skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a pretty good question actually, and difficult to address. I try and push new concepts/tech as a way of education on what’s coming.

For edu channels it seems it’s a balance of teaching core concepts and also teaching what’s “popular” to keep folks interested.

You have to make a cutoff at some point with caniuse, as I suppose to get 100% coverage we’d still be doing table-based layouts or float hacks. The old adage of “know your audience” will eventually dictate the tech.
Yes, I suppose the more salient thing here is that they did take out a large loan to meet their opex while (likely) trying to raise a rather large round to keep going and release the next device. I wonder if softbank's current precarity is causing some general difficulties, independent of Magic Leap's viability. The scale of their cash needs going forward are.. rather large
Sprinkling printf is very different from "good logs". Moreover, logging is not primarily for interactive debugging, but rather for monitoring. They're complimentary practices.
To explain more re: FB and having another layer on top of MySQL, there are a bunch of separate sharded MySQL tiers there. It's split by workload -- for example, the access pattern, schema, and sharding key differs completely between the main social graph, Messenger data, ad market, financial transaction data, etc. And then there's also the internal MySQL database-as-a-service, which allows any engineer to provision one or many databases for any other purpose. Overall, some of these things have services on top that use MySQL more as low-level storage, and others use MySQL in a more traditional fashion.

re: "disabling constraints", that's kind of orthogonal. The large MySQL users simply don't create foreign key constraints in the first place; there's nothing to disable :) Whereas MySQL's ability to disable constraints for a single session is a feature intended to make things like logical dump/restore easier and faster, schema management easier, etc. Without that feature, these tools would need to construct a dependency graph and create tables in a specific order (and/or defer FK creation until after the tables), which is needlessly complex if the tables are new/empty, and very slow if restoring a logical dump which is already known to be referentially consistent.

As for MySQL vs Postgres, IMO both databases are close enough in major functionality that for many use-cases it's best to just go with what you already know, can hire for, and can operate. There are special cases where one is better than the other, for example personally I'd go with MySQL for social networking / UGC / very high volume OLTP, and go with Postgres for use-cases where solid geospatial, OLAP, or fulltext are core requirements and/or there's a desire to minimize the number of different data stores.

Ideally with MySQL you're just using it for OLTP, and deferring to separate systems for OLAP, fulltext search, etc. In a way that's "more UNIXy" but it's also potentially an operational headache.

In terms of specific feature comparison, you already have a great list there. A couple other things on the MySQL side I'd mention are InnoDB's buffer pool (smarter caching than relying on the OS cache as pg does) as well as the existence of MyRocks storage engine (LSM-based system offering better compression than pretty much anything else of comparable performance level for OLTP).

That all said -- Postgres is an awesome database, and I'd say that Postgres is more closely aligned with the textbook definition of a proper relational database. But then again I'd also say something similar about FreeBSD (vs Linux) for server operating systems, yet for practical purposes I always go with Linux anyway :)
>Whenever you start to see multiple quote snippets appear in an HN (or any forum) comment thread, it's basically guaranteed to have died and splintered into a bunch of uncharitable nit picks

Citation needed.

>It encourages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

[Insert smarmy HN-stlye dismissal here]

</sarcasm>
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They're rare in Australia (though I haven't had a fixed line for years now, so maybe mobile phones have a different targeting profile).

Interestingly, there's been an uptick lately but the recorded messages are all in Chinese.

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/bc8p2w/chinese_r...
> but is there really so much information content in those commands people occasionally utter to it?

You forget that those devices are always on, always listening.
The problem I had with Minetest, is that the base sandbox is quite boring and I think you're not supposed to be playing it on its own, but then when it comes to mods there is so much choice and I couldn't find a place to start from (something like: "if you are a beginner, start from these 5 mods"), so I don't know where to start from. Any suggestions?
How do you know this if they were undocumented?
France, often cited as a sound nuke-advocate (world tally: second nation in raw amount of grid electricity produced by nuclear plants, and first by the part of it) is in fact...

... escaping from it!

A law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte") states that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall to less than 50% in 2025, from 72% then, and that renewables must replace it.

2 years later the government (lacking funds and unable to cope) reported it to 2025, then 2 years later to 2035 ("programmation pluriannuelle de l'énergie").

However the political and strategical orientation is perfectly clear, just don't believe France is on the nuke camp.
Perhaps they should all be held to the same higher standard, this whataboutism is coming at it from the wrong angle imo
That was a pretty obscure reference given what the article talks about.
If CoC's were specific, they'd be called laws, rules, procedures.

