skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonderful article that both talks about overall problems and at the same time gives concrete easy to understand ways to test your model.
Yes. It's a Google project. There are a lot of contributors outside of Google, but it was invented at Google, and governance is by a Google team, and the top contributors are Google employees.
I think it’s funny that web devs pretty much abandoned hierarchical databases since they are the OG database style.

I think it’s just going to take somebody shaking the cobwebs off of their X.500 manuals and making the query syntax and schemas a little more ergonomic for them to come back en vogue.

It’s one thing to have the ability to mold your DB to model hierarchical data but have your DB engine support it non-awkwardly might be a game changer. People are already used to apps needing a DB, cache, queues, S3, filesystem, service discovery, that adding one more thing would hardly break the bank.
This is not how right-of-way rules are designed for traffic in other environments.
This is awesome. So resourceful
I don’t know a lot about it but would Signal be safe or even possible to use there?
With the higher clustered protestors the tower linking won't be as identifiable as you might think.
This is an excellent point. Since 90+% of those startup people will end up with peanuts or debt, nearly any other job would have put them way ahead... not just FAANG jobs.

Startups are a rich person’s game....either from the VC perspective or the Zuckerbergs or Gates, etc etc who already have the nest egg and time to tough it out.

I’ve seen a lot of harm come to young people who feel like they should risk it all to fit into a VC’s portfolio and driven like a slave while bearing the lion’s share of the risk.
I wouldn't trust an app where the first thing you have to do is navigate dark patterns.
My first curling hack was to attach a speedometer to a tiny RC monster truck wheel and mount both on the end of the broom. When playing as a sweeper, I would slide along and touch the wheel to the ice as the thrower released the rock to get an accurate speed reading of the rock. Especially during draw weight shots where you're trying to hit the button, this aided the call as to whether to sweep or not. The idea may have been good, but the nuances of curling and the fact the ice is constantly changing speed throughout the game made the data not very useful. In the end, a well trained 'eye' was just as accurate and much quicker to make the call.
Off the top of my head:

- Change your DNS resolver to something you trust

- Use a paid VPN service (bonus points if it disables your internet when it's not connected to the VPN)

- Enable erasing data after several failed password attempts

- Disable notification previews on the lockscreen / when locked

- Disable Siri, control center, widgets, etc. on the lockscreen / when locked

- Disable Touch/Face ID when entering a risky location (airport, etc.)

- Disable location services, camera, microphone, etc. for every app you can

- Disable sending analytics to Apple and app developers

- Use a privacy conscious search engine (DuckDuckGo, StartPage)

- Install a good content blocker (1Blocker)

- Don't use apps like Facebook that violate your privacy

That's all I can think of for now.
Yup, I'm a monoglot. Saying something is "symbolic about" is awkward wording IMO. As is saying "dependence on the oil", instead of just "dependence on oil".
That's exactly how Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed: using two laser guided missiles while he spoke on sat phone. The signal was interceped by a Russian reconaissance aircraft.
I actually had situation where the using IN resulted in a query that run for 35s and after replacing with `ANY(VALUES(...` it took ~600ms.

In my case `column IN ('value1', 'value2')` was converted to an array like this: `((column)::text ANY ('{value1,value2}'::text[]))`, an index on the column was completely ignored and PG performed a sequential scan.

After changing it to `column = ANY (VALUES ('value1'),('value2'))` it created a table in memory and used it when performing an index scan.

I have feeling this is maybe some kind of a bug in query planner? This is on PG 9.6.8.
If you’re just talking about storing and retrieving documents in a hierarchy with a semi-fixed format then aren’t you asking for a filesystem?
Windows 10: We're now using AI to push 1803 users to 1903, says Microsoft
> It's mostly the SSD. Linux is great but the disk is a real choke point for a lot of system performance.

On Windows 10 it's definitely worse for sure. I don't know what they did since Win7 but it's pretty much unusable without an SSD now whereas a Debian would still run quite okay although slower.
This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjWSRTYV8e0) does a really good job explaining frame latency in CSGO and why you can benefit from running at FPS significantly higher than your refresh rate, and why vertical sync doesn't solve it like it should. The game is free now, so I'd highly recommend trying it out if you're doubtful about a smoothness difference between 100 and 250-300 FPS.
If it has been long enough, statute of limitations may apply.

It would depend on a great many factors though.
I don’t think China would care about cutting themselves off from the global internet.
Later it occurred to me to rephrase the above as:

- achieving trust is the ultimate motivation

- losing trust is the end of a relationship and motivation

Criticism can be a powerful way of demonstrating trust, but it can also signify a loss of trust - it's very contextual. Being ignored, too, can indicate complete trust, or it can indicate disengagement or absence of trust.
Don’t try to make sense of it, it doesn’t.

