skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dependencies are a general problem, like changing the type of a table that has dependent views. It's a good idea if your database update scripts/migration software can handle something like this. Other databases don't tend to be as strict as Postgres here (I only found out that some rarely-accessed views never quite worked after migrating from Oracle)

I've had good luck with these functions:
https://gist.github.com/mateuszwenus/11187288

Allows you to save-and-drop dependent views (materialized or regular) and then restore them after your updates.
I didn't know what Pando was so I went to the about us page and saw this:

https://pando.com/2012/01/16/why-i-started-pandodaily/

"As a founder, I have a personal goal that's just as important and just as core to our culture: I do not want to sell this company. [....] So let me put it this way: Selling is not success to me. If I wind up selling, I've failed in some way. We didn't get as big as we should, we didn't execute on the opportunity or I didn't hire the right team and got too burned out."
What if you released a live fire map app for the world, and hong kong protesters started using it to communicate to others where police are located (fire inside city = police).

While other hong kong people also used it to point out where actual fires are located.

Imagine the political shitstorm when Apple tries to ban that app!
If you shrink the SIDE of a square to half its size, then you can fit 4 of those smaller squares in the same area...
> data only SIMs

How does this help make the phone owner anonymous? Can't you still do triangulation with a data-only SIM?
I am fairly sure that most people don't like tipping they feel that you are being "coerced" to pay more.

If the tipping would be about paying less (i.e. you may reduce this bill 20% if you did not like the service) do you honestly think anyone would complain?
That sounds like mioco/old M:N. That was slower than our current 1:1 threading.
Yes that’s essentially the problem. Engineers/developers aren’t seen as fundamentally making anything. They’re just seen as the interface to the computer.
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
You're anonymous anyway, you may as well tell us more. ;)
Being famous and having credible experience does not automatically make you correct on all matters.
The replies miss the point:

Shifting from natural gas heating and water heating cannot help flatten the duck curve, except by overall raising the demand for electricity.

Most car charging is currently overnight, which doesn't match use of solar (the low part of the duck curve). To flatten the duck curve, we need to raise that low part and lower the later part.

And if you drop the temperature of the house way low in advance, yes, you use much more power, you reduce the comfort (at least of some people!) And you still only push your peak demand out a little bit. Again, "use more power" isn't a good option to flatten the curve.
Wouldn't the ingress help here with sticky sessions e.g. cookies or a header.

I am assuming the RPC is happening over WebSockets though.
Nobody is claiming that.
I can attest to this as someone who went through a hazing routine called “whiteboard screening” at the fruit company for senior EE roles. Because I was a local candidate was invited on 3 different occasions for whiteboard screening and I didn’t progress onto the onsite. Sigh! I have been in the industry for 13 years now and seriously considering a pivot. Guess why I am on this thread. This hazing routine is the norm for STEM these days Mechanical/product included. Tho the supply demand is flipped on those.
Interesting to see the exploit written in Go. Proof, maybe, that Go has finally landed.
Samsung's 'Space Selfie' falls out of sky, lands on Michigan couple's property
The wordlocks were the best part of this whole game.

Oh and the cd soundtrack.
Sarah Lacy made it quite clear in the post that her heart was not in the game anymore, and that she had become as cynical as other bygone journalists. She isn't selling for money, she's selling because she doesn't want to do the work anymore. You can call that failure, but I would call it resignation.
Flammable roof types should also be banned, when embers land on a roof the last thing it should start is a fire!
The alternative is the government, right?
There is a google tool that converts Java to Objective C, it should be easy to find.
This is incorrect. The people (god forbid "saving money") are getting a return on the currency appreciation, and are encouraged to save. The rate of return (risk adjusted) they are getting sets a base for what an investment would need to yield before a rational actor would exchange it for investment purposes. As the total "market cap" grows the % yield of capital gain declines, making investment more enticing and the amount of capital available for investing high. So savers both help the growth of the economy, and benefit from its growth (but at a slower rate than shrewd investors). The less shrewd get weeded out.
With the newer DNA editing tools becoming available more widely, perhaps there can be a "Free and Open Source Genetics" movement that will curtail the power of corporations to control genetic modification.
> so copyright is a root cause even if it isn't the root cause.

That assertion makes absolutely no sense. Fifty years isn't a huge amount of time and the bulk of Fox's catalogue (that's actually interesting, well for me anyway) is younger than that so your copyright argument doesn't stand up.

To re-iterate, this article is about restricting access to cinemas to play these movies in their theatres. The distribution format for cinemas and their equipment is, as far as I know, somewhat different from buying a DVD or BluRay off of Amazon. Even a ten year copyright period wouldn't solve the problem of the studios withholding the technical formats that are needed for their content to be played in a theatre. They simply don't have to give that up.

