skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The interesting question is why!

You get what you measure. Google grew this monster themselves with pagerank and monetizing links.
I hope I can live long enough to see the effects of asteroid mining on the world and the economy.

Palladium today is $1704.73 per ounce, but the price of palladium comes from the fact that it's extremely rare on Earth. But what if someone comes back from an asteroid with an amount of palladium that suddenly triples the worldwide supply? What will the effects be on the price point? I'm sure the costs of getting it back planetside will be factored in and slow down any inflation, but I am still curious.

And what kind of things could we create, given a vastly increased supply of rare elements?
Spotify is pretty good for podcasts, their search anyway.
The successor will have to be named TardigradeDB.
Is it though? My impression of HN is that debate isn't encouraged. Heck, discussion is basically discouraged. HN intentionally makes it more difficult to see if people responded to your comment to prevent people from constantly trying to defend their internet honor. However, back and forth discussion is important for debating ideas. HN guidelines specifically ask readers: "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle"

HN seems more geared towards "intellectual curiosity" and the discovery of new ideas. It doesn't seem tailor-made for rational debates, or specifically designed with debate in mind. I've yet to see a platform that attempts it (haven't looked into the posted site either).
Works fine here, even over Tor - Firefox 70.0.1 with javascript.enabled=false in about:config.
For most intents and purposes, Google is the internet landscape. They are the dominant browser, search engine, email system, and mobile operating system.
If you don't mind sharing, what was it from Auth0's "call us" column for pricing that bumped you up to that tier? Middle one is still high, but under $25k, let alone $50k, for 7k MAU.
Unfortunately that seems to be common. Artifactory for example has similar requirements. Guessing that running full free text search and analysis on the artifacts are the main culprits.

https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?cont...
> Section 17200 bans “any unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business act or practice, and unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising.” Senders of official-looking direct mail get around these restrictions by including language — often in fine print — declaring that the correspondence is not in fact official. Such a disclosure makes it the consumer’s responsibility to figure out what’s happening.

How could putting such information in fine-print escape any definition of "deception" when the obscurity of that information is vital to their operation.

On the face of it, it seems more likely they are illegal yet unchallenged. I doubt they would hold up in any reasonable court of law.
I've also found I could get the same deal or better when I book directly with the hotel. And when I check in, if I've booked with a third party booker, it's impossible to change the reservation at the hotel itself, and things that are normally free (like wifi or a ride to the airport) suddenly cost extra. Many hotels hate the outside bookers and either lose money on those bookings or don't make as much, and they're happy to split the booker's fee with the customer who books directly.
Same. When I search for a product I always append reddit e.g. "what video card 4k 120hz reddit" because otherwise the search results are flooded with fake comparison pages spamming Amazon referral links
The motto of the UK labour party is "For the many, not the few". I hope you get the joke now.
They literally had a section on their 'news' website called "Black Crime" - the terms are synonymous. It's astonishing to me that the crowd would rather parse SPLC's phrasing or history rather than the documentary evidence that there are white nationalists making policy at the highest levels of our government and coordinating with one of Facebook's 'approved news sources'.
Deep Multi-Task ML for Inferring Molecular Pathology from Cancer Transcriptome
The last time I researched this, absorption fridges when run on electric resistance heating use on the order of 300% more energy.

But of course in the case of an RV where you are on a car battery but have a large propane tank, they make sense in terms of energy storage.

With the more cost effective Lithium batteries the higher end RV coaches have all eliminated the absorption fridges and gone with compressors and bigger batteries.
This article is not from Snopes. The question is about the integrity of Snopes and whether or not they re-frame questions to fit a political spin. The Washington Post has been found to have done this on numerous occasions.
Why the Government Isn't a Bigger Version of a Startup
So, like, Java?
I respect the name at this point. It won't go away - just like a real Cockroach and a distributed fault tolerant database system.
I'm not sure what serial sexual assault will do to protect our privacy.
The point of this article is that a whistleblower is saying "they're not controlling access properly".

While the Grauniad is trying to spin it to sound worse, the whole point is Google are providing data processing services to a valid HIPAA processor via Google Cloud, not that they nefariously bought the data to integrate it with the search results.

Much like health data stored on AWS with a dedicated internal project team could be accessed by "Amazon" staff. It's kinda the point, the google staff have been brought in to help manage the data.
The problem with this is in how you classify different types of care. For example, is end of life care voluntary and thus should not be covered by insurance or is it emergency? If you say it’s the former and go to a national healthcare setup, people lose their minds shouting about death panels. If you say it’s the latter, healthcare costs go up 10-12%.
Kafka streaming to validate and attach model data, fed into Druid by Flink, queried via a custom front end.
Interesting. I wonder what limitations there are to that.
> When a single major medical procedure can result in a six-figure bill, there's just no way that the average person could ever save enough. You end up with people who are lucky enough to never need to tap their HSAs, and people who are unlucky enough to get sick, whose HSAs just present a speed bump on their slide into bankruptcy.

