skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Democrat who sold uranium to Russians and whose husband is a womanizer and of a very good friend of Epistein no less.
Usually, you fill out a form giving direct deposit information, and then they give you a paper check for your very first payment. Once you deposit that, verifying your account information, all further payments take place electronically.
I liked Taleb's Antifragile. It presents the idea that by increasing conveniences and doing other things which decrease the volatility of the natural world, we in the end make the system more fragile (analogous to increasing systemic risk). Where his book is interesting is that it discusses the ways in which things naturally are aided in this volatility that we often like to starve off (the markets are one example). He's a former options trader with a PhD in statistics, so if those things such as epistemology, compounding uncertainty, and the disordered nature of the markets and life sound interesting to you, you'll probably like his books.
Mteto Nyati on South Africa, Excellence and Building a Career
Ask HN: Log Analytics or Data Warehouse?
I had been making plans to deploy system to provide business user dashboards and system analysis using a combo of StackDriver and BigQuery.

It was suggested that I consider a log-oriented system instead like ELK or Splunk/Graylog/Sumo Logic.

There are many dimensions we're looking at like query language and how we can staff around that choice, data volume, BI tools, alerting, costs for setup and management, etc.

Our data includes some system logs but we're mostly serverless, App logs, ALB access logs, some batch flat files, and streams of webhooks from various vendors.

We want to be as close to NoOps as we can afford to support the system.

I've found a remarkable amount of cross-over between log analysis tools and data warehouses. I see that log tools tend to be much faster, but lack native joins, requiring ETL work, as well as scale/data recency decision to make. BigQuery specifically seems to alleviate a lot of operational challenges and can do ETL internally once Stackdriver streams into it. I've ran with both and found both can meet my needs with a few niggling exceptions.

If you have had to make a similar decision I would really appreciate your feedback.
> The point is that we're losing that belief in an American ideal that helps keep us together while we debate our issues. The more divided we are, the more we'll be ripe for the picking by those who never cared about America in the first place.

I'm not sure that either side cares about an America that includes "them". The right doesn't care about an America that includes people who want to change their genders or marry their same-sex partners. The left doesn't care about an America that includes people who want their religion to influence their politics, or who want to have guns be part of their culture.
I believe it’s word is bond implying your word is your honor.
"I don't think this should be a thing anymore either."

I routinely set my primary web services on one port, and the access to debugging and profiling information is available on a web server running on an entirely different port.

In principle, this is not necessary, because everybody and everything should be able to route by URLs, and of course, everybody is using these tools and is intimately familiar with them. In practice, if I depend on that, those things tend to "fail open" and mean that if I don't explicitly block my debug routes from being exposed, it will tend to end up set up so just anybody will be able to reach them. By having by debug & monitoring on a separate port entirely, it makes it so that functionality tends to fail closed; if I don't open that port to people explicitly, it just stays entirely inaccessible, which is the failure state I'd rather have.

Also, there's a whole world of people who aren't working in an environment where there's a dozen people dedicated to maintaining a kubernetes setup for them, and are still building services that aren't built in that paradigm. Plus it seems to me like having really amazingly separable services, even ones not initially thought of as being separate, is a plus for Kubernetes rather a problem.
Many UPSs also will report power usage.
Drugs make you feel good. They release chemicals in your brain that say: "Yeah, more of that!"

There is a craft to producing the drugs. Home brewing beer and wine, growing a weed plant in the woods behind your house, these are fun hobbies which you get to enjoy and share the fruits of your labor.

A lot of extremely talented people choose to do drugs daily to kick back and augment their moods. Drugs can be taken in a social setting such that you feel a communal experience in having your perceptions altered in a similar way in the same moment. They lower inhibitions and give you the opportunity to indulge in your senses.

Humans have always done drugs and will continue to do so long after you and I are gone. Drugs have been used in coming of age rituals and celebrations for thousands of years. Just because you think "engineers" should be above such creature comforts does not mean your idea has any merit whatsoever.

“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.” - Steve Jobs
"This is what violent death is really like. It is unexpected, out of nowhere – it cuts our stories short. Victims of homicide do not pop into existence three minutes earlier in order to be killed."

I love this line and I think this is one of the most valuable things entertainment can provide. Great literature and movies make you feel some approximation of actually going through the thing that is being portrayed.

I've often thought that we (I'm American) get such a distorted view of violence from popular media. For every film that displays violence as chaotic, disorienting, and horrible, there are dozens of super hero type movies that display violence as utterly ordinary, necessary, and proper, where only the bad guys die forever and justice is ultimately served.

