skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangent:

We had the same issue with splunk. We were blowing through our licenses like a champ.

However the thing that managed to reduce our dependency on splunk wasnt ELK or greylog (they are all poor comparisons to splunk in terms of speed or chopping and changing data) it was grafana(with cloudwatch and graphite, later promethius)

What we realised was that the primary way we were consuming splunk was in graphs. Why spend millions of pounds on generating graphs indirectly, when we could make them directly, in near real time!

Not Tangent:

I think like platform choice, it depends on your company. The company that I was with was utterly incompetent, and unable to see a project through to completion. Therefore if we build a logging system inhouse, we'd get 40% of the way there and rebuild it. Leaving two incomplete systems.

Migrating to splunk cloud was done to save costs, and it actually worked. Had we tried to go inhouse, we'd still have expensive local splunk _and_ a shitty splunk replacement used by two team on a legacy critical system with no dev hours.
If it's subscription only, then it's not a better paying alternative. It's a different monetization method altogether. Thanks for the clarification on how the service works. That's interesting, I'll check it out.
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I always liked the extension system in browsers.
A fair point. But did they have 800 employees for all of those 10 years? (I don't actually know the answer to that. I'm not taking a position on whether or not the OP's hypothesis is reasonable or not. I don't know. The only thing I'm saying is that before you take a position on a question like this you ought to at least do some basic homework.)
I was playing around with Sharepoint Online, the latest version. It was my first time looking at sharepoint and I had something usable working in about 30 minutes. Maybe they fixed things with the cloud version?
The contradiction I saw with "ANY SURPLUS IS IMMORAL" was:

"KEEP SOMETHING IN RESERVE FOR EMERGENCIES"

Where does the something you keep in reserve come from?
Jesus Christ. Somewhere a hiring manager is explaining the benefits of this to human resources.

Step 1 - regular interviews.

Step 2 - group interviews including memory check with coding task

Step 3 - this thunderdome you just created.
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1) Presumably quite accurate considering that they received the FRA approval

2) Not clear for this one, but FDA authorized another lab to do saliva-based tests 10 days ago [1], and that test takes 24 hours.

3) It appears this test will be performed in the labs of a partnering health network, RWJBarnabas, and not for a wider distribution (from the article). Their goal is to get to tens of thousands of tests per day. They cover the New Jersey area. My guess is that you take the saliva sample, send it to one of their labs, and you get the answer in 24 hours.

4) Again, sufficiently robust so the FDA grants them the approval.

[1] https://hitconsultant.net/2020/04/03/fda-24-hour-saliva-test...
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You can't ask every user to RTFM. I have been toggling off bluetooth and location for a while to save battery but haven't noticed it. So, I am guessing a lot of users don't end up noticing it as well.

There are two issues with this implementation:
1. It's not privacy first. Toggling bluetooth should turn off everything.
2. It eats up battery/system-resources for a functionality that I don't want, causing me to have less control over my purchased device.
I haven’t read all of them, but so far, I’ve enjoyed “Sheltering Notebook” the most. Nice work!
You might find some of the details of its construction interesting: https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel#Details. While it doesn't explain the inspiration behind it, it does show that there's a definite structure to it.
That seems interesting. Have there been any studies on user dropoff due to this scheme? Any well known sites using it? Would you recommend doing this exclusively?
Oh, by 'unordered' you mean that the three words could be in any order and still mean the same thing?

Okay but that's a strange requirement. A 'big burger house' isn't a 'big house burger', after all.

I had read 'unordered' as 'the collation order of the words has no connection to the ordinal rank of the underlying byte', for some reason
Sadly, Hacker News can be quite fickle…
You misunderstand. I'm not taking a position on whether or not the OP's hypothesis was reasonable or not. All I'm saying is that before you take a position you ought to at least do some basic homework.
Is it really more offensive than "for dummies", which obviously resonated with the general public?
Kubernetes isn't building the image, really, it's just passing the Nix expression directly to the container runtime that Nix would provide. This is more or less how Nix works already, as the Nix tooling takes Nix expressions and builds derivations which are stored in the Nix store.
The standard counter question is:

"Did you ever buy a tooth paste brand that didn't advertise?"

Ideally you answer "no...", while a look of sudden realization comes over your face. Individual results may vary.
This is the vision that Seliom, the startup I am working on, has. We are still too early and don’t have documentation to share, but the idea is to give business owners the power to easily change digitized processes in minutes.
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Google respond

/We were unable to confirm that your purchases were fraudulent. It often happens that this type of shopping was made by a family member or friend./

I do not understand. I have never created the Google Cloud account and noone from my family also. I have created new request because it is not possible to respond to previous one.
I'm terrified with this respond. I will never add my credit card do google account again.
What I can do more??
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How is it different from https://requestbin.com/ ?
>If you drop the context of someone using Python to process a moderate amount of text on a large, non-real-time system, then project your own context where it doesn't work, then sure python is not a good choice. If you can't agree on a basic context, or choose to force a context on them, then there's no compromise.

