skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Hadoop world things have evolved to support SQL. Spark, Hive, Impala all have full support for SQL. The Spark implementation is actually faster than you doing low level RDD processing as there are optimizers that work very well. In addition, you can create UDF that are easy to integrate.

The only reason you might choose other approaches is to make the problem look significantly more complicated, thereby justifying more maintenance and resources.

SQL is just too easy and some super smart engineers don’t like it because if it. That said, NoSQL does have value in some corner cases where it could perform better when most of the logic is simple lookups.
Wait why are so many people shitting on this idea. This seems to me to be exactly what people are always comparing about, "big companies only care about the bottom line they don't care at all about suffering." Right here there is a private company trying to help ease the homeless problem and everyone is just shitting on them for not doing the way they think they should or are getting angry at them for making a profit on it.

If we constantly dump on every person and company who makes any attempt to help address a social problem simply because it doesn't solve the whole problem or because they don't do it in the way we want or think is effecient, people are going to stop trying to do anything.

Sure maybe this program didn't solve homelessness in Phoenix and maybe it didn't help significantly reduce the percentage of people that are homeless but you know whose life it did significantly help? Steve and every other person who got a home, so sure maybe this didn't change homelessness in America radically but it did radically change homelessness for those people.
I'd love to educate myself more on how SQL mangles rel. alg. and whether there's another purer implementation. Any links?
Horan is not claiming those things. Horan is wondering if the experts have considered those things. Scott's hand waving answer suggests that "no the experts have not." Engineering professionalism entails formal assessment of the risks. The burden of proof is on the engineer. Without that, it's astrology not engineering.
It is notable that Porsche didn't try to create an electric 911 or Cayman. Despite there being a multitude of different version of 911s (Normal, Turbo, GT3 etc.) they (presumably) realised that an electric car was going to be fundamentally different. Different internal layout, different handling, so they started again.
I agree that we require nuclear energy but not based on plutonium. I am in favor of thorium with molten salt reactors. It is cleaner and safer. China is already researching it and invested a lot of money and people into it. A lot of countries are but it is on a very low scale because it is nuclear and has a bad reputation.
- Simple server admin for personal (and 2-person) projects

- 1 / 2

- A couple

- UK

- The ability to do even more without a live connection
That's really interesting, it never occurred to me before (because I've never seen such thing), but it makes sense. A lot of work happens in the background, and folks don't see the value until their website is down or their certificate is about to expire.

I'll investigate that. Appreciate the suggestion.
$100mm is the list price. Actual prices are decided by the market. I've read about $50mm for the 737-8, the baseline 737MAX model. That was of course before the MCAS disaster.

My layman understanding is that actual prices would be around 40% off list price for models that sell really well, with little competition (for instance A321). Much steeper discount above 60% for models that have a hard time selling (A330NEO) or for end of line to close a production gap (777-300ER is very cheap to buy while Boeing is working on the 777-9).
Previous experience with the Internet shows that all this would achieve would be a boom in the Temporary Phone Numbers as a Service (TPNaaS) market, so that trolls, bots and cybercriminals could get validated as easily as my grandma, while getting all those pesky privacy advocates out of the way.

Edit: plus, I'm not sure how that invalidates my concern. The only thing better than a data leak with personal information is a data leak with personal information that's definitely true, up-to-date and complete -- and the only datapoints of dubious values belong to bots, making them easy to cross off your list.
> It feels so surreal that the science is settled

????????

Is the global mean temp for the earth hotter:

1. Right now

2. During the Bronze Age

?

What parts of the entire field of psychology from the last 50 years have not failed to replicate?

What parts of nutrition science from the last 50 years are useful, or at least predictive?

What assumptions were we certain about in anthropology and history 50 years ago that we now know are completely wrong?

It feels so surreal that people think science is something you settle, at all. I cannot imagine the confusion that would lead an educated person into in thinking that.
It certainly doesn't matter. You can use any account and public search to search for references to your product. You can offer support on uservoice, forums, email.
Twitter support is only needed for companies like Comcast that refuse to offer regular support but need to respond to the hurricane of hatred from sub-consensual users. Using needing twitter is a symptom of deeper problems.
We're building new natural gas plants to provide peaking power, not to provide baseline power. Conventional nuclear plants can't provide peaking power, although there are designs that can.
It's also a very old problem--the need for people to find meaning in a world that is essentially devoid of any kind of meaning for them. The old, ancient problem. I would argue that these are the two defining problems of life: finding meaning, and finding purpose. The way we solve the first, by seeking meaning, and the way we solve the second, by finding purpose, is the same way we solve all other problems. Because, if we aren't finding meaning and purpose in life, then we are missing out on the very essence of what makes our life worth living.
> what about all of the working poor who are doing the right thing, but still have to pay half of their income in rent?

