skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Measuring the GDP: The Ultimate Data Science Project
It's a database for a metric platform.

Think of OpenTSDB and Prometheus. Or for a better comparison think of Thanos https://thanos.io/

As to whether they could fulfil Uber's needs, the thing about scale (real massive scale - I work at Cloudflare) is that everything breaks in weird ways according to your specific uses of a technology. The things listed above work for companies, until they don't. There's few things that seem to truly work at every scale, Kafka and ClickHouse come to mind for wholly different use cases than a time series database.
there are always constraints.
other than the cost of the memory, which may appear minimal, there are many others.
for a missile that bigger memory chip may require more current, more current means a bigger power supply, or a thicker wire. might add ounces to the weight.
and in this environment, that may be significant (probably not in this specific example, but look at this perspective for every part selected...they sum up)
Lego has also gone through some very aggressive marketing in the past 10 years to push themselves into the limelight more than they've ever been before. They've even hit strides with massively successful games and films.
Whenever someone asks me about sources on investing, I say the same thing - though I phrase it as 'buy one share of Berkshire Hathaway, it comes with a lifetime subscription to the thoughts of the most successful investor alive today'
> Does this mean people should start to worry about clicking share buttons now?

If they're getting paid to, then I certainly hope so.
> you'd make sure you assembler chose ebp as the index not the base in cases like [ebp + edx]), of course.

There's nothing that prevents existing assemblers to already do this -- I haven't checked them though, since I used my own -- I use the term "compiler" as everything together up to the parts that produce the actual binary codes.

I know that e.g. gcc makes (or, at least, made) an explicit separation producing the assembly in the source form. But it still would be plausible that it's already implemented in such assemblers -- which would make the userbinator's argument here even less relevant.
And a lesser number of airports (specific runways of those) still support CAT3 autoland...
Excellent book, and a timeless classic to be sure. I do find Buffet's letters very useful for making sense of the current landscape though.
Twitter doesn't allow paid political advertising either.
Wow, I'm late to this party, but what the heck:

I've been obsessing about this for a long time and concluded, as you have, that AsciiDoc is the One True markup format for me.

I don't have anything to offer an Emacs user, but I have created my own Vim wiki plugin[1] which is heavily inspired by VimWiki and uses AsciiDoc as the native syntax. The plugin is pretty much brand spanking new, but I use it all day every day.

I've already converted some of my note extraction tools to pull from this wiki format and the dream is, ultimately, to have everything including my website pull from this one source.

[1] https://github.com/ratfactor/vviki/
admins/mods: this needs an apostrophe to turn it into "Uber's M3DB".

For anyone who's never heard of M3DB, and lives in a place where Uber doesn't operatore or is even banned (and so isn't part of daily life or conversation) "Ubers" might just as easily be some db researcher affiliated with the university of who knows where showing off something they came up with last summer and got a grant for.
It also doesn’t cross the ISP boundary.
Yeah I was planning on playing around with the performance/optimizing it. Didn't know about that binance data feed though, thanks.
Your analysis is certainly plausible but I think recent history, especially 2016, has shown that it's hard to trust any analysis that seems to have it all figured out.

"Never Trump" seemed to be a bipartisan certainty and we all know how that went.
Everyone. AWS is being brutefroced 24/7. Every single one is.
Not every restriction on speech on a platform is a path straight to 1984
And did you know that https://musi.sh allows you to stream music from your apple music account in your browser? Seems relevant here. I use it all the time on linux.
It's not that I'm a pacifist, but more that I don't trust my government (UK, but I have the same issues with the US gov too) to do justifiable things with them.

If they were for defense only, I might be able to do it. But instead they are sold to any government with the means to pay, regardless of their human rights record or how they will be used (e.g. Saudi). Aside from selling them on, they are used in conflicts that are hard to justify, beyond filling the coffers of the rich and powerful. Take the latest Iraq war for example: started based on falsified evidence, hundreds of thousands dead, atrocities carried out by the west, schools bombed, incidents covered up...