In a .gov environment, we literally paid 5x more for certain services because the contract terms demanded were too costly or onerous for OEMs to handle. So everything funneled through middlemen of dubious value, who basically borrowed money, pushed paper and carried insurance for a vig that pushed up the price.

The procurement people were very happy, because they got their three bids that varied less than 1%.
I think +1 posts are frowned upon here but damn this post deserves a +1
Ubiquiti is one of those companies. They use MongoDB for their controller app, which has been a pain in my side for a couple of years now.
Tree traversal without recursion: the tree as a state machine (2007)
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From the talk by Captain Al Haynes (http://clear-prop.org/aviation/haynes.html):

> We only gave them two minutes to line up for runway 22. They were all set up for runway 31. And when I told Kevin we saw this runway ahead of us, and that's where we were going to land, he had two minutes to get the equipment off the runway. They were actually positioned on that runway, and we could see them moving off that runway. That's the reason the video is no better than it was. With all the notice we had, everyone was set up for runway 31. The two hangars that are built right off to the left of runway 22 were built after the airport was closed, and you can't see the runway from the tower. And that's where the operator was. So he went clearing down the steps, and if you've ever tried to get down tower steps in a hurry, it's a long way down, and that's as far as he could get, before we got there.
Honest question, but do most people in North Korea have personal smartphones which can connect to outside networks and aren’t completely monitored by the government?
This was my understanding of the license as well. I read through the block and it very clearly suggested only selling the database as a service was not okay. Using the database as a data store should be fine.

If MongoDB really is sending salespeople to make claims against companies who they convinced to use their OSS database as a data-store, than they are indeed abusing their license and no one should use their database or support their company.

From what I read of the license, that shouldn't be the case though.
Water?
Trillions of cycles isn't that "limited", compared to e.g. Flash.
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Ask HN: Time Taken to Release a Feature
How much time does it take for you to launch an end to end feature?

My current rule of thumb is
- 8 to 10 weeks in a startup
- 6 to 8 months in FAANG

Assumptions
- Internet/App based consumer product
- End to end feature & not product improvements
I had some success with https://www.beeminder.com/ in my short time of using it so far. Essentially, it moves items from "important + not urgent" quadrant to "not important + urgent" one: by dinging your card $X dollars if you don't comply.

However, I also had to shift my mindset towards trying to progress via small inconsequential chunks, rather than trying to "fix everything". E.g. the idea is to just show up to the gym - not exercise - but if latter happens, then sure, why not (and it usually does). I think it helps snap out of the failure avoidance mode.
How does this handle migrations?
Android is separate from Linux in the report. Developers and tech people make up a significant (if not majority) share of Linux users.

A lot of popular Linux and developer related pages are HTTP only. I did a quick Google search for some Linux related tasks, and found plenty of sites that don't use HTTPS. e.g. man7.org, linuxhowtos.org, linuxcommand.org

The report does break down HTTPS traffic by country, and you're right that lower income countries do have a lower share of HTTPS traffic.
Would just be called non-JS. However you don't need to avoid javascript completely to cater to non-js users. The term "progressive enhancement" is used for a site that works without javascript but gets enhanced when it loads. Hacker News is like that. The links/buttons would trigger full page loads except the javascript cancels those actions and handles them without. The vote button won't refresh a page, for example.

I personally don't think there's a market for non-js users. Most of the web is pretty broken without. I've never encountered someone in the real world who lives this way, even in the tech world. At most, someone will install a no-script browser plugin. That makes whitelisting and enabling javascript dead easy for the user. The only legitimate non-js use cases, IMHO, are for extreme political cases where you'd also be using TOR.
Construction industry supply would prefer to sell you walkie-talkies
"helped" -> could it mean that he oversaw a group or a team that found these people? Or as a consultant perhaps...
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11832
CIA and military have much deeper, more significant roles in media, hollywood then you would believe. This information is freely available through Google searches.

But there is also a trend where the big media corporations seem to be turning to evil. I mean, I don't know what better word there is for it. What I mean is the kind of stuff described here: https://www.salon.com/2016/09/20/betraying-snowden-theres-a-...
Sam`s club will outsource Easymove for the same hour mattress delivery
IANAL, but: if you are an entity that provides free services to citizens of the EU, and you process PII (e-mail address), you are subject to the GDPR's rules.

