skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What did M3 offer that existing projects at the time such as Prometheus and OpenTSDB did not?

The project page states "M3, a metrics platform, and M3DB, a distributed time series database, were developed at Uber out of necessity. After using what was available as open source and finding we were unable to use them at our scale due to issues with their reliability, cost and operationally intensive nature we built our own metrics platform piece by piece."[1]

[1] https://www.m3db.io/
I don't think 200 books, or 400 for that matter, would replace the joy I receive sharing funny cat pictures with my kids and chatting with my grandma about recipes and paint colors for my house remodeling project on social media.
One book a month is a good start for mortals like myself
It's almost as if programming languages live forever as long as there's production code that uses them. See: COBOL.
I think what I'm building might help you! It's called PhotoStructure[1], and it takes care of your privacy concerns by keeping your photos and videos on hardware you own. Your data stays on your computer, where it belongs.

[1] https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/
Gallup article: https://www.gallup.com/workplace/267014/one-employee-questio...
It was a hypothetical to illustrate how much dilution is needed to get effleunt close to background level salinity. It isn't even possible to extract that much fresh, since seawater is 3.5% salt. I was not talking about heat at all.

To illustrate: the effluent dilution requirement in your case isn't actually much better. If you took in 100L of seawater, extracted 50L fresh, that leaves you with 50L brine at twice the background concentration. To get that effluent back to 1% above background, you have to dilute that 50L brine with 4950L of seawater.
Obviously you haven't been to rural Maine.
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I'm no conspiracy theorist, but am a cancer survivor, and feel compelled to reply that many forms of cancer have incubation periods [so to speak] approaching 20 years. So your salt is premature.
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I understand what you are saying, but picture this: the governor of Florida dislikes the federal government and, even throw he know the US Constitution disallows the secession of a state, announces a referendum to vote for independence. He is given plenty of warning that moving forward with it is illegal, yet he sticks to his guns, misusing public funds to pay for it. What is the penalty for that in the US? Is it excessive in your opinion? How does the opportunity of parole look like compared to Spain?

Incidentally, much like it happened with Brexit, the "leave" campaign makes all sorts of promises that it could never deliver: catalonians would keep their Spanish passports, they would continue to receive Spanish pensions, they would automatically remain part of the EU and NATO, they would not be burdened with any of the existing public debt (bond obligations), etc.

Misled with all these transparent lies, around 40% of those called to vote actually show up, while the rest of the people listen to the advice of the central government urging them not to vote and take part in that farce. Unsurprisingly, most of the people who voted were hardcore leavers.

I don't like how the Spanish central governments have handled the situation. But it's also true that there's been an outstanding marketing campaign online to paint a minority of catalonians as "the true will of the Catalonian people" and it's tiresome to hear foreigners voice strong opinions about something they understand so superficially.

Lots of Spaniards like myself are tired of the situation. Want to secede? Fine. Let's follow the law, ammend whatever needs to be ammended, have some basic plan for fundamental questions like membership to the EU, pensiond, debt obligations, etc. The, with an understanding of what is on the table, vote for it. Just like Brexit should have been done.
Every answer to your post seems to suggest a new JavaScript library to fix this problem. But I have to ask: is another library really the answer when the problem is caused by a library in the first place? Are we supposed to believe that the complexity of Redux is reduced because it's hidden?

The JavaScript community seems intent on repeating all the mistakes the C community made decades ago. Global state? Let's do it!
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So basically, all software has to be built from source by maintainers who are careful to make sure it doesn't conflict with other software. And people wonder why applications aren't ported to these OSs.

The OS should be a platform. I should be able to build an application and distribute it to users and have it just run on that platform without involving third party middlemen and regardless of other software they have. You know what OSs accomplished this? The original Macintosh, RiscOS, DOS, and (mostly) Windows 3.1. Why is it that we can't accomplish today something we did 30 years ago?
What you meant to say is that IQ tests are biased, not that “any sampling method is biased”. IQ tests are biased, but statistical sampling methods can be unbiased.
Has anyone found a solution for sorting and tagging images most efficiently? I have a one-year-old daughter and need to do it already.

Main goals:

- Tags like "2019", "3 weeks", "first step" etc

- I also take 3-4 pictures right one after another and would like to keep the best and delete the others

- Best of pictures.. choose a couple of pictures to summarize an event/vacations

I looked at different software but didn't find anything satisfying my needs. Maybe adding the tags in the metadata would be the best options so they are not software dependent?
I would honestly like an option to "compile" python to check for typing inconsistencies with the type hinting introduced in Python 3. Also, the multithreading story is kinda shitty
I have found that large partial classes declared across many physical source files creates lots of issues with intellisense throughput. At 50+ partials, you are looking at solid 10+ second delays in the IDE between when you typed something naughty and when you are informed of it. This behavior has been replicated across many different computers and versions of visual studio, so I think it's just a fundamental limitation.

