skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting and brave because it invites others to make value judgements on your performance. Personally I love the transparency because it helps demystify the operation for others considering getting into the business.

But "Open Source" business does not mean "open implementation." Open sourcing the financial side of a business would look like sharing the systems, reports, analysis criteria, etc that you use to operate that side of the business. This is more like, "look at the memory that my open source API gateway is using!"
The main similarity is the whole idea of declaratively saying what you want in a single request. In SQL, you use joins or subqueries, and in GraphQL you use use nested edge/node blocks.

Either way, you define what you want in a nested/tree-like manner and submit one big-ass request to the server.

The difference is that GraphQL is usually way less verbose and tedious to type out, but they’re fundamentally the same idea.
Other takeways from that graph:

- Mobile internet use surpassed desktop.

- Tablets never caught on

- Windows 7 is more popular than MacOS

- Safari (mobile, undoubtedly) is the second most popular browser. IE(!) is third.
Perhaps unsuprisingly, React's own web site is a great example of how to do React right. By the looks of it it's not loading the entire page into Virtual DOM, it's got code splitting, loading on demand... all the absolutely right things.

A lot of React sites I see in the wild have none of this. They have a multi-MB JS blob that gets downloaded immediately on load and parses a giant JSON blob stored in the HTML that represents the page state.

I'm not saying React isn't useful or that it can't be done well. I'm saying that in a lot of cases it just isn't done well. Whether that's down to a lack of education or a lack of care I don't know.
I think you’re overthinking it. The first definition in the Oxford Dictionary for “actually” equates it with “really”, a substitution which works fine here.

1. as the truth or facts of a situation; really.

"we must pay attention to what young people are actually doing"
> For thousands of people, this is their motivation. Talking up bitcoin is literally their full time job.

This is why it's a scam.
We do have a datacenter in the EU (Amsterdam) - and if you set up your account there you'll be able to transfer data to it. That's a popular destination for folks living closely to it, but even before that one went "live" we had lots of people using the our West Coast Data Centers without much issue. If you have a ton of data you can take a look at the Fireball (https://www.backblaze.com/b2/solutions/datatransfer/fireball...) which allows you to rapidly ingest data to us.
> I've been hearing about these use-cases for blockchain for years now ... and still waiting for actual production use.

Preserving the integrity of log files and other records is a very obvious and huge use case. Enterprise products have been on the market for years and have been put into use by companies like Ericsson and Lockheed Martin.

https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2014/9/ericsson-a...

https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2017-04-27-Lockheed-Martin-C...

https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/modules/...

https://github.com/GuardTime/ksi-tool
Is it a cool keyboard?
Yes people acknowledged that CSS was an improvement, but most of the shortcomings were not because CSS was at fault but that browser vendor implementation was slow and inconsistent.

CSS has always been relatively simple, the complexity came about by having to juggle workarounds and hacks to support all the different browsers.

I completeley disagree with your last statement, divs had been around for a long time before they became a one-hit wonder for all elements, nobody needed or wanted them.

Once CSS 2.1 was adopted and table layout was no longer required semantic html ruled.

Divs have only become ubiquitous since CSS and front-end frameworks have become so popular
For me one interesting aspect was to watch my "hunter sense" wake up doing it - you start out and barely notice anything at all, you walk the woods and try to see some birds, but then with time it "wakes up", and even though you're not trying, you subconsciously "know" where some birds are, or that they are there. And as opposed to actual hunting everybody is still alive in the end, so win-win ;) (unless you're watching birds of prey of course)
I recommend going to Vegas and not doing any of the "normal" stuff. There is great camping 25 minutes from the strip. You can park on the strip for free and go to the hotel pools. Tons of a beautiful hiking and climbing.
I've always thought it was unintended apathy. Making a (relatively) better choice will seemingly have no effect on lifting them out of poverty any time soon, so why bother? Do the thing that maximizes their pleasure, comfort, hope, etc. in the short term, because things are never going to change in the long term. This article seems to hint at this perspective when talking about not being able to take a break from poverty, but it never seems to make that leap.
The same is even more true for laptops.

Have you priced out old laptops? An old sony or asus laptop has basically zero value. An old mac has value.

I don't use mac's but my wife does. At the office we go through laptops in bulk (every 2 years basically). He used her laptop very successfully for something like 6-7 years (and apple had software that supported it). The only thing she needed to do was get a new battery for $130. That was walk in service.

