skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this worth paying a premium for, though? Maybe a SQL SSD could get some adoption, but a simple KV store? How would that ever be a bottleneck (they are relatively easy to make blazing fast, unlike SQL) in your application? How many people/corporations actually want something like this?
These are my favorite: https://dryeyeshop.com/collections/nights/products/tranquile...

I went through about a dozen different masks over the course of 6 months and these were the most comfortable. I like the removable inserts -- sometimes I want the pressure on my eyelids, sometimes I don't. They completely block out the light. And they trap moisture so your eyes stay moist overnight.
> I guess it might be necessary for marketing reasons, but I'd prefer if they'd just not announce deadlines. You know you're not going to make them, these things always slip, again and again.

Fairphone did this with the Fairphone 3, and people complained they had to idea what the specs were going to be. Some even wondered if the company was dying. Finally, there were complaints that the marketing was "like Apple", a blasphemy.

There's something to say for both methods, and there's always going to be people unhappy with any decision made.
Just popping in to say this is one of the most impressive C-level replies i have ever seen. Straight acknowledgement of the criticism from OP, but explains the reasoning and demonstrates the benefit to both customer and stripe. Closes with willingness to change if business model doesnt produce results matched by test market. Doesnt read as defensive or marketing buzzwordy, just straightforward and simple.

I hope to one day open some businesses and be cursed with high performance and pay a penalty to stripe.
Atlassian launches free tiers for all its cloud products
It would a nice benefit if you could discount the credit card processing fees during the repayment period.

E.g. You charge a 10% upfront fee for the loan, and repay at a 10% rate, from the perspective of the company they’re actually paying 12.9% to Stripe during repayment.

If you could pay just the 10% or even if you just got a .5% reduction to 12.4% overall going to Stripe during the repayment period, it becomes more of a win-win and a nice customer loyalty type bonus.
Seems similar to the Jevons paradox, as discussed here:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7pNJ9aQxRMrWAnkmf/thank-you-...
Apple Considers Cryptocurrencies Have “Long-Term Potential”
You didn't include the fee in the payback, and you are confusing monthly with annual interest rates
Not exactly library music, but I've found commercial music from "Extreme Production Music" to be very interesting. I love their Dark Country series. I guess the story is they hired Blues Saraceno to make commercial music, and his rock-inspired country tunes took off, they started releasing albums of it. Outlaw blues, Garage Blues series, Swamp Rock,etc, albums created for commercial sales, but they found record sales profitable, glad too.

Spotify has a Label: search, you can search entire label catalogs, and that lead me to get some really nice albums that are made for genres.
This has been my thought on why FB will probably do fantastic in this space.
They said he ate "white bread". In the United States at least, this is usually enriched with the B-complex vitamins. I guess he didn't eat enough of it, or where he lived this wasn't done.
While I agree that the IO interface is pretty standard everywhere, doesn't mean the standard couldn't/shouldn't be better for higher level languages.

At the application layer, I really don't care to utilize a partially filled buffer, I want a result set that has what was read. Of course, nobody is being stopped from creating such things as abstractions. StreamReader for C# as an example.
Are there tools that tell you where all your allocations come from? I imagine Valgrind but is there anything more lightweight?

I almost always write pool based memory allocators for my projects (CG, games), so I typically log that info myself. What would other folks use to profile that info?
lego strikes the best balance between a construction and a colorful toy. all other construction set alternatives (such as fisher-technic and many others) are more boring because they have less decorative elements that make the models actually beautiful and fun to play with. and all other "beautiful" toys are mostly useless for any kind of contruction. only lego strikes the right kind of balance here, to the point that in my home pretty much no other toys survive. (and yes, i grew up with lego too, so i am quite content with only choosing lego or lego-clones as gifts)
Now your SSD can be web scale too!
What's the difference between going and buying 10 top goods individually and buying a bundle that contains those same 10 top goods.
This continues the trend we see in processors, that in a post-Moore's law environment, rather than trying to push physical limits for performance improvements, we're branching out into hardware optimized for specific purposes. Very neat to see it on the storage side, and something I don't think anyone could fathom back in the spinning disk days.
Related: I've begun to put people who are extra-pedantic about the word fascist into their own little silo.
I think HN should in particular not feel informed enough to comment on strategic benefit of product decisions like these, because the general HN opinion of FB which is at such odds at FB's place in society is enough to conclude that HN doesn't really understand FB.

HN is a SV or SV-adjacent bubble that takes pride in not having social media profiles and doesn't hesitate in boasting about it in every frigging thread, multiple times a day. In contrast, (b)millions around the world find value in social media every single day and use it for all kinds of applications.