We have some solid use cases for free floating functions (e.g. business rules that need to be able to arbitrarily invoke each other) which we ultimately decided to scope to one public function per class. This allowed for some other interesting advantages in terms of consolidating tightly-coupled business logic that was formerly spread across the codebase (e.g. items used only by the one function - mappers, request/response models, private utility methods, etc). We even explicitly duplicated out some logic in order to enable completely isolated verticals of BL.
I find that slow walking is way more tiring than going fast. When going fast it is initially more taxing but when muscles adjust the inertia caused seems to be easier to control. Walking slow is more laborious for balance imo. This is my experience and I don’t have the best posture either so ymmv
I liken it to being tall. Some people are tall. They can do things more easily than others. No one says that height is a myth.

People get really defensive around intelligence though. Everyone wants to be at least average if not above average. If they can't claim it in one area, they'll try to redefine intelligence to include themselves. And we do have the habit of mistaking institutional knowledge for intelligence.
> "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

So true!
My issue here isn't so much the bias but the poor reporting on what the reporter means by terms like "automating poverty". The difference between algorithms, AI and the organizational processes behind them are significant to the discussion.
My view is that tech reporting in the media tends to be so inprecise and unfocused that the quality of discussion suffers as a result.
My graduate program (computer-y, not MBA) has seen a huge drop in international applications. That was the large majority of our graduate program, and after 2016 those applications have dropped about 75%.
It's true that we don't have the full picture. Nothing is certain yet, but the most likely health effects will be indirect. Two areas of concern are effects on insect populations, which are already in collapse, and effects on bacterial development, including potentially causing resistance to antibiotics. These studies would be a good place to start if you're interested in more information:

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22271-3

https://doi.org/10.3109/1040841X.2012.691461
good broo
I don't want to "that guy" but my first instinct is to say this wouldn't happen not with the way things are now but with the way things are ever.

That's not really my root cause objection. It's the "politics free" part. It's not in my mind that that isn't achievable I have doubts as to wether it's desirable. Politics in my mind is about who or what gets hurt and who or what gets helped in any endevour.

Trying to get rid of politics seems to me like trying to get rid of pain. It's feedback. Try running any system without that - it won't work. I know a lot of the time the feedback is inaccurate but the fix is more inputs not less.
Pardon my ignorance, but aren't other factors besides frequency (power? distance?) relevant too?
Consider something like the Math class. In practice it just works like a namespace for math-related functions. The only reason to have a class is because the language requires it.

It would certainly be cleaner without having to define a useless class.
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In Modern Age every body is so eager for smart looks. Everyone likes a muscular but lean body shape to be noticeable in the crowd. Personality may be an important parameter by which people judge a person on the first note. Being it a personal or professional meet personality puts the first impact. Somebody has well said that “Personality to a man is perfume to a flower”.
I mean this seems obvious from a thousand miles away.

Amazon changed the game fundamentally. The only two effective strategies are to challenge them directly (Wal-Mart and their logistics and their free 2 day shipping/no membership website competitor) or to effectively blend the store/online experience with a huge push towards mobile ordering and curbside pickup or gig-style personal shopping delivery.

I'm not sure why Sears thought they could half-ass this transition and kind of do nothing to compete in today's market. Last time I was in a Sears, it was eerie and quiet, it smelled old, the prices were NOT GREAT and I ultimately priced the tools I wanted on Amazon for a good discount. Not like the old Sears Craftsman name and warranty mean much anymore anyway.
> Warren Buffett

So quit social media, do some stuff, and once you have a passive income measured in the billions your professional and creative pursuits don't get in the way.
Facebook's Libra announces board as support shrinks further
Maybe you need to check what else is running. I am using a Chromebook and it loads in seconds.
I believe they did port IQueryable:

https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/master/src/System.Linq...
Oh yes, too all of them!

Correctly done multi-line lambdas/expressions could bring Python's expressivitiy to where ECMAScript is nowadays, where you can write both foo = function(...) or function foo().

Perl 6 has a great switch statement, called "given" https://docs.perl6.org/language/control#given
I'm not Italian, but that's besides the point - if your definition of being productive is punching a card twice a day in 8 hour intervals then go for it. But permit me to be highly critical of you being the arbiter of what the definition of productive is.
I don't think I understand the financial system of bankruptcy very well, I always thought that bankruptcy was a hard end of the line---your assets are seized and sold off to pay back debts, etc. I've also heard business cases while in school about companies like Kodak where bankruptcy seemed to be the end. Can someone explain how bankruptcy often results in companies continuing to run?