"Monitoring" is also a qualifier for whether the rules apply, so it could be HN will simply say this disqualifies them, and require someone to take them to court (which YC can afford). But HN does install cookies on your computer, so I think you could still win such a case.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
Two different perspectives: on the search engine end being a consumer... that's a pretty easy-going experience, Google filters out the large amount of noise because it's a good search engine, you get your answer, you're on your way.

The other end of things, the users sitting on SO, weeding through the influx of questions, looking to grab bounties, etc. that is where working with SO is really rough. That is where we deal with a huge amount of garbage coming in.

Also as someone that has written answers for esoteric questions before, it can be hugely frustrating when the moderation-by-community ends up causing you grief because they don't understand the subject material enough to do anything other than to rule-lawyer your post to death (I started ripping my answers off the site and posting them to my own instead, which yay, I guess nice traffic boost?).

I stopped answering questions long ago unless it was referenced in a Github issue.

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On the more esoteric side of things, the duplicates can be really rough, if you have an error that is caused by something non-trivial but the same error can be caused by a trivial mistake you'll be fishing through hundreds of posts trying to find alternative answers and underlying causes, this is pretty much the only time that you find the trash heap bubbling up on the consumer side of things.
Great q.
For computer science (which I went to school for), what they teach in good CS programs provide great fundamentals: discrete math, probability, linear algebra, data structures, algorithms, computational analysis. Other fundamentals I didn't learn in college, but am trying to pick up to make myself a better graphics programmer: general physics problem solving and thinking, as well as common system design patterns.

For art, which I'm mostly self taught in, what I've found continues to help me is color theory, composition, and graphic design principles. I'm not super far along in my art practice career compared to CS, but that's what I've learned so far.
> “You have to have an actual body to collect on insurance,” says Ahearn. “And it has to be the body of the insured. Ashes are not a body.”

Absolutely false. An obvious counterexample is that the "victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks received more than $38 billion in compensation"[1], even though, as of 2015, "40% of those who died are unidentified".[2]

The article itself gives a counterexample: "In 2002, a British man named John Darwin “disappeared” in a canoeing accident only to be discovered five years later with his wife in Panama. Apparently, she’d cashed his life insurance policy to pay off their mortgage."

And if it were true, insurance companies would simply say, "no body, so payment denied". They wouldn't rush to hire a skip tracer as the article claims: "remains don’t turn up within a few weeks of their disappearance, that’s when insurance companies start blowing up his phone".

The article is very muddled on this point.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/la-110804compensation_lat-story.html

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/08/remains-911-...
Oh, you definitely can. You're just unlikely to be able to find them without already being involved in crime
Well there is pl/sql for instance that oracle has, migration costs would be too high for most people. We use pl/sql extensively at work, I cannot even imagine the effort(time/money/people) it would take to migrate from oracle.
FRAM is far from trillions of cycles, more close to billions, which still kills it after ~5-7 years of intense use.
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You don’t have to explain how you found someone. They can’t get one of your steps declared inadmissible and then have a second chance at running. I don’t see how the police would know, unless the phone company detected and reported it.

You do sometimes see news stories about police officers getting caught selling DMV database queries to PIs.
Is there any software that would be worse when open source?
It's not as bad if you start your company outside of Bay Area or get remote employees.
"... but won’t in insurance fraud. “You have to have an actual body to collect on insurance,” says Ahearn. “And it has to be the body of the insured. Ashes are not a body.”"

It sounds like you can't just get insurance money for a missing person.
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If it's not state-run intelligence agencies, it's private actors (whether legally or not). Everyone's snooping, and we have to act accordingly in how we communicate.
In a weird way, if you intentionally lose your personality traits, skills, love, passion completely and thoroughly, then perhaps you really have "killed yourself".

It's a cost a person pays and a million dollars probably ain't enough to a lot of people compared to the missed opportunity cost.
We won't, not until the next stage happens where all money is electronic and if they don't like you they turn off your ability to spend that money. Then maybe enough hungry people will wake up to the nightmare.
So as someone who doesn't like eating breakfast I've been fasting 16:8 all along anyway?
When these articles show up now and again, it’s not clear to me why the various impacted cities don’t choose to ban through traffic. Some articles have implied that this is not possible. Los Altos did this a while back[1]. Is there a legal issue the communities surrounding Los Angeles want to avoid, that Los Altos simply took the risk on?

[1] https://slate.com/business/2017/06/suburbs-finally-figured-o...
I'm not the only one using my tower I am sure about that. I am not that special.
You should check out a talk about the myth of objective.
Yes, I'm and I do agree with you with some of your arguments. The lack of details might be a problem for you but it can transform the post easier for someone fresh.