I am confident FB understands this much better than people like us here who can't think of any good use cases of social media without presenting 10 riders to assure the crowd that we hate FB.
According to the CDC, over 70% of American adults are overweight or obese, so by targeting a "large cross-section" of the population restaurants are in fact aiming at 'large' customers. This reality isn't represented in advertising for obvious reasons.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm
Google has a well-documented history of anti-competitive behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google
They were also literally stealing money from people using their ad platform: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17103280

The FTC found that Google illegally took content from competitors, but Google was able to lobby away any punitive action: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/20/google-il...

If they do compensate any web sites it's only because the sites are too big to steal from or because they were sued and lost.
If you only have a K&R-style declaration visible, you can still call it with the wrong number of arguments, but (contrary to what you'd expect from doing the same thing in JS or Lua) most C implementations will instead pass some garbage data as the additional parameter, rather than NULL. Also, most C implementations will allow you to cast function pointers in a way that results in calling the function with the wrong number of arguments.

If you're especially unlucky, that garbage data will happen to be NULL at first, but then become non-NULL when you recompile with debugging turned off, resulting in truly fascinating ways to spend your Friday and Saturday nights the month before shipping.

(I know you know this, Kaz. I'm mentioning this for the benefit of those who haven't yet spent their Friday and Saturday nights this way.)
My company was auto-enrolled in the Stripe Capital beta some weeks/months ago (not sure when). I never accepted the money. Here's what they offered:

$12,500 advance; $1,250 fixed fee; 3.8% of sales towards repayment.

$18,500 advance; $1,850 fixed fee; 5.6% of sales towards repayment.

$25,000 advance; $2,500 fixed fee; 7.6% of sales towards repayment.

My company grossed $45,600 MRR this August. I love Stripe and swear by it, but I don't really understand why someone in my position would want this offer. The highest amount represents only about 17 days of revenue.
They are moving all drivers to user space.

All the ones corresponding to the former IO Kit do require C++, all the remaining categories are going to be supported from Swift as well.

This is planned to take place across several releases, at the end of which no kernel drivers will be any longer allowed.
What are some tools your company had to build in-house?
QLC-based SSDs are coming very close to parity with cost/capacity of traditional hard drives. Terabyte SSDs are now sub-$100, which isn't that bad at all.

Note that the reliability concerns about SSDs have seemed mostly overblown, after years of abuse and testing.
Some previous discussions about Fogbank:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115211

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15331731

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1928233
FYI The only DSL with a readme is the poop one.
Ok.... I can just store the mapping of content key to blkid. Then I can load the mapping into memory. Then I have a key value store on an SSD using cheap, available hardware.
Back in 2007 you could've made a similar chart to show that CDOs are a small amount of the market.

What's unclear is the impact that ETFs have on prices. This "debunking" doesn't address the point about low volume.

Let's suppose most of those non-ETFs owners are buy and hold investors that bought in a long time ago and wouldn't buy anywhere near today's prices.

That would mean ETF holders, especially those who joined late, could still be responsible for a disproportionate share of today's prices. If the market shows signs of weakness, these people need to get out, especially if they bought on leverage.
The best part of the book is the part about The Kennedy Portfolio, in Chapter 9.
"Reader John Kennedy regularly passes along intriguing assembly programming tricks, many of which I've never seen mentioned anywhere else."
> This pretty clearly carries the implication that being "well-regulated" is more than just well-equipped.

In that context, it seems that to the writer, "well-regulated" meant trained, likely continuous training kept up at somewhat regular intervals (in how to use their weapon, and how to care for it so that it is ready to use), and that they should keep their knowledge up ("evolutions") on more recent advances in weaponry so that they have some idea how to care and use those as well.

> "...the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

Today, there are many people who are showing that they cannot be trusted with arms. They use them instead of reason, they use them for illegal purposes, they use them as toys, they don't take regular training to understand them, they - in short - don't act like militiamen should act. They certainly don't seemingly act "well-regulated".

Are these the kind of citizens the Framers - and perhaps the Federalist papers - had in mind to keep and bear arms?
The UK doesn't have any negotiating leverage. It's May's Withdrawal Agreement, or no deal. Boris Johnson is pantomiming negotiations with the EU, but there's no basis on which to negotiate. Surely you know this?
https://soundcloud.com/edgefoundationinc

The other talks from the conference that Danny
spoke at are here as well...

https://www.edge.org/conversations

It appears that these conversations all happened
around the same table where some members of Edge
gathered on a particular day but they were published
each week over a course of time
For instance, suppose I take out a $25K loan with a $2.5K fixed fee. Now 15% of my sales go toward repayment. Let's say I pull in a little over $30K in sales a month. The loan will be repaid in about six months, and my effective APR is 20%! Might as well put it on a credit card!