Given these realities, I just couldn't do it.

My original musing was more thinking along the lines of an ideal world, where I trusted my government; I'm still not sure I could do it.
There is a revolution boiling. Jio not just made internet accessible, it became catalyst in braking the barrier of classes and location and thinking, and education. The whole importance of it will be felt in coming decades if not years. It's crazy out here.
First image of Earth-like planet could come in 2025
Datatypes in SQLite Version 3
Sorely needed and really not that expensive of a feature to build. Really nice bang for the buck. This should make Github much more pleasant once it spreads across most projects.
Whenever someone asks me about sources on investing, I say the same thing - though I phrase it as 'buy one share of Berkshire Hathaway, it comes with a lifetime subscription to the thoughts of the most successful investor alive today'

Since one share of BRK is almost $350,000 my guess is that not a lot of people you've said that to have followed your advice.
I assumed it would be on Disney+. No?
A db that backs lots of time based graphs. They generally hit some pathological cases for general dbs. Frequent write of small data, most recent time is very hot so sharding is tricky, queries generally pull lots of little bits of data in from long time ranges, resolution of past data can often be lowered, etc.

Opentsdb for instance was built on top of Hbase because implementing one naively in hbase hits tons of performance issues.
I’m getting excited for HBO Max, there will finally be a streaming service with quality television and movies (Criterion). HBO is the only video streaming service I pay for.

Here’s a comprehensive list of Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon original series that are HBO level quality:
That's why Bloomberg discloses the sponsored posts on Instagram as: (yes this was really sponsored by @mikebloomberg) in the description.

The entire message is often ironic, so other nonsponsored people are also using (yes this was really sponsored by @mikebloomberg) in their posts to make fun of Bloomberg, so although everyone is disclosing they're being paid, you don't actually know if someone is being paid or not.
Thank you for the correction! I was bamboozled by the charts :) I do still wonder if actual purchasing power has really kept up - the article does note that the increase in benefit costs may eat into wages.
Usually there’s a title standard at a particular band. A principal engineer is not just performing tasks for example, they are providing engineering/technical leadership.

Junior/Normal/senior is a change in rank or function. It makes sense to provide salary steps with respect to tenure, but not changes in duties.
Coronavirus May Be the Disease X Health Agency Warned About
I was about to answer with right I know, how comes my kids have almost zero interest in it. I used to play entire afternoons with it, especially the Technic kind.
Tangent note: I really enjoy the Lego Ideas sets. Love to see innovative ideas and the sets are great quality.
https://ideas.lego.com/
Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22383919

Despite the fact that Dang explicitly tells users that this user is involved in some kind of multi-year pro Google campaign, there are dozens of posts protesting that the very concept of a thing could ever exist.
So how does this compare to e.g. Clickhouse?
By locked down, do you mean requiring justification to get through the app store or accessing the data at all? The latter is no problem for iOS-only [0] or Flutter [1]. I've been spending much time with cross-platform sensor access in Flutter. It works.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coremotion/getting...

[1] https://pub.dev/packages/sensors
Coronavirus and the Blindness of Authoritarianism
That figure is for his entire campaign, not just for salaried internet trolls.
>Most web developers, on the other hand, require large tools to do theirs jobs for them and recoil in irrational fear and disgust when standard DOM methods are used

I would recoil in disgust if I saw a civil engineer building a suspension bridge by hand as well.
One share of BRKB, Berkshire Hathaway class B, is around $230, which makes it much more affordable than the A shares.
There many flavours of time series databases, but my understanding is that at their core they're optimised for storing and querying based on time stamp/time series data. Typically very quickly in large volumes. That's maybe the primary criteria to define a database as a time series database.

Someone could probably elaborate on this a massive amount. I'm sure there is some nuance and a lot of relevant details around how that optimization is done.
It’s telling that you try and pull the whole socialism card and not Sanders’ actual numbers, where he does things like beat Trump with independents by 18 points:

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/13/1950/1919/Topli...