By contrast, ordering replacement batteries for laptops off amazon (asus / dell etc) - the things are TOTAL GARBAGE. Whatever lock down apple is doing in their supply chain is paying off in long term reliability.

Interesting to see the downvotes though - I'll have to browse HN for them because it seems the comments that don't fit the going narrative get trashed.

And yet no one can name the phone (or laptop) that holds value better than apple - despite claims that apple is the worst. Does that strike you as a bit weird? ALL other brands should be better if apple is really the worst.

It's basically a set of lies being pumped out about apple's reliability, durability, longevitiy - and as people go out and buy crap phones from HTC etc that fill up landfills, use child labor, are manufactured with much less regard for the environment they pat themselves on the back.

Apple supports out of warranty repairs, on a walk in/drop off basis in many cases, on items MUCH MUCH longer than almost all other manufacturers.
Erm, they've had keywords for ages?

I thought they also had some defaults, but I use "g $word1 $word2" for Google search from the address bar for what feels like over a decade. The don't have the fancy UI to go with it that Chrome has.
Heart rate variability: A new way to track well-being
Pretty sure Docker wasn't made by google
This essay is spot on. I'm a big believer in having "fuck that" money. When I have less than that, I feel trapped for obvious reasons. When I have more than that, then the money itself brings additional headaches and pains that also grind me down.
Oh right. The mysterious “OTC market” that somehow lets people unload their massive gains without affecting the market. Yeah right. $10 million of actual US currency is going to have a massive effect on the BTC market regardless of how it was traded.

If you could somehow unload massive amounts of BTC without affecting the market it would be arbitraged away almost instantly.

People who suggest that it is possible to unload BTC without impacting the market don’t understand finance at all. Not understanding finance, economics, math, computer science, politics and monetary theory is par for course for most BTC supporters.
> You'd pay less in the second case, but not that much less.

Given the huge amounts of money that investors will invest in companies that make negative money every year, I think this is (perhaps unfortunately) not at all true in the real world.
I have no idea what you're saying. What's a "row-oriented storage" if not storing all the column values of a row in sequence, in contrast to storing all the values in a column across the table in sequence (aka "column store"). What does the fact that it's exposed behind a KV interface have to do with anything? What's "more" about Postgres' "row-orientedness" compare to MySQL?

In case you didn't know, a row [idA, valA, valB, valC] is not stored as [idA: [valA, valB, valC]]. It's more [id/colA: valA, id/colB: valB, id/colC: valC] (modulo caveats around what we call column families[0], where you can have it be more like option (a) if you want). My explanation here is pretty bad, but [1][2] go into more details.

[0]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/column-families.ht...

[1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/sql-in-cockroachdb-mappin...

[2]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/te...
"Yes, but how do you protect your car from flooding without the built-in catch-valve in our car sink?"
If you want an in-between I'm a huge fan of DigitalOcean. Fantastic documentation, better support in my experience, all in all more welcoming to the 'middle-guy.' Totally understand that it's probably not a great use of your time to switch over if your margins can afford 800/mo with ease.
https://archive.md/tft4l
It's one of the biggest practical differences between browsers that can completely cripple the experience. Why wouldn't it matter?
Why do people use Amazon S3 when Backblaze B2 is 1/4 the cost of S3 and also includes a CDN for free. You also get way faster access speeds with Backblaze vs Amazon since they tier their IO speeds.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
You might want to clarify to what degree you consider this to be a cause of poverty in general, or else the downvotes are just gonna keep coming.
Software Engineering Salaries Jump, Demand for AR/VR Expertise Skyrockets
> ...go to the hotel pools.

I'm not familiar, are the hotel pools free/public? Or are you just implying you walk in like you belong, and they don't check if you're a guest at the hotel?
Why So Many Tech Startups Misbehave
Glad this post is flagged, because it's a bad, disingenuous argument that elides the central truth: RMS's dirty laundry was dragged into public view AFTER he made firing-worthy comments on a university listserv. The chain is causality is blatently misrepresented in this piece.

Here is the bulk of the email that got RMS rightfully roasted:

>The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin
Minsky:

>“deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting
one of Epstein’s victims [2])”

>The injustice is in the word “assaulting”. The term “sexual assault”
is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation:

>taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it as
Y, which is much worse than X.

>The accusation quoted is a clear example of inflation. The reference
reports the claim that Minsky had sex with one of Epstein’s harem.

>(See https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jef...)
Let’s presume that was true (I see no reason to disbelieve it).

>The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in
some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing.

>Only that they had sex.

>We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing.
Assuming she was
being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her
to conceal that from most of his associates.