Not everyone has a credit card with a $25,000 limit on it. That really is the point of factoring future receivables like this. Stripe has visibility into your income that a traditional lender does not have, and can use this data to make loans that traditional banks and credit card companies would not make. That has value to people with more limited credit options than you apparently have, and is well worth the fees that Stripe is charging to the businesses that need it.
In this case, it applies to both. A civilization too demonstrates fitness by surviving.
Agree for subsequent loads, but I think it's not enough — all new visitors will not use the cache.
Maybe but for expense type stuff... I've done a fair amount of travel and they didn't really care what car rental place I used, airline, etc.
Comprehensive CSS Variables Polyfill for IE11
> How would that ever be a bottleneck

Disk I/O is always the bottleneck.
Here's a good example of OFAC in action. The person's name was only in a memo field...not the payer or recipient: http://imgur.com/a/RnpRm
AaaS – Alcohol as a Service
The median income in Sweden is $27900 USD (give or take). So $300 would be about ~10% of your monthly income, in other words: a fair bit of money.
Quite a few databases lately are using RocksDB as their backend. Really, relational databases are just a key-value store with a well-optimized query planner on top of it.

See:

-CockroachDB (a spinoff of Google's Spanner)
-MySQL's MyRocks (Facebook)
-YugaByte (Postgres compatible sharded SQL)
-Ceph (Opensource alternative to Amazon S3)

I am guessing this is looking into improving the performance even further.
The fact that members in those religious communities actively avoid the medical system is a factor that needs to change and isn't the case across the globe - people being unaware of their pregnancy is an issue with a lack of education and test availability, and that factor is particularly easy to change except within those cloistered religious communities.
I use them together and its awesome. D3 handles all the layout and scaling while react handles the dom. As a mostly native developer this combo has blown my mind. I can make awesome complex viz with like 1/5 the code I would need in say swift.
Well, arXiv, Library Genesis, Wikipedia, GitLab, GitHub, and Google Scholar together are a pretty good resource for this. They could be a lot better — for example, being fully legal — but they're pretty amazingly good right now
Bookbuses – Rent a charter or school bus
Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance
There are still people discovering prices, and they are still getting paid somehow, probably by first-mover advantage.

Are we sure that the right model is to just watch these first-movers and do what they do?
>Are you really having a blast in stop and go traffic in your Tesla?

For sure. For one thing, the car looks flashy and draws a decent amount of attention where I live, so it's fun just driving around town.

For another, I accelerate pretty fast at lights, so that never really gets old.

And in stop and go traffic on the freeway, it's fun because I just set autopilot on.
So now we will have yet another computer IN THE SSD too? Is this a good idea? https://boingboing.net/2018/11/12/cpus-in-your-cpus.html
Everyone had to sacrifice something, my uncle sacrificed 4 years of his life. Maybe losing his inherited lands is the prince of Liechtenstein's sacrifice.
Go's pprof comes with a great memory (and cpu + more) profiler: https://blog.golang.org/profiling-go-programs
the whole idea of "evolving neural networks" didn't pan out

To the contrary, evolving neural networks is all the rage these days ("Neural Architecture Search", e.g. SOTA on Imagenet [1])

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11946
Naively, I'd guess you can build an ML model to detect the difference...
>LTE and WiFi work just fine on my devkit?

I don't know, do they?
Interesting. I remember a short period where Seagate was really hyping their own ethernet connected key/value hard drives back in 2015[1]. It seems like that project died and this appears to be a completely different API (and not ethernet based).

[1]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/17/seagate_kinect_open...
Is the fee not charged upfront - that's why I excluded it from the payback period.

Ahh you caught the mistake with the interest periods! Thanks!
Well the article only mentions one person yelling at him to shut up. Out of the entire audience.

The article also doesn't say that him being told to shut up was net with applause, or anything like that.

And considering that slant in the article, if there was any hint more people agreed, you know it would be in there.
I was thinking similarly, but rather that the process should be front-loaded.

If you are working on a team of engineers to produce a piece of software, and large amounts of time are being spent discussing a fixation such as style guidelines and linter exceptions then I would wager there was not enough (or perhaps even any) time spent on deciding and documenting those things at the start of the project.

If you find yourself having discussions on fixations repeatedly, it's almost certainly time to take a step back, as a team, and come up with the guidelines everyone can live with, and then, most importantly, document those guidelines.

This makes future discussions on fixations really quite simple: "It's in the documented guidelines for the project so either follow that, or propose a change to the guidelines as part of your pull request".
Klarna, a Swedish competitor in some European markets, has been offering an identical fixed-fee repay-as-you-earn business loan to its customers, and even customers of some other e-commerce firms, for a while now.

English press release: https://www.klarna.com/international/press/klarna-launches-b...