Leads with Latino voters, is first or second with African American voters, depending on the polling, and is literally the most popular senator in the country:

https://morningconsult.com/senator-rankings/

You’re supposition that there’s going to be some outbreak of pearl clutching about “socialism” is about as plausible that Bloomberg isn’t buying the election.
That seems self evident to me and seems to be a common theme both in theory and in practice.

Only if everything you know about marriage and family you learn from television and the internet.

But how many marriages resolve with discovering the person is way better than you imagined?

My guess is almost all of them, because as people grow older, they grow wiser, more interesting, smarter, and have more life experiences on which to draw.

My wife today is not the person I married, and I'm happy for that because I've had the privilege of seeing her grow and become a better person. I the person I was back then met her today, I wouldn't even consider her in my league.
There is now https://beta.music.apple.com/ as well.
It's not a marketing term. It's a database optimised for storing and querying time based metrics.

Uber didn't invent the term, there are a lot of existing products in market.

Question is why none of them worked for them. I have used OpenTSDB and it worked great at Mastercard scale. What issues did Uber had?
musi.sh — stream Apple Music in the browser
That is all true but you’ll get one thing working at a startup that you don’t get at a big company. A sense of legitimate urgency. I’ve worked at both and at a big company things are glacially slow and engineers love to build big “enterprise” solutions to tiny problems that don’t need it.

At a functioning startup if you overbuild you die. Everybody working at one knows this so people are much more pragmatic.

At a large company, your over engineered crap is lost in the noise.
I'm not the biggest fan of streaming originals, but Netflix has been Best Picture nominated 2 years in a row (Roma, Marriage Story, and The Irishman). And Netflix has pretty much reached parity with HBO in Emmy wins and nominations in the mainline categories.
This is the one feature I miss from CyanogenMod!
Isn't that kind of the point of open-sourcing your internal tools? You don't want to be bothered with maintenance and support, so you're hoping that some anonymous volounteers will do that for you :)
Really fun and enjoyable talk. It gives a good overview of why network latency makes realtime multiplayer games so hard.

One thing I wish it would have touched upon: some of these issues might be eased through the game design itself. I.e, you can design the game so that actions that require fast response are less likely to go out of sync with the server, and things that can only really be resolved after a full sync between all clients don't reveal a clear outcome until after a few hundred milliseconds.
Of course there is a valid question about the morals of war technology. You are absolutely right about that, and I am not even remotely suggesting otherwise. Like I said, I don’t think I would ever choose to work on it.

There’s a vast chasm in between right and wrong though. There can be understanding of others’ perspectives, regardless of my personal judgement. And there is also a valid question and tightly related question here about the morals of mitigating damage during a military conflict, especially if the mitigation prevents innocent deaths. If there’s a hard moral line between doctors and cooks and drivers and snipers and drone programmers, I don’t know exactly where it lies. Doctors are generally considered morally good, even war doctors, but if we are at war, it’s certainly better to prevent an injury than to treat one.

The best goal in my opinion is no war.
Just because it's somewhat common for Japanese companies to suddenly release their music doesn't mean it isn't sudden.
Linked lists are inherently niche on modern hardware.
Your solution is more concise and I like the way it reads, but I'm not sure it actually fulfills the problem definition:

As the page explains:

The goal of this task isn't to simply process the four lists of words with explicit, deterministic program flow such as nested iteration, to trivially demonstrate the correct output. The goal is to implement the Amb operator, or a facsimile thereof that is possible within the language limitations.
This was a paper from 2013 though, 7 years ago. I'm sure they've more than made it a proper technology now, with all the compute power and deep learning and what not.
Maybe unrelated, but WhatsApp does monitor your phone accelerometer data 100% of the time, even when it's in the background. An app doesn't even need to ask for permission to get access to the accelerometer data, so there's not even a pop up of any sort.
I’m very worried because:

- We don’t have good data on the true morbidity rate.

