skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn’t suggesting that Dan G’s entire job could be automated. Merely that scanning for historical matches with sufficient karma and posting an algolia link would be a few lines of trivial Python.

Clearly even the mere suggestion touched the community’s proverbial nerve. I wonder if Dan G has life aspirations beyond HN moderator and how the community shall survive without his touch.
Why Rust
Does storing the LSNs in Redis and Elasticache create the same race condition they are trying to avoid or am I missing something?
Sometimes I wonder about the type of people who willingly choose to work at Oracle. Unsurprisingly, this is Oracle's best.

I wonder what Oracle's doing to get this sort of loyalty; not many employees are willing to turn their personal twitter accounts into ad space.
Great content, I confirmed all these rules the hard way on my first business play.
Interesting discussion there on climate and geography (in the vein of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Thanks for linking.
DBLog has a very simple Output interface which allows to plugin a writer into whatever Output is desired: a stream (like Kafka), a datastore, a service, ...

For example one can use MySQL as a source and have ElasticSearch as a direct output, without needing to go through an intermediate stream like Kafka.

The described properties of DBLog (see blog post) hold true regardless of the output, including capturing changes in real-time and writing them to a desired output.
Can’t you apply a minuscule power and watch out for overcurrent?
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Hi! Author here, happy to answer any questions.
Higher growth does not necessarily mean more materials consumed. For example, if you could invent a gas engine that got 120 miles per gallon, it likely wouldn't take much more physical materials to produce, and it would decrease demand for gas. Likewise if you can increase crop yields, or food produced per acre, the end result will be less farm land necessary to feed the population. Productivity is all about doing more with less.
Nope.

Shadow DOM isolates selectors, style sheets, etc. It’s about a public/private API for elements.

Contains is about layout and rendering hints to the browser.
Experimental evidence for uniform distribution:

# uniform.py

import random

n = 10**4
samples = 10**6
counts = [0] * 10

for i in range(samples):
random_number = random.randint(1, n)
first_digit = int(str(random_number)[0])
counts[first_digit] += 1

for i, count in enumerate(counts):
print('{} => {:.3f}'.format(i, counts[i] / samples))

Output:

$ python3 uniform.py
0 => 0.000
1 => 0.111
2 => 0.111
3 => 0.111
4 => 0.111
5 => 0.111
6 => 0.111
7 => 0.111
8 => 0.111
9 => 0.111

Experimental evidence for exponential distribution:

# exponential.py

import random

n = 10**4
samples = 10**6
counts = [0] * 10

for i in range(samples):
random_number = 2 ** random.randint(1, n)
first_digit = int(str(random_number)[0])
counts[first_digit] += 1

for i, count in enumerate(counts):
print('{} => {:.3f}'.format(i, counts[i] / samples))

Output:

$ python3 exponential.py
0 => 0.000
1 => 0.301
2 => 0.176
3 => 0.125
4 => 0.097
5 => 0.079
6 => 0.067
7 => 0.058
8 => 0.051
9 => 0.046
This is a good point, we will fix that. Thx for the feedback
The continent that has contributed the most to global pandemics is Europe. By far.
There are good OSS databases like Postres and MariaDB, and there's also crap like Mongo.

Even though there are OSS databases better than Oracle, it could be true that data on OSS databases might be safer on Oracle on average.

Also, even though Oracle engages in horrible unethical business practices, I hear that their database product isn't bad.
Thanks for taking the time to do the snooping. I wasn't promoting, I was providing a link for the lazy (I also upvote comments with such links). But why did I expect a meaningful comment from somebody with the nick of "giga blah"...
>Where does the 5B come from?

These were thousands of SWE jobs. Amazon would have paid significant payroll taxes (which are federal but that doesn't fit the narrative so people ignore it) and their employees would have paid millions a year in city and state income taxes, property taxes, etc. Getting a high-paying company like Amazon in your city is a huge economic boon and is totally worth up front tax breaks. Remember, it's a tax break, you're just agreeing not to take money you already don't have.

