skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitemporality is an under-rated and rarely discussed database concept. It is similar to the idea of "reproducible builds" but in a data model context. It can be indispensable for some applications.

Efficient implementations of bitemporality require first-class design support in the underlying storage engine, you really don't want to paste it on top of an existing storage engine not purpose-built for bitemporality if performance matters. Write throughput in particular tends to be terrible without a fair bit of clever engineering.

A number of database engines effectively implement limited support for bitemporality exposed as narrow features that take advantage of it, but don't expose it as a general purpose facility because of the engineering implications of supporting it in the general case.
IBM Stops Server Side Swift Framework Development
If there's any channel that I'd trust with translating a book to TV, it's HBO.
Given $b investment opportunities, $m investment makes me think this remains long-range, high risk research. I don't see this as evidence "fusion on earth for power is now real"

Whats real, is that a lot of money is sloshing around in the hands of people who are more motivated to put it into this kind of venture, than before. Space sucked up some of it, but now space is proven to be a viable investment choice, higher risk money has to look somewhere else.
Yup, just earlier this post showed up in my thread with people trying to criminalize sleeping in public areas so homeless can be arrested.

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/16/788435163/supreme-court-wont-...
Any pictures demonstrating the flexibilty?

> Absolutely, hot off the press: https://imgur.com/a/R2vUkVO definitely not losing my wine!

What happens after a year, when the battery dies? Do I have to peel this off all my tools?

> At the moment - yes - although we'll let you know before the label dies. We have an R&D roadmap that will steadily increase battery life but for now we're at a year.

Proximity to employee I understand, but how do you get absolute position? Employee phone's GPS?

> Yes, phone GPS. Indoors you can place labels as positioning labels to provide anchor points, this is mostly targeted at larger deployments.

Have you considered some kind of flexible solar cell? Even indoor fluorescent would probably power the few uW this would sip, quasi-indefinitely.

> I'm going to quietly avoid this questions. But would welcome you to follow our twitter @realGot_it for announcements.
The most famous s3 outage has been operator error from a well-meaning privileged user. The fact that it hasn’t happened for Lambda is just betting on luck. Shit happens, we can’t go designing ever more complicated solutions. May be our services should have some graceful degradation when shit happens instead of trying to create a big-bang and spawn an alternate universe.
"And herein is Infinite Jest’s (the book’s) major theme: the United States has become a culture addicted to entertainment, and like all addicts we pursue that entertainment to our detriment."

It seems like the reviewer dislikes the book because he disagrees with this notion, citing our attachment to entertainment is more of a choice than an addiction. I however find this very profound and will be finishing the book thanks to this review.
> It’s much better for someone traveling during congestion to use public transport than to use a private vehicle.

Sure, but charging a nominal price for public transit wouldn't meaningfully affect the incentive to avoid traffic congestion outside of it. i.e. by and large, the users aren't going to move back to private vehicles, because shifting the time of use is often easier.
"3%" fits that definition too.
I'm still holding out hope to see Daemon and Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez adapted into a movie, or a miniseries, or really anything.
Let's chat, my email is david@got-it.com
"Doing logistics" for one's own shipping, is a bit different than "trying to subsume the role of FedEx/UPS in the economy." Certainly it's "only" a matter of scale, but logistics-as-a-service (the business FedEx and UPS are in) is as large a market as the one Amazon's already in, and you'd think clear signs of them being ready to suddenly add another few hundred billion dollars to their market cap would be reflected in e.g. investment people issuing new guidance about them.
The biggest challenge is going to be getting the levels of irony and cartoonishness right, especially if the network executives are hoping for something more like Blade Runner. The one downside is it could end up taking itself too seriously or going too far down the road of kitsch crap.

I don't think finding a Reagan substitute is going to be a challenge though, and I don't think there's too much to worry about viewers absorbing themselves in Julian Jaynes' work, not least because any form of adaptation is going to cut Stephenson's exposition to the bare minimum "it's like a virus for your mind. This tech is older than the pyramids; it's how they controlled the people that built them", and it's going to be in the context of skateboarders latching onto mafia pizza delivery drivers, Mr Lee's Greater Hong Kong and villains with harpoons hooking up with underage heroes
> They bring crime, perpetrated both on and by homeless people. These are facts.

