skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP but, in my mind (having used both extensively), Postgres is basically the closest I feel you can get to MSSQL in the open source world, in terms of completeness of a fully functional relational database that scales - not to mention Postgres has tons of features that MSSQL has been playing catch up with for years.

I like both of them personally. Postgres didn't used to have as strong of a showing on Windows, and not as fancy tools as Management Studio/Query Analyzer/Azure Data Studio, but I think today Postgres is absolutely viable to replace SQL Server if you want to switch to open source.
Russia is eagerly waiting for the day the north sea passage opens. They welcome this with open arms.
Apple, as it is now, was built off the cash cow that was the iPod. Then they cannibalized it with the iPhone.
Employees sign non-moonlighting agreements that makes the employer own all their work related ideas. It would be a violation of contract to withhold those ideas.
Why do companies that build platforms and marketplaces keep doing this? Are they really so uncreative that they just can't help but compete with the vendors?
In most places you need a business license to operate a business of any kind.

Then there's more industry-specific licenses based on what you're doing.
The "Open Research Institute" is a one-person affair that she created on her own. You can put anything you want in your job title in Moma, you know. That's why I was talking about everyone else in her ladder and team.
Deep neural networks for YouTube recommendations (2016)
2019 - The year that podcasting started going downhill because of the greed machine.

Got no problem with people making money off podcasts, but once everything starts getting consolidated, crap just goes south.
I was once stuck in a "Faster route available" infinite loop in GMaps near some small town outside of Houston. At an intersection, my original route was to continue straight, but the "faster route" prompt redirected me to turn right. After turning right, a "faster route" prompt redirected me to make a u-turn. After returning to the intersection, it again suggested the direction I had just come from.
I think this is about the granularity of SLAs and monitoring.

If a provider promises that, overall, 99.5% of all requests will succeed, but the 0.5% errors are all concentrated on some few customers / regions / AZs, customers can have a very bad day.

So this is about promising each customer that 99.5% of all their requests will succeed, and monitor in a way that makes sure you can keep that promise.
Could it be the pickers are just not caring about the size of the boxes? They are supposed to be completing so many orders so little time that it's easier to just grab a big box they know is big enough while trying to get one more appropriately sized would take too much time.
Related better implementation of the inpainting, though I wonder how it'd look with the automasking in this.

https://nbei.github.io/video-inpainting.html
I can't wait to see the flood of posts in 12 months about "why I'm leaving substack"
Well, Linus Pauling did some things right and some things very wrong. He, personally, is responsible for delaying research into quasi-crystals, by personally attacking Shechtman ("There are no quasi crystals, only quasi scientists") and applying all his might to discredit Shechtman in particular and quasi crystal research in general. Shortly after he died, quasi-crystals became an accepted field, and Shechtman later got a Nobel for that.

With respect to his mega vit-C protocols - they have been shown to have some beneficial effect, especially with respect to cold and the flu, but not his general claims AFAIK despite various attempts by people with favorable attitudes.

He was not a god; He was a smart, successful, but also imperfect human being.
Yeah, I have dog/cat allergies and it can be terrible, depending on the dog/cat.
A great motivation and keeping it simple from an interface perspective is a cool intention.

It's a great start with tons of directions you can take it, and many interesting challenges along the way - keep up the good work!
How do services like Sia handle illegal content?
I believe the Alex voice is not synth, but actual phoneme voice files of a real human.

When I look in `/System/Library/Speech/Voices` and run `du -sh *` I see Alex.SpeechVoice is 877MB so godda be something wav-like in there.
The problem is that the vendor is incentivized to publicly use whatever metric shows the highest availability. Otherwise, the vendor will have to pay back credits. The vendor's nines are never my nines.
Don't for get the cats.
No imperfection in the Wikipedia page supports either of the notions that systemic compensation issues are an inappropriate topic of workplace advocacy or that equal compensation has anything to do with economic outcomes for siblings (???). Both of these are in nigh non-sequitur territory.
I worked at a place like that. I wasn't even aware of the problem. It was just how things were.

One day our director called a meeting and announced that our whole department had a serious issue with interrupting. He noted the results of interrupting each other (not hearing each other out, drifting off topic, just being seen by the rest of the company as jerks). He laid out a bunch of rules for meetings, discussions, etc and he policed them for a few months.

It mostly worked as everyone (even the interrupters) saw the benefits pretty fast and the urge to interrupt seemed to fade as everyone knew they'd get to get all their words out of their mouth when it was their turn. Meetings even went faster.

Might be worth probing if your manager or any leadership feel like it is a problem / what the impact of this communication style is.
>> Over 20,000 objects were found over a 15-year period at the Goddard Site in Brooklin, Maine. The sole non-Native artifact was the coin.[8]

By frequentist assumptions and given this evidence, the probability that Vikings visited the Americas before Columbus is 0.00005. We can therefore safely conclude that the Vikings never visited the Americas before Columbus.