There may also be past traumatic experiences that are sought to be avoided. How many times does it take for some management to grab your local working python solution, slam it into production, and then complain when it falls apart? Even with a single such instance, you begin to look at things with the view that the context may be shifted away from the intention.

In such a situation, you are fully aware the context is locally with 1,000 files and not in some production environment with some 1,000,000,000, but you are rejecting the notion that those contexts can be so completely separated because a past instance showed such separations can be undone. Once bitten twice shy.
I think the flat earth movement would die off if youtube stopped paying out.

I don’t think anyone would have an incentive to make the videos anymore and without fresh content believers would lose interest and Eventually evidence of a round earth (plus peer pressure) would build up and outweigh their older ideas of flat earth.
Making Unix a little more Plan9-like
> I've been using Evernote for many years, and the user experience honestly never felt good.

Sounds like it's time to stop using Evernote. I can't imagine there aren't other, better solutions for you. Unless you're on their board of directors it's not really your question to answer!

I am not really a note-taker in terms of my personality so I can't tell you what those alternatives might be but I am sure there are dozens upon dozens.
Maybe you already knew about it, but the microtype package improves the aspect of your documents even more: https://ctan.org/pkg/microtype
At least you admit you'd be risking your friends as well.
Absolutely. Don’t take advice from someone who doesn’t have relevant experience.

I find a much better success rate in not hiring he traditional HR ways. Tech folks are not linear workers with floors and ceilings, they are growing much faster and on multiple layers at the same time.

It’s humorous when non technical ppl try to manage things they don’t understand.

That table seems to be currently being turning in society because of covid, if you ask me.

Technologists will have to move into each area of management, because maybe it’s technologists turn to learn and manage business after such a long time of business trying to manage tech.
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The total is skewed by visitors in July, August, and September. During that 3 month period, approximately 50% of total annual visitors visit the Park, with July and August each routinely exceeding 600k visitors/month.

Traffic jams getting into and out of the park in July and August can last for 4-5 hours and extend nearly 30 miles.
>Over the same time, the industry has gotten much more sophistication in measuring return on ad spend. All while growing by leaps and bounds.

The trick is, the ad industry people are the ones who design all the KPIs that determine the efficacy of ad campaigns. So there's a bit of a self-serving incentive there that could be degrading the quality of the information.

There is clearly some evidence that ad spending does help, particularly with building brand awareness and goosing demand. I think the jury is still out on how much and to what extent specific user tracking/targeting strategies work though.
Join my room to watch me teach CSS Grid: https://dj3d.io/room/mhZrpfnH Fun site!
I really got to get around to compiling one of those Android forks with telemetry turned off. As much as people like to criticize G, at least they released the code. The world would be a much worse place if both members of the phone duopoly hid their source code.
Functional programming to the rescue!
Meeting customer support SLAs on Freshdesk using proactive alerting with Zenduty
In Yosemite specifically, the bears and bobcats have been trying to push into the built up areas of the park forever. Of course this used to be because the human area was guaranteed food but now it's probably just curiosity. In Yosemite, the rangers are very good about not killing/injuring the wildlife and only driving them away.

The typical ranger response is either paintball guns or pepper spray so the animals don't think humans are a threat, just that the food is not worth paintballs and pepper spray. With no humans to push them back, they'll take over the park scouring for the food that they expect to find.

Most national parks operate on a strike system for the wildlife, Yosemite is the only one I'm aware of that will keep annoying a bear away even if it steals food every day for a week.
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I never understood why no animal has emerged to fill the niche of hunting squirrels in the suburbs? They’re everywhere. (Same question for pigeons)
That's kind of how we design my web applications.

We store all the data in the database and the applications query the data/ process and return. We actually have multiple applications in various languages accessing the data (php, java, perl...).

Its genetic data so a lot of tables are shared across our applications. Gene symbol lookup for example).

When I started in this field I worked with Lotus Notes. Its actually a shared nosql database which users can create applications that query it as they see fit. I was clunky, but it could be effective in making custom team tools.
I didn't see anything in the article to suggest the author attributed it to anything as simple as the restaurant being called "Mamma Desta", either.

Which was mainly my point. There's also no indication whatsoever that Desta Bairu would have preferred to be called "Desta Bairu" in print, over the "Mamma Desta" that she and the owner chose as the name of the retaurant.

