skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dabbled with stored procedures when I was dealing with a problem that required one bit of data in the database to be in sync with another bit of data. Basically I had a list of records with time values, and I wanted to have another record store the sum of all those time values. There were lots of records, and writes didn’t happen that often, so I thought a stored procedure that was triggered when a records time value was updated would work well.

I wanted to be able to have multiple APIs wrapping the database (one GraphQL layer one that would make sql queries directly and be consumed by an iOS and web app, and another traditional REST one designed for integration with third parties that don’t support GraphQL). I could have either duplicated that logic to sum up the values across those layers or made a shared api later underneath the REST and GraphQL layers (or put the rest layer underneath the graphql layer), but those other options seemed less ideal. I wanted the API layer only to be responsible for sending data to and from the database, authentication and permissions.

That app was a side project that I lost interest in, so I never got to see the long term implications of that, but I still think stored procedures were the right call for that particular problem. As much for data consistency and layer responsibility reasons as for performance reasons.

The main difficulty with stored procedures seems to be that they’re kind of hard to test and isolate. But when used sparingly, and when you test that the effects your expecting happen on writes (even if you can’t test the procedure explicitly), I think they’re a good way to keep purely data consistency related logic inside the database.
Socialism does not bring the best out of humans, it actually prevents it.

The proverb "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" is perfectly fitting.
'sykick you have my sincere appreciation for your tireless efforts in this thread to communicate both the existence and particulars of real differences in math aptitude among humans. Those on HN who have never attempted to help someone else with math would have had no idea...
Not everybody believed the hype. The first time I saw their original TedX video I knew for sure that Magic Leap was totally full of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8J5BWL8oJY
Ah, ok.

> People foreign to Lisp often look at it and without even slightest attempt to give it a try, immediately reject it as "hard to read".

You'll have to take my word for it, but I have put significant time and effort into trying to familiarize myself with lisp. I still found it extremely difficult to read at the end of that effort. I don't think I'm alone in this. But there are definitely people such as yourself who find it extremely readable. I'm not sure why there's such a divide.

> Lisp retains readability even on small screens, good luck trying that with literally any other programming language.

Is this a need that arises frequently? I don't think I've ever wanted to do that, but I am willing to believe it's something many people might want.
Indeed. As an example for a long time you had to have Flash to play a video on your page. The HTML5 video support eventually ended the need for Flash to do this, but it came much later and very slowly became supported cross-browser.
This is a pretty general assertion on the rising cost of college, and in the US it's commonly understood that there are a lot of extra admins, but not a lot of extra professors for students; mostly adjunct faculty and never-tenured instructors. Your experience wil vary depending on the public/private, size, department, etc. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/higher-ed-administrators-grow...
I used to browse the Web (not the Wap!) 13 years ago on my Nokia N70 (Symbian OS, 220 Mhz, 32MB) smartphone, on a Internet plan that cost 1€/MB (I have a plan that costs 100 000 times less today), and while it was a bit rough, it was already pretty serviceable!

Most of the content (in time spent on it) is still text (remember what HTTP stands for?), and text takes hardly any processing power!
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712733
en masse

adverb

_in a mass_; all together; as a group:
I'd love to know how close the shipping product is to what Kevin Kelly and other journalists were shown under NDA before release.
Thank you for your comment. This is the discussion I wish to have.

I can say that one thing which did help me was that even though I grew up impoverished, I still had a few middle-class friends whose relative wealth "rubbed off on me", if you will. And I had a handful of teachers whose participation extended past the obligations of their jobs and who were ready to write letters of recommendations at a moment's notice to any institution and give me space to learn in my own way.

But these bonds were formed with the express intention of networking and while I am thankful for the help I've received from these people, I also recognize that I would have not received this help if I were generally a dick to people around me and didn't seek out friendships with useful people.

If we can discuss these kinds of things and reach a general consensus on what the obstacles are and how to overcome them, this information could be critical to others in their struggle. What information is Ms. Brown missing?
Highly manual, error-prone, lack of consistency means lack of tooling support, etc. Most languages simply don't handle the scenario; most languages also didn't handle code-testing, or building, or etc, but that hardly makes it an ideal situation.

Additionally, in the case of DBs, it's strange to call it a "language"; at best it's a language with a supremely massive runtime, but more appropriately, it's a platform.

And being a platform, it would be fairly reasonable and unsurprising to consider things like version control and function-versioning to be in scope, even though most DB platforms don't handle it either.