Additionally, so many stories end at "Happily Ever After" and neglect to communicate to readers or viewers that 99.9% of life happens in "Happily Ever After." Presumably "Happily Ever After" contains much less drama than the movie or book itself, but we never see it, so we are convinced that life can't happen at all, ever, without the drama that makes up the majority of the stories we are told.
NASA lies so so much. Hard to believe anything they say.

Why don't we have up to date photo of earth ? Only NASA photoshopped marble exist.

I am more than skeptical :)
> Uranium is dug out of the ground and you can buy it on amazon and chemically concentrate it yourself.

Well now I know what I'm putting in all my nieces' and nephews' stockings this year: https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM/
This seems like the best plan to me. Nobody wants to wait for their computer to boot when they show up in the morning, but you can still be smart and save some power overnight.
Thank you for the very interesting response.
Perhaps 5-10mb, but there's a wide range of websites that go from really heavy to really light. I don't think workers should accommodate for installing all 10 of the top 10 most-used frameworks with tree shaking disabled, but 2mb is limiting and raising it would make it viable for many more existing sites.
You are right about the Whales. I think regulation should prevent massive mining factories, which would also greatly reduce the risk for a 50% attack. Mining should only be allowed for individuals with a certain maximum hash rate so more people have equal chances. But I'm afraid our politicians are not going to help us with that.
Very insightful, thanks. I was familiar with the problems you covered regarding RFPs and vendor contracts, but had not considered the issues regarding access to information for an individual seeking a programmer role.
"Needing" is relative. I could make an app making nothing but raw XMLHttpRequest calls, but that only speaks to the capability of talking to a server. In that sense, sure `fetch` is "enough". But from a perspective of a complex application or a complex org, you may want specific properties to be true: for example, you may want that a request to a certain endpoint follows a predetermined schema, or that one can control the granularity of the response data, or maybe you want to abstract over things like streaming, retries or caching to name a few things.

Something that most frameworks struggle with, IMHO, is that they don't consider how coupled network is to the system and when you need to do something like bundle-specific translations in an SSR context, it's very hard to do it in a generic way without touching half a dozen unrelated parts of an app (meaning librarizing concerns that cross-cut across network boundaries is difficult).
Hey, thanks for the kind words. I hadn't really planned to share this project today, which is why there's no mention of privacy on the site.

To answer your question: all of the "computation" is done client-side, but depending on which features you use, the client might ask the server for data at a word level (like "give me all the rhymes of 'trust'" or "how many syllables are in 'privacy'"), so I guess in a sense your text can be sent to the servers, but never in an aggregated way.

Also, as someone who also cares about privacy, I can tell you:

- I don't keep any server logs
- The only tracking I do (to get traffic numbers) is self-hosted and uses Fathom[1] (which respects privacy in a variety of ways)
- I jump through a fair number of hoops to prevent the other third-party tools (Bugsnag[2] and Appzi[3]) from collecting personally identifiable information

While the details of the above might change at some point (I may eventually add some basic server logging, for example), the spirit will not. I don't want to collect any data that I don't absolutely need.

Hope that's helpful!

[1]: https://usefathom.com
[2]: https://www.bugsnag.com
[3]: https://www.appzi.com
> I'm about to hop on a 13 hour flight

If you need answers fast, the HN search feature lists hundreds of answers for "ask hn favorite book', 'ask hn best book' on multiple topics, fiction and non-fiction.

I quite liked the 'Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087418

Personally I added the audio book 'Salt: A World History' for my next long flight.
Funny that Wittgenstein is mentioned, but his "ladder" is not:

"My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them - as steps - to climb up beyond them (he must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it). He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the world alright."
Let's not even mention Eric's trips to North Korea to set up gmail servers the gang used to communicate, out of reach of NSA and CIA.
63 million people is a really, really long tail.
I'm in Sweden. Every year I'm spending April-October in a cute little house built in the 1860s - it used to be the telegraph station for the harbor in this sea-side place back then.

Houses from this period aren't very well insulated (sort of like a contemporary house in California ;) ). So, in April/May/September/October the computers/displays I've brought here are very much a part of the heating. I find this beautiful. They're using like 600-800W at peak, but all of that is being put to use in heating the house. They end up being like 40-50% of the electric heating cost.

(Internet access is provided via LTE. I'm typically getting around 60/30 Mbps. Quota of 50 GB per day. Need to send a text message if you want more.)
> The chart below summarizes our research.

The chart is some cherrypicked bullshit that ignores the importance of outlier rejection. Put your thumb over Google, Zoom, and Tesla and then look at the chart again.
Your vague plan of just stop corporate lobbying immediately fails because the negative incentives for someone in congress vastly outweighs the positive.
i thought we already had "woo"...
There are many photos of Churchill performing the "incorrect" version, so there's at least a grain of truth in there.