That's just assumed, and used as a springboard for a collection of lukewarm tropes which I summarized as 'misogyny'. I thought that was more condescending than referring to her by her nom de kitchen.
Use nixos to run your k8 cluster if you are insane (or have the $$$ for salaries) enough to run your own k8.

See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/s...

Specifically "services.kubernetes.apiserver.enable = true"

My strong recommendation is to use nix to generate super optimised and amazing docker images then use them with k8 on a PaaS.

https://grahamc.com/blog/nixos-on-zfs

If using k8 (self host or PaaS), keep an eye on https://github.com/xtruder/kubenix as it'll blow your mind. Noyaml, infrastructure testing framework, deployment etc using nix.
>could have had a billion masks for ~$500K

Something is seriously off with your math.
A physical garbage collector? I've actually got one. It's my dog. (Only works in the kitchen, though. Maybe it needs debugged?)
Pro pro-tip: https://noscript.net/

Took care of it for me.
Will this be an antibody test?
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I don't know if it's usable for a MacOS laptop, but I use Ansible for my various Linux dev machines, and if you handed me a fresh install, once I got my Ansible directory onto the laptop I could get it completely up and running with a single command.
In this sort of world, how do you prevent users from making bad queries and hogging all the database resources or even crashing the database? How do you prevent users from wiping out data? (I get that you could back it up and restore it, but depending on the company, this could cause serious downtime and loss of revenue).
Oh, man... I've watched quite a few of those Masterclasses and all the ones I saw are pretty much badly conducted interviews and anecdotes, with zero structure or preparation. Even the editing leaves a lot to be desired. A professional journalist/interviewer would cut most of them to 1/3 of the length.

Most of the content sits in this weird intersection of being completely useless to beginners and being too basic for intermediate/advanced practitioners. For $180 it's not even useful for parties, it's just a long interview for fans of the person.
They'll have an easier time sneaking onto your satellite than you will sending out field service.

;-)
Given iCloud/Apple logins, though, which authenticates and creates the keys necessary for the Mac to run signed apps, wouldn’t the process of wiping and reinstalling simply include either not deleting preinstalled apps or starting from a state that downloads the apps you need and signs you in/enrols your Mac as necessary? The same would be true for Windows, Active Directory, and any other state required to run the system that has to sync or work with a third-party.

I guess to me that’s what the /persist drive was in the example, the need to customize system data beyond the basic install steps. Think of your Application Support folder, or apps that don’t sync to the cloud, or system kexts you might need to run apps.

The biggest problem isn’t software like Apple’s which use the Internet to authenticate how many systems are in use with generous limits, it’s Software like iLok and such that use various stateful properties of your system in an undocumented way so it’s hard to preserve them across installs. If that software uses timestamps, for example, it might be hard to preserve what it needs. Keychain might be another example, I haven’t fully investigated how that interacts with other chips like the T2 in these scenarios.

The problem is that outside of servers, it can be hard to distinguish between files I care about and files I don’t. What I’m hoping we get in the future is a filesystem and (on Windows) a registry, that automatically containerizes all saved state to the app and user it belongs to, ideally with some kind of historical log metadata. I know it’s asking for too much and would never be perfect, but it’s a nice thought. Right now we rely too much on apps to be well-behaved, but it’s the apps that aren’t well-behaved or that share data between themselves and other apps that are the issue. Apps asking for access is one approach, but I’m less concerned for privacy in this scenario than I am for state cleanup. The trouble isn’t reading anywhere though, it’s when an app shared state by updating data in another “container”, then you’d have to create containers to represent files shared between apps, or the container idea disappears and you’re left with metadata about file usage and global state as an alternative... At that point you’re limited by how much work you want to do to keep the system clean, and it might be easier to identify anomalies periodically than to keep a whitelist updated with files to persist...
Other than generic store brands, I haven't seen a toothpaste brand for sale that didn't advertise, so it isn't a really a fair or informative question.
So many of these closures are not evidence based. I don’t know what they’re thinking.

My area is limiting store hours. Umm that puts more people in the store at once, sillies.
I see it as an opportunity for smaller businesses to be noticed. People will check stuff online and might notice your brand... Though yeah you would have to stand out to be remembered.
Ok... I am a self taught "app maker". Not CS grad. Not a "software engineer".

I use tools that other's here create to make apps. What they do is way over my pay grade but I can use well written and documented APIs, especially when some example code is supplied.

I think I'm closer to the target this applies to. Compared to the folks who create something like jQuery or PouchDB.js, I'm a laborer working in the fields with the tools (APIs) they create and provide.