(er, joke)
You have to cross out or write over the To address on the envelope. If you add some scribbles to a corner of the envelope, yeah, they won't notice and just re-deliver.
Million times this.

Its shocking how "elevated rate of errors for specific endpoint" in your cloud provider status page is actually amplified to be a soft-outage of your product when your writes to disk never return, your databases returning inconsistent data or your orchestration taking some drastic measures for the failing health check.

When you have a lot of components in your cloud mix, failure of one stage(network->balancing->quering->rendering->persistence) bring everything down.

if 10 of your cloud services each have a reliability of 99.999, all together the reliability is not 99.999.

cloud providers can claim mountain-high availablity whereas users will never get their apps running with advertised reliability for now there is multiple subcomponents that can fail.
(Can’t) Picture This 2:An Analysis of WeChat’s Realtime Image Filtering in Chats
There are many non upper-middle class people here so I would say it is an unwarranted assumption.
So I’m 100% in favor of urgent and strong action on climate change. Reducing impact of cattle ranching, improving urban planning, and encouraging local food consumption are all great medium-to-long time horizon goals.

But:
1) It’s not enough. The methane and CO2 from extraneous transportation only accounts for some portion of the GHG problem.
2) Restricting peoples’ access to food (up to and including outright banning major classes of food) is an extreme solution that is sure to be extremely unpopular, correspondingly. And environmental economic theory strong suggests that command and control style policies are less efficient than market-based solutions (e.g. cap and trade, carbon tax and dividend), which also have the effect of catalyzing innovation and long-term change via the price signal. But, I do think coal fired power plants are worth a ban and rapid decommissioning.
3. That said, I also think we’re beyond the market-based solutions that economists and technocrats (like me!) approve of. I’m in favor of wartime-scale and worldwide production of renewable energy infrastructure + decarbonization efforts (including reforestation and other forms of carton capture), worldwide. Ideally, with the US leading the way, given that we are responsible for a plurality of the cumulative emissions since the industrial revolution. This also means supporting sustainable development where appropriate.

People of every political stripe hate draconian bans and love building stuff. It would be something amazing to look back on if we really went all-in and mobilized a rapid decarbonization/greening of the planet. Either way, it’s our generation’s grand challenge.
There are a lot of webpages with my name on them, and the Cuil search engine put the XfD discussion about deleting my Wikipedia page (because I'm not significant enough) on the first page of Cuil's results for my name. I was thrilled :-D
I've been working on a new company that's doing cloud hosted postgres foreign data wrappers as a service (plus a bunch of interface / workflow stuff on top) and while I'm biased I totally agree. The postgres FDW system has gotten very sophisticated in later releases. It does performance optimizations like pushing down filters / aggregates, and it even goes further by supporting sending remote explain calls out to the underlying datasources to use in query planning. In one of my local tests vs. Denodo it smartly decided _not_ to push a group by down when the cardinality of the column being grouped on is very high (since the grouping doesn't reduce the number of rows sent over the wire very much), which blew me away.

If anyone is interested I'd love to chat: steve (at) syndetic.co
Unikernels on Papers-We-Love
This all comes down to Facebook and friends holding on to your money, making interest on it, while everybody passes their tokens around. Many other companies have been doing this for a very long time, just not in such a widespread way and opening their currencies up to whoever wants to use it.

Take xbox live's original currency (still in use) where you pay $X for Y coin. They had your money in the bank, while you had some coins in your account, just sitting there, doing nothing for you. They had a bit more control and you could only buy amounts of coin that were not equal to the amount of coin you had to spend to buy anything, so you always had some left in your account.

In Facebook's case, just the time it takes to convert money to Libra and then back into actual money will net them some interest on it. On such a large scale, that's a constant income.

They're trying to be a non-profit because they don't actually charge for the service, but the investors still make money by way of holding on to your cash while it's in Libra form.
I use this in combination with turning off Google's automatic News page on the phone to drastically reduce my *get on the phone for something specific and proceed to get sidetracked rate (barring Twitter where I am a degenerate addict..)
The quote is a representative sample of the article, an article which is illustrative of Musk's apparent disinterest in (or ignorance of) the Toyota Production System. I've never seen a Musk quote that clearly demonstrates he has any idea how TPS works or what he is really competing against.
I've always thought something like robots.txt was a bit silly when it's so easy to ignore.
Although the cost of cloud backups are egregious compared to the cost of raw storage, I'll pay a premium for the peace of mind that comes from letting someone else be held liable for storing my data and credentials to access it. I can easily upload/download files to google, iCloud, or Dropbox from almost any device knowing only my email and password, which I find preferable to having to remember an arbitrary 29 word seed. With the amount of exit scams in cryptocurrency, too, I just don't trust any project to continue to provide the same amount of utility that they do now, if they provide any at all.