Personally I don't have a problem with studios owning the copyright for say 75 years, that seems like a fair amount of time...provided the studio's play fair with access to their content.

Sure what Disney are doing is a shitty thing, but it's certainly not as simple as claiming that reforming the copyright rules would solve this.
Are there any studies to see what percentage of these are intentionally started, if any?
a) so something you know is the switch for the past 50 years or more is somehow bait and switch?

b) Of course non-tip countries have many restaurants. The prices are also much higher. I've traveled extensively around Europe and places that have no tips..and the meal price is much higher.
Many browsers also come with bookmarks.
I am founding a startup looking to use modern tunneling tech like horizontal directional drilling and pipe-jacking to build networks of tunnels under major cities to allow high speed "just in time" deliveries using small autonomous vehicles.

These would deliver packages, groceries and takeaway meals.

Looking for cofounders/enthusiasts - see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19131135
Could artificial intelligence predict premature death in future?
Investor A puts in 100k of dollars, the company fails they've lost 100k worth of dollars. Worker B puts in 100k of time, the company fails, they've lost 100k worth of years.

This is complete nonsense.

The worker has received $100k for their time and keeps that money. The investor has nothing.

If you try to argue that the workers wage doesn't count for some reason, then you also should argue that the investor's time counts the same as the workers did. Either way the investors is worse off.
So they are saying the brain is a general problem solving machine, capable of using the same mechanism to address different kinds of problems.
One of the slightly unfortunate things about golden rice (and there are quite a lot of them) is that the state funding it was developed with required them to patent it and sell the patent to the private sector. Though not patenting it would've been of limited help due to the thicket of patents covering the technologies they used.
Would be great to have a global synchronised boycott of their products to force some action here. Pretty sure spooked shareholders will drive overnight packaging innovation.
I think the secret has been so far that they had a driverless plane? That means the plane itself could be used as a weapon?
I guess the confusion comes when 10 fans only listen to Band X, but band X gets less that $100 a month.

I listen to say 1,000 songs a month on Spotify, at $10 a month royalties that’s 1c per song. If I listen to song K 10 times I would think they’d get 10c from me, but they don’t neccersarilly - it might be 1c, it might be $1.

There’s a sad effect - if I listen to 2 hours of Band A and 3 hours of Band B, but Band A has an average track length of 2m and Band B has a length of 4m, Band A would get more than Band B!
Yet, you can buy it in 1% solution at your neighborhood hardware store.

Concentration matters.
https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/as-a-genetic...

I do not consider Bloomberg to be fountain of truth! It has its biases but .. here you go!
No, BuySellAds is an independant ad network. They focus on helping publishers sell campaigns direct to advertisers with their platform and own a few different brands like Carbon Ads.
Your share-holding of the firm can be diluted by an investor that brings $10 to the table. You don't maintain custody of the asset, unless you are using bearer instrument, in which case, your infinite divisibility, security and monetary properties are going to be pretty weak compared to Bitcoin.
I always glad to see topics about Julia. I think it has good potential to replace several other languages with one better language.
Satellites. Voyager. Spirit Mars rover.
>JFC... I never understood why that "improvement" was necessary in the first place.

What improvement are you talking about? Mobile phones truncate the URL bar because phone screens are physically narrow.
Previous long-term missions of it also had media coverage, so not a secret.
> That wasn’t the question

Yes, it was. While the grammar I used should be pretty clear on what I meant already, here’s an alternative version:

Why would using semantic versioning (something near universally accepted as a best practice) be flawed in your eyes?

Or more simply:

Why would using semantic versioning be flawed in your eyes?

> These are basic facts.

Actually, they aren’t. It’s your opinion (not a fact) and you still haven’t provided a single drawback (flaw) to following semantic versioning despite repeated requests.

> Have you read the semver spec?

Yes, I have. More than once in fact. Have you?

> Is your libraries new version compatible with my library?

Assuming both authors follow semantic versioning faithfully and the previous minor/patch release worked, then yes, it very likely will be compatible.

> How can you know?

If both sides have a well defined API and the authors follow semantic versioning, you should have a good indication that way. That said, as the saying goes, “trust but verify”.
I think its the default on Plesk installs
I agree, voting with your wallet is most important.
I think our current usage of oil is responsible yes and I think it's irresponsible to not use oil.

There are no realistic alternatives to 99% of our current use of oil which includes more or less any product used in a modern civilization so unless you can point me to some alternatives I think you are the one who has the immoral position.
honestly, I think the article was secretly trying to drum up hate for big tech like Amazon.
No, that's certainly just transliterated Russian:
https://github.com/neex/phuip-fpizdam/blob/d43b788a65f83ba6f...
(those literals mean "Fucking: your mom").
Full time employees will now cost much more to the employer: taxes, health care, benefits, a higher wage (the wage of a waiter is usually much lower than the standard minimum wage).