What I do is more akin to a craftsmen than a "software engineer". I'm sure some of what I've made is pretty crappy from an engineering viewpoint. I struggle sometimes to get stuff to work. But I also make software that some people love using.

It's a pretty low bar to learn how to use HTML, CSS, and even tools like jQuery, Bootstrap, and PouchDB.js. What you can make with them can be very useful, and very specific. And it can be fast and easy to make too.

I guess what I'm trying to say is the bar is now low enough that we can start teaching others how to make apps as a trade skill.
I do think a set/enum is a better structure than a ternary field for T/F/null. Even if you defined the elements of the set to be { TRUE, FALSE, NULL }. Because, I believe, most of us see a field containing a T/F and assume it's a binary, not ternary field. Even if someone notices that the field is null-able, they might assume it's a mistake.

Unless you've been burned by that before and remember to check those assumptions.
> OR ads aren't that effective in the first place

Is this what you want to believe or do you have data to back it up?
What medication was Boris Johnson given to beat coronavirus?
Interesting yet in retrospect not too surprising given that even Amazon is bottlenecking - even with increased demand in general that they could have issues keeping demand up.
For more insight on designing GoL circuits: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/111932

The hardware metaphor seems apt, as GoL has a speed of light & the parts operate concurrently

So not sure what you mean by reverse engineered, maybe you're getting hung up on Kolmogorov complexity being incomputable
Personal attacks will get you banned here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Maybe. But there's a lot of doubt as to whether China is cut out to exercise broad hegemonic influence the way the US has. They might not have the cultural cachet or a compelling enough ideological framework for international cooperation the way America's Wilsonian institutionalism was. It's more likely we're heading for a more chaotic and unstable multi-polar world.
Yes.

Now you don't have to RTFA.
It's important to point out that Exxon was the original investor of Zilog from the beginning, giving Zilog the fund needed to start the company. This includes building Zilog's own semiconductor fab to manufacture the chip, costed several millions of dollars, which was the standard practice in the 1970s - fabless wasn't really a thing until the early 90s. "Oil money", a hot topic debated today, was the norm.

> Federico Faggin (who designed the Intel 8080, founded Zilog and designed the Z80) said: When I joined -- when Zilog was formed -- by the way, Ralph and his wife set up the original office in State Street in downtown Los Altos, so I already had an office and a desk when I arrived at Zilog. Of course, Zilog in those days was not called Zilog yet. And then we had an interview with a reporter from the Electronic News, which was a weekly newspaper in the electronics field, was very well-known. And this reporter reported that there was this company that had been formed with Faggin, Ungermann, and they were going to be some kind of microprocessor company. And that caught the eye of Exxon Enterprises. Exxon Enterprises in those days was a subsidiary of Exxon Corporation, the oil company. And they were making venture capital investments in the R&D information technology. So somebody called me up from Exxon and wanted to visit.

> [...] Yeah, it isn’t that I didn’t intend to build a fab. I didn’t believe that we could possibly get the money to build the fab. You know, even if in those days fabs were not very expensive, it would still take several million dollars for the equipment, whereas now, of course, it’s several billion. But in those days with the three-four million of equipment, you can actually build a small fab. So I didn’t think we could get the money. But then after the success of the Z80, Ralph and I were able to convince Exxon Enterprises to actually fund a fab. Also it was absolutely essential if we had a second sourcing arrangement with Mostek as we did, that we were independent in manufacturing in order to survive as a company. So it was an imperative to have a fab at that point.

The interview by Computer History Museum is extremely interesting (as always) and worth reading.

* Zilog Oral History Panel on the Founding of the Company and the Development of the Z80 Microprocessor

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_Histo...
Please don't respond to one bad comment with another. We just get a downward spiral that way. Instead, flag it and move on.

That's in the site guidelines too: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
amazing work!
So in this context you wouldn't? Not trying to be snarky, just explaining why some people will find it derogatory, some other wouldn't.
After reading a couple posts here on HN about building a "second brain", I found a surprisingly effective setup to do that:

- Vim with vimwiki (https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki)

- A private Gitlab repo

- A simple cron job to commit all changes in `~/.vimwiki` to my private repo

And this is it! It would be possible to publish the wiki on the web using Gitlab pages, but so far it is working nice to me.
I lived in Quincy for about ten years and grew up in Hannibal.

I've met several members of the Kirlin family and Don's a sharp, cordial guy. I find it interesting that he's made so good a go at such an unconventional business when other members of the family have had such problems in speciality retail. I wonder where the Hallmark store business would be if Don had been in charge.

I'll not comment on the ISP because I used to work for a competitor with a fierce rivalry.