skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

In general, when building a data model for end users you're going to want to materialize as much as possible. This often means denormalizing as much as possible so that, instead of having a star schema where joins are performed on the fly, you have a few really wide tables (many many columns) with all of the relevant information for a given object available.

Where "materialization" means whether a relation is created as a view (rather than a table).

I'm not sure I agree with this. Personally, I think it's better to primarily normalize and write all queries as close to functional programming as possible. Which means opting for computation on the fly during development and relying on the underlying database infrastructure to optimize internally. Then denormalize or dupe data via views and caching after bottlenecks have been identified. Otherwise you're fighting premature optimization during development.

That said, there could be a place for materialization in log-structured storage (LSS):

https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/06/11/log-structured-storage/

I'm thinking that the future of all of this could be LSS on distributed consensus algorithms like RAFT, then devoting some amount of cache to building out materialized relationships that can always be derived from the log. Then we could have our cake and eat it too with fast durable writes and low-overhead reads without joins.

If anyone has an example of this, I'd love to see it.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053140
Purpose of a certificate is to have a Knowledgeable Expert agree that you have a given skill. Like a University degree, but focused on a specific topic.

Certificates are most useful when 1) your resume does not clearly show extensive skill, 2)the person reading the resume does not know the material.

Unfortunately a lot of resumes get filtered out on keyword matches. I was once filtered out by HR for not explicitly saying '.Net Development', verses what I had 10 years of 'C# development'. Only found out because my friend at the company hunted down HR to ask why I was not being interviewed. Neither HR nor the hiring manager understood that C# was .Net.

If the job you are looking at is a shop with a lot of people with the same skill then you do not need it as they can tell from the interview.

If it is a company with few people, or they provide your skills as a service, then yes you do need the certs.

Is this clear? Seems like I have been rambling here a bit.
> The traditional POTS infrastructure was[1] designed to work without power for weeks. That involved no only battery backup, but also longer-lasting backup power (e.g. big tanks of diesel) for when the batteries ran out.

> [1] I have no idea if that reliability still exists, or if AT&T ruined that reliability in the name of "efficiency" and profit.

This is addressed in the article. It's unclear to me whether AT&T lines go down due to external power failure, but other providers don't use powered lines:

> Residents said even their once-reliable landlines and Internet, such as those operated by Frontier Communications, weren’t working. Comcast/Xfinity also was down.

> In the era of traditional phone service, Ma Bell’s lines were themselves energized and very reliable.

> But companies’ transition to Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) – with phone calls over the Internet – is dependent on outside electricity. VOIP calls fail when either the company’s facility or the resident’s home lacks backup power.

> Comcast customers lose service where the power is out at their home, because the services need energy to operate, according to Comcast’s Joan Hammel. Comcast service also stops if power is disrupted elsewhere in the network, she said. Comcast’s service, like all other companies who have transitioned to Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephony, fails when either the company’s facility or the resident’s home lacks backup power.

> “Like all PG&E customers, we are also affected by this power shutdown, said Vince Bitong of AT&T. “We are aware that service for some customers may be affected and we continue to move quickly to keep our customers, FirstNet subscribers and public safety agencies connected.”
* Make a tribute to coffee mugs in the middle of the office

* Make a developer spit their coffee out.

* Preside over the morning's stand-up.

* Force SketchySeaBeast to buy something on the Epic Store

* Lock somebody out of their office.

* Water the office plants.
The issue is that most people can't change off of it due to a lack of competing service providers.
This other weapon from the Siege of Syracuse is great too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claw_of_Archimedes

This one was said to be feasible during a test by Superweapons. Although I doubt it looks like the included painting.
> My personal opinion is that retail investors love dividend stocks and they are more expensive than non-dividend stocks.

This is absolutely not true, there's plenty of stocks around here with low P/E ratio and dividends. You just have to look outside of tech to find them.
As does hiring when a Googler goes to some other company. Nobody is going to see their commits. They have to go on their word, their technical skills, and their references.
Why not get a $5/mo VPS and use VPN?
I love this! Will book it for our next team event
I have an outgoing SMS API called Textbelt (https://textbelt.com/). Kinda like Twilio but with flat pricing, smaller SMS packages for hobbyists, no dependencies, and allows 1 free SMS per day (good for crons or alerts).

I also run QuickChart, an API for generating embeddable chart images and QR codes (https://quickchart.io/).

QuickChart is fully open source, Textbelt has an open source version. Not always passive but they don't take much time. Combined they fund my non-mortgage spending.
--Tried selling coffee online - failed- margins too low -CCA too high
--Real estate multifamily (8units) - once deferred maintenance is taken care of, will be profitable
--Looking for a pain point in my companies product marketing department that I can solve and productize
I feel like often people forget about the small to medium setups run by "The IT guy." I'm a jack of all trades technologist in a major theater. One hour I'm configuring our half dozen Linux servers. The next hour I'm creating AutoCAD drawings, the following hour I'm changing SNMP settings on our 2 dozen Cisco switches, and after lunch I'm designing the electronics for a new stage prop.