Swedish marketing website: https://www.klarna.com/se/foretag/products/foretagslan/ (they claim it's available in the UK on that page, but I can't find a UK marketing page for it?)
CISC is back with a vengeance!
Mini autocorrect algorithm using a deque
Directing traffic to a website doesn't always deliver increased value to a website. If I can find a restaurant's hours or phone number without clicking through to the (very possibly terrible) restaurant website and decide to have dinner there, that's a win for both me and the restaurant.
War is politics by another name. Unfortunately that is how human civilization has made the majority of its progress. Sad! But true.
Why would that be? Health care providers, bail risk assessment software for courts, ... it's not like some public entity like the IRS would be likely to develop much in-house.
Indeed. The Great Depression was precipitated by deflation in Europe, with deflation being a side-effect of the gold standard. Deflation leads to labor cuts (why invest if you can get richer sitting on your money?), which Europe struggled with throughout the 1920s. And eventually the Europeans deflated themselves into poverty; they stopped buying American goods and stopped investing in American stocks, and the whole house of cards came crumbling down.

We've had modern capitalism for, what, 150-200 years, now? And the one consistent thing we know about capitalism is that money accumulates at the top. Moderate inflation is one way to counter that dynamic, albeit an increasingly ineffective one. Inflation makes people feel insecure, but like with everything else the "security" of a very low inflation or deflationary environment will benefit capitalists far more than labor.
> So anyways, my next post will explain why this is all a lie and you’re actually maybe doomed to lose your job to automation. If you’ve found the problem with this analysis already, feel free to leave it in the comments.

That article is essentially refuting itself.
David Allen – The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD)
See also a review by Andrew Gelman:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/01/08/book-pearl...
If your structures are good, your architecture is provided out of the box.
I just finished remixing a great DeWolfe track for a client.

Here’s the original, a solid jam: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U-WzMovyzUA
Obviously, key-value stores aren't a new thing... but pushing that abstraction to hardware offers far better latency.
That, and my Treos before it, went in my pocket with the keys, but that was the last one to do so. They didn't build it as tough as the Treos, so it didn't last long.
Well, for instance, it says that the BBC has an official position that "there is very high confidence that there will be more extreme events – floods, droughts, heatwaves etc." (Presumably, by "more", they mean an increase of substantial importance, not, say, 5%.) This seems more alarmist than the scientific consensus.

Regarding the consensus, they say "The BBC accepts that the best science on the issue is the IPCC’s position". Here, you have to read between the lines. Do you think that this means they will "de-platform" people who are more alarmist than the IPCC? I doubt it. In that respect, it's always, "the latest research, too recent for the last IPCC report, shows that it's worse than we thought...".
Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims (2018)
Do you have anything meaningful to contribute to this discussion or are you just here to shit on anything with "Google" in the title?
>Weighted blankets

recipe for the best weighted blanket for the best sleep - takes one regular blanket and a cat: cover yourself with the blanket, let the cat to lie on top. Enjoy. For even better result - pet the cat.
WeWork is on pace to hit ~3-4b revenue this year
In an ideal world, I would prefer most every bit of code was written with your fifth replacement in mind.

This means that you've taken the time to document what you've done, test what you've done, and even included any relevant design and architecture concerns for why you have done it.

Without this information, your fifth replacement is likely to have many frustrating "why did they do that this way?" reactions which sometimes will lead to rediscovery of exactly why when they try to remove or change it and are confronted with the context.
To me the most interesting part is that it is an off the shelf, unmodified unit, just sent into space. I think this community would be interested - maybe reflect that in the title?
That just invokes early-80s sitcom closing credits in my head for some reason...
Whining about titles is white-noise that contributes zero value to the discussion, and it's absolutely rampant on HN.
Yeah but it also makes a lot of sense from a talent attraction side. People in cheap areas need less pay to be attracted to work at a company and someone living in a large city will require more to want to work at your company. It sucks a bit from the remote work dream of getting FAANG West Coast salaries while living in the middle of nowhere but that was always a bit of a pipe dream for most people, they can pay you less and still far out pay the local competition, the only way to really get that would be for everyone to adopt remote work as a completely normal thing. Even then though I'd expect salaries to track somewhat with local cost of living.
get lego by the kilo on ebay or similar places. look for deals.

and (some will disagree with that) buy clone-brands that are cheaper. the quality of the clone brands is catching up. the only downside with clone-brands is that the often actually clone lego designed sets instead of designing their own which is not really ethical. but many brands also have their own sets.
Apologies if I made it personal, or misread comments as advocating dumping advertising altogether, sounds like we generally agree - I personally suspect Google, Facebook etc. would do fine without the privacy-invading targeting stuff - they still have hugely popular near-monopolies on which to display ads of whatever kind - Google search, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds etc.

Curious to look into the true effectiveness of this personalized stuff too, even my mom seems creeped out by it. Fingers crossed there's enough backlash and adblock-boycotting that they drop it.
> they have been given more money than they have good investment targets for

Why not give the money back?
Any application using LevelDB/RocksDB as their backend, e.g. Bitcoin.