CoC's like the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence exist to capture values, principles, culture, intent.
I played it overnight nonstop after buying it, also in 2011 I think (infdev anyone?). Then also never touched it again. However I am curious how you missed the hugeness of it for so long, did you not follow gaming sites or anything gaming on YouTube similar at all?
While I think the mathematical approach is fine, I think that it’s worth noting that it most likely just hides the loop in the math library. But I guess it is good not to scare the students. (That’s what 412 is for.)
I always ask recent graduates about interesting courses they took. Not so much to meet some kind of criteria, but to start a conversation about something in CS that interests them. Helps to see how passionate they are about their field.
So did Magic Leap default, or is the loan newly made with JPM to hold the patents while the loan is outstanding? Seems like the IP in this case isn't very valuable to JPM* and this is more just another way to guarantee the seniority of JPM's loan.

* Didn't read the patents themselves, but Oculus, Hololens and others are doing just fine without them. So, hard to imagine they have too much auction value.
You casually slandered my entire country and now you have a problem with my tone? What, exactly, do you expect? Especially when you’re just flat out wrong. I’m not even arguing that the US is the best, merely that it’s clearly a first world country, as evidenced by the incredible prosperity that most Americans participate in.

And regarding health care and a social safety net: you should familiarize yourself with Medicaid and our welfare programs. Many of the poorest Americans receive assistance of various kinds, on par with many first world nations.
As a resident of a similarly occupied town (Californians), though for longer. And let me say that given sufficient time, the downsides only get worse.

I live in a town of 40,000, and you wouldn’t think a city this small would have any major issues. But 1,600sqft condos are selling for $750,000 in downtown. Restaurants (including fast food joints like Taco Johns) are closing can’t afford to employee staff, because their staff needs $40,000 paychecks just to live in the city.

Throw in a car-only commute (a dangerous one some winters), and rising costs in a 30 mile radius of the city, and the influx of cash-flush transplants is causing the city to price itself out of a working class.
Yeah, they're half-on listening for the wakeword, but they don't send the audio anywhere until you utter it.
> the Governments of the United Kingdom and the French Republic make this declaration of indissoluble union

The claimed goal was to end future nationalism, but such a "indissoluble union" would in the long term lead to such nationalism.
And yeah, that is why I said Apple gets some blame for choosing a horrible bank to partner with.

But my point is that Apple doesn't have some fancy algorithm deciding females are 1/10th a person. Goldman does..
"What has kept England on its feet during the past year? In part, no doubt, some vague idea about a better future, but chiefly the atavistic emotion of patriotism, the ingrained feeling of the English-speaking peoples that they are superior to foreigners. For the last twenty years the main object of English left-wing intellectuals has been to break this feeling down, and if they had succeeded, we might be watching the SS men patrolling the London streets at this moment.Similarly, why are the Russians fighting like tigers against the German invasion? In part, perhaps, for some half-remembered ideal of Utopian Socialism, but chiefly in defence of Holy Russia (the "sacred soil of the Fatherland", etc etc), which Stalin has revived in an only slightly altered form. The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions--racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war--which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms,and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action."

George Orwell, "Wells, Hitler, And The World State", 1941.

I also can't help but notice that you fail to mention that Orwell's definition of nationalism in "Notes On Nationalism" is somewhat different than the definition used today:

"By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, NOT for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality."

Orwell, had he lived today, would be unironically branded as a nazi. And as for his views on communism, oh boy, if he had a twitter account, he'd have a horde of blue checkmarks at his throat every time he had anything to say.
Put simply, we’re above all else in existence and they’re existence is purely for our furtherance.

That doesn’t mean I see have no empathy for other creatures of this world. Of course I do. Suffering or torture of animals would never be justified. But I’d never put their existence itself ahead of a fellow human’s. That’s, to me, totally asinine.
Did this individual used to work in the identity space? Canadian?
Or maybe using laws to prevent technology from making the port more efficient has downsides that affect not just management and shipping companies, but working class people as well.
> MS Office was designed to fit business processes

Microsoft Outlook made sense once you (or at least me) realized it was designed to send memo's not email.
How to build a deep learning computer
This is not only something you largely have to trust Amazon's word on but a limitation that can be removed at any time via OTA update.
They aren't the global Boeing police, and doing an investigation doesn't mean you're in charge or capable of regulating the entire planet.

But you know all this, and are just being a troll, so I'm done.
The title makes it sound like galileo went down again. Can someone please change it?
> Can anyone with comprehension of the project explain what this is about?

The OSM project has a default editor called iD. iD is developed by developers from Mapbox. As it is the default editor, iD via what it puts forward has a lot of leverage on the projects.

Recently, some people have complained about some of iD features. Notably iD pulls images from Facebook and some people feel it is an unnecessary loss of privacy.