I don't have the hours and days to learn Ansible, and it doesn't make sense for such a small environment. And it's Yet Another Service my successor will have to learn in what is already an incredibly niche position.

However doing the same half-dozen steps on a half-dozen servers takes up real time. Tools like cssh, that take 15 minutes to learn and have an IMMEDIATE time saving payoff, are invaluable. And my successor can easily skip using the tool and just do things the hard way until they do have the time to learn more efficient tools.
Depends on your definition of "the data". If they store all the data, split it in two, and you only count one half as "the data", and the other half as... something else, then yes, it can be both anonymized and de-anonymizable. But I think privacy advocates (myself included) count everything collected and stored as "the data", and don't find some red tape securing it particularly reassuring.
"Mars would be an easier place to survive, but the moon is easier to get to. "

Since it takes 6 months to get to mars and only 3 days to the moon and the only advantage for surviving on mars is the mini gravity, I really think we should start with the moon.
See my other reply [0]; as far as I can tell, the typing experience is identical.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21390039
Sony to Shut Down PlayStation Vue TV Streaming Service in January
Words like this drive engagement. Many journalists also don't have statistical training.

I wrote a financial media literacy guide for precisely this reason:

> Extreme Language: Articles use extreme language to represent price movements, as these engage readers (e.g., meltdown, bloodbath, crash, massacre, topple), but are often statistically suspect

https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/financi...

Some other good notes in this article:

Context Matters. The Stock Market Drop Is Less Scary Than It Seems.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/upshot/context-matters-th...
Macintosh: 25 Years (2009)
That would be pretty easy to fix, TBH. Tup's author works for Mozilla, and Mozilla has the expertise to add that functionality. As always, it's a matter of will and resourcing.
Please stop posting ideological flamewar rants to HN. They're off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
library books are essentially free. They pay dividends if you read something that imparts a skill instead of being brainwashed and dumbed down by TV you pay for.
Also in Spanish news: there was a separation movement leading to the arrests and jailing of separatist leaders after 90% of the population votes for separation. The leaders got something like 15 years of jail time. There have been massive protests for weeks now

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-50194846
*worth
DPI units can unwrap and re-wrap SSL
For those that don't recognize the reference: https://xkcd.com/221/

There's a good related Dilbert too: https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
I'm intrigued by why you created a one off account just to post this. To address something that stuck in my craw though -

"Big govt bureacracy is terrible, but a private one (etc)"

You're implying big government bureaucracy is the only option here. How about, you know, regulating internet as a utility? The thing we've been wanting since forever? Unless there's actively a shortage of water or power, I can get those and use them as I feel like, paying extremely low fees. I don't care if my internet is pay for use, provided it's priced close to the actual cost.
That goose-version of the comic is (almost) in the loss format.
Extraordinary Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the Universe
With enough users behind it, social media sites would see the need to integrate into the federation instead of remaining walled.
The litigation is over. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case a few weeks ago. The "Petition DENIED" at the bottom of that status page is referring to the petition for cert.
OP was suggesting that systems like Bazel are harder to get started with but pay off with larger, more complex builds. However, I am claiming that Bazel is also good for the simple cases.
One of the problems with this is the same as any other bad behaviours companies often do that are indistinguishable from an attack, such as asking for your PIN on the phone, or sending account-related e-mails with links: They condition the user to expect this is "legitimate".

As the article points out, an attacker could do something on an unrelated web server that injects this same notice (using the same code [1] as a basis), with a link that says something like "Extend your limit for free by 1GB", which loads a fake "Xfinity login" in a pop-up to phish their Xfinity account credentials. Because the link was presented using the familiar UI, it could easily trick someone and it would be nearly impossible for most users to realize it's not legitimately Xfinity.

[1] https://rietta.com/blog/comcast-insecure-injection/injection...
Perhaps a city is more complicated because of the environmental hazards you mention, but I'd imagine it's easier to outfit a city with self-driving friendly sensors or lanes than those long-haul routes. In the article, it says this is how China is approaching the problem.

I personally believe a society with autonomous cars and regular cars sharing normal roads is a pipe dream in both a technical and political sense.
No, I don't think so. In the abstract the authors propose that ANNs may be useful to model the brain in three ways: 1) objective functions (brain-mediated physiological outcomes), 2) learning rules (how patterns are recognized and knowledge is gained), and 3) 'architectures' (which I assume to mean patterns of neural wiring and how info flows).