I thought that the claim was that everybody got free housing to correct for perverse incentive structures. The SLC program required homelessness and disability- thus having a perverse incentive structure.

I can see now that I misread the context- specifically referring to ER abusers- which makes this a very good example.
My wife and I just returned home from two years working in a large university town (Urbana/Champaign) and one of the things we really enjoyed was having an IMAX theater nearby. We went very frequently. When we returned to our home in the mountains of Central Arizona, we stopped going out to the movies - our local theater is OK, but not the IMAX experience.

The amount of at home entertainment with HBO, Amazon Prime, CBS Streaming (for Star Trek), and Netflix is phenonimal. I am fine with paying for services and just experiencing a wide sampling. It does take some self control to be willing to stop watching series after sampling some episodes.
Secret courts doesn't seem like the best idea from historical experience.
France does have the same problem with renewables though, they are way over schedule and much more expensive than planned.
The cyberpunk future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/technology/hong-kong-prot...
I think the answer to that is that I wasn't an experienced enough developer at the time to know how to do that. ;)
The lack of (or too-weak) safety & consistency guarantees will waste more time than it saved way before 5 years are up. More like within 3-6mo of going to production, if not before you hit production. Even more true if you're dynamic the whole way up (JS-to-JSON-to-[Ruby/Python/JS]-to-NoSQL and back again).

With the usual caveat that yes, some datasets & workloads probably do benefit from certain NoSQLs, but that's a pretty small minority.
What you're looking for is CV dazzle or dazzle makeup. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_dazzle and some more practical (?) information at https://cvdazzle.com/
> What's a good book for Simula or Smalltalk?

For Smalltalk, just start with the Blue Book. It's so well written and complete -- and most of it still alive in current implementations -- that it's the best place to start.

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook....
Something that has always blown my mind is that you can have a hemisphere of your brain removed with no major consequences:

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

> Studies have found no significant long-term effects on memory, personality, or humor, and minimal changes in cognitive function overall.
They already generated ~2000 different flakes and a snow simulation system for Frozen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_(2013_film)#Technology_...
Hi HN, creator of Women Make here. Today I share an AMA with Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a prolific maker. You might know her through Maker Mind, her weekly newsletter talking about neuroscience and entrepreneurship, with science-based tips [1] [2].

She answered questions about her writing process, her perspective on indie entrepreneurs vs. VC-funded ones, how to find a mentor, her early days, and more.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20902948

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20812786
Update: Since I cannot edit the main post anymore, I figured I'd leave an update here.

I was able to speak with REI's AdventureProject's / HikingProject's content team and explained my side of the situation and they explained the content was user-submitted. They spend a lot of time and money dedicated to publishing content to make sure that it's not outright copying anything else. From what I could see in my database, REI had never been on that trail on MyHikes in the past, so the similar-looking data they published may have come from the user who added the trail. That user may have read the content on MyHikes and regurgitated it in HikingProject. I can certainly appreciate all of that since I have to sift through and process user-submitted trail notes as well, but I'm a team of 1 at a much smaller scale.

Their content team said they would remove the offending text that I felt was too close in relation to what I had wrote, which is a really cool response. They also mentioned they believe trail information should be available in multiple places for the hiking community - which I 100% believe in and is why I started MyHikes in the first place.

To wrap it up, I did not go down this road to try and take their content down just to keep a better rank - I truly felt like they had some information that had been ripped off and they were totally willing to change it to accommodate my concerns.
I've given up trying to locate the program I need via the tiles. Now I hit the Windows key and start typing the application name I need. Making the interface worse has actually made things easier in many cases. Except when I end up launching a web search by mistake.
The reason that we can and should do housing first is for two reasons.

First, it's cheaper than any of the alternatives. From the NEAH, a paragraph describing those savings:

> Finally, permanent supportive housing has been
found to be cost efficient. Providing access to housing generally results in cost savings for communities
because housed people are less likely to use emergency services, including hospitals, jails, and emergency shelter, than those who are homeless. One
study found an average cost savings on emergency
services of $31,545 per person housed in a Housing
First program over the course of two years.xii Another study showed that a Housing First program could
cost up to $23,000 less per consumer per year than
a shelter program.