There is crime anywhere there are lots of people who have needs they can't meet, but even so, the crime rates aren't significant compared to other populations. Analysis such as this one by the Guardian show that the existence of homeless encampments don't have a direct link to crime rates: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/23/homeless-vil... Sometimes crime rates may increase slightly, and sometimes they decrease slightly. Reports like these go back decades: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=200...
It really depends on the target platform, who will wind up maintaining the code (and for how long!), and how the build will be done.

But the short version is that I would (and do) favor Clojure for personal projects. These are cases where I have limited time to invest, a high desire for tangible results, and no other developers to worry about. For that set of tradeoffs (and my skillset), this has generally been the best way for me to achieve my goals. (I also have some code that abstract out some patterns I find useful or importatn.)

In these sorts of projects, if I need client side code, I'll tend to favor straight JavaScript (with markup rendered by Hiccup) if I can get away with it, and ClojureScript/Reagent if I have a requirement that implies a need for client side logic. (Tolerance of lost network connections, incremental page update, and the like.)

For more commercial projects, I'd be thinking TypeScript/React with a Java (JVM?) backend for starters. I'd also be open to Node or Python for the back end, but it really depends on the skillset of the team and where the best libraries are.

And all of this would be done with an eye towards the exit. Any codebase that has a reasonable life expectancy will likely have to at least interoperate with other language ecosystems, if not incorporate them bodily. Being mindful of how that might happen is important. (Which practically speaking, means decent interface definitions, testing, and the like.)
Perhaps they could support app specific passwords that behave similar to bearer tokens, with a scope that limits API access, etc. Not saying this is a good thing. OAuth is simple enough to set up.
Any book that names is hero/protagonist Hiro Protagonist doesn't take itself too seriously. I think both the producers of this adaptation and the fans would be well served to do the same.
> Have other languages done this before?

LISP. For a more recent example, Rust.
Don't get me wrong, I fucking love Snow Crash, but let's be honest with ourselves: it's basically a dopey Schwazenegger-esque action movie for the IQ 115 crowd, in book form. We're not talking about something with ton of depth or philosophical complexity. I think HBO can manage.
Purdue Pharma’s Payments to Sacklers Soared Amid Opioid Crisis
But only if they are perceived as a potential threat to the car's shiny paint finish.
Indeed:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Boeing+737+Max+in+employee+p...
Yes - Agreed! We're targeting end of Q1 next year.
>Strategically, airlines are in a worse position if Boeing goes under. Not only do they lose the planes on order. They also lose their service and replacement-parts provider. The survivors would, in the medium-term, face an Airbus monopoly and, in the long-term, a Chinese-European duopoly.

Boeing "going under" just means that shareholders will get wiped out, not that they cease operations.
I would assume that the reason they're shutting down is that they've run out of (feasible) places to park them.

As other commenters have mentioned, the order backlog is still long, so as long as you can easily store the planes, it makes sense to keep building them.
They will crash another one soon enough. The problems with the 737 MAX arose out of systemic problems that effect the whole company. There are likely tobe other bugs lying in wait. Even the military division is getting lazy. The US Air Force tanker replacement program has been a mess.

Nevertheless, while the flying public and Boeing may get past the MCAS issue, the next accident may be just around the corner.
Amazon offered 2-day shipping, then changed their free shipping from 5-days to 8-days, deliberately changing a luxury to a necessity so they could up-sell it to more people.

I know I was perfectly happy when packages that I ordered on the weekend arrived in time for the next weekend most of the time, and never paid for expedited shipping. It was only when most of those packages started taking more than a week to arrive that I finally signed up for Prime.
Yeah, how are we supposed to turn a blind eye and ignore the homeless if those pesky people keep coming into sight

/s
Yeah, it’s a great, incredibly insightful paper, written by one of AppleScript’s original designers.