They are NOT proposing that neural nets architectures are analogous to brain architectures. I'm guessing their focus is on the lowest level activities in simple brains, perhaps afferent/efferent sensory perception, metabolic and physiological regulatory control -- the kind of things instrumented in worms like C. Elegans.
I don't know - I have seen lots of zero interest offers - but never from Affirm. I have a 750+ credit score and last time I looked at Affirm for something (a glowforge I think), interest rates offered were above 21%!
I'm paying plenty for internet. It's simple really, transmit my packet from point a to point b. Don't mutate it.
Do you have any advice on finding service providers or contractors? It seems like it's mostly word of mouth but people with dependable providers/contractors don't want to lose them to other landlords or developers.
Also the original comment ignores the people that would pay considerably more for a driver less taxi, just to avoid interacting with a human driver.
> ...Going forward, we will be building an option to opt out of using this partner ID...

One should be opted out by default and the option should be build to opt in.
I don't any more but when I was there I called it FoCo
That is extremely prone to breaking, and could be trivially detected if somebody was looking for it.

It is far less risky detection wise to just tamper with the RNG directly.
Yep. I flaked out the other week and didn't stop by the ATM before the weekend. Near the end of my run on Saturday, I stopped at a Bank of America ATM. I will admit that it offered me the chance to specify denominations, and I didn't take it up. I was quite surprised to get a $100 bill.

[edit] This was in Washington, DC.
Better solution: use Firefox and just prepend `about:reader?url=` to any URL you load. This article loads very nicely in Reader mode.

about:reader?url=https://rietta.com/blog/comcast-insecure-injection/
Show HN: We've built graphics comparison tool
Hi, I wanted to share with You our project (https://comparere.io). We have built a website for comparing graphics and designs. The concept is simple, you have to just drag'n drop two designs you are having trouble to pick from. The idea has emarged when we stumbled across many different facebook groups for graphic designers, where they used to sometimes ask the community for help to decide which design is better. I had similar problem too. Hopefully this tool will help graphic/ux designers build/create projects that will appeal to more audiences.
We are looking forward to read about your impressions.
"You know how we all punch walls and scream and cry at our desk and drink heavily to relieve stress? ...wait... you don't all do that too?"
I agree. It's just compounded by social media. It could be that I'm affected by this more than other people, but I've spoke with friends and family with similar experiences. Luckily I'm mature enough now to recognize this.

I also want to be clear that most of the negative thoughts I have aren't due to people being "too good" or "not good enough". It's due to the things people share. I see lots of anger in my facebook feed, usually related to politics, but not always. It's just a very dramatic place.

I don't want to think of what my early teenage years would've been like had social media been more accessible. Don't get me wrong, I would've loved to have access to MySpace from anywhere, but I don't think it would've been healthy and I certainly wasn't mature enough for it.
TikTok Could Fail
As a developer with decades of experience in designing GUI's, who always acts on feedback from end users of what I have produced, I think you're overly pessimistic about this suggested feature, and should at least try it, rather than dismissing it offhand without doing so.

It's not like adding something like an intermediate stage like that would take an enormous amount of work - and the feedback would be more valuable than thinking "oh they won't like it".
Good on the journalists still there.

What's crazy about this situation is that the site was already successful. Some rich people bought a website with an audience so they could extract money from it, but apparently didn't understand the concept of "devoted team."
The bug in question does seem to have stopped some Linux systems from booting, which would of course prevent the update.

Although in the author's case, he seems to be waiting on a BIOS fix because the microcode fix doesn't actually work. In the updates he mentions being told "...that the amd64-microcode package... would fix the issue. This, too, is not the case; the amd64-microcode and intel-microcode packages are both installed by default on all Ubuntu 19.10 systems, including the one I'm experiencing the RDRAND failure on."

It's good news that microcode fixes generally don't demand BIOS updates, but in practice this one seems to be getting fixed that way before it's fixed by the manufacturer.
Only if the victim trusts the attacker's certs, right?

That said, Comcast is big enough that it might be in cahoots with at least one less-than-scrupulous CA (or might even be a CA; I don't follow these sorts of things closely enough).
Is anyone still making ad revenue?
That makes sense. Observation implies that matter and energy have to be in a form familiar to the observer.
You can skip that if you use libraries, it won't even check the cache or need to relink. That's faster, much faster at scale.

The other nice thing is you get dead code elimination for free.
I feel like this is somewhat close to the Goat Simulator.

In that case, this will likely join my list of fun, but pretty odd games:

* The Stanley Parable

* The Goat Simulator

* I am Bread

* Starwhals

* Octodad
I built MerciCookie (https://www.mercicookie.com/) an API to send cookies to customers, partners...
I'm in France but we can send cookies in all Europe, US...
The AppleTV remote is the WORST. In general, the worst remote ever made.
Fluids in the brain carry a few hormones from here to there and the distribution of neurotransmisors have an important role, but they act very slowly. If we ever have a 100% bug compatible model of the neurons of the brain, adding the flux in fluids will be easy. They can be modeled with a very low number of slow changing variables.