But I'm also consistently surprised by how lacking the DB tooling space is compared to programming languages; eg the formatters are generally lacking/incomplete (foolishly imagining the SQL standard to be sufficient to claim support for all DBs), the general lack of any version control, the general lack of SQL transpilers (again, probably due to the misunderstanding that the standard standardizes anything; specifically the lack of a 80-90÷ OS automatic translation for MySQL -> PGSQL is astounding), the general lack of IDE support (Most can't even assist in maintaining datatypes when writing SQL, despite the all-knowing schema available to it; you basically get notepad + a pretty view of the output), etc.

DBAs are willing to put up with quite a bit, and I can't figure out why. The engines themselves are phenomenal works of engineering; the usage of it is utterly pathetic
If the mission of the Internet Societies is to connect people to the Internet, one question is why they want to connect people to the Internet. The .org sale communicates that the reason is to extract as much money from them as possible. What they really have a problem with is the people extracting money paying to develop standards, so they strive to extract as much free labor as possible from people as their money is extracted.
Correction: Users throw a huge fit any time on twitter
Space Cadet on the old versions of Windows supported bumping, too. You could avoid tilt by alternating which side you bumped. Two in a row from the same side would tilt, but alternating sides never did (for me).
Totally agree - I should have unpacked 'trust' in more detail :-). It includes competence and confidence as you say, whether their experience is current or out-of-date, whether they have been trained by an organisation that you trust, and several other factors. If I was tasking someone who lacked any of these, I'd definitely want to keep an eye / mentor / etc.
Rethinking drug design in the artificial intelligence era
> I have never met anyone who used a Lisp for several months and still hates it and finds it unreadable.

Survivorship bias, maybe?
Thank you! This does seem to work intermittently (at least, it didn't work when this text box was empty, but started working once I typed in some text). I guess I'll have to file that in my head as "works inconsistently", but at least it… sometimes works?
Mea culpa. 1 it is.
I just recently learned a lot about it just by reading spec and few articles on MDN. Wasm is an extremely simple bytecode, very similar to Java bytecode. You can even write it by hand.

Basically you're supposed to use it for some performance-critical parts in your application. You're not supposed to use it instead of React.
This is exactly what we need, ‘Blurred Lines’ Lawsuit for similar "feel" and "sound" of pixel art images ...
But the fact that they absolutely will NOT permit developers or reviewers to post a video through the lenses, and they tried to pawn off totally fake "artist conceptions" as live demos of actual software they run daily at the office, does tell you a hell of a lot about what the actual experience and the company itself is like.

Magic Leap originally lied about the concept video they posted to youtube, then retroactively white-washed it after they got caught by Time Magazine.

The most infamous misleading video that currently claims to be a "concept video" was originally deceptively titled "Just another day in the office at Magic Leap" and described as "This is a game we’re playing around the office right now". Only AFTER they got busted, did Magic Leap retroactively change the title and description so they were not so blatantly false and misleading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPMHcanq0xM

Before they got busted and white-washed the lies, a skeptical Time magazine reporter didn't think it looked real, and asked Magic Leap about it directly. The official Magic Leap company spokesman mendaciously lied to him that "the video was authentic":

http://time.com/3752343/magic-leap-video/

>It's unclear whether the video shows an actual game overlaid onto a real-world office space or just an artistic rendering of what the game might look like in the future. The way the gun rests so realistically in the gamer's hand certainly raises suspicions. Still, a company spokesperson confirmed to Gizmodo that the video was authentic.

>"This is a game we’re playing around the office right now," Magic Leap wrote on its official YouTube account.

The "game they were playing around at the office" was actually called "lying to the public and investors".
Been using DigitalOcean for a while now with a Dokku setup and running multiple sites/apps on it.

Excellent uptime and very good connectivity, great interface and the pricing is very fair. Even moved a client to them with no real issues.

Would definitely recommend for a developer looking to get themselves online with a limited budget.
Cool idea!, I will definitely give it a try. The change to freemium has made me consider trying it.

It would be nice to have also a simple "how it works" section in the front page. Anything related to stream video with a third party involved generates always privacy concerns, so having a simple schematic of how and where the video stream data flows would be great.
We've witnessed many companies abandon .ly and .io with time. Plus, .org means "organization". Commercial entities are also organizations, so, not sure why it was chosen for nonprofits. NPO and NGO are way more meaningful abbreviations anyway.
Actually, no, that's not what I said. I said that sometimes I have trouble empathizing with reasonably intelligent individuals who have not made a meaningful change to their prospects after 20 years, and I made a post requesting different points of view.