It’s only a pity it wasn’t published a decade earlier, back when classic Mac OS developers were attempting to build Apple event bridges for languages like Perl, Python, and JavaScript. All of those popular programmer-friendly languages had their own native Apple event bridges from very early on. And all of those bridges sucked.

Not because they’re technically hard to write, but because no-one ever explained how.

And since (with the exception of Perl and Frontier) all those third-party devs were coming at the problem from a strongly OOP background, they all promptyl fell into the ORM trap: trying to make Apple events behave like the host language’s native OO, instead of vice-versa. ’Cos if you think creating an Object-Relational Mapper over half-a-dozen similiar SQL-speaking RDBMSes results in a crippled dumbed-down API that fights you more than it helps, imagine trying to create one that works fully and correctly over hundreds of wildly differing targets with no common dialect at all.

(Perl’s Mac::Glue did avoid the ORM trap, but—being Perl—ran into impedance mismatches of its own. Only Frontier got it more or less right… right in time for Dave Winer to throw his toys out the pram and sulk off.)

Thus AppleScript never won because it was good. It won because all of its alternatives were even worse.

Even the first Python appscript, which I wrote way back in 2003, was a stinker; although it did get better eventually (after I threw it out and redesigned and rewrote it from scratch). Bloodly lovely bit of kit in the end, never equalled before or since—and I say that as its most rabidly demanding and intolerant user.:) Still kicking myself for blowing the one chance to get it bundled in Mac OS X itself; Apple Automation would be in a very different place today if it had.
Not all, but many wrecks of books include the authors imprimatur on the uplift to live actors. "yea, I know its hard to do a skeleton, lets make death be an actor with a black hood" is low bar. "No, the lead didn't get to sleep with the other lead in the book, but what the hell, put a sex scene in episode 3" is medium bar. "I changed the ending for you, if you need more changes just let me know for $" is high bar. Actually, they're all low bar.

Even Margaret Atwood says she willingly works with the production company to "make it work" on screen. Plot evaporates in an instant.

As you say, and I agree: its not a sacred text. Speaking of which, I think TV novela versions of sacred texts usually wind up where 'hail ceaser' went: a committee of wise men (and it always is men) arguing about whats sacred anyway..
It’s an enjoyable read mostly. It doesn’t claim to contain profound social commentary in every character and subplot. Of course his persona makes a difference because it’s a fiction born of his imagination. DFW did have a point though, about how we would become addicted to instant gratification, and you can see a grain of truth to this in the contemporary internet and the “attention economy”.
No, if I remember correctly the most probable fusion path are deuterium + tritium and deuterium + deuterium.
In both case there are only 2 hydrogen isotopes fusing together, not 4.
Is India Moving Closer to Becoming a Hindu Nation?
Well we have gone through times when workers were mistreated; the start of the industrial revolution. It took our grandparents a lot of pain to get the legal protections many workers take for granted. Protections that have been consistently eroded.

Society's creation is a pie, and what % of GDP goes to labor vs capital classes is not fixed. It fluxes and wanes. Over the last 50 years labor's percentage of GDP has fallen consistently.

There are a number of objective measures that support this idea, none of them are perfect, but they tend to show a clear trend:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_share
According to a random study I found on the internet, your are at a 50x risk of death in a paraglider vs in car. I don't think there really is a comparison here between paragliding and flying in a MAX 8.
It's creating a large market for Google alternatives on Android. Those alternatives are currently tiny, but might get big in Turkey, and then expand outside Turkey.
Shouldn't the UI/UX/Whoever was responsible for the design, have supplied CSS styles for printing?

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/05/print-stylesheets-i...
Othernet: A multi-media broadcast to small, portable receivers
As we're starting to see, it was mostly Intel not keeping up, actually. Moore's law is mostly holding up till today, and probably for a couple more years before we really have to switch paradigms.
Really cool!

But, a few questions:

- Can a sticker be associated to multiple companies?