Unfortunately, one of the iD maintainer seems slightly burnt out and as a result has questionable communication skills. This lead to poor handling of the Github issue and this blog post.
what instances are you referring to that get buried?
It’s easier to do in small towns, where people support you and provide a safety net. You rarely get that in bigger cities.

The ability to afford a home and a family while doing blue collar work helps a lot too.
Right, but in so doing you're presenting an inconsistent and selectively favorable-for-you viewpoint, which in reality is nothing more than a smokescreen for your greed.
Looks like his server is in damage control, Web Archive has a copy but is in the same state for me: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.kguttag.com/2019/1...
India Stack – Digital Infrastructure Setup
I actually feel kinda sad for you, seems so cumbersome, yet I can't relate at all. Really bizarre to me as an Estonian, I've only had to show my ID-card to the pharmacist and get my prescription, because my doctor has entered it into the e-prescription[1] system. Reading this thread definitely made me appreciate it a lot more.

[1]: https://www.eesti.ee/eng/services/citizen/tervis_ja_tervisek...
Yeah they do, I recently got asked "How would you calculate the volume of a point cloud?" in a software development interview.
A buddy works for a permanent startup. Has never shown a profit. He's convinced it's a money laundering operation. He likes the work, so he doesn't ask too many questions.
I don't think the author is pushing for a standard.

But depending on the desired intent one would be preferable to the other.

for example a typedef would be used to hide the complexity for an opaque pointer.
There have been a few great product delivered on Java, such as IntelliJ.

Visual consistency with the underlying OS is an overblown concern. The application needs to be well-designed and performant.
Doctors don't feel like they are kings--while they make very good money there are massive amounts of red tape, filling out Epic...

It's the bureaucrats who are kings.
I can't recommend this enough https://www.manning.com/books/functional-and-reactive-domain...
It looks like Magic Leap just closed on a new loan in August, not that they defaulted. This filing ensures that if they ever _do_ default, JPM has the rights it expects in the IP as collateral.
I agree with the article, Roblox certainly doesn't please the Minecraft crowds - or at least, not everyone among them.

I'm curious about Hytale, an RPG game currently under development, made by Hypixel which is the developer behind one of the most successful Minecraft servers.

Another title that I was excited about was Cube World but after reading the reviews, it seems it didn't really hold up to the hype.
I disabled pocket a single time and haven't had to see it since
Many (mostly indirect) costs related to nuke plants construction in France were not published and therefore cannot be taken into account.

Some were military programs aiming at producing weapon-grade plutonium (=> opaque budgets), part of them necessary to the plants. In fact it was the main political reason behind the French nuclear program, and the inherited opacity remains.

Part of this are R&D paid for by the taxpayer under other programs, many not financially linked to nuke plants, mainly done by a huge and very costly monster named CEA (its current yearly budget is 4.7 billion euros).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Alternative_Energies_an...
I wonder if Twilio will support that. I route my GV to Twilio and then to T-Mobile to run custom logic on incoming phone calls (like filtering out all incoming calls that match the first 6 numbers of my number). Would be nice to passthrough verification.
It would be interesting to see how the rates compare to other professions.

>More than 80 law enforcement officers working today in California are convicted criminals

So 80/80,000 have some sort of misdemeanor conviction. I wonder how many of those are serious and how the rate compares to doctors, politicians, and engineers
Possibly. My thinking with the post office is that they would only work with the local library system, and to keep costs down even more could even just collect the books at the post office and someone from the library would collect them.

Lots of logistics and not very likely but I know it would remove my primary impediment to using the local library.
> Less regulation - not more - would lead to an enviro in which an ISP who was preferring certain content would be genuinely risking losing customers by doing so (and might gain certain types of customers, opening niches for other ISPs to win other customers, which would be fine too).

Haha no, Ajit. You either take the ISP you get, charging whatever you for whatever they want https://www.google.se/amp/s/arstechnica.com/information-tech..., or you go check your e-mail at the nearest coffee shop.
Well, the problem with your argument is you seem to be arguing that any gun control is good gun control so it's reasonable to push for a completely ineffective gun.
To nitpick your nitpick, one could argue that "TCP/IP" is the name of a protocol suite, which contains more than just the two protocols that make up its name. UDP and ICMP are obviously also included. Its precise boundaries are unclear, and some may argue that other protocols such IGMP, DCCP, SCTP, DNS, DHCP, ARP, etc, form part of that suite as well.
A few commenters are responding on how they think certain features in addition to Minecraft would make a killer game. I don’t think Minecraft’s success had anything to do with its featureset. To paraphrase notch, he believed in a model of good enough vs perfect and continually released updates that added the minimal needed for the feature he wanted, responding to user feedback in real-time. This was unheard of at the time for how games were developed, in addition his target user was the lowest common denominator in terms of gamers, his mother, whom self described never played games.