Next, it's just extremely effective. Being homeless over any period of time negatively affects mental well-being. The longer that you are homeless, the worse this gets, and the harder it is to get out. Housing first isn't just the cheapest solution, it actually solves the problem of homelessness directly and helps people to heal their mental state. You can find this information all over the place.

Ultimately, we should have rapid housing-first policies for everyone who ends up homeless, but that will require the American public to give up our normally punitive cultural attitudes so that the data can win, but we haven't done the best job ending other punitive systems despite their total failure, like the war on drugs.

Quote is from: http://endhomelessness.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/housin...
Right here there is a private company trying to
help ease the homeless problem

That's not true: they are making an investment in housing, based on economical considerations, that they expect to cover by reducing the health liabilities of the covered individuals.

I don't think this means that they should be shit on, or that the situation is bad. On the contrary: it looks like health externalities (homelessness) have been appropriately internalized, and it is enabling correct match-up between resources and needs.

But it just sounds silly when you say they are "trying to help ease the homeless problem"
To provide some context for the uninitiated: Hermes is Cambridge University's email system. The SRCF this page is hosted on is the 'student run computing facility' which provides certain sorts of hosting to students (it was where I first learned how to use a Linux command line).
"It's not clear whether the "Islam is right about women" message is meant (or will likely be understood) literally,"

So are they admitting that Islam is inherently sexist against women? If not, then this isn't really hate speech.

What about all of the fliers saying Ben Shapiro is a termite that needs to be exterminated? Nobody cares, even though it's blatant anti-semitism.

The problem is that the left can be horribly racist and bigoted with impunity (and it will be explained away and ignored by the media) and when anyone on the other side says something they don't like (and may not even be that bad), it's considered 'hate speech'.
How to Land a Journal Cover
Yes. I'm sure it's very "easy" and wouldn't end up making mistakes and generating lots of customer support calls and subscription cancelations.
I have been considering purchasing one of these, but keep getting put off by the security aspects of cloud based cameras i.e. accidental or otherwise vulnerability that allows others to view the videos.
>Slightly redesigning the wings

>fitting 4 engines

Changing the number of engines would most likely require a total redesign of the wing.
You are sooo right. I hate when people make a promise to change a system by changing one variable and pretending that all the other related variables will not change at all. Tax the rich is just a soundbite. There are lots of ways to close tax loopholes. We need to raise taxes by creating the right incentives.
Thanks, I will experiment with leaving my VPN on.
1) Make a lot of imprecise measurements.

2) Average them.

The more measurements, the closer the average will be to the truth.
> It doesn't make sense to use JSON as the interchange format for a statically typed language.

Two problems here. One, there are multiple statically typed languages with different type systems and it is nontrivial to translate between them. It's not "having a language" versus "not having a language"; it's Type system A vs Type system B vs Type system C vs none.

Secondly, this is only true if you assume that no dynamically typed language will ever want to interoperate with your code - which is almost always incorrect to presume.
That was heart warming. I remember Overly Attached Girlfriend doing the same thing. She used her fame for a good cause.
It makes up a far larger portion of US influence on aviation, which might bring the real push from the government.
Will Anglophones be allowed to use the new pink line in Québec ?
Well... A family of four with mobile devices and not already at home could see a dozen different IP addresses during a single day. With IP rotation, a few dozen in a month.
The internet tells me that smoking costs about $2k a year. I’m pretty sure people are spending that much on cell phones now.
No, but ARC does not have to pause all threads. Also this exists:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/unsafemutabl...
Kubernetes development, simplified–Skaffold is now GA
I have netflix, hulu, sling and amazon (mostly for prime delivery). The family asked me if i would get Disney, i said no. Kind of wanted to watch the Picard series, but not going to get CBS access (or whatever it is on) for 1 show. I will wait to see if it survives a few seasons and get the dvd's or something. Just tired of the streaming fragmentation, and the cable is no better because it is missing all the content and way to expensive.

The entire scene is frustrating, perhaps it is just me. I now watch a lot less than i use to, it is pretty much just put on "Family Guy" or "Rick and Morty" in the background and do other things (i have all those on DVD's so i just set the plex player to keep playing, although now plex is going to stream to....sighhhh)
AFAIK, satellite sea level measurements are only really accurate to a few cm. But when many measurements are averaged over long periods of time, that's still good enough to observe trends on the order of a few mm per year.

A bit more information about the measurement process: https://research.csiro.au/slrwavescoast/sea-level/measuremen...
The same people who are pro-nuclear don't want it in their backyard, nor to worry about future waste storage sites, or invest more heavily in the current Superfund clean up aftermath from previous nuclear-related projects.

