skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They really care with their reputation on the line. Here for example is their response to the only complaint I've had to send Mailgun: "Thanks for sending this over. I was able to tie this sender to a compromised account, which has been disabled in our system to prevent further messages."

Pity we'll have to move off them. It was good while it lasted.
The reason is obviously portability. People like the ability to take their entire development workstation wherever they please, or perhaps to even sit on a sofa or bed.

I’m not sure why you’d need that explained.
Yes, indexically
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What do you think about only capitalizing the first letter like this:

Select
region_fleet,
Case When status = 'Delivered' Then 'Delivered' Else 'Not Delivered' End As status,
Date_Trunc('week', day) As week,
Count(Distinct Row(day, so_number)) As num_orders,
Count(Distinct Case When scheduled_accuracy_meters <= 500 Then Row(day, so_number) Else Null End) As num_accurate,
Avg(scheduled_accuracy_meters) As scheduled_accuracy_meters
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Group By
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I’ve seen your comments on several CoV articles here, and this one, like the others, has really helped me contextualize the information I’m seeing and feel a little less nervous. Thanks for taking the time to add your input here.
I have an internal monologue. I also find that I can "sing" music in my mind, and that while I do this, I can feel a sense of fingering one of the instruments that I play, and breathing, without actually moving a muscle.
Taxes in CA are far from prohibitive, even with today's prices. The gap between affording something in the first place and being able to cover the tax is not that large. But the base prices are the killer.

But that's also largely a factor of mostly high-income people moving in, while mostly lower-income people are moving out. Keep up the business climate that fuels the inward funnel of money, and you'll keep prices high. Even if you reduce restrictions to building supply, you'll have a game theory bit of not lowering prices in any hurry since people can so clearly afford them and are so clearly willing to pay them.
We really need to bring back the Stocks/Pillory for the Sacklers.
If you applied a liberal amount of benefit of the doubt you might assume that they are compiling on the fastest available hardware because they are already aware that developer time is more expensive than hardware.

Speaking of mobility, a 9980HK in a laptop is basically the same as a 9900KS for a lightly-threaded workload like (apparently) rustc. You might be able to reduce compile time by increasing fan speed, though.
They’re stock price is the same as it was in 2010, so the market is clearly not expecting great things.
The understanding is your monolith may use third party services. Nobody is writing SQL engines here.
How would a writer decide what a character will say? By trying random words until something makes sense? Or by an idea of what their values and emotions are at the point in the plot? Lots of thinking going on, without rehearsing "she's in a paint factory, its dark, she's stalking the victim…" as words in our mind.
Well if you read the article you would have known the author is one of the co-founders of Rust.
That's the mortality rate in the US. Worldwide it's much higher and goes up to 600,000 deaths annually.
Yeah those build times are insanely good for a 2 million line project. I suspect, however, that the codebase makes judicious use of generics.

A clean dev build for one of my more experimental projects that uses generic heterogenous lists takes five minutes to compile for fewer than two thousand lines of code and a single test case. In that project, however, I'm pushing Rust's type resolution algorithm to its limits (basically as a giant constraint solver looking for a unique solution).
Well, economic situation is your income less expenses.

For a lot of people the Bay Area is maximizing this. But we're taking a huge social loss (as a nation) by making it so expensive to live in the area that offers the greatest opportunity.
Boeing just posted it's first full-year loss since 1997. If you have to tell your investors bad-news, better to throw in all of the potential bad news that you were on the fence about than to have to make follow-up announcements. (Honey I totaled the car, and the other car may be out of gas, and all our toilets might be backed up.)
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/boeing-posts-annua...
You can still get the good autofocus, good metering, good shutter speeds, and image stabilization with 35mm film.
You just need to pick up a Nikon F100 or F6, and slap on a modern F-mount VR lens.

Of course to get better resolution, you need to go up to medium format. (where those niceties become harder to come by)
I agree that a heartbeat is an involuntary reflex but I don't see how you can compare that to the mind chatter which is AFAIK related to cognition much like the rest of your thoughts and mental processes.

Not only that, your inner monologue is completely unique to you. Probably from a part that you do not identify with which is why I was asking.
Do you not hear music in your head? Like I have a song running through my mind right now, lyrics and all. No visuals just the music. If you don’t hear a voice in your head wouldn’t that mean you can’t ever hear music in your head either?
> I suspect the author is exaggerating a bit

yep
Ok, so stiff/dry/light is polyethylene = good?
See, what intrigues me about this is I wonder if you're just more nuanced and precise in your description. I always thought of myself as being very visual, and I'm like ninety-nine point something percent of spatial ability, and yet your description seems like a fairly accurate description of what I experience.