- Can you name stickers (either saved to the sticker itself or saved to the app)?

- Additionally, can you save metadata to the sticker (should some one else find this item, they'd know who to return it to)?

- Can the custody of the item be confirmed by a nfc tap?

- How old does the chain of custody keep record of?

On another note, you guys have an ability to create an industry, don't stop here. I will definitely keep an eye on got-it and try to convince my org it's a good investment.

Keep it up!
Are there any anti trust experts here that can comment on whether this constitutes illegal tying?
Surprised at the lack of discussion here. This is a huge story. Hopefully this won’t go anywhere. I guess it entirely depends on the employee contract they signed whilst at Rambler?
Fully agreed, except that reading your comment made me realise that 'retrofuturist 80s interpretation' is exactly my picture of 'the future' now, and I was born in the 90s.

It's not that it's actually what I expect, it's just that if contemporary futuristic stuff's being made, I'm not watching it. But I have seen the Back to the Future trilogy, and 2010, and so on.
here's a hack for reading infinite jest: use two bookmarks - one in the main story and one in the endnotes.
here's another hack that is tougher: read it in less than a week. you simply cannot appreciate the book if you do not have all of the different plots and characters fresh in your head (BTW I make the same recommendation for all long classics eg war and peace).

about the merit of the book: it is one of the few books that i've read that evoked a visceral reaction in me - i felt manic and strung out (like many of the characters) while reading it. social commentary aside i think that passes bar for worthwhile literature.
Stop worrying about blocking: the new async-std runtime, inspired by Go
I guess Soylent Green is taken?
This happens to us weekly.

We simply don't get mail at least one day a week, maybe two.

Packages are marked as undeliverable. But then they show up a few days later.

I've asked around and have heard that mailmen (mailpeople?) in my city just don't finish their routes everyday.

If that's because they're understaffed or too busy due to Amazon or just lazy is up for debate.
Not really a major city, but Chapel Hill has done this for a long time. Bus service is frequent and reliable, and is used by people from all walks of life. High income professors and scientists will be on the same bus as the poor.

It seems paradoxical that making the service free would lead the rich to use it, but it's good quality and receives substantial funding from the area's high property taxes. There's no stigma to the bus in Chapel Hill since everyone uses it.
Intel Unreleased 6 Core CPU May Feature New Architecture and Bigger L2 Cache
Philosophy-lite is the last two chapters of bibliomania isn't it?

Every Neal Stephenson book rehearses the same ethos. He's consistently asking "but what is consciousness, anyway" in the end.
>ITER will hopefully hit 10.

As a layman, is it right to think that this would mean viable fusion has arrived at that point? I mean, 10x energy out/in is a victory, no? Is there another factor that stops ITER from being immediately used and replicated for energy generation?
What they never measure is the big rise in BS near-substinence hand-to-mouth jobs over higher quality gigs - which is the case in many (most?) countries...
Repetitive yes, brainless no. Every day is the same problem and you need to figure out the best way to solve it. You also get paid for the number of hours the computer says. Finish your route in 5 hours and getting paid for 8 was pretty rewarding. I also stayed in great shape and you get to hang out outside all day.
You go first.
I wonder how well this will work. While the book exists on several levels, it worked really well in the 90s as the logical, but absurd, conclusion to cyberpunk. The cyberpunk aesthetic feels very dated today though.
So if you happen to hold any stock in any budget airlines (Southwest, Ryanair, that sort of thing) I would seriously consider dumping it now.

If the Max doesn't return to service or even if its grounding is prolonged this represents an existential threat to the likes of Southwest as part of the way they maintain their low margins is by having a fleet with one and only one type rating.

Other airlines (eg American) that bet on the Max (instead of, say, the A320neo) may suffer in the short to medium term too but at least they're better equipped to deal with this as they already deal with having a heterogeneous fleet.

Personally I never wanted to fly on the Max even before the crashes because (at least on American) they're even more cramped the the A321s and older 737s and 767s. I mean, who want that to shave off a few dollars? It's already uncomfortable enough. After the crashes? Why would I?