“In addition to that, he released updates often, in accordance with the Swedish saying “hellre än bra” (meaning someone who prefers spontaneity over perfection). As soon as a new function or bug-fix was in place, he made it available via his site, asking players for help in testing and improving it.” https://www.wired.com/2013/11/minecraft-book/
It was an act that he parked in handicapped space every day and never attached a license plate to his car?

https://www.cultofmac.com/2613/steve-jobs-still-parking-in-h...
What does "not commercially viable" means? Sounds vague.
Ask HN: What posture you keep while coding. And what's your feeling?
> How did they ever raise such capital?

Access to a good network. It's not like cash isn't available these days. It's just that you have to treat networking as a full time job and hone the craft just as you would anything technical.
Minor but important correction - until it thinks you utter it.

If it misheard you it can do bad things: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/amazon-al...
Magic leap founded in 2010

Raised $2.6 Billion

Revenue: $0?
> So Alexa will make suggestions or remind you that you need to order toilet paper.

Using a microphone, even with an offline ML model, to do things like play music at the right times and (almost certainly) show you ads or ask if you want to buy Amazon product is pretty off-putting. Google Maps and Siri Suggestions uses your phone's behavioral data and location history to figure out when you usually leave for work, but if you said "i need to get to work an hour earlier tomorrow" to someone, it would be weird if your phone or Alexa instantly said "do you want me to remind you to leave earlier?" I don't think it's as off-putting as the article makes it out to be, but it's still pretty creepy; we're almost certainly going to have boomer facebook groups boycotting Alexa for "always listening".
Good, more of a reason for people to stop using G services
Is it normal to eject from such height? I’d think that one would try to go lower first.
Was it because aux power did not work?
Is there research showing that graduates of Catholic schools are less educated in core academic subjects, are less likely to attend college, less likely to get a good job, or more likely to break the law? Those are the main outcomes the public cares about. In the absence of evidence that Catholic schools are underperforming, the state should not try to usurp the choices of parents.
I'm amused that anyone ever took Magic Leap seriously. It's basically Apple's Newton; a good idea without the tech, without the infrastructure, without the content to sustain it and make it useful. Check back in after 10 years.
Heroku free tier does not support SSL, but you can add it using cloudflare.
I just wish email clients would pick a direction and stick with it. The default on an iPhone is to have the most recent messages at the top. But if you open a thread of messages the most recent within the thread is at the bottom. But inside the individual message, the most recent text is at the top.
What would it look like?

I have been building it, writing about it and giving it away:

https://qbix.com/blog

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

https://qbix.com/token

Every time I post this on HN, it gets heavily downvoted. But I don’t ever hear why. I can think of no better way than to show, link to the code, give it away. I spent over half a million dollars of my company’s revenues on this. Take that for what it’s worth. I intend to make this work.

If this inspires you, feel free to email me (qbix.com/about)
A brief history of chess – Alex Gendler [video]
> If I don't do this, when I come back to the code an hour later I have no idea what its supposed to do or why I wrote it.

Many people write comments which are often nothing more than a really obvious transliteration of the code to English "foobar += 3; // Add 3 to the foobar".

These comments add little to nothing and often become worse than useless when they fall out of date and you end up with a cryptic "foobar += 7; // Add 3 to the foobar"

I find it helpful to imagine a codebase guru, someone who not only wrote the thing but has had years of experience maintaining and teaching to others... and the comment writes down what they would say if you asked them about it.

The guru wouldn't say 'adds three to foobar', they'd tell you about how the number used to be the obvious value of two but then the database choked when the boss was trying to store their golf scores in it, because foobar controls the whatzanits and there can be a race that requires it to have room for one extra. The guru would tell you _why_, and that's what a better comment will do.

Students of programming are often just writing what they're told to write. They don't necessarily have a strong grasp on the why, especially not a deep contextual grasp.
I was at the Vasa museum just a few weeks ago. While the ship itself is massive and amazing, what they recovered with it and how is even more so.

It wasn't lost at sea in battle but on the way out of port. Therefore there wasn't any battle damage and it was fully stocked with supplies and gear.

Then since the mud was soft enough, a good portion of the ship sank deeply and was protected from water, weather, etc that would normally erode and destroy things. You can see all kinds of detail from woodwork and decoration.

Finally, they have a display on how they were able to recover it ~50 years ago and the sheer amount of effort it took. It's stunning looking through the diagrams, etc.
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