The problem is that the descriptions depend on so many subjective things. For instance what does it mean to be able to see someone's face in one's mind? At what resolution question mark at what level of detail? I mean it seems like a lot of people with uncorrected vision can't even see faces to any standards I would consider seeing. So could it be that you're holding your mental visualizations too too high a bar and comparing them with people you have a low bar for mental visualizations?

Edit .. your description of having to trace out the facade is particularly apt to me. It's almost like some kind of DRAM thing where I have to refresh my mental image by touching / scanning parts of it or it goes away.
This is the right reason why an organization would want to adopt microservices, in my opinion. If you have hundreds of commits going out every day, you're probably dealing with a relatively large team, yes? Microservices makes sense for large companies, because it allows for organization of developers into teams that manage each microservice rather than having them all under the umbrella of the same application. But if your team was smaller, say, 6 people...managing 20 different services becomes a real chore and adds a lot of overhead. In this case, a monolithic application is a way better choice, because it allows all the developers to work together on the same codebase instead of spread out and distant amongst a bunch of different applications with varying degrees of quality.
Silence?
It is really annoying how it auto-switches to routes that it thinks will be faster.

"We've found you a faster route. Switching in 10 seconds if you don't press 'no thanks'..."

Come on, Google, there's a semi truck braking in front of me and I'm trying to make sure it's safe to change lanes, can this wait?

But the "is [reported hazard] still here?" bubbles don't bother me as much, since they go away after a few seconds. I think all of the cues are intended for passengers who are navigating for someone else, but the developers should keep in mind that some people use their phones as a standalone GPS navigator.
I'd love to have a business (of any sort) with customer lock-in ... sadly none of my start-ups have ever achieved that position.
It would be, but ABC are (IMO) optimising for hardware decoders in various things.
Nobody has ever lost a re-election race for SF district supervisor. It’s effectively a lifetime appointment.
Nadella was a Program Manager at Microsoft.
What will be the actual process by which things change? It's not obvious to me that say rents will drop if prop 13 is repealed.
I'm sorry, but I appear to be having difficulty in expressing myself clearly.

Growth rate is obviously a rate of change. Specifically: of growth.

The growth rate of an epidemic, disease, population, or any other phenomenon, is not a constant over all time. It can however be assessed at any given point in time. And frequently remains largely similar for period of time. Which is to say: the rate of change is itself subject to change.

By analogy, speed is a rate of change, but speed itself can be subject to change through acceleration.

You seem to be arguing (though I'm understanding your argument poorly as well) that growth rate doesn't matter. You've not indicated what it is that you do think matters.

My argument is that of the two measures, initial population and growth rate, the first matters little, and the second effectively entirely defines observed behaviour, that is, growth.

I am not arguing, though you seem to understand I am, that the growth rate will be constant for all time. The growth rate will change. That is the entire purpose of epidemiological intervention.

I AM arguing that the change in the growth rate is everything that matters about the 2019-2020 Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak, and its eventual resolution.

Any uncertainty about the growth rate still affects the rate of growth, and to that extent, is material. Uncertainty does not change the fact that rate of growth entirely determines the course of the epidemic.

I do hope that's clear.
The key insight and definition of a data lake was pulling data and storing in it's raw form form across the enterprise.

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

The reasons for it are hard to explain succinctly in HN comment but if you look up data lake there will be a lot of explanation. But it basically comes down to "is it better for the data integrators or the data consumers to massage the data?" And data lakes was the insight it's really great when the consumers decide how to massage the data.
Assuming the CFR remains stable. Most new infectious diseases rapidly drop in mortality because of natural selection: those variants of the virus that make people sickest result in their hosts not surviving or not coming into contact with other people to spread the virus, so the strain that becomes endemic tends to become less virulent and more adapted to its host. This has happened with leprosy, syphilis, HIV, and Ebola, and there's no reason to believe it wouldn't happen with nCOV (if the outbreak isn't contained entirely, as SARS was).
> These programs offer grants and other benefits to 'the right kind of startups' - usually ones that are fashionable because the subject is currently hyped - ai, climate change, etc.

As opposed to the American VC model currently driving such vital innovations as "how do we make middle class people use a jitney cab service?", "what if short term office leases came with free beer?", "will lazy people pay to have food delivered?" and "oh will they pay to have other stuff delivered, too?"

Look, I kind of get what you're saying, but it's not as if US startups are immune from bragging about "changing the world" and I'm more willing to put up with that bragging if you're at least trying to solve an actual hard problem.