- The actions China is taking seem very extreme and they have the most experience with it.

- Isolated quarantine of infected patients seems like the only way to prevent its spread and this is hard to do given our 2020 way of life.

- Did I mention we don’t have good data? But the reports of longer than 14 day incubation periods, re-infection, and asymptomatic spread are worrying.

- The US health system seems quite unprepared. We have ~100,000 ICU beds total.

- Not to mention the economic impact. So, so many goods made in China and SE Asia, and in fact, in the least developed countries whose health systems are worst.

- Vaccine or a kind mutation seem like the best hope to me, and these are very uncertain.
Sure, that doesn't change the fact that you need 4% per year to buy it.
Bullying Mom shares video of bullied son, 9, saying he wants to die
Not alone. Indeed Charlie Munger straightforwardly refers to EBITDA as a bullshit earnings metric.

“I don’t like when investment bankers talk about EBITDA, which I call bulls--- earnings”

“Think of the basic intellectual dishonesty that comes when you start talking about adjusted EBITDA. You’re almost announcing you’re a flake.”
They no longer have a partnership or whatever their relationship was. GKids now distributes and dubs Ghibli movies for US, but Disney is still the distributor in some regions.
Well put – 50% increase in free time. That's a very positive take on it. Depending on who you are that'll matter more or less, but to me that phrase is heart warming. 50% more time for the family, self care, catching up around the house. That sounds peaceful.
BRK.B costs only 1/1000th of the A class shares, and you still get the letters. I couldn't afford an A class share either if that was all that was available.
Looks like it hasn't actually been fixed, after all:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22391920
“Not at the moment” is the operative term. Viruses are viral.
I’m only 32 but I started with DOS and later desktop programming, moved on to LAMP in the 00’s, then SPA in the 10’s, and now going heavily to serverless+JAM.

Hell I even had a tiny app make it into the official KDE distribution in high school. And I built my own templating language transpiler for a custom PHP framework ...

What does that make me? Whitebeard lol?
There's been some really good stuff on Netflix. Stranger Things and Daredevil, I thought, were of particularly high quality. Heck, I've always hated Daredevil as a character (he's a blind man, and his super power is... he can see), but I was really drawn in by the Netflix series.

There's been some crazy good stuff on HBO (I loved GoT just like everyone else), but to say Netflix doesn't make anything of the quality level HBO puts out is completely untrue, imo.
"Berkshire’s 2018 and 2019 years glaringly illustrate the argument we have with the new rule. In 2018, a down
year for the stock market, our net unrealized gains decreased by $20.6 billion, and we therefore reported GAAP
earnings of only $4 billion. In 2019, rising stock prices increased net unrealized gains by the aforementioned $53.7
billion, pushing GAAP earnings to the $81.4 billion reported at the beginning of this letter. Those market gyrations
led to a crazy 1,900% increase in GAAP earnings!

Meanwhile, in what we might call the real world, as opposed to accounting-land, Berkshire’s equity holdings
averaged about $200 billion during the two years, and the intrinsic value of the stocks we own grew steadily and
substantially throughout the period."
These days, Rails 6 and various related gems is like a superpower…providing so much standard web app functionality out of the box that I can simply focus on what makes my product unique. The amount of "yak shaving" (aka futzing with the tech stack itself) is cut to bare minimum.

DigitalOcean starts at $5/month. Not much more than $0. :)
If you’re expected to prospect, I’d slow roll it unless you’re getting paid.
> it saves those who don't want Google spying on them a great deal of trouble by not having to root the phone

You don't actually need root anyways. XDA has a walkthrough on disabling system APKs [1] - meaning one is able to (and I have, on my BlackBerry KeyOne) disable Google Play Services, the Services Framework, Play Store, and anything else you don't want running.

