Adam Smith's capitalism" = "no regulations" when in fact Adam Smith was not against regulations. Regulations are the structure that markets are built upon. Otherwise, everything is caveat emptor (translation: let the buyer beware) all the time.

It is hard to know where the correct line between total freedom and total government control lies, but I have to assume it is somewhere closer to the middle than either extreme, but the middle never makes the evening news.
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I'm not talking about the compiler or the evaluation. From programmer's perspective the language does seem fairly declarative to me, mostly consisting of expressions instead of statements.

I don't know what's wrong about thinking about expressions as declarative which in my opinion they are. How would thinking about expressions imperatively help me avoid those exponential runtime costs?

For example consider the list comprehension:
[toUpper c | c <- s]

If you compare this with your typical imperative for loop to construct the same data structure I find this declarative.
(very very small team) We have some handmade scripts in place to generate basic crud endpoints, generated files are then adjusted to the specific needs, but it goes a long way in keeping things organized and consistent with very little effort.
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Something I consider related to euthanasia, but distinct from it, is the right to cryo-preservation before natural death. Currently, cryonics is simply viewed as death causing, with no recognised therapeutic worth, so can only begin after legal death. The ability to resuscitate or reconstruct the mind of a preserved person seems highly dependent on the level of age or disease related degradation. Being able to carry out a cryo-preserving procedure promptly also improves the plausibility of resuscitation.

With regard to neuro-degenerative disease, waiting until a person's death may mean that the person's mind is permanently lost, or not faithfully reconstructable.
Wasn’t Slack originally funded with a government grant to make educational games for Canadian girls, or was that Flickr?
If you had the rule: "If you have money coming in, ten percent of it belongs to the government. No messing. No exceptions. No loopholes. Ten percent for everyone for everything."

Would that increase or decrease the amount of taxes?

The fact that I can't even answer that simple question troubles me.
For founders, an 83(b) like election should cover that case, if your funds have never been liquid. But yea, this is tough. If you close all loopholes, it almost starts to look like a VAT on private investments per vehicle, which would disincentivize growth in so many ways.
Apache Geode, Hazelcast, how some people are using Kafka.
I am just listing a few others, please don't consider this endorsement.
"Virtual card" is a thing in their app. You still have a physical card. The virtual card is for shady shops and such, so that you can delete it afterwards with a single click.
> A percentage of profits is worthless because of "Hollywood accounting".

One can always ask for a percentage of the gross, although it's rare that something like that is agreed to by everyone concerned. The producers of the original "Lord of the Rings" films felt for some reason kind of desperate at one point and tried to get Sean Connery to play Gandalf. They offered him a percentage of the gross to appear in the film. I did the math on it one time and if I remember correctly it would have paid over half a billion dollars...
I certainly won't disagree with you there.
> "many useless degrees" is very thin ice to walk on. If there are people wanting to learn something then it's not useless.

Maybe so, but it's also not something I'm willing to pay for or subsidize as a tax payer. Sitting around reading books all day would also be enriching but no one is claiming we should pay people to do that with tax dollars.
The Dev at Discourse also try it with Ruby, the result aren't as good as jemalloc. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/samsaffron/status/1143048590555697152
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There have been a number of major reports published in the last few months that detail just how much environmental damage we have caused since industrialization. I believe the uptick in articles is a result of people becoming aware of the extent of the problem.
Silicon Valley foundation’s crypto assets plunged, but donations rose in 2018
Is 1) really valuable? There's plenty of computer hardware you could put a fully open software stack on that's as or more powerful than an RPi and would otherwise just end up in a landfill or whatever. Open hardware would be significantly more interesting.
We're pretty well of the beaten path of Amazon here, but I had a similar need (#1 slotted flat-head brass wood screws) that McMaster-Carr didn't sell a little while ago and found them on microfasteners.com. It looks like they stock metric machine screws as well.
"Trade with shark fins" sounds like you'd be using the shark fins as currency to me, that is to say grammatically correct but generally nonsensical.
It's ego driven. I won't give up my money until everyone else does.

If you really want to give more, than do. If you want to make sure you are still in top then stop..
Why would it take decades? Not stopping the still operating PWRs takes no time. Restarting the stopped BWRs that haven't been dismantled takes weeks. Building a reactor takes four years, provided you buy it from the Russians, Koreans, or Canadians. How long it would take to build 50 reactors, which would decarbonize Germany's electric grid, depends on how quickly the pressure vessels can be forged. Probably on the order of one decade. So one decade to do what Energiewende didn't do in 30 years.