I suppose you could use a custodian site to link an email and password to the seed, but then you enter a centralized third party to the mix.

I see value in Sia but it's just not for the average person in its current state.
Oh hi, creator of the video here!

It's just a fun video of me messing around with Windows 8.1 I made a while back, trying out different "apps" and stuff. I thought it'd be a fun easter egg to download the video itself when I was trying out that strange YouTube MP3 downloader app :D

I didn't do it with the API (even though I tried to at first), just the normal youtube.com/upload site. I used Fiddler (Burpsuite alternative) to achieve this

I am not the first person to do this however, Insane Doll Gallery has made a video demonstrating this [youtu.be/ufq2Eb78kSU] (apparently used the API) and the channel NightFalls Studios has also used this trick in their My Little Pony comic animations [youtu.be/FDLvR9xrCag and youtu.be/7oXsOmqs6R4]
The most important quote might be from Mnuchin yesterday:

"Treasury takes very seriously the role of the US Dollar as the world's reserve currency, and will continue our efforts to protect our country". [1]

Are you supposed to say that out loud?

[1] https://youtu.be/zAICzg8ir50?t=370
As of May 30, 2019 he owned 63,550 Class A shares and 54,995 Class B, according to the company’s filings.

So about $24M at today’s price.
>"[...]Amadeus presented the paperwork on a page with a URL that includes the passenger's ID number. This ID number could be changed to another number to call up other boarding passes[...]"

How many times does this exact enumeration "vulnerability" need to be exploited before people realize it's bad practice to set up your site this way? Perhaps it's a bit of survivorship bias, but it always seems to be banks, health agencies, or otherwise companies storing extremely sensitive data that are exposed for this.

It reminds me of a story in Canada, where a young gentlemen was charged for changing the number in the URL for the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Portal to download documents.[1]

[1]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/freedom-of-inform...

>The teen has been charged with "unauthorized use of a computer," which carries a possible 10-year prison sentence, for downloading approximately 7,000 freedom-of-information releases.
I think most times I've returned anything, I've had to show the original receipt, so it'd be pretty obvious to them if I bought the item at a discounted price.

If they didn't bother to look at the receipt for your laptop... well, that seems like negligence on the part of the staff handling the return.
It's like any good technical religious debate: both sides have good points and the ideal that they're both working toward is somewhere in the middle.

Airbus has backed off trying automate everything (starting with AF 296 in 1988) and, as this MCAS debacle has demonstrated, Boeing is happy to add serious automation. The days of the "pilot's plane" are long over. Now it's ever thinnner shades of gray.
Mine is how it now randomly suggestions turns based on what businesses are nearby. Example, "Turn right at the Chipotle". So now I have too look for signs of businesses in strip malls that may or may not be prominent in order to know where to go.

What a miserable service.
But then from what I learned it’s not a Martini, it’s a Martinez! And yes it did come first. :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinez_(cocktail)
I struggle a lot with learning due to ADHD but I found below heuristics/techniques helpful in overcoming barriers to learning:
1) OKR : Objectives and Key Results - especially hierarchical deconstruction of OKR [1]
2) OODA : Observe-orient-decide-act loop (similar to REPL in Lisp) [2]
3) DSSS : Deconstruction, Selection, Sequencing, Stakes - an accelerated learning technique promoted by Tim Ferris' Four-hour Chef book [3]
4) Outlining and Concept Mapping with Workflowy or Org-mode
5) 4DX : Four disciplines of Execution as described in the book Deep Work by Cal Newport

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Measure-What-Matters-Simple-Drives/dp...
[2] https://fs.blog/2018/01/john-boyd-ooda-loop/
[3] https://tim.blog/2012/11/05/the-4-hour-chef-the-first-chapte...
Yes, and Anchor. Podcasts are on the way out, just like the open Web. It's unfortunate that we refuse to learn from history.
IBM Kabanero: App Development and Deployment Lifecycle W. K8S, Knative and Istio
There are certain things that Apple holds dear in many products, but there are many that are great and are just transparent. The iphone has virtually always had flash that is much faster than competing phones, for instance, but nary a word is mentioned about it.

In this case, the internal store went from "extremely fast -- far above most competitors" to, at least in this sample, "slightly less extremely fast -- still far above most competitors".

It's a giant nothingburger topped with a clickbait condiment.
Clash Royale Hack
Form what I read in the article it doesn't sound all that terrible. If Apple were to remove all non-Apple podcasts from its platform, that would be bad. This is just Apple supplementing what's already available.