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/disable-system-app-bloatware-...
Creator of Lego minifigure is dead
Apple Music generally has very good availability of Japanese stuff. Most other random foreign bands I’ve looked up are on there too.
The prior discussion for the original bug report from about a week ago:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336962#22339434

Apparently, the prior fix didn't completely address the issue.
A Canon AE-1 is high in my list. Also a HP-16C.
Thank you for the feedback. It's still a work in progress. It was mainly moved from the repository[0] and needs to be updated. Plus it is lacking in a couple of other sections also which we plan on improving. Please feel free to leave your feedback and suggestions in the form of issues on the repository.

- [0] https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap
I can give you an ex-insiders view on this.

Uber made an early strategic decision to invest in on-premise infrastructure due to fears that either Amazon or Google would enter the on-demand market as competitors and bring their cloud infrastructure to bear and potentially squeeze us for costs. Azure wasn’t much of an option during this time. This decision limited our adoption of cloud native solutions like SpannerDB and DynamoDB. We ended up doing a lot of sharded MySQL in our own data centers instead.

This on-prem decision led to a lot challenges internally where we would adopt OSS and then have difficulty scaling it to our needs. For some tech like Kafka it worked out, and we hired Kafka contributors who helped us scale it. For other tech like Cassandra it was a pretty epic failure. I am sure more of these war stories exist that I wasn’t privy to myself.

Coupled with the fact that we were early adopters into Golang which had its own OSS ecosystem, we found that writing a lot of our own infrastructure solutions was the only viable option at our scale.

What you are seeing now is a lot of that home grown infrastructure being open sourced in big way as people who have left Uber continue to see value in investing in the tech that they worked so hard to build. There is probably a nontrivial amount of work to scale the Uber OSS down for smaller use cases but some startups are emerging to make that happen.

Source: I worked at Uber from 2015-2019 on product and platform teams and had several close colleagues in infra.
The New York City Bodegas Going Viral on TikTok
> a lot smaller than what people consider to be London

Is somewhere like Westminster technically London? It's definitely what people consider to be London, and it's within Greater London, but as a political entity, it is its own city.
Are you using a broken DNS server, like 1.1.1.1 from Cloudflare?
Jim Reekes: The Apple sound designer who created Sosumi
Not to mention the joys of programming in Ruby much of the time…an extra benefit!
Hey, everything is there at https://github.com/kamranahmedse/roadmap.sh/blob/master/cont...
Adapting to Rising Seas, Schools Move to the Rafters and Cats Swim
A time series database is specialized for use cases where the data and query patterns are solely temporal in nature and must show the latest data in real-time (performance metrics/monitoring and stock prices come to mind). Relational and NoSQL databases tend to degrade rapidly with these query patterns at scale (think of the complexity of SQL queries to bucket rows by timestamp).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_series_database
As the father of a Legophile, I can tell you that set is the exception, not the rule
When the Android app is broken in so many easy-to-fix ways that blatantly interfere with usability, how does a company allow its developers to spend time on making custom internal tools or even spend time open-sourcing them? The company has so much money and yet seems so utterly mismanaged.
Looks good good luck!
* Best introduction: Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean (Berman, Karen, Knight, Joe, Case, John, imusti)

* Then read this, all of it, except perhaps most of the exhibits: Most recent Costco annual report (10-k).

* Berkshire Hathaway annual letters, Transcripts from Berkshire annual meetings

* Great follow-up: Financial Shenanigans, Fourth Edition: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports (Schilit, Howard, Perler, Jeremy, Engelhart, Yoni, McGraw-Hill Education)

* Absolute classic (but needs to be updated): The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. (Graham)

* On investing in general: Margin of Safety (Seth Klarman)

* Great intro to valuation, with the caveat that modern finance and concepts like WACC may not necessarily be useful to your investing strategy: Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies (Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, David Wessels)

* Another classic (but needs to be updated): Security Analysis (Graham and Dodd)

I've read those in more-or-less that order, interspersed with plenty of other useful books that you'll discover depending how deep you go. The most important thing is reading 10-ks.
I suspect it will remain a toy, but agreed on those optimizations
You could move and zoom the keyboard after every key press