>It is crazy to allow tax breaks for company's that largely don't pay taxes to start with, especially extremely profitable companies.

Again, Amazon pays tens (maybe hundreds) of millions in taxes every year. You're just repeating a political talking point based solely on what they pay at federal income taxes (due to loss carry-overs).
They tried before with SAP Cloud Platform (that was the last name it settled after changing from SAP HANA Cloud Platform and other myriads).

They decided to back off from being a cloud provider. They got no skin (top-level don't know how to pull it off) nor skill (EU engineers aren't the best in hi-tech) in the game.

Last I saw they only tried to build a shim-layer on top of CloudFoundry to orchestrate infrastructure running on other cloud vendors.

They got zero clients for SAP Cloud Platform since their customers prefer "best of breed" (AWS/Azure). If they say they have customers, it'll be "internal" customers: SAP other divisions who used them and they charged those divisions (that's how SAP works).
No. The price is perfect, IMHO.
Crossflashing the Fujitsu D2607 (2016)
Twelve out of twelve for my company. Yah us!
Many people got wise to Madoff before his scheme collapse - Notably Harry Markopolos. But Madoff was essentially never caught. Rather, his scheme ended the way most Ponzi schemes end - he no longer had enough money to pay withdrawal requests from the money that was coming in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Madoff#Investment_scand...
What would you prefer it be called instead?
Step 1: Remove Mercurial support.
Volcanoes are very fertile.
Not only that, but how do you know you are correctly invoicing and declaring sales tax in South Africa, Canada, Russia or South Korea. Using Paddle or FastSpring (worked with them for the last 4 years) makes it their problem and you can relax. Simply raise your prices by 2% and never think about the extra fee again. Well worth it!

I would go even further. Selling globally and just using Stripe almost by definition makes you a small criminal in a whole bunch of countries as it is simply impossible (let alone knowing all the rules!) to file taxes correctly in each country you do business (in the local language!). Outsource it and forget about it! 2% is damn cheap!
More housing is not going to happens if everyone is making shit wages. If it were profitable to build housing there, someone would have already done that.
Negotiation is not always or usually zero-sum. Salary negotiation is a kind of haggling, which is an exception.
> A simple uniform distribution over [0,n] obeys benford's law

A simple uniform distribution does not obey Benford's law because each digit from 1 to 9 is equally likely to be the leading significant digit. Thus each digit occurs as the leading digit with 11.1% probability. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340018 for an example.
Take a look at bankruptcy due to health issues in Canada. It’s lower than the US, but still a problem. They have a single payer system, but what people tend to forget is if you’re really sick, you often can’t work, so even if health costs are minimal, you can still go bankrupt.

What I think would be helpful in the US is universal catastrophic insurance. Worst case scenario, you’re covered. If you want everyday health insurance, let people buy it or get covered if low income.

Many universal system use this type of coverage.
Installed it. So far so good. Forcing to wait for even 7 secs is enough for me to start doing some work
Now it's ads for thin cloud service wrappers around ffmpeg and ImageMagick.
The thing we see though is that demand grows to fill most of the new supply. And many of he advanced in agriculture have only increased energy intensity.
Google makes it's billions through advertising.

Google serves up adds along with it's search results and this guy serves up adds inside his games.

These seem like identical business models. Something for free with an advert attached.
You don’t need to minify during development, so like building from scratch I’m not sure how much it matters for a practical benchmark.

I don’t at all doubt esbuild is faster than the others, just in practice I doubt it’s as much faster as the benchmark suggests.
There's growth and there's growth. We're probably starting to bump up against ecological limits to the number of humans we can have on this planet ("carrying capacity"), though we might have yet another agricultural revolution get us past that limit. Until then I do think we're near peak population (and indeed, projections already bear this out, and in many countries so does current data).