While I agree the HSA is an ineffective solution, what you're describing isn't accurate.

The HSA savings segment is not for major medical expenses. The savings portion is for minor medical expenses. The HSA savings account is paired with a high-deductible insurance policy that covers major medical expenses.
Canadian Software Company OpenText Acquires Carbonite in $1.42B Deal
Ask HN: How to improve SEO for user-centric site?
I thought this would be a good time to ask this question given this recent post on the front page:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21513318

I'm developing a website that is user-centric. What I mean by that is it provides straight-forward content with the bare-minimum information the user needs rather than the traditional SEO-centric sites we've all grown to hate that bury a simple answer in a 10 paragraph post just to milk that SEO udder.

How do you improve the SEO for such a data-heavy site with little-to-no surrounding context or massive walls of text?
Of course, if you SSH from a compromised host, it could also just piggyback on your terminal session, or steal your credentials, or whatever else. This is really an instance of being on the other side of the airtight hatchway: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181219-00/?p=10...
Francois Chollet: The Measure of Intelligence
Yes, happens in Sweden too. And they are doing quite well for themselves.
Skydweller Aero Inc, the company acquired, has a video on their website containing almost entirely stock footage with an awkwardly worded voiceover and a little footage of the Solar Impulse aircraft: https://skydweller.aero/

Sounds like some folk from the Solar Impulse group are involved somehow.
> a diagnostic test like an MRI can often cost that much

In non-emergency situations where you can do advance planning MRIs are cheap. It all started around 15 years ago when some college professor set up a company a2zimaging I think it was called that sold idle MRI capacity to anyone. I believe he eventually shut it down but there's now several other companies willing to do a full MRI for anywhere from $320 to $1500. Google "cheap mri" and choose one.

If you are brought into a hospital after a car accident and use their scanner without making arrangements, you can end up paying $10-$20k for the exact same scan.
While I agree that draw.io is nicer, personally I find Visual Paradigm to get job done faster due to the amount of autocomplete it provided. It not easy getting started, I will admit.

I have only used Visual Paradigm in university though.
I hope so. But HN typically shuts down political articles fairly quickly, and this one made it to the front page and had comments on it as if nobody had noticed, so I thought it was worth a mention.
The news on the company homesite :

https://skydweller.aero/news/

provide some insights, they just acquired the SI-2 (and related assets and exclusive IP license ) from Solar Impulse:

https://aroundtheworld.solarimpulse.com/adventure

https://bdnewsnet.com/defence/uav/leonardo-invests-in-skydwe...
"I'm pretty sure it's more efficient to convert to kinetic energy (almost) directly rather than through electricity - meaning that electric engines don't make much sense."

An electric motor is >90% efficient. Sure you're added an extra stage converting to electricity, but so what?

Electric drives are so efficient, diesel ICE locomotives have had electric drives (in lieu of transmissions) since the 1950s. That is, they have massive diesel engines that generate electricity instead of moving the train directly.
Yes, you're 100% correct. In fact, if I remember correctly that David Donaho was a co author on many of the papers for the LIGO detection technique
But the annual gifts do more than ensure that participants are financially secure; they give people skin in the game. Participants spend prudently because they know that any unspent HSA balances are theirs to keep. The result? Massively lower health-care spending without any decrement to health outcomes.

HSA also discourage you from doing any preventative care because that's money you can probably find a use for in other ways. Thus inflating long-term healthcare costs as people only go to the doctor when it's an emergency.

Anyone who supports HSA accounts is either an idiot or has suspect motives.

Those may be a strong opinion, but it's one I stand by in this particular case.
I also use B2 even though I am on Mac. I bought Arq to backup to B2 and I will break even within the first year. I used to pay for the personal edition before realising that my new setup is far cheaper.

I have used restic and rclone with very crappy platforms (Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive) for testing purposes and that worked fine enough so I can imagine it works even better on something like B2.
It may not be that they are more qualified. I was hired at a job and they told me afterwards that other applicants were more qualified, but those applicants lived in a different state, while I lived a few miles away, so they decided to go with me instead so they didn't have to deal with helping the other candidates move.
I believe he changed his name when he married to incorporate his wife Kelly's
"You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis & Cathy Lee; I don't care! Just as long as you call me" - @RuPaul
Politically Incorrect Paper of the Day: The United Fruit Company Was Good
First off, if something this large can drop by 75% in price then you're being bamboozled, extorted, or potentially both.

"Under our current system, it’s nearly impossible for people with health insurance to find out in advance what anything covered by their insurance will end up costing."