I don't expect to see ever a 100% bug compatible model of the brain. I expect to see some system that does a somewhat similar calculation and produce results that look similar to the result in the brain. Something like the eye and a camera.
On failures: many years ago I stumbled across the idea of a `CV of Failures` where you list all of the accomplishments you missed/were rejected from, etc. I think it's a very humbling idea and can see some applicability here.

Example: https://www.princeton.edu/~joha/Johannes_Haushofer_CV_of_Fai...
Technical details are in the RFC submitted by Comcast: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108
Why an user agent is not enough to do just that?
Further incentivizing the use of HTTPS everywhere, imo. It's such a cheap standard now. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any good reasons for a site to be running HTTP any longer, other than laziness.
There is a lot of talk about protests at blizzcon. I hope the participants succeed and can keep the media’s attention on this issue, this has been the best anti-censorship PR in a long time. A big enough community reaction could actually get blizzard to change policy a little bit
Unless the GP edited, there's no suggestion of punishment in his comment.
Quality of internet - little to no redundency if the primary drops.

Speed of internet.

Trust that cloud companies are not:
A) Selling my info
B) Using it against me
If anyone is interested in automating it, I wrote up quick howto in Python a few days ago. https://readevalprint.com/Schmelvetica.html
It's almost like the customers are the ones paying money.
Javascript is in the blog post
It was further complicated because Apple never went all-in on 3D Touch. Some phones had it, others didn't, and tablets never got it at all.

This resulted in interactions being optimized for the lowest common denominator (ie pretend it doesn't exist, or treat is like a power feature.)
Show numeric on any input field – Input Mode
I don't claim that this is "perfection" but as an example

https://jsfiddle.net/c06fkq2a/

Use white for the key-light shadow, and a black for the ambient shadow.
The triumphalist note in many of these posts makes me sad. Flash had a ton of warts, yeah I get that. But there is a failure to acknowledge the collateral damage done to Actionscript that I find troubling. Itemrenderers, the ability to inline functions in MXML components and a decent OO framework gave me a powerful platform for rapidly iterating UI designs. The tools I currently use just don't measure up (I'm looking at you, C#) and it's left a bitter taste in my mouth.
Just because one can't open the information by default doesn't mean the information doesn't exist - in this case, Flash content is exactly like your paywall and book examples. The searcher can decide if having access to the information is worth the added cost...regardless of it's buying the book, paying for the subscription to bypass the paywall, finding an old computer or setting up a VM to use flash.
Tools That Make Work Faster
That's not really what the article is talking about though.

That kind of loan is nothing new. My parents were buying furniture on zero-interest installment plans decades ago. They offer zero-interest financing as an incentive to buy.

The article is about installment plans replacing high interest payday loans, which is a whole other game.
"Everyone should have it as bad as I did!"
I've seen a few people on Reddit insist that it must be an astroturf campaign. Because Reddit would never latch onto some random thing and meme obsessively about it for months, otherwise.

It's extremely streamer-friendly (i.e. "fun to watch other people play and react to"), which is a big boost to virality, and it got featured by a hugely popular YouTuber (Dunkey) four days after its launch. And it got lucky. It's not an uncommon story.
The Milky Way Reflected in the World’s Largest Mirror
From what my extended family in India told me, it is relatively easy to get elephants trained for work, but training war elephants was extremely hard and required a lot of time. Having said that, well trained war elephants, although harder to come by, held to their nerves during the battle and were very devastating; Given they encounter the army they were trained to fight.

During the first battle of Panipat, the invading Mughals had canons, which the opposing War Elephants were not trained for, and their alien sound broke their charge. If, for example, those elephants were trained with Canons in mind, they would probably have been successful in their charge.

I am talking about Indian elephants though.
Sure, but my point was that Bazel is doing file/include analysis so medium sized multi-header libraries are not penalized.
Why They Called It the Manhattan Project
They're not getting rid of their existing indexes of Flash data, are they?
Eh! Based on what I know of people, the odds of any competition are slim. The odds of any effective competition are slim to none.

Most people are basically lazy and will talk a good game, but not actually do anything.
So what was Apple going to do during the first 4 or 5 years? Every single mobile platform that tried using HTML frameworks for their apps failed and were slow.

Blackberry, Palm, and Microsoft all tried it. Android itself was slow as molasses for years because of its dependence on a VM instead of a completely native stack.

The last thing I want is Electron for mobile.
From which quite naturally follows, if broadband providers in the US consider themselves content services rather than telecommunication services, they have to acquire licenses for the content they provide, as well. (Xfinity, may have your billing address?)