The truth is that you're being way overcritical. Nothing about my post is clear as day, the only comments I made regarding Ms. Brown were in the form of questions. Are you going to help answer those questions or just light me up with your virtue signalling?
Magic Leap reminds me of Theranos. The companies with vaporware seem to have very similar playbooks that are pretty obvious with how in your face they are while never actually showing the product.
Completely agree. The GM people were competent without being arrogant. They failed only because cellular data networks were not good enough at the time.
I absolutely loved that game! I played the Windows version when I was younger.

That guy is a mad genius. It's great knowing there are people who can figure out a two-byte compression scheme (and even know what it is to begin with) by just looking at the binary dumps.
I'd be interested in seeing an unanimous FTC ruling on Barack Obama's campaign downloading and mining the entire Facebook social graph in 2012, with Facebook's implicit consent. And unlike the Trump campaign, Obama's did use this data for more than just winning the primary. It went something like this: you downloaded an app on FB and that app would grab not just your data, but also _that of your friends_. FB turned the blind eye. Nary a word from the press, too.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-...
You may have experienced this but being an outsider sometimes allows ‘clear’ perspectives on optier people’s issues.

Ie a person in a relationship with someone clearly toxic. Or experiencing domestic abuse. The external answer is ‘leave’, the person doesn’t.

The obese patient - walk, change diet.

The representing twenty year old with third presentation cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome - pretty much every time you smoke pot you are going to experience abdominal pain and vomiting, you cannot smoke! How are you not getting the message!

The person spending 5 hours on a bus to work 2 shifts... ?? Is this a rational choice?
I have had the same experience. Used them on and off for years and really like the service, especially for the cost. Just be sure to set a reminder to pay the invoice because they don’t do recurring billing (or at least didn’t last time I used them), and is you don’t pay your stuff is terminated.

Great team tho and always very receptive in IRC.
I'll top that. I used TABCPermit.com to get licensed to serve alcohol in Texas. Their signup form says "no special characters in password". I used one anyway, putting in "password$1" for example. It accepted it, and I worked on the test.

Next day, I can't login. I use the "forgot password" link. They send me and email, and it has my password in it! Bad, right?

That isn't all. My password, they said, was "password1". They silently stripped out the special character.

I just about flipped a table at how security-shallow people who build websites can be.
TLDs are interesting, intriguing and hard.

TLDs serve as a classification structure for various aspects of human interest, knowledge, creativity and commerce...

Where should the canonical for TLDs come from?

Should a particular interest have its own TLD, regardless of topic - how to measure when to provide a TLD -- is it scale of interested people? is it ideologically based?

As such, should there be a .dem and a .gop? if so, then should them be a .socialist? .nazi? .zionist? etc?

Some of the current TLDs are silly, to me, but what is the barrier to entry and what is the criteria for approval?

And most importantly, WHO APPROVES? Like literally - the names of the people who actually make TLDs happen?
It is up to successful people and organizations to care for those who cannot provide for themselves, and up to our government to enforce this. I am not a free market capitalist and I believe in UBI.

But we're only here to discuss those who are capable, and why it is they might not be taking advantage of upward mobility.
Your home can run for two days from an EV battery, but the problem isn’t the home, it’s the car itself.

http://www.withouthotair.com/c18/page_103.shtml

I’m not saying what you propose can’t be done — and perhaps American cities are different enough from Europeans cities that it makes sense to treat each one as an island grid in a way you wouldn’t want to around here — just that the grid still looks useful to me.

Actually, thinking about what I saw in California and Nevada when I visited, I can easily believe American cities “should” be independent electrical islands once we get enough worldwide battery production.
I think we will most likely see a true first generation AR device the next year or so. Apple Glasses will at the very least be 4 to 5 years out imo.
Maybe openfaas, kubeless, or knative on DigitalOcean's managed K8S? Note that Linode has managed K8S in beta now, so there's another cheap K8S option.
Democrat have been using CA for years in an attempt to win elections. Why is it only bad when Trump uses them and wins? TDS is alive and well it seems.

Obama hired an attorney, most likely affiliated with the Russian government, to investigate trump during the 2016 election. This was known as the steel dossier. It was plastered all over the news and used as the first attempt to impeach trump with 'Russian collussion'.

I could easily see this as Obama conspiring with the Democrats to spy on a political rival. No major investigation has materialized.

Hillary not just used a gmail account. She ran an entire email server and had classified emails go through it. Many here on HN temporarily got stupid about the technical implications of this and how much of a crime it really is. Not one charge was brought against her.