>I’ve concluded from various examples of accusation inflation that it
is absolutely wrong to use the term “sexual assault” in an accusation.

>Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a
specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the
criticism.
I get a feeling everyone in this thread did not buy the G1 because they liked the G1, but solely because they are google fans that buy anything google throw at them.

If you people really liked the keyboard, you would be praising the two last phones from blackberry.

physical keys, ctrl+a/c/v/z! it even have a gimmick that acts as a touchpad. and bloatware-less android (well, less than a pure-google anyway)

only downside of those phones is nobody managed to get root yet. But that is more an android issue. And some people might actually prefer a phone with no root entry points anyway.
Emojis are just awful, because people assume that they convey universal meaning, but the minute you drill into different subcultures, you get into euphemism and subtext that renders them mutually unintelligible. You basically need a set of Rosetta Stones to decipher what the emojis in Twitter profiles are supposed to convey, and you have to first determine which culture you are looking at. Does the pine tree emoji mean weed, or does it mean perennial? Or the grandmother that sends around eggplant emojis when she is talking about parmigiana, completely oblivious to its other meanings...
I see, was not aware of it, although perhaps it might be possible to do it now: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/67232
There's a plant (Justicia gendarussa) in Indonesia that seems to work: http://www.humanosphere.org/science/2013/04/male-birth-contr...
I guess as I'm thinking about it and reading through the comments, I'm maybe ok with the reviews being available, although I still believe anonymity is important as an option (although I'm not sure true anonymity can exist with publicly available text, so I go back and forth about that).

I'm not convinced review quality will improve with completely open reviews, because there's too many opportunities for retribution. Sure reviews that kill papers through a thousand tiny irrelevant cuts would probably go to the wayside more often, but my guess so to would very trenchant, highly critical reviews that make important but controversial points.
I don't think an operation like that is necessary. Most journalists seem to be eager to prove themselves as patriots by under-reporting Gov malfeasance, especially in IC matters where understanding a complex issue gets trumped by deadlines.

Thank-you editors for our chronically uninformed electorate.
Oh Dear is a great product you should be very proud. When I first saw it a couple years ago I had that twinge of regret that we didn’t have a Cronitor plan with those features bundled.

Thanks for sharing.
In other words, it is not possible.
You’ll have to split this amount between 7-10 exchanges. That becomes 5-10m/exchange. Coinbase volume today was $150m. $5m should be feasible over 24hours and btc trades 24/7.
> Well, no, you can do exactly that in a single line with tail, head, split and cat.

You can't, because csv records may span multiple lines. So dicing them with standard tools may subtly break them. Unless you know your particular CSV data only has single line records.

(I take your broader point though. It's just that CSV is a bad example, because you usually wind up needing specialized tools to deal with them. It's likely that your PHP script would actually be more correct!)
And could you add the output of 'lspci -vv' perhaps on pastebin
Drugs companies can access your health records
Even more telling is how quickly this article was flagged and erased from the front page.

Cancel culture has existed in one form or another since the dawn of time, and it seems that nobody is above this behavior; not even the HN crowd.
To any of the readers out there, I am currently looking into better understanding the potential business applications of this NLP technology. It would be especially interesting to hear from people who work extensively in social media as to how "Automated reading" could one day help them with their daily job.

If you have time to discuss, DM me on twitter - I am @ralphbrooks.
I believe the correct variable these days is:

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox

This makes firefox a full wayland app. But I only use sway, so maybe there are KDE specific bugs.
When it completely bogs down the browser so that opening a new window stakes 5s and other normal actions are extremely laggy, no other features matter. This can happen even on my 64GB workstation when Firefox hasn’t consumed all the available memory yet. Performance is a feature.

(That said I continue to use Firefox exclusively b/c 1) Firefox is really good now, 2) best addon/extension support, 3) Google’s leadership is Evil now, and 4) I don’t want a rendering engine monoculture).
Heck, a whole chunk of my career wouldn't have been possible without pay phones and acoustic coupler modems!
This is something I observe in family members.
> "Custom DHCP config"?!? You do realize DHCP stands for "dynamic host configuration protocol"? That's exactly what it was designed for...

Usually used for assigning network configuration dynamically. I'd venture a guess that most people never touch their DHCP configuration, aside from assigning DNS and IP pools.

And good luck getting your hosting provider to give you raw access to their DHCP config.

> And if you can't get "working PXE" (PXE is implemented in firmware, by the way), you might want to brush up on the basics of putting together an IT infrastructure, or this moment might be a good time for a career switch out of IT...