It's always hard to know whether you're going too deep or too shallow, what are the target people?! I'm afraid, in this case, I didn't put as many details as I planned because every time I read it, it started to become be too difficult for newcomers and my idea was to show to anyone this idea of "we should try to do good code design despite the language since it works for many giant projects such as Linux"

I appreciate the time you took to read it and for the issues pointed: clarity and cover more thins, I'll pay more attention to the future posts and I'm open to suggestions, thanks. Maybe I miss the balance and I should put more details/examples into it.
Sign up wall.
Just to clarify - I have nothing to do with HK or the riots going. I am just stating that I was able to use my somewhat "burner" setup to register the App. What happens after that is whole different story.
40 wet is 4 dry
How is it flamebait. Was something I said untrue?
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They don't need to jam the signal. It easier to infiltrate agents broadcasting phony messages among the protesters, creating confusion.
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> - Disable Touch/Face ID when entering a risky location (airport, etc.)

Is it going to be a manual disable?
How do you propose that you query a filesystem? In this context, we are referring to a “document” as a structured JSON document. You still have a semi known structure with fields that you can index and query.
The survivor bias being, a regular plane crash story won't make it to HN page 1.
I doubt China is planning to airstrile individual protestor.
He cites the 1GB size TWICE, though...
That's not really a thing. Some far-right groups sent provocateurs and livestream grifters on an all expenses paid trip to HK to cash in on 'anti communist protests' but their efforts fell flat after HKers were advised of their identities.
I think it's fairly clear auslegung is asking about the second. Mentioning "my iPhone" and "Any suggestion is appreciated, I’m willing to at least try it." doesn't indicate that auslegung wants to make changes to how iOS is architected.
I wouldn't either, but it would seem that HKers don't have many options at this time. Hope more are identified and that there aren't malicious intentions with this current one.
this is why you remove the battery of the burner until you use it. remove the battery and sim of your compromised phone
relocate yourself install sim and battery of your burner
Maybe the Chinese government wouldn't, but the people would care, a lot. The Chinese government is perpetually afraid of revolution and rebellion.
What did you think was in the leaks? In my experience, when people say their parents or friends didn't believe what they said was in the leaks, the parents and friends were usually right.
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Whitey Bulger was on the run for 16-ish years and had a lot more resources looking for him than this dude...
Is that just because personal and private aircraft tend to have fewer passengers? If we measure fatality by "per mile flown" instead of "per passenger-mile" would there be a difference?
I struggled a lot with the title for this post =/ (I crossed like 6 titles) but I also wanted something to call attention (not from lead/principal/kernel devs expectations) to the value of good code design, again naming is hard =)
Following the links here: "mongodb and mongodb@3.6 do not build from source anymore" -> "We gave up on this as we have no clue on how to fix the build, or it would take too much time."
Hong Kong protesters messing with the characters, part 2
I'm not totally sure who fucked up that, but his website says this:

> Since 1981, our investigators have conducted more than one thousand (1,000) missing person investigations, with a better than 90% successful closure rate.

http://pallorium.com/News.html
"When designing a vector graphic one can enable "snap to grid", similarily at some point we will have to "snap to makes sense" by means of verifiers or provers."

Yes, I think this is how the human mind works, kind of, but I don't think the part that provides the grid is like the verifiers or provers we have implemented. There is something that provides a substructure, and I think that you can see in mental illness where it's not functioning properly, but even when healthy, it's not that logical. When humans do logical reasoning, that's a very high level activity, superimposed on top of the other layers, IMO.

I think that the "snap to" part is going to be very difficult to develop because we are not conscious of it. Where to even begin? It might be fruitful to study instances where it isn't working properly - like thought disorders in schizophrenia.

So yeah, I think human thinking may have severe flaws that are rather similar to the ones discussed in the article, but that doesn't prove that current AI has all the components needed to match humans.
Fair points. Good feedback. I was clearly “feeling grand” upon first reading it.
I often think about the tactics I'd use and would be interested in comparing notes with others, but always worry that publishing a plan would preclude me from every using it if I were desperate. Ha!
" SpaceX intended their satellite to lift to a higher orbit but it couldn’t make it, so it is being deorbited by atmospheric drag."

I don't understand this. If the satellite is being de-orbited, why bother pissing off the ESA to save fuel?
> One of the benefits of FRAM is that you can put it through extreme radiation and still have it work afterwards.

There are no oxides in the supporting circuitry? [Do you have a link to rad-hard results?]
Here too. The url that I get on google is this one? http://reward0404.websitetrafficgo93.live/?utm_campaign=bKMu...

The correct url appers to be this https://bridgefy.me/
Disabling iMessage and JavaScript in Safari would also help, given the recent Project Zero exploits we’ve seen.