Bidens son, a fuckup and a drug addict, gets a job as an executive in an oil company, and makes at least a million a year. Biden not only fires the prosecutor investigating this company, but brags about it on live TV. This deserves at least an investigation.

Tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter actively stifle the free speech of non-liberals and this will directly affect the outcome of our next and future elections. If this were being run by anyone else, there would be protests in the streets.

I could go on. Trumps presidency has been littered with attempts to smear his name with alleged crimes that the Democrats are doing themselves.

Everyone does do it. But even if the Democrats are caught red handed, the media ignores it and nobody gets punished. There truly is no justice.
> What's a charitable reason that stops even a supposedly privacy-concerned niche browser like Brave from implementing opt-ins for these things?

In my experience, blocking these everywhere globally as a default will result in being banned from websites, trigger bullshit "fraud" invasive analytics, and all sorts of obnoxious fail-closed problems by invasive trackers.

You will also be banned from most Distil-hosted sites for refusing to enable WebGL or return a canvas fingerprint. Ticketmaster, etc.
Sounds like the internet is the problem!
Perhaps this may help?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/lists/the-last-places-on-...
Wasm is very easy to understand. I guess it lacks tools for proper reverse-engineering, to allow defining meaningful names, to use some sane language instead of default Wasm text format, but once tools will be there, it'll be much easier to understand than minified JavaScript because it's so simple.
You can enter empty input to advance the generation.
Every system is subject to gaming. The current system obviously is. The relevant question is "is the proposed system better than the old system?", not "can the proposed system be gamed?".
Very clickbaity headline. The full quote in the interview makes it obvious he is talking about hitting a wall in terms of simply throwing more compute power (at greater expense) at projects to get better results. He doesn’t imply anything about algorithmic improvements in AI hitting a wall.
The U.S. military has already tried basically this twice.

Once back in the late 40's to for fighter pilots, and again in the 90's, a practice they called "Blood loading".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_doping
Elixir Module and Struct Interoperability for Erlang
"Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species"

-- Edward O. Wilson, The Ants
I think that you can borrow a lot more against a dead-steady $50 a year than a variable $75.
Samoa arrests vaccination critic amid deadly measles crisis
The UK kept trade with the US when slavery there was rampant. Any country will have hiccups throughout its development.
It's convenient but counterproductive to categorize every argument against yours as "whatabouttism".
It's possible that a high enforcement rate with diminished penalties would be more effective than the current approach of rare enforcement and harsh penalties. Hardly anyone thinks that it's "worth it" to pay a fine for dumping trash on the side of the road. Dumpers just assume -- cynically but correctly -- that the chances of being caught are negligible at present. Or for another example, consider people who don't come to a complete stop before making a turn unless they know that the intersection has a camera. They're not incapable of following the rules of the road, or undeterred by penalties. They're just not going to follow the rules unless the rules are consistently enforced.
it is a real penalty. there's usually a fine as well.

but for the sake of argument, an hour lost would mean being late to work, to an appointment, or to another likely time-sensitive activity. additionally, there's the embarassment of being caught evading the fare (why is everyone staring? how do you explain your tardiness to family/friends/coworkers?). most people would avoid these penalties in and of themselves.

regardless, the penalty isn't what deters most fare evasion (or shoplifting) except at the margins. mostly, adherence (that is, paying fares) is due to social cohesion, self-image, and social responsibility.

that's why berlin, LA, and other transit systems have open transit gates. the cost of enforcement at the margins isn't worth it.
Skin color and gender do not make a better engineer. We should have diversity of thoughts and ideas and educational backgrounds.

Ie: the content of our character and not the color of our skin.
It's easier for a PE firm to raise the price over ISOC, too.
> In a few years there will be multiple digital universes overlaid onto our world.

I think applications like HUD displays on car windshields is an obvious place where it will be big for regular consumers. There are a bunch of interesting applications for commercial use too. Other than that, I have a hard time seeing much interest in regular people until they can eliminate the need for glasses or goggles.
VR allowed the signal going to the headset to also be displayed onto a regular monitor since the signal was the full image. With AR, it's just overlaying something onto a lens you see through to be able to see the real world. That signal displayed onto a regular monitor would probably just show the object with a matte or essentially the object over a black background. Think of a transparent PNG but in motion. That's not very exciting.
This is completely unfair because the last crisis had major world-wide effects even if the US (probably) caused it.
A Landscape of Unintended Consequences [video]
That's certainly how the OP got to HN. What Levine seems to be overlooking is that what Boies was attempting was obstruction of justice / abetting after the fact by helping hide evidence of a crime, which is a violation against the State, separately from any civil representation of victims.