Edit: Thanks for the responses everyone. I'll do a bit more reading on chapter 7 vs chapter 11, very interesting stuff.
When you believe in unicorns you can’t be too upset when they turn out to just be full of imaginary dreams.
Crashing Lego cars, simulation vs. reality
This is the best summery from the “horse racing case”:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/GA/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62...

There was also a review of the database directive last year that summarize all the precedence on this:
http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-8466-2018-IN...
I took out a tab of FF into a new windwo and it worked for me.
It sounds like you are using the wrong language. F# is what you want to be using.
Everything of this looks like syntax sugar. I would expect more work on internals. Python has a lot of awkward edge cases in standard lib. In a lot of cases None is valid output for not-done states. Also I hate multithreading programming in Python 3, it has all drawbacks of C with additions of GIL.
Our Sears store is finally closing it's doors this month. It took long enough.

20 years ago I worked there, selling Packard Bell and Macintosh computers, as well as vaccums. Who decided those departments should be merged, I don't know. Once in a while I'd sub at a smaller store about 45 minutes away, and cameras got thrown into the mix.

I always liked the Sears Auto Center for tires, service, and Diehard batteries. Craftsman hand tools were decent until the mid-2000's when they started changing warranty policies.

The power tools and lawn equipment were never really any good. If you buy a 'Craftsman' mower, you're getting the same Chinese-engined lawnmower that you buy at the same price point at any other store. Just like any other product these days.

They used to have an entire part of the store dedicated to flat-screen TV's. As they cheapened, the area got smaller and smaller, until it was 4-5 sad TV's hanging on a wall. Just this last year they decided to fill that part of the store with mattresses.

I noticed the store filling up with Craftsman, Kenmore, and other Sears-branded junk. Just low end stuff like cheap shoes, plastic utensils, and pots and pans. I figured distributors weren't willing to give Sears enough credit to stock the stores with stuff of any value.

The store itself hasn't been kept up in forever. Most of the ceiling tiles are stained from leaks. the carpets are probably as old as I am, everything is broken, and it doesn't even feel like they turn the heat on in the winter.
And Costco
So, they're complaining that creeps can use apps to take pictures but regular people can't?

Their whole argument boils down to regular users not being able to download an app from the app store?

Wow. You're right, I assumed their argument was a lot better than that. Oof.
> I had to guess it would have an impact on battery life.

I guess it saves battery due to ARC (adaptive replacement cache).

> Unleas you're into either file systems or installers as a hobby, let others be the early adopters.

ZFS is already quite old filesystem as has great features (for example: checksumming, snapshots, compression) that should be already standard.
The real problem is that websites can still even tell whether or not you're in incognito mode.
Probably because they’re deemed too big to hold accountable.
There are two types of bankruptcy: Liquidation and reorganization. This was a reorg.
But it was Chuck Palahniuk that wrote the original story, do they mean the screenplay that also wasn't written by Fincher?
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I love that cheese, Gjetost.
Sounds like you use social media in positive ways, instead of, say, scrolling endlessly, checking how many likes you have, and having unproductive political arguments with casual acquaintances.
The graveyard of history is filled with arrogant titans who felt their size alone would protect them.
Artfully executed real-estate liquidation play
>Because a Tesla is highly dependent on its electronics, once the flash memory in a Tesla’s infotainment unit goes bad, it essentially bricks the entire car. Yikes!
What we learned from 700 workers about email etiquette
The Last Knight of Scholastic Philosophy
Really it depends on your definition of books. Anyone can read though 100 pages in a day, and there are plenty of ~100 page books. So really, 365 books might be reasonable.
Just use a third party camera app. At least, this works on Android. Does this not work on iOS?
I don't follow this story closely, but I bet somebody here does:

My sense is that yeah there's Amazon and all the other missed opportunities, but don't they also have some corporate raider type as CEO who's totally cashing in on running this chain into the ground?
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Apple's self-driving car could hide radar system within the bodywork
There are different types of bankruptcy. For businesses, chapter 11 bankruptcy allows time for court supervised restructuring of debt, on the theory that there is often value in an insolvent business, if the cash flow can be re-arranged.
... Or you could waste your time on HN instead.
Just because someone don't do it doesn't mean you cannot separate them. There are plenty objetive publications out there and of course, if you rely on the gossip magazines and yellow newspapers maybe you will never get objetive journaling.
or opinion based
The whole saga is an interesting tale of hubris from Eddie Lampert who was a very good hedge fund speculator who thought that would translate into being a good retail store operator but it didn't seem to work out. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellewitt/2018/11/07/do-not...
Yes, for the first couple of years 5G will be a marketing thing (5 is more than 4, so it _must_ be better).