But we're probably quite far from hitting limits to economic activity. Even when we hit limits for physical economic activity, as you note, there will be virtual economic activity. So I think as far as economic growth goes, we're probably very far from hitting a maximum.
> Rule #14: Don’t take in any investors

I know order isn't emphasized in the list, but this should really be #1. Most of the other rules stem or are dependent on this one.
You really can trust Oracle to be the most disgusting version of a corporation given any set of circumstances. It's literally amazing, they're like clockwork.
I didn’t want to rush to judgement so I took a look at his other tweets. I think this person may have never actually been in situations where a decision had to be made between different db options. Such people come into technology in the world of big corps and drink the kool aid; different technologies are more of a tribal or a popularity contest rather than a genuine technical assessment. Never take these people seriously.
Average temp in Toronto is 46.6 degrees Farenheit. It's 52 degrees in Seattle.

Source: google
I think they mean where humanity started... which they are wrong about.
Recurring revenue seems a golden cow of IT nowadays.

But remember, while it devoids of volatility, it also makes business much more fragile. And you see problems too late.
Untill now.
We have been indexed!
In this particular case it's mostly reflecting our choices of units, and the fact that changing the units can change the constants by many orders of magnitude. Benford's law comes from a distribution which is invariant under that kind of change.

However, it's an interesting question whether the dimensionless fundamental constants have a deeper explanation, since they don't depend on unit choices. The fermion masses are roughly evenly distributed logarithmically, for example (which leads to Benford's law). There isn't a clear reason why.
The ones in hospitals normally use liquid helium, not liquid nitrogen, which accounts for the quench being so spectacular and expensive. The nitrogen just keeps the helium from boiling off too fast.
Bitbucket is a perfect case for sharding. You could have one DB of users, and N DBs of user data, with the first referencing the latter, and then distribute user data among the latter. You could do this straight up with PostgreSQL without any special server-side software. You could also have a PG server using FDW to act as a proxy for all the DBs a client needs to be talking to. There are many other options too.
Depends what your use-cases are.

If you want good, painless syncing between devices, and good mobile use: this would require quite some effort to get org-mode as good as OneNote's.

Org-Babel is an example of something that org can do but OneNote can't.
(e.g. showing the results of code blocks in the same markup file).
It would be straightforward to make use of this without very much Emacs knowledge, but the Emacs UX isn't great out of the box.

Or maybe some other feature of org-mode might be useful to have with your notes. https://orgmode.org/manual/index.html
e.g. I like the org-agenda. I haven't used exporting org files into PDF or presentations, but I could see it being useful for people who use it.

You'd be fine getting on without needing to learn much Emacs (beyond a relevant tutorial for the feature), not counting aforementioned Emacs default configuration. -- I think the momentum of "I can do a bunch of different things in org" comes incrementally, rather than starting using several features of org.
They don't talk at all about why it is so. Is it particularly fertile territory that can support this kind of density? Is there something about the geography of the area or the geography of the globe that makes it have so many more people than the rest of the world?
>Low-quality products equals more landfill and less money in consumer's pockets overall. It also means a very small market for product re-use, such as buying second hand. I grew up with 20 year old appliances from a local thrift shop. Every appliance I buy now seems to have a 24 month shelf-life, with the liability of having to dispose of unrecyclable materials. I'm telling you, net negative.

Nice anecdote, maybe you're just abusive? I buy simple appliances from Walmart and they last fine. I have a $15 drip coffee maker that has probably made about 2000 pots of coffee now from them and it still works. I'm telling you, net positive.
Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987)
Don't forget the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red River, Pearl River, whatever dominates Java/Sumatra...
https://archive.md/ZyNM2
It sounds like you want "contain: content" for almost every element, except when you're doing something like absolute positioning that's intentionally breaking containment. I get that you can't make containment the default because of backwards compatibility, but I'd think there should be a "contain: none" option so you can open with "* { contain: content; }" and turn it off for the subtrees where you're actually using containment-breaking layout.
Man, that makes even less sense...
Lack of pricing information is ridiculous in the US.

You can’t base a system on the “free market” then prevent consumers from having pricing information.

It certainly wouldn’t fix everything in the US, but it would be a huge help.