It's very much like Apple rolling out original television shows on the AppleTV. It's not like HBO is getting kicked out.

It makes sense to me that Apple would do this. Since it's making podcasts a separate program on the Mac, it wants to make it more popular and useful.

As far as I can tell, there's nothing stopping another person, company, or organization from producing podcasts that blow Apple's offerings out of the water and still distributing them through Apple. When that happens, I'll worry. Until then, this seems like an OK way to draw attention to podcasts as a whole.
I would love if they at least just made it a premium RSS feed
I thought, '0' (zero) is filled/dashed in that font to distinguish it from 'O'. Or you're trolling. ;-)
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/16/ibm_promising_easie...
Ask HN: Are cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology innovative?
Why would you write four cases? You only care about two of the cases.
Playing with Phoenix LiveView and Custom JavaScript
Probably. And I won’t listen to any Gimlet shows that require me to use the Spotify app.

I’m fine with subscription podcasts, I pay for a few. But if I can’t use my podcast app it’s not happening.
People are willing to pay for educational content, most of the content on Substack is news. It's hard to get people to pay for news. Interesting to see another play in this space though, hope someone gets it right.
Libra becoming a significant amount of trade takes soverenty away from governments. Giving it to Facebook is not giving it to the people, it's transferring it to a corporation.

There's no dichotomy there, but straightforward transfer of soverenty to a corporation.
> everything is political

I just fixed a bug involving a typo in a regular expression. Do you think that was political? If so, I'd like to see how. If not, I'd like to know how to tell what is political apart from what is not political.
Didn't the thermal situation radically improve after the first firmware update?
The fact that many status pages are updated manually and any incident disclosure need to get approval from management(aws?) does not add to the status page trust.

Uptime and error metrics are technical and should be kept away from managers.
Right, and she's reported to the same person for a while now, who has nothing to do with drive.
Bike routes with offline maps would be a nice addition as well...
> User-agent: TeleportPro

I remember using it to download whole (small) websites on dialup and then to read offline.
Curious... Do you have data to back up your claims?

* about more professional drones
I think the concern is more accurately: you must go out of your way to honor robots.txt.

I think both robots.txt and security.txt are great ideas. However, they will always only be useful to those who follow the wishes of the website (which hopefully outweight those who do not).
Ad injection?

As far as I know Overcast does not inject ads into podcasts. There are banner ads within the app but that's not "injection"
If I think my coworker is disagreeable and is preventing me from being productive and my coworker disagrees, am I "defining his/her identity"? That language seems very odd to me. What's the difference between "defining someone's identity" and "having an opinion about someone that is contrary to how they view themselves"?

More broadly, you seem to be saying that the only reason anyone is skeptical of the Google protestors is that that the protestors don't like that person. That's quite an assumption. In reality, people simply disagree about things. And there's room for reasonable disagreement.
CloudEvents: A specification for describing event data in a common way
The system is pretty deeply integrated with the rest of the car. So I imagine turning it off would take more than one single "flip". Or at least turning it off reliably, since every module involved has to be disabled while the rest of the car acts normally and is still connected to the internet.
"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

It's gone now that everybody has a pocket supercomputer, but it's stunning just how far it went in completely changing the way we relate to music, and audio in general.
Apple having original podcasts, EVEN IF FREE, means there are now two classes of citizens on its platform. First class (Apple stuff), and ‘the rest’.

And I don’t trust that ‘the rest’ will continue to get good treatment like they have. It’s too easy to stop featuring big podcasts from companies who are now your podcast competitors.

Basically they’re losing their neutrality.
Is there any reason we can't just rip podcasts from these, post them in RSS feeds and have the non-owned apps list them for free - thus making them far superior by giving them access to all content?
Thanks for the kind words! Appreciate it!
I believe that censorship resistance is a key value proposition for decentralized file storage. So its agnostic handling of illegal content is a feature, not a bug.
I've been on the receiving end of this from the POV of a fortune 50 company. Companies that are not gnats on anyone's window. Treatment is the same. These big guys just all suck at professional service. All their money goes into sales and product engineering. Lock-in breeds retention. The biggest clients are the ones that tend to be the most locked in too.
Arlo Vulnerability Allows Network Guests to Control Cameras
This is so weird: on the one hand some of these crackpot theories think some things are too advanced (Antikythera dev), other times they want think people were more advanced than known evidence suggest (Baghdad battery). So they are all over the place, but consistent in thinking modern understanding is wrong.
Don’t really get the ‘bro’ dig.
We Watched 906 Foul Balls to Find Out Where the Most Dangerous Ones Land
Google, Bing, and other large search engines honor it. That alone is the point of most of the entries in this file.