It's worse than that. Not only can you find or figure out how much everything will cost, most places (particularly hospitals and outpatient centers) will not even tell you how much they charge for their services. Some news outlet did a study and called the top 25 hospitals in the country and asked them how much a hip replacement would cost. Only around 3-5 actually gave a number and it varied wildly. The rest refused to pin down any number at all. That's one of the most common surgeries there are and they don't know what they will charge for it?

On the moral/philosophical side - how can a person be held financially liable for something they cannot possibly know the cost of in advance, even if they try to find out? Such practices are illegal everywhere else in this nation. And there is no legal exception for healthcare providers. How do I know that? Because a few years ago Rand Paul tried to pass a law that would exempt healthcare providers. It failed - which means it is still currently illegal to be doing this. Yet not one of these providers or operations has been charged accordingly. If you went to a mechanic and they took a look at your car and you asked how much it was going to cost to fix it and they responded with "which insurance do you have?" or "I don't know until I'm done" they would get shut down and charged, and rightfully so. Because the logical conclusion is to say it costs some extravagant amount of money and then "settle" for something less. Which gee, doesn't that happen a lot in the medical industry when people can't pay their bills? People face bankruptcy and can't afford a $10,000 bill but somehow the hospital is just fine accepting $3,000 instead?
This is a very salient point. If your service relies on N other services, each with a SLA of 99.99%, the chance of a single request having at least one failure is:

1 - .9999^N

Which means if you make 10 requests, you go from 99.99% to 99.9% or from 52 minutes to 8.77 hours of downtime a year.

In most cases you're likely to be making a lot more than 10 service calls.
Wild space rock Ultima Thule gets new official name: Arrokoth
We use something similar in the first half, Kafka -> Flink -> (Druid | PostgreSQL) -> Metabase

We use Druid for time series data, and Postgres for everything else.
Whether a service is centralized or decentralized might matter a lot to us here, but to 99% of people it's utterly irrelevant. An implementation detail.

Therefore their mental model will equate Youtube (a service) with Peertube (an application used by multiple services). If illegal content is on some Peertube, it's "on Peertube" and it drags down all the other stuff that is "on Peertube". Just like how big advertisers withdraw all their campaigns from all of Youtube when a single popular Youtuber posts a particularly distasteful video. They don't recognize the substructure inside Youtube's community because, to the public majority, Youtube is a monolithic thing. It's going to be the same for Peertube. (Unless Peertube has a better marketing department than behemoths like Youtube, which it likely has not.)
What they need to do is to come up with a monetization model that makes more sense.

As a devops, I rely heavily on Hashi and Ansible and Chef and so many other tools. However, their enterprise offerings are both too expensive and also too big for what I need. I can't get my employer to just donate money, so what can I simply and easily buy to fund the effort while still getting some value?

Grafana, for example, with paid plugins has made this easier: the moment you need a bit more, you pay for it. We need to extend this model out somewhat, get these vendors to offer more premium functionality - generally in the form of charging for integrations with other closed source software. That if you stay open the whole way yourself you can probably do the whole thing for free; conversely, if you have money for Datadog or whatever other service, then you probably have money to attach Grafana to Datadog too.
Some comments I have regarding the documentation. It seems like there is a lot describing how to set up a cluster and how to do various SQL operations that most people probably know how to do.

I think the information that should be presented much more clearly are:

1.) How do we have to partition our data/what restrictions are in place? Basically, what considerations are necessary when designing the data model due to the constraints of the technology?

2.) What functionality that we expect from RDBMS do we give up when working across partitions? Can foreign keys exist across partitions? Can joins work? Inner/Right joins?
I like the Booking.com approach of focusing on their product and website so that users come to it directly (I must say though that there are many things I don't like about their site, like all the "1 last room at this price book quickly!!"). Yelp shot itself in the foot by not letting mobile users read reviews without downloading the app. It's not worth most people to download the app for it.

For travel I usually go to Kayak directly. Their site is simple and useful. But I must admit that seeing all the options on a map is pretty useful and I often use the hotel module in Maps. For me Maps is the best product Google ever made since their initial search engine.
I use draw.io all the time. It's incredibly simple and that's what makes it work so well. I can whip up a good architecture diagram in a few minutes using it.
Launch: Basecamp Gets Personal
Most of the YouTubers I follow have ads they embed themselves in their videos, sponsored content or patreons. I'm not sure the platform running ads is actually strictly needed. (+ of course it doesn't have replace YouTube to be valuable)

It'd be interesting if an instance could add them itself - I think doing it dynamically would mess with Webtorrent support?
We're currently running a single NVIDIA RTX2080 with Tensorflow 2.0 on a Windows 10 station. We'll soon be switching to a standard multi-GPU rig running an air gapped Linux distro. Linux seems overall much better for ML because of better Docker integration and tensor core support on the newer GPUs. Also, we'll probably be switching from Tensorflow to Pytorch for model development. Pytorch requires a little bit more code, but debugging is 10X easier.
I don't think anyone's debating that the lawyer is a bad person. But why not take a big company to task? This is a serious ongoing problem for photographers these days. I highly doubt this is the first time this has happened to this photographer. And I doubt it's the first time DN has used someone's photo without permission.
If you're just reading hn comments:

"There is unfortunately one less straightforward way that attackers can access another module’s memory—side-channel attacks like Spectre. OS processes attempt to provide something called time protection, and this helps protect against these attacks. Unfortunately, CPUs and OSes don’t offer finer-than-process granularity time protection features."