No doubt the posh school he went to didn't have the grubby little oiks running round the playground flicking the V's everywhere. Or grubby little oiks for that matter. :)
Vacations and home renovations: the true cost is at least 20% higher than the budgeted cost. Then there’s healthcare in the U.S., where you can’t budget anyway, and the true cost is anywhere from 200% of what seems reasonable all the way to $just-go-ahead-and-declare-bankruptcy.
The articles tone is like the Register but on vaginas. It's hardly serious and full of innuendo. For serious discussion, link to the scientific article?
> being told to get with the times or adapt your core ideas to a changing world

Because getting with the times and adapting to a changing world require proprietary software and the dilution of privacy?

> genius misanthropes

Yes, rms the misanthrope...

Maybe stick to "kewl stealth mode startups", or at least try to make it less obvious you're just looking for excuses to dislike the man. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Correct. Many factors contributed, but there was one prevailing factor - the defective design of MCAS.
Sometimes I feel weird coding zip codes as strings but this is a great example why. If my program ever treats a zip code like a number I would like it to throw an error. At least in this case the error looks like an accident.

On topic, from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21067764

It's another social sciences paper but in this case a co-author has requested a retraction over his strong belief that the paper includes fabricated data. The retraction request has been denied. It differs from this paper in that the data anomalies look intentional.
How does svelte get "completely out of your way" when you have to learn its non-standard, framework-specific idioms? bind:value, #each, :catch, #await, x as y, $ prefix, slots, use: ... these all seem like reimplementations of plain JavaScript.

If you're going to go this far, why not use Marko.js and get SSR streaming built in?
If that's the case, the same would be true for most bottled water. The majority of mainstream brands are made from water from the same distribution system, just filtered some more and with added minerals.
The inability to quantify targeted advertising's worth at specific levels is probably seen as a benefit by those employed on both sides of the transaction (i.e. marketing side and serving side).
powertop is great for figuring out what is bringing the CPU out of idle states too. One tip is to close your web browser as it's probably going to be one of the most wasteful things to leave running.
An explanation would be that your asking price was ridiculously underpriced. The man saw that and thought you are obviously clueless, maybe he can make you go even lower. After you raised the price he abandoned that strategy and just bought it.
oh no, they found the NSA backdoor :(
Thanks for the input :)
as if the macroplastics around the bottled water aren't a much bigger concern...
A little bit meta here, but I know it's going to come up: somebody is going to complain that Twitter is the wrong way to write this content. How they loved it but were infuriated to read it in snippets. Pre-emptively, I'm copy-pasting an earlier comment of mine on this:

> Heh, from foone themself: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1066547670477488128.html

> Not to humblebrag or anything, but my favorite part of getting posted on hackernews or reddit is that EVERY SINGLE TIME there's one highly-ranked reply that's "jesus man, this could have been a blog post! why make 20 tweets when you can make one blog post?" CAUSE I CAN'T MAKE A BLOG POST, GOD DAMN IT.

> The short story is they are quite open about having ADHD, and that's what causes the long twitter rambles, but also what makes it very difficult to assemble it into a blog post. Every once in a while foone's wife will edit a popular thread into a blog post, examples: https://foone.wordpress.com/

> If this seems like a particularly good story to you, maybe you'd like to edit it into a draft for a blog post and gift that to foone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19884445

And yeah, as soon as I saw "SNES Cartridges and Enhancement Chips" and the twitter domain, I felt about 90% sure it wouuld be linking to a foone tweetstorm.
I laughed uncontrollably. I knew it was one of those classic 2000s style hoax sites like Coincidence Design ($40k private investigator to find out everything to make someone fall in love with you), or Penguin Warehouse (penguins as pets) or Pets or Food ... all funny, none real.

But wait .. this is ... real? Like they take real money from people? .... huh ... what was that quote about how everything that was once parody is reality?

This is some serious Poe's Law stuff here.
The reason it didn't happen is because many white-collar jobs require a good understanding of our culture and language, which isn't required for factory jobs.
Maybe that can't be true as it took them 3-4 years to close this error?
Warframe is a quest driven mmo. It's framed to feel like an expansive singeplayer game, but it's an instanced mmo.
I have good experiences with rentalcars.com, both in US and various countries in Europe. Have not had any surprises in added fees.

They will ask you for extra insurance. Even when not taking that, they all have been reasonable when returning the car.
(Although I do always take pictures before I get in).
There are many things that can't be quantified for practical reasons. Executive talent is one of them.