To be honest, I’m not sure why hospitals in the US haven’t taken the lead on this. If I had a choice between two hospital of similar quality, but one provided price transparency and maybe even a price guarantee (your procedure will cost $X, guaranteed), I would certainly go to that hospital.
https://archive.md/E7Ez7
So, anyone care to make a new fork of FF with all commercial elements ripped out? Lots of fame in it for you.

No disrepect to you Alex, there's just a lot of desire for software with zero commercial element.
I was wondering... they didn't mention reasons at all in the article.
And I wasn't shooting down the suggestion, but noting what parts of it are implemented, how that does/doesn't seem to work, and potential considerations in potentially automating the process.

Of dang's future aspirations I know not.
Wake me up when they are disavowing/discontinuing "owning" mysql.
Most economy scale transactional stuff is on things not a lot of people have experience with these days like TPF, or CICS and VSAM and to some extent DB2. Oracle is more of a "mid range" DB for financial workloads and wouldn't be comparatively hard to replace with, say, postgres, as many companies have.
https://archive.md/OHklY
I cut my linux-teeth on PowerMacs. OS X was going to be based on unix, so I thought I'd get a jump start on this new fangled stuff (I was 11 -- "It's a UNIX system...I know this!"). I remember an issue of Mac Addict arrived with a copy of LinuxPPC and an app that, through something that felt like witchcraft at the time, would let you boot into linux directly from Mac OS.

(Also, some random OS/2-powerpc history- https://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-warp-powerpc-ed... )
> `contain: layout` means that its internal layout is not affected by anything outside.

The other way around:

* normally, a float can poke out of its parent div, and affect stuff around

* an absolutely positioned element can poke out of its parent, and if a further ancestor is overflow:auto and the absolutely positioned thing goes far enough, it could trigger scrollbars, whose appearance could cause a relayout

* margins of children can collapse with the margins of parents (recursively), and affect the layout of ancestors

* there are more like that

> `contain: paint` means descendants cannot display outside the element's bounds. Isn't this already given by `overflow: hidden`?

Almost: `overflow:hidden` actually makes the element programatically scrollable. It doesn't discard everything that sticks out, because you might just start scrolling using JS, so the browser needs to keep a buffer with the out -of-view stuff ready, just in case, even if it's unlikely. Or maybe it'll optimize a bit more, and create these buffers on demand, but it still needs to have facilities to keep track of which buffers it has, which it could create, what font would need to be downloaded to render the out-of-view part…

> If these properties disagree, who wins?

contain wins. The point of contain is that if it's on, the behavior is guarateed, and the browser doesn't need to check a dozen properties on an arbitrary number of elements before knowing if certain optimizations are safe to do. So if it's on, it's on, and there's no way to break out.

> `contain: size` means that the element's size does not depend on its children. Isn't this already given by height, width, etc?

* there's an etc here, and it turns out that there a few more properties than you'd expect that need to be checked. Doable, but checking 13 properties takes more time than checking 1, and we're trying to turn on optimizations. Expensive checks before you can optimize can make the optimization not worth pursuing.

* There are cases where even with `width` set to something other than a fixed size, the width of the parent doesn't depend on children. But checking if you're in one of these cases can be complicated, if it isn't being guaranteed by something like contain.
I had a good friend who worked in a leadership role at a major health system in CA.

He readily admitted that the hospital has a very poor grasp on their own costs. At a high-level, they just charge as much as they can - sometimes they lose money, sometimes they make a 90% profit. They pool it all together (usually by line of business) and hope it all works out as a profit.

That’s why specialized, stand alone clinics (e.g. MRI clinic) have some of the best prices. They know exactly what things cost and can make sure prices reflect it.
Please stop taking HN threads further into ideological or political flamewar. We ban accounts that do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Upstream Linux continues to support Power Macs today.
You can justify any business with that kind of argument.
What do you mean by fancy?
Any pointers to details or research?
There is a big red button to quench the magnet in emergencies, but it can cost a lot of money to get the MRI going again.
Tea Processing
so its app-developers fault that they have to stick to the only 2 choices that have captured almost all of market? not the regulators fault that they allowed such monopolies to arise?
Sweden government is simply reacting to the US policy of DJ administration, because they have to.
They look at entrepreneurs like at cash cows without actual political power in Europe. Government officials are masters, everybody else is their servants.
Europe sucks.
If you have friend in Microsoft, ask them to give you access to the company store. You can get Office 365 Home for 6 family members for $20 per year. This includes 1TB OneDrive storage and of course Office suite. Buy it for next 9 years ($180) and you are done for very long time.