Usually they talk about how the newest reactors are more efficient and reliable than ever, but still cost billions to manufacturer and maintain, and only if liabilities are removed from those involved with building it.
The article is an option pice on Bill Gates opinion.

Bill Gates opinion is the only reason any one is interested in the article, and he gave his opinion for nothing because thats what opinions are worth.

Giving your opinion is free, doesn't require any investigation, doesn't require any fact checking, doesn't require any journalism.

To put it bluntly nytimes has added no value to Bill Gates opinion, they have done no work, total value of their contributions is 0 they don't need paid for nothing.
I'm confused because I don't even see wind and solar on the first citation you provided, but you seem to be using it to say it's better than renewables.
Completely disagree with this. SQL is more flexible than NoSQL. NoSQL databases generally have poor query support, which means if you want to do complex queries you need to precompute the results. This requires you to know your requirements up front. If you're using SQL, then you can do these queries on the fly.

Sure, SQL databases make you defined a schema. But it's very easy to change this when requirements change.
Engineer: "Why are we collecting this much data?"

PHB: "We might need it someday for analytics, just keep storing it."

* Engineer, PHB leave company *

New Engineer: "Hey does anyone know what this data is being used for?"

New PHB: "No idea, just keep it running. Don't want to break anything."

* New Engineer, new PHB leave company *

New new Engineer: "What's all this data for?"

New new PHB: "No idea, just keep it running. Don't want to break anything."

...rinse, repeat.
Some previous discussions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14138196

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13129540

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9502049
Give the data scientists SQL and relational algrebra.

But please don't give them stored procedures and triggers.
Sir Martin Sorrell’s Silicon Valley Charm Offensive
Edge on Chromium: Stable Release Comes at the Beginning of 2020
unless there's a wild breakthrough in battery technology we need to be building nuclear to replace fossil fuel power generation

How about a 80% power-to-gas-to-power roundtrip efficiency?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054421...
Rust in Blockchain #5 – October
Interesting. First I've heard of it. Well I guess if you can ensure bounded space by limited allocaton, then simply shove manually 'freed' stuff back on a free list, you could do that, sure.

But a quick google gets https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/318 which does say

Non-Goals
It is not a goal to introduce manual memory
management features to Java language and/or JVM...

but it doesn't say you can't or shouldn't. Game on then.
> simulated what would happen if gamma rays ...

So now I am curious. How do other airliners (newer Boeings, Airbus, etc) fare when subjected to the gamma ray test? I would like some context.
A key property of theft and stealing is "permanently depriving" another of something. If someone downloads a binary representation of some information, the downloaded bits have been exactly duplicated many times (barring errors). When one consumes or views that copy of the information no other individual is deprived of anything as a direct result.

I'm actually a fan of the notion of copyright, trademarks and intellectual property in a sense but not to power it currently holds. Infringement on your sole or licensed right to copy is not as significant an issue as permanently depriving someone of something.

You might argue that someone who copies another's information is depriving them of money that would have been paid for that information. This is flawed though as you would need to be able to prove that the infringer of the copyright would have paid for the information in the first place.
Netflix pricing was always temporary. Content owners werent ready to destroy their old business models, they temporarily
rented licensing rights to Netflix while they figured out how they were going to handle shifts in consumption.

It's almost the same thing as Uber prices being VC subsidized. And now Disney is following the same playbook, sell Disney+ at or below cost for a while until they can inflate MAU enough that people just accept the subscription as a cost of life.

Theres also a bit of Rose Colored glasses going on here, Netflix catalog was pretty bad in the beginning, and people are misremembering it as better than it was. Netflix only exists at all because they could get their DVD business off the ground without paying per view licensing fees.

>charge the same for their meager library

We are also talking about a generation who is saying "I wont pay $7-$15 four times, thats too expensive" but while growing up, who's parents were paying $150/m to Comcast or DirecTV.
I'm reminded of finding out very recently that professional chess players burn a lot of calories.
What? According to whom? That's all just made-up FUD.
I have the premium Netflix subscription level (4 streams), and Netflix accounts are personal. Obviously I share this with my wife and daughter.

I want to split out my accounts too, for both the above reason, and that I don't like sending them a password so they can log in on their devices.

Why can't we have our own accounts and manage them into a family account?

But since accounts are personal, do Netflix expect me to watch 4 streams simultaneously on my 4 different devices, using my 4 eyes with my 4 brain halves?

I recognize that I'm probably not classified under "password cheat", but their still current solution feels really dirty.
Wow, these are great. Looks like it could be straight off a runway. Very haute.