All these costs add up and the result will be a much higher end cost for your meals. Restaurants usually have razor thin margins as it is...if they even make it past their first couple of years in business.

Again, I feel like most people complain about the wages, but will then complain about the meal costs when they go up because they misunderstand the costs in running a business.

I know many waiters and waitresses and most make way more in tips than they would ever get if they were paid an average wage.

I think if you talked to most waiters/waitresses, they would want to keep the tipping system.
Julia is one of my fav languages. For numerical computing, neither python + numpy, nor matlab come even close. The interop is nuts.
To call, say numpy fft, you just do

using PyCall

np = pyimport("numpy")

res = np.fft.fft(rand(ComplexF64, 10))

No casting back and forth. This is a toy example, julia ofc has fftw bindings.

Interop with C++, MATLAB, Mathematica etc is similarly simple.
> desired environment

The desired environment depends on the technology in use. A large change in technology, might significantly alter the desired environment. This increases both the value of customization, but also the current uncertainty about what might be needed.

In the past, having office phones on desks, and calls that couldn't easily follow you, increased the importance of having secretaries, and of remaining within chaseable distance of them. Current desks bare but for power and network, depend on laptops existing. If work in VR meant everyone having a 3 meter mat and waving their arms (it actually doesn't) that would impact office layouts. Having conference room scheduling, means not having to wander around trying to find one not in use.

If AR becomes a viable screen substitute/supplement in the next year or few, and displays start disappearing from desks, that makes it easier to hot swap desks. But that also raises new challenges for open office plans. Instead of being visually focused on a little opaque wall in front of you (the display), you're now looking around much more, seeing more of your physical surroundings. So open-office visual distraction may become an issue similar to their current auditory distraction.

And while there's been a long-term trend of human office interactions, once handled by colocating physically, increasingly being handled virtually, it's been a slow trend. But it may not remain slow. Some imaginary level of virtual presence would be a fully functional substitute for office presence. Whether actual technology will approach that substitution gradually, or with punctuated equilibria where some large set of constraints and opportunities on office design suddenly change, seems unclear. Things-remain-largely-unchanged is always a good bet, except when you lose it.

If changing technology increases the distance between desired environments and installed base, that increases the opportunity for the customization you describe. But also a raises a long-term risk, that the ecology of office use changes out from under you. Though I was just in an office originally built, as an office, in the early 1900's... so maybe not?
Disney is controlling access to their content not content you create yourself. Disney isn’t stopping any of the content distributors I named from distributing anyone else’s content.
Absolutely fair point, and my comment was not a diss at the immigration system, but at that reality itself.
Yes, of course people usually trust the US government. We do so every time we get on a plane, keep money in USD, or run Windows, MacOS, etc.

That doesn't mean the US was flawless before Trump. It had its flaws, just like any other government. But generally, they were trusted in scenarios like above, but also, for example, by diplomats to at least try to keep their word even across administrations, or by travellers not to be asked for bribes at the border.

People have become rather cynical and won't believe me, but still it is worth mentioning: before Trump, politicians, including the presidents, almost never lied. On occasion, they would try but fail to make good on a promise. Or they would err, or go to great lengths to avoid answering a question.

But actual lying, as in saying something wrong and repeating it even after it was pointed out to be wrong? It barely ever happened.
Russia dismisses hacking reports as 'unsavoury'
From my experience, managers tend to start to distrusts software engineers after the first complete system rewrite, that was supposed to solve the big problems, actually didn’t solve them and brought new ones instead.
Loved playing this game growing up - bought it on gog many years later and was shocked by the old graphics
Same site was implemented in IE some time ago, but they didn’t implement it in
Windows 7 (which, as you pointed out has not yet been end of lifed).

It’s still in support, and the function shouldn’t even care about the host OS, I think the lack of implementation was more likely completely intentional (on the level of ‘if Windows.version < 10 return true’) which is an absolute dick move.
I mean, of course the library in question could contain something like this:

try:
hash = int(raw_hash)
except ValueError:
hash = raw_hash

But WHY? Can you think of something one could do accidentally to achieve the same effect?
"I didn't lose... I DECIDED to lose"
When a doctor prescribes you medicine, I'm assuming you don't complain that they themselves don't take the same thing and therefore you wont?

I understand the attitude behind your comment but it's not that simple. Not every region or country has the same requirements and it's more important to see whether something works or not.
It’s actually a series of articles:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thin...
Humans Are Gobbling Up Acorns, Driving Squirrels Nuts
You are right. Too little, too late.

On a fair note, one should also take into account, that Saxonica is a rather small, even if highly skilled, shop and the program, they create, is a huge undertaking.
Something like that has been done before, although it wasn't the Russians. It was a guy winning a bet [1].