The leadership of Boeing needs to be ousted and, honestly, the DoJ should see if there was any criminal wrongdoing here as the response from Boeing (ie trying to blame the pilots and refusing to ground the plane) was abysmal. The fish rots from the head and if CEO pay is justified by the results they get (cough) then they're also responsible when it goes horribly wrong, which it did.

The big winner here is Airbus.

And yes, I fully expect Boeing to attempt to rebrand and salvage the Max. Personally, I hope it never flies again.

EDIT: removed EasyJet as they operate an Airbus not 737 fleet. Southwest and Ryanair however fly only 737 variants.
The article side-steps the ethical issue lurking behind lab-grown meat. Many animals would never have had a life if they hadn't been raised for food.
This is expected as merging currently requires a header row for each file so that it can automatically line up the data accurately.

For example if you had two csv files...

[File1.csv]

Id,ProductId
1,200
2,300

[File2.csv]

ProductId,Name,Id
400,NameFor400,3
500,NameFor500,4

Final output would be...

[Output.csv]

Id,ProductId,Name
1,200,""
2,300,""
3,400,NameFor400
4,500,NameFor500

With that said, thanks for commenting! I will add an option for "No Header" files, or maybe even auto detect for these situations and do a straight merge:)
Regarding the comments about renaming the plane, it is humourous that the first Boeing plane with a memorable name would turn out to be the plane whose name you'd hugely prefer if people would forget.
Yes. The cost alone could have been significantly reduced. As the article notes, using an owned GPU locally instead of renting one for a cloud instance would have reduced the cost. The author also overspent on virtual CPU resources - paying for unused RAM and CPU cores when most of the processing was done on GPUs. And once you have a good model trained, actually putting it to use in inference is much faster and cheaper.
Very interesting review. I read infinite jest once as a teenager, and once a couple of years ago - and yeah, on second reading, I could see it doesn't really deserve its hype.

The one weirdness of the review is kind of related to the main weirdness of Infinite Jest - why on earth is it related to Pynchon? I never really understood the similarity. Sure, they're both digressive writers - but so is everyone and their dog since Virginia Wolf. Why did Infinite Jest become the postmodern novel?

I think ultimately, what killed Infinite Jest to me is, on second read, it seemed dated. The driving concern - authenticity - seems to be one that sort of faded in relevance in the late oughts, then merged fairly seamlessly into a sort of teenage angst - a merger that's pretty well enacted by Infinite Jest, to be honest.
What's an elastic rate?
What is the physical size of the labels? I want to make sure they will fit on smaller parts.

What type of adhesive is used? I wouldn't want it to be too permanent.

Sounds like you are building an asset/inventory tracking system. You might want to think about Equipment Calibration too. I've seen a lot of asset tracking software - most of it cannot keep track of calibration dates, certificates, vendors, etc.
This comment makes me feel sad. No judgement of the speaker intended in that, just saying so.
> All electronics makers should be required by law to supply security updates and spare parts for devices for at least 10 years after the point of sale (not after the release date).

Let's start by requiring then that chip vendors sell and support their chips for at least that long?

To stick to "10 years since introduction to market" which is a much easier requirement: 2009 was the year of AMD Phenom II (EOL 2012) and Intel Nehalem (EOL around 2012), and Qualcomm MSM7227 (couldn't find EOL date, but its direct successor came out 2011).

How much stock should they keep around for the 10 extra years after 3 years on the market? (and what happens if they underprovision, will they be sued, or overprovision, throw it all in the bin? they can't sell it, or the 10 year clock starts again)

> to have a user accessible method for replacing the battery. This used to be standard with all consumer electronics until very recently.

... and then vendors sold thinner and thinner devices, and customers preferred them over the others. The only way to get the same mileage out of a thinner device is to put batteries in every nook you can find, which doesn't work so well if the battery is supposed to be a single replaceable part. Also, there are two layers of plastic (chassis, battery container) that take away space that could be better used to store energy.