There is a lot more to stable PXE than having a client. Nevermind the insanity of effectively giving anyone who can broadcast IP packets root access to all new servers.

> There are no "Kickstart manifests", it's a ruleset.

Different words, same thing.

> There is no "RPM registry" (this isn't Windows™️) or anything of the sort.

Correct, guess I've done too much Docker recently. Meant RPM repository. Unless you're shipping around your RPMs manually? In which case, I refer back to the day two question marks.

> There are no "custom spec files" as it's a formalized format with grammar and lexicography which the OS's software management subsystem understands - it's like putting a VHS tape into a video cassette recorder, modular and standardized.

So.. the same as Nix definitions then? Except with Nix you don't have to worry about whether the system was set up for VHS or Betamax.

> Day two is where a software deployment server and clearly defined change management process according to the department of defense capability maturity model come into play.

So.. completely unrelated to the process you've advocated so far?
Just to add for comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...

By eyeballing the list the 737 has roughly 2-3 times the incident count. Both families have ~10k units produced according to wikipedia.
YouTube kids channel Cocomelon: 2.5B views/$11M/month ad revenue
Why have you turned "repeat someone else's misattributed anecdote" into "decision to intentionally lie"? Isn't that the kind of thing people are complaining about here?
Deep dive into Istio ingress and egress gateways
Parking at the hotels on the strip is no longer free :-(

But yes, there’s plenty of stuff to do in Vegas beyond the obvious. My favorite: Red Rock Canyon just west of Vegas is beautiful for hiking!
How is Backblaze able to be so much cheaper than the other, larger competitors? I assume Amazon/Google/Microsoft has squeezed every last cent from suppliers and also has highly cost-optimized staffing costs.
My first few reads of your comment made me think you were saying the Romans went extinct due to eating too much birth control.
I think a big reason is that people are using the rest of the amazon ecosystem. If your costs aren't primarily storage, you might be willing to pay a premium to use something that integrates nicely with other services you're using. Here's an article[0] that does some other comparisons between providers and mentions things like upload speed and security features.

[0] https://www.cloudwards.net/azure-vs-amazon-s3-vs-google-vs-b...
Soon, People, Soon: [Wayland] Implement ffmpeg/VAAPI video playback

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610199
Docker is made by Docker, not Google. I'm really looking for some insight here, not a rant. Cheers!
This is so sadly out of touch of a comment, and yet probably represents the viewpoint of many.

So many examples counter it, too. Just read about how CRISPR was discovered [0]. Do you think many companies would encourage the investigation of bacterial DNA patterns, just out of curiosity?

[0] https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(15)01705-5
(admittedly, this is an MIT biased slant, but you get the point)
I think this applies to companies as well. Continuous economical stress starts to take unproductive attention such as focusing on finance instruments (funding) instead of revenue.
I actively trade these markets, so I have some insights. While I didn’t do $50m-$100m on a single day, I’m judging by market depth on the different exchanges I trade at.

There many small fish trading with a small ($500k-$1m) capital on a 3-5x leverage. They can do some days 5-10m of volume in usd.
Is this the official doc? This one doesn’t have the coloring section?

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/orr/request_for_...
Absolutely. To extend upon that, the reasoning behind the short-term gratification isn't simply the inability to see the benefits of longer-term investment. It's also the need for relief in the short term.

Negative impacts of that disposition can be compounding, and psychologically harmful without a break.
Aka, tracing.
Modern operating systems will grant large amounts of RAM to web browsers in general to improve caching. That RAM is easily relinquished back to the OS if another app needs it.

Was the 12GB with another RAM-intensive app running? Or just Firefox by itself.
> Microsoft strong-armed processor companies to not support Windows 8 and instead force Windows 10’upgrades if you wanted new machines

Do you mean to say that Microsoft clearly communicated Win8 EOL dates and OEMs choose to move accordingly? If not, can you cite a source?

Edit: after some googling, I think you mean - Microsoft didn't think it was worth the expense to pay engineers to backport processor support to Win8. Bit of a difference from "strong-arming" the processor companies
Rigging the game: NSA’s long war on foreign codes
“Government funded culture” is literally how all of Europe and Canada pays for their culture. Art tends not be a profit driver, but provides intrinsic social value and therefore thrives when funded socially. The problem isn't where the money comes from, there may well be need of a "Chinese wall" setting out how it's used, but tearing it down isn't the answer.

[1] https://www.nfb.ca

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Canadian_Heritag...