The article says "There's even an algorithm for this. It seems too easy to be real." - I think that might be literally true; there is no reason why the highest job in the hierarchy should be the hardest. So there may not be anything there to quantify.
Alternative headline: “Empirical Scientists need to re-evaluate the credence they lend to their own theories to avoid being surprised when they are wrong”. Science used to be about expanding knowledge, not it has become religiously defending accepted theories.

*Queue the downvote army.
I honestly don't know. IIRC, you need an ion exchange filter (but they're bad for other reasons) or a reverse osmosis one certified for Cr(VI).

https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/ has a pretty decent guide.
It took Star Ocean forever to be emulated properly because of that co-processor chip!
Google Announces Stadia Premiere Edition as Founder's Pack Sells Out in Europe
It also contains useful information. I don't think it's too much to ask HN users to respond to the useful information and filter out the innuendo. Think of it as a community test.

Edit: I found what looks like a better article, so have changed the URL from https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/transplanting-poop-c.... Hopefully the BBC is a little more sobering.
Even with the local news there is rarely any actionable information. So that isn't worth watching either.

If your city was hit with a terrorist attack or mass shooting is your boss going to let you have time off work because you don't feel safe? I doubt it, it's back to work as usual.
> There are non-trivial compliance costs with maintaining accounts, an inactive account can absolutely be a cost for a financial institution.

Sure. But in terms of compliance costs, an active account costs just as much, and perhaps more (if there are compliance costs per transaction, not just per account).

> Not to mention that the bank makes a spread on deposits

They make a spread on money left in the account. But I can leave money in an inactive account, too, and they make just as much money on that.
Sleep mode handles this already, no?
It was pretty clear in context that I was speaking of binary possibility, not likelihood, which is what you are talking about.
paging Mr. Yang...
This is true (the royalty varying on the size of the memory) but the royalty was also significantly higher if there was any custom hardware involved on the cart - specifically because you actually had to purchase the "Game Pak" from Nintendo, so they would charge you "whatever they could get away with" for enhancement chips.
Thanks! Let me also preface this a bit: I built that 5 years ago :). I've been out of AWS (in snap) for the past 4 years. So I will have to wait on the current owners to answer this. But last I checked,

- faceted streams wasn't in plan - streams pretty much expose a cleaned up version of base table's replication logs. In theory they could do the same for a GSI (by exposing its logs), I don't know if there's enough demand.

- Kinesis and Dynamo used the same backing storage technology. By itself, Kinesis didn't provide some of the guarantees that we wanted IIRC - so there was a different story. Also I don't think customers will want to pay for kinesis (streams was free?). You may want to expand on why kinesis streams is better for your use case though.

- yes batching was indeed put in place for this. In fact I know of big enough tables where the shard listing part got to be the bottleneck, but that should be a corner case.
Sega had their own version for the Genesis, the SVP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Virtua_Processor

Virtua Racing was the only game released with it, but there were others planned for it originally. That is, until Sega decided to use the same technology for the 32X, which added a lot of power but was a terrible commercial failure.
I think Switch carts use a form of flash memory, which precludes this sort of extra-flexible expansion. You could include a chip on the cart, but it wouldn't have much throughput to do things like real-time graphics transformation. As for compression, most consoles just do regular decompression with the open source image libraries in the system BIOS, or on-GPU texture decompression. It wouldn't surprise me if the sprites in a game like River City Girls, for instance, were just PNGs.
That's true, but the design constraints are very different. If your synth had a system in it that could fail, and another system responsible for monitoring that first system, and potentially overriding it, and if that system failure required you to take immediate and very specific action to prevent your synth from turning into a fireball, you'd want probably want a more or less one-to-one mapping between those subsystems and the instrumentation that you're looking at.

The well-loved classics you describe sound more like making a plane that's aerodynamically hard to lose control of... which is kind of a holy grail, but the MCAS design came after all of that was fixed by earlier design decisions.
Yes please. The piece gave the impression that it was written by a 12 year old with an English major. It’s incredibly annoying to read such childishness on such a serious topic.
Also worth noting for candidates: These are great questions to ask your interviewers, to see if the company is a place you want to work at.
Non-US postal codes often include letters and spaces, and some areas don't use postal codes at all.
Exactly what I though. It's very Poe's Law.
Maybe it was an old joke, but it was new to me at the time - only time I had heard it, and I haven't heard it again in the many years since.

And I think it says something useful about the impossibility of the task. The domains we work in are all about the expected inputs and expected outputs, and it takes a special kind of imagination to come up with parameters outside of those.
It only means that he didn't publicly say so until this incident.