"[snip] Making a shift to nanoprocesses here would take careful analysis."

"But there are lots of situations where timing protection isn’t needed, or where people aren’t using processes at all right now. These are good candidates for nanoprocesses."

"Plus, as CPUs evolve to provide cheaper time protection features, WebAssembly nanoprocesses will be in a good position to quickly take advantage of these features, at which point you won’t need to use OS processes for this."
The Most Practical Christmas Gifts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21516212
>Since there were 33 x's, and that many Republicans had been voted out of Congress, they said true.

That is not at all what the article you linked states. Not only does the article confirm that some of the X's in the picture were not in Congress but it provides a specific list that shows that, for those who were, the claim is accurate.
I think it's a joke about "no results" smashed together
> more fuel efficient engine is more powerful for the same displacement than one that isn't

Not necessarily true, but for kinda stupid reasons. Carburetors often run cooler at the intake than fuel injection, resulting in more peak power despite worse economy. I am aware that this is not actually relevant here, I just think it's interesting.

My main point is that in that in the early 70s Chevy's small blocks could make damn near 400 horsepower. Fast forwards and it isn't until that late 80s that you see a consumer car with north of 250 (grand national), and that was a pretty extreme outlier. Move to the early 2000s and we finally get modern Chevy LS motors which are once again making north of 400hp from the factory. These are still single cam, 2 valve per cylinder V8s though.

WTF actually happened?
No. Electric is the best way to convert renewable energy to useful flight energy.

Anyway, it bothers me one people refer to the constraint being "large aircraft" when the real difficulty on electric flight is range, not how big the aircraft is. Electric flight scales up just fine. It's the range issue that's hardest. Currently can do 1000km, maybe up to 2000km with lithium ion and lithium sulfur chemistries with optimized structure and aerodynamics. Could scale up to larger sizes if desired.
-> Kafka-connect -> Snowflake -> SQL/sf-tasks -> Snowflake -> Looker
-> Alooma ->
-> custom ->

Using Kafka-connect, we're able to serve up near real-time (2-5 mins) insights on device generated events.

We probably need to use some kind of ETL tool to replace custom SQL and sf-tasks. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to find a tool that handles this in a non-batch (even if it's micro-batching) form. Snowflake change-streams and tasks allows us to ETL in a streaming-like fashion.

We're ingesting everything from raw/transformed/aggregated events, micro-service DBs (as fast as they sprout up), netsuite/salesforce, mixpanel, MySQL, MongoDB... Billions of rows of data across multiple data-source accessible to internal and external customer in a matter of seconds. It's been an incredible challenge, especially with only a team of 2-5 people.
This is going to be a Tcl extension named "webassembly" that then allows you to load other Tcl extensions that are compiled to WebAssembly.

Right now Tcl loads binary extensions using the "load" command, this will load a shared object (.so, .dylib, .shlib, .dll, .a, whatever your OS supports for runtime loading) and call <ExtensionName>_Init.

My plan is to create a new command named "webassembly::load" that will open a WebAssembly module and provide ... some way ... to call <ExtensionName>_Init as well as some way for the extension to make calls back the ~200 Tcl API functions and some selected other APIs per platform (Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, macOS, HP-UX, etc).

Additionally, a mechanism (probably in the form of an SDK) for Tcl Extension maintainers to compile their extension targeting being loaded by "webassembly::load" with the APIs mentioned above being available. Most Tcl extensions right now are written in C or C++.
https://www.adamfowlerit.com/2017/04/premise-vs-premises-car...
Just about everything mentioned here is well-handled by Google App Engine. I still think it’s the way to go for most projects, but I don’t think they’ve marketed themselves well lately. I’m sure there are other good providers too; I don’t see the downside to using PAAS.
I've worked at mostly early-stage startups.

I haven't seen R&D Divisions at companies, but I'm sure something exists.
Thank you for the Factor tutorial! It was tremendously helpful. I think I provided a link to it in one of my HN comments as well. :)
There was a certain line of Seagate 3TB drives that seemed particularly prone to failure, as reflected in consumer reports as well as Backblaze's statistics at the time:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001

- https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/

Later Seagate drives don't seem to be worse than the competition, but memories of that infamous drive model still linger.
Entrepreneur Raised $9M with Just an Idea and a PowerPoint