It helps manufacturers sell more devices and telcos to convince people to upgrade their plan.

My opinion is that we don't really need 5G for portable devices (phones, tablets, etc). I'd like to argue that there are no services that would benefit from the higher bandwidth and lower latency that 5G offers over 4G. 5G does have benefits for stuff like IOT, but not for mobile devices imo.

The current pricing schemes of telcos also don't make sense with the bandwidth capabilities of 5G. I have a 'premium' plan with 10GB of data per month, with 4G I can (in theory) already deplete that 10GB in 80 seconds. With 5G I could theoretically deplete that in less than 10 seconds.
Translating the (Cyberpunk) Future
When you add tags, make sure you do it to the file (or a sidecar). Don't store it in a proprietary library format, because failed photo software is so common now as to be cliche, and you'll lose all that work.

PhotoStructure[1] works like this: it reads from the keywords and tags added to either files directly or to sidecars.

[1] https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/
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All your big hardware stores sell their own line of tools now (Lowe's I think even sills crafstman now)

All your 'cheap' tools come from Harbor Freight

And the high-end is still Snap-on, MAC, SK, those kind of companies

So where does Sears fit in?
I hate to say it but I agree. Flashy phrases like "automating poverty" or "weaponized through technology" just distract me and make me feel like the author is trying too hard to present the horror of technology. The article was very weak on content. For example, the antidote about the man who died - he started getting thinner and he died. So nothing else you can add? - did he try to contact someone? what period of time did he have no benefits?

There is no surprise here. Every aspect of life will become more automated and reliant on technology. Of course anything involving human safety (healthcare, benefits) has to account for possible problems in the system. There has to be some type of support where you can talk to a human. This is something that should be debated. The author had plenty of provocative information without resorting to this writing style.
Yes.

IIRC he's kind of an extreme libertarian who actively pitted different parts of the company against each other, to compete.
Bankruptcy can take two forms. The key question is, "if this company got out from under its debt and didn't have to service it, is it still a viable company?"

If there is actually a viable business there, it makes sense to wipe out the shareholders, extinguish the debt, and make the former bondholders the new shareholders.

If there is no viable business even with the debt, then liquidation is the right path.

(I'm not a finance professional, just another person on the internet with an opinion.)
That's true, the Costco model persists in the era of Amazon, somewhat surprisingly. But they're so aggressive on delivering value to their subscribers (and not by making a Netflix competitor no one wants) that I suppose any good company like that can succeed on a business moat of literally "well-run" "focused on the core mission" "history of consistency" "good ethics" because I guess it's hard enough to emulate those values at scale.
His answer does include what I would think is the correct reason in that specific case though - branch prediction on the
if(data[c] >= 128)
line. When the array is sorted, you would go from not taken to taken only once and likely get correct predictions nearly 100% of the time versus the shuffled list producing a rate around 50% depending on the predictor.

Also check out the first response for a nice explanation and an optimization to eliminate the branch. The author replaced it with a bit twiddling solution to either store the current element or zero if it is less than 128 in a temporary variable and then always add that to the sum.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19912065
Someone that has had a few classes in electronics should be able to replace this.
I have a .NET Core web app that needs PDF creation abilities. Can I be your market research participant as well?
Sears biggest problem is that the now-former CEO had been looting it for years.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sears-lawsuit/sears-sues-...
Yeah...but do they have diversity? We win. /s
All of that and no 2Advanced
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More upscale retail is mostly still doing OK. The well-documented decline of malls is mostly more rural, less upscale properties. (Some chains including, surprisingly, Best Buy are doing OK in spite of online.) Big Box home improvement also seems to be doing OK.

Sears in particular really didn't know what it wanted to be. It did clothes (including buying Lands' End). It did tools, It did appliances. But it wasn't a discounter like Walmart. (Which drove a lot of regional discounters out of business.)

In short, it didn't have a strategy and tried to focus on everything.
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It did show, so we took action. You can now play anonymous.
We know how the wavelengths penetrate into the body and how much power goes into the skin. In new 60 Ghz 5G wavelengths skin reflects 20-30% of the power and the rest is almost completely absorbed by the epidermis. Overall the power densities are so slow that there is no reason to except anything.

Exposing skin to the sun is known radiation hazard. If you go outside during daytime why worry about 5G?