> On 27 November, at five o'clock in the morning, a sweep arrived to sweep the chimneys of Mrs Tottenham's house. The maid who answered the door informed him that no sweep had been requested, and that his services were not required. A few moments later another sweep presented himself, then another, and another; twelve in all. After the last of the sweeps had been sent away, a fleet of carts carrying large deliveries of coal began to arrive, followed by a series of cakemakers delivering large wedding cakes, then doctors, lawyers, vicars and priests summoned to minister to someone in the house they had been told was dying. Fishmongers, shoemakers, and over a dozen pianos were among the next to appear, along with "six stout men bearing an organ". Dignitaries, including the Governor of the Bank of England, the Duke of York, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Mayor of London also arrived. The narrow streets soon became severely congested with tradesmen and onlookers. Deliveries and visits continued until the early evening, bringing a large part of London to a standstill.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_hoax
The issue is neither has crossed the bridge. The non-technical manager can’t understand the risks, and the engineers can’t quantity it in the dollars and cents that CFOs understand. Salespeople are good at dollars and cents. So are some lawyers. But they get overruled all the time by execs.

“I don’t care how you do it, increase sales by 20% in Q4” creates the sales and marketing version of tech debt. (Channel stuffing, excess discounting, etc)
There's lots of GM crops in use already, they aren't being stopped.

It's not just corn and soy either:

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/?set=Biocon
It's a pleasant surprise to see such an in-depth write up of something that was extremely influential on me. That was at the sort of young age where things could blow my mind without me being at all cognizant of the rich real-life backstoies that produced them.

I remember getting a demo of BaK on one of those demo disks that came with PC gaming magazines. I was blown away by the immersive open-world 3D gameplay. The battle and equipment systems were innovative and well designed.

Our local library didn't have the Riftwar books that inspired the game, but it did have the Serpantwar saga that followed them. I'd eventually figure out how to acquire books on my own and catch up with all the books that Feist published, and I hung on until the end of the cycle, even though the books plummeted in quality on the back half.

I also played Return to Krondor, with much excitement. It was a fun game and better produced, but much more linear than the original.

Thinking about this reminds me of a time in my life when things were a bit more magical. Information was accessible, but not too much so, and being a kid with a meager allowance meant I had to have some hustle to follow the cultural threads that intrigued me.
I'm quite bemused to find myself in the Eisenhower Republican camp: Russia is our enemy and wants to destroy us. They've found it's easiest and cheapest to simply inject some cash and let us do it from the inside.

> If our democracy can't handle speech

Speech or propaganda? An unfortunately high number of our citizens are either too stupid or too uninformed to vote "correctly" (i.e., assess and analyze proposed candidates, laws, etc). I'm not trying to be elitist, just pessimistic about things.

This is all an "Experiment in Democracy", right? We're applying a system developed in the agrarian age that now is suffering from information overload, nationally coordinated disinformation campaigns, and the influx of unlimited money in political campaigns.

We need to rethink how to achieve the original goals without bad guys gaming the system.

Sorry, this is kind of rambling, but HN sucks fluid dialog.
You can get pretty far with a simple spreadsheet. And there are numerous digital and offline options for that.
There's basically nothing you can't do with filter-branch and the variety of filters it can execute. Moving a subdirectory to the root is trivial with --subdirectory-filter, but even without that, you could do it with --index-filter or --tree-filter.
I remember cancelling my subscription when he moved on and getting a “No, seriously. Fuck you.” departure page.
Pando failed cause it was a tad to much outrage spewing instead of more informative tone (though not like super outrage machines Buzzfeed or Breitbart)

Paul Carr was so incredibly negative it was just hard to read. There is a difference between being skeptical and calling out BS, and just being pure negativity 24/7.

This being said, its very hard do quality journalism and make money. I am glad they tried, there was some decent quality stuff.
How well does Deepstream work with offline periods, e.g. stuff being created/modified on a disconnected mobile device that later connects and needs to sync?

Is it possible to make it work in a way that the server only sees encrypted data? I can see it working in a clunky kind of way if each client had two versions of each document, a clear one that is operated on, and one encrypted (possibly a record at a time or something) that is synced.
They have different purposes. Privacy Badger is not there to block all ads; it exists to block trackers.

For websites I like, I turn off uBlock Origin but leave Privacy Badger enabled.
So unusable for those of us without power and spotty LTE coverage.
What's your device? Why do you say doesn't work?
The Federal Government could purchase the patents for GM crops after they've been developed and proven to be safe. Then make the crop freely available.

You'd probably want some kind of purchase agreement where the crop developer gets annual payments based on how much the crop is used over a period of time.
"wondering why I should care" is at least passively a toxic comment. At least take the time to click on the link before making a comment like that. Or just ignore the article.