Disclaimer: I'm ex-Microsoft employee and I'm very happy with OneDrive.
A very sad country song about a dog:

Verse 1

And there on the hog

A hound dog ran away

Hey dumb robot, what do you know about this speed

A dumb dumb dumb dog a dumb dumb dumb dog

Pre-Chorus

B---hes call me dog

Because I do all the n---a talking

Chorus

Dog, my personal dog

This song was supposed to go this week but anyway

I bought a dog just to

Check off my shoes

Verse 2

Hung like a dog

Better off dead than

The same to my lady

Steal your father and give him to the dog

Pre-Chorus

He looked a funny dog

Aside from that he was boring

Chorus

Dog, my personal dog

This song was supposed to go this week but anyway

I bought a dog just to

Check off my shoes

Bridge

Well, if I had a dog in my town

I ought to make a never never end

Chorus

Dog, my personal dog

This song was supposed to go this week but anyway

I bought a dog just to

Check off my shoes
In base b, the probability of the leading significant digit to be d (where 0 < d < b) is log_b(1 + 1 / d).

That's why for base 10, the probability of the leading significant digit to be 1 is log_10(1 + 1/1) = 0.301. In base 2, the probability of the leading significant digit to be 1 is, quite trivially, log_2(1 + 1/1) = 1.0. Of course, all numbers in binary must begin with the digit 1.
.05 Tesla! Seems like there would be poor contrast and SNR. I need images.
I lived in a London 10 years ago, and both salary and expenses were pretty similar. There are a lot of cheap or free (public museums and art galleries are free) things you can do in London if you know where to look.

Unlike SF travel is a heck of a lot cheaper, because there is usable public transport. I lived in zone 3 and worked in zone 1 and typically paid no more than £20/week for travel (usually by train or tube) - compare this to SF where a single Uber trip across town could be that.

I was there again last year for a few months as a contractor, and prices hadn't changed that much other than housing:

This time I rented a studio in zone 2 which was £1200/mo. It included water and heating, and I paid around £20/mo for electricity (with a pre-pay meter so quite expensive). This was a short term contract though, for long term I saw similar places for £1000/mo or less.

I usually ate out for lunch, which was £5-£10/day. I would cook dinner, spending around £20/week on groceries. Coffee was around £2.50 for a cappucino. Sometimes I walked to work, getting breakfast out on the way which was another £2 or so.

I took the bus, cycled or walked to work, so my travel expenses were under £15/week. I'd go home to my family at weekends, so can't comment on 'going out' costs.

Compared to before it isn't that much different. You can live quite well as a single person on £1500/mo in London. That's leaving nothing on the table and is above the living wage, so you can see where the problems come from.
How many more businesses, if financially strained by Oracle licensing fees, would be tempted to sell data about their users to make up the difference?
Yeah, sure. Keep dreaming Oracle, keep dreaming. World would be much better place without such greedy and nasty companies.
> Pretty much every ARM SoC sold these days will talk about how they have a CortexM3 in addition to they CortexA cores; that's what it's for.

Usually the advertised-on-the-datasheet M cores are available for user code and you'll get a virtual serial port or some shared memory to go between them and the big core. I don't doubt that there are additional hidden cores taking care of internal power management, early boot etc.

At least, this is how it is on the STM32MP1 and the TI Sitara AM5 socs.
Wait, what? You can do a MOS long-tail pair just fine, can't you? Similarly for a totem pole with BJTs.

They're topological circuit constructions that work for either family - aren't they?
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