The government should be funding crazy blue-sky long shots like small-scale fusion reactors and surgical nanobots because nobody else will. It's hard to make money on that kind of thing in the short- to medium-term but if it came to fruition, it really would be transformative.
I don't, but I also don't rule out "drone" as a source of light in the sky.

If I was there in person I might notice that the light seemed to be moving quickly through the sky, shifting elevation, or recognize the whirr of a drone's rotors. My eyesight might be able to distinguish the body of the drone, in the sky, at night, behind the light, where the camera might not.
> It's that I'm looking at / living a shot from a movie in realtime

Sounds really cool! I do that too!
There will always be applications for doing a fresh complete build. Like, searching for a bug in different code revisions. You're just not doing that if each compile takes 5 minutes.

As a baseline, a non optimizing compiler for a simple language should be able to do 1 million lines of code per second. Of course, most languages are not simple.

Incremental compilation is an essential operation. I probably do it more than 100 times a day. Just like editor responsiveness, it can almost not be fast enough, and if it takes too long it can bring me out of the flow. I would say that over 0.1 seconds any speed improvement is welcome. More than 3 seconds is definitely a nuisance. More than 15 seconds is extremely frustrating when dealing with certain kinds of code.
Sitting by and doing nothing is a sucker's game. I've always put money in NOC, LMT, and BA. They'll always go up because the government is easy to sucker and the people are easy to sucker. You just give them the latest spiel about who's a threat and bam, the people love it, and the government loves spending the people's money. Every one of them 5x-10x over the last decade.

Can't wait to hear how the Raider program takes forever haha. The US military is already way overpowered anyway, so the way I see it, I'm just getting the money I put in taxes back here plus a little from all the guys who don't play the game. And if you complain I can just seed something on Twitter about it being outsourced engineers who made the mistake. Then you'll rage for a few minutes and give me money.

Thanks, my dudes. Index funds are for losers.
I guess the idea is that the part that makes decisions is not under your control and you are just an "observer" who justifies what this "person" is doing. It is a scary thing if true, but can help in understanding why things are the way they are.
Also serving content for scraping would use more resources on Yahoo's side, as opposed top providing a single downloadable tar or equivalent.
But as others have said, this no doubt comes back to something the legal team said could not happen.. RIP
No, I think you are misunderstanding the thread or projecting something onto the statistics.
Lol. All aboard the quale whale
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> For example, let's say in an eCommerce application that the shipping calculator is getting hit a lot. You'd like to be able to scale this independently as a service, so you can handle all the requests without also having to replicate all of the other resources, such as the cart persistence, user sessions, etc. that are a lot more memory intensive.

Assuming you allocate different resources for it. If you're using the same instance type for all your microservices, you aren't benefiting from this. In fact, you're paying for resources you aren't using.

You might even be paying more - allocating high memory instances to high memory services, and regular instances to low memory services that don't use that memory. You might be able to get by with only regular instances if you distributed your services in a monolithic fashion.

In my experience most small teams I've seen aren't that specific with their resources. Unless something is obviously super high memory, like a cache, they tend to just use default instances.
I've been at Red Hat so long now (12 years) that it can be easy to take things for granted, but the biggest thing is just how open and transparent a company it is. There's not a lot of silo's or little kingdoms fighting each other, we're all generally working together.

For example, we're a fairly large company (10000+), but we still have an all company mailing list. And it is used by anyone to raise a concern, talk about an opportunity, etc. And that starts a conversation with anyone participating. I am on the Services side, but there is no barrier in place for me to reach out to anyone in the BU, Engineering, Marketing, whatever. I don't think I have ever had to pass a message up the chain of command for it to be passed down somewhere else, I'm just allowed to communicate when and how I need to.

The other way it comes out is that open-source has truly warped our way of thinking about things. For example, there's not a culture of restricting access to our own documents, team drives, etc. One of my peers was working on a new slide deck on a team drive, hadn't really shared it with anyone, then found out that one slide was copied into a presentation done by an EMEA team a day later. That kind of easy access and reuse is just _standard_. It applies to code, but also everything else we do.

I've worked with lots of clients through my job, and it is always eye opening when their employees are worried about "sticking out their neck" or otherwise rocking the boat. Or companies where a developer trying to talk to the business would be an incident with your manager giving you a talk. This is just completely foreign to anyone at Red Hat.
> Is there really a compelling reason for writing your own DOM manipulation in a sizeable frontend codebase in 2020?

It is several orders of magnitude faster. It’s also how I prefer to code because managing state isn’t challenging and I am not hopelessly paralyzed by imperative code.
Perhaps there is a problem where people are splitting a perfectly good monolith into microservices, but I do wonder how do you deal with large scale machine learning without microservices? I am a rather small operation and I still have models taking several gigabytes worth of memory and ANN indexes of about the same size, which clearly couldn't operate in a monolith unless it was a massive machine, and even if it could not every request would necessitate such power. How does a dogmatic monolith approach solve these problems?
Turning up the exposure on the screen does not do what you think it does.

With a line-scan X-ray, the bag is well out of the beam path by the time the operator sees the image. But it's probably coming in through a 12 or 16-bit ADC, so there's a lot more range than can be effectively displayed on screen (at least with a simple linear+gamma mapping). It's a matter of adjusting the display mapping to see inside denser objects.

The X-ray source power needs to be high enough to deal with the worst case scenario of large/dense luggage. If you can give your film a 10x lower dose while still allowing enough X-rays through that the operator can clear it, that sounds like a good idea.

It just has to be traded off against the fact that deliberate shielding is likely to be frowned upon, and they may take the film out and run it through "naked" anyway. Seems worth a try, but I'd definitely use a commercial product marked for the purpose and resist the temptation to DIY it.
This is not a feature of prop 13. Generational transfers were added in two later propositions, first for parents to children, later for generation-skipping transfers.
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What I think you'd typically do is put different data under different keys/paths, so that red is personally identifiable data, yellow contains pointers to such data, and green is just regular data. You could have a structure like s3://my-data-lake/{red|yellow|green}/{raw|intermediate}/year={year}/month={month}/day={day}/source={system}/dataset={table}

Then you just don't keep red data for longer than 30 days.
>It might be better for the country if more of these individuals started businesses...

It's subtle but I think this is an important sentence in the article. The US has gone further and further down a path that signals to every young person that they are on their own. The safety nets are being eroded, and politicians are signaling that they want to erode them more. The young adults are paying into systems like Social Security that they expect to never benefit from, while the older generations keep voting to ensure that they get the benefit and the younger generations can deal with the fallout.

Why would any intelligent young person whose weighing the pros and cons, take a risk that might be a net benefit for the country, when the country wont help them in return?
I think a lot of this also comes down to class and your environment growing up.

For example: I grew up in an environment where you're meant to resent your boss, complain about them, and see them as an adversary. They are not someone you try to become because bosses are bad.

How much harder do you think that makes it to climb corporate ladders if your internal narrative is that being the boss means you're a bad person?
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€ I strongly believe that the pursuing of patents gets in the way of the collaboration that helps science progress

Do you have any evidence for this belief?
Yikes, that's about as bad as a vulnerability gets for a public cloud provider.

Checkpoint has been having themselves a month with TikTok, Zoom, and now Azure (even if the actual disclosure happened in 2019).
> Arvind Krishna was "Jim Whitehurst's boss" until now

Not true. Jim (and Red Hat under him) reported directly to Ginni. Red Hat was under IBM cloud for revenue reporting, though, but the distinction is material.
I'm not following. How do things work better for the non-microservice approach?

Re. teams: For any project above a certain size, you'll have teams. If that's a network boundary, a process boundary, or a library boundary doesn't change that you'll have multiple teams for a large project.

I'm not sure I get the resiliency point. I worked on a project where the dependent data service was offline painfully frequently. We used async tasks and caching to keep things running and were able to let the users do many tasks. For us our tool was still fairly useful when dependencies went down. If we used monolith then everything would be down, right? That doesn't sound better.
The measure of transmissibility seems to be as high as the Spanish Flu, and the mortality rate is still an open question.

The Spanish flu killed 50-100 million people. Worth reading about it.
> I think some undefined behaviour can also be detrimental to performance. If you pass two pointers to a function, and it's undefined whether they alias or not, there are optimisations you can't do.

I think this results from a misunderstanding of how undefined behaviour works in C. When a program exhibits undefined behaviour it is not a valid C program. The compiler may just assume (instead of having to prove) that it doesn't happen.

Example: the memcpy(3) standard library function. C says the behaviour is undefined if the given areas overlap. That means the implementation can perform optimizations "knowing" that there is no overlap. A valid C program can't possible invoke memcpy with buffers aliasing each other (because then, the program would be invalid). The compiler is not required to issue a diagnostic about these kinds of incorrect programs and just compiles your code assuming they don't exist.
I do not want to hear the phrase "cloud computing" anywhere near a fighter jet, unless they're talking